From: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org (angry-psychos-digest) To: angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Subject: angry-psychos-digest V3 #72 Reply-To: angry-psychos@smoe.org Sender: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "angry-psychos-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. angry-psychos-digest Thursday, March 12 1998 Volume 03 : Number 072 Today's Subjects: ----------------- AP Questions 11-15 Repost 12/23/96 [Clint Doyle ] AP Questions 16-20 Repost 12/23/96 [Clint Doyle ] Fwd: Help me with song interpations ["Poet-Girl ." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:07:09 -0800 From: Clint Doyle Subject: AP Questions 11-15 Repost 12/23/96 As originally posted by Jarrod, 12/23/96 - ---------------------------------------------- ********************** Q11: I heard a song from a friends tape (Rochester, NY). The line goes... I will be there... Is this new? POE: Actually the words are: I'll see you there. It is a new song that actually is not finished yet. We have tried it a few different ways and its not there yet. That is the road though. You try new stuff taking risks every night and that is what keeps the road interesting. JARROD: Sorry Tim. I was hoping we could have gotten a name of that song. ***************** Q12: A question from Darren L. Todarro I want to know the inspiration behind dolphin? Why a dolphin? POE: I love dolphins. They haven't evolved in over 30 million years and they seem to be pretty ok. Everything associated with dolphins are positive. They is a certain grace to what they represent. Also it has to do with a time in my life that I deemed to be swimming with a bunch of sharks and I didn't want to be too influenced as to their perspective. There complete and uter faith in humanity. It is like... If a bridge burns there is antother way to get there and maybe I don't have to stoop to their level and become a viscious shark... Ya know. I'm gonna move like a dolphin. The other thing is the idea... Have you ever had the sense that something is wrong and you don't know what it is? "Something got into my engine and slowed me down. Now I've got to turn this whole ship around. " Everything is heading in this one direction and you're the lonely voice sanying. NO, this is wrong. This is going the wrong way. It is like you have to communicate to the whole crew of this ship (which might be parts of your brain) and say NO. We have to turn this whole thing around. You psyche yourself out say hey I have spent all of this time going in this direction. We wasted all ogf this time. Though the sooner you make that change and head out in a new life direction the better off you are and I was being sort of optimistic and think that I don't have to burn bridges. Or bridges may burn but there is other ways to get there. In terms of communication and understanding. JARROD: Add that to the interpretations of songs.... :-) ********************** Q13: From: Lyza Gardner: When is lovelines on MTv.... And Cameron better remember to mention me or I am going to go after his children. POE: * laughs * You can't go after his children Lyza. They only wanted on person to do the show and that was me. So please give him another chance he is a really great guy. PLEASE *laugh* He is worth it he is a nice guy. BTW Lyza yu rule for always being in the front row. Poertland rules too. We have had some of the best shows there. And good food too. JARROD: Did you hook them up with food Lyza? **************************** Q14: Who or what has been your greatest inspiration? POE: Honestly, I think my greatest inspiration has been an extremely dysfunctional family upbringing. It had a lot of great things to it but a lot of craziness. I think when something matters to you and it goes wrong or gets out of your reach.... Typical unrequited (sp?) love. You are left there to figure a lot of things out and I think that necessity to figure out what happened with my family and what was screwed up and what wasn't. To sift through the good and the bad -- so you don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Ya know. That has probably inspired me the most. In terms of writing. Musicly it is Jazz... so much!!!!! From Billy Holiday to Black Flag. Through my punk rock phase. It is (punk) extremely empowering to say... Anybody can get up and do this. It is not like you need to have all of the training in the world. It is what just comes out of your soul is worthy of expression. I think that is true for everyone. I think that every human being is an artist. JARROD: The tone as she is answering these questions is awesome. I will be posting some audio on POE.ORG. POE is so genuine. ********************* Q15: When was the last time you ate Shushi? POE: Actually it was two months ago and we were doing a show in San Francisco and we were running all over looking for a place to eat. They band and I decided that we were not going to be eating Dennys again and we hunted out a restaraunt. We found this place. It was totally awesome. Ofcourse I don't remember the name but... I think it was the only place open and it was great. JARROD: POE.... Next round of sushi is on me. *************** More coming..... :-) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:10:43 -0800 From: Clint Doyle Subject: AP Questions 16-20 Repost 12/23/96 As originally posted by Jarrod, 12/23/96 - ---------------------------------------------- ******************** Q16: What is the deal with the next album? POE: Well. We plan to tour for another five or six months beofre we get around to getting into the studio. The reason for that is because record lables are very firm about making all of the money back form the first album. As much as I wish that was not entirely true I feel ready to start the next album. By the same token there may be a lot of people who just have gotten hip to the album, because were starting to get some good radio play, deserve a show and see us live. I am going to make this with the band that I currently have (The ones thatdid the band version oh Hello and Angry Johnny. The one thing with the first album is I could make it as eclectic as possible. I think that we are going to experiment with some big band/swing sound... And some heavy rockin stuff. Maybe some simple acoustic. Maybe some loops. It is going to be a totally different process because the band is now going to involved from square one... WHICH