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October 10, 2005
PLANS AND DESIGNS
I seem to be well over the worst now. Not contagious, able to breath (rather handy, really!) and itching to get back to work. I have spent the last week or so figuring out a bunch of stuff on the computer which will enable me to get even more confused than I do already! So watch out - DVD's have been ripped, HTML has been written, Flash has been created .... oh yes indeed - I really am headed for a whole new world of hurt!! But first - I get well, and our new Web Guru Allison goes down with a similar illness. Poor girl is now laid up in bed, suffering like I was. So no huge changes until she gets herself better. Rest up Allison ..... Chicken Noodle Soup and NO COMPUTERS!!!
So - Camp Freddy have a couple of shows looming. Both seem to be corporate affairs, but rest assured that mucho pics, hopefully a vid clip or two, and a full report will be on this site as soon as they have happened. One is in LA and one is in Vegas - and it will be SO good to get to playing again. Dave and Carmen rocked the house on CFR this week (thanks guys) and I will for sure be back on the air this coming Saturday.
What else? Well, its back to the Pilates tomorrow - cant wait. Feel like I have totally had to let that shit slide while I have been sick. So its back to the regime tomorrow. And I finally started to finish off some stuff I had knocking about on the computer from before I got sick. A cue or two for the Bonaduce program (are you watching that? Its insane!!!) and also the track from Tripping Forward - the movie I did earlier in the year. I have also begun doing some work on a few songs that have absolutely nothing to do with any of the projects that I am involved in right now. I have this mad plan to have an area on this site that is a complete project area (with a name, logo etc) that is completely free, new music. Basically, I am fed up with being creative and battling the business, so I figure just put the songs up for download. For free. And thats that. So while I will still be involved in the business of Camp Freddy (and any other band I might be doing), I get to make music and give it away. What do you think? Its just an idea right now, but it could be cool. This will be the only place the songs will be available. We'll see.
Alec - NICE guitar dude. Yer makin me jealous!! Better call up Navarro and hassle him!!
Jay - The live Nirvana has not been rocked yet, as I wasnt there last week. But its on the playlist for this coming Saturday, along with the promised shout out.
Tina - I will be searching for Trailor Park Boys as soon as I have posted this. Sounds perfect for me.
D-Wez - Yep. Thats me next to Ozzy up at the house while they do their final X-Factor thing. That was a laugh a minute. He kept making me crack up and then they would get all annoyed and start telling us to stop laughing. I haven't seen it - anyone got a quicktime of that?
Mary - welcome to the blog. And FYI - it appears that NBC didnt run the Camp Freddy stuff at the weekend. Maybe they already ran it and we missed it. Somebody call NBC!!!
Lisa - I would love to help you with all that .... but I have no idea what you're talking about!! XML to RSS???? Anyone would think I have been sick and had time to learn a bunch of new shit about the internet!!! Seriously - I kinda understand, but not sure what you need. More explanation please.
OK - time to go. Thanks again for all the well wishes. I think they all filtered through the ether and found me, and dragged me out of my sickbed and into the land of the living again. I am gonna go sit and stare at the nightime LA skyline and ponder the possibilities of having an album, video, website, artwork, concept, book, film etc ...... all online, and all free. Seems like a good idea to me. And finally - if EVER there was a photograph that's ripe for you guys to come up with a caption for, its todays. When I was going through old Cult tour photo's, I came across this one, taken on the bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka in Japan. Now come on boys and girls - I know you can make me laugh.
Till next time -
Billy
Posted by vivelerock at October 10, 2005 07:39 PM
Comments
Nice to hear you're feeling better! The site looks great, the future of it sounds very interesting, and I love the Morrison Radio.
Question - how do you feel about Queens of the Stone Age? I can't get Lullabies to Paralyze out of my CD player.
And as far as a caption, the first thing that came to mind was the movie Airplane. Probably because of your friend's hat: "Surely, you can't be serious!" "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."
Posted by: Theresa at October 10, 2005 11:22 PM
yay glad to hear you are feeling better.
please post tons of pictures of both shows... did I mention I love pictures.
Anyhow I'm working on adding tags to all my pictures to make them easier to find and uploading some other stuff. Dude it's so time consuming and I’m only adding tags not designing a web site adding all this gnarly stuff to it, and flash and audio and whatnots. You and your new web guru Allison are very much appreciated.
ha I’m getting tired just thinking about all the stuff you guys are doing...
as for a caption
“dude who is flying the plane”
oh yeah last thing if you guys ever need an extra free photographer which I’m sure you don’t cough… cough… cough
I think I might have slightly over did it with my "dudes" today :D. nite
Posted by: wendybird at October 11, 2005 02:18 AM
oh yeah I almost forgot. hope you feel better soon Allison
Posted by: wendybird at October 11, 2005 02:19 AM
Glad to hear that you are feeling better.
Caption..."Billy(D),I thought you packed the Dunks!"
Is that Mike behind you? How is he doing?
