The Savage Gardener #36

You are now reading the...<insert drumroll here> Savage Gardener! I'm sure
you're all applauding right now, hehe. We are now up to 240 members (I just
took the time to count!). I've had an interesting week cuz last Saturday I was
able to meet some of the cast members and writers from my personal fave TV
series, The X-Files, but I won't get into that cuz I'd be able to write a
whole separate newsletter on that! So, let's begin the newsletter!

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                                                       SaVaGe NeWs

**Currently, Truly is #6  on the Billboard Hot 100 and the album is still
hanging onto #5  on the Billboard 200. It is also still hanging on to #2 for
the fourth(?) consecutive week on the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. Wonderful
charting for a wonderful song!

**It's definite: the next Savage Garden single to be released here in America
will be Break Me Shake Me, which will be released sometime in May or June!!!
The boys have just finished shooting the music video last week in Sidney.
Can't wait for this one!

**The Blockbuster Awards will be re-airing on Saturday, March 21st. The time
has not yet been decided, so check your TV Guides! Thanks to Violet4293 for
letting me know!! Note: it will be airing same day on VH1 at 9:00 pm. Thanks
to Violet3019 for the info on the exact channel/time!

**Break Me Shake Me has already been released in Calgary, Canada (they get
singles before the rest of the country) and it's doing really well! It's won 5
nights in a row on the New Music show and continues to have great progress.
<rubs crystal ball> I see...another hit single for the Savage ones! Well duh
me, anyone can see that! Thanks to K Luvs SG for the Canadian news!

**If you missed the SG appearance on Regis and Kathie Lee on Wednesday, don't
worry unless you missed the first one...it was a repeat. If you did miss the
first one, well, um...maybe they'll show it again sometime! :o)

**Looks like the people behind "Dawson's Creek" (that mega-controversial new
TV series) love our boys! They first used I Want You in their second episode
of the series, and now they used Truly in this past week's ep! A LOT of
television series have been using their songs which is enourmous publicity!
Thanks to MDMDD for the info!

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                                            Savage Trivia

Wow!! A TON of you got last week's trivia question right! The question was:
when Darren was in love with a girl from his French class he did something
every day only to find something out a year later. What did he do and what did
he find out a year later? The answer was he walked by her house everyday after
school for a year until he realized that she didn't live there! How cute!!
Congrats to those who got it right (all 240,000,000,000,000,000,000 of you!):

ANGELDIVE3       Casin53       SvgeGrdn13         Su7926        Kec1982
Savagegrl6         [email protected]         SGDarren        Pooh4Cass
Slothbat        [email protected]      TanC7     ItIsYoda
[email protected]        LilLiz621      ChristaM12       [email protected]
JennyL123         TWISTER870        Dcbklassy1       MDMDD      Delphi Kat
Yodamaster      LilKara      Sweeti2398         SvgeGrdnDD       MEEBSTER
CHER181818        OZAngel13       TJ1598        K Luvs SG      Taz12786
FPeachL       Mystick5       SpceFerret
 

This week's trivia question is one for dear Danny *wink wink* and that darling
Daz: what absolutely adorable nickname does Daz call Dan?

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                                         SaVaGe CoMmEnTs

I would just like to thank you for spending all the time that you do on this
that you do.  It gives people who love Savage Garden a chance to learn about
what is happening in their fantastic lives.

Zanz90210

The pleasure is all mine! ~Lauren :o)

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I was wonder if any of you Aussie Savage Garden fans had or could get a hold
of the first "I Want You" and/or the "To The Moon and Back" singles...They're
the only SG cds I don't have!!  I have the Blockbuster Awards performance
taped, American singles, American articles and pics to tradde for the singles.
If you have any information please e-mail me at "[email protected]"  Thank you
soo much!!

Thank you soooo much Sarah for that review of SG's concerts!!  Believe it or
not I started crying when I read it. I live in the States and haven't had the
awe inspiring privilage to experience them live in concert... yet!!  As soon
as they hit the States I'm getting tickets for as many performances as
possible!!  Thanks again Sarah!!

OZAngel13

We owe MANY thanks to Sarah for taking the time to let us overseas fans know
what's happening in Oz. It takes a a lot of time to do this and I'm sure
you're all as grateful to her as I am! Thanks, Sarah! ~Lauren

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thanx so much

Your doing a great job.

thanx for everything

BootsieBob
P.S. Daniel WILL ALWAYS BE YOURS!  (lol)    Smile Always Ü
Aww, you people make me blush! ~Lauren
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I need a copy of the Nick kids awards and the 60 minutes, and yes, the
blockbuster awards. (( I always read the newsletter a day late ))  If you
could help, I'd REALLY appriciate it.

