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Hey Burt Elf Depp i couldn’t see how you could meet anyone in Orlando either: It’s so damn SMALL…kinda like one of those streets off of the Disney World lot. Nevermind any Elfman fans…The oaks and the Spanish moss, however are nice. Aside from the lake and the big swan boats in the middle of Downtown, which is kinda odd to see, the rest of it just seemed like a huge jumble of different styles..pretty confusing. But i guess it has it’s finer points, and you never know WHO you’re gonna bump into. Personally, i’m not fond of any of those tourist traps anymore…and i have an uncle getting cancer treatment, which is pretty much why i visit.
Ah yes, to be creative and alone and get a really nasty infection, and have to fend for yourself. Try this wonder bra on for size and see how fake it is: My weekend consisted of doing absolutely NOTHING, and on top of it, i took an extra day off to acheive it! Oh, i had some choices on what to do…but i chose to just go to sleep and sleep as hard as i could, because the other options had me at a loss for time and patience and inspiration….It’s hard to be inspired by the Cuban chicks when all they do is thug out and smoke the ganja, folks…or talk to people in Spanish when you’d just rather speak freaking English for a change.Plus you have to be Latin, too, otherwise it’s like putting a DODO bird in a henhouse…there’s a good analogy. Most places you have to be ordinary, i suppose. Going to an office job wearing black clothes and combat boots is always subject for speculation from the other suits, and i’ll
be damned in Hell (or am i already?) if i’m gonna have this real so-mo, 60s fuzzy-vision scene of some fellow weirdo chick waltzing into the building. Id kill for a girl with humility. If any of you have ever been to Miami on vacation, i’m sure you know what i’m talking about.
Hasta la Cucarachas!Well duh, of course you’re right, Dobbs! It’s just one big beach with Mickey ears in the middles. There’s the boyband insanity: Orlando, home to both Nsync and Backstreet Boys… then there’s all of the girls who hang out on the beaches hoping to flash a camera. Go to France, I say, it’s quite normal to be nekkid over there. Then there’s Disney. My family remembers the day Walt Disney came and bought all of the land. Disney owns practically everything, now. They took over Beuna Vista, which is now Downtown Disney. Though I give Downtown Disney credit for La Nouba, Cirque de Souelli (sp) We (meaning my family) own 12 acres on the St. Johns (the only river in the US that runs North) and a house on a lake in Orlando. It’s nice where there are woods; but that has absolutely NOTHING to do with people. We have rednecks and wanna-be surfers.
Thus, no one even listens to classical music here! You can tell right away, because, the once popular Orlando Philharmonic is running out of money and they are barely able to put on a concert. The Orlando Youth Symphony Orchestra is doing OK, but the kids are immature eight year olds whose parents make them stay in. (Some are talented, but once they put down the music, they’re running around in circles yelling “poop.”) And finally, the only music articles we get in the paper are guys dissing Weezer and ads about Britney Spears.-Em
“You’re a long way from New York, Constable.”I feel your pain! Las Vegas is the biggest joke (i think ) on the west coast.I am proud to say i’m from here (not a lot of people have lived to claim that!) But growing up in a city that could care less about the community and more about there wallets is a harsh reality that people don’t understand.Right now in vegas the weakest thing is our theatre community.Know one here really cares about good quality, so therefor we get stuck seeing the same damn shows, directed by the same horrible directors, same actors, and same plots……and no one seems to mind.Growing up in a theatre family like i did makes me sad to see all the lukewarm shows that go on. Maybe vegas will never have culture,maybe we always will be the joke, maybe i’m in the wrong place and wrong time.
The reason why were so succesful is because when you come here the thing that we never ask of you…… is to think.So, for me, when i do leave i won’t regret it. Yes, i made wonderful friends here, but this place sufficates even the strongest person.I need substance….and that’s the one thing that lacks here.
very sad girl,
xmasgrl83You all must come with me to live in London.
Great city, wonderful people, the most brilliant shows in the world…
blah blah blah
Though I have heard from people that live there otherwise.
So maybe I’m thinking LimeTree Valley — the place where Sleepy Hollow was filmed. It’s right outside London.
