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Here's a short clip of my first show, which was BRKfest 2012:

To prepare I put together a set of tracks I could sort of string together DJ-set like. I think I had maybe two pauses in the music. I have terrible stage fright so I didn't want to have to fill any silence with banter.  I practiced my set a bunch.

I did have a technical problem though. During the beginning of one of my 2xLSDJ songs one of the game boys froze and I could not get it to work.  I apologized and restarted the song.

I recommend bringing something to drink onstage (water, alcohol, whatev) because I didn't and I got very thirsty.

Overall I think it went well but it was a chip show and the crowd knew what to expect.

Are those vinyl records?

Try some hand-drawn waves.  I have a tutorial about it that might give you some ideas:

http://www.noisechannel.org/4515

Well, some people don't self-edit very well and just throw a bunch of random things on bandcamp as they do them.  Or some people release "a collection of chiptunes I've written over the past 3 years".  Or like Knife City's "Magfest Sucky EP" which was described as "here's a bunch of songs I'll probably never play live again" (or something like that).  (Not that I'm knocking that magfest sucky EP...there are some cool tracks on it.)

I was just beating the drum of Quality Control.

I like both EPs and albums.  I listen to music while I work so I can digest both, so attention span and time are not an issue to me.

Since Danimal specifically mentioned "Victory Lapse", I'll comment on that.  I really wanted that EP to be succinct, tight, sequenced nicely, and to leave an impression.  I basically wanted it to be like an album in miniature.  I had other tracks written for it that I did not include for various reasons.  Some of them weren't up to par and some of them just didn't fit with the vibe.  I'm happy with the results.

What I always look for in a release, be it EP or Album is a carefully curated set of tracks that feel right together.  If you have 3 tracks or 30 it doesn't matter, so long as they are high quality and flow nicely.

That being said, I am personally fond of EPs that feel like albums.  Things like Peer's "Dances" and Bit Shifter's "The Information Chase" feel like fully formed epics to me.

I'd like to write some really good music and play at least one live show. 

I also kind of want to do a chip soundtrack to a silent film, for some weird reason.

This is a nice idea.  I like the track + interview idea.  Looking forward to these!