Defend the Indefensible - Alanis Morissette

how have i never seen this thread before

"You live you learn, You love you learn, You cry you learn, You lose you learn, You bleed you learn, You scream you learn." You just don't hit your boyfriend in the face with a plate. But, you learn.

^ lol @ this

http://www.poynter.org/2016/alanis-morissette-is-taking-over-molly-ringwalds-advice-column/391110/

Many people in dire need of help and possibly even contemplating suicide will be now be jolted out of their emotional paralysis as they scurry off in search of thesauruses.

She's now an advice columnist for the Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/09/alanis-morissette-queen-alt-rock-guardian-advice-columnist

if only someone had mentioned that sooner

Oops :s

hehe

Dear Alanis: it rained on my wedding day. What literary device best describes this situation?

Dear Alanis: My boyfriend has left me for someone who I suspect will suck him off in a movie theater. What is the proper way to communicate my displeasure with this state of affairs?

Never seen so many "Removed by moderator" in the comments section.

Wait - Molly Ringwald had an advice column?

my wife and i honeymooned in oct on the central coast of ca and stayed for a couple nights at the esalen institute in big sur. alanis was there and teaching a workshop called 'hurtling toward wholeness'. we didn't attend any of her workshops but did dine with her at the communal dinners. she's lovely and thoughtful and wise.

I thought you were kidding until I googled "esalen institute alanis." Wow. Perhaps one day she'll create an ingenious ad campaign for Coke.

so I guess she has a brother named Wade who is a yoga master!! this video is redonk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A16YQm_tqjI

this whole thing is hilarious but i laughed the hardest at 'wade morrissette' for some reason

I hear her more now than ever, pretty much daily--she seems to have replaced the Guess Who as every milquetoast Canadian radio station's default Cancon (on whatever the proper name is right now for Top-40/AOR/Boomer stations). "Ironic," "Hand in Pocket," and "Thank You," mostly--at least I've been spared "You Oughta Know."

What a terrible trade.

You Oughta Know that you made me imagine 1970-era Burton Cummings singing that song.

Burton has a light touch next to Alanis: "You Oughta Know" would need Rare Earth or Blood, Sweat & Tears or the Ides of March.

OK, it's not necessary to bring out the big guns.

Actually, I was never bothered by her vocal affectations - they seemed a lot more playful and eccentric than the oversouling of Clayton-Thomas or Joplin.

I’ve been in a room with her twice (once professional, once incidental). She seemed cool both times.

One can't say that about Burton Cummings.