| Keanu biography... | |||
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| 2009-03-12 11:41:17 | |||
ADMIN  Forum Posts: 3074 Comments: 405 Reviews: 1 | Cornerstore >>>> Honesty Anyway Do you have the authors of those quotes?  I don't dare to use them without permission... though I guess I could always do indirect quoting instead. | ||
| 2009-03-12 16:51:27 | |||
| Forum Posts: 4842 Comments: 381 Reviews: 13 | Cornerstore >>>> Honesty Anyway yeah, that. but I also like Enchanted. and Blown Away. and Goodbye. ( and I think Foo Fighters' "Pretender" is one of the best albums ever... at least in my book  ) but the one Dogstar song I fell in love with is "Bleeding Soul" don't ask... for those of you who can access iTunes, there's the 'complete collection' of Dogstar available, including four songs not released on the previous albums. I can't buy them, not available in the iStore for my country... only for US. | ||
| 2009-03-12 18:15:51 | |||
ADMIN Forum Posts: 3074 Comments: 405 Reviews: 1 | I've never heard any of those... where'd you get them? Or can you access them on iTunes, just not buy them? | ||
| 2009-03-12 18:39:19 | |||
| Forum Posts: 4842 Comments: 381 Reviews: 13 | no, on iTunes you have to buy the songs, can't just access them... all those songs I mentioned are on Dogstar's two and a half  albums... bought them at Amazon.com... through an US connection... long story. you never heard them ? well... that can be fixed. check your e-mail | ||
| 2009-03-12 20:42:50 | |||
ADMIN Forum Posts: 3074 Comments: 405 Reviews: 1 | ! Thanks! | ||
| 2009-03-12 21:16:21 | |||
| Forum Posts: 4842 Comments: 381 Reviews: 13 | enjoy !  | ||
| 2009-03-13 00:33:50 | |||
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It was someone named Krystal and she wrote that a long time ago in the Garden. An e-mail group for Keanu that had many members. (now defunct, as far as I know) I don't think you could find the original author to get their permission to use it, but you could sort of get "inspired" by it.  I met a lady once at a Dogstar show who had been in a car accident and she sort of had a near death experience and took up surfing, because Keanu surfed in Pt. Break. I'm sure there are LOTS of stories like that. In fact, you could start a web site titled-share your stories. How has Keanu Reeves inspired you? (Of course I'm sure you'd get some awful replies as well. Knowing how human nature works. Or maybe just ask at IMDB? Though, that place is filled with some jerks too)  | ||
| 2009-03-13 08:16:31 | |||
| Forum Posts: 328 Comments: 0 Reviews: 0 | Okay Anakin, I'm going to TRY and finish transcribing that NME article. I feel like I'm teasing you!  "It's very upsetting," Keanu concurs. Blimey, the mighty screen idol speaks! Out loud! To us! Etc! So why all the silence? Well, obviously Keanu wants to be taken seriously as a musician. Thus he resolutely refuses, behind a facade of nonchalant calm, to answer questions of a non-muso nature. So having lulled Ke out of his stony state with our evident, ahem, interest in all-things strictly musical, we tramp ever onward. You've already got fame and fortune, what's the bloomin' point of all this? "To express and earn a living," drawls Keanu in mock sincerity. "I think what's important," he continues more earnestly, "and I always say this, is the music. We get a chance to create and perform and hopefully people come and hear it and dig it. And of course (singing) 'All we need is love', so it'd be nice if people responded to the music and dug it." But, your audience is a bunch of screaming girls, they know arse-all except primitive sexual desire. Wouldn't you prefer a more gen-u-ine audience? Keanu: "No, I'm glad that people sometimes come out and hear us play, for whatever reason. Sometimes it's disappointing if we get reviewed and they don't review the music, it's just like, 'Oh, man." Enough of the heartfelt twaddle! Do you or do you not rock? "We're too old for that Keith Moon stuff," reckons Bob. "We're not like 18, running around in a van doing whippets....not the dogs! Well, we drink beer, play poker. We're a silly group. I mean what is that rock'n'roll thing? "Indulgence," slurs Keanu tetchily. "It's