FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 19:44:44 PST 1997
what's new, you who lacks a name, yet has so many?
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 19:44:00 PST 1997
of course it's me! and i just checked out that guinness website. very impressive (gotta have shockwave installed to do it right)!
FROM: Jibber
DATE: Thu Nov 6 19:42:33 PST 1997
Tom Waits for no man.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 19:38:10 PST 1997
Myk?is it really you?
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 19:34:24 PST 1997
heh heh heh! hooded is trashed offa Guinness Stout! what a wonderful thing! hey, hood's a local.... which bar did you hit, hood? if i'm ever there and i see a drunk fellow holding a dark beer, i'll know it's you! greetings to the nocturnal crew: hooded, rob, willybee, and queenie! i hope all are doing well! don't forget that sunday chat folks! download that MS Chat (or whatever irc chat) and chat away sunday @11am east coast, 8am west coast, and 4pm UK. that's 4am monday morning in new zealand, for the record. the place: irc.warnerbros.com ...and the room: #GlassHotel (the punctuation and lack of spacing counts!)
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 19:32:37 PST 1997
The few, the proud, the Waits Allies.
FROM: rOb.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 19:31:19 PST 1997
I know you weren't talking about me, I just wanted you to know you had a 'Waits Ally'. Whatever the hell that means.....
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 19:25:31 PST 1997
I have to go now,sweets. I'll be dreaming of your hairy chest tonight!
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 19:20:09 PST 1997
Sorry, I couldn''t get reconnected to the net. " the hairy people really bother me!" Stop, I'm laughing so hard.
FROM: me
<visit guinness>
DATE: Thu Nov 6 19:19:32 PST 1997
WWW.GUINNESS.IE cool site
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 19:05:38 PST 1997
Berenice: . . . . Thu, Nov 6, 10:23PM GMT
Yes I believe he got his car back but the stereo was ripped off and he's not
speaking to Martin! And yes at the moment Breathe IS flying out especially in
Italy...No13 in the sales charts and no 4 on main radio playlist
FROM: Voodoo 2
DATE: Thu Nov 6 18:53:01 PST 1997
moy god boy!,yoove been a buzy beelzebub..get home! your mudders sent me lookin' for you! yor in trubble laddy boy.
FROM: hooded. guiness. awsome. goodnight.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 18:48:29 PST 1997
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 18:42:27 PST 1997
Oh, I didn't mean you rOb.
FROM: rOb.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 18:36:34 PST 1997
Queenie, keep in mind that I didn't brand you for talking meaningless garbage....although Waits does look good without a shirt. I wouldn't get in his way...he knows karate. Voodoo, too.
FROM: willybee
DATE: Thu Nov 6 18:36:11 PST 1997
mmmmm....Guinness....mmmmm...Drink of the Gods!
FROM: ?
DATE: Thu Nov 6 18:34:38 PST 1997
"...And finally, this heartwarming thought.We are all doomed,but some of us more doomed than others."
FROM: hooded
DATE: Thu Nov 6 18:29:13 PST 1997
can't chat sunday. the work thing again. sunday night anyone?
FROM: hooded
DATE: Thu Nov 6 18:24:34 PST 1997
went out drinking with the work group tonight, not compleatly cogniciant right now. I know, its thursday not friday, but what the hell. rOb- I thought it was "you and oblivian" I don't know why I overlooked it. Myk- Guiness is good for you! Sleepy, well you wont read this anyway will you(kidding),see you all tomorrow!!
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 18:14:58 PST 1997
I tried to talk about Tom Waits and got branded an idiot that discusses meaningless garbage.
WOuld it have been better if I'd have discussed his chest? He's got hair on it...Looks good without a shirt...
FROM: rOb.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 18:11:13 PST 1997
I don't have a favorite Dylan album. I never really cared that much for Dylan. Yes, Rod Stewart recorded Waits' "Downtown". I don't know which of Rod's albums it was on(I never followed Rod to closely), but I do know that the (far superior) original Waits version is on 'Rain Dogs'...a damn fine album.
FROM: the HAIRY people really bother me.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 18:09:56 PST 1997
friendly furnace of the Wasps meaningless garbage They don't have a
clue......
FROM: HAIRY stuff you've been
DATE: Thu Nov 6 18:02:05 PST 1997
Wink wink. "Madonna of the meaningless garbage,"
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:59:04 PST 1997
Sheesh...at least the people in the morning are friendly...
