Saturday, October 6, 2018

On Playing In Front Of Rouses Market On Carrolton Street

I watched the Instagram video. I had no idea it was like twenty seconds long and didn't have any of the sarcastic lyrics that I remember doing...

The security guard guy, who, perhaps unwittingly posted the most dismal 20 seconds of what had originally been about six minutes, recorded of what I thought jumped out of the Lennon song into something more interesting, was well meaning.
But, that being said and: How are you not gonna tell someone when he might want to wipe the coffee stains off the corners of his mouth before he lets someone, excuse me, zoom in on his shit? being asked; He is a very nice guy and portrays a nice picture of New Orleans through the whole of his Instagram.


But, one of his other videos is an equally brief one of chickens being rotated over a heat source.
"I'm gonna put this on my Instagram, to show that they've been cooking all day.." he is heard to say on that one.
and teams, not team, mind you. To a search engine 
Click here to hear: A Video of Me Shot By The Security Guy At Rouses Market 

Having learned from mistakes made in the past might have led me to at least watch this video all the way through before putting it here. But, here it is, from about 3 months ago, now.

But, it was late in the evening and the security guy saw the guitar on my back and asked me if he could shoot a video.
I really wish I had done one of my original songs, so that the almost two hundred people that have watched it so far would have gotten more than just a cover of a John Lennon tune.

"I just found the next Willie Nelson," was the caption on the thing which I was unable to "embed" here, most likely because it has a "script" on it and Blogger does not allow the placing of scripts in blog posts, in case they are malicious in any way.

Speaking of which, if this blog is indeed "loaded with malware," as Alex in California claims then, I would suspect the "free" mp3 hosting website called Kiwi6 as being a culprit.

"There is nothing free in this world," my father used to say and, by linking to my songs on that site, it may allow Kiwi6 to put in their own two cents by foisting ads upon visitors to the site.

Most people have their browsers set to block ads and such, but maybe Kiwi6 is able to embed some little code into the song itself. I am pretty sure that they have been around long enough and are reputable enough so that they aren't spreading malware.

Still, I am about to investigate Soundcloud as a possible alternative to Kiwi6. I almost feel bad because I have been with them almost ten years, since the time when they only hosted mp3 format files. Now I can post "flac" fully loss-less files for better quality, but have to deal with blog readers being subject to whatever "infected" Alex in California's computer. Now, if I wanted to start paying a few bucks a month to upgrade to a "paid" account on Kiwi6, then I think that might solve the "malware" problem.

But, there is always Soundcloud, recommended by Tim, my caseworker. Who knows how they monetize their "free hosting" enterprise...

Putting it up as a video with just a still photo showing is not the best thing as far as sound quality is concerned, according to Jacob Scardino, who is twenty years old and hence was born with a joystick in his hand, and would know such things.


1 comment:

  1. Proof a large part of the population has a tin ear.

    Ew. Just. Ew.

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