06/21/04:
To make albums easier to order, the Ordering Page has been updated to take PayPal payments by credit card. It will speed up transaction times for more people, being enough people use PayPal for Ebay or other sites. If you want to order albums, but don't have PayPal, I'll still take check or money orders. Ask me about that on AIM and I'll get you the info.
There have been some changes in album prices due to increased costs in making the discs and distribution. The prices on CD's went up individually, but now there is a Box Set with 6 full albums, and 1 multimedia computer disc with videos, unreleased music, animations, and other goodies for you to play with. The Box Set is $40 including shipping, which breaks down to about $4 per album, and about $10 for the shipping. If you don't have any albums yet, you should get the set! Seven CDs and it's cheaper than two new DVDs at most places! Enough about that! Have a look at the new Ordering page anyway, cuz I'm making it look better.
Sometime this month, I'll be making the site for my web hosting company and registering a domain for it. About half the pages are finished, and the plan information is available with the features and the pricing. If you're interested right now, you can check out the temporary site at Creative Coding Web Hosting and Design.
I also got on the latest epidemic of Blog sites, MySpace, and have met a lot of awesome people from there. Besides that, I spend a lot of time making graphics, animation, and working around MySpace's restrictions on acceptable coding. JavaScripts aren't allowed, so the whole page is using CSS and DHTML effects. It's pretty sweet. Anyway, you can check out my MySpace page by going to http://profile.myspace.com/users/3594423. See, I really am an overly social internet geek!
06/11/04:
There were a few things on the site that I've been asked about, so I'm going to clear them up. As most relationships go, they do end at some point. I'm not with Lorelei anymore, and don't want to hear about it. It was an interesting experience, and now it's time to move on. I've got a new girlfriend now, Jessica, and she's really awesome. The previous chapter of my life is over, so on to the next one.
The official name of the band I'm working on with Johnny Moscow is "IN", and we're working on that as often as we have time.
I also met another person that wants to work on music as well, and either that will be a seperate project, or they may be incorporated into IN. More info on that as it comes up.
May 2004 (1 Post)
05/16/04:
It's been a long time without any site updates, but no, I'm not slacking on music. I met another industrial musician, Johnny Moscow, in Vegas and we've been jamming a few times a week, and things are sounding awesome. We're also using some new software and hardware that blows everything else away! Basically the new system is one desktop computer with FruityLoops for sequencing and a combination of ACID and CoolEdit Pro as multitrackers and effects processing. On a laptop, we're running the latest version of Reason, which is connected to a Radium midi controller. We're brainstorming some ideas on an official band name right now, but for the moment it will be refered to as "IN". There will be some demo's of the new project up soon, so you can hear the ideas and new gear in effect!
AfterBirth is still going, ShMeG and SkRaG are recording a lot out in Lakeport, MI and the songs they've sent me are awesome. There will be a new AfterBirth site up this week with some pictures, mp3's and new info.
I was messing around with the keyboards a few weeks back and accidentally figured out a couple of BlutEngel songs, so I recorded new versions of Addicted and Black Roses just for fun. Also, I did a remake of the Inspector Gadget theme for one of my good friends as background music for their website.
Aaron from Dialisis is circulating a demo CD around Detroit as DJ Locutis. He sent me an hour long techno mix he did and it's badass! It's not like just a setlist of songs, it's like a full scale rave DJ type mix. If you see the demo around, you should pick it up and hire him for your parties!
Anyway, that's the quick buzz on what's up, I'll try to make more time to update here over the next couple weeks, and put up some new MP3's. Also, I'm on AIM a lot, so you can click on the side to send me an instant message. Ciao!
January 2004 (3 Posts)
01/25/04:
ShMeG from AfterBirth got ahold of me last week about some new music he's been making and sent me some tunes. They're awesome! We're gonna be exchanging audio files for some more new material, but ShMeG is gonna be doing most of the music, sampling and vocals, and I'm going to do fill in's with vocals, some extra music and other tweaks. I'll be making a page for his project and have some MP3's up in the near future. He expects to have about 2 new songs done this month, and from what I've heard of the rough cuts, they're gonna be badass! There will be one new song online this week called "I'm a Fucking Animal!" Other music he's doing is laying down beats for a rapper from Detroit, and he's working on a project with Bob from Mass Hysteria and The Amazing Schwarzenegger, and he's going to be continuing with AfterBirth with Skrag as a second vocalist in Michigan, and I'll probably add third vocals to that as well. It's already a national project, being he's in Michigan and I'm in Nevada! The internet is great!
