[MMouse]: www.epicrecords.com, www.epicrecords.com

2000-06-16 Thread p. h.
is it just me, or does the mouse seem like a deer in headlights being on a major label? the billboard feature is little uneasy, plus the packaging is a bit much. but maybe i'm over-reacting. i love the new album, but i guess i'm just worried that they'll get squashed in the major-label cycle.

[MMouse]: weezer?

2000-06-16 Thread SprkMrtini
what's this i hear about weezer playing does anyone have details? i would WALK to cali to see them play (from kc) and if someone could help, i would really appreciate anything! heart, kelli

[MMouse]: Re: initial reaction (not so sugar-coated)

2000-06-16 Thread Audrey Moon
Well, I gotta say, my first reaction to the album made me sick to my stomach. I thought to myself, "Oh my god, Epic has just ruined one of the greatest bands around today." I wanted to write them a letter telling them so. I thought it was overproduced, way more depressed-sounding, and I

Re: [MMouse]: Sunday/Monday Recap from SF

2000-06-16 Thread Russ Sweetser
this shows something i think: isaac is one of these guys who, and i could be wrong, will be extra nice to a chick but not so nice to a guy. you guys know what i mean? uh.. theres a syndrome we put on it. oh yeah. the "calvin johnston syndrome". meaning that if a guy were to talk to him on the

Re: [MMouse]: let's re-analyze the term homophobia + fishing with john.

2000-06-16 Thread Blake
wow, how wierd...you would think the makers of the language (haha) would have made terms like that easier to figure out...like "homosexualphobia" or something. oh well. ~blake ~Blake Sinclair - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15,

[MMouse]: re: santa cruz show

2000-06-16 Thread Milliehoo
yeah cameron, the crowd was bad. waddya expect this is surf city. moshing was cool in 1987, but as ian mackaye says " find a new dance it's 1995 for chrissakes.." dramamine was pretty amazing, but yeah the crowd was pretty unimaginative. Maybe im just a jaded oldtymer, but sometimes i think

Re: [MMouse]: the stars are what?

2000-06-16 Thread JR?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uhmmm for the life of me i can't figure out what f***ts is i thought it meant faggots. =( my vote is that it says "farrts" did i say YAY yet? yay... anyways. and uh... water water water jusqu'à la fin, daniel ryder the park ranger http://foolarchy.com/redelvis

Re: [MMouse]: Re: initial reaction (not so sugar-coated)

2000-06-16 Thread Spazedog00
In a message dated 6/16/00 7:17:12 AM !!!First Boot!!!, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it just didn't feel like the same band to me. My boyfriend said to me, "Sweety, I think we may have to find a new favorite band..." I can feel a lot of angry emails headed my way, its totally cool not to

Re: [MMouse]: weezer?

2000-06-16 Thread JessesSecret
In a message dated 6/15/00 11:29:24 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what's this i hear about weezer playing does anyone have details? i would WALK to cali to see them play (from kc) and if someone could help, i would really appreciate anything! heart,

Re: [MMouse]: weezer?

2000-06-16 Thread Spazedog00
In a message dated 6/16/00 6:27:33 AM !!!First Boot!!!, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what's this i hear about weezer playing does anyone have details? i would WALK to cali to see them play (from kc) and if someone could help, i would really appreciate anything! i think theyre playing

Re: [MMouse]: let's re-analyze the term homophobia + fishing with john.

2000-06-16 Thread Slackathon
I think the IFC promo for "Fishing with John" says it all: "John Lurie doesn't know anything about fishing. But his friends don't know that!" I just wish he'd make MORE! I've seen the tom waits one twenty times... Karina

RE: [MMouse]: Ms. Love's Manifesto

2000-06-16 Thread Slackathon
I don't really want to drag this out anymore, but I have some idea yr just griping to gripe, so I'm just going to argue to argue and be done with it... 1."Santa Monica, CA". I'm pretty damn sure Courtney Love doeesn't live there, because she is admittedly all about glamour and SM is,as a whole

[MMouse]: Re: Digest modestmouse.v001.n977

2000-06-16 Thread Mylissa31
by all means yea!!! ~melissa

[MMouse]: Re: Digest modestmouse.v001.n978

2000-06-16 Thread Toni Rickman
Right on, sista. Maybe im just a jaded oldtymer, but sometimes i think you kids need to enroll in a class called punk rock 101, and learn some history. i dont know gertrude Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN

[MMouse]: Re: initial reaction (not so sugar-coated)

2000-06-16 Thread Mark Richardson
I can see people not digging the new album, it does sound a lot different from their older stuff. But make no mistake, MA sounds EXACTLY like Isaac and the band want it to sound, it has nothing to do with what Epic wants. Brian Deck, the guy who produced the album, is the architect behind the Red

RE: [MMouse]: Re: initial reaction (not so sugar-coated)

2000-06-16 Thread George Booze
No kidding. I think if modest mouse had the money, they would have sounded like "The Moon Antarctica" from the beginning. Isaac has said that this is the sound they've always wanted, but couldn't afford. In that sense, it may be the first "real" Modest Mouse album... that is, Modest Mouse as

[MMouse]: Re:weezer?

