Subject: me
Date: Tue, 02 June 1998 07:53 AM EDT
try no fighting. it really pisses me off. at least no screaming at each other. it's been nice here since we stopped. this is a silly place to act tough anyway.
spoke to manager re:fanclub today. fanclub rep claims packages mail out on wednesday. if it doesn't happen, i will deal with it.
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Subject: me
Date: Thu, 04 June 1998 12:03 AM EDT
barely out of tuesday will not be on any albums

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Subject: me
Date: Thu, 04 June 1998 07:34 AM EDT
music for "barely..." was partially written by someone i cannot stand. nothing of her, other than my scorn, will be on any future albums. also no old songs. that was then, this is now.

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ps. sorry to be cranky. it is a grey week

Subject: me
Date: Mon, 08 June 1998 11:46 PM EDT
hi,
the record comes out july 14th, the spelling errors are in the website but not on the album itself(thank you julie, i spotted the same crap thanks to your link last night and freaked out but then i checked my copy of the record and all was fine. i told them to fix the website in any case. al hail julie. all hail julie. julie hail al. whoever al is.) , and as far asi know, there is no scheduled modern rock live appearance, but that's
probably just something i forgot. i can't remember anymore of your questions.

'night

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Subject: me
Date: Tue, 16 June 1998 08:40 AM EDT
met brad a couple times. seems really nice. went out of his way each time to very respectfully express his absolute devotion to the band(that's us!) . before you dis him too much, he seems to be one of us. maybe the probs are the gals.

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Subject: me
Date: Sat, 20 June 1998 07:13 PM EDT
hi. zeus here. stop fighting or i'll send matt the thunder dwarf to smite you with lightning. we'll turn this car around and go home RIGHT NOW! don't make me come in there. this folder is much more fun if you act like geckos. let's try that for awhile. allright! all together now, wherever you are, everybody act like a gecko. doesn't that feel better. pass the goddamn tape around . it was always ok with us. and don't
use this as a way of bitching at julie. we happen to have a great deal of affection for julie. (matt has a crush on her, but he's not allowed to mate with mortals.) apparently, the children turn out to be centaurs or manticores or ocelots or something.
anyways, back to rockland,
new songs:"bummin' around", "high life"(maybe called "this desert life"), "manticore love"(may be called "muskrat love " instead)
re-recorded "shallow days", "lightning", and "forty years"













then decided they suck and erased them

love from here,

us and me,

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Subject: me
Date: Sun, 21 June 1998 09:07 PM EDT
"mean jumper blues" is the name of the song. old cc. music by me, lyric by blind lemon johnson(not jefferson, so don't everybody write in with the correction like ya know). found the lyric in an old paperback of field songs and blues lyrics. so beautiful and dirty i had to steal it. as for the muskrats, well, america wrote it and toni and the cap covered it. no sister golden hair, if you know what i mean.
as for the demo's, that was then and this is now. enjoy the tapes if you've got 'em. someone said it best in my never particularly humble opinion when they canonized "put on your bad self...etc...etc..." as the bad 80's quote of the day. no arguments from me. ouch.

"come around" and "high life" are real songs. titles are not definite.

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Subject: Re: Make your voice heard - Register to VOTE
Date: Fri, 26 June 1998 05:40 AM EDT
this is a great thing. my sister works for netvote. i used it today. totally easy

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Subject: me
Date: Wed, 15 July 1998 08:35 AM EDT
thank you all very much. your posts are all so great(except the guy who whined about the unlistenable guitars-go get a life-rock and roll=guitars. period) the rest of you are so great. i was a little surprised about rolling stone too. that's a bit harsh and a bit personal. i don't really like reading that.
had two weeks off. bedridden the entire time except for about three days. 1st -inner ear virus caused loss of equilibrium, general dizziness and head rushes(very unpleasant), 2nd-strep throat brought upon by weak system fighting ear virus(very very Unpleasant)
3rd-threw out back(ouch!!!very very very unpleasant) 4th-got food poisoning from sushi at modern rock live broadcast(very much like reading rolling stone review) more recording tomorrow

going to new york in 1 week to do interview and shoot cover photo with natalie imbruglia for musician magazine-neat!

