Our criticism is important to artists.

December 15, 2007 10:34 AM

The liner notes to Brian Joseph Davis' new album contain this thread.

Pretty much verbatim, with a few inside-jokey comments removed.

posted by roll truck roll to MetaFilter-Related at 10:34 AM (17 comments total)

If only I had commented, the sweet, sweet nectar of statutory damages would be coming to me, and not those other MeFites.

If only I had commented.
posted by grouse at 10:45 AM on December 15, 2007

I think it's only fair that you scan it and post it for us, since he copyed and pasted it from us.
posted by bigmusic at 11:00 AM on December 15, 2007

Kickbacks! I want my kickbacks, dammit!
posted by hydrophonic at 11:46 AM on December 15, 2007

All posts are © their original authors.
I see great opportunities for copyright lawyers here. Maybe you can pick up some of those the RIAA is laying off.
posted by wendell at 12:10 PM on December 15, 2007

I'm guessing that if anyone did try to mount a copyright infringement case against BJD, our share of the winnings wouldn't cover the cost of envelopes to send them to us.

I saw him at The Lab in SF a few days ago; he featured at a reading/concert along with various people from Instant City and Small Desk Press. The bad thing was that nearly everyone left before BJD's performance. He ended up doing an "abbreviated version," in which he introduced and played ten-second samples of cuts from his CD, and then read the last sentence of his book.
posted by roll truck roll at 12:23 PM on December 15, 2007

Really nice guy, by the way.
posted by roll truck roll at 12:24 PM on December 15, 2007

BJD obviously has an excellent sense of humor and I violated my own orders with the unmarked sarcasm above.
posted by wendell at 1:12 PM on December 15, 2007

Thanks for pointing me to that thread. The First Family one is perfect.
posted by wemayfreeze at 1:27 PM on December 15, 2007

I think it's only fair that you scan it and post it for us, since he copyed and pasted it from us.

Yes, please. Do this.
posted by philomathoholic at 1:29 PM on December 15, 2007

I expect this thread to be in the liner notes of his next one.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:31 PM on December 15, 2007

Our criticism is important to artists.

Yeah, we (MefiMusicians) have been saying this to you people for years, but it takes an outside artist for you to notice it. Geez. How about you go to Mefi Music, comment all over the place and see if it makes it to somebody's next liner notes?
posted by micayetoca at 1:44 PM on December 15, 2007 [3 favorites]

wendell typed "BJD obviously has an excellent sense of humor and I violated my own orders with the unmarked sarcasm above."

No, I knew that you were joking. I was just making a joke about the fact that his work is pretty much composed entirely of copyright enfringements.

bigmusic typed "I think it's only fair that you scan it and post it for us, since he copyed and pasted it from us."

I'm not sure how to pull this off. I'll look around for a scanner. Maybe someone else here has it?
posted by roll truck roll at 2:16 PM on December 15, 2007

You could take a picture -- it'll last longer! I mean, take a picture and put it up on your Flickr page.
posted by The corpse in the library at 2:51 PM on December 15, 2007

Neat!
posted by cortex (staff) at 5:43 PM on December 15, 2007

And you started this thread, I suppose, so that he'll have material for his new book!
posted by dobbs at 8:10 PM on December 15, 2007

roll truck roll writes "I'm guessing that if anyone did try to mount a copyright infringement case against BJD, our share of the winnings wouldn't cover the cost of envelopes to send them to us."

Still, kind of rude to not pony up the $5 and ask.
posted by Mitheral at 9:24 AM on December 16, 2007

Brian actually just emailed me with the PDF. Here it is. He also said:

If you have a moment, maybe tell the people of Metafilter-land: Thanks for taking their textual sampling in stride and/or as an honor. I put it in the book to remind anyone who encounters the work (10 banned) on CD that it was created originally for the web. Also, the Metafilter discussion contained insight, snark, and a wealth of correct and incorrect facts and was far better than anything I could have written. In exchange I promise to keep, as always, everything for free as long as bandwidth allows.
posted by roll truck roll at 11:18 PM on January 9, 2008