From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V11 #210 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, November 5 2006 Volume 11 : Number 210 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Alloy: Thanks to Alloy [Melissa Jordan ] Re: Alloy: Thanks to Alloy [Melissa Jordan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 09:50:08 -0800 (PST) From: Melissa Jordan Subject: RE: Alloy: Thanks to Alloy Keith Stansell wrote: Happy belated birthday to the pirate twins. Also, thanks for the MP tribute link. I'm a fan of MP, and so this will be cool to hear. I guess I should sign up to that mailing list. Do sign up, Keith! It's an incredibly smart, funny group of people - and damn talented. The guy who runs the list, Spencer, has become a good friend, as have some of the other usual suspects out there. Spencer is in direct touch with MP, and there have been times when I've been able to catch Spencer online on Yahoo Messenger and zap him a quick question for Michael that gets returned to me in seconds. It's neat. (Spencer and another PennList'er are two of my blog links on my page - it's funny - we all met at an MP gig early last year, sitting at adjoining tables, but we didn't know each other at that point. It's only via blogging that we've become friends, and it's one of those "Damn - why didn't I already know you when we were at that Philly gig?" things. :-) ) And thanks mucho for the b-day wishes! Cheers, Melissa http://merujo.blogspot.com - --------------------------------- Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited Try it today. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 10:02:26 -0800 (PST) From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Re: Alloy: Thanks to Alloy Elaine wrote: Hey, that's a pretty cool tribute setup. How does Michael like it? btw -- in case you who don't watch "House" (featuring Hugh Laurie on America's Fox TV network), Michael Penn's "Walter Reed" was featured in the Halloween episode. We haven't heard back from MP yet - I figure in a couple of days, we'll probably get some feedback. He's very good about communicating with our community. He should blog like TMDR does. :-) It was great to hear "Walter Reed" on "House." Great song. Walter Reed is not only the army hospital here, it's also a high school in L.A., so the song has multiple meanings for Penn, who's father was blacklisted in Hollywood back in the day. (Is it any wonder that Sean is a firebrand?) I actually made a novice blogger mistake back last year when the song came out - I found a link to the video on the blogsite of one of the guys who actually filmed it. Turns out, he wasn't supposed to have the link up - it was embargoed by Penn's management team. Not knowing this, being a volunteer street teamer, and wanting to preach the word about how good MP's music is to a largely unknowing blogosphere, I put a link to the video up there and it got a ton of hits. The next day, I found out that the video wasn't supposed to be out - the videographer had violated a contract term by putting it out on his personal site in the first place. I felt like an ass, and took it down immediately (but not before MP had discovered my blog and spent a couple of hours rambling through my odd collection of stories.) In the end, MP passed word on to me I did him a favor by getting the video out there, since he's working independently and doesn't have a real strong distribution network. I still felt like an ass, of course. Months later, when I saw MP after a gig here in DC, I asked him to sign the liner notes to my favorite of his CDs. I told him I still felt awful about the whole video mess. He laughed and wrote "Melissa, Don't worry!" on it. :-) Nice guy. Very funny, very smart, and very talented. Cheers, Melissa http://merujo.blogspot.com - --------------------------------- Low, Low, Low Rates! Check out Yahoo! Messenger's cheap PC-to-Phone call rates. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V11 #210 ****************************