The Fates, The Muses, The Furies, Charlie's Angels, The Powerpuff Girls, The Golden Girls, The Ronettes, Wilson Phillips, TLC, Shonen Knife, Sugababes, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. there is something twisted about being three sisters. a story i tell happened in grade school: every year, no fail, my older sister would be voted by her entire batch to be the Virgin Mary in the Easter nativity play, and so would my younger sister. i, every single year, was forced to just co-write that friggin' play and not once was asked to play even a tree. and people wonder about the middle child syndrome.
ask any middle child: the right kind of attention means the world to them. this is why i give a flying fuck. over who took the extra mile - the extra 80mb of uploads, as it were - to make my Christmas. what's dedicating an entire post to my good peeps? it's less psychotic than resenting siblings with long silky black hair, who resemble the mother of Jesus, don'tcha think?
to Mike (marigold), i grant (cough, virtually, cough) three Jinni wishes and a donkey. the idea alone of being mogmailed a secret code made me swoon before i knew what it actually meant. what it actually meant was Mike gave me a private code to a digital download of No Shouts, No Calls by Electrelane, which he got for purchasing the vinyl. this came at the height of my Internet woes and i screwed up the download but Mr. M, instead of throwing fits and cursing my clan, said, no worries, i'll get it to you one way or another. and he did. it involved more of social networking than secret coding ultimately but the thought really, really counts.
to Scott (scotfree), i bequeath five magic beans and a donkey, and so should Yousendit.com. we got into talking about how Easy Action sounded so different than the Alice Cooper i remember and, faster than i could say I Never Cry, he had sent me the entire album; i wonder if i overused "hypothetically" in conversation and left him no recourse! again with the Internet blues, the link expired before i could download so he sent it a second time. as if that were not enough, he gladly discovered Oh Astro through a post i did and, upon (cough, creatively, cough) getting a copy of their album Champions of Wonder, why, sent that to me as well.
to Danny (soulrocket), Dave (dachmo), and Colin (FluxCapacitor), i present gold, frankincense, and myrrh (sigh, my final birth of our lord crapola for the day), and a donkey. it's hard to say why but, along with Mike and Scott, they show up at the right sometimes bearing the right something. it's freaky, like telepathic good guys. (no, strike "good guys", they'll never talk to me again.) special mention to Kristiana, Micki, Connie (Lady C), Amber, Lizzie(greeneyes), Cynthia (Girlcrawl), Helen (SunshineDaydream); no presents, just lots of love. also, i made sure to let certain people know i am very glad to know them in mog. you know who you are, y'all get a door prize.
(i know: all i've done all week is shower the world with an icky excess of love and joy. shut up, i'm overcompensating for a sad childhood. [not really.] it's back to music after this post, believers.) happy new year.
"This very personal story may only make sense to me." ~ Tahiti 80
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First. Electrelane, Enter Laughing from The Power Out. For you my kind favorite wordsmithing hot mama.
Second. What is a Jinni?
Three. Will you star in the movie about my life? You can have the leading roll.
Four. A picture of more beer for us to share.
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Happy newest of New Years!
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The actress provides one version of a story, maybe 2 if she's really good and can reflect her talent onto other, lesser actors on the stage. It's the writer who brings the whole story, fleshed out and real, to the audience. Not as sexy a job, but so much more important.
Will you write the story of my life? Just make me more interesting, ok?
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May the new year be good to you!
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Hey Dach, pay attention! You didn't get a donkey, marigold and I did - but you can ride him 'round Central Park next time I'm up your way.
Poe, I'm the one blushing now 'cause your recognition of the shares is dwarfed in what I learned from you this year. The (partial) list -
Labradford, Low, Miranda Sex Garden, Pinback, Oh Astro!, VHS Or Beta, Pluramon, Kevin Ayers(rediscovery), Kevin Decline, Drugstore, Red House Painters
and those are just the ones I can come up with sitting here. This has been such a year of musical (re)discovery for me, and you are right at the top of the informed and highly valued. It's been such a joy making all these new friends on mog, hasn't it?
Uh, now, I think these, uh, beans are kickin' in....was I s'pposed to take all at once??
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Mike, playing the leading role means i'll be playing you. hmmmmmm. i think we'll have a bit of a problem with that. i can do a manly voice but not a manly walk. ;D
oopsie, the English spelling is Genie. my bad.
more beer! always welcome! love the glasses, too!
