Odds and Ends
I’m officially busy for the next couple weeks. Like, leave me the fuck alone busy. I’m looking for a new place to move into within….oh, a little over 14 days. I’ve committed myself to some remix work which is due in the same timeframe (which I’m very excited about, but don’t want to talk about too much). And of course, the usual work and social business. But I’m feeling a little stressed.
On the remix topic…I got my first remix back from the Apparel remix kits, and mailed out the last two of about 14 that I sent. Now I just have to wait for them to trickle in. I’ll probably do up the first batch as a release for my Airliner website, complete with cover art, etc., and post the rest as they come in. I’m hoping to post those up in a month or so? We’ll see. I’d like to do it before I go visit Joey in Seattle, or shortly thereafter.
Did I mention that I played the first ever Airliner live set a while ago? I busted out my Ableton Live versions of Jacket and Skirt at North Light Books & Cafe’s open mic night. It went well…relatively well-received, considering the crowd consisted of everything from jaded indie rockers, college poets, old folkies, and bluegrass dudes. I still need to set up the rest of the songs in Live, but I’m not sure yet how I’m gonna do some of the drum tricks I’ve come to rely on in Buzz. But I haven’t really scratched the surface of Live’s abilities yet either, so I’m optimistic.
Picked up Flight Volume Two yesterday. I meant to grab it at APE (see previous post), but I’d all but spent myself out of house and home by the time I found out they were selling it there, and at that point, it was either Flight or my Cloonan original. I’m happy with my choice. I read through the book cover to cover last night though, and it was excellent. Over 400 pages of comics from relatively established and totally unknown artists, with stand-out efforst from Hope Larson, Kazu Kibuishi, Becky Cloonan, Jen Wang, Kness, Doug Holgate….jesus, there’s too much quality in this book.
Well well…more later, I suppose….
