Nothing Since November?
With the podcast on hold & work being fucking ridiculous, i’ve neglected to update this even once since the black ops special went up.
In the last two months i set up a brand new RSS for the podcast, with new hosting as well. It’ll still download straight from soundcloud & the stream will stay on blip.tv, but the RSS feed & iTunes feed will use the bandwidth of another host.
Soundcloud doesn’t give RSS feeds, so back when we started i was pulling my hair out trying to set one up & ended up using some code in yahoo pipes to convert the Tracks page to an RSS with media enclosures. For some reason, the rss stopped working in late October (which fucked up the iTunes subscriptions). I returned to square one & started pulling my hair out again, then i hunted through my old emails & was stuck between two options. Podomatic offers limited bandwidth & space, ourmedia.org offers unlimited space & bandwith, but with no guarantee what time your episode will go live. I went with podomatic because of the hosting situation I explained above.
After that, it was time to get season 3 planned out propper & get the format tested. I couldn’t, because either Craig was busy or I was working. I’ve not heard from Stuart in quite some time, so he’ll probably not be a part of Season 3 (at least for the first few episodes).
Then it was COD: Black Ops time.
After that, real life got in the way again. I was getting increasingly ridiculous shifts at work, Christmas was drawing near & my dog got put down.
Right now we’ve got another special episode recorded & are struggling to find a time to record 301. January 1st is the deadline, so keep an eye out, just in case we make it.
Call of Duty: Black Ops special
Podcast 206: Commemorative Edition
How shit am i? Let’s count the ways…
The podcast hasn’t went up for over a month (could be two, anyone counting?) now & the only other content i’ve put up was the Jarre improv thing. The podcast will return, as soon as I manage talk to Craig about it & then decide what to do.
For a weekly podcast, it’s not doing too well. We’re not putting out an episode a week anymore, we’re not recording weekly anymore & we’re barely even taking weekly. It’s like an in-joke, without a crowd. I’m not saying it’s became the Duke Nukem Forever of podcasts (after all, people actually wanted Duke Nukem Forever), but it’s not operating anywhere near close to 50% efficiency & my motto as of late has been “it’ll be uploaded when it’s done.”
In the time between updates i’ve learned to play the ukulele, created some songs, shot & edited a short film & argued with myself over whether or not i should use this blog section of the site as an actual blog.
I’ve restrained from posting my thoughts on things & what i’m up to on here, mainly because i don’t consider my life to be all that interesting & my opinions on things to hold any real weight. I thought it was best that people stumble across the site & think “oh, he made that” & “oh, he’s doing videos now as well” (My thoughts don’t generally contain many people “oh!-ing in my direction, but i’m a shit writer & cant think of any great ways to begin peoples thoughts)(well, that’s a lie, but i’m not about to post someone’s hypothetical internal monologue containing praise for my own work).
I’ve fucked my own plan up by posting updates on shit i’m working on or reasons why the podcast isn’t up, so to anyone stumbling across the site it most likely looks like i’m just a lazy cunt who hasn’t updated his site in months.
I’m in the middle of writing ideas for a live show (both for uStream & the stage). It feels strange to say i’m writing something that’ll be improvised, but go-to topics are needed (should we start dying on our arse) & it’s better to recover with a funny line than walk away with your tail between your legs.
Also working on ideas for Season 3 (assuming we make it that far).
In season one we were “topical”. It wasn’t satirical , but it wasn’t far from it. We relied on the news for content & if the articles weren’t exactly amazing in the conversation starting department, the episodes never made it online.
In season two we tried clear topics & let the conversation unfold. We were lacking in the funny department, but had some good conversations & didn’t really repeat things we’d spoke about in the previous season.
Season three needs to be something fresh again.
When we recorded a test for the one year special, it felt like an old episode. It felt like we were on the phone, having a laugh like we did when we first came up with the idea. 2006’s “we should do a radio show” idea floated around as an in joke for what seemed like forever, then we discovered the means of doing so & in the past year we’ve went from 4 people listening to the pish we speak about to over 50.
With season three, it’s time to break 100.
Oxygène part 2 on the Korg Monotron
Just got the monotron today & it seemed like the most obvious thing to do.
Podcast?
So you’re probably thinking “where is it? I’ve been checking this site multiple times a day & you haven’t even mentioned the fucking thing since Tuesday!”
The audio for the episode we had recorded was problematic. Not in funny “robotic” kinda way, but in a “what the hell is Craig saying, this just sounds like he’s mumbling to himself” way.
To make up for the lack of podcast, i present you all with this sunflower. It’s not as great as some other paintings of sunflowers, but the petals are made from basketballs!
martyrshow | Banned In Germany 