Saturday, June 26, 2010
While I'm standing here I don't keep score
BANGLES: Hello from the Bangles, we are here, are you?
QUESTION: What song do you feel best showed your talents as a group vocally and musically?
BANGLES - Debbi: I think "Hazy Shade of Winter." It gets to the whole group vocal thing. It's a rocking tune.
QUESTION: I heard that the new record is delayed because there is no record deal. Is this true and what is the ETA for a new record?
BANGLES - Vicki: It hasn't been delayed. We're putting things in motion and will have a recording in October.
QUESTION: You used David Lindley on two of your albums. What is your opinion of him as a musician and a person?
BANGLES - Michael: He was on Everything. Which doesn't mean he was on everything. Everything the album.
BANGLES - Vicki: David Lindley was fabulous. And I got to play his Mando-Cello.
QUESTION: I just want to say that I love all four of you ladies!!!! And do you plan to release a single soon for those of us that can't wait for your new album to come out? Like maybe "Get The Girl?"
BANGLES: Thank you.
BANGLES - Susanna: Probably nothing before January.
BANGLES - Vicki: And we love you too, you also can log onto http://www.hob.com/ and get something to tide you over.
QUESTION: How did the VH1 special help heal your wounds?
BANGLES - Susanna: Our wounds had already healed by that point.
BANGLES - Michael: That was for the viewing audience.
QUESTION: Your music style has changed over the years, from the garage rock to more Top 40. What would you say your style is like on your new songs?
BANGLES - Debbi and Susanna: Back to the roots.
BANGLES - Michael: We're back in the garage, but it's a posh garage.
QUESTION: What is your favorite cover song to sing?
BANGLES - Susanna: My personal favorite is "To Sir With Love". That's the first one that came into my mind, there are millions I love to sing.
BANGLES - Vicki: "Some of Shelley's Blues."
BANGLES - Susanna: That's a great song... Woo hoo! I think we should talk like this all the time
QUESTION: With a new album, in what ways are things different, and in what ways are things the same as they ever were.
BANGLES - Vicki: We don't know, we'll have to find out.
BANGLES - Susanna: We're happier now.
BANGLES - Vicki: I think people who like Bangles music in the 80s will be very pleased with us.
BANGLES - Susanna: We have more confidence.
BANGLES - Vicki: She said unconfidently, LOL.
BANGLES - Susanna: We have more awareness, a new attitude.
BANGLES - Vicki: Not a nude attitude, a new attitude.
QUESTION: My favorite bands are Queen, XTC, Depeche Mode, Moody Blues, Abba, The Bangles, Jellyfish, and a Czech band called X.E.T. What are your favorite bands? To all four of you.
BANGLES - Debbi: Great Choices. How about the Beatles, The Byrds, Zeppelin, The Continental Drifters?
BANGLES - Susanna: You didn't say the Bangles.
QUESTION: I saw you girls at your very first reunion show at Spaceland. What was that experience like? The crowd was really loving you guys!
BANGLES - Vicki: We were loving the whole night. We had a great time. It was a little rough, but we had a great time.
QUESTION: What did all of you think of the VH1's Behind The Music?
BANGLES - Debbi: It was very interesting. It's kind of interesting to see your life in fourty-five minutes.
BANGLES - Michael: It was kind of uncomfortable. I actually started breaking out in red spots.
BANGLES - Vicki: It was sort of like therapy in front of a camera.
BANGLES - Susanna: I was relieved when I saw it because I too felt some stress about it
BANGLES - Debbi: Baring your soul.
BANGLES - Susanna: Yes.
QUESTION: Michael, your songwriting ability seemed to grow by leaps and bounds from the first to the third Bangles album. "Glitter Years" is my favorite Bangles song. Was there any friction concerning the number of songs per album that each band member got? How were the songs that made the albums chosen?
BANGLES: It was kind of interesting trying to work that out. We all started growing at the same time and there was only so much space on the album. It was a little tricky.
QUESTION: I have heard you play Plimsouls music before your shows. Did you ever play with them in the early 80's? What was your opinion of them as a band?
BANGLES - Debbi: I like the Plimsouls.
BANGLES - Michael: I used to see them all the time in little old places like the Londoner.
QUESTION: Is there any musician that you would like to work with that you have not had the chance?