not good to feel crappy all the time!" observes Bob. "Keanu: "That's why you just keep drinking, hur hur." (A joke, a joke, Keanu made a ruddy joke!) Oh come now, you must have participated in a few acts of rockness? Bob: "I once broke a pencil in my room!" Keanu: (Annoyed) "Put on a really good show." "I swallowed a goldfish," announces Bob by way of light relief and a little surreality. Bret: "Oh, you've asked a boring band. (Thinks) I once had to change my hotel room 'cos I didn't like it...Oh, hang on, I smashed a guitar once." Bob: "Yeah, but that's not a rock thing. You were just pised off with the guitar." Keanu: Yeah, but that's what it's about. A show thing." Bob: "No, it was a legitimate non-show thing. Like, 'This guitar is a piece of shit, I'm going to smash it up so I never have to see it again." Brett: "Yeah, that and the show was going really badly." Keanu: "So you could get offstage?" Bob: "Then the Bon Jovi guys (they supported Jon and the boys on tour earlier this year), like, ran down (mock sobbing), 'You've dented our stage!'" Keanu: (More sobbing)"'I could trip and hurt my caboose!'" The Jovi thing wasn't too good then? Bob: "We never had a soundcheck. Nothing worked. It was very difficult. You don't know what's gonna happen... Keanu: (Hollering in mock panic-stricken terror) "Like today's gonna be! We have no idea! WE'RE GONNA STEP ONSTAGE... and not know anything, 1-2-3-4...(affects catatonic expression)." Bob: "We're a bit nervous, 'cos they're videotaping every show we do." Keanu: "Yeah but they're gonna be at the back right? I'm not having a f---in' camera on a crane with the director, like, going, 'Cut' every two minutes. No, no, no I'm not gonna let that happen. I don't want no f--- in' camera onstage. They can go at the back and do a little f--in' wide shot." Any other fears for the day we should know about? | ||
| 2009-03-13 08:33:27 | |||
| Forum Posts: 328 Comments: 0 Reviews: 0 | Keanu: "Shunned! We'll be shunned! All alone in our Dogstar cubicle. "We'll get what we deserve," chips in Brett stoically. Keanu: "What does that mean, man? 'I'm already guilty said the Catholic boy!" Bret: "I heard a rumour we're gonna have a party with Oasis in the next couple of days, maybe something huge is gonna happen. So, y'know, we may finally have a good rock 'n' roll story to tell." A fight with Oasis maybe? Keanu: (Exploding) "Look man, it's about the music... THE MUSIC. MUSIC. NEW MUSIC EXPRESS (sic). MUSIC. (Really not very happy) When are you gonna talk about the, er, what is that, the er, bottom line of self abuse? Or, er, anger, pain in music, in the creative act? Then we could speak about that maybe: masochism and creativity or, er, hate and the psycho motive, the Bacchanalian and Dionysus influences in music. (Side note: I'm going to go a little Beavis & Butthead here and say he he, he said psycho motive. It seems there's a lot of that going around.  Don't mind me, like I said I'm on cough medicine and obviously bouncing off the walls)Oops! The New 'Music' Express has once again done what it does best: upset one of the most famous people in the world. Best to ask him about drugs then. Er, take many? "Oh, like we're gonna confess we do drugs and have indiscriminate sex," he explodes once again. "Look, OK, we're just not 'fessing up to it, but we are in fact morally bankrupt. OK? OK? You want it? YES! OK, you got it. We're naughty. OK!" Bret: "What's morally mean?" Keanu: "It's a mushroom....(Going off on one) Hey, but anyway when we're in London, do you know anywhere we can scroo... Where are your girlfriends, the white women and needles?!" (side note AGAIN: A mushroom!! ROTFLMAO )Bob: "I know something rock that happened. Keanu and our manager had a punch fest to see who could hit each other the hardest...." Keanu at this point does a very curious thing: gone is the laid-back is-he-or-isn't-he as thick as shit mystery, instead blazes into an astonishingly mercurial soliloquy: (Affecting an Ealing Broadway murder mystery accent) "After f---ing these five birds and doing coke and heroin all night I woke in the morning, I drank my own mini-bar, then started on my own piss and blood. Then I found out one of the girls was dead, another girl woke up screaming, so I punched her out and then the police came to the door, they shot me in the leg as I tried to strangle the constable. "I've had my blood changed recently. I feel quite good..." Uh-oh, Keanu Reeves has quite literally gone pop. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See, I told you it was one of the most BIZARRE Keanu interviews I've ever read. The first time I read "birds" I was like, what!? But then I got it-birds=women. LOL Keanu sure got wound up by that guys interview questions, didn't he? | ||
