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Keith Kisser
04/06/09

In reply to PJ Harvey Not Actually Crazy Wailing Banshee
This is a pretty typical attitude most creative types get at some point. It's the same thing as writers being asked if they have any of the eccentric or villainous personality traits of their characters ("That Stephen King guy must be creepy!"). Mostly it's because the people asking the stupid questions are unimaginative and simply don't understand that the creative impulse is based on what-if scenarios and make believe, rather than simply documenting the running monologue in our heads, which these fools obviously do and pass it off as journalism.
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aspiringexpatriate
04/07/09

@Keith Kisser: Uh, I kinda think that once you start writing it, it becomes part of your inner monologue, which is why it gets so fucked up in there. Actors might suffer it worse than any other creative, as they solely dedicate themselves to one alternate personality for an extended period of time.
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The Queen of No
04/06/09

In reply to PJ Harvey Not Actually Crazy Wailing Banshee
She's one of the few artists that puts out albums that I love consistently. SHE is so consistent, yet none of her albums sound even remotely similar. It's almost like she becomes inhabited by a different Goddess for each album. I am endlessly fascinated by her and I can't get enough.

I guess it goes without saying that her new album collaboration with John Parish is so. fucking. good.
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goodcheapfun
04/06/09

In reply to PJ Harvey Not Actually Crazy Wailing Banshee
So she's acting her music? I have always thought music (when written by a singer/songwriter) was deeply personal (if it speaks of personal topics). If it's just an act it's just a fraud.
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The Queen of No
04/06/09

@goodcheapfun: Then you'd probably be severely disappointed by how many extremely famous and talented popular artists do just that-- create characters and sing/perform from their point of view.
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mysterygirl
04/06/09

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It would be awesome if we did this for all professions: "I saw my UPS guy at the gym today, and he wasn't wearing brown!! And he didn't ask me to sign for anything!"
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toastandlove
04/06/09

In reply to PJ Harvey Not Actually Crazy Wailing Banshee
This reminds me of Sir Ian McKellan on Extras.

"Case in point: Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson comes to me in New Zealand and said to me: Sir Ian, I want you to be Gandalf the Wizard. And I said to him: You are aware that I am not really a wizard? And he said: Yes, yes, I want you to play a wizard. If we were to draw a graph of my process, of my method, it would be something like this: Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian, action, wizard "You shall not pass!", cut. Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian. "
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mysterygirl
04/06/09

@toastandlove: Oh my god, one of my friends and I go around saying "Sir Ian Sir Ian Sir Ian" all the time. Perfect analogy.
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Lolita Hazed
04/06/09

@toastandlove: YOU! SHALL! NOT! PASS!
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truckerjones
04/06/09

In reply to PJ Harvey Not Actually Crazy Wailing Banshee
It's the same with Marilyn Manson. Way back in the day he did an interview on MTV with a kid who loved his music and the kid's horrified parents and by the end, Manson was so polite and well-spoken that the parents came around and said he wasn't so bad and their kid could keep listening to him.
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AuntieBee
04/06/09

@truckerjones: although I bet the kid wasn't that interested once his parents approved.
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boxspelunker
04/06/09

@truckerjones: I do love that about him. He's always polite and pleasant to people, despite his stage personality.
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bowleserised
04/06/09

In reply to PJ Harvey Not Actually Crazy Wailing Banshee
There's a Kristin Hersh quote somewhere where she points out that people seem to think that men are screaming because they're in rock and roll ecstasy, but women in rock only scream because they have PMT and are loopy.
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whynotshesaid
04/06/09

@bowleserised: Yeah, and when men scream, they are rocking out and kicking ass, but when women scream, it sounds like Mom yelling at you for not making your bed.
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Beat Girl
04/06/09

In reply to PJ Harvey Not Actually Crazy Wailing Banshee
In the (naive) journalist's defence, she did used to act crazy, what with all that heroin and such. And she is REMARKABLY quiet.
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Ms. Crankypants
04/06/09

@Beat Girl [formerly Miss Carrie Nation]: I feel terrible, but I'm bored out of my mind studying, so please, do tell more.
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KRS10
04/06/09

@Beat Girl [formerly Miss Carrie Nation]:

as far as i know, she never had a heroin problem. and even if she did, i doubt she would talk about it. pj is notoriously private.

she did, however, suffer a nervous breakdown or two after her first couple of albums.
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Beat Girl
04/06/09

@KRS10: She spoke about at least trying heroin when she was with Nick Cave. I can't profess to know a lot about it, because I really don't figure it that big of a deal, but it's been said.
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tscheese
04/06/09

In reply to PJ Harvey Not Actually Crazy Wailing Banshee
As far as I know, Rick Astley has never actually given up on anyone, let anyone down, or run around, or deserted them, made them cry, said good bye, told a lie, or hurt them.

