Welcome back to the House of Cheese newsletter! Let's kick things off with this little number:
The Better Half and I were on holiday in Cancun a short while ago, for a glorious week of soaking up the sun and expanding our waistlines. During our visit, we took an excursion to an island off the coast, and there, while relaxing under the shade of coconut trees lining the boulevard, we spotted this mural and were left with way more questions than answers. Who is the singing guy? Does the fish have a name? What's their relationship? What's he doing to that fish?? Why is he holding it that way? Is he singing into it? Singing about it? Is the fish singing, too? Are they friends? Are they lovers? Are they going to kiss? Are they going to tongue?? Is this going to lead to an NC-17 rating? We never did find out the full scoop, mainly because we didn't bother to ask anyone, but if we ever go back, I'm definitely going to inquire, maybe...
Concerning Roadkill Puppy…
Didn't get much doodling done while wandering around the resort — sticky fingers and hands due to the unholy mix of sweat and sunscreen makes handling a paper sketchbook... problematic. I had better luck at the airport and on the plane... well, sort of:
Concerning Bud the Fish…
The past two weeks have been busy, with three new tracks completed and uploaded to YouTube and Instagram. Two were entries for the Koala Creative Community's weekly sample-flip challenge, and the third was a spur-of-the-moment ambient track created on Xynthesizr and the MicroFreak:
Bits and Bobs…
Substack has this Notes feature, which kinda acts like/operates like Twitter, or "X", or whatever the hell it's called this week. Anyway, I was looking at it as something I could share some daily doodles/comics/cartoons with; I would also like to share some of my music-making/art-making processes, some behind the scenes stuff. If daily is too gonzo a commitment, maybe weekly? I don't know, kinda curious if anyone would derive any value from it. If this is something you'd like to see, let me know and we can go from there.
On a related topic, the next newsletter goes out the 5th of September, then it switches to a monthly release. Kinda what I figured. Monthly is a little easier to manage on my part, but more importantly there's less "newsletter fatigue" on yours. Things around here don't change so often that anything more frequent than a monthly needs to go out the door, so for everyone's sanity, monthly it is! If you are a process junkie and need a HOC fix... well, then, maybe that’s an argument for daily/weekly Notes updates? Just sayin’...
That's all for now. Comments/gripes/etc., let me know...
Dan