Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-25 Thread Scotto
- Original Message - From: matrix313 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wasnt Malcolm X called Detroit Red in his younger days, even though he was from Lansing, Michigan? Lansing Red somehow just doesnt carry the same weight nor street appeal :^) but Lansing is a LONG way from Detroit. must have

Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-25 Thread Neil Wiernik
yeah I even know a certain toronto dj who does this so that all the flyers for this djs gigs in europe says detroit and this dj isnt even american, this djs only connection to detroit is that they lived in windsor for a year. I dont know thats like me saying Im from san fransico because I lived

Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-25 Thread /0
oh yeah, well Im straight outta compton :p -Joe - Original Message - From: kj at technotourist dot org [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FC2 Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:29 PM Subject: Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker) But just

Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-25 Thread Ronny Pries
aw, i was looking forward to a discussion regarding the digital distribution topic and you keep ranting about districts :) on a sidenote, not everybody knows that jackson, mason, ann arbor or whatever are even close to detroit. the important thing is giving people who aren't firm with

RE: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-25 Thread iancheshire
that means I come from the bromley croydon south london essex counties area :) -Original Message- From: Neil Wiernik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 25/05/2004 03:15 To: 313@hyperreal.org Cc: Subject: Re: (313) why lie on your bio

Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-24 Thread Dennis DeSantis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was on the Tim Baker website the other day and it says he grew up in Detroit. Now that is not true. I work in Ann Arbor, an I work with someone who went to middle school and high school with him. At first I didn't believe him until they just showed me yearbook

RE: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-24 Thread Tim Baker
How petty are you? If you grew up in Michigan you would know that Ann Arbor is considered Metro Detroit. Derrick, Kevin and Juan are from Belleville and I don't see anybody questioning them. I grew up in the Detroit music scene and that all that matters to me!! tb -Original Message-

RE: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-24 Thread Steward, Tim
The detroit music scene spread throughout the entire metro detroit area, Most of us college kids from the Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor area would come back to Detroit to party, But I can tell you for a fact that the overall support from the music community was not present in Detroit. I am from Detroit and

Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-24 Thread Dennis DeSantis
Let's back up for a minute. houseman04: Did you grow up in Southeastern Michigan? You mentioned that you work in A2, but are you originally from the area? I can understand that, if you're not from the area, you could see this as a potentially divisive and confusing issue. But it's really

Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-24 Thread houseman04
Well, people who grew up in NY say I grew up in Bronx, Harlem etc. So it should read John Doe grew up in the Suburbs of Detroit in Ann Arbor. The Ann Arbor community is very Socially and economically different than the city of Detroit. So a person growing up in Ann Arbor is going to have a

Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-24 Thread Dennis DeSantis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it should read John Doe grew up in the Suburbs of Detroit in Ann Arbor. But they just don't. There's a huge precedent for this. I don't know why it is, but the area casually called Detroit extends much farther than comparable metro areas in other parts of the

Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-24 Thread John Coleman
Saying you're from Detroit just keeps conversations conceptually simple, rather than having to get into some big spiel about where this particular suburb lies Makes sense to me, when people ask where I'm from I just say Cleveland to keep it simple. What really determines where someone is

Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-24 Thread matrix313
on 5/24/04 1:26 PM, Dennis DeSantis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it should read John Doe grew up in the Suburbs of Detroit in Ann Arbor. But they just don't. There's a huge precedent for this. I don't know why it is, but the area casually called Detroit

Re: Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-24 Thread logic7
Subject: Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it should read John Doe grew up in the Suburbs of Detroit in Ann Arbor. But they just don't. There's a huge precedent for this. I don't know why it is, but the area casually called Detroit extends much

RE: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-24 Thread FC2 Richards
records... Peace Jeff -Original Message- From: Dennis DeSantis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 4:41 PM To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker) Let's back up for a minute. houseman04: Did you grow up in Southeastern Michigan? You

Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-24 Thread Ben Britz
yeah, i grew up in jackson (ok, brooklyn to be precise) and toledo and whenever i'm dealing with people from outside the area i usually just say detroit or the detroit area. it's just a handy, well-known reference point, not an attempt to decieve people. Quoting Dennis DeSantis [EMAIL

Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker)

2004-05-24 Thread kj at technotourist dot org
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 4:41 PM To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker) Let's back up for a minute. houseman04: Did you grow up in Southeastern Michigan? You mentioned that you work in A2, but are you originally from the area? I can