StinkFight.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAnYj-iNrPQ
Little thing I made that shows examples of good and bad background music for use with talking. Is useful info for both video production and podcast production.

Goes with this O’Reilly article I wrote,
“Put Your Photos on TV, Part 1″:
http://tinyurl.com/2xxnvf

Chris Caggiano from Iconicide sent me a CD of Brian’s band from 1985-1987, School Of Violence. Good stuff, and nice between-song-talking from Brian.

Here’s an MP3 of some of it….recorded off the sound board at a live show at CBGBs in 1986. The two songs are “Nightmare in Paradise” and “Do You Want To Die?”

Friday was DJ’s shoulder surgery. She had a bone spur and torn rotator cuff. Two hours arthroscopic surgery…the doctor shaved down the bone spur and sewed the torn cuff. Should relieve the pain she’s been having for some time now.

She’s in a sling and will be off work 3 or 4 weeks. I’m taking care of her, lovingly waiting on her hand and foot. It’s fun. We’re actually enjoying the extra time together, even though it could be under different circumstances.

She’s also got a “cold therapy unit”, it attaches to her shoulder with three tubes and pumps water at 47 degrees, cools her down and helps with pain. Kinda looks like something out of Terminator 2.

I call it her “series of tubes”.

She also had a Novocaine pump, that pumped through a tube into the site…that was only for the first two days, today I had to carefully pull that out. Was interesting. Like pulling a wire out of a hole in your wife’s body. Was a little bloody, went in about five inches.

All in all, it’s going well.

Michael W. Dean
Media Consultant

So, after decades of doling out free advice to anyone who asks, I’m hanging up a shingle and starting to charge. I have to do this, I don’t have time to answer all the “help me with my project!” e-mails AND have a life AND make a living.

My rates are reasonable, and negotiable. Sliding scale. Info here:

http://www.michaelwdean.com

MP3 of Supergoose by my old band Slish.

MP3 of The Web by my old band Slish.

MP3 of My God Is A Woman, by my old band, Slish

E-mail that I wrote to my buddy, Chuck:

You know, I’ve actually recorded at the Record Plant. Song is attached. (taken from cassette. The master sounded like God.)

Was my band “Slish”.
Michael Urbano (Smashmouth/Cracker/Cheryl Crow/John Haytt/Third (That guy is, by far, the best drummer I’ve ever played with. And try NOT to tap your feet to this! Dude is a hit maker)
Guitarists were me and David Immergluck (Counting Sheep, I mean Counting Crows.) I played slide.
Bass was my friend Bean, I sang, he sang backup, and we wrote the song together.

It’s about getting off drugs.
This band could have been huge. Except Bean and I were fresh off drugs, insane, and fought so much we drove everyone around us away.

was 1995.
God I love this song. Called “Supergoose”. Could have been a number-one hit. Commercial and great enough, but still fucking weird as hell.

–

We recorded these three songs in one day at the Record Plant, the day before Metallica locked it out for a year. Then did ovedubs elsewhere, some anon studio I forget the name of.

Was mixed at Hyde Street (By Michael Rosen, the guy who engineers Rancid’s records).
Was mastered at some other little home studio. That was the first time I ever saw a computer used to edit an audio file. We cut four bars out of the middle eight to make it more radio friendly.
Now that’s all I do, all day long, every day.
MWD
p/s regarding “…That was the first time I ever saw a computer used to edit an audio file.”

The edit we did? We cut four bars out of the middle eight to make it more radio friendly.

THE PLUMP BUFFET - a romantic kinky curvy cat cult comedy. (I really like this one.)

Subscribe FREE at Podiobooks.com

WEB:
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-plump-buffet/
RSS:
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-plump-buffet/feed/

(to subscribe in iTunes, go to “advanced / subscribe to podcast) and paste that URL into the little window.)

VALENTINE’S DAY RELEASE!
A Submission and Coffee production.

