By popular demandage! the Autumn '03 9622 CD Swap!
So who's in? So far we got:
anathema
arto
eyeballkid
fes
miguel
valerie
vidiot
yhbc
For those of you who are new, here’s a rundown of the Tao of Monkeymusicswapping, which differs slightly from the norm:
1. To join, say you’re in. Even thinking it loudly will suffice. It’s that simple.
2. At the assigned day, you announce definitively that you have made a master disk. A master disk is an actual CD – tunes picked, playlist laid in, cd burnt, an actual thing that you can play.
3. I then take the names of the people who have declared they have a master made and divide them up into swap groups. I keep track, and I try to make sure that (a) no groups over five people, and (b) no one is in a group with anyone they were in the same group with last time.
4. I post the groups and send everyone an email with the mailing addresses of the people in their group.
5. You burn and mail your cds to your groupmates.
6. We then, on a voluntary basis, post our playlists and cover art. People may then request/beg/trade for cds they want from swappers outside their group.
7. You receive cds from the people in your swap group, the people outside your swap group whom you’ve asked for cds from, and whomever you have a side deal (I’ll send you mine if you send me yours…) with.
8. You rock.
Deadline for masters is Halloween; deadline for mailing is November 14. For tentative newbs who want a look inside the sausage factory, below are the previous Swap threads.
SummerSwap ’02
SummerSwap Aftermath ’02
AutumnSwap ’02
AutumnSwap Aftermath ’02
WinterSwap ’02
SpringSwap ’03
SpringSwap Aftermath ’03
SummerSwap ’03
SummerSwap Aftermath ’03
Ah, halloween for masters? That I can do. Count me in. Mine will be a tribute to REO Speedwagon.
I mean, who doesn't love the 'Wagon!
Posted by: salmonberry on October 17, 2003 12:42 PMI'm in. I should be able to puke something half decent up in two weeks.
Posted by: ufez on October 17, 2003 01:02 PMAnd fes, I just sent you my address. Feel free to drop by with vodka. I'll supply the music and candlelig... um, entertainment.
Posted by: ufez on October 17, 2003 01:08 PMIt's so nice to see another blooming 9622 romance.
Does my heart good.
Posted by: Valerie on October 17, 2003 01:37 PMUfez: got it. But just because we shared a few passionate soul kisses on your trip here doesn't mean I'm just going to fall over with my buttcheeks in the air for your candles and your Robbie Nevil cutouts, mister.
Posted by: Fes on October 17, 2003 01:55 PMdoesn't mean I'm just going to fall over with my buttcheeks in the air for your candles and your Robbie Nevil cutouts
you forgot the "again".
Posted by: ufez on October 17, 2003 01:59 PMdoesn't mean I'm just going to fall over with my buttcheeks in the air for your candles and your Robbie Nevil cutouts
Oh well. C'est La Vie.
Posted by: jonmc on October 17, 2003 02:00 PMyou forgot the "again".
I'm certainly trying to.
I really shouldn't drink.
Posted by: Fes on October 17, 2003 02:04 PMWow, I think we just witnessed a "moment."
Posted by: tizzie, verklempt on October 17, 2003 02:35 PM...we shared a few passionate soul kisses on your trip here...I'm just going to fall over with my buttcheeks in the air for your candles and your Robbie Nevil cutouts, mister.
Yet another instance where liberal application of elipses creates a new entry for the Mental Spank Bank.*leers pervingly*
Sorry, this is the most god-awful dreadfully boring friday afternoon ever.
Posted by: ufez on October 17, 2003 02:44 PMWill you guys throw stones at me if I confess I don't like Skynard or the WHO for that matter?
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The hour between 3 and 4 lasted about 10 hours for me today. Today has been the longest day....well, in my lifetime anyway.
Valerie,
I came back to appreciating Skynyrd through the Drive By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera. You might want to check it out.
Oh, and was that you who spammed me about some performance this weekend?
Posted by: notsnot on October 17, 2003 05:56 PMSomeone who doesn't like the Who? does not compute *smoke pours out of ears*
Oh, and (from the last thread) Fes: I've never done a MeFiSwap either. (I think they stopped 'em right about the time I signed up--at least, I think that's what all the scurrying and hiding was about...) So congrats, you all get to pop my swap cherry. I, for one, fully expect candlelight, wine and Robbie Nevil cutouts. Or better yet, Robin Givens cutouts. (Star Trek uniform optional.)
