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Muddling in the Details

Jackie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:23:58 +0000

Where have I been? I’m sure you have been asking yourself. It’s quilt crunch time. I really don’t care for it. It will be worth it when all is glued, stitched and mailed. But I don’t like dealing with the details of it all. I don’t make straight lines very well, I don’t make things square without a lot of pain involved. But when your piece is hanging crooked for all the world to see, well, it is just embarrassing. So I am working away at sleeves, slats, labels and whatever else needs to be done. Procrastination has made a nice home here and steps in daily. Yesterday I cleaned the cat litter, did three loads of laundry, changed a bed - all things that I would happily put off for days, but not this week.

Don’t worry, I got after myself today and started working on all of it. New projects will be happening soon around here. Now back to that sleeve.

“Flying House of Loreto” now on iTunes

Victor — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:18:44 +0000

I know you’re probably sick of this song by now, but if you were waiting for it to show up on iTunes, then today is your lucky day! It’s my first “new” music on iTunes in years. Yippee!

Sound Cloud

Victor — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:28:30 +0000

Britain invited me the beta of Sound Cloud, so I uploaded some of my weirder tracks to the site and am playing around with their embedded player widgets… let’s try it together!

SoundCloud My Weblog (Demo) by Victor Lams

Thank you!

Victor — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:46:02 +0000

Hey there! Thanks to you, I beat Moby on the Lala.com Electronic charts and have the #1 song in the Christian section of the site (at least for today!). That’s awesome. Thanks, everyone!

Phreakbox CDs available now!

Victor — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:33:27 +0000

I’m still working on an official Phreakbox page, but if you cannot wait for the CDs, they’re available now in CD-on-demand format from Kunaki.com. The disc features a full color insert and on-disc printing, are shrink-wrapped, and look pretty cool (the store site has a pretty cool 3-D rendering of the package). Make sure your CD player can play CD-R discs (as that appears to be the format kunaki uses, though I could be mistaken) before ordering, though, to avoid disappointment upon arrival. The CDs are $9.87 (the 16th number in the Fibonacci sequence) plus shipping.

Buy Phreakbox v1.4: The Instrumentals here!

Oh, and thanks for the listens on Lala.com. As of this afternoon, I’m the fourth-highest-played Electronic artist of the last seven days - Moby is #6. Woohoo!

Help me be #13!

Victor — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:48:37 +0000

The 13th-most-listened-to Electronic artist on Lala.com, that is. Since the new streaming music and download service, Lala.com, listed my new album before iTunes, I’ve been spending some time poking around the website. It turns out relatively few listens separate the 14th electronic artist from the 13th. All YOU have to do, gentle reader, is point your browser to my Lala.com page and click play. You can turn down the volume on your computer if you absolutely can’t stand my music, but the more plays I get, the higher I’ll be on the charts. Maybe I can even get higher than the Chemical Brothers (and maybe even Moby!), before the site gets more well-known and the popular artists start getting more plays.

I’m pretty sure Sun-Ra got his start this way, too.

Victor — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:37:32 +0000

My new album comes out… today?!

Victor — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:41:26 +0000

Well, I thought it would take a few more weeks, but apparently three days is all it takes for Amazon MP3 and Lala to post your new album on their websites for listening (LaLa gives you the first listen for free) and purchase. iTunes, Rhapsody, and eMusic, it seems take a bit longer.

So, yeah: phreakbox v1.4: The Instrumentals is out today!!!!

Expect a full page for the album soon, including a link to purchase a physical CD copy of the product (once I approve it). But in the meantime if you want to get your (mostly) mellow electronic jazz downtempo loungecore chiptune worldbeat groove on, head over to the album on Amazon MP3 or Lala and give it a listen (and if you like it, download a track or two or the whole album). It’s very chill.

Also, while at Amazon MP3 or Lala (and soon iTunes and Rhapsody) you may notice another single I’ve recently released, “The Flying House of Loreto”.

This is a track I did a little while back which has become very popular on the net (to date this year, it’s been downloaded over 16,000 times from my website). If you like, give it a listen and a download too. It may just give you the inspiration you need to do whatever it is you need to do today (heck, I mean, if a house can fly anything is pretty much possible). Jackie did the cover design for the single, incorporating one of her recent fiber art pieces… I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback on that.

And, as always, if you haven’t gotten your daily dose of Robot Love recently, you can download my first CD on iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon MP3 and a number of other places around the net.

Space Boot!

Jackie — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:39:08 +0000

With a few more weeks to go, Xanderbert was growing weary of his aircast. Although, I must say that he has done really well so far and complained little about the boot. So with one trip to the craft store a simple Aircast was transformed into Space Boot! You can see a few other shots of it on the flickr site in the Misc folder at the bottom.

WALL·E

Jackie — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:01:47 +0000

‘Xander and I were lucky enough today to sneak away and watch WALL·E and I have to say that I was amazed. I was amazed when I saw Ratatouille, too, but this is even light years ahead of that film in terms of visual style, radically innovative story-telling (the fact that this movie got made at all, much less was #1 at the box office this past weekend, is a miracle), and just sheer scope. This is the film that anyone who’s ever played with or appreciates animation wishes they could make. If over 100 years of making movies (telling stories, taking us to new worlds, broadening our horizons) culminates in anything, it culminates in this film. It really is, chiefly, a really sweet love story in which the survival of the human race is at stake. So, anyway, go see this film. One word of warning, though: this is not “Kung Fu Panda” or even “Cars” - this movie asks something of you, the viewer, and will make you think.

Oh, yeah: and it’s got Fred Willard - non computer-generated Fred Willard (!) - in it.