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Spring 2010 Choose Your Own Adventure Shebang
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RandomAnthony
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Feb 21, 2010 06:51AM
Thoughts? I'll organize if no one else wants to organize, but if someone else wants to organize, I don't mind not organizing.
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RA, you're funny: I don't mind not organizing is like an algebra equation. I have to cross out the negatives to see what you really mean.
I mind organizing, I don't mind organizing, I mind not organizing, I don't mind not organizing. *spins*
I don't mind not organizing not organizing organizing:)!!!
I don't mind a lot of things.!!!
Hey, Ficus, I'm the only one here who pays any attention to you at all!
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Ficus needs some intellectual stimulation once in a while -- just like the rest of us.
I'm ready! But I don't have any theme ideas. I need to be guided and inspired.
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Count me in, whatever we end up doing. :)
But each Shebanger should decide their own theme, regardless of seasons; I, for one, can't ever seem to come up with a seasonal theme for my mixes, so I tend to do something more obscure that's fun for me to do.
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I was just hoping for complete diversity in the mixes this time - sometimes they seem to overlap. But I'm probably, totally bowing out on this one seeing as how I'll be pushing a human through my loins round bout time for mailing these puppies.
I might be up for it again, if it isn't spring themed. We done that.
I'll participate but does the sound of guitars, drums, amps, and microphones kicked down a few flights of stairs qualify as a "theme"?
What if we had a common theme again, but it was one that was wide open to interpretation, like"New ____"
You could go with New York, or new year, or songs that are newly on your radar, or new songs by old favorites, or any one of a million things, but there is still a common thread.
I like a common thread that's open to interpretation. I need guidance.
I'm in! This would be a first for me. Where are the rules?
I like that idea, Sarah. We could even have theme options...New ____
Old ____
Quiet ____
Loud _____
With an option for a person to make her/his own theme, of course, right?
I already have a theme in mind. I'm going guitar-free this mix. Nothing with guitars.
I'll participate but does the sound of guitars, drums, amps, and microphones kicked down a few flights of stairs qualify as a "theme"?HELL YEAH IT DOES!!!
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Ok...commit by March first...does that sound good? When's that? Monday? Who's in?Gretchen
Jackie
Gus
Zen
Possibly in
Sarah Pi
Sally
Clark
Heidi
Umm, hoping not to sound stupid, but what is the shebang? Is it a music mix?
That's what it is, Y. RA or someone will describe the simple process for doing the exchange for the benefit of the newer arrivals.
Whoo! Good delegation, Larry!:)Yes...say ten people are in the exchange, YC. You send the organizer 9 copies of your mix CD (with cover art, playlist, etc.) and a self-addressed stamped envelope with some postage on it. Then the organizer makes sure everyone gets everyone else's CDs, etc. and sends them back.
Did I say that right? Anyone have anything to add?
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I do not remember. But it was a good reason.
Sally wrote: "I did? But why?"Because you don't like the term "mix" I think, Sally.
Even though most here will hate anything I come up with, I'm in.
But I can almost guarantee it will be filled with stuff you've never heard before.
Except for maybe KD and Gus...
But I can almost guarantee it will be filled with stuff you've never heard before.
Except for maybe KD and Gus...
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You all will hate my musical taste because it is completely above/beyond you...
You've never heard of any of the bands I listen to because I'm just that much cooler.
Well, except for these two dudes. They're super cool, like me, so they might know some of the super obscure bands that I like.
Whatcha sayin', Clark? You'll not listen to anyone else's mixes because they'll sound like radio scraps to you?
Sally wrote: "I hate that kind of sentiment.
You all will hate my musical taste because it is completely above/beyond you...
You've never heard of any of the bands I listen to because I'm just that much coole..."
That wasn't how I meant it. I help moderate over at Rateyourmusic.com and was involved in several exchanges over there. My mixes were universally met with the sound of crickets chirping.
Cool? Hardly. I think I bought two albums during the 90's - "Definitely Maybe" by Oasis and "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell" by Social Distortion. I haven't progressed beyond, oh, 1988. Anything I buy is either a compilation or rereleased albums from the 70's or 80's appended with bonus material. Or throwbacks to the 70's or 80's. Stuck in the past...hold all calls.
As for radio scraps, please bear in mind I grew up in the 70's, a time when we figured music couldn't get any worse. So much for prescience...
You all will hate my musical taste because it is completely above/beyond you...
You've never heard of any of the bands I listen to because I'm just that much coole..."
That wasn't how I meant it. I help moderate over at Rateyourmusic.com and was involved in several exchanges over there. My mixes were universally met with the sound of crickets chirping.
Cool? Hardly. I think I bought two albums during the 90's - "Definitely Maybe" by Oasis and "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell" by Social Distortion. I haven't progressed beyond, oh, 1988. Anything I buy is either a compilation or rereleased albums from the 70's or 80's appended with bonus material. Or throwbacks to the 70's or 80's. Stuck in the past...hold all calls.
As for radio scraps, please bear in mind I grew up in the 70's, a time when we figured music couldn't get any worse. So much for prescience...
Maybe you're making mixes for you instead of your listeners?I think some of my tastes are obscure, but when I make a mix for others, I try to ask "what music can I turn them on to that they might actually seek out or play again in the future?" It's ok to be obscure so you're not just giving them stuff they already have, but I don't see the point of wasting ten CDs if I don't think anyone will actually like the songs on the mix.
Clark, you've put up tons of awesome looking albums and playlists. New York Dolls & Bowie & Rancid & Katrina & the Waves, and it sounds like you have lots of obscure B sides and stuff.
But whatever...
Sarah Pi wrote: "Maybe you're making mixes for you instead of your listeners?
I think some of my tastes are obscure, but when I make a mix for others, I try to ask "what music can I turn them on to that they might ..."
Guilty as charged of trying to push my tastes on others and trying to convince them my past was better than theirs. Call me "hopeless," but there's still something about hooks and verse-chorus-verse that punches all the neurons, obscure or not.
"Obscure" being a relative term, of course.
I think some of my tastes are obscure, but when I make a mix for others, I try to ask "what music can I turn them on to that they might ..."
Guilty as charged of trying to push my tastes on others and trying to convince them my past was better than theirs. Call me "hopeless," but there's still something about hooks and verse-chorus-verse that punches all the neurons, obscure or not.
"Obscure" being a relative term, of course.
RandomAnthony wrote: "I like that idea, Sarah. We could even have theme options...New ____
Old ____
Quiet ____
Loud _____
With an option for a person to make her/his own theme, of course, right?
I already have..."
Thank you. I panic without structure. :)
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Please disregard my snarkiness, I seem to be more and more evil as time goes on.
**scoots ficus in front of self**
**scoots ficus in front of self**Well done.
Sally wrote: "Ah, that makes sense Clark. You're being humble. Well, we all feel that way (I presume) when we submit 18 of our nearest and dearest and then wait for feedback.
Please disregard my snarkiness,..."
As if I've any room to talk.
Please disregard my snarkiness,..."
As if I've any room to talk.
I would love a chance to hear a Clark mix, personally. Even if I hated it. :)
Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "I would love a chance to hear a Clark mix, personally. Even if I hated it. :)"
Remind me to pay you later, JTL.
Remind me to pay you later, JTL.
Forget it Jackie. Trust me ... he never actually pays.
That's okay, I was working pro bono this time, Larry.
