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DiS Social Board Takeover! (FAO Sean)
Just had an idea after reading this:
I propose that the social board assumes editorial control over DiS for a day/week. We'll need an editor, subs, writers, illustrators etc etc. I can do none of these things but you lot are a talented bunch. It can be our little gift to sean.
Who's in?
My name is colossalhorse and I endorse this idea
Someone would have to do some kind of introduction to the social board though, and I've no idea who could possibly do that justice.
just link to ma0sm's neonhighwire site
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0AxWdPBoums
I'm in
I'll do illustrator.
awesome, you're in
can you recruit iamwiggy as your assistant?
he'll be doing all the work, I'll be taking credit for it
wasn't this htmHELL?
That was only the start of it.
Seriously, we could do it.
can i do the pop/chart column
definitely
Oh yes please!
I reckon i'd be well good at interviewing people.
Yay :)
I'm up for an end of year reader takeover
Maybe team up with the music forum vote for album of the year (turn all the top 10 album covers into cat-ized versions!)
We could probably arrange an interview with a willing mid-level band.
DiS social board end of year party playlist?
Threads of the year?
A guide to being a DiSser?
Life After DiS - an interview with Brainlove and Bamos
DiS meets Mumsnet?
27 best bits of advice from the DiS community?
DiS user awards: Best feminist article, best pun, worst daily mail story, footballer of the year, etc...
I'm up for it, but you people gotta get organized. You have until Dec 1st.
:D
3 articles
Which is why I think a DiS Community Awards could tie-in lots of bits and link off to various things around the site and around the web.
I'll get the DiS hivemind on it
I love the notion of a social board interview of a mid-level band
You thought you knew everything about Everything Everything, but wait til you hear how they responded to the annual sock audit!
We need an editor. Anyone?
FINALLY! I knew my day would come, just let me get my-
Oh, you said editor.
:(
:D
Editing isn't my thing
but I'd be happy to do some writing/subbing.
super stuff!
I am an editor for my job
I'd be happy to do i, or some subbing / writing.
cool, I think you've got the editor job
i am also an editor for my job
but i haven't subbed/commissioned consumer copy in years, and i doubt i would suit. Happy to cast an eye over stuff to check if it's alright tho.
yeah if you could help out, that'd be great
happy to look over stuff
be warned my job is to suck the fun out of things and I will do that.
I'm willing to do some subbing
Doing a bit atm, hoping to get better
I can cover the Advice Column
awesome
I could easily set something up so people can submit anonymous questions to you (the account I use for AQOS could do that).
That's perfect!
I will also use some DiS experts to answer those questions I need help on..
Trial run - how would you answer this one?
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/13/my-boyfriend-wants-me-to-go-swingers-party
Dear Adventure-less
I think it's time to call it quits on this relationship. Your guy has a kink - he like s swinging and porn. The fact that he trusts you enough to talk openly about it (even though you may not agree to it) should not be seen as a negative, nor should you in any way make him feel guilty about it. I'm quite surprised that you being in the sex industry have such a negative reaction to being seen as a sex object and maybe you need to reevaluate why you're in the industry as it's clearly affecting how you see your partner's sexy side? There is nothing wrong with you not wanting to partake in his kinks, but I think that based on this being a new romance you should cut your ties with him and find a more suitable vanilla mate who will love you, just you, with the lights off in missionary.
Good job
Now you just need a Dear Deirdre\Savage Love-style name...
I'm up for that.
Mo' Moni, No Problems?
Good Advices with Auntie Roscoe & Cousin Marlon
ROSCOE: Immediately there are a few problems I have with this question. First off, you haven't left a name. How are we to engage with you if we don't even know your name?