BANGLES - Susanna: I think it would be fun to do something with Chrissie Hynde. And Patti Smith, I really like Patti Smith. I met her two years ago and she was very very nice.
QUESTION: This is for Susanna. Are you ever going to release your third solo album?
BANGLES - Susanna: No plans at the moment to work on that. Basically I'm focusing 150% of my musical energies on the Bangles. Yahoo!
QUESTION: Who would the Bangles like to open up for them on tour next year?
BANGLES - Debbi: The Rolling Stones, LOL. Led Zeppelin.
BANGLES - Susanna: How cool that would be.
QUESTION: What music is in your stereo right now?
BANGLES - Susanna: Travis.
BANGLES - Vicki: Soundtrack to Virgin Suicides, Jules Shear's new album.
BANGLES - Susanna: Vicki is very cool.
BANGLES - Michael: My CD player got dropped at the awards.
BANGLES - Debbi: I have a three year-old son and I think I have Teletubbies and Blues Clues. He does like "I Want Candy" :).
QUESTION: Your early work was heavily influenced by surf music and I thought it gave your sound more of an edge. Do you still try to incorporate "surf" into your sound?
BANGLES - Vicki: Not consciously. The surf element is certainly subliminal.
BANGLES - Susanna: But I hope we keep the edge. But I think "Bitchin' Summer" is our real surfing song. It was an instrumental with some background music and a "Slinky" solo. LOL.
QUESTION: What was it like performing in the bars and clubs when you first started out as a band?
BANGLES - Michael: Sweaty and smoky and lots and lots of fun.
QUESTION: Hey girls, it's Melissa from Southern California. With the HOB Tour going on right now and the new album, will you be doing a bigger tour within the next year?
BANGLES: 2001 we think. The Bangles will definitely be touring in 2001 in support of the new record. Unless Vicki is on tour with the Drifters (she said sarcastically, with edge in her voice).
QUESTION: There are so few female-oriented acts on the road and included in recent package tours. Do you feel that "Lilith Fair" was a help or a hindrance towards getting further recognition for women in the music business?
BANGLES - Susanna: I say it was good. It's always good when artists are heard.
BANGLES - Vicki: I think that Lilith Fair reached its goal, which was to prove that women could sell concert tickets. That needs to be underlined. I wish there were more bands consisting of women entirely. There aren't that many of them.
BANGLES - Michael: It's strange, because we're (women) fifty percent of the world, there should be more of us in bands.
QUESTION: I saw you guys perform on a swaying overpass one time. Where was the most unusual place the band ever performed?
BANGLES: That one. You remember that. That person must be in Houston.
BANGLES - Susanna: That lives in our mind in infamy.
BANGLES - Vicki: My favorite part was the structural engineer running away.
BANGLES - Susanna: Beware of strange radio promotions where they put you on top of a freeway that's not opened yet, with 10,000 people jumping up and down.
BANGLES - Michael: That was almost the last Bangle show he or she was at.
QUESTION: At what point in the recording process do you lay your harmonies down and who arranges it?
BANGLES - Susanna: We arrange it. We do our own vocal arrangements and that comes after the song has been sketched out.
BANGLES - Vicki: We often have the background vocals figured out before we go into the studio.
BANGLES - Susanna: It's one of the most fun things to do actually. It's easy for us, the concept of four part harmonies is second nature. We kind of hear parts automatically, we just fall in eighty percent of the time without planning. It just stacks up. It's true. It comes out very naturally for us.
QUESTION: Hello, Michael. I'd like to know what brand and gauge of strings you use on your P-Bass and what is that little ellipse on the pick guard? Thanks.
BANGLES - Michael: Those are like mid-70's T-Basses. The sticker is something I got off a banana in a supermarket and it says irregular. And the bass is irregular. It's really ugly. Gauge is medium light, half medium, half light of gauges.
QUESTION: Do you feel confident about competing with the hip-hop/Britney Spears/boy band markets?
BANGLES - Vicki: There's no competition.
BANGLES - Susanna: What competition?
BANGLES - Vicki: We're not pretending to be sixteen. It's not really a condition.
BANGLES - Debbi: We're older and wider.
BANGLES: (Wild Laughter) We mean wiser.
QUESTION: Hey girls, this is Melissa from Southern California. I heard you on KROQ 106.7 here in Los Angeles today and you all seemed very excited to be back together making music. How did you all come together once again after you had your differences from the first time around?