FROM: Queen me
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:56:16 PST 1997
stuff you
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:56:06 PST 1997
You're right, it's much better to talk about hairy chests and all the other non-related Hitchc--k things. yOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY WITH THAT HAIRY CHEST TALK
FROM: me
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:50:29 PST 1997
...ack...
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:48:03 PST 1997
No, you're right. I'd much rather talk about hairy chests are all the other the other absolutely non-Robyn related stuff you've been discussing.
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:46:25 PST 1997
I didn't mean to imply that you are an idiot. I know you're not. It came out sounding wrong. I know that you are a perfect gentlemen. Bbut those luny tunes really bother me.
FROM: queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:46:00 PST 1997
Are you talking to me??? What did I do?
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:42:13 PST 1997
Are you trying to act like those idiots that use the message board in the morning. They discuss meaningless garbage, and think they are the greatest Robyn Hitchc--k fans. They don't have a clue......
FROM: Frosty headed furnace
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:37:25 PST 1997
L., you are such a tease.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:33:39 PST 1997
"Madonna of the Wasps" would be on my list too.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:31:45 PST 1997
"Tom Traubert's Blues" is one of the top ten best songs ever made, EVER, in my opinion.
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:31:20 PST 1997
Well, since I don't care for van halen or Sting I'm not really interested
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:26:24 PST 1997
L. you are such a taskmistress. By the way, there was a news flash on the van halen site that Sting has joined the band. Cool.
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:23:08 PST 1997
And by the way, stop trying to sound like Austin Powers.
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:21:43 PST 1997
You know the answer to the first question. And, quite the hairy chest drives me crazy.
FROM: Church Lady
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:11:28 PST 1997
Oh for the sane and safe days of Satan.
FROM: AP
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:10:39 PST 1997
Yah, baby! Do I make you horny? I have quite the hairy chest, baby. Yah baby. And these teeth, well, you could have bad teeth in the '60s and still be sexy. You're switched on!
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:08:49 PST 1997
L, unless you are posting as painfully stupid, that wasn't meant for you. By the way, to bring this Waits and Rod Stewert stuff full circle, didn't Rod have a pretty big hit couple years ago with a Waits tune?
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 17:06:18 PST 1997
Idon't have any obssessions or fixations. But, a hairy chest really turns me on. I like the tall, dark, and handsome type, especially those with a British accent. Very sexy!!!!!!
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 16:53:24 PST 1997
Some spice is ok, but I don't like that really kinky stuff.
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 16:51:22 PST 1997
I am not anally obssessed.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 16:50:46 PST 1997
Doh! That wasn't me. And here I was trying to be good good good. Go away devil, take the hindmost.... How 'bout Dylan, rOb...what's yer favorite Dylan album? I confess I don't own Blood on the Tracks but that's what I'm getting next.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 16:46:22 PST 1997
anally obssessed, were you "helpful guy" and "probable address guy" from a couple days ago? Wink wink.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 16:45:07 PST 1997
Don't worry, L, painfully stupid is trying to be me. Not very good at it though.
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 15:56:34 PST 1997
Stop using my initial to post messages. I am not painfully stupid, either. Stop playing these games or I will spank you with your pants down.
FROM: painfully stupid
DATE: Thu Nov 6 15:46:40 PST 1997
out......
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 15:43:12 PST 1997
Dear painfully stupid: I must be completely out of my mind time is running out...... slightly malevolent postings worry me.
FROM: rOb.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 15:42:24 PST 1997
Glad to see Tom Waits made it on here finally. 'Blue Valentine' is a damn fine album. Of course, so is 'Small Change'. Of course, so is 'Heart Attack and Vine'. Of course...oh, you get the point. I, like you, Queenie, could go on for days about Mr. Waits.
And now, for something completely different....I picked up the new Elvis Costello live video, 'A Case For The Song' today. It's pretty good, except the mix leaves a little to be desired. The Attractions rock(what else is new, eh?)!
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 15:37:10 PST 1997
I guess you could give me one at a time. But, it's still three!!!!!!
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 15:32:51 PST 1997
You don't need to be worried. I am a very kind person and I want to forgive you because I miss you so much. But, you better post THREE GOOD REASONS. Your time is running out......
FROM: griffith
DATE: Thu Nov 6 15:17:04 PST 1997
WLA: Have you heard anything else regarding the shows at Largo?
FROM: worried
DATE: Thu Nov 6 15:12:52 PST 1997
It's those short, terse, and slightly malevolent postings that worry me
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 15:10:51 PST 1997
It's three good reasons why I should forgive you. And stop saying "I must be completely out of my mind as soon as possible." You're going to get 50 lashes for that on your bottom.