Then we’ll open a ElfSpawn store, like Erika had once mentioned to me… hehe.-Em
“Whoop de doo, Basil. But what does it MEAN?”I live in a mid-sized town that literally STOPS TIME on football game days. (I drove around town yesterday during the football game and literally did not meet ONE SINGLE CAR out on the street for an hour and a half! Although I didn’t dare venture near the stadium…) Ah yes, yesterday a large, circular enclosure became the third largest city in this god-forsaken state…fans paid exorbitant amounts of money to eat overcooked hot dogs, drink cheap beer, and watch overweight men crash into each other like monkeys, all for the sake of getting a little oval-shaped (well, mostly oval-shaped) ball into a square at the end of the field. As you may have guessed, I am NOT a Husker fan…or football fan in general, for that matter. Hockey, now that’s what I love watching! I’m not a completely malevolent person, but the fights are frickin’ hilarious! (I know, kind of odd, coming from me…) Unfortunately, our sad excuse for a hockey team has been sucking wind the last couple of years…and it’s less than 10 years old!
That little tirade up above is just an example of what it’s like where I live. However, and I am being completely truthful, if Danny or Boingo came into town for a concert, or anywhere within a day’s drive of my apartment, I would drop literally everything I would be in the process of doing, and pay literally any amount of money just to see the guy who has given me reason to keep hoping (hoping for what, I’m not sure, but hoping nevertheless…) So, really, I guess I’m not so completely different from your typical, rabid Husker fan — with the exception that very few people know who Boingo/Danny are, and I don’t like hot dogs…or any sort of pork for that matter.
Black clothes and combat boots to work, eh Dobbs? I love it! Hey, somebody needs to liven all those corporate-suit-clones up a bit
Starting tommorow, I’ll once again be stuck inside an “educational” institution with ridiculously immature coworkers and narrow-minded students (although there are a precious few students who show promise…and I don’t mean academically, but rather emotionally and intellectually. I’m a teacher, and I don’t give a flying —- about grades…they’re arbitrary in my book. Just because you got an “A” doesn’t mean you know the material…a common misperception amongst students and teachers of all levels). I have short red, somewhat-spikey, hair, a nose piercing, and a couple of (small, but still visible) tattoos in the Cyrillic alphabet (no wonder guys are scared of me…)…and I work in a high school in the uber-conservative midwest…yeah, that makes for just a few stares – not to mention the fact that I wear my “Nebraska Green Party” shirt every Friday. But I only have until December in that place, and then I get to start my doctoral studies full time (Yeah, I think I should just put “permanent student” on all the “occupation” listings…)BurtElfDepp – Orlando, you say? Never been there…it sounds…very humid and kind of frightening. But hey, there are downfalls to every place, you know? I mean, I hate where I live, but who’s to say that moving someplace else would be any better? I’m starting to think that this place doesn’t suck quite as much as I think it does – although it really does still blow – but that it’s really my general outlook on life that’s causing it to seem so awfully unbearable. In other words, I’ve never been to London, and hey, it sounds like a wonderful place, but maybe I’d be just as unhappy there, after the new-start-starry-eyed-mentality wore off…location doesn’t have everything to do with it; some of your feelings about a place are actually just that – your feelings on life, and there’s not a whole lot you can do to change that…but that’s just my opinion. (I guess I could change my disturbed-and-disturbing outlook on life via a truckload of Prozac, but nah, I’m far too enchanted with its weirdness to do that!)
Xmasgrl – also never been to Vegas. Although I have seen “Fear and Loathing in *said city*” and after laughing for pretty much the entire duration of hte film, suddenly found myself very depressed and went to bed. I hope it’s not like that down there…although it sounds like you don’t have so much of an issue with that as the general mentality of your city…
Good luck, all…ramble, ramble, ramble…
Hey Erika, I think that those days with Johnny Depp and his fat cohort Benicio Del Toro romping around hotels and doing all sorts of drugs doesn’t exist anymore. I was around there during those times (obviously tooo young to to any damage), and that’s when the Teamsters still had a say in Vegas (ala “Casino”), and it was simple and less like Disney World in Orlando. of course, i’d always choose to go there first before any place else — i mean that’s where my blood is, and i totally respect where i come from; which includes all the relevant superstitions (among other more personal reason). But you know, you’re right — Just because you get a new change of scenery isn’t going to change you. It seems like it does for a little while, but then the novelty wears off and you might even feel much worse as a result. I tried that once and Jersey and couldn’t hack it because it was just staggeringly tougher than Miami, economy-wise. The fact that my only sister (who i hadnt seen since we left Vegas in 85) was acting like a total bitch with me is quite a different story.
