Shipping Shutdown & Demos & Stuff
Hey, how are ya? When last I wrote, I was offering a sale on vinyl and CDs but a month later I’ve been forced to shut all shipping down, both on my website and my Bandcamp. Originally, it was only shipping to the US due to issues at the Canadian/US border. And now there’s a national postal strike here in Canada (again) so I’m giving up for a while. I’ve refunded everyone’s orders and I’m sorry for the inconvenience. What a headache.
It’s extra too bad as I had a sustainable process where I’d crowdfund vinyl pre-orders to finance the recording & production of my music, but if I can’t rely on shipping, that’s off the table. So back to the drawing board on this ol’ music career here.
For now I’m just gonna keep writing songs over on the Patreon and have faith a way forward will present itself. I posted a new demo: Just For Fun and previously there was Designed For It, Wrong Waves, Vape in the River, etc etc. Seeing what happens, going with the flow.
Huge thank you to all my patrons — not sure what I’d do without you all!
Anyway, here’s some stuff I’ve been into:
You probably don’t need me to tell you but One Battle After Another is a blast. It and Weapons are my favorite films of 2025, easily.
I’m seeing Grandaddy live this weekend, they’re touring for the 25th anniversary of The Sophtware Slump, an incredible album.
I’d love to visit The David Bowie Archive.
Through that article I learned about David Bowie’s lyric writing software he developed called Verbasizer. There’s a version of it online here. It reminded me that I used to use this program called Babble! to do something similar back in the MS-DOS days to simulate Burroughs’s cut-up techniques.
This is how I feel every day and it’s working for me: I’m making huge progress on my Stinkmatic 8000!
Yours digitally,