Hoblit's backing out of Song Fight! because he's getting some... okay I can't bring myself to say the rest of that even ironically.

We'll miss you, but enjoy your new critter friend!

brian wilson
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Interesting concept! I'll definitely have to check it out at some point.

Anyway I finally got my records today, and I wrote a bit about it on my blog: https://sockpuppet.band/blog/2920-elasticStage-A-brief-review tl;dr: The quality is good for what it is. Real vinyl manufacturing will produce better results, but if all you want is a collectible artifact, elasticStage is ...

Oh also https://seattle.eater.com/ is a great resource for finding places to eat. There's some really good places in Georgetown and neighboring South Park.

Hotels in Georgetown would probably be the best option location-wise since that gives you easy access to both Spud's and my place. Also for those who don't want to bother with a rental car, the #60 bus serves all three locations (although it's pretty slow).

Who's planning on arriving a bit earlier? I want to have a late-summer barbecue and having a bunch of friends in town would be a great excuse. (It would probably not be exclusive to Song Fight! friends though.)

Expensive.

There tend to be pretty good AirBnBs around though.

I find it kind of funny who started this thread.

The forum has been super unresponsive for the last few days, and it turns out we were being DDoSed by the current trendy bullshit that's been affecting large swaths of the Internet as of late . I've blocked a bunch of known AI crawlers and the forum has immediately become way more responsive, so. Y'...

I've been making some headway into pivoting to music as my full-time career but it's feeling difficult to get other people to care about it. But I'm plugging along and making music because the alternative is not making music, which feels worse. How about you? How can we support you in this endeavor...

There's a thread specifically about Dennis now. viewtopic.php?p=235702#p235702

Thank you so much for sharing. Do you have any idea what happened and is it anything you can share? Not that it really matters in the end, I guess.

Totally understandable. Such terrible news no matter what.

Ah jeeze. Any idea what happened yet?

What is with this month?

Me too! It seems they're pretty popular and behind on manufacturing right now but their whole business model is to be able to scale up to meet demand (that's even in their name, "elastic") but it's also apparently pretty new and suddenly getting a lot of attention. For example, this Reddit...

There's been a bunch of services that will do small runs of lathe-cut vinyl LPs but they're all ludicrously expensive and have terrible quality. Today I learned about elasticStage which claims to be much higher-quality for not much more than the cost of a run of pressed records, and apparently some ...

Oh, fuck, I'm so sorry to hear that. Irwin was a good dude and I always enjoyed the chats we had together at various Song Fight! Lives.

May his memory forever be a blessing. He'll definitely be missed.

Okay I've done some account rearranging and now my music-related stuff is https://bsky.app/profile/sockpuppet.band. I'm also trying to move my main profile back to @beesbuzz.biz but bluesky seems to be having trouble with some caching stuff right now. Anyone following @fluffy.beesbuzz.biz will be au...

I've been making some headway into pivoting to music as my full-time career but it's feeling difficult to get other people to care about it. But I'm plugging along and making music because the alternative is not making music, which feels worse. How about you?

Well I guess I have no choice but to attend. My home recording studio (which is around 12 minutes from the venue by car) will be available as a practice space for those who need it. I'd also be able to accommodate one or two people with lodging on my couch if they need it although that's more of a d...

Yeah, just to clarify, Content ID is the copyright enforcement thing, Content Mapping is where it decides whether to put a release onto an artist's official YouTube channel or onto a "topic" channel. For example, here's my official YouTube page: https://youtube.com/@realfakesockpuppet and ...