Notes to My Future Album-Recording Self
Having attempted an album-in-a-day, an album-in-a-week, and an album-in-a-month (with varying results), here are some things I learned about my musical process. Hopefully this’ll help me refine my process for next time. For the rest of this article below,”you” get to be me… at least as far as pronouns are concerned.
Funputer
Remember those advertisements where models look like they’re having far too much fun playing video games?
I spent a weekend or two working on a small site called Funputer, where video game systems are judged by how much fun people appear to be having.
In addition to the typical game systems, Rock Paper Scissors was added as a control mechanism. It was beating all the other systems until I posted about it on Digg.
Unfortunately, I can’t find the PS2 promo images that inspired me to make the site. If you know where these might be found, pleeease let me know.
Making a Cereal Killing
I bought cereal. A lot of it. It’s been on sale. $1/box at Festival, $1.33/box at Copps. Some of them are actually healthy and tasty (e.g. Raisin Brains and Shredded Whats).
Tonight I got 6 boxes of Count Chocula from Copps. Even more interesting than its internal battle between sugarrupticious chocolatasms and whole-engraininess is the price. They were $2.19/box = $13.14. Copps takes $10 off 6 General Mills boxes, which brings the price to $3.14. The in-aisle coupon printer provides coupons for $0.75-off-2, bringing the price to $0.89 after 3 coupons.
So $0.89 for 6 boxes of so-much-for-a-healthy-diet time-machine fuel. THEN at the register, they print a coupon for 2 free gallons of milk on my next visit. Even if the cereal were inedible, I’d still buy them just to get $0.89 milk.
So we’ve got quite the cereal corner (see photo; the Count is guarding it for us). Any bets on how soon it’s cleared? Calories per cubic centimeter?