Must Be Tuesday

I'm a singer-songwriter from Edmonton, Alberta. I write songs about zombies, video games, love, being trans, being polyamorous, and being a generally awkward person. I've been compared with Kimya Dawson, Dar Williams, Tim Minchin, and the Buffy musical. My album, Cover Me I'm Going In, is available on iTunes! I'm also a voice actor on the podcasts The Strange Case of Starship Iris, What's the Frequency, and Misadventure by Death. 

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Episode 3.08 "Rejoice" is live!

Summary: The aftermath.

Available wherever you get your podcasts, or right here.

Transcript here

This episode features—

Rae Tay as Juniper

Rukhmani K Desai as Sana Tripathi

Bri LeFever as Krejjh

Jamie Price as Brian Jeeter

Cindy Chu as Violet Liu

Ishani Kanetkar as Arkady Patel

Vrai Kaiser as Thasia

Jackie Andrews as RJ McCabe

Chris Choi as Jin Seon Park

William Mericle as Chuck Weathers

Julia Morizawa as Piper

Lucille Valentine as Kestrel

Jerron Bacat as Samuel Diaz

Asha Lloyd as Roz Kirkpatrick

Written by Jessica Best

Directed by Lauren Grace Thompson

Production Coordinator Eleanor Hyde

Sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner

Opening credits music is “Fear for the Storm” by Jessica Best and S.E. Winters, performed by Chiron Star with Erin Bauman on vocals and harmonies arranged by Jamie Price.

“Going to Fall” is written and performed by Tail Light Rebellion. It was exclusively created for The Strange Case of Starship Iris, and will be the lead single off their upcoming album.

The closing credits music is “Rocket Science” by Amber Devereux of Tin Can Audio

This has been The Strange Case of Starship Iris. Thanks for listening.

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I just think Brian is having a nice time on goat planet is all :))

WIP sketch under the cut

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Wow this is so lovely! Brian with his pink shorts and oxygen tank and a bun in his hair, making breakfast, with probably goat noises in the background 😄 Really excellently done, it makes me happy!

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Shout out to Brian Jeeter for being the transmasc linguist representation I needed during my first year of my linguistics degree(when I was first having my gender crisis). I’m graduated now and 9 months on T :)

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OMG this is lovely ❤

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Tags via @thevoicefromthestars : #.....i don't think this is spoilers considering everything else i've ever done on this tumblr and jess i'm sorry if this was a secret but: #WE'RE BACK BABY #and also: #pray for me #YA GIRL IS ALREADY TIRED #(what you can't see on this schedule is my 8-5 day job) #(or the 10+ hour/week evening/weekend nonprofit job) #someone send coffee and also possibly a time machine #also ALSO i did have a solo recording in late july #but it's different to record with other people!! #i had a moment today where i could FEEL arkady's reaction happening to another character and it was great #i have missed working with my rumor crew a whole heck of a lot #tscosi #ishani speaks

Hooray! I'm recording all this week too! I'm so excited!! (But I don't have a 9-5 job) I've missed everyone a lot!! 😀

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Just gave a list of recommendations for books and podcasts to my mom who was looking for something other than TV shows to listen to, and I realized that every one of them had female main characters. And most of them were queer!

It may not seem like much, but younger me would be so happy that we have so many female role models in our media now, and that we have more positive w/w relationships to look up to

It's the little things, ya know?

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I just released a song on Bandcamp! It's called Don't Look At The Sun, and it's a joke song that's meant to sound like it could either be about having a lovely summer in the nice hot weather, or about the world ending by way of the Earth crashing into the Sun! Folky and chill with a cool Rhodes piano and acoustic guitar.

There are two versions, both the same except that the first track has screaming between 1:52 to 2:07 (some kids I recorded who were playing at the local pool, but very creepy with the reverb added!) and the second track does not have screaming.

Let me know what you think!

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I've finished a new song and posted the mp3 and wav a week early for Patrons!

Edit: Looks like the link didn't work the way I expected it to (usually I do a link post and paste the link in, but it didn't work this time?) so here it is in plain text! https://www.patreon.com/posts/dont-look-at-sun-89481968

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I've finished a new song and posted the mp3 and wav a week early for Patrons!

