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Sovereign Summer Sunday Overview Part One
Let’s get to the point right away:
Thanks to Stormy for grabbing that image — by that point in the day (somewhere between seven and eight PM Pacific Time) I didn’t have the presence of mind, I’m afraid. I noticed it, I tweeted it… but I didn’t screenshot it. So hurrah for the quick thinking of Stormy!
Yes, my friends, you did it. 1,027 of you attended the eight hour streaming video web-a-thon on Sovereign Summer Sunday. An average of a hundred of you were in the chat room per hour. Some of you were there nearly the entire day. Some, like James Melzer, took the day off of work to be there for the whole thing! You chatted, caroused, and tried to break Ustream’s
Together, you pushed the Swarm Press edition of “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era” deep into the top 100 at Amazon.com and three places away from the top fifty. I couldn’t be more honored, touched, and pleased at your efforts on my behalf.
A video archive of the event will be available soon — I’m working with Revver to put them up, and some are already available here. Once everything is up and ready, I’ll post them on the blog.
Meanwhile, we have a near-complete chat archive of the webathon, thanks to Kevin Crosby! It’s on Eastern Time, and starts about an hour and a half into the event. It’s an 89 page .pdf, and I’m looking forward to reading it, since for much of the day I was reading stories and not looking at the chat!
As for the podcast anthology of the stories you heard on that day… stay tuned. I may have even more exciting news about that in the near future. In the mean time, I’ll get those videos up as soon as possible.
Thank you, everyone. You really did make history.
999 To Go
It’s been said that every independent artist needs 1,000 true fans to make a living from their art.
That’s what I’m talking about! James Melzer just brought it, people. Oh yes he did!
Who’s next?
(Update: No, I’m not discounting all the amazing support I’ve received from so many people over the years… but dang, no one’s ever made me a video before! I got a little excited…)
Your Dinner With Matthew
Here’s a little experiment: hang out with me while I enjoy some chicken and a beer!
No New Memories
Words: 05-03 ~ 06 -1994
Music: 05-03 ~ 06 -1994
What’s It All About?
Years after losing touch with a woman who I loved dearly and who put me through a good deal of hell, I heard from a mutual friend that she wasn’t doing much differently by her husband. The knowledge created some mixed feelings… it dredged up all the stuff we had gone through, made me feel bad for the current guy, and made me very, very grateful that I wasn’t in his position any more.
I played this song a lot in my solo acoustic sets, and since it was one of those songs Gary Fitch insisted need a full band treatment, that’s what it got when we formed Running Erin with Erin Foster and Tony Dare.
The first version included here is a music video from the “mocumentary” Running Erin made with Not Afraid! Productions in 2000 or so. Then there’s a live version from Running Erin, and finally my original from the cassette four-track mini-album from 1994, “Hundred Seller.”
Lyrics:
When I hear tell of the things
That you do
I’m reminded of the days
Of me and you
You would think such things would fade
From my mind
Yet the games you played
Have grown clearer over time
I can hear your voice like I’m
Back there again
Sayin’ “There’s nothing there
That guy is just a friend”
It gets ’round to me
Your latest escapade
I just shake my head
I know, I’ve already played
I have felt the fear
The jealousy, the dread
I have trembled helplessly
Hangin’ by your thread
I remember this
That
And the other things
All the pain you put me though
Yeah, on and on
I could sing
I remember, I remember
Though I wish that I did not
Just one thing
To ease my mind
Just one thing have I got
I’m glad
That I have
No new memories of you
I feel sorry for the man who’s trapped
By you
I know he wonders what are your lies
And what is true
I really feel for him and I hope
That he breaks free
Still I can’t help thinkin’
“Better him than me”
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Not twenty feet away from me in the bullpen of Mahalo.com sits Lon Harris, Mahalo Daily co-host, film snob, and… man… without… shame.
You… you should just watch. Really, I have no words.
It’s all part of Mahalo’s soon-to-be resolved competition to select Lon’s co-host on the Mahalo Daily podcast. Leah D’Emilio, the star-struck, hirsute-o-phile tech support gal in the video, is one of the two finalists.