Caca Volante News

I took over the mailing list more than a decade ago and some would say that I’ve kept it running far longer than was needed. I tend to agree.  With the advent of blogs, Twitter, etc., the mailing list is no longer relavant and doesn’t serve the purpose it once did. So after more than 15 years, the time has come to shut it down for good. Thanks to everyone that subscribed and contributed during its long run.

I’d also like to send a special thanks to Hal Turner and Marc Schoenen for starting the mailing list back in November of 1994 and Dean Berry for keeping it going from 1996 to 1999.

Twitter has been around for over two years, but it seems to have reached critical mass recently.

Billy Gould (@mrgould) started using it to communicate about the Faith No More reunion.  Then Roddy Bottom (@roddybottom) joined.  Even Chuck Mosley (@chuckmosley) has an account now.  With the launch of the new website, Ipecac Recordings (@ipecacrec) is now on Twitter as well.

I often come across things of interest, but don’t get around to posting them until it’s old news or I’ve forgotten about them entirely.  So, with the recent popularity of Twitter, I realized that I can send out tweets much more frequently and more timely than I can update this site.  So for fresh content, follow @CacaVolante on Twitter.

I have decided to place the cv.org domain up for sale.   It was a difficult decision after owning the domain for 13 years, but in actuality, a high-value 2-letter domain is being wasted on this site.   This does NOT mean I am shutting down Caca Volante .   It only means that I will be moving the site to a different domain when the domain sells. 

Thanks to Donna for uploading this and to Dave for bringing it to my attention.

Alan Smithee left a comment on the last post that said:

The trailer for Perfect Place, and you can hear some of Mike’s Soundtrack.
http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/36/26336.php

This brings up an issue I see a lot. People post cool things they’ve found in the comments of completely unrelated articles. So unless you read through all the comments, you miss most of the “new” news that I haven’t either heard about or just not got around to posting.

I converted CV from a custom built web app to a standard blog to encourage a community so people could write their own stories and submit them. However, I can’t just leave it open for anyone to publish unmoderated due to the obvious spam that would soon take over the blog. Plus, honestly I just don’t have time anymore to check every submission, especially when WordPress doesn’t even notify me when I something to moderate. So I have been struggling with what to do with CV lately. Should I just kill it? Do people even really care anymore? The bands that CV was supposed to be about are long dead anyway.

But I was fortunate to grab a short domain name, so unless I get offered an ungodly amount of money, I have no plans of getting rid of it, so what to do with the cv.org web space? I could create a site for my canned vegetable collection, but that doesn’t seem all that interesting either.

The other day I had an idea. What about a setup like Digg? Allow people to post whatever they want, completely unmoderated, and then people vote on the stories to promote them or bury them if they are inaccurate or just plain crap. Plus, it would allow people to easily link to and promote their own sites. It would be take the burden off me and allow the CV community to control what they find cool and interesting. I think that would solve a lot of the problems and once again give CV a purpose. I’ve always wanted CV to be a community driven site and I think this may be the best solution.

So I think that’s what I’m going to do. In a few days, I will take this blog down (and archive it somewhere) and replace it with a community publishing system. Let’s see how that works. If it bombs, I can always fall back to my canned vegetables idea.

Update: I’ve decided against the community voting route. This site just doesn’t have enough traffic for that to really work. So I’m going to keep the blog going. I found some old stuff I thought was long deleted that used to be hosted here, so maybe I’ll get some of that back up here before long.

Editor’s Note: The following post was submitted as a news story. While it appears to be nothing more that an advertisement, I let it be published because The Stone is a great venue if you live in the NYC area. On July 4th, Jai Young Kim performed at The Stone. For those who don’t know, Jai Young is the person responsible for coming up with the name “Caca Volante” back in 1994.

From http://www.thestonenyc.com/: The Stone is a not-for-profit performance space dedicated to the EXPERIMENTAL and AVANT-GARDE.

Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle / Secret Chiefs 3 renown, appearing in a multitude of configurations at The Stone.

Additionally, members of Estradasphere and John Zorn himself ply their trade in recurring fashion.

I’m unable to comment on rest of the certainly-worthwhile-to-witness artists slated to appear, as the aforementioned were all that I recognized.

If you live in proximity, let there be no excuse to miss out.

Additional Note: This weekend is a fine example of the performances at The Stone. Tonight you can catch Carla Kihlstedt and tomorrow night, Secret Chiefs 3 will play John Zorn’s Book of Angels.

For those of you who enjoyed this as much as we did…

“You’ve Been Reading My Blog” (WAV)

Okay, I goofed. In the process of moving CV to a new server, I accidently lost the CV Tab Archive. If anyone has an archive of the archive, or better yet, knows how to get in touch with Matt (the CV Tab Archive creator), please let me know. Thanks!

I think most of the move is over now. There are still a few things to clean up here and there, so if you encounter a broken link, I may already know about it, but assume I don’t and let me know.

You can now contribute to the site yourself! Just click the register link at the bottom of the right column on the home page. Once you’ve registered, you can write your own entries, but they will not be published until I approve them. Please be aware that anything you write might be edited before it’s published, but you will always be given full credit for the entry. Also, if two or more people contribute an entry about the same thing, I will publish the one that was submitted first.

Let me know if you have any problems, and I look forward to publishing community contributed news!

We’re packing up and moving everything to a new home. Other the next few days, there may be some downtime here and over at our sister site, Bungle Fever. The move will be done in phases, the first being the Bungle Fever BBS tomorrow night. If things go well, there will only be a few hours of downtime. If things don’t go as well, there will be a couple of days of downtime. If everything screws up, I should have it all back up in a week or so. The goal is to have everything moved, working, and back to normal by August 11th.

Ipecac Recording is no longer hosted on my server and will not be affected by this move.