Slim: yr weird

Slim: swoopes, man, i tense up every time she has the ball in her hands. hammond is scary though, in a different way, like wouldn't want to run into her in a dark alley.

Slim: yeah, it's stupid. but way stupider is that he got a gold glove. he's terrible defensively.

Slim: hm

Slim: go for it

Slim: no

Slim: i can't guarantee it will be listend to. but it might....

so sorry, its just that we are so busy and there ae so few of us...

Slim: I played in Earth for a llittle under a year of rehearsals. I quit after our first show. I don't know anything about Sunno O))). Nisqually Delta Podunk Nightmare was very primitive and goofy. We did release a cassette of a live radio performance, but that's all. Thanks for asking.

Slim: i don't.

Slim: its the same address that's on all the records and CDs.

Slim: i probably listened to it, i was pretty careful and listened for a while after just to be sure...

Slim: what is mail art

Slim: 2005 sometime, sorry

Slim: its pretty cheap to live here but not as cheap as it used to be

Slim: this is a question you would need to ask sleater-kinney. as far as i know, nothing is sour.

Slim: the punks will be on the east coast from oct 14 to october 16. sorry.

Slim: perhaps

Slim: london calling - the clash

Slim: the fire of love - gun club
taking drugs to make music to take drugs to - spacemen 3
repetition - unwound

Slim: if i liked it i'd send you an email

Slim: if i liked it i'd send you an email

Slim: yes

Slim: time heals all wounds

Slim: i sure would like this to be true.

Slim: Bound For Glory. Beau Geste. The Bell Jar.

Slim: Hi

I am sorry to have to be the one to tell you that yes, promotion is very important for a fledgling record label.

Slim

Slim: witchypoo broke up in 2000. i guess technically i currently have two bands, slimmoonSolo and The Punks. but neither plays much because neither gets asked to play very often.

Slim: hmm. I'd say Gertrude Stein and Jesse Bernstein and Donald Barthelme and Kathy Acker, mostly.

Slim: the film festival

Slim: no

Slim: my favorite movie is little murders.

Slim: right now, so far as i know, they are all between projects?

Slim: it sounds insane

Slim: we consider anyone, but yes, touring is a thing that is an important consideration.

Slim: yes

Slim: depends on the young person.

Slim: wow that's a hard question.

i do not personally subscribe to any utopian philosophies, including anarchism. when i was younger i described myself as an anarchist, but i'm become more pragmatism-based in my politics because i've seen ideal-based politics do so much damage in my lifetime.as a pragmatist, i do not have a violent nor a non-violent stance. but i do believe that some violent activism that has occurred that I know about is extremely unpractical at creating change, it just seems more like blowing off steam or being selfish than anything else.

Slim: I can't choose land of the lost with the sound off as dylan as the sountrack?

Slim: STEVE JACKSON GAMES. yeah!

Slim: oddly enough, we talked with plexifilm for years but they seem to have lost interest in working with us.

Slim: i don't believe in the concept as drugs as an artistic catalyst. sure there were some artists who took drugs, but that's just cooincidence, i don't believe the drugs make the art. none of my art is drug-influenced. i wrote stories like that long before i took drugs.

Slim: i think its the same. it all sucks and thats why people get together to try to make exciting things happen.

Slim: you don't remember the tv show?

Slim: um, it says all over the place on our site that we don't book tours for the bands. would you like us to forward this to the booking agents?

Slim: hi Slan

it is very expensive to go to europe and even more expensive to make it to ireland, i think that is the main problem.

slim

Slim: hi gilmore

i love the gilmore girls. but i too have been unable to watch them because i got rid of cable to save money. i hope they put them all out on DVD someday. getting a slumber party song on the soundtrack and in an episode was a big highlight for me.

Slim: i got kicked out of college pretty fast. it worked out ok for me.

Slim: seems like a fine idea.

Slim: i am semi-retired now.

Slim: I have no idea, I doubt we are putting it out.

Slim: i'd like it if they did that

Slim: out of the three teams vying for the american league west, which ones are already playing at the very tippy-top of their ability? which one is bound to improve? who do you think will win the pennant, the ones playing beyond themselves, or the one sure to get better?

Slim: is this really a question?

Slim: we listen to all the CDs we recieve

Slim: um, i already saw it more than once

Slim: 1984

Slim: i agree with your top four, but Ozma would be my top one above all of those.

Slim: truth

Slim: wow, that's rad

Slim: the no new york compilation, and the yes LA complilation, and the What Is It compilation

Slim: i wish

Slim: Kim Thayil

Slim: yr true i dint no

Slim: i love nirvana, especially in utero. the issue of "selling out" is a complicated one, i respect their decisions they made for themselves and for their families but i would not have personally signed to a major label if i had been in their shoes. i think kurt killed himself plain and simple, i don't believe in any of the conspiracy theories.

Slim: dear soccer star

my favorite sports are baseball, curling, horseshoes, dogsled racing, and long distance running.

Slim: Unfortunately I do not currently have a band.

Slim: having been to games at safeco field several times for each of the last three seasons, all you have to do is watch the effortless way Cirillo fields the ball. i am convinced he's one of the best fielding infielders i've ever watched. and he's a llifetime .300 hitter. david bell will hit more home runs and perhaps more doubles, but safeco field is not a home run hitters park. by concentrating on good-fielding contact hitters with speed, the mariners have become the fantastic team that they are, especially at safeco.

