From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #49 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Sunday, February 25 2001 Volume 06 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Tommy Awards ["Robin" ] Alloy: I just don't get it. [CRACKERS ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 01:50:43 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Re: Alloy: Tommy Awards For anyone who hasn't seen Rockula (or is drawing a blank on any of the other questions) my best guess is that you should vote anyway. According to the rules there are twelve bonus prizes offered for correctly guessing Thomas' "favorites", which is a seperate thing entirely. And for the 1st prize of the main contest, even without one or two questions filled in, I'd think you'd still stand a good chance of winning if you hit a lot of the others right. So I think everyone should go for it anyway & just have fun :) xxxxx Robin T ps CONGRATULATIONS, Beth, on baby #2, what wonderful news!! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 05:54:13 -0500 (EST) From: CRACKERS Subject: Alloy: I just don't get it. Upon getting my DSL line I eagerly embarked on a mission to share MP3s of my music on Napster. All my old OYCPI stuff, and my current I Love My Shih'Tsu and Reggie Dentist stuff, as well as some demo recordings of some of my solo work and just some plain goofy goofin' around type songs that I write and record off-the-cuff about this one chatroom I hang out in (someone says something odd and I strum away on a guitar and turn it into a quirky little song then DCC it to the people in the chatroom and we all laugh). My demo solo work seems to be getting downloaded quite a bit (particularily my songs "Drunk Uncle Charlie" and "Susie The Blow Up Nympho Doll") and for some reson beyond my understanding my "Ghastly (of AGNPH)" songs seem to get downloaded an awful lot (even though I can't imagine them making much sense to anyone who doesn't hang out in that chatroom). The OYCPI stuff has had a few downloads, but I don't really care about that much. But much to the dismay of my bandmates and I, the I Love My Shih'Tzu MP3s (rough mixes of our CD in the works) and the Reggie Dentist MP3 seem to be avoided like the plague. You would think maybe it's because they are encoded 64kps-mono... but so are the "Crackers (demo)" and "Ghastly (of AGNPH)" MP3s and they're moving pretty good. It's pretty sad when you can't even give it away for free. But to add insult to injury as a joke, while goofin' about in my favorite chatroom, I recorded a very sloppy version of "99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall". The entire song... complete with little swearing rants whenever I screwed it up. It's over 18 minutes long and even encoded 64k-mono the damn thing is over 9meg in size. In the 5 days that I've had that file sitting in my folder 21 people have downloaded it off me. I just don't understand this. Forget for a moment the question "why would anyone in their right mind ever record themselves singing the entire 99 Bottles Of Beer" I'd like to know why the hell would anyone ever download an 18 minute, 9meg+ 64K-mono MP3 of some goof with a guitar getting more out of tune by the second belting out such an incredably stupid and obnoxious song? This must say something about the world or internet culture or something but damned if I can figure out just what. Meanwhile the songs I'd actually like people to listen to continue to sit on my hard drive unloved and unwanted. I even tried putting them in a folder called "porn" and still nobody so much as glanced at them. Taking a tip from the current "get plenty of hits on your webpage trend" I've now put them in a directory called "all your base are belong to us" and for a moment it seemed to work as someone started to download one of our songs then aborted partway through. I guess I really just don't understand what the world wants. Incidently, singing the entire 99 Bottles is almost enough to make you feel like you've drank 99 Bottles. By the end I had a wicked headrush and my wrist felt like it was on fire from all the frantic strumming. Plus around 40 bottles I got a nasty itch on my nose and was dieing to scratch it. CRACKERS (I just don't get it from hell!!!) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #49 **************************