Subject: me
Date: Fri, 01 January 1999 03:40 AM EST
happy new year everyone. good luck

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Subject: me
Date: Sat, 02 January 1999 01:49 AM EST
on the subject of fanclub posters. if you haven't gotten yours yet, it's because i think they're all at the studio. they deliovered them up there right before we left and i don't think anyone even realized what they were. i know i didn't until right before i left.


sorry 'bout that see you soon

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Subject: me
Date: Sun, 17 January 1999 04:51 PM EST
we signed all the posters this week, so they should be in the mail this week. spent this week putting the finishing touches on " i wish i was a girl" and "mrs. potter's lullaby"

gigolo aunts played at the martini lounge last night. the sound sort of sucked , but the band was great. they play all the saturdays this month at the martini loung and all the tuesdays at the casbah in san diego. then they go up to sf to play slims on the 3rd{ i think} and then back to la for the record release party at the viper room on saturday the 6th. the record, incidentally , comes out on the 9th.



ooops phone call gotta go. impatient girl

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Subject: me
Date: Fri, 29 January 1999 06:40 AM EST
have spent the last two weeks in and out of sickbed. started to get better over weekend, then relapsed tuesday into more serious flu. aaaaaaaaaarrrgggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!

i am so sick of being sick!

and now to the news..."colorblind" will be in the film "cruel intentions" and on the soundtrack as well. saw the film and liked it. very nasty. we thought about it and decided it wouldn't hurt anything to let it be included on the soundtrack this time. it won't, in all likelihood, be a single or a video however. we did not give them permission for that. you will be able to get the song on the album in february or march, i don't know when they are releasing the album. sounds like a pretty coolm soundtrack(blur, the verve, us). it will also be included on our album later this summer, if you don't feel like getting the soundtrack.

in other news, the gigolo aunts are releasing their brand new lp m"minor chords and major themes" on my label on feb. 9th. they've been living with me this month while they play gigs up and down the west coast. you should check them out if you get a chance. they are simply awesome. remaining gigs are sat. jan. 30th at the martini lounge in l.a., wed. feb 3rd at slims in s.f. before winding up with their recdord release party/gig at the viper room in hollywood on sat feb 6th. hope you can come and hope you get the record on the 9th. hope i feel better soon.

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Subject: me
Date: Wed, 03 February 1999 07:54 AM EST
colorblind on album will be the same as on the soundtrack. it did turn out awesome though. thank you jen.

going to sf in the morning for the gigolo aunts show wednesday at slim's. come if you're in the bay area. don't forget saturday is the record release party/gig at the viper room in la.

going to boston for the gigolo's hometown record release party on 2/27 and i'm going to stay on the east coast for a while to play some gigs with cracker, i think. looks like i'm playing philly with them on 3/4, and then nyc on 3/5 and 3/6. gigolo aunts will probably be opening the shows on the 4th and the 5th. big fun.

whenever you do hear colorblind, please note my bravura xylophone playing. i played the piano too. very proud of it. managed to get xylophone all over this record.


gotta sleep.


bye,

me

Subject: me
Date: Sun, 07 February 1999 08:19 AM EST
actually dave was there as well. also dan, charlie matt, dennis, dave lowery, david immergluck, and joan osborne


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Subject: me
Date: Sat, 13 February 1999 11:34 PM EST
glad you enjoyed my new mastery of the cut 'n' paste.
the colorblind track in the movie is the same one that will be on the album. i'm trying to make this extra clear so that nobody gets tricked into buying them both if they don't want to. not trying to discourage buying the soundtrack for the early listen, but i don't want anyone mistaking this for a unique track. it will be on the new cc album.
hope y'all have a nice weekend. i am personally planningon extreme bitterness. going to playboy mansion tonight because i am a huge loser and have no one to spend val day with. hoping to meet girl of dreams tonight and enter into long term meaningful relationship, perhaps marriage, maybe even children. life as rock star is distressingly reminiscent of life as high school sophomore. at least on valentine's day.
still, my best wishes to you all. good luck surviving all the happy loving shitheads


