If I wasn't wearing my old shitty 'only in the house' jumper I'd have made this my professional picture for kazoo playing.
I wrote a newsletter today that will be published on Saturday when I have time to advertise it while I am sat in my office recording the podcast. The main gist of the newsletter is another drive for donations via the PayPal button as I can't afford as yet to crack on with several projects and this is the only barrier to getting on with it. Ideally I would be able to draw a wage from the PayPal account which would enable me to focus on the things that take up the most time, such as Moonage Daydream for example. This is obviously a long way off but I can dream and in the meantime I will plough on with the day job, which to be fair is where I get a lot of ideas for things to do when I get home. Within the newsletter (I will mention it properly on Saturday but there's fuck all else to write about today) I aim to use my love of the kazoo to my advantage by offering a videoed kazoo cover version in return for donations. I have set this prize as a special privilege for donations of £10 or over for a few reasons; first of all I assume that this won't be something that people fall over themselves to get on board with, secondly if it is a huge success then I will be able to afford to get on with making films and stuff but ironically I won't have time because I will be too busy recording kazoo videos to do any proper work. Maybe this is my key to fame and fortune, it's about time the world had a professional kazoo player and I could take show business by storm. I would love to either be able to afford to risk the money or find someone rich and daft enough to back me to hire out an arena to stage a one man kazoo recital. I have the equipment at home to record an album of tracks to attempt to sell as a download so maybe there is another possibility.
One of the reasons I started writing a daily blog was to assist me as a writer by throwing something down to wake up my brain. Something else that happened as a happy accident is that I inspire myself into ideas that do eventually get fleshed out into feasible projects, in fact a couple of blogs have formed the basis of short films that still haven't seen the light of day so please consider that and maybe drop a few coins in my electronic hat. Even as I am writing this blog (you don't need convincing that I am making it up as I go along with nothing planned in advance) another idea has just come to me, a Christmas album. A Kazoo Christmas With Steve Oliver is a good title but I have time to work on it, so now all I need is a few songs. I can see the album cover now, me sitting on a rocking chair in front of a roaring fire with a Christmas tree in shot and I am wearing a Christmas jumper with maybe a glass of sherry in my hand. Now that I have written this I have forgotten what I was supposed to be doing.
The Sunday Alternative Podcast #43 (Saturday edition) is available from here.
The Sunday Alternative Podcast #44 is available from here.
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June housekeeping
The audio book of Bowie Day (a short story inspired by A Christmas Carol) will be released on August 31st. In the meantime the book can be downloaded to your Kindle from here.
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