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I like the hxaro thread here, since it's got music in it. It belongs with its friends -- other threads that have music in them.

i've seen 'hraxo' used so many times... and still the meaning of it... escapes my grasp of knowledge O_o

j$ wrote:But to be dismissive about a thread in which a dozen songfighters have taken the time to do cover versions of/songs for other songfighters for no other reason than they like the songfighters in question deserves better than 'whatever Hxaro is supposed to be', in my opinion.

I'm pretty sure our definitions of "dismissive" are different. Thanks for the explanation.

Basically the old "Hxaro" thread was taken over as a place to stick covers done for just the heck of it, eh? That's fine, and now this sort of thing has its own forum, so quit bitching at the admin for being a little stressed and testy.

jb wrote: Basically the old "Hxaro" thread was taken over as a place to stick covers done for just the heck of it, eh? That's fine, and now this sort of thing has its own forum, so quit bitching at the admin for being a little stressed and testy.

yeah, apologies for that. I was a bit tetchy first thing this morning, myself. Will try to grant people I don't know the benefit of the doubt from now on.

Poor June wrote:i've seen 'hraxo' used so many times... and still the meaning of it... escapes my grasp of knowledge O_o

Niveous wrote:an African tribe called the Dobe Ju ... have an interesting principle in their society called Hxaro (pronounced Schwaro). It's the act of building bonds through gift giving and the reciprocation of the act.

Niveous wrote:an African tribe called the Dobe Ju ... have an interesting principle in their society called Hxaro (pronounced Schwaro). It's the act of building bonds through gift giving and the reciprocation of the act.

Does this tribe use roman characters for writing? If not, why the fuck is it spelled hxaro and not schwaro?

luco brazzi sleeps with the fishes tonight.

Aunt Bee wrote:I just found Songfight and found this message board from the main website. I was intrigued by this "Songlove" and found it to be filled with nothing but hate and profanity. Why is this administrator so bitter and rude? And this Jack Shite person doesn't seem to be any better. Who would call themselves Jack Shite anyways? Where's the love here?

Aunt Bee

oh they all love eachother... it's just their way of showing it... ... so no need to be a noob that calls everyone rude... unless you want it pointed towards you O_o...

and jack shite is a pretty cool name... atleast i think so...

(this is poor june damnit i need to get it to where it keeps me logged-in)

Poor June wrote:i've seen 'hraxo' used so many times... and still the meaning of it... escapes my grasp of knowledge O_o

I think it's because so many people just use it to mean anything at all. In the Western world there is precious little that people are expected to do on such a basic level that you really *have* to do it, even though there is no law requiring you to do so. Hxaro seems to be about building bonds between people because you both do something for each other, and you can both remember the nice thing that each one did for the other. I don't think it's about any sort of "pay it forward" karmic pyramid-scheme where you end up doing something nice for someone else, and I don't think it's something where someone does something nice for you, and then you do nothing, because you don't really have to. Reciprocation seems key to Hxaro.

But doing covers for people, whether or not they reciprocate with anything at all, is nice.

well Caravan Ray, you owe me nothing in return. i just thought you got the very short end on this last coverfight and wanted to at least give you a cover that someone put some effort into.

-js

(nicked from http://www.pvponline.com)

jute gyte wrote:i sold an album for the first time ever! that makes me very happy.

i don't know what your running total is up to now, because that was posted a couple of months ago and a couple message boards ago, but chalk two more up, mister gyte.

awesome. thanks for the order, dude.

I totally tried to buy "Rybread Celsius" about a month ago. Did I just send it to the wrong email or something? toadchrist at hotmail dot com?

user wrote:I totally tried to buy "Rybread Celsius" about a month ago. Did I just send it to the wrong email or something? toadchrist at hotmail dot com?

yeah. i just found that a few days ago. for some reason paypal didn't feel like e-mailing me when you sent the money. i am very sorry, dude. but i'm going to ship your cd and tviyh's cds this weekend. thanks for the order!

"Rybread Celsius", huh? You an IF fan, Jute?

dear mister euclides:

i would like to take this moment to publicly apologise for participating in a collaboration last week which claimed you are a jerk. i hope you realise this was merely in jest. i would also like to apologise for my ruination of the following:

http://www.songhole.org/voice/tviyh_shr ... cover).mp3

blame glenn.

[update 12/10/2004: fixed the link (can't do much for the two places it is quoted further down this page, though)]

obscurity wrote:"Rybread Celsius", huh? You an IF fan, Jute?

i sure am.

tviyh wrote:dear mister euclides:

i would like to take this moment to publicly apologise for participating in a collaboration last week which claimed you are a jerk. i hope you realise this was merely in jest. i would also like to apologise for my ruination of the following:

http://voice.songhole.org/tviyh_shreds_(miss_cover).mp3

blame glenn.

HAHA!

Voice! You are awesome! Thanks, for covering a wish list request of mine!

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

tviyh wrote:dear mister euclides:

i would like to take this moment to publicly apologise for participating in a collaboration last week which claimed you are a jerk. i hope you realise this was merely in jest. i would also like to apologise for my ruination of the following:

http://voice.songhole.org/tviyh_shreds_(miss_cover).mp3

blame glenn.

Hey, thanks for the cover. It captures that desperateness really nicely.

-Yook

This goes way back to when we had the "theme-song" fight. I promised a theme song to Bortwein for all the graphic stuff he's done for me (and so many other people).

anyway, I finally got off my butt and did one.

here it is:

http://kongbalong.com/mp3/crt/starfinge ... _theme.mp3

kinda hxaro, i guess.

-craig

That is so cool! Even on my crap work speakers, turned down quiet, so as not to disturb anyone, it rocks, and makes me shake ma rumph!

j$