The Light of Day

First reflections on the “fame” post
KeithHandy posted in Business on June 14th, 2007

I need to write this follow-up because I don’t want this site to hang on a downer for too long.

I’m not really retracting what I said. On re-reading it, I do think I covered the bases and backed up the emotional aspect of it with some meaningful analysis, on both ends of the fame-obscurity spectrum. One person’s daring confession is often no big deal to everybody else. It was a little uncomfortable to write, though, and in the end I felt more raw than cleansed. As in, this is something I need to do something about. For real.

What I was most afraid of was that it would sound like I’m begging for attention, and maybe I am. On the other hand, I want to contribute something to the world, and it’s hard for that to happen if the world is already saturated with what I’m offering.

Because my attention is split between not one, not two, but several album projects, it’s a challenge to get any one of them in the can for an official release. (This includes things that were at one point finished, but found their way into the remix queue.) So perhaps instead of waiting until one is finished before submitting it to something like Magnatune, I should put together a relatively quick “best of” type compilation album. The material for it would have to meet two criteria:

• Be really, really, really good.
• Be done. As in, now.

I think this is do-able. Certainly not an enormous investment of time, money, or energy (apart from what’s already been invested, which I’m just “sitting on”). I’ll meditate on possible titles. Something a little more clever than “best of” or “greatest hits”, obviously, but still making it clear that these are windows to a larger pool of material. Of course there are already a shitload of clever titles out there, but either you’re going to be among the clever, or less clever, so you might as well be in the “among” group.