Dear King Thor,
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.
In order to provide more options and choices for my dedicated fans to download the album, I’ve set up accounts around the globe for alternative places to get the first album, Episode 1.
It’s now available on MP3.com by following this link. Be sure to rate the album while you’re at it.
As well as muxtape by following this link.
If you want to go all covert about it, you can search your favorite newsgroup client at alt.binaries.indie for “Republic of Thoronia.”
Anyone know of any other places to throw this shit? I want it on every free download service possible.
I’ve heard from one person who was having problems with the .zip of the full album, so I’ve uploaded a .rar as well. Get it here.
We weren’t able to actually distiguish why he was running into problems. Which is why I’m just addressing it by uploading another format. The .zip worked fine for me, as well as for others, so who knows really?
Let me know if you’re having any other types of problems or weirdness on the downloads… other than them being slow — I don’t want to about hear that.
The .zip file has just reached the 50 downloaded mark. That doesn’t really sound like much, but it’s certainly more copies of the album in more people’s hands then ANYTHING My Calculus ever put out (I still have 200 records in my closet… anyone want one? Four? Ten?). Be sure to tell your friends, associates, anyone who you think might be interested in what the RoT has to offer. I mean, it’s free. How can you go wrong? ALSO! At the next RoT show, hard copies of the album will be available for free. Yes, free. They will be packaged in limited edition felt covers. When is the next show? I dunno. We may have t-shirts available for free as well. But the t-shirts aren’t anything too special, I mean you can make one yourself, just get a paint roller, some t-shirt silk screen ink, an old t-shirt and download this file. Print/copy it on a piece of mylar. Cut out the stencil, roll out the paint, stick your shirt in the oven for a minute and you’ll be good to go.
For all of you who love to remix (maybe what, one, two people?) the Republic of Thoronia Episode 1 album is now ready to be remixed and chopped and screwed and etcetera by all of you. You know its kind of like what that one band did… what were they called? Dismemberment Plan. What were you thinking? Radiohead? No they ripped it off from DP. Anyway, only four tracks available now. If you want more, let me know. They are being uploaded at this moment, so if you try to download them this instant (09:45 AM MTN) then you’ll just get an error. Enough babble…
