The Final RPM Post

Here’s one you’ve been waiting for. The Final Official RPM Challenge Post for 2015.

My project has been uploaded into the RPM Challenge Jukebox. The final step is complete!

There are still listening parties and stuff like that, including one in second life that I’ve always been curious about visiting, and a Portsmouth radio station is going to spend a full day playing nothing but RPM music from all over the world. That will stream online here. It’s scheduled to start at 12am on March 29th and run right straight through to midnight on the 30th. 24 hours of RPM music. Insane! I might check that out too.

Other than those things though, the annual craziness that is RPM is now officially finished.

Post Office Adventure

I made plans to drive to Portsmouth on Saturday afternoon. At the last minute those plans fell apart. I made new plans to drive to Portsmouth on Sunday morning. At the last minute those plans also fell apart. I did some Googlin’ and there is a post office down the street from work that opens at 8:30. Nice. I can mail the disc by noon on Monday without having to sneak out of the office for a wicked early lunch.

I get to the post office a little early, address the envelope, take the obligatory picture of the addressed envelope, the clock hits 8:30 and inside I go.

I have to punch in at work at 9:00. I’m seventh in line.

Ummm…

One counter open. Dude in front of me has three huge boxes that are all going different places using different services. Woman in front of him has a package going to the UK and doesn’t know how to fill out the customs forms.

Ummm…

Suddenly the whole mailing in the CD by noon on March 2nd is feeling like the most challenging part of the challenge. Fortunately a second counter opens. I watch the post mark go onto the little envelope. I pay my less than three bucks. I hop back into the car and drive to work.

And realize that I forgot my ID badge and my glasses. I blame this on the couple of inches of snow we had over night. I was thinking more about shoveling the little snow bank at the end of the driveway than I was about getting to work. Oh yeah, I can’t open the door to the building without my ID badge. I had to stand there like a chump waiting for someone else to walk up. And with no glasses… I can read the monitor okay, but my eyes get really tired and I get huge headaches.

Happy Monday, everyone!

Post Office

Sitting in the post office parking lot. The window opens in about 10 minutes. I have until noon to get this post marked.

I think I’m going to make it.

New RPM on the Bandcamp Page

I uploaded the new RPM music to bandcamp. Please don’t pay for this. If you want it you can get it at my alonetone site for nuttin. If you insist on shelling out some dough, I would ask you to donate it to rpmchallenge.com.

The Whole Album

Here’s a playlist with the whole shebang.

I’m going to combine the last two songs into one track and have them cross fade. That can wait until morning though. I’m freakin’ exhausted.

The Last RPM Song!

That’s it kiddos, I’m done with RPM for another year! The last song has been mixed, the cover art is done and the running order is set. All I have left to do is burn a CD, print the cover, and drop it off at headquarters.

I’ll share a playlist with the final running order soon. Probably tomorrow. For now? Sleep!

2nd to Last Day

RPM ends tomorrow. What do I have left to do?

Mix one song.
Decide if I want to drop any songs from the playlist. I need 10, I have 15. There’s lots of wiggle room. One looks dropable, another is a gimmick so it’s probably dropable too. Plenty left to make up a decent running order.
Come up with a running order. There are four songs that suck less than the rest. Those will go first. After that? No idea.
Make up an insert. I used to use a make a cd cover website. I hope that’s still up. I also need to put my name on the picture I posted yesterday.
Either mail the thing out, or drive to Portsmouth and drop it off. I might drop it off this year. It depends on how my wife is feeling (she has a cold) and how much homework she has to do.

Then figure out what music project is next.

13 Songs Finished

I mixed a song at lunch time today and it immediately went onto the cut list. I just don’t like it. So I am not posting it here. Then after playing karate chauffeur to the kids all evening I mixed this one. It also probably belongs on the cut list, but it isn’t so bad.

And One More Makes 11

Song #11. I started this one last night, after I had already sketched out song #14, with 14 songs being the goal. So this is sort of overkill, but I like it more than most of the other songs so it’s a keeper.