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 15:01:44 PST 1997
OK, I forgot the period after the word mind, but don't copy my bad punctuation habits. I know your's are much better than mine. I guess it was that Catholic, all girls, private high school I attended. Catholicism can screw you up.
FROM: painfully stupid
DATE: Thu Nov 6 14:56:52 PST 1997
3 good reasons I must be completely out of my mind as soon as
possible.painfully stupid?
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 14:49:10 PST 1997
Yes, THREE. And they better be good.
FROM: MaDferIt?;)
DATE: Thu Nov 6 14:43:49 PST 1997
Cool band. When's the official website going to be I must be completely out of my mind as soon as possible.painfully stupid?
FROM: painfully stupid
DATE: Thu Nov 6 14:37:24 PST 1997
3 good reasons
FROM: L.
DATE: Thu Nov 6 14:32:31 PST 1997
Dear painfully stupid: I must be completely out of my mind If you can give me 3 good reasons why I should forgive you, I might consider it. The Love song was very beautiful, but I don't like being hurt so incredibly bad.
FROM: autumn
DATE: Thu Nov 6 14:31:43 PST 1997
Cool band. When's the official website going to be back on the net? I'm making up my own site and
I'd like to link the official site as soon as possible. Talk later. By the way, W.W.M.T. are you
MaDferIt?;)
FROM: mooch
DATE: Thu Nov 6 13:57:50 PST 1997
my computer is going under the knife tomorrow,..so I dont know if I'll have it back for the sunday nash gab..so..I'll say goodbye to you all..
FROM: m
DATE: Thu Nov 6 13:53:55 PST 1997
I'm sorry that was'nt Robyn related..but I lived anouther day to rock down to the oceanside..how's that?..
FROM: m
DATE: Thu Nov 6 13:50:37 PST 1997
speaking of the Brady Bunch..I was nearly run over in Maui by Marsha Brady!!( Maureen McCormack)..on my way to the pool..she came flying out of the underground parking lot at our condo!!her vw bug just about nailed me..she was staying at a condo there..
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 13:44:43 PST 1997
It's my most prized possession
FROM: m
DATE: Thu Nov 6 13:42:12 PST 1997
oh yes..nice pick,as well..
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 13:40:18 PST 1997
Cool, thanks man!! Did you see The Pick?
FROM: m
DATE: Thu Nov 6 13:39:56 PST 1997
oh..these typos!
FROM: m
DATE: Thu Nov 6 13:39:13 PST 1997
Hi queenie..I checked out you site ..nice paintings,and your beautiful child. nicely done
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 13:33:05 PST 1997
I'm a poet and I don't even know it!
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 13:32:52 PST 1997
I don't know who's who. I'm too new.
FROM: m
DATE: Thu Nov 6 13:26:59 PST 1997
a chat place set up by an old friends record label..is http://www.ultravox.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-client.pl#anchor1 it's kinda cool,not as creepy as the ROD lounge..
FROM: m
DATE: Thu Nov 6 13:23:53 PST 1997
no,no,I am m..(mooch)...sheesh..
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 12:54:33 PST 1997
CW, I just read over my note and realized you'd probably wonder about my connecting m and *. That is simply an inspirational leap, however short a chasm between (I'm not bragging, only explaining).
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 12:52:47 PST 1997
Ladies and gents I have the ultimate theory. Even PKD would be proud of me. I thought it up over lunch. If * is bq is m, then -- and here's the good part -- they are all very close friends of Robyn indeed. Don't know what * would stand for, but bq is Beautiful Queen and m is Michele. And would they not quite possibly be, on occasion, Antwoman as well? I am now certain that I am being watched. Comments please!
FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Nov 6 12:24:38 PST 1997
Work work work - I'm out of here.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 12:23:28 PST 1997
OK I got it working! Now that everyone has gone...
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 12:08:32 PST 1997
sorry, all this banter has delayed my work for too long!
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:50:09 PST 1997
And now I am alone. *Sigh*
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:47:45 PST 1997
Bye
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:46:49 PST 1997
Anyways, I've really got to go now. See you all tomorrow.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:46:28 PST 1997
I guess it's for the best. I didn't want any of you weirdos to see what I look like anyway. :>
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:45:28 PST 1997
Well now my website isn't working. *sigh*
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:45:18 PST 1997
It sounds like a massive waste of money to me. I think they're going to knock it down afterwards.
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:44:29 PST 1997
yeah, sleepy, isn't that the dome that has tony blair and all the politicians at each other's throats? it's a big expensive project, and no one is happy. oh well, build it anyway!