BANGLES - Vicki: Watch Behind the Music and you'll get all the info.
BANGLES: We got back together to start writing songs and we've progressed very slowly and we're very happy to be doing this.
QUESTION: Will you ever put out a live album? Maybe after this HOB tour or next years full tour?
BANGLES: That would be totally cool. We've talked about it. It's always been a fantasy of ours.
BANGLES - Debbi: At some point we will. It would be fun. We could do our "Live from Budakan" album.
BANGLES - Vicki: Live from Bakersfield.
QUESTION: Have you ever visited Return Post, the best Bangles message board ever?
BANGLES - Vicki: Yes.
QUESTION: Are you going to tour Europe?
BANGLES - Debbi: We hope to next year.
QUESTION: Are you doing any new covers?
BANGLES - Vicki: Kind of, but we don't want to give it away.
QUESTION: What is your favorite Bangle moment on record?
BANGLES - Susanna: When we opened for Queen. I think we all agree that "Hazy Shade" is one of our favorite singles. I think winning the BPI Award and being on stage with Peter Gabriel, Eric Clapton, meeting George Martin. That was in London.
QUESTION: Did you gals really record in the nude? Or is that just a rumor?
BANGLES - Debbi: No, not this again.
BANGLES - Vicki: We only recorded stark naked.
BANGLES - Michael: We're naked now.
BANGLES - Debbi: You should see us now.
QUESTION: How big an influence are/were the Continental Drifters on the new Bangles songs?
BANGLES: I have to say we're influenced in some ways because we're gonna record "The Rain Song" which they did, but we managed to Banglify the song nicely.
QUESTION: Susanna, I read somewhere that you were asked to play the role that Chrissie Hynde had on Friends, any chance of any of you doing something like that?
BANGLES - Susanna: Debbi and I both were in the line-up sitting out in the hallway of the "Friends" casting office. I think they were looking for a backup in case Chrissie didn't come through. We were both called down to the "Friends" casting office. I visited there one other time. I didn't like it.
QUESTION: How was the experience in Japan and how did they react to being mentioned in "Walk Like an Egyptian"?
BANGLES - Susanna: They never said anything. The collective "They."
BANGLES - Michael: We never got any comment from the Japanese or the Egyptians. We heard from the police. They liked it. They were in the donut shop. They liked it. Even though it was a stereotype.
QUESTION: Do you support Napster, and music piracy?
BANGLES - Vicki: Music Piracy, hmm... It's a difficult realm to regulate. I support the idea of sharing music between friends but this gets into some dangerous territory here.
QUESTION: Is "Eternal Flame" based on any thing of importance to any of you?
BANGLES - Michael: Actually, the story of "Eternal Flame" is cool. We all went to Graceland and went to Elvis's grave and next to the grave there was a plastic box with rain water in it.
I asked a security guard what it was and he said it "was the eternal flame." We mentioned that it wasn't burning, and he said "It's a semi-eternal flame". LOL. The spirit of the song was inspired there. Blame it on Elvis. We were there in the trophy room. He had a black belt. I asked if Elvis was really a black belt and they said no, "they just gave it to him."
BANGLES - Vicki: Thanks so much. Sorry we couldn't get to all the questions and look forward to seeing you at Bangles shows. We'll come back and do it again.
Posted at 2:43 PM
Friday, June 25, 2010
If you gotta go you better live your life before you pass away
Platoon outing yesterday :D
Okay yeah so like last year only 8 people went so yeah.
So in the morning me phyllis kaiyan had buke and xiaoyun had debate, so we met up and went to eat ramen at far east! Mine was quite nice, unlike xiaoyun's tasteless fishballs hehe. And yeah wasn't too ex too it was four bucks for mine. OHYEAH and cos lls let us off at 12 instead of 1 we waited for xiaoyun like really really long.
Yup so then we chionged to bugis and then everyone started pigging out like crazy 'cept for xiaoyun and me. Which was pretty amusing cos we went to see the stuff and then WHOA XIAO IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE THEN OUR LUNCH?! Twas pretty cool. Then we went to take neoprints and then it was like damn crazy shan't elaborate.
Then we sat down somewhere and did nothing. Okay, I did nothing. Other than continuously listening to Make A Play For Her Now and Let It Go and Complicated Girl. AND THEN OMG 'I BELIEVE I AM MORE.' It was damn funny. And then suddenly become 'less'.
