From: owner-basia-digest To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V1 #30 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org basia-digest Monday, 12 February 1996 Volume 01 : Number 030 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: BASIA SUCKS Re: basia's publicist For Sale Basia & Beavis & Butthead ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: juan paxety Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 10:48:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: RE: BASIA SUCKS I am quite thrilled that senor Juan Pablo Correa took time to e-mail not only the list with his intellectual tome, but to send me a personal copy. After a few seconds of analysis, I believe, however, that his arguement lacks merit. In fact, if I remember anything of college philosophy, I can refute his arguement. BASIA DOES NOT SUCK. (I'll leave sony out of this.) Into the TSI ruckus. I bought it when in was released in '94. Didn't like it. Then a lot of my CDs were stolen, and I just replaced TSI when BOB was released. Now I like TSI best. I also like BOB, but then I'm a band person and like the live group. I went to the Border's Bookstore in Greensboro (NC) yesterday (Saturday). There was a huge BOB display with copies for folks to listen to. Is there a new push by sony to sell it? Un abrazo, Juan con el psyco typewriter ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 20:15:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: basia's publicist (sorry about the delay on this but my server was down for a few days and I didn't get a chance to finish it on time): On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, juan paxety wrote: > I have called and talked to her secretary, who seems to know a lot about > Basia's career, but Ellen seems to be out of the office a lot. Perhaps > that's the problem. > I still think we should make Roach Basia's manager. (could I then get a free > t-shirt?) In all seriousness, sometimes I think that the fans could often do a much better job than the managers, promoters, etc. in doing the tasks that these industry people often are unsucessful at. And to anyone who might be under the delusion that it takes "talent" or some sort of special god-given ability (or even a degree) to do what these people do, let me tell you - it doesn't. If you're the sort of person who cheats at Poker then you're more than qualified. Drug dealers, too, have an excellent training base for becoming an industry exec. I suppose the most common misconception of industry types is that they come into work in a $1000 suit with a cellular phone in one hand and a briefcase in the other (which of course if filled with demo tapes and indie releases of loser bands who will probably never make it out of their proverbial garages)... then they stroll into their 18th floor offices - the same ones which had $10,000 worth of interior decorating done to them - where they spend their days making telephone calls to "the coast" so they can land that contract with pop music's next "big star." Let me dispel this misconception now, 'cause it ain't true. Only one word needs to be used to describe about 85% of those who work in the music industry: interns. That's right; cronies like me in their torn jeans and best flannel plaids (and don't forget your Doc Martens!) spending the day answering phones and licking stamps for college credit. Without 21-year-old idiots like myself, the music industry would collapse within a few days. And a majority of these "people" are free labor because they are ONLY interns... half are losers in local bands who think that they can make a "connection" by doing photocopies and putting promos in brown envelopes (we know them better on campus as "music majors") and the other half are Mass Comm/Journalism students (like myself) who think that having 3 months worth of experience in licking envelopes at Sony Music will automatically land them a position with Rolling Stone magazine right after they graduate. So, anyway, its my belief that the FANS of music could do a lot better job than those behind the DISTRIBUTION of the music because the fans know what they (we) like and what they (we) don't like. Although, if majority rule were to dictate in this "fan run" system, I'm afraid that we'd be quite outnumbered by the middle class teenage kids who have come to be the most powerful voice in choosing each week's Top 10 lists (they are the segment of the population that buys the most music). I think its a safe bet to say that your neighborhood Beavis and Buttheads don't listen to Basia. Toodles! This is... ============================================================================= Like ohmigod! Roach has a homepage! Find him at the Internet Roach Motel!!!!! ============================================================================= "http://zeus.towson.edu/~jlohr1" Dig up all the dirt on Agitprop's Finest Son, the Net's most famous Roach, and Wal-Mart's Biggest Pain-in-the-ass. ============================================================================= note: the page is unfinished - please excuse some of the cruddy links! -Roach ============================================================================= ...the end. ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 19:52:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: For Sale Went back to Rockville again today to that little record shop and found YET ANOTHER copy of the "Departures" 7"...though the pedophile who runs the place tried to be slick by putting it in the "Fingerprintz" bin instead of the "Basia" bin, probably because he was tired of me buying all the copies he'd had so far (and figured that I might've been making a profit off of these things and he wasn't seeing any action). Anyway, if you want it, email me and the first person to respond gets it. This time around, though, I'm gonna have to charge the full $10 for it, mostly because the guilt of my being able to buy my copy for $3 has worn off. This will be the 4th copy of the single which I will have bought from this place and I'm convinced now that this guy has an endless supply - and that was a really mean thing to do for him to put it in the wrong bin (unless you're a Fingerprintz/Jimmie O'Neill fan, in which case, the single has been in the wrong bin UNTIL now :)). Oh, and on Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Carolina John with the Psycho Typewriter wrote: > Into the TSI ruckus. I bought it when in was released in '94. Didn't like > it. Then a lot of my CDs were stolen, and I just replaced TSI when BOB was > released. Now I like TSI best. I also like BOB, but then I'm a band person > and like the live group. Someone STOLE your CD's!?!? What a rude and inbreded thing to do to someone! That's like stealing clothes from a bum! They should get the CHAIR for that! > There was a huge BOB display with copies for folks to listen to. Was there, like, a big cardboard stand-up of Basia? Let's see Ken get us one of THOSE!!! ;D Wow, I could put one of those right next to the five foot tall Boba Fett stand-up I have! Oh ecstasy! Eh, shuddup...a Roach can dream, can't he? This is... ============================================================================= Like ohmigod! Roach has a homepage! Find him at the Internet Roach Motel!!!!! ============================================================================= "http://zeus.towson.edu/~jlohr1" Dig up all the dirt on Agitprop's Finest Son, the Net's most famous Roach, and Wal-Mart's Biggest Pain-in-the-ass. ============================================================================= note: the page is unfinished - please excuse some of the cruddy links! -Roach ============================================================================= ...the end. ------------------------------ From: combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 20:22:57 -0600 (CST) Subject: Basia & Beavis & Butthead > So, anyway, its my belief that the FANS of music could do a lot better > job than those behind the DISTRIBUTION of the music because the fans know > what they (we) like and what they (we) don't like. Although, if majority > rule were to dictate in this "fan run" system, I'm afraid that we'd be > quite outnumbered by the middle class teenage kids who have come to be > the most powerful voice in choosing each week's Top 10 lists (they are > the segment of the population that buys the most music). I think its a > safe bet to say that your neighborhood Beavis and Buttheads don't listen > to Basia. (Basia's video for "Time and Tide" appears on the video screen) Butthead: Uh, is this some kind of bar? Basia: That's Baa-sha. Beavis: Oh, yeah, I heard about this chick! They say she's from Poland. Butthead: You said pole. Beavis: Oh yeah, pole, hehehehehehehe. Butthead: Yeah, she's going to be drunk. Beavis: Yeah, drunk on love, drunk on love! Butthead: She burns more fire than flame. Beavis: Fire, fire, fire, fire... Anyway, you get the point. - -- Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) that public-access-TV-making, video-game-collecting, cryptography-pushing, World-Wide-Web-explaining, fem-music-loving, bad-pun-creating guy in Austin ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V1 #30 **************************