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hm. folks are posting. good. grady won't have to note he and i generate
forty-five percent of posting no more. well, for awhile. bocycles per hour.
hm. i feel direct, conversational, today.
"adam":
>hey folks. this looks okey dokey! adam
yep. looks. sent one. indeed, because of your reminder, ross fwded having
slipped through my fingers. even though it reeks of publicity stunt. just give
the damn book royalties and save the self-aggrandizement for somebody who
cares about your product. oops. sorry. nay, self-aggrandise away. just pardon,
please, if i disagree.
but more to the other point, uh, sometimes i wunner if some peeps
have so many other peeps in dey killfiles that they don't realize
all dey posts are more than the usually obvious in the way of
redundant or if this stuff just comes outta the ether.
what i mean to say is it's amazing that I've lived in durham for 6 years
and never knew that trailer bride, polycarp, and the backsliders are from
here.
no, what i mean is, why should i care at all about anything? the preponderance
of posts are addressing the legitimacy of posts in this venue. for each random
automated or otherwise spam, there are n number of responses regarding
appropriateness. well, i have that question for everything i read, think it's
funny. what am i saying?
bo:
>Santa Crashes, Kids Cry
i'd like to just take a minute to remember what it is that this season is
all about.
for the nameless real mccoy so far mimicked the other, heshitwhatever deposited
his singular genetic spoog, so whatever might manufacture cred and dance the
macarena, would get acclaim, insurance, and paid vacation.
this end today's reading from the book of calloway. may all your motion be
firm.
ross:
>A quick jaunt to http://www.hmco.com/hmco/trade/hmi/polar/ will verify this.
thank you. my web radar missed this as well as which bands are local.
i'm wondering when the information threshold will render me even more
than useless.
>Not a scrooge, necessarily, unless provoked
man, i hear what you're saying.
now all i gotta do is figure with which inflection to say that.
gary:
>Thursday, December 12. Ditch Croaker, Home, Number One Cup
i'm -still- ill i missed this. that life affords no more control over one's
choices, even premeditated. agh. says a lot of things.
>Home was second. These guys were kooky.
get me some scratch tapes and you can hear just how kooky.
i've got a bundle of their hometapes.
>The Mammoth X-mas party. I went to this instead of Holly's party.
>I made a bad choice.
sho 'nuff. lemme tell ya. the reason, well, if the past is -any- guide,
which it appears as pattern, what goes on at the cradle is part two of
whatever is the mammoth party. there's the a-list, which gets invited to
the free food/booze thing somewhere else aforehand and also usually involves
some sort of dress code, and then there's the b-list thingy at the cradle,
which the a-list peeps eventually filter into about the time that the
doors are flung open to the general public.
even then, it's somewhat, if limited fun, coz there are peeps who will
actually perform some semblance of dancing to pre-recorded music and
seven brides is just too funny for which to stand even still. literally.
they are so funny i have a hard time watching them and have to leave.
i can only stand just so much irony and then i'm at my breaking point.
ahahaha. the downside is the invite list is mostly mammoth employees and
their friends (i mean, what else is a company holiday party supposed to be?
you were expecting? what? personal thanks?), rather than people who
actually go out to see music with any frequency (well, ok, people who
actually go out to see music with any frequency and remember to acknowledge
the people whom they have met/seen doing the same), so to call it a community
event (not that anyone has) is --really-- stretching it. as everything is.
but, you know. what. i'm. trying. to. say. our definitions of community.
well, i think i unnerstand. coz mammoth seems to publicly play up this party
more for publicity. purposes at odds appearing as one.
>Bouncing Souls were much more entertaining.
i'm gathering that they've given up their krishna funky punk schtick?
the cd of theirs i have heard is abysmal. they are a band for whom on one
occasion i felt so sorry, i bought their t-shirt, just so they'd have gas
to get out of town.
ross:
>(a) watching Jay Faires hit on women,
ahahahaha. i knew there was a reason i subscribed.
>There are at
>least a half-dozen Mammoth releases sitting in my 150-most-played list
>for the past few years, which isn't bad for an uppity little label from
>Carrboro.
yeah, but i bet most of those half-dozen are formerly local bands they
scooped up by being the 'artist-development' heavy on the block rather than
the signings they pull in by being "little" or "uppity" or "from carrboro."
the overwhelming majority of their signings are by design made to suck
money out of the pockets of musicians and investors and into theirs.
they don't stay in business by selling records, that's for sure.
>Or, for that matter, seeing Mars Attacks!
ditto all that, especially any ben florin advice.
and of those three outta five first lady bites it movies, two are about
aliens, too. so, two outta five movies with first ladies, the hilary figures
are brain-sucked by aliens. backporch revolutionary, are you listening?
yes, that -any- media in our culture would claim to be left-leaning is
just absolutely preposterous truth by assertion.
yes, i said any.
"mmflint":
>I am stunned by the posting of Ruby this past Saturday.
yeah, i am stunned every two outta five times ruby posts. so what's "you're"
point?
>Is Ruby the imposter?
just one of many.
>Has she set all of you up?
time and time again.
>Why does she keep this animosity going after knowing the truth, receiving an
>apology and getting an offer for an interview, anytime, anywhere?
ever been to a city council meeting? it's the usual politics of consensus,
buddy.