The 999 Gods song Ashes Falling has been shifting between number 1 and number 2 on the MP3charts.com industrial top 40 section of the site for the last month, along with a few other 999 Gods and TechniKILL songs. MP3charts.com is based on weekly numbers of downloads, and so far this week, Ashes Falling as had 14 downloads. Last week it was around 16, but still this is a good thing! Other site statistics is that the site averages around 13 new people a day, with a good majority of the hits coming from Google and internet forums. If you like our music, style, graphics, or anything on here, please recommend us to your friends! Also, if there is anything that you'd like to see on here, give me some ideas and I'll make it happen.
Earlier this month, I sent out Volume 1 of our newsletter to about 40 people. I'm planning on sending out Volume 2 sometime around February 12th, with news, some exclusive downloads and more. If you'd like to subscribe, send an email to newsletter@endoftimeproductions.com. The email list is protected in my software, so no one else will get your email address. I'm just as against spam as anyone, being I get over 120 emails a day about Viagra in my public address. Please specify if you'd like the newsletter in HTML or Text Only form, and put Newsletter as the subject. The subject is very specific when it comes, like "End of Time Productions Newsletter Volume #, Month, Day, Year".
Also, for the next month, I posted a video we made in the downloads section. It's a 15 minute rough mini movie with some interesting scenes and dialog. The file is a 26 meg WMV, and has me, Shannon from 999 Gods, Darryl Ratto and Debby Fitzgibbon in it. It's kinda cheesy, Monty Python like, with something to do with vampires and a mad scientist. We have lots of interesting locations, like inside a actual medical lab that was closed for the night. It's just like a weird home video, but it's kinda koo if you want to check it out. It wasn't ever finished, but I really wish we had time to, cuz the scenes are pretty damn koo! I'm only going to have it online for about a month though, for file space considerations. This site is 194 Megs total right now, and I only have 200 megs to work with, so get it while you can!
01/11/04:
The Electric Front 99.9 internet radio station from Live365 will be premiering the TechniKILL tracks Crushed, Electric Funeral, and Virus, and the Utopia Project Mario Brothers Remix on their Indy Hour this week! The show will be on Tuesday from 5:00PM until 6:00PM and on Thursday from 9:00AM until 10:00AM! After the ratings come through this week, several songs may go into regular rotation! If you haven't heard The Electric Front yet, you need to check the station out! They play CD Quality broadcasts, and regularly play groups such as Skinny Puppy, VNV Nation, Assemblage 23, Hanzel Und Gretyl, Covenant, Aphex Twin, Nine Inch Nails, Front242, FLA, and many more industrial and techno groups. You'll need to make a free account with Live365 to tune in, but please do! This station rocks! Their website is www.TheElectricFront.com!
Also in the last week, I've made a few new Utopia Project tracks, and will be uploading them in the next week. They sound really good. A little more clubby, but still retaining my style of tons of synth parts and lots of beat changeup's. Expect them up by Friday!
That's it for now, I gotta get to sleep before work. I'll catch you all later!
01/01/04:
Happy New Years! I have submitted all the 999 Gods and TechniKILL tracks to mp3charts.com, and also have been promoting the hell out of the site in the last week. All this means to the site users is that there will be a popup when you go to download TechniKILL or 999 Gods tracks saying to finish the download. You may have to register an account with them, but that's free and doesn't require a confirmation email to get the file. So please download our TechniKILL and 999 Gods mp3's, or download them again if you already have them, to boost our ratings. Come on and support us, cuz we support you, with totally free MP3s and videos. We're not like the international record label scene where you have to pay like $5 for a single, I'll just give that to you, and you can buy a full album for $5! I'm not about the money, I'm about getting the music heard! I actually have to pay to get the music heard for free, so the least you can do is make the site known, download our tracks, and order some $5 CDs!
I will be making some bumper stickers that you can order next week! Also, if you email and request T-Shirts, I will be making them on demand, and I figure the cost will be about $12 a shirt plus $2.00 shipping. I'm going all out on the shirts and stickers. The stickers will be on pressed vinyl and the shirts will be silk screened, so they won't fade from the weather or washings. I'll upload the designs in the next week. For now, you can email me with your address, and I'll email you an order form. I'll send the CD's, stickers, or T-Shirts as soon as the check clears. To make it fast and simple, send a money order, and I'll send it out the day I receive it. Support your independent music scene, we're not out to fuck you over like the mainstream!
