[NewMusic] Miscellaneous Transbay calendar stuff.

[Adam Fong]

Hi Tom,
Can you please add Other Minds to the distribution list?
Address in signature.
Thanks!
adam

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Adam Fong
Associate Director
Other Minds
333 Valencia Street, Suite 303
San Francisco, CA  94103
(415) 934-8134
(415) 934-8136 fax
adam at otherminds.org
http://www.otherminds.org
http://www.radiom.org



On Apr 28, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Tom Duff wrote:

>
> 1) Subscriptions
>
> Many of you receive the monthly print edition of the Transbay Creative
> Music Calendar.  Some who do not would doubtless be enriched if  
> they did.
> The calendar includes listings of as many of the month's Bay Area new
> music events as we can suss out, printed in a handy refrigerator
> magnet-friendly gatefold format.  Also concert & recording reviews,
> commentary and well-targeted (i.e. useful to you!), attractive display
> ads.  We're having a special offer: for a limited time, the  
> subscription
> fee is $0.00 per millenium (12,000 issues.)  Send me a message with  
> your
> snail-mail address and I'll put you on the subscription list.
>
> 2) Advertising
>
> While we pick up a certain number of contributions at the annual  
> Transbay
> Skronkathon BBQ, we finance the Transbay mostly from ad revenue.   
> (Let me
> shout out right now to Myles Boisen and Amoeba Music, our long-term
> stalwart advertisers.)  Your ad, should you place one, will be seen  
> by our
> 300 subscribers and by countless casual readers who pick up that  
> Transbay
> at the many venues and retailers that perennially display stacks of  
> the
> the calendar.
>
> Ads for non-profit institutions & performers are free.  If you're  
> actually
> making money and you'd like to advertise, you can send a message to
> info at transbaycalendar.org asking for our rate card.
>
> Of course, we take donations. Send email to  
> donations at transbaycalendar.org
> for details.
>
> 3) Lost Souls
>
> Every month, a few unfortunate subscription copies fail to find  
> their way
> to their appointed destinations.  Can anyone help track down these
> recently wayward subscribers?
>
> Chendoo (formerly of Merced St in Richmond)
> Ron Chornow
> Lynn Drouin
> Christian Gilette
> Mark Gorney
> Phillip Greenlief (Hey PG!  What's your new address?)
> Douglas Grunwald
> Jona Ostella
> Alwyn J S Quebido (Al Q!)
> Julie Queen
> Matthew Searle
> Steven Tobin (Steve's still on the newmusic list, right?)
> Victor (formerly of Midfield Ave in San Jose)
>
> (We also lost George Cremaschi, but I don't know what we can do about
> international mail.  George, do you have a US mail drop or something?)
>
> 4) Volunteers
>
> Putting out the Transbay takes a certain amount of work.  We crave
> your writing: concert reviews, photographs, jeremiads, record reviews,
> cartoons, musico-philosophical treatises, scores, interviews,  
> recipes, you
> name it.  Send email to me or Suki O'Kane, our esteemed editor.
>
> We would dearly love to have help with editing and layout -- in the  
> time
> I've been doing the printing (4-5 years?) we've burned out two great
> editors and are working on the third.  I bet we could keep  
> exploiting Suki
> for several years if we gave her a month off every once in a while.
>
> Distribution has always been our weakest suit.  A few volunteers to  
> pick
> up copies around the first of the month and drop them off at favorite
> venues would be most appreciated.
>
> Finally, we have a collating party the last week of every month.  A  
> few of
> us get together to fold, label and stamp the subscription copies and
> gossip about those of you that didn't show up.  If you'd like to  
> help with
> folding, even occasionally, send me your email address and I'll put  
> you on
> the invitation list.
>
> 5) The Big One
>
> Most important: the core of the Transbay is the listings.  Every  
> listing
> that's posted at bayimproviser.com before our publication deadline  
> gets
> printed in the calendar.  The nominal deadline is the 10th of the  
> month
> before the cover date.  (Late listings often get in, but don't  
> count on
> it, especially for the December and January issues, which we try to  
> get
> out early so we can spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with our
> grandchildren.)
>
> -- 
> Tom Duff.  Perge, Scelus, Mihi Diem Perficias.
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