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changes coming into effect from now until marchishish

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Okay!  joshuabelville.com has been registered and is now awaiting a large transferral of files.  So here’s a quick breakdown of what going to happen with that website and with this one:

1. Most importantly, the “music” portion of this website will be transferred to jb.com.  That includes the 12 EP Project as well as my free, internet-only album How I Remember You.  All music stuff will be located in the music.joshuabelville.com directory, EXCEPT FOR the 12 EP Project, which will be located at 12eps.joshuabelville.com (just because it looks prettier than music.joshuabelville.com/12eps/)

2.  joshuabelville.com will contain two main portions: acting and music.  It is my “professional” website, while zornog.net/.com/.org (I registered them all!) is my “personal” website.  jb.com will contain my acting resume and photos and headshots, and an EPK (that’s electronic press kit, not a fancy new pregnancy test) for my music.

3.  zornog.net will containg my writing (prose, poetry, etc) and my blog, and Test Comic and other nonsensical/silly stuff that I do.
3a. Unless someone decides to write something soon, I am ENDING the Trifecta blog.  It seems redundant if I’m the only one writing.  Plus it should be its own website, if anything.

I think that’s it.  Essentially, jb.com will be a sleeker, simpler site and zornog.net will just contain all of the junk that I like to do.

I don’t expect this to be a quick process, but I do expect it to happen in fits and bursts, probably on weekends.  So don’t freak out if something suddenly moves or disappears — chances are it’s probably on the other site.

Okay!  Thanks for following along, I hope this isn’t too confusing, and I hope you enjoy joshuabelville.com (when it goes live).

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hey there wordpress. looking sexy, i see

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I heard the hubbub over the new Wordpress design so I had to write a post to check it out.  Very sleek and round now.  I like how things are round on the internet these days (well, except Google Reader, I guess).

My job is pretty sweet.  My life is pretty sweet.  I can’t wait to get started on the Twelve EP project.  Ummm … I like a girl.  She likes me.  That’s pretty cool.

I guess I don’t have much to write about these days?  December is always such a slow month anyway.

One of these days I’ll write a proper entry!

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the twelve ep project

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I have, at this point, about thirty to forty songs that have been unreleased and generally not heard by anyone except FAWMers and 50/90ers (and some songs that haven’t been heard by anyone!).  So I thought that next year, 2009, I would come up with a year-long project, which I call the Twelve EP Project.  It’s not about selling EPs so much as it is coming up with a solid tracklist for a new album, which is why I need your help.

Here’s my plan.  On the third day of every month, I will release a new EP with three songs on it (three on three, if you will — a vague basketball reference perhaps?).  The EP will be free to stream, but if you would like to buy a high quality MP3 copy for yourself, it will cost about two bucks or so.  Nothing extravagant.  There will be official album art, done by myself and friends of mine, I hope, and that will all come with the album should you choose to buy it (maybe with some other goodies too, I haven’t decided).

But here’s the cool part.  I will also have a poll with each EP, which simply asks, Which song do you like the most?  You, the listener, get to choose your favorite song out of the three!  The idea being that by the end of the year, I will have twelve songs that you, the listener, really enjoy.  From that I will create a full-length album, and this one will be Official, meaning, iTunes/AmazonMP3 placement, actual physical CDs, maybe even a bit of touring.  The whole nine yards.

It effectively gives me a year to construct an album — with your help!  It’s a lot like Jonathan Coulton’s “Thing A Week” idea, really.  I guess I’m blatantly stealing it for my own good.

So!  January 3rd will be the first release.  Mark your calendars!  Tell your friends.  Construct a robot that travels the countryside!  Make a hot air balloon.  Purchase space on your local newspaper!  Throw things at people!  Do other things!

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what i’m doing this week, vol. 2

what i'm doing this week

I had originally planned on updating this weekly, but soon realized that sometimes, I just don’t have anything interesting going on.  Like, this past week was all applications, applications, applications, etc etc ad nauseum.

