From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #969 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 Friday, November 6 1998 Volume 01 : Number 969 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: I have the BEST girlfriend in the WORLD! (yes, MF related :) ) [zards] RE: I dream of Jeannie... [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Sa] Re: I dream of Jeannie... [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Sa] 8 days 'till Katonah! [kitten ] flame war [kitten ] Re: Hail Americans! [sirilyan@my-dejanews.com] rochester show [kdsinthhal@aol.comatose (KdsInThHal)] Re: I have the BEST girlfriend in the WORLD! (yes, MF related :) ) ["Paul] REVIEW of SHOW by GROUP at UNIVERSITY in CITY, STATE. :) [Lawrence P Solo] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 6 Nov 1998 05:02:17 GMT From: zardsnod@aol.com (ZardSnod) Subject: Re: I have the BEST girlfriend in the WORLD! (yes, MF related :) ) Paul wrote (re: girlfriend b'day surprise gifts): > >I'm a very lucky guy! > > Hey, aren't you Andrea's boyfriend?! ;-) - -Zard From a contest in the Wash. Post Style Invitational: "Rene Decartes Before the Horse - I am, therefore I think" - Bob Dalton, TX ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:26:18 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: RE: I dream of Jeannie... In article , NowikG@data-io.com says... > jian was the social one, mike was having a great time, dave was occupied > and looking at something, and murray was just plain quiet. This is different from real life *how*? > a church basement? why on earth there? *shrug* it was a > venue? (: Actually, the first place I saw 'em was at the new digs of Swallow Hill, which really used to be a church. Cookies and coffee were served in the basement during intermission. k@ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:13:25 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: Re: I dream of Jeannie... In article , bmurray@indiana.edu says... > > What dreams have you had about Fruvous??? Well, the dream that's printable is one I had just a couple nights ago - I dreamed that Früvous had returned to the Denver area to do another show, and that Mike had hunted me down personally at school to tell me exactly when and where they were playing (I even asked him, in the dream, why he was the one who hunted me down, and he explained that the others were busy shopping or working out at a gym or something). I think Jian did make a cameo appearance later, walking down the hall to meet Mike. I started getting frantic when my class ran overtime 'cause we had gone on this (albeit interesting) field trip, and I wasn't able to call Tom at work to inform him of the show. I relaxed when I figured we'd still have time to make it there after we both got home. Needless to say, I was pretty pissed off when I realized I was dreaming. k@ taking the 5th on the other ones ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 06:29:37 GMT From: kitten Subject: 8 days 'till Katonah! Tonight I feel like I've accomplished the impossible (or at least improbable): within a week, I've seen Fruvous (twice!), made six converts, and made plans to see them again (with at least three of my converts in tow) in another week. ;) (An out-of-state show, no less; no small feat for carless students.) Everyone going to the show should keep an eye out for a pack of four girls, one tall with a braid and one shortish with a buzz cut. (the latter would be me, the former is Beth) I'd LOVE to meet up with anyone else from the ng who'll be there. One frumiles stamp closer to that bowling trip... ~Caroline cmoore@mail.smith.edu *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* "Hey, flirt with this, I am a certifiable hardcore bitch" - Jess Klein "Oh, what a trip it has been!" - Jian Ghomeshi ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 08:17:18 GMT From: kitten Subject: flame war Ken eloquently expressed: >There is >nothing that infuriates me more than being arbitrarily rejected because I just >happen to have the misfourtune of not being alive long enough. Don'tcha hate that? Although I wholeheartedly agree that not only is it infuriating and ridiculous to have every single show the weekend of the FruCon be 19+ (which makes my hypothetical road trip practically pointless), but also to be judged on the basis of the length of my life (something I certainly have no control over... although wouldn't that be fun?), I, too, will refrain from griping about the age restriction any more than I just have. Do forgive my run-ons. Hope that one's decipherable. ~Caroline cmoore@mail.smith.edu *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* "Hey, flirt with this, I am a certifiable hardcore bitch" - Jess Klein "Oh, what a trip it has been!" - Jian Ghomeshi ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 08:24:19 GMT From: