Achtung Baby!

So for the time being, I'm being patient

+ Elvis Costello and the Imposters "I Know" @ The Architectural Dance Society
+ Fiona Apple: Green Chimneys intern

you were kissing me once more than once

//paper moon

photo: Sophie Delaporte

[ Maude Maggart & Fiona Apple - Paper Moon ]

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms.
I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her.

-- Pablo Neruda

Sarah Slean - Twin Moon (live, 1997)

Criminal was Criminal

 "Criminal" performed @ 1997 Vh1 fashion awards  

A) For almost a year I've had Fiona's "Criminal" performance from the 1997 VH1 fashion awards show  up on YouTube. They decided to randomly remove it. Without notice. At least before Google bought them I received a notice once, before they removed a Fiona performance from Leno I had posted. And by "randomly removed" and "without notice" I mean some Punk Ass Bitch must have pulled the god damned DMCA on it.

B)  Location 1 , Location 2 , Location 3

C) Fuck You Viacom.

+ Update: Viacom tells YouTube to remove content

[ Previously....A tale of two Criminals ]

[ Please Send Me Someone To Love ]

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+ Jeff Buckley: Please Send Me Someone To Love@ I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS

Fiona Apple: Please Send Me Someone To Love

Fiona and QT on ICONOCLASTS

Video Clip: Fiona: I hardly ever write anything down..........

Video Clip: QT: I'm a sound check virgin..............

[ one more ] Video Clip: It's like some sort of "God antenna"....

Fiona and Quentin Tarantino on ICONOCLASTS will air this Thursday, November 9th @ 9 PM ET/PT. The sound check from this episode is from the same show I went to see this summer. In fact, in my original post I asked "Was that Quentin Tarantino backstage?"

Sally's Song

+ Fiona Apple's cover of "Sally's Song" from the new re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas.

10 Years Under The Waves

She sat down at the piano
the most beautiful pianist in the world
dressed in a photographer's robe
I was rambling through the yellow pages
of my old slave's heart
for something better than gratitude
when upon the mucous she installed
the tiniest royal sailing ship
the sea has ever given back
saying, Sometimes I am with thee
sometimes I must go to where
a man is stranger to his pain.
Leonard Cohen , The Energy of Slaves

Original Release Date: July 23, 1996 

It seems like it was just yesterday that I read a review on TIME magazine about this album and ran out and got it. It was 6.99 at Circuit City that week it came out. Instantly I was fanatical about it. Back then Sony had a message board for Fiona and that was about it, so I decided to make a fan page ( what a mid-90's teenage thing to do? ). It was called Under The Waves. Soon after I created a mailing list with the same name that got a following and a guy named Steve (I think) made shirts for it:

I got to meet Fiona once. I should have become a groupie and gone on the road with her.

Good thing I Scanned this because it got stolen. Ok, enough of this walk down memory lane.

+ TIME: WISE BEYOND HER YEARS: STILL A TEEN, FIONA APPLE BITES INTO ADULT PASSIONS.

+ Sleep To Dream (live Paris 1996) - "She made her stage debut at a music business function  in Paris." 

+ Timeline

+  Elvis Costello's "I Want You" by Fiona Apple

Things that cheered me this week

// Veronica Mars Season 1 rocked my socks off

// Lilly Allen made my car's stereo happy 
+ "Oh My God " cover

// The Venture Brothers delivered a classic episode
+ Clip from last Sunday's Episode
+ The Venture Bros.: "Hate Floats" Review
+ The Monarch's homage to Scared Straight

// Fiona performed a PERFECT live rendition of "I Know" last night at the backyard. Was that Quentin Tarantino backstage?
+ Fiona Apple, I Know (extract)  Victoria Apollo Theatre, London

// The All New Atom #1 was sprinkled with random quotes. Great first issue. Based on ideas and concepts by Grant Morrison. 

+ Dial B for Blog reviews Superman Returns

apple live again

Went and saw Fiona Apple's show opening for Snoreplay this weekend. The song that got the biggest reponse when people recognized it was Paper Bag so here's an old bootleg live version of it.

+ Fiona Apple puts eccentric style to good use during Dallas show -

Her performance Sunday was absorbing, not in the least because of her eccentric style, including lots of fist-shaking and dramatic gestures.

One of the most impressive aspects was her seeming refusal to give anything less than 100 percent.

+ Cold Apples In Dallas

+ old vids at youtube

+ fiona apple/coldplay 2/25/06 vid

Fiona Apple | 120 Minutes

Lets celebrate the start of Fiona's Tour! Here's Fiona's first apperance on MTV's 120 minutes.
//Source 1
//Source 2

+ SFC -  "Years of silence have hardly dulled Fiona Apple's intensity. She's back, wielding it like a sharp knife."

Photo from David Garza's ( this tour's opening band ) site. Thanks Chepo.

+ Fiona & Jon Brion "Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me" @myspace

Fiona | Sleep To Dream @ Sessions

Sessions @ 54th
Saturday November 22, 1997
Fiona Apple - Sleep To Dream

//source1 , source 2

+ Fiona Apple bruised but ready for tour
+ Tour Dates with Coldplay

Fiona | Angel Unplugged

Fiona Apple - "Angel"  from MTV Unplugged
// source 1,  source 2, source 3

A tale of two Criminals

"Criminal" performed on Letterman (Pre-MTV speech?)
// source 1, source 2, source 3.

"Criminal" performed on some Vh1 fashion awards show ( Post MTV speech Go With Yourself  Edition)
// source 1, source 2, source 3.

+ Fiona Apple commentary of "Criminal" 

Fiona Apple | First Leno Apperance

"She's 18 years old and tonight she's making her television debut.." Video of Fiona on Leno back in 1996 ( I think it was 96 ) with Matt Chamberlain and Jon Brion.

/// Source 1, Source 2, Source 3 [ Windows Media - 6.30 meg ]

+ Fiona Yahoo news archive
+ Fiona gallery

I know /video/

There's a live video of "I Know" on the official site and a rip of it here.

Fiona live @ virgin

+ VV: Fiona Apple Attacks Fans (With Music)
+ Virgin Megastore Hi-Res Pictures
+ The real story behind Fiona Apple's 'Machine'

[ Extraordinary Machine (live) ]

[ Extraordinary Machine (live) ReAct Now Music Relief MTV 9-10-05 ] via

+ New NIN Song: "Non Entity"
+ FOO FIGHTERS - "BORN ON THE BAYOU"