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almost famous
by anders pearson
Thu 20 Jan 2005 18:31:04
MTV (and MTV2 + MTVU) is currently airing a short piece that features "music (for robots)(music for robots)":http://music.for-robots.com/. it's one of those hourly news break things that they'll repeat over and over again for a few days. i haven't actually seen it yet, but i heard that it first ran during TRL (hah!).
the "story":http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/hysterics/ is mostly about this kid in one of jP's classes and his band who are getting famous because of the exposure we gave them on the site.
last week they interviewed jP, blair and myself. the interview lasted about an hour. the piece was supposed to be edited down to a 2 minute segment of which we would be a small part. unfortunately, because of the presidential inauguration, they had to edit it down even further to 1 minute. as a result, jP was the only one of us that actually had any time on screen (and only a few seconds).
still, between this and being nominated for a "PLUG award":http://www.plugawards.com/, we're pretty damn surprised at all the attention we've been getting.
now it remains to be seen whether the site will manage to hold up to the increased traffic.
comments
TC - Sat 22 Jan 2005 17:09:14
Sweet. What are you going to do if it doesn't? Will you buy a super computer and make waffles at 10mb/s? Or will you visit people's homes and slap their hands when they try to access the page? Like the evil monkey in Zim! (Zim lives on your wall now because Martin makes us spend too much time in a video store.)Anonymous - Mon 07 Feb 2005 10:28:43
Congrats! Don't get too famous!Eric - Mon 07 Feb 2005 10:29:04
sorry, that last comment was me. Accidentally hit enter.