Over the weekend I broke up with my band. It wasn’t them, it was me. Thanks to Bruce and Matt for the awesome support and good times. I’m trying to figure out what’s next and I’ll probably be looking for ideas on here.

How does a “one man band” do a rocking live show that isn’t boring as all hell?

Gonna go out on a limb here and say the show last night in Denver effing blewww. It was amazing. I don’t really want to suggest it was legendary but I had a difficult time through security back to Canada and am thinking word might have gotten around.

I also don’t want to characterize a particular Denver sound man as “a douchebag” but I’m not sure how to finish this sentence without doing exactly that.

I will likely blog more about some lessons I learned once my brain unpacks.

It was nice to meet Jeff though even if it was just shouty bar conversation. NICE TO MEET YOU JEFF.

This past Friday was the occasion of my birth. I am now old enough that I wasn’t sure what age I’d be turning. Thanks for all the kind wishes.

I am in “crunch mode” for the Denver show on Thursday. I am also “nervous”. This’ll be only my third solo show but it’ll also be the first one where I’m not doing my own sound.  So maybe that will be good? Maybe I have nothing to worry about?

Very much enjoyed this video for Dropping out of School that Brian Ross just sent me:

Clowns++

There are some upcoming Brad Sucks shows:

November 7th & 8th: Playing two nights at Kelly’s Welcome in Manotick, ON. Full band.

November 20th: The Bluebird Theater in Denver, Colorado. Solo.

There’s a pretty good possibility I’ll be doing some touring in the new year, so be sure to put yourself down on the map on my live page.

Hey, Out of It is now in the iTunes Music Store! (thanks Jesse)

Why it’s $9.90 instead of $9.99 is a mystery to me, but whatever.

Also I noticed this censored auto-complete hilarity when I searched for it:

Oh Apple.

Holy cow, Zap Your PRAM was great. It would take some sort of endless series of biographical novels to explain it all.

Basically it was roughly 50 super interesting people (and me) in a beautiful historical Prince Edward Island cottage slash hotel. All passionate, all thoughtful, all interesting, no shills. Even (maybe especially) when I didn’t think their fields of expertise were things I was interested in, I wound up being fascinated.

Thanks to the adorable silverorange team for all the hospitality and amazing dessert per day ratio. I don’t know that there’s a nicer group of people to have yell “bum sex” at you on the street.

I was nervous about giving my first ever talk/presentation but it seemed to go well and lots of people said nice things about it. It was both awesome and intimidating to be talking to such a knowledgeable crowd. Seems like it’d be easier to talk to dumbasses, but the feedback wouldn’t be as rewarding.

For a general list of what went on, Stephen DesRoches has an excellent write-up and some beautiful photos.

My camera actually died as I sat in the Ottawa airport getting ready to go. So all I have is a crappy cell phone picture of the metal cow in the Charlottetown airport. Which is above.

Out of It’s travelling around out there, which rules! A brief recap:

• I’m a Featured Commoner on the Creative Commons blog.
• There’s a Jamendo feature.
• There’s a Q&A with me over on ccMixter.
• I did an interview for the Command Line podcast.
• Wil Wheaton likes it!

Remixes and stuff:

• There are a good number of remixes going on over at ccMixter. Still going through them to find the gems – finding listening to my voice difficult.
• This partial-Flash video for Certain Death makes me happy.
• Athene (best paladin in the world) is using the new songs!
• I’m behind in updating the music info page but will get on that soon.

Extra places you can get it:

• Out of It is now on Amazon.com. It’s out of stock right now but I shipped off some more a week ago so it should be up soon.
• It’s on Magnatune now.
• It’s on Jamendo.
• It’s been delivered to Napster, Rhapsody, Amie Street, Apple iTunes and eMusic (and a few other I’ve never heard of) but when they put it online is up to them. Let me know if you spot it.
• Out of stock at CD Baby but should be back in soon.
• A bunch of the new tracks are on iLike, if you’re into adding stuff to Facebook and so on.
• The whole album’s up on Last.fm as well.
• My MySpace page has been updated with new songs also.

There are a lot of things I’m missing, but this will have to do for now.

Album release has gone well, thanks everyone! Decent sales, lots of positive feedback. Still lots of work to do, which I am working on doing.

I rewrote the guts of the music submissions/you section and added all the new album tracks and source in there. Still haven’t added all the items I was sent from the new album release, but that’ll come soon.

Some stuff I need to blogs:

• There’s a Fake It remix contest coming up at Remix Fight.
• The Fake It cliche video thing has sailed past another deadline. Still trying to figure out how to drum up more submissions.
• I nominate this fellow as “happiest to receive my CDs”:

Yes!

Okay I haven’t figured out much of a bandwidth solution so let’s just party. All the source for Out of It is now on ccMixter here. Also there are acappellas on ccMixter separate from the source if you only want those.

Here are the source files direct from me. I pray to the lord my server will survive this:

• Dropping out of School [33mb]
• Certain Death [24mb]
• Fake It [20mb]
• Bad Sign [31mb]
• There’s Something Wrong [24mb]
• Gasoline [27mb]
• Total Breakdown [14mb]
• Understood by Your Dad [18mb]
• Out of It [22mb]
• You’re not Going Anywhere [22mb]

You should upload anything you make to ccMixter and I’ll list it on the song pages and like… you’ll be part of song HISTORY!