The rest of the post is nothing like this first part.

Chris Calloway wrote:

> jussa preference. don't feel like this is a request, please. but twould
> be nice to see the posts -here-, insteada having to wait for webpages to
> load. i mean, are we gonna get to the point where amch is a directory of
> the website or is the website a repository of things from the list? or
> both or neither and i'm confused and attempting to name something that
> aint even mine to name?

See, let me tell you how it would seem to BE, based on my personal
experience. I tell myself I wanna put up a website to house the archives
and make certain chunks of them accessible more readily. Only the
archives are largely gone at present, so I spend time instead putting up
other stuff, and as a matter of fact spend a lot of time maintaining a
"stuff to do this week" page. I write blurbs and put them there.

A lot of them are *not* from the archives, but many of them are
paraphrases of stuff I have written before, I think. But since it's my
brain, it's easier to just write 'em again than try to find them in
their previous states.

So I'm sort of ambivalent about whether it's necessary, again, to post
to a.m.c-h about why one should go to see John Howie, but at the same
time it seems like a *good* use of the website. So I get all tired and
my eyes get all dried out staring at the computer and when it comes time
to post or go to bed, I seem to just say "hey, there's new stuff on the
website." and leave it at that.

But what I *say* I really want is to just post stuff to the list and
then cutnpaste it up there. But the funny thing about all of that is
that most of us don't write to the list in complete thoughts, we write
as part of threads, so it gets more complicated.

And now people are sending me stuff to put on the website but aren't
posting it to the list either, and that's just widening the gap,
whatever that is, and so I'm just sort of going with it. Trying to send
up a flag when something gets added.

At some point I would still like for things to be posted here first and
then go up there, but maybe it'll just fall out on a per-person basis.
Todd will post to the list and not just send me personal email, and
other people will send me personal email, and I'll be lazy and just
write for the website instead of both, and I just don't seem to have the
stamina to be any more proper about it than that.

I know you unnerstand. It's out there someplace. Better than noplace.
What it *really* is is just one more variation on how to read this group
(that's like number 5, now) which makes it *more* difficult to follow
instead of easier. I know you'll like that.
> 

> please, as i dunno if i can even believe in essential lists, it is most
> -crucial- to explain why an explanation (that hasn't already been given,
> like, say, i'd go see them every night of the week, given the chance) is
> necessary for something like music that can't really be justified. i mean,
> it's not like, as you point out, there's the limited bandwidth of radio here.

No, it's just that I put up a list of records but what I *meant* to put
up was a list of records, each of which linked to a couple of paragraphs
describing them, or whatever. And since I don't have the Let's Active
stuff, I couldn't write the paragraphs, so therefore I didn't put any on
the list, plus I wouldn't have known which one, but as it turned out
right now it's just a list and no descriptive paragraphs so it's sort of
moot, like much of it.

> 
> but again, forget it, coz this list looks like it's yours to specify or
> accept specification, and, just for me personally, it would speak louder
> that let's active -not- be on such a list, however long or short.
> 
You know, just so when, uh, Jenno gets $15 for her birthday she can go
to Rec Ex looking for some local music to try out, and not get stuck
with, like, a Brian Hartzog record or something. Or so someone with some
advance forewarning can recommend one Flat Duo Jets record to start
with, since there have been an awful lot of them.

Of course, I'd recommend any of them except, for some reason, not "White
Trees" first. Hmm. Wonder why.

> i mean, it could be there because one person voted for it. that's all the
> reason i need to hear. but that's just me.
> 
Exactly. I meant to just ask somebody to vote for which one, but I had
earlier in the day read Gerhard Contloy's liner notes for the reissue of
"Bad Moon Rising" in which he disses Let's Active in an offhand way, by
way of making some point about Sonic Youth and the time period of that
LP, and some of the needless vitriol got stuck in my teeth or something.

> >It's too sunny out for me to spend time writing up the directions to all
> >the good thrift stores in Raleigh.
> 
> man, i could have the best time with a sentence like that but i'm hungry
> right now.
> 
> food review: hey, insteada going to the corporate chain wellspring, i went
> to mom and pop george's gourmet garage for breakfast this morning. it was
> good and expensive. i was the only customer. there were about twenty people
> working there at the time. there was a sizeable buffet. the place won't last
> even a few months at this rate. they'd better do a big bar business. i went
> in there a few afternoons ago to look around. the bar was half full of people
> who looked like they'd been imported in from the french riveria to sit around
> and make  the place look beautiful. there's no sign out front, there's been no
> advertising so no one hardly even knows the place is open, but they've got a
> website, of course.
> 
Huh? Who what where is this, and was it good enough to outweigh all the
vaguely bad things implicit in all these surrounding sentences?


> 
> hope your sinuses feel better. 

All I have left is the amazing back spasm that results from spending
like 2 days straight unconsciously trying not to move one's head or neck
more than 1/4" in any direction.

That whole Ruby post about getting the invite on Sunday was a hoot. As
in, sure, I subscribe to the list for exactly this sort of reason, and
I've told Ruby the whole story about why it might be useful at times
like these, but that's all rendered moot by the fact that Bo drew a
little map in the book at XYC, which I have seen despite not being a
staff member there, even (Rawls won't permit it), and besides that, the
QoT was the one who would've taken me to the partay, had I gone, and she
is neither telephone nor book nor email. So I got invites via multiple
semi-public non-email vectors, so, like, where the fuck you *been*,
Rube?

Oh, and like anybody ever calls and invites anybody to a party in Chapel
Hill. Shit. You run into fukkin Ian Williams at Henry's and you ask
*him* where the party is--*that's* how you get to parties in Chapel
Hill, right?

Ross

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