Another DITF venue change.. what duh fuck?

[MFJ]

i could start a consulting firm

IS YOUR METAL FESTIVAL IDEA ECONOMICALLY/LOGISTICALLY VIABLE
* death in the forest - NO
* royal carnage fest feat. noltem w/erik on vocals + lethal - YES

Right on, and I was just thinking about this. Do it, seriously. Come on guys, do it.

 

[KILL TULLY]

YES DO IT! peez?

 

[Erik]

Erik, you're really enjoying this too much

i LOVE laughing at other people's misfortune and i enjoy good internet soap operas

 

[Erik]

Due to uncontrolable circumstances TYPHUS will not be performing at this year's DEATH IN THE FOREST FESTIVAL in NYC. The band like so many planning to attend the festival, are disappointed things couldn't have worked out better. Keep watching www.darkhorizon666.com and the official band webpage for future scheduled appearances of TYPHUS.

 

[MetalNations]

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/BELPHEGOR Issue Statement Regarding DEATH IN THE FOREST Festival Non-Appearance - May 20, 2006 Austrian death/black metal act BELPHEGOR have issued the following statetement regarding the cancellation of their appearance at the Death In The Forest festival — scheduled to take place today (May 20) at the Avalon in New York City:

"Just returned from the Munich Airport, after waiting 18 hours to solve the visa problems. Even tough Helmuth [guitar/vocals] has a new passport, he was informed by the border guards that he would be sent back immediately [after] landing in the U.S., because his passport dosn't have any digital photo. Fuck Austrian bureaucracy. We then called the Austrian embassies in Vienna and Frankfurt and were told they couldn't do anything about it before Monday!!! We then decided to came over as a three-piece, [and] the flight was changed to May 20th, but with this flight we wouldn't have arrived on time...

"Well, we're totally disapointed at this moment, as we were really excited to finally come over and play a brutal show for our fans in the U.S.

"To all the demons who were waiting for BELPHEGOR, don't blame the promoter. TJ Morris really tried everything to bring BELPHEGOR over."

BELPHEGOR recently completed work on their sixth album at producer Andy Classen's Stage One studios in Germany. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Throne of Sacrilege", "Flammandus Et Contemtus", "Bluhtsturm Erotica"', "Belphegor – Hell's Ambassador".

BELPHEGOR's fifth full-length album, "The Goatreich - Fleshcult", was released in Europe in February 2005 via Napalm Records. The CD was recorded at Mastersound Studio in Fellbach, Germany and is the follow-up to 2003's "Lucifer Incestus".

 

[circus_brimstone]

Entire American Audience Cancel DEATH IN THE FOREST Festival Appearance - May 20, 2006

An entire American audience has been forced to cancel their appearance at the Death In The Forest festival — scheduled to take place today (May 20) somewhere in New York City, probably — due to "visa problems," according to message boards, instant messengers, websites, and chat rooms everywhere. Norwegian black metallers 1349 pulled out of the one-day event yesterday for the same reason.

 

[Chromatose]

good stuff

 

[Dick Sirloin]

That's why he's a creative writer

 

[circus_brimstone]

That's why he's a creative writer

High-five fellow creative writer!

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Hey, I've been checking out MFA programs lately... I think I'm actually going to apply to Iowa [/hopeless]

 

[circus_brimstone]

I submitted apps to attend this fall, but got (cue SNES/GEN NBA Jam voice) rejected! I'll be applying for next fall, though, and I'm definitely gonna apply to, like, 10 schools or thereabouts.

Good luck with your grad apps. I don't even know if I'd want to go to Iowa, however, with it having the reputation of being stuffy and overly traditional. My writing's pretty weird, so I'll probably streamline some of it for the graduate applications, and then as soon as I get accepted, bombard them all at once with fucked-up material. Are you gonna apply anywhere else?

 

[Dick Sirloin]

I'm in the process of compiling a list of about 10 schools right now. The only reason I'm applying to Iowa is because, you know, it's The Big One. Other than that, I don't really have an interest in the school itself, geographically or otherwise. I like UC-Irvine, UVA and Cornell, but those will be tough as well. We'll see what happens, I reckon. If all else fails, I'll just get a PhD in English. At the moment I'm working on a longer piece (probably 40-50 pages) that likely won't see the light of day unless I find someone to publish it. It's a good idea, I think, to be writing all the time. I got into the big senior writing class here at UNC and the whole thing is geared toward compiling material for grad school portfolios. So hopefully, with all the stories I've written recently, I'll be able to pick and choose my best stuff. (i.e. the 3 stories I sent out to a few people on this board are already in the trash pile).

