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Reply-To: per-jkdjfnadkjfna@cragslist.com
Date: 2007-05-03, 9:05PM MDT

Anonymous HuSi seeks talented songwriter for hot MFC XI action. No questions asked. Will you strum your strings and bang your drums for me? Email me.

This is in or around the Hulver's Site area.
It's NOT okay to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

UPDATE: Deadline advanced two four weeks to July 9 to give everyone more time.

UPDATE: You can upload your entries here! Thanks, 256.

UPDATE: VOTE HERE!!!!



Ah, Craigslist. Give the world a chance to post classified ads for free and what happens? Love for sale "no questions asked", anonymous ranting, obscure bartering, real estate advertising, questionable philosophy, and baby clothing sales. It's like a swap meet on acid. But today as we take a look through these aisles of odd merchandise and human refuse we shop not for knick-knacks but for musical ideas. Yes, it's time for MFC XI: The Craigslist Challenge.

The rules are as follows: Go to Craigslist and find a posting in there that speaks to you. Then write a song about it. It can be in any forum from missed connections, to casual encouters, to vegan discussion, to nonprofit sector jobs. Whatever floats your boat. If you feel like it, link to the posting that inspired you, though you can write a song about many postings if you prefer.

Deadline is Monday, June 25, 2007.

And don't let this distract you from the Classical Music Fun Challenge. I'm eager to hear what people make in that contest. I would join in but the last time I played a real instrument it was a clarinet in grade 8... and I don't own any clarinets. Maybe they'll have some for sale on Craigslist...

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swap meet on acid by alien zero (4.00 / 2) #1 Thu May 03, 2007 at 11:48:03 PM EST
Right there I imagine a bunch of underwealthy scruffs sitting in a field, watching coloured tendrils rise from their baskets of unwanted junk, and saying "wow"

Thanks for the flashback!



VMFCTFP by TPD (4.00 / 2) #2 Fri May 04, 2007 at 05:14:56 AM EST
This sounds like a really cool idea! I'm just browsing through the lost and found section there's inspiration EVERYWHERE!

My one comment would be that the date seems a bit close to the CMFCs finish date.

Rock Hard Abs are just a sw-sw-swivel away!


Missed connection suggestion by Herring (4.00 / 3) #3 Fri May 04, 2007 at 05:53:13 AM EST
I will vote for any song that manages to crowbar in the line "If she's not on the 5:19, Then I'm gonna know what sorrow means".

When my grandfather became ill, my grandmother rubbed goose-fat into his back. He went downhill quite quickly after that. - Milton Jones


You are on. by blixco (4.00 / 1) #8 Wed May 09, 2007 at 07:11:39 PM EST
I will bring it, loudly.
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"You bring the weasel, I'll bring the whiskey." - kellnerin
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In the spirit of the free stuff category by Scrymarch (4.00 / 5) #4 Sat May 05, 2007 at 12:18:08 AM EST
National Microwave Oven NN-S527WF, 23 Litres capacit - $70

It is not ok
It is not ok
It is not ok to contact

It is not ok
It is not ok
It is not ok to contact

Just wanna sell my microwave
It's used but still in good condition
Just think of all the cash you'll save
While looking after your nutrition

There's just one thing I have to say
If you don't want my microwave
If you sell viagra or hay
Then just fuck off and go away .......

It is not ok
It is not ok
It is not ok to contact

It is not ok
It is not ok
It is not ok to contact

It's seven hundred watts of joy
Ten watts per dollar to deploy

It is not ok
It is not ok
It is not ok to contact

etc

The Political Science Department of the University of Woolloomooloo



Paging CRwM by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #5 Sat May 05, 2007 at 02:02:56 AM EST
and Lost Connections...
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the announcement ... by Kellnerin (4.00 / 1) #6 Mon May 07, 2007 at 08:15:54 PM EST
was even posted on Thursday, Official CRwM Missed Connections Day.

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"If a tree is impetuous in the woods, does it make a sound?" -- aethucyn
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Off-topic by ni (2.00 / 0) #9 Thu May 10, 2007 at 10:22:51 PM EST
Where'd that lovable scamp go, anyway?


