blather_mixed_tape silentbob Ok. Why doesn't everyone who wants to be involved sign up and i'll try and make it work this time. Email me your names and addresses, i'll add the first song, send it along, and that person can ask me for the next address or name or whatever. You add one song, not too long, don't take up too much space. then pass it along. Qualify: people who will try and do it fast and send it along People who can afford postage People who have functioning materials with which to record a song onto a tape, either from a record, or cd, or tape, or your computer, whatever. as long as you can record one song onto a tape, send it along, and i guess we will keep going until we run out of tape. then the person who ends it starts over, maybe. but anyway. if you want to be involved in a blather jourey mixtape, i'm thinking i can get my ass together now, so send addresses to bobbyevers@hotmail.com or if you want, number yourselves on this page and i can keep track of it, or you can keep track of it, and when you get the tape, email whoever is after you. yeah. we'll figure it out. cool. 030629 ... silentbob and if your addresses change, or you dont want to do it anymore, LET US KNOW and lets not repeat what happened with the journey book(s) or whatever 030629 ... User24 why don't we do a blather_mixed_mp3? it'll make it a lot more accessible to everyone.. 030629 ... again I could compile a list of free software, provide some free webspace for it, allow ppl to up/download their mp3s 030629 ... silentbob YOu can do that. But i'm doing a mixtape, because the mp3 thing isn't more accessible to me. this was the downfall of the original blather mixtape. it got turned into sending one cd that everyone would burn one song to and send along, and the claim was that its easier. meanwhile, i don't own my own computer, therefore don't have a cd burner, and im not sure i'd be able to find someone who could burn just one song, and even if i could, are you able to listen to cds that aren't finalized? that would be the ideal situation, being able to listen to the thing as you add on to it. same with the journey book. if you couldn't see what other people had put, it'd be kidn of sad. so feel free to do an mp3 thing, but im looking for people who want to do a tape thing. 030629 ... a question: what happens when the mixtape completes its journey? does everyone get a copy, or are the tape's complete contents listed here or something? 030629 ... silentbob Both could definately be arranged 030629 ... silentbob Perhaps when the tape is finished someone could be assigned to make an mp3 page and a downloadable version could be created. I'm planning on using a two hour tape, so that could make a double disc thing... if one wanted to burn them to cd. hazzah 030629 ... 6am i know part of the fun is to see what kinda of weird/cool song unknown to you will be on the tape. but will the mix tape have a general rule like no songs from a choir of cats or someone singing when they were a kid which will be sentimental and all but it will prolly suck and ruin the mix tape. 030629 ... User24 good point, silentbob.. I hadn't thought that people wouldn't have PCs (chill out, man!) 030630 ... bespeckled count me in ... and bobby, i'll also email you. I won't lose the tape, or change my address and forget all about the other people on the list - i swear! 030630 ... carlita i'm in! 030630 ... silentbob its cool user24 ya'll give me your addresses or what-evs!! come now. so far i just have bespeckled the only rule i reccommend making is if you KNOW it will ruin the tape, dont put it on there. just put something you feel will both represent you will and complement the tape. So yeah. send address....NOW! 030630 ... Freak ive recreated charlies mix tape from the perks_of_being_a_wallflower 030630 ... User24 i would give my address but, a) my tape player doesn't work b) I'm very lazy and would proablly lose the tape, or just forget about it c) the postage would be quite a lot. one day, I'll join in with one of these 'real life' blather projects, I think they're really inventive and refreshing respect to everyone that's trying to make something happen 030701 ... silentbob Freak: i also, have a copy. i think a lot of people do User24: postage wont be that much. its not going to be like the blather journey book where im going to put it in a case that weighs like twenty pounds so the postage is seven dollars and then it ends up that the person you're sending it to isnt even there anymore and you're thinking to yourself, "Why did i just spend seven dollars on something no one is ever going to see again?" Again: whoever wants a part of it, should email me their address. im organizing a list. 030701 ... Mahayana postage wasnt that much with the blather book (about 3-something) and it wasnt "put in a case that weighs like twenty pounds so the postage is seven dollars" "and then it ends up that the person you're sending it to isnt even there anymore and you're thinking to yourself, "Why did i just spend seven dollars on something no one is ever going to see again?" (and the book wasnt sent to someone who isnt there, the blather book (IS) around, we know who has it, its just a matter of when. [just wanted to clear up the false information just in case those doing the blather book, read this miss-information] 030701 ... silentbob ok, correct, the book i was referring to was the blather red book i was going to say it in the original message, then decided i didnt care that much 030701 ... ferret why don't we all just record our own mp3's (or whatever file type, the person who gets them all could change the file-type, there's progs out there for that) all to one person and then they could compile them all together into one big file. as for the people who don't have their own computers, we could burn it onto a bunch of cd's and people could request them if they don't have their own comps. make sense? and then we could have a page for people who DO have's comps to dl them. 030701 ... silentbob Yes. You can do that. And we're also going to do a mixtape. 