Subject: Re: planes
Date: Mon, 23 February 1998 12:08 AM EST
the high note is dan
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Subject: me
Date: Sun, 15 March 1998 04:56 PM EST
hey y'all, what's up? we get our rehearsal/recording house today. studio set-up starts next week, charlie arrives then too, as does dave, matt comes home the week after that, and we're off. cool, huh?
the album will probably not be out until next year, but there will be a two cd live record out in june or july. it's really cool. we love it. we probably shouldn't put out a live album, but we love it and we want to, so that's that.(goood to be the king and all that)
it's just two shows, one on each cd. one is the acoustic storytellers show and the other is the electric hammerstein ballroom show. because they were both on tv we had really good recordings and the shows were two of our favorites(maybe because of the pressure, we got really gone) so there you are
bye,
me

Subject: me
Date: Sun, 15 March 1998 04:58 PM EST
oh yeah. have almost finished the remy zero record and the gigolo aunts record. both are awesome. two of the years best. will both be out end of summer or fall
me

Subject: me
Date: Tue, 17 March 1998 05:03 PM EST
been listening to the posies all day today. "amazing disgrace" is a great album. very underappreciated. also my fave this year is the 2 cd compilation of lee dorsey songs called "great googa mooga". i listen to it at least once every day. he was like the ray charles of new orleans in the fifties and sixties. justturn off your computer and go to the record store NOW .
no child should go without lee dorsey
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Subject: me
Date: Fri, 27 March 1998 03:21 AM EST
i still have my old screen name. it's the only one i have. he is not me.
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Subject: me
Date: Sat, 28 March 1998 05:49 AM EST
listening to elliot smith right now. album is called "either/or". really cool. cleaning house today, i found a photo matclowney gave me a long time ago, and soulty's photos of her "august..." paintings. really cool too. less than two weeks before matt comes home. really really really really cooooooooooooooooool. like...well, you know...
me, ben,and dan wrote and recorded about nine songs last week. not all are finished. some are just pieces. also cool.
me and dan went to the viper room tonight and saw the stereophonics play. they were great. we played with them on the jools holland show in london last spring/summer before their album came out. i could listen to "more life in a tramp's vest" or " local boy in a photograph" over and over again. and i do. nice guys too.
met a nice girl last week. fixed up by a mutual friend. liked her. had a date. liked that too. line as many small good things as you can in as long a row as you can make it and maybe eventually circumstance becomes habit and one day is suddenly and miraculously a little better than the day before it. maybe.
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Subject: me
Date: Sat, 28 March 1998 06:01 AM EST
pleather pants are cool, but they don't breathe and i sweat a lot. especially in the tropics. it's not a dry heat. still, a very nice gesture on your part. am now too tired to avoid being stupid. sleep well all
1st song fully written for next album is "St. Robinson In His Cadillac Dream"
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Subject: me
Date: Tue, 07 April 1998 05:47 AM EDT
good luck sucked on the storytellers show. it's not gonna be on the cd. it sucked. i played it. my fault. sorry.
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Subject: me
Date: Sun, 12 April 1998 07:58 AM EDT
hey y'all,
there's no huckleberry house gig in our near future, but matt comes home tomorrow and rehearsals start monday. neat,huh? i'm goin' to new orleans for the jazz and heritage festival in about a week and a half. cannot wait. goin with all my pals. the grand marshal Henry "Red " Griffin will be leading the parade in a southerly direction until we reach the crescent city and then he will continue his julie mckoy meets james brown role as our cruise director/buckjumper/king o' new orleans. ya haven't been 'til ya been with red. you can find me where frenchmen meets chartres at cafe brazil or in the gospel tent . i'm the guy with one hand full of ribs and one hand full of crawfish. have you checked out any albums by the new orleans klezmer all stars. funky jewish brass band music.
went to the playboy mansion tonight for hugh hefner's birthday party. turned out one of my friends grew up in the mansion and he invited me. strangely intimate party. not small but not particularly big either. met hef. he was really nice to me . he apparently asked my friend to invite me. not really my scene , as you can guess, but it was definitely worth seeing before it fades away. it was beautiful there he has peacocks and monkeys and pinball and defender and donkey kong and pac man and matisse drawings and salvador dali paintings and gorgeous lawns and a really cool pool and THE GROTTO. a lot of his friends were there. these older guys. it was fun to imagine them all in 1960 living like james bond and telling the world how you should drink martinis and listen to quadrophonic stereo sound and read norman mailer and go see fellini movies and have sex and do drugs and think you're going to stay young forever. i'll bet they thought they'd be young forever. don't you? i do. and i'm not. anyways, they were all pretty nice to me. i hope they still feel young. it must feel weird to know all that time is gone and you can't get it back. they probably never expected that. i'll bet they go to that house and they have some really wild memories and they can't believe it's gone. i had a really wild childhood and that's a long way back for me but i can't believe some of the shit we did. and then to follow that up with all the stuff i'm living now. if this keeps up i'll have a hell of a life. i had a long talk with tony curtis. turns out he loves the band. how about that. he starts talking about mr jones and long december and hollywood and how it made feel and what it made him remember. i got a really weird life. tonight i appreciated it . it wasn't really my scene and i don't mean to glorify it too much because there's some stuff about it i don't really dig, but i felt like i got to be in another time tonight. it was unreal and i'm glad i got to do it. i'll probably never get that chance again and i'm glad i didn't miss it. see what you can before it disappears. go camping. go to a museum. visit the zoo. kiss a girl. do whatever. join a rock and roll band. and then don't forget. try not to ever forget.
goodnight, ad

