Stuff To Do, Feb. 25th, 2013

If anyone is ever wondering what I'm always saying I'm doing when I say I've got stuff to do or when it takes me forever to meet up with you. Or if you wonder what I'm talking about when I say something on FB or Twitter about "not enough time," here's a list of the biggest things I could think of that I want to get done in the near future. It would be longer but I just realized I have to go to the store before they close.... This is actually something I plan on posting every week or so just as an update kind of thing and also for me to keep moving with my plans.

1. Focus
2. Finish official video for "Stuck Up"
3. Storyboard official video for "Fix Me"
4. Finish video for "We Live Majique"
5. Make, test, edit, test, scrap, remake, test, edit and upload Twitter background while NOT being distracted by tweets
6. Decide on a "featured" list of songs to be on all artist sites and which songs will be exclusive to which sites
7. Figure out how the hell to use Facebook "page" and how much it can be customized
8. Do taxes
9. Write some blog posts that aren't lists of things for me to remember to do
10. Finish "Burning City" series of paintings
11. Decide if my artist i.e. "fine artist" name is going to be the VERY common Keith Miller (or KA Miller, etc) or Bunny Prole. Or, maybe, El Blanco?
12. Research and choose art portfolio website to upload art to
13. Design watermark that is tasteful, functional, and unobtrusive (possible?)
14. Write artist statement (where do I even begin?)
15. Make Slaptogether video for "It's Alright Now" or "Chateau Nervoso"
16. Brainstorm new "Light" drawings
17. Look into pricing for prints of existing "Light" drawings
18. Research and purchase a good new printer
19. Create a Facebook "page" for my "fine" art
20. Start making scheduled "update" videos and 6sec videos (Twitter) linked to here and Facebook
21. Finish writing "A Million Lifetimes"
22. Screw up every single sound (minus drums) on every single electronic track I have ever written
23. Make at least 3 new Slaptogether videos for Mr. S (Quiet Time, Rainbows, Mr. S Theme, Theme from "Rock!", Third Drink, Morning Time, etc)
24. Lay out a calendar with target finish dates for major projects
25. Take a damn break
26. Finish lyrics for "Back To Work"
27. Brainstorm projection video for Inner Party shows
28. Brainstorm ideas for and take new Inner Party pics
29. Make new designs for all IP web sites and implement
30. Scan all sketches of furniture designs
31. Design Mr. S shirts that can be made with Inkjet iron-ons and sell online, also posters
32. Design IP inkjet iron ons and print to sell at IP shows
33. Iron out all problems with Paypal so I can actually get paid for anything I might sell online
34. Find out if I can sell anything on that website Maryevelyn uses to sell stuff. Update: Found out and yes, I can. New #34: Scan Year of the Balloon Sketchbook and edit or create versions of all the sellable designs for shirts, phone cases (see #43), etc. Also, make account on that site....
35. Songza, Rhapsody, Tunecore, Playlist, last.fm
36. "Unclog" Soundcloud and straighten out all art there
37. Talk to Simon about possibly playing along with a drum machine. Update: Simon has never done this but is willing to give it a whirl. I need to make some files with some drum parts set up and set a time to go try it out with just me and him, see what happens
38. Get EVERYTHING registered on my ASCAP
39. Write a real Mr. S bio and distribute among music sites
40. Unify art design across all sites
41. Figure out how to cross-promote art-music-art
42. Scan ALL sketch books (weeks of work!)
43. Find anything in sketchbooks that can be used as-is for shirts, prints, etc
44. Digitize all old 4-track tapes and mine them for anything good
45. Get voice synthesizer sorted, start using heavily
46. Write new IP songs
47. Write new Mr. S songs
48. Take guitar amp to the shop and figure out how to pay for it's repairs Update: Amp goes to the shop tomorrow. I hope the guy at Blue Moon isn't backed up with repairs right now.
49. Clean my room Update: Done! Already dirty again...
50. Keep going to work every day to pay the bills and wear me out and keep me from being able to do number one on this list
51. Using voice synthesizer, make announcements/MC stuff for live show

And that's it for this To-Do, Feb. 25th, 2013

Mr. S - Fix Me (Music Video) (Black Flag Cover)

Video for "Fix Me" (Black Flag Cover) by Mr. S finally went live a week or so ago! What a freakin chore. In my usual fashion, I completely ignored preparation for filming and just started shooting. Like Mike Birbiglia says, "...no on-deck circle, it's just BATTER UP!!"




I did, however, get a lot of great ideas for how I could do this so much better and do it right. Meaning, preparing properly so it doesn't take me three weeks to make an okay video. I think if I do it right, I can get it done for-reals in two weeks or less. Hence the 'Version One' in the title.

Keep doing that whatever it is you're doin and BE BITCHIN!

Some New Pics

 I printed out the text on card stock with a really light gray outline only. And then, using a regrettably dull Exacto knife, I cut it out, leaving a base attached. I then scored the bottom of all the letters with a ruler so they would line up and BAM! Images with name built in. These are all unedited by the way. And it's pretty obvious that I just couldn't be bothered to set up any lights...

'Get This Show In The Tubes' and Mr. S Links

So, after months of letting it sit fallow, I've decided to start using this blog yet again. Since I've been trying to get my stuff on every single music outlet on the web and also started with the Twitter and the Facebookery, I figured I should start using this blog as well to hopefully tie it all together.

Here's links to the sites I've got up so far.

Oh The Glamour Music (My ASCAP) on Youtube - Videos for Mr. S and The Inner Party

Mr. S on Twitter (User BunnyProle)

Mr. S on Facebook

Mr. S on ReverbNation

Mr. S on Bandcamp

Mr. S on SoundCloud

Mr. S on Grooveshark

That's about it for now, I'm still setting up other pages. And some of the above are only marginally set up. But there will definitely be more to come soon....