Alchemist In The Evening Now Has it’s own Website

On Thursday night, after playing around with podPress, I re-edited the first ITE Episode into a podcast-like file, and punched it up onto the new site. And then on Friday I did two more, and by Saturday I had it DOWN and was a madman of mixing, uploading, and re-posting. And aside from one episode that’s being a BITCH to mix (I think one of the source files is fubar, so I have to find a new copy), all the archives are now available.

The only question that remains now is if I should crosspost the weekly episodes here or not. Thoughts from the peanut gallery?

I figured today would be a good day to do some work on Sonney.com. I wanted to clean up the sidebar a little, get the showtimes up, populate the event calendar, and a couple of other updates.

While I was in there, I figured I’d take a look at the new MultiSite Support – something that was a bit complicated in WordPress 2.x. It’s included by default in WordPress 3.x, and I wanted to give it a once-over. In a word: Nifty. It’s now REALLY easy to spin off additional sites on a single domain. They also did a really nice piece of work on the admin side, so that you can set “always on” plugins and everything. There is even a plugin for domain mapping, so you can map “external” domains to the spin-off site.

Well, I needed a site I could test it out with. I also need a site to do a proper podcast for Alchemist In The Evening. I think it took longer for DNS to propagate than it did  for me to get the actual wordpress instance up and running with podPress.

That being said, I’m working on the edits now to make each episode into a single mp3, and will start by trying to get at least one old episode a day re-mastered until I’m caught up. With any luck, you’ll be able to download and listen to the shows you missed very soon now.

More news, and a link when it’s fully up (and re-themed and all that jazz). Watch this space for updates….

This one, if you listen to it without my voiceovers, flows REALLY well from the mad, mad depressing up to a high energy point.

I would like to note that to me, The Ludovico Technique sounds a hell of a lot better in the studio than they did live.[1]

Thanks to Badger and Teighnted for parts of this week’s show. And, as always, thanks to Adam for the opportunity to have a show on the stream.

Welcome To My Nightmare – Victims In Ecstacy
Hurt – Johnny Cash
Sally’s Song – Amy Lee
People Are People – Depeche Mode
Fascination Street – The Cure
Wound – Velvet Acid Christ
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) – Marilyn Manson
Marionette – Dr. Steel
Hooker With A Penis – Tool
Make Me Wanna Die – The Pretty Reckless
Fully Alive – Flyleaf
Baby Got Back – Throwdown
Heal My Scars – The Ludovico Technique

[1] I feel the same about Melt-Banana, who I saw open for Tool in 2007. I suspect this is more a sound engineer failing than a band failing – having heard both bands live and recorded, it seemed that the sound board operator hadn’t balanced things properly for the acoustics of the space the bands were playing in.

I think I’m starting to get the hang of this these mixes. This week’s playlist for those who didn’t catch the show :

Out Of The Shadows – Gein And The Graverobbers
Metaphor – Spider Lilies
When You’re Evil – Voltaire
Fuck Me – KMFDM Vs. Pig
Sin – Nine Inch Nails
No New Tale To Tell – Love & Rockets
Indigo Children “JLE Dub Mix” – Puscifer
Cry Little Sister – Charlie Sexton
Where Boys Fear To Tread – Smashing Pumpkins
Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure
People Are Strange – Echo And The Bunnymen
I am Stretched on Your Grave – Sinead O’Connor
Lay Lady Lay – Ministry

Please click that link for Spider Lilies and check out the rest of their awesome music. And they kick ass live, so if they’re coming to your town, make sure you go see them!

I’m pretty pleased with this week’s show, and I hope everyone enjoyed it. Special thanks to Steve for helping with the music selection.

The Electric Hellfire Club – Halloween Theme
Disturbed – Shout2000
A Perfect Circle – Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums
System of a Down – Violent Pornography
Cibo Matto – The Candy Man
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat [1]
The Timelords – Doctorin’ the Tardis (12′) [2]
Ayria – Invicible (Cover Version From Pat Benatar)
Ghost Dance – Radar Love
Nomad Project AV – Feelings Hurt
The Sisters of Mercy – Dominion – Mother Russia
Peter Murphy, Trent Reznor, TV on the Radio – Bela Lugosi’s Dead (live)

[1] Requested by Mel Hynes of Two Lumps
[2] Dedicated to Elisabeth Sladen, AKA Sarah Jane Smith, who passed away last week

Next week I’ve got all kinds of cool stuff for you, so see you there at 8PM Eastern/5PM Pacific!

Spent the last few days decompressing, depressing, and getting the last bits of my last job out of my system. The worst part about this sort of thing isn’t what you did, but what you hadn’t done. Or wanted to do but were unable to do. The unfulfilled and the incomplete. Kind of like when you have a breakup, and you’ve got the things you should have said stuck in your head for a while.

I’ve also had to go through all that lovely paperwork with the ESC and the last of the end-of-job paperwork.

Thankfully, we had in invitation to visit Steve & Merrie for dinner and to borrow from the collection[1].

Dinner was awesome[2]. Thanks to Steve, I now have a very large quantity of music on loan. The box of music[3] I’m importing will keep the show fed for months. And as a bonus, the kids love the Invader Zim toys Steve and Merrie gifted to us.

We’re all very grateful – thanks!

[1] I would like to take a moment to point out that Steve doesn’t collect, so much as he curates. And it is an amazing and awesome collection of music, books, art and other things. I am honored to be able to borrow from it.

[2] If you are in or near Downtown Raleigh, Buku is absolutely AMAZING. Good beer selection, great food, fantastic service, and reasonable prices.

[3] No, really, a box. This is going to take WEEKS to finish importing and sorting this stuff. And the rarities! The hard to finds! The weird, random stuff! I am VERY lucky to be able to borrow these CDs.