Eric/Par/Alison: I don't know, I just think if I know about them they aren't that indie. Like I don't listen to anything remotely near that area of indieness. Therefore I should only know about overhyped bands that are being pushed at the moment. And hence they should be pretty mainstream for me to know about them. Well they got to eat to, so they need to make money by appearing on a TV show.

Ed: Anything for a road trip, add treasure hunting in and I think everyone will want to do it.

A Treasures' Trove

I heard about this around Christmas, but forgot the book title and forgot about it all-together. I was reminded today when I heard on the radio they were interviewing the author. It sounds pretty cool - a fantasy story book for children and adults which contains real clues for 12 real tokens hidden across the USA. The tokens can then be exchanged for valuable jewels worth large sums of money. The millionaire author is not making any money off this... he actually had to pay a lot of money to make it happen... and it isn’t a ploy to sell books since he is donating profits to environmental causes. From the sounds of it, he just wanted to make something fun. Sounds like it might be an interesting read... and a fun road trip.

Apparently there is an official website as well... but I couldn't find it.

yeah what Paras said, that's what i meant.
well... i guess they DID open for Bowie, so people damn well better know who they are. still when did NBC decide that it was appropriate to write them in as a major part of that episode...what, they trying to be the O.C or something? next thing you know Maroon5'll be on Will and Grace (hahaha, get it? MAROON 5 IS FUCKING FAGPR0N!!*SD(&F*((#@$&)#@&$)@#&$)

nah, I wasn't actually planning on doing the whole melrose thing, it's just entertaining to think about from time to time. all considered, you're right, it's a really risky venture, and probably not worth whatever positive may come out of it when the negatives are so heavy on the balance.

though... concensus from some of my other friends is to just plain fuck him. you know, and get it over with... or see what happens. that's like choosing the worst case scenario first, and then going from there. I'd like to think I'm not dumb enough to do that. here's hoping I stay that way.


and, to back Paras up, (?) Bravo Video does not constitute becoming non-indie. Have you not seen who gets played on that? and the lack of regularity? chancing upon a video on Bravo is part of their alternative broadcasting strategy and does not (in my opinion) take away any indie-ness. I mean, come on, it's Bravo... not NBC. In some cases, showing a video on MMM or MM doesn't constitute a change in indie-ness.

I think what he meant is that, because they were played on an episode of Las Vegas, they are no longer indie. (In the same way it's disappointing when some song on a non-mainstream album you own ends up in, say, a Mitsubishi commercial.) Also, I'm not sure appearing on Bravideo (are you sure that's not BravoVideo?) diminishes your indie-ness; at least, not nearly as much as being played in a major primetime network television show.

Eric: Did you mean that Polyphonic Spree was indie, or did you mean that Las Vegas stopped showing indie bands?

Eric: Polyphonic Spree shows on Bravideo all the time (I'm suprised you... Actually I'm suprised I know about them!). They aren't that indie.
Par: Kind of get your refrence with the Java Parallel processing thing but not really. I guess people want to sound smart so they drag up really obscure things to compare to.

can someone explain why the Polyphonic Spree was on tv's Las Vagas last night?
maybe indie is over.

A few unsolicited comments:

We loves our duplication. (Triplication?)

"The music is in the vein of Drive Like Jehu, Antioch Arrow, and the Crimson Curse."
I love it when people compare something I don't know to something else I don't know. Granted, it could be my fault for not knowing the obscure basis of the comparison, but it's still about as useful as a java-based distributed-memory parallel programming system that isn't compatible with new versions of the software it relies on.

And Do I Need a Jacket?

oh. yeah no i was sorta being facetious - especially with my Prof anyways, cause he seems pretty cool with the idea of crossing the line but gets all fuckin' rulebook about handing assignments in "late" (late as in I arrived late to class and didn't hand them in at 9:05, seriously what the fuck!?)

really, do whatever you want.
but consider the possible outcome of things going bad- they'd be straight outta fuckin' control. and in some ways, pretty (Melrose) sweet.