Dreams Of Noise

( Not even everything, but probably more than you need to know.... )

And how the heck is your weekend proceeding?

An hour and forty minutes, five bucks. And spiffy art by the incredible Lar DeSouza (which I think will work very well for a recurring Live Show cover).

Really, it's just a big fat guy sitting in the middle of the screen.

Singing "Storm Dancing".

Thanks to blackpaladin.

I'm performing at the Assembly Line Concert on Tuesday morning at 9:00 a.m. EDT. If you can't make it there (and, honestly, if you're not within normal striking distance, don't try it, you'll be going through suburban Oakland County during morning rush hour), you can watch online. Every time I've tuned in, the performer or band has been pretty good to very good. Nice to know we've got so many fine performers in S.E. Michigan. :)

So. Anyone actually have a chance of getting there?

Me at AnthroCon 2006 (h/t giza):

It should be a fab weekend, with great guests (Michelle West, Theresa Mather, Lee Carrol and Anne Brett) and lots of friends, including Anne, huskiebear, markbernstein, trektone, sazettel, billroper and daisy_knotwise and the girls, bedlamhouse, unkbar (dunno if Joanne will be there, but I hope so), drzarron and dhstein and Sabrina, que_sara_sara and the Chocolate ritual, catalana, maiac, jimhines, so many more -- just a damn lot going on with great people. Here, more or less, is what I'm doing:

• Friday 7:00 pm -- second half of a concert (first half with Michael "Moonwolf" Longcor)
• Saturday 10:00 am -- panel on Using Your Laptop As A Home Studio
• Saturday 1:00 pm -- Iron Filker
• Saturday 5:00 pm -- concert (Wolf's second concert follows)
• Sunday 1:00 -- helping Mark with a performance tips panel

If you're not in the SE Michigan area, however, there are lots of other cons this weekend. Heck, just within driving distance there's Con on the Cob in Akron (which features most of the rest of The FuMP, including lukeski, pixelene, partiallyclips, wormquartet, devospice, powersalad, and more).

There's also Archon in suburban St. Louis, with Laurell K. Hamilton, muskrat_john, a rock-solid filk run by mofilker, ericcoleman and toyboatband, lukeski again [with dement1a], and, oh yeah, the cast of Cinematic Titanic.

And, if you're in the mood for comics and media but mostly comics, there's Mid-Ohio Con in Columbus, with Chris Claremont, Len Wein, Alan Davis, Joe Kubert, Alan Dean Foster, etc., etc., etc.

And there are even more conventions across the country, some of which are mentioned in comments below. All in all, a pretty great weekend, fandom-wise.

So, what's your plan for the weekend?

ETA: How could I forget the excellent FenCon in Dallas, TX? Gregory Benford, Real Musgrave, and, oh yeah, Three Weird Sisters (so I guess ladyat isn't gonna be up here, sigh, but that means you guys get her and quadrivium and weirdsister) and one of the last appearances together of the Brobdingnagian Bards (Andrew McKee and marcgunn).

ETA2: I'm fixin' as fast as I can.... ;)

partiallyclips, me, and scifantasy doing "Rich Fantasy Lives" at the Pegasus Nominee Concert last Friday night. judifilksign is the lovely lady doing the ASL interp. Thanks to hms42 for catching this, and I'm pretty sure johno is the guy who actually posted it.

At Dragon*Con, some young guy from the Carolina Otaku Uprising handed me a DVD-R, saying he hoped I liked it. I did. It was this:

I posted this on the iTom page, but thought I'd repost it here.

I am very sorry I've fallen behind on the songs. It has just been a very busy time for me, and I ended up working myself sick. (I'm feeling a good deal better now.) I may have something in the next two days, but if not it'll likely be next week.

It seems like a good time to tell you my plans for iTom. First, thanks so much for all of you who've been listening, giving me feedback, getting the RSS feeds, and buying the songs. I really appreciate it; it is, in fact, what makes it all worth it.

Second, I'm going to finish up this album -- I hope before Dragon*Con -- and then take a bit of a break. Not all that long. A song every few weeks, most likely, rather than every week.

(Heh. I wanted to prove to myself that I could do a song a week, and then I berated myself for falling short... but I forgot to count commission jobs, The FuMP, and a few things I did just for grins. I actually wrote and recorded almost seventy songs in the past year.)

Third, iTom will start up full-swing again at the beginning of the year. Because that's how I'm going to initially release Sounds Familiar, the studio versions of almost everything on the first two tapes.

Good timely schedule, too -- Dodeka is finally, formally getting out of the cassette business. So hang onto those tapes... they're collector's items. ;)

Anyway, it's Con Season, and I've got a few commission jobs to finish up, and more FuMP stuff to write, and, oh yeah, four more songs for this iTom album. And I just wanted to let you all know what was going on, and say Thank You Very Much for your support. It means everything to me, because this is no fun without you.

lukeski is coming out with a DVD, and he generously offered space to his friends in the funny music community to come up with a commercial for themselves. Mine is here. You'll need the DivX codec. If you'd rather, there's a much lower resolution Flash version.

Just thought you might find it interesting. :)