Re: [MMouse]: Blonde Redhead at GAMH
No, but i just got the new album about a week ago, and it's all that i've been listening to lately. I didn't think they could make an album better than "in an expression..." but this is just fucking incredible. Consequently, i would very much like to see them live, so if anyone has any tour info, or even better, can tell me where i can get my own tour info, i would be greatly obliged. I might even regale you with the time that we took the rascal to the local park and pissed off all the skateboarders. Props to Leigh for making me remember that. -matt
Re: [MMouse]: I don't brek the law.....I AM THE LAW!
I think that i saw the mad wookiees once a couple of years ago in memphis. I was pretty drunk though, so i don't really remember if it was them or someone else. I just remember the singer/guitar player beating the shit out of his guitar with this chain at the end of the show. Good times. -matt
Re: [MMouse]: We rally round the watercooler
In a message dated 8/14/00 3:50:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: True individuality isn't possible. Human beings define their reality based on their interactions with other human beings. The scupltor who sits in his studio and makes chickens out of car parts he found in a junk yard is no more an indiviudal than a consumer who goes to the supermarket and experiences some existential agony over the selection of toothpaste. The fact that someone knows they exist is individuality enough for me. Okay, so i might be a bit late in posting a response to this, but anyone that feels this way should really read the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It will probably change your mind, and it will give you something to do other than watch tv shows that you don't like. -matt
Re: [MMouse]:
Allow me to be the first person to welcome the Adram to this list. It's a fucking blast, my friend. -matt
Re: [MMouse]: such stupid fucking cunt
In a message dated 8/2/00 4:05:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: some day i would like to have children amy, but if i knew that it would turn out like you amy, i think i'd spend some time poking myself with a coat hanger. Leigh, will you marry me? -matt
Re: [MMouse]: i want a fucking sticker. this is my second plea, i mean it.
In a message dated 7/24/00 8:24:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're a whiny fucking cunt. This is quite possibly the greatest statement posted to this list. Ever. -matt
[MMouse]: Whole bunch o' stuff
Okay, I've noticed that within the past few months on this list, there have been two major topical discussions that got people fairly passionate and riled up...the Fetal Alcohol Syndrom thread and the Led Zepplin thread, both of which, I noticed, were started by Amy. MY question is, Why bother? I think that with almost every post to this list, she demonstrates remarkably that she doesn't know shit. I know I get tired of reading things such as: but they spawned it. to me, they WERE the originals of cockrock. maybe that's the problem, maybe that's why i think why they blow goats..because to me, they ARE COCKROCK. - amy and I'm fairly certain that everyone else does as well. I wholeheartedly agree with whoever used the analogy that this was essentially like hearing a toddler cry. Most of us are mature people, maybe we should start taking the mature route and ignore blatantly stupid shit. No one is going to change her opinion in regards to this, especially when she doesn't seem to be sure what her own opinion is. I apologize if I sound like an elitist bastard, and I'd like to further apologize if this comes off sounding condescending or high-handed, but it's merely a suggestion. I know everyone hears stupid things from time to time, but sometimes it is just best to grit your teeth and ignore it. Yes, I am fully aware of the irony involved in the posting of this message, so please don't respond on that level. I am also aware that someone will say, "well, maybe you should just delete the messages with subjects that you don't want to read." Fuck that. I've tried that, and it winds up being more effort than it's worth. Anxiously awaiting attacks as a result of this letter -matt
[MMouse]: This couldn't be more off topic...
Okay, so everyone needs to check out A HREF="http://www.fredgarbo.com"Fred Garbo the Inflatable Man/A This is some crazy shit. Learn it. Live it. Love it. -matt Be sure and check out the guestbook, while you're there.
Re: [MMouse]: pants
Bellbottoms! Ugh! Bellbottons! Ugh! Yeah! Ugh! Goddamn, i fucking love the blues explosion... -matt
Re: [MMouse]: Wanted: Your Faves
Mission of Burma Those Bastard Souls Sea and Cake Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Granddaddy Cursive Magnetic Fields Portastatic Simple Ones Grifters June of '44 Archer Prewitt Appleseed Cast Planes Mistaken For Stars Kyle Stark Joan of Arc Tortoise East River Pipe Pop Unknown Les Savy Fav Jejune Shellac Dirty Three At the Drive In Mineral Chavez Slint Jets to Brazil Elevator to Hell Eric's Trip Promise Ring Braniac Dismemberment Plan Jimmy Eat World Christie Front Drive Blonde Redhead Polvo Yeah, I know listing this much stuff, especially what people have already listed, probably makes me look like a pretentious asshole, but it's all quality stuff that everyone needs to check out. -matt
Re: [MMouse]: Re: why are these things necessary?
