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i am: 40...a capricorn / moon in pisces / libra rising...an old soul with a young spirit...older than i look...contemplating my 3rd tattoo...NOT a web designer...a lesbian...working things out with the g.f....a native iowan...a graduate of cornell college and ohio state...a critical reader and thinker...really rather shy...agnostic...an ardent feminist...a bleeding-heart liberal...a pacifist...and so not your average white grrl...
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September 25, 2003
everything's gone greenprobably the coolest thing i've bought for myself lately is retro, new order's 4-disc boxed set. the content of each disc was chosen not by the bandmembers themselves, but by people they know in one way or another. in the intro to the accompanying book, stephen morris spells it all out:...I like the fact that our box set has been handed over to other people, because it's the only way anything would have got done. And this way there's something for everyone at Christmas.
John McCready's CD ("FAN") is for the snotty nephew who didn't get the trainset he wanted, but a sweater instead. He'd console himself with John McCready.
Obviously, the frustrated housewife would go for Mike Pickering ("CLUB"): not been out clubbing in awhile, get a groove going while doing the dishes.
Granny would go for Miranda [Sawyer]'s ("POP"), she can hum along, cos she'll know them already, everyone a winner.
And Bobby [Gillespie]'s live one ("LIVE") would be for the getting-slightly-tubby ex-football hooligan. i guess i'm the snotty nephew, 'cause FAN—featuring songs that you only know if you were listening to the whole album tape cd—is definitely my favorite. as much as i loved tearing up the floor of the club back in the day, to favorites like "the perfect kiss," "bizarre love triangle," and "blue monday"...and as cool as the CLUB disc's remixes of the latter, as well as songs like "fine time," are...my own favorites were always the "b-sides": "your silent face" and "everything's gone green," especially.
anyway, i'm loving this set. i'm not sure it makes much sense that 80s electronic pop can evoke such strong emotions, but then...i've always been at least a little bit left of center.
3:34 PM
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