Some Questions For The MP3 Bloggers

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Writing a story on MP3 Blogs for my college newspaper, and I wanted to ask a few questions of the bloggers in our midst:

Who the hell are you? What do you do for a living?

What made you start blogging?

Would you say there is a sort of mp3 blog community, or at least a sense of community among those who blog?

If so, who are the big guns in that community?

In your opinion, what is the role of an mp3 blogger? Heady record store clerk? In-the-know older brother? Fuckin' MUSIC GAWD?

Do you think music/mp3 bloggers pose a threat to webzines? Print rags?

Sorry this is so long. Answer some. Answer none. Either way, thanks.

rob mackey (mackey), Thursday, 27 January 2005 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"Meeting the Neighbors" over at the Tofu Hut will answer all of your questions.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 27 January 2005 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

you'll have a lot more luck emailing individual bloggers, is my guess

Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 27 January 2005 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

already did that for a few (fluxblog, cocaine blunts, boom selection). but i was hoping to get a wider array of answers here. perhaps this isn't the correct forum for something like thiat.

rob mackey (mackey), Thursday, 27 January 2005 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I do it for the money.

djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 27 January 2005 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you think music/mp3 bloggers pose a threat to webzines? Print rags?

How many memes, received wisdoms and hackneyed usages can I ram into 500-750 words?

Harry Klam, Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

YEAH MOTHERFUCKER, HOW MANY MEMES, RECEIVED WISDOMS AND SHIT, YOU MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE, DON'T ASK ANY QUESTIONS ANY MORE OR MY FUCKING DISEASED, BLEEDING ANUS WILL START ACTING UP AGAIN MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

JESUS CHRIST, FUCKING IDIOTS, DON'T KNOW A FUCKING THING, UNLIKE ME..

fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

>Would you say there is a sort of mp3 blog community, or at least a >sense of community among those who blog?

Well yes, of course. If people link to me they're in my community of circle-jerkers friends and I link back to them. If they don't they can't be in my community and no one will ever hear of them and they will perish even as they publish.

>In your opinion, what is the role of an mp3 blogger? Heady record >store clerk? In-the-know older brother? Fuckin' MUSIC GAWD?

GAWD. I like that, definitely, call me a GAWD. I am my own GAWD. Those who don't link and cleave to me are not GAWDs and do not flow from honorable sources. The metrics of GAWDness are easy to chart. All one has to do is look for mention of your GAWD in the Google News Tab, or have it send an e-mail alert to you whenever your GAWD is cited. The GAWD with the most mentions wins. A Lex-Nex account is also nice.

>Who the hell are you? What do you do for a living?

I am gone, a dwarf; a minimus, of hindering knot-grass made, a bead, an acorn. I am enamored of asses and a juggler of canker-sores.


Gawd, Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, i guess.

rob mackey (mackey), Friday, 28 January 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I just want people to hear some weird and/or great obscurities, and also put up with me writing flowery arglebargle about how I think it sounds.

What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Friday, 28 January 2005 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

what nate said.
also, feel free to drop me a line and i'll be happy to set up a phone talkie witcha

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I really would prefer a phone chat too. I get these email interviews all the time and they always feel like homework.

Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Friday, 28 January 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff Boucher, Vancouver magazine:

“The biggest thing that’s happened to me musically this year hasn’t been any album in particular (attention span? What attention span?), but the discovery of MP3 blogs like Spoilt Victorian Child(www.spoiltvictorianchild.blogspot.com) and Fluxblog (www.fluxblog.org), to name a couple I visit almost daily. Obsessed music cheedle post two or three songs a day, and include links to dozens and dozens of other MP3 blogs out there, each with their own bent, be it sickly-sweet Europop or old northern soul. The wee of joy will come from your bladder and stain your trousers 'cuz it’s like having full access to the fave songs of busloads of indie music store clerks, without the unspeakable agony of having to actually talk to them.”

Walt Bogdanich, Friday, 28 January 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The following is a list of my favorite '04 singles, both legal and illegal, many first encountered through audio bloggery.

William Shatner and Joe Jackson—'Common People.' Denny Crane champions the working class and rocks my iPod like a load of hot wet poop.

Elvis Costello & the Imposters—'Monkey to Man.' This tongue-in-cheek tune's misanthropic narrator is a monkey who's depressed about the corrupt people in charge of the world outside his cage. So he hurls his poop at them.

Rilo Kiley—'It's a Hit.' The anti-Bush "It's a Hit" never mentions Dubya's name, but the identity of the song's poop-flinging chimp is quite clear.

Jordan Rau, Friday, 28 January 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)


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