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Jim Morrison, Dotcom CEO Posted Wed May 23 03:37:24 2001 by orooney By Bill Lessard Jim Morrison would've made a great Net CEO. He had the looks, he was pretentious, and most importantly, he knew how to bullshit the media. Following is a fictional account of this thesis, cooked up the other night while Baldwin and I were tossing a few back. 1998: Recent UCLA film grad Jim Morrison runs into economics major Ray Manzarek on Venice Beach, CA. MANZAREK: "Hey, man, I thought you were going back to NY?" MORRISON: "Nah, New York is dead. I decided to stay here in the West. The West is the best, you know what I'm saying?" MANZAREK: "So what've you been doing with yourself?" MORRISON: "My father sent me a computer a few weeks ago. And since then, I've been tripping out on HTML. You know, I really think there's something to this whole Internet thing." MANZAREK: "HTML? Wow, I didn't think you could even turn a computer on. I didn't know you were into that whole capitalist trip." MORRISON: "You've got to open the doors of your perception. A revolution is happening. And it's all about the 3 C's." MANZAREK: "The 3 C's?" MORRISON: "Content, community and commerce. For everyone. A digital revolution, a software parade." MANZAREK: "Content, community and commerce. Wow, that's it, man." January 1999: Perception Technology receives 100 million in funding from Benchmark Capital, Intel and Kleiner Perkins. Although no one is exactly sure what the company does, the industry goes nuts for the company's dynamic young CEO who is fond of saying, "All rules are meaningless. This is the end." March 1999: Perception Technology launches an aggressive ad campaign whose tagline, "Break on Through to the Other Side" becomes the mantra of every digital hipster from San Jose to SoHo. April 1999: Morrison, along with CFO Manzarek, go on a 20-city media tour to raise brand awareness. In NYC, Morrison is feted by Josh Harris who gives him a golden cellphone at one of his infamous parties. Morrison snipes, "You guys are just a bunch of CBS wannabes" and proceeds to hand the cellphone to a passing homeless man. June 1999: Morrison appears on the cover of FastCompany magazine. The header reads, "Perception Is Everything." August 1999: Perception Technology receives another 100 million in venture capital, although they are yet to release a product or even a product description. October 1999: Perception files to go public. In addition to quotes from William Blake, Morrison's favorite poet, the S-1 contains the phrase, "We want the world and we want it NOW!" March 1999: A visibly intoxicated Morrison insults several industry analysts, among them Henry Blodget, during the New York leg of the roadshow. He is jailed later that night after punching Jason McCabe Calacanis in the face outside of Nobu. Although this would've been enough to kill most companies, the buzz surrounding the Perception Technology IPO only gets stronger. April 1999: Perception goes public, rocketing to the top of the charts, and closing out the day at a mind-altering $350 per share. September 1999: Henry Blodget rates Perception a "Very Strong Buy" and sets a $600 price target. February 2000: Perception's stock tops $700 per share. April 2000: Perception begins falling hard, like the rest of the market. Investors scream for profitablity and a product. Manzarek goes into spin mode. "Jim isn't a business man. He's a business shaman." September 2000: Perception closes under a dollar. Rumors about the company's delisting and massive layoffs appear on FuckedCompany. February 2, 2001: At an industry conference in Miami, a ridiculously drunk Morrison exposes his assets to a crowd of analysts and tastemakers, among them CNBC's Maria Bartiromo. A transcript of his remarks appears in the New York Times the next day. The pull-quote: "You want a public offering? I'll give you a public offering!" February 3, 2001: Perception Technology is delisted. The SEC files suit against the company. Morrison has no comment. In fact, it is rumored that Morrison is out of the country and wasn't available for comment. May 2001: Morrison is last seen in Paris. His current whereabouts are unknown. Manzarek sells Perceptions' remaining assets to MindMover.com, an ECRM integrator.   