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Subject: me
Date: Sat, 13 February 1999 11:36 PM EST
by the way, i know i'm gonna catch more shit than sympathy for the playboy party.


still dig you all. fling what you will. you're cool as lemonade

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Subject: me
Date: Sun, 14 February 1999 05:39 AM EST
came home early. snore. no hope. only way i'm meeting the girl of my dreams tonight is if i go to sleep

night

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Subject: me
Date: Sun, 21 February 1999 12:33 AM EST
see you friday mike. it's my dad's b'day party. gotta go
got a date tonight.


yahoo

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(Hostess Note : This post is partly in response to :
Subject: NYTimes/Playboy
Date: Mon, 22 February 1999 10:53 PM EST
Thought some of us may want to know that on this past NY Times edition, on their Sunday Styles section, they had an article titled "More Boogie Nites". The article was about Hugh Hefner and the resurgence in interest about him, the Playboy mansion, and the lifestyle around it. It seems that a lot of people, specially Hollywood celebrities, young and old flocked or was on Hefner's VIP list this past Valentine's day.

Well, wouldn't you know it Adam Duritz was quoted. And his quote was. " I met Tony Curtis here". "That's cool, right?". He wasn't pictured,but they even placed his quote in bold.

I don't know. I guess I'm just way beyond not being cool.

Having a great time is fun and a blast, but I guess I just wuss out when the sex and the sexuality is so available like a menu. Choose and pick from what you see. I guess deep down I am a prude.)

Subject: me
Date: Wed, 03 March 1999 05:16 AM EST
been offline for a while. what the fuck are you people talking about? how the hell do you have any idea at all how i approach women or what i want out of my relationships with them? and where do you get off judging that which you only guess at through gossip columns?

Subject: me
Date: Sat, 23 October 1999 02:03 AM EDT
the woodstock people are lying. we were contractually allowed to pick our song. we picked round here. they balked at the nine minute length. we talked them to suck our butts and they left it off the record. to be honest, i was relieved. i am ashamed to have been involved in any way with woodstock. people were raped there and they have taken practically no responsibility. the vibe sucked, the army base sucked, it all sucked. well, not everything. we were great. (so conceited i am) p-funk was also very much the bomb.

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ps.hope you can all get used to the twang. we've started working on cuts for the new album and it's all obscure country cover tunes. sorry. can't help it. we dig 'em.

pps.arrived in atlanta yesterday. saw fight club tonight. gigs in europe were staggering for us. we have never played like this before. it's becoming like sex and religion and dreaming again. tuesday we begin

Subject: me
Date: Sat, 23 October 1999 03:57 AM EDT
each of the last two shows have been over two hours long and have featured eight of the ten new songs. what is kid things?; never heard of it . it does not exist. how could it exist? go to sleep you cheaters. it's past all your bedtimes. without country there could never even have been rock and roll. there is certainly no counting crows without the influence of country music. the sex pistols were originally a country band. so was earth, wind and fire. so was nirvana. so were the beatles. so were the jackson 5ive. so were you. garth brooks wishes he was ever truly. go see body shots. my best friend produced it . she is like a little sister to me. if you all go to the movie she will be a big successful producer and everyone will like her. right now i'm the only one who likes her. you can like her too. she's very nice and this is her 1st movie ever. it's hard to be a girl movie producer. the guys are sexist pigs and they are not nice to girls trying to get into the club. the song over the closing credits is by joe 90. GO TO SLEEP!!!!!!!

