Simply because I don’t have enoughshitalreadyonmyplate, I’ve decided to undertake the RPM Challenge for the month of February as a means to light a fire under my ass to make some music again. The album already has a title: Space Pilgrim. It’s a concept album that follows a Space Pilgrim as he travels through the universe spreading the gospel of God to alien beings.
UPDATE (FEB 20): It looks like my I/O interface, an Omega Lexicon Pro has officially bit the dust, making recording live an impossibility. Before anyone tells me to record track by track, be forewarned, I don’t roll like that. Live or not at all. This doesn’t mean Space Pilgrim isn’t going to be recorded soon, it most certainly will be, as I’m really happy with the songs and the words and story are totally stupid and absurd. I’ll make it happen eventually, but not by February 28. Insert obligatory sad-face.
On top of that I’m also kicking jams and ideas out for Mojiferous’ “Increase Speed, Drop Down, Reverse Direction,” (video below).
2010 is going to be an awesome, productive year for the Republic. Keep your eyes on the prize.
I’ve been reading your blog for several yrs. Like, how much effort would it take to update more often?
Waitin’ Wally
Dear Waitin’ Wally,
It is not within the realm of the Good King’s Knowledge to answer this question, which appears to be a rude comment, which is not okay and not worthy of being commented upon for the sake of the talk of the one and True and Good King. For now then we wait.
Always Yours,
King Thor
Dear Thorin,
Hey man, what’s up? I’ve been listening to Episode 1 and I’m a bit curious of something. In “Here is Where We Are” you say that the King is “Watching over you” but on page 13 of the Second Book of Thoronia, you say “The King neither sees nor cares what happens in your world.” So, which is it?
Utterly Confused
Dear Utterly Confused,
I can see your confusion. However, I think that you’re forgetting about the Adventures of the Good King: the graphic novel. On page 56, when speaking to Athanasius Kircher and William Tell, the Good King mentions that although he watches the people that he has created, he doesn’t really pay attention to what they are doing.
Dear King Thor,
Why don’t you include instrument lists, or band members or anything with your albums?
WTF
Dear WTF,
In Thoronia, we prefer to remain anonymous. But, I suppose that since you asked, we can share a few things. Here are the band members that were involved with the recording of Simoebic Dysentery: ______________ – Roland SH-201. On Episode 1, the instruments included: Accordion, Keyboard, Drums, vocals, spoons, whistling and a computer. Thanks for asking!
King Thor
Dear Thorin,
Why won’t you sing in your real voice? You some kind of pussy?
Sincerely,
Pussy Puncher
What makes you think that I don’t sing in my own voice? For all you know I don’t even exist, and this whole thing is just a complex algorithm that was recorded hundreds of years ago and is playing out on this blog and webpage. The voice is not the voice of a human, or a god, but of a computer. This all exists purely so that you, Pussy Puncher, would have an excuse to live, and now that this wall has been broken, the wizard exposed, you no longer have a purpose.
So, we here in Thoronia are busy busy with school projects, one of these projects was to combine a new medium to an old audibiographical text. Never to be outdone I created this bizarre… thing… volume isn’t great as it was never mastered, nor really even recorded properly, but, well, there you go. “The Hall of the Old Ladies Recorder” as “performed” by a highly caffeinated King Thor.
