No rules: no standards. No standards: crap.

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Well then let's agree to disagree.  I feel the reason that LD works  
is because we're all on board with the fact that the core of the  
conversation somehow relates at least to music, if not looping.   
There's tons of stuff I could fwd to this list, or bring up to this  
list but I don't.  Kim didn't call this list, "Everything Delight"   
He named it so that it could be identified so that people looking to  
talk about this topic could find it here.

Again, there are many forums on the web.  If you want to start one  
about books, have at it.  Readers-delight.  I see it now.  I might  
even join (though I have little time for reading these days).

So, are we a smart, interesting group of people?  Hell yeah.  Was the  
book thread interesting?  Probably.  However, if we don't reign it in  
and stay on topic the list becomes diluted.  Too many people these  
days, IMO, feel that it's OK to do anything anywhere.  People seem to  
love bringing babies into movies these days.  Spiderman 3 had a  
crying infant in it at 10pm.  People seem to love to ignore the no  
food rule on the Bay area light rail and will eat full meals from KFC  
spilling gravy and soda everywhere.  Children seem to be able to do  
anything but brandish a loaded gun without getting so much as a dirty  
look from a parent.

My point is there are places for infants to be entertained.  There  
are places to eat food.  There are places for kids to run around all  
crazy.  There are places to talk about looping.  There are places to  
talk about books.

So I'm not judging the quality of the thread but it's quite obvious  
that the intent of the creator of this list was to talk about making  
music using looping devices or else they would have named it "general  
interest delight"

No rules: no standards.  No standards: crap.  If you'd like this list  
to become crap, then so be it.  I'll start forwarding every little  
thing that interests me to the list.

Mark

On Aug 25, 2007, at 4:39 AM, RICK WALKER wrote:

> Mark Sottilaro wrote:
> "Hey gang, There are many forums on line to talk about books.  This  
> is not
> one of them."
>
> Here I have to agree to disagree with you, Mark.
>
> This is an extremely creative community that is a very multi-talented
> and multi-dimensional one..............one that is fairly intimate  
> too, as online communities go.
>
> It is fascinating to me to see how different kinds of art cross  
> pollinate with the people who
> make looping music on this list.
>
> I do think that we should discipline ourselves to always including  
> an offtopic  OT  indicator
> in our posts and , frankly,   to have a subthread on Harry Potter  
> feels like it begs the issue*
> but I my feeling is that the answers to this question about what we  
> are reading informs
> the looping community as much as what we are listening to or what  
> we are performing
> or recording.
>
> You can always subscribe to the daily digest and just fail to read  
> anything that is on this
> thread or take 30 seconds to put a filter on your email program to  
> make anything
> with an OT: READING header disappear with the rest of your spam  
> messages.
>
> I, for one,  have enjoyed this thread and to me it's very relevant  
> to live looping
> because we are multi-faceted artists who are informed by many  
> different kinds of things.
>
> yours,  Rick Walker
>
> *I'm not opposed to saying you've read the new Harry Potter (or  
> watched the latest movie or
> listened to the latest movies sound score)  I just think that since  
> this is an off topic topic, that
> we should minimize it's presence on the list by retaining the same  
> thread name.