The Sound of Dictatorship
Okay, here's the deal. I can't play guitar worth a damn, but digital audio is a whole 'nother story. We probably need to invent a new category - Electronica Politica or something equally exotic. All vocals are George W. Bush - the man, the legend, the fascist pig.
It's a 5 megabyte MP3 which runs about two minutes and ten seconds. Guaranteed to be a smash at your next party with or without your drug(s) of choice.
Originally, I planned to do a full length MP3, but it would've run at least ten minutes, so I decided instead to do a suite. This would be the second installment of several, but it's the only one I have completed and don't know if I'll ever get around to turning the remaining songs into a finished product, assuming I get around to it all.
Now, what the hell should I do with the damn thing? I can't sell it and probably wouldn't anyway, though I might not object to a purely voluntary donation. Considering all the soliciting that goes on in Blog Land (which I'll admit - and please don't clobber me for saying so - is kind of a touchy subject with me), I seriously doubt anyone would see fit to volunteer their hard-earned dough for my effort, even if it did take me countless hours to create a mere two minutes and ten seconds of danceable counter-revolutionary audio. It would be nice to make a few paltry bucks on it if only to spring for a bona fide website, but even that is a half-assed aspiration. After all, it's a gem and I already have it. Sharing it would just be icing on the cake.
Still, Dictator-Rag.MP3 is the sound of contemporary American dissidence. People who dig the visceral graphics and caustic commentary at The Carnival of Horror would undoubtedly appreciate it. I sure as hell don't want to sign it over to some audio hosting corporation, and being on an antique baud rate via dial-up, I can't distribute it by e-mail. With CD's being cheap, I reckon I could get a short-leased private postal box and just do the whole thing by snail mail... but under that scenario, I would have to charge a fee and would definitely feel compelled to provide more than one song, even if it is a damn good one. (I'm thinking out loud here. It's probably evident by now what a sorry excuse for a capitalist I am, but should I become one in the course of this exercise, you can always say you knew me when I had some scruples.)
I will say this, though, if I make a thematic series of songs (and, incidentally, I do have enough material to do so) and go the snail mail route, I'll be shooting for a trip to Jamaica instead of simply expanding this site. Jamaica's a lot more fun than HTML, graphics and culture jamming... okay, well, maybe not culture jamming, but you know where I'm going with this.
In light of what I've revealed here and assuming it's all dead-on correct, what would YOU do? Thanks in advance for your suggestions, but it's a safe bet I won't be writing any checks to you in the future no matter how it turns out. You know I love you, but come on...
It's a 5 megabyte MP3 which runs about two minutes and ten seconds. Guaranteed to be a smash at your next party with or without your drug(s) of choice.
Originally, I planned to do a full length MP3, but it would've run at least ten minutes, so I decided instead to do a suite. This would be the second installment of several, but it's the only one I have completed and don't know if I'll ever get around to turning the remaining songs into a finished product, assuming I get around to it all.
Now, what the hell should I do with the damn thing? I can't sell it and probably wouldn't anyway, though I might not object to a purely voluntary donation. Considering all the soliciting that goes on in Blog Land (which I'll admit - and please don't clobber me for saying so - is kind of a touchy subject with me), I seriously doubt anyone would see fit to volunteer their hard-earned dough for my effort, even if it did take me countless hours to create a mere two minutes and ten seconds of danceable counter-revolutionary audio. It would be nice to make a few paltry bucks on it if only to spring for a bona fide website, but even that is a half-assed aspiration. After all, it's a gem and I already have it. Sharing it would just be icing on the cake.
Still, Dictator-Rag.MP3 is the sound of contemporary American dissidence. People who dig the visceral graphics and caustic commentary at The Carnival of Horror would undoubtedly appreciate it. I sure as hell don't want to sign it over to some audio hosting corporation, and being on an antique baud rate via dial-up, I can't distribute it by e-mail. With CD's being cheap, I reckon I could get a short-leased private postal box and just do the whole thing by snail mail... but under that scenario, I would have to charge a fee and would definitely feel compelled to provide more than one song, even if it is a damn good one. (I'm thinking out loud here. It's probably evident by now what a sorry excuse for a capitalist I am, but should I become one in the course of this exercise, you can always say you knew me when I had some scruples.)
I will say this, though, if I make a thematic series of songs (and, incidentally, I do have enough material to do so) and go the snail mail route, I'll be shooting for a trip to Jamaica instead of simply expanding this site. Jamaica's a lot more fun than HTML, graphics and culture jamming... okay, well, maybe not culture jamming, but you know where I'm going with this.
In light of what I've revealed here and assuming it's all dead-on correct, what would YOU do? Thanks in advance for your suggestions, but it's a safe bet I won't be writing any checks to you in the future no matter how it turns out. You know I love you, but come on...
posted by Arvin Hill at 4/07/2005 03:56:00 PM
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