2000-06-16 Thread Mylissa31
I think the best place to get weezer info would be at weezer.net, it is their official website, so I think it would be the most accurate. THey listed the tour dates weezer is playing in the news section. ~melissa

[MMouse]: santacruz show

2000-06-16 Thread Cameron Collins
hmmm well, i guess it could have been in 1987 that i was in SF on Monday watching people mosh to modest mouse. to think of it, it does seem like more than 4 days ago, yeah, it was13 years ago. But wait, punk rock 101? um, i could take that, and learn all about up and coming bands like

[MMouse]: another Word about the MM sound

2000-06-16 Thread Mark Richardson
One last gasp and then its back to lurking -- what I said with the K/Up/KRS sound was pretty stupid. I should have been more specific, what I meant to say was that there is a certain same-ness to some of the NW indie rock produced by Calvin Johnson. Up, as we all know, is a sweet label with a

Re: [MMouse]: weezer?

2000-06-16 Thread JustTriscuit
pinkerton is my favorite, but I could never choose. Marissa

[MMouse]: my last thoughts on this subject

2000-06-16 Thread Philip Smoker
Mark says: "...just as someone can betray themselves to be a "passive homophobe" (even though I still don't know what that means) by things which are said, but are not explicitly stated." I understand and agree with what you are saying, but for someone to ascertain that an individual is being

[MMouse]: Re: Calvin Johnston Syndrome

2000-06-16 Thread Philip Smoker
Heh heh, I certainly know what you mean about that, Ruxx. Remind me to fly MvvM out to the east coast when they come this way again because I WILL NOT be denied "Crazy Gnome" at my next show. WILL NOT. My bestest pal Ed I coined a syndrome long ago to describe a few girls with whom we

[MMouse]: dusty

2000-06-16 Thread LDierck
you know what dusty? i'm sick and tired of you using thing i said as your quotes... are you making fun of me, is that it? i don't know who the fuck you think you are but you are really starting to get on my nerves... fucking asshole... i swear, don't make me start to make fun of you for

[MMouse]: OT: Le Vrai Monde

2000-06-16 Thread George Booze
SO, this is horribly off-topic, but what do ya'll think of the new Real World? I like this new cast; they seem pretty mellow and no one comes off as terribly annoying. Sadly, I can't really decide which girl I'd rather stick the pick to. The Morman girl is cute, with that "innocent virgin"

[MMouse]: re:dusty

2000-06-16 Thread Dustin Summers
i use your words as quotes so i can purge myself of them. the fact that i have the oppertunity to hear the trash that come out of your mouth makes me not want to live anymore. everynight i slam my head against the wall in an effort to rid myself of the evil that you have shoveled down my

Re: [MMouse]: OT: Le Vrai Monde

2000-06-16 Thread steven hahnel
take a look at this tripe: www.supa-fly.com www.planetjulie.com and if you go to byu.edu you can find all these crazy articles about how julie broke the honor code by sipping mountain dew and sleeping in the same room as a boy. the new cast really blows, im sorry to say. On Fri, 16 Jun 2000,

[MMouse]: weezer: pinkerton v. weezer (the blue album)

2000-06-16 Thread Cameron Collins
so, weezer is playing the warped tour in SF, Tahoe, and Fresno, and then two shows, on July 3 and 4 in LA. and they're playing santa barbara tomorrow. on to the albums. pinkerton is very different from the blue album. less synth, more rock. if yer one of those "i like buddy holly" types,

[MMouse]: amy, one of a few reasons why GAP sucks

2000-06-16 Thread Quasim A Shah
hello amy and others, usually i just read the archives of the list, i just subscribed so i could give a pretty irrefutable reason as to why not to shop at the gap...the other reasons, being different, not a sheep, pretty much bullshit, you pick your herd of sheep and join their mindset, be it

[MMouse]: hypothetical: mm on vh1

2000-06-16 Thread One Hundred Watt Warlock
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i've never seen storytellers so i don't know. not that i really WANT to see them on international tv, but storytellers is this show where bands (or solo artists) play songs and before each song they talk about what the song is

[MMouse]: RE: MA Vinyl??

2000-06-16 Thread Zach_Douglas
If anyone can find where to purchase the MA on vinyl, can they help me out? I haven't tried my local record stores yet, but I have an idea they either won't have them or they will sell out. There is ONE on ebay, and I don't really want to go that route yet. I was miffed to see that you can't

Re: [MMouse]: RE: MA Vinyl??

2000-06-16 Thread kenneld
CDNow.com has it on vinyl for $16.00. I got it on vinyl @ Newbury Comics in Portland Maine and paid about that much. As for the quality; the packaging is cheap... it's very thin cardboard. There are no inserts or anything. The lyrics are printed on one of the slip covers, which are made of

[MMouse]: i pretended to faint once at the gap. it was funny.