And then at the end we did neoprints again then xiaoyun and I left. Then we went to get Chewy Junior the blueberry cheese is like superb. And of course I got the double chocolate again.
I LOVE YOU ALL PLATOONMATES.
WLAE. I like this version cos it's so AMUSING. Like how at 1:03/04 some guy throws his shirt at Micki and it hits the mike. (And she almost laughs.) And at 2:43 Micki has an awesome smile. You can also see the kind of connection between Micki and Debbers, which is cool. That bass-drum thing. They were on much better terms and closer wavelengths back then (yeah like DL album before the split). And it's always Mick+Deb and Vick+Sue.
Posted at 10:26 PM
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Why bother making rules you know she will not follow
I approve.
Add as a friend
o_o
Okay, as promised, presenting EVERYTHING:
Complicated Girl, the Bangles. 1988 EP Everything, composed by Michael Steele and David White, performed by Michael.
Something To Believe In, the Bangles. 1988 EP Everything, composed by Michael Steele, David White, Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro, performed by Michael.
Glitter Years, the Bangles. 1988 EP Everything, composed by Michael Steele and David White, performed by Michael.
Happy Man Today, the Bangles. Unreleased, played live in 1987, composed and performed by Michael Steele.
Make A Play For Her Now, the Bangles. 1988 EP Everything, composed by Vicki Peterson and Vinnie Vincent, performed by Vicki.
Be With You, the Bangles. 1988 EP Everything, composed by Debbi Peterson and Walker Igleheart, performed by Debbi.
Some Dreams Come True, the Bangles. 1988 EP Everything, composed by Debbi Peterson and Walker Igleheart, performed by Debbi.
I'll Set You Free, the Bangles. 1988 EP Everything, composed by Susanna Hoffs and David White, performed by Susanna.
Posted at 9:56 PM
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Blood's thicker than water
A post with epic quotes while I think of what to post next.
Or more like, the first few are epic, and the rest are long rambly quotes from a contact about who else but Michael Steele?
"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
Will Rogers
"Burn! Burn! It's funny that we're dying at the same time. It is pretty funny isn't it." "We made an agreement that you would kill them right?" the Michael's parents barbies say.
"Oh my god! Oh my god! I'm so scared! Oh my god! I'm so worried!" the Michael barbie says while laughing.
"They're so alive!" the Sue barbie says to the Micki barbie when her parents are dying.
"Oh my god! They're dying! Please help them. They're dying! No! No! Sue, shut up and help them!" the Micki barbie says to the Sue barbie (who is singing 'I Will Take Care Of You' really terribly) when her parents die.
"Anyway, on that particular night, Doug Haywood had convinced Jackson Browne to come down and see us. After we played, I saw Jackson and Micki sitting at a table, seemingly engaged in a serious conversation. I thought, "Wow, Jackson is hitting on Micki," and he was. But when I talked to her afterwards, I thought she'd be all flattered and excited, and instead, she was going, "Argh, I hate it when guys give you that silent, sensitive look, and don't say anything---how am I supposed to react to that? What am I supposed to do?" It cracked me up."
Andy Robinson
"Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person always lies."
John Q. Tullius
"Meddle not in the affairs of the dragon; for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
Anonymous
"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces."
Judith Viorst
"Therapy is expensive, popping bubble wrap is cheap."
Anonymous
"I don't want to be a musician, I want to be a rockstar!"
V. Peterson
"Michael is one of the best musicians I've ever played with, and I've played with some of the best musicians in the world."
Eric Meade
"The Bangles proved that male groups aren't the only ones that do stupid things on stage: Vicki Peterson and Hoffs seemed to relish tossing their hair, duck-walking and striking corny poses that even heavy metal artists would cringe at.
Steele, on the other hand, exuded a dignified, rock 'n' roll cool that would have made David Bowie proud."
An old concert review
"Another fun fact is that while Micki was the best guitarist in the group, #2 is actually meant to be Debbi. People who knew them were amused and weirded out that the rhythm section were much better guitarplayers than the 'guitarists'."
"Another one I heard is with Make A Play For Her Now.... the story goes is that Micki laid down a quite cool solo for it, and Vick couldn't top it.... so she ended up dragging in Vinnie Vincent late at night to play the 'solo', just because she felt better about having an outsider play the solo than one of her bandmates."