Posted Comments: post a comment! Name: Email: Comment: Name: Boris K. Fabian Email: Date: Tue May 29 15:27:58 2001 Comment: Othercheek Delius rocks..Love that Brigg Fair thing..he was Bernard Herrmaqn's fave composer.. Name: The Other Cheek Email: Date: Mon May 28 23:14:23 2001 Comment: Boris, no, not yet. But I have a good excuse: I am simultaneously looking for a job (Plan A) and working with a couple of partners on getting a new non-profit foundation off the ground (Plan B). As soon as things lighten up, I promise to broaden my musical horizons. By the way, I'd like you to check out British composers F. Delius and P. Heseltine (aka Warlock), especially the latter's Capriol Suite. Name: Boris K. Fabian Email: Date: Mon May 28 17:39:15 2001 Comment: Other Cheek.. So..did you check out any of my picks for your listening education yet? Inquiring minds want to know.. Name: The Other Cheek Email: Date: Mon May 28 13:55:18 2001 Comment: >Don't you love her as she's walking out the door/Cause he watched too much football/Like he did one thousand times before Rock on, violethorvath! Name: bill Email: bill@netslaves.com Date: Mon May 28 04:58:11 2001 Comment: >>>Bill: I'm willing to check out Rameau or Biber. Any works in particular you recommend? I'm more of Bach kind of guy. So I can't help you in this department. On an avant tip, I do highly recommend Stockhausen, Steve Reich and John Adams. Name: violethorvath Email: violethorvath@hotmail.com Date: Sun May 27 18:17:15 2001 Comment: Love Her Madly by The Doors Don't you love her madly Don't you need her badly Don't you love her ways Tell me what you say. Don't you love her madly Wanna be her daddy Don't you love her face Don't you love her as she's walking out the door Like she did one thousand times before. Don't you love her ways Tell me what you say Don't you love her as she's walking out the door. Cause he watched too much football like he did one thousand times before Name: Email: Date: Fri May 25 08:29:17 2001 Comment: hey, some men walk up and put it in, I put it in and walk up. Name: The Other Cheek Email: Date: Thu May 24 23:13:27 2001 Comment: Steve: Remember the episode when Marge had to go to the hospital because her family (chiefly Homer) was stressing her out so much her hair was falling out in clumps, and she didn't want to come back home? Just because her sisters are bitter spinsters, doesn't mean Marge has a good marriage -- only that she was able to bring herself to settle. And another thing: What is it with guys and football. I don't like football, but am a passionate baseball fan and I actually like listening to statistics-laded commentary. I also like motocross, NASCAR, and drag racing I'd much rather see an action movie than a chick flick and at various times I've owned a trail bike, jet ski and snowmobile (I have a need for speed, and can't afford a Testarosa or a Viper). But since I don't like football (or basketball or hockey) guess the rest is all chopped liver, eh? Name: steve gilliard Email: sgilliard@netslaves.com Date: Thu May 24 22:06:53 2001 Comment: Cheek, Trapped? Have you ever seen the episode where Marge's family is around? Hell, the smartest thing she ever did way marry Homer. Let's see, Marge's sisters are bitter shrews who hate her husband for living, her mother can't say a decent word to her, ever. Homer, otoh, came from a marginally abusive single parent home. They could have wound up in much worse marriages. Much worse. Yeah. Fantasy. That is the key word. When you get past the lesbian threesome, real male fantasy centers on one word: football. A woman who understands football will have any man she wants. Unless he hates football. Name: aikibu Email: whazen Date: Thu May 24 14:27:40 2001 Comment: Now that was FUNNY!!! Name: Boris K. Fabian Email: Date: Thu May 24 14:22:42 2001 Comment: Other Cheek That's why the old in and out is called the horizontal mambo in cheap pulp fiction..as in" I met this hort number in the barcadero, we had a few, one thing led to another and soon we were back at my place doing the horizontal mambo like nobody's business," they don't write em like that anymore, do they?" As to Rameau, check out his astounding harpsichord suites..and Biber, he was the Jimi Hendrix of German 17th century solo violin..the solo sonatas are a gas..as Frank would say..we could go offline if you want beyond Mozrat seminar here.. Name: The Other Cheek Email: Date: Thu May 24 12:31:45 2001 Comment: Steve: 1. Marge Simpson is not tolerant. She's ... trapped. 2. Re: Playboy 1962 being back in vogue, you might have a point there. Now that I'm about the same age as Sinatra was in the 1960s, I can appreciate the sex appeal of his voice and phrasing (at the time, I thought he was terminally corny). 