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Journal Entry 10: Growing a Beard While Using The New Buma​/​Stemra Website

by Moon Moon Moon

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btw Buma/Stemra is this thing that collects money on behalf of the artists for like copyright and stuff.

Someday on my deathbed I’ll fly through my memories
of breakups, friends, late nights and Christmas with the family

Days at theme parks, concerts with the band and swimming pools, skyping with Mark Benis and the birth of my nephew

But an amount will be staring at my laptop screen
Waiting for the Buma/Stemra website to load and me
Growing a long beard
Losing all my hair
Turning into a skeleton sitting in my office chair

I mean I get it, and I forgive you, making websites isn’t easy
Even when you’re a big company with lots of money

But I’m just not sure, that I get it. Releasing a half working thing
a week before all artists get their composer share money in their bank

And not having any idea whether the amount that they got makes sense at all
because half of the information that they’ve filled in over the years can’t be found anymore

And let’s say a fictional band called Sun Sun Sun only got 300 euros even though they played a lot of shows
but there’s no way of knowing whether this is all or that they will get some more

Opening the website there’s a pretty ok design. The blue feels kind of outdated but who cares it works just fine.

Trying then to log in I’m waiting for 30 secs. I’m not sure what’s taking so long there are hardly any images, mostly text.

So 1 out of 5 stars for the speed, and 2 for how it looks
But at least that picture of Lange Frans holding a mic is gone for good

Then 6 years later… meanwhile having two kids and 1 divorce, the page is finally loaded and that is where the trouble starts

ok, B/S, it’s kind of a mess, but I don’t want to bring you down. I only want what’s best for you and everyone around.

So I went to Google and believe me I have found
Some good website design studios for you to check out.

Level Level is a company based in Rotterdam, they get quite
a lot of 5 stars from almost everyone, the website is level-level.com

There’s this other one called Moburst from Amsterdam
They are kind focussed on mobile apps but the Buma/Stemra app on the app store only gets 2 stars, maybe it’s cool to improve on that

Going down the list there’s Wirelab, they look good to me from where I stand, but I like cool motion graphics and stuff like that
but it might not be something for you I guess

so I also found something called PingOnline they’ve worked for KPN, and their work looks fine
but there are millions of others that could help you with your website

A lot of this just stems
From disappointment I guess
We were gonna use all that money to buy cool costumes for the band
Imagine us in overalls
Dressed up like cute small forest animals

Now all that we could afford on bax-shop.nl
Are new strings for our guitars and this tiny little bell

“tring tring”

Someone said that if I’d release this
I might find a horse’s head
staring at me later tonight when I pull up the covers of my bed

I don’t believe that, I think you are good
And I am happy we’re together
Nobody is perfect but I do think that you could do just a little better

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Moon Moon Moon Utrecht, Netherlands

Since recording under the moniker Moon Moon Moon, Mark Lohmann has been known for his bold, endlessly witty, and shockingly sincere bedroom folk. Initially, Lohmann’s homespun songs channeled feelings of alienation and desire in abstract fashion, drawing comparisons to artists such as Phil Elverum, Sufjan Stevens, Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith. ... more

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