Ladies and gentlemen this account is pointless. I already have http://stegosaurustrap.tumblr.com and http://whoreo.blogspot.com for my useless blogging needs. Please subscribe to them or don’t, I really don’t mind. But this one is dead. Closing it down.
I’m The Manager
I was The Manager, and maybe I still am. A very small slice of the Locust Toybox / Stegosaurus Trap followers claim I’m The Manager to be their favourite of all my music projects. I channeled my punk and heavier rock influences with some sequenced drums and a little synth to make a fuzzy fun sound with a slightly angry energy. I didn’t really sing because I was too self conscious about my voice, but I really wanted to. I made one EP then got back to doing other stuff. I don’t really know what happened. I just drifted to different musical outlets. I think it was that I wanted to write lyrics and explore different vocal styles which is why I made Stegosaurus Trap. You might wonder why I even bother making different names for music that is all by me, but it really seems to make a difference. Anyway it’s been about 5 years so I thought I’d give this EP a better quality release and include any other tracks that were kicking around. So here you are, I’m The Manager - The Manager’s Files plus bonus tracks. In high quality (V0 mp3s) for the first time.
I bought my tickets. Leave on the 10th of July. You might not hear from me for a while. Don’t Burn your fannies on candles and don’t boil your balls. I’ll come back when they kick me out.
AnonymousI found a website/service called Amtrak that seems to cover some of the ground I am going to be on. They seem fairly regular. I only mean to get to certain cities really. I’m not expecting an underground system or anything. I’ll go out of my way to ride by train, I find it the most enjoyable mode of transport.
AnonymousStart anticrastinating. Or as we like to say “Crastinating Choice”
Soon I will be going to America. I have virtually no idea what I’m going to do. I don’t want to know what is going to happen. I have planned roughly where I am going. I shall start in the Northwest and I shall work my way down to the Southwest. I shall spend 90 days doing so. Portland and San Francisco are places that intrigue me. When tourists come to England they usually go to London, and maybe a few castles in the countryside. I feel this gives a strange impression of England that isn’t entirely realistic. Firstly because the rest of England is nothing like London and secondly because castles are few and far between and they don’t really play an active role in our day to day lives. I don’t want to see the fake version of America that is designed for tourists and on display in a hundred million films. I want to see realistic America. Anyway I’ll probably completely copy Crust and write some kind of blog that you can read, but I can’t promise anything special —I’ll probably forget to update it, and when I do I’ll just ramble on some vague nonsense that only subtly hints at what I’ve been up to. I don’t like giving too much away.
Quick question for anyone out in the old US: Are trains relatively cheap to travel on over there? They’ve gotten ridiculously expensive over here.
I start things all the time. Some I finish, others I grow tired of. I make cartoons and music mainly. People mainly don’t care for the music, but I enjoy it so I’ll never give it up. Here are some projects I am currently juggling.
The Meadow Man
This is my full length feature. I have been planning it for years. This one is happening but don’t hold your breath because it won’t happen any time soon. My progress is as follows: I have written it, and rewritten it many times to a standard I am almost happy with. I have designed all the main characters and some of the smaller parts. I have planned out the settings complete with sketches, collages and photos. I held auditions, found a bunch of voice actors and allocated their roles. I recorded some dialogue of Crust before he went away travelling. He came back. I changed the script so it might need doing again. I have drawn over 700 storyboard frames, with plenty more to do. Apart from that I have absolutely every tiny detail down of how it will look and feel. I rush a lot of my cartoons but not this one. This one will take FOREVER. Maybe one day I will build an animation team and get this knocked out, but at the moment it’s trickling along like a stream, one which must fill a canyon.
Spoilsbury Toast Boy -3
I wrote and storyboarded this one about 2 years ago. I intend to dive back in and rewrite it at some point, when I’m certain about it, I shall churn it out.
Burnt Face Man 10
I have a rough idea about this one. I have some ideas and bits of script. I don’t intend to improve the animation one bit. This is for shits and giggles. I’ll make this when I have a free week.