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Subject: me
Date: Mon, 25 October 1999 01:30 AM EDT
don't really understand. band generally feels potter's is the best song i've ever written. told them about the folder's fiation on this being a country album. much laughter at that. everyone thinks this album has the least country feel of any crows album. nobody gets it.

as for the future, we have talked a lot (between myself , dan, charlie , immy and ben mostly) and there has been a lot of dissatisfaction lately with our direction. for a lot of us, our roots are in country music and we feel we've been suppressing that for years now. we've been jamming a lot in that vein lately and talking more and more about getting back to that on a more permanent basis in the future. this is causing some rifts in the band as matt and dave aren't really all that into this. actually, they're not into it at all. at least for now, the friction is resulting in some awesome gigs but i wouldn't be surprised if the future held some changes for our lineup in the next few years. you gotta play the music you feel like playing whether other people want to play it or listen to it or not. it wouldn't be all that big a surprise to me to tell you the truth. i've had a feeling for a long time that dave would rather be producing records and matt says he wants to go live in india and teach music. either way, it's great for now.

see y'all on tour

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Subject: me
Date: Mon, 25 October 1999 02:02 AM EDT
just one more note. what if danielle dated lance because he was a great guy ? what if she liked him because he was basically a really nice likeable person and not at all because he was some pop star? wouldn't that be a pretty good reason to go out with him? if that was true, who would be the screwed up one? danielle fischel or you for judging someone you don't know based on your opinion of their music? your mistake isn't in fantasisizing about people you don't know, it's in condemning people you don't know. my friends don't love me because of my music and i hope i never date or fall in love with someone who does. i've never had a huge problem with people not liking my music(maybe a little bit here and there), but people hating me personally and abusing me personally because they didn't like my fucking music nearly ruined my life at one point.

wise up . nice people (and why would you like counting crows if you weren't nice , caring, thoughtful people) do not say shit like that. should i look down on people who have less musical talent than myself. i don't. why would i? why would you?

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Subject: me
Date: Mon, 25 October 1999 02:26 AM EDT
we will never ever ever ever re-record the demo songs. put it out of your mind. there is no santa claus either

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Subject: me .
Date: Mon, 25 October 1999 04:03 AM EDT
but i am a big star. that's not my fault. i didn't do that. you all did. i just made the music... you made the fame part...and as for the vh-1 show, i'm one of the silent partners. i bought 30% of the show when they were first conceiving it five years or so ago . seemed like a good idea then. can't say i like the show much now, but i damn sure don't think they're going to be doing any stories on me in the near future. one may not be able to stay famous forever but the power one consolidates now clast just as long or longer. i have a piece of legends as well the new behind the music jr., brokered as part of the deal to get a program on cc. having our former publisher become president has been a gold mine for me. it's not as beatiful, but i's more fun and much more lucrative than music. fuck the beauty. it passes eventually, and most of you complain about it more than you appreciate it

please buy our record so that i can get more money and buy more things that will eventually aid me in gathering enough power and possessions that i might not notice the inevitable numbing. you can probably feel it already judging by your comments

bye bye

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Subject: me
Date: Tue, 26 October 1999 04:18 AM EDT
huge fight at the rehearsal today. charlie flew home. fired dave. band broke up. may be it's for the best. sorry

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Subject: trial by fire
Date: Tue, 26 October 1999 04:19 AM EDT
just kidding

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Subject: matt loves blossom
Date: Tue, 26 October 1999 04:28 AM EDT
seriously.

1)no country band
2)no band tension
3)nobody leaving
4)no part ownership of vh-1 nonsense
5)no disillusionment-not even a little
6)not jaded
7)not writing serious posts for the last few days-except that i DO think people were being pretty unfair to lance and danielle


on a separate note. fuck those shitheads from the dmb folder with their crap about banning the sale of bootleg recordings. i happen to love bootlegs and i think these people who work so hard at wiping out live bootlegs are small minded greedy ass clowns. if someone is going to spend $30 on a bootleg, they probably already bought 4 copies of your record. these goat fuckers are just ruining something wonderful for the rest of us. may animals shit on their feet.

have a nice night. see you in atlanta tomorrow. don't forget to get your costumes together for boston on halloween

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sleep well

Subject: me
Date: Tue, 26 October 1999 04:51 AM EDT
i'm thinking about submiting all my recent posts to the plunge. when is the next issue?

