Author: Jody Whitesides

Looks like the cover shoot will happen on Sunday. All the fun will be then, but until that happens, feed on this:

I’m mentioned in the latest Sennheiser Press Release along with Sugarcult!! Read on and check it out. I’m very flattered.

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMIMEDIATE RELEASE

SENNHEISER OPENS ON-LINE LOUNGE
TRUESOUND LOUNGE OFFERS UNIQUE ON-LINE DESTINATION

June 2004 ‘ Old Lyme, Connecticut ‘ Sennheiser, the acknowledged world leader in headphones for home and professional audio and A-V systems, has opened a unique on-line web destination. The Sennheiser TrueSound Lounge is now live at www.truesoundlounge.com, providing web-surfers an entertaining selection of fresh, innovative new music from Sennheiser-supported emerging artists like Sugarcult and Jody Whitesides, and fun, quick-witted web-video shorts from top commercial filmmakers and producers, fruits of the Sennheiser Invitational Film Project. Of course, the lounge also offers concise info on Sennheiser¹s unequalled selection of personal-listening products for home, portable, and wireless enjoyment of music, home-theater, and A-V entertainment, while conveying the firm¹s dedication to the “true
sounds” of music and movies.

Sennheiser conceived the TrueSound Lounge in collaboration with web-savvy marketing agency MARC/USA of Chicago, to help raise brand-awareness here in the U.S. of the German firm¹s globally respected products. The “micro-site” will host visitors invited by an engaging and amusing series of pop-ups, also created by Marc/USA, slated to appear on leading home-entertainment product research and AV-buff destinations, beginning in May 2004.

The Flash-based micro-site features advanced design using highly interactive features such as clickless, “PointRoll” technology that make in-depth enjoyment virtually effortless. Visitors will explore the Lounge¹s Film and Audio rooms checking out the music and video offerings, and may then roll over to the Headphone and Heritage rooms to investigate Sennheiser¹s products and history. Throughout, the TrueSound Lounge¹s animated graphics and voice-over dialogs will appeal to the young, hip, music- and movie-savvy visitors the firm expects to make the trip.

The Sennheiser TrueSound Lounge is currently live and on-line.

About Sennheiser

Established in 1945 in Wedemark, Germany, Sennheiser is the acknowledged world leader in microphone technology, RF-wireless and infrared sound transmission, headphone-transducer technology, and, most recently, the development of active noise-cancellation. Sennheiser Electronic Corporation is the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, with headquarters in Old Lyme,
Connecticut.

For additional information about Sennheiser, visit www.sennheiserusa.com.

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The cover art concepts have been approved, the photo shoot gear has been arranged and now we’re attempting how to figure out pulling it off to be believable. Stay tuned on that. But I dare say it’s a funny but effective cover design.

The next step is to figure out how to go on the audio side. I’m thinking it will be SACD and a DVD. That way I can still get the surround sound mixes to you but keep the video content on the DVD at a higher quality. SACD is a pretty neat format. Allows you to play the standard audio in a CD player, but if you have an SACD player you can hear the surround sound mixes.

In another website advance, the quotes have been tweaked, now much easier for me to add them into rotation when I get them, and also now formatted so that their easier to read and easier for you to tell who said them. Ah the wonders of modern technology. Also making it’s debut is the new and improved e-mail signup form. To get all the latest J-Dubya news delivered to your door all ya do is add your e-mail address into the form above.

In the mean time… Go Karl Malone, help the Lakers get you that championship ring you so deserve!

Little changes are creeping up on the site. if you’ve been repeated browsing in over the past week you’ve probably noticed minor revisions going on with the site. The format is evolving into something a little less ordinary and hopefully more fun.

The website will undergo a major facelift on the release date of Practical Insanity. I won’t be giving sneak peeks it will just happen: BANG! new look to the site. All to make it tie in better with the new release. So while the content is being tweaked right now you can keep browsing in, checking out songs, and seeing little things changing. Don’t be shocked when the new look happens. It will be cool.

In that vein, I should be seeing the concept of the cover art to Practical Insanity later tonight. I’m excited. It’s all coming together now.

Keep tuning in.