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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 08/22/2004 : 10:39:41
Just read the exciting news that you're expecting in Spin magazine.
We are very excited about this great news for you two! Congratulations!
Here is a card for you two:
http://www.pickup.aol.egreetings.com/view.pd?i=28312820&m=3486&rr=y&source=aole999
I am not sure if you will even read this or see this but I just wanted to start a thread that would serve as a virtual baby shower where people can pass on their well wishes for you both!
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 09/15/2004 : 18:35:22
Wow, what a nice photo. She has a beautiful smile, beautiful eyes and is radiant. Very pretty! Lucky Chuck! |
| vilainde |
Posted - 09/15/2004 : 05:04:05
Who said I clicked on your link?
(OK, I did, but...)
Denis
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| Frog in the Sand |
Posted - 09/15/2004 : 04:58:00
Voyeur! |
| vilainde |
Posted - 09/15/2004 : 04:48:41
stalker!
Denis
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| Frog in the Sand |
Posted - 09/15/2004 : 04:46:44
quote:
Originally posted by dayanara
quote:
Originally posted by PixieSteve
she was on the cover a mix CD? what mix CD... is her photo floating around the internet?
I think it came with a special edition of NME, but I'm in the US so I've never seen it. Apparently she's reading Winnie the Pooh and looks like Minnie Driver. There was a pic of her on the website of the university she works at back when this whole debacle happened. Didn't look like Minnie Driver to me, but she's very pretty.
There's indeed a pic of a (charming) Violet Clark on the UO website, but how can you be sure she's Frank's Violet?...
http://uoma.uoregon.edu/images/Dec03%20Transformation.pdf (see 'Laurel Award Interns', p.4)
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| bazza |
Posted - 09/11/2004 : 13:01:25
hello again Larissa. whelans was fun - check your email by the way. Cheers!
quote:
Originally posted by larissa
Isn't it funny that we both like Serge and Frank...?
Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover. |
| mariggy |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 21:35:04
"Initials SG"--Best of. It's good choice, larissa.  It shows the variety of his music. For example, chanson, latin, raggae, and rock . I am glad it includes my favorite "Marilou sous la neige".
quote:
Originally posted by larissa
Isn't it funny that we both like Serge and Frank...?
I like them both, too. Both of them are COOL!!
I join The Broken English Club. ---It's educational. |
| larissa |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 11:03:59
Isn't it funny that we both like Serge and Frank...? |
| larissa |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 11:03:18
hi mariggy i just gave him the Initials SG album, because I reckoned he had never heard Serge's music before and it was the best way to introduce him to some of it |
| mariggy |
Posted - 09/09/2004 : 21:59:57
quote:
Originally posted by larissa
I finish the interview by giving him an album by French artist Serge Gainsbourg, which I felt he would like and thankfully he did, telling me he had planned to discover Serge's music.
Thanks,larissa. You did interview with FB!? What a precious experience you had!!
By the way, I am interested in Which album you gave him.
I join The Broken English Club. ---It's educational. |
| n/a |
Posted - 09/09/2004 : 14:01:07
Great article Larissa! I think that if I had that opportunity in my life I would be wordless!
Eu estava perdida mas agora encontrei-me... |
| larissa |
Posted - 09/09/2004 : 07:48:00
You know what? I'd love to be able to scan the photo, but I haven't got the technology (or the know how to do it). It's available for anyone who has a subscription to unison.independent.ie but even though i work there, i don't have one. But it's a funny pic because I have a smile like a cheshire cat!
thank you all so much for the comments
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| vilainde |
Posted - 09/09/2004 : 01:44:00
Very nice article, Larissa.
Denis
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 09/09/2004 : 00:46:02
Welcome, and great article Larissa... (Nolan is a family name on my mom's side).
Wow, I could almost feel your excitement just by reading that article. It appears to me that some of the bigger music publications have expanded on your initial reporting of the Pixies inspiring so many musicians.
I especially liked your quote when you were thanking Frank... I feel the same way about the music... that is has been a constant amidst many chagnes over time. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 09/09/2004 : 00:41:52
That's cool about Linda and Joey... here's a thread that's already dedicated to the topic: http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9652 ... enjoy!