"As for how good a guitarist Micki is, one of the roadies who was with them in the 80s said that she 'could play circles around Sue and Vicki'. They also remembered her jamming on Jimi Hendrix/Led Zeppelin/Cream songs for fun and kicking ass on lead guitar."
"Though speaking of which, one thing I find amusing about Vicki is that she was a cheerleader in high school, while Micki played flute in her school band."
"Just to add to what I was saying about her intelligence, but a roadie who knew the whole band said that while Vicki was quite good at the English lit sort of stuff, Micki was just very intelligent across a very wide range of topics, like that in conversation with people although she was always casual and friendly, she'd also be able to talk about all these subjects (music, books, politics, art, whatever) in heaps of detail and that sometimes people were 'amazed' by her."
"And apparently they did say crap to her sometimes, like teasing her for caring that much about getting things how she wanted them to sound, which they thought was the producer's job. (They prettymuch thought whatever they did was good enough.) Which I think is a ridiculous attitude to have after what they went through with Kahne, but it took them longer than Micki to realise he was a dick anyway. As for the recording at night thing, the others knew about it, but the injoke was that Micki had just happened to have 'insomnia', and Brad had just happened to be in the studio to record her..."
"Another one I heard is that sometimes she'd 'disappear' backstage after concerts, and the others would find her still talking to fans, because she liked getting into proper conversations with them. Yet another person I've heard from remembered that while they were all nice (she met them at an instore), Micki was the only one to give her full eye contact the whole time. To be honest, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say she was less than really nice."
"That's true.... its probably lead to her doing less than she could have with more self-belief, but at the same time it just makes her so human and relatable, you know? And even inspiring in a way...that if you're doubting yourself, you can think, she's so talented and still doubts herself too." (This is like my life inspiration.)
"And for a pointless fact about her looks, that friend I quoted earlier who met her and the band says that she's actually taller than her 'official' 5"8/172cm. She thought that Michael was actually more like 176-178cm, because she (the friend) is 5"7/170 and also wearing boots with a 7cm or so heel, and Michael was barefoot and still as tall as her. :)"
"I'm sure the experiences with labels and assholes like Kim/David didn't help with her esteem issues. I dunno--even though you can't just reading about it makes you just feel like you want to hug her and say 'you know, screw them, you're a great person', or something. And I think she won in the end by never letting these people turn her into something besides her natural self. Though speaking of Kahne, part of it was that she realised he was an asshole before the others did (he flattered them more, and Michael didn't buy it when he tried the same tactics on her), so for a while they thought she was wrong to question him as he was the producer... He also hated her because unlike the others she always insisted on staying in the studio and checking what he was up to, because he preferred the band to just leave him alone so he could do his 'work'."
"As you know, David Kahne was a petty asshole who liked trying to overdub the group with studio musicians when he could, to live up to his wannabe Phil Spector dreams. So this went OK for him with Sue/Deb/Vick, who he got to overdub fairly often on quite a few songs. Unfortunately, his dream got ruined because he wanted to overdub Michael too, but had to give up on it because he couldn't find a studio bassist who could play the parts as well as her."
"Supposedly Vick was even overheard telling someone that what Micki did 'gave the song air'." (About the song 'Let It Go'.)
Shane, Facebook messages
Some of the stuff (hmm, especially the one about Michael being so 'human and relatable') are just so inspirational. I don't know, it's just that she's been through so much and yet turned out an amazing person and never let the setbacks hit her too hard (and hey, she's literally been to hell and back in the music industry).
But okay I'm rambling again.
End post.
Platoon outing tomorrow~after buke!
Posted at 10:54 PM
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Why do your eyes follow me the way they do
Following, the Bangles. 1986 EP Different Light, composed and performed by Michael Steele.
Another one up for 'dark, introspective ballads'.
September Gurls, the Bangles. 1986 EP Different Light, composed by Alex Chilton, performed by Michael Steele.
Walk Like An Egyptian, the Bangles. 1986 EP Different Light, composed by Liam Sternberg, performed by Vicki Peterson, Michael Steele and Susanna Hoffs, in the order of the verses they sing.
I'm only throwing this in cos of Michael. And the fact that she continuously plays bass while singing unlike Vicki/Sue cos the melody is purely bass + drums.
As a sidenote, Manic Monday has a cool bassline.