MARLON: You could be one of those Greggs Twiter accounts for all we know. And this is an elaborate ruse to get us to buy an BLT
ROSCOE: Or an snausage roll yes, Marlon. BUT MY FINE FEATHERED FRIEND this is not the only issue. She is also saying that she is off to a Swingers party but that they will watch porn at the party. I mean -- I just -- I mean
MARLON: I think these are separate things like he wants her to do the one AND THEN do the other at a different time Roscoe I think Roscoe
ROSCOE: Silence Marly Marl my young rapscallion chum I think I have figured it out and your anti-semitic rambling is just a mere distraction from the lovely gannett that the Greeks would call truth if they spoke modern days English. WHICH IS THAT THING THAT YOU SAID
MARLON: I commend your intellect as I often do
ROSCOE: Anyway, we're only paid by the letter and not by the question so I don't want Sean shafting us financially here so she gets only the one problem dealt with
MARLON: AND I have personal experience with the Swingers party question so I can field that one, old buddy old pal
ROSCOE: Good then I will eat this delicious snausage roll I just orderd from Greggs
(a pause for poignant effect implying to my audience the wider goings-on; just what is REALLY happening here?)
MARLON: So anyway this one time I was invited to a Swingers party myself once
ROSCOE: I don't remember this
MARLON: It was while you thought I was dead because I was dead but I also wasn't or something
ROSCOE: Oh right 'course
MARLON: So anyway, my reaction was one of complete disgust. I was vomiting all over the floor for hours to the point that my brain overheated and actually messed up my anatomical functions like I was crapping out me pores and slashing out carbon dioxide gas and pumping blood just round and around a section of my elbow. I tells ya, Roscoe, I was sickened. The only plus side was that I ran out of vomit and actually sicked up my infected tonsils and appendix which saved the NHS (and therefore the taxpayer) some pennies. But it made me physically ill did the prospect and gave me leprosy
ROSCOE: Really, you can't hate that culture that much. You can't really hate Swingers with such raw ferocity
MARLON: And this, Roscoe (and of course Greggs Twiter advert account) is the lesson I learned about overcoming my prejudice. I thought I would hate the Swingers party and Swingers so much because of my prejudice. Because of my own subjective outlook on the world and people and society. But all it was was prejudice
ROSCOE: I'm either emotionally moved or I need to get this bogie out
MARLON: It was all just prejudice. Because you see I'd seen Vince Vaughn in the trailer for The Internship doing that rubbish jokeg where he insists to that total Melvin that "on the line" means "online" that I thought... I thought prejudicely that every film with Vince Vaughn must be rancid human dog dirt. BUT I WAS WRONG ROSCOE I WAS WRONG BECAUSE IT HAS AN 87% FRESH RATING ON ROTTING POTATOES ROSCOE AND ALSO THE PARTY HAD LOADS OF FOOD LIKE DORITOS AND CHICKEN AND CROUTONS ROSCOE
ROSCOE: So there you go readers, a lesson there about overcoming yr prejudice and trying new things. My ten penneth is that, if your prejudice against Vince Vaughn, you should remember that Albert Hitchcack cast him in Psycho didnt he and he's regarded as one of the best directors so shows what you know anway
Shall I fix the blue balls and last reply button then?
Fix it so that I don't get logged out all the time while you're at it
I'd like to do a regular feature on MRA issues.
It's about time we had a voice.
Can we get someone (I'm thinking Casseroles)
to do the horoscopes?
yeah, why not
the monk?
I'll do a cryptic crossword
excellent
for inspiration, here are a few site takeovers to give you some ideas
http://drownedinsound.com/lists/grizzlybear (gumbo!)
http://drownedinsound.com/lists/british-sea-power-takeover (top 5 castles!)
http://drownedinsound.com/lists/deathcab (producer speak!)
http://drownedinsound.com/lists/loscampesinos (football!)
http://drownedinsound.com/lists/mogwai
http://drownedinsound.com/lists/electrelane-week
http://drownedinsound.com/lists/no-age-takeover
http://drownedinsound.com/lists/65daysofstatic
http://drownedinsound.com/lists/trail-of-dead-takeover
I'd definitely be able to ask my dad some shit for a column
I'll shortlist that :)
hey shorty, it's ya birthday
is there anyone with video editing and/or rap skills
who could cover In Da Club?
Shucks?
I can do the illustrations if you'd like
super stuff
thanks!
I'm glad someone who actually knows what they're doing has
volunteered, it could've turned out quit embarrassing.
I can do the erotica column
column, heh
will cronin have his avant-garde column?
