The system is down.
Posted on February 21st, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 5:59 pm
Or atleast nekodashi.com, my music hosting site, is. I have no clue why, and I can’t seem to get a hold of my friend who hosts the site to find out why, so for the moment, I guess I’m kind of stuck. Hopefully, I can resolve it quickly soon. If not, a temporary zip filled with the Romance Language preview mp3s might be kicked up on this site or atleast via rapidshare or something.
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So, It’s Released in Full.
Posted on February 17th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 5:05 pm
mp3s, lyrics and everything. Thank you to all of you who boldly ordered this without hearing the CD first, and thanks in advance to everyone will hopefully order the CD now that you can get an idea of what you’re getting into.
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Half-Way Done In The Wrong Order…
Posted on February 16th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 5:39 pm
The proper way to handle a CD release given the situation of being an online-oriented artist:
1. Release Promotional mp3s to entice fans.
2. Release CD via nice new online store.
3. Profit.
How I’ve handled it:
1. Release CD via mediocre new online store.
2. Release Promotional mp3s to entice fans.
3. Realize that no one’s going to buy this without mp3s up first, but I promise they’ll be up tomorrow.
To anyone bold/fanboyish/fangirlish enough to buy this on the single and the preview medley mp3 alone (IE: before I get the rest of the preview mp3s up,) I’ll autograph the CD with a silly internet meme or two, and I’ll put a nerdy anime sticker or two in with the CD. Oh, and the first print run has an unintentional grammatical error in the liner notes, which is sure to make the value skyrocket*.
*=Karl Olson, karlrolson.com and any related individuals or subsidiaries can not be held responsible for the fact that the odds of it ever being value are 963 quadrillion to 1. 😉
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See, I’m really working on it…
Posted on February 13th, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 1:17 pm
I’m pretty happy with it.
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Crunch Time
Posted on February 12th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 6:59 pm
So with about 2 days and change before my next album goes on sale, it’s crunch time. I have the album art, I have the music, but making that into a product is easier said than done. Oh, the lightscribe discs are pretty (but are slow to burn,) and the double sided gloss paper makes for great CD covers (that then need be carefully cut out,) but as I’ve just blatantly insinuated, this process is easier said than done. If I’m lucky, a lot of work tomorrow morning will ensure I have 20 discs available at the show on Wednesday. Online orders will open Wednesday evening or on Thursday morning.
For something that is, at the moment, more of a hobby than a career it sure is very time consuming sometimes. Hopefully though, people enjoy it, and it’ll all be worth while. If not, I’ll probably just keep doing it anyway. After all, not many hobbies give you an excuse to go various nerdy conventions.
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OBJECTION
Posted on February 11th, 2007
Filed under: Pictures — Karl Olson @ 5:23 pm
(Click For Full Size.)
Oh Apple Store, you’re always a fun way to kill time. If only I could build Apples like PCs (without laying out some serious cash upfront,) I’d almost switch.
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Nerd == Nerd^2
Posted on February 2nd, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 5:05 am
I say this because I am now a Linux User. Well, not a full time Linux User, and besides, the only reason I’m using it now is because Windows absolutely, positively refused to install on a 12″ Dell Laptop my friend Misu gave me. However, Linux (specifically, Damn Small Linux as I’m running a 384MB flash hard drive,) runs quite nicely on it, and it even fires up wifi (which is critical as the whole point of this exercise was getting a lighter laptop running for convention reporting and general usefulness,) so I guess I’m now partially penguinated, atleast when I’m not at home and using my sweet sweet XP machine, though I’d probably even trade that in if the next version of Reason ran on Linux. After all, the rest of my day to day work – word processing, internets chatting, net browsing, image editing and video viewing can be done in Linux. I just can’t make music the way I’m used to (IE: too lazy to try Linux music making software.)