(For the record, the archiving capabilities of Gmail are incredible. I can’t even tell you how many hours I’ve wasted reading old emails and chats while searching for one particular word I remembered from an email in 2004.)

March 30, 2007

b: it’s very slow here today I’m re-reading the Benjamin “Work of Art” essay me: wow, really slow

b: I started an email conversation last week among Omar, Jennifer, and Nick about what’s going on with musicb: Jennifer has interest and background in intellectual property Omar, of course, has been working on his music community thing Nick is Nick I’m pleased they’ve all responded with long, thoughtful emails, despite not knowing each other3:46 PM I’m working on mine Walt B has been on my mind as maybe being useful here so I’m seeing if that’s true3:48 PM me: aww, you’re so smart3:49 PM i just fit three marshmallow peeps in my mouth all at once! b: yessss! KOB!!3:50 PM what is “peep peep, motherfucker” from? me: uh… from me?3:51 PM b: sure you didn’t Kaavya that from somewhere?3:52 PM it sounds really familiar me: hahaha nice use of Kaavya i really don’t know maybe i saw it on a t-shirt?

 
4:01 PM b: hm, Ludacris says it in a rap
4:02 PM maybe it’s just a meme
me: maybs
b: OR MAYBE YOU’RE A GEENYUS
me: so what ARE you doing tonight etc
b: I’m going to see the Dirty Projectors and Hella at Europa
4:03 PM (greep greep motherfucker)
me: there’s a band called Hella?
hahaha
b: and then I am likely going to stop by this dumb mashup party that a friend from Boston is singing at
4:04 PM possibly meeting up with Nick or Gen at the later thing
aykb, I mostly hate mashups
me: what is a mashup
4:05 PM b: when you play two songs at the same time that sort of go together
me: ?
they have parties for that?
as in, that’s a phenomenon?
b: parties with only that kind of music, yes
me: i don’t understand
b: it’s part of our digitally enabled remix culture
people take familiar songs and play parts of them over each other
4:06 PM Girl Talk prob does this better than anyone
me: girl talk the board game?
b: I wish
me: i’m sorry, i’m totally lost
b: no, the guy from Pittsburgh
me: nerver heard of him
4:07 PM anyway, cool, sounds unfun
b: I’m actually sort of surprised you haven’t heard about this, not in a you’re-so-dumb way, but in a, I-thought-this-was-bigger-than-it-is
me: just what i love about my friday nights
well, i’m not cool, amember
4:08 PM i like that shins track, so
my ears probably aren’t even physically capable of hearing mashups
they don’t detect edgy frequencies
4:10 PM b: unnhh, I’m Arija, where are my cassingles I need to burn them to keep my cave warm, unnhhhh
me: what is a cassingle?
b: oh creepers
4:11 PM cassette singles
me: oh
i never had any of those
4:12 PM b: unnhh, I’m Arija, we sang the quadratic equation at my house growing up and never smiled, unnhhhh
me: closer
4:13 PM more accurate would be unnnh, i’m arija, until third grade i thought raffi’s environmental album qualified as rock and roll because he used an electric guitar on it, unnhhh
4:14 PM b: unnhhrr, I’m Arija, my LLBean backpack had FAG monogrammed on it, unnnhh
me: no, not FAG
that doesn’t make any sense
4:15 PM maybe MATH