It’s that time of year again!  The bad artwork has been completed, the discs have been burned!  If you’d like a copy, I’ve got some sitting here, just shoot me your address!  Each cover is slightly different due to the wonders of spray painting with a paper template!

Every year I record an album.  That album shows why I can’t make a living as a musician.  Every year, that album has homemade artwork.  That artwork shows why I make a living with numbers and not as a printmaker.  The plan this year is to use an exacto knife to cut the letters and silhouette out and to spray paint the stencil onto recycled cardboard flip cases.  Basically, screen printing without the panache, quality, or good looks.  I can’t help it.  It’s not like I have a huge market, and it’s not really in a screen printer’s business interests to do a run of 20 items.  So yeah, if you would like a copy, this is what you’ll (hopefully) see on the cover!

I always wanted to try this, so this year I’m going write about fantasy baseball.  Analysis, moves, etc.  So, if you don’t like fantasy baseball and you’re one of the 2 people who follow me, probably best to just unfollow.  

ryanhamiltonwalsh:

Hypnotic, Off-Brand Meditation Tape

In May 2012 I asked the readership of Surviving The World and the fans of Hallelujah The Hills to participate in a musical experiment.  I asked for people to make up a melody for a certain phrase, record it, and send it to me.  About 100 people sent me something.  The result is this. 

See if you can find my entry in the sound collage that Ryan Walsh of Hallelujah the Hills put together.  And definitely go read Surviving The World… unless of course you don’t want to survive…

New year, new car mix:

1. Of Monsters and Men - Mountain Sound
2. Alt-J - Tessellate
3. Peter Bjorn & John - Second Chance
4. Paul & Storm - Opening Band
5. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
6. Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
7. They Might Be Giants - Kiss Me, Son of God
8. British Sea Power - The Land Beyond
9. Travis - Walking in the Sun
10. Satellites - Sale of the Century
11. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
12. Florence & The Machine - Shake It Out
13. Givers - Up Up Up
14. The Replacements - Bastards of Young
15. New Order - Ceremony
16. The Long Winters - Pushover
17. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
18. Lana Del Rey - Video Games
19. Blur - Under The Westway
20. Hallelujah the Hills - Flight of the Paper Pilots
21. Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtnenay

ryanhamiltonwalsh:

Tonight my goal was to wrangle all the songs for HtH IV into one clean document. This antiquated paper mess was turned into zeros & ones (yay, or depending on your outlook on technology, boooo)

The beauty and chaos of analogue to digital conversion…

joeblubaugh:

“Carp” - Joe Blubaugh, 2012

I’ve been really enjoying my fuzz pedal lately. (PS: Please reblog)

Of course, if I’m going to give you #4, I should probably give you #3…

Guided By Ukes - Dayton Ohio, 19 Something Circa Uke-5