live in new york-it's me!

goodnight

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Subject: me
Date: Thu, 16 July 1998 08:37 AM EDT
i personally love pearl jam. today was our 1st day with dennis herring, our other producer. guess what? he's awesome. two new songs today. one waltz is fully written and will be done in a few days. it's called " Amy Hit the Atmosphere". the other one is kind of psychedelic 70's space funk. no title yet. dennis and david together make it really creative and really easy in the
studio

shit, it's light out

sleep time

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Subject: Re: shine shine look what i found...
Date: Fri, 17 July 1998 06:03 AM EDT
love that "shine shine" thing. quoted from this bonnie hayes and the wild combo song. what a great band that was. can't remember the name of the song but it was on her "brand new girl" album.

Subject: Re: me
Date: Fri, 17 July 1998 06:04 AM EDT
love sushi. sea urchin=yum

Subject: Re: VH1 is messed up
Date: Fri, 17 July 1998 06:08 AM EDT
love vh-1. they are extremely supportive of us. theprez signed us to our 1st publishing deal before he became prez and turned it from a boring old fogies station into a cool eclectic music station

Subject: Re: Rolling Stone
Date: Fri, 17 July 1998 06:17 AM EDT
lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelove THE BEASTIE BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT is my favorite band. they are the moderncreative equivalent of the beatles playing hip hop. period.

Subject: Re: no dumping....lol
Date: Fri, 17 July 1998 06:24 AM EDT
love you all as well, but you're overthinking with the photo

Subject: Re: My Letter of Response to Rolling Stone
Date: Fri, 17 July 1998 06:26 AM EDT
do not love greg kot

Subject: me
Date: Fri, 17 July 1998 06:28 AM EDT
love multi posting.

goodnight

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Subject: me
Date: Sat, 15 August 1998 06:57 AM EDT
out with the jive


in with the love


out with the jive...

Subject: me
Date: Sat, 15 August 1998 07:24 AM EDT
we finished mastering "baby, i'm a big star now" this morning and sent it off to the film's director this afternoon. his name is john dahl. he also directed "red rocks west" and "the last seduction". we only gave them the right to use the song in the film and in the trailers. this is not for any soundtrack. it was written for the film and it will only be heard on the film unless we put it on our next album(a distinct possibility)
bitchin new song called "speedway"

bitchin new album title:hideous chicks(why i don't like 'em and why matt hates 'em too and more importantly why neither of us can figure out what the hell you people have been talking about for the last few weeks)

why waste posts on this shit. i don't care what these people say about me. why should you. the folder is so much better when you ignore them. it's also much less fun for them. they're not bugging me. i get done working at the studio. i say goodnight to ben or matt or dennis or whoever is left. i drive home(maybe pausing somewhere along the way to converse with or seduce some uber babe[dig the slyly inserted german reference to showcase my
multilingual male energy]. before falling asleep, i log on and check my mail or the folder. i note the interesting posts. i see that some worms are obsessed with my dating/drinking/chauvinizing/vulgarizing/metatisizing[i don't really know what that means] ways. i roll over and go to sleep. the next day i go back to all the "...ing" i want to. and my mom still thinks i'm great. so if my mom thinks i'm great, i feel ok about it too. and so
should you

meanwhile, this is still a great folder. just ignore them. have fun . this next album is gonna be real cool. but it will probably take awhile.

sleep well

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ps cool like lemonade is whatcha wanna be

Subject: me
Date: Mon, 17 August 1998 02:22 AM EDT
ignore them. look how pissed off they get.

