Only Anything

To:Imaginary Band Collective
Re: Only Anything
From: Starmaster, curator, OA-IBC
Date: this twenty-fourth day of August, two thousand eight.

And then you meet her and you start to smile
You can't believe it, the girl actually likes your style
You get all excited, so much you can't hide it
You're finally happy, then she tells you you're nappy!

Life is a circle, you spin all around
Life is a circle, you fall on the ground

--Heidenreich/Stone, 1993, Life is a Circle (first OA composition)

IMAGINARY BAND parts 5 and 6, Life is a Circle: It was then as it is now

Greetings Collective:

What follows will be my last, official introductory email to the collective regarding the launch of our new archive and blog project. We are just about ready to (officially) begin (as there has always been several lovely unofficial beginnings--thanks to Professor Percussion for a great first entry, to be posted soon).

Part 5: Aesthetics: judging this book by it's cover.

One of the most important things to consider as we begin is finding the right aesthetic for our blog. It would be really interesting, the curator thinks, if the blog were a kind of virtual scrapbook. I think this can be attained if the collective write their entries as if they just happened--as if the memory is somehow as fresh as if it had happened yesterday. I return to questions like unto those in my original blog post: what if the band became famous 15 years later? What if the world wasn't ready for 3 Candles in 1995? What if the history of the band was required in 2008 because the music had finally became relevant? Something along those lines, at least... We can play with that--but I want to create some sort of (imaginary) impetus for the re-surfacing of the band... Remember when the Beatles released their anthology? That's the vibe. It's as if Vh1 was doing investigative reporting for a "Behind the Music: Only Anything" and we are the investigative reporters.

Part 6: Closing remarks.

These instructions now presented, I hereby relinquish any implied "lead" roll I might have over this project into the hands of those other members of the collective. While I will remain the project's curator/copy-editor, certainly the other members of said collective have much greater skills/ideas than mine (I don't know how, for example, to create downloadable links in blogger--but they are a must if we are to share our music with the WORLD!) My role will be to keep things moving and grammatically correct.

Only Anything was conceived of before there ever was a band. Indeed, the idea of the band, in many ways, was just as important as what came afterward. It's imaginaryness, complete with the first t-shirt design--was the original impetus for what would produce three albums and over 40 original compositions--and that is just before 1997. That imaginary band, named so perfectly Only Anything was, in fact, anything that the collective dreamed it to be: a designation with infinite possibilities. Yet it was special because it was only ours (er, I mean the collective's). And that collective remains only ours. The artifacts and music that Only Anything produced are proof of the collective's ability to dream, create, and feel. And as the collective now finds itself in various places across the country, engaged in a variety of noble pursuits, the music and memory of that then and now again imaginary band remains a testament to the collective's most important legacy: a friendship of the kind that the world has never known.

Life is a Circle--but that orbit makes for some amazing views.

I should know.

I am Starmaster.
Curator OA-IBC