Does anyone read LiveJournals anymore? I haven't logged in for a long time. My Friends page is practically barren, only one thing from this Group I subscribed to...

Anyway, I made a new Platzangst album, and here it is, even though none of my LJ friends will probably see this.


So yeah.

I have a better story.

Jeff Fictional takes his guitar out one day, selects a reasonably busy sidewalk, and begins to play. He's put a can nearby with a sign asking for spare change. Many people just walk on by. They're not moved by the music. That's okay.

Some, however, stay for a song or two. Some of these people drop a few coins in, some ( Read more... )

You probably aren't reading this LiveJournal of mine if you aren't already aware that A) I am a graphic artist and B) I am a musician. (Neither is my official profession at the moment - sadly - but that's another matter.) In fact, what few readers remain at the moment are probably acquaintances of some sort.

My creative output has been light and ( Read more... )

I've had it for a while, actually. When it first started to look like Twitter was going to be the new fad, I grabbed an account with my preferred username - and then did absolutely nothing with it. At all. Because who gives a crap? I used to have ICQ, but killed it when one "friend" (a nice but overly enthusiastic fellow I barely knew online, whose ( Read more... )

Not because of service charges, or anti-porn policies, or an uneven stance on copyright/trademark enforcement, or the fact that it and PayPal are one and the same and PayPal has its own varieties of suck to choose from. These are all contributing factors. But not the main reason. Which is to say, the thing that's got me all perturbed right at this ( Read more... )

Am I the only one this is happening to? Many times I've tried recently to click a link on a journal entry (say, on my Friends page) and nothing happens. Dead, like I was clicking on simple text. I can't figure out why, and I've tried relaxing my anti-script features temporarily to see if there's some weird interference, but so far I haven't been ( Read more... )

And not the Police album, although I do like it. First half mostly.

In the 90s, as some of you who've been paying attention may remember, I released a series of cassette albums as Platzangst. At the time, pre-Internet, that was how a lot of the underground musicians did things. You recorded an album of music, often on lo-fi equipment, and tried to ( Read more... )

I order a Whopper and an order of onion rings. I like the "Zesty" dipping sauce they have - I believe it's part horseradish, which I like, though there's something else in there. I'm generally not a fan of the trend to make everything so goddamn spicy-fire-hot these days - what, is everyone too jacked up on cigarettes or something to actually taste ( Read more... )

Tired of seeing these flash players appearing in your Friends page?



Lord knows I'm not.

This isn't an album, really - I've just uploaded a lot of the singles and demos I've done that are - you know - musical and actually liked by humans - into a catch-all spot on Bandcamp, so this contains my recent Road Gator and Cut the Black Wire tracks, as well ( Read more... )

Hey, guess what the heck I've been doing lately.

Well, if you didn't see it last post, here it is again:


This is my latest album as Platzangst, Our Corporate Strategy, and I have placed it on Bandcamp. It is an album of experimental noises and weirdness, and if you happen to like it (you won't), you could download it for as little as five dollars - ( Read more... )