Scamwagon

Last Wednesday night, my band November Guest pulled off their first internet gig, on ustream.tv. I thought I'd give some of my first impressions.

I'll confess, I haven't been a regular listener of CNET's Buzz Out Loud podcast , but I happened to tune in about 2 weeks ago. At that time, I learned about the Buzz Out Loud Remix Contest . It's a pretty exciting opportunity for me, since I ABSOLUTELY LOVE COMPOSING PODCAST THEMES. As a musician /composer, I have had a really hard time finding a medium that works for me, due to my quirky background and limitations. These include: My partialness to the underground demoscene sound, which is lo-fi, 8-bitty, and well, sort of unique and special interest (put gently) for the ears of most radio-loving listeners. A short attention span, causing me to lose interest while writing songs with lyrics... " "... songs that last more than 30 seconds or so. My brother's college buddy had a saying: "there's a butt for every seat". Well, if there's a medium for every artist, I think I've found mine. Podcast themes are short, VERY unique (a re...

This is about to become a much more special place for me. In fact, it's the biggest thing to happen here since June 6th, 2002 , as 2 friends and I were trying to come up with a name for our consumer rant site, and someone shouted out "Scamwagon!". It just rolls off the tongue. In short, I've decided to consolidate my internet presence down as much as possible. I currently have 3 or 4 blogs, not to mention a facebook, 4 Myspaces, 4 Twitter accounts, and, it seems like, 234,432 websites to maintain. It has come to my attention that these days, the Internet values quality a lot more than quantity ( just ask Google! ). So to that end, I am consolidating some of my blogs, etc. as much as possible. The information posted will remain, but new tech-related posts will go on to my (ONE!) remaining blog, Scamwagon , which was formally relegated exclusively to political and consumer rants. Instead of creating separate blogs for each of the crazy interests I have (cars, music...