December 2003 (8 Posts)
12/31/03:
The fireworks in Las Vegas are going to be at midnight Pacific Time Zone. That's 3am in Eastern. You can watch them from the webcams on the Vegas Live page in the Vegas section. You can also watch 12 paranoid asshole military attack helicopters flying around in the sky and a bunch of drunk people running around more armed military ground forces. Drunks, machine guns, fireworks and firepower. Sound like a hell of a blast! Have a great New Years, and don't get a DUI. You know what happens after you get 7 driving under the influence charges? You can be president!
Back to our regularly scheduled program. Shmeg from AfterBirth has a new project! He's making phatty hip hop and rap beats in Michigan, and I will be making a site for him once more information is gathered. So far he's working on a track with a Detroit rapper that he met at a party, and several other people. More news as it follows.
12/29/03:
I updated the information and put up a new picture of me on the front page, as you must have already seen. The picture is kinda funny with me being in a tie all business like, considering the last picture I was covered in stage blood, had dreads, and was on fire. I figured a more recent picture was in order though, and I'm much more into this record label and the groups as business than scaring people away right from the front page. It's the business of making original music, and the music speaks for itself. If you haven't heard what it says, go download some MP3s and videos!
I did MAD updates on the Utopia Project page! There are CD covers and track listings for Technological Engineering, Explosive Reactions, and Digital Mental Violator, along with other graphic changes and MP3 links. Order some CD's!
I also deleted a ton of guestbook entries today. There were 97 and the page was really long, but only 37 were actually semi relevant to what this site is about, so I corrected the signal to noise ratio. If you check out the site or the music, please click the Write to Forum link in the side bar and give me your opinions. You're the reason I run this site and pay the $120 a year, so gimme more feedback!
12/25/03:
I made a page of webcams in Vegas, just in time for the New Years eve fireworks show. To get to the page, go to VEGAS! in the sidebar, then the link at the top to Vegas LIVE. I wouldn't try to go to it without a high speed connection, as it streams 8 cameras. There are also links to traffic cameras and other sites. Check it out on New Years! You might catch the fireworks.
12/19/03:
I updated information all over the site today, including the new Utopia Project album on the Ordering information page, booking information in Las Vegas, and took out some dead links.
I got hired by a Telecommuntications company this morning and start Monday from 5am until 2pm Las Vegas time. It pays pretty good, so after bills are taken care of, I'll have more money to invest in making shirts, stickers, and other merchandise and new music gear. Also being I get out by 2pm, I'll probably also be looking for a second job.
I've just received an initial review of the new Utopia Project in my email today and "I've never had so much fun on the way to work! It's definatly great desert driving music!" They'll be sending a full review Monday or Tuesday to be posted on the site.
12/09/03:
The new Utopia Project album is finished! New MP3's will be up this week, and I will be taking some old ones down. Also, I'm on a LAN now, so have cable on all the computers, which means it's time to change the graphics and I'm doing mad web site updates. Explore the site, you might find something new.
12/16/03:
Wow! I entered this site in Billboard Magazines independent artists site a couple weeks ago, and won up front floor tickets to the Billboard Music Awards. You might see me if you watch the show Wednesday at 8pm on FOX. I'll have a review of it on here and on the Billboard web site later in the week and I'll probably be on their site as the contest winner. I'm on a mad luck streak since I moved to Vegas. You'll probably win something crazy just for reading this if it rubs off. Well, I'll catch you later!
12/08/03:
I'm changing some things around on the site off and on over the next week. Pages might look funky till they're finished, but are still functional.
I took the tagboard off the main page due to human filth spreading pollution and rubbish on my front page. Take your nonsence trash talk to the guestbook, where it'll be deleted.
12/02/03:
I will be going to Sanctuary this Wednesday. It's at 4640 Paradise Road every Wednesday. They play industrial/ebm/goth/deathrock and more. There is no cover at this club, and it's 21+.
Sunday, I will be at Sacrilege at Cafe' Nicole. The address is 4760 West Sahara Ave. Abstract and another band will be playing. It's an 18+ club, and the cover is $5.
I'm looking for musician's in the Las Vegas area to start a new band, and learn TechniKILL songs, so we can play some shows out here. I'll be doing vocals and electronics, and I'd like to find a live guitarist and drummer, and possibly a second keyboardist. After being TechniKILL by myself for so long, I'd like to find a band to jam with, and get external creative ideas. Also if there are other electronics programmers that are interested in working with me, shoot me the ideas. If you use FruityLoops, save the song you made as a ZIP file, so it includes the sounds and plugins, and email it to me with the subject "MUSIC" so it'll get directed to the right mail box.