No, fuck Ulysses because i had to devote a whole semester solely to that book as a requirement for my English minor. It's a bunch of pretentious bullshit. Go read some Marlowe or Eliot. Hell, read some Goethe or Moliere, they're all better than James Joyce. -matt In a message dated 6/26/00 1:31:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "fuck ulysses, most likely because it confused me and just asked me to read too much", like, my, i didn't really appreciate ulysses, but i thought that d.f. wallace's the infinite jest was really good, or "i really like bunnicula and the celery stalks at midnight")
Re: [MMouse]: Re: why are these things necessary?
No one is above sophomoric adjectives like pretentious. Not even god. I still say that, if you want brilliance in literature, read some Renaissance to Romantic era British people that aren't Shakespeare. -matt In a message dated 6/27/00 12:46:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: someone like james joyce is pretty much above sophmoric adjectives like 'pretentious.' he can and could do whatever the fuck he wanted...it was all brilliant.
Re: [MMouse]: Any good bookz lately?
1. American Tabloid by James Ellroy 2. Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 3. Life After God by Douglas Coupland 4. i know this makes me a pretentious bastard, but Faust by Goethe -matt
Re: [MMouse]: Any good bookz lately?
Fuck Ulysses. -matt
[MMouse]: Cursive
So I got the new Cursive album the other day. It's so fucking amazing. Everyone needs to own this album. I've bought so many fucking albums this year, and this is probably second only to Fevers Mirrors. If you like Bright Eyes, buy Cursive's Domestica. If you don't like Bright Eyes, buy Cursive's Domestica. If you still haven;t heard Bright Eyes, but Fevers Mirrors, listen to it incessantly for a week and a half, and the buy Cursive's Domestica. Seriously. -matt
[MMouse]: Columbus
So, I know someone on this list mentioned that they live in Columbus, OH. I also noticed that both Bright Eyes and Cursive are supposed to be playing at "ColumbusFest" and was wondering if I could get some info about this. Thanks -matt
[MMouse]: Fevers and Mirrors
So, the one decent music store here finally got in the new Bright Eyes, which is my favorite album right now. Does anyone besides me think that "The Calendar Hung Itself" is possibly the greatest song ever? Maybe I'm just more bitter and cynical than usual... 4 more days until Shaft -matt
Re: [MMouse]: moshing
While this topic has already been debated to death, I feel inclined to add my two cents to this, because moshing annoys the fuck out of me at shows. Don't get me wrong, i love dancing, screaming along, and having a good time, but you don't have to knock around anyone else to do this. I've honestly gotten into fairly serious fights with people about this. When I saw modest mouse, these six or seven frat guys decided to start right into me and like 2 other people during "tundra/desert", and i almost broke a beer bottle over one guy's head. I don't quite remember where I was going with this, so...um, go listen to Knapsack. -matt
Re: [MMouse]: LISP off
It's weird...when i saw modest mouse, i didn't even notice Isaac's lisp until one of my friend's pointed it out. I used to always notice it on the albums, especially teeth like god's shoeshine, but i guess that, after a while, i just got so used to it that it was no longer a speech impediment. -matt
Re: [MMouse]: album delay
Hopefully you're right, and I'm just overreacting. Fuck Epic anyway. -matt In a message dated 5/22/00 4:15:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i think the idea of the ma being delayed is COMPLETELY UNFOUNDED and SUBJECT TO APPROVAL the website says june 13th, there are posters at shows and music stores everywhere. just cuz some shumck on the air says modest mouse is delaying the records, doesn't mean it's true! come on people i thought we were smarter than that.