Subject: me
Date: Sun, 12 April 1998 04:20 PM EDT
i don't feel old. it just seems like some things i did happened a long time ago. you should all see "wings of desire". it is one of the truly great poetic films. here come the faves: "a man and a woman," "small change," "alphaville,"(french), "ruggles of red gap," "hobson's choice," "great expectations" dir. by david lean, "oliver twist" also dir. by david lean, "dr zhivago" also also dir. by david lean, "lawrence of arabia" same guy, "captain horatio hornblower," "the adventures of buckaroo banzai and the hong kong cavaliers across the 8th dimension," "patty hearst," "mishima," "homicide" and "things change"(both dir. by david mamet), "signs of life"(my best freind mary louise's 1st film and where we got the name counting crows from.
more later
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Subject: me
Date: Thu, 16 April 1998 07:30 AM EDT
been rehearsing with the band this week. more titles:...tentatively(not a title,merely a disclaimer) "she don't want nobody near," "complex kid, " "i don't believe in sundays," "there goes everything,"
good to see everyone. "do you know what it means to miss new orleans?"
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Subject: me
Date: Sun, 19 April 1998 03:19 PM EDT
tonight and tomorrow at the viper room. sunday is electric with three new songs("sundays," "st robinson in his cadillac dream," "she don't want nobody near"). monday is acoustic. maybe one new song. don't know. there will be more gigs later in the summer
bye bye, ad

Subject: me
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 08:17 AM EDT
not to lecture, cause it's really not my style. and not because i'm in the band either, because it's not really our folder as much as it is yours. it's really just because i've been on this folder longer than almost anyone else still hanging out here that i say i really wish you would all stop fucking arguing. i know a lot of people on this folder qand i like almost all of them but i hate the fighting. and don't start fighting over my statement that you should stop fighting. as long as you respond to each other's shit, there will always be another argument to be had and it will always be annoying to be on this folder. and i love this folder so i don't want that. and i don't want people i like to feel they need to go to another folder. the best solution is to just ignore all the jerkoff posts. there must be better things to
discuss than who is a jerk. ignore them. if no one responds, there is no argument. we could all just hang out here.
that's all i have to say. we rock. i met a cool girl tonight. have a big crush on her. yay for me.
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Subject: me
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 05:31 AM EDT
we were going to stop. i know you all agreed with me. this fighting is a drag. ignore the purposely inflammatory stuff. we just get sucked into this over and over. everyone knows if someone's way wrong. ignore them.
shiloh, i am so sorry.
peace everyone. go to sleep. dream about all the friends you've made on this folder and how not to fight with them.
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Subject: me
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 05:45 AM EDT
today we started our new record. this could take awhile. saw ed kowalczyk tonight. nicest guy. thursday is my sister's birthday. happy birthday nicole, my oldest and best friend
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Subject: meices
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 02:55 AM EDT
meices came up in sf at the same time as the himalayans. great band. last album "dirty bird" was produced by gil norton right before he did "recovering the satellites". this is a reat album. i love it
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Subject: me
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 03:08 AM EDT
it was nice to hear someone talk about lori carson. she is an old friend and one of my favorites. i had a swirl last week where i couldn't stop listening to "where it goes" . dan and i decided we were going to cover a song off this album. this is exquisite songwriting and heartbreaking singing. if you ever have a chance to see her play alone in a small club, go. NEVER MISS HER PLAYING.
as for ed and i, the whole fighting thing never really comes up. probably because we're friends. i do think you all have some kind of misconception concerning "little" ed's size. i'm six feet tall, which is not exactly small, and ed's at least a couple inches taller than me, maybe more.
very creative week at the studio so far. new song already. maybe called "come around"
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Subject: me
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 04:45 AM EDT
does anyone else hear think matt is out of his mind? all day he skips around the studio humming to himself about his buttcrack and telling anyone who'll listen how this time we should really think about styx and yes when we make the record. this record is going to be called "BABY GRAND ILLUSION" you heard it here first.
i'm at a girl's house. shhhhhhh. she'll hear. i think i'm going to stay. yahooooooooooooooooooooo!!! shhhhh.
two more new songs today. not finished but cool ideas. going to see godzilla tomorrow. did you see the billboard on sunset?