Tommorow is Wednesday, so I'll be at Sacrilege tommorow night. To find me, I'll be wearing a TechniKILL shirt, and have white camo pants, old jungle boots, and I've got a goatie, mostache, septum and libret piercings and might possibly smell like BEER!!!! Find me, I'll be introducing myself to lots of people and be handing out business cards with the web site address.
November 2003 (2 Posts)
11/21/03:
I've done a few things on the site in the last couple days. All CD's are now $5 instead of $10. Little error on the site, being as I've always sold them for $5 in person. Also I will trade CD's with other musicians, so if you're in a band, send me your album, and I'll send you mine.
I added a section on Las Vegas to the side bar. Right now it just has ticket stubs to the shows I've been to out here, but it will have pictures and videos once I get them spliced up. That's it for now.
11/16/03:
Well, I drove a van with my music and computer stuff out to Arizona to see my fiancee's parents, then we came up to Las Vegas, Nevada to visit my dad, and Las Vegas turned out to have a lot more potential in finding work and an apartment, so we decided to move here instead, and I'm going to be checking out The University of Nevada Las Vegas on their sound engineering classes. To my friends in Port Huron, MI, you all need to move the fuck out here! It's like 60 degrees in the winter, and you can walk around drinking outside 24/7! Don't take my word for it, watch it for yourself! Since I went on the 3 day road trip out here, I've been shooting tons of video footage across the country and tons of Vegas during the days and nights here. I'll be sending several copies of the tape to my friends and some other koo stuff. I went and saw the Amzing Johnathan's show at the Flamingo a few days ago, and it's even funnier than his TV specials. In the next week, we're going to see Blue Man Group and KMFDM, BILE and PIG at the House of Blues, which kicks ass, cuz no one told me about them playing Detroit when I was there, so I beat the tour across the country! I've seen BILE four times already, but I'd cut my toes off to go see this show in a wheelchair.. probably not, the tickets are only $25, and 2 of my favorite bands are playing. Enough for now, all you mofo's need to get the fuck out here now and get out of the damn snow!
October 2003 (1 Posts)
10/28/03:
Hey friends, I've mentioning and hinted on moving to Arizona for like the last year now. It's finally time. Me and Lorelei are moving to Fort Mohave in 2 weeks. We got the money together, so I'm gonna drive. I'm only taking the basic essentials down there, so I've got a lot of stuff to sell and give away. Lot's of CD's and videos, books, and other excess baggage I can't fit in the van. If you're interested and anything, I'll be going to City Club for Halloween and will be at the Noruh Grotto show on November 1st with CDs, tapes, and videos to sell out of the van. I'm also selling lots of cheesy keyboards cheap and other nifty gadgets.
As to the future of music for End of Time Productions, there will be a lot of new music and groups as soon as we get established in AZ. I'm going to be enrolling at the Recording Workshop in Tempe, so will meet many new musicians there, and get some other stuff going.
It's been fun in Port Huron, but that is all there is to do here is have fun. The economy is so poor, it's practically impossible to find anything that pays over $8 in the area, and commuting to the Detroit area is too much a hassle. I'll miss most of the people I hang out with, and will be contacting everyone this week to get addresses and phone numbers to send CD's and other fun stuff out.
I'd make this longer, but I'm on public computers right now. Once we make it out there, I'll be updating and have some pictures or video from the trip. Have a fun Halloween, and I hope the snow doesn't bury you all in the winter (heh)
July 2003 (1 Posts)
07/22/03:
Due to crazy ass circumstances, we're back at our Fraser location until the end of August, then we're either be back in Birchville, or in Arizona. Over the next month, I'm getting to the video stuff on here. 56K AOheL on a computer I couldn't really use for internet in Birchville just wasn't fast enough, and now we're on high speed cable, so I can finally upload these files. That's it for now. More later.
June 2003 (2 Posts)
06/29/03:
I updated the Events page with info about the last 2 shows. Also, we finished construction of the studio, and it's pretty much all set up now. Dan and Matt from Alien Conspiracy Theory moved back from Chicago, so as soon as I track them down, I gotta talk to them about recording some new songs, cuz they're awesome as hell. Besides that, I've just been working a lot. I going to be trying out for a metal group called the Fatt Haxx as a part time drummer or keyboardist. I work with their bassist and he's amazing at bass, and we work the same shift, so I'm not putting up with everyone's fucked up schedules. That's about it for now. Cya
06/04/03:
The last month has been a productive one. I'm working in a factory, building the new studio with soundproof walls, played a most excellent show at the Noruh Grotto with Impalement and Broken, got a badass video card to edit music videos, and am getting a van tommorow, so our gear will be portable. We also have a DVD burner now, so DVD's and videos will be available in the near future. Later this week, I'll be putting up some new pictures of the current construction process and pictures from our shows and gear. Once the soundproofing is done to the studio, we'll be recording some more local metal groups, along with practicing the two new bands we're starting. In one band, I'm doing keyboards, and another one I'm playing drums. We're looking for an outdoor party or concert to use pyrotechnics, so if you know of any, please get back to me. That's all I have time to update for now, so check back around monday, and I'll get the pics up over the weekend!