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:43:22 PST 1997
Well the problem is that no-one really knows. A gigantic dome is being constructed into which lots of people will be packed come the end of the millenium for a party (I think). Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me...
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:42:09 PST 1997
cw - we are not the same
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:42:03 PST 1997
Sleepy, what is the m-dome, though?
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:41:02 PST 1997
The KLF (as they were known) features Bill Drummond and another person who's name I can't remember and they have formed some sort of construction company. There is a rumour that they will be doing something to the m-dome in protest of it's potential crapness. The KLF's (once famous popsters) most notorious moment came when they set light to one million pounds in the name of art. They also presented a Turner prize winner with a prize for being so terrible! They threw a dead sheep outside the building where they held the Brits. You've got to love them!
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:38:31 PST 1997
Untrue, CW, I became careful about typos because YOU used to point them out. * and I are different people. I am trying to leave. Bye
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:37:35 PST 1997
Naturally a book OF stone circles would be heavy, wouldn't it. *: I really don't care, to tell you the truth. If it makes you happy, I believe you. Okay? Bye
FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:36:44 PST 1997
Hey. The anon persona changed for his conversation with *. he became all innocent and friendly and kept pretending to get all upset over typos. * and anon are the same person.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:36:24 PST 1997
Sleepy: More info on that please. I don't know what KLF is or the m-dome. But I wouldn't mind getting postcards from the Arch Drude. By the way, in a used bookstore I picked up a book of stone circles, a heavy tome published in the early 70s. Very extensive. I bought it because it seems the impression is that noone's ever done a book. JC himself has even said that. But what he's doing is more spritual. The book I have is scholarly and very extensive.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:35:45 PST 1997
Bye bye anonymous
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:34:23 PST 1997
what, you don't believe i am bq?
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:33:53 PST 1997
Queenie, I have to go. Thank you for keeping some of this on track.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:33:51 PST 1997
V - I get regular postcards from him (not personalised you understand) of monuments. But what goes on with KLF? I fear for the millenium dome.
FROM: queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:33:51 PST 1997
You can see my website at
www.pomn.com/joni
Now everyone will know who I am for real. But if you follow the "music memorabilia" link you can see the pick. It's grey and triangle shaped. WOW!
ALso, you can view pictures of me and people from "Northern Exposure" and some of my paintings too.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:32:10 PST 1997
*, right. Wink Wink
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:32:01 PST 1997
HI everybody I'm back.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:31:37 PST 1997
I'm going home in a minute. I'm starving and I have three comedies to watch. Bye CW, Myk, Queenie, Voltaic and *(?) Until tomorrow...
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:31:26 PST 1997
The paranoid quality of this board has rubbed off on me and now I'm imagining Sleepy triangulating my location with the aid of Scotland Yard and Austin Powers, basing her info on responses to questions of my location and musical tastes. Yes, I think JC is an avatar.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:29:19 PST 1997
i enjoyed it too. i was bq.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:29:01 PST 1997
"Evil" over there, not "There" duh
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:28:14 PST 1997
you see, the western concept of satan is all wrong. why do we need to be banished from the garden? Look at other cultures where the devil is an integrated part of a spectrum of good and evil, not an on-off switch mentality of "Good" over here and "There" over there. That's a round about way of saying yes, *. It was meant to be demonstrative but it was also fun.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:27:43 PST 1997
Oh, the star's back. Yes, Myk, I agree. We're all here at the same time. I said that to Voltaic or someone ages ago, but they chose to ignore it. Voltaic is the Julian Cope fan no?
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:25:10 PST 1997
satan - it was fun though wasn't it?
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:24:11 PST 1997
i think this "closed circle" thing is a misconception. sleepy, mr wax, and i chat quite a bit because we're on at the same time with great regularity, but it is never intended as a closed circle. to close the circle would make us lose the flow of new observations and memories, like queenie's for example.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:23:59 PST 1997
OK then. Back to work.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:23:18 PST 1997
as apple freakin' pie
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:22:44 PST 1997
Satan has his, er, demons, you might say.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:22:43 PST 1997
One last question - you are American?
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:21:55 PST 1997
That previous post was a response to Sleepy's question re: me and bq
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:21:17 PST 1997
and, yes, MTS is still MTS... he lives on your side of the atlantic, sleepy, and voltaic doesn't. mts is a riot, i'll say!
