We recently hooked up with the marketing director over at Griffin Technology and he kicked us down a box of goodies! I’ve been checking out some of their stuff this week, like the iTalk and lapel mic. Its really weird hearing sound coming out of the iPod through the little speaker. I’m thinking I’ll use it to quickly capture lyrical ideas when I’m on the move. I used to use a cassette...

We just uploaded our 2nd Chillin’ with Lovespirals podcast tonight, wherein we talk about our involvement with the Pink Floyd fan tribute, None of Us is Pink. This time around we spent just a little under 10 minutes talking, but who knows how long the next one will be? We’re thinking we’ll be doing them once every 2 weeks, but that could change if things are more or less exciting, I suppose....

Wow I feel like such a geek right now. I just upgraded iPodder and am downloading the new episode of TWIT (This Week in Tech), plus I’m using the newly installed MacFLAC to decode a few bootleg tape trader files, and I’m getting ready to encode our latest podcast from AIF to mp3 (whilst I blog, of course). Oh, and I just got a big box of goodies from Griffin (Derrick is da man!) and so I’ve...

So I had thought we’d do a weekly podcast, but Ryan’s thinking we’ll do an every other weekly podcast. What’s the technical term for that, anyway? The first one was released on a Wednesday. I wonder if we should stick with the “humpday” release date? Some people say we’re “babymaking music” so I guess that’s kinda cute. Sheesh, what station was it that...

I can hardly believe I faxed the RIAA today. I felt all creepy doing it. Even though I’m a recording artist, I feel that most of what they’ve been doing is largely misguided and wrong. I guess I think of them as “evil.” But I do want to get ISRC codes for our songs so that BMI can track our royalties. We don’t get tons, but it’s nice to get checks now and again from radio...

Now it’s time to get our artwork and packaging together for the new CD. It was difficult getting all the lyrics into the last one, even with the extra panel. I don’t think we’ll be able to print them inside this time. I’m thinking about creating a PDF file that folks can download off the site to either read on their computers or print. Of course, the lyrics will be on the site, too. I...

Lovespirals have contributed a lovely cover of Pink Floyd’s 1969 song, “Cymbaline,” to None of Us is Pink, a massive 3-CD tribute assembled by fansite/forum, Neptune Pink Floyd. Billed “The world’s greatest and largest international collaboration to make a Pink Floyd Tribute CD, by fans for fans” this downloadable collection of 49 tracks was lovingly assembled, mastered, and...

Sheesh! I am constantly amazed by how creepy some people can be. I was following up on an email from a band name registry site, and discovered that this ahole had registered Love Spirals Downwards as his band that he’d “begun in 1998″, with his homepage link and “record label” listed. Why would someone do something so stupid? Boggles the mind…

Finally got around to ordering Griffin’s turntable interface for Final Vinyl. I had used FV before to grab some stuff off the tape deck, but now I’m grabbing stuff from the 1200, which is really weird. The first album I converted to mp3 was some tracks from The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie. I don’t mind hearing the record static on that album at all. Just keeps the 60′s vibe. It is really...

Wow. I really like how the site looks now with the extra box for the podcast. The page is finally balanced out just right. Before we had a blank space just waiting to be filled. I guess I could standardize all our feed tags at some point, though… It seems there really are no web “standards” at this point, just the unspoken rule that they should be orange. I read about this new CSS way of making...