From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V6 #157 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, June 21 2003 Volume 06 : Number 157 Today's Subjects: ----------------- dallas observer review [Amber ] Chicago [TitleTK@aol.com] Liz in TONY [Emerald314@aol.com] timeout ny/sf show [LULU428@aol.com] a couple of things! [SHERLY McLACHLAN ] Liz / Boston Phoenix [Kenneth Lee ] Liz in the WSJ. [Liza Kosciuch ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:42:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Amber Subject: dallas observer review in case no one's posted this yet... ************************************* Liz Phair Liz Phair (Capitol) BY ROBERT WILONSKY She's a tricky one, this exile from the record bins. She tells truths, but never really makes clear whose, which confused those who loved her "honesty" the first two times 'round and alienated those who thought the third album too third-person to matter. (Liz Phair singing as a male was as pointed and prescient as Jay McInerney writing as a woman, and there it is.) This time, five long years after she laid a Whitechocolatespacegg and retreated into domesticity and then divorce, there's no doubt who's singing about whom here: the songwriter in first-person unless she's speaking about herself in third-person in reference to the Xbox-boytoy she's screwing who doesn't "even know who Liz Phair is," which only gets her hotter before he rips off her dress and lets her play with his joystick. The more things change, seems, the more things return to normal: Liz Phair's back in the sack and glad to be back. Those who'd damn her for working with The Matrix, who pasted the plasticine sneer onto Avril Lavigne's Sassy mug, miss the point; hers is not punk-pop for preteens, a manufactured rage for all-the-rage radio. Phair makes pop for adults, those of us who want sugar-sweet confections as dessert but know we ultimately need protein and fiber as our daily sustenance. What she offers this time around isn't angry-girl indie or wannabe-star rock, but grown-up music intended to crack a Top 40 that doesn't exist. (Besides, you can tell which songs Michael Penn got his hands around--they're the ones that sound like Aimee Mann without all the boring.) Liz Phair is subversive, in other words, a disc of catchy-catchy (or sticky-sticky, in one case) songs with real substance beneath the shiny veneer, be it the one about introducing her shy young son to new boyfriends ("Little Digger") or the one about how good it feels to love someone other than your other ("Why Can't I?") or the one about how she's just a nice, normal girl in need of "a primitive fix" ("Extraordinary," which echoes Weezer just so) or the one about growing up and not caring what anyone else thinks ("Love/Hate Transmission," very Who). Pray the kids don't sneak a listen; they'll love it but ask you, Mom, what's "hot white cum?" Phair's still sexually proactive, which will tickle anyone who still gets a kick out of hearing a girl sing "fuck me"; and you don't include a song called "H.W.C." (or "Hot White Cum," of which she can't get enough, if only to clear her skin and mind) if you're trying to ditch the fuck-and-run rep altogether. But there are consequences now, and a marriage in ruins fills the album's final tracks: "Tell me what can I say to keep you in my life," she wonders, knowing it's not enough just to keep it surprising and exciting. Still, this is hardly a d-i-v-o-r-c-e disc, a Here, My Dear downer--you know Phair, right? The girl who asks, "Isn't the best part of breaking up finding someone else you can't get enough of?" That's her. ************************************* __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:23:34 EDT From: TitleTK@aol.com Subject: Chicago Does anyone have ticket info on the Chicago/Metro show on August 23, it's listed on the website but no where else. james ============================================================= James E. Place 180 Sachem Rd. N. Kingstown, RI 02852 401-885-0564 TitleTK@aol.com Days until the new Liz Phair album is released: 04! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:25:53 -0400 From: Emerald314@aol.com Subject: Liz in TONY Hey all, somebody's probably mentioned this already but Liz Phair is in "The Hot Seat" in the new issue of Time Out New York - it's an interview on the last page. Not much new info, but a cool picture. ~Emily ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:26:45 EDT From: LULU428@aol.com Subject: timeout ny/sf show does anyone know when the sf tickets actually go on sale? i missed the pre-order unfortunately. also, the last page (called the hot seat) of this weeks timeout new york has an interview with liz- i don't really feel like typing it all out- but i'm sure someone can get it. its probably on their website. i liked the interview alot. the interviewer quoted alot of the more controversial things liz has been saying in the most recent interviews. if anyone has 2 extra sf tickets let me know! Lani ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:46:13 -0700 (PDT) From: SHERLY McLACHLAN Subject: a couple of things! Hey To All: First off wxrt in Chicago is having Liz's '98 show at the Vic as the featured concert this Sunday. I believe it's from 8:00 to 9:00 pm. It's a pretty good performance, I have it on tape. If anyone gets it on disc I'd love a copy. Also I am starting to hear Extrordinary on the radio. I've seen the Why Can't I video on VH1 and was suprised, it was alot better than I thought it would be. I'm glad to see she's finally starting her solo tour. I'm totally pumped about the 2 Chicago dates announced. I hope they do the presale on her web sight for all her shows. Does anybody know anything reguarding that? One more thing. That last review that made a remark about Aimee Mann being boring was lame. And I don't think any of Liz's stuff sounds like Aimee. Micheal Penn hasn't produced or engineered Aimee's stuff. He might play instruments on her cd's but I don't see and credit going to him for producing. Sorry, just had to get that out. Have a good one!! Lor SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:59:33 -0700 From: Kenneth Lee Subject: Liz / Boston Phoenix Hi again, Just transcribed another article, this time from the June 13th issue of The Boston Phoneix, which is now available for viewing at Mesmerizing. More to come (as usual). Enjoy! - -Ken kenmlee@ix.netcom.com MeSmErIzInG - AnOtHeR LiZ PhAiR WeBsItE http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/2471/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 20:01:01 -0400 From: Liza Kosciuch Subject: Liz in the WSJ. In today's Wall Street Journal, there's an article about music being released this summer, headlined A New Sound for Summer. It's pretty long, but here are the Liz parts: Then there's Liz Phair, a veteran alternative-rock singer and songwriter who these days looks less like an indie artist and more like Sheryl Crow. Some longtime fans are already up in arms over her new image, but Ms. Phair says in an interview she's just trying to stay ahead at a time when record labels have little patience for noncommercial acts. A couple of years ago, she says, "I wasn't getting calls back from people. ... I was over." Now, she's working closely with department heads at Capitol Records to make sure she stays afloat. ... Pop THE SOUND: Straight down the middle CONTENDERS: Jewel, "0304" (Atlantic); Ruben Studdard, "Flying Without Wings" (J Records single); Liz Phair, "Liz Phair" (Capitol) BUZZ: The most familiar face in this category may just be a guy who's never put out a record before. That's Ruben Studdard, the guy who won "American Idol" and was seen by 33 million viewers on the contest show's finale. Certainly there's precedent for this instant fame, given that last year's winner has been a top seller. But the favorites, of course, are the makeover queens, Ms. Phair and Jewel. Instead of strumming acoustic guitars on horses, Jewel is going for a tongue-in- cheek sex-appeal look and cutsey song titles ("2 Find U"). Indeed, her new album is off to a strong start -- it would have been No. 1 on the Billboard 200 if Metallica hadn't released its new one early to trump Internet pirates. LOWDOWN: You never imagined you'd be dancing to a Jewel song. ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V6 #157 ************************************