From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V7 #180 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 Sunday, December 5 2004 Volume 07 : Number 180 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [support-system] one less thing ["kimberly ann" Subject: [support-system] one less thing before you read the longest post i have ever made. i want to ask if anyone has tabs for girlysounds songs, particularly "one less thing" and "elvis be true". if so please send them my way. now to the ramble. i woke up this morning and as i was milling around i happened to leave my itunes on liz phair. as the expanse of exile in guyville rolled out across my stereo, i remembered everything that made me love phair. the anger, the intelligence, the wit, the sex all smashed together that was so different than anyone else i had ever heard. i remembered listening to the album for the first time in my laundry room doing chores when i was 12. i remember being so in love with the tiniest nuances of sound. sure liz is not the same person she was then. but what band ever stays the same? i love the cardigans. i listen to "life" and think how well crafted it is. i listen to their new stuff and i want to cry. there are no horns no bossa nova sound. but who gives a fuck it happens. as i listened to guyville i read titletk's post. as the post reached the end and i read the lyrics to one less thing and i realized that isn't that all that ever happens. people forget about this that and the other and move on. but i know for me, liz changed but her music is still a huge part of my life, even the slick produced stuff. it's because of her music i play guitar. it's because of her music i want to be a music journalist. it's because of her music i know as much about sex as i do. so that's all i really wanted to say. just that every once and awhile a little nostalgia trip with an old record is the best thing anyone can ever do. because after the perspective of other albums and years are in play, you realize that each record is not just some soundtrack. it's a little moment of your life, good or bad, that changed you -- even if it just changed your life a little it did. and isn't that why we are all on this list in the first place. kim ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V7 #180 ************************************