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The thread was deleted by accident

mrG — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:20:43 -0500

The thread was deleted by accident, honest, but the basic run of it was something like this:

Submitted by mrG (not verified) on Fri, 2004-01-16 19:32.

see also Ottmar Liebert citing Billy Corgan on subscription-based patronage

Submitted by a stranger (not verified) on Mon, 2004-11-15 00:07.

this guy is an idiot, billy corgan is a genius. dissing someone becaues of having a flash site. get a life

Submitted by mrG on Tue, 2004-11-16 15:13.

I didn't dismiss him because he has a flash site, I dismiss him because he has a lame site, and if that is your definition of genius, then I rest my case.

... and I didn't quote any exemplary lamity because he's sunk his content in total flash, a grasp of the media which, as you say, shows real genius, in your eyes.

This was then followed by my total praise for David Byrne's latest tour-blog where he doesn't treat us like puppies but actually talks to us about what's on his mind, about the premiers and galleries he'd attended, about where he chose to eat and why, you know, blog stuff ...

And I've since been vindicated, at least informally, because someone else is also screaming at band blogs to shape up ... and their's made the Daypop/Blogdex.

Band & Label Site Blunders

TeledyN (trackback) — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:15:18 -0500

I notice with some glee that the Number One Rule is (hey billy, listen up) anti-Flash, and I'd exempt the search rule since Google does it so much better, but at the least very bottom line of it, having made the Blogdexings, I can see word is finally g

Deadbeat Bandblogs

mrG — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 05:38:56 -0500

The other night on CBC2 I heard this Baby baby baby song by somebody Murphy and, y'know when you encounter stuff so bad that it makes you squirm in the pit of your stomach out of empathic embarrassment for them?

And then there's those that should know better. These ones just put me in a bad mood ...

I don't know what band-management howto magazine it is, but what's with all these pops-toppers and their pointless Me-2 Hey lookie me I'm so hip non-blogs?

I don't mean to be cruel, or no, wait, maybe I do because there's obvious fan-pap like Barbie's Scene or the BNLs, but then there's should have a clue obtuse who the heck paid for this cutesy bloggy sites like billycorgan.com -- I mean, one message per page can be style, but making it droll is just droll and making it pure-flash so I can't quote it and only done so I can scroll it's little 9-line window by one line? Is it supposed to be a simulation of those pointless little LCD panes they put into Yamaha keyboards?

Colour me un-hip, billy-boy, because I can dig a lot of outside web design, but I just don't get your point.

but I am happy you like kittens; they are cute and make interesting cognitive development laboratories as they fumble about in their endless sea of amazement, totally without the least fear of walking into situations beyond their control. Somewhat like pop-stars blogging. Hmmm ... oh, I get it, the kittens are your metaphor? I hope not, because I'd like to think that you like kittens, it at least gives us some common ground you and I.