Edit: Looks like the link didn't work the way I expected it to (usually I do a link post and paste the link in, but it didn't work this time?) so here it is in plain text! https://www.patreon.com/posts/dont-look-at-sun-89481968

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Potential for Anything - rock version | Patreon

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I just posted on Patreon about the rock remix I'm doing of the chiptunes-style song I did for the Strawberry Jam game jam. :) I like when beepboops and real drums go together!

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I just posted a demo of my song Lockdown on Patreon, with just me singing and playing an acoustic guitar. I was surprised to hear how different the timings were between this and the finished version!

Here is the patreon post:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/lockdown-demo-87099064

And here is the finished version of the song:

https://mustbetuesday.bandcamp.com/track/lockdown

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Don't Look at the Sun - demo vocals | Patreon

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My latest patreon post is about how I recorded some vocals for a song, and then listened to it months later and realized I was in choir mode at the time and have to redo it lol

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Leave a Message Anyway - in progress demo | Patreon

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I just posted a demo of Leave a Message anyway on Patreon. It's an older song of mine which was in my Fringe Festival musical My Boyfriend's Girlfriend in 2016. It's got a new country arrangement with quick, lively, twangy guitar. It's about being an introvert who's bad at talking on the phone but wanting to hear from people anyway. <3

"I'm an awkward person, you probably figured out. Talking makes me nervous and I can't handle a crowd. You have to give me warning if you wanna meet outside, or I'll say I'm sick or just pretend I've died..."

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Jessica Best | creating a sci-fi audio drama | Patreon

If you follow me, you may be interested in following the Patreon of The Strange Case of Starship Iris (@iriscasefiles). That's the science fiction podcast in which I play Brian Jeeter. From the official description:

"In 2189, Earth narrowly won a war against extraterrestrials, but at a tremendous price. Two years later, in a distant patch of space, a mysterious explosion kills nearly the entire crew of the science vessel Starship Iris. The only survivor is Violet Liu, an intrepid, sarcastic, terrified biologist.

[...] The Strange Case of Starship Iris is a show about outer space, survival, espionage, resistance, identity, friendship, found family, romance, and secrets. (Also, there’s jokes.)"

I love working on this show, and we're going to start recording season 3 soon! I'm so excited! Oh and I occasionally get to do some singing on it. :D

If you become a patron, you get access to writings about the universe of Starship Iris that don't fit into the show, or that give extra background about the characters, plus interviews with various cast and crew. Check it out! :D

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Lover Not a Fighter - all instruments demo | Patreon

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On Patreon, I just posted a demo of the song Lover Not a Fighter, which is eventually going to switch back and forth between rock and synth instruments but right now is a jumble of all the instruments piled on top of each other lol! The song includes the line "I've worked hard for my comfort zone / and I'm never gonna leave on my own."

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‎The Land Whale Murders: Trailer -- Feed a Fever Starve an Artist on Apple Podcasts

‎Show The Land Whale Murders, Ep Trailer -- Feed a Fever Starve an Artist - May 17, 2023

There's a new trailer for the upcoming season of a podcast I have a small part in, The Land Whale Murders. 😀   Described as "The Land Whale Murders is a fast paced alternate history comedy in the spirit of Mel Brooks and Monty Python; a true delight for history nerds, science geeks, and anyone who ever wanted to stand up for what was right even when they were very bad at doing it."

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Good Guys, by Must Be Tuesday

track by Must Be Tuesday

I've just released a new song on Bandcamp! It's called Good Guys and it's about how destructive superheroes can be, sometimes blowing up entire cities while fighting the bad guys.

I wrote it years ago (I think after watching Batman Begins? Or it could have been one of the Avengers) and I'm super happy to have a recording of it now! It's comedy surf rock and it's got a great groove!

I did all the mixing and mastering myself and I'm a bit nervous about it, so please let me know what you think!

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New Song - Good Guys - Early Access | Patreon

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I've just posted my new song, Good Guys (a surf rock song about superheroes being more trouble than they're worth) on Patreon, with WAV and MP3 download links, a week earlier than anywhere else.  :)