What's up!

More like, what's up with this midwest weather, amirite? Literally, there have been three tornado warnings in the surrounding county area, not to mention multiple floods and hail, plus rain like every other day. And how is it still freakin' winter here? Angry weather in my head >:(

No matter, my chronically-online habits are still intact. Indeed, the inclemency provides an appropriate pretext for going about my usual business blogging, site-building, and streaming. Here's a sum of some of the goings-on over the course of the week:

Remasters:

-A brief follow-up from last week's updates about the Halfway to Home EP remasters:

• The EP is waiting to be cleared by CD Baby for distribution to streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, and more. It can take anywhere from 1-3 business weeks, so hopefully by the end of the month!
• If you don't want to wait, all of the newly-remastered tracks can be listened to on Bandcamp. Tracks include Halfway to Home, Blossom, Almost Perfect, Subspace, Equinox, Myth, Cut Off, and Better Days for Driftin'.
• You can always hear the original mixes on Soundcloud.
• A post with background to the remastering process will drop after the EP lands on streaming.

8" Records:

• 14 copies remain (8 discs, 6 squares) after the Falcon Nest show for the 8" 5 easy dems home-cut vinyl.
• They are available to be bought online for $20 (shipping included).
• Reply to this email if you want a record mailed out!
• Check here to stay updated on the inventory.

📝Site News:

(In)Sitze 3.0 went through some construction this week. Here are some of the main things to be aware of:

• 🦆The migration of the site from a Wordpress.com Business Plan to self-hosting on Wordpress.org.
• 🌱Hosting provider is based in more sustainable efforts, using renewable energy for their datacenters (Krystal).
• ☾☼ Dark Mode is here! Find it at the top left corner of the site if you're viewing on desktop/laptop, or in the hamburger menu if you're on mobile.
• Read about all the changes in this post,

➰Livestreams:

Updates on the livestream journey:

• 🎞️you win some, you handsome, featuring The Cat and the Canary (1927) aired 04-18-26. Audio prints here.
• 🕹️Jam sessions are timestamped in the progress bar and description.
• Shoutout to livestream Chat for the heads up about the audio distortion in Jam 1.
• Hope to put out more fotoplayer in the coming weeks!

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88.9 Airplay:

• "The Crossing of Auspices," retitled to "Dawn of the Augur," received airplay on Tuesday, 4/14 (aka MKE Day). Goals!

↻/Now:

Stuff I've been watching/reading/listening to/doing lately and other news to your ears. Visit the /now page for real-time updating micro-activity!

• 📺Nothin' much. Any recommendations?
• 📖Odds and ends. Also would take recos for new reading material.
• 📕Finished Capra's The Turning Point.
• 🎙️Blindboy, Bugs in the Basement.
• 🎸Gearing up for Linneman's this Wednesday.
• 📜Imported an archive of (In)Sitze posts over to Substack, for whatever it's worth.
• 🪶Preparing some poetry and other blogs to publish on (In)Sitze this week to celebrate April being National Poetry Month.
• 🍁4/20, yo.
• 🎉Happy birthday, Ashley Diehl!
• 🎵The song, "The Commander Thinks Aloud" by The Long Winters recently came on my recommended. It might be one of the best astronaut/space songs I've ever heard, next to Space Oddity. Nearly brought tears to my eyes. Other than that, been getting more into the music of The Blow.

Until the next cycle,

and so on...

~Alex