This is only from Different Light, sadly. D:
I'll try to throw in Everything tomorrow and Doll Revolution the day after. And maybe I'll consider All Over The Place after that.
Posted at 5:43 PM
Friday, June 18, 2010
Sometimes I wish I could
Name 12 characters from any fandom and answer the following questions.(This is in a random order)
1. Midna
2. Ilia
3. Link
4. Zelda
5. Rusl
6. Colin
7. Coro
8. Saria
9. Telma
10. Shad
11. Ashei
12. Ganondorf
Have you ever read a six/eleven fanfic?
That's a first. Colin is a freaking
kid, for goodness' sake!
Do you think four is hot? How hot?
Uh, Zelda in TP is kind of uncool.
What would happen if twelve got eight pregnant?
Seriouslyyyy? Saria is like, I don't know, Kokiri. And Saria + Ganondorf is just not good, considering as they're on the opposite sides (ie trying to kill Link/helping Link)
Do you recall any fics about nine?
Nope, only including.
Would two and six make a good couple?
Ilia and Colin... Um, other than the fact that Colin's a kid, yeah.
Five/Nine or Five/Ten?
Five/Nine. Come on, I hope they aren't gay.
What would happen if seven walked in on two and twelve having s?
Ilia and Ganondorf? Coro would just go like HI WOULD YOU LIKE A LANTERN.
Is there such thing as a one/eight fluff?
OHGODS NO DON'T EVEN THINK OF IT. Saria + Midna = Not possible, or if possible, hell.
Suggest a title for a one/eight hurt/comfort fic.
Unfazed
Make up a summary for a three/ten fic.
Oh. My. God.
What might Ten scream at a moment of great passion?
I'd better not answer this on grounds that I may incriminate myself...!
If you wrote a songfic about eight, what song would you choose?
Uh, Saria? Make A Play For Her Now, I guess.
If you wrote a one/six/twelve fic, what would the warning be?
Midna, Colin and... Ganondorf? Sorry, not possible. Okay, a warning would be: Read at the risk of your sanity.
What might be a good pick up line for Ten to use on Two?
Please. Spare me. "Hi! Would you like to know about the race of sky beings known as the Oocca?"
Cuter Couple: Five/Nine or Ten/Twelve?
Five/Nine. I'm not into homosexuality.
What would six say if they saw eight and three kissing?
Colin: "Wait, when did I get transported six centuries into the past?"
How would you feel if eleven died?
Ouch. Nothing more, nothing less.
Which is a more disturbing pair? One/Four or One/Seven?
Poor Midna, both are bad choices. Again, One/Four is more disturbing cause of the Zelda/Midna homosexuality thing.
Would Four or Nine ever get sad if Twelve got run over by a car?
Hmm. Zelda would have probably been the one trying to get Ganondorf killed and if it was Telma driving she'd probably be like, "Oh, so I killed Ganondorf. Yippee. Big deal."
When's the last time you read a fic about five?
Not specifically, more like including.
(1) and (7) are in a happy relationship until (9) runs off with (4). (1), brokenhearted, has a hot one-night stand with (11) and a brief unhappy affair with (12), then follows the wise advice of (5) and finds true love with (3).
Midna and Coro are in a happy relationship until Telma runs off with Zelda. Midna, brokenhearted, has a hot one-night stand with Ashei and a brief unhappy affair with Ganondorf, then follows the wise advice of Rusl and finds true love with Link.
Um.
1. Midna and Coro are like, um.
2. WTH would she care if Telma runs off with Zelda? Well, other than the fact that she might not have anymore alcohol.
3. Midna and Ashei, nah.
4. Wouldn't you just kill to hear anything about Midna/Ganondorf?
5. How the hell does Midna know Rusl.
So, basically the 'finds true love in Link' is good, because I really can't imagine Midna falling in love with anyone else. I mean, come on, she didn't even interact with anyone else except for Zelda and that just doesn't go well with me (again, the thing about homosexuality).
What title would you give this fic?
What You Thought.
How would you feel if seven/eight was canon?
Coro and Saria? They're like six centuries apart, need I say that again, SIX FREAKING CENTURIES. Of course, I'm not counting in the fact that Saria is a sage but seriously, HOW CAN THIS BEEEEEE.
OHOHOHO I LIKE THIS QUIZ.
