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Greetings, all-

I'm working on a bio of Modest Mouse for St. Martin Press, which should hopefully be released in fall, 2006, and I need all the help I can get. So if you have something book-worthy to share about Isaac and the band, drop me a note at modestmousebook2005@hotmail.com. I'm also looking for quality pix for the photo spread. I look forward to hearing from everybody!

best,
alan

― Alan Goldsher (Alan G.), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Good luck with that! That said, you have set a red flag to a bull here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

I cant wait!

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Other than a friend giving a very drunken Brock a solid kick to the ass at some stupid popfest in Athens back in 2000, I know absolutely nothing interesting about this band.

― Garrett Martin (Garrett Martin), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I think they are on a major label and they drink beer and they are Jehovah Witnesses and they make vinyl as well as cd formats and they have some success in the smaller markets and they are known to shop at "health" food dtores and the one guy with the lisp can gargle without taking a breath

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

which chapter will be entitled "rape"?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

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― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

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― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

City Of Issaquah - a special place where people care

― donut e-go (donut), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

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― donut e-go (donut), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

The Issaquah Yoga Barn

http://www.yogabarn.com/graphics/maps/iss_smallmap.gif

― donut e-go (donut), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

..or the Yoga Bam. Same difference.

― donut e-go (donut), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

oh..

it's "ISSI-kwah".. not "ee-SSAK-ah"! You'll get many a fingerwagging if you make this mistake!

― donut e-go (donut), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Yoga BAMKICKITUPANOTCH

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Modest Mouse live here...

http://www.seattleluxury.com/realestate/unique/issaquah-23138052/imgs/23138052.jpg

― donut e-go (donut), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

"which chapter will be entitled "rape"?
-- cutty (holle...), June 23rd, 2005."

I'm asking this seriously - isn't the story that he was accused of rape, and then the accuser quickly dropped the charges and he was cleared of everything? Just seems like it would suck to have to walk around with people calling you a rapist if you truly did nothing wrong.

― On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Are you going to talk about the part where they sound like Built to Spill, but not really, because those guys are old?

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

This is the trolley which was the site and source of Modest Mouse's initial presence. The riders enjoyed the trolley-side entertainment...

http://home.comcast.net/~subwaymark/trips/America/photos/YS/issaquah02.jpg

― donut e-go (donut), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

Modest Mouse have modest feet, especially with all that touring! Thank heavens there's a fine establishment to provide comfort for those poor soles.

http://www.footzone.com/images/store_issaquah.jpg

― donut e-go (donut), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

Yr on fire dude.

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

MAke sure you mention the RAPE ACCUSATION!

― Ultragrill (ex machina), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

jon, did you read the thread?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 June 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

even considering this theory, wouldn't there still be a chapter on this incident in a proper biography?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 June 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

Cutty, no. But there's some interview I think on pf0rk that has him talking about it.

― Ultragrill (ex machina), Thursday, 23 June 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

i don't know if you guys know about it, but this guy was charged with rape once
just a thought

― 86 HAVE YOU EVER NEEDED SOMEONE SO BAD DEF LEPPARD (deangulberry), Thursday, 23 June 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

RAPE

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 June 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

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― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 June 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

why is that kid dressed up like prince harry?

― Lingbertt, Thursday, 23 June 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

also the drummer's "issues" ...

― jugg (tk), Thursday, 23 June 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm asking this seriously - isn't the story that he was accused of rape, and then the accuser quickly dropped the charges and he was cleared of everything?

Well, there's two sides. The Stranger famously published a very poorly researched article that more or less accused him of rape, and then retracted it after the Murder City Devils and their people denied a bunch of claims from the original article. In fact, one of the MCD people claimed that there was absolutely no way it could have happened because she was sleeping on the floor like five feet away.

On the flip side, my friend Larry (of a million punk bands from Seattle and Oakland) claims that he knows this girl very well, and that she isn't a liar, and that she still maintains that it happened.

All I can say for sure is that I hate this band's music.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 23 June 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

i was once a friend of the girl in question. I've also met Isaac once as well.. though it was more of a "hey there" type of thing and that's it. They are both cool people.

from closest accounts.. two people were drunk... and there were no witnesses, but something happened. was it "rape" or not? no one will a) ever tell, b) never know, and/or c) want to just fucking move on. when the stranger article first popped up, all of a sudden, there was a sharp chasm in the seattle hipster/indie scene at the time.. PFFFT.. parted like the red sea better than 1000 moseses. So people have their theories, but nothing can be proven. And now the stranger has been suckling the mouse teat ever since... (last time they got a main story that is.)...

Personally, the whole "rape" thing was old five years ago, and it's kinda stupid to keep perpetuating it, since the above has already been told a gazillion times..

― donut e-go (donut), Thursday, 23 June 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

Their music rapes my ears.

also the drummer's "issues" ...

Do tell.

― Ultragrill (ex machina), Thursday, 23 June 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Hi, all-

Glad to see the debate has been stirred up.

I'm absolutely going to address the rape accusations, as well as the DUI charge that landed Isaac in jail for a week-and-a-half. I want this to be an evenhanded book, showing the good and the bad.

And again, feel free to contact me directly at modestmousebook2005@hotmail.com

Thanks!
alan

― Alan Goldsher (Alan G.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Rapening is what's happening

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

I lent him a lighter once at a keg party.

Also, I like how they're all kind of ugly looking.

― Dueling Homeboys, Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Their SNL performance of "Float On" boasted the most off-key backing vocal I have ever heard in my life (courtesy of the tall thin dude).

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

That guy sang on Beck's One Foot In The Grave, didn't he? On "Forcefield" and some others.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

also the drummer's "issues" ...

Do tell.

i had heard from a reliable source that the drummer was booted out because he was a pill popping, paranoid, delusional, schizophrenic, suicidal freak that did some crazy shit to himself & others. i guess once MM took off w/ "Float On" he cleaned up and was brought back.

― jugg (tk), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Was your reliable source Magnet? Because that's pretty much what they said.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

..and I think Magnet is at least partially full of shit.

― donut e-go (donut), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

..or just getting one side of the story.. which, by definition, is not trying hard enough, IMHO.

― donut e-go (donut), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Was your reliable source Magnet? Because that's pretty much what they said.

nope. friend of the band.

― leonard (tk), Friday, 24 June 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

That guy sang on Beck's One Foot In The Grave, didn't he?

nope. that was sam jayne from lync/love as laughter.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 24 June 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

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