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But still, she isn't responding to what's being said by people here. She's using this as a platform to say the same thing she's famous for saying (i.e. the current state of the music and entertainment industry sucks, and her music is made BY A VIRTUOSO, therefore is worth $1000 per CD).

The whole thing is a joke to me. I like the joke. Some people on this thread are asses (ILM has asses - shockah), and some weren't. She hasn't ackowledged much of either. Just ranting. Unprompted.

Now I'm making the same points over an over.

She doesn't even take the praise...she just goes from delivering her one dimensional speech to saying "suck my dick" and back to the one dimensional speech.

If she actually cared about what she was saying (ie prasing those who like obscure music), she'd quickly see that ILM is FILLED with obscure music threads.

The bottom line: she's either a character, or incredibly negative and obstanate person (possibly crazy, yes). All while some (many) ILM'rs are assholes.

I'm at least trying to make sense of it rather than taking sides while ignoring everything on the table.

Apparantly, she's right!

"No passion, no romance..no beauty.
we are living in such a bland time in history."

yeah, tell that to the fucking serf 600 years ago whose life consisted of starving to death while he tried to farm unfertile land and dodge the plauge.

plenty of people live passionate, romantic lives now. most of them have either money or talent. you and i have neither. at least im not bitching about it you fucking slag. go choke down a bottle of unisom.

i mean, my god, how STUPID are you? speaking of myself, do you know how many hours i spend reading obscure books or how much disposable income i spend on music or literature? or just how many people are just like me in this respect? sometimes i think finding some new work to appreciate is one of the only things to truly live for. and what makes me different from you? I REALIZE IM NOT ALONE! im one in a fucking million snobs, give or take a thousand! you, my delusional cow, are the epitome of everything i ever hear in conversation i despise.

ohh the government/corporation is keeping us down! god how boring. BORING BORING BORING. its always been that way, and always will be. but dont say people are apathetic about art, because we aren't. we are apathetic about the bland gasps and pathetic postures you call music.

Hi Marissa.
I hope things are okay with you.
Why don't you do a gig somewhere? If you did, I'd come and so would a lot of other people. I can't speak for them, but I'd pay a small cover charge to see you play and promise to be respectful. I still occasionally listen to your music. Try not to care so much about what other people think about you; it tends to be counterproductive.
Anyway, best of luck. Let us know when you're playing live in NYC.

Time motherfucking machine - BOOOOOOOYAAAAA!

I am a Marissa fan. She is entertaining on many levels.

The conflicting logic alone is the ubiquitous feature, and people take the bait she lays out. They are part of the act that I am entertained by.

What's the debate? Some boo-hoo about the nature of this thread, yet don't seem to understand the nature of this thread. That is what I've been addressing.

wow! watch out, yr approaching Billy Corgan-esque levels of self-importance, here...

it's a nice idea, hopefully a contagious one. alas, this is not be, mainly due to the fact that people LOVELOVELOVE 'rehash'. if it's a challenge to understand or makes people think 'hard', it get the nay-no, mah daimie.

i'm not frail! i'm just undernourished...

this thread is begining to take over the DMB place as most-awesome-est thread i've been privy to witness!

lindseyflower asks "is she nuts?"

Lindsey is Marissa.

http://colomar.com/Shavano/AE/index.php?name=Robin

Robin is also Marissa.

Which part of hoax is failing to come across?

John and I are at least two people on this thread who already have stated that we want to desperately support you.

Please help us.

It seems also true that you want to believe no one will support you, at least no one on the net.

My two bits: Don't let worrying about what people think interfere with the far more important and pleasurable work of making music.

Slandered and maligned? You have lots of good company e.g. John Lennon for starters.

However, I must admit this has been an entertaining thread. Maybe this is your true calling.

Whatever you do, enjoy it. "Those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter." (T. Geisel)

Gulp...erm... I think we're getting somewhere...

Press water out of quilt. Use towels to blot more water out. Lift the quilt on the screen (textiles are at their weakest when wet) and lay the quilt flat to dry...either on top of a clean sheet laid on the floor or outside. If you are putting the quilt outside to dry, cover the top with another sheet so that nothing falls on the quilt. Inside, put a fan on the quilt. After the top seems dry, turn it over and let the back side dry.

Marissa, there isn't a single person on this board that doesn't agree with you, yet most of them still feel your music to be a bit bland; perhaps a retread of Loreena McKennitt's stuff from the very early '90s but with less flair still. You've also found yourself in the very unenviable position of swimming in a pool of sharks, and we're often just waiting to rip a poor little seal to shreds... why? Because we're a bunch of strong-opinioned pricks (sometimes) who like to really get at the root of how music and culture affect one another. The truth is, most of us have nothing to do with the music industry, at least from a major-label angle, (some are journalists, but we're hardly part of the "industry" per se) and contrary to what you might think about how we "support" artists and art, we actually fucking love music so deeply (it is called I Love Music after all) that we're just basically insulted when crap artists foist their junk onto us and call it music and then demand certain respect for their less-than-worthy output. (search threads for the name Michael Costello... we just couldn't seem to kill that kid... good sport, he is, and i think many of us have grown to like him around!)

Despite the fact that I, and many of us here, find your songs to be incredibly tired and completely the antithesis of what challenging, kicking-against-the-pricks music should sound like (believe it or not, that's what we're really trying to get at), I'm sure that with all the ravenous music consumers on the net there is indeed a place for you where you will find a supportive fanbase. But if it hasn't yet dawned on you, the I Love Music board just isn't that place. When it comes to promoting yourself, it would serve you well to do a bit of research before you put your name out there and when you do put your name out there, recognize that you'll never be able to control what happens to it once you have.

To my delight, she will rant again soon though.

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Does anyone else notice a creepy common thread in all the mideival imagery chosen for this slide show?

P. Wheelie OTMFM.

Marissa - more, please.

This is the digital tongue lashing we've had coming for A LONG TIME!

bring the fuckin' pain, I say.

PappaWheelie OTM!

And I don't???