(started 8/29/2001 by Andrea K)
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... when you burst into song anytime anyone says "speaking of which". Which
happens to me. :)
-- Andrea K. -
... I burst into song anytime i hear "speaking of which" too!
Same with the phrase "Check it out!"
And several other random trigger words, such as mayday (mutual connatations with spring/maypoles and cafe) and train.
-- Rebecca -
... I can't look at an EZPass sign the same way again.
-- Rebecca -
... i, who never talked in my sleep as a child, have apperently been caught once or twice humming Nields songs in my sleep. :P
-- Rebecca -
... I can find a Nieldsy lyric to describe everything that is happening in my life.
-- Rebecca -
... lately, since I've been
listening to TN, whenever I brush my teeth for the first time of the day
(groggily, but that coffee's brewing!) I sing to myself "I traded my
toothbrush for a used acoustic guitar" - and I always start to think of the
repercussions of having a guitar, which I can't play, vs. a toothbrush, which
I do know how to use, and somehow this jumpstarts my mornings :)
-- Kiki -
... You're dancing when you're supposed to be writing a dialog between Freud and
a physiologist.
-- TEd -
... you can't have a conversation involving any of the established nields allusions without saying, "The Nields have a song about that." to explain why you're so enthusiastically discussing hitchcock or MCI.
-- Bern -
... you quote nerissa lyrics in emotional situations when you are speaking your mind and don't even think of referencing them
-- Bern -
... whenever confronted with a nieldsy moment (your friend jennifer falls for a bad egg) you belt out the song in full until you're asked to stop.
-- Bern -
... you find yourself humming complicated bass riffs from Georgia O and Jeremy while wiping the table or riding on the bus
-- Bern -
... you carry your nieldsy ticket stubs in your wallet like family photos
-- Bern -
... you enjoy talking to bruce and cone
-- Bern -
... you announce to all your friends that katryna, who probably doesn't even know your name, has finally given birth and duly report the DOB, weight and full name of amelia
-- Bern -
... you interrupt discourse with the Learned on the Pentagon Papers and John Paul Vann to mention that John Nields is a congressional lawyer and Dickey Chapelle died after a trip "over chu lai in a free fall dive"
-- Bern -
... you think patty is your friend
-- Bern -
... you name your pets after nields' tunes
-- Bern -
... you recommend pam houston to your friends, even though you've never read her work
-- Bern -
... you actually appreciate georgia o'keefe's paintings, even though you always thought they were gross
-- Bern -
... a cup of coffee at Starbucks ellicits the Starbucks jingle and nieldsy thoughts even though you strongly object to Starbucks' policies
-- Bern -
... you hear nields songs in your dreams
-- Bern -
... you can't hear the word "garden" without smiling
-- Bern -
... you start calling your home, "Mercy House"
-- Andrianna -
... you start to ponder changing your name b/c a TN song hit so close to
home on you and your personal life
-- Andrianna -
... you jump into a taxi and pull on your leather.
-- trapper john -
... you start naming bunnies you see outside Alfred
-- Charlotte -
... your first three children are all named David.
-- trapper john -
... you wait every day for a letter marked special delivery from Mr. George Fox.
-- trapper john -
... you think you are bulletproof.
-- trapper john -
... you can't eat soup without looking for superheros.
-- trapper john -
... you start playing on the back porch with a blow torch.
-- trapper john -
... I begin wondering why my name isn't Dave.
-- Pilgrim -
... I start humming at the mention of Paul Klee
-- Pilgrim -
... I want to be a woman like me
-- Pilgrim -
... on a road trip in YOUR car you offer your passengers the choice between Play, If You Lived Here, and Live From Northampton. Take your pick because that's all there is.
-- anne -
... Beatles freak that I am, I still tend to sing Lovely Rita more like the
Nields than the Beatles
-- Andrea K. -
... Anyone with a last name starting with 'O' becomes instantly serenaded
-- Andrea K. -
... anyone says "that's over" you can't help but answer with "'cuz I'm
JACK"
-- Andrea K. -
... you randomly blurt out "das ist alles" or whatever's at the end of greta
when many non-Nields albums end.
