Was I just seeing things or was Moby on a commercial for sonicnet.com? I mean him actually, not his music. It was during Rock and Roll Jeopardy (I love that show) and there was also someone like Sisqo or Usher in the commercial. Has anyone else seen this?
-Sara
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So who else watched the MTV thing on Campus Invasion? I didn't know it was going to be on so it was a very nice surprise when I got home, turned on the TV and saw Moby. I thought it was pretty interesting. Mostly because he talked about Christina Ricci and I'm a big Christina fan. So anyway I guess I won't be seeing Moby on this tour because he's not coming anywear very close to San Jose and no one wants to drive down with me to Fresno or San Luis Obispo. Oh well, I'll catch him next time around.
Have a nice night everyone.
-Sara
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Subject: Re: (mobility) another happy Moby question, from the kid who willnever ever ...
Date: 06 Apr 2000 18:40:01 -0700
Ohh, this story is so cute! It made me very happy. It's hard to think of Moby as a normal person sometimes (at least for me) but this just reminds me that he is.
-Sara
>
>On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 KaNgGrrL@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Hehe it's Confession time!! I've been a Moby fan for about 3 years now
>> after i first heard the EIW remixes. Since then i've collected lotsa other
>> albums, singles etc. During my 2nd year at college i introduced my best
>> friend to Moby's music, and she instantly fell in love with it. The second
>> time we saw him perform was in a club w/the band. The first was a dj set at
>> a party. We were completely satisfied with the show, being that we got in
>> the front row and he reached out and grabbed each of our hands. After the
>> show was over we stayed at the club for about 20 minutes and danced to some
>> stuff that the local dj's were spinning. As we decided to leave we walked
>> out of the club and saw Moby signing autographs and meeting fans. We
>> popped in there and as soon as he saw us he opened his arms and we took turns
>> hugging him :) The first words outta his mouth to my friend were * i really
>> like your shirt.* Well he signed our stuff and we all hugged s'more until he
>> left to get on the bus. My friend and i went and sat on the corner of the
>> street, totally shocked. We didn't think the nite could get any better. We
>> sat there in awe in total silence for about 10 minutes. Then he came back
>> off of his bus some gurl jumped on him and started hugging him. All the
>> while he was hugging her he was staring at my friend who was about 20 feet
>> away. He let go of this girl and walked through all these fans and came back
>> up to us. He was VERY shy. He had his hands in his pockets and was kinda
>> lookin down at the ground then back up at my friend. All of a sudden they
>> locked eyes and just started hugging. They both had these huge smiles on
>> their faces!! He asked us our names and all that stuff. They gave each
>> other a few pecks ( i can't remember if lips were involved though). Then he
>> started talking to me and i was all thankin him and stuff and i hugged him
>> again we pecked each other on the cheek (which is something i do a lot).
>> Then he grabbed my friends hands and they were just staring at each other for
>> what seemed like forever!! She told him that she wanted to see him again, and
>> he promised her that she would. But the time soon came that he had to leave.
>> He walked away backwards from here and tripped and almost fell when he
>> reached the curb. hehe we all got a chuckle from that, then he was gone.
>> And that's my story! It most definitely goes down as *one of the best days
>> of my life* chapters. We sit and wonder sometimes if he remembers us sitting
>> on that corner in Pittsburgh, it's doubtful that he does because he's
>> constantly traveling and meeting new people. We like to think he remembers
>> though =)
>>
>> Garnet
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I don't know if anyone cares but I'll tell you this anyway:
If you have digital cable then I think you have chanel 553. The Reverb with Moby and the Super Furry Animals is rerunning from 1:00-2:00 a.m. (pacific time) Sunday 4/9 on channel 553, some HBO channel. Yes that's tonight. Sorry for the short notice. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it would be on again tonight because I missed it before.
There was a review of Play in my school newspaper. I can't remember exactly what it said but the person gave it 5/5 stars.
Well have a nice night everyone.
-Sara
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This time they played The Sky is Broken 4 times. The 1st time was at the very beginning and David Duchovony was dancing along to it. The 3rd time, Scully was seeing herself in a hospital bed and she mouthed to herself "speak to me". There has got to be a serious Moby fan working on that show.
-Sara
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additionally, during the commercial breaks an ad for sonicnet.com featured mr. moby and some other musicians. Moby didn't say much, but held up signs that said "me", and finally his well-known self-caricature.
Anyone living in the Chicago area, Moby is coming in May 20th(heard this today on the radio)-- to do another one of those damn Q101 shows with a whole bunch of other crappy bands like Third Eye Blind, Suicide Machines, Bloodhound Gand and a whole shit load more of them too.
