***mildly shameful self-promotion***

[miss understood]

Wait! It's for charity! Don't delete me yet! Please!

Yeah, so...

I figured this would be the perfect place to post what I had hoped would be a nicely crafted paragraph or two explaining this little combination project-for-charity-and-kiss-off-to-the-music-industry I kind of initiated only a couple of days ago.....but now it looks like Rolling Stone (!!) and Tiny Mix Tapes have stepped in and done the hard part for me. Please check it out, if you have a second....and consider me, at this very moment, roughly ten times more stunned than you. Many thanks for reading, and for your patience...

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=19556
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/2004_04_01_archivenews.htm
http://justafan.org (<---the site this is all about)

PS: Future or current intellectual property lawyers, feel free to reply..

[johansen smith]

hey, good for you, it was a good idea!

[Susan Kirk]

Fooking brilliant. Good to see people thinkin' creatively!

[miss understood]

Wow, thank you guys...I thought this post would put me dangerously close to the ring in the inferno reserved for spammers and street teamers...this tells me I might actually have a future in Purgatory after all.

[miss understood]

Reason #658967 that Pitchfork needs to die: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/04-04/05.shtml#story2

And proof that not everyone on MTV is a total jackass: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1486181/04052004/wilco_1.jhtml

[winterwooskie]

it's weird how that has taken off so fast.

i started a website all about kirk cameron and my mom won't even check it out.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Originally posted by miss understood
Reason #658967 that Pitchfork needs to die: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/04-04/05.shtml#story2Why? The Albini bit? If so, you should be aware that after engineering their first LP, he wrote not particularly nice stuff about them in an article he wrote for Forced Exposure about his engineering experiences. BTW, $25 for a CDR and no shipping! What a deal!

[johansen smith]

I believe Miss Understood was saying Pitchfork sucks because they reported that Wilco came up with this project all by themselves, completely ignoring that it was the fans' idea.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Originally posted by johansen smith
I believe Miss Understood was saying Pitchfork sucks because they reported that Wilco came up with this project all by themselves, completely ignoring that it was the fans' idea. That link goes directly to The Pixies reunion tour piece, though.

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Mr.HCI
That link goes directly to The Pixies reunion tour piece, though.
well, it does now. Pitchfork uses a weird archiving system that screws up on recurring news links.

[miss understood]

Sorry for the confusion but yes Mr. Smith was correct. Originally the Pfork link I posted referred one to the hideously incorrect story (since corrected) that was later bumped downward in favor of you know the much more interesting human interest piece on Jeff Tweedy going into rehab. (Sigh.) What *was* annoying and characteristically infuriating about that piece (before I wrote Ryan S. to inform him his "reporter" person was illiterate) was the glorified plagiarism of the Rolling Stone story that somehow managed to obscure the point completely of what I had thought was a mostly straightforward two-paragraph little news ditty. Regardless...winterwooskie (and others), thank you for the kind words, it is more than a bit surprising how quickly this has all taken off.