― michael burble, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
This thread is mainly kids seeing one of their own with a broken limb & stomping on the limb repeatedly, presumably to prove to themselves that they themselves aren't lame.
http://www.marissamarchant.com/gigs.html
I don't have a broken limb...I have rarely received attention from American men, but I do get attenion from other men in different countries. There is nothing wrong with me. I think alot of people out there have gone mad. We live in a crazy world of crazy people now. Those of us who are sane don't fit in well. I am looking for men now, in different countries because Amercian seem ignorant, unromantic, and bland.
-- Frogm@n Henry (v...), August 3rd, 2005."Men don't give me attention no matter what I do..."
Gulp...erm... I think we're getting somewhere...
― Cutty Ranks vs. Bill Haley, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
First, I would never wash an antique quilt in a washing machine, at least not one which has an agitator as the quilt will get wrapped around the agitator and will more than likely be ruined.
I would also never wash a quilt containing wool or silk, nor would I dry clean an antique quilt. Wool and silk are especially fragile. Dry cleaners use strong solutions and are more likely to hurt a quilt rather than save it.
Also, there must be no damaged areas--areas where you can see the batting poking out, rips, or places where the dyes (or other things) have eaten through the fabric. These are too fragile to withstand cleaning.
Most quilts in good condition (without damage mentioned above),can be cleaned first by vacuuming. You need to get a screen, fiberglass window screening available by the yard at your hardware store works well. Tape or sew binding on the edges to prevent the sharp ends from pulling threads or snagging the quilt.
Prepare a large table, or the floor by laying down a white sheet. Place the quilt on top, then the screen on top of that. Take a vacuum which is set at the softest suction possible by adjusting the air flow and hold the vacuum OVER the quilt (not directly on it). The vacuum will suck up dirt without pulling up the fibers. The screen helps prevent any damage to the quilt and holds all the fibers down. Vacuum the entire top of the quilt, then turn it over and vacuum the back side. This often is enough.
Some cotton quilts may be cleaned in the following way, but it is important to test the quilt to make sure that the dyes are stable.
Test each of different fabrics as follows: take a try Q tip and rub it over each of the fabrics. IF the color transfers, then it is likely it will run. If it passes this test, then dampen the q-tips and rub it on each of the fabrics. If it comes off onto the q-tip, then it will run.
If you have come this far without it running, then for the discolored spots, you can mix up a solution of non-chlorine bleach, specifically, I would use oh bother...Oxydol? It is in a blue container...and it is a really good addition to your washing...darling daughter is singing in my ear and I am having a hard time remembering. I'll check in the basement later. Spot treat the areas using a spoon or a piece of muslin to tamp it on.
Draw some cold or at most tepid water into the bath tub...put in approx. 2 T of Orvus paste (you can get this at quilt shops, from Clotilde, or from some Livestock supply places (cheapest there....it was originally designed for washing Livestock--it is straight sodium Lauryl Sulfate and is gentlest on your stuff) into about 4 - 5" of water. Buy one of the Woolite or CArbona "dye mops" to absorb dye which leaches in to the water...as a precaution. Lay the screening on top of the water and place quilt on top. Put dye mop on top of that. Pat the water through the quilt, not wringing. continue patting. Do not let the quilt soak as if the dyes go into the water and resettled, that is what contributes to the running of the dyes.
Drain off water, and run cold water through until the water comes off clear and no suds.
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.
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
To my delight, she will rant again soon though.
― marissa fan, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Does anyone else notice a creepy common thread in all the mideival imagery chosen for this slide show?
P. Wheelie OTMFM.
Marissa - more, please.
― yr mom (yr mom), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
This is the digital tongue lashing we've had coming for A LONG TIME!
bring the fuckin' pain, I say.
PappaWheelie OTM!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Land Ho (dymaxia), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
And I don't???
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Marissa
Suck it... suck some wheat grass cubes that is...it is good for your health...frozen wheat grass cubes..
― Marissa Marchant, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Marissa OTM.
― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― marissa marchant, Friday, 5 August 2005 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 August 2005 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 5 August 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― big meany, Friday, 5 August 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― marissa marchant, Friday, 5 August 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Reggie, Friday, 5 August 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Carson Daly, Friday, 5 August 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
sign her up here!
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― marissa marchant, Friday, 5 August 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm playing it cool but it's terribly cruel / Kate (papa november), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Henna Barbara, Friday, 5 August 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― marissa marchant, Friday, 5 August 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Darson Caily, Friday, 5 August 2005 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link
halifax is nice this time of year, but the white snow cone globes never embrace sea shanties echoing through the icy mist, the nicest reminder of why i love you through the thick and thin. warm weather melts my heart into yours and why don't we go together into the new millenium? i never want to see you cry into the microphone again, for it is the silent stare of the moonlight that casts tears in your eyes, as you leave me far behind in the satin sheets of white cloudscover. it is sad, alas, that we live a reality in which highlights magazine is not the highlight, but a new world savage death cult imagery. but rest tightly, marissa, as we all live with you in big flannel empress wax crystals.
love, jerry
― Jerry Atricks, Friday, 5 August 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― marissa marchant, Friday, 5 August 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― you will be shot (you will be shot), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry Atricks, Friday, 5 August 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 5 August 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry Atricks, Friday, 5 August 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― marissa marchant, Friday, 5 August 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 5 August 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― marissa marchant, Friday, 5 August 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Reggie, Friday, 5 August 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― marissa marchant, Friday, 5 August 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Thanks for the LOL, marissa!
― declan zimmerman, Friday, 5 August 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link