3. Men who can dance when they're vertical can also dance when they're horizontal. Come to think of it, this may indeed be an unattainable fantasy ... Bill: I'm willing to check out Rameau or Biber. Any works in particular you recommend? Name: kernel Panic Email: Date: Thu May 24 07:53:27 2001 Comment: Kenny: Right now...I run a sed script. It's not really a "stored procedure"...as there is no way to "store it". YET! That's coming though. Your're telling me!! I know people that still code in vi. Instead of using locate...or whereis...they grep the whole drive with find. In the mean time...I've got 5 new documents whipped out with Dreamweaver. Chicks really DIG dreamweaver! Hai Karate aftershave too! Make way for the polyester stud! WhooHoo! Name: Craig Nelson Email: southern67@hotmail.com Date: Thu May 24 02:12:53 2001 Comment: "the true machos were the marketing and sales types..that' where the alpha males ran..coders were back room drones" One shining glory in this sea of shit: the boom finally gave people who CREATE - both artists AND scientists - a bit of what the mob of fat boys, con-men, bullshit artists and whores known as marketing sales have been tasting for decades. At any rate, this piece was a humourous "what if?" As far as this pissing match goes regarding music... Sonic Youth will get ya as much as Sibelius. Anybody got a copy of Beethoven's Grosse Fugue? Can't find that sunovabitch anywhere. Back to my liverwurst... Name: Adolph Hitler Email: Date: Thu May 24 00:41:17 2001 Comment: Lest ye forget.. Walter Becker did do time for a heroin related manslaughter charge (some hippy chick OD'd at a party). Jazz without heroin is like Anita Bryant without fags. Name: Adolph Hitler Email: Date: Thu May 24 00:37:22 2001 Comment: I LOVE jazz! Kenny G... Steely Dan... Sade.... heehee.... Name: Kenny Email: Date: Thu May 24 00:27:54 2001 Comment: Kernel Panic.... When did MySQL add stored procedures to the feature list? I get your point though. I know a coupla spaz's that thing because they can markup by hand using emacs they're hardcore. Name: steve gilliard Email: sgilliard@netslaves.com Date: Thu May 24 00:21:30 2001 Comment: Boris, Personally, my tastes run to Gilberto Gil, Jobim and Dido, but whatever works, works. And haven't you heard? Playboy 1966 is back in vogue. And I think it would be Playboy 1962, actually. I can barely drink with idiots, forget waking up with them. But my taste in women, if we're going to have this discussion, runs towards the wickedly smart, funny and compassionate. And tolerant. Extremely tolerant. I think I can say without question that the women I've had in my life were smarter than me. Which is a good thing. Knowing that the woman you're with is no idiot is a good thing. Keeps you honest. Hell, it works for Homer Simpson.:-) Name: bill Email: bill@netslaves.com Date: Wed May 23 23:01:32 2001 Comment: >>>Invite a young lady over to dinner and put on some Miles or Chet Baker.. >>>daddio that is so Playboy 1966..today..btw, what is a young lady? It may sound corny to you, but it works. What is a young lady? A woman with style, sophistication and class. A woman with substance. Then again, if you like dating idiots, that's your perogative. Name: Boris K. Fabian Email: Date: Wed May 23 22:57:40 2001 Comment: Bill: Invite a young lady over to dinner and put on some Miles or Chet Baker.. daddio that is so Playboy 1966..today..btw, what is a young lady? Other Cheek Okay so Monk's not Mozart..but for my money Mozart's not Rameau or even Biber..check out those cats Cheek..and get back to me..whole worlds out there.. Name: steve gilliard Email: sgilliard@netslaves.com Date: Wed May 23 22:41:48 2001 Comment: Cheek, I grew up surrounded by classical music. I knew people who were barely aware of the Beatles, forget Springsteen. Knowing classical music is no more intellectual than knowing Jazz. I have an ample collection of both. But I wouldn't put my worst enemy through a night of opera. Or Ballet. If you think Mozart is superior to Monk, you can argue with Bill to your heart's content. I listen to both, but I only debate movies.:-) Guys who can dance? Hah. Over 25 and straight? Not taking X? Good luck. I figure that women like guys who dance like men like women who like football. Finding them is the trick. I wouldn't hold out much hope. Simply Ballroom and Something about Mary rank equally high on the fantasy scale. Name: The Other Cheek Email: Date: Wed May 23 22:27:40 2001 Comment: >Also, chicks dig guys who dig jazz. Boy, I just get so amused when guys categorically state what chicks dig -- all the billions of chicks on the planet. As someone who is familiar with the work of almost all of the artists who were bandied about in various posts, this chick thinks that jazz is what you listen to when who've intellectually outgrown rock and rap, but aren't yet up to the esthetic rigors of classical music and opera. I'll take Mozart over Monk any day. Now, you know what chicks really dig? A guy who can dance. Name: nan Email: Date: Wed May 23 21:32:50 2001 Comment: < I TOTALLY get your point. >> No, the point was, is, and always will be that there is life outside work. You don't have to know jazz--I didn't until a couple of years ago, that's for sure--but don't think that your dotcom job makes you who you are. Because the financial backing could run out far sooner than Q1--assuming they were even telling the truth in the first place. Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 21:07:16 2001 Comment: "The art vs. tech battle has been around since the 70's" True. It was one of the main themes of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". The author was trying to say that art and science essentially come from the same place. Of course, he wrote the book after his lobotomy..... Name: Kernel Panic Email: Date: Wed May 23 20:09:36 2001 Comment: Around my shop...we wage the tech vs design battle daily. Our designers are primarily print and video artists, with ZERO understanding of tech. On the other side I (we) couldn't "draw tippy" off of the back of a matchbook cover. They accuse us of butchering their designs.....and we sure as heck have a time trying to "dynamically" generate their designs. Anyway...It's an equal contribution on both sides. NOW...If I could just get the boss to understand...anything I design 80% will be ugly...and anything they design 80% won't work....That would be SWEET! It's a "left brain" "right brain" thing for sure. MAJORHACK!! If social skills count...I fold! :) Name: Bill Volk Email: bvolk@youworkit.com Date: Wed May 23 18:54:41 2001 Comment: This discussion makes me feel OLD! I started to use PhotoShop with Version 0.80! Back in 1988... Why, because the company I was working out (Mediagenic nee. Activsion) was trying to make a publishing deal with the authors. I'm no artist, but I know image processing. The art vs. tech battle has been around since the 70's ... and it's silly. You do need both ... and you need DESIGN. Oh, I also first saw Macromedia Director (as MacroMind MovieWorks) in 1984 at the LAMUG ... That was an amazing show by Marc Cantor. Name: majorhack Email: majorhack@yahoo.com Date: Wed May 23 18:54:38 2001 Comment: Frasier and Niles are opera snobs, not jazz snobs? I TOTALLY get your point. Name: steve gilliard Email: sgilliard@netslaves.com Date: Wed May 23 18:40:08 2001 Comment: Majorhack, Frasier and Niles are opera snobs, not jazz afficionatos. Man, there is more to life than work. The fact that you can't even tell the difference between opera and jazz ought to be a hint. The only women who like monomaniacs are fellow monomaniacs. Name: majorhack Email: majorhack@yahoo.com Date: Wed May 23 18:33:41 2001 Comment: "unix systems admin 15 years" whoops! you busted with ZERO social skills. it's a fine line my friend... Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 17:07:15 2001 Comment: Cunni-Mingus it's all about Cunni-Mingus! Name: Kernel Panic Email: Date: Wed May 23 16:22:11 2001 Comment: Hehehe....ok... Photoshop 5 years Quark 5 years Shockwave/Flash 3.5 years CF 3 years Asp 3 years php 2 years DBA 4 years unix systems admin 15 years MCSE ISP..5 years uhhh.....I think I'll quit now. BTW...you actually have to "roll your own" stored procedures for mysql yet. AND....my daddy can beat up YOUR daddy!!! hehe. Name: ports Email: portigosa@hotmail.com Date: Wed May 23 16:19:50 2001 Comment: You guys have definitely reached ramming speed with this one. Cheers... loved it! Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 16:17:16 2001 Comment: If all you want to do is push pixels, I'm glad I don't have to live inside YOUR skull. >Markup Language could be done by a trained monkey! -- Markup language is only one part of interface design, web page or site production, you need to be a decent visual ARTIST, or most of your pages will look like they were designed by. . . ENGINEERS!! hahahahaHA. Both Artists and programmers are necessary to create web sites, applications, interfaces, integrated solutions, which work well and look good as well as provide good visual feedback to the user. Hopefully they can both talk to clients without cutting heads. Name: majorhack Email: majorhack@yahoo.com Date: Wed May 23 16:14:54 2001 Comment: write a php function... Can I do it with ASP/VBScript and MS SQL? I'll see your ante, and raise you 5 