I actually went to the Q101 show in Christmas "Twisted 6", and it wasnt worth it. Moby came on first and I got there late, so I was really upset, paid a lot of money too, but he is coming to Chicago, I wish he would play somewhere like the metro, or somewhere by himselft, I dont know why he keeps
doing these q101 big shows... cause I dont think Ill be paying 32 bucks this time around.....
Hey everyone, there was an interesting bit about Moby in Revolver magazine.
A "psychiatrist" dissected one of Moby's self portraits. I scanned the page
and uploaded it to the URL below. Heh, don't ask why I chose this name:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/blinksex/RevMoby.jpg
I don't think the whole paragraph is there so here it is:
"This is a very dissconnected person. The subject has drawn himself without
arms with which to touch, and there are no people or things in the picture-just a tree. This person is living in a world of his own; a world of the mind. You might say that he's functioning on a different level of consciousness, wrapped up in his music or his thoughts, rather than relating to people or things."
"This person has drawn himself floating in the air, which can be interpreted in a number of ways. If you want to put a positive spin on it, you could say that this picture evokes the wonderful, charming book Jonathan Livingstin Seagull by Richard Bach, in which Jonathan, the seagull, flies up into the sky and is very optimistic and nothing can hold him down. He's a risk taker and he tries lots of things because he isn't afraid. The more negative way of interpreting things is that this individual is floating in the air with nothing holding him up-that's a very precarious position to be in."
"Another interesting thing in this drawing is that the eyes are so big and that they are not the same; one is round and the other is cut off on the side. I wonder what kind of self image this person has and what he sees when he looks in the mirror. Surely he must be very curious-trying to absorb a lot, trying to take the world in anf understand it."
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Hope you enjoyed that.
-Sara
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Hello everyone. I don't know if this has been mentioned, so sorry if it has. I was at rockontv.com and apparently Moby will be on Jay Leno May 5th.
One more thing, I was driving down to Los Angeles, and right before Santa Barbara I think, there was a big sign that said BUSH by the road. I'm assuming it was for the band...no Moby sign though, not that I'm surprised by that.
-Sara
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>at least moby is getting played there...only one station here ventured to
>play natural blues, two played bodyrock, one played wdmhfsb?, and a grand
>total of zero stations played honey or run on. the one station that played
>all three here was independant. i say was, because they were bought out and
>changed formats on friday to a combination of cheesy pop and alternative.
>
I've heard Natural Blues a couple times and Porcelain once on San Fran's modern rock station. Once though, a pretty long time ago, the DJ at KSCU (Santa Clara Uni. station) played the whole Moby tribute album, I think that's what it was. He mentioned that he did one of the songs on it.
Have a nice night everyone.
-Sara
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I was looking around for moby interviews and stumbled across this one from Len. I thought it was interesting because usually people only have good things to say about Moby. I'll just include the Moby part at the top then the rest at the bottom in case anyone cares about Len.
PP: We heard Seattle was our biggest market, but I guess it was the biggest market for "Sunshine" and that was it... At our last show (in Seattle) right after "Sunshine", we played "Feelin' Alright", our new single, and everybody left. And then we got into a fight with Moby...
ME: That was the End Fest, right? I stopped over to get a CD signed and saw you all writing defamatory things about Moby all over the booth...
PP: Yeah. We were very angry at him. He was very mean to us.
ME: Was it anything more than that cigarette incident?
[Author's note: from what I remember, this involves them offering him a cigarette, and him breaking it between his fingers, throwing it away, and leaving in a huff]
PP: Yeah, it was just that mentality. We're just basically cool dudes who hang out with anybody, talk with anybody. We're not perpetrating like "we're a star now", or nothin'. But I guess he feels like he needs to act like that. And that's what really turned us off.
ME: To his credit, though, he has done quite a few albums, this newest one's getting big - and that can probably swell your head some.
PP: Man, but that's bullshit, straight up. Once you start acting like that, everywhere you go, you're going to get trashed.
ME: Alright, who are some bands you think throw out a great vibe - the anti-Moby, if you will?
Stealing Sunshine, Custom Bitches, and the Anti-Stardom Vibe
Interview and photographs by Damien M. Jones
The tiny RKCNDY "green room" is actually red-painted brick covered by red velvet drapes. A couple of worn couches and a table of the basics: bottled water, juices, pita sandwiches. At sound-check, DJ Moves spins the "Steal My Sunshine" breakbeats double-time and the group sings along in chipmunk falsetto. They are a fun band. I was all prepared with group questions and activities, but as it turns out, interviews are done in shifts, during dinner break, and tonight Phil (Planet Pea) draws the short straw.
PP: We heard Seattle was our biggest market, but I guess it was the biggest market for "Sunshine" and that was it... At our last show (in Seattle) right after "Sunshine", we played "Feelin' Alright", our new single, and everybody left. And then we got into a fight with Moby...