chelsea was written just before we recorded "...satellites"

it's not all that old

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Subject: me
Date: Wed, 19 August 1998 09:13 AM EDT
didn't go to jamie walters show. went to my friend sarah's club opening. they were the band. only saw a couple of songs. one was really good


love pearl jam

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Subject: me
Date: Fri, 21 August 1998 06:50 AM EDT
i really like bill clinton. he's the first president since jimmy carter who has not used the presidency to commit what i consider to be absolutely evil acts. lust and sex are not moral issues that bother me in a president. i don't care that he lied about them because not one fibre of my being believes them to be any of our business and i think the real crime is spending forty million dollars on a court case so that we can all be peeping toms in the life of a president. i do care when you lie about things that are our business. it bothered me when our government was caught red handed selling drugs in america to finance illegal wars in nicaragua and el salvedor and everyone from ronald reagan to george bush to oliver north went on national tv and either flat out lied about it or claimed to simply "not recall" the incidents in
question. extra-marital affairs do not have to be approved by congress or the american people, but wars do. and going around replacing inner city drug programs with billboards that say "just say no" while you are actually selling these very same drugs to pay for an illegal war is hypocrisy in an almost satanic level. that pisses me off.
meanwhile unemployment is down, the economy is up, and the multi billion dollar deficit clinton inherited from his predecessors is gone. he didn't get the health care program installed, but he sure tried hard, and on a moral question, that counts for some thing to me.
on the other hand , he did get a blowjob and not tell us about it. forty million dollars were spent so that we could find that out. can you imagine what that money could have done for a free clinic, or a school, or a women's shelter , or a library, or just the salary of a policeman or a fireman. or a grant to a sculptor or a painter or a choreographer. or a researcher in an aids lab. or anything. god, there are so many iin such desperate
need. what a waste. if i get a blowjob, i'm not telling anybody either because it's nobody's business.
decent people do the wrong things sometimes, and they are still decent people. i expect my president to try to help the country be a better place to live in and a place to be proud of.. i expect him not to commit any crimes against humanity. i expect him to try to accomplish the little things that don't necessarily fit easily in a campaign slogan, and i expect him not to violate the constituion. the only thing that ever made america really
special was the constitution. once you throw that away, it's not so impressive here. he's been the first president in a while who honored that.

in other news, we heard a bunch of tracks from this band willis that dennis herring produced right before us, and they are incredible. it won't be out for a few months, but i can't wait.

sleep well.

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ps. john kennedy screwed enough women in the oval office to have started his own country and he was married to jackie o.

Subject: me
Date: Thu, 10 December 1998 03:20 AM EST
I HAVE RETURNED. got my new computer today to replace the one that took a mysterious bath several months ago. it's all fired up and rarin' to go. sorry to have been gone so long. by way of an apology, i will now list the titles of all the songs on the new record as well as the tentative album title:


This Desert Life
Four Days
Saint Robinson In His Cadillac Dream
Amy Hit the Atmosphere
Speedway
High Life
I Wish I Was A Girl
All My Friends
Mrs. Potter's Lullaby
Hangin' Around
Colorblind
Baby, I'm A Big Star Now

Kid Things

nice to speak with you all again. thanks, zack

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Subject: me
Date: Tue, 15 December 1998 08:06 AM EST
julie, those lines are from the song "speedway"

Subject: me
Date: Tue, 15 December 1998 08:20 AM EST
don't mind use of quotes

release not until summer at eaRLIEST

sorry

finished mixing "All My Friends", and "Four Days"

mixing "Hanging Around" tuesday

bye,


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Subject: me
Date: Fri, 25 December 1998 11:05 PM EST
THAT RUMOR IS NOT TRUE

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Subject: me
Date: Wed, 30 December 1998 03:03 AM EST
please do not start calling dj's about my house and then posting on the board. i have already spoken to my housesitting friends about having dj's over in my bedroom who then go on the air the following day to blab about it. that's my home. it's private. no fair.

in other news, it is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful here in the mountains of idaho where i am currently ensconced. snow everywhere and lots of nice people.

personal fave record this week:the 4-cd set "Nuggets:Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968". this set is so awesome you will freak out and fall over. all the original garage band one hit wonders in one incredibly well put-together box. i got it for all the guys in the band as a present(well, actually, i still have to give matt and ben their copies, but i bought them). buy this set and behold.

p.s. i hear it's about $20 cheaper on amazon.com

personal fave occurence so far in 1998: the ever inspiring University of California Golden Bears whooped the North Carolina Tar Heels tonight by the score of 78-71. roll on you
bears. tonight i sleep the sleep of angels for all is well with the world.

or at least that one thing is really cool.

sleep well

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