Forget dictionaries of quotations. Jasper's birthday reminded me of how often younger people offer valuable advice. A five-year-old god-daughter of mine, called Teresa, once told me: "Ó Padrinho; porque é que vens a estas festas se preferias ficar em casa?" ("Why come to these parties if you'd rather stay at home?"). Another one, called Assunção, recently told me that my guests didn't really appreciate the elaborate cocktails I was serving and would prefer just whiskies and soda and gins and tonics. In both cases I acted on their wisdom... and they were absolutely right! I wonder if there are any other shareable pearls available from Kaf's nephew, the glorious Max, or any of 9622's younger acquaintances?
She's gonna "dance to 50 Cent and/or Lil Kim in my apartment wearing nothing but a birthday tiara, f***-me boots and red marker denoting me QUEEN B."
I don't have a picture of that. Yet.
Happy Birthday, Brittney!
We're nicer and politer than other websites we could mention; but also more bohemian and a good deal drubker. Along the lines of saké drinking etiquette, what absurd guidelines to posting on 9622 could we come up with - if we were evil people - to put the fear of God into those who might be thinking of joining us?
Looks like a perfectly innocent truck, right? That's because I'm showing you the front. The rear view is NSFW.
Eyeballkid is not your ordinary monkey, oh no. And it's still his birthday.
I'd drink to that, but ....
Bless you, oh dweller on the bottom!
I haven't made a post to 9622.net since January. I felt it was about time to break that streak.
This weekend I saw a movie about the heroism of American royalty.
Discuss.
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
After reading this article and recognizing the same instinct that used to preside over my choice in music (not to mention enjoying and publicly enthusing over the same bands), I suddenly felt a terrible guilt and sense of loss of no longer actively looking for new music I could call my own.
Nowadays - though, unlike the author, the likes of Robbie Williams still make me foam at the chops - I rely on other people's discoveries (our own Marquis, btw, has been my most recent and reliable guru) to slake my thirst.
On the other hand, come to think of it, I have been buying more Rodgers and Hammerstein's original soundtracks; more 50's jazz; an alarming number of historical recordings of classical music; some Tony Bennett even...
And only yesterday my 19-year-old nephew looked around the thousands of CDs in my living room and asked if it was a library - and did I keep the new records somewhere else?
Is muzak creep slowly taking over? What worrying symptoms have you come across in your own listening habits? What percentage of music do you listen to that is, say, less than six months old?
Quote Machine Monday! I love a good quote. What are your favorites?
Also: Cybermonkeys! (courtesy of the Republic of Farkistan)
Two of my favorites:
"In the Void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence. Principle has existence. The Way has existence. Spirit is nothingness." --Musashi, 1645
"The two greatest of man's sins are these: Laziness, and Narcissism. All the evil in the world stems from these two things." -Fr. F. X. Cleary, 1992
OK, one more: "When in doubt, it's vitally important to keep moving. Velocity is important. Kinetic energy frees the brain and confuses the enemy." Damn straight.
Lookit that hip li'l monkey with the ironic t-shirt. Let's give a big sal-ooooot to a man ahead of his time.
Happy Birthday, Uncle Fes! ::mwah!::
(cocktail napkin shoutouts forthcoming)
Let's say we were going to put out a collective 9622 CD where each member could contribute but one track. This CD would be used as an example of all that human music could achieve, i.e. including every kind of music known to man and woman. What song/piece, by what composer or artist, would you choose? Proviso: Length unspecified, but it must only reproduce one CD track (no entire albums, symphonies etc. allowed).
As a palliative to the fact you can only choose one, we'll admit that the issuing body is considering a Volume 2, so you can include that other one too. But no more!