2000-06-16 Thread Andrew Hager
you know what i hate? when i go to a thrift shop..and see gap clothing (even if its hideous reject gap cloths...bad shit) and still..since its got the word gap on the tag they hike up the price sometimes like..$10 more than everything else. i dont know...its okay if they depend on hiking up

Re: [MMouse]: OT: Le Vrai Monde

2000-06-16 Thread Spazedog00
so far im liking this real world which is odd for me to do so soon after it has started as i usually hate the cast until i get to really knwo them because for the first few episodes it seems like theyre not the cast yet due to me not getting over saying goodbye to last seasons cast i think

Re: [MMouse]: Ms. Love's Manifesto

2000-06-16 Thread KrazyLitts
I do, Nevermind sold something like 15 million copies i think, and i read that he signed up for royalties instead of flat fee in his record contract, so even at $2 an album, which was what courtney put out in her speech, that's enough to live till the end of a long life with out working while

[MMouse]: MM on KRock (

2000-06-16 Thread jacqueline.
I have been sooo busy, and i just got to my mail box for the first time in days.. so yeah i am behind by about 31 modest mouse digest emails.. bear with me: In the last year i have heard strange things come out of Krock... the get up kids had a week of fame at Krock too... i wouldn't expect

[MMouse]: MM on KRock (NY)

2000-06-16 Thread jacqueline.
I have been sooo busy, and i just got to my mail box for the first time in days.. so yeah i am behind by about 31 modest mouse digest emails.. bear with me: In the last year i have heard strange things come out of Krock... the get up kids had a week of fame at Krock too... i wouldn't expect

[MMouse]: Re: Digest modestmouse.v001.n979

2000-06-16 Thread Audrey Moon
Okay, well I have total faith in Modest Mouse, so as long as the album is exactly how they want it and not how someone else made them make it, I won't go and kill anybody just yet. Except maybe the keyboardist... I still don't like him... --Audrey From: "Mark Richardson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [MMouse]: lets analize the term homophobia

2000-06-16 Thread Heroinn0
Hey, let's not! This 'topic' is GAY. Phil

Re: [MMouse]: weezer?

2000-06-16 Thread KneeXsocks
speaking of weezerwhat does everyone think of their first self titled album vs. pinkerton??? i only own the first one and wanted to know what everyone though tof the comparisons... I love Pinkerton...even more than the blue album, actually. lyrically, it kicks the blue album's ass.

Re: [MMouse]: RE: Best Vinyl Insert?

2000-06-16 Thread kenneld
one of the best vinyl inserts would have to be the lyric sheet for US Maple's "Talker" LP... come to think of it, drag city usually does nice packaging, even on CDs. - Original Message - From: "Matt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 5:09 PM Subject:

[MMouse]: SF, 6/13/00 show

2000-06-16 Thread Audrey Moon
Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone who went to this show happened to get a good bootleg of it? I like to have boots of good shows I've so I can relive the event (and since the fuckers at the door never gave me a ticket stub back I have no way of commemorating the evening...). If anybody's

[MMouse]: list of records LATELY with good packaging, ect...

2000-06-16 Thread Blake
-the crimson curse clear LP is one sided and no the side with no stuff, its got black bugs that show through on the other side. -combat wounded veteran always has rad stuff done with their records, like the split with scrotum grinder. -kontrataque 7" was put together with a rad screen printed

[MMouse]: MoreThanMusicFest aka columbus fest

2000-06-16 Thread Fvckclevo
info: morethanmusicfest.com --frenchy you all better show up!!!

Re: [MMouse]: let's re-analyze the term homophobia + fishing with john.

2000-06-16 Thread jsl04
I agree w/ that. On a side (side) note, anyone here familiar w/ Marvin Pontiac? On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the IFC promo for "Fishing with John" says it all: "John Lurie doesn't know anything about fishing. But his friends don't know that!" I just wish he'd

Re: [MMouse]: RE: MA Vinyl??etc

2000-06-16 Thread jsl04
Where are you living at? It's selling for 13.99 to 14.99 here (Tempe). and whats the deal with the moon and antarctica being priced at $17.99even the swell indie record shops are selling it for this price. i'll buy it tho, as i've already downloaded all the songs from napster and burned

Re: [MMouse]: RE: MA Vinyl??

2000-06-16 Thread jsl04
They have the t-shirt on vinyl now? Wow. Also, if you hate the quality of Up vinyl, why did you order all the back catalog in that format? (Btw-I was j/k on the first part.) Justin Anyways, I just ordered most of MM's catalog that I didn't have on vinyl from UP! - LDFSWNTTA, LCW, Broke

Re: [MMouse]: RE: MA Vinyl??etc

2000-06-16 Thread A764Hero
I got it (already?) on sale for $12.99 here...at a Warehouse music store on my break from work. Pretty good price I thought. *J* Boulder Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i could go away and you could wish that I'd stayed or just stayed gone

[MMouse]:

2000-06-16 Thread dwalley
that sonicyouth and stereolab concert is about to be in dc. anyone peep game yet? any good? i love sonicyouth, but stereolab i don't know. and i still can't afford the new MM album. just tunin' napster downloads and those live songs

[MMouse]: lounge

2000-06-16 Thread Emogirl310
It kind of bums me out that the Mouse didn't do a third installment of Lounge like they said they would. I did enjoy the other two and wanted to hear what happened with the pornographer Katherine