Weird News Tonight (or Today!!!!!)

[JSngry]

Lots of variables. The more favors you can call in on all elements, the less it's gonna cost. But the last time I floated a project it would have been a $3K bare minimum (and with too many corners cut for my liking). But that was over a decade ago.

Bottom line - there's already too many vanity projects out there already. Nobody wants to hear all that shit, much less pay retail for it.

[GA Russell]

8 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Bottom line - there's already too many vanity projects out there already. Nobody wants to hear all that shit, much less pay retail for it.

Jim, that's not the point.  The man who releases a new album every year can claim to be a recording artist.  That is more valuable than the dollars he receives for the CDs, I think.

[clifford_thornton]

Some young artists I see -- in varying genres -- don't have physical releases to sell at all, though the shows might be well attended. Bringing in a little money from gigs or a tour without having to schlep around merch you're in debt for seems like a fairly reasonable way to go about it.

[JSngry]

19 minutes ago, GA Russell said:

Jim, that's not the point.  The man who releases a new album every year can claim to be a recording artist.  That is more valuable than the dollars he receives for the CDs, I think.

The way to have a presence is not to be present where (increasingly) nobody is.

[mhatta]

This is not just about jazz or music, but I found this Substack I read recently interesting.

https://leighstein.substack.com/p/woes-hollow?publication_id=1994560&post_id=157743804

If you don't perform where someone is actually paying attention, you won't make any money. In the past, it might have been good reviews on Downbeat or appearances on late night TV shows, but now it's probably TikTok or Substack. Publishing CDs doesn't matter much.  Ted Gioia became the world's most famous (music) critic thanks to Substack.

Edited February 24 by mhatta

[GA Russell]

There was quite an auto race in Australia Saturday.

 

[GA Russell]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Seems like a typo there... Looks to be increasing there at the end.

[GA Russell]

[JSngry]

5 hours ago, GA Russell said:

Why that hand gots a specimen cup for the lab?

[GA Russell]

Technicolor is going out of business.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/technicolor-begins-to-shut-down-1236319436/

[rostasi]

The Hydrant Directory

[Dan Gould]

Does it count as weird news that Casey Anthony, the poster child for "not guilty doesn't mean innocent," is becoming a public figure as a "legal advocate"?  

 

[sonnymax]

Woman admits trying to sell human toes regurgitated by dogs

[JSngry]

Then toes was marinated!

[sonnymax]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Then toes was marinated!

[GA Russell]

Anyone know why Eliska81 and 123meklozed would be common?

Edited March 20 by GA Russell

[Kevin Bresnahan]

While in Florida... Woman drowned dog in airport bathroom after being denied boarding, police say

[JSngry]

9 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

While in Florida... Woman drowned dog in airport bathroom after being denied boarding, police say

Let the record show that the dog-killer herself was from Kenner, Louisiana.

[GA Russell]

[JSngry]

15 minutes ago, GA Russell said:

That explains a lot of things!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

35 minutes ago, GA Russell said:

I have probably had a few Heinekens in the past 10 years. The others? Not in decades.

[jazzbo]

I really haven't been an alcohol drinker in about 35 years, gave it up about the time I gave up smoking cigarettes. Of these I was a Heineken fan, and liked Modelo (Negro). Didn't drink the others.

Edited April 11 by jazzbo

[JSngry]

I preferred dark, heavier beers.

The only lighter beers I liked was Rolling Rock, and that was for after a hot sweaty mowing of the lawn 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

I preferred dark, heavier beers.

The only lighter beers I liked was Rolling Rock, and that was for after a hot sweaty mowing of the lawn 

I'm mostly a stout drinker as well. My current favorite is Gunner's Daughter from the Mast Landing Brewery in South Portland, ME. I typically get it on draft at the York River Landing, my favorite local pub. They have 36 taps, with almost all of the beers from local microbreweries.