SSS
PS-not sure if it is just me, but the pics don't come up in the archives????
Posted by: Sweet Soul Sister at October 11, 2005 03:35 AM
Billy , I am so glad you are feeling better. Camp Freddy radio is no good without you.
I am thrilled about you puttiing new songs here for download.squee!The site looks great.You know what everyone here is great.
Posted by: Terri at October 11, 2005 05:21 AM
Billy, so happy you're feeling better. I love your ideas, making your own music, and putting it on here, wonderful! And free from the restraints of the biz too. I haven't stopped laughing at today's photo! :D
(What the heck is going on there?) 'Dude, who's flying the plane', Wendy that's got me laughing even more!!! Good one!
Billy: "Hey, that's my passport!"
Alright, well I don't know exactly what I was talking about either with the xml, rss stuff, that's why I asked.
Let me try to rephrase it.
You have 'syndicate this site [xml]' at the bottom of the right column. It goes to a page with what looks like code on it, which is xml (as far as I know). I have an area on my yahoo 360 that I can put 'feeds' in; or "share feeds". I'm supposed to put the address, and http:// address in the little rectangular box they've provided. Then your blog posts will show up in my yahoo 360, and should update when you post.
Yahoo has all these instructions, and they make no sense at all. Something about xml to rss. As far as I can make out, I should be able to put the url that is at the top of your xml (syndicate this site) page in my 'share feeds' and that's it.
But that didn't work. My mind is boggling, and it's supposed to be simple.
Well, I'll keep on it. Bug a few people on yahoo and such.
Loads of love, Lisa xxxx
Posted by: ylais at October 11, 2005 06:08 AM
Here's the link to my yahoo 360 page, so you can see what the heck I'm going on about.
The middle box that has "Feeds" as a header~
I've put the URL from your xml page, in there, but get no content.
Posted by: ylais at October 11, 2005 06:17 AM
Caption:
"Whaddya mean.. THIS guy is my Geisha????"
Posted by: Kate at October 11, 2005 08:25 AM
"This is a stick up. Gimme all your Sushi."
Posted by: beth at October 11, 2005 08:30 AM
And...
LOVE the idea of your own music w/out labels,tags, companies, agents out on your site.
So glad you are feeling better, and Allison, heal quickly.
Posted by: Kate at October 11, 2005 08:37 AM
aahh Lisa, I was just on your yahoo page and under Feeds, it shows today's pic with a few lines from billy's blog with a link that brings you back here, so it seems to be working.
Posted by: tina at October 11, 2005 08:46 AM
yo billy im at school right now hahah at the computer lanb have to go teacger is coming ahh!
Posted by: Anonymous at October 11, 2005 09:11 AM
"You didn't tell me he was doing my medical today!"
Happy feeling well day! Isn't it grand when you can taste your food again? Tastebuds...imagine.
I can empathize with how upsetting the music business is. Permit me to go on a rant.....In the 70's, the co's were still greedy, but they knew in order to keep making $$$, they had to invest in quality performers. Floyd had til their 5th album to get it right! Now, content is almost been completely forgotten about in favor of celebrity or mass production and the No. 1 hit. Sheer #'s. Of course there is good stuff out there, but it seems you have to go the alternative route to get to your audience instead of relying on your record company.
Then of course, when you become successful monetarily, the record co's come crawling to you, like they did to Ani Di Franco once her label starting taking off for her. Do what makes you feel the most comfortable so you don't have to keep suppressing your talent :D /rant
So corporate CF shows? lol.....
If the CA one is for Sundance, what's the Vegas gig for?
Posted by: Musemelodic at October 11, 2005 09:29 AM
Billy Glad to hear the hacking has ceased. Here is you caption" Whaddya' mean this is the train to HEAVEN, damn it,... i am gunna miss the party now"!
Posted by: Jilly at October 11, 2005 10:01 AM
Tina! Thank you for letting me know. :D I did re-enter the URL.
(wondering why I can't see it...must go check again)
*smooch*
Posted by: ylais at October 11, 2005 10:02 AM
rofl at all the captions...that medical one has got me thinking...I daren't even say what!!!
Posted by: ylais at October 11, 2005 10:03 AM
Billy,
I got the hook up for the LA gig next week, (my 6th show)and wanted to run a request by you. Some old school Van Halen to mix the set up a little. I'm imagining the grin on both you and Dave while playing the intro to "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" or "Atomic Punk" or whatever your favorite is.
Also, can you mention where the Vegas show "definitely will not be".
Posted by: Digger at October 11, 2005 11:05 AM
Caption: "Can you get me a suit just like his? Do you think I can pull it off"
I am loving your plans for the site, Billy! The concept of all Billy, all the time works for me!!! ;) Now...just add live, streaming video to the mix and it would be perfect!!! lol
So glad you're feeling better...have a good day!
Posted by: Cori at October 11, 2005 11:07 AM
my two cents: free stuff is the shit
my caption (and i cannot believe no one else has said this yet): "pull my finger"
Posted by: acacia at October 11, 2005 12:37 PM
Thought of another caption...."Did you hear that guys, he said there is a Starbuck's at the next stop!"
