From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V1 #148 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Wednesday, July 22 1998 Volume 01 : Number 148 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] everything exposed but not quite [Rachel Kramer Bussel ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:55:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: [MLL] everything exposed but not quite This is not directly related to Mary Lou, but I thought some of you might find it interesting...we can just add her name to Mr. Corgan, Ms. Hanna, and all the rest of Courtney's enemies. I also read that Courtney has some vendetta against Tina Brown because of the Vanity Fair article. whatever. - --rachel from allstar: _______________________________________________ EX-NYMPH INGER LORRE PENS RETORT TO HOLE'S 'SASSY' Courtney Love watch out... Inger Lorre is back with a vengeance. As a retort to Hole's "Sassy" on Pretty on the Inside -- which includes an answering machine message from Lorre -- Lorre has penned a song all about Ms. Love titled "She's Not Your Friend" (allstar, July 20). The track will be included in her solo debut album, Transcendental Medication, due tentatively this fall on Triple X Records. "She's Not Your Friend" goes like this: "Not as dumb as you tried to make believe/ So stifle the scream/ Behind your smilin' grindin' teeth/ A smile and a scream/ She's not your friend/ She can tell you what she wants to/ But she's not your friend." The answer to the question "Why?" dates back to Love's early years in Los Angeles. "I heard about her through Dave Brown, an artist, sax player, and coffeehouse poet, about this woman who burned down the apartment building where a friend used to live, and she stole some girl's engagement ring and all that," explains Lorre, former lead singer of Nymphs, a band Love has praised. "And people would tell me, 'Don't be friends with her, she's crazy,'" continues Lorre. "Then I get this phone call out of the blue and it's Courtney going, 'Hi, I really like your band and I think we should be friends... We look like sisters, don't we?' I'm like, 'Huh?' I got off the phone crying, thinking, 'I don't look like her, do I?' It was before the plastic surgery and when she was fat." Anyway, one thing led to another, Love befriended Lorre's then-best friend, slept with her boyfriend and a bit of a rivalry developed, leading Love to call Lorre "despicable" in the famed Vanity Fair article from 1993. "She stole my whole trip," says Lorre. "But she stole the stupid aspects of it, the getting onstage naked and all the craziness. All the good stuff, like writing a good song, she had to hire someone like Billy Corgan to do. "The whole difference between me and Courtney is I never wanted to be a star," continues Lorre. "With Courtney... she has nothing to do with art or music." Lorre also includes Love in her forthcoming, not- yet- titled graphic novel, which she says will be released on New York- based Fanatic Graphic Novels in the summer of 1999. The book will also feature Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, John Frusciante, and Anthony Keidis. "It's about my life in the music industry," says Lorre of the book. "People ask me how it feels that Courtney Love ripped off my whole character. Well now, everyone can see." As for the rest of Lorre's new album, she says it's nothing like the Nymphs. "It's really angst-y, very dramatic music," she says. "Like if PJ Harvey and Patti Smith merged and Massive Attack came along for the ride... I worship at the altar of PJ Harvey." Lorre, who is clean and sober these days, says it's taken her several years to get back in the music game because the industry was "scared" of her following the famed incident where she pissed on the desk of Tom Zutaut, an A&R executive at Geffen, around the release of the Nymphs' 1991 self- titled album. "I was very fed up with the whole music industry," she says. "I was sick of being the patron saint of fucked- over musicians. I wanted to chill out for awhile. People would say to me, 'I wish I did that,' but it fucked up my whole career. People were scared of me. They thought I was insane." Lorre's new band includes Bill Donahue, who has played keyboards with John Cale, Dave Green of the Colored Greens, Keith Hartel from Adrenaline O.D. and Motel Shootout, and ex-Paleface drummer Paul Andrew. - -Carrie Borzillo _______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:16:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: [MLL] Lord's Day From page 66 of the new Village Voice Lord's Day (there's a photo of Mary Lou - in a skirt no less - with her guitar from the Brownies show) - caption: Bringing an edge to the para-Lilith world by Salma Abdelnour Mary Lou Lord's first full-length album, Got No Shadow, is deceptively named--its darkest lyrics prove she's got unchased demons and a valley of doubts to contend with. Friday night at Brownies, her Intel Fest audience was in an interactive mood. Lord bantered right along, quick and alert, but a coy smile suggested insecurity. True, her star has risen the last couple of years, but many know her less for her work than for a long-ago stint as Kurt Cobain's lover. Time to move on. Lord gravitates to covers both live and in the studio--still learning to write, she says--but tunes like "Western Union Desperate" on Got No Shadow show she can turn a phrase and toss off a great hook. Lord's beguiling voice, more accustomed to subway platforms, at times benefited from the friendlier acoustics of a real venue; other times it sounded thin, its weaknesses too perceptible. Alone onstage at Brownies, she played just two tracks, both self-penned, off Shadow; the rest was older material and songs by Bevis Frond's Nick Saloman and Elliott Smith. Introducing Smith's "I Figured You Out," a song he discarded because it sounded too much "like the Eagles," Lord cracked that "Elliott doesn't even want to think about Glenn Frey running down the road trying to loosen his load." Later she updated her notorious "His Indie World," which skewered name-dropping scenesters (and which she referred to as "His CMJ Circa-1993 World"), rewriting it to tweak No Depression alt-country types. New title: "His N.D. World." In the para-Lilith universe, Lord brings some edge to the squishy singer-songwriter label. She's a still-maturing performer, but Shadow's a well-timed album in a year when Lucinda Williams's off-center neo-folk is finally getting noticed, Smith played at the Oscars, and mentor Shawn Colvin picked up a couple of Grammys. Packaged like a Barbie doll in publicity photos, in real life Lord is perky but somehow vulnerable, still practicing resilience. With any luck, she won't have to for much longer. ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V1 #148 **********************************