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Greg - 2007-04-12 17:13:55
I liked that album with Mimi on the Beach on it. Lots of fun. There was a song called Waitress, or something of the sort, "I could have been famous if I wasn't such a very good waitress." Clever gal.
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Baby Party - 2007-04-12 20:14:35
I was a huge fan of her first 3 or 4 albums. They were the soundtrack to my inner life when I was a lass in my 20s. I fell behind, though. Her mp3 store has self-determined pricing, and I've taken the opportunity to reconnect with some old stuff and explore some more recent work. She's a true original, I think.
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Rebecca - 2007-04-13 10:55:13
Yes, the early albums were massive to me, one of those things where I would be walking around listening to her on my Walkman and I would just have to sit down for a second because the songs were beautiful and huge and speaking to me (sometimes very sad, sometimes happy), and this is on the 100th listen. Then I too fell behind. The irony is, when I was sending my own CD to people who I felt had influenced me, I went to find her address, and discovered I could not send it to her, because she had renounced possesions. Oh well. It all seemed to make sense somehow.
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iwombat - 2007-04-13 15:10:40
OK, this is the wrong thead, but I just came across another varient of the popular saying in a New Yorker article about commuting "tedium broken by episodes of aggravation and despair" , the current theory of evolution is based on "punctuated equlibrium" (Stephen J Gould) , so this seems like a highly scalable concept.
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Erich Kuersten - 2007-04-13 15:20:13
Wow, I am so amazed by her now. I had some old album, the one with calling all angels, when I was deep in my drunken Enya-Kate Bush phase (1991). I totally respect and admire the give away the possessions thing. I've almost done it or gotten about halfway through it more than once, before deciding I wasn't "ready." As an artist I also believe that sometimes we have to purposely NOT go all the way like that, in order to continue our use as a conduit between the unenlightened and the light, so to speak, and without possessions you can go way off the deep end sometimes, so your friends and family all pretend not to know you when you show up begging alms on the street. Or as Vince Vega in PULP FICTION once said "It's called being a BUM, Jules." On the other hand, I do agree with it - and understand fully what de lord said when he said "a rich man can no sooner enter the kingdom of heaven than a camel pass through the eye of a needle." and the kingdom of heaven in this case is spread upon the earth, but you aint gonna see it unless you shake that crap out your hump a little.
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Greg - 2007-04-13 20:06:49
So I was inspired to dig out the album, No Borders Here and play it. It's pretty special... You can't cut down asymmetry...
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Flasshe - 2007-04-14 09:00:24
I'm not sure why, but I find it kind of sad when people just kind of pare themselves down to the minimum like that. Like something has been lost. I wish her well though. I did like those first couple of albums a lot - they were unique.
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2fs - 2007-04-15 17:58:44
You can only give away possessions if they're yours to begin with. Ah-ha! Caught ya! Now we see the logic of oppression inherent in the system!
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2fs - 2007-04-15 17:59:24
Also: about the name change, you know what Chico Marx would say? "Issa no big deal..."
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Paula - 2007-04-15 22:53:49
Snarfle.

Chico was always my favorite, except when he played piano.
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