years of Photoshop/Illustrator experience. That's why I still have my dotcomjob too... Name: Kernel Panic Email: Date: Wed May 23 15:50:01 2001 Comment: write a php function that passes variables to a stored procedure in mysql, pull html generating php code from the resulting while (var){} array....then pass variables BACK to the original function......you'll have some skill. BTW....Still got my dot com job too! Markup Language could be done by a trained monkey! Blow THAT smoke some where else! Name: bill Email: bill@netslaves.com Date: Wed May 23 15:05:26 2001 Comment: >>>>Mingus, Corea, Satie, or any of these other unknown 'Pioneers'. It's your loss that you don't dig these guys. Also, chicks dig guys who dig jazz. If you doubt what I say, invite a young lady over to dinner and put on some Miles or Chet Baker and get back to me with the results. Name: nan Email: Date: Wed May 23 15:02:28 2001 Comment: OK, I admit that I am an intellectual snob and that I have actually heard of most of the people being tossed off as "great innovators" (and I agree in most part) but I mean, what's wrong with looking outside those 1's and 0's a bit. Hey, culture's not a bad thing to have. It might even get you a date or two. Name: majorhack Email: majorhack@yahoo.com Date: Wed May 23 14:58:05 2001 Comment: The answer. "The question for today is How Long? How long will you have your job." The answer Steve, is at least until Q1 2002. That's when the cash runs out and we'll need to be cash flow positive. I won't be applying for a job with Frasier or Niles, so I really couldn't care less about Mingus, Corea, Satie, or any of these other unknown 'Pioneers'. 1's and 0's baby. Pushin' pixels... Name: angelo Email: angelo@double-take.com Date: Wed May 23 14:53:40 2001 Comment: Very funny! Sounds real.....hmmmmm angelo Name: Lone Twister Email: Date: Wed May 23 14:49:13 2001 Comment: Steve..never thought those sad looking guys in the old mainframe glass cages looked too macho to me..all those coke cans..the true machos were the marketing and sales types..that' where the alpha males ran..coders were back room drones..until the PC..that changed the image a bit..but even that took a long time. Name: steve gilliard Email: sgilliard@netslaves.com Date: Wed May 23 14:33:04 2001 Comment: Majorhack, The question for today is How Long? How long will you have your job. Boris, The scary part is how undereducated many of our readers are about the world outside 1 and 0's. Twister, Coding was ALWAYS macho. Modern cars can't be fixed in the driveway anymore anyway. So there is no point in learning unless you go all the way. The only funny parts are the inherent mysoginy towards women and the geekiness of the guys who code. Some remind me of the comic book guy on the Simpsons, nasty and weird. Others are just scary. Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 13:54:38 2001 Comment: That was classic! You guys should drink more often. Name: Bill Volk Email: bvolk@youworkit.com Date: Wed May 23 13:52:24 2001 Comment: I suggest Jim Jones as a Internet CEO. "Drink the punch..." Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 13:50:03 2001 Comment: Excellent! Name: The Lone Twister Email: Date: Wed May 23 13:47:05 2001 Comment: The really sad part is how such a geek activity as coding got so damn macho sexy..I mean these guys father's were probably the kind of guys who stripped down 65 Plymouth Satellite 450 hp Hemis under glass on the weekends and put super turbos on their carbs..or something..true macho stuff that..to impress their women. This generation has made typing and looking at screens to make boring sites for bank accounting systems and sites seling unnneded crap a macho activity..that's the real irony here folks..we've gone from a country that built bridgesd to one that obsesses about its long distance phone carriers....who are all bankrupt, btw,and pretty screen pictures..sad, eh? Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 13:12:03 2001 Comment: Less anger more Cunni-Mingus! Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 13:10:42 2001 Comment: I wonder how many "coders" suffered from "code envy" after looking at the code for a RAZF site. . . "geez, that's complex, they muat be fucking awesome. . . " Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 13:06:56 2001 Comment: Hey "HTML coder": For everyone of you good "coders" there were about 9 hacks out there that mutated it to complete fucking crap! Ever try making a web browser dealing with all the bullshit???? fuck me! Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 12:23:18 2001 Comment: Cunni-Mingus is lot's of fun, I make music with my toungue. Jazz it up baby! There's culture for ya! Name: twisted sistah Email: bitemybeaver@hotmail.com Date: Wed May 23 12:04:09 2001 Comment: This is the FUNNIEST FUCKING THING I have seen in ages! Keep up the great work...nice wish fulfillment RE beating up Calacanis and having Morrison flash the press....the funniest thing is that I could see ALL OF THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENING. Name: Ertischek Email: Date: Wed May 23 11:58:49 2001 Comment: Debussy yes..Ravel no...certainly not Wayne Shorter..now as to Dylan..Dylan changed forever the pop song form..its content, acceptable length, tone, and significance..Do you know what was on the radio in 1962-65? Dylan brought the alien elements of depression era folk song into a world dominated by The Four Seasons, not that there's anything wrong with Frankie Valli.and he did it very well.. its just that most listeners didn't really know the idiom he was working in..so used as they were to teens from Philly as their vocal comfort zone. The big question is why no one mentins John Hammond as the guy who saw the groundbreaking going on here..its not just the artist who breaks the ground but the folks who own the microphone..give them credit too.. Name: Boris K. Fabian Email: Date: Wed May 23 11:47:07 2001 Comment: Re: Please note for future refence...this is called humor..bsides I had to sell my horse after my dotcom went south..now scootering in Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 11:45:43 2001 Comment: Maurice Ravel. . . Claude Debussy. . . Ralph Towner. . . John Abercrombie. . . Wayne Shorter. . . Listen and look and you'll understand. opening the debate on ground breaking. . . I'd say that it's somewhere between taking an art form in a new direction and doing it well. I'd suppose that one could say that Bob Dylan or John Lennon or Jim Morrison were a part of a groundbreaking movement, a very big movement but that none of them did what they did sufficiently well to be considerable as anything other than pop phenomena. This does not mean that there's no value in what they did, wrote, sang, hell. . . Bob Dylan is especially valuable as fodder when one argues that one ought to be able to sing and play and tune one's instrument as well as humor value as a personification of what it means to turn on a canister vacuum cleaner and move a harmonica back and forth in front of the hose. Name: majorhack Email: majorhack@yahoo.com Date: Wed May 23 11:44:59 2001 Comment: "Proposed..that netslaves becomes a forum about art and music for undereducated x-dotcommers.. " fuck you, and the horse you rode in on... I still have my fucking dotcomjob. Name: Boris K. Fabian Email: Date: Wed May 23 11:37:27 2001 Comment: Proposed..that netslaves becomes a forum about art and music for undereducated x-dotcommers.. Name: Ertischek Email: Date: Wed May 23 11:35:36 2001 Comment: Re: who are these people?.. Uh, this Michealangeo dude is sort of famous, I think.. Name: majorhack Email: majorhack@yahoo.com Date: Wed May 23 11:26:06 2001 Comment: Who? "No. . . a truly grounbreaking artist might be. . . Alberto Ginastera. . . Heitor Villa-Lobos. . . Charlie Mingus. . . Chick Corea. . . Erik Satie. . . Paul Dukas. . . Michealangeo Bonurotti. . ." Being unknown is the prerequisite to being "ground-breaking" ??? Who are these people? Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 11:13:04 2001 Comment: Copeland. . . Joyce. . . J.S.Bach. . . Franz Kline. . . I could go on and on but it's just an exercise in recitation. You Know what I mean. Dylan was just depressed cause he didn't get to fuck Edie Sedgewick more than once. . . took it out on Warhol, who I consider to be of a higher moral caliber because he wasn't a hypocritic pontificator of half baked pseudo poetry and ill conceived faux spiritualism. Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 11:01:07 2001 Comment: learning to code HTML is as important a skill to learn as re-stringing your guitar or changing out the tubes in your Fender Twin! Far too many existential Web crooners rely too much on their Web Roadies to do this for them. Name: MasterPo Email: Date: Wed May 23 10:57:59 2001 Comment: LOL! Name: Ertischek Email: Date: Wed May 23 10:57:41 2001 Comment: Dylan belongs in that august company..know your facts dude..Paul Dukas?? Get real..where's Stravinsky? Ives? c'mon.. Name: Broken Email: Date: Wed May 23 10:57:16 2001 Comment: What's the big deal about coding HTML? You memorize a set of 120 tags and their attributes and recite it back as a monkey. Ooooh, I am so impressed. At least learn XML, you bitch. Name: business 2.0 Email: Date: Wed May 23 10:56:27 2001 Comment: good one, bill-san. who says that netslaves is a drag to read? I'm going to the beach now... maybe I'll "take a journey to the end of the Web" later... Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 10:46:05 2001 Comment: No. . . a truly grounbreaking artist might be. . . Alberto Ginastera. . . Heitor Villa-Lobos. . . Charlie Mingus. . . Chick Corea. . . Erik Satie. . . Paul Dukas. . . Michealangeo Bonurotti. . . Sorry, Lennon, Morrison and Dylan don't make the cut. . . I'd bet that abba personnel can at the very least sing in tune. Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 10:29:53 2001 Comment: >successful pop stars, yes, groundbreaking artists, hardly. . . Yah. I'd hardly put them in the same league as a true groundbreaking artist like Abba. Name: samezone19 Email: Date: Wed May 23 10:28:08 2001 Comment: >Except the dotcom boys were too pussy to show up drunk during a meeting. Hmm. You must have worked for Novell... Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 10:14:57 2001 Comment: sorry, couldnt resist. . . Name: grammarpolice Email: you@semiliterate.com Date: Wed May 23 10:12:34 2001 Comment: >Except the dotcom boys were too pussy to show up drunk during a meeting. Name: Boris K. Fabian Email: Date: Wed May 23 10:06:25 2001 Comment: C'mon everyone knows the late 90s were the 60s without the great music..Bezos as Timothy Leary? works for me.. Name: steve gilliard Email: sgilliard@netslaves.com Date: Wed May 23 09:47:43 2001 Comment: What's so funny about this? Hell, except for the stock price and the SEC doing something, this sounds all too familiar. Except the dotcom boys were too pussy to show up drunk during a meeting. Not that it would have made a difference. Name: Geoff Depew Email: bob_ten@hotmail.com Date: Wed May 23 09:32:40 2001 Comment: If life is a lego set... ...that would explain why I have this wide yellow face with the smile on it all the time. And these CLAW LIKE HANDS OH MY GOD!!!! .....ok. sorry. someone apparently spiked my ginseng. Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 09:27:11 2001 Comment: . . . hey, great lego set of life. . . what a metaphor. . . maybe there's a record in it somewhere. . . maybe get some v.c. . . all fall down and prostrate yourselves before my reality, unwashed heathen. . . la la la. . . Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 09:23:15 2001 Comment: as a matter for speculation. . . in the great lego set of life you could probably substitute the Jim Morrison block or the Bob Dylan block or the John Lennon block with the Jim Bakker Block or the Jimmy Swaggart block or the David Koresh block. . . fucking sanctimonious egomaniacs The funny thing, watch Bob Dylan, he seems to change ideologies every few years and then expects everyone to follow along to the tune of his vision of evolution. . . kind of like the W3C. . . Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 09:18:49 2001 Comment: Jim Morrison - Second rate poet just like Bob Dylan, another self important sanctimonious ass, in the same league with John Lennon. . . successful pop stars, yes, groundbreaking artists, hardly. . . Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 07:01:46 2001 Comment: >>>You know, the more I read netslaves the more I get pissed off at snide comments about people who code HTML. Woah, there. We wrote a book about how HTML folks are the true heros of this industry. Moreover, I thought it was clear we were making fun of CEOs in the above piece. No offense intended. Name: HTML coder Email: Date: Wed May 23 06:09:36 2001 Comment: You know, the more I read netslaves the more I get pissed off at snide comments about people who code HTML. Its what the built out of. Creating decent quality HTML is a skill. Many entirely reasonable and decent proffesionals have coding HTML as a major part of their skill set. Name: I Predict 2001 Email: Date: Wed May 23 05:31:11 2001 Comment: The real Jim Morrison: A.) Made a decent-quality product. B.) Had an actual "community" of fans willing to do some "commerce" to get some "content." C.) Turned a profit from all that "intellectual property." Name: Pere Lachaise Email: Date: Wed May 23 05:27:39 2001 Comment: Am I a pilgrim or another souvenir hound? Come away to Paris let him see another day let him fade out slowly only fools burn away let a true love show him what a heart can become somebody find Jim Morrison find Jim Morrison's grave Name: Email: Date: Wed May 23 05:13:46 2001 Comment: HeHe :)