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.
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― marissa marchant, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Clay (cws), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― marissa marchant, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Apparantly, she's right!
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:36 (nineteen years ago) link
"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.
― Give me a fucking break, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Give me a fucking break, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Time motherfucking machine - BOOOOOOOYAAAAA!
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link
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!
― eedd, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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?
― The architect of the anti-talent movement (Tweekers), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― you will be shot (you will be shot), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― The architect of the anti-talent movement (Tweekers), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― marissa marchant, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marissa Marchant, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
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)
― declan zimmerman, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lindsey Rutherford, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reggie, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― michael burble, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:41 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:55 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
To my delight, she will rant again soon though.
― marissa fan, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
x-post
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:30 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Land Ho (dymaxia), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
And I don't???
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:30 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
Marissa OTM.
― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link