I've got a new rule--- you've just GOT to send me a message along with your friend request or I'm just going to "deny" without even looking at your profile. Okay? It gets too damn time consuming to look at profiles of people I don't want to be friends with. If you live in the Austin area and you listen to me, sure, I want to be your friend, but do the message thang along with it, k?
And just so you know, if you have a request or radio things you want to discuss, I'd rather do that through my regular work email. If, at this point, you're saying, "Okay, what is that?" Sorry. You'll have to do some homework if you don't know. But you know what? Sometimes I don't answer all the work email either. I know that sounds like only common courtesy to do that, but you wouldn't believe how many emails I get and how many CDs come into the station. My priorities are the things that go out on the air on the station first and foremost and sometimes that pushes answering emails to the bottom of the list. Sometimes, too, I get emails, especially when people use the form on the website, and I respond and they get bounced back because people enter their email address wrong. Really. That aggravates me when I do write a response and try to help and then it comes back. So it is really better to write me from your email program instead of through that web form.
All that having been said, I've discovered some great up-and-coming bands in Austin through myspace and I appreciate your notes and your requests to be my friend.
If you glance through my myspace musical friends, you will find many artists that I truly love, adore, admire, and appreciate. And then there are many that I don't have a clue about their worth, but they are from the area and asked to be my friend. Appearance on my list of friends does not equal my endorsement. Are we clear?
