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Live Shows / Re: 10/15 Highline Ballroom, NY, NY
« on: September 10, 2013, 12:40:11 pm »
Hey everyone!!

Just want to make sure that everybody realizes - the Fairfield, CT is SUPER accessible from NYC (and I know there are bunch of Vanessa fans there).

If you jump on the Metro North train from Grand Central, you will be in Fairfield in under 70 minutes, and the venue is literally steps from the train station.  It's a tiny black box theater seating under 200, so it will be a FANTASTIC and intimate environment, even more so than the Highline Ballroom show in NYC five days later.

I'm not recommending Fairfield instead of New York - I'm saying go to both!  I am :)

With love from a very old fan,
Rachel 

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Live Shows / Re: 10/10 - StageOne - Fairfield, CT
« on: September 10, 2013, 12:39:29 pm »
Hey everyone!!

Just want to make sure that everybody realizes - this venue is SUPER accessible from NYC (and I know there are bunch of Vanessa fans there).

If you jump on the Metro North train from Grand Central, you will be in Fairfield, CT in under 70 minutes, and the venue is literally steps from the train station.  It's a tiny black box theater seating under 200, so it will be a FANTASTIC and intimate environment, even more so than the Highline Ballroom show in NYC five days later.

I'm not recommending Fairfield instead of New York - I'm saying go to both!  I am :)

With love from a very old fan,
Rachel 

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Re: Impatient
« on: December 19, 2009, 03:39:05 pm »
i am not patient.  in january, she said later this year.

this year is nearly over.

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / Re: London
« on: June 28, 2009, 04:48:35 pm »
god, i'm in love with this song.  it's been said, but yeah, i totally see the "afterglow" comparison.  it feels like one of those introspective, long-walk-home-alone kind of monologues.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Re: desperately seeking answers
« on: June 28, 2009, 04:39:04 pm »
thank you, guys.

hi, cavin.  i remeeeember you!

my iPod recently got totally shut down and i had to reboot the whole thing.  upon doing so, i listened to harmonium for the first time in...probably a year.  and i remembered how very powerful it had been to me once, and how, even now, it can completely knock me off of my feet.  i stopped thinking too much about V after heroes and thieves - i was not a big fan of that album. 

it was kind of weird to hear songs like "put your hands on me" (which lost the "put your") and "the one" in a studio setting, after having had the live (wonderful!) versions of these songs on my iPod since i was thirteen.  i like vanessa so much better live - i feel like her music has such potential to be something so raw and beautiful, but the studio takes that out of it.  harmonium was great for the precise reason that there wasn't a lot of poppy editing.

so yeah, i, too, am in love with what i've heard of "london," even if i can only make out half of the words.  but i have this crushing fear that i'll hate an album version.

hence my desire to see her perform again...i haven't since, jesus christ, 2005.  i guess four years isn't a huge amount of time for some people, but when it's the difference between being thirteen and being nearly eighteen, it's...colossal.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / desperately seeking answers
« on: June 27, 2009, 11:19:02 pm »
helllllllllllo, nessaholics!  a few of you may remember me from the old boards.  i don't know, i see some familiar names.  point being, it's been a while. 

i apologize, i've been trying to navigate these boards but i'm not as proficient as i once was on the VCMB.

i'm basically looking for a comprehensive update.  what was this new jersey show in march, with the new song that i'm listening to on youtube and in love with?  "london"?

WHERE IS VANESSA?  is she doing ANYTHING?  i miss her.  that sounds creepy.  you know what i mean.  i miss the influence that used to be so powerful in my life.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / acoustic version?
« on: October 12, 2007, 11:11:27 am »
well, that sounds fantastic...where can i find that?

anthony, your site, perhaps?

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / HOM - uhn uh.
« on: October 10, 2007, 10:18:09 am »
i feel like the album version of HOM (gah!  no!  it's PYHOM, i can't used to the abbreviated title!  it's been too long...) is, well...very annoying.  while it may be radio-friendly, technically, i feel like it would give the complete wrong impression of V's music - it sounds very overplayed-radio-na-na-na-ish to me.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / "fools like me"
« on: October 10, 2007, 10:15:35 am »
is it too early to start a thread raving about this song?

i simply can't believe how true it is...i'm sure any girl who's ever fallen for a bad boy (or many, many bad boys, in my case) will agree.  

i love the lines:

"now I see a different man rewriting memories"

"The dreamers get punished most by the truth"

"You say alright...But it's ink on a page"

"It's gotta break in front of me...And it's breaking"

"I loved you all the way, and I'd pick the fool any day"


i haven't been on here in a while; i don't know if you all knew this song before the album.  actually, i'm going to assume that you did, since the lyrics are already in the "heroes and thieves" section.  

mods, forgive me for a possible repost?  let this fly?  i am loooving this song.