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:21:10 PST 1997
Yes. And everyone else on that day got caught up in thinking I was him. I played it to the hilt because it was so illustrative of the closed circle I was complaining about. I never ever posted as bq. Period.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:20:16 PST 1997
Anon - your Satan seems more stable than the other one you see...
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:19:22 PST 1997
I have to go home soon. My mind is frazzled.
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:19:03 PST 1997
yeah, i'm back (darn phone). thanks, big v, for the clarification. i think i know the deal now. i have no thoughts now... too much input!
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:17:53 PST 1997
anon - are you the Satan who was speaking to bq? For some reason, I really want to know.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:16:52 PST 1997
Myk - are you there? Any thoughts?
FROM: CW
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:16:44 PST 1997
Queenie - what's your web site address?
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:16:28 PST 1997
Came back for a peak: You guys have to calm down. Here it is in a nutshell: Sleepy: I am Voltaic, Satan and a few others. I am NOT *, who as I said before IS scarier than I ever ACTED. MTS is whoever he is, not me. Now, any other questions? I really have to get back to work.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:15:58 PST 1997
Right.
FROM: CW
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:14:58 PST 1997
No. I like MTS.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:14:23 PST 1997
Oh, Ok. Sorry for any inference Morrissey! Oops.
FROM: CW
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:13:09 PST 1997
That was yes to your previous question. I don't think MTS is the same.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:11:19 PST 1997
Who - Morrissey?
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:10:50 PST 1997
No. My boss is fine. She's been working for nearly 12 hours.
FROM: CW
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:10:30 PST 1997
Yes. I wish I could reach through the monitor and strangle the little freak.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:09:17 PST 1997
CW, Myk - is Morrissey nothing to do with any of this? Have I inadvertantly linked him up with a crime he did not commit? Apologies. Anyone have a clue?
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:08:34 PST 1997
sleepy is working very hard in her office, but since it isn't making her company any richer, i'm betting against her compensation. does your boss mind your message board activities at all?
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:07:22 PST 1997
So Satan is Voltaic is Anonymous?
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:07:22 PST 1997
I have to go, but if it please the court of opinions I occassionally respect, be it known that I have attempted to demonstrate positive board etiqute (sp?) and even though some of you ignore entire conversations I have tried to include all. While I don't share some people's (sic) paranoia, I have observed a certain element of resentment here and it seems calculated--christ, it's obvious. No I am not *, you guys. See ya.
FROM: Notsatananymore
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:06:20 PST 1997
Same person. Same person. Same Person.
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:06:14 PST 1997
well, queenie, waits is a bit of an acquired taste! took me a bit to acquire it!!! heh heh.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:06:07 PST 1997
This is mad. I don't want to leave here tonight. Is Voltaic Satan? Or not? Er, confused. I do know In The Neighbourhood Queenie. It's going round in my head right now.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:05:05 PST 1997
I have to go and post this pick picture on my website and then I'll come back so you all can see it. *sob* I't soooo beautiful!!
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:04:30 PST 1997
i'm one giant step ahead of you and laughing like a drain...
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:03:57 PST 1997
show-off!
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:03:50 PST 1997
*, not as clever as you thought you were, eh Sherlock?
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:03:43 PST 1997
Sheesh...I left for a few minutes to scan that pick and I'm already confused. Myk,why did you suggest that Sleepy would hate Tom Waits? I mean, what's to hate fer crying out loud.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:03:13 PST 1997
oh f--k - it's not you again is it satan?!
FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:03:04 PST 1997
That's too funny. Poor Sleepy working past 7:00pm. You deserve a rise in pay!
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:02:45 PST 1997
Myk, don't hold it against me if I have a 33.6 and a fast computer. And a digital isp dialup.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:02:36 PST 1997
Myk - I told my boss about the weaving. She smiled sympathically at me!
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:01:55 PST 1997
yeah, mr wax, they were just too quick to respond to each other! heh heh.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:01:43 PST 1997
In fact, I think * scares even me, and I have been Satan in another life.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:01:34 PST 1997
much as i like you cw, we are not.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:01:11 PST 1997
CW, you are wrong. I promise.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:00:44 PST 1997
yes he is. but i don't have to justify my friendships with you. believe what you want.
FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Nov 6 11:00:25 PST 1997
Hey Myk. Too fast. It's like a race to get in your commen before it becomes inappropriate. And anon and * are the same person, as usual.
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:59:48 PST 1997
sleepy, you crack me up! i can just see you hacking away, your boss admiring your work from behind a nearly-finished rug that will adorn the house of a wealthy british family.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:59:29 PST 1997
Right. Wink Wink.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:59:09 PST 1997
he's a friend.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:58:34 PST 1997
*, kiss my a--, as I suggested earlier. So, you're a Robyn stalker, are you?