Posted by: Sweet Soul Sister at October 11, 2005 12:45 PM
Another Caption: " This guy thinks I can get him into the Corparate Camp Freddy Show next week....HAAAA!"
Posted by: Jilly at October 11, 2005 01:11 PM
Caption:
"This is a stick up!"
Posted by: ylais at October 11, 2005 01:12 PM
Well, I still can't see this blog on my yahoo 360 page no matter what browser I use. Must be some conflict between yahoo and Mac going on as usual.
Now I'll write an email to yahoo about it as usual.
Dum-de-dum...sauntering away...
Posted by: ylais at October 11, 2005 01:19 PM
Slaps head..Wait a minute..Beth already put "This is a stick up gimme all your sushi" apologies, sleepy after dinner.. okay...sauntering off again singing "Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so..."
Posted by: ylais at October 11, 2005 01:30 PM
Billy: He wants to search my what?????
Captain: Just one of the extra security services we offer...and the reason I love my job!!!
By the way....I'M BACK!!!! One week without internet at the "house of mouse" was almost more than I could bear. The boy had an excellent time, so it was worth it. But I missed you like mad. Sorry to see you've been ill, but glad you're feeling better.
~Bonita
Posted by: Bonita at October 11, 2005 02:43 PM
Have been a silent yet avid partaker of your site and can I just say LOVE YOUR WORK BILLY! We (your fans) appreciate it more than you know!
As for the caption:
'What the ....???'
Love and Kisses from Sydney, Australia xxxooo
Posted by: KCee at October 11, 2005 02:53 PM
well im done with school now so i can comment. glad to here you are feeling better. i love that guitar we called the radio show and i told Dave and we played Trees by Marty Casey but its not on the panic radio thing i dont know why. but im goin now play some guitar ok see ya. thank you!
Alec
Posted by: Alec from camp teddy at October 11, 2005 02:58 PM
High Billy.....glad ur feelin better.........
caption: "Hey, I bet this guy knows where we can skore sum drugz!"
Posted by: UncleCreepy at October 11, 2005 03:25 PM
Hey Billy, good to hear all is well.
Are you now a Bonaduce fan? That man is crazy. It just premiered here on VH1 and it is the most intense show. Half of me wants him to get on track and be the happy family man without the pills, alcohol, anger etc. while the other half of me wants him to totally break down but only because of the fact that it would make for some excellent television. But if I had to choose which one, I would have to go for the happy ending only because there are real people involved. Hopefully you understand what I mean...
Take care all...
Posted by: Simon at October 11, 2005 04:00 PM
GREAT idea Billy! A no pressure, no expectations, just doing what you love sort of deal.
So I've finally caught up with Lost (thank you Tivo!!) And I've been sorting through websites all day. Each one gives you another 10 links! I haven't even dived into the conspiracy theories, I read a few, but they get to be WAY too complicated!
Anyway, as for the caption (you can tell where my mind is): "Where's the tail of the plane?!?"
Posted by: Abby at October 11, 2005 09:46 PM
"What do you mean my tattoo really reads....Eat and Fongs.." :0
Posted by: sonicgeisha at October 12, 2005 12:16 AM
LOL sonic geisha!!! that's funny. (but what's a Fong? Oo) reminds me that one of my fave websites is
engrish.com
I was thinking of other things your tattoos could say Billy, but I think engrish.com can say it much better.
Posted by: ylais at October 12, 2005 07:19 AM
oopsy
late night posting ..
Eat At Fongs
Posted by: sonicgeisha at October 12, 2005 07:46 AM
One more caption:
"He wants to pierce me WHERE with that thing??"
Posted by: Kate at October 12, 2005 10:16 AM
(LOL!!! Kate)
Caption:
"That's one hell of a big nipple ring you got there!
Back off from my nipples!"
Posted by: ylais at October 12, 2005 11:15 AM
Caption:
"Wow! Is this where Scott Weiland gets his hats?!"
Posted by: ylais at October 12, 2005 11:21 AM
Billy, check your email. Auction issue. Thanks.
Posted by: Kate at October 12, 2005 03:18 PM
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY NOW!!!!! OCTOBER 13th!!!!
Posted by: ylais at October 12, 2005 05:02 PM
Hey Billy, loving the new flash works that are appearing on the site...
Posted by: Simon at October 12, 2005 06:52 PM
Happy birthday Lisa...
Posted by: Simon at October 12, 2005 06:53 PM
Billy thanks so much for the welcome!:)
i guess we missed the nbc thing ...hope somebody recorded it..guess we should call nbc yeah...
and plus i'd love to hear some camp freddy live songs and see some vids...;)
Glad your feeling better Billy!:)
Posted by: Mary at October 13, 2005 07:33 AM
Happy B-day Ylais!
Posted by: Kate at October 13, 2005 08:14 AM