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The Rules Of The Game #10: Embracing The Ashlee Whirlpool

Still think my writing suffers from a bit of stage fright at LVW, and I've only scratched the surface with Ashlee and don't say much about the sound. But I like this, hope it'll open up Ashlee for some of you the way my Pazz & Jop piece opened up Eminem for some people back in early 2001.
EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.
[UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:
http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html]
(Oh, and to answer the question that LVW poses in the subhead, I way prefer Ashlee to Alanis, but I think Ashlee's best, "La La" and "Shadow" and "I Am Me," gets edged out by my favorite couple of Beatles songs ("She Loves You" and "You Can't Do That"). I've always hated "Let It Be," however.)

Still think my writing suffers from a bit of stage fright at LVW, and I've only scratched the surface with Ashlee and don't say much about the sound. But I like this, hope it'll open up Ashlee for some of you the way my Pazz & Jop piece opened up Eminem for some people back in early 2001.
EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.
[UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:
http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html]
(Oh, and to answer the question that LVW poses in the subhead, I way prefer Ashlee to Alanis, but I think Ashlee's best, "La La" and "Shadow" and "I Am Me," gets edged out by my favorite couple of Beatles songs ("She Loves You" and "You Can't Do That"). I've always hated "Let It Be," however.)
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Date: 2007-08-09 09:53 pm (UTC)(i guess there's a hint of "a complete telling" being something to do with the mode of delivery, rather than the content: ie "he told the complete story, but in an offhand distracted rather sarcastic way" is NOT the same as "he completely told the story" -- ??)
(haha in fact i think "completely" is subconsciously intended to modify "intricate"! but thx to position in sentence it behaves as a kind of inadvertently transferred epiphet at best, which is why it feels weaker) (even tho -- again -- i'm fairly sure that the upper layer of meaning is much the same, the whole story gets told whichever word is being qualified...)
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Date: 2007-08-09 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-10 08:11 am (UTC)and note the difference between "i swallowed the sausage whole" and "i swallowed the whole sausage" -- the second can (just about) include the possibility that you ate it in bites