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    The Bold and The Terrible: How To Become a Superstar With Just an iPad, $60, and Two Weeks
    The Bold and The Terrible: How To Become a Superstar With Just an iPad, $60, and Two Weeks
    The Bold and The Terrible: How To Become a Superstar With Just an iPad, $60, and Two Weeks
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    The Bold and The Terrible: How To Become a Superstar With Just an iPad, $60, and Two Weeks

    By Bunny Ultramod

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    Included are the following essays:

    Post-Scarcity Superstar: Creating music in a world where there is an infinite amount of free music.

    Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: How to make your own goddamn music and why nobody can stop you

    Two Weeks to An Album: How we did it, how you can do it too, why people will hate you for it, and why you should do it anyway

    Be Terrible: Sometimes the best thing you can do is be the worst you can be

    The iPad: The Ultimate Decadent Instrument: The dubious pleasures of making music on a device that is so unforgivably artificial

    On Being a Superstar: Notes, and warnings, on the nature of fame, and how to enjoy it if it happens to you

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBunny Ultramod
    Release dateApr 23, 2011
    ISBN9781458086174
    The Bold and The Terrible: How To Become a Superstar With Just an iPad, $60, and Two Weeks
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    Bunny Ultramod

    Bunny Ultramod, AKA Max Sparber, is an arts journalist and playwright from Minneapolis. He is also a member of the punk pop band The Ultramods.

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      The Bold and The Terrible - Bunny Ultramod

      THE BOLD AND THE TERRIBLE

      HOW TO BECOME A SUPERSTAR WITH JUST AN IPAD, SIXTY DOLLARS, AND TWO WEEKS

      By Bunny Ultramod

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Bunny Ultramod

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of these authors.

      CONTENTS

      POST-SCARCITY SUPERSTAR: Creating music in a world where there is an infinite amount of free music.

      FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL: How to make your own goddamn music and why nobody can stop you

      TWO WEEKS TO AN ALBUM: How we did it, how you can do it too, why people will hate you for it, and why you should do it anyway

      BE TERRIBLE: Sometimes the best thing you can do is be the worst you can be

      THE IPAD: THE ULTIMATE DECADENT INSTRUMENT: The dubious pleasures of making music on a device that is so unforgivably artificial

      ON BEING A SUPERSTAR: Notes, and warnings, on the nature of fame, and how to enjoy it if it happens to you

      POST-SCARCITY SUPERSTAR

      WE ULTRAMODS like living in this future of ours. We didn't get everything we were hoping for — there's a scene in Logan's Run in which Michael York pushes a few dials on a machine and a nearby transporter brings him Jenny Agutter, who just shows up randomly, presumably for sex, like a Chat Roulette where the people actually appear in your living room. We're not in that future. But we have two-way telephones. We have Star Trek-style communicators that facilitate our conversations by beaming them back and forth to satellites. The whole world is now connected by a vast, decentralized electronic network, which contains almost all the world's knowledge, and most of us can access it any time we want.

      And, frankly, if you spend a few hours on Chat Roulette, you're going to be glad these people aren't just beaming into your living room.

      A side-effect of this is that, in terms of many popular arts, we're now living in a post-scarcity world. Like futuristic Madonnas, we are, every one of us, post-scarcity girls.

      What does this mean? Well, it means that things that once were scarce are now cheap and instantly available. There was a time, and some of you are old enough to remember it, when being a fan of film was hard work. You would compile lists of movie recommendations, and you would go through TV Guide every Sunday to see if anything from your lists was playing on late-night television that week. You would haunt second-run and revival house theaters. But, if you missed a showing of a certain film, it might be years before you could see it again, if ever. Even when videotapes became widely available, and studios dumped most of their backlog onto tape, it was still awesomely hard to track down many films. I you were really dedicated, you could spent $20 and get an illegally duplicated third-generation dub off television on grainy VHS. DVDs and Amazon.com made it easier and cheaper. And now?

      We're reaching a sort of signularity, when every movie ever made has been digitized and put online for free viewing. Or, at least, every movie that still exists — there will be

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