| 2009-03-13 09:56:24 | |||
ADMIN Forum Posts: 3074 Comments: 405 Reviews: 1 | Definitely one of the best interviews ever. Mushrooms! (Probably because morels = some kind of mushroom, I think.) | ||
| 2009-03-13 16:43:59 | |||
| Forum Posts: 4842 Comments: 381 Reviews: 13 | Man, love that interview. love the guys, too. but K was right. it IS / WAS about the MUSIC. there's something about their sound, rough, unpolished yet round, full... something about the lyrics. and yes, something about the anger. they DID have something in common with the Foo Fighters... not only the anger, but the irony... in the same time, there's a slight change of 'tone' between their 1996 album and the 2000 one... *shrugs* it's one of my favorite bands... 'cause somehow I resonate with the sound... can't really explain it. has nothing to do with the fandom, though. listened also Becky's album, like a few songs, but ... it's not 'me'. completely different sound. I'm a Foo Fighters, 3 Doors Down kinda girl with occasional incursions in the Pink Floyd world... or Manson's "Eat Me, Drink Me " album... 'cause it's atypical for him... anyway... what I meant is... too bad most journalists did not pay attention to the music. they could have been up for a surprise... | ||
| 2009-03-13 18:34:01 | |||
ADMIN Forum Posts: 3074 Comments: 405 Reviews: 1 | Ok, it's up. -> www.whoaisnotme.net/articles/1996_0803_you.htm Now the world will know that Rob Mailhouse once swallowed a goldfish.  | ||
| 2009-03-13 18:36:09 | |||
| Forum Posts: 4842 Comments: 381 Reviews: 13 | let's make him an honorific member of the SWAT Team | ||
| 2009-03-13 23:03:58 | |||
ADMIN Forum Posts: 3074 Comments: 405 Reviews: 1 | Totally. Hey, Bret and Rob have Myspace pages, right? We can tell them! EDIT: Wait, what. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseact...iendID=55544399 Bret lists gender as 'female'. Was that meant as a joke or something we should keep lflipout far away from?  | ||
| 2009-03-13 23:43:13 | |||
| Forum Posts: 4842 Comments: 381 Reviews: 13 | I have this link : http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendid=55544399 gender not listed, though and his songs are missing that 'something', that grunge touch... that anger that was present in the Dogstar sound... no, won't start... didn't look for Rob's page yet.... and speaking of iflipout... she's pestering now the topix forum with her theories... | ||
| 2009-03-14 08:19:49 | |||
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That's EXACTLY it Anakin. I thought that was really clever!!! | ||
| 2009-03-14 08:25:10 | |||
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So true Luca. I think it probably irked Keanu and company that they had to talk about Keanu's fame and fans and not so much about the music at times. Plus, that magazine's name was (is) NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS.  I like Dogstars sound more than Becky's too. The one Becky song I really like is "I Adore You." I've been on a Depeche Mode and English Beat kick. (Am stoked that Depeche Mode is going on tour this year with their new CD! Yay!) With a dash of Muse on the side. | ||
| 2009-03-14 08:26:47 | |||
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Excellent! | ||
| 2009-03-14 08:27:57 | |||
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Bret always had a warped sense of humor. Well, all of them really, but I could see Bret putting that. The goofball. | ||
| 2009-03-14 08:33:54 | |||
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Gay theorists never die, they just change forums. Or so it seems. | ||
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