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original url http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Basement/9680/

archived on 2009-04-26 13:53:55

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rats! rats! we are the rats! celebrating yet another birthday bash! MICHAEL its your birthday today!

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huh it is weird how purple is so often used in video games for stuff like corruption or dark magic or whatever

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lazy art

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This Week's News, 5/12/2025

MY ALBUM IS OUT - marketing, and the album cover

yeah. check it out!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so proud of myself for finishing this project and I hope you get a chance to listen, if not outright buy the album whole. It would mean a huge amount, and I think you'll find its diverse mix of industrial, noise-ish, rock, hip-hop, and R&B tones very pleasing.

I'm really interested in marketing it now. My idea is I'll go onto Tiktok in clown makeup and do some cute marketing thingies about it.

Wait, what do I mean by that?

I mean like, I asked around for ways to market my stuff and was recommended the tiktok of bbno$.

It's a little lowbrow, okay, but look how he just kind of.. takes whatever song he currently has out now and adapts his memes around it. I think that's something I could easily do, and isn't a bad strategy off the bat.

But also TF2, lol

I have been taking songs from my album, specifically the booty-bangin' bonus track LittleBittyKitty, and micspamming on my local TF2 community server using Soundpad. And I think it has resulted in at least one album sale, which is pretty funny if you think about it. It's a revolutionary strategy.

I don't have any footage of my endeavors at the moment, though I might later, so here, go watch Team Fabulous 2.

More about my album

What do you want to know? What do I care to explain?

I wrote about some stuff related to my album last week, but I must say, it's a relief to finally have it done.

How about I take some time talking about the cover?

I was initially wanting to make an album cover featuring two styled versions of myself- Monalise, who would be me but in a dark/black dress, glasses and feminine makeup, and Tom Dalton,

Here's a sketch of him. Basically just like, my shadow self or something.

These are the two characters that the album, a concept album by nature, is supposed to revolve around (besides regular appearances from Me as just, me, rapping about what I'm going through).

But I really was dead-set on releasing my album on time (Saturday 5/10) and at the last second intuited that I really wouldn't have time to do the photoshoot I wanted. My guitarist (who is also basically my photographer) was out of town, and I feel like I'm in a family situation where I don't exactly feel like I can dress in fem, even for an occasion like this.

So, instead, I got out my chessboard and headed for the backyard grill.

The first few photos I took really don't capture the fire at its peak, which was terrifying. It was a hot, dry evening and my family had just left to run some errands, and though I don't think I was in immediate danger of the backyard burning, I did find that my rough pile of sticks, dead leaves, and ripped-up Whole Foods bags burned extremely well.

As for the content of the cover, I think some lyrics from the Epilogue should sum it up enough:

Internal issues bleed over to the external Inside every being, a battle rages eternal

The contrast of the news headlines and newspaper noise surrounding a pretty basic chess situation between white queen and black knight (Mona and Tom, in a goofy but symbolic way) felt like a good way to show that these issues I'm dealing with on the album are indeed internal, and I face them in a storm (a "rain storm", if you will) of external crises and lowkey existential threats coming outside of me.

Also, why the smoke/fire in general? something something world is burning. I had a cut Interlude that gave more hints, as well as a description on the Bandcamp page, but I felt like the album would be more fun as a puzzle on repeated listenings without a lot of rather obvious stuff in that Interlude.

Not to explain away the symbolism or anything, but it's okay, the album is still under the radar, this blog even more so.

Notably, this is my first major music project where I (or some facsimile of me) didn't end up being featured on the cover.

P.S. Every platform (Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Spotify)

Wait, what's next?

I would like to get a full-time job or a more stable job in the meantime. That takes priority, even over any game dev I'd like to do. Plus, it will take some significant amount of energy to get the ball rolling on marketing this album, so I'd like to start doing that too.

That's all for now.

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you are the SAME age.

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RICK ASTLEY I KNEW YOUD NEVER LET ME DOWN

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Nintendo Official Magazine UK #103, April 2001 - ‘Pokemon: Gold & Silver’ Cover.

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柴犬おもち on X: “🤚 #おもちさんの日常 https://t.co/v2NlxyzsBE” / X

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I know I say that I'm kinda nuts for doing the amount of visual research I do, but at the same time: Specificity is SO much more compelling and real feeling, and imo not getting references often makes things look more amateur.

Eg. drawing a sofa- my mental image of a sofa is something like this:

Like. Its a sofa. It works. But it's not very convincing, the pillows are kinda wrong at the back, and it's not really giving any information about the owner. Even if you want a basic sofa... What kind of basic.

comfy and cheap?

kinda rigid?

inherited? ------

who does this comfy cheap ikea sofa belong to anyway?

guy living alone?

teenage girl?

Grandma?

Anyway I'll get off my soapbox but specificity is sexy and fun and it can do your storytelling for you!

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idk what traumatized or mentally ill person needs to hear this but dreams (especially the really disturbing ones you dont want to talk about to anybody) arent some deep peek into your psyche or a sign of your True Desires or whatever theyre quite literally your brain making fruit salad with whatever it can find on the shelf. just putting all that shit in a blender and hitting obliterate. its fine, youre fine, youre not a weirdo for it