The Savage Gardener
#108
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> Hi everyone! Well, Sarah and her brother are off to
> Chicago tomorrow. I must
> say that the only disappointment that's come out of
> meeting her in person is
> that she lives so far away and it may be years
> before we see each other
> again! Luckily they'll be back in February just
> before they go back to
> Brisbane. And as you probably know, since Sarah's
> away from home until
> February, the Savage Gardener's website won't be
> updated until after she
> arrives back in Australia. Anyhoo, welcome to 2000!
> It's pretty cool writing
> "1-?-00" on my papers and such at school! I spent
> New Year's Eve at
> Disneyland with Sarah and her brother and we had
> such a good time! The lines
> weren't even as bad as we expected, probably because
> it started to rain
> (first rain in months, and it was New Year's Eve!).
> And the world didn't blow
> up, so that's a plus! Anyway, as promised, I FINALLY
> have the
> categories/nominees for the second annual Savage
> Song Awards! All the details
> are below :)
>
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SaVaGe
> NeWs
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> **The single for "I Knew I Loved You" was released
> in the U.S. this past
> Tuesday, featuring a remix called the "Mini-Me
> Remix", which is just Daniel's
> remix with a new name! Grrrrrr!!
>
> **Billboard stats! "I Knew I Loved You" is back to
> #4 this week and is the
> only song out of the top ten to have gained airplay
> along with the release of
> the "I Knew I Loved You" single this past Tuesday.
> "Affirmation" drops back
> to #28 this week.
>
> **"I Knew I Loved You" is at #3 on the Rick Dees
> Weekly Top 40 chart.
>
> **The following is brought to you by
> [email protected]:
> -Savage Garden will be performing at the
> American Music Awards on January
> 14th.
> -The guys will be taping for "The Donny and
> Marie Show" on January 15th,
> but as of yet there is no known air date.
> -The "Affirmation" tour will kick off in
> Australia in March.
> -VH1 will be repeating "Hard Rock Live" (best
of
> the 90s) and Savage
> Garden will be performing "Truly Madly Deeply". The
> show airs at 1am this
> Saturday on VH1.
> Note: Air dates for both shows will be in
the
> SGer as I find them out, so
> please, no emails asking what time/channel they'll
> be on because as always,
> I'll let you know!
>
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SaVaGe CoMmEnTs
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> Hey Everyone!!
> I dunno about everyone else but i love seeing Savage
> Garden in magazines,
> because I have to have all the pictures!! And I mean
> ALL of them! But us
> americans.....dont get ANYTHING IT SEEMS! So I am
> starting a petition for
> the magazines to put more of Savage Garden and less
> of Ricky Martin, BSB and
> Nsync, 98 degrees, they are EVERYWHERE and hey where
> are our boys? Lets show
> the world how much we love Savage Garden!! Please
> email meyour name, where
> you are from and why you love Savage Garden and why
> you want to see more of
> them, alot more of them! Hey people may actually
> start buying more of their
> magazines if there is Savage Garden in them! Thanks
> everyone and stay Savage
> lovin!!
>
> Savagely Devoted,
> Anna
> [email protected]
>
> Thanks Lauren!!
>
> [email protected]
>
>
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> Here's an interview transcript Darren did with a
> Dutch magazine. Enjoy!
>
> The interview was in a Dutch magazine this month,
> it's called "Fancy", it's a
> girl's magazine, kinda like the American "Teen" or
> "YM". "F" stands for
> Fancy, "D" is Darren.
>
> THE EYES OF SINGER DARREN (SAVAGE GARDEN) LIGHT UP
> WHEN HE SEES FANCY. "A
> GIRL'S MAGAZINE! SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT LOVE!" NOT A
> BAD IDEA...
> F: So you wanna talk about love?
> D: "Haha! I'm crazy about love, it's an obsession. I
> keep writing about it, I
> talk about it. I'm single now for the first time in
> years. I had a
> relationship with my ex since I was 17, we even were
> married. When I was
> alone for the first time I was very scared. I
> discovered all kinds of things
> about myself. Haha! Now I've been alone for a year
> and a half. I'm starting
> to get used to it. I have to say I'm even starting
> to like living alone. I'll
> have to try not to turn into somebody who is
> irritated by other people's
> habits."
> F: How did you survive the first two months on your
> own?
