From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #1005 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, November 10 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1005 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Has anyone ever noticed? ["Nowik, George" ] RE: FruHaiku ["Demetriou, Melanie" ] Re: Has anyone ever noticed? [Amy Schrader ] Re: Has anyone ever noticed? ["A.J. LoCicero" ] Speaking of Haiku (Baltimore 11-10 review, long) [koogle@clark.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:34:39 GMT From: "Nowik, George" Subject: RE: Has anyone ever noticed? > ---------- > From: jenncyn@aol.com[SMTP:jenncyn@aol.com] > Subject: RE: Has anyone ever noticed? > > I live 13 miles from downtown.... I don't drink coffee..... but I > don't want to > leave! Damn it, I'm not GOING to leave! > > ::grits her teeth:: > > All right, Washingtonians, demand your rights! It's time for the > Seattle > Coffee Party! Let's storm the waterfront and dump all the Starbucks > coffee we > can get our hands on into Elliott Bay! WHO'S WITH ME?! > i'm there. we'll have a slammin jammin rip-roarin good time. protest starbucks, down with grunge, etc etc. and what's better: i'm leaving the country for 7 months. they can't do anything to me. (: -= george =- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:14:54 GMT From: "Demetriou, Melanie" Subject: RE: FruHaiku On Saturday, November 07, 1998 11:36 PM, sirilyan@my-dejanews.com [SMTP:sirilyan@my-dejanews.com] wrote: > Put finger in plug > Shocking truth is, you're ruled by > Thermodynamics. LOL!! Now *that's* comedy!! Melanie Not even going to attempt this game! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:32:15 GMT From: Amy Schrader Subject: Re: Has anyone ever noticed? >There's a mall named after you in upstate NY, somewhere off of Rte. 17 on >the way from Ithaca to Buffalo. >"Arnot Mall" "is too" "Arnot" <-quotes from a roadtrip. >:) >-Lynne The Arnot Mall!!! Yes, it's in Elmira, about 1/2 west of Ithaca. A quaint little mall, rather nice actually...if you can avoid going there when they have their gun show. ok, that was pointless. umm..fruvous content..it was when I went to Elmira College that I first heard King of Spain and that just started the whole insanity trip for me. :-P Not that any of you really wanted to know that.... Amy-still trying to recover from severe lack of sleep last weekend!! "It's not forbidden to be what you are. Dip into that great big cookie jar!" ~Moxy Fruvous "'If' is the middle word of life, man!" ~Murray Foster "Alright! Who fruvoused the cat!" ~Mike Ford ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:14:53 GMT From: "A.J. LoCicero" Subject: Re: Has anyone ever noticed? Nicole the Wonder Nerd wrote: > Don't forget Border's Books. They recently moved into Davis (after > MUCH protest from the local authors (on the grounds that chain > bookstores won't stock books from local authors) and from the > community (on the grounds that we did NOT need another bookstore, > darn it, we have six already; what we really needed was a discount > clothing store)), and now one of the independent bookstores has gone > kaput. Well, that is really too bad, but let's not forget that today's local store can become tomorrow's mega-giant. Border's Book spent the majority of it's life as a single locally owned bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They were well known as the best bookstore in town, and stocked all kinds of stuff that nobody else had. As they became more successful they opened one or two additional stores. Eventually they got the notice of K-Mart Corp. who must have made one hell of an offer, because the Border's family is now richer than god. I suspect that the reason they sold was not just the money, but because they probably weren't set up to keep managing the business as it grew. (If anybody really wants to know, Lisa can probably find out, as Carmel Borders is on the board of her school). Anyway Borders is now a national chain and they ARE putting smaller stores out of business, but really, I'm not sure where else there was for them to go. They still are one of the very finest bookstores around (I'd be very surprised if they refused to carry local authors--they've got the space and the ethos) and they are FAR FAR less evil than Barnes and Nobel (which IS an agent of Satan, or at the very least, has awfully strong ties to La Cosa Nostra.) In addition Borders also gets kudos from me for remaining a big presence in Ann Arbor, and for locating their corporate headquarters there. > ObFruvous: um... Armadillo Records does not stock Fruvous, but Tower > does. See, Tower *does* have its uses. :) Borders stocks Fruvous as well, and for less money than Tower. :) A.J. - -- Q: How many art directors does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Oooooh, Does it HAVE to be a light bulb? _____ _ / ____(_) | | _ ___ ___ _ __ ___ | | | |/ __/ _ \ '__/ _ \ | |____| | (_| __/ | | (_) | \_____|_|\___\___|_| \___/ @wwnet.com ICQ#: 13117113 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:18:49 GMT From: koogle@clark.net Subject: Speaking of Haiku (Baltimore 11-10 review, long) > Nicole the Wonder Nerd wrote: > > Wow... two