-- Andrea K. -
... you do the hand symbol and shout "rock band" at weird times.
-- Andrea K. -
... you can't pick up a recorder or tin whistle without trying to do the JNS
solo. (That, or the part from Fruvous' Johnny Saucep'n)
-- Andrea K. -
... I, with jaci-from-seattle and another chick friend, scare the poor boy
driving us around by loudly singing "but I've been sucked on too long" and
"sucking on a grown man's thumb". Heee.
-- Andrea K. -
... you, when seeing a Circle K, half the time burst into the song. (Other half,
quote "strange things are afoot at the Circle K" a la Bill & Ted)
-- Andrea K. -
... you, when someone is giving directions, sometimes start in on "I turn
left... and you turn left... there's no denying it now... "
-- Andrea K. -
... I meld my Nields and Fru worlds by turning I Still Believe in My Friends
into I Still Believe in Mike Ford after someone abbreviates it as ISBIMF.
-- Andrea K. -
... you've been counting Nields shows for seven years, to such exactitude of
minutiae, that you concoct the 2-Nields Rule to cover appearances of
Nieldslets like the Probe and Spanish For Hitchhiking, and you even have
arguments with Cone as to whether Workshop Stage Appearances at festivals
like Clearwater and FRFF count as separate shows ---my rule is, "If you can
miss them, you'll wish you hadn't, so they count separately" :-)
-- Bruce -
... you remember every Nields show of the first frantic year of Nieldsgoing
like it was yesterday, whereas the past six years are mostly all a blur
-- Bruce -
... you've seen the Nields more times than George W. Bush has embarrassed
himself and the whole nation with his innumerable malapropisms and other
faux-pas'
-- Bruce -
... you've posted to the Nook more times than there are clams in the ocean
-- Bruce -
... you're happy as a clam just knowing that the Nields Gods are in their
Heaven, and all's right with the world
-- Bruce -
... you constantly have to remind Stephen & Peter *not* to talk about the
Nields so much at the dinner table, because excessive Nields talk annoys the
missus
-- Bruce -
... your rich Nields fantasy life makes your impoverished everyday existence
positively pale by comparison
-- Bruce -
... your wall calendar has been entirely dominated by the word NIELDS written
into the little squares since 1995, sometimes circled, and sometimes written
in red letters *and* circled
-- Bruce -
... you muse whether you used to hang out after shows at Moby or at Nessie more
-- Bruce -
... you expend vast amounts of time and energy composing Nields Histories,
penning Nooker Birthday Poems, and concocting miscellaneous other bits of
tomfoolery and chitchatting with other Nields fans on the Nields Nook, since
1996
-- Bruce -
... you remember every Nields birthday easily, but struggle to remember
relatives' birthdays
-- Bruce -
... you have Nields posters with Nields faces staring out at you from nearly
every room in the house
-- Bruce -
... you hang out after shows and in line at the Iron Horse before shows with
people with nicknames like Conehead, Trapper John, Lyndhaven, Pooh-Bah, and
Nooker in a Yurt
-- Bruce -
... you visit George!!! in Libertyville every year religiously, and spend
hours talking nonstop about only the Nields
-- Bruce -
... you've met some of the greatest people ever, just from having met them
online on the Nields Nook, and then actually putting the names to the faces
at the shows!
-- Bruce -
... you have boxes and boxes of Nields memorabilia in your garage and your
basement, including the irreplaceable Nerissa Cowboy Boots which I got at
Patty's Nields tag sale in '98, which Nerissa used to wear while David sang
"Be My Little Cowgirl" to her at shows
-- Bruce -
... you live for absolutely *anything* different at Nields shows, because
you've seen "Best Black Dress" more than 250 times, and yet *still* get a
kick out of the line about "Long Purple Skirts and a Dog" even after all this
time
-- Bruce -
... you're pretty sure that no one will have *ever* been more nuts about the
Nields than you have been for lo these many years
-- Bruce -
... the full-band goes on hiatus, and you're so beside yourself with
withdrawal agony that you think you're having an Out-of-Nields Experience
-- Bruce -
... You name your child after a Nields song so that he will be born a
Nields fan and will let you go to all their shows, as long as he can
come too.
