RTP-area local music and culture

[Dax Odden <daxodd AT earthlink.net>]

All of these points are excellent!  Especially the one about "impaired
eyesight".  In that same vein, I would suggest that the guy who does those
"Stuff to Do..." lists be more sensitive to how hard it has become to read
them.  Compare a 2000 version with a 2006 version:

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Stuff to do, week of July 24, 2000

Monday, July 24
Calvin Johnson
Tricia Mesigian's basement, Carrboro

Monday, July 24
Hunter/Gatherer, The For Carnation
Go! Studios Rm. 4, Carrboro

Friday, July 28
Rainer Maria, Elizabeth Elmore, Mike Kinsella
Go! Studios Rm. 4, Carrboro

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Stuff to do, Week of July 27, 2006

Thursday, July 27
Elevator Action (http:/www.elevatoractionband.com/), The Ashley Crash
(http:/www.myspace.com/theashleycrash), Johnny Fever and the Frantics
(http:/www.myspace.com/jfandtf)
Marvell Building, Durham

Thursday, July 27
Bible of the Devil (http:/myspace.com/bibleofthedevil), Viper
(http:/myspace.com/viper), Valkyrie (http:/myspace.com/valkyrie)
Kings, Raleigh

Thursday, July 27
Alvarez Painting (http:/www.trekkyrecords.com/alva/index.html), Red
Collar (http:/www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic), Grasshopper
(http:/www.ahhgrasshopper.com/)
Wetlands, Chapel Hill

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It's OK to include hyperlinks (how very 21st century!), but at least he 
might consider left-justifying the name of each artist so it would be
easier to scan the list to see who's playing this week, even for those of
us for whom there's little chance we would want to go to an artist's
myspace page.

thanks,
20th century boy




On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, grady wrote:

> I'm pretty sure he meant for local *bands* to tag their *own* stuff
> correctly & post it. I'm not sure that the folks in Superchunk, Marat,
> or Thad & Caitlin would be all that thrilled to see entire albums posted
> online like that, even if you *did* get the ID3 tags completely correct.
>
> On a side note, since this is something which seems to come up a lot
> lately, particularly with band websites (and since the most recent Flash
> player available for Linux is Flash 7, and more & more folks are
> generating Flash that (often pointlessly or inadvertently) isn't Flash-7
> compatible, half the time I see garbage, or nothing at all, or my
> browser crashes--in your case, I see NOTHING AT ALL and have to view
> source to see the list of urls embedded in your flash movie, which I can
> then type in manually to open):
>
> What on earth is wrong with plain old HTML?
>
> Where is the value-added from your use of Flash? If I open the page on a
> windows box I see four lines of text, three of which are URLs which
> change color on mouseover. I'm pretty sure a little HTML and JavaScript
> could handle that, and if you're so concerned about font choice and
> kerning, you could (uggh) use images in an HTML table instead.
>
> Ah, I see on more poking around your site that you don't seem to have
> any HTML at all that wasn't auto-generated. Could I perhaps suggest that
> you consider the following:
>
> 1) Not everybody is using a browser for which there is a Flash plugin.
> The browser on my PDA, for example, which I use a lot, has something
> resembling a Flash plugin, but it tends to choke on most of the Flash it
> sees. My main machine runs Linux, for which there is a Flash 7 plugin.
> The Flash 9 plugin is due out sometime in 2007, near as I can tell.
>
> 2) Some people don't like Flash & have it turned off by default. (Some
> people don't like Flash and only *wish* they could turn it off, but
> unfortunately too many people rely on it for basic page layout nowadays.
> Grrrr.)
>
> 3) In many cases, if you're browsing in a tabbed browser, and you've got
> multiple tabs open with Flash movies on each, at a certain point some
> kind of saturation-point is reached, and the whole thing pukes & locks
> up the browser.
>
> 4) Some people have disabilities, including impaired eyesight, and they
> use screen-reading software. Try viewing the source on one of your pages
> & tell me what the screen-reader is going to read to you.
>
> cheers,
>
> Ross
>
> tommy Gibson wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
>> I put 3 of my favorite "local" albums online.
>> I'm pretty sure they're tagged appropriately (ID3v1, not v2).
>> Song titles are links to the actual mp3s.
>> If any of these files look like they might be useful, please
>> feel free to help yourself.
>>
>> http://tommygibson.com/mp3s.html
>>
>>
>> -tG

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