“The Plump Buffet” is a cast-production radio play about a sex cult in the desert, and they’re all cats.

WARNING: “The Plump Buffet” is comedic literature with sexual motifs. If you are not of legal age, you should not listen. You are also not to listen if you are easily offended by such material. But compared to network TV, it’s a wholesome story, no one dies.

TAGLINES:
–THE PLUMP BUFFET: it’s not a love triangle, it’s a love polygon.

–THE PLUMP BUFFET is “Fritz the Cat” meets “Showdown at Waco.”

–50 women aren’t 50 times the fun, they’re 50 times the hassle. And one of them always feels like killing you.

PROMOS:
2-meg MP3 promo: http://www.askdollie.com/temp/PB-PlumpBuffet-Promo.mp3
14-meg WAV promo: http://www.askdollie.com/temp/PB-PlumpBuffet-Promo.wav

Check out Danny Plotnick’s awesome new short film called “Out of Print” (LINK HERE).

It’s a beautiful little video poem to how hard and sweet it was being an underground art lover before the Internet. Narration by San Fran’s top gutter playboy gadfly, Bucky Sinister.

Oh, and by the way, I did a little post-production audio work on it (and am credited as “Audio Fluffer”.)

The film won a cool national contest, and is also out in time to promote Danny’s new DVD, Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick

It has over 10 films, trailers, audio commentary for everything, tons of photos of the films, as well as fetishistic photos of the equipment used to make the films! You can read more details here.

Ordering
If you want a copy, you can order from my website, from Microcinema, or from Amazon. It’s cheaper through me & Microcinema.

New 90-second song the wife and I wrote and recorded called “Dick and the Debbies”. It’s like a theme show for the Archies, if the Archies did speedballs and had lots of unsafe sex with strangers in bathroom stalls.

It’s for the upcoming Podiobook, The Plump Buffet.
Download MP3 here.

Me: bass and vocal.

Wife: vocal.

London May: Drums.
Officer Hutsskew: Guitar.

Guitar and drums recorded over the Internet.

My wife, the singer!:

HERE’S A SHORT MP3 of a rough mix of a song me and the wife wrote and recorded last night, called “I Love My Little Bitches.” We wrote the lyrics together, I played bass guitar and drum loops, I produced, and “Marky The Sod” played guitar over the Internet. (NOTE: BETTER VERSION WITH NEW VOCALS WAS UPLOADED TO REPLACE OLD VERSION ON FEB 2. IF YOU DOWNLOADED BEFORE THIS, RE-DOWNLOAD AND HEAR HOW MUCH THIS SONG HAS IMPROVED.)

Song is from our upcoming Podiobook radio play, “The Plump Buffet”. In the story, the song is sung by a hot dominatrix cougar with a whip named “Mother”. (Picture Texas Terri, if you’ve seen her perform.)

Mother’s band is “Mother and the Fuckers”.

The guitar player, bass player and drummer are tough leather fags. The bar they’re playing in is called “The Slime Light”. (Picture the SF Eagle, with more drugs and even more sleeze.)

Mother is whipping her “Little Bitches” (femmy mice in slips and pumps) in the audience when you hear the whips.

I’m pretty impressed with DJ’s singing on this. It’s the first singing she’s ever had recorded.

It’s funny, two days ago, GeekDad from Wired Magazine mistakenly called DJ a “singer” on the Internet,
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/01/ipod-plus-delca.html
DJ laughed when she read it. But by today, she is one.

MWD

(book cover image at top by F. Wertham)

I love ‘em These really get under my skin. Dark, funny, low tech, great.

You’ll have funny nightmares.

Watch in this order:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FgMiSb_Qms

DIE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecRbZ5uixEg

SCARED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmpsxDsKDJI

LESSON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1UnZT-yseM

DAD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5FZQgglULg

BRAINWASH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBlGnIMZfN4

ROCK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFFU8Jd5qlc

JAZZ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a40LcxVvAX4

DRUMSOLO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b53TcR2owe8

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