May 2003 (1 Post)
05/11/03:
We just moved our studio to Burtchville, MI, off of Metcalf road. Along with the new location, we also have tons of new gear set up! There are 2 computers networked together, 2 keyboards running MIDI between each other and the computers, 8 non MIDI keyboards, several guitars, a couple basses, a drum kit, a bunch of amps, mics, processors, video cameras, web cams, TV's, VCR's, stereos, a huge lighting system with 2 4foot double blacklights, and lots of other goodies that will be hooked up at all times for recording. I'm working at a factory in St Clair, so I'll be assimilating more new gear in the next couple months. If anyone has any gear for sale, please get ahold of me by email, or talk to me at the concert the 24th and if it's koo stuff, I might buy it on the spot. Thanks.
05/03/03:
TechniKILL is playing a concert May 24th, 2003, at the Noruh Grotto in Port Huron (behind Denny's on Kraft Road). TechniKILL will be going on first, so be there early! After our set, Impalement will be coming on! Impalement plays Harpo's in Detroit all the time and has opened for so many national acts, I can't even remember! Metal! Next up will be Broken, then Idiology, which is the guitarist from Hatework's new band. There will be a BBQ with Hamburgers and Hot Dogs for $1 each, and other nifty merchandise. We still have some Utopia Project and 999 Gods CD's left, so get them!
The Utopia Project album, Explosive Reactions, was aired on a major radio station in Cleveland, Ohio some time last week, and there were a bunch of call in's for it. We're trying to get the information from the station this week, so I'll update more on that later.
My computer's internet is still messed up.. something about the internet protocol's not matching the address family. I'll likely reinstall WinDOZE this week. Right after I violently beat Bill Gates with a crowbar and make him eat his rubbish windows CD's.
April 2003 (1 Post)
04/18/03:
There is a three day tattoo party at 733 Johnstone, Port Huron, MI this weekend. Friday the 18th, Broken and God Is Stoned are playing. Saturday the 19th, I'm doing sets for TechniKILL, Utopia Project, Schwarzenegger, AfterBirth and 999 Gods, then going to be doing Live PA electronics all night and free jamming with keyboards, drum machines, and non electronic instruments. Most of this show will be taped and some of it will be used for music videos, and the Out of Kan'Tekst Menace video, so do koo stuff, like get pierced or tattooed! Admission is $2 each night and $1 for a free tattoo raffle. I will be selling the new 21 track Utopia Project album for $5. 70 minutes of high tech electronics for $5? Am I crazy? Yup! Check it out, it's a great CD.
March 2003 (1 Post)
03/07/03:
We've been recording a lot more random projects about every other day for a while now. There will be new MP3s up soon. Also we're in negotiations as to getting some new bands signed to the label. Videos are being made for 999 Gods, Utopia Project, TechniKILL, and AfterBirth, along with some outtakes n weird shit. The video will be available on the site once it's finished. We got another CD Burner earlier this week, so I'm gonna burn off a bunch of samplers to give out at the Pigface, BILE, Thrill Kill Kult, and Zeromancer show next week in Detroit. If you want one, just come up and ask. TechniKILL is going to be making shirts within the month. The art for them is in the last stages of tweaking. When they come out is just a matter of having the money to print them.
February 2003 (1 Post)
02/09/03:
Some new information.. I met some people at City Club in Detroit last night to be signed to End of Time Productions this month and they will be on the site once we recieve the MP3s and pictures for their groups. One of the new groups is called Skrew, from Madision Heights. If any other local industrial/techno/experimental groups want to be featured on this site, drop me an email with a bio, a minimum of 3 MP3s and some band photos and they will be on here. If any groups want to be recorded at our studio, everything is up and running again with the new hard drives, so get ahold of me. I will be going to City Club on a regular basis now, on Saturday nights, so if you want to meet me their to talk music, find me. If you don't know what I look like, check out the Photo Gallery, and I can usually be found either by the bar at the front or on the floor dancing really really fast to the beat of the industrial drums and keyboards. Damn I missed that place.
