It's coming! July 15th is the big day where you can get your copy of Faction 0... That day CAN'T come quickly enough for me... Arnie is still working on the artwork and I've got the script burning a hole in my pocket... go go go!
On to other things, some big things are brewing behind the scenes and I'm working with some different people under a common banner to see how things go. Power to the people! We figure we can carpet bomb the industry with some amazing books and people can't help but notice, right? Besides Faction, there are several books we're looking at sticking under one umbrella. I won't say more than that right now, but it should be a VERY good thing for us and for the fans. We'll changing the rules here and I'm not apologizing.
Have a nice night all! My wife is just getting off work (any second now), so I'm getting dinner started... Just got home from the train myself.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The hard thing about days off from work...
Time off from work is a blessing and a curse sometimes... In my last job, working at Unisys, lead of the logistics department, yadda yadda yadda, it sometimes felt like when I took a day off, it took me 2 days to catch up. I would leave these novel length instructions of what needed to be done while I was gone, what freight would come over from manufacturing, pre-route international shipments, etc... basically I would grease the wheels to the point where it was idiot proof. I know the guys I worked with could handle it, but I figured they had their own things to do, so I should make it as easy as possible for them. In my current job, I haven't encountered too much of that... Typically if I take a day off, no biggie, I can catch up the next day. This time around, though, wow! I took 2 days off from work and I felt today like I was catching up from a 2 week vacation! 12 hours later, I'm finally turning off the work computer and getting ready to turn on WhereMonstersDwell.ca for this week's show. Time to relax a bit, listen, have dinner with my wife, and then sleep!
Vegas WAS fun, however... One thing I love about going there is that A) we get free rooms, B) we know where to gamble, and C) we typically leave with a little more than we came with. I think there has only been one out of the last 8 or so times we went to Vegas that we really lost any money. Nice, huh? We're not high rollers or anything, not by a long shot, but still, it's pretty darned cool to have something to be happy about when we come back. Would have been really nice to hit a decent jackpot, but I'm happy with my wife's score of 7500 nickels on a nickel slot. That paid for the rest of our gambling, food, and trinkets. Way to go!
Anywho, if you've noticed, not a lot of comic book updates recently... Well, Round 4 of Small Press Idol starts up in a few weeks and SDCC is shortly after that. I have a few artists scrambling to get art ready for SDCC and Arnie is working on Round 4 of SPI. I get some art here and there, but nothing I can post at this time.
More ideas are brewing, some of which look to be VERY promising and there are some big things planned for post Small Press Idol, too, but I'm not going to jinx anything by blabbing about it. Cross your fingers, prepare to "vote" in Round 4, and there we go!
Vegas WAS fun, however... One thing I love about going there is that A) we get free rooms, B) we know where to gamble, and C) we typically leave with a little more than we came with. I think there has only been one out of the last 8 or so times we went to Vegas that we really lost any money. Nice, huh? We're not high rollers or anything, not by a long shot, but still, it's pretty darned cool to have something to be happy about when we come back. Would have been really nice to hit a decent jackpot, but I'm happy with my wife's score of 7500 nickels on a nickel slot. That paid for the rest of our gambling, food, and trinkets. Way to go!
Anywho, if you've noticed, not a lot of comic book updates recently... Well, Round 4 of Small Press Idol starts up in a few weeks and SDCC is shortly after that. I have a few artists scrambling to get art ready for SDCC and Arnie is working on Round 4 of SPI. I get some art here and there, but nothing I can post at this time.
More ideas are brewing, some of which look to be VERY promising and there are some big things planned for post Small Press Idol, too, but I'm not going to jinx anything by blabbing about it. Cross your fingers, prepare to "vote" in Round 4, and there we go!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Why bootlegs are the best thing since the first album was etched on vinyl...
Ok, if you know me, you might be aware that I LOVE bootlegs... Not just any bootlegs, I prefer soundboard recordings, of course, but there's just so much out there it's ridiculous! So I figure I'd go ahead and share some of the places I go to when looking for legal downloads... As you might be aware, the penalties for downloading copyrighted material is just nuts, but if you listen to some of the live recordings available on the net by just about anyone you can think of... well, there's a lot and it's good. Some of my favorites to get are Radiohead, Nirvana, Pearl Jam (recently took a TON of their official bootlegs off the market, which I guess made a lot of bootleg collectors happy), Eric Clapton (heard the Madison Square Garden concerts last year as an audience recording and I was in love), Paul Weller, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Oasis, Sigur Ros (hard to find soundboard, but amazing stuff), Paul McCartney (still amazing live after all these years), Chris Cornell (plays Soundgarden, Audioslave, and solo)... well, I could keep going...