> D: "I moved from Australia to NYC. There wasn't
> anything there that reminded
> me of home, of her. It's really hard for me to let
> go of somebody, it was
> easier this way. Then I met someone I dated for
> about 8 months. Real fun,
> casual. Americans really date, in Australia you
> don't do that. You go out a
> couple of times and then you get married."
> F: How did you mend your broken heart?
> D: "Well, you have to live with it, right? I cried,
> tried to see her
> differently. I had to get rid of that perfect image,
> the glamourous image I
> had of her. You have to think about what she's
> really like, instead of the
> person you made her in your imagination. Everybody
> has a tendency sometimes
> to look through pink glasses [this is a Dutch way of
> saying somebody's in
> love and
> doesn't see things the way they are, I'm not sure if
> it's English too...]. If
> you take the glasses off there are always friends
> who say "Aaah, she wasn't
> fun
> at all. We already saw that a long time ago!" That
> was about the American
> girl...Could we stop talking about love now?"
> F: Are you a sensitive guy?
> D: "Very much. I'm very emotional, I always use my
> feelings to make
> decisions. It's exhausting. Even in interviews I try
> to give everything I
> have. That's the way I am."
> F: Have you always been like this?
> D: "When I was 16 I was just as passionate. If I
> believe in something I go
> for it. If I love something, I love it. If I hate
> it, I really hate it. I can
> never shut up, I always have to say what I think and
> feel. Even though I feel
> attacked myself pretty soon. I have a tendency of
> loving people quickly, I
> like hugging people. I want attention and love
> myself too."
> F: Did you know you wanted to do music when you were
> 16?
> D: "I wrote my first song when I was 15. It was
> about the death of Marilyn
> Monroe. I forgot what it was called. It went like
> this : "You flew away from
> it
> all. You turned around and the scene had ended. You
> flew away from it all.
> You sweet babe, to be left out in the cold again." I
> was really melancholic.
> Imagine me sitting there with my radio and my
> guitar. My friends became a
> dentist or a nurse. I worked at a movie rent and
> wanted to be a popstar."
> F: Did they make fun of you if you told them you
> wanted to be a popstar?
> D: "My friends were afraid I'd be really
> disappointed. Not many people
> achieve success. If people love you they want to
> make a safety net to catch
> you. They didn't really make fun of me. They did
> when I still thought I was
> black. I wanted to be just like Michael Jackson,
> híhí! For a while I thought
> I was Elliot from E.T... When I was 16 I realized I
> was a white guy from
> Woodridge."
> F: Do you have a lot of confidence in yourself?
> D: "I think most artists are insecure. I started
> doing this because I wanted
> the whole world to love me. I'm doing better than I
> used to. I feel
> comfortable with my incertainties now. But I still
> want the whole world to
> love me."
> F: What makes you feel insecure?
> D: "Being alone, the feeling nobody loves me, my
> appearance. I understand
> that young people feel insecure because of all the
> skinny people you see in
> the media. I think I look pretty healthy. I try to
> show as much "normal"
> people as possible in our videos."
> F: What do you do when you feel alone?
> D: "I call my mum. She understands exactly what's
> happening. She usually
> knows I'm depressed before I do. She knows me. I try
> to spend time with my
> friends. If I'm on tour I go to the fans. They love
> me. If I feel really ugly
> they tell me I'm beautiful. They're faithful.
> Sometimes I feel like I don't
> deserve this."
> F: Are you a daydreamer?
> D: "Oh yeah! I always walk around with my head in
> the clouds. I'm not
> realistic. Today I was thinking about Brazil. I have
> a friend who lives in
> Rio, I've never been there. I was thinking to go to
> Rio for 2 days after this
> promotion tour, that would be great. Unfortunately I
> realized it would be a
> very long flight and I'd hardly have time left to be
> in Rio."
>
> [email protected]
>
> Thanks so much for the transcript, Maaike! I can't
> help but wonder about
> this...if this transcript was posted on the BBS (for
> new members, the BBS is
> the message board on the official Sony SG site),
> would the posters there post
> 100 messages telling Darren to respect his privacy?!
> (Couldn't resist that
> little jab, and come on...you KNOW I'm right!)
> ~Lauren :o)
>
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> Savage-related? If so, put an ad in the new section
> - Savage Classifieds.
> This is for any kind of merchandise for Savage
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> or selling. You can put an ad in if you're looking
> for something, selling
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>
> Remember, if you want to respond to an ad, email the
> person who placed it
> (their email address will always be included), not
> me.