January 2003 (1 Post)
01/22/03:
Sorry I haven't posted about the updates on the site in over a month, but I've been busy actually editing the hell out of everything. I rewrote the HTML for almost all of the site, and I'm just finishing up some more right now. Also, along with recoding the pages, I'm changing graphics around. There are more javascripts, flash features, cgi scripts, and graphics, but how I redesigned the code, all the eyecandy comes off one file and remains resident through the entire site, so it doesn't have to keep reloading and reinterpreting the scripts. More trip toys, less load time.
Another new thing is the Mp3 Stream Player, which opens a new window with play controls in Flash, so you don't have to have a external player, just Flash installed. This is useful for public computers without the benefits of WinAmp. In order to do this, I had to move all the Mp3's to the root directory and rename them to ".bin". If you want to download the file to save on your computer, right click on the link to the song from the band's page, go to "Save Link As" and rename it from ".bin" to ".mp3" and you can play it in any media player with Mp3 support (all of them). This setup works great right now, but as usual, I'll be tweaking bugs out and layout design as I feel the need. I'll probably be making a more graphical interface for the player this week.
The computer we run everything on had a major crash about a month ago and I'm still redoing a bunch of stuff, but for now, the internet works great and so do the graphics programs, so that's what I'm mainly doing. I'm still reinstalling and reformatting the drives until the music programs work properly though, so that might be a while. I figure this is some good time to get shit done on the site and graphics design.
Also, being as I'm just doing internet tech for the meantime, if any other bands or websites are looking for a webmaster that can make pages visually interesting, I am for hire. I know Flash, CGI, Javascript, Java, SHTML, DHTML, ASP, FTP, PaintShop, PhotoShop, domain registration, and server maintenance. I code everything in notepad by hand, and this site will be the ultimate example. Email me about what you want in a site and we can discuss prices.
December 2002 (1 Post)
12/07/02:
Lots of site updates have been going on over the last couple weeks, but I just put them up today. I made an account at TagBoard, so it can be used as either chat or for short messages. Other things, that drop down list has all the public MP3's on the site for a quick list. If you click on the name of the song, it will load to the current page, so you can't see the site while it's playing. Yeah, it's annoying, it'll be replaced as soon as I make something in Flash with the site playlist and player controls on the page. Anyway, I'm going to get back to tweaking the layouts. I'll post about it sometime this week.
November 2002 (8 Posts)
11/26/02:
We opened sites at the IUMA server last week, and they took off quite nicely. Over 250 MP3 downloads in under a week on each page! Anyway, if you want to check out those pages, the links are as follows: technikill.iuma.com - TechniKill utopiaproject.iuma.com - Utopia Project
11/20/02: As I stated earlier, I'm working about 14 hours a day, 6 days a week now, so I won't be online all that much, but I'm still working on music a lot. I work with Bob Simpson in Bad Axe and Sandusky. It's a really long trip, but a whole lot of money, so I'll be getting a bunch of new gear once I get paid around Xmas. I'm getting a new hard drive as soon as possible after the 5th, and a video card. The next check after that, I'll be getting a car, and the next couple, either a PA system, or a laptop with data link cables, so I can use the laptop for doing more live shows. Besides the advantage of having money to get all this new gear, being as I'm working with Bob, we're also working on Schwarzenegger every day after work. We've been planning a couple albums out, and the first one will be just Arnold, then we'll be having an album of Arnold VS every other action hero. Terminator VS Ultimate Soldier, The Running Man VS John Rambo, etc.. Sean from Schwarzenegger might be starting with the company in the next couple weeks too, so we'll be coming up with lyrics at work. Today, I also started working on a couple more TechniKill tracks with some badass samples, so stay tuned for new MP3s in the near future. That's all I'm saying for now, so I'm gonna get back to my beer.. mmm....
11/15/02: I just started a job up in Bad Axe last night, so I won't be on at night very much. I'll still be working on the site during the day though after I get a sleeping pattern worked out. It's like a 2 hour trip to get to Bad Axe, but our boss takes us. Anyway, that's all I wanted to say for now. I'm going back to sleep before I have to get up.