Health Reminder sequel.
Not sure what this one will be called but it will be a follow up to Health Reminder featuring the same doctor. I have a pile of ideas. I intend to double the size of that pile and then get it down into a script. Then the fun begins.
Sock Episode 5
I don’t think I’ll call it Sock 5 because it will once again feature new characters and new situations, but still revolving around the subject of dreams. I have written it, decided on the style and even recorded some dialogue. I will probably end up changing everything though.
Unnamed, undecided cartoons with vague stories and ideas emerging.
These are the ones that are hard to talk about because they exist only as bullet points, paragraphs and bits of dialogue. These are voyages into new ground and could take form at any time. Giving away details may be giving away plots so I’ll keep you guessing, which, with the little information you have, might just be a fruitless endeavour.
Locust Toybox new album
I have 13 pretty much finished tracks. I like them a lot. I have asked Jim to do some cover art so that where the hold up is. Not much has been done to this one in months. The bulk of it has been on my computer for the best part of a year. I have also made over 2 albums worth of droney ambient music that I intend to use for soundtracks.
Apart from all that I have ideas for another feature, loads more Salad Fingers plots and bits, WallerFM series 2, more Stegosaurus Traps, and an archive of unfinished cartoons that I haven’t even mentioned because I’ll probably never release them.
You won’t see anything for a while though because I am going away. I am going over the USA for a few months to get lost and find an adventure. I will be writing as I travel which should bring about a flurry of new ideas. My life has been pretty dull for a while you see and I need a change. I don’t really have any plans on what I am going to do, I just plan to go and stay for a while.
I don’t know why I have this Tumblr thing, I don’t know what is so unfashionable about the letter E these days and I don’t know why I am bothering to make this post. I join a site, I build a following then I join another site. Why can’t it all be together? Here are just a few sites where I post my crap:
newgrounds (3 or 4 accounts I think)
youtube (3 accounts I think)
myspace (about 12 music accounts I think)
flickr
tumblr
blogger (at least 3)
vimeo
dailymotion
Those are just ones off the top of my head that I still occasionally update. I have thousands of other accounts for email, file hosting, documents, forums, torrents, game sites, music sites, photos, videos going right back to 1999. It’s overwhelming just to think of all the accounts I have scattered all over the internet. Now the twat inside you may start a thread of thought leading towards some 1984ish recycled, over-mentioned conspiracy wank about how all my details are spread across a system of computers blah blah government shite. No. I didn’t post my address or phone number to any of these sites, nor did I use my real name. This is more akin to writing stupid words on several thousand bits of paper and burying them in several thousand different fields. Sure, if I put my mind to it, I could remember where they were buried and therefore access and update them, but upon stumbling upon one at random, nothing really could be learned or used to my disadvantage. This Tumbler (e is back in fashion right here) is no exception. One bit of scrumpled up paper that will one day be buried a few miles below the surface of this cyber scrapyard.
WallerFM’s Graham and Terry had their first 15 minute slot on Doppler Effect. Here are all 15 of those minutes.
Tapes of mystery. I was given a load of reel to reel tapes. They are full of mystery. They smell like the 1960s. Some of them are mouldy.
Remember five years ago? I do. Five years ago was lots of fun. At the time I probably complained, but five years ago I didn’t look back to ten years ago and reminisce. Ten years ago was lame. Eight years ago was pretty good, but nine and ten were lame. Five years ago was my favourite. I should have taken more pictures. I hope another time like five years ago starts quite soon. I am bored of now.
If you want something, you’re in the wrong place. Nothing lies in this neck of the woods. Go back down to the chest of the woods, that’s where all the good shit is. If you think this is another free-for-all where I offer stuff and you all take it, then you can chuff yer buggeries. I have absolutely nothing to offer you at this moment except my impatient hostility. There will be no hospitality and no osteotherapy in my clinic. It’s a boring clinic where flannely old ladies go to eat biscuits and have their veins examined. The biscuits are stale and so is this entry. Go away.
