I was recording vocals last night when I was asked a question by a fan, who was watching me record live: “Would you write a song about my cat / or accept a topic from people’s suggestions to write a song about?”. Perhaps I went into a little more detail than I should have about why I actually did consider doing something similar to that at one point.
Regardless, here is a late night rant of mine during last night’s recording session. It’s about music, the industry, and why I’m doing what I’m doing. It’ll make you laugh, it will most definitely make you cry. Enjoy. Or don’t. Maybe you should enjoy it. Yah, you’re better off that way. Enjoy.
Player not working? Download MP3 (NSFW sort of, contains some profanity)
Posted by Bryan Ferguson at 4:56 pm pst // 0 Comments
If I could just write a little something on a personal level here.
I’ll start this by thanking every single one of you for your kind words, respect and encouragement for me to put my time and creative energy on the line. I want to say that I’m way stoked and so excited to finally be working on this latest project, OK To Disconnect, that starts off with track 02. Space Invaders, roughly around 7pm PST tonight.
First off, I love creation. I love to create and have something there for me to look at, to hear or feel. It’s been too long that I’ve had these ideas, these tracks on the table but no output, no release. No restriction on deadlines or release dates, just a stale business model to put a collection of tracks into an album and sit on it for a year. I’ve always done my best work under pressure. I’m hoping this challenge will offer the opportunity I’m looking for to put some interesting tracks out for people to take, whether it’s mediocre or awesome. And really if you’re not at all into some of my music, all I ask is that you respect the effort I’m putting into to the challenge and the unique strategy involved. This isn’t easy.
I will be your tree so you may gather my leaves and make them into crowns and play king of the forest. I invite you to cut off my branches and build a house. You may cut down my trunk and make a boat, then you can sail away. Even if down the road I am just an old stump, an old stump is good for sitting and resting. So sit down and enjoy the creation of music with me. Sit down and rest.
Support = <3
There’s nothing I enjoy more than hearing someone tell me how much they love a song I created. Well, actually, there’s a couple of things that could top it.. like 4 or 5.. but I don’t want to get into specifics right now. Plus one or two are just downright wrong in 2 or 3 states.
What I will say about the whole buying stuff to support my efforts thing is this: I offer you intangible creation that cannot be held, touched or put on a table. What is tangible is worth something more to me and you, and that is what you can purchase.
The items that are in the Gear section are those that will be handled by myself and my team of specially trained monkeys. Sure they’re really just out of work writers for fortune cookies, but consarnit, it’s rough out there people. And monkeys.
Join the Last Falling Mailing List and stay connected. I’ll let you know when new items are up that you might dig. For all you Mr. Pink haters out there, rumor has it there might be a Mr. Orange on the way. So hang on to it, Toy-Boy, you might need it when it starts raining naked ladies.
In conclusion, enjoy Track 02. Enjoy the YouTubes. Enjoy the creation I have to offer, or don’t. It’s up to you to decide to support and subscribe.
Posted by Bryan Ferguson at 9:00 am pst // 1 Comment
I love Google. Even more, I love Google Analytics. It allows me to track my site’s performance and see which sections need more work or what’s popular and why. I can even check referrers and trace IP addresses even if someone does a search for something like ‘free anonymous proxy’, I can trace it back to their original IP address and find my secret admirer that is so in love with me. It’s pretty classy.
So I go to check out what’s been happening the last month on lastfalling.com.
I find this little masterpiece:
Now.
I’m no doctor, but I’m pretty sure I’m not really hairy nor, in fact, a woman OR a reallyhairywomen.
I mean, sure, I have a decent amount of hair; mainly on my face to keep my face warm during these chilly 50 degree Los Angeles nights, but I am NO reallyhairywomen.
Everyone got that?
Good. Now we can move on to less important things.
New Artwork Released!
Now that we’re on the same page, Last Falling’s Facebook page has exclusive new artwork to check out!
Congratulations to Haley Raspet on winning the coveted award of Getting Your Name Blasted On A Background Of A Photo Of Me That I Photoshopped Together Real Quick!
This awesome photo will become my profile image on my personal Facebook page and background image on the official Last Falling Myspace and Twitter pages for the entire month of December.
More photoshop contests will be added in the year 2010. Stay connected.
Posted by Bryan Ferguson at 12:50 pm pst // 1 Comment
This grungish sounding “single”, What You Wanted, is now available on iTunes for people who would like to contribute to the LF effort, OK To Disconnect, that will take full effect January 5th with the inception of Track 02.
What You Wanted is available for FREE here, but you wish to choose to support Last Falling with what we Americans like to call pennies, or pence if you’re English, then hurl some change at the strongly supported and decently crafted one man digital street performer.
It is exclusive to various online retailers such as iTunes.
12/02/09 Update: Depending on your entry, this image will act as my background and remain on my Myspace profile for the month of December. Check details below.
This is an online social networking photo challenge for peeps to submit a background image for the photo below.
This photo will be immediately placed in our OKTD Artwork Gallery and Flickr page. Your name will be credited in regards to the choice of background. Sorry, that’s all you get. I wish I could offer you a cool pastry of some sort but maybe if you live close by I can make you cereal. If you created it or photographed it, you will be credited in addition to the choosing aspect.
Basically, I’m looking for the most hilarious scene to throw behind my image. It will be up to me, Bryan, Mr. Ferguson, the Last Falling person, to judge which is the most hilarious and best fitted photo. I will then Photoshop your image in accordance to mine and you will be handsomely rewarded with bragging rights that your name is in the photo credits.
In each Last Falling video, you will find a weekly time lapse of the work done for that particular track. Text descriptions will pop up as to what is being worked on so you don’t have to guess or figure out if I really did pick my nose in that one frame or what it was I had to drink.
As always, lastfalling.tv will serve as your live evidence that I am actually developing the track that is going to be released that coming Tuesday. It’s a chance for you to peek in and check out what I’m doing. A fair warning, it’s really boring to watch someone edit tracks but you might catch something rare and exciting like a cat walking across the desk.
The YouTube channel is being utilized for a couple of reasons: one is to allow the full tracks to be available there, another is to give the YouTube community an opportunity to subscribe if they like what they are seeing and hearing. Since additional tracks will be updated weekly starting 01.12.10, subscription based sites like podcasts and rss aggregators are the easiest choice of self-governing freedom for you to like/dislike things for updates. You may like one song and completely think the other is worse than shit on a stick.
There’s a lot of people that are very interested in this project, I intend to make it as entertaining and fun as possible for myself and others out there. I really don’t care if you choose to hate or dislike my creative venture that offers music for free, voicing your negative opinions on the internet is counter-intuitive to any time and typing effort. Continue to fart into that wine glass and for the love of all things smug, keep feeling good about your life decisions.
Posted by Bryan Ferguson at 5:58 pm pst // 0 Comments
You won’t find tweets from @lastfalling that detail when and where food is consumed, what location destination is going to be occupied by said poster, witty one liners and/or haikus, Ghostbusters references, or how Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990. What you will find are updates on free music, when new Last Falling merchandise comes in, and when new features are added to lastfalling.com.
Don’t fear the tweeter. It is grossly understood, especially by LF, that Twitter can be used to a fault. Rest assured, the only wild card will be photos of really really hairy women eating cob salads in compromising situations. You have been warned.
