This month, I participated in the Inktober Challenge. It’s a popular online challenge to make an ink drawing every day of October based on a series of daily prompts. There are different sets of prompts and different places people post art, but I stuck with the main list and shared my work on my Instagram. […]
I’m going to start keeping things positive and just reviewing the songs I really like. Fourteen this time. Nearly half the list. Not bad. (I bailed on that album art idea almost immediately, btw. Oops.) William Steffey – Baby Blue This is another track from Atypical, remasters of songs that WS recorded in the 1990’s. […]
A pretty good selection this week, all told. I’ll add a bunch to the mauxbs.com Spotify playlist. Apologies in advance for 99.9% of these reviews being the same rant about bands trying to sound retro. I haven’t given the Spotify algorithm a lot to work with beyond favoriting a lot of older artists when I […]
FYI: I’ve started a Spotify playlist for songs I mention on the blog, in the hopes of motivating myself to do this more. Alex Cameron – Far From Born Again – Demo Ok. This isn’t a new song. I’ve heard this before. (Just checked. It’s from this time last year.) This drives me crazy about […]
I think Facebook thinks I’m a bot. William Steffey and I are putting some serious focus on promoting his music this year. Running ads on Instagram is the first part of that. A Facebook business account comes with a lot of data, so surely I can use my statistical background to get us some sort […]
I realized I’ve been doing Spotify wrong. Instead of listening to the weekly generated playlists and up/down voting things, I’ve been copying them into another playlist to listen to later. Yes, I procrastinate so much that I can procrastinate listening to music! I ended up with a massive playlist that I’d never get around to, […]
I’ve been busy lately, and that includes posters. A friend who is a music publicist put me in touch with Brad Cole, who will be playing a residency at Montrose Saloon next month and I made him some posters and social media graphics: I’ve made a lot of posters, but I haven’t really worked like […]
I haven’t forgotten that I had a plan to blog about the music I was listening to, but I’ve put that on hold. By which, I mean I completely flaked on it. The truth is, I started looking into getting hired at the company I’m temping at. Suddenly, I didn’t want the VP walking past […]
No blog yesterday. The internet at work seemed dodgy, so I didn’t want to put Spotify on. Also, I was in a bummer of a mood so I probably wouldn’t have liked whatever I listened to. It happens. I’m feeling better today and I don’t want to miss two in a row, so let’s get […]
I’m working on a JotForm today and there are so many crazy widgets available that don’t pertain to my work. I want to check them out though. Don’t be surprised if a JotForm shows up in here in the next few days. Kelly Moran: Ultraviolet This is… not any genre of popular music. It’s more […]