ALiVE 3-94 NFo File By Mass Delusion/Senior Staff

Yet another month, yet another pack.

To Inquire About ALiVE Art Productions
Call Packaged Rebellion - 916/246.7165

Hullo!  This is Mass Delusion, senior staff of alive, writing
this info file so you guys can get what's going down in alive here after
our second release.  First, I'd like to extend congrats to our new members,
who should give us solid performance and a better name!  Greetz shouted out
to:

Ragtop - S: Cardura, Art Dude, Cool Guy, From Kansas, and a pain in the ass
to recruit. <grin>
Hellion - Co-S: ENiGMA, Got him through Ryunosuke's constant blabbermouthing
to us about everything. heh.. j/k Ryu!
Demize - An old friend, whether he knows it or not, whose art REALLY
improved, and now we're glad to have him on the staff - thanks to
Thee 3rd for finding him.
Mr. Sinister - S: The Necropolis. Not the TRiBE guy.  This one is outta 716
(Upstate NY) and does some REALLY hot looking VGA's.  Two of his
ALiVE Logos/pics are in the pack.  Welcome aboard - finally. :)
Defluxio/The Beholder - Identity crisis kid, went by Defluxio on some rips,
and The Beholder on others, however, it's the same talented rip guy
that we picked up, and used well in our second pack.  Check out his
stuff.

For this pack, we only have a couple of major things to write about.
First would be the old RIOT merger deal.  About one week after we released
ALI-0194.ZIP, I wanted to apply for a RIOT site, so I called up Megatrons
board and he asked to see the pack.  I u/led it, and within two days
receieved a voice call from him.  He wanted alive to merge into RIOT.  Along
with this deal came a senior staff spot for me, because at the time he
thought I ran alive.  Well, we stalled, and finally decided not to do it
because we are trying to make something out of our own label, and days
later, RIOT collapsed.  *WHEW*  We're glad we waited that out and didn't run
to merge.  Best of luck to megatron and the rest of the RIOT crew, wherever
they call home now.

Still on the topics of mergers, we are negotiating a deal with
UNiSoN (who since changed their name to CRiSiS because of UNiON confusion)
and if we have any finalized results we'll throw a text file in the pack at
the last second.  CRiSiS is a small, but strong group of laid-back artists
who do a good job on their work.  We've been talking to them for awhile now,
and since the name-change fiasco, Sludge has been more willing to talk<grin>.
This is definitely a top priority for us, as merging with a talented group
like crisis would strongly enhance our quality and up our output.  No hard
feelings to the crisis crew for whatever comes of these talks.  Please note
that these ARE talks, and ONLY talks, I just feel it better to TELL people
what's going on instead of having rumors fly.  NOTHING is final yet.

I know I'm going to get a rep for writing long info files.

Also this month, a startling event happened to Variation
(co-founder/senior staff).  We picked up a distribution site awhile back
called 'The Eleventh Hour'.  RedmaN of ACiD co-ops the board, and when
Variation did Grifter an ansi for the board, RedmaN talked to Rad Man of
ACiD and they called up Variation and told him that he was welcome in ACiD.

holy shit.

Let's start off by saying that after *ONE* release, we were hoping to be
known, not having our founders invited to acid.  Well, back when alive
started, VR and I had long talks about 'man, if *I* got invited to acid!'
and what we'd do.  VR said he was die-hard ALiVE, and while he wanted to
join(No matter what he says :) he decided to hold his position as ALiVE
Senior Staff/Artist and to continue raising the excellence of his work and
the quality of alive!  Thanks go to Variation - for the 'model member of the
month' award.  He showed great loyalty, and it's been a morale booster here!
To ACiD: Thanks!  Tryin' and stealin' one of our founder d00ds! <grin>

As a last side note, I want to comment about small groups and the
ansi scene.  People constantly yak about how small groups should stop
forming and how they never last and this and that.  I'll tell you one reason
they don't last, if they have ANY talent, bigger groups view them as either
a threat, or a treasure.  If it's the former, they try to merge, if it's the
latter, they try to merge.  And if the group refuses, oftentimes bad
feelings fly and we have an extradited group.  The 'politics' of the scene
are very touchy, and for small groups with little clout, it is hard to hold
ground.  Hopefully people agree with me, if you are in a senior spot on a
small group's staff, think about it.  It only takes three things to last in
this vicious scene -

Talent, Dedication, Balls

#3 is for standing up to the big shots and creating your own path off the
beaten trail.  Let's hope the scene becomes more accepting of small groups,
since we're all artists, right?

Alright, 'fore you delete this file, I'll wrap it up with just some k-rad
sig and greetzZz action -

Mass Delusion/ALiVE Senior Staff.CoRoSioN Member

Some classic 'Ace Ventura' "allllllRIGHTy then!"'s go out to -

Variation - d00d, you stayed!  Thouroughly impressed - thanks!
Thee 3rd - good work, keep the talent rolling in
Acension - HERE IS A GREET.  GET OFF YOUR ASS AND CODE.
Demize, Hellion, RagTop, Mr. Sinister, The Beholder - Welcome Aboard!
Ragtop Again- It's about time - DEEEEEEEK.
ByteMan - Astounding, and i'm in debt, ALRIGHT!?! :)
The Gaurdian - Good enough to join up?  Returning your greet too!
Screaming Demon - hey man, thanks for the MRi app!
Ryunosuke - BLARG! whoop<MRi KiCKS>whoop.
El (ex-alive courier) - where the FUCK are you?!
Schitzo (Current alive courier) - thanks man, keep up the spreading.
No Carrier[UNiON SS] - Hey man, wassup you canadian hoser?
Glenn Danzig - Reflections is too long for ansis.. <grin>
Sushi X - Changing yer number on us eh?  Why we oughta... :)
CRiSiS - I think th<merge>at you guys s<merge>hould con<merge>sider merging.
ACiD/iCE/GOTHiC/TRiBE - Consistently the finest art, good role models!
UNiON/REM/ETE and the other medium sized - Good job guys - Keep it up in 94.