"HIS BUTTCRACK IS BIGGER THAN THIS SIGN"

are we done? she wants to know. she caught me. you were all reading too loud. that is overly cute. i may puke. ate too much pizza tonight at the movies. we saw "city of angels" and had personal pan pizzas. i had two. that's too personal for me. i forgot my wallet and she paid for everything. i forgot it because i split a huge hole in the crotch of my jeans at rehearsal and i had to run home and change in a hurry before the movie. left all my $ in the other pants. big hole. big. lucky for me it was nowhere near my...well, you know................................................................................................................ ................................................................................


buttcrack



bye,



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Subject: Re: me
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 05:58 AM EDT
neat

Subject: Re: me
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 06:07 AM EDT
crazy 'bout you baby







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Subject: me
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 06:39 PM EDT
bull testosterone. uh. whoa.


what can you say? um.


where do you get that? can you get it at any supermarket or is that strictly a whole foods kind of thing?

i loved "the whole wide world." i just finished reading "about a boy" by nick hornby. loved it too.

saw charles fleischer at the laugh factory last night. died laughing
had fun at godzilla too. big lizards are cool. what's the problem. i thought it was exciting. most fun i ever had with a big lizard. or any lizard for that matter.

having dinner with a bunch of friends tonight. we're all going to drink monkey urine together

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ps. cc rocks

Subject: Re: Quim
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 03:58 AM EDT
uh. well, that is ........um....i know .

Subject: Re: Twisted
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 04:00 AM EDT
same as above

Subject: Re: Twisted
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 06:52 PM EDT
mike has got hisself a problem, but he's always been a little squirrely. little luvcat; however, is just exactly correct about the polite response to a close friends troublingly twisted underwear. quimmy(or twisty, as i like to call her), will be touched.
moi

Subject: me
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 05:42 AM EDT
today was not such a great day

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Subject: me
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 05:33 AM EDT
not geffen's fault. more my fault. didn't realize they were waiting for me to write my letter and sign the autographs. well, it's not all my fault, but it is at least partially me, and definitely not geffen's. theb other guys had all signed . i just didn't realize the pictures were for the fan club. i thought they were just promo things for the label. my bad.
still, they're all done now as faR as i know. they should be out soon. sorry. it's our 1st fanclub. we'll iron it out. we'll all hopefully be around for a long time together.
still not a particularly good day today, but it is making for a pretty good song..
merrily lining those clouds for all i'm worth,
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Subject: me
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 06:48 AM EDT
sarah you can use the line. that sounds cool to me . glad it inspired you.


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Subject: me
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 06:56 AM EDT
sorry about the multipost. but i meant to mention that d. lowery gave me a pre release of the new. cracker record last week. it is great. normally i would launch into hyperbole here and go on and on, but i realize i always do that and maybe that becomes meaningless after awhile. all i will say is that you should just go get it the day it comes out. that band is on a different level.
they write songs i... well i just hope our record is as good. also got a copy of the new grant lee buffalo awhile back and finally listened to it and i love that too. it's called "jubilee". if you've never listened to glb, go get "mighty joe moon" immediately. then get "jubilee" if it's out already or whenever it comes out.
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ps the cracker record is titled "gentleman's blues" and it comes out near the last week in august. i know that because that's when we lose senor lowery.

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