Happenstancicle
September 20, 2008 11:35 PM
Ever find music you made in the past somewhere unexpected?
Thjs is partly inspired by my recent song posted. I had honestly though I would never heard this music again, as I had lost contact with the other band members years and years ago with no hope of contact. I don't even remember their last names. But some random guy in Russia (who was not a member) had a copy in a shared folder for SoulSeek of a song that was recorded almost 10 years ago and only released on cassette.
Another time I was at a semi trendy clothing shop on South St in Philadelphia and found a shirt from a band I was in 5 years previous in Portland, OR. I always have to wonder how these things happen, I wish there were a Where's George for used records and things somehow..
posted by mediocre (8 comments total)
Thjs is partly inspired by my recent song posted. I had honestly though I would never heard this music again, as I had lost contact with the other band members years and years ago with no hope of contact. I don't even remember their last names. But some random guy in Russia (who was not a member) had a copy in a shared folder for SoulSeek of a song that was recorded almost 10 years ago and only released on cassette.
Another time I was at a semi trendy clothing shop on South St in Philadelphia and found a shirt from a band I was in 5 years previous in Portland, OR. I always have to wonder how these things happen, I wish there were a Where's George for used records and things somehow..
Oh lord.. I thought that the meaningless quasi-humorous non-word "Happenstancicle" would just appear on this page, but not on the front page of Music..
Yes, it's a fictional footstuff comprised of frozen chunks of liquid chance.
posted by mediocre at 12:08 AM on September 21, 2008
Yes, it's a fictional footstuff comprised of frozen chunks of liquid chance.
posted by mediocre at 12:08 AM on September 21, 2008
Ever find music you made in the past somewhere unexpected?
Yup. But then, I'm 51, and I've found that the older one gets, the more often this happens.
I just wish I could go down to Argentina sometime and get to the bottom of why I still receive BMI performance royalties from that country, for a piece of solo percussion music off of my first LP release (from 1983). I reckon it's been being used as some sort of theme music for a regular TV or radio show, but, it's still a mystery to me.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 1:19 AM on September 21, 2008
Yup. But then, I'm 51, and I've found that the older one gets, the more often this happens.
I just wish I could go down to Argentina sometime and get to the bottom of why I still receive BMI performance royalties from that country, for a piece of solo percussion music off of my first LP release (from 1983). I reckon it's been being used as some sort of theme music for a regular TV or radio show, but, it's still a mystery to me.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 1:19 AM on September 21, 2008
Oh, and "Happenstancicle" is a great word, and an excellent post title.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 1:20 AM on September 21, 2008
posted by flapjax at midnite at 1:20 AM on September 21, 2008
...it's a fictional footstuff
Damn! If I'd only known that, I'd have included it in this post from yesterday. You know, foot being a body part and all.
I did get "Punch 'Em In The Dick" in there, though...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 1:23 AM on September 21, 2008
Damn! If I'd only known that, I'd have included it in this post from yesterday. You know, foot being a body part and all.
I did get "Punch 'Em In The Dick" in there, though...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 1:23 AM on September 21, 2008
Yes. Some of my work is frequently attributed to other artists more often than to me. Which is especially ironic cuz it's usually my quickly-done humorous stuff intended only for my own entertainment. Which is especially irktacious since I never get credits on the fizzy-sugar-water and fossil-fuel-burning advertising I do that pays so well.
More entertainingly, a friend for whom I produced a demo song about ten years ago started getting $40 annually from ASCAP for the song. I don't know why it got picked up now, or by whom. I like to imagine that it's being used in a series of Bratislavan porn flicks or something.
posted by lothar at 3:30 PM on September 21, 2008
More entertainingly, a friend for whom I produced a demo song about ten years ago started getting $40 annually from ASCAP for the song. I don't know why it got picked up now, or by whom. I like to imagine that it's being used in a series of Bratislavan porn flicks or something.
posted by lothar at 3:30 PM on September 21, 2008
Only once: I did a piece constructed out of some public domain material plus my own additions, and shared it with a few friends. Then at a party I met someone, and upon hearing my name (which is not particularly uncommon) they said "oh, are you the guy that did [the song]?" and I'll be damned if he didn't pull out his iPod and show me he had it, and said he'd been listening to it and loved it. Turned out he knew someone that I had given the song to, but I hadn't known that at the time, and so it kind of blew my mind.
Oh, and one time I did a song to cheer a friend up, who has a somewhat uncommon first/last name combo, called "I wanna be [name]". Some other friends were at a pancake house late at night, and noticed the waitress had the same name (on her tag) and told her about the song. She thought they were full of it, so with my permission they went back and gave her a copy, and let her listen on an ipod then and there. In return she provided a small gift certificate to the pancake place, which I still have around here somewhere. Not quite the same thing, but I like to think that I'll run into this waitress someday at some other place, and we'll somehow figure out the connection.
posted by davejay at 2:01 AM on September 23, 2008 [1 favorite]
Oh, and one time I did a song to cheer a friend up, who has a somewhat uncommon first/last name combo, called "I wanna be [name]". Some other friends were at a pancake house late at night, and noticed the waitress had the same name (on her tag) and told her about the song. She thought they were full of it, so with my permission they went back and gave her a copy, and let her listen on an ipod then and there. In return she provided a small gift certificate to the pancake place, which I still have around here somewhere. Not quite the same thing, but I like to think that I'll run into this waitress someday at some other place, and we'll somehow figure out the connection.
posted by davejay at 2:01 AM on September 23, 2008 [1 favorite]
No, but I'd like to!
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