Subject: me
Date: Sun, 31 October 1999 01:21 AM EST
god you guys are so gullible. you're so used to everyone flaming each other that you fall for my goofball posts and then you fall for the plunge fake posts. wake up and smell the candy corn. today is no day to be bummin' or flamin' or anything negatine with an apostrophe.

IT'S FRIGGIN' HALLOWEEN FOLDER CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!! GET YOUR COSTUMES OUT AND FORGET YOUR TROUBLES!!!! TONIGHT YOU CAN BE ANYONE YOU WANT TO BE!!!!! GET WITH IT!!!!!!! I EXPECT TO SEE YOU ALL DECKED OUT !!!!! COME TO BOSTON, THE CRADLE OF THE REVOLUTION, AND JOIN IN THE NEW REVOLUTION!!!!! NO IRONY!!!!! NO ATTITUDE!!!!!! GET OUT YOUR HEART AND WEAR IT ON YOUR SLEEVE!!!!!

LET YOUR FREAK FLAG FLY!!!!! TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AFTER THE REVOLUTION, BOSTON BELONG TO COUNTING CROWS AND IT BELONGS TO YOU!!! IF YOU CAN'T BE HERE, SOMEBODY WILL TAPE IT AND SEND IT TO YOU!!!!!

WEAR YOUR FUCKIN' COSTUMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Subject: me
Date: Wed, 03 November 1999 03:24 AM EST
i was just gonna say that the best buy bonus discs are awesome. great live versions of these songs. some of the best we've done

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Subject: me
Date: Tue, 09 November 1999 03:05 AM EST
1st of all, i want to apologize for running off through the "mob" after the boston concert. you should all know it was not your fault and we were not reacting to any mob scene. i would have stayed and signed autographs until you were all satisfied but we had to go. the new york marathon was the next morning and we needed to get back to nyc before they closed the streets since the finish line was basically in front of our hotel. sorry about that and please don't think it had anything to do with you. there will probably be days when we don't feel like signing because our friends are around, but this was not one of those days

two)we do not, as matt told someone, reserve the front row for "record company types who talk and nod throughout the set" matt lives in an imaginary world which i'm sure is quite pleasant but bears little resemblance to earth and like all good leprechauns, he lives to do mischief and spread misinformation wherever he lands. he does however have a magic newt and if you can find it he will grant you three wishes. good luck. we reserve the front row at each and every show where we can to give the tickets to kids outside who can't get in to sold out shows or to likely looking fanatics from the top row of the balcony. we do this specifically for the purpose of avoiding industry or rich guy front row snoozers.
we learned this lesson early and we adhere to it whenever we can.

three)the girl in the video is the lovely and talented miss amy smart. she has been my friend for years and i adore her. she is one of the coolest people i know and a legitimate walking talking ray of sunshine. she is a good friend and was kind enough to be in the video(although i think she had a pretty fun day too). she was in "varsity blues" and is occasionally on "felicity", but i really loved her in "outside providence", one of my favorite
movies this year. you should all see it. and don't read more into this than there is. she's my friend and she's got a boyfriend.

four)the voice at the end of "mrs. potter's lullaby is .......................................................
..................................................................................................................................me.

five)i happen to think " you better get yourself together, baby" is an absolutely incredible song. i would be proud to have written it and, with great fondness, i have to disagree with zack. sorry zack, you're wack.

six)there are fifteen minutes between joe 90 and the gigolo aunts and there are thirty minutes between the aunts and us. i have to warm up and i like to see the aunts so i can't start uuntil they're done

bye

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Subject: me
Date: Sun, 14 November 1999 05:00 AM EST
god, you people. what if the so-called "bleach blonde ho" was my best friend's wife and like a sister to me and what if he was doing the aunts a favor by filming a video for them. would that make you a dick for calling her a ho. for such supposedly nice sensitive people you say a lot of insensitive shit.

i can say that because although i'm supposedly nice and sensitive , i already know i'm really more of a dick

ad(newly self appointed folder conscience and patron saint)

good looking too

Subject: me
Date: Tue, 16 November 1999 02:59 AM EST
1) i am so happy to be playing in a band with immy finally after all these years i could just shit. bryson is scared and so is vickrey. they should be. they know we don't need them any more.. now we keep them on out of pity. it's only a matter of time before the sheer shame of it causes one or both of them to quit. probably bryson first. dan has no shame and little self respect.

