My Future Plans (God's favorite joke, and mine too!) - why i am slacking on this site
Submitted by Feif Umgotnn on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 16:15
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- school
- Louking Toards d'Vest: poetry and other short writings which i hope to finish by next spring and hope to officially publish it, but may be self published - who knows if i will even finish it. this title will probably stick. i removed the posting called "words" i had on here because some of that content will go in the work, and i want to rework them.
- a novel that i hope to have completed and published by this time next year - untitled so far, but i will give you a teaser that i am not sure how anyone will take but here is the first line of the novel - "That roar...I had heard it before but it would never be the same again." and i have a whole paragraph to follow that so far, so i guess i am a true writer: all think and no ink!
- music: a band is what i want, i feel that when a group of talented people come together infusing all their ideas is usually better than ONE genius overflowing with creativity and power, though it is probably 50/50 - i want to try a band first. i will be making crappy home !!!demos!!! (which is what i have the project called for now) soon since my friend does not seem to be able to get his shit together. i will make the demos open for anyone to download for free even if i were to somehow make master copies of them. the demos are my attempt to make a debut album similar to Butthole Surfers, Mercury Rev, Residents, Fugs, Ubu, Zappa, Sun Ra, and oddly all the folk and blues heroes of mine that most of you may not believe that i truly love and cherish as much as the aforementioned artists (for example: Coley Jones's "Drunkards Special" which i found as you can too on Harry Smith's famous compilation of folk tunes called Anthology of American Folk Music) The demos, and any sort of debut i make will be a purely juvenalia work regardless of what anyone thinks about it (myself included), all in progress for me to be able to produce the album that has been floating in my mind for the last 6 years and has recently come tumbling down like an avalanche on acid (drug free acid that is) which has the working title: The Violet Love-Skin Blues. I really want to get this album out; i truly think that it would be at the very worst, if i get some (1) competent musicians, (2) a decent studio, (3) lots of practice, (4) lots of work - that it will be worth anyone and everyone spending their hard earned money (i want to release at around $10, maybe less depending on actual expenses (not a vacation to Tahiti) and basic production of the album (that is, the cost of the case, the CDs, the printing of label and liner notes, artwork - which i already know what i want and it will not cost a dime from an artist - it will a photo of a girl, i cannot afford to pay artists to draw something like the cover of In The Court of the Crimson King...and so on)). and one other creation of sound i have planned is loosely titled Welcome To Cincinnati which could be done anytime between the end of November and Never...i am rambling and losing focus of what i am talking about...so i will stop.
- record label: of course i do not expect it to be too successful, but i will work my ass of to get it to be if i see some light at the end of the tunnel. it will initially be used to release my own music, but i will shop my stuff around to similar labels in hopes of gaining some notoriety and share royalties with them (for example: Riot Season for European releases) - i do not want to release the name of what i want to call my label because the name has been used for previous businesses and websites, and the copy right has expired on it, so it is mine for the taking if i can afford it and the label, not that it is some grand secret.
- and there is probably more that i plan to do as well; and all of this is too much and i do plan on doing one thing at a time, and trying my best to do it right and do it well, and would love feedback on anything i try to create or ideas that float between my ears.
Looking forward to Violent Love-Skin Blues, Feif! Be sure to release it on last.fm, where you can find my tunes too.
cool, but that recording is very far off in the future if it ever gets done, i have not even begun any demos for a debut i want to finish first to get some experience in creating an album; it is not something that i want to make PERFECT, but i want it to be more professional than recording it in my bedroom without any mixing equipment and crappy mics which give off too much noise.... thanks for the reminder. has it helped you in your artistic ventures?
As of now, I have 14 listeners, but even dwarves started small! I think if you really market yourself, you can get more listeners. I am just figuring out my own musical voice at the moment, running the gamut from singer-songwriter, noise rock, electronic, to just oddball stuff. I've been really inspired lately by R. Stevie Moore. His DIY philosophy and lo-fi aesthetic make me realize I should embrace creativity full-on without worrying too much about how it will sound or be received; if it's good enough, it will get listened to. I use my acoustic guitar and garageband to make my music. While I do get some hiss (though that can be played with) sometimes that's part of the appeal of the music, especially my lo-fi and noise rock stuff.
One of my last.fm friends will be putting two of my tracks on a compilation, so we'll see what happens after that. At this point, I do music for fun, but because of funds, I cannot hope to make it a career, but who knows...
the compilation sounds cool and that is where i have found a lot of new artists, well, new to me.
personally, i would love to make a career out of either writing or music, but i would prefer music because i have an innate desire to perform, and loathe theater (or to clarify i loathe watching theater, maybe i would like to act in a play - i will ponder that). as far as a career, i do not NEED a career in music, but i REALLY want to get a version of The Violet Love-Skin Blues out of my head at the very least, even if i have to become Lisa Germano or The Minutemen and steep to working at a coffee shop or gas station respectively, but i am going to school to get a degree so if none of this works out i can get a higher paying job than those to, not because i NEED MONEY, but the more money i have, the more money i can invest in my creations; writing only requires pen/paper, or a typewriter/paper/ink, or a computer with a hard drive, but music requires money to make good recordings; not necessarily loads and loads of money, but enough money to buy good mics, mixers, studio rent payments, instruments, studio equipment (chords, production boards, sound dampening foam - very expensive, but a money saving cost is blankets or anything that can deflect the echos in the room) and more professional (or very dedicated amateur) musicians to execute a vision.
all the best in your musical ventures, and for success to come from that compilation. i checked out some of your tracks on last.fm a while back, but i will check out what i can right now.
maybe we could collaborate in an exquisite corpse style of creation, though applied to sound and not writing or pictures. just something to think about. nothing to rush into.
Thanks for listening to the songs and giving me the constructive criticism! I really do appreciate that.
I completely understand your feelings on wanting to do something creative. Sometimes I even ponder acting. What I would really love to do is learn composition, so that I could compose anything I wanted for better skilled musicians to play. You're right about money, absolutely. Nothing wrong with making it. As long as it's a means to an end, and not the end in itself.
Anyhow, the "exquisite corpse" composition technique sounds really cool. Definitely worth trying out. I might shoot you something via email soon.
i left you a message on your last.fm mailbox about your album.