Dave, i'm telling Lizzie! Lizzie, did you read that?!? Dave hates Once and Glen Hansard and your taste in curtains! ...oh, different movie. hey, go back and read the part where i say the soundtrack rocks and the movie appeals to the part of me who loves Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. clearly you haven't found your inner Buffy, hrrmph! ;p
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Amber, i am so sure you're the only in this room who has actually read fairytales as a child. please explain to Mike what a genie is and to Scott what to do with the beans. and to Dave who Buffy is. ;d
honey, if i'm writing your life story, i better tag along to the shows with you. because that sort of precious, priceless experience, i so can not fake with nice words. so where are we off to next?
stickmangrayson, hey there, thanks, best wishes for 2008 back atcha! (8
Scott, i am looking at that list and thinking, o lord your family must really hate me for increasing your feeling-blue moments tenfold. but there's bits of discoeey tunes so we're good.
why’s everyone complaining about the donkeys, huh? the others just got a wall clock, for chrissakes. {:
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uh..yeah...about that wall clock...
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genie: give you 3 wishes
bean: you plant them and climb up to visit stinky giants
Buffy: the chick who played Daphne in the Scooby movies, who kills vampires and struggles with 20-something angst.
Next would be Nada Surf acoustic followed the next day by one of only four shows in an abbreviated Decemberist tour. Shall we carpool?
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Hmm. Good point. That would not work. (see, that is why you are the brains behind the operation) Plan b. You can play the leading lady!
Genie! got it. I know what that is! Thanks. I will have to think about my wishes. Can they be for anything?
I am excited to ride my Donky to work tomorrow!
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You're one of my "phattest of 07" and the icky excess of love and joy goes a long way with me! The kind of thoughtfulness coming from a middle child "who gives a fuck", really gives me warm and fuzzy feelings.
You’re a fantastic writer, music advisor, picture taker, buddy, mogger and…a beautiful middle child with long silky black hair. Thank you for being here Ilay!
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Scott, i asked for a factory replacement especially for you. (:
Amber, "one of only four shows in an abbreviated Decemberist tour" - ohhh, put me inside your luggage pleaseee.
Mike, i promise you can wish for anything but i need the donkey back (see next line).
Helen, i just took all the donkeys back from these other silly people, you and Amber can halve them. (: ps- my sisses have shampoo-commercial hair so they're still one over me. ;D
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hey now! I did not complain about the donkey. I have been a good boy. Please let me keep my donkey. What if I use one of my wishes to keep the donkey?
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Happy New Year Poe... (from another middle kid)
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Fat and Good? I'm never talking to you again. :)
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Mike, aw when you put it that way, fine, you get Colin's donkey - he goes to the blacklist.
Van, yay, middle kids! we rock!
Colin, i see we've got ourselves a complainer. see 2 lines above, and you get red ants next year.
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No, please, I promise I'll be good...give me my donkey! I really want a donkey!
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Colin. You may have messed up. You had forgotten the golden rule. NEVER insult the person that gifts you a donkey. You must feel like a real ass.
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Colin. If it makes you feel better, I will tattoo a shamrock on the donkey's bum.
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Flux - That ass is mine now (eh hem...the donkey, people!)
Mari G...You should just brand the donkey...you know the hot iron stamp thing. Come to think you should get a shamrock brand for Flux & yourself too, I'd love to see that!
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for me? why me? I will brand my ass with a shamrock.....after you brand yours! THAT SHIT WOULD HURT!!! Jesus woman are you crazy!!!!
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Women can take the pain. I think I could take a quarter sized shamrock. Bam Margera stamped his behind with the image of a man's goods. They missed the first time so they did it 3 times in a row around the same spot...Ouch!!! So a little shamrock can't be that bad...?
Okay I guess it's crazy but it sure would be amusing! I think the other ladies would love to see it too... ; )
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I forgot to mention what a lovely song this is and for this post. (playing every time I enter) : )
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Ilay, can you take away SunnyD's donkey? I think she is talking out of her ass.
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look at all you folks looking a gift ass in the mouth. Did you learn nothing from those Trojans? Am I getting my mythologies mixed up? Is Orlando Bloom somewhere around here and can I have _him_ instead of a donkey? Questions, questions, questions...
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oh me, oh my. so this is what happens when someone gives away free ass for xmas. (and mix them up with Trojans - nice one, A!) lesson learned; next year i am simply distributing Chinese stress balls ...wait...
H, that Bam Margera is one crazy dude. i'd like to hang out with him sometime.
A, as far as i'm concerned, you can have Orlando Bloom. (yeah, i think i can give anything away.)
M & C, be happy with your donkey. it will serve you well.
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Guys, I couldn't fit _another_ shamrock on my ass. & I concur with H, 'tis a lovely song, not a million miles from Nick Drake.
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Thanks Ilay...I'll take Orlando and not share...I'm not sure there's enough of him to go around anyhow. I'd prefer Mr Depp, but that's another movie and not sure how I can work pirates into the donkey conversation.
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fluxy, yet another occasion when i don't know what to say.
amber, there's never enough orlando. if johnny's joining, i'll have to be in that movie.