And what's more...

[alexsarll]

I done a terrible thing:
http://www.myspace.com/alexsarll

Do whatever the young people do with this information.

Also, if your band/your mate's band I saw and liked/your vague acquaintance's band for whom you suspect I might fall have MP3s online, do let me know where.

Comments

[fugitivemotel.livejournal.com]

www.myspace.com/sonicflyer, innit.

[euphoricstimuli.livejournal.com]

I have just added you, Im not sure whether it was jon or his band (the silver wizard project) that was logged in when I did, so if you see one of those, its me & jon.

[stephens.livejournal.com]

What fresh hell is this?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well, quite. Also - am I right in assuming that extended warranties are as much of a scam wih laptops as they are with everything else?

[stephens.livejournal.com]

Personally I wouldn't bother no, but it would depend on the cost relative to the price of the machine and all that. I can fix most things if that's of any potential help.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Thank you for volunteering to act as tech-servitor there.
;)

[stephens.livejournal.com]

Play to your strengths and all that.

[billywhizz.livejournal.com]

I believe the done thing now is for you to comment on all your friends' profiles thusly:

OMG thx for the add LOL!!111

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

U R teh gheye

[billywhizz.livejournal.com]

Shut it, n00b.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Ease off - I'm not used to setting up my own profiles on these crazy new-fangled interweb networkin' sites!

[shewho.livejournal.com]

haha, there's NO POINT to myspace, but clearly i've added yer anyway :)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I can't get to mine at work (EVEN THO IT IS MY JOB RANT RANT) but I think there are some GK mp3s still up on our one. If you don't have them already. The link is on our website. Which I can't remember if I renewed the domain name for. Doh.

[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[alexdecampi.livejournal.com]

http://www.myspace.com/evilgeniushq
http://www.myspace.com/flipron
http://www.myspace.com/lukehaines
http://www.myspace.com/therealtuesdayweld

and although I'm sure James will be along shortly...
http://www.myspace.com/thelowedges

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

What's the etiquette with the Myspaces of bands one likes but doesn't actually *know*? On LJ I always felt a bit odd about the idea of adding eg writers whose work I like but who don't know me from Adam.

[myfirstkitchen.livejournal.com]

They *want* you to add them. Etiquette problems on Myspace stem from bands you don't know adding *you*. If you like them, add them. If you don't, don't. Or if you've got a music profile and want lots of friends, of the ones you're not arsed about then if you're likely to encounter them at any point, add them and don't if you're not (sorry Christian rock bands of America).

[alexdecampi.livejournal.com]

It's pretty much open season - friend stranger-bands, they won't take offence. The social networking on Myspace is a lot more denatured than LJ, and one's "friend" circle ranges far beyond people you actually know and/or want to talk to.

Let me put it this way: you will be spammed by about a band a day wanting to "friend you", that you've never heard of, and even if you had heard of, would never listen to. But bless, they think if they spam enough people and get 10,000 Myspace "friends", they actually have an audience - when instead they have a random collection of people too lazy / shallow to click "deny".

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It's a clunky-looking thing, to be sure, and it seems to come with all manner of nonsense in its train - but after more years than I care to count of having to read about bands without being able to hear them, and then eventually getting the option to risk a few quid (or an evening) on the chance of their being any cop, I can now find out whether the hype is justified at the click of a mouse. And that is pretty much my definition of Progress.