11/14/02: I got permission from my friend Debby to use her pictures in the photo gallery, so added a whole bunch of new ones. I turned them all into thumbnails, so those are up for now. I'll put the links to the full sized ones up later. The thumbnails are all 150 pixels wide, so a lot of them don't need full versions at my screen resolution. The recommended screen resolution for the entire site is 1024x768. It looks great in Internet Explorer, and Netscape 7. If the background to the site looks messed up to you in Netscape, upgrade to version 7 and it'll show up right. My C drive is so messed up, I had to stop using Internet Explorer as my primary browser, because it keeps writing the cache to a sector with physical errors, so am using Netscape 7 now, installed on the other hard drive. I was kinda hesitant toward switching, because Netscape has had a lot of bugs in the past with tables, Javascripts and textareas, but most of those bugs have been fixed in version 7, which I upgraded to the day before yesterday. Ohh well, Netscape works fine for me all the time, and I can still preview things in Explorer, if I feel like clicking through the blue screens of doom that pop up about 5 times whenever I load a page..
11/13/02: My dad came to town today and gave me a new mouse for the computer! Thanks Dad!
11/12/02: Lots of updates!
Being as I'm putting banners and links up, I decided I'm going to make more sections. Today I put a Photo Gallery up, with a bunch of pictures of me (Justin), Lorelei and Shannon. More pictures and some digital imagery will be up in the near future. Another section I'm going to be adding is a Music Resources page, with links to services useful to musicians and music fans. Also there will be a link page to major groups that we'd consider influences, or just damn good bands in general.
The mailing list script won't work on my server for some unknown and possibly supernatural reason, so I got a deal with another site to host our CGI script in their directory. Funny thing is nothing was changed at all in the script, but when it was put on their server, and was called from here, it worked fine. All the other CGIs on here run from here perfectly, so it's just an unexplainable mystery. They said they'd have it set up for us to use in a few days probably.
I registered with like 30 more search engines this morning at like 3am, so more people can find the site easier. Some of the engines said it'd be between 3 and 6 weeks, then others said it'd be spidered in a day or two, but either way, we'll be listed in a bunch of engines soon, so there will be links to the better ones in the upcoming resources section.
A few days ago, Shannon came over and recorded a new acoustic song with guitar and vocals, and I cleaned it up today. I'm going to make a few mixes of it with drums and keyboards, and also keep the unplugged one, too see which he likes. I'll be making a Shannon Thomas section on the site soon for his solo acoustic project, and it'll have MP3s, a biography and show dates.
I updated some information and layouts on the 999 Gods site again. Then again, I update almost all the pages at least every week anyway, so what's new? Go check it out!
11/11/02: As you may have noticed, there are now banners on several pages of the site. In the next day, they will be on all of them. The reason for this is that just word of mouth and forum promotion isn't generating nearly enough traffic as to what I'd like. Over the last two days, I've been registering 999 Gods, Utopia Project and TechniKill with various musician services, including LocalBandz.com, Local-Bands.net, BandsOnTheWeb.com, and IUMA.com. I will be registering with more services from now on, so expect to see more banners in the future. This isn't selling out, this is getting our music heard. Selling out would be putting popup ads on the site, which I will never do. I'm not helping anyone sell any products like viagra or personal spy cams, I'm simply trading links with sites that support our bands and label. With that said, please go to the sites and vote for us, put reviews up, and support independant music cuz it beats what the mainstream labels are putting out!
11/10/02: Bloodwolf from Sacrificio Antico contacted me today about their status, and says they finally have a stable lineup and will start recording in the next week, so I'll be putting their site back up once I have some MP3s to put on it.
11/09/02: Lots of updates!
The mailing list script is still being debugged and I'm still waiting on some banners to set up the banner rotation link exchange.
I dropped the pages for Chaotic Creation Generation and Sacrificio Antico today. CCG has been debunked for quite a while now, being as it is the same as Utopia Project, being all just me doing electronic music in one style or another. Utopia Project has so many styles, that it covers what CCG was. Most Utopia Project songs don't have samples, so why not have some songs that are just loaded with them. Get your sampling fix all in a few tracks, then get on to the instrumental stuff. Sacrificio Antico has been taken off the site, due to the fact that their lineup changes every month, and that I have been waiting for over a year for recorded material. Once I get material, they will be put back on the site, but until such time, you can find out what they're doing by going to their site in the Band Links section.
I updated the a bunch of other pages on the site, like the AfterBirth one, with new news, and cleaned the layouts on other pages to get ready to put our Link Exchange up.
I've been swapping music files over the internet with Osmorphyus over the last week, and he'll be recording some vocals for some TechniKILL songs from his computer in New Orleans. I have a whole bunch of TechniKILL songs done, other than needing vocals, and lately I've been too goddamned happy to come up with dark and evil lyrics, which is the TechniKILL signature sound. He's also been sending me guitar and vocal tracks to songs he's wrote, and I'll be remixing them, adding drums, cleaning them up and adding new music. Osmorphyus was previously the only other past member of TechniKILL, like 4 years ago, and was in the original version of the song Crushed, when it was made on an old Casio SK8 minature sampling keyboard. Hopefully with his help, this will speed up the next TechniKILL release.