ME: That was the End Fest, right? I stopped over to get a CD signed and saw you all writing defamatory things about Moby all over the booth...
PP: Yeah. We were very angry at him. He was very mean to us.
ME: Was it anything more than that cigarette incident?
[Author's note: from what I remember, this involves them offering him a cigarette, and him breaking it between his fingers, throwing it away, and leaving in a huff]
PP: Yeah, it was just that mentality. We're just basically cool dudes who hang out with anybody, talk with anybody. We're not perpetrating like "we're a star now", or nothin'. But I guess he feels like he needs to act like that. And that's what really turned us off.
ME: To his credit, though, he has done quite a few albums, this newest one's getting big - and that can probably swell your head some.
PP: Man, but that's bullshit, straight up. Once you start acting like that, everywhere you go, you're going to get trashed.
ME: Alright, who are some bands you think throw out a great vibe - the anti-Moby, if you will?
PP: Styles of Beyond, for one (the opening act, who are doing sound-check as we speak). They just signed on to the new Dust Brothers label, I Deal Records. We deal with a lot of underground groups. Five of the six members of the group are into underground hip-hop. Taking it back to the original, basic roots - partying, busting rhymes about having a good time. So we try to hang around people who carry that vibe. Even in our everyday life, like when we go back to Toronto. Like Cryptik Souls - that's my crew. Good friends of mine from Toronto. (DJ) Moves, Drunc (ness Monster), Burger Pimp, and Sharon, they're all moving to Vancouver, but my home is Toronto.
[Sharon enters at this point. "Stop talking shit." she scolds playfully. There is some confusion about whose water belongs to whom. Sharon has left the door open, and the soundcheck is deafening. When someone tries to close it, the metal doorjamb twists and bends and ends up crooked.]
ME: This whole room's gonna fall apart.
PP: I guess I'll just talk louder. There's also a group we were just listening to today, from San Francisco called Sacred Hoop. They're fucking amazing. Unbelievable. The Antecon Catalyst, also from San Francisco, transplanted from Maine, they're down. There's a group called Sebutones from Halifax (a Toronto suburb), that are down with us. If you're down with us, we're just gonna bring you up. You're gonna hear, like Goviner Boltz (Burger Pimp's side project) on the next record.
ME: And the obvious question: when might we expect--
PP: The next record? Next summer. We're gonna be done by March. After this tour, which ends in two weeks, we're headed right home and working on the record. Do you have the old albums?
ME: Actually, no. I wasn't able to find them anywhere but on the web, like MP3s.
PP: The other two albums are really good, but they're like pop-punk. The hip-hop you heard on You Can't Stop The Bum Rush is like "late 80s". The next record will be more like "early 90s" hip-hop. If you can imagine old Beatnuts, or old Curious George, that's the sound of the new Len record.
ME: So are you sick of "Steal My Sunshine" yet?
PP: Not me. I don't have a radio or a television at home. I don't hear it much.
MM: How about the idea that you're a one-hit wonder band?
PP: We never expected the record to take off the way it has. "Sunshine" wasn't even supposed to be on the record. They played this really shitty demo of it, and the record company just freaked. And it's under Mark's bed, all these reel-to-reels. He pulled it out and literally blew dust off it. Had to go send it to the Tape Doctor, get that thing fixed up.
ME: I heard it was recorded one night after a rave.
PP: Yeah, after a really big rave, Burger Pimp was really fucked up on E, and he just started writing the lyrics on his leg, his arm, a piece of paper, anything.
ME: Was it all recorded that one night?
PP: The party was like, night until the morning; got home, was making breakfast, heard the Andrew Drue Connection, "More More More" - it was a big hit in the 70s - but to me, that song is shit. It sucks. The only thing about that song that's good is the break in it, which is right in the middle of the song - that's where he took it from.
ME: You guys just came back from spinning at GameWorks. Any particular video games that are Len favorites?
PP: We're actually sponsored by Dreamcast, so we've gotten pretty addicted to video games over the past couple weeks. Soul Caliber is amazing. It's like Tekken 3, but improved. On the DreamCast, nothing is pixelated. You can even see the veins in peoples' arms, and the moves are just sickening. Especially Tony Hawkins Pro Skater, like when the dude does an impossible move, you actually see the board flipping a 360 around his foot.
ME: Any problems with sponsorships and conflicting interests?
PP: Not really. We support them by wearing or using their stuff, and they support us by throwing us free shit. The joke is that we're on the Sony label, and we tried to get PlayStation to sponsor us, but Sega jumped in on it. We gotta give respects to UGO.com, they're the people that hooked it up. Coolest people in the world, video game testers - their spokeman is Gary Coleman. Serious. I met him in New York.