-- Jonie -
... when you keep posting notes to the nook on that subject... .
-- Scott -
I'm almost embarrassed to even take part in this thread. Who knew i was a such a dork? I mean, i really do have a life apart from the nields and the nook. But looking at my pet's names, you wouldn't think so.
- Nieldsy pets- Greta the Cat, Abigail the Mouse, Nerissa-Fish the Fish, Alfred the name for every rabbit in UNCA's botanical gardens
- Then after the kennedys- Groovy the Fish, Henry the squirrels in the gardens (though i didn't think of the connection 'til after I'd already named them)
- And after EFO there is Julie the Cat
There may have been more, I'm not sure. My new mice are named Halley and Pisces. I purposely avoided musical names, just to assure that i'm not a TOTAL dork.
-- Rhiannon -
No, what's *really* scary is when you accidently (I swear!) name your own
pets after The Nields' pets, whom you have only heard mentioned in
NieldsLetters. As in I have two new kittens named Cassie and Emma; and
another one named Jack (okay, that one was on purpose!). But I didn't notice
the Cassie and Emma thing until Rhiannon said, "Uhh, Tisha... ."
-- tish -
... You overhear your 3 year old son telling a story to his stuffed animals
and it begins "This is a story about hope, loss, and more hope ... . and
its called I'll meet you in the sky."
-- Harry -
... You always say "new rekkid" when referring to any band's new CD.
-- Harry -
... Your kids are surprised when they find out that Dr. Seuss' story "Too
many Daves" is not a story about the Nields. But love it anyway because
it is about Daves.
-- Harry -
... Your kids say "goodnight Nerissa" "goodnight Katryna" Waltons-style
before they go to bed at night.
-- Harry -
... Your kids can identify any Nields song by any 3 note segment anywhere in
the song, with the exception that they sometimes confuse Maybe its love
with IKWKOLTI, and that drives them crazy.
-- Harry -
... YKYBLTTM of this type of music in general W:
-- Harry -
... the important life-lesson discussions that resonate best with your kids
always start with the phrase:
"you know how in the
Nields/Kennedys/EFO/MoxyFruvous/Paperboys/DanBern/etc. song they say... "
-- Harry -
... Your kids describe all other bands in terms of these bands, like
explaining U2 to their grandmother by saying "they are kind of like EFO,
only their Julie is a boy," and "well actually, Bono is kind of like the
Katryna of rock music."
-- Harry -
... your best friend Angela is *so* tired of hearing how wrong her town is.
-- Shannon -
... your classroom grows suddenly silent, and when you look up you realize
that all of your students are watching you unconsciously dance to the Nields
song in your head. (This happened to me today, in fact... )
-- Shannon -
... your friends who are *not* Nields fans can pretty much quote every song.
-- Shannon -
... you're searching for a long purple skirt just to wear to a show one
day... and you have an outfit referred to as your "best black dress".
-- Shannon -
... you can not watch, think about, read about or speak about a Hitchcock
movie without wondering, "What's it all about?"
-- Shannon -
... the elderly lady named Greta who makes announcements at the Wal-Mart I
work at wonders why I've gotta get over her.
-- Shannon -
... I yelled out, "That's the drummer from the Nields!" when we got a
customer that happened to be named Dave Hower. (On a cool note, my friend
Nicole that I work with, whom I've converted to Nieldism, picked up on that,
too!)
-- Shannon -
... you can't see an Infiniti on the street without singing FOY... .(or
develop photographs of goddamned/sunburned kids!)
-- Shannon -
... you have used Nields song quotes as your thought for the day at school.
-- Shannon -
... the concept of selling your computer for a used acoustic guitar seems
like a beautiful, far-off dream... .
-- Shannon -
... one of your Nields-loving friends asks how you are, you can answer
in a song title, and they understand.
-- Shannon -
... you actually care how the new acoustic duo Nields/Probe CD will be credited.
