Refreshed from a beatiful vacation in Northern California, I return older, wiser and ready to delve into new possibilities. This has nothing to do with drinking too much wine in Napa, or inhaling "funny fog" in San Fransico. In fact, it has everything to do with NPR...
But first. I invite you to recall your first pen-pal. Perhaps it was a class project-- everyone in your home-room was matched with a 2nd grader in a classroom in Ohio. You took some time to compose a thoughtful and penmanship perfect letter on lined paper to Molly in Mississippi, or Oliver in Ohio. Maybe it was even Francoise in France. Oh la la! You'd send the letter and then...wait...and finally, a response! Rupa from Roanoke wrote about her pet guinea pig and a field trip to a local museum. So like your own life, and yet so different.
Listening to NPR Saturday, there was a story, paraphrased, "There are thousands of ways to express who you are and mixing a CD of your favorite music is the latest thing. Around the country, CD clubs are exchanging mixes, discovering new music and getting to know each other in a unique way. Every month, twelve members of the Bobcats await the latest delivery. Producer Gideon D'Arcangelo explores the world the CD clubs with members from New York City."
Not only do you get to receive a treasure in the mail, you get to discover new music, and while I hesitate to suggest making new friends, it is possible!
So reader, please post a response if you are seriously interested in joining such a club-- I found one willing participant on line already, and Evil Twin #1 might join...you would be responsible for making a mix cd and sending out 11 copies one month-- the other 11 months you would receive a different mix.
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Now that I have a new laptop complete with cd burner, you can count me in! What a fantastic idea.
I think Andrea is a genius, but I do not know how to burn CDs and nobody would want a mixed CD from my collection of Fleetwood Mac, Anne Murray, and assorted show tunes. ["I could have danced all night..."]
I am writing today because I need a forum to complain. I am really mad that the Gap web site is down for like the 10th day in a row. How am I supposed to check on price adjustments? HOW???
They say they are making site improvements but the site was FINE.
ARGH!
Great! A duo of evil twins to add to the egg carton of music mixers. I'll keep all updated on the status of members-- I also responded to a craigslist ad, so we'll see what that yields. Otherwise I have my sister, her bf, his friend and another friend (potentially, but she claims she's a slacker) from NY.
Zara-- your music choices are just as valid as anyone's! Except Steely Dan--ugh! You can keep them to yourself! I did check the Gap site myself today, but for the first time in a loooong time, since I didn't know it was down. Maybe they are adding a Gap-bot-- something that thinks for you, ie, "Andrea likes green tank tops. We have one on sale for $6.99. We'll automatically send it to her."
Andrea,
Gap-bot!!!
Oh, that would be so dreamy.
Hey, what do you think of myspace.com? I think it is for the juniors but I did find someone I know on there using an ALIAS. I thought it was funny, so I just created ANOTHER bogus yahoo e-mail account and I am going to create a secret identity on myspace.com.
Sorry to be sharing all of this on the blog, I guess this is e-mail material...oh well.
Zara
i'm so excited about the cd club. not only is it another club to be in with A the queen of clubs, but also now i can receive mixes after distributing so many over the years.
z-
commenting is a perfectly valid method of communicating and many times superior to e-mail b/c if someone happens to scan your blog they will think 1) you have a large readership 2) you have very contraversial topics.
ps sorry about gap woes.
Regarding MySpace...just read about it via the NYTimes. See also:
http://mcsweeneys.net/links/librarian/28myspace.html
Regarding the gap site, looks like it's back up, but no significant changes (ie, on the 5 seconds I had it open).
Regarding the cd club, Sheila, I need your e-mail address and I'll compile who all I have together...so excited to get this going!
Andrea
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