Re: Karin's voice; Mike Stipe

["Jillian Tully" <waytogojane at hotmail_com>]

>What troubles me
>about Mr. Stipe is less who he is, but rather how others in the 
>Alternative
>crowd (notice the capital A--meaning, of course, the market 
>constructed
>Alternative) hold him as this Rock and Roll Buddha figure. Rolling 
>Stone
>ran a picture of Mr. Stipe kneeling before a child, with a similarly 
>bald
>Billy Corgan kneeling as well. VERY BIZARRE. 

Seriously...what's that Smashing Pumpkins video where Billy Corgan has 
that cowboy hat on,looking uncannily like Michael Stipe in "Man On The 
Moon"?

>I like the idea of Michael Stipe, but find the enigmatic gentleman 
>himself
>a bit annoying. Before his coming out as a bi-sexual, he had been
>romantically linked to Natalie Merchant (there's even a stale rumor 
>that
>they were married for a time--doubt that, though) 

Natalie Merchant gets romantically linked to people? Wow...that's news. 


I personally am a fan of REM..."Radio Free Europe", "Perfect Circle", 
"Don't Go Back To Rockville", "Fall On Me"...good stuff! :)

~jillian~

np: ABBA _Dancing Queen_ 

"How about unabashedly bawling your eyes out?" - Alanis Morissette

"But take your time, think a lot, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may 
not..." - Cat Stevens

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