-- Phil -
... you have more friends on-nook than off
-- TEd -
... it's saved your life
-- TEd -
... if it makes you happy
-- TEd -
There is absolutely no such thing as too much Nields :-)
-- April -
... gathering together school stuff, you suddenly realize that over half of your locker decorations/quotes are Nields-related. literally.
-- Rebecca -
... you think in Nields quotes without even realizing it
-- Rebecca -
... you have turned down parties and even a trip to Colorado to see The Nields live
-- Rebecca -
... you've written no less than 3 papers for school within the last year about The Nields or the Nook
-- Rebecca -
... you buy a sopranino recorder to be able to play the Jeremy solo more easily (fine, so that wasn't the only reason... )
-- Rebecca -
... several of your friends have started associating the name "Trapper John" with "that old guy that rebecca knows" instead of MASH
-- Rebecca -
... you sing Nields songs in your sleep
-- Rebecca -
... you often prefer talking to people that you just know from online to talking to your school friends, because, as Shannon put so nicely, "you can answer in a song title, and they understand."
-- Rebecca -
... sometimes the highlight of the day is locking yourself in your room, sitting down at your computer (which of course has a Nields picture taped to it), playing a Nields CD, chatting on AIM with some nookers, and reading the new Nook digests!
-- Rebecca -
... you realize you just CAN'T listen to too much nields.
-- Don -
... You have a hard time listening to music that doesn't come up to The Nields' standards
-- JourneyBear -
... You rush right out and get albums by people that you've heard The Nields like, or that Nields fans like, and are disappointed because they're not as good as The Nields
-- JourneyBear -
... You divide your life into two categories: Nields shows and time between Nields shows
(well, that's really more about obsession, which is what Bruce's contribution was mostly about)
-- JourneyBear -
... Someone taps you on the shoulder and says, "Dude, it's a mix tape. Quit playing that stupid song over and over. Who is that anyway?"
-- JourneyBear -
... You have a bunch of CDs in your car but you keep listening to The Nields anyway
-- JourneyBear -
... You have to take the Nields CDs out of the car so you can listen to something else
-- JourneyBear -
... You put your Nields CDs back in the car because that's what you really want to listen to anyway
-- JourneyBear -
... You enjoy relating to other people about The Nields so much that you spend more time writing email than reviews
-- JourneyBear -
... your friend can sing and play "black boys on mopeds" with you on guitar, even though she can't recall ever hearing the song on CD... and she only relates it as a nields song.
-- Rhiannon -
... when you suddenly go "oh my god! i AM a dork!" while writing a post about how you know when you listen to the nields a lot.
-- Rhiannon -
... In your first college paper you only quote is credited to Nerissa and David Nields.
-- Charlotte -
... you start using acronyms to refer not just to Nields song titles but to Nields conversation subjects as well.
-- Lami -
... You think that "There is absolutely no such thing as too much Nields :-)"
-- DjP -
... you run into previous Nookers somewhere and you immediately start to update
them about TN
-- Andrianna -
... you start copying down all of the YKYBLTTMNW... statements
-- Andrianna -
... you want to make a poster out of all the YKYBLTTMNW... statements ;)
-- Andrianna -
... you make a website dedicated to the things that happen on the email list for
TN
-- Andrianna -
... you get overly jealous when you find out about a newly debuted TN song, and
you weren't there to hear it... and you start trying to find out if anyone has
booted that show and how you can get ahold of it
-- Andrianna -
... you have more boots of TN than they've made actual recordings
-- Andrianna -
... you drive hundreds of miles to see TN perform 3 songs that aren't even their own
-- Andrianna -
... you pass by one of TN while walking through town and realize that you are
"HOME"!
-- Andrianna -
... you start making parodies of TN songs
-- Andrianna -
... People at nields shows recognize your clam hand puppet, and know its name:
Sheldon.
-- Russ -
... your 5 year old kid asks for the "May Day" song again and again.
-- Lami -
... you try to skip over "Strawberry Girl" on LFN and your 8 year old kid complains
-- Lami -
... Jeremy Newborn Street makes it onto the lullabye rotation
-- Lami -
... you occasionally call your son Nick "Nicholas Ridiculous"... and he doesn't mind
-- Lami
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