"Not of this world..." -- 256, on the subject of the New Jersey Turnpike
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I wouldd say LOLMYGOODMAN by blixco (4.00 / 1) #7 Wed May 09, 2007 at 07:00:08 PM EST
but I need a moment.
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"You bring the weasel, I'll bring the whiskey." - kellnerin


Here's mine. by blixco (2.00 / 0) #10 Tue May 29, 2007 at 07:08:45 PM EST
LoFi and proud, damn it.

http://256k.org/blixco/files/cpl.mp3

Based on this: http://austin.craigslist.org/mis/339437208.html
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"You bring the weasel, I'll bring the whiskey." - kellnerin


This posting has expired. by codemonkey uk (2.00 / 0) #24 Thu Jul 26, 2007 at 11:11:58 AM EST
(The title on the listings page will be removed in just a few minutes.)

--- Thad ---
developer of ... ?
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sorry for being behind the times by 256 (4.00 / 3) #11 Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 09:35:09 AM EST
http://256k.org/mfc11 is set up if you want to use it.
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I don't think anyone's ever really died from smoking. --ni


thx by ana (4.00 / 1) #12 Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 09:37:12 AM EST
for the fixes. :-)

And for the hosting.

Power up your flaming yo-yos already! --StackyMcRacky
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thanks man by 606 (2.00 / 0) #13 Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 05:07:39 PM EST
Sorry, I should have emailed to ask you about that. My fault.

I'll update this diary.

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imagine dancing banana here
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Question by Herring (2.00 / 0) #14 Sun Jun 17, 2007 at 11:43:27 AM EST
Is it difficult for 256 to modify his upload thing to allow the craiglist links to be included as well?

When my grandfather became ill, my grandmother rubbed goose-fat into his back. He went downhill quite quickly after that. - Milton Jones


suggest by ana (2.00 / 0) #15 Sun Jun 17, 2007 at 12:25:09 PM EST
you PM him to ask. Good idea.

Power up your flaming yo-yos already! --StackyMcRacky
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Yo by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #16 Sat Jun 23, 2007 at 07:47:59 PM EST

Any chance of a short extension? I've got something done, but the mix is well off, and I won't have a chance to fix it on proper monitors until later in the week.

If not, I'll enter the duff mix and fix later. No worries.


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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself - Joseph Pulitzer


Please for a short extension by motty (2.00 / 0) #17 Mon Jun 25, 2007 at 01:22:19 PM EST
Pretty please? With sugar and a cherry?

I amd itn ecaptiaghle of drinking sthis d dar - Dr T


Let's give it a bit longer by 606 (4.00 / 2) #18 Sun Jul 01, 2007 at 03:30:59 PM EST
Summertime is lazy time... that means extensions.

How about Monday July 9?

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imagine dancing banana here


I hate to mention this, by Herring (2.00 / 0) #19 Thu Jul 12, 2007 at 01:28:48 PM EST
but it's passed the 9th now. I think.

When my grandfather became ill, my grandmother rubbed goose-fat into his back. He went downhill quite quickly after that. - Milton Jones
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Oi by motty (2.00 / 0) #20 Thu Jul 12, 2007 at 02:53:46 PM EST
Whose side are you on?

Actually, don't answer that.

I amd itn ecaptiaghle of drinking sthis d dar - Dr T
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Yeah, yeah... I'm not dead... by 606 (2.00 / 0) #21 Mon Jul 16, 2007 at 08:14:53 PM EST
I'm just incredibly busy. But I'll get the final vote up soon. Tomorrow, I hope. Sorry, sorry. :\

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imagine dancing banana here
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You're so fired! by blixco (2.00 / 0) #22 Tue Jul 17, 2007 at 11:20:19 AM EST
Hopefully it's been a good busy and not a bad busy.
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"You bring the weasel, I'll bring the whiskey." - kellnerin
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OK now you're actually by blixco (2.00 / 0) #23 Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 08:31:34 PM EST
fired.
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"You bring the weasel, I'll bring the whiskey." - kellnerin
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