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:57:13 PST 1997
Hello Myk! My boss (the woman with the loom) thinks I am the saddest person in the world still typing into this computer. She does not know it's power...
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:55:39 PST 1997
yes i did. i said that i saw Robyn twice in three days this week and then appropriately punished anon for his hopeless sabotage earlier. i have deemed the punishment sufficient and am now going.
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:55:39 PST 1997
i've been back for a bit, but catching up on this board is hell. the input is relentless today. i love it.
FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:55:00 PST 1997
Sleepy - yes. A lovely lime he held up and made comments about. When th show was over and his stage guy was taking away the stuff, I was all drunk at the bar. I shouted out, "Hey! Can I have the lime?" and he chucked it at me. I caught it wth one hand. I felt so cool.
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:54:12 PST 1997
sleepy: you may love tom waits, but you'll likely hate him. you will, however, think he is an amazing musician/poet/eccentric.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:52:38 PST 1997
So * you stuck around all this time to argue with Anonymous, and now that he (or she) doesn't want to argue anymore, you're leaving?
In fact, I just scrolled down the whole page and not once did YOU say anything Robyn related.
Aw, heck. I don't want to start a fight.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:51:10 PST 1997
Hey CW! Yes, I am! You have a lime? One guy in England always used to bring a piece of fruit with him to shows. I wonder what he's doing now. Giving fruit to other bands, maybe.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:50:02 PST 1997
My fave Tom Waits album to date is Small Change. But then I only have four or five albums out of a zillion. But I like to listen to Small Change and trip out on the fact that I was 7 years old when it was recorded.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:49:19 PST 1997
no. i missed the xtc boat as well. well, as we are now calm, i can go back to work. nice meeting you all.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:48:37 PST 1997
Anon, I know I know. My problem is that I was a little kid back when XTC still performed live and I was listening to WHAM! and s--t like that.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:48:19 PST 1997
Swordfishtrombone has one of the most hilarious songs ever recorded which tell the story of a blue collar Waits going over the edge and torching his own house. "Never could stand that dog...."
FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:47:42 PST 1997
This is going by too fast for me. Yes. Scan the pic! I have a lime he played with on stage. That's why I asked yesterday if he did that routinely. Sleepy - you still here?
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:47:21 PST 1997
Wow, if you're into discovering great artists you should definately check out Tom Waits. Don't even get me started. I could go on and on for days.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:46:45 PST 1997
Queenie, one of my greatest regrets (right up there with trying to make sense of * -- just kidding!), is that I wasn't "into" XTC when they actually played live in the US. I have a friend who saw them in the teensy weensy UC Davis coffee house. What a thrill. Same place the Police played in the same era. Didn't hold more than a few hundred people.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:46:35 PST 1997
oh, no. you can't pin that one on me. it's over and the fat lady has sung (badly) i just don't think you should trouble yourself with grammatical errors.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:45:03 PST 1997
Q - I don't know much of Tom's stuff. Nanci Griffiths covered one of his songs - it was amazing!
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:44:57 PST 1997
You really are insisting that it's not over, aren't you. Let the court observe, * is baiting the witness.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:43:47 PST 1997
why do you worry about typing mistakes?
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:43:33 PST 1997
I love them both as two of the most clever and amazing musicians I know. Funny how they're both English. Does that say something? But then again, somebody like Tom Waits could ONLY be made in America.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:43:19 PST 1997
are you clear now?
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:43:07 PST 1997
That's sorry, not sorryy. Sorry!
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:42:11 PST 1997
Sorryy, *, I guess what I meant to say was that your message regarding scrolling down pages made no sense. Forgive me for not being clearer.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:41:11 PST 1997
Queenie - probably both. No, really, there was an interview with Robyn and Andy Partridge on British radio with Andy Kershaw many years ago. They were both as mad as one another! It's got to be the weather...
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:40:42 PST 1997
Boy if that was a sandwich, let me be the meat!!
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:39:19 PST 1997
what's not to understand? i observed from a distance what was going on and decided to join in.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:38:43 PST 1997
Sleepy - are you saying that Robyn H is smarter or more clever than Andy Partridge?? Hmmm... I don't know. It'd be a good fight though.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:37:10 PST 1997
*, re: spooling down pages. I must have missed something. Please clarify.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:36:40 PST 1997
I can scan aforementioned pick and post it on my website for everyone who's interested in seeing it.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:36:29 PST 1997
Queenie - Robyn wouldn't fight. He'd just confuse Andy Partridge. Robyn is not violent!