I grabbed it off one of my... contacts.
Posted at 8:18 AM
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Yeah, so I stand accused
WARNING:
SKIP THIS POST IF YOU HATE RANDOM BANGLES TRIVIA
Who did the Bangles once jokingly refer to as their "littlest fan"? (Prince)
What celebrity once stalked Michael in a record store, eventually identifying himself to her and declaring that he "just loved" 'Manic Monday'? (HEEHEE)
What Bangle was quoted in 1989 as saying, "Our dudes have to be fairly well-adjusted dudes." (Micki)
What Bangle was quoted in 1987 as saying "Our message is freedom of the individual, which is a basic American right." (Micki)
What Bangle was quoted in 1987 as saying "This is a feminine thing to say, but once we've got our own washer and dryer, we will have made it." (Vicki)
Which Bangles tune (according to a quote from Vicki) is "about something that happens when you're recording, you say 'let me try it again, let me do it again', trying to reach perfection, which is impossible with any human being."
What LA Publication was Vicki referring to when she said: 'Well,there's one sort of rag that you can advertise for anything in,and it's free,and you just,you know,if you need a baboon or a faucet,you know, you can get either! Or a guitar player!' (OHO THE RECYCLER)
Which Bangle is known for doing a Mick Jagger impression that reduces the rest of the band to giggles? (The impersonator, who I wonder...?)
Which Bangles is quoted as saying, "The point is that my own lack of being a macho musician who knows about equipment and how to read music has nothing to do with my being a girl. It has to do with sheer laziness." (The very same one)
What album are the gurls talking about in the following transcript?: Vicki: "We met this really great guy while we were doing it; he produced it." Susanna: "He was kinda like Santa Claus." Vicki: "But he's like a big teddy bear too." Debbi/Michael (in unison): "Yeah." Susanna: "Everyday felt like Christmas." ... Michael: "You're Jewish, Susanna." Susanna: "OK, then like Hannukah." Michael: "Like a great big Hannukah busch!"
What movie can the Bangles reportedly recite line for line, including "dialogue, train noises - everything"?
Which band member was quoted as saying of the Bangles: "there is a sort of performing-flea aspect to it - "let's go and see these weird girls jump up and down..." (Flea circus, Michael. Tsk tsk.)
At their 1987 performance at the Greek Theater, Red Kross dedicated what song to Michael Steele? (Mickey, you know, Tony Basil?)
What Bangle hometown was described by its Bangle as: "An embarrassing place to live. Everything there is named for John Wayne." (Newport Beach)
Of which "Everything" track did Vicki reportedly say "I hope it's a single so that I can wear my platform boots in the video"? (Glitter Years, though you'd never really expect Vicki to wear... platform boots.)
Which Bangle boasted to the press that her Emmy garb only cost her $10?
What late 80's show featured a character named after Susanna, an actor Michael adores, and a theme song by Liam Sternberg?
What kind of stuffed animal was once kidnapped from Debbi's drum kit, and later returned to her, duct-taped to a remote-control toy car?
Which Bangle's pantry cabinets are filled almost entirely with various herbal teas? (Micki, who else?)
Which Bangle said of the band's 2000 sound, "We're back in the garage - but it's a posh garage." (Same one too.)
In a recent interview, Vicki stated that "Glitter Years" made her think of... (Micki as David Bowie -- yes, I think of that too.)
Which Bangle once received an impropmtu haircut from Cyndi Lauper?
In this recording, which Bangle states, "I want you all to remember that the spirit of Christmas is more of a State of Mind ...But it does help when you've got a bicycle for Christmas!
Which Bangle once described her hometown as "a city of rich, conservative people whose children take too many drugs and die in sports cars. Other than that, it's a lovely place" ...? (Newport Beach, now guess.)
What artist was Susanna talking about when she said "I'm such a fan of everything she does. She's a really amazing artist, an amazing singer, writer, player and an incredibly creative person, and I'm looking forward to hearing whatever it is that she comes up with."
Which Bangle did SNL's Father Guido Sarducci publicly profess to having a crush on? (everyone thinks it's Sue but it's actually Micki!)
Of which song did Vicki say "We wrote that together in about a half an hour in the studio. Just ran in, basically locked David in the control room and said. 'Leave us alone. We're doing this one.' We were ail feeling pretty crazy at the time, so we used that as a theme..." (It's pretty cool cause Micki was the first to realized how much he was a control freak wannabe.)
