From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V2 #255 Reply-To: support-system@smoe.org Sender: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk support-system-digest Saturday, August 28 1999 Volume 02 : Number 255 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Feeling a bit old / Intro to Liz ["Gregory Bell" Subject: Re: Feeling a bit old / Intro to Liz I first heard of Liz via Rolling Stone. They did a small blurb on her back in… God, musta been December of 1993, because I was home on leave from the Army and had just left Germany. Aah, yes… It's all coming back to me now… I bought EIG at Tower Records in Hollywood and couldn't stop listening to it. It was an eye-opening, jaw-dropping, "where-have-you-been-all-my-life" experience. My brother flew in from Boston for the holidays and when I picked him up at the airport, I played the CD for him. He's a big fan too. After that, I bought Whip-Smart, Juvenilia and wcse on the day each was released. Over the past 6 years, I've turned a lot of people on to Liz's music, like Alexis, the singer from my last band, who is 5'2"… She MADE the rest of the band learn "6'1"" just so she could sing it on stage. Okay, it's not like _I_ had to be coerced into learning it, but I did like the fact that she put on the thigh-high boots and got out the whip to "force" me into it. Such fond memories… (Oh shit... did I say that last part out loud?) First saw Liz last year at the Mayan Theatre in LA and finally had the chance to worship in person at the Temple of Liz. Shelly wrote: >Wow...is there anyone out there nearing 30? Nope not nearing 30... shattered that age barrier about 5 years ago… Age is in the mind. It's not how old you are, but how old you think you are. Me? - I'm still 21 in my mind (gotta be old enough to drink) and i look like I'm about 25 (when I dye away the grey). I'm probably the oldest guy I can think of playing in a punk band that is just getting its collective feet wet. 'nuff said Greg Bell - -- Speak softly and carry a belt-fed weapon. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:27:50 -0400 From: "Jaime" Subject: hey ray-- those weasels ripped my flesh off... (is that how it goes?) Hurricane Cindy She's now a catagory 3 storm with 115 mph winds... "Good thing she's too far out to sea, or she could really do some damage!" --joe cupo, generic weatherman. ((makes you think.)) "and when i walk I'm a cyclone..." ~jaime* - -- -- -- -- - " I can grow, despite all you know, you might not recognize me tomorrow..." ~Liz Phair, 'firewalker' - -- -- -- -- - THE WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH OFF!! Can you believe it??? "inside of me... inside of me..." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Aug 99 23:45:06 -0400 From: dbickin@ibm.net Subject: Re: self titled albums >From: Dan > Wouldn't it piss everyone off if Liz Phair's new album was >self-titled? That always bugs the SHIT out of me when artists do that. >Like I think it is okay to do it for a debut..but after that...nope..pet >peeve. Then you get SOME artists who actually have 2 albums that are >self-titled. ie "Whitney Houston" and her follow up "Whitney" >or "Allanah Myles" and a few years later "Allanah." So silly. oh well... What do you feel about Peter Gabriel? His first THREE albums were titled "Peter Gabriel". I understand that the label forced him to give his fourth album a name. But they had to compromise; the name "Security" was only printed on the plastic wrapping. David ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:22:27 -0700 From: "dana polachowski" Subject: if you really wanna see me... > I saw Ben Folds Five last night and they were bloody fantastic!!.... >or something along the lines of that! I tried to throw something on stage, to Robert >cause we were really near him but I didn't make the stage!!!.... > Robert and Darren were soooooooo nice, I can't believe I met them!! I'm getting the >photos developed tomorrow, so when I see photographic proof, it will sink in!!! > how cool!! god, i love them.... i have the greatest little souvenier from one of their shows; a little pink, shiny bra (what else?) signed by ben folds, each name on it's own respective cup. i threw it onstage at the very end of the show and ben caught it and sorta put it on and everyone laughed and i was tryin' to get my friend to launch me onstage so i could get them all to sign it, but i knew the security guard would whup my ass so i didn't try that hard and so i just stood there, with a big, fat black marker in my fists, whimpering and muttering to myself.... my friends were, like, "well....??" so then they're all breakin' down the stage and i begged and pleaded the roadie to ask those guys to sign my pretty pink bra and i'm explaining the whole story and he's just got this funny little grin on his face as he takes my marker.... turns out the guy is ben's brother, chuck. anyway, several minutes later he comes out and hands me my signed bra, which i promptly put on over my clothes. i was grinnin' like a fool for 3 days. next time i plan to hurl a big ol' 44DDD up there; i hope it lands on the keyboard right as he's about to play a song. i wanna make san diego "bra town" for the band. yep, that's my plan. dp ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V2 #255 ************************************