Fly-By: Taking the Week Off

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Jon Chaisson

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Hey all! I’m not exactly up-to-my-neck busy and (I hope) the Day Job won’t be too stressful the next few days, but I thought I’d take a week off from blogging. I’ve been pretty consistent over the whole year, and a respite is in order!

See you next Tuesday with my November Purchases post!

Fly-By because I’m a loser…

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Jon Chaisson

…and somehow I managed to completely lose a post that I’d been writing for the last twenty minutes, and I don’t have time to try to rebuild it because I need to work on other things.

Sorry folks, I’ll try to get you more quality posts in the next day or so.

Fly-by: N do I need apostrophe T need this torture

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Jon Chaisson

Remember when I said that various systems at my Day Job usually go all kerflooey when I go away on vacation? Well, surprisingly enough none did.

But as of yesterday, our email server has decided to flush all the many and intertwining sorting rules down the loo so everything, from requests to reports to auto-replies and everything else lands in our main Inbox.

Which means that my particular job, which happens to be quite email-heavy, is currently now twice as slow and twice as much of a pain in the ass. Which means I’ve been working straight out all day long.

So this means a fly-by. I happen to be listening to a bunch of albums from 1986 at the moment (currently playing as I write this: The Mighty Lemon Drops’ Happy Head) and of course the most excellent debut from They Might Be Giants was part of this listening experience. The video above sold me on them from the start and I’ve been a big fan since.

Hopefully I’ll have something of more substance next week. Sorry about that!

Fly-By: Upcoming Stuff

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Jon Chaisson

Hey there! We’ll be on vacation starting very soon, so the next few weeks are going to be filled with quite a few fly-bys and short entries, depending on if I have the time and bandwidth. Sorry for not providing you with something of substance in the next few weeks! We’ll be back up to normal most likely by mid-August.

In the meantime, have a Cornelius track. It’s his first album in I think a decade or so, and it’s all kinds of excellent and worth checking out.

Latest Obsessions

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Jon Chaisson

A kinda-sorta fly-by here, as I’m afk today to head into the office for my Day Job. In the meantime, here’s a few of my latest musical obsessions. Hope you enjoy! 🙂

Fly-by: Finishing off a major project

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Jon Chaisson

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Heya! I’m taking a few weeks off from blogging so I can get The Balance of Light completed and ready for self-publication!

[Geez, it’s about freakin’ time. –Ed.]

I should be back up and ready to go come the first week or so of February. Thanks for hanging in there, see you soon!

Fly-by: Q4 Madness

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Jon Chaisson

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Seriously, Q4 would be a lot better if it wasn’t so damned busy. Then again, it wouldn’t be Q4 if it wasn’t.

Sorry for a lack of update today, folks! I’m attempting to dig out of an avalanche of Day Job inquiries, as well as catching up on Book 3 editing and preparation. I should have some tunage-inspired posts for you next week.

*deep breaths*

Fly-by: On break for a few weeks

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Jon Chaisson

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Hey gang! Sorry to let you down, but both blogs are going on a brief vacation for a few weeks. This next week is probably going to busy, between Day Job stuff and preparing for an actual trip (we’re heading back to New England to visit friends and family).

We’ll be back fresh and ready to go in November! Until then, don’t eat too much Halloween candy!

See you soon!

Fly-By: WiS will return next week!

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Jon Chaisson

Whew! Didn’t think I’d be able to keep the series going with such consistency, but I did it!

Alas, I do not have an entry up and ready for today, primarily due to other deadlines and Day Job stuff. I figure I can give myself a rest now and again, and can start again fresh next week. [This will also give me the weekend to get ahead and create a buffer again.]

Thanks for tuning in! 🙂

Weekend Fly-By

Posted on March 20, 2016 by Jon Chaisson

Oof! Yeah, still working on the final revision/edit of The Persistence of Memories, and it’ll be another few weeks before I can give myself a breather. The soft release date at the moment is “sometime mid-April”, but I’ll let you all know more as soon as I have more concrete plans! At present I’m THISCLOSE (translation: about forty or so pages) to finishing the revision/edit, I’ve made a quick mock-up of the cover (which you can see at Welcome to Bridgetown). Once the edit’s done, then comes the formatting and the uploading. And then FINALLY I can get back to a normal schedule again. [That is, until I start the same process once more with The Balance of Light. Whee!]

In the meantime, I’ve been on a School of Seven Bells kick lately, partly due to their release of their last album, SVIIB (recorded just before Benjamin Curtis passed away). Jangly shoegazey goodness that kind of reminds me of Lush with a bit of Stereolab mixed in. Enjoy!