From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #782 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 Saturday, September 4 1999 Volume 03 : Number 782 Today's Subjects: ----------------- mypoorgeneration.com [FruCake1@aol.com] Harbourfront concert [Irene ] Re: OT Web Editors (was WaytogoMike.com) [serra44@aol.com (Jill Friedman)] Re: Question: [FruCake1@aol.com] Will the real Fruvous please stand up? [Irene ] JIAN!!!!!!!! (Was: Anyone willing to help with WaytogoMike.com [FruCake1] Re: mypoorgeneration.com [FruCake1@aol.com] whoo-hoo! i'm back! ["Carey Farrell" ] Re: ATTN: Anyone willing to help with WaytogoMike.com [srm9988n@aol.comic] Re: Ohio Gathering? ["Mer Mer" ] OT: annotated sig! (was: Disscussing HOCKEY! (was Re: OT: Dissucssing Lori's Sig) [srm9988n@aol.comicrelief (Lori at fru] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 02:52:05 GMT From: FruCake1@aol.com Subject: mypoorgeneration.com Valerie and I will be leaving posts about any updates made to our site http://www.mypoorgeneration.com. Well, here's the first one........our Guestbook is up and running YAY!!!!! We apologize for any technical difficulties, but you must understand that we've only started working on this 3 weeks ago. :) I'm happy that we have ANYTHING up!! HAHA :) Enjoy!! Lisa Bills ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 02:46:17 GMT From: Irene Subject: Harbourfront concert Hello all, Could anyone who managed to get a recording of the Harbourfront concert please give me a shout? I would dearly love to get a copy. Irene gaspar.11@sympatico.ca ******************** Define "universe". Give three examples. ******************** ------------------------------ Date: 04 Sep 1999 02:53:58 GMT From: serra44@aol.com (Jill Friedman) Subject: Re: OT Web Editors (was WaytogoMike.com) > >Go Notepad! It's the way *real* coders work! :p I *only* code in Notepad. We have this thing at school that's kinda nice...can't remember the name of it. But it's as close to raw notepad as you can get, without actually being notepad. - -J writing a song called the Ballad of Jill V. Fruhead Member of the Jian fan club Owner of all the MF albums and all of Ani DiFranco's "She's too short to play me."-Joey Potter Too short to play herself in a movie ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 03:02:27 GMT From: FruCake1@aol.com Subject: Re: Question: In a message dated 9/3/99 10:42:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mccown@op.net writes: << I think there are four Elizabeths >> Hey, I'm an "Elizabeth" too! The letter "z" is pronounced like the "s" in Spanish (in Puerto Rico)....that's where LiSa comes from. Lisa Bills http://www.mypoorgeneration.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 02:43:30 GMT From: Irene Subject: Will the real Fruvous please stand up? Two Fruvous events in one week (well, three, if you include the 15 minute spot on 99.9): that’s nothing short of a miracle for me. The first event was the album release in Canada on Aug 26th. As is always the case, I did not know what to think of this the latest Fruvous album. I was a little better prepared for this one than I normally am, but just the same I was left perplexed by it. The album is like another Wood, brown cover and all. Coming from me, this is not a compliment. I like many of the Thornhill songs on their own, but once they are strung together on an album, everything changes; they create a particular mood and it is a melancholy one. Both Wood and Thornhill leave behind the things I value most in Fruvous: spunk, wit, versatility and humour. (Good musicianship has not yet been abandoned, thank God!) An anecdote: My mom has known the music of the Frulads since the early days of the demo tape (this was the first tape I bought), and she has heard every album since then. I played Thornhill for my mom as we prepared dinner the other day. About halfway through, my mom said, "What happened to them?" The Lads were going for a sound on this album, I said. They’ve never gotten much airplay in the past, so this time they tried to make something a little more marketable. "So they sold their souls to the Almighty Dollar, did they?" Trust Mom not to mince words. Oddly enough, I could not come up with a response. I am sorry that the album does not have the variety of sound that can be heard on Bargainville or YWGTTM. It’s not likely I’ll play this album straight through very often; like Wood, Thornhill brings my mood down, and that is something I do not need. (Independence Day is beautiful, but sad, and Downsizing breaks my heart every time I hear it—no love song could have so strong an effect.) It looks like I’ll have to create the variety myself: time to dig out the blank tapes! The Harbourfront concert, on the other hand, was everything I had hoped for and more. I made my way down to Molson Place with a friend of mine. There, we met up with 2 other friends. Our seats weren’t bad (central). We had just comfortably settled in to listen to what remained of Tori Cassis’ set, when a rather large spider dropped down onto seatback directly in front of me. Now, let’s just say that spiders and I don’t get on well. It didn’t help that this bugger was scurrying left and right. So, every time he/she/it moved left, I moved right, and vice versa. I managed to refrain from screaming. After a few minutes of this sliding back and forth, I started to lose patience with the whole affair. (Fear turns to anger; anger turns to hate . . .) I wanted to enjoy the concert. So I yanked off a shoe and, when the spider next came near, I whacked the life out of it. And that’s why it rained. (Sorry, guys.) The Fruvous concert was a lot of fun. The Lads began by declaring that they were no longer Moxy Fruvous; they had changed their name to . . . (pointing to the sign on the wall behind them) Bell Mobility. I love how these guys take full advantage of their environment. At one point, their environment took notice of them: the Lads were interrupted by a toot from one of the boats in the harbour. They stopped their banter and asked if it was Jaymz Bee (sp?) in the boat. The response was, as you might expect, another toot. So Jian started up a drum beat and the song went something like this: Jian: Is that Jaymz in the boat? Audience: Is that Jaymz in the boat? Jian: Is that Jaymz in the boat? Audience: Is