Serve very hot; garnish with parsley.
April 12, 2003
Rough music and soft porn.
The internet was invented for people like us.
It was one of those how’d that happen, wasn’t looking for it, meant to be fateful introductions between us in 1999. BMF knew his stuff and he pretty much intoxicated me with his music knowledge. He is the punkrock motherfuckin’ Master. We have spent about a million minutes searching, listening, and discussing music. I guess you could say we have been music filtering for a long time amongst ourselves. Had we been web visionaries we might have come up with the idea to create an easy to use website where net users could share all the great stuff they were finding while surfing. Then other users would join in and there would be great discussions and lots of different opinions and before long a web village would evolve. Sound familiar? It’s called MetaFilter. I have been a surf at Metafilter since 2001 and bow to the King who created it.
About two weeks ago we discovered MetaPhilter, an amazing new web tool modeled after Metafilter. We are experimenting with it to get this website user friendly. Currently we run v.5 and it’s working like a charm. I’m pretty amazed by people who create something so technical and then make it available to the web novice. We have been taking advantage of all the constantly changing web resources available out there over the last four years to create our personal websites, Whatever Happened to Rock and Roll and the Nashville Pussy Chronicles which spawned out of a road trip we took in early 2002 to follow one of the best live rock and roll bands you will ever witness.
Computer time is the quickest of all time. What you think is cool today is sure to be replaced with something better tomorrow. During our internet infancy BMF learned how to make .wav files with the sound recorder on Windows 98 off the CDRom. Then he taught me how to do it so we could exchange clips of music over ICQ. That was thrilling in itself until we discovered how to rip whole songs off our CDs with Audiograbber to make something called a mp3 file. Smaller files and nicer quality. We traded music like crazy between ourselves but were limited to our own music collections. We wanted more but the online music community seemed very small at the time.
Then Napster happened. OH MY GOD. People started amassing huge mp3 collections. People bragged about how many mp3 files they had on their computers. It was an incredible internet nanosecond and of course we all know about the fate of Napster. Napster might even beat off porn as best thing in Internet history, not to mention how the cd burner will be viewed. What’s next?
Now here we are four years later in the same room in the same city with a brand new website to share. Music is how it starts. It’s up to people to share what they know, what they find, and what they feel. There will never be enough information to go around no matter how many websites there are about music cause we will always be craving more. So join us and join them as well … as someone said the richer the broth the better the yield.
current level: 7 and growing
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