>Does anyone have an answer?
my guess, is it todd? todd's the only one with answers. it's gotta be todd.
james:
>I'd rather argue that Sebadoh's new album has a Toad the Wet Sprocket
>feel to it.
ahahahaha.
though, i'd rather, not argue, but recollect our observations and
historiographies of talk show style, truth by assertion, and
misinformation.
"we" could do both.
>why i support local business, by bo williams, age 20
so. i hear lotsa things. including an endearing story about jack campbell.
but lemme see if i can get my inferences in line, here. am i hearing best
buy sucks because poindexter is better at some things of comfort? just
checking my reading, that's all.
you'd pay fifty bucks more at poindexter? you won't have to. their markups
are tiny as it is. and you won't be able to get the box set of cool stuff
at best buy anyway, even though you couldn't get the tapes of the same cool
stuff at poindexter three years before when it wasn't on cd.
i buy things, when i buy things, more often than not at poindexters coz
they're convenient, cheap, and often friendly, although they rarely have
what i'm looking for. this has led to my buying less and less at all coz
mail ordering exceeds my thresholds of several things. more and more i
just listen to the radio or my friends bring me tapes of things they think
i need to hear, bless 'em.
tim:
>Don't expect so much, just enjoy it.
this only works for a limited while when one is investing oneself into
something, but would that "we" would be more thinking this, particularly
when invited to the free show, party, or dinner.
jopus:
>why is it everything comes to me at 4 in the morning?
something about looking for things makes them stay away. songs come at these
times because we are less focused and thereby able to hear that for which
"we" don't know "we" listen. by reading things, we miss some points.
>no, i'm not saying that aliens inspire us to be creative.
i'd say that xenophobia inspires us to incorporate things in a way with
which we feel comfortable rather than in the way they are.
ruby:
>Most of the active posters on this group know me personally.
>Whether they like me or not, I think it's fair to say that I am very
>REAL.
ahahaha. stop it, please, i can't stand it any longer. this is like being held
down and tickled. i'm laughing so hard it hurts.
gary:
>Are you telling me that if a REAL cover band was
>there you would've been enjoying it just as much, or is it just because
>they're folks on the scene?
ahahaha. stop it, please, i can't stand it any longer. this is like being held
down and tickled. i'm laughing so hard it hurts.
>It already sounds like there some irony in the enjoyment level.
i tell myself this every time i like something.
>I *did* comment at the party that this was the only time (scots and bio
>ritmo aside) that I had seen a lot of people dancing in Chapel Hill.
you should get to durham more often.
jeffwee:
>Flat Duo Jets and Family Dollar Pharoahs ar Cradle.
aren't the bad checks playing new year's eve somewhere?
james:
>How could one not and live here?
uh, maybe one could just not buy so much shit?
ross:
>1) Down here, we ... don't tend to wander around with big nametags which
>read "Left" on them.
ahahaha. stop it, please, i can't stand it any longer. this is like being held
down and tickled. i'm laughing so hard it hurts.
>2) This is alt.music.chapel-hill. Catch a fucking clue.
there ya go again.
james:
>OH, I get it. You can speak for me but I can't speak for you!!!
waaaaaahahahahahahaha! please. it's toooo much. i can't breathe.
alan:
>P.S. Poindexter's rocks. No one at Best Buy ever hangs out and swaps gossip
>about local bands or is John Howie.
this seems to be the mode i'm swinging through poindexter's these days.
every coupla weeks, breeze through, look at the racks, shoot the shit
for five minutes, and breeze on out. it's sorta taken on the country
store wood stove function around here. except jack never eyeballs ya
to ask "hey, aintcha gonna buy some cheese?" he knows eventually you'll
want some zine or some single he just happens to have just when you're
looking for it.
alec:
>Ross, that obviously wasn't the real (shut up 323, we don't need your
>econ-jargon right now) Michael Moore who posted that....
was it ever really important whether it was the real michael moore or not?
uh, what jargon was it that you do need now?
>Though I haven't seen the original post yet.
waaaaaaahahahahahahaha. help! please. oooooooo.
michael r moore
>I've had to retool most of my allusions toward Tori Spelling.
shucks, most of us here have had to retool our delusions of michael moore
toward tori spelling.
>I know, I know, off-topic. Please excuse.
o man. do you know how sadly you've erred?
bo:
>here's the thing: nobody knows what's going on anymore.
uh, was it ever any other way? just when did we ever have any 'real'
information other than assumption.
gary:
>*I* am bored with it. Can I get an "amen?"
as in, a consensus would appear to make it enforceable?
i just think some don't like what this says to them about what their
assumptions are, not that they assume anything. thus, a wish for it
to just go away. personally, i think this is funny as shit. especially
alec, the arbiter of what's real and what's faux for those who don't
know.
"we" could do both. somehow, peeps still dunno how to page down or hit the
delete button for what they don't wanna consume, think we all gotta walk in
lock-step. huh-unh. you don't have to buy anything just coz what you want
aint at best buy, and dude, amch -is- the best buy of chapel hill rhetoric
in the book of calloway. "we're" here for the convenience of faux consensus.
the only thing that could get more hilarious about this for me is if my
guess for "michael moore" turned out to be todd. lordy knows there's plenny
o' them alienskin dudes that could pull it off and have the sense of humor
for it. anyway, i think i'd have to take a couple of days off to recover
from laughing too hard if it could be made to seem to my satisfaction that
this might be the case.
anyway, see "you" around.
3.2.3
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