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Week Four Finalist: Jamie Harvey’s MyStock

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Note: This is not an official Rolling Stone article. What follows is a submission to the “I’m From Rolling Stone” writing competition.

MyStock

by Jamie Harvey
Age: 26

Yeah, I’m friends with Mickey Avalon. I’m also friends with Guns ‘N Roses, Muse, and The Faint. But I’ve never really met them. I mean, I’ve paid to see them, but I’ve never said hi or anything. But I can say they are my friends on MySpace.

Thanks to MySpace, not only can I virtually prove to others that I’m popular, but I can also engage in consensual, disease free band-fan love. So if MySpace put on a MyStock, I’d be down. The online fandom created in the realms of MySpace would churn out one kick ass lineup, with hordes of addicted MySpacers chomping at the bit to say, “I was there”.

MyStock would be held at Altamont Motorsports Park. Altamont is a Stone’s throw from San Francisco and Silicon Valley, which fits a festival originating from a virtual battle of the bands. MySpacers need their space, and we’d have 83 acres to browse, salivating as we come face to face with the artists we could previously only touch through mouse clicks. With the tepid temperature of summer in Northern Cali, we’d enjoy running from stage to stage when we have the inevitable schedule conflict. Which would definitely happen when dealing with the crème de la crème of MySpace music on the bill: from the now well know Arctic Monkeys to the up and coming The Lovemakers.

MyStock wouldn’t just be about the bands: there’d be a professional photographer to take the perfect MySpace profile picture of you, tutorial sessions for pimping your profile, a blind date area for meeting that ‘friend’ who you’ve never really met, and a computer tent just in case you absolutely have to check your page. Hell yeah. MyStock would be an experience to comment on all your friend’s pages about.