Well we played valiantly I think and we did not win, thereby retaining our indie cred. It was pretty awesome to play at Barrymore's and I had a good time. Not a bad second live performance at all. Thanks to everyone who came out!
The finals for Tech Rocks 2005 are this Friday (December 9th). It's at Barrymore's in Ottawa. Doors open at 7:30pm and we're on first, doing a three song set (Borderline, Look and Feel Years Younger and Dirtbag.) This'll only be our second live performance together, so the fact that we're even getting to play somewhere that real bands play is pretty cool. Also I should mention that it's all for charity:
Proceeds from the event are targeted to support human resource development through projects and programs from kindergarten to the post graduate level and will support the development and expansion of Ottawa's technology talent pool.
Hooray for human resources!
The Music Thing Xmas Gift Guide - lots of neat items on the Music Thing Xmas gift guide.
When it comes to Linux, I was a pretty big SuSE advocate. It was user friendly and easy to use. But ever since I upgraded to SuSE 9.3 it's been a roller-coaster ride of instability. I thought we had finally come to agreement as the past few months were relatively peaceful, but on Thursday it wouldn't download anything. I tried to SSH in and it hung after I entered a username, so I rebooted and discovered it had taken out the entire 200 gig hard drive in that computer somehow. Whether this is SuSE's fault or a hardware issue, I'm not sure, though the hard drive seems to be physically fine. So now I'm on to trying Debian. If anything suspicious happens I'm throwing that computer out the window.
Check out this awesome performance of various Super Mario Brothers songs played on the marimba. It's a special kind of crowd that goes nuts for the Mario water theme.
The del.icio.us folks have released playtagger an easy Javascript/Flash mp3 player. It's pretty slick and cool. If I could host it locally and strip out the tagging push I'd be all over it. But it's probably intended more for blogs than musicians. Very neat.
The Boy Who Heard Music - Pete Townshend's blog apparently.
Playing around with the recently launched Google Base, I managed to jam my album in there. In the future I think musicians will no longer tour, instead they'll spend all their time traveling from website to website submitting their albums and songs to various services.
Guess who's 29 today? That's right, it's me. Seems like just yesterday I was calling BBS's, playing Space Quest and goofing around in Scream Tracker.
Click your mouse, say yeah! - interesting/funny investigative article on the online indie music scene. Goblin Cock gets a mention.
Here's a cover for I Don't Know What I'm Doing Remixed that Sam Stroube did:
Also he's got a short film/video called Oatmeal set to a Brother Machine song that you can check out here.
I Don't Know What I'm Doing is now available on Amazon.com. Better late than never.
Are You Infected by Sony-BMG's Rootkit? - If you haven't heard, the DRM on a lot of new Sony releases is nasty and dangerous. California is suing.
CD Baby teams with Best Buy - CD Baby albums can now be purchased via Best Buy's website. Sweet!
Guest post: Scott Andrew on Productivity for the Practicing Musician - great article by Scott full of productivity tips for musicians. Personally I like to have todo lists going on several hip services and then ignore them all.
The folks at Losing Ticket Productions have put together a film called "1 Spy, 2 Spy" for the 2005 National Film Challenge. I haven't seen it, but it has a bunch of my songs in it apparently. And if you're in St. Louis you can go see it. Here are the details:
What: The National Film Challenge St. Louis Showcase When: 8:00 p.m., November 9, 2005 Where: Galleria 6 Cinemas (http://galleria6.stlouiscinemas.com/) Admission: $6.00
MC Jack in the Box has remixed my entire I Don't Know What I'm Doing album. It's called I Don't Know What I'm Doing Either.
Tycho says nice things about Guitar Hero - so apparently this Guitar Hero game with the guitar controller for the PS2 actually is great. Now I need to try it.
Well, back from the live thing. Survived! It was actually a battle of the bands deal for tech industry people, because I guess I needed my first live experience to be competitive and in front of an awful lot of people to make it more relaxing somehow.
Six bands played, two were chosen to advance to the semi-finals finals and Brad Sucks was one of those bands. So we are victorious for now! Hooray for now!