Rock on!!!
Ok, err… backing up a step, i’ve decided to finally take the plunge and try to organize a weblog / performance area for songwriters on the internet. I’ve always wanted to do something like this, but so far i’ve been the only writer i’ve ever seen who primarily publishes on the ‘net (other than on MP3.com). However, Jehan and AndreTorrez (both linked on the sidebar, you lazy bum) have both expressed interest in the project, and having two great essayist/designers on board feels really damned good. So, if you or a friend might be interested, the place to look is http://uprush.org/DIY/. I don’t have any plans on starting before December, so there’s plenty of time to ask me questions and consider. But, ideally i’d love to have five or more active internet musicians who just randomly log about anything, but then once a week submit an audio file of a new performance. Of course, this supposes that people have recording facilities of some sort at their disposal, but all you really need is a 4-track or a mic on your computer. After a few weeks of random songs, we might actually attempt some songwriting challenges (wow, is this starting to sound like the Making the Band version of SurvivorBlog?). So, stay tuned, and i’ll keep y’all updated!
bloggish
Now that i’m blogging pretty regularly, i’ve stopped having those dreams. Of course, i haven’t been having my flying dreams either. The dream i had last night involved a ferret doing deathly combat with the gopher from Caddyshack while i tried to stay out of their way. Also, someone kidnapped God. That wasn’t really too important, though. I think i found him towards the end.
So, err, if anyone other than Spoon was hoping to be hosted by me, now would be the time to ask… i’m not sure how i feel about the whole hostee situation, but since i have the ability to do so i’d at least like to open the invitation for sites to apply. No promises as of right now, but any site that deserves some decent space is game (and to see what i consider deserving, surf through my sidebar and also my exits). So far i know that, unless i have restrictions on the amount of FTP accounts i can create, i am willing to host a few people as subdomains (http://you.uprush.org) with 25megs of space for under $4 a month. Talk to me.
It’s so weird to be the ultimate administrator at a site… i have everything from control over my 404 error page to my own anonymous FTP directory (hehehe… can you say Ani DiFranco concerts in MP3? Cause, i can…). I keep expecting to be denied access to something, or to need to create a password… but i’m in charge of all that. Weird…
Hopefully by the end of October myself and my handful of hostees will be moving to my new space at liquidweb.com. God knows it’s huge enough…