From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #113 Reply-To: ammf@smoe.org Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, July 16 1998 Volume 01 : Number 113 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: This weekend [Beltzner Michael A <4mab7@qlink.queensu.ca>] getting hit on via moxy shirt! [dot0926@aol.com (Dot0926)] Douglas Adams [Irene Gaspar ] Re: greetings from Alberta! [wahrend@my-dejanews.com] Portland, 7/14/98 - What Fruvous does when they think we're not looking! [ceelove@ibm.net (Colleen Campbell] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Jul 1998 20:38:47 GMT From: Beltzner Michael A <4mab7@qlink.queensu.ca> Subject: Re: This weekend FruWench wrote: : Would it be worthwhile for me to hop a flight to Toronto this weekend? Or are Well, they're only slated to play for about 1hr at the Kingston All-Folks Festival. That kinda sucks ... I don't know if it's worth flying all the way to TO just to see one hour. Although, your mighty American Dollar can do some SERIOUS buying in Canada these days ... a lot of Kingston businesses are giving 1.45 for the USD. :) mike, the lurker who is now revealing that he's working stage security for Fruvous this weekend! muahahaahahahahaah! - ----------------- "It's all just 'blah, blah, blah'." -- the essence of our world, as described by a 7 year old ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jul 1998 21:38:30 GMT From: dot0926@aol.com (Dot0926) Subject: getting hit on via moxy shirt! well, today's the first time i got hit on via a moxy fruvous t shirt :) i went back to work today after 5 days of being sick and bored at home (yay), and today, my group in camp went rollerskating (well,i did at least, all my kids brought rollerblades, so i was the only nerd, but thats nothing new), anyway, i was wearing my i love canadian boys t, and when i went up to the counter to get my skates, counterguy ( thats his name) looks at my shirt and goes, "hey baby, you know im canadian?".... i didn't know what to say so i just said "really?", he goes "no, but i can be if you want me to...." hahahahaha - -nora ************************************************************************** ******* " there's something exciting about the failure of modern technology to create a real looking fake human." - john linnell nora cohen (dot0926@aol.com) **************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 21:50:38 GMT From: Irene Gaspar Subject: Douglas Adams beetleschka@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > "It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses"-- Douglas Adams, The > Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide! There's a book I love, though I have had such a rough time with the sequels that I've never been able to finish the series. The level of insanity rises exponentially. Though I am a very patient reader, I have my limits. Not even the possibility of learning the question to the answer to life, the universe and everything can spur me on. The first book, however, is a classic. Adams' timing is impeccable in that one (that one actually had me laughing out loud on the subway--man, did I get some strange looks). I quite liked "The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul", a book in the Dirk Gently series; that's got some wonderfully absurd moments. Irene ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -Douglas Adams ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 21:59:39 GMT From: wahrend@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: greetings from Alberta! In article <35AE0226.1F6DC24F@mdx.NONASTYSPAM.ac.uk>, r.j.butterworth@mdx.NONASTYSPAM.ac.uk wrote: > Rats, rats and more rats. A jolly political debate gets going of the sort I love > and what happens? My news server goes *phut* and I'm reduced to sitting watching > it go on via DejaNews but not being able to contribute. Sooooo frustrating. Like > being censored I suppose. Duh... hey, at least you can view things through "normal" means, I am relgated to posting via dejanews for now... its been quite hellish and I know i have missed about 1000 posts. > (Rolls up sleeves) Back into the fray! Have at you! > Dot0926 wrote: > > > if everyone thought this way, there wouldn't even be an issue here, however, > > the problem is that most people don't have the understanding to think like > > that, > > That's a very pessimistic attitude to take of humanity. Most people I know have > perfectly functional understanding of the ethics of parental advisory stickers > (there are NOT the Great Ethical Issue of our time). Has anyone on this list been > prevented from listening to a CD that they normally would have because of a PA > sticker? Does anyone know of anyone who has? Well if the stickers don't prevent anyone from buying the records, why have them at all? > > most parents have an inherent desire to protect their > > children from the outside world > > Doesn't the fact that `most parents have an inherent desire' assert that there > *is* such a thing as human nature, an assertion you recently denied? :) :) :) If it were human nature then all parents would have an inherent desire to protect their children from the outside world, not just most. It could be something that most parents have in common and IMHO I don't think its the outside world that parent are attempting to protect their children from, its the preceived dangers of the outside world. The stupid belief that by keeping your kids ignorant they are somehow going to be able to keep out of trouble... just ignore the problem and it will go away (and if it doesn't we'll blame the musicians and the artists and the next door neighbors, and human nature... we're all evil!). :-) :-) > > > damn advil, false no fever alarm, so ill spend my day ranting again...... > > I trust there's Warning! This Soup Contains Cruelty to Chickens stickers on all > the chicken