Sounds familiar -----Original Message----- From: Stewart Caig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:19 AM To: 313 Subject: Re: (313) DEMF 2006: To Go Or Not To Go?
When I went to the DEMF a few years ago me and a friend got hauled in at Philadelphia airport and questioned in seperate rooms for almost an hour. With the customs official constantly going and checking out everything I said with my friend in the other room! We then made the mistake of getting the bus across to canada for a couple of hours to get the passport an extra stamp and have a steak. It took all of 10 minutes to get there and 2 hours to get back in again! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "O.L. From The Basement" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "313 Mailing List" <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:07 AM Subject: Re: (313) DEMF 2006: To Go Or Not To Go? > I had to miss last year and will miss again this year. I am broke. > But even if I had the money, I just find travelling to the US too > stressful these days. I don't see me going until there's a change of > government policy. The fact that I work in media makes it v awkward > to go into the US even on holiday. It's the only country that makes > media get a visa to cover things for outside press and they've > toughened it up so much that the small papers I work for can't help > me and it's just too difficult. You go to Europe and Japan and > Australia it's easy, you're greeted. In Melbourne they even have > programs for visiting journos which includes people to take you to > cool clubs and venues and so on. It's hard when I am going on a > holiday and possibly writing on it - the US customs don't have a > category for that. We've made enquiries here and it's just too > difficult. > > > On 24/04/2006, at 10:08 AM, O.L. From The Basement wrote: > > > How many list members from outside the U.S. or from the U.S. but > > require air > > travel are going to this year's festival or are still waiting for > > the final > > artist lineup to make their decision. > > Do you think the artist lineups for the afterparties will be > > affected by the > > lineup for the festival? If the Detroit underground artists do not > > support > > the festival will they still have their afterparties and invite > > guests from > > far away or just take the weekend off? Will U.R. have an Interstellar > > Fugitives party; will Alex have an electro party? I just wish they > > could > > plan these events farther in advance. > > Some things to ponder. > > > > Orrin > > > > > > > >
