First Meeting

- Sitting at a table

- Spilled coffee

- Steve and Nick late, everyone a little late

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Actual meeting notes:

- Monthly album, how to choose?

- One member chooses the album for the month.

- Rotate who chooses, volunteers first.

- First album, The National - The Boxer.

- Choose album on the 8th. Send out e-mail.

- Whoever chooses album distributes music.

- Decide who is going to pick the next album before next meeting.

- Meetings

- Once a month on the weekend.

- Decide on place whenever.

- April 3rd @ 7:00 p.m. - first meeting, at Reem's. 

- Initiation Survey/Application

- Top three albums right now

- Top three influential albums

- Situational question:

- Theme song

- Cleaning music

- A good cry

- What are your ideas for the group?

- Do you play, sing, or record?

- What music do you hate?

- Format of meetings

- Listen to album during hangout time.

- Discussion points:

- Lyrical

- Nerdiac music stuff (time sigs, instrumentation, theory/philosophical, recording techniques)

- Influences

- Live 

- Vocal stylings

- Action items

- Breena to add Last.fm account

- Nick to send out facebook

- Steve to do survey

- Breena to doll up the site

- Albums right now

- Nick: Animal Collective

- Steve: Noah and the Whale, The Octopus Project, new Andrew Bird

- Gwen: new Andrew Bird

- Reem: Ghostland Observatory

- Breena: The Dears