I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER ABOUT. They are my dream band. I wish I had them when I made my first album. BUT.. I don't know what it is going to sound like. You get in there and start messing around. You don't know what is going to come out. Let your imagination out and see what happens. JARROD: I love you guys (AP)! *********************** Q17: Do you like alanis Morissette? POE: Alanis Morrissette has a lot of valid lyrics. I also know that she is going to get a lot of shit for selling a lot of albums. There is always going to be a backlash and she'll catch flack because she is so well known that a lot don't feel personally connected anymore. I think that is being hard on her. I think that she made a great record. My question is: I wonder how much of the album she actually wrote? Because I would lose respect for if I found out that she didn't.... Since she didn't write any of the music, I can respect her lyrics.You can be a great singer and write a lot of great lyrics and that is art. THAT IS ENOUGH. I have an enourmous amount of respect for her. I think that she wrote a great album lyrically. JARROD: I like alanis..... ************************* Q18: Where were you born? How tall are you? POE: I was born in New York City. At the Women's Hospital I think. 5'10" JARROD: I will look into where she was born. ************************* Q19 From: Bernard Alpern... Do you remember me and my three friend's outside of Irving Plaza in N.Y.C. My friend gave you a necklace. Do you still have it? POE: Yup. I do remember you guys. I still have the necklace. People throw the most amazing stuff up to me on stage. I keep ALL of it. I usually wear as much of it as I can. I think what Iam going to do in the long run is to keep all of this stuff and maybe auction off all of it and attache your names to it. IF I collect all of this stuff and I can't wear it. I don't know. If someday in the future I have the pull where somebody will pay more for things because they came from me then I want to give back. We can givbe the money to AIDS Research, or some other cause.... Child Abuse. Womens Shelters. Some worthy cause. We will find a good one. YOu might want to write me on that. "What kind of causes are you interested in supporting?" AND it might take years. It might take five years but i am going to hang onto everything that you guys give me and I will do something with that in the future because I know that that stuff comes from the heart and what better way for it to end up. Helping somebody who needs it because I need it right now and you guys are helping me. JARROD: She loves us. **************************** Q20: Are you an athiest like you father. If not do you have some sort of religion? POE: My father wasn't really an athiest as he was an agnostic. He was raised Catholic and hated it but seemed that is some way in his entire life he was enslaved to it. An agnostic doesn't necessarily believe in God but doesn't attach themself to any organized religion I think that he believed more in Star Wars than God. He loved that movie and he told me all of the time as a kid. "May the force be with you." He loved that line..... He used to say that there is a force out there and nobody knows what it is. It gives us consciousness. It gives us life. That makes us die. We don't know what it is but there is something gone on out there. Infact. The night he died he looked into my eyes and said "Ya know POE. Find your bliss and live there." It was one of the most deeply spiritual things that anyone has ever said to me. Cause I thought... So many times we wear are personal tradgedies and depressions as badge of honor. And I think some of the most honorable folks in the world are the ones that can find their bliss. Out of that only positive things can happen. Maybe that is cheesy but I think I believe that. Not that I necessarily know how to do it but it is blissful to sing. I know that. ***** As far as any type of religion that I follow.... ** My dad gave me a copy of "The Origin of the Species" and the Bible when I was eight years old and said you figure it out. I think my religion would be more about asking that and searching. I think that anybody that ells you that This is the structure of the universe has to be lying. The truth is... We don't know. We do know that we are alive and that is pretty strange and we know that we die and that is as mysterious as well and I think for me it is about. YOu know..... Just consciousness. Being conscious in the fact that, my God, I don't know why but I breath and eat and sleep and fart and sing and love and hate..... hopefully not too much hating. Um... Thats cool. AND whether it is pain or pleasure that I am experiencing... I am alive to experience it. And..... You know. I think that all organized religions are bullshit. ToTaL BULLSHIT. I think that everones sense of that mystery is unique as they are and you can't tell sombody else.... This is what is going to you when you die.... NOBODY KNOWS! JARROD: There is a lot more simplicity to my life now. Another perspective to answer a question that I have been asking myself recently. WHERE? ************************* more coming...... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:23:46 PST From: "Poet-Girl ." Subject: Fwd: Help me with song interpations Ok here's the deal: For a long time now I've been trying to start my song interpation page about poe's songs. Like what each song means to you...like what feelings it brings for you. I will put all replys on my page. When writing me back please incled song title your name and what the song means to you thanks and I hope to have the page up by the end of the week. The adress will be posted "yOu CaN't TaLk To a PsYcHo LiKe A nOrMaL hUmAn BeInG" -PoE "I just swallow words like a placebo" -Brian molko "Nothing in your closest bad enough to keep you all alone"-annie.D "Since I was born I started to decay" -Placebo Shauna Mork http://www.best.com/~mork/shaframe.htm ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com "yOu CaN't TaLk To a PsYcHo LiKe A nOrMaL hUmAn BeInG" -PoE "I just swallow words like a placebo" -Brian molko "Nothing in your closest bad enough to keep you all alone"-annie.D "Since I was born I started to decay" -Placebo Shauna Mork http://www.best.com/~mork/shaframe.htm ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of angry-psychos-digest V3 #72 **********************************