Now, as for why these are just the best thing in the world... In a lot of cases, you get to hear not only the "popular" songs, but the songs they really like playing live. I mean, if you go to a Rolling Stones concert at a stadium, most of the songs you hear will be ones you know... I can recall, though, a handful of years ago going to the Wiltern in Los Angeles to see the Stones (200). The tickets weren't super expensive if you got them when they went on sale (we did thanks to my wife's mad ticketmaster skills), but people in line were getting offers for $1000-$2000 per ticket?!?!?!? Nuts! We were offered, too, but they had wrist bands and id checks and besides that, we drove to Los Angeles so I could see the Stones for the first time, I wasn't going to sell them! Point, though, is that the concert was a Stones fan's dream... Honestly, I've always been more of a 60's Stones fan, but after the concert I started getting into some of their stuff after the time, so I wasn't super familiar with a lot of material from the show. Great show, but not as much for me as it would have been for a die hard fan (still glad I didn't sell the tickets, though). Neighbours, Live with Me, That's How Strong My Love Is, Thru and Thru, Tumbling Dice, etc etc etc... So, how the heck can you hear this great concert? Well, someone did record it! If I've been to a show by anyone other than an obscure indie band, someone has always been there with some sort of recording device. If you want it, it is on the net to be found...
Here are some of the places I go... Keep in mind some of these sites will have albums, which you probably should download at your own risk! Some material is long out of print by obscure bands, but I err on the side of caution and go for the boots!
http://theultimatebootlegexperience.blogspot.com/
http://noisejunkie.blogspot.com/
http://www.jimmyeatworldlive.co.uk/
http://commercialzone.blogspot.com/
http://mccranksjuke.blogspot.com/
http://musictravellerstwo.blogspot.com/
Anyway, that's just a few.... TUBE (theultimate...) is by far the best I've found, so check that out first and I haven't found anything yet that looked to be worthy of shutting the site down, you know?
Now, as for why these are just the best thing in the world... In a lot of cases, you get to hear not only the "popular" songs, but the songs they really like playing live. I mean, if you go to a Rolling Stones concert at a stadium, most of the songs you hear will be ones you know... I can recall, though, a handful of years ago going to the Wiltern in Los Angeles to see the Stones (200). The tickets weren't super expensive if you got them when they went on sale (we did thanks to my wife's mad ticketmaster skills), but people in line were getting offers for $1000-$2000 per ticket?!?!?!? Nuts! We were offered, too, but they had wrist bands and id checks and besides that, we drove to Los Angeles so I could see the Stones for the first time, I wasn't going to sell them! Point, though, is that the concert was a Stones fan's dream... Honestly, I've always been more of a 60's Stones fan, but after the concert I started getting into some of their stuff after the time, so I wasn't super familiar with a lot of material from the show. Great show, but not as much for me as it would have been for a die hard fan (still glad I didn't sell the tickets, though). Neighbours, Live with Me, That's How Strong My Love Is, Thru and Thru, Tumbling Dice, etc etc etc... So, how the heck can you hear this great concert? Well, someone did record it! If I've been to a show by anyone other than an obscure indie band, someone has always been there with some sort of recording device. If you want it, it is on the net to be found...
Here are some of the places I go... Keep in mind some of these sites will have albums, which you probably should download at your own risk! Some material is long out of print by obscure bands, but I err on the side of caution and go for the boots!
http://theultimatebootlegexperience.blogspot.com/
http://noisejunkie.blogspot.com/
http://www.jimmyeatworldlive.co.uk/
http://commercialzone.blogspot.com/
http://mccranksjuke.blogspot.com/
http://musictravellerstwo.blogspot.com/
Anyway, that's just a few.... TUBE (theultimate...) is by far the best I've found, so check that out first and I haven't found anything yet that looked to be worthy of shutting the site down, you know?
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