Morocket
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I HATE MY VCR! IT DIDNT RECORD AGAIN!!! DAM IT! GOD! DO YOU WANT TO HELP ME
KILL IT TO DEATH?? I AM SO PISSED OFF SO CAN YOU ASK SOMEONE WHO RECORDED
REGIS AND KATHYLEE TO E-MAIL ME BECAUSE I WANT TO BUY IT NOW SENCE THE STUPID
THING DIDNT RECORD! UGH!

WackoHitz

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                               A sPeCiAl SaVaGe ReViEw

Hey Lauren,

Well, I was browsing in a newsagent yesterday and picked up a
terrific addition to my collection - the so called 'official Savage Garden
book'. It's sort of like a concert programme (speaking of which, we didn't
have programmes at our concerts which was quite annoying - let me know if you
guys get 'em).
 
Anyway, it contains some BEAUTIFUL behind the scenes pics plus some great
things that Daz and Dan wrote for the mag/said in the interviews for it.  My
brother's computer is down, but as soon as he gets it going again I'll have to
scan some pics - my God, you would go insane over this BEAUTIFUL photo of Dan
sitting on a park bench patting this black dog. It's like he doesn't know the
camera is there. I think it's an older pic 'cause he's got longer hair but
it's brushed back. It's a very 'natural' photo but so... so... naturally
Daniel! There's another of the two of them at the '96 Arias - who would have
thought that the next year they'd sweep that awards show away with records
galore! Oh - the pic! Dan has his unreal smile and his hair is sorta Leo like
:)  Daz is also lookin' cute.  Further on there are some HOT photos of Daz
backstage preparing for the concert. These guys are gorgeous when they don't
know the camera's on them!

OK, a correction to my review - I now have the name of the backing singer who
I referred to in regard to her duet with Daz - Anna-Maria La Spina. Oh and
listen to this - this has upset me as the Dan engagement thing did you :) ...
Colby Hayes - Wardrobe Assistant to Darren; kinky or what??? augh! damn lucky
girl. But at least we now know what your future occupation must be... wardrobe
assistant to Dan - mmm!

"When I was ten I thought I was Michael Jackson.  When I was 15 I was
running around the block rehearsing what an Oprah Winfrey interview would be
like.  I've been in preparation for this job all my life, and it's exactly as
I imagined it would be, maybe because I invented it, you know." Daz

"It felt so right when Darren and I met and started talking about music.  To
me that was a point in my life where I felt, 'There's going to be a change
here' and Darren has since said the same thing." Dan

"... it's fun to get up and play because I put on my Darren Hayes costume
and I become a pop star and I can do it.  The lights go down at the end of
the day and I go home and pat my dog."  Daz
 

*on new album, due for release early 1999 (eek) *

"It's going to still be about plain old songs," says Daniel, "but the
technology that we're into at the moment ["U2, the Dust Brothers, the
Chemical Brothers and a lot of crossover electronic music"] will help this
album.  It'll be a cross between guitar/pop/alternative/dance/rock and I'm
serious, I know exactly what I'm talking about when I'm saying that... but
we still want the songs to be things you can play on the acoustic guitar.  I
don't want it to be an album lost in production." Dan

"This tour is Daniel and Darren's way of saying thank you to the fans and a
chance for the band to restate the fact that they're performers as well as
songwriters."

"The future is the single point in time that our imagination owns." (isn't
that great??!) ... "Inside this place we're free to explore our needs and
desires.  We comfort ourselves the future will hold the answers to the
problems that escape us. A shining perfect stainless steel world or a grim
industrial reality? For Savage Garden the future is a bit of both." Daz

"The Future Of Earthly Delites is Darren and Daniel as the band they always
wanted you to see... A hyperbole of film, theatre, console games and music
video is experienced within the context of their live concert." Daz

phew - you're gonna have a lot of material to work with for your upcoming
newsletter(s)! *sorry* :)  Hope you like!

Thanks TONS to Sarah for typing this up for us!

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**I often get chain letters from people on the member list and I have to ask
you to please not send them to me anymore. I get lots of mail now since taking
over the SGer and I'd like to keep it as minimum as I can by trying to reduce
the amount of chain letters I get. Thanks!

**Some interesting facts about Darren and Daniel told to me by Sarah! She says
that when Darren was little, he used to wash the dishes acting like C3PO from
his childhood obsession, Star Wars. LOL!! And a couple of years ago, Daniel
wrote on a piece of paper, "I, Daniel Jones, will be an international
superstar by 1997". Then he crushed up the paper and threw it behind a filing
cabinet! Hmm...an eerie coincidence <spooky X-Files music> or should Dan
really join the Psychic Friends Network? Naaa, I think he should just stick
with Savage Garden (though the PFN would make a million dollars just from me
alone calling them!)!

That's it for this week's Savage Gardener! Stay Savage and keep on Gardening!

Peace, love, and Savage Garden!
Lauren ( <A HREF="mailto: [email protected]">[email protected]</A> )