HELP ME I AM ADDICTED TO MARISSA MARCHANT

Take one of these and call me in the morning.

"Let it Rain" is a great tune concerning the weather and it's unpredictability.

Uh, it's well more than a half-step's worth of difference in a lot of places. This has to have been done on purpose.

The better question is "why."

At laurynhill.com you can watch a video (up to three times!) for $15, buy her book for $75, and get autographed posters and art photos for $500.

I'll pay $1000 dollars for one of those.

She really is a bit unhinged isnt she?

I have a new catchphrase.

i have an extremely stiff flinch reflex to embarrassment but i was grinning all the way through this. this is beyond...i dunno, it's just beyond.

Equating Bruce Hornsby and Bela Fleck: C/D?

In brief: Her songs are actually pretty good. She gets pissed off with comparisons to Tori Amos, but they are kind of unavoidable. But she is 'suffering' from some kind of mania/paranoia/whatever. So everything that should be a minor bugbear gets blown out of all proportion, to the extent of rambling on her website/chalkboard/'interview mp3's'. Etcetera. In a nutshell...

Haha, antiorp unplugged, perhaps?

I still think she's great. I really really want her to succeed.

Urgent and key Marchant self-interview masquerating as a radio interview: http://marissamarchant.com/radio.mp3
-- J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:42 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

it is almost impossible to make it all the way to the end of this MASTERPIECE
-- J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:45 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

oh my god. The mind boggles: I can't download here and my home link is off... Someone want to host this as a zip?
-- mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:57 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

YSI

can leonardo tonight if noone gets to it first

OMG!!!!!!!
http://www.marissamarchant.com/music.html

what?

nothing

time for bed

Why am I seeing this web site?

with a link to sending an email enquiring about buying the domain...

http://i.nuseek.com/images/template/Large-Square/0012_female_student.jpg

she has the piglike snout but i don't see a pond to jump over

0012_female_student.jpg

where is my girl? her domain name is for "intermarket technical analysis" now. :-(

virgonoir.com

Dudes! You have to read the comments section on this SF Weekly piece from 2005. As recently as a month ago there has been someone posting under the name Peoniesfleur vehemently denying that Marissa every existed and that it was all made up. A new layer to the crazy:

I think that they changed her name, changed the titles of her songs, and made up this whole story about 1000 dollar cds to mock and harass her. I do not think she has ever been on IXL.
You have no proof of that either. There was never a person on the net named Marissa Marchant. EVER.

You never EVER her

You know, there was never anyone on the net named Marissa Marchant. Even Chris Dahlen (the author of this article) admitted to that. What proof is there that there was a person named Marissa Marchant? People have this fictitious story out there only for the pleasure of some online harassers that do not have a life of any kind. Who cares if some person who is just another songwriter who doesn't have any talent charges 1000's of dollars for their cd and everyone laughs at them? Obviously, she is not worth writing about in a serious manner. I do think that people were extremely jealous of her talent though. I am not this person. You have no proof. Stop using newspapers and the net as a place to harass, defame, mock and torment people. You have no right to take people's copyrighted material and change their name and make up stories about people. She could contact the FBI. Cyber stalking is a federal offense.

This article was ONLINE harassment and defamation of character. This musician never charged this much money for a CD. The author never spoke to the person before they wrote this misinformed article. They took online gossip and rumors and formed their lame article about a person who has never been online selling cd's at that price. There is nothing in the article about their talent which is dishonest. The most important factor of this artist is their talent. This article is disrespectful, sarcastic and abusive.

Who is Chris Dahlen and why does he write about music???

I was more surprised that she (or whatever, at this point) is still on a rampage six years later!

I don't think I ever actually heard her music.

I never did either.

hey jon and jbr did you miss this thread? VIRGO NOIR

You don't have proof of that....

You don't have proof of anything you are saying..you also don't have a real identity..you have no real name..

You are a liar, defamer and harasser who is anonymous....

You have NO identity...you are a filthy liar.

You never visited my site eight years ago.

― marisa, Monday, July 11, 2011 9:31 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I did miss that one, the title threw me off.

i tried to look up Emu on youtube and it said it was taken down due to a copyright claim by "marissa morris"

they're here

http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Marissa_Marchant

but for god's sake let this thread die before she hears us and comes back to post more insanity.

Vince Noir 1 month ago
In case you never her, poster 'Peoniesfleur' is Marisa herself.

bless you, sleeve

does anyone have the mp3 of her fake radio interview with herself?

^^^looking for an opportunity to snigger in the background IMO

sib

i can't find it :(

songs appear to still be on that encyclopedia dramatica entry

She was the only sane and talented person who has ever posted on these boards. Not brainwashed by the criminal music industry scam or by the merely human musical scales our simple ears are used to, either.

Listening to EMU. Are all her songs out of tune Kate Bush?

I actually kind of love that this was what the fuss was about.

well that and the $1000 CDs

Comparing her to a commercial industry product like kate bush is a complete insult and a lie. That song is clearly a tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival.

was just listening to a prog on the radio about the Portsmouth Sinfonia today. kindred spirits perhaps

does anyone have the mp3 of her fake radio interview with herself?

― beth (crüt), Wednesday, August 24, 2011 6:40 PM (1 hour ago)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/94085166d4c3bbe0/

oh man that there is the horns of dilemma. I want to listen again, but I remember how uncomfortable it made me

that radio interview is like a brain-addled, disturbing grownup version of Gilda Radner's 'Judy Miller Show' SNL sketch. somehow the most unearthly part of it is the way the interviewer pronounces "Bela Fleck".

http://www.youtube.com/user/peoniesfleur

I have a theory (inspired by something I read about Jandek) that all of her internet postings were composed during a single, manic, 24-hour self-clowning session. like a supernova burns with the heat of a trillion suns before cooling off in a flash, the Marissa Marchant persona spewed out more fuming self-righteousness in a day than most of us can manage in a lifetime, and every message we've gotten from her over the past 7 years is a carefully-chosen excerpt from that initial outburst.

unregistered I don't know how to break this to you but I think the "interviewer" is the same person as the interviewee

btw that Jandek theory was a fun idea but also was untrue

OTOH the "single burst of concentrated charisma & talent" version of that idea appears to have actually been true of Axl Rose

oh you just had to blow all my illusions apart, didn't you, aerosmith?

what's next, are you going to tell me that her singing in "Emu" sounds off-key not because the tone-deaf music industry has brainwashed us with no-talent mcdonalized poptarts who win phony awards for hitting the wrong notes, but because she's actually singing really really badly off-key? I don't think I can handle this.

ahem:

I quickly crossfaded straight into 'Emu'. he was very friendly and stood there and the second the first verse started, he dug in, and listened intently through the entire first chorus. and the end of that time I finally said 'she sings that chorus the exact same way each time -- she's not improvising, that's exactly the way she means it, she knows exactly what she wants.' and he nodded, and said 'I think it is something in her ear', smiled and walked away

― Milton Parker, Friday, August 5, 2011 5:36 PM (2 weeks ago)

Ah fuck she likes Gentle Giant, so she can't be 100% awful.

I choose, perhaps advisably, to refrain from critically analyzing the musical taste + output of this performer

http://www.zshare.net/audio/94085166d4c3bbe0/

― why delonge face? (unregistered), Thursday, 25 August 2011 02:15 (11 hours ago) Bookmark

Oh my... you sir are a legend, thanks!

oh man that there is the horns of dilemma. I want to listen again, but I remember how uncomfortable it made me

oh so OTM