I feel bad for you Xmas because our town has now turned into a total cesspool of fakeness (Vegas)..but believe me, in my day i met a few pretty awesome girls, so you never know…Let’s say you move to Hollywood or something, you might be in a worse state. But what do i know? I haven’t seen Vegas in 15 years…and that’s a long time. They tore down all the cool casinos and made other, less inspiring landmarks…So i’m lost on that place and pretty much dreaming that it’s something its really not. You have No idea how quickly time passes you by when you get older.
Em you’re right about the raising of kids there. My uncle (although he’s got cancer and all) is raising his family in one of those “pristine-like” Christian ways and i even DO think my cousin is in some kind of band…and YES she DOES walk around saying things like poop and stuff! You hit that one on the nail. Another thing is how NICE people are when it comes to the tourism. I’ll at least give that town credit for their hospitality…but i guess that’s just business. Orlando is really freaking small, though. Man, Florida is a real pain in the ass, isn’t it?You guys are alot of fun to talk to. And thanks for the discussions.
Hey Erika — yeah i wear dark clothes (in Miami of all places) around the office place. But as far as i’m concerned i consider it the edge that keeps people from trying to get into my head and figure me out with some half-assed label or whatnot. I just can’t believe the insane politics that go on in an office setting. It’s downright shameful and people who speak their minds are the first ones fired. I’m like the only antisocial person there after a year and plus of getting to know the people. It’s freaking scary! By your descriptions on how you look i’d say you’re out of your element, but i guess that’s just our lot in life. It sounds cool, though.
Well, as for myself i caught as massive throat infection and i have to be in bed, so that’s where i’m going. You ladies have a day and hope you guys don’t get too LOW. I myself have become rather institutionalized with being single, so it doesn’t bother me unless i start with the “time travelling”…Sigh.
Take care, Angels! it’s SO nice to know that across America, there’s people kinda like myself who have similar problems…Now i don’t feel like a total idiot for being me. And neither should any of you.and since Em started reciting lines at the end of her post, i’m gonna follow up on that and put my own lines…here’s one of my faves by Nicholson: “People who talk in metaphors oughtta shampoo my CROTCH!” – i thought that was funny as hell…
I’m here if ya needs me.
HAsta la Pinata!Gee Dobbs, where’s the sarcasm? (Well, I guess there *was* the “crotch” comment…which was rather randomly funny…gotta love Nicholson). C’mon I want some biting commentary…where’s the “grab your torches and pitchforks,” for god’s sake! You’re letting us down, man! No, seriously, just kidding. This is kind of a whole new side of you, one that quite frankly, I didn’t really know existed (well, there’s also the fact that I don’t know the physical *you*), but it’s rather nice. Keep it going for as long as you like…I’m enjoying it immensely…By the way, do you always get all verbose and syrupy-confessional when you’re sick for a couple of days? *grins* Take it easy…*adopting motherly voice, but with little success:* drink lots of fluids, eat ice cream, and do whatever it is you don’t have time to do otherwise (in my case, it’s reading past issues of my FSM subscription…but video games, comics, building cheese-and-shaving-cream-sculptures also work – incidentally, I made such a “sculpture” once when I was sick last year; it was pathetically funny – whatever it is that floats your boat).
Out of my element? Yeah, there’s an understatement! But ah well, I chose to live here, I have to deal, but just for a while longer, because I’m moving in December! Moving away from here!!
Clarification: not that any of you care, but I feel like something needs to be clarified: I said that I have red hair, but the natural color is blonde. I’ve got my pic scanned onto my profile at Yahoo Clubs, and in that pic, my hair is its natural color. I just received an email from a guy who must’ve read on this board or on one of the other places I post that I have red hair…he must’ve looked at my profile, and thus my pic, and said something along the lines of “You’re lying! You don’t have red hair!” Truthfully, I don’t; it’s naturally blonde, but I’ve always wanted red hair…so I felt like I needed to explain that, for no other reason than to make myself not feel like a big phoney.
Oh yeah? Well, don’t worry none..at work there’s this Czech girl who dyes her hair red, and she pulls it off alright. Next time put on an address so we can all have a glimpse of this picture and see what you did to your hair.
