bands of people that i met on tour

the lineup (darren from long island) - www.thelineup.cjb.net

posted by geoff on 4/22/2004 04:43:41 PM
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biodiesel/veggie oil info from kenji

i got the recipe for biodiesel from a book called from the
fryer to the fuel tank by josh tickell a long with a lot of other info its
a great book and its easy to get from barnes n noble...when you get a
little further along and you want to convert to str8 veggie oil you should
hit me up we got some plans from some man on the internet that are better
than the ones in the book...as far as biodiesel goes theres some pretty
good info on diy processors and batch making on
www.journeytoforever.org....

posted by geoff on 4/22/2004 04:21:59 PM
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This was going to be in an email to Will, but I feel like it just made things too long and confusing. But it's something that I want to say/think about.


This band is important to me, not so much beacuse I really really like going on tour or playing shows or recording (though I do like those things), but because this band is the thing in my life right now that seems to have the most opportunity to have deep, challenging relationships with the people that I'm doing things with, to have new experiences, to make things that will illicit some sort of reaction from people around me. And I think that doing this band opens up opportunities to do those things external to the band. It's important to me to have something in my life that I want to be so consuming of my time and energies. Sometimes I'd like that to be something else, like activism. But, when it comes to the reality of things, I'm not like that girl at CUSAS (I unfortunately can't recall her name) who went to every activist group meeting, who was at every action, who organized everything, who kept in contact with the administration, who got a full time job doing similar things. I guess, even though something like activism seems more noble to me, I think more good will come out of doing something less noble whole-heartedly than something more noble half-heartedly. Not that it's always a zero-sum tradeoff anyway. I understand that Defiance, Ohio might not be the thing that everyone in the band wants to dedicate all there energy and concern to, but I think for most people, it seems like the best option. And, I'm not sure if everyone even wants anything in their lives that is all-consuming. But I feel like there have been periods when the band was that for at least you, Ryan and I adn I think thing that's reflected in the things we've done and made. If in the future, any of us have a more compartmentalized view of the band, it's really important to me that people external to the band recognize this because for better or for worse, I think that there are a lot of kids who listen to our music or come to shows who perceive the band as more than a fun little project that people do every few months and have emotionally and symbolically invested their concern and attachment to the band and the music. I don't want us to end up like Against Me! where people identify with something strongly and then get told "we're just a rock band".

Sometimes I feel like you think that things like playing shows, or tour, or recording are done for their own sake. I see them as being just one part of maintaining forward motion for this thing that can be as big and strange as we want it to be. We can make Defiance, Ohio whatever we want, in ways that are more than the typical band, or more than we can imagine now, but it requires us to structure our lives around it to some degree, and to keep doing the things that we've made commitments to in the past.

posted by geoff on 4/22/2004 01:02:37 PM
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How do I move PostNuke to/from a sub folder on my site

Moving PostNuke's installation on your server is simple. All that is needed is to move your install from it's current folder to the desired folder. All PostNuke Generated Links are relative, so there should be no problems there. If any of your links are hard coded to a specific URL then they will need to be updated.

posted by geoff on 4/19/2004 03:22:32 AM
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