Posted by: arto on October 17, 2003 06:19 PMAgain:
Please do not use adhesive labels on your discs. I screws up the balance on more sensitive players and renders the CD useless. Trying to scrape the labels off is a frustrating process.
I second that. I used to use them, until they became nothing but a headache. Not only to the knock players off balance, but I've also had them come off in front loading players.
Posted by: eyeballkid on October 17, 2003 07:17 PMAhem. I know that one of my - few - faults is that sometimes I am lax on thanking people sufficiently, or personally. Since it strikes me that I may not have done so for a few of the previous swap discs I have received from you folks (and since it also may pull a few fence-sitters in from the sidelines), I'd like to say for the record, here and now: I have never received a bad CD from anyone in a 9622.net swap. Of course, I have received some * discs that I love more than others, but I have loved - and appreciated - all of them.
So - thank you, thank you, thank you, all of you! You hopefully all remember who you are (and if I get in another group with you, you also hopefully won't just say, "Hmmph. He never thanked me for the other one, the heck with him! He gets the Carpenters' Greatest Hits! In Swedish!!!")
* I have already made two bootleg copies of the magnum blues opus Cooked Up By ColdChef for friends. I did not, however, pass them off as my own work.
Posted by: yhbc on October 17, 2003 09:37 PMI was very excited about that Cold Chef disc, the songs looked great and the artwork was perfect. Unfortunately it had an adhesive label on it and I could not listen to it.
Posted by: ana on October 17, 2003 10:49 PMOkay then, I've made three bootleg copies to send to friends. Jeez.
Posted by: yhbc on October 17, 2003 11:01 PMnotsnot. i did send you something about the piece i'm in this weekend because you somehow made it onto my mailing list.
but you were blind copied so none of my contact would ever contact you about something else.
sorry. i hope that didn't upset you.
Posted by: Valerie on October 18, 2003 01:20 AMfrom the doesn't-it-figure department, apropos nothing in the thread...
So I'm at my watering hole, and run into a girl I had a crush on in early (like, "maybe my mom can drive us to the mixer" early) high school. I had a major crush onher then, and she's just as crushworthy (moreso, really) now. SO I ask for her number, and she says she'd give it except she's got a serious b/f. And she had a crush on me back in the day, too, but I guess we were both too proud to do anything about it.
Oh, I'm drunk, by the way.
Posted by: notsnot on October 18, 2003 01:24 AMI'm still waiting to be crushworthy. The only woman I know for sure crushed on me was a mentally handicapped girl, I used to work with at a grocery store when I was 16. These kinds of things are why I am an absurdist.
Posted by: jonmc on October 18, 2003 10:40 AMI'm only a little bit drunk at the moment, and I'm deeply disappointed by that.
A little drunk is not a good thing for a man to be, is what my ol' granpappy always tol' me.
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on October 18, 2003 12:09 PMI'd like to jump on the swappy bandwagon. I've sat out the last two.
Posted by: Mars Crash on October 18, 2003 12:29 PMCount me in.
Just be aware that my disks will be very unlikely to contain any music newer than 1974.
Posted by: Crash on October 18, 2003 02:03 PMThen I shall be sure not to include anything from Blood On The Tracks (release date: Jan. 17, 1975)
Posted by: yhbc on October 19, 2003 01:48 AMI think the boundaries could be stretched for that one.
You know, like I always think of "My Sharona" as an '80s song.
Posted by: Vidiot on October 19, 2003 02:10 AMToday, I realized that after two years of being subjected to Neil Young by DB, that aside from knowing more about him than I ever imagined I needed to that I like him.
Wow. It's like when I kept trying peppers over and over again for years until I finally developed a tasted for them and now I love them just I like love you guys.
Is this an appropriate place to insert P*U*I?
Posted by: Valerie on October 19, 2003 02:42 AMval-yes, yes it is. Good job!
There are meetup pics here. Many thanks to Vidiot for hosting the pics and for suggestions on tools to make the gallery.
Thank you, notsnot! And Uncle Fes, Denise and Ufez - what a handsome bunch of monkeys you all are.
Denise gets a LOT of extra points for holding the Dong. It's not any easy experience to get over.