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A Special Section!!
>
> The 2nd Annual Savage Song Awards!
>
> Ok, here's the deal...subscribers who were around
> last December should
> remember my first round with what I called the
> Savage Song Awards (in honor
> of the ARIA awards in Australia). Basically, I made
> up a bunch of categories
> for fun and people voted on which song they thought
> fit the category or was
> most deserving of the category. Because it got such
> a huge response last year
> and people enjoyed doing it, I decided to do them
> again, especially since
> "Affirmation" is finally out. Here's what you have
> to do:
>
> If you have comments about other things in this
> week's SGer, send them
> SEPARATELY from your votes for the SSAs. In other
> words, put your votes for
> the SSAs in an email of their own. Second, you can
> only vote for ONE song per
> category. Lastly, when you vote, put both the letter
> AND the song title. That
> way, in case you put the wrong letter, I'll know
> which song you meant by
> putting the song title there also. Any questions,
> feel free to ask! Without
> further ado, here they are...<insert drumroll
> here>...the nominees for the
> 2nd Annual Savage Song Awards!
>
> 1. Most touching lyric:
> a) "I know I never really treated you right/I've
> paid the price/I'm still
> paying for it every
> day" ~ "I Don't Know
You Anymore"
> b) "A thousand angels dance around you" ~
"I
> Knew I Loved You"
> c) "There's no love on these streets/I have
> given mine away to a world
> that didn't
> want it anyway" ~
"The Lover After Me"
> d) "I think I dreamed you into life" ~ "I
Knew I
> Loved You"
>
> 2. Best Metaphor (ok, so it's not really a metaphor
> but it's the only word I
> could come up with!):
> a) "Time now to spread your wings/To take
to
> flight/The life endeavor" ~
> "You Can
> Still Be Free"
> b) "Silent fortress built to last" ~ "Two
Beds
> and a Coffee Machine"
> c) "You're the center of adrenaline" ~ "The
Best
> Thing"
> d) "A thousand angels dance around you" ~
"I
> Knew I Loved You"
>
> 3. Most controversial statement in "Affirmation":
> a) "I believe you can't control or choose
your
> sexuality"
> b) "I believe that trust is more important
than
> monogamy"
> c) "I believe that wedded bliss negates the
need
> to be undressed"
> d) "I believe that God does not endorse TV
> evangelists"
>
> 4. Best song to run around your house singing at the
> top of your lungs to:
> a) "Affirmation"
> b) "The Best Thing"
> c) "Chained to You"
> d) "The Animal Song"
>
> 5. Best song to mellow out to:
> a) "I Knew I Loved You"
> b) "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine"
> c) "You Can Still Be Free"
> d) "I Don't Know You Anymore"
>
> 6. Saddest song:
> a) "I Don't Know You Anymore"
> b) "The Lover After Me"
> c) "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine"
> d) "You Can Still Be Free"
>
> 7. Song most likely to be featured as a movie theme
> song (except for "The
> Animal Song"!):
> a) "Affirmation"
> b) "I Knew I Loved You"
> c) "Crash and Burn"
> d) "The Lover After Me"
>
> 8. Song most likely to appear in a sappy episode of
> "Dawson's Creek":
> a) "I Knew I Loved You"
> b) "The Lover After Me"
> c) "I Don't Know You Anymore"
> d) "Hold Me"
>
> 9. Line Darren will most likely say to Natalie
> Portman if ever gets to meet
> her:
> a) "I knew I loved you before I met you"
~ "I
> Knew I Loved You"
> b) "This intoxication thrills me, I only
pray it
> doesn't kill me" ~ "The
> Best Thing"
> c) "I believe your most attractive features
are
> your heart and soul" ~
> "Affirmation"
> d) "Fascination cast a spell and you became
more
> than just a mystery" ~
> "Chained
> to You"
>
> 10. Best line to use to pick up a guy/girl:
> a) "I think I dreamed you into life" ~ "I
Knew I
> Loved You"
> b) "You could be the best thing about me"
~ "The
> Best Thing"
> c) "Give me a moment please, to tame your
