the Felix Culpa

posted from a local band on an unnamed “social networking” website. it pretty much manages to wrap up the vast majority of what is wrong with music right now. the actual names of people (in italics) were changed… i don’t know why i bothered with that, but it seemed like the right thing to do.

“Subject:
Help Band Name Get A Record Deal!!! We need you guys!!

Body:
Dear Friends of Band Name,We need your help getting signed!!!

Some Guy is looking to sign a new band to his off shoot, not-quite-major label, and he’s having a contest on his band’s messageboard to find that band.

Here’s how you can help:

Click HERE to go to the Message Board. Once there, sign up for an account. It should only take a couple of minutes. After signing up (if you are not a member already), Post some comments about how much you love us, and inform Mr. Label Band Guy and Co. about how we will make them millions of dollars in Music & Merchandise sales!!! Keep Posting!!! There is no limit to how many comments you can leave! Treat this like a contest!!! EVERY COMMENT ABOUT US COUNTS!!!

Thanks for taking the time to read this bulletin!!!

We love you all dearly!!!

Please re-post this for us!!!

If we win, each of you who posted on the board to help us will all get free shirts & CD’s and we’ll come play private concerts at each of your houses!!!

If you want the HTML, hit “Reply” to this bulletin, then copy the text, and paste it into your own bulletin!

Thank you all so much!!!

Hope to See you all at Venue in City on the date!!!

<3 Band Name”

We’re all to blame for this.

-marky

recording journal, we have not forgotten about you. alas, we have just been out of the studio for a while. it’s actually been rather frustrating, but what more can you expect from 4 extremely family oriented people around the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. that and we’ve run out of available recording money, but i digress…

i did manage to get in a late night session with jeffro where we recorded some scratch vocal tracks. it made me realize just how incomplete a lot of the vocal ideas are, both lyrically and melodically. i think i just keep hoping that there will be some grand, inspiring event that will cause everything to come together. i guess we’ll see.

we’ve been playing a few of the new songs out live quite regularly and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. so, thanks everyone for that. we’ve also been working out some new arrangements for some of the older material, which we’ve (believe it or not) found time to record & mix away from this upcoming full length. we’re actually working out the details of getting that stuff released as well. that will probably end up happening before this full length, very possibly even as a bundled prerelease of sorts. so yeah, you heard it here first kids.

also in new release land, there have been rumblings of a vinyl-only split (with Chicago area dance contest champions Inspector Owl) to be released by our friends at Common Cloud Records in the first quarter of this new year. we’ll have more details on that as they come up. we’ll probably pick 2 or 3 of our favorite tracks that didn’t make the final cut for this new full length and give them a proper release. i really hope that this one comes to fruition. we ended up cutting more songs than i would’ve liked in order to not have this album delve into double album territory, which it definitely could’ve.

so anyway, i know i speak on behalf of everyone here when i say i hope you all have a safe and merry christmas and we’ll be seeing you next year. tell gandma hi and kiss the kids from us. and if anyone has a suggestion for an album title other than “Island of the Aqua Blue Dolphins”, we’re open.

-marky

ps. we got our van back. again.