that Jaymz in the boat? Jian: Is that Jaymz in the boat? Boat: toot toot Simple, but entertaining. I wish I could remember some of the other banter; it had me grinning. (That’s what happens when you wait a week before writing the review, Irene! Idiot.) The Lads mixed the old with the new. It’s amazing how much more I like songs when they are live. Video Bargainville is something I rarely listen to at home; the song grates on my nerves. But live, it takes on a whole new feel, especially with the addition of the keyboard part courtesy of Dave (amazing, I tell you!). The new songs have life, for God’s sake. Take IWHO, for example. At the concert, Jian commented on how this was being received as a love song, which, for him as the writer, it was not. And when he sang it, you could hear the bitterness. On the album, there is no edge; in fact, I would venture to say that there is no emotion. It is as if Jian was so intent on being note-perfect, that he forgot to pay attention to the content of what he was singing. As a sidebar, I think that IWHO is unlikely to be taken the way Jian wants. The listener brings to a song his/her own baggage; he/she may remember a moment of total obsession which they prefer to refer to, rather romantically, as "love" rather than an unhealthy waste of time and energy (no, I'm not bitter). The song, to that person, then becomes a piece about love rather than obsession. My friends and I thoroughly enjoyed the concert: we laughed; we cried; we saw a car run into a streetcar on the way home. A good time was had by all. Next stop: Beachfest. Irene ********************* Define "universe". Give three examples. ********************* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 03:38:21 GMT From: FruCake1@aol.com Subject: JIAN!!!!!!!! (Was: Anyone willing to help with WaytogoMike.com In a message dated 9/3/99 11:20:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, luckydabed@aol.complexity writes: << www.jianissohot.com or www.iwanttohavejianschildren.com Better yet, www.JIAN!!!.com (sorry, Lisa ;). >> Very funny!!! HAHA :) I've moved on : ) -------I'm a Mathesonite now !!!! I still dig Jian, but you know how it is....... ;) Lisa Bills :) --cheap plug >> http://www.mypoorgeneration.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 03:25:04 GMT From: FruCake1@aol.com Subject: Re: mypoorgeneration.com In a message dated 9/3/99 11:05:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, FruCake1@aol.com writes: << we've only started working on this 3 weeks ago. :) >> I'm correcting myself here... I meant to say "we only started working on this 3 weeks ago." Hey, it's late and I've had a few beers---it is Friday night, you know. :) Plus, the teacher in me is coming out. I start school on Tuesday so I have to get into "teacher mode" again. The vacation is over!!!!! :( Lisa Bills ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 03:33:04 GMT From: "Carey Farrell" Subject: whoo-hoo! i'm back! Well, I'm excited, anyway. I just got back to school and I've finally gotten things straightened out with this email account. So I'm on the digest now, which kind of sucks, but at least I'm on here to begin with. So, meanwhile, Fruvous content has been all over the place. My friend Megan and I moved my stuff in to Live Noise (her choice -- she's very big on KOS and has now discovered the glories of Lowest Highest Point). Also, thanks to her, I am now the proud owner of a shirt that says "Everyone has a GOOVIE time with Lazlo . . . Do what he'd do to be happy." Sometime last year, due to our creation of the word "goovie" (it's like groovy, but even groovier) Lazlo became our mascot and "Lazlo" became our theme song. Anyway, the shirt amused me and I thought I'd share. I've been cracking up recently cos another friend of mine just moved next door to a house painted fuschia and teal, and my psych reading last night contained a paragraph that was basically Murray's verse in "Entropy." Carey the silly person formerly known as Acaia78@aol.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: 04 Sep 1999 03:41:50 GMT From: srm9988n@aol.comicrelief (Lori at fruhead dot com) Subject: Re: ATTN: Anyone willing to help with WaytogoMike.com chad suggested: >Well, get thee to your favourite computer store and pick up a >copy of Adobe's PageMill. > >Pure point and click for web pages, plus it manages your >entire site. A very nice package, IMO. It also includes >a copy of PhotoShop LE and a bazillion images. so when are you going to put up a page, hon? :) - -- Lori ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 03:42:32 GMT From: "Mer Mer" Subject: Re: Ohio Gathering? >Would anyone be interested in a Fruhead gathering before one of the Ohio >shows? It seems like a quite a few of us are travelling great distances to >see this show, and so I was thinking that some people might want to hang >out before one of the shows and do some sightseeing, or something else fun. > >Anyone interested? I know for BG during the day is the Black Swamp Arts Festival. I kinda wanna go check it out. Count me in for anything that is going on as a group, just let me know when and where! Mer ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: 04 Sep 1999 03:51:48 GMT From: srm9988n@aol.comicrelief (Lori at fruhead dot com) Subject: OT: annotated sig! (was: Disscussing HOCKEY! (was Re: OT: Dissucssing Lori's Sig) Cara said: >I LOVE hockey, and I would still be playing it if there were enough people >around here to continue a leauge. oooo! let's all go play hockey with Cara! I've never been that close to the Arctic Circle! :) (And most of us already have some sort of hockey sweater, right?) >But now all the boys are interested in >ski-doo's and snowboarding and the other two girls who played decided that >"Hockey is stupid." Silly boys. Silly girls. Hockey rocks! And it gives us so many opportunities to tease the band, too! >I probably should go back to writing my report on the treatment of the >British Colonies but I have a long weekend and I can do social questions >quick. And posting's infinitely more fun. We know. :) - -- Lori a *REAL* hockey fan, who actually used to have a tshirt saying: Only the Lord saves more than Bernie. -- Jian, Iron Horse, 10/31/98 ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #782 ********************************************