syllables short of a haiku. Heh. Last night's show was cool, really different than recent shows I've seen because of the venue, which was a big square room with a bar on one side. The line seemed to take forever, because they were selling tickets at the door and it was the same line for everything. The ticket-selling guy was a trip. At one point, Cal tried to cut around the line to get in and TGS got all hyper about it. Cal eventually walked through the line, muttering not quite under his breath about TSG. The opening act was Amy Rigby. She was, well, disappointing. Her band wasn't bad, but they were definitely generic bar band material. You could tell she was a rock star type because of her leather pants; however, the attire of her band members caused me to come up with this: The Murr-O-Meter Ugly Shirt Rating Scale 1-- solid, standard color, ordinary fabric 3--solid, weird color *or* weird fabric 5--solid, weird color *and* weird fabric, or plaid 7--floral print 9--geometric print/paisley in normal colors 11--Brown, oddly organic pattern; petrochemical based fabric Let's put it this way: the bass player's red plaid was a 5; the drummer's geometric/floral was about an 8; the keyboard player may have borrowed his classic 11 shirt from Murray. After listening to most of the latest Dave Matthews Band CD, Fruvous took the stage. I'm not very good at keeping setlists, and I know these are out of order, but it's reasonably complete. Sahara Half as Much Lazlo's Career Horseshoes Improv about Baltimore to "Blow Wind, Blow" Fly Jockey Full of Bourbon Sad Girl Greatest Man in America You Will Go to the Moon (featuring Murray on the Pitch Pipe) Boo Time Kick in the Ass Billie Jean Message to You King of Spain/Green Eggs and Ham Michigan Militia BJ Don't Cry Johnny Saucep'n Pisco Bandito Love Potion #9 Medley (new quote, from Alanis' Thank U; plus Barbie Girl, Jewel, etc) Encore: Early Morning Rain Gulf War Song (off mic) I'll start at the end. I couldn't have been more pleased with the encore, as that was my song of the day and I figured there was no way in hell they'd do the GWS. (I was expecting it for Wednesday in Wilmington, but who knows now?) But the guys stood not two feet from me singing the song I'd been playing in my head all day. Early Morning Rain was a nice surprise, too. OK, back to the beginning. We were in our usual spot: right up front, stage Dave. Always a good vantage point because you get to watch Dave making faces. Murray wore a surprisingly subdued shirt in an odd tan color with the sleeves rolled up, it scored a 3.5 on the Murr-O-Meter. Jian started the chatter by going on about Monday night in Baltimore. He thanked us for coming instead of staying home watching Ally McBeal. Murray predicted that there would be a lot of "Calista"s born in the late 90s, and Jian said he thought the premise of the show was very reasonable, as he could see that Ally would have trouble dating. *snort* There was a great bit when Dave first strapped on the accordion and tried to get Cal to adjust his levels. "The stomach can come down a little" he said, so Mike gave him a hard time about using code, and started in with "Dogs barking at midnight." This went on for a minute or so until Murray chimed in with "Keep 'doing sound' Cal. Keep 'doing sound.'" The improv was funny. Mike rhymed "Richard Belzer," with "Bromo Seltzer," and Murray couldn't come up with a verse. Jian told him he could do a haiku if he wanted, but instead, Jian did another verse about how they were going to wait for Murray to finish; then everybody stopped, Murray sang about not being able to come up with a verse. "This is the sad part of the song," he said. On the other hand, he rhymed "humble piety" with "performance anxiety." During the intro to YWGttM, Murray said we'd all be going to hell, or to Delaware; it kind of went haywire from there, marked a distinct inability to actually start the song. Because of chatter from the audience, Dave couldn't hear the pitch pipe. The audience could, though. Mike asked for the a third from the audience, and then "down a fifth." Then he went into a Close Encounters riff for a bit. On the whole, this was a great show for banter. Baltimore's City Paper provided much fodder, as did features of the city such as "the one-square-foot red light district." Dave described "The Block" as a circus of vice crammed into a really contained space. For some reason it seemed like Murray was more in the spotlight than he is sometimes. In contrast, Dave seemed more subdued. Mike and Jian were their normal, effervescent selves. It was great to hear Green Eggs and Ham and The Greatest Man in America. (I'd hoped they might play the new one, Grudge, but they didn't.) It was *not* great to hear audience members drowning out the band during quieter songs; it was even worse to step aroung a crowd of sleeping homeless men on a grate with a steam vent on the way back to the car after the show. Nothing like a little reality check. Needless to say, I'm back at work today, looking forward to Wilmington, possibly NYC for New Year's, &etc. Blah blah blah, - --Amanda Paper covers Rock. Scissors cut Paper. 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