Erika, now you’re moving? What the hell happpened? West Nile Virus show up in Nebraska? You’re going to deprive a state of originality! Put those damn bags down! You just weakened a nation, girl!
what a great thing it would be to have been born seven years earlier. though boingo would be breaking up this year, at least I would get to see them. I am probably too young to be in this crowd. I am only about 9 months into boingo/elf ventures, but I really do love the stuff. I jsut a few years out of time, not like constable em who is feeling a few centuries off. but the best thing I can do is not search for people who have my interest, but search for openminds I can spoil. if anyone asks, I have a lot to say,
lexi: “Don’t worry about her. She still upset because someone dropped a house on her sister.”AND VAT A HOUSE EET EES!
Here’s one for you in terms of elfman/relations:
Sat down with current Girlfriend who is somewhat interested in Elfman, but not as insanely as you or I. Put on Forbidden Zone. Get to Devil scene. “Who’s that?” she asks. “That’s Danny Elfman,” I say. “THAT’S Danny Elfman?” “Yes.” “Damn, he’s HOT!”
WP
WP – Hip! Tell your girlfriend that she’s got good taste. Yeah, the Elf’s Satan-look is still quite nice, in my book. Hell, I think Elfman’s just dishy at any point in time (well…maybe not so much now, but on the Farewell video, he definitely still makes me drool). Glad to know there are other females out there that share my perspective on Elfman’s looks…
-E
Oh my god! I have always thought danny was hot! Everytime someone asks me what celebrity i think is hot i tell them danny….and they always look at me funny.Glad i’m not the only one with good taste!
xmasgrl83
either look at you funny or say, “who?”
-nevermindXmasgrl – yeah, those of us who think Elfman’s nice looking? We’re definitely a minority…I think I’m the only female in Lincoln who 1) knows who Elfman actually is (yeah, Beth, I get the “who?” comment all the time when I bring up Elfman…which I don’t do very often, either) adn 2) think he’s “saucy,” to borrow a phrase from Evil Dead and several other posters. Glad to know there’s at least a few others out there
Hey, do you think if we sent him demented Valentines he’d actually answer them? (You know, with pictures of skeletons covered in orange and black crayon…and maybe a kewpie doll or two to add to his collection – you know he has a taxidermied cat, and a shrunken head, don’t you? AND kewpie dolls in cages…) Hm…come to think of it, that’s a little weird even for me! I usually ignore Valentine’s day like the plague…-E
that would be fuuny as all hell…but may seem like were stalking him….i say do it…i would love to see the outcome…or do it at least for my own sick humor pleasure (ha ha ha ) just kidding….not really…..ha ha ha…..
xmasgrl83
i was just wondering about how long have you guys been fans of danny? Just wanna know when the obsession started (ha ha)
I’ve loved him for ten years now….ever since the age of eight when i saw edward…and yes even at a young age i knew who he is.xmasgrl83
I went to an Oingo Boingo show in Chicago, like, eight years ago. It was excellent, but my sister saw something that really haunted her and, in turn, has haunted me as well: When she was in the bathroom she saw this woman who looked exactly like Danny (stubble and everything). She was making this large, dagger shaped valentine thing to throw up on stage for him, and smoking, like, three cigarettes at once. Anyway, it freaked my s#@% out.
The show was great, but (and this is for the ladies), Danny kept removing more of his clothing as it went on. Toward the end, he was really only in a pair of baggy shorts. Sarah, my sister, was going insane as she had been in love with Danny for most of the 80’s, but even she admitted that he’d seen less flabby days. After the last song, Danny went crowd surfing and got a nasty scratch down the side of his neck from someone in the audience (don’t know if it was the girl who looked just like him or not). After the show, he hung out backstage and chatted with everyone who stayed around to meet him and the band. He had a berret on and used the word “f&@%” a lot.
that’s awesome! I envy all of the people who got to see them live! I was born to young for all of the stuff that i love (oingo boingo concerts) Oh the curse of being young!!!!