Re: [MMouse]: delayed new album
What the fuck? This album has been pushed back for so fucking long now. Fuck Epic. -matt
Re: [MMouse]: re: modest mouse/cleveland
Yeah, i saw them sunday night in louisville, and it was the best show ever. Isaac kept talking about the thong song, and he made fun of this one guy because he looked like a wrestler. I also got them to play truckers atlas, which wasn't on the set list. Isaac almost fell off the stage like 4 times, and we had to keep catching him. He also forgot where his beer was, so we had to point that out to him as well. Then they played a 20 minute version of tundra/desert. I can honestly say that it was a life altering experience. Basically, everyone on this list needs to see modest mouse. Even if it means killing four or five people. It's worth it. -matt
Re: [MMouse]: vanilla cokes and shit
I have one word for everyone on this list: beer -matt
Re: [MMouse]:
Jeebus, help us all... -matt In a message dated 5/7/00 6:03:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.gigmania.com/promo/modestmouse/tix.asp
[MMouse]: mouse show and other shit
Hey, I think i'm probably the only one on this list that's in kentucky or thereabouts, but is anyone(like from indiana or tennessee) going to the show in louisville on the 14th? If you are, would you want to get together beforehand? By the way, i got dragged to see gladiator, and i highly advise against seeing it...just rent spartacus, it's a lot cheaper, and a much better film. -matt
Re: [MMouse]: running
I got really excited one time, so i took off running. Everyone that saw me thought I looked like a fucking idiot, which, I'm sure i did. Needless to say, i don't run much anymore. -matt
Re: [MMouse]: Metallica v. Napster
wow..i think jon stewart summed this whole thing up pretty accurately tonight. I'm not sure, but i think the exact words were, "the music industry has won its crusade against poor college students and fun" yeah, it kinda loses something when you write it down, but i thought it was damn funny. -matt
Re: [MMouse]: Cowboy Dan
what the fuck is sonic youth doing opening up for pearl jam? -matt
Re: [MMouse]: shirt idea
I'm down...pink probably isn't my first choice, but i'l wear it. As far as ideas for design go, I like the cover art for the birds vs. worms single, and the neverending math equation single. These probably won't win, but it's at least a suggestion. -matt
Re: [MMouse]: The Mouse in Louisville?
Okay, this brings me to my next question...I know that the japanese tour ep is out of print, so does anyone know where i can obtain a copy either in mp3 format or from some generous soul on this list? -matt
Re: [MMouse]: radiohead
another good radiohead site is A HREF="http://www.greenplastic.com"http://ww w.greenplastic.com/A it's a bit more linear than the actual radiohead site, and it has a bunch of cool links. outy 5k -matt
Re: [MMouse]: mostly complete Moon Antartica Lyrics
Out of curiousity, who produced Moon Antartica? outy 5k -matt
[MMouse]: catwoman
Out of sheer boredom or just dumb curiousity, i'm wondering, who is everyone's favorite catwoman? Yeah, this is a pretty dumb, not to mention pointless, question, but like i said, i'm curious. I still say julie newmar... outy 5k -matt
[MMouse]: Re: Drinky cow
no way...pathetic junkies are great. If you're out at the right time, you can buy a vcr for two dollars. outy 5k -matt
[MMouse]: Re: Digest modestmouse.v001.n776
Not that anyone will really care, but... 1.Who are you/where do you reside/how old are you? matt/lexington, ky/20 2.What is your favorite mouse song? 4-way tie between: teeth like god's shoeshine truckers atlas lounge(closing time) she ionizes and atomizes 3.What are five records you couldn't live without (right now)? lonesome crowded west-mm slanted and enchanted-pavement the cat and the cobra-les savy fav ultimate alternative wavers-bts shining hours in a can-east river pipe 4. Putting records on the internet for free download: bad or good? not whole albums, but live shit is always osm. 5. Ebay, bad or good? utterly indifferent 6. Russ winning the hottest male contest, is he voting for himself or what? who the hell is russ? 7. Do you own the Japaneese Tour EP? nope 8. First live show? the monkees and weird al yankovic sometime in 1986 9. Worst live show? u.s. maple opening for pavement in chicago. pavement was good, but us maple is fucking horrible. They basically got booed offstage. 10. Favorite sound? whatever that sound on "dang" is...i think it's a harmonica and someone screaming into a mic that's being run through some sort of distortion pedal...the opening chord on "she ionizes and atomizes" is also damn good. 11. least favorite sound? ricky martin 12. girls posting their pictures and email addresses on the internet bad/good? utterly indifferent 13. What book should every person in america read? tie between American Tabloid by James Ellroy and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 14. Signing to a major bad/good? good, i guess...as long as the bands don't turn into assholes about it 15. Wearing the t-shirt of the band you are going to see? one word: immoral 16. Modest Mouse list being oft-off the topic bad/good? a list devoted entirely to how much everyone loves the mouse would get old really fucking fast 17. Favorite beer? rolling rock 18. Favorite color? blue 19. What are you going to name your first born child? Solomon Grundy 20. Five favorite movies (the question that tells tons about a person)? Empire Strikes Back American Beauty LA Confidential High Fidelity Tetsuo the Iron Man
[MMouse]: Re: Digest modestmouse.v001.n775
So this is my first post...does anyone know if the mouse is playing near lexington, ky? The last list i saw had them playing in cleveland, which is like 8 hours away. Also, anyone else heard the new pedro the lion album? It's quite good. -Fancy Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED]
