Hey Hivers!
We just had a cracker of a weekend! It all started with the announcement that we had won the SCIFI.Finance creative contest with our original song and video. What came next was an explosion of many of our favorite gems, a sea of green like those found on Kepler-186f (we think that has to do with some kind of crazy algae they have there. Makes for a super interesting NEIPA they produce). Some of our favorite components of Rocket Fuel really went flying over the weekend, and that always puts one in a celebratory mood! In particular, SPICE, went absolute bonkers. If you refer back to our post from the middle of last week, we had given a brief introduction to the SCIFI / SPICE mission, and since then we've seen a meteoric rise in the price of SPICE, which is showing signs of only being the beginning.
How did we celebrate? The only way we know how, music and beer. We started with our next batch of Moon Juice, which we actually began brewing in the Beer crater on Earth's moon. Yup we're about to blow your mind.. there is an actual Beer crater on the moon, and we brew Moon Juice in it! Beer is a relatively small lunar impact crater located on the Mare Imbrium, to the east of the crater Timocharis. It was named after German astronomer Wilhelm W. Beer. Google it (By the way, we need a decentralized search engine protocol. Let's get on that HIVE).
Here is a little photo of our current operation that we've set up over the weekend for all of you lazy bums who can't look through a telescope:
In between brewing cycles, we also found the time to work on some new music! And what's in the works right now is straight fire. Our Hive song is coming along nicely, the instrumental is more or less finished, and the text is currently in the works. We already came up with a nice catchy chorus and it will definitely be a galactic ear worm! The verses still need work on style and focus, since there are many different directions we can go with HIVE. Is our tone that of resistance to centralized media? Or is it of inclusion and positivity of decentralization? While they go hand in hand, the tone of lyrical prose really has a profound effect on the feeling of a song. Right now, the song has a feeling of something from MUSE, which is putting us into the resistance category, but we are still not 100% sold.
But truthfully, while the HIVE song is going great, it was an absolute hilarious experience that we had on Tatooine that changed the course of our weekend. Yes people... Tatooine exists. Some of the stuff from the Star Wars franchise is utter non-sense, but Tatooine is a real place and honestly, they did an excellent job of depicting the culture of that planet in the films. It's a grimy place, filled with swindlers and degenerates... beautiful really. We have been going for years to sell beer and get ourselves into trouble. It's like Amsterdam in the middle of the desert (Vegas is too artificial to compare).
One of our mates, Gryszte, owns a nightclub on Tatooine. Wild nights can be had there and honestly it's one of the best places to meet some company for the night. DJ's are some of the best in the galaxy, and rumor has it they're actually starting to bring some DJs from Earth in for the weekend. Crazy really, never thought we'd see the day! (To be honest, at first we hated the idea, because we are normally the only Earthlings kicking around Tatooine. Leave it to tourism to F that up for us). But on Saturday, we were absolutely torching the dance floor when this DJ lost his wits. Not sure what happened, must have been overdoing it with the hyper (space amphetamines that make ours seem like Ether), but this guy just loses it. Beat is out of time even for Tatooine. The groove was lost. The audience was completely disconnected, kind of like being at an Alt-J show.
That's when it happened, MoonBois had to rescue the party. We jumped up onto the stage and got right to it. What came out of the speakers was the Funk. There were some Jawas in the audience that absolutely lost their scraps. This little guy comes crawling up on the stage, takes the mic and proceeds to Scat the roof off the place. It was Jawa Jazz...
The next morning, when we somehow found our wits, we remembered what had happened. In a Tenacious D like moment, we couldn't remember exactly how the song came together, but there are bits and pieces that remain engrained in our minds. We immediately went into our little recording spot on Tatooine and tried to get back into the zone... We're pretty certain in the next few days we will be able to release a nice track that we call Tatooine Funk / Jawa Jazz. It's a barnstormer...