Near future

Remixes, my future (post army) and Cantonment commercial release (soon).

Spent a chunk of last night working on my "homework" for the transition assistance program class I'm in this week. Getting out of the Army is a fabulous thing. But all of a sudden, one realizes, even if you stayed in your military career field, you'd take a pay cut. While I'm ok with taking a pay cut to go from 14-16 hours a day, 60 days a year in the field, 1 year in 2-3 deployed, etc, etc to 10 hours a day M-F. It does pay better to be a civilian in Iraq. Though it's a pain in the ass to get you and your equipment there. I'm so off track already...

Regardless. I'm down to about 6 1/2 months left in Korea. Then a few paychecks on terminal leave and after Dec 1st. I need to already have some kind of Seasonal job lined up, transitioning into part time while I'm in school. Probably back to the retail world for me for the time being. They don't really offer much in the way of my skill sets in part time jobs near Seattle bus routes. So, I'm feeling a tiny bit nervous. But worse come to worst, there's a variety of jobs I'm qualified for and I get a tiny advantage with veteran's preference. Namely government jobs. The closest non upper upper management ones are mostly TSA/DHS guys.

Otherwise, Surveying. Which might even be enjoyable in the PacNW weather. But that's all a moot point as I'll be in school starting in January with a 70% pay cut and 15% more bills.

Wow, so so far off track for the topic of this discussion.

The OTHER thing I was doing last night is the Klutæ - Desert Storm remix. I'm still working the song back together and messing with instruments. It's coming together though. Probably after tonight it'll be time to futz with it a bit. Though I'm going to be busy preparing and packing for my trip to the states. So it might be on hold.

I will have a couple non-consecutive days with my full studio set up during those two weeks. I'll be adding some spit-and-polish to the Cantonment tracks. After that, I'll be pushing a commercial release shortly thereafter. I'm still on the fence about remixes. I might just push those as freebies online later if anyone wants to do a remix. I'm not in the position to pay for them just yet...

So here's the list of upcoming goodies- -
KLUTÆ - Desert Storm [U-D-R] remix.
Frontal Boundary - Mental Illusion [U-D-R] remix (on his commercial release).
[U-D-R] - Cantonment Final Master and Retail availability.

I haven't decided the best route for a retail release, but I might go with a 1 shot iTunes (or multi digital distribution) release. ReverbNation has a pretty good ongoing deal with a monthly fee. But my finances are about to get pretty thin. Once I have access to my UPC or barcode thingy. I can self release the hardcopy CD myself for distribution. I do have a route for doing that, but it'll be up to what I can afford. Currently, there isn't much demand.

That being said, I'm in this for myself and my fans. I'm not planning on living off my music anytime soon, so I don't expect or anticipate a very profitable response from releasing Cantonment. But you never know what the future holds. Time for a serious indie promotion assault methinks.

"It'll cost ya good nuyen or two little puppy dogs.  Har har!"

Cheers,
-Anthony