Bluish Barn

[UPDATE: Now the links to ringtones below actually work.]

After going through the process of transferring a few custom ringtones to my fancy new phone, I decided to use this week’s Craft Night to make some original ringtones. I got some criticism from other attendees who did more traditional “crafts”: sewing, bookmaking, collage, etc. But whatever.

I made the ringtones by ‘recycling’ old demo recordings from my seven year old Songs for Dead Blondes project. Each is part of a D-side song from the SfDB batch, songs that got shelved and weren’t ever heard by anyone except my bandmates and very close friends. I’m happy to give them new life as ringtones whose occasional off rhythms and bad notes impart a sort of human quality to such an over-digitized format. Take a listen:

These are instrumentals:

they’ve taught you well
post-whatever
weatherman
one size fits all
oh tempora oh
they’ve taught you well
hands to yourself
last one
today
today 2

These have vocals:

next please
something new
hands to yourself 2
next please 2
she’s not sleeping 2
she’s not sleeping
they’ve taught you well 2
want and will abuse

If you’re interested in having any of these bits as your ringtone (and you have a phone that can do that kind of thing), just right-click and ‘Save As’ to download and go from there.

The only stipulations are that you must use the ringtone for at least one week and that before you get rid of it (after you get sick of it or whenever) you must give it to somebody else. You could give it to as many people as you want and try to propagate it. (Good luck.) Or you could give it to one other person, with the stipulation that they give it to one other person after they’re done with it and so on, like a chain letter in the possession of only one person at a time.

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