But today some really cool things happened.  First, I got a reply from these people, essentially casting me.  I’m not sure what the series is going to be about, or what I’m going to do, but if it’s TLC and it’s a crime series, I wager I’ll be selling kids drugs or something.  Excellent!  It’s on TLC for Chrissakes!  I could be on TLC.

I could be on national television.  That kicks ass.

And while I was perusing Craigslist I found an ad for a consortium of dancer/actor folks who were holding workshops for some future performance.  It’s all modern dance kinda stuff, and they were looking for “beginning dancers and actors who move” and I said, well, despite the fact that I sit at the computer all day lately, I am an actor who can move!  So I e-mailed them and expressed interest.  That’s Sunday afternoon.

So my schedule so far is:

Tomorrow — Go to Buffy rehearsal.  Have fun, something I’ve desperately needed all week.
Later, go see a play at Reed College with my friend Maarvi, who may or may not give me rice.  I hope she does.  I love rice.

Sunday — Go to the dancer workshop, get in the “zone,” dance and move around like a jackass, hopefully they’ll like me and invite me to more workshops, because eventually they pay, and I like pay.

Thanksgiving — probably eating peanut butter sandwiches with my brother and sister-in-law.  We’s poor!

The Future — Dec 1st, 2nd, 3rd are the days to shoot the TLC thing.  Again, what.  Crazy.  It’s crazy.

OH!  I almost forgot.  I’ll be playing in a Battle of the Bands contest on December 15th!  December 15th!  I don’t know when I go on (I get 45 minutes for my set) but the whole thing starts at 10pm.  If you are in the Portland area, for the love of god and all things holy, PLEASE COME AND SUPPORT ME.  I would be lying if I said I wasn’t scared out of my mind.  New city, nobody knows me, and I’m playing alone?!  Yipes!  Should be a blast, and I’m just hoping to get some new fans.

So that’s December 15th.  December 18th is the Buffy show, and January is rehearsals for Perfection, and February is the show itself.

The good news? I’m busy.  The bad news?  I’m not getting paid yet!  Argh!

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what i’m doing this week, part 1

what i'm doing this week

I’ve decided to start a new “feature” if you will on this blog, that I will call “What I’m Doing This Week.”  It’s partially an update to you, the gentle reader, but it’s also a selfish motivation on my part.  Why’s that?  Well, I can’t write about what I’m doing this week if I’m not actually doing anything.  This motivates me to do stuff, so that I have something to write about.  And it makes you happy because you get to read about me failing at stuff, and nothing is more entertaining to read than people failing at stuff.

Hey, before I begin though, just a quick favor to ask: if you like reading this blog, or going to my website, or maybe thinking of horrible jokes about me and my ridiculously orange hair, then I suggest you subscribe to my blog feed.  That way you can keep up with my posts, and I can get a semi-accurate number of how many people are reading.  And more people reading makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.  Like when an alligator eats a bear cub.

There are currently two links to subscribe: one next to my blog title up top and one below it.  The former one kinda sucks, so I suggest you use the one below it.  It has a handy drop down menu, allowing you to choose what you want to save the feed with (like Google Reader, Blogger, something else owned by Google, etc).  Subscribing to blog feeds is essentially going to run newspapers into the ground, and I for one say good riddance!  The world needs more trees, less paper.

My site has been getting more hits/pageviews this month than ever before, and I love it, but I always want more.  I’m like Hungry Mungry.  You know what I’m talking about.  Shel Silverstein?  Anyone?  Come on, don’t be douches here, everyone knows who Shel Silverstein is.  Wrote A Boy Named Sue?  Anyone?  A Boy Named Sue?  Only one of the most famous Johnny Cash songs ever?  … Okay, Ring of Fire is probably more famous, you’re right, but still.  It’s about a boy whose name is Sue!  That’s kinda funny, right?

Anyway, Hungry Mungry.  Come on now.

What I’m Doing This Week!  READ ON!

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