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 Post subject: Marvelous Things reviewed in new Blender magazinePosted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 8:17 am 
I don't really agree with the rating, but three out of five stars isn't bad. Here's the review: "With a lovely second EP, Coldplay tourmates replace Hanson as Best Family of Towhead Musical Moppets Growing up home-schooled and cabless in the East Texas town of Tyler, the DuPree kids had a lot of time to develop their imaginations, carving out an odd insular little fantasy world. Their band name is a Star Wars reference, and their music could be dubbed Narnia-pop. Singer-songwriter Stacy (the youngest at 15, she leads two sisters, a brother and a neighborhood friend) looks and sounds something straight out of British fabulist C.S. Lewis. Here she plays Alice, guidings us through a misty, minor-key Wonderland populated by "Marvelous Things" — mermaids, horses that grow from the ground, bats with butterfly wings and two-part harmonies that swoop and soar. Dork? Sure. But with songs this full of imagination and existential yearning, Eisley can hoard their 36-sided dice and Magic cards with pride." Excuse any typos in that ... I that keyed it in, as we say in the newsroom ... _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Joined: 15 Aug 2003 | Posts: 25185 | Location: East Texas
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 8:36 am
I'll check it out on newstands thanks for the info _________________ http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=KevinNaaaaaa |
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Joined: 24 Dec 2003 | Posts: 1350 | Location: Los Angeles
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 8:39 am
I'm tired of all of the Hanson comments, and how people make the music sound like it's all just fairy tale stuff (when it really holds much deeper meanings), but oh well... Thanks for sharing the article, Jamie. 
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 1:31 pm
At least it's a pretty positive review... As fickle and capricious as Blender is, they easily could have skewered the whole thing. _________________ INTELLECT AND ROMANCE OVER BRUTE FORCE AND CYNICISM Smokemonster |
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Joined: 24 Sep 2003 | Posts: 14510 | Location: Alone on an airplane, fallin' asleep against the windowpane...
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 1:56 pm
wow, that reviewer sounds like a total ass. those are the kinds of people i can't stand to be around for very long. pure condescension, and a backhanded compliment at best. ugh. jamie, don't ever get so jaded as a journalist, my friend. but thanks for posting, as they say, any press is good press. _________________ hello. |
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Joined: 23 Aug 2003 | Posts: 5978 | Location: Austin, Texas
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:00 pm
ali wrote: wow, that reviewer sounds like a total ass. those are the kinds of people i can't stand to be around for very long. pure condescension, and a backhanded compliment at best. ugh. jamie, don't ever get so jaded as a journalist, my friend.
but thanks for posting, as they say, any press is good press. Exactly. Hanson? Jesus. _________________ "What's with these homies dissing my girl?" - Weezer "I think I know I mean a yes but it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree." - Beatles My Livejournal |
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Joined: 10 Jun 2003 | Posts: 382 | Location: Chicago, Ill
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:14 pm
THEY'RE SIBLING YOU KNOW! AND THEY HAVE INSTRUMENTS! AND BOTH OF THEM SING ABOUT MMMMBOPs _________________ "Without music, life would be a mistake." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Joined: 20 Jul 2003 | Posts: 658 | Location: Austin, tx
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 2:13 pm
Keith wrote: Quote: THEY'RE SIBLING YOU KNOW! AND THEY HAVE INSTRUMENTS! AND BOTH OF THEM SING ABOUT MMMMBOPs Your being psarcastic right? Eisley doesn't sing about mmmmbops. I hope you are being psarcastic. |
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Joined: 11 Nov 2002 | Posts: 3695 | Location: Tyler, TX
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 2:25 pm
i was being sarcastic and unfunnyastic _________________ "Without music, life would be a mistake." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Joined: 20 Jul 2003 | Posts: 658 | Location: Austin, tx
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 2:59 pm
i thought it was funny... -ben PS i like ur avatar _________________ 
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