wild
> wild heart" ~ "Crash and
> Burn"
> d) "I've got to be chained to you" ~ "Chained
to
> You"
>
> 11. Best lyric in "I Knew I Loved You" to use as a
> welcome for a new baby:
> a) "But in your eyes I see my future in an
> instant"
> b) "I knew I loved you before I met you"
> c) "I think I dreamed you into life"
> d) "There's just no rhyme or reason...only
the
> sense of completion"
>
> 12. Flat-out best song on this album:
> a) "Affirmation"
> b) "Hold Me"
> c) "I Knew I Loved You"
> d) "The Best Thing"
> e) "Crash and Burn"
> f) "Chained to You"
> g) "The Animal Song"
> h) "The Lover After Me"
> i) "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine"
> j) "You Can Still Be Free"
> k) "Gunning Down Romance"
> l) "I Don't Know You Anymore"
>
> 13. Best song to listen to after a breakup:
> a) "Hold Me"
> b) "I Don't Know You Anymore"
> c) "The Lover After Me"
> d) "Gunning Down Romance"
>
> 14. Best guitar riff:
> a) "The Best Thing"
> b) "Affirmation"
> c) "Crash and Burn"
> d) "Chained to You"
>
> 15. Best drum compilation:
> a) "The Animal Song"
> b) "Chained to You"
> c) "Gunning Down Romance"
> d) "You Can Still Be Free"
>
> 16. Best piano/keyboard instrumental:
> a) "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine"
> b) "I Don't Know You Anymore"
> c) "The Lover After Me"
> d) "Hold Me"
>
> 17. Best instrumental:
> a) "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine"
> b) "You Can Still Be Free"
> c) "Hold Me"
> d) "The Best Thing"
>
> 18. Best feel-good song:
> a) "Affirmation"
> b) "I Knew I Loved You"
> c) "The Animal Song"
> d) "Crash and Burn"
>
> 19. Spookiest song:
> a) "Gunning Down Romance"
> b) "You Can Still Be Free"
>
> 20. Best song to sing along to in front of the
> mirror:
> a) "Affirmation"
> b) "Chained to You"
> c) "I Knew I Loved You"
> d) "The Animal Song"
>
> **21. Best Warped Title Song to Use in "Star Wars
> Episode 1":
> a) "Naboo Nation"
> b) "Hold Padme"
> c) "I Knew I Loved Amidala"
> d) "The Best Droid"
> e) "Crash and Learn from Qui-Gon"
> f) "Chained to Anakin"
> g) "The Yoda Song"
> h) "The Lover After C-3PO
> i) "Two Jedis and a Pod Racer"
> j) "Jar Jar Can Still Be Free"
> k) "Gunning Down Darth Maul"
> l) "I Don't Know Obi-Wan Anymore"
>
> **22. Best Warped Title Song to Use In "The
> X-Files":
> a) "Alienation"
> b) "Hold Scully"
> c) "I Knew the Truth Was Out There"
> d) "The Conspiracy Thing"
> e) "Crash and Burn Cancerman's Cigarettes"
> f) "Chained to Krycek"
> g) "The Syndicate Song"
> h) "The Agent After Scully"
> i) "Two Agents and a Smoking Man"
> j) "You Can Still Believe, Mulder"
> k) "Gunning Down Marita"
> l) "I Don't Know Diana Anymore"
>
> 23. Line Agent Scully ("X-Files" again) should have
> said after Mulder finally
> kissed her:
> a) "I have been waiting all my life"
> b) "Might need you to hold me tonight"
> c) "You're the best thing about me"
> d) "Compassion in your hands, yeah"
> (YEEEEEEEEEEEAH baby!)
>
> 24. Song That Would Make the Best Movie Storyline:
> a) "I Knew I Loved You"
> b) "Chained to You"
> c) "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine"
> d) "You Can Still Be Free"
>
> 25. Song That Best Shows Darren's Amazing Vocal
> Range:
> a) "I Knew I Loved You"
> b) "The Best Thing"
> c) "The Animal Song"
> d) "You Can Still Be Free"
>
> **Special thanks to [email protected] for helping me
> out with this category!
>
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> That's it for this week's issue of the Savage
> Gardener. Hope all your
> computers survived Y2K (didn't you know it was all
> just hype?!), and I hope
> you enjoy the Savage Song Awards! The winners will
> be announced as soon as I
> finish tallying all the votes! In the meantime,
> catch ya next week!
>
> Peace, love, and Savage Garden!
> Lauren ( <A HREF="mailto:
> [email protected]">[email protected]</A> )
>
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