soup people are sending you. :) No, I think that is pretty much a given. Most people are smart enough to realize that some form of cruelty to chickens has occurred to create the soup, just like most people should realize that if the surf into www.reallyreallyhotsex.com that they're not going to find chicken soup there. ;-) > Pip pip Hooray! (sorry, couldn't resist) > ------------------------------------------------ > Who knows what mystic thoughts may be whispering > among the mossy groves of his crutty shins? > (Spike Milligna -- the well known typing error.) > ------------------------------------------------ Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men... the shadow knows. "wild" Bill (dr. evildude, not to be confused with dr. teeth from muppet show) - ----- I make you laugh, you make me cry, think its time for to fly. - REO - -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:03:20 GMT From: ceelove@ibm.net (Colleen Campbell) Subject: Portland, 7/14/98 - What Fruvous does when they think we're not looking! I always say I'm going to keep these briefer than they turn out, 'cause I'm such a babblebox, but in this case I really do need to be fairly short & sweet (and in person, I fail on both counts, as I'm tall & a smartass) 'cause I've got two Boston concerts scheduled tonight! So: This was one of the weirder Fruvous gigs I've ever attended: it was announced only a week or so ago, and as such was very sparsely attended. There were maybe 40-45 people in that room, including 4 a.m.m-f Fruheads (me, Veek, Sharon, and Moz), and for much of it, we were the only ones who ventured onto the floor--the rest hovered at the periphery. The opener, Eggbot Wet-nap, distinguished themselves by skyrocketing to the top of my list of "really totally uselessly sucky performers"--I am *not* exaggerating when I say that at least a dozen people left early because of them: we watched them go, muttering that they couldn't take the music. Heh. Moz described them best, and I'll cop it: "synth-punk," and interminable as such. That didn't stop Fruvous from lauding them by "covering" one of the tunes, something about a date with a porcelain angel, after the first two songs. They an improv on it, as well as working references to them into "Boo Time", and Eggbot was delighted. So, to skip forward to the show: I finally figured out why Fruvous is consistently late: they run on Canadian time, which is 1.3 hours to every American hour. *grin* This one started at 11:15, ensuring that I would fall asleep at the wheel on the road home (which I did, yeesh). Was it worth it? Indeed--and to my surprise, actually. With that small a crowd, I was bracing myself for a lackluster show (well, insofar as Fruvous can give one). Wrongo! The setlist alone was plenty enough to ensure that it would be a kickass show: Sahara (extended jam) Jockey BJ Horseshoes Sad Girl Pisco Bandito Boss (supposed to be Moon, but they wanted to go bounce around amongst the crowd, who loved it) Boo Time Mistra Know-It-All (yes!!) I Will Hold On River Valley Michigan Militia Present Tense Johnny Message to You King/GE&H GITC Psycho Killer E: Dancing Queen Drinking Song Throw in half a dozen improvs--my favorite of which was a hilarious rap, Jian doing the funky breathing thing into the mic, Murray on drums--and you've got a show that verged on 2 hours. And the crowd really got into it! They were doing the call & response on "Boo Time," laughing at the funny stuff; they just weren't crowding onto the dance floor. It was a terrific show, high energy--Veek can attest how I erp!ed when I saw Cal setting up the doumbec to start for "Sahara" (I am *so* taken with that song). "Mistra Know-It-All" was a huge, unexpected treat, and "Pisco Bandito" was worth the trip all by itself: it was my first hearing, and it's the first of the new songs that has seemed to gel completely, for me. Was great seeing Dave on bass and Jian & Murray on the guitars, too--if it had been my first time seeing the band, I certainly wouldn't have known those weren't their instruments of choice! I liked "I Will Hold On" better than the first time I heard it, and as I mentioned to Jian afterwards, it struck me that if they tweaked it a little bit, it would remind me very much of an XTC-type song. And "Johnny" was, as it's been noted lately, up-tempo; amazing the lads can breathe after that! Agh, if I hadn't been so exhausted last night (i.e., when I got in at 3:30) and had written it then, I would remember more of this stuff. Notes on the show, though, hmmm. .. Well, I've never heard the bass quite that loud: my sternum was vibrating along with it during much of the show. I rather liked it, though. Chris Traugott would have been whimpering. *laugh* The guys were in great voice--I noticed especially during "Boss," when I was reminded of just how much their voices have developed in the time I've been listening to them. They were dialoguing a lot with the crowd, especially discussing the World Cup (and doing their impression of the French nonchalance over the fact that, apparently, the Russian national anthem was played instead of their own song; I for one wouldn't know), talking about the wall in their dressing room (remarkably scatological, it seems), noting the similarities between Maine and Canada (beautiful, less populated, with pot readily available). I was also impressed with how--not to sound dorky, but--*healthy* the guys seemed. Well, this whole tour, really, but it strikes me afresh each time I see them: been eating their Wheaties more consistently than they did last year. (And Mike looked very young, sans beard & with short hair.) So! There ya go. And here I go--off on the quest to wear out my eardrums by age 30, seeing BARK like a dog and Jim's Big Ego in quick succession! ceecee ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #113 ********************************************