ME: No way. I thought he was in jail or working mall security or something.
PP: Divine Styler who is like, a "golden years" stylist with a "new school" twist [here he explains to me the chronology of hip-hop: "old school", "golden years", "now school", then "new school"], he lives beside Gary Coleman in LA, and he says all this crazy shit like, he has this huge train set in his house, and at 3am he'll hear all these weird noises from next door. And when we were in New York, at UGO, we were like, "Holy Shit, that's Gary Coleman". He's a short dude, man. He hasn't grown any since that TV show. He just looks like an old man in a little kid's body.
[Suddenly the room is Grand Central. Despite the food-spread, all anyone wants is the bottled water. No one has an easy time getting the door closed.]
ME: So how did you guys get your stage names?
PP: Five, six years ago, my homeboys called me Pea all the time, but, Planet, I'm not sure.. you know that movie... what's the one with the bugs?
ME: Yeah. Starship Troopers.
PP: In that, they go "Yo, we have to bomb the Planet P!". When we heard that, we were all "Yeah!". That's pretty dope. I'm a grafitti writer, so bombing is my thing. But the old school names? D-Rock got his name from Biz Markie; he used to just be McKenzie.
[at this point, he goes off describing the taxonomy of all Len's subgroups and pet projects to such a degree that I ask him to draw it out on a big piece of construction paper, during which we are joined by Druncness Monster, one of Len's DJs]
ME: So have I left anything out? What do normal interviewers ask about?
DM: Difference between American beer and Canadian?
ME: Alright.
DM: Canadian beer is better. It's got more alcohol in it.
ME: Is that it, or does it actually taste better?
DM: It tastes better. Like if you have three Molson Ices, that'll fuck you up.
ME: But it's not like you can't get Molson Ice here.
DM: Right, but it won't have the same alcohol.
ME: You mean that Molson Ice here is different than Molson Ice there?
DM: Yeah. Canadians know how to party better. They've got a beer store, it's like government-owned. There's a beer store, and there's a liquor store, and you can't get beer at like a 7-11. Here, that's where we freak out.
ME: How do you deal with the grind of a long tour? (back to Pea)
PP: You get kind of messed up, like your home is the bus. But it creates a kind of unity. When you're with the same 11 people day-in, day-out, they become like your family. When I go back to Toronto, I'm going to find it weird to not have these people in my life. I guess it's like when you go to camp. But touring is one of the best things ever. We went to Europe, and it wasn't like one of those "regular" promotional tours where you land in one country and by the end of the night, you're in another country, it was like, everywhere we went we had a few days to relax. So we were able to actually go out and see these places. Unbelievable. we had a great time. My girlfriend is handling all the merchandise, so we get to be together and it's great.
ME: OK, random touring question: who decides where you all eat each night?
PP: The bus driver. Wherever he stops, that's where we eat. It's like "we're stopping at this greasy spoon; if you want food, you get out now."
ME: And you had to skip dinner tonight?
PP: No, no, Sony fed us back at GameWorks.
ME: Did you have the little mini-pizzas they have there? They're pretty good.
PP: No, man. I'm lactose intolerant, and I forgot my pills today.
[Pea has finished his diagram, and shows it to Druncness Monster, who thinks it might be a good T-shirt. The next interviewer is next to me on the couch. I get the hint.]
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There's a Moby contest on this radio station based in San Francisco. It's Alice (97.3). You have to email webster@aliceradio.com and in 9 words tell why you want to see Moby. If you win you go to los angeles and see a little private concert or something like that. I think theyre choosing 15 people to go. I'm so uncreative though, I can't think of anything good to write! Well, you're supposed to be 21 which I am not. Oh well, i'll try anyway!
-Sara
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> also, i was gonna say about Moby not getting good
> vibes at Bush shows, they also said on Sockheads that
> Violent Femmes (who some worship on that list) played
> at some "modern" "rock" radio station festival with
> all these big stupid bands, and they kept getting
> booed, and the kids were even throwing stuff at the
> Femmes, and in the middle of the song they stopped and
> said like "if you dont stop that we're leaving" and
> the kids kept going so the Femmes shouted "FINE! FUCK
> YOU! WE'RE PAID!!!!" and just left. thats shocking,
> like how can people be that disrespectful to such a
> great group? like these things usually happen at an
> amusement park or something, and theres several other
> stages, so like you could go somewhere else while yr
> waiting for Limp Bizkit to come on or something.
> sheesh.
>
That sucks but I haven't been to a femmes show recently so I don't know how they perform now. They were my 1st concert and I have fond memories of them. When I went they were headlining one of those 'modern rock' shows and everyone loved them, so I think that's really weird.
-Sara
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