Alright Audio Drama Sunday, what do we have going on right now?
Over on inc this week we dropped an episode of Hotel Daydream, that’s an awesome show people should go and check out. There’s more coming the next two Mondays.
We’re also hard at work on inc season 3, we’ve got 5 scripts done and we’re trying to do this thing where we actually have the scripts finished before we start the season this time.
On Tales recently we had a string of swaps with a bunch of lovely show. We’re also in auditions for our next story there. It’s this year’s Halloween special about a woman who finds a skeleton slowly appearing in her basement. I have some posts about it out there in the world. More info here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kj0-L0LyO7Gye3ypI69FeGssVOEhoph0QOpO7vDTfqA/edit
I don’t talk about it a lot but I actually love the audition and casting process. We don’t do open auditions too often since we have a lot of great people we love to work with, but when I get to run auditions it’s always such a treat. Who’s out there now? How are the people I already know going to surprise me? What possibilities are here that I didn’t see before I heard this monologue this way? The puzzle of finding the best person from the pool is a joy too. Very excited about what we’ve heard so far and what we’ll be hearing by the end of the week.
I’ve also been composing some music for another creator’s upcoming show. That’s been a lot of fun. I make a lot of the music for inc and some of the music for Tales (Pure Humanity’s theme, The Book of Ezekiel Bradshaw, The City Unending). One of Alexander’s students gave a big compliment to the inc music recently. Music’s not always supposed to be noticed, and it felt nice that someone did.
Hmmm what else. I put a bunch of scripts up on our website. Not all of them yet it’s a work in progress. Now people get to see how differently Alexander and do formatting. Press kits are there too now, also a work in progress especially for all the seasons of Tales. Do I think people will be clicking on those? Well, no. But they are there.
We’re tabling at a small convention here in Omaha next month, which means I’ve been dropping cash on things like “business cards,” and “branded table runners.” Graphic design is, after all, my passion. We also have the tape player with samples of all our shows for people to listen to. That’s right, I get to watch someone experience Genuine Radio is real time.
The convention happens in an old mostly-dead mall that I grew up going to. I love an old mostly-dead mall that I grew up going to.
Now what have I been enjoying lately?
I finished up season one of The Harbingers. I’m interested is seeing where season two goes and how they choose to frame it. Will it be in retrospect again or something else?
I’m caught up on Towers Anthology. The longer we get from TAFCON the less I remember what the next two parts are about and the more I get to be surprised by them.
I’m caught up on Our Wars Have Ended. It’s nice to have a series I’m following along with. Something to look forward to. I usually listen to this one on my longer droves between here and Des Moines I make for work.
I’m chipping away at Metropolis. I came to listen to a big beautiful city where something is wrong and by god I’m getting it.
I’m waiting to start Something’s Amiss at Juniper’s House because I’ve heard good things from people with good taste and it also has the word house in the title and that covers most of my favorite things I’ve consumed this year (looking at you House of Leaves and Haunting of Hill House).
I’ve been enjoying the choose your own adventure posts that itme! Has been putting out. The tension! The gut-drops every couple of sentences! The possibly unreliable narrator who is also me and all the other voters! A highlight of my before bed routine. I’d put it above brushing my teeth.
Onto books! I read Moonflow by Bitter Karella. Psychedelic mushroom cosmic horror? Sure, I’m sold. Characters named Skillet and The Hell Slut. Please please I already bought the book. It’s fun. It’s splatter punk. It has a fat trans woman as the lead and she has a cat named Herman. Would recommend.
I’ve started Dungeon Crawler Carl and… guys you’re really going to have to sell me on continuing this one. I’m enjoying the dopamine hit of loot boxes existing and basically nothing else.
In Bunny New they continue to be cute.
Alright I’m done typing here’s some pictures.