sirilyan@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Hail Americans! In article <3641D285.3BD7@cc.umanitoba.ca>, Josh Drury wrote: > As for the Progressive Conservatives, you've never heard "Tory Potion > #9"? Well, I guess they only did that one in Canada. They used to be a > major factor nationally (one of the two main parties, the other being > the centrist Liberals), with a stance roughly relative to the > republicans (but still a bit left of that, as politics are shifted that > way here somewhat, but increasingly less so). However, in the 1993 > election, they went from a majority of the House of Commons to a paltry > 2 out of 295 seats, losing official party status. This was not due to an actual lack of *support*, but because in many western ridings the right-wing kooks who would hold their noses and vote Tory went with Reform instead. (I live under the jackboot of a Reform MP, and have earned the right to say these things.) Both the PCs and Reform got the same percentage of the popular vote. I think those who've heard someone talk about proportional representation can insert a rant of their own construction here. (Comical moment: in an interview with Margaret Atwood I read in _Mother Jones_ she was asked what it was like to be a liberal. She replied "I'm sorry, I'm actually a Red Tory." Wow, even our right wing is left wing. Sometimes. See above with regard to jackboots.) - -D. - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: 6 Nov 1998 08:57:40 GMT From: kdsinthhal@aol.comatose (KdsInThHal) Subject: rochester show i uhhh... actually really don't have anything to say about the show itself.. aside from such songs i've rarely heard at shows as much as others, like: minnie the moocher (instead of boo time) horseshoes (instead of fly) pisco (i think the 2nd time i've seen this... aww, murray's so gosh darn cute:)) billie jean/lovefool (oh wow, that was so cool! :D) psycho killer (haven't seen this in so long, ye-ah!) wasn't thrilled with the lighting. i was in the front row, the lights were over the like.. 5th.. so us in the front had this bright white light over us instead of it being dark like it was last year and should be. bleh. oh well. some asshole chucked something at jian (aside from the suckers that were flying at the stage) and hurt him so bad he needed a band aid. :( people like that suck... luckily he got back into a good mood soon. :) any of you there see SNMNMNM (aka those 2 guys handing out candy and playing guitar and accordion outside while waiting in line)? i got one of their cd's from them, and they're really good!:) i saw jian talking to them too.. sarah~ lava.home.ml.org linnellgirl@tmbg.org "i'm writing 'young and gifted' in my autobiography, i figured who would know better than me? i'm certainly the former but i'm not so much the latter, but no one's gonna read it, so i'm sure it doesn't matter" - sloan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 05:34:01 -0500 From: "Paul D. Beasi" Subject: Re: I have the BEST girlfriend in the WORLD! (yes, MF related :) ) ZardSnod wrote in message <19981106000217.05418.00004952@ng19.aol.com>... >Paul wrote (re: girlfriend b'day surprise gifts): > >> >>I'm a very lucky guy! >> >> >Hey, aren't you Andrea's boyfriend?! > You've just made ANDREA very happy now! :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 03:20:24 -0500 From: Lawrence P Solomon Subject: REVIEW of SHOW by GROUP at UNIVERSITY in CITY, STATE. :) ok, so the subject line is a little bit ambiguous. I just got back from Cleveland, where Moxy Fruvous have, once again, impressed me beyond previously being impressed by anything before. Wow. firsrt of all, the ratio of non-students to students looked to be about 1:1, which seemed to bother the staff slightly (they divided us into two mobs... er, lines, at the beginning and seemed surprised that there were more people there who weren't students) It was a really different set than most I've seen (ok, so I've only seen 5, but still - I'm working on it :) they came on stage and immediately told the standing audience members to sit down, and talked about that for a bit, before one of them (Jian, I think) said something to the effect of "You know, the last thing we said before we came out here was that we weren't going to talk before playing a song..." and then they did the wonderful a capella version (do they ever do any other version anymore?) of Message. After this came the short version of Sahara, followed by Laika. At this point, there hadn't been much talking, but Jian joked that Laika had been requested by a guy holding up a sign in the back, at which point, some people with actual signs decided to make their presence known by asking for Entropy, which we got the first verse or so of. this blended into a short improv about CWRU, and Half as Much. Somewhere in there, they made some guy stop videotaping from up close, and made him