| Does anyone out there have any contact information for Casey B? (Preferably email?)
There is a live project that I am working on and I would like to see if I can get permission from him to perform one of his Drowsy Driver songs.
Thanks to any who can help!
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| A number of us IBCers have talked about renovating the web site for quite some time. We discussed some design and even did some trials of various software. Sometime last year we tried a Drupal installation and we put a bunch of stuff in it to see how it worked. It was actually pretty good. Unfortunately about that time our main site administrator had to move and job change and generally does not have timely access to the Interweb at this point.
Unfortunately, around that time in an upgrade, somehow I managed to corrupt something in the Drupal site and it would just come up with blank pages. I kept poking at it hoping it would come back to life, including a couple more version upgrades. No luck. So this weekend I exported the data and dropped the tables and recreated it from scratch and then basically pasted the old material into the new site. This includes not only material from the current page but using www.archive.org to retrieve old pages no longer available anywhere else.
Since I have need of a place to put new material and I think others as well, I will let them speak for themselves, I think it will be useful too, so I am announcing the UNOFFICIAL Interrobang Cartel Backup Wiki site at
http://ibcwiki.spaceroom.org
Feel free to create an account if you would like to add new things or update old material with recent work. Once you have an account I can grant authoring privs.
I am hoping to perhaps spark a bit of renewed interest in the project. I believe that IBC is a unique project that produced some really interesting things and I don't think it has completely outlived itself yet. (I could be horribly wrong here!)
Please feel free to provide constructive comments regarding the site should you so desire.
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| Rock In My Shoe is ready for a vocal track. Listen to my voice in the prototype version to get an idea of what I'd like... except female. And an octave higher, if you can. Actually, feel free to sing in whatever key you would like - we have the technology to redo everything else around you. For more info, see the old post here.
My plan is to put you front and center, with a nice wash of backup vocals. Ask Doctroid - we have the technology to make you sound great. RSVP! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| for the benefit of those failing to remain inside the ARK:
( Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:40:28 -0500 )
I heard Thomas Ricks on Fresh Air last night talking about his new book
"The Gamble," and he quoted this exchange:
> An American soldier in the town of Baqubah turns to an Iraqi who has
> been an insurgent, who's now manning a checkpoint with the Americans,
> and he says, "Would you like to kill me?" and the Iraqi looks him up
> and down and says, "Yes, but not today."
The story is here, though not the full text anymore:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100477142
The quote is a little over 15 minutes into the interview.
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| | I just took "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Coelacanth" off last.fm. Reason: On listening to it again I remembered it makes prominent use of "The Girl From Ipanema", a song written in 1962 and not in the public domain (and the performance, I would guess, is also copyright protected). I don't know that it's likely anyone would complain, and it might arguably be fair use for purposes of parody, but I'd rather not risk getting into legal trouble or trouble with last.fm over it. I'm probably being overly cautious, I know. | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
| Hope no one minds, I uploaded the tracks done so far for Bad Coelacanth and Rules for Dysfunctional Patterns to last.fm. They're described as albums in progress.
(Some problem apparently with "Pay Her No Mind". Twice I've uploaded it and it's gone through with no apparent hitch, but then it says it doesn't have the MP3 and suggests I upload it. I have no idea why.) (Working now.)
The other completed songs on incomplete albums could be uploaded too, but I'm less confident of the album assignments for them.
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| The Price of Swedish Glarno
Bad Coelacanth
Interröbang Cartel
GET IT HERE
Credits:
Lyrics - Tim Chuma
Vocals - Major Zed
Music - Major Zed
Percussion - MagicAire
Produced by Major Zed
The Price of Swedish Glarno by Interröbang Cartel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Lyrics
It goes up and down
Sometimes it is worth more than a tractor
Other times less than a bucket of slop
No I wouldn't want to be a futures trader
Who bets on the price of Swedish glarno
It is not a reliable commodity
On which to pin your future hopes and dreams
That doesn't stop people doing it
I see more every day
The money is just too attractive
I don't blame people for it
But if you want my advice
Don't mess around with the price of Swedish glarno | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| I know a video exists for at least one song ("Cal-Dal") and I think for at least two. Are these still on line anywhere?
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| Most of Needs More Wanger is now up on last.fm. A couple of tracks ("Cones" and "Loofah (buzz cut)") need some work to get last.fm to accept them.
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| IBC MP3 files were requested (i.e. downloaded) from http://interrobang.jwgh.org 27,919 times between November 29 and December 29 of 2008. ONE MONTH! The most-downloaded song (1,157 times) was ibang_track8.mp3. I don't recognize it; it starts with "Ophelia's been acting very strangely..." Here are the details:
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| While the Cartel songs on last.fm might be considered to be "canonical" in the sense that they've all been remastered by Major Zed, be aware that MP3s downloaded from last.fm do not preserve the ID3 tags of the uploaded versions. So they do not contain any artwork that may have been included, the composer fields are blank, and the artist fields uniformly contain "Interröbang Cartel".
I've put the remastered versions of "Walking With Woodlice" and "Hedgerow Hypothesis OSJ version" on my web site at the same URL as was given previously, but these MP3s have the original ID3 information restored.
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