[MMouse]: UNSUBSCRIBE
It was fun while it lasted but a few bad apples have spoiled this list for me. I'm going the way of Ruxx, far far far away. My parting thought is that Leigh's posts were always amusing and very well written. Leigh, if I am ever in California let's have coffee and talk about why the vaginally inclined hate us. See you kidz at the shows. Grace. PS> UNSUBSCRIBE PPS> someone please help me unsubscribe
[MMouse]: What's Music about?
Can music be ABOUT anything? Please? The most important music to me resonates deeply with something I'm experiencing in life at the time, even if the meaning is not to be found in the lyrics. It's not just boys on guitars. Grace >>That's ridiculous. I really don't think it's got anythign to do with age or "place in life." ya either like them or you don't. What the fuck does my place in life have to do with me liking a boy's voice and the instrument he plays? I don't like Catcher in the Rye. ..mer.
[MMouse]: Re: modestmouse.net development
Nick, I have lots of HTML skills. Let's all get together and make a site. Although Bruce Willen's is already pretty rad. Everybody write in with ideas of something that hasn't ben done yet by Bruce or Epic--something along the lines of Russ' Hot Girls/Boys pages and boots pages. Like maybe a photo album/diary/show reviews forum. A fan site. I nominate Russ as editor. Grace
[MMouse]: Re: m&a = ma?
Thanks Audrey. I never heard Mars Accelerator before today (via mp3 at CDNOW), and now I'm hooked. I anxiously await my vinyl in the mail so I can decide what Moon & Antartica may hve "borrowed" from them. Grace El paso
[MMouse]: Edgar Graham
What does everyone make of the story of Edgar Graham up on the modesmousemusic.com website (http://www.epicrecords.com/epiccenter/custom/1204/bio.html)? James Stockstill strikes me as a Brockesque pen-name. Is the story true, fiction, or somewhere in between? Grace Viva Hell Paso
[MMouse]: BTS Live/Cortez the Killer
The best part about the new Built to Spill is the 20+ minute Neil Young cover, Cortez the Killer. Very true to the original, but five minutes longer. Listening to it is like an event, or an opera, with different parts, or movements.
[MMouse]: MM show travelers
I'm taking my old old Volvo outside the El Paso city limits for the first time ever to see Modest Mouse in Albuquerque, and maybe in nearby Tuscon and Phoenix too. I guess that's about 1000 miles all told, RT. It's about 320 miles to Albuquerque anyway. The venue there only holds 300 people.
[MMouse]: NY Records
1. Etherea Records, Avenue A around E. 5th street. (best new stuff) 2. Revolver Records, W. 8th Street between 5tha nd 6th aves (best old stuff)
[MMouse]: Flaming Lips and Looper
I just saw the Flaming Lips and Looper play in Albuquerque, NM at the Sunshine theater (small venue, high ceilings). Both bands played on the front ten feet of the stage with a video screen behind them. Both bands showed films they'd made themselves. Looper's video was Hi-8 clips from their road trip around America. The Flaming Lips clips were homemade videos to their songs, notably "Superman" starring a little kid in a superman cape at a playground who stumbles on Wayne of the Flaming Lips dressed like a modern renaissance poet whose face is covered in blood. Wayne brought the blood onstage and used it to great effect during the encore. He had a wee video camera right in front of his mikestand while he sang, so his face was broadcast over the big screen. The doesn't play live because he wants to cut out the live sound of the drums and just leave you with the heavy processed sounds. So we saw footage of him playing along. Some said it was live footage and he was in the other room, but I don't believe it. The best part about the concert was that we all traded in our ID's at the door for a radio walkman, on which the whole show was broadcast on pirate radio (98.1 FM). So while the room boomed and reverberated with low-end sound, as per usual at a show, we had all the beautiful high-end of looper's loops and the Lips vocals in our headphones, which we were free to turn up as loud as we wanted, and we did. When we took the headpones off the concert sounded like shit in comparison, and it felt like it was happening way up on stage away from you. With the headphones on it was like the concert was happening in your head and before your eyes, like you're more a part of it. I bet if they play in your town, you could sit out front of the venue on the sidewalk with a boom box tuned to the pirate station and tape the whole thing and get stoned and not get caught.
Re: [MMouse]: MM tour
What is this "r5 webpage" you mentioned, Dustin? grace