Home Stretch
I am soooo close to being done with this EP project. The website is about 85% there, the album “packaging” maybe about 40%, with more set to be completed tonight (I hope), and assorted odds and ends (like tagging and encoding the files) to clean up. I’m not going to give a firm date yet, because if I do, something will come up, and it won’t happen. But if I get everything done, then just announce a date and upload, everything should be fine. Go me.
With all of this going down, I’ve been thinking a lot about promotion as well. I’ve got a small audience at EM411.com, there will probably be some interest at Buzzmachines.com and of course there’s my friends, but I’m trying to come up with ways of promoting this release beyond that. I’m not talking about, like, spamming a bunch of forums that I’ve never posted at, or anything like that, but I’m just wondering what else is out there. I’m not opposed to taking out a text ad, or a banner ad on a site that it would be appropriate for (assuming costs are reasonable…this is a non-commercial release, after all). I might even make some flyers to put up at the local record stores. Maybe even put some up in the Amoeba and Rasputin when I hit Berkeley and/or SF next week?Of course, I’ll post myself to Del.icio.us, with the hopes of getting a handful of blind tag-based clicks. But what else can I do to make the most of all this effort?
I’m so far along on this that I’m already thinking of long-term, pie in the sky, plans. You know, making live versions, playing million dollar grossing world tours, t-shirts, action figures, breakfast cereals, net labels, vinyl releases, DVD-audio surround sound releases, television sitcom, etc. Because I’m so down to Earth that way.
So….soon. I know I keep saying that, but really this time. For reals.
I other news, I’m this close to removing the comments function from this site. To date, there are 39 legitimate comments on this blog, the most recent being from a month ago. Apart from that, my Comment Spam Blacklist has swollen to grotesque proportions, and hardly a day goes by that I don’t delete a good half-dozen come-ons for pill-pushers, pornographers, and assorted sundry small-time crooks and charlatans. Given the apparently putrid cost/benefit ratio of having comments here, I think it may be time to change. When I find the motivtion that is. So, if you have anything to say, say it now or say it by e-mail or IM.
More later. More soon.