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:34:55 PST 1997
Non-seq: Walt and Oscar met on one of Oscar's lecture tours of the US.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:34:16 PST 1997
i had fun too actually. i bear no grudges.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:34:01 PST 1997
I still want to know who would win in a fight between Robyn Hitchc--k and Andy Partridge??
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:33:17 PST 1997
spooling down a page and observing the day's posting does not a great mind take. take your kettle and pot away.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:33:10 PST 1997
*, since you insist on prolonging this painful ordeal (yours, not mine: you are obviously greatly angered by something), I will tell you this: I have tried to contribute to this board. You asked me earlier if I "liked" other posters. Why do you care? I have never chased anyone away. I ain't a saint, and I've had some evil fun here. So you're saying, "It's not time to stop playing." That's it, insn't it?
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:31:15 PST 1997
Uncle Walt was pretty wild.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:30:51 PST 1997
I've come back with some tea, and a thousand messages are flying around. CW - are you still there? I found the point you were referring too. I was in a Robyn fanclub thing about ten years ago. I got loads of Robyn postcards with it and a little badge which lives with my parents where they can keep it safe from the world.
FROM: griffith
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:30:31 PST 1997
that would be Uncle Walt, not Wilde.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:30:22 PST 1997
I feel like I'm dominating this conversation. Am I just the fastest typer?
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:29:54 PST 1997
didn't know you ever needed anything from anybody. I don't even remember "*" being around when the whole snafu started. I then a--ume you are someone else posting as "*" for some reason. Remember that pot and that kettle, *?
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:29:49 PST 1997
I don't have a cone but goddammit I have a pick.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:29:16 PST 1997
Conan O'Brian?? No kidding! Why am I missing all this stuff??
FROM: CW
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:29:04 PST 1997
Now I'm really upset. Voltaic gets a real one? They must have run out by the time my name came up. Oh well. I have a cone.
FROM: griffith
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:28:20 PST 1997
Robyn performed on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" a while back. He did "I Something You". It was great. I keep checking the monday reruns to see if it will be rebroadcast - nothing yet.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:27:58 PST 1997
one little comment from me and you're crying. stop that now. did you do the multiple postings?
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:27:29 PST 1997
Yes I a have contradicted myself. As Oscar Wilde (or was it Walt Whitman) said: "...I have contradicted myself. I contain multitudes."
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:26:50 PST 1997
Who would win in a fight between Robyn Hitchc--k and Andy Partridge??
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:25:36 PST 1997
i've got empathy for everything anon. where was yours when we needed it?
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:25:31 PST 1997
That's really terrible. I feel misled by the whole thing now.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:25:19 PST 1997
Rhino sent me a very nice "litho" signed by Robyn. I have it framed. It's a two-panel excerpt from his ongoing comic, The Professor. Other panels have shown up on T-Shirts and Postcards throughout the years. Truly, I don't understand why I've become a target of you, *. Some deep seated anger about something I said I suppose. Or you are so close to Robyn that maybe you are Robyn and I have come to symbolize all that you hate about the 'net.
FROM: CW
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:24:38 PST 1997
Queenie - no. It wasn't signed by him personally. Very sad.
FROM: CW
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:23:15 PST 1997
It's a chat! It's a chat! Sleepy - I meant about Voltaic getting us to do what he accused us of not doing.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:22:30 PST 1997
*, reach down into your soul. If you have one. In there is a little something called empathy in there, usually.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:22:21 PST 1997
CW that sucks! Was it at least signed?
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:22:08 PST 1997
Bye Myk!
FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:21:31 PST 1997
Queenie - I sent that in and about three months later I got a tiny xeroxed copy of one of Robyn's drawings. And it was crumpled too. I was very disappointed.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:20:44 PST 1997
Bye Myk. Hey are you the guy who lives in alaska??
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:20:28 PST 1997
CW - sorry, what were you anwering? I've lost track of everything. Sorry!
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:19:47 PST 1997
i gotta split for a bit. our abusive/ anonymous friend has indeed served a purpose, sleepy. enjoy the night, sleepy, i a--ume you'll be gone when i return. [cryptically] IF i return...
FROM: queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:19:33 PST 1997
Anon, I beleive that's the one my friend was referring to.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:19:27 PST 1997
how can i do that?
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:19:04 PST 1997
Prove. Oops.
FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:18:58 PST 1997
I love Kate Bush. Pull Out The Pin is one of my very favorite songs Sleepy - I know. I feel so used and manipulated.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:18:57 PST 1997
CW - are you still there?
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:18:51 PST 1997
* that wasn't very nice. I am trying to be nice here. Proove that you are too.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:18:01 PST 1997
Used to belong to Fegmaniax!, run by a certain Sandra and Trudi of Howard Beach. They wrote personal notes in the mailings, which were infrequent but welcome newsletters with things like a quiz with a grand prize of a "Katrina and the Waves" album signed by K. Rew or some such.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:17:50 PST 1997
Myk - I have squillions of stories for you, don't worry.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:17:42 PST 1997
Hey did any of you guys buy the Groovy Decay/Decoy re-issues with the little insert inside about how if you sent them the names of two people who might like Robyn H. they'd send you in return signed drawings by Robyn??
I got such a kick out of that but it had a deadline that was long gone by the time I bought it.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:16:52 PST 1997
i'm sorry anon. That wasn't relevant. deduct two points and move backwards.
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:16:22 PST 1997
yeah, sleepy, but what happens if we try to keep this up? we might end up repeating our old stories like our aging relatives do at infrequent family gatherings! we should do what news organizations do: when there is no news, go stir things up until there IS news!
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:15:52 PST 1997
Well my friend named Todd said he gets news and whatnot from some form of fan club. I wrote once to the address he gave me and twice signed mailing lists at live shows. nothing ever came of them.
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:15:47 PST 1997
I waited through the entire SNL anniversary show a few years back because I know I saw Kate Bush in the late seventies on there, singing something from Lionheart or The Kick Inside. She was wearing the Lionheart custume and crawling around on the grand piano.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:15:23 PST 1997
Positive Vibrations was the most negative fanzine I've ever read. I know Robyn was none too keen.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:14:29 PST 1997
Robyn has different management now. He changed over last year I think. Antwoman is the new Queen.
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:14:08 PST 1997
there's a fan club? i thought "positive vibrations" was as close as it got. quite a self-indulgent periodical, but what the hell, right?
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:13:23 PST 1997
Hmm. I should go home. Should I stay 15 minutes. I've got a night off and all... Yes! Anonymous hased 3 seperate times over the years to join a Robyn H. fan club but nothing ever comes back to me in the mail. three times!
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:11:23 PST 1997
yeah, you never know WHO will get a gig on SNL. and unless you're some cheese band that pre-records everything, you never know what quality of sound you'll get. quite a risk, really.
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:11:04 PST 1997
CW - Yes, all the shows were different. All of them great! Tee hee. The Dear Janes are very good as well. Robyn defended them admirably when someone groaned.
FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:11:00 PST 1997
When I saw him in Buffalo, the guitar player from The Jody Grind came on stage and did some electric back up on a lot of the Egyptians songs.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:10:57 PST 1997
Letterman too? Holy cow!
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:10:24 PST 1997
tell him to get a computer too
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:10:23 PST 1997
So I can say damn but I can't say t--d. How is t--d a bad word??? can I say hell? s--t? p---y?
FROM:
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:10:14 PST 1997
I never knew they were on SNL! I heard about but never saw the Letterman show...that he seemed uncomfortable.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:09:44 PST 1997
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:09:27 PST 1997
Sat--day night live? No kidding? I think Tom Waits played on there once too.
FROM: *
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:09:10 PST 1997
pot calling the kettle black i think
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:08:28 PST 1997
All right, that's it. I'm writing a letter insisting that Robyn H. gets a band. I'm sure he'll listen to me.
FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:07:44 PST 1997
maybe i should turn my psychotic roommate loose on him, eh mooch? by the way, i forgot to respond that my pipes are just fine, thanks. water is no longer taken for granted in my house. ...i once saw RH and the Egyptians play on sat--day night live... good performance, but bad sound on "ultra unbelievable love". i never liked that tune very much anyway, compared to his others.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:07:26 PST 1997
Wow what happened?
FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:07:09 PST 1997
Andy and Morris occasionlly play in a band called The Gliders.
FROM: Queenie
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:07:02 PST 1997
I'm sure there are plenty of great, young musicians out there (like Homer guy) who would DIE to play with Robyn H. and would be like his slaves and do whatever he said just for the chance to play with him. I don't think there'd me much dissention in the ranks, at least not for a while. And as far as scheduling and all that stuff, doesn't a manager or someone else handle that stuff.
FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Nov 6 10:06:30 PST 1997
Sleepy - were the 12 bar shows last summer all different?