Based on this incontrovertible and highly evidence-based research, basically I call shenanigans.
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haguenite
04/06/09

@tscheese: DID YOU JUST VERBALLY RICK-ROLL US?!
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anonanimal
04/06/09

@tscheese: I'll go get my broom.
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BabyJane
04/06/09

@haguenite: SHE DID!!!
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hfree
04/06/09

@tscheese: This is the very definition of WELL PLAYED! I bow to your genius.
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tscheese
04/06/09

@haguenite: YES WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU HOW I'M FEELING!
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BabyJane
04/06/09

@tscheese: YOU KNOW THE RULES AND SO DO I!
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rednrowdy
04/06/09

@tscheese: gotta make you understand!
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YourScreenplaySucks
04/06/09

In reply to PJ Harvey Not Actually Crazy Wailing Banshee
I don't understand it either. When I met PJ Harvey last year, she was all calm & shit and didn't even start wailing about her dry vagina or dead, drowned daughter. What was up with that?
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Lolita Hazed
04/06/09

@Your Screenplay Sucks: Oh my God I think I love you.
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AnneBoleyn
04/06/09

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I love PJ Harvey because of her song "My Beautiful Leah" whom she describes as having black hair and brown eyes...and my name is Leah, I color my hair dark and have brown eyes...and I'm a narcissist.

And you mean artists perform!? Does Christian Applegate really not have amnesia? Will Hugh Laurie not save my life while being a dick?! And OMG are you telling me Johnny Depp isn't a real pirate?!
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SylvanSylph
04/06/09

@AnneBoleyn: Ack, she did come around here Polly!
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gobblegirl
04/06/09

In reply to PJ Harvey Not Actually Crazy Wailing Banshee
This is like when I met Andrew WK and he didn't have any dried blood on him. What a ripoff. But I punched him in the face; problem solved.
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blackgirlsuperstar
04/06/09

@gobblegirl: I met him a couple of times. He's ridiculously nice. He signed a poster for my friend who couldn't go to his show in NYC (with a completely different message than the one he gave me and my friend from college that I went to the show with), and the other time my college friend and I hung out with him a bit after the show.
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gobblegirl
04/06/09

@blackgirlsuperstar: Legal disclaimer: What you have just read was a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual punches, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

I have never heard anything but nice things about Andrew WK, and have never met him. If I did, I wouldn't punch him, probably.
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boxspelunker
04/06/09

@blackgirlsuperstar: Every time I hear anything about him, he just seems like such a delightful person. He always seems to be doing favors for fans and just being pleasant. I want to go to his concerts just because he seems like a decent person. His music is all right, too :D
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elephantshoes
04/06/09

In reply to PJ Harvey Not Actually Crazy Wailing Banshee
The last PJ Harvey post reminded me that I neglected her in the mid-90's so I bought "Stories from the (I forget)..." straight away. It's been playing in my car every since. Thanks Jez!

Along these lines, my "new" music lately is all old music that I'm finally getting around to -- Stuff that's stood the test of time. I want to seek out truly new, rockin music but I don't think I have the time. There's a lot of crap out there to weed through.
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hfree
04/06/09

@elephantshoes: Oh man. That cd got me through my undergrad thesis. I remember when the computer I was using in the computer lab ate it I was almost despondent and forced the tech guy to fish it out, at like 3am. Good times.
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whynotshesaid
04/06/09

@elephantshoes: "This Mess We're In" always gives me the willies.

You MUST check out "Dry" next, if you haven't already.
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Cellotape
04/06/09

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"with a proper accent" - oh come now.
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Beat Girl
04/06/09

@Cellotape: "Proper" is sometimes a word for 'well-to-do' or well spoken. It depends on the usage.
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Santos L Halper
04/06/09

In reply to PJ Harvey Not Actually Crazy Wailing Banshee
Wait, you mean none of Picasso's subjects had eyes on their clavicles? Magritte's friends didn't have apples for heads?
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