From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V1 #177 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Saturday, August 29 1998 Volume 01 : Number 177 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Everett True [Zerowork@aol.com] [MLL] Everett True/The Stranger [Rachel Kramer Bussel ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 12:26:24 EDT From: Zerowork@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Everett True E.T. has been in Seattle for a mere month or so, and he has upset the city, which is his purpose. He wants to be controversial and he does take on a lot of what is mediocre in this town. However, some of his slams are personal, and I think slamming artists is weak.....here is some of what he says...... ""Trite, annoying, cutsie and dreadfully shallow......she didn't even write most of her "heartfelt" songs on her major label debue "Got No Shadow"......Her voice drips with such forced sinceity and and Twee Hippy Loneliness, she sounds like a 50th rate Joni Mitchell........Mary Lou moved to Portland for about one month and has been riding the crest of the Northwest wave ever since.....She's a corporate rock whore......Mary Lou fully understands it's not what you know it's who you know and in this town a kiss on the cheek is inches away from oral sex. I fail to comprhend how this has anything to do with anything cool, female empowering or Olympian. I have to hand it to her though. She has her credibility rounded-off and well-marketed. So she still busks in Subways at three in the morning. Any witnesses? Her Persona. Winsome, irritating and woefully untalented. She thanks ....Lester Bangs on her sleeve...Christ! Lester would have totally fucking hated her. Her whole cloying pixie persona. (he goes on to slam the song "Subway" ).....like Mary Lou spends all her time every single day on the underground. Mary Lou apparently thinks she's the only musician in town allowed to busk. A few years back ...at SxSw, Pete Krebbs and Kevin Richie were playuinf guitar on the corner....and Mary Lou breezed in and kicked them off their pitch without any apology......" Wow, a lot of incorrect info....I actually met mary Lou when she was living in Seattle, and she never lived in Portland, although she did live in Olympia for with Slim Moon for about a year.....and I think she stayed in Portland with Elliot and recorded for about a month.....her affiliation with Kill Rock Stars and her story leading up to it is well known.....ET loves KRS but I think forgets MLL has had 4 releases on that label and has been on two of its compilations......and boy, did she ever go for the high powered manager and record label....Me, I'm her manager, I am so powerful because I manage other corporate rock giants like Hovercraft....and when she signed to her label they didn't even have any other acts and she turned down much larger offers....and, uh, she does busk in the subway...a lot!....in fact, I had to get her a permit so she could busk in Santa Monica while she made her record because she was really going nuts not being able to busk,,,she lives for it.....and she didn't kick Pete and Kevin off of their "perch"....I was there....she let them use her equipment to play there...and like little Mary Lou could go around kicking two men out of their busking space.... you can write to The Stranger at postmaster@thestranger.com or call them at 206-323-7101 or fax them at 206-323-7203 z ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:24:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: [MLL] Everett True/The Stranger Thanks, David, for posting some of those horrid comments. There was an interview a while back in BB Gun between Jessica Hopper and Everett True and then later I found out that Hopper, who is mentioned in this Babes in Toyland book, was called a total poser by Kat Bjelland. Well, seems the two deserve each other. The Sunny Day Real Estate list is up in arms about some stuff True wrote about them. Well, Dino and I already showed that we can stick up for Mary Lou in print when people make stupid personal slams against her like that guy in the New Times LA. NOT that I think it's gonna change Everett True's opinion. but still someone needs to stop this flow of misinformation and meanness. Maybe it's cause he's like Courtney Love's best friend or whatever. I must go try to write a letter that is a wee bit more intelligent than "Everett True is a big fat idiot who doesn't know anything." :) Rachel ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 02:17:44 -0400 From: "Andrea " Subject: [MLL] Toronto Lilith Pics Hey! Just got them up today, a few Mary Lou Lord pics so check it out...also Fumblers, Believers and a couple w/ Chantal Kreviazuk! http://home.istar.ca/~andyc/lilith98.htm ~Andrea! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ICQ: 10294764 AOL IM: TheAndyC "So I keep walking so I keep walking singing sometimes Feeling like a shit 'cause I know what's happening Investing like a rich girl, gambling like a Vegas idiot Putting out where I haven't much before" - -Emm Gryner ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V1 #177 **********************************