In the DR promo DVD interview, how does Michael describe being coaxed back into performing with the Bangles?
Which Bangle was affectionately known within the band as "the space thing?" (Think David Bowie [A Space Oddity]?)
Retarded, I know. I still laugh over these ones(: (I know, that list's really long. It was too damn fun to stop once I started.)
And then there was one retarded one about I think which 80s star they said was a 'professional flirt' and one of the options was David Kahne. Ohgod. Please. No way.
"Michael Steele did NOT play with which of the following groups?"
You're gonna have to know all her sixteen bands in order to answer that question.
I LIKE THIS.
"What did the Bangles' wardrobe girl make a dress out of to get into the hotel restaurant in Spain?"
Feathers
Album covers
A bedsheet
Michael's hair
The last option is just. Epic.
...
And then the disturbing one (cough ACK)
Which Bangle is quoted as saying: "I like eating Milky Way bars in the shower. If you keep them out of the spray they don't melt, especially if you refrigerate them beforehand. It's the ultimate sensory experience."
You know, I mentioned this before. Michael the disturbing.
Okay, got all that laughter out of my system.
So yeah and seeing another one it just doesn't help. This is like so. Ridiculous.
I'm laughing my guts out, and I don't think anyone will read this but hell whatever!
Posted at 5:39 PM
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
"They lured me out of my cave"
Ouch.
I HAVE ALMOST FINISHED GEOG PT JIAYOU SHERMINE.
Posted at 4:55 PM
Monday, June 14, 2010
When I laugh I still wanna cry
You never seem to care
Okay, so finally an update that's on time! Anyway today was F50. First of all, let me get just one little thing straight.
It stank.
Bad weather, so, guess what, we didn't get to go at all. Marvelous. So yeah, in a really, really bad mood. And we made wishes at 11.11. Like world peace. Reason being I've been listening to El Pollo Loco a couple of times recently And yeah it sort of just struck a chord in me. Another left-wing political statement again.
Posted at 2:55 PM
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Striking one, now have you come for me
Will I be free
Arise in your embrace
Strike like a bird of prey
No fear, no pain
In a finer state of grace
A bird of prey
I still think Michael should have picked to do Bird of Prey instead of Nickel Romeo (cos of Sue's really inappropriate "YEAH" in the middle of nowhere) because it is such an awesome song, no? And seriously, Bird of Prey's a really great song. :D Thank you Shane for sending it to me.
Okay I know I haven't updated in like a million years so spare me okay? I've been really, really busy and I only just managed to fix my keyboard.
So, two things to update -- Silver Wing and Scrabble.
Silver Wing was quite okay I guess, but the sirs were annoying. We were sitting like normally (you know, fists on knees) and then the sirs were like "RGS, you're not in diam!" And it was like, we know right. Ahwell. And then second day reporting they asked us to stand at ease and so we adjusted for like a minute + Michelle's sniffling + my specs. Okay yeah then the sirs came up to us THREE TIMES saying "RGS, we asked the whole course to stand at ease." So kaiyan and I were like HELL YEAH THIS IS OUR STAND AT EASE.
And we came up with jokes so retarded I'll probably get killed if I post them here, so.
And yeah the test was quite okay.
Scrabble was quite, uh. I won all five rounds! Heheh second round was against TEAM 4 o_o which was quite ._. and I was the only one who won. By three points, that's quite weird right? And then for the third game I won by one point whoo. I probably destroyed that girl's straight wins or something. Then lunch was at Macdonalds with our team (Michelle Synth-Di Vanathi Joan) and it was quite. Questionable. Ah well. We didn't win anything.
So yeah that's the watered down version of what's happened. And go check out Bird of Prey. You probably can't find Michael Steele's version anywhere but try searching for Mike Hamilton's version on google first. It is an awesome song, really.
Posted at 7:15 PM
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Strike like a bird of prey
HEY!LOOK!
LISTEN!
Okay, sorry that was random.
Happy birthday Michael Steele!
Posted at 4:37 PM
RetroFest -- The Nostalgia!
Aha, the reason why I'm not posting recently is because:
1) The keyboard is screwed.
2) I'm sending out really long emails about... I bet you can guess, Sinead.
Okay then I'll post when I feel like it so!
Posted at 8:17 AM
