From: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org (angry-psychos-digest) To: angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Subject: angry-psychos-digest V5 #62 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 Monday, March 20 2000 Volume 05 : Number 062 Today's Subjects: ----------------- House Of Leaves . Com ["sp00k@poe.org" ] NPR: House of Leaves.com [Tinksweedie737@aol.com] Re: An article on Poe and MZD ["Shawn Laura Bross" ] a new angry psycho ["justine smith" ] Re: NPR: House of Leaves.com [EXej@aol.com] [none] [Ellicia Richart ] Re: NPR: House of Leaves.com [KT Player ] Re: An article on Poe and MZD ["Shawn Laura Bross" Subject: House Of Leaves . Com Yes http://houseofleaves.com would be POE related. It uses "Flash" loading up over 50 images according to the little box in the bottom left corner of my IE5 browser. After some maddening clicking around the fully loaded page, I finaly was rewarded with a multiple person/subject message board that included POE, Mark, and more. I tried to submit a message but was rewarded with errors - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Error Occurred While Processing Request Error Diagnostic Information ODBC Error Code = 22001 (String data right truncation) [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]String or binary data would be truncated. The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFQUERY), occupying document position (8:3) to (8:55). Date/Time: 03/20/00 10:50:10 Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98) Remote Address: 209.130.221.4 HTTP Referer: http://www.houseofleaves.com/frontend/post.cfm?cid=4&roomid=1 Thats what I found but here is my message for POE anyway Hey U kN0w, eYe w00d luv 2 C U again @ HIGHland Bowl. eYe spect U r the 0nly 1 according to "them" the city will aLL0w 2 r0ck that sp0t EVER again. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------- Hear What I Hear ? http://wber.monroe.edu/live.ram 80K Feed ? http://wber.monroe.edu/live2.ram See What I See ? http://Go.To/Fairport Want To Chat About It ? http://Webzone.Dal.Net/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 16:11:37 EST From: Tinksweedie737@aol.com Subject: NPR: House of Leaves.com Hey... is it just me or is the house of leaves website weird??? I can't really see anything and everything I click on does nothing.... Help!!!! April ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:55:11 MST From: "Shawn Laura Bross" Subject: Re: An article on Poe and MZD Wow, thanks a lot for typing up that whole thing. We all owe you. - ----Original Message Follows---- From: EXej@aol.com To: angry-psychos@smoe.org Subject: An article on Poe and MZD Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 17:15:40 EST The Endless Emotional Chasm Poe on the Musical Collaboration in House of Leaves by Dylan Foley "[My father] was driven by high expectations and he was very controlling. He wrote a script for the world and was disturbed when the actors did not play their parts." —Poe Poe is a famous recording artist, an American rock star whose 1995 debut album Hello was a big hit and developed her legion of fans who call themselves the Angry Psychos. Poe is also the House of Leaves author Mark Danielewski's younger sister. Word on the street is that Poe's long-awaited second album covers the same emotional territory and much of the imagery as House of Leaves. I wanted to talk to Poe. I e-mailed Danielewski on how to get in touch with her. "Poe is in mixing hell, finishing her album. Call the studio," he wrote, giving me the number. "Ask for Poe." In the Hollywood studio, Poe comes to the phone. "How are you doing?" she asks in an upbeat voice. "I work from 2 p.m. to 4 a.m. every day. I call this mixing heaven. I wish I didn't have to finish the album. I wish I could just continue mixing." Sounding more like a graduate student who loves her research than a rock star with thousands of loving fans, Poe explains her setup. "We rent a house and set up a home studio," says Poe of the studio she is using near Sunset Boulevard. "We are not on some horrible clock. We don't pay $1800 a day." The Emotional Gap Danielewski's House of Leaves is being published this month by Pantheon. It is a horror story involving an expanding house and a descent into madness. A year before, Danielewski put out a nine-minute CD of readings from the book. Poe sings a twenty-five-second version of a song called the "The Five-and-a-Half Minute Hallway," titled after an important scene in the book. Poe's beautiful voice, richer and stronger than five years before, makes the listener want to cry out for more than just a taste of Poe. "House of Leaves" "This record has been much more direct, much more conscious in the sense of 'Let's develop the next project in tandem and focus on some of the images we share.'" —Poe Poe has referred to her relationship with her brother as "partners in crime from day one." Their closeness as siblings and collaborators came from their childhood. Their father, Tad Z. Danielewski, was a Polish émigré filmmaker who took his wife and young children through Europe and Africa on his obsessive film projects. "My dad was so intense, my brother and I wanted to please him more than anything else in the world," says Poe. "He had that persona of someone you were aching to please. It was impossible. He was driven by high expectations and he was very controlling. He wrote a script for the world and was disturbed when the actors did not play their parts." When Mark Danielewski was nine, he pledged to write a page a day of a novel, says Poe. A year later, Mark had a 365-page novel. "My father treated him like a writer in his workshop, and he acted like a critic. He tore the novel apart and made him rewrite the ending. We realized on the home front that we were the safe space for sharing creative ideas. Mark and I would go to each other for creative support." Images from a Common History The collaborations and poaching from each other started in their youth. "Mark would write a poem and I would take a verse and make a song out of it," says Poe. "Then Mark would take a lyric and turn it into a short story." Poe notes that their family history created the emotions behind both the House of Leaves and her untitled album, due out in June. The endless and consuming corridors of the house on Ash Tree Lane become an unbridgeable emotional divide. "The corridors are about the places you can't get across," says Poe. "It is mainly about our Dad and trying to get across the great gap." The elder Danielewski had survived World War II, part of it in a concentration camp, but would not talk about his experiences. "The first record was right after my father's death. Both Mark and I were going