ani_difranco Glory Box warrior poet beat poet so much beauty she finds the words that elude me, escape my grasp. and I live knowing she has been right where I am, and seen my view. and on dark nights full with ghosts and sleeplessness, I can lie awake and commune with the common soul, the angry girl inside us all. 010618 ... rubydee i first saw her in a tiny college theater..probably 30 of us total. she sang her angry songs, but also told us the stories of her life. her vibrancy and love for life evident through the rage. she is not an angry girl. i am not an angry girl. we're just trying to do the best with what we've been given. the last time i saw her was about four years ago...a smokey pub. it was valentines day and some guy had sent her twenty feet of strudel. she shared it with the audience but didn't talk as much. i liked the strudel but missed the intimacy. 010619 ... dB Only recently I got into her stuff (Thanks again s'bob). Ther eis something about her words that strikes a chord with me. Her earlier stuff I think is more emotive and has less 'throw-away' songs on the albums. Puddle Dive is excellent. Up up up up up up has some great tracks (The title track and Tis' of thee, great stuff), but there are some things on there that I don't like as much and only use as background music rather than stuff I actually listen to. On the whole though, she has to be one of the top 5 lyricists I have ever heard. When I go to the states I am not leaving until I see her live. 010619 ... black-dyed gel product I was in a band with a female drummer. She wanted us to cover an ani difranco song, but I refused. I am not about to sing a line like "I'm not a pretty girl." Of course I'm not a pretty girl, I 'm a guy! Nevertheless, she had a big bjork poster in her room that scared the hell out of me because its eyes seemed to follow you. 010620 ... dB Well, the singer in my band (female) has to sing a line like "Does he do for you the things I used to do?". Yeah, think about it. 010620 ... black-dyed gel product now that's comical! 010620 ... stupidpunkgirl i'm seeing her in a few days...i'm excited 010621 ... yummyC which album is your favorite? (directed towards anyone) 020310 ... dB It's a tie between Upupupupup and Puddle Dive 020310 ... hey now! little plastic castle 020310 ... silentbob i havent heard a lot of her albums. its a tie between what i have heard. puddle dive, dilate, living in clip 020310 ... angie I frequently use her peice "fuel" for play auditions. I love the rhythm...its fun to have memorized. She is amazing. She can do so much with a guitar. 020310 ... Casey puddle dive 020331 ... velvetdesire 'art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there and it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define' -ani difranco 020401 ... velvetdesire i saw her last night in concert i was two people away from her (there were two moments when a feeling of complete euphoria swept over me) 020415 ... silentbob was she with noe_venable? 020416 ... velvetdesire no, it was the last night of her solo tour 020416 ... silentbob 32 Flavors - squint your eyes and look closer, I'm not between you and your ambition, I am a poster girl with no poster, I am thirty-two flavors and then some, and I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might wanna turn your head, cuz some day you are going to get hungry, and eat most of the words you just said. both my parents taught me about good will, and I have done well by their names, just the kindness I've lavished on strangers, is more than I can explain, still there's many who've turned out their porch lights, just so I would think they were not home, and hid in the dark of their windows, til I'd passed and left them alone. god help you if you are an ugly girl, course too pretty is also your doom, cause everyone harbors a secret hatred, for the prettiest girl in the room, and god help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash, a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy, while you are just flying past. I never tried to give my life meaning, by demeaning you, and I would like to state for the record, I did everything that I could do, I'm not saying that I'm a saint, I just don't wanna live that way, I will never be a saint, but I will always say, squint your eyes and look closer, I'm not between you and your ambition, I am a poster girl with no poster, I am thirty-two flavors and then some, and I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head, cuz someday you might find you're starving, and eating all of the words you said. ani difranco not alanna davis 020417 ... yellow 5 one my fave ani songs. wish i may. i'm losing my love of adventure i'm losing all respect for me and myself tonight i wonder what happens if i get to the end of this tunnel and there isn't a light ive worn down the treads on all of my tires i've worn through the elbows and the knees of my clothing and i'm stumbling down the gravel driveway of desire trying not to wake up my sleepy self-loathing do you ever have that dream when you open your mouth and you try to scream but you can't make a sound that's everyday starting now that's everyday starting now dont tell me it's gonna be alright you can't sell me on your optimism tonight it's a stiff competition to see who can stay up later the stars or the street lights and all they really want is to be alone with the darkness no more wish i may no more wish i might it takes a stiff upper lip just to hold up my face i gotta suck it up and savor the taste of my own behavior i am spinning with longing faster then a roulette wheel this is not who i meant to be this is not how i meant to feel i don't think i am strong enough to do this much longer god, i wish i was stronger this song could never be long enough to express every longing god, i wish it was longer... 