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BLAST.famy
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volume 1 ish 3
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July 1994
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F _ A _ M _ Y
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A Private World E-zine.
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editor-in-chief = P. W. Casual, C.E.O, PWE; C.O.B, PWC pwcasual@io.org
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Contributors: markjr@io.org symptomatic dellusion sufferer
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(whatever I think happens, time
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to get the 3rd ish together.)
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P. S. Marlboro Gen-Xer diatribes
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| One of the worst perils of the present |
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| time is that,in the reaction against |
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| ignorant bigotry, people no longer dare |
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| to make up their minds about anything. |
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| -Aleister Crowley |
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- C - O - N - T - E - T - S -
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REVIEWS: Somebody finally followed through with a contrib!
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P.S. Marlboro scopes the BEASTIE BOYS in Toronto;
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then he trashes BACK BEAT.
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DISJOINTED RAMBLING: Midas Touch Economics.
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Markjr rants about something unrelated
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to his chosen title.
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PUBLIC SERVICE INFOMERCIAL: Have You Been Abducted by Space Aliens?
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PROGRESS/DAMAGE REPORTS: Private World's Online Shcmooze is
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almost.on.line
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Gig Listings are up and running
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- C - O - N - T - E - N - T -
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Beastie Boys |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Live at Palladium, Toronto reviewed by Phil Saunders
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Karate Dance Jazz, Graeme Kirkland's latest psychotic reaction,
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was the first band to hit the stage at this very exclusive, in-crowd,
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concert held by the Beastie Boys. How did one get tickets for this
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rare club appearance, though there's word that they aren't going to
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be so rare by the end of the Summer's Lollapalooza (i.e. apparently
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the Beasties will be doing a few more "off-dates" while on that tour
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as well)? I'm not quite sure...it was one of those grifts that comes
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along when you've nothing bet do than look for work or listen to
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college radio and Much-Music (I confess).
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So I will say that this was the ideal situation to see these boys
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perform. A new album, the first one that has blended with the last
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ever (read; like a continuation of Check Your Head), in a club-type
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atmosphere and really high on something.
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Punjabi by Nature came up next for what seemeed destined to be
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a big-band event. But the fury of Karate Jazz seemed so numbing,
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Punjabi by Nature were more of an interesting distraction.
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By the time the Beasties hit the stage, there was a healthy
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audience of hipsters awaiting them. I then became so immersed in
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the B-Boy assault I forgot to actually pay attention to anything
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but the intensity by which they performed. Dope Beats and tearing
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samples drove them and the audience into a journey of white-ass
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culture. These guys aren't a bit short on their game. Ripping
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through a few Minor Threat style punk tunes, the Beasties were
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a convincing symbol of middle-class America gone dope (ya
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Tubes reference).
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Just to imagine them leaving the stage at Lollapalooza to be
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followed by the Smashing Pumpkins (good-luck Billy Boy!!!) leaves
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me chuckling in a malicious manner. I figure what should happen
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is that P-Funk, Tribe, and the Beasties should just do one
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Four Hour Jam so we can all go home early and fuck all that college
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radio bullshit (well, in my town anyway).
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Back Beat |||||||||||||||||||||
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a movie review by Phil Saunders
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There's nothing quite like seeing a movie about a band that was
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around when your parents were younger than you. Coupled with the
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acting talents of Laura Palmer (well, the actress that played her
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anyway, I can't remember her name right now), but this script
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includes a 9 1/2 weeks style sex scene that's well, just really
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titilating and stupid. But as we know from Fire Walk with Me, said
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actress has built here career on mundane sexual frivolity, it just
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looks way better when directed by David Lynch.
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Back Beat was not Directed by David Lynch. I'm not in front of
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a Movie guide to remind me exactly who it was that Directed it but,
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suffice to say this thing was lame. Either the script was too long
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and poorly edited or too short and the Film was poorly edited.
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But then again, when you make a movies about a guy who was basically
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a foot-note in the careers of the Beatles, even hiring a "grunge"
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supergroup to play the tunes isn't going to save it.
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The aforementioned band is made up of Greg Dulli, Dave Thurston
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Moore, Dave Grohl and Don Fleming; the songs are all those R&B
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standards that were hurled upon us Gen X ers throughout the
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seventies and eighties via the growth of the baby boomer
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phenomenon "Classic Rock". Nice idea except for one thing.
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In order to make this movie marketable the above band had to
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do them as close to the originals as possible, for fear of taking
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liberties that wouldn't jibe with the aforementioned marketing group
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(Baby Boomers, that is). The main reason I went to this one was
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basically to preview the Soundtrack, Unfortunately the movie
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dragged on and was just plain boring. Oh...and about the
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soundtrack? Wait until some baby-boomer rock critic takes
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it to your local used record store and buy it then, at least
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then you won't be getting in on some really twisted scheme to
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sell us crap.
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++ ++ ++
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Original Title : Midas Touch Economics
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Now Called : Markjr hates heirarchies
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We all know (or at least we should) that hierarchal
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institutional structures are beyond salvation, they
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are doomed already. The faster they are done away
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with, the better.
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All good things come from humble beginnings, from
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which point they mutate into worthless shells of
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themselves. Good ideas are right for the time, and
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beyond that time they are obsolete, and that makes
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them bad ideas.
