Podcast to iTunes... the Devil's Details

Google would have you believe that you need to use burnfeeder to submit a podcast to iTunes. But you don't. In fact, burn feeder doesn't give you diddly squat for error messages. Google just wants you to use all of their products so they can munch and sell even more of your data.

I am going to eventually do that Zenophonic podcast. That one where I will have all my friends on it, too. I'll be giving new artists a chance and of course pimping my own ride.

But. If you have soundcloud it's pretty easy, breezy, beautiful to submit a podcast. And guess what, you don't need burnfeeder. Google soundcloud and iTunes podcast. It's under settings--> content. You will also want to tag each soundcloud upload as available via RSS. That's under metadata.

That's finally done. W00t.

It will be tomorrow before I can look myself up but I will post the link in here retroactively.

Wh00p wh00p. Better late than never.

Zenophonic Podcast

    I'm finally getting a podcast submitted to iTunes. It's called Zenophonic. After the record label I will start one day. I could have called this podcast Zenith but then it would be weird inviting friends to play on it. It's going to have deep tech house, deep techno, and anything else that is interesting. I'm leaving it open.

    In order to publish a podcast to iTunes, i needed to make an image for the channel cover art. Here it is. i am *not*, i repeat *not* a graphic designer. This is a nice start. If you have any thoughts/suggestions... Please send them to me :-)

First Release on Eats Everything & Nick Harris's new label Edible

So here's the first release on the new label Edible founded by Eats Everything and Nick Harris. Dinner is served :-)

Zenith - That Boom 31 Okt 2015 ZENR #004

Apartment Hunting in Berlin

It's completely mental. This woman tried to scam me. At the top of wg-gesucht it says don't ever do a wire transfer! She asked me to do a wire transfer without seeing the apartment. i'd have to be a moron to do that! of course she stripped out the ad number to make it hard to complain about her. She asked for a wire transfer from a family member to me as a guarantee.

All one needs is a good fake ID & a name to put on it & poofy money stolen. She kept e-mailing, too. She said you can trust me. If it *was* actually a woman. Number one red flag someone is lying???: Trust me

 The good news is I have another affordable apartment lined up. I see it tonight. The guy seems really eager. This new one is only for a month but I am going to focus all my energy on a permanent apartment for October on wards.

This is the first month I am really really going after it. Before I was avoiding it a little to the last minute. I have had some great deals but I move too frequently. if i wanted to lay down serious $$ then i could have an apartment tomorrow. but i don't.

Don't get me wrong. I love living in this city a lot. I have some cool new lady friends. My music is coming along. It's wild what one has to go through to stay here. Luckily I'm still paying less than half the rent of my SF apartment after 9 years rent control. Apparently a recent study ranked SF as the 3rd most expensive city in the *world*.

Funny I posted about this on face borg & some person from SF said... I have a friend living in Berlin & she doesn't like it either! wh-what? I <3 it.  Just because life here has challenges doesn't mean it isn't good. Everything in life that is worth it is worth hard work. It's a wonderful city. Everyone wants to live here. So do I. </rant>

Elektron Analog 4

A really cool friend of mine recommended this synthesizer to me. I want to kiss him although I won't. He's sweet & happily married. Which is his charm. 

But back to this synthesizer. I had one in the US but you couldn't do anything like what you can do with this. There's all sorts of free sounds & patches & kits.

If you look in the lower right those black & white buttons actually represent an octave. This isn't supposed to be a full on keyboard type of synth. This is something that's much more for grooves & sequences... It's a great electronic music maker. The best part is it's so compact.

This little guy is a game changer for me. 

What can I say? I love my life :-)

My new wheels

Since man invented the wheel, a pair or set of wheels has represented freedom, fun, and dare i say... a little bit of cool factor?

I happily gave up my vehicle when i left the US. We had lovely memories. I drove across country in her. As a 1998, between the maintenance costs & the occasional $63 street cleaning ticket & insurance... I thought at times I might choke.

A girl needs her wheels though. So I introduce to you my new baby. I didn't realize I was going out to the burbs of Berlin & it would take over 2.5 hours to ride her home, 3 if you include me getting a little lost (thank you apple maps for that road that doesn't exist anymore). She was well worth it.