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Stores?

What are record stores for if i can get my music online? What if I want to hold the CD in my hand? Do you like to talk to sales people in shops? Is downloading affecting independent stores and the stores at the mall equally?

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MP3s?

What is the difference between a legal and an illegal MP3? Don't indie bands use this technology to advertise? Word of mouth does not equal advertising.

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Documentary?

Reality? A representation of reality? Is the truth stranger than ficiton?

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5 + 4 =

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February 2004

Class started meeting in January. People come up with documentary ideas and pitch them to the class. Goetz talks about media literacy and pirate radio. Knaus talks about a bird watching guy. Parker talks about farting exhaust pipe cars and admits he wants to work on. Goetz calls Parker and asks if he wants to translate his techno music and farting exhaust pipe car film to Italian motor scooters. The idea might work. Knaus raises an eyebrow, still none of the three are behind a project. The three talk a little more. Knaus comes up with the record store idea. Goetz is interested. Parker shakes on cinnamon. Knaus thinks the record store doc would be a little better than the scooter idea. That settles it.

2.27.04 Shoot at ATX records. Interviews with verdon, DJ scuba gooding sr and folks in attendance at the Ritz Upstairs.

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March 2004

3.02.04 Shoot at Jim Caliguiri's house. Man, this guy wrote the cover story in the chronicle about Sound Exchange closing. This punk rock establishment sat at 21st and Guadalupe on the drag. Besides writing features Jim also reviews CDs, books and shows as a free lance writer for the Chronicle.

3.03.04 Shoot at Tower Records. Dave Muholland sat in a chair and talked for us for a really long time.

3.04.04 Shoot at Cheapos. Interview with Kevin McCorkle. He has worked at the store for 5 years and has been in retail most of his life. The drive by truckers play the music that he likes best. What is roots music?

3.14.04 Shoot at the Red Eyed Fly. Annie Lin plays her Mary Lou Lord / Liz Phair folk for the crowd at this SXSW interactive www.fray.com event. She presents as part of a panel where musicians sound off on MP3s at the convention center on the 16th.

3.16.04 Shoot at the Austin Convention center. Interview with Annie Lin after she presented with a panel entitled: Drop that MP3, Musicians Sound off on the web.

3.18.04 Shoot at Antones Records. Anne-Marie Akin came all the way from Chicago to sing. This founder of Swamp Flower Records played some fast ones, some slow ones and a few well known ones. Eve (I've got to look up her last name) ran the crowd through some blues numbers. I was stomping my foot and would have been spittin' on the ground but I was in a record store.

Shoot at Mekong River. Magnatune and creative commons hosted a party at this Vietnamese restaurant on 6th street. Interview with John Buckman, CEO and Founder of www.magnatune.com. Licensing music does not mean you loose control of your material. Out of print becomes out of the question as this alternative music distribution group cuts even deals, 50 / 50 with the artists.

3.19.04

Shoot at Tower Records. The Winks are a talented female rock band. The Winks are a talented rock band.

Shoot at Cheapos. Petty Booka are a Japanese ukulele toting duo who put a Polynesian twist on popular tunes ranging from the Ramones to The Beatles.

Shoot at Waterloo. Frank Jordan rocked the butt of of a llama. I asked the lead singer, Mike, if he was named Frank Jordan. I am not telling you what he said. Mike didn't know if the music should be filed under "F" or under "J". We decided on "F" since Pink Floyd goes under "P".

More at Waterloo. The Coachwhips made a late apperance and set-up in the back of the store. They played and sang through a stack of amps. The signer had what looked like a harmonica mic wrapped in ducktape in his mouth and may or may not have brought it up on top of a rack of CDs as he walked, breaking CDs and parts of the rack as he played guitar. This was much better than Cats and I just might watch the tape again and again, or just once to get the fact straight on whether he was singing and playing on top of the CD rack.

3.20.04

Shoot at the convention center. Interviewed Scott Feldman, the national promotions manager for www.rock.com, the official site of rock music. Scott talked about radio stations on their site and a cross marketing deal with a movie coming out about an LA DJ. Scott goes to Tower on the boulevard and to Aeomba Records almost daily in Hollywood.

More at the convention center. Interviewed 3 guys from the UK. Record stores aren't a place of encounter there. The employees are mainly locate CDs but their main function is no to recommend music to customers.

Shoot on 6th street. Interviewed drunk people, sober people, homeless people, Austinites, visitors, a woman from the Austin American Statesman and recorded the Swedish Pavaratti in the foyer of the Driskill.

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April 2004

4.1.04

Presentation in class lab. A lot of footage has been logged and captured. We didn't sort out a whole lot of it. We have a few quotes and some instore performance footage of The Winks, Petty Booka and the Coachwhips. The final cut project has tons of clips in it of the best quotes out of our 11 hours of footage.

4.3.04

Paul Knauss put a lot of time in editing. There are a lot of quotes now and some of them are tied together. The project does not have a real arc and flow. Things are disjointed and do not follow each other for a reason. I am planning on putting more time in Monday or Tuesday working with Ryan Parker editing. We are scheduled to pick up gear on Tuesday. I am feeling that that is too soon. I would like to have a tighter edit before going out with a camera again. We meet with Stekler on Wednesday so that will help with the focus.

