Saturday, October 28, 2006
Missing in Action
Yeah, I know it's been awhile since the last post.. A lot of things keeping me busy and away from making music the last few months..some family related, some personal, but hopefully the chill autumn air will re-awaken the muse.
This October is a month full of anniversaries..
I passed Go for the 46th time, collected (almost) 300 MySpace "friends". Although a couple of mysteriously deleted profiles have the friend count back to 299. How much is a MySpace friend worth? More than a Monopoly dollar? I've had discussions with some of my non-virtual friends recently about the whole internet networking phenomenon, and whether any actual networking is actually taking place.
My wife also passed Go, the day after me, I'll play the gentleman and let you all guess how many times it is for her.
We enjoyed our 5th anniversary in October as well, and the day again was one of the coldest of the month for Chapel Hill, as it was in 2001. We had a wonderful and expensive dinner after which we were too full and sleepy to do anything else.
It's also the one year anniversary of my latest "baby" (all of my records are my babies) A Divided House, which just this past week officially passed the 300 mark in physical sales. It's a far cry from the number of CD's I used to sell in the 80's, but given the current marketplace conditions for a sole proprietor label with minimal airplay, no promotion, no video, no advertising, well, it's a tribute to all the MDID fans out there who have done the work to actively seek us out.
And, finally, of course, still to come, my wife's favorite holiday, Halloween. We'll be skipping the Franklin Street mayhem this year, although I'm toying with the idea of posting a picture of me in my Frylock costume from a couple of yrs ago on MySpace. ("Do I look fat in this honey?" "You're dressed as a box of french fries, how do you think you look?")
Oh, and for all of you in my former state, please do the right thing on Nov 7th and send that nutjob Blackwell to his political grave.
This October is a month full of anniversaries..
I passed Go for the 46th time, collected (almost) 300 MySpace "friends". Although a couple of mysteriously deleted profiles have the friend count back to 299. How much is a MySpace friend worth? More than a Monopoly dollar? I've had discussions with some of my non-virtual friends recently about the whole internet networking phenomenon, and whether any actual networking is actually taking place.
My wife also passed Go, the day after me, I'll play the gentleman and let you all guess how many times it is for her.
We enjoyed our 5th anniversary in October as well, and the day again was one of the coldest of the month for Chapel Hill, as it was in 2001. We had a wonderful and expensive dinner after which we were too full and sleepy to do anything else.
It's also the one year anniversary of my latest "baby" (all of my records are my babies) A Divided House, which just this past week officially passed the 300 mark in physical sales. It's a far cry from the number of CD's I used to sell in the 80's, but given the current marketplace conditions for a sole proprietor label with minimal airplay, no promotion, no video, no advertising, well, it's a tribute to all the MDID fans out there who have done the work to actively seek us out.
And, finally, of course, still to come, my wife's favorite holiday, Halloween. We'll be skipping the Franklin Street mayhem this year, although I'm toying with the idea of posting a picture of me in my Frylock costume from a couple of yrs ago on MySpace. ("Do I look fat in this honey?" "You're dressed as a box of french fries, how do you think you look?")
Oh, and for all of you in my former state, please do the right thing on Nov 7th and send that nutjob Blackwell to his political grave.
