I got Tomas’s CD the other day. We used to have a band together but he’s been doing a solo show since I left for Sydney last year. I won’t go into the details about how it sounds, but it’s good. A couple of the tracks have me on them and they’re very special indeed :) Anyhow I was completely blown away by the packaging: a folded fabric sleeve with random groovy sewing bits and printing on, plus a paper inner sleeve. Apparently it took his mum weeks to do the initial run of 100 on the sewing machine. Now I want to figure out an even cooler form of CD delivery for when I have enough recorded tracks of my own to have an album. My ideas so far are:

1. CDs projected via cannon from long range into people’s windows.
2. CDs baked into loaves of bread you buy at the shops.
3. CDs that are banana-flavoured so everyone will pay heaps of money for them.
4. Okay, basically I have no good ideas.

And another thing. I was at a seminar at Notre Dame this week and people started introducing themselves with first and second names. I guess it was so I could hear their whole name and know them from their research papers and general reputations. Personally though, I found it a bit rude. Like saying “Hi, do you know me? You should really know me. Here, have my business card. Now fuck off.” And I am still known as just plain Mark. I guess I’ll be able to spread my name around one day when I find a break in the conversation and actually get to say something.