 

[Krilons Resa]

wow, what a fucking mess.

 

[circus_brimstone]

I'm in the process of compiling a list of about 10 schools right now. The only reason I'm applying to Iowa is because, you know, it's The Big One. Other than that, I don't really have an interest in the school itself, geographically or otherwise. I like UC-Irvine, UVA and Cornell, but those will be tough as well. We'll see what happens, I reckon. If all else fails, I'll just get a PhD in English. At the moment I'm working on a longer piece (probably 40-50 pages) that likely won't see the light of day unless I find someone to publish it. It's a good idea, I think, to be writing all the time. I got into the big senior writing class here at UNC and the whole thing is geared toward compiling material for grad school portfolios. So hopefully, with all the stories I've written recently, I'll be able to pick and choose my best stuff. (i.e. the 3 stories I sent out to a few people on this board are already in the trash pile).

Yeah, I'm planning on submitting a few apps to places that aren't exactly shoe-ins, but would be more likely to accept me than not, providing my grades, scores, and samples are decent. And they are. I think it's great that your school is actually incorporating stuff into the curriculum to prepare you for grad school apps. I'm lucky one of my professors became my mentor, essentially, and coached me through the whole process insofar as dos and don'ts.

Man, don't trash those stories completely. Aside from my opinions about them, you never know if you'll be able to salvage them one day, or at least borrow some information from them for another story.

Doomcifer: It is a mess - not to mention, expensive. For instance, several grad schools not only require a $50+ application fee, but also require at least one copy of an official transcript, which for me costs $7 a pop. Some schools require two copies. So, in doing math, that's anywhere from $570 to $640 to apply to 10 schools, factoring out any other expenses. Plus it's a bitch compiling all they need, and then dealing with incompetency when they lose shit.

 

[Trylakos]

how did the fest go?

 

[Claws of Perdition]

the second band got half way through there set, and the venue was changed again...
there was also a series of stampeeds and bizarre gardening accidents.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Yeah, I'm planning on submitting a few apps to places that aren't exactly shoe-ins, but would be more likely to accept me than not, providing my grades, scores, and samples are decent. And they are. I think it's great that your school is actually incorporating stuff into the curriculum to prepare you for grad school apps. I'm lucky one of my professors became my mentor, essentially, and coached me through the whole process insofar as dos and don'ts.

Man, don't trash those stories completely. Aside from my opinions about them, you never know if you'll be able to salvage them one day, or at least borrow some information from them for another story.

Doomcifer: It is a mess - not to mention, expensive. For instance, several grad schools not only require a $50+ application fee, but also require at least one copy of an official transcript, which for me costs $7 a pop. Some schools require two copies. So, in doing math, that's anywhere from $570 to $640 to apply to 10 schools, factoring out any other expenses. Plus it's a bitch compiling all they need, and then dealing with incompetency when they lose shit.

The thing that pisses me off the most thus far is not the app fees, but the fact that most schools only want 40 pgs of manuscript (tops) AND 2 stories... So even if I have a 60 page masterpiece, the fuckers won't even look at it. Let's face it -- short stories are MUCH easier to pull of than novellas and novels, but some writers are geared toward short stories (Chekhov) and others novels (Pynchon) and these apps don't take that into account at all.

The 4 stories I sent out (incl. the one I sent to decomp) I wrote last year. Maybe one day I'll go back and make them decent, but they're definitely not under consideration for grad school apps. I have another 4 or so (incl. the one I'm working on now) to choose from, plus whatever I write next semester, so, like I said, I won't be stuck with having to choose between just a couple stories.

If I were you, I wouldn't send in that tube story. Chances are the tightass judges won't be able to make it past the first page. I HATE how all the stories written by young people nowadays and loved by "publishers" is ALL THE SAME. All have the same tone (mostly detatched and a little depressing), all the plots center around family/girlfriend situations and all characters have weird quirks that are supposed to be "interesting." If you fuckin read Cellar Door, our school's writing mag, most of the stories are interchangable.

 

[circus_brimstone]

I didn't send "Tube." Unfortunately, however, I did make the mistake of sending another experimental piece, but I decided I wanted to be tr00 to myself on the first go-around. Next time I won't be as concerned with that, though. Yeah, it's fucked up how much writing is just plain uninteresting and/or formulaic, and I've heard of a lot of committees choose applicants who write like them.

 

[Hell Mike]

LESS BORING CRAP TALK MORE INTERNET DRAMA

 

[JayKeeley]

so is anyone going to death in the forest?