Sunday, April 13, 2008
ok. it's april. it's spring time. and i haven't heard of shit going on, except for these sunday shows at the daac, which are next to impossible for me to make it to... note to self and the two other people that look at this- see if karen in gr will do gr updates! good idea.
the short version: the long awaited bep comp entitled roots: vol one has been put on hold for now, but instead, starting next month (if i get more hosting space) i will be doing either a once a month or biweekly podcast!
the long version (follow my brain...)
another good idea i once had was a west michigan cd comp of local 80's punk rock. some of the best shit that you probably never heard. faithful readers might remember me mentioning said comp several times in previous months. i had 100 discs half hand screened with only one more color to go. i had finished the front and back artwork (on a totally different note, our own piece of work, lowlife art will be back around the end of the month!) and even those pain in the ass side panels. i had a couple test prints made and they fit perfect. i had most of the bands and songs picked out that i felt essential in muskegon/west mi. p-rock for your ears. shit that i thought would blow you away- even if some of it was not your politics, a lot of the songs are things we all deal with- even if it's not part of your lifestyle, these things were/are part of our scene- like it or not.
anyways, i had the shit pretty much down, and permission from most of the bands- not that something as trivial as permission mattered/s to me when it comes to a project like this. it is a part of our history, and as a dweller on past events, i felt- and in a big way still feel that this is an important thing to do- even if only 50 people ever heard it- it could quite possibly change their lives- or so i think...at the very least the consumer would have access to rad shit that has long been archived in the personal stashes of a few hundred people at most. anyways, for the sake of being fair, i contacted most of the bands and the ones i did talk to were pretty stoked about it.
so everything seemed a go. i just had to finalize the track list, talk to one more band, get the inserts and all that printed and cut, and then inserted. it all sounds rad as i type, but i now know it was a pipe dream for the most part, and here's why: have you noticed all the past tense talk? i know, and if you know me, that i tend to procrastinate. sometimes a lot- shit- look at the state of the pie-online, print- which is long overdue, the shitshop, the news (but i gotta give big ups to casey and travis for helping out- but seriously, if you have some news about a local, punk rock (whatever THAT means these days- it is much more than music-), send it in!!! tell one of those two dudes or tell me. this was originally started by me, but fairly quickly became a community project- an important, yet sometimes troublesome project- but it made me feel good to do, and to communicate with others and have others share their personal thoughts/stories/or whatever the fuck they felt like writing that week. i miss the pain in the ass that putting up columns can be every week... living where i do, i'm out of the loop for the most part, even if i'm in muskegon a few times a month- that has always been my biggest complaint- people not sending shit in- because when this site was thriving, i felt like there was a strong bond with everyone in our scene- even with all of it's little subgroups and whatnot. when this became a community project, it took part- no matter how small of a part, but a part nonetheless, of our community to make it happen- even when there was a lot of bad shit going on and in-scene fights and just plain bullshit- we were still together. but i have seriously wandered off subject here- the cd comp. well, it got set aside from lack of motivation and a bunch of other excuses- some got used for personal use when we ran out of blanks, and a big stack of them got used for the second pressing of lowlife's first album. but there is still a stack of them. maybe something limited in the future- but i never stopped thinking about putting it out. then the other day i was walking my dog in the woods with headphones on, listening to an old MRR podcast, and i thought fuck yeah! that's the answer... podcasts. i just need to find some hosting space for it. i'm planning on doing a half hour show once a month- maybe twice depending on how it goes. i've got a lot of rad ideas for it (or so i think)- but if you want your band's shit on it, contact me for the address. so that's my plan for next month- the first installment of bep podcasts will be out sometime in may!
other than that, i'm tired, i'm wired...maybe i should try counting sheep...
the short version: the long awaited bep comp entitled roots: vol one has been put on hold for now, but instead, starting next month (if i get more hosting space) i will be doing either a once a month or biweekly podcast!
the long version (follow my brain...)
another good idea i once had was a west michigan cd comp of local 80's punk rock. some of the best shit that you probably never heard. faithful readers might remember me mentioning said comp several times in previous months. i had 100 discs half hand screened with only one more color to go. i had finished the front and back artwork (on a totally different note, our own piece of work, lowlife art will be back around the end of the month!) and even those pain in the ass side panels. i had a couple test prints made and they fit perfect. i had most of the bands and songs picked out that i felt essential in muskegon/west mi. p-rock for your ears. shit that i thought would blow you away- even if some of it was not your politics, a lot of the songs are things we all deal with- even if it's not part of your lifestyle, these things were/are part of our scene- like it or not.
anyways, i had the shit pretty much down, and permission from most of the bands- not that something as trivial as permission mattered/s to me when it comes to a project like this. it is a part of our history, and as a dweller on past events, i felt- and in a big way still feel that this is an important thing to do- even if only 50 people ever heard it- it could quite possibly change their lives- or so i think...at the very least the consumer would have access to rad shit that has long been archived in the personal stashes of a few hundred people at most. anyways, for the sake of being fair, i contacted most of the bands and the ones i did talk to were pretty stoked about it.
so everything seemed a go. i just had to finalize the track list, talk to one more band, get the inserts and all that printed and cut, and then inserted. it all sounds rad as i type, but i now know it was a pipe dream for the most part, and here's why: have you noticed all the past tense talk? i know, and if you know me, that i tend to procrastinate. sometimes a lot- shit- look at the state of the pie-online, print- which is long overdue, the shitshop, the news (but i gotta give big ups to casey and travis for helping out- but seriously, if you have some news about a local, punk rock (whatever THAT means these days- it is much more than music-), send it in!!! tell one of those two dudes or tell me. this was originally started by me, but fairly quickly became a community project- an important, yet sometimes troublesome project- but it made me feel good to do, and to communicate with others and have others share their personal thoughts/stories/or whatever the fuck they felt like writing that week. i miss the pain in the ass that putting up columns can be every week... living where i do, i'm out of the loop for the most part, even if i'm in muskegon a few times a month- that has always been my biggest complaint- people not sending shit in- because when this site was thriving, i felt like there was a strong bond with everyone in our scene- even with all of it's little subgroups and whatnot. when this became a community project, it took part- no matter how small of a part, but a part nonetheless, of our community to make it happen- even when there was a lot of bad shit going on and in-scene fights and just plain bullshit- we were still together. but i have seriously wandered off subject here- the cd comp. well, it got set aside from lack of motivation and a bunch of other excuses- some got used for personal use when we ran out of blanks, and a big stack of them got used for the second pressing of lowlife's first album. but there is still a stack of them. maybe something limited in the future- but i never stopped thinking about putting it out. then the other day i was walking my dog in the woods with headphones on, listening to an old MRR podcast, and i thought fuck yeah! that's the answer... podcasts. i just need to find some hosting space for it. i'm planning on doing a half hour show once a month- maybe twice depending on how it goes. i've got a lot of rad ideas for it (or so i think)- but if you want your band's shit on it, contact me for the address. so that's my plan for next month- the first installment of bep podcasts will be out sometime in may!
other than that, i'm tired, i'm wired...maybe i should try counting sheep...
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