Posted by: tizzie on October 19, 2003 11:59 AMGlad to help. Looks like y'all had a lot of fun. And thanks for the shoutout!
Posted by: Vidiot on October 19, 2003 12:42 PMwhat, no borough-by-borough breakdown. We've got 3 of five boroughs covered. chicobangs in Manhattan, me and the Vidster in Queens, and miss sally in Brooklyn. That leaves Staten Island and the Bronx. The less said about Staten Island the better, so we need to recuit in the Boogie Down Bronx. Who wants to go knock on doors with me??
Posted by: jonmc on October 19, 2003 12:45 PMSorry, my bulletproof vest is at the cleaners.
And if I ventured into the Bronx this week, people might think I'm a Yankees fan.
Posted by: Vidiot on October 19, 2003 12:54 PMnow that we've seen the pics from the midwest, when are the ones from our latest batch of travails going up, vid?
^ *applying peer pressure*
Posted by: jonmc on October 19, 2003 01:03 PMThose shout-outs were bee-uu-teeful! And L'il Nachos gets his first 9622 shout-out. I'm verklempt...
*sniff*
Posted by: readymade on October 19, 2003 01:23 PMThese are shout-outs for the shout-out professional - the added graphics provided whole new layers of meaning.
See EBK? Portugal does exist!
Thanks a lot, guys, for the good cheer, vicarious and friendly. :)
Posted by: Miguel on October 19, 2003 02:59 PMRighteous. Sometimes it pays to live in a square state.
I also dig the haircut graphic. It brings a tear to me eye.
Posted by: Crash on October 19, 2003 06:57 PMHeh. No, bird legs* don't seem to affect the pigeon allergy, though that M-word sets off an interesting case of hives. ;-P
*didn't see any in that photo
Posted by: romakimmy on October 19, 2003 11:24 PM"marry us, please!" was the tagline on the "missing" shout-out from our first meetup. I'm not the marrying kind, either - I haven't even gotten the hang of serial monogamy.
Posted by: notsnot on October 19, 2003 11:58 PMmy first shout-out! wo0t! Hey notsnot, haven't I seen you on a marquee before?
Posted by: whatnot on October 20, 2003 12:25 AMIt's like learning to fly, man - the trick is throwing yourself at the ground and *missing*.
It also helps to stand on your coffee table at about 3 a.m., funny-hat wearing drunk, and declare to about 50 people or so that (a) you love them all, but (b) it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that, since your ex-roomate Donnie's girlfriend's friend Lisa broke up with you to go back to college, and the girl upstairs has put an end to the late night phone solicitation, you're basically destined to the bachelor life, and that (c) anyone who cares to may stop by anytime, as there will always be vodka in the freezer, schmoke on the coffee table, Long Ryders on the turntable, and plenty of ice.
Do something that karmically freighted, and you'll be engaged inside of eight months.
Posted by: Fes on October 20, 2003 12:28 AM
*does comical double take*
Is that a picture of siamese black panthers joined at the head?
Posted by: Valerie on October 20, 2003 09:09 AMNo, it's actually a trans-continental mating ritual, where Miguel posts pictures of baby animals, and I fall in love with him.
Posted by: tizzie on October 20, 2003 09:43 AMyou know this from experience, Fes?
and whatnot, that was just what I was wearing that day - spent most of the afternoon glazing in stained glass windows on my house.
Posted by: notsnot on October 20, 2003 09:48 AMyou know this from experience, Fes?
You could put it that way.
Posted by: Fes on October 20, 2003 09:59 AMI very much like this custom of posting cute animals for the sake of another. It's especially nice for Monday morning.
Posted by: Valerie on October 20, 2003 10:11 AMMonday Swap Update: so far we have...
anathema
arto
brittney
crash
eyeballkid
fes
mars
miguel
notsnot
salmonberry
ufez
valerie
vidiot
yhbc
Who else? Lots of room for more.
Posted by: Fes on October 20, 2003 10:47 AMDammit, I lost first place. Knew I shoulda used "AAAAA1 Aardvark Auto & Transmission" as my username. Lousy alphabetical order.
Posted by: arto on October 20, 2003 04:09 PMHeh. Tough break, arto.