020417 ... Glory Box Revelling. Both Hands was my anthem for a month and a half. I would listen in the morning before I went to school, and sit through the whole class squirming, with the melody in my head and the words right on the tip of my tongue. Sometimes, when I was brave, I would hum quietly, hoping that the girl next to me couldn't hear. 020826 ... squint likes ani d. I am burning a copy of a CD of hers for a friend who has jigsaw albums, ours fit together in a straight line and do not repeat and I was wondering if maybe somewhere there was someone with the missing albums, and we have yet to meet her or him but when we do, everything will be complete. Until then, I will keep up the collection and try to ignore the vacancy. 020826 ... silentbob cds i own: Living in Clip (that's a 2 disc set dontcha know) Puddle Dive Dilate and yeah. thats all. i hope to one day purchase them all. next on my list will probably be Reveling and Reckoning. school night fucking kills me. but chances are, i'll get some song from living in clip stuck in my head and i'll want to go buy the studio version, then i'll buy whatever cd whatever song that might be is on. i've almost done that with out of range, anticpate, and both hands. gorgeous! 020826 ... girl_jane I listened to the radio a bit this morning. She was on npr (national public radio) talking about her new album-so much shouting so much laughter...they played a bit of it, and I want to have it for myself... 020906 ... pensais i've seen her four times, and cannot get enough, will see her in a month ... constantly quoting her, because a mind that brilliant and talented cannot be left an untapped resource 020906 ... Teenage Jesus Forget her man. Give me Mary Ann Faithful any day. 020906 ... sabbie just remember that i love you remember you were warned outta me onto you life anthems, like tattooed tree rings. thank you ani 021222 ... silent helper tattooed_tree_rings 021222 ... MyFigureFemale are there words to describe her? I can't form a clear train of thought when I hear her name or her music. This is the artist that had me singing in the middle of class when I forgot where I was... Hehe, nothing like a musicless serenade for psych students :) 030701 ... crimson I am the biggest Ani DiFraco whore ever. It's obnoxious. She wages battles with Words and an acoustic guitar They're the only things worth Fighting with But far from the only things Worth fighting for 030815 ... crimson NO, DAMNIT!!! The thing that was worth doing in my pathetic boring life was just cancelled. I recently recieved a call saying Ani's show (With Willie Nelson) in Sept. is cancelled. ::twitch:: Oh well. *sucks it up* 030822 ... silentbob but i guess that this is the price that we pay for the privilege of living for even a day in a world with so many things worth believing in school_night 031122 ... endless desire i wish i could hear more of her. i really like all the songs ive ever heard. . . which songs should i download? 031122 ... the pelvic thrust fuel not_a_pretty_girl out_of_range untouchable_face joyful_girl swan_dive sorry_i_am and tiptoe is a good spoken word and she did some great work with utah_phillips telling stories i mostly know the older albums, but very good stuff. i crave these songs now. gerr. 031123 ... pipedream so good so good so apt i hear myself in her voice 031123 ... Death of a Rose was tempted to buy a cd of hers, but the fookin cost is unbelievable. 031123 ... sabbie and the tickets went on sale today and i called and there is only the back row left. at least i'm going. the pantheon for a brave_new_girl needs a number of short, musical goddesses 031123 ... Flowers from Safeway Hey, E.D. Here is my list of essentials: Anticipate outta me, onto you 32 flavors Buildings and bridges Out of Range Angry anymore tiptoe Egos like Hairdos Fire door Roll with it Fuel As is Freakshow Back Back Back Superhero Shy Shameless Rush Hour Icarus Evolve Make me stay Anyday Subdivision Back around I'd better stop now. I could go on and on. 031124 ... endless desire thank you :) im not sure if my computer can handle this 031124 ... never is always Shameless is the second best song in the universe (after Stretched On Your Grave, by Sinead_O'Connor), then comes 32 flavors 040222 ... endless desire i one of her many cds. the one with 'both_hands' as the first song because i knew i loved that song so i figured whatever cd had that song on it had to be good. it's amazing. she's brilliant in so many ways. what a poet. god, the beat and her rhythm sticks with me and i can't help myself. anyways, i was wondering what your favourite cds were? (if anyone pays attention to this) 040525 ... nonlucid seen her name twice sporadically (never heard of before) here in the last couple of days, then an article about her in the paper telling me that she has a concert in my city tonight... coincidence? 040703 ... silentbob and when did this MeMeMe!!! Become the be and end all of me 040716 ... silentbob my favorite is probably living_in_clip because it was my introduction and since then i prefer all those live versions of the songs, especially both_hands because it is HUGE but i also really genuinely love her new one, educated guess 040716 ... jl you can't hide behind social graces so don't try to get all touchy feely.. cause you lie to my face of all places, but i have no problem with that really.. what bugs me is you dont know what youre saying what bothers me is you dont know how you feel what scares me is while your telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real -asis this melancholy that i carry makes me feel so grown up at the kitchen table doing shots of resignation.. i never thought i'd see the day i say i give up and break the stallions of my wildest expectations... Up x6 is really good too.. t 050417 ... jl you can't hide behind social graces so don't try to get all touchy feely.. cause you lie to my face of all places, but i have no problem with that really.. what bugs me is you dont know what youre saying what bothers me is you dont know how you feel what scares me is while your telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real -asis this melancholy that i carry makes me feel so grown up at the kitchen table doing shots of resignation.. i never thought i'd see the day i say i give up and break the stallions of my wildest expectations... Up x6 is really good too.. t 050417 what's it to you? who go blather from