From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #216 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Saturday, November 14 2009 Volume 08 : Number 216 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Bad Lieutenant [Markwstaples@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:56:34 EST From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Bad Lieutenant Anyone given this album a listen? My computer doesn't have sound at the moment and a play sample isn't available at the record store. What's it sound like, something easy to imagine, like Low-Life with a dab of Parklife? That morph sounds appealing to me. - --Mark However, I did not wish to be a passive participant in the Internet. I wanted to add my voice to the babble and so, for fun, I created a prank commerce site on which I sold "celebrity room tones." It was a beautifully designed site (I cloned a Swiss site that sells cutlery) and entirely convincing. What is a celebrity room tone? For $4.99 you could visit my site and download one hour of household silence from rooms belonging to a range of celebrities, all of whom promised to donate their royalties to charity. There was Mick Jagger (London; metropolitan), Garth Brooks (rural; some jet noise in the background), Cameron Diaz (Miami; sexy, funny, flirty) and so forth. For cachet, I threw in household silences from the Tribecca lofts of underworld rock survivor Lou Reed and motherly experimental performance artist Laurie Anderson. I was quickly flamed by many potential shoppers, hounding me at _webmaster@celebritiyroomtones.org_ (mailto:webmaster@celebritiyroomtones.org) to ask why their Amex or Visa wouldn't process. (Harj, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka--from GENERATION A) ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #216 *******************************