From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V6 #236 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 Tuesday, September 2 2003 Volume 06 : Number 236 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [support-system] Backslash ["John A. Johnson" ] Re: [support-system] Backslash [Kate Stewart ] [support-system] Re: Backslash [Catherine Molanphy Subject: Re: [support-system] Backslash On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 11:02:57 -0700 (GMT-07:00), April Haitsuka wrote: >Here's the part of the Onion interview where she talks about the backslash: >[...] Finally, I came up with the idea of the backslash, which is sort of >a theme throughout all the songs. I feel like my life tends to be lived in >the center of two extremes, of any given emotion, and that's how I know >where I am in things. So I was! > trying to think of what we could do, things like "Love/Hate," > "Sane/Psycho," all these different ones that were going to be ghosted in > the background [of the album cover]. For "Red Light Fever," something > like "Stop/Go," "Red Light/Green Light," something like that. Because > almost every song has that theme in it. And my art director goes, "Can't > we just symbolize it? Do we have to spell it out?" We thought about, at > the photo shoot, using a wall on an angle, like me lying on a wall at > that particular backslash angle. In the end, it just became the guitar at > that angle. But no one would ever get that but us. All very interesting. But this raises another question: Why does she use the word "backslash," which refers to the left-leaning symbol (\), when she is actually talking about the right-leaning frontslash symbol (/)? It's Love/Hate Transmission, not Love\Hate Transmission. And her guitar is leaning to the right. Not that anyone (including myself) cares or should care. Just an idle observation. - --John - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- John A. Johnson http://www.personal.psu.edu/~j5j/ Penn State is not responsible for my behavior. Nor am I for the university's. "You can learn from books. Books are good." --Ringo ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 07:41:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Kate Stewart Subject: Re: [support-system] Backslash "Why does she use the word "backslash," which refers to the left-leaning symbol (\), when she is actually talking about the right-leaning frontslash symbol (/)?" Probably because she's stupid and apparently doesn't think through anything. I read that Onion article a week ago and thought, ok, that would have been cool if she had called it that..... maybe. But you can't start referring to an album that's already released by a different name. Sorry, Liz, you missed your chance to call it something interesting, but you should have thought of that 6 months ago and fought for it instead of copping out like you usually do. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:05:31 -0400 From: Catherine Molanphy Subject: [support-system] Re: Backslash > From: "John A. Johnson" > All very interesting. But this raises another question: Why does she use > the word "backslash," which refers to the left-leaning symbol (\), when she > is actually talking about the right-leaning frontslash symbol (/)? It's > Love/Hate Transmission, not Love\Hate Transmission. And her guitar is > leaning to the right. > > Not that anyone (including myself) cares or should care. Just an idle > observation. You're not alone. After April's post, I inspected the CD cover and had the exact same thought. I'm guessing Liz skipped the class on punctuation... perhaps out in a car getting burnt and humming the Flintstones' theme song. I'm also guessing that she just likes the way "backslash" sounds, being a lyricist, the way it can be confused (as I did) with backLASH. Frontslash just doesn't have quite the same ring about it, and plain ol' SLASH is only two little letters away from slasher. Or yeah, Kate... she just didn't think it through... realized too late that an eponymous title didn't jazz her up in any way. Oh well. - --Catherine ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:54:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Emil Breton Subject: [support-system] new EP? new *album*? new songs radio-UNfriendly? Heads up: Ken Lee, support-system's hardest-working monkey, has transcribed a whole new batch of articles at his website. He's up to, like, the 234th article or something. It's ridiculous. But more importantly, the information gleaned from them is cause for celebration for anyone whose pulse *doesn't* race every time the new chart position for 'Liz Phair' comes in from the Billboard wire. Like this little tidbit, from the Arlington Heights, IL Daily Herald (8/22/03): Q: What determines your future? The success of this record? A: By the kind of songs I make. It's troubling because even now I see a record forming that isn't like this record either. I'm like, "Oh, god I have to go through this all over again?" And just as the indie people got mad at me, next the business people will get mad at me because I'm not turning out the product they expect. It's going to happen all over again for different reasons. But the truth is, if you're really making music from the place you should be making music, you have to follow it. It just goes where it goes. Or the little blurb from the Las Vegas Review-Journal about the EP Liz recorded with Pete Yorn, which may be released soon on his label (Trampoline). Or this, from that same article: "Phair recorded songs with various producers, but they didn't make the album. Some of those vault songs will be used for a new album that will be released relatively soon; this album was five years in the making." As always, you can't really trust what she says about her long-term plans, but this certainly gets *me* going. Love, emil __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 09:33:47 +1000 From: s.fried@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au Subject: [support-system] EIG before Tegan & Sara! The Corner played almost the ENTIRE EIG before the Tegan & Sara gig I went to last week - it was so exciting to hear EIG in public! I was rambling to the woman at the merchandise desk about it and she was telling me how she had LP but hadn't listened to it yet. Anyways, they played Flower just before T & S came on stage. They were good, about 7 out of 10 cause they didn't really fill up the stage and they didn't really get into their songs but their banter was hilarious, they spent the whole time paying each other out. They're both tiny, as small as I imagine Liz is. Laura Imbruglia, as in NATALIE Imbruglia's sister, supported them and she was actually quite good, had some quite funny songs. Grandville sucked, guitar wank. Anyways, long story short, I was THRILLED to hear EIG in public (have only ever heard Shatter being played in a cafe and Soap Star Joe on community radio before) and despite their averageness, I would still see T & S again...Sally ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:54:21 EDT From: LilRussianGirl@aol.com Subject: Re: [support-system] mtv vmas Was Liz at the vmas? With capitol giving her push, shouldn't she have been there? At least on the red carpet and in the audience? Just wondering -- I didnt see it but I could nt find any pix online... ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V6 #236 ************************************