Ask him
only if he calls it
Avant Got a Clue
Everyone on the social board
with access to recording equipment could record one part of Do Me Baby by Prince for a BBC God Only Knows-style cover version.
I'll mix/produce
:D
can we do this but with In Da Club instead?
I can barely even imagine how awful that would be
*this whole thing will be.
There's some gold in here
Don't deny it.
depends
there's a possibility, as there always is with 'takeovers', that this will just end up being the world's biggest injoke. In theory this will be funny to the 12 people who read DiS social boards. In practice this means it will be crap and completely useless to 99% of potential readers who aren't on the social boards.
As long as you avoid that and have some decent ideas you have half a chance.
fair enough
you didn't post this for nothing :)
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4454957#r8320866
seriously though, there's more than enough material/talent on the social board to come up with a pretty robust takeover, with an appropriate proportion of serious / irreverent content.
indeed i didn't!
that's fine and i don't doubt the capabilities, but it's about remembering that the social board isn't the audience for this and planning/delivering it on that remit. First question you should ask is who's DiS's target audience
When did you get so corporate, maaaan?
You used to be cool! Time to freak out the squares! And the circles! Whoo!
The DiS target audience?
It's you, before you fell down the forum rabbit hole.
It's you, that hasn't heard X and read Y.
It's you, if you loved Sufjan's Illinoise and dip in to read website year-end lists to try to stay 'hip' and with 'it'.
It's you, but still listening to Weezer or Burial or The National or Charli XCX on the way to work on a wet Wednesday, reading a book instead of joining in the morning thread.
age and interests would be fine.
I'm thinking that the target audience
is probably not far off the typical social board member.
you can't cover Prince
it'll be instantly removed from YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
I'd like to hear you all do 'Shake It Off'
^this.
(I think music legalities might be my only offering)
I'll do the sexist rugby bants pamphlet
Could we interview a band using nothing but classics social board questions?
Do you turn the setting on fridges up or down to make it colder?
Do birds have teeth?
etc.
I like this idea
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4454957#r8320688
That would be my interview style
pick 21 questions
it'll be like that column in the Guardian Weekend Magazine and we could get every band to answer every silly question. A proper audit for our 15th Birthday year. Could make for a nice regular feature.
audit, you say?
*sends up Steved signal*
I like this idea
Also, if we're doing this like a newspaper (with a crossword, agony aunt, horoscopes etc)
then I would like to do a books column.
And the football thread gang should do something for sports.
Best forgotten footballers for example (was that already a thing when Los Camp did theirs?)
Struggling to think of what I could bring to the table with this tbh :(
Restaurant (pub) review.
willing mid-level band AQOS
a weekly x factor review column
sean, do this and you'll be on buzzfeed money
I can't tell anymore
is this serious or not. My next post in this thread will depend on the answer.
It started off as a serious (if rather naive) suggestion
but we've had a few comedy ideas too.
So maybe post one serious suggestion and one comedy suggestion.
I got the relationship/sex column covered (see up there)
perhaps another topic?
https://twitter.com/DrownedinSound/status/522057966489714689
OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH
I'm genuinely looking forward to this
Probably make this a weekend though
BOSS: Do you have the TPS reports
DiSER: Shove it sir I'm in the middle of interviewing Tim Hecker
also if this is real
I'm kind of really looking forward to it
Xylopangony Aunt: Redux
Except spelled correctly >:-(
Also I can definitely help
I once edited an unpopular music title for a couple of years. I have the exact CV we need.
Wait.
This is ACTUALLY happening?
I leave you alone for ONE day...
I'm rather surprised, myself
I'd be interested in doing a feature about walkout music
it'd probably be a bit mma centric but it could be interesting.
I've just done some darts walkout music, let's consult.
Guys I initially put an apostrophe in 'darts'
That would have been funny, wouldn't it. A dart walking out to music. Heh.
¬
Needs to have this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEpzFMJGVlU
Dibs on the gender politics column
if you need anyone to sacrifice their dignity for some cheap yet sophisticated photoshop laughs...
...give that guy who set a copy of the sun on fire a call
I'll do a load of stuff for this