through hard times," she says. "This record has been much more direct, much more conscious in the sense of 'Let's develop the next project in tandem and focus on some of the images we share.' On the record, there is a song called 'Spanish Doll.' In the book, the little girl has a Spanish doll. For me, when we left Spain, I was about five years old. There was a marked consciousness that childhood was slipping away." Melding Spoken Word and Music Poe recorded her album on a hard disk, which allows her to break down the different tracks. Unlike songs recorded on tape, Poe can manipulate songs any way she wants. Poe set up her brother with a ProTools mixing unit in the next room where he is able to sample from Poe's new recordings for this next CD of readings from House of Leaves, called "Explorations #4," from the homicidal expedition in the book. "Mark's new CD is going to have my music all over it." The bonds are deep. "Mark was the coolest big brother," says Poe. She launches into a story about how when they were very young, their parents left them at a Swiss ski resort. "I think I was five, he was eight. I spilled my milk and some Austrian nun came up and said, 'Who ist spill this?' Mark stood up and said he did it. He had to stand in the corner for an hour. He took the bullet for me." As Poe finishes the story, Mark comes into the studio. "Hey, there's Mr. Blue Hair!" she says, referring to Danielewski's blue dye job. "So what was I saying? Oh, yeah, I wrote this book and we decided to put Mark's name on it because it would help his self esteem." Going about his business in the studio, Mark ignores the provocation. Poe toured with her band in support of the '95 album for two and a half years. "We played places no bigger than a shoebox to the Eden Festival of 120,000 people." During this time, her Angry Psychos fan base developed. The major success of Poe's debut album has allowed her the freedom to do what she wants with the new album. For the untitled album, Poe has drawn from a lot of her musical influences that were not on the first album. "The album will be a hybrid, an attempt to integrate more styles," she says. During the recording, she has worked with musicians ranging from a Spanish guitarist who played sitar on the album to a Detroit blues man. "This album tells a story," Poe says. "It is not just song to song." There are no firm plans yet, but Poe says she hopes to tour with her brother. The siblings plan to combine her music with readings from his House of Leaves. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:18:13 -0800 From: Max Steele Subject: Re: An article on Poe and MZD yeah.... and thanks for quoting the entire message to the list so that it takes froever to read yr 10 word post. thanks. max Shawn Laura Bross wrote: > Wow, thanks a lot for typing up that whole thing. We all owe you. > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:15:48 PST From: "justine smith" Subject: a new angry psycho ok, i JUST subscribed (i know i know where was i for the past 4 years) and i just wanna introduce myself. my names amanda,im 15, and live in southern california. i remember when i was in like 4th grade the radio stations were play "angry Johnny" and i absolutly loved it and my mother thought it was satanic. 2 years later i still wanted that poe cd and had enough money of my own to go buy it without my mom around to label it evil. i put it in and fell in love. besides poe, i LOVE fiona apple, tori amos, hole, pet, the cure, ani difranco, and a whole list that would only bore you. so let me get this straight...poe IS coming out with a 2nd album around June? if thats true that so great. i thought she had disapeared! ok, well...bye. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:35:17 EST From: EXej@aol.com Subject: Re: NPR: House of Leaves.com The website depicts the hallway from the book. Seeing as how the hallway was total darkness with no windows and doors appearing out of nowhere and such, the website is a fitting companion to the book... so far I've discovered a message board and a chatroom on the page, but neither are operational with MSIE5... any luck with netscape or any other browser? Also, the article I posted is from iUniverse.com, I didn't type it all out, all I did was cut and paste, but I figured the list would enjoy it... Anyone have a copy of either Spoken word cd, or a copy of the print novel? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 17:00:18 -0800 (PST) From: Ellicia Richart Subject: [none] Hi I've been an Angry Psycho for a while, both in real life and on the mailing list... however I never got a chance to tell you all about myself... I was going to I just forgot to.... so here it goes;) Hello My name is Ellicia Richart, I am 17 years old, I live in Indiana, besides The most wonderful Poe, I also like Tori amos, Fiona Apple, Alice In chains, KMFDM, NIne Inch Nails, Edie Brickell, Pink Floyd, Beatles... almost infact any music you can think of*L* my web page is www.geocities.com/soho/den/9015, My hobbies include Poetry, Art, nature, and computers... Sorry that it took forever to get me to e-mail:) bye Ellicia ===== No, my powers can only be used for good. ------`----,--C@ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 17:28:39 -0800 (PST) From: KT Player Subject: Re: NPR: House of Leaves.com >Anyone have a copy of either Spoken word cd, or a copy of the print novel? I have a copy of the novel (and its damn cool from what i've read so far), but no cd. If anyone knows where i can find one please tell me. - -mahese - ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock phasers on the Heffalump. Piglet, meet me in transporter room three. Christopher Robin, you have the bridge." _______________________________________________________ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:08:19 MST From: "Shawn Laura Bross" Subject: Re: An article on Poe and MZD Blow it out your ass - ----Original Message Follows---- From: Max Steele To: Shawn Laura Bross CC: angry-psychos@smoe.org Subject: Re: An article on Poe and MZD Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:18:13 -0800 yeah.... and thanks for quoting the entire message to the list so that it takes froever to read yr 10 word post. thanks. max ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 22:27:28 EST From: Krisygrin5@aol.com Subject: Re: NO Boston APs going to see MZD? hey! when is POE playing in Boston and where? i would love to see her!!! and plus, boston could be the best city ever!!! yea!! well i guess thats all i have to say for now.....ROCKER CHIKS RULE! ~kristina {:> }:< <------ those are 2 angry ducks for yas! ------------------------------ End of angry-psychos-digest V5 #62 **********************************