Darsh: lurkers are welcome to swap. You know the process? Make a master, then I ask again, and only those with master disks get thrown into swapgroups. It holds down the amount of people jonmcwho say jonmcthey're goingjonmc to make a disk,jonmc but then don't. jonmc
We had some issues a few swaps back, but this seems to work except for jonmc
Posted by: Fes on October 20, 2003 04:18 PMI'm in, but only if the ones I receive taste good with butter
Hey, does this mean that after we've eaten our music, we'll get to see it again?
Posted by: JasnTMason on October 21, 2003 06:09 PMbahhh... count me a sucker, but count me in, you surly lot. Unusual sounds may prevail, and the stones in the middle always stay warm. You've all amused me; I may yet amuse a few of you.
Posted by: vers on October 21, 2003 07:53 PMOk, I'm in for now. If I can't come up with a good disk I'm gonna bail, though.
No need to disappoint all you indie bastards...
Posted by: Cyrano on October 21, 2003 10:41 PMTentative so far:
anathema
arto
brittney
crash
cyrano
darshna
eyeballkid
fes
jasntmason
mars
miguel
notsnot
salmonberry
ufez
valerie
vers
vidiot
yhbc
Where are my regulars?? Kaf, Tizzie, jonmc, adampsyche, coldchef, chico, sally??
Posted by: Fes on October 22, 2003 09:55 AMI have to study for my exam, so I'm thinking I should sit this round out. It's grueling, my life as a schoolgirl.
It sounds like you've got a good crowd going there, Fes. Y'all rock on without me.
Posted by: tizzie on October 22, 2003 10:36 AMOy, this is going to sound awful, but after another, more extensive CD swap I participated in earlier this year, I have neither the room for nor the time to listen to the CDs I've already gotten. So I'ma pass this go-round.
I never thought it possible, but too much of a good thing can exist. Yay verily it exists right now on my desk at home.
Posted by: cowboy_sally on October 22, 2003 06:08 PMI haven't dropped by in a while, and so don't have time...once again, I'll have to miss a swap and hope to catch the next one. :)
Posted by: dejah on October 23, 2003 04:02 PMCount me in, yo. My mix will be much less timid this time around, I promise.
Posted by: mikro on October 23, 2003 05:48 PMOnce, I had a beautiful dream.
In this beautiful dream JONMAN FINALLY SENT ME HIS GOD DAMNED MIX CD!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
*breaks stuff*
*bursts blood vessel*
Posted by: kaf on October 31, 2003 06:56 PMI was going to correct that to say JONMC, but I like JONMAN better. What a weird typo.
JONMAN! I come for you! You have Chapstick in your hand, JONMAN! Chapstick!
Posted by: kaf on October 31, 2003 06:58 PMI'm officially chickening out - I fear I won't have the time to do it properly and I would truly hate if everybody went to the trouble and expense of sending me their CDs and I was late or (knowing myself) very late.
I'm starting next week on the next Swap - that's the only deadline I can live with right now.
Shameful, I know - but more honest.
Posted by: Miguel on October 31, 2003 08:47 PMIn case it wasn't clear, I'm out. I have no computer this week, and between that and the beginning of the latest Great Job Hunt, I haven't the free thought or (more importantly) the wit required to put a decent swap CD together.
Which sucks, because I have a mix list ready to go and everything. When it's ready, I'll be happy to send to whoever wants, swap-time or not.
Stupid technology [he said, making derisive air quotes]. I shall share in the hijinks from afar, and remember most of all that I love (, tovarying degrees, many of) you.
Posted by: Chico on November 2, 2003 04:16 PMIs anyone else owning up to making a master disc yet? And Chico - I'll willingly send you a disc just so long as you swear in public that you love the life you have (mine disc may be suicide-inducing - not by intent, it's just the way music is).
Posted by: vers on November 2, 2003 08:09 PMAnd still I wait for Jon's disc.
I will be commenting in this thread on a weekly basis until my demands are met!
It will drive you slowly insane, JONMAN! Do you hear me, JONMAN?! I COME FOR YOU!
Posted by: kaf on November 4, 2003 04:24 PMDrive me insane?
The world beat you to it, kaf. I'll get it to you and the rest as soon as I recover from the cold that's eating my lungs raw, find my copy of CD creator to reinstall after my recent Windows re-installation and some other shit. But it'll come.
Think of it as something to look forward to before retirement.
Posted by: JONMAN on November 4, 2003 04:32 PMFor those of you who were wondering, JONMAN is a lot like Batman...except his tights are strategically ripped.
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