Re: [MMouse]: observations

1999-11-25 Thread Kathryn McDonald
>"birds vs worms" > If anyone knows someone who has a copy of that they're willing to sell, I would be grateful...I own everything they've put out with the exception of a couple singles on compilation albums, but I have never even heard Birds vs. Worms. I don't know anyone who owns it, it's i

Re: [MMouse]: observations

1999-11-25 Thread Kathryn McDonald
typical Mouse, I think... Although they do go from something kind of pretty to something violent at times (tundra/desert). Depends on whether you like the slow stuff or the hard stuff...I like both, and think that #5 (I don't have the CD in front of me, but I believe that's the "their timing wa

RE: [MMouse]: coupland and authors

1999-11-25 Thread Kathryn McDonald
We had an entire discussion in class about that same idea...the value in things that are "transitory", that they enter mass culture, influence, shape it, and when the change has been made, the piece of literature (for example) is then viewed as trite and/or devalued... I somehow don't see peopl

Re: [MMouse]: dogma *

1999-11-25 Thread Kathryn McDonald
>woo did anyone see Dogma? i saw it tonight.. i thought it was great. but >um >maybe i just liked it alot because they used my school's (red bank >catholic, >i think it was in chasing amy? mallrats?) church in the beginning of the >movie.. "jay" was *so* funny in it tho.. but i havent seen him

Re: [MMouse]: You gotta break a few eggs...

1999-11-25 Thread Kathryn McDonald
>and basing a soul mate on >simply what you have in common is kind of silly. what about what you >don't have in common? > "Polar opposites don't push away..." The boy I'm in love with thinks Korn and Limp Bizkit are the bearers of all things fabulous, takes Ayn Rand seriously and thinks people

Re: FW: [MMouse]: coupland and authors

1999-11-25 Thread Kathryn McDonald
>Yes indeed, Sartre is a heavy hitter too. I think Nausea permanently >affected the way I view my surroundings. If I remember correctly, I >didn't >want to leave the house for a week. > >Justin Say it from the mountain... Although I'd have to say, I still don't *really* understand what existen

Re: [MMouse]: typical indie/emo looks

1999-11-24 Thread Kathryn McDonald
>...that sounds a lot like an Ethan Hawke monologue from Reality > >Bites...and Winona Ryder is Isacc Brock? Not a sermon, just a >thought. I hate to disappoint, but I've never seen that movie. Just a thought. keight __ Get Your Private, Fre

Re: [MMouse]: coupland and authors

1999-11-24 Thread Kathryn McDonald
Thank you, thank you, thank you... Somehow hearing that Miller had more insight into the human condition than Dostoevsky kind of made me feel like retching. Kate >Ah, your muddled comments are amusing me. Dostoyevsky hits human nature >better >than 90% of the hacks that pass for "modern writer

Re: [MMouse]: coupland and authors

1999-11-24 Thread Kathryn McDonald
>But when you get right down to it, Miller's Tropic of Cancer is >really >where it's all at, and no one has done better yet. No one, ever? J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle Joseph Heller, Catch-22 Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ Hermann Hesse, Steppen

Re: [MMouse]: typical indie/emo looks

1999-11-24 Thread Kathryn McDonald
Just to second (or third, or fourth) the running theme... Not having a dictionary in front of me right now, I might be wrong, but I believe "indie" is the abbreviation of "independant", meaning unsigned for the most part, but also indicating some kind of dissassociation from the mainstream. An

Re: [MMouse]: gonna speed through the night.

1999-11-24 Thread Kathryn McDonald
>pulp & beck "deborah" Isn't that song called Disco 2000? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

[MMouse]: J. D.

1999-11-24 Thread Kathryn McDonald
>i love douglas coupland Try J. D. Salinger sometime, Coupland's pretty much a cheap substitute __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [MMouse]: typical indie/emo looks

1999-11-24 Thread Kathryn McDonald
Call me ignorant (which I don't really think I am, exposure wise, living in Oly) but what the hell does "emo" mean, and who is classified as "emo"? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com