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Usual Rubbish

Cheap seat post.

All right, I admit it…. I got busy, then I got sleepy. We got busted, then we got badges.  But we can get into places they can’t.

Oooh, damn it. I’m channeling Tige Andrews on the Mod Squad. Just too many things to do around the Cheney Hammer Mill, and too little time. Ergo, this is a real cheap-seat posting, written on the fly. Just letting you know that our new single, “One Small Step”, has just arrived at iTunes and is ready to download for a low, low $.99 American.

You can dowload it today by going to: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/one-small-step-single/id432236664

Watch the ludicrous video at our YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/mansizedtuber

Okay… commercial’s over. I’ve got some sleeping to catch up on. Just let me get to it before Marvin (my personal robot assistant) starts playing that sousaphone again. (Don’t ask.) I’ll post a political rant sometime later this weekend, when I get my brain cells back in order. Cheers!

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Usual Rubbish

Backlash.


Is this the right control? Okay… I’ll try CTRL-ALT-DEL again. God damn! What the hell did I do that time? Bloody computers!

Okay, I’m struggling with my status as official Luddite of Big Green. (Originally that post belonged to my illustrious brother Matt, but now he’s the dude with the smart phone.) I don’t claim to be the most inept person ever to sit in front of a keyboard, but good goddamn – I’m making a doorstop out of this thing. If they just equipped PC’s with drawbars and foot pedals, I could drive the suckers, no problem.

Why am I spending so much time in front of the cyclopean eye of the decrepit computer originally left at our door by a malicious junk collector? Well, we have a new single in the works, as you may already know – a little number called “One Small Step”. Matt shot the video with only minimal assistance from yours truly. (I basically showed up in a turtleneck – he did the rest.) So the very least I could do is upload the sucker to YouTube and post it on our various Web haunts. Easier said than done, it turns out – especially when you’re working off of a 28.8 baud modem and a pirated phone line. (It’s like a party line, in that every time you make a call, your signal is drowned out by pirates yaaarrr-ing at one another.)

So yeah, we have our challenges. It’s tough to be a primitive band in a digital age. About the only advantage we have is our utter broke-i-tude. Because we’re broke and squatting in an abandoned hammer mill, we don’t need to make money. So we upload our songs to iTunes, etc., and make almost nothing from them. So in that respect, the business model of the modern music industry fits us to a tee. Sure, we’re playing broken guitars, scratched up washboards, old plywood tubs… but our tech support costs are almost zero. I smell success!

Anyway… let us know what you think of One Small Step. Then let us know again. With our Web connection, it may take a few tries for your email to get through.

Usual Rubbish

Small step.


No, I can’t hang upside down. Not for three hours, for chrissake… from a helicopter. Why don’t you just turn the camera upside down? Never thought of THAT, did you? (You did… ?)

Oh, hi. Just walked in on another acrimonious production meeting here  at the Cheney Hammer Mill. We keep a tight production schedule around here, let me tell you, averaging as many as one music video a year (sometimes more). Yes, breakneck speed rivaling our audio production schedule. Punishing! Matt is our director, though he sometimes puts Mitch Macaphee in charge of the second unit. Video production does not come naturally to our mad science advisor, I’m the first to say. He tends to confuse special effects with reality. (I can’t quite bring myself to ask him how he faked that exploding building in our last video…. too afraid of the truth.)

Okay, so… we’re releasing a single. A goofy little number called “One Small Step”. All I can say about it is that it attempts to explain the unexplainable, namely the moon landing, Armstrong’s flubbed first words from the cratered surface of Luna, and the severe mental and metaphysical consequences of that flubbing. The video? Well…. it features cameos by two ex presidents (both deceased) – one puts in a screaming sax solo. It features spectacular (or spectacularly dumb) depictions of interplanetary travel. And… well, what else can I say but watch it and judge for yourself.

“One Small Step” is one of those songs that has been sitting around for a time, waiting to be finished, begging to be released. They’re like errant children, you know? You make them, they start to grow, and next thing you know – before they even think about striking out on their own – they’re giving you a massive pain in the ass. “One Small Step” hung around for a while; we redid it, remixed it, changed it up…. then just threw our hands in the air. It was never going to be a doctor, a lawyer, or even a tailor or dry cleaner. So it’s just a song; Matt gave it a fittingly bizarre video, and the rest is history. (Or will be history, once it’s past.)

Here’s hoping you enjoy this modest little number. Now if you’ll excuse me, my helicopter awaits.