Other project discussions have been going on with Ambrose, the bassist to MidTown, and he wants me to record and produce their next album. Also, he was here today and I was rocking out on keyboards and I may start jamming with them later in the week, and if all goes well, I might join them as a keyboardist. They currently play a lot of shows in Port Huron at the Roche bar, on Quay street, a block East of the Military street bridge. More about this collaberation will be posted after I talk to the rest of the band.
In the last two weeks, I've been promoting the Hell out of the site to music message boards and trying to get more search engine submissions. If anyone else feels so inclined, please do the same, by linking the End of Time site on your websites, and I will trade you links or banners if you have them.
11/04/02: I had a really awesome dream today about a haunted house with demons, zombies, and the apocolypse. It was so awesome, I'm writing a script for it, and have been gathering a crew and locations to make it into a movie. We need about 15 extras that want to be in the movie, both as being alive, and being zombies. Shooting will probably start around the end of November or early December. If you're in the Port Huron, MI area and are interested in being in an independant horror flick, email me with your phone number at justin@endoftimeproductions.com and I'll give you the times and locations where the shooting will take place. Everyone that's in it will receive a copy of the movie, so you can play it for your friends and say "Hey, that's me with my spleen hanging out!"
October 2002 (9 Posts)
10/31/02: The Utopia Project album, Explosive Reactions, is available to order, as of today. See the Ordering page for more information about how you can purchase a copy, or you can download some MP3s from it on the Utopia Project page.
10/30/02: Over the past week, I've changed some graphics around and added a few new CGI scripts and some Flash tweaks. Particularly, I'm adding counters to the pages. Why, after running this site for two years, am I just now putting counters in? Well, the server we were on last month had trackers in the administration pannels, but the new server doesn't have that CGI, and I don't have the money to buy the script to install on this server, so I'm resorting to a simple but nifty counter script. Also, sometime in the next couple weeks, I'll be setting up a mailing list script to distribute a newsletter. The CGI is in place for it, just gotta get the bugs worked out. More to come later in the week.
10/21/02: Just like I said, I put up the live video files for the 999 Gods songs Awakening and Get Out. They are from the show we did at Labyrinth back in June. The files are currently MPEG's. I tried converting them to Divx to make them smaller, but the plugin isn't working properly. If anyone can convert the files to Divx for me, I'll give you a free copy of the 999 Gods album, and also include a pre-release copy of the new Utopia Project album, Explosive Reactions, which is going to be officially available on Halloween.
10/15/02: There are four pictures from the 999 Gods show at the Labyrinth that I hacked out of a couple bad video files. The video files are supposed to be full songs, but both of them stop playing after 22 seconds. I'll call about having them remade tommorow, so hopefully they'll be online soon.
10/09/02: All MP3s are back online. The Utopia Project page has been updated with info on the new album, Explosive Reactions, to be released on Halloween 2002. Also, all old Utopia Project songs have been taken offline and replaced with MP3s from the new album.
10/08/02: An error moving the server wiped out all the MP3's on the site. I should have the 188 Megs of files back up by tommorow.
10/06/02: Justin has cleaned up versions of several Alien Conspiracy Theory songs. If we get the OK from the band, there will be more previews up. In the meantime, you can hear an older demo of the song, Intentions, in the flash intro to their site.
10/04/02: Utopia Project's third album is nearing completion. This means a new layout and brand new MP3's. This album has been produced and mixed the hell out of since the release of Digital Mental Violater on last New Years. It is a whole lot heavier, faster, harder, cleaner and more trippy than all previous End of Time releases. A lot of synths, guitar, and classical instruments, and complex drum beats from Hell! It will be between 17 and 20 tracks long, being around 70 minutes. Stay tuned for further details.
10/02/02: Spud has returned from his national tour, and we may be reforming AfterBirth, between everyones working schedules.
September 2002 (2 Posts)
09/18/02: Mass Hysteria's Bob Simpson and Justin will be working together on a new project codenamed The Schwarznegger for now. Justin will be doing samples and keyboards, Bob will be doing vocals, and both will be doing drums. This project may be on hold from release for a short while to research the legallities of this project.
09/08/02: Five Star Records will be releasing a upcoming local band compilation. It will either be a Guns N Roses Tribute album, or just a local band sampler CD, but we will be submitting a few songs from different groups for people to hear. More information on this can be found at the Five Star Records page in the links section.
