Hello there Sinisterines, I have been oogling the idea of a tape tree. It appeals quite well to me, I must say. I wholly adore making tapes, and people usually say I make pretty good ones, packed with not a shabby amount of P!O!P!. I had initially gotten confused, though, on the way we're going to be handling the tree. Is it to say that every person will be required to make a new tape every other week? I think the newer impression that I got was that we'd each make one shining, brilliant, gorgeous mixtape (in our opinion of gorgeous, brilliant, and shining) and then toss this into the mail (or the post ;) and sit by our mailbox until we got a tape from another tape forester. Then we'd dub ourselves a copy of the new tape, toss it into the mail, and wait for another? Is that close to being correct? Also, a couple logistics of the thing are bothering me. Should we set the gain extra-high to compensate for the quietness of the copies? Wouldn't that also distort the sound quality a bit much? Should we find a nice, high-quality cardboard box so that the person who gets the mixtape only has to pay for postage, and not the purchase of a new package? Hm, I just remember I have a nice shiny blue packet that I rescued from the trash at my radio station. Anyway, as the subject header says, today is my final day as a teenager. Yes, I turn 20 tomorrow, that being July the twelfth. In fact, some thousands of years ago tomorrow, a small child was born, and they named him Julius Caesar. In 1978, a similar birthing happened, whereby a perhaps less memorable person was born. Hm. So yes, I'm mentally preparing to leave my teens and enter my tweens (not a twee reference, but in fact a literary one). I woke up this morning with a headache, a pain in my neck, and feeling horribly tired, despite the fact that I'd slept in. I hope that doesn't speak for the years to come. A portent of sorts =( Anyhoo, I ordered myself a brand new CD Recordable for my computer, so maybe when that arrives it will make me feel better =P Well, I must hop into the shower, as a friend called and asked if I'd go eat lunch with him. Maybe the day won't be as bad as it begun...oh, knock on wood ;) /"\_/"\_/"\ Mick McMick - mick@indiepop.com - ICQ#5056758 \ / Sandcastle Records - sandcastlerecords@indiepop.com | | Sandcastle Homepage - http://indiepop.com/sandcastle/ | | | | "Everyone has their own cup of tea. | | Some just happen to like a lot of sugar in it!" | | - Me! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------