[NewMusic] We have cookies! (was Poopoganda)

[kristin miltner]

we're not talking about killing people in vietnam, or hitler, for god's
sake! it's just friggin myspace!



On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Sarah - 21 Grand <21grand at 21grand.org>
wrote:

> Well, my dad was paid to train Vietnamese people to use weapons to kill
> other Vietnamese people (and probably some Americans) in the Vietnam War
> (he
> didn't have much choice in the matter, Myspace employees have more ...),
> and
> he's a good guy and  a good teacher and played music in college ... Never
> mind that the Vietnam War was a crock of shit ... Talented people and
> plenty
> of moonlighting musicians got paid.
>
> I'm not arguing that people who disagree w/Murdoch's politics shouldn't
> have
> myspace pages. It's dancing w/the devil, like Gino said.  However, this
> argument below is problematic.
>
> sl
>
> Kristin replied:
> Also, the myspace department in the evil
> empire is paying a whole team of talented web designers (and most likely,
> moonlighting musicians) that are busy thinking of ways to make us stay
> there, from easier-to-use tools to promotions to ways of helping us
> network.
> not saying they're doing it for our good, but as an insider to this type of
> environment, i know they ultimately want to stay paid, so they're focused
> on
> making a good product. We do benefit from this.
>
>
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kristin miltner
audio professional
www.myspace.com/miltnerunit