--rachel

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / The "I have the album" thread
« on: October 09, 2007, 06:24:59 pm »
"i was SO dissapointed with what they did with Hands on Me.... WHAT was she thinking? i nearly cried with disappointment because it was my favorite song so far. "
-Jessica



i totally agree.  i wasn't too happy with many of the songs that i already knew, and i still am not a huge fan of "nolita fairytale."

but "home" and "more than this"?  i LOVE them.  it's just so freaking surreal, to have a NEW vanessa album.  so many new songs to take in at once!  it's...it's...it's overwhelming haha.  as i've mentioned before, i've been a fan since be not nobody, on the VCMB.  

and this is simply insane.  i need to vanessa rant!  none of my friends get it!  and so i return to the boards :-)

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / Nolita Fairytale-First single??
« on: June 18, 2007, 09:31:47 am »
oh, right, i guess this WOULD warrant a video...........

oh, jesus.

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / well, that's just the thing
« on: June 17, 2007, 08:17:47 am »
okay, i was a bit hasty.  or, i didn't fully explain myself.  i know that we've heard some great stuff from the new album, i'm just somewhat annoyed that "nolita fairytale" has been chosen as the single - because i think it's a terrible representation of what vanessa is...and it's the song that's going to be getting all of the publicity.  that's what i meant by selling out - she's advertising her album with something more mainstream than any of the rest of her music.  okay, possible exception for ATM.

*sigh* i missed you guys :-)  i'm back now.

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / "disappointed" doesn't even cover it
« on: June 16, 2007, 02:57:40 pm »
yes, i'll admit, i've been out of the loop for some months now.  i had been an active member of the vc.com forums, but i kind of fazed out of that when things got dramatic over there.  anyway, i've tried a few times to get some Vinfo, and so i've known that the vc.com site is down?  why?  

anyway, today i decided to once and for all figure out what ever happened to vanessa.  nessaholics, ahoy!  imagine my surprise when i discovered that we have an album release date, a single release date, and can, in fact, listen to this new single?!

so i heard "nolita fairytale."  oh.  my.  god.  i've been stomping around my house in HORROR.  i'm sorry.  in my opinion, it's a trainwreck.  i feel like i'm "not speaking" with my former IDOL.  the poppy tone, the not-even-trying-to-be-deep lyrics, the computerized voice - i was shocked.  shocked and hugely disappointed.  in my eyes, she became the world's biggest hypocrite right there: the song is all about "so what i got dropped from interscope i'm cool with it" (but honestly, it outright SAYS that...what happened to the unicorns and vampires?!)...and yet the style suggests that she is outright selling out.  

what happened to the raw beauty of harmonium?!  if i weren't in love with the song "heroes and thieves," i would have lost interest in this new album entirely.

i don't want to say that vanessa has lost me as a fan.  but, clearly, i will not deny that i am currently lost for words, and not in a good way.

i am not some random spammer, i know how annoying those people are.  i know i don't have too many nessaholic posts to my name, but a few of you will remember me from the old boards (hey, guys, sorry to meet again under these circumstances).  i swear, i am a vanessa FAN.  but i do not condone the idea that being a fan means accepting everything the artist does - i believe that we have every right to give our honest opinions of v's work, most of which i am in love with.

that was a long rant.  sorry, guys.  i hate to be a downer.  but please, i cannot possibly be the only person that feels this way.  i know it's sort of old news, so i'm also sorry if this is redundant to the boards.

--rachel

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / harmonium = love
« on: January 07, 2007, 06:07:39 pm »
yay.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / make love to me?
« on: January 07, 2007, 05:30:08 pm »
this is so not right.  i'll admit it, i've fallen behind on the nessa news.  WHAT IS THIS?!

oh, and to all my old friends from the vc.net forum...hey.  i missed you!


-rachel

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