I know we don't need another thread about her but can someone explain what has been going on with Marissa Marchant in some kind of condensced form so that I don't have to go back and read every threa

I may have the details wrong. I haven't really been paying that much attention.

She's not crazy: you are crazy. That's why she's changing her name.

She is not a popist.

marissa marchant is a singer/songwriter with an eclectic array of original songs inspired by years of real
marissa marchant is a highly developed writer

She caused imfamy to be associated with her by boldly stating that all signed artists had no talent and no beauty, compared to her. Also, for selling her own CDs (that don´t exist as such) for $1000 per volume (of which there are four)

She went round various sites that have CDs for sale and allow reviews to be posted online, and comparing Aanis Morisette etc, in disparaging terms, and bigging herself up.

At first glance, it seemed to be someone with an inflamed sence of her own importance. now, it seems its someone that goes through troughs of paranoia - schizo - and deeply with it.

I´ve had a number of emails from her, from the furiously abuive (the first one) to the warmer kind (and one I can only assume was mildly fliratious). About a month ago, she posted on this board thanking folk for the support. now, I guess she´s down. Mostly because her web page is down again (cause or effect? Who knows)

All this, but the odd thing is that she actually is not a talentless berk. Or an ugly old dog. She actually is good looking and can play/perform to a reasonably high degree. Whether she has done any of this recently is a moot point.

I have no idea how old she is. Her pics suggest mid twenties, but they could be up to 10 years old by some of the things she´s said previously.

As I say, the music she has done varies in quality on the ´finish´.

There is a "Laugh I nearly bought one" thread on her tapes that I wrote, check that for more inf.

That´s about it I think.

Like I say, when she´s ´well´ she seems quite a nice person. When she´s not, she seems to go arund attacking all the people she likes! This is not a good thing.

Like I say, when she´s ´well´ she seems quite a nice person. When she´s not, she seems to go around attacking all the people she likes! This is not a good thing.

I´m getting off now. Best of wishes, get well soon, bye and thanks.

sorry i didn't mean it. i love you.

What, you dont want to fuck me then? The nerve ;P Make up yer mind.

Re her almost-good-enough-ness: There's a short story by Charles Baxter (I can't think of the title offhand, but can look it up later if anyone cares) that features a female character who truly reminds me of Marissa (except for the megalomania). In the final finding, she comes across as sympathetic, and so, in the final finding, might Marissa (though surely not in the way she hopes). Some of the participants in these cyber-beatings may come to feel funny about it all in years to come. The phenomena of failure and being not quite good enough work like a low-grade fever on the psyche. The thing is, you don't have to be wholly delusional ("How do you think you did" "Not...too...shabby!!!") to deceive yourself about whether you possess the last, crucial 5%. And of course unrecognized genius does exist, like an unclaimed lottery prize, on the periphery of all our unrealized ambitions.