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January 13, 1999 Introduction At ease Skinnee soldiers, its Famous! Your funky General stationed in the bunkers of Colorado. Although proper introductions have not yet been made to many of you, permission granted to speak freely to me online or through email at anytime. The mission here is to unlock unearthly details for all to see, operation "Skinfo", code word Support. Some files to be unlocked in this digest you may have heard already, but you have to crawl before you can walk. Information you find below is not to be taken lightly, we the soldiers are dealing with professionals. In order for us to move in on non-believers, we need to work like a well oiled machine. We need to spread word that the 2 Skinnee J’s are not to be taken lightly, and are going to do mass amounts of damage in 1999. For complete instructions on how this mission can be declared a success, it is key to tell people we work with, people we go to school with, random strangers, even our enemies that the 2 Skinnee J’s are going to capture the mind of each and every human and convert the world into fans. Stumpy and his way shall prevail yet again. There are responsibilities for everyone. Collaborated from journals, books, and other secret documents, names on this list and only this list receive the top secret letter you are reading. Some of you were brainwashed into subscribing, others have volunteered. Recently, a few non-believers were captured by our allies and turned over to proper authorities. Mr. A.J. Stumpy Johnson was given the chance to interrogate them one by one until the information he was seeking for was revealed. With this new knowledge, Skinnee Headquarters personnel know what it is going to take to keep this mailing list a success and advise others that it will rock. Below is a small outline of activities necessary to review in order for operation "Skinfo" to be considered - Mission Successful. Input is needed. Your stories, your experiences, detailed events of concerts you went to, stories of how Skinnee you are, how Skinnee you were, or how great everyone knows the Skinnee is. Also needed is journals of why you are Skinnee, or what the Skinnee has meant or done for you. These are great ways to open lines of communications, reading and sharing Skinnee experiences with one another. Anytime you have an urge, mail in your input. We will make the list more fan orientated, fan to fan correspondence as well as direct Skinnee Mail. Skinnee Mail will come on occasion to spread valuable word and give all of the insider information needed. As more privates and corporals enlist, we can get up to 1 mail a week or so to keep more in touch. "Fan Digest" so to speak will happen in the new mailing list, which will consist of direct "Skinfo" plus word from everyone. What fan digest will be is one mail from the list which will be made up of stories and mail from many of you. Reason for this is not to clutter up our emailboxes, but also to keep news coming regularly. It can seem distant to only receive one mail a month, but also seem ridiculous to get 10 mails a day. So send in your responses to shows, albums, experiences in general. Some great things can be put into text for all to enjoy, it is time to start a new beginning via mailing list. Section II (Current News) Stumpy is finally giving his 6 man squadron some well deserved time off. The previous tour from late October until mid December was quite a success. A great cast of artists shared the stage with the J’s. From Everlast to Incubus to Dial-7 to house DJ’s, every night was a memory. Starting February 6th, 1999, the J’s are playing on a superb bill. Word has just come in, but no details of cities, dates, or venues is known at this early stage. The cast will be Sugar Ray, Everlast, and the 2 Skinnee J’s. The tour is said to be 6 weeks long, but again no further information is known. There is much thanks to give all around the board, much appreciation goes to Everlast for stepping to bat, and also thanks to the J’s great Manager Yanni for all he has done and is doing. There will be more information on this topic and others in the near future, true current news is from the horses mouth, and that is very soon to come. On a few other side notes, J’s merchandise will soon be available via the web very soon. There is a new exciting selection of T-shirts, knit caps, stickers, and other things that will be released soon. 2 previous CD’s, "Return of the New and Improved" as well as "Sing Earthboy Sing" are out of print and sold out. There is talk of re-releasing them, either together as one CD or separately, but new artwork and jackets are another possibility. More news on that subject to come as well. One subject many may be wondering about is email. Why haven’t I gotten a response from the J’s about my last email? Simple answer - the password for their account has been lost and forgotten! That information is stored on the labtop the J’s travel with, and that computer is currently down. Ability to log in has been denied, therefore a response to email cannot be done. As soon as the problem is remedied, email response will resume as normal, so please be patient. Section III (Promotion) As many of you know, to embark in a journey, planning and tactics are important. For Operation Support to be a success, there are steps to take first to insure safety. A strong squadron of leaders is made up here on the new list - generals, lieutenants, privates, corporals, and other ranking brass involved in spreading and reading the word of the 2 Skinnee J’s. As time goes on, there will be new parties that will complete bootcamp and join the team. Bootcamp can be found at http://holly.colostate.edu/~stub/2sj/fc.html. It is incredibly important to tell all past soldiers on 2 Skinnee J’s mailing lists to complete camp again if they do not receive this document. Past lists and soldiers are now discharged, and if they want to re-inlist into the program, John Hancock’ing a quick form via the WWW for reinstatement is a necessity. Simple tasks all soldiers are asked to do. Goon Reign has taken sides to help promote the J’s, but is looking for help. A team effort is needed, and General Alex is accepting corporals to train in the system. Email Alex at goonreign3@aol.com and join the street team. Radio stations. Calling local stations, or even not so local if you so desire. Even if you do not listen to the radio often, the callers and listeners input does count when playlist’s are made. Take a minute of the day everyday or a couple times a week, call in, request any of the 3singles - Riot Nrrrd, 718, or The Best. If everyone does this, airplay will increase dramatically. If you do not have phone numbers, I can provide you with a list of stations across the country that play the J’s. "Supermercado." That’s correct, the 2 Skinnee J’s have released a CD nationwide on Capricorn Records. The album is available at stores near you definitely, but if you cannot locate it, you can find it mail-order from many places, one is www.cdnow.com If you do not own the record, check it out. It consists of 12 songs and some hilarious artwork. Again, "Supermercado," by 2 Skinnee J’s. Ask for it by name, its somewhere in the "T" section. Conan O’Brien is seeking champions for his show. He may not know that, but once enough soldiers throw their weight around and request the 2 Skinnee J’s as his musical guests, he may have a change of heart. The best media of promotion is national television, and if there could be clip of Conan and Stumpy drinking coffee, things would blow up! Email (latenight@nbc.com) and tell Conan to invite the 2 Skinnee J’s to his show. MTV has a 2 Skinnee J’s video - Riot Nrrrd. Road Rules and Real World play the J’s tunes in the background quite often, and it is now time they play the video more often. 120 minutes is 1 show that has played the video, Matt Pinfield is a superb host. The Skinnee army can do its part by emailing 120 Minutes (minutes120@aol.com) and requesting the video - Riot Nrrrd. Total Request would be another great place to see the video, contact that show by visiting www.mtv.com and clicking Total Request. One other way that support can be shown is by visiting http://www.mtv.com/mtv/feed/feedmusic2.html. That URL is a page where you can request a video for times they play videos rather then shows. Random ways to spread the word are quite easy. If you are having a party, play "Supermercado." If you go to school, wear a 2 Skinnee J’s t-shirt. Put a bumper sticker on your car, link your website to a J’s site. There are numerous ways to get other music lovers involved with the J’s, just be creative. Section IV (Skinnee Links) For reasons obvious, information about the Mission of the J’s is to be spread via the World Wide Web. Here supplied are some areas of information involved in the support. If you have or know of more places of interest, pictures, happenings, or related, please pass them my way to include them in the next mailing.
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