New Wave Outpost News

October 12, 2001

The free message board that I attempted to use was sadly too unreliable. I would love to create a new one. Please send me any recommendations for guest forums and message boards.

My old location at http://www.thegrid.net/mpaulsen/newwave.html is officially gone. I closed my account several months ago and now the old site is gone. Please update any old bookmarks!

In other news, I've have improved the Quick Search to now include CD Reissues that were at one time featured on my Albums Wish List.

AOR Wish List
I'm entertaining the idea of an AOR page, where many rock acts from the late 70's and 80's that don't quite fit into the new wave genre will go. I realize there is often a fine line between new wave and AOR (e.g., Cheap Trick, The Cars), but I'm finding that there is a sizeable demand for this material as well, so I'll be looking into this. This would give a proper home to artists such as Prism and Warren Zevon. Some heavy metal and soft rock acts could go here as well.
Video Clips or stills
The MTV2 A-Z marathon that rang in the new millennium (18,000 videos!) got me excited about music videos again. While I would love to feature some video clips, the disk space alloted to me makes it impractical at this time. Besides, video files are huge, and the ones that are extremely compressed suffer greatly in quality. I would, however like to possibly feature video stills (like the ones that are randomly displayed on my Videos Wish List page. I'm also gearing up to do some major video archival this year by digitizing many classic videos to MPEG2 in preparation for eventual DVD-R.

Stay tuned,
Mike Paulsen

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