2)we like pretty girls. i am not about being pc . i just didn't like my friend being called a ho. do whatever you like to each other. there, now you have something to have inane arguments over for the next 2000 posts(or until tomorrow, whichever comes 1st)

3)loved " god save the immy" or " my immy tis of thee". kristin is a genius.

4)personally love the line in St robinson...and yes it is mean. so what. i meant it to be. don't worry. i almost certainly didn't mean it about any of you. i was not angry at any of you. especially not zack even though he and i don't always agree about gigolo aunts songs

5)letterman is thursday

6)seattle shows are on 12/16 and 12/17

7) more la shows are probably being added. the 1st three sold out in 1/2 hour

8)we got gold record plaques for canada today. gold in two weeks . not bad.

9)as for tonights non encore:you can't go out for an encore if you don't get an encore. we stood around backstage looking at each other embarrassedly and somebody finally said, "god it's pretty quiet out there. what do we do?" i know you're gonna say the crowd was going wild or something, but all i can tell you is that all of us felt the same thing. you can't go out for an encore when there's no encore and we didn't think we got one. we were
pretty embarrased and it's the first time that's ever happened since we started headlining...ever. never before . and hopefully never ever again. but either way, we are also never going to go on stage for a total bullshit encore when the crowd is silent. i would be too embarrassed. that would be worse than this and this was bad enough.

on the other hand what the hell are you felling all self righteous and ripped off about? we're playing way longer shows than we ever have before. even without the encore we had already played 15 or 16 songs for almost two hours. we were the ones who played our asses off for two hours and didn't get an encore. i still thought it was a great show. sorry if we didn't get to make friends. we tried.

ad(archbishop of rawk, friend to badgers)

ps. i wrote down the words to kristin's song and then called immy and woke him up to sing it to him. oh how we laughed.

Subject: me
Date: Mon, 22 November 1999 09:43 AM EST
it's a kid thing and the further out the closer in you are

Subject: me
Date: Tue, 23 November 1999 03:17 AM EST
whistling is me

Subject: me
Date: Tue, 23 November 1999 09:00 PM EST
sick in chicago. this sucks. can't go outside. of course it's raining outside and i feel like shit son i don't know why i'd want to go out but it still sucks. sorry to everyone who had tickets. i feel better than i did this morning but still not very good. should be ok tomorrow. hope so.

show is rescheduled for 1/20/00. that's in the year 2000. look on the bright side. you may all be the first people on your block to have tickets to the new millenium. unless the world ends.

oh well. sorry about tonight anyway. i know it sucks.

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Subject: me
Date: Sun, 28 November 1999 04:20 PM EST
personally, i think the guy from the trib is an ignorant asshole with no taste and it pisses me off that the paper sent a guy to review the concert who so obviously aloready hatedthe band. i think it was very nice of you to write a letter and stand up for us.

my girlfriend went home and i'm sick as a dog. i hadn't missed a gig since the summer of '96 and now i'm sick and i've missed two. being a singer and being sick sucks


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Subject: me
Date: Fri, 24 December 1999 05:00 AM EST
the line is ...trying to scurry up a little...and it refers to the attempt to get either sex or drugs or in this case both.

the line is...everybody twist...and it refers to the attempt to get everybody to do the twist or have sex or in this case both

your loving and ever watchful messiah,

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p.s. i talk to matt a lot on stage because i know he can't hear me through his earplugs and i like trying to make him laugh

Subject: me
Date: Sun, 26 December 1999 04:27 AM EST
i was not asleep.

i was under the piano

it was not me

it was not immy

i did not write it's only love

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