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Governments, democracies, beaurocracies, and
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aristocracies are all fine examples of what
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I'm talking about. In order, (1) the government:
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doesn't work anymore. They do not understand
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the nature of today's complexities. Plodding
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linear thinkers to a man. (2) democracy: one vote
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every four years. Choose between this asshole or
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the next. Big fucking deal. (3) beaurocracy:
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stand in line for 3 hours to hand a piece of paper
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to someone behind a desk. If it's missing a hyphen,
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it takes six weeks to come back to you for clarification,
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eight, if your lucky and it sneaks through. (4) aristocracy:
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either make the royal family get jobs or use them for glue.
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What works today is network parallelism. There is no top-down
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hierarchy. There cannot be a hierarchy, things change too
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fast. No time for committee meetings, let alone those
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sickening "conferences on the mound" that make baseball such
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a hideously boring sport. These days the only people you should
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be talking to are the people you are _actually doing stuff_
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with. Everyone in the room should have the time, the authority,
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and the inclination, to _make a decision_ on the fly, in real time.
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None of this "Let's go over Johnson's numbers next Tuesday and
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tackle this after some golf".
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Have You
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B E E N A B D U C T E D B Y S P A C E A L I E N S ?!?
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+ _ _+
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O O
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( = ) -- "Breep"
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^ "Ping"
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"Take me to your lizard"
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I found this amongst our vast conspiracy theory archives. It was
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on an old floppy which was for some reason tucked inside a copy
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of a "Secrets of our Spaceship Moon" paperback. Unfortunately
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I have _no idea_ who wrote this:
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Space aliens often erase the memories of people they abduct. But you can
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still determine if you've been taken aboard a starship or examined by
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extraterrestrials with tips from two of the world's leading experts.
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All you have to do is check for the tell-tale signs of alien abduction,
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including memory loss, sudden illness, unusual dreams or strange marks on
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your body.
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These symptoms almost certainly indicate that you've been abducted by
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space aliens.
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"Many people have been abducted by space aliens but can't remember
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anything about their abductions," declared Brad Steiger, author of the best
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selling book 'The UFO Abductors.' UFO abductees often find they have have
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black spots in their memories. In some cases it is simply a tantalizing
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sensation that there is something they are trying to remember but can't
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recall."
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Hayden Hewes, executive director of the International UFO Bureau, said:
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"Abductess frequently have recurring dreams or daytime visions about alien
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beings, spacecraft or extraterrestrial realms. They often discover unexplained
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wounds or scars. Or they mysterioussly begin to suffer from physical problems."
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According to Steiger and Hewes, the warning signs of alien abduction are:
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The mysterious onset of illness, including insomnia, loss of app-
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etite, nausea, headaches, a rash or fatigue.
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The nagging sensation of having "lost" a period out of your life.
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Complete memory loss.
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The mysterious apperance of scars, bruises, puncture marks, burns or
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missing hair suggestive of medical examination by aliens.
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Recurring dreams dreams. Some common images include extraterrestrail
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worlds or landscapes and srystal sities.
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Recurring daytime images. Common ones are space aliens, UFO's or
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extraterrestrail scenes.
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If you have experienced on or more of these symptoms, Steiger and Hewes
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advise you look in your phone phone book and contact the UFO organization
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nearest you. They should be able to put you in touch with someone who can
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hypnotize and regress you to the time of the abduction so you can remember
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it completely, the experts say.
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(Ed Note: above article could just have easily been called "Are you a
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doob-head in a rock band?")
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+=+=+= The Battle Continues =+=+>
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As of now you can finger pwcasual@io.org for gig listings.
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The service is being advertised in various alternative
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music mags. So far the number of bands we're listing is
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small. Namely the bands of my roomates, my band and a few
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others. At the moment this means we list primarily
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Canadian shows. But Buffalo's Wrench is the first
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American band to sign up, and Boston's Gypsy
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Mechanics should follow soon (if Morgan would ever
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check his machine).
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If you have a band and you want us to list your
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dates, it's $10CDN a month, which is pretty cheap.
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Very soon the Online Schmooze will be up. This is a
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forum for indie labels, bands, alternative music mags,
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and whatever. We're aiming at making it pretty unhinged
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and warped. You can access it through WWW and we'll
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send out a bulletin to subscribers when we get the
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actual URL. (Should be before the end of the week.
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REPEAT: _should_ ... I hardly ever use the word "will"
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anymore). The best way to access it is with Mosaic.
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If you're involved in some type of cool.musical.venture
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and you're interested in having your wares and whereabouts
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online with us let markjr@io.org know. If you already have
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your own alt.music.oriented Hypertext, send us your URL. We'll
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put a link yours if you put one to ours.
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(late ed. note: the schmooze is up! the URL is
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http://www.io.org/~pwcasual/ )
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<==== COOL .SIG =====>
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Sign me up!
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(\_/) /\ <\_/> /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ <\_/> /\ (\_/)
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|O O| < > <O O> < MJ@crypt.ct.se > <O O> < > |O O|
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Some people hate .sigs but I think that one should
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only exhibit distaste for a bad .sig. This one
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is very neat, and also demontrates the correct
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procedure for Subscribing to BLAST.famy!
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Email pwcasual@io.org and do what he did.
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That's all for now. We'll try to get the next
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one faster. Looks like we missed June completely.
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Sorry.
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