030701 ... silentbob Surely what you're doing would be easier, and more convenient for people online but this is so we can get something in the mail, and await something, and look forward to sending something, and contributing something that we can touch, so we can have a hard copy of it. Why do the blather journey book when its easier to just make a webpage on the internet devoted to blather? Why write each other letters when its easier, faster, and you can use spell check in an email? Because its more personal when you can see someones handwriting. because its more personal when you're listening to the tape and you can hear a click where the person who recorded it pressed stop. because its more personal to see what stickers they might have added. thats why 030701 ... karl the weed i have an even better idea. why dont we do both? because mine is on the computer already, and i couldnt record it on a tape (techno, btw, does it have to be vocal?) so the people who want to send it on the net can send it, and the people who want to record it on a tape can do that, and at the end, everyone gets a copy. i also think everyone should send a few bucks (like $2 apiece) so that way it will cover the cost of making a bunch of tapes and cds (depending on how many people participate) 030701 ... karl the weed or maybe ill just send mine with the tape in the form of a cd. 030701 ... karl the weed also i dont have a tape recording thingy 030701 ... silentbob Yes. You can do that we will do both. this has been stated before. now i just want addresses. if you have other ideas.....feel free to let blather know. 030701 ... hey now! personally, bobby, i was quite interested in participating. but since youre being such an ass to anyone who comes up with another idea, i think id rather not. youre making this way too negative. not that what i think matters much to you. youre much to arrogant to care what others think of you. 030701 ... hey now! yes im being negative myself. what a lil hypocrite i am. (just in case someone accuses me of being one.) 030701 ... karl the weed yeah, i agree. i agree with silentbob on that we should do the mail thing, but you dont have to be such an ass. 030701 ... Mahayana Perhaps, nobody will care, however ... I was interested in this project as well for the tactileness of it all, the nitty gritty sounds of a tape player reeling away, the communitiness of it all, the avant gardness, the low-grade [in the style of super 8 movements] but somewhere along the road i lost interest since the aire revolving this project became sort of controlling and negative, rather than cooperative and supportive ... i know things can get rather frustrating when they dont go the way we plan them to boy oh boy do I ever know this, however, people are just trying to brainstorm ideas, not bring down your project. work together this could be a beautiful project indeed, but these are just my opinions 030701 ... silentbob loves you um.... actually, that just made me feel really crappy, much crappier than i felt already, but you probably don't care, because that was your goal. i WANT people to do the things theyre talking about, the mp3 thing is a good idea. if someone did that i would request a copy of the cd becuase its cool. Im just jealous of the ideas and their technology and feel like a loser cuz im still stuck in the mixtape age. and i want people to do my idea too, and im afraid people will say, "Hey, that mp3 thing is a good idea" and forget the fact that a mixtape is going around too and right now i only have two addresses and am afraid that my idea isnt even going to work sorry im such an asshole, i was just really excited to try and do something outside of my every day existence and try to give something back to the blather community, in a way i understood and could make work. and i felt as though i held my tongue when i could have said a lot snottier things. so if the one time i don't cater to someones emotions makes me an asshole, than i'm really proud of myself that i haven't been doing it every chance i got. i was really snotty to user24 when he suggested that idea, but i felt bad and got his aim name and started talking to him, and i consider him one of my new friends. so... if that makes me an asshole.... i guess i'm pretty proud of myself it isn't worse than it is. and i was snotty to mahyana about the blather book, because i was seriously distraught when i realized the blather RED book was lost and it was pretty much my fault, and then all of that misunderstanding simply because i didnt put "red" in front of "book" so... if you want, i'll just go die now, and you can do your mp3 thing and forge further into the future where none of us actually communicates with any human characteristics, because its easier that way 030701 ... silentbob that was written, immediate after reading hey nows first comment, i didnt know anyone said anything afterwards. so yeah. apologies. 030701 ... silentbob loves you mahayana - i dont want this to come off sounding like...lame, or something (more lame than i already am) but i guess i just looked up to you, a lot for your dire organization skills in putting together the blather book