4.7.04

Meeting with professor Paul Stekler. We have the first tapes logged and the good quotes digitized. Some of these clips were collected and layed end to end in the tineline. It is hard to transition from one to the other but some sort of frame work is materializing. We checked out gear yesterday and I think it is premature to start shooting again when we don't know what we need or where we are going.

4.8.04

Shoot at Antones Records. Videotaped Forrest who has worked at the store for years. He held up a record and asked "Is this ones and zeros". Forrest mentioned that the audience for vinyl is getting younger.

4.9.04

Shoot at Waterloo Records. I started off by giving an employee a VHS copy of the Coachwhips doing an instore performance over SXSW. They immediately pt it in the VCR and people congregated around a TV and watched it. Some commented that it was the best thing they saw that whole week. I agreed. John Kunz, store manager talked to us for 40 minutes and then we did a little walking and talking around the store as he explained the different areas. He held up a record and said "This IS ones and zeros." Just kidding. He talked about the history of instore performances and told us why he has CD-R media for sale. He sells what music fans want to buy.

4.10.04

Shoot at 21st Street Co-op house. 91.7 KVRX Austin DJ Major Obscuro (AKA Andrew Ward) sat at his computer and talked about his music listening habits. At one point while surfing we found a chance to buy a CD at an online retailer. When Andrew clicked on the link we found that the item was not in stock. It was an organic, in the moment, these guys could never make this stuff up, whiz bang, case in point 10th level botisatvaic Platonically extruded example of a reason to download.

4.11.04

Shoot at a Hyde Park studio apartment. 390 a month, no shit. This guy named Lucas Anderson shot the shit with us for half an hour. He used to be a KVRX DJ. He has been traveling the world and plans to continue. Soulseek and news groups provide good sources of music. I can't think of a damn single thing that he said right now. We have 19 tapes of footage, so that's like 15 hours of stuff. It's all real blur. I know he will make the final cut because we had the bad purple gel on the wall behind him.

4.12.04

Shoot at Tower. Dave Mulholland, round two. I hoped to get a little more off the record with Dave or reach back to the March 3rd interview we did with him. This interview will hopefully provide a contrast to the first interview and we want to play them off of each other to drive the story. Dave told some great stories about Henry Rollins and about working at a record store in Seattle in the early 90s that Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love frequented. After the interview we stepped to the curb to interview people passing by. We got a few takers. "Could you spare some change for a digital video cassette?" "Could you spare some change for a sound guy that doesn't suck?"

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May 2004

"Your future is what ever you make it, so make it a good one."

- Back to the Future 3

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The End of Time

"Your future is what ever you make it, so make it a good one."

- Back to the Future 3

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March 2004

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May 2004

The End of Time!!!

Where We Are

Austin, Texas

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How to Get Here

IH 35 runs through here...

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Email or call the film makers

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Antones

Austin's home of the blues. Located off of 29th and Guadalupe they buy and sell records and cds. Vinyl sales are up and cd sales are down, ask 'em your self.

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Cheapos

Man, this joint gets in 500 used cds some days. Located on Lamar a couple blocks north of 6th street they sell everything but have a good selection of country, rock a billy and roots music.

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Tower Records

So they got bought out or something, no worries, nothing has changed among personnel or in the store at 24th and Guadalupe. This national chain features musicians playing live in the store and gives interviews to documentary film makers!

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ATX

Hip hop doc! 2400 E. Oltorf. Co-owner Verdon mixes up his own cuts in a back room and freestyles on top. He takes the show around to clubs in town.

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Waterloo

Keep Austin wierd! Right at the corner of 6th and Guadalupe they have new and used discs and sell tickets to shows.

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Borders

After some phone tag and swapping e-mails I am hoping to interview someone at the south or north location. This bookstore has a music section and holds community events. We are kind of hitting up against a wall with this group. I e-mailed and then talked face to face with a person who has lead discussions on "How to place music at Borders". It's not going well trying to get an interview with these folks.

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Austin Chronicle

Check out www.auschron.com. This weekly newspaper lists upcoming shows, covers food and politics as well. I would seriously be lost in town without this resource.

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UT RTF

The Radio TV and Film department is rnked 4th in the nation. Award winning faculty continue to win awards while teaching. Meet people, learn some and then go put the tire to the road.

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Pitchfork

Reviews you can use. www.pitchforkmedia.com. This site has lots of indie music and it's totally legal.

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Epitonic

www.epitonic.com. This site has tons of free and legal downloads and has a great rify (recommended if you like) ethic that allows you to find new music in the genre that you like.

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KVRX

None of the hits all of the time. no shit. 91.7 KVRX is UT student radio for Austin. They broadcast over the air at night and stream 24-7 at www.kvrx.org.

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goetz web assets

Personal website of Philip Goetz. I am the webmaster for this site and built the following site to get into the masters program at UT. www.geocities.com/philip_goetz.

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