From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V5 #176 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 Wednesday, September 11 2002 Volume 05 : Number 176 Today's Subjects: ----------------- vintage Liz continued [Kenneth Lee ] Ye Olde Grande Liz [Dan MacDonald ] the brits and a(nother) sleater kinney interview [ Subject: vintage Liz continued Here is part two of a Liz interview from 1995: ***** WR: Ok, serious interview now. What gave you the impetus to write Guyville? It was the first real thing you'd done, right? Liz: I've been writing and playing songs since I was close to zero, so it got to a point where I just wanted to. I got competitive. I was sick of "I'm with a band." I thought, "I AM the band!" I was tired of trying to live off my art, sell my art and make rent. I also had the opportunity. I had people who would literally do it for free and help me. I just took opportunities, whereas before I'd been really quick about shutting the door on stuff like that. WR: Are you surprised that it has done this well? Liz: Yeah, I had no clue. I was just making it to prove to my friends that I could, that I could kick their ass. That my songs were better. And that I could rock. I think I made some joke about how the people that I really was intending the album to be heard by lived within a mile radius of where I was. WR: So, how long have you been touring now? Liz: Look at me, I'm road weary. WR: Way too long? Liz: No, five days. I've been on the road for five days! WR: You've said that you hate performing live and you'd rather not do it. How do you feel now? Liz: A lot more comfortable. I still don't want to do it. It's not something I want to do. I have lived my life at points just partying rampantly and going out everywhere, but those are only phases, usually at a point where I can't deal with something. I want to change my life. So I'll go out!!! But mostly, I'm pretty private. So going on the road is a nightmare, because no matter how great everyone is, you're talking to people all the time. If all I had to do was go somewhere and chill, no problem. But to go and be on all the time. WR: Just running around, schmoozing, etc. Liz: Yeah, exactly. I went to a party last night of people, just people, and I was so used to having to shake hands with everyone that I was walking around like "Hi!, Hi!" And then I was like, "No, I don't have to do that." ***** To be continued tomorrow... - -Ken kenmlee@ix.netcom.com MeSmErIzInG - AnOtHeR LiZ PhAiR WeBsItE http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/2471/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 07:49:24 -0400 From: Dan MacDonald Subject: Ye Olde Grande Liz this snippet of the old interview ken posted: >Liz: I fucking hate it. It's such a drag over there. The food sucks. >The people are really stiff. The weather sucks. I just don't like it. it totally brought back memories of the liz i fell in love with. for some reason i can't really picture her saying this now...but maybe she'll surprise us... dan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:07:42 -0400 From: Subject: the brits and a(nother) sleater kinney interview ken, thanks for this interview - fucking hilarious!!! "vintage liz" is right...*this* is the gal i want to smoke a joint and mock people with. of course, by now we may have both become people that we would have mocked back then...but that's a whole 'nother issue. > Liz: I fucking hate it. It's such a drag over > there. The food sucks. > The people are really stiff. The weather sucks. > I just don't like it. > > > Liz: Because they're English. A palate based on > famine rations. > Creative ways to recombine famine rations have > become traditional > English classics and that frightens me. ...ouch! remember all the press Gwyneth got recently for disparaging the dating habits of british men? this is far more caustic...i laughed my ass off in my cubicle! the cover article in the new stomp & stammer (atlanta area music rag) is a sleater kinney interview. good stuff. it's up on the site www.stompandstammer.com. while segments of the publication are atlanta/athens-centric, every month they interview two or three national bands, many of which are mentioned here, by you people. some of you might want to send them $15 for a subscription (the plug is only 'cause i like 'em, not because i have any personal stake in it). xo...valerie ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V5 #176 ************************************