CYNTHIA FRENCH
Minneapolis poet & slammaster, Miss French, will be in New England all week. She’s featuring tonight at The Dirty Gerund Poetry Show at Ralph’s Rock Diner in Worcester tonight. Her birthday lands on Friday, so Melinda and I are having a party for her at our house. Lemme know if you wanna come by.
WEBSITE
I am annoyed by the limited WordPress/PHP-based site themes available for my site. Probably makes sense considering I am using free ones. Anyone out there design quality themes?
NEW YORK CITY
Heading into New York City on Tuesday, February 16 for my feature at the Bowery Poetry Club. Not sure how long I’m hanging out, but if you wanna make some hang, holler at a nerd.
NEW ALBUM
In my time off from the road, I intend to record an audio version of my book In Search of Midnight. Curious: Should I make it a read-along with page-turning chimes and silliness, or separate tracks, poem-for-poem recording? Both?
AWESOMENESS BEGINS BELOW
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Word to the nerd.
Bunny up.
I like the idea of the dings on the page-turns. Reminds me of the read-along Star Wars book and 7 inch record were had in my Kindergarden class where, instead of dings, it was Artoo saying something. Only, I can see how it would get really old really fast. Unless you were to vary the sound of the ["turn the page when Mike makes a new and competely random noise"] or managed to master the CD so that the noises happened between tracks [you know, the negative time that you can put between tracks], so that you can skip tracks and things with ease.
Canadian singer-songwriter Hayden has a double live CD he did in Toronto. Hayden is known for his commedic banter between songs. The CD is completely live with no editing, like a really good bookleg. But, if you want to skip straight to a song, you can because the banter is all in this negative-space between tracks. Not sure how to do it, but I bet you could find out.
Of course, this might not work with an mp3 downloadable version of the recording…
Bryce