xmasgrl83
John Mullin – are you serious about that girl-looking-like-Danny-thing? That’s really disturbing if it’s true. I understand that everybody has their obsessions, really I do, but I don’t become bloodthirsty, sado-masochistic, or homicidal over mine. That would’ve freaked me out, too…man, that’s a bit too over-the-top even for my taste…but hey, to each his or her own… Incidentally, thanks for the info on Danny’s removal-of-clothing antics during the concert. The base of Elfman droolers grows…or maybe not…
Xmasgrl – I’ve been a Dannyfan, and actually known it was him, for about 3 years now. I still have much left to learn! But, and I think for most of us this is true, when the obsession hit, it hit like a December tidal wave in Nebraska…if that made any sense
Yeah, I thought the valentine idea was funny, but I don’t think I’d actually do it…that would require me to acknowledge that Valentine’s day exists…something I will only do if I get dead flowers sent to me. (Seriously, this is way off topic, but all I’ve wanted for Valentine’s day since I was about 15 is for somebody to send me dead flowers…I think it would be funny as hell, but I’m usually even more morbid around that time of year anyway…the only time I get really giddy is around Halloween ).For me it started 14 years ago, when I was 14. Wow, half my life ago! I grew up on the outskirts of LA and a local radio station, KROQ, played a lot of Boingo songs. That summer I saw them on the 4th of July at Universal, then that Halloween and every LA show up to the Farewell tour.
When the self titled Album came out in 1994, they appeared on the Tonight Show. I was able to go to the taping where the band performed “Hey” and then there was a short interview with Danny. The group I was with were taken back stage, where everyone else walked right by him. I stopped and talked with him for a little bit and got a few items autographed before the rest of them caught up. Then we were wisked outside. One the guys I was with was lamenting not getting a ticket stub signed from a show the night before. We looked across the parking lot and there was this black BMW with you-know-who waiting behind the wheel. No one wanted to walk over there and ask him to sign the ticket, so I took it and said, “oh, alright, if I have to”
As I walked up I saw him looking at me through his rearview mirror and he rolled his window down. When I got to his car he had his arms crossed across the window frame and his chin rested on his fore arm, just looking up, kinda smirking at me. Holy hell, those eyes! He said hi and I probably looked like a total idiot starring, with my mouth half open and my eyes all glazed over. I managed to pull myself together and get to the task at hand; the excuse I had to approach him in the first place. I asked him to sign the ticket stub for my friend. He asked what my friend’s name was. I had to yell over to him, “what’s your name?” He was actually a friend of my cousins. Danny says something like “oh, he’s a really good friend of yours” “What’s your name?” he says next. And just talked a little about silly stuff. I told him about the time a couple years before, during one of his shows, when I almost got up on stage and he winked at me as security was dragging me off. He laughed.
Then some guy came out with a hat Danny had forgotten and gave it to him.
Danny stuck his arm out the window to me, grabbed my hand and said, “It was nice to meet you, beth.” I honestly don’t remember what happened after that. I suppose I drove everybody home and then there’s this really long ass journal entry dated that day.I met him one other time at Tower Records on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. They did a signing there coinsiding with the Farewell Tour. That meeting was rather rushed and crowded. But I’ve got some great pictures that I’ll dig up when we move
next month.-beth
Man that’s pretty cool. Looks like the ones with the long tenure for Elfman’s stuff is me and Beth insofar. That’s alot of years, when you think about it. And i’m sure there’s tons more out there, too.
Well, you could add me to the “long tenure” list. I’ve been a fan since 1981. I was 12 back then and I have followed him ever since. I guess that makes me the oldest fan here clocking in at 33 years old. Like Beth I also grew up outside of Los Angeles and had the opportunity to see Oingo Boingo many times. The first time was in 1982 when they played at my brothers high school gymnasium. I got to meet the band after the show and Danny was really nice to me. He signed his autograph for me and we took a picture. (To this day, I don’t know where that photo went!) He even offered to give me a copy of the “Nothing To Fear” album, but realized he had given them all away… I am an artist/sculptor and when people ask me who my biggest artistic influence is, I always have to say Danny Elfman. I always get a strange look and a “really?” Since music isn’t exactly thought of as a visual medium. But, for me Danny’s music is so powerful and so dynamic and expressive. It has given me so much creative inspiration, more than any visual artist I can think of. Are there any other visual artists here who feel this way too?
well, if you count theatre into a visual medium..then yeah. He’s been my biggest influence ever since i was a little freak.His music is sheer brillance…i would give anything to meet him!! You guys are so lucky to be born in the right time period.People my age don’t really know or understand him.I was lucky enough to have friends who love him as much as i do.My generation get’s role models like……….britney spears??? Oh god!! I’m doomed!!!!! ha ha ha……….
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