The TOUR DE HANK!!!

2009-11-07 · announcement · Hank · 3:53 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Personal life) · mode: Announcements · tags: self promotion, song or performance, community lore

Filming on his new Motorola Droid, Hank answers viewer questions about pre-ordering This Machine Pwns n00bs (guitar picks, shipping, shirts, iTunes, buying at shows) and announces his Tour de Hank, which will not reach Canada.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Filming on his phone: the battered old phone retires; Hank's new Motorola Droid

• ★★ Filming on his phone, Hank shows his worn-out old phone (broken 8 button, missing pieces; it survived a pool and his car roof) and says it is retiring for recycling. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Hank now has a Motorola Droid, with 3G, a touchscreen and a 5-megapixel camera, which came out the day before; he is stupidly excited, like Christmas morning. — 00:00:00

00:00:32 — Tour next week teased; viewer questions on This Machine Pwns n00bs: guitar pick, shipping, bundle shirts, iTunes and November 16 release, buying the CD at tour shows

• ★ Hank says he may review the phone later. (hedged) — 00:00:32
• ★★★ Hank says he is going on tour next week (week of 9 November 2009) and admits it is lame that he has not talked about it yet. — 00:00:32 · Tour de Hank
• ★★ Answering whether an order gets a guitar pick, Hank says any pre-order, bundle or CD alone, gets a free signed pick. — 00:00:32
• ★★ Hank urges pre-ordering the CD because it helps Alan at DFTBA headquarters package and ship everything on time, which makes Alan's life easier. — 00:01:01 · Alan Lastufka, DFTBA Records
• ★★ Asked whether they ship to a viewer's country, Hank says they ship everywhere there are people. (playful) — 00:01:01 · DFTBA Records
• ★★ Hank says small and medium album bundles are sold out, large to extra-extra-large remain, and they may reprint the shirts but have not decided. (hedged) — 00:01:31
• ★★★ The album will be on iTunes alongside its physical release on November 16. — 00:01:31
• ★★ Hank says people coming to his tour stops (San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle) probably should not order the CD, since he will reach them first; they can buy it there. (hedged) — 00:02:00 · Tour de Hank, Los Angeles

00:02:29 — Tour de Hank: Nerdfighter gatherings are some of his best days; graphic of tour stops; a video per location to come

• ★★★ Hank says Nerdfighter gatherings have been some of the best days of his life. — 00:02:29 · Nerdfighteria
• ★★★ Hank hopes everyone near the tour stops will come and share the experience with him. (hedged) — 00:02:29 · Tour de Hank
• ★★★ Hank shows a graphic of the tour stops and says he will make a video for each location with details of the shows. — 00:02:29 · Tour de Hank

00:02:58 — Song: sorry, Canada (not on the tour); sign-off

• ★★ In a song Hank apologises to Canada: the tour is not going there because the forms and taxes make it hard; Vancouver was close but did not happen. (playful) — 00:02:58 · Canada

Threads in this video

• told · Hank replaces his worn-out phone with a Motorola Droid (2009) — Hank retires his battered three-year-old phone and gets a Motorola Droid, on which he films this video. (00:00:00)
• announced · Tour de Hank: Hank's tour of shows and Nerdfighter gatherings (2009) — Hank announces he is going on tour next week (week of 9 November 2009), shows a graphic of the stops (San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle) and says it will not go to Canada. (00:00:32)
• progress update · Hank: include a signed guitar pick in every This Machine Pwns n00bs pre-order (2009) — Hank confirms every pre-order, bundle or CD alone, gets a free signed guitar pick. (00:01:01)
• reminder · John asks Nerdfighters to pre-order Hank's album This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009) — Hank urges viewers to pre-order the CD so Alan at DFTBA can ship everything on time. (00:01:01)
• progress update · Hank: put out another album, This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009) — Hank says the album will be on iTunes with a physical release on November 16. (00:01:31)
• asked · Hank invites Nerdfighters near his tour stops to the Tour de Hank shows (November 2009) — Hank invites Nerdfighters near his tour stops to come to the shows and gatherings. (00:02:29)
• promised · Hank: make a video for each Tour de Hank location with show details (2009) — Hank commits to making a video for each tour location with details of the shows. (00:02:29)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• Hank invites Nerdfighters near his tour stops to the Tour de Hank shows (November 2009) — invitation (not a request); last: reminder, 2009-11-18
• Hank: make a video for each Tour de Hank location with show details (2009) — open (updates through 2009, not reported done); last: progress update, 2009-11-18
• Hank: include a signed guitar pick in every This Machine Pwns n00bs pre-order (2009) — open (updates through 2009, not reported done); last: progress update, 2009-11-07
• Hank: put out another album, This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009) — kept
• Tour de Hank: Hank's tour of shows and Nerdfighter gatherings (2009) — last documented in 2009; last: looked back, 2009-12-02 (said on 2009-12-03, implied)
• Hank replaces his worn-out phone with a Motorola Droid (2009) — told 1×; last: mentioned, 2019-12-27

Mentioned

Central: This Machine Pwns n00bs (album) · Tour de Hank

Also: People: Alan Lastufka

Projects: DFTBA Records

Places: Canada · Los Angeles · Phoenix, Arizona · Portland, Oregon · San Diego · San Francisco · Seattle · Vancouver

Products: iTunes · Motorola Droid

Also centred on This Machine Pwns n00bs (album): Balloon Boy: A Short Song · This Machine Pwns n00bs! · Please Buy My Album (A Song / Medley) · Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition · Crazy Man is Crazy (with SEATTLE INFO!!) · This Machine Pwns n00bs Video LP

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