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 09/08/2004 : 14:44:52
Joseph.
 "Join the Cult of Frank 2.0 / And you'll be enlightened (free for 1.x members)" |
| dayanara |
Posted - 09/08/2004 : 13:54:33
This is mostly off-topic, but I'd like to extend my congratulations to Joey and Linda on the birth of their son a few weeks ago. It's Pixie babies all around! Look out, Kim and Dave! |
| larissa |
Posted - 09/08/2004 : 10:33:27
maybe i'll just post it on the site...or is it too big? Here goes...
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 24/08/2003
A Frank assessment of one's rock idol
A star-struck Larissa Nolan says a meeting with her musical hero, former Pixies frontman Frank Black, was a dream come true
WHEN I was 13 years old, I used to go to bed at night and dream about meeting Frank Black.
I had the whole thing planned out perfectly in my head: where it would be, what I would say, how there would be an instant connection between us.
In this fantasy meeting, I was a journalist and Frank was my interviewee.
Recently, 13 years after those teenage dreams, I did it.
Just like in my imagination, it was in an interview situation. But the clever, witty conversationalist I thought I would be was replaced by stammering idiot who could hardly speak for smiling.
In fact, the experience of meeting my idol overwhelmed me so much that I broke down and criedafterwards.
There's a core group of you out there who know exactly who this Frank Black is -- you're all probably of a certain age and have an interest in a certain kind of music.
For the others, I'll try to give you an introduction to this artist who has influenced so many others -- the rock musician's rock musician.
Black is the screaming, sweating frontman of late Eighties American cult band the Pixies, a group listed as one of the handful in history who revolutionised music.
Critics say their distinctive "quiet and loud" style -- ranging from Black whispering hoarsely over a low bass line, to him suddenly screaming blue murder when the rest of the band kicks in -- radically changed the face of music.
It's a sound that most people associate with Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, but it was Frank Black and the Pixies who did it first.
Even Cobain himself admitted where his influence came from, once describing their grunge classic Smells Like Teen Spirit as a "Pixies rip-off" and saying he should have been in a Pixies cover band.
It was Black -- real name Charles Thompson -- who wrote the majority of the songs. So it was he who paved the way for the grunge movement, which came along at the same time as the Pixies split in 1992.
It's this simple. Without Frank Black, there would be no Nirvana, there would be no grunge. Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Smashing Pumpkins and David Bowie have all named him as a major influence and the list goes on.
Even Bono, in all his stardom, bows down to Frank Black. When Black played an acoustic one-man set in Dublin, Bono insisted on going backstage and by all accounts, was as star-struck as a teenager at a meet 'n' greet.
So for me, meeting this man -- this 36-year-old, chubby, bald, California resident -- meant more to me than anyone else in the world.
He and his music came into my life back in the summer of 1990, my first teenage summer, and went on to become the soundtrack of my life.
An old friend (Hi, Matthew) is indelibly inked on my memory as the person who gave me their first record, the seminal Surfer Rosa, an album now in the collection of any self-respecting music lover.
As soon as I hit the play button on my cassette player, I had the feeling that my life had changed, that music would never be the same again. From then on, those five Pixies albums followed me through all kinds of ups and downs and new experiences and after the split it was Frank Black's solo work -- eight albums to date -- that carried me along.
So when I got a call from Stevo Berube of Berube Communications asking would I be interested in interviewing Frank Black, my head spun. "Would I be interested?"
"Would I!" He's just offered me the interview of my life. I've met a few famous people through my work and have never once been overawed, but even thinking about this made me nauseous with excitement.
The date was set, the venue decided. I would interview Frank the following Monday at 11am at the Parliament Hotel in Dublin. He was doing press for his new album Show Me Your Tears.
Waking up that morning, the world seemed normal, but for me it wasn't really. I cycled into town and with shaking hands, locked my bike up outside the hotel and stepped in.
And there he was. Sitting back in his cowboy shirt, drinking coffee, the morning sun spilling in the window on top of him.