stand in the back where they couldn't see the red light, and so Murray would be out of the frame... then Dave picked up the accordion for the first time in the show, to much applause, and it was pointed out that all the electronic instruments will be affected by Y2K, and that the accordion will be all that's left. and that it also won't be possible to do face altering surgery after 2000, which led nicely into the Incredible Medicine Show, which was wonderful (my first time hearing it live, so doubly so :) we then got the no intro I Love My Boss, and the short intro Horseshoes. at this point, I could really tell that most of the audience was singing along... then they did another song, and I have no clue what it was. they mentioned Case Western in it, but that's just the standard local reference thing going on... can anyone else who was there help me out on this one? and Mike disappeared into the audience... for Spiderman, after which, Jian said something like "Spidey... we love you!" which I take as some sort of TMBG reference, whether deliberate or not. :) Either way, I enjoyed it. then came an improv about suuave... (at least that's all I wrote down about it) and Sad Girl, which I'd only heard once before, but somehow was able to remember most of. :) and continuing with the new song thread, they played Pisco Bandito, which I find to be one of the most enjoyable new songs... and again, a large portion of the audience was singing with this one. they then picked up the hats, and for a while, I wasn't sure what they were going to do - Mike looked like he was hunching over to do his Grandpa Fruvous thing, but Dave retrieved the keyboard and launched into Boo Time... I forget most of the lines, but at the very end, one of them commented "That's a song about smoking grass. Which I guess people don't do in Ohio... but they like to listen to songs about it." (paraphrased) and the Kids' Song, with its usual intro, and some references to misheard song lyrics ("The girl with colitis goes by") and many things in the song replaced with Barney... and they introduced the last of the new songs for the evening, I Will Hold On... "It's a bittersweet kind of song..." (audience member who will remain nameless) "BITTERSWEET!" "No, it's not Bittersweet, unfortunately... that's not a NEW song!" I really enjoyed this song. It's exactly the style that all my favorite songs are. :) and there's something about the way Jian emotes it in concert, too... and then the King of Spain. somewhere during the intro for this, the audience was asked for feedback on something. and we all screamed "YES!" (because that was the answer to whatever question was being asked) but it was decided that we needed to do it "more staccato." and it eventually turned into a really quick "Y...!" (so as to distinguish it from "N...!") let's see... during the song... "It's laissez faire, I'm not wearing underwear..." and after the genius line, "RIOT!" and, as "usual," it led into the short version of Green Eggs and Ham, during which, the "Y...!" thing resurfaced, and turned into a fairly lengthy improv number... and then... "Ladies and gentlemen... MICHIGAN MILTITIA!" which led into the obvious song, but would have been much funnier if it hadn't. :) and the main set ended with the Love Potion #9 medley, which might have also had some "Y...!" references in it. They came back and did Get in the Car and Psycho Killer... during Psycho Killer, Mike's D string broke, which made it kind of interesting for those of us trying to watch chords. :) and at the end, when Jian tried to push his mic away, he accidentally knocked it over... fortunately, the audience was there to remedy this. :) between encores this time, instead of just clapping and yelling, the audience was chanting "Y...!" repeatedly. when they returned, the comment was "ahhh, they learn quickly." and there was a reference to "The Knights who no longer say 'Ni.'" They then played the Drinking Song, with much singing and swaying by the audience... great fun. all in all, a great show. now to look forward to New Year's. :) another note, regarding the subject line... at some point, they brought up the fact that Cleveland has a "Public Square." and apparently that's its official name. They went on to say that another city has "Sports Arena," and went a little overboard with the generic names... ("I'm going to see movie at theater." and things like that... "Who plays at Sports Arena? Team... they play game, of course!" "We're wearing clothes!") maybe I should go to Buffalo.... if I had the cash... Lawrence Solomon http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~lps/ lps@andrew.cmu.edu "You keep handing out horseshoes * This space inadvertently Horseshoes have gotta be tossed." -Moxy Fruvous * left with stuff in it. ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #969 ********************************************