Slim: i don't know what a "phony home recording" is. please explain.

Slim: off the top of my head i'd say some of my favorite blues musicians have first or last names that start with J: robert johnson, skip james, john lee hooker, blind lemon jefferson, john hurt, jimi hendriz, jimmy page, jack white. but leadbelly is my all time favorite for sure.

we've talked to ronnie about releasing that album and we'd love to do it, but nothing has been decided yet.

Slim: i really dunno

Slim: you have got to be kidding. i have been clean and sober for nearly 4 years.

Slim: 99 wins. high tide and green grass. goat's head soup, cuz the title is nice

Slim: we have no plans to put the box set on CD, it would take two or three CDs to get all ten 7"s on there. i have in fact heard amiri baraka. pitching is an unnatural thing to do to a young tender body

Slim: you know bruce, you're really being such a prick prick prick

Slim: rad thanks

Slim: hello bananarama sundae

do you mean me as in slimmoonSolo should play seattle, or do you mean the whole 5RC gang? slimmoonSolo plays seattle anytime anybody asks me to play

Slim: Slim Moon is the name i use for my spoken word, i don't need to change it to any other name, that'd just be confusing. slimmoonSolo is my current between-projects project, if that makes sense, but after I release my next solo album I'll start using some other name or identifier. not sure yet what that will be. other than edwin torres, i can't think of any spoken word artists right now that I'm all that enthusiastic about. i'm sure there are some good ones out there, but i haven't found them yet.

Slim: i'm in love i'm in love with attila the hun, attila the hun, attila the hun, he did pillage a village and killed everyone, that's why i'm in love with attila the hun.

witchypoo broke up in 2000, so we don't invite people anymore, but we did do that for ten years

slim

Slim: I did not know that.

Slim: it was a fun superbowl

Slim: I totally agree, I never liked sports because of the guys who did sports when i was young. But now i feel like I can separate the two - there are many bands i like even though i would never want to hang out with them, the same can be said of many athletes. it depends on what your definiton of a cool band is.

Slim: for the record, the following bands on 5RC have female involvement: Schema, The Get Hustle, The Seconds, Xiu Xiu, Deerhoof, Outhud, Witchypoo, Xbxrx and Semiautomatic. These bands do not: Replikants, Godzik Pink, Hella. I personally am very eager to hear more "noise" and experimental music from women. I am especially a big fan of Erase Errata, Sharon Cheslow, and also anything that Rachel Kozak (http://www.zhark.org/rach.html) is involved in.

Slim: dear candice

in one sense feel like this is the kind of work that doesn't have an end, that the process and the work itself is the reward. but in another sense, if it came to an end today, i'd be satisfied that we made a difference.

Slim: the yankees are just like the bullies who made my life miserable throughout my school days. anybody who roots for them must either be a bully or have the stockholm syndrome

Slim: that was too long ago, i can't remember. i've never seen that video

Slim: I will be turning 34 on October 15th, hooray. I need to buy some kind of digital recording system to make my new album at home, not sure when I'll have the money. Soon I hope. I have a brand new dog named Molly. She is really great. Thanks for asking the friendly questions.

Slim: i haven't heard of matt cook, should i check it out? we will probaly have some more spoken word soon - the next one will probably be by danielle howle

Slim: we like great bands that are serious about what they do and work hard

Slim: wow, that's some heavy stuff. i think that making broad derogatory statements against idividuals who are wealthy would be a mistake, but i do think that wealth and the wealthy are to be treated with a healthy degree of wariness, cuz it's been my experience that they can be very dangerous. maybe the deal is that all humans are dangerous, but those with power and privilege are way more dangerous, because they have greater means to harm others.

Slim: i have a date, she'd be mad

Slim: yr welcome

Slim: wow, this is a tough one. I've only put on a few shows myself over the years, and I never felt that I was very good at it, so I'm not really an expert. But the first show I ever put on (in 1996) I got the advice from Lois "just do it". So I found a venue that I could rent, found some performers, borrowed a PA, put up flyers around town, and the rest is history.

Slim: i gotta say that video turns my stomache, and I never liked that song. if you make me choose, I say Missy Elliott is the sexiest

Slim: look out, it might be more musical than spoken-wordy. like witchypoo crossed with Slim Moon. It will be called slimmoonSolo, all by himself. I don't know when its gonna come out though. i need collaborators

Slim: i think some have done it for fun, some have done it for the green, and some have done it for both, since the dawn of electrified music.

Slim: I only played games invented by Steve Jackson and I'm kind of a snob about it.

Slim: .

Slim: .

Slim: what

Slim: the compilations are compiled by our invisible friend harvey

Slim: I am not a fan of George Bush

Slim: I think I already did this.

Slim: um, I used to religiously read The New Yorker, Brill's Content, Vanity Fair and the New York Times front page, world, and business sections, but I have abandoned that and now for the time being I read Baseball Weekly, ESPN The Magazine, and the New York Times sports section. I glance thru music magazines but don't really "read" them.

Slim: yeah, the selections are weird, but that guy is silly to be mad that they showed that game. what should they do, pretend it never happened?

Slim: oh wow, what a question. "I'm not there, I'm Gone" is a big favorite of mine. but there are so many great ones. i don't listen to much folk music

Slim: oh geez, tough question. the best thing to do is just get involved in the scene, start a band, put on shows, make a fanzine, learn to mix live sound, volunteer to work the door at your favorite all-ages venue, etc. also, tell record stores to stock cool records.