He smiled and gave me a kiss on each cheek and the interview began. I was clumsy and over-eager and pathetically desperate to please, but I think he was bemused by my star-struck state.
I asked him how he felt about his influence on the music scene and he seemed embarrassed at the question, saying all music was influenced by something before it.
"People get into my stuff and then they make music and somebody else listens to their music and then they make a record . . . " he says.
He tells me that his new album is a heartbreak record inspired by the painful divorce he is currently going through from the woman he has been with for 16 years.
And he really is down about it -- his smile doesn't quite reach his sad eyes and he is still wearing his wedding ring, albeit dangling from a chain around his neck.
"It's the first time I've put something really personal on an album. The lyrics are about me and how I'm feeling and that's something I'd never have done in the early days. I wasn't raised that way.
"It's strange to sing about myself. I used to enjoy being abstract in my lyrics. But it's good and I think listeners will like it too -- they can connect to it.
"It's kinda like: `Yeah, I know how he feels, I'm pissed off too.' I hope people can relate to it."
Indeed, it is a sad album and a deeply personal one and probably the most honest recording of his career.
There's a country flavour to it, with lots of pedal steel guitar and lines such as: "Now I'm drunk all the time, the sun never shines, when will happiness find me again?"
He dampens rumours of a Pixies reunion -- the band reportedly split due to strains between the laid-back Black and highly-strung bassist Kim Deal -- saying: "I just go from day to day, I have no great plan."
"Maybe we will get together someday or maybe we won't." At one point, I apologised for being so excited and explained I was a huge fan. Again, he shook it off.
"That's the way it is over here in Europe and particularly Ireland. People are passionate about music, they're active music listeners. And I'm glad to have active music listeners as fans."
I finish the interview by giving him an album by French artist Serge Gainsbourg, which I felt he would like and thankfully he did, telling me he had planned to discover Serge's music.
I left a little card inside for him and it read: "To Charles, For making the music that has been there throughout everything in my life -- happiness, sadness, teenage angst, love, hate, sex, death and heartbreak. Thank you."
I'd met my idol. I now know little things about him such as how he's big on eye contact, he gives a great hug and he twitches his nose when he talks. I'd come into his world for a little while. I'd played a bit part in his life. Just like I always dreamed I would.
Frank Black's new album `Show Me Your Tears' is out on September 5. He plays Dublin's Vicar Street on October 3.
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| larissa |
Posted - 09/08/2004 : 09:13:05
but i just wanted to say that i read the brilliant new issue of spin magazine, with an amazing pixies article by mark spitz (and as a journalist myself, i was really impressed by it)and that's where i read the lovely news about frank and his girlfriend violet's pregnancy. i hope thery go on to ptoduce a lovely, healthy, happy little musical genius. also if violet herself reads this, id love you to contact me because i interviewed frank last year for the sunday independent newspaper in ireland and wrote a very unusual article afterwards, which was so different than the normal rock interviews. and i think you'd like it, so i'd like to pass it on. charles probably remembers me because i am a huge fan and i think i totally freaked him out by my enthusiasm! so violet, if you can, get in touch with me...
and congratulations! both of you!
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| larissa |
Posted - 09/08/2004 : 09:05:05
hi... i'm nervous... first time on here
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 09/01/2004 : 22:53:19
Wow. Thanks for filling me in. You can only have but the highest respect for Violet after coming out and being so open. I bet that even helped some people. What a great mom.  What a lucky couple to have found each other . Group hug... I'm feeling the love... wait there's already a thread on that  . |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 08/31/2004 : 12:53:43
fuck, can't believe i missed out on that NME. whenever i've bought NME they've been pretty shit. |
| apl4eris |
Posted - 08/31/2004 : 11:46:17
I think for the most part poor Violet arrived during a particularly paranoid episode in the forum's lifecycle. Those that believed it was the real Violet were kind and welcoming. The rest thought it was an imposter.
