Brothers and sisters! We are excited to present our latest JBPWAVE VINYL CAMPAIGN UPDATE! (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/akira-the-don-jordan-peterson-jbpwave-vinyl#/)
GOOD NEWS!
The first test pressings have landed!
Test pressings are the part of the vinyl production process where the pressing plant makes a gang of - you guessed it! - test pressings, to make sure everything sounds as amazing as it is supposed to.
Here's something crazy. These first test pressings are for the Be A Plumber 7"... Be A Plumber, of course, is the first official Meaningwave song ever released. And the week these test pressings arrived was exactly 4 years after we first released that song.
What do I always say about synchronicities, and how they're signs from the almighty that you're on the path...?
Incredible.
As you know, due to Tom Hanks Disease Related disruptions to the legal immigration system, my family and I were forced to leave the US at very short notice, with just a few suitcases, and are currently marooned in an Air B and B in Mexico, without access to my studio or a record player. Therefore we have a team of TRUSTED EXPERTS in Texas and North Wales who will be testing the vinyl for us, and I shall be delivering their findings shortly.
SPEAKING OF TOM HANKS DISEASE RELATED DISRUPTION!
We have confirmed that there is indeed currently a global vinyl supply chain disruption underway, which has pushed ALL international vinyl production back months. After learning of the delays from our manufacturer over the past month, we looked into potentially switching suppliers, but after investigating pressing plants across the world, we have confirmed that the issues are affecting the entire global vinyl production chain, and therefore switching suppliers at this stage would only delay the process further.
Current delivery estimates have us shipping the finished vinyl to your blessed door this winter.
Stay tuned for updates as soon as we have them!
The good news is we had our orders in before the supply chain issues kicked in, so we are at the front of the queue, and the process is moving, as we've recieved those first test presses.
Meanwhile!
All Monoliths have been fullfilled!
I hope you're enjoying them! Please send us your pics of how you're integrating your epic JBPWAVE Meaningwave Monoliths into your surroundings!
I sure miss mine!
In other news, as a thank you for your continued support, we've just mailed a special advance copy of the next Meaningwave single to all backers. It was recorded right here in Don Studios Playa Del Carmen, and you can even hear the lizards chirping in the background if you listen closely.
I hope you enjoy it, and thank you again for your support, and understanding, as we surpass all obstacles in our way, by Jove!
LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
AKIRA, Charlotte and Hercules, Don Studios Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, July 2021
Timelapse of me drawing my new avatar
Tools: Procreate on iPad with Apple Pencil
Own the NFT at https://opensea.io/akirathedon !
BACK WITH ANOTHER BANGER FROM BERTON AND THE DON!
TELL THEM NOW!
With lyrics adapted from Berton Braley's poem of 100 years hence!
STREAM https://go.meaningwave.com/TELLTHEMNOW
Art by me!
Own the NFT! https://opensea.io/akirathedon
And we’re back with the Meaningwave Top 50 (https://go.meaningwave.com/MeaningwaveTop50)! Counting down the most streamed Meaningwave songs across DSPS from the month of September! We have a gang of new entries! Re-entries And one song that’s shot up a crazy 42 places!
Join us LIVE for the countdown now (https://linktw.in/ivUtbc), or if it’s not now, enjoy the full Meaningwave Video Chart Show at your leisure!
(https://linktw.in/ivUtbc)
Meanwhile, you can follow the official MEANINGWAVE TOP 50 playlist
(https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5UIGI0QaY5OUtlectWkd2H) on your streaming service of choice here.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MeaningwaveTop50)
PLUS! You can follow the BOTTOM 50 playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XjYmRnNGPwbN3FNa3JUyZ) the 50 LEAST streamed songs - here!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/BOTTOM50)
Speaking of which, I get messages all the time from people asking what streaming service to use to make sure we get paid the best. To be honest, they all pay so crazily ...
“When I make that error
When I let
Discipline down
There’s only one thing to do
And that’s
Get back on the path
Get back on it!”
(https://go.meaningwave.com/GETBACKONTHEPATH)
As some of you have noticed, I’ve been getting up at 4am for the past couple of weeks. This is antithetical to my usual mode of being, which would have me working until 4am. This goes back to when I was a child, and I’d stay up till 4 or 5 reading under my duvet with a lamp, then have to be kicked out of bed to go to school. Some of my earliest jobs involved having to get up at what I considered ungodly hours - my paper round when I was ten or so, and later my job at Boots The Chemist when I was 14, which had me rising in the dark and walking an hour to get to the job itself, all before the sun rose. I held negative associations with early rising, and so as soon as I had control of my schedule, I went right back into covert book mode and stayed up as late as I could and thus rose accordingly.
But on the rare occasions where ...
I worked in a bunch of factories when I was 16/17, after I'd left home.
Sauce factory. Cardboard box factory. Car door handle factory.
The former was the hardest because I was working in the freezers, packing bags of sauce for 12-hour shifts with nothing but local commercial radio and the speed-addled ramblings of my co-workers to entertain me.
The cardboard box factory was the most fun because I got to slide down this three-storey chute into a skip full of cardboard and jump up and down in it to squash the cardboard down. I'd always leave the place shredded with paper-cuts, but that made me feel like a warrior.
The car door handle factory was the worst because it was the most boring - literally just picking a spring out of a greasy bucket and jamming it into a wedge of plastic then passing it to the old lady to my right, for 12 hours, in a giant air-hangar looking-ass hall with a great big clock looming over us, that ticked with all the lugubrious lurching urgency of a ketamine zombie outside a ...