Here is where she appeared on the scene to apologize (most graciously) for a show in Spain from which FB & the C's had to leave early.
http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=3791&SearchTerms=,
I wish them both the best, but I also hope if that if they desire it, that they are able to manage to keep their family world separate. For me, I guess I'm more than happy not to know anything about it - it's very personal and precious. |
| dayanara |
Posted - 08/31/2004 : 11:24:34
quote:
Originally posted by PixieSteve
she was on the cover a mix CD? what mix CD... is her photo floating around the internet?
I think it came with a special edition of NME, but I'm in the US so I've never seen it. Apparently she's reading Winnie the Pooh and looks like Minnie Driver. There was a pic of her on the website of the university she works at back when this whole debacle happened. Didn't look like Minnie Driver to me, but she's very pretty. |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 08/31/2004 : 11:11:59
she was on the cover a mix CD? what mix CD... is her photo floating around the internet? |
| dayanara |
Posted - 08/31/2004 : 10:55:47
Her name was posted in NME or Melody Maker or something like that before she posted here. Plus she was on the cover of the mix CD he did. So we did know "of" her, somewhat. I think it was her. She posted a bunch of personal stuff no one else would have known, in the King thread and in the thread about the cancelled tours in Spain (was it Spain? I'm too lazy to check). I must admit that I went temporarily stalker and googled her after that. She runs some sort of antique lace club in Oregon. I hope she comes back. She seems like a riot, her posts really cracked me up.
quote:
Originally posted by Miss Thing
What is the problem, folks? I (being Frank Black's girlfriend, of course) was just clarifying that I am in the position to assure the validity of Charles' postings (as his girlfriend) because, being his girlfriend, I'm kind of privvy to that sort of information, because, well, I'm dating him. As opposed to being a total stranger. Which I'm not. Cuz I'm his girlfriend. Yup.
Malax and Realmean, are you guys THAT bored that you have nothing better to do than to get on
a complete and total stranger's case and be randomly cruel to that person (who happens to be Frank Black's girlfriend...)??? I should be so lucky to have that sort of free time in indulge in random acts of emotional cruelty. But I don't. Because, in addition to being the full-time girlfriend of Frank Black's (did I mention that?!?) I'm a grad student, museum worker and a mother. I'm probably older and wiser than either of you. So have some bloody respect. Drink some chamomile tea or something and chill. My word.
By the way: I'M...TELLING...MY...BOYFRIEND!!
Yours,
Frank Black's Girlfriend
xoxox
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| PixieSteve |
Posted - 08/31/2004 : 08:56:20
i didn't think we knew about violet before she posted.
if that's the case, it must of been her, seeing as her existant became fact soon after. |
| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 08/31/2004 : 08:39:28
I remember those Violet incident. But I never thought she was the real one. Didn't you?
"¿Qué estás buscando? ¿Te gustaría multiplicarte por diez, por cien?, ¿Estás buscando adeptos? ¡Busca ceros entonces!" |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 08/31/2004 : 05:20:04
wankers |
| realmeanmotorscutor |
Posted - 08/31/2004 : 01:13:51
tossers? haha, what's that?
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| darkoutsider |
Posted - 08/30/2004 : 23:57:08
I know I know, I just read in Spin that Charles and Violet are expecting. I don't know if it's weird to feel so much joy over someone I've never met before. But anyway, Congrats Charles. I mean it, congrats. Here's to you and your's, YAY!!
~*I just want attention.*~ |
| VoVat |
Posted - 08/30/2004 : 12:54:48
I think anyone coming on the forum and claiming to be a celebrity or romantically tied to one is going to be subject to a good deal of suspicion. Really, I should think that they would realize this before posting.
Of course, I don't remember the Violet incident very well, and it's possible that it went beyond mere suspicion.
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 08/30/2004 : 09:41:20
Yeah congratulations to them both. Great news.
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| Hatchetman |
Posted - 08/30/2004 : 01:32:33
As far as I remember, people were acting like a bunch of tossers toward her. Violet on the other hand seemed to have had a very good sense of humour about it all. I don't blame her for not coming back.
Ade |
| realmeanmotorscutor |
Posted - 08/29/2004 : 18:49:25
Hey, don't get me wrong, I wish them the best, but that's not quite how I remember it. I could be mistaken about how it all went down, but I don't think it was people's suspicion that was the problem.
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