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Back to Journal  « Persistent City - First Look at the Art | Music: The Moxy of Fruheadedness | Telltale in MacWorld » Music: The Moxy of Fruheadedness October 16, 2005 Mister Sugar (Anton Zuiker) just emailed out a call for Tar Heel Tavern entries about tee shirts, which is as good an excuse as any to talk about my favorite band.  Hard to believe, but a few years ago Ebay, Amazon, and Craig's List didn't yet make it quite as easy to find everything you wanted online. To get the more obscure albums of a Canadian band like Moxy Fruvous, you had to find a Canadian retailer with an online presence and phone number listed and then make something called a "phone call" to place your order. This is how I first got my hands on the albums B and Wood, as well as the tee shirt you see at the top of this article. The CDs--as you can see by the links--now ship within 24 hours at Amazon.com. But it didn't end there. Because the Canadian retailer would then send you a baseball cap and album for a rival Canadian band you'd never heard about. So you'd call them and ask what's up and they'd say they would look into it, and then a few days later they'd get back to you and say how they accidentally sent your order to some woman in Maine and how you must have gotten her order. So they gave you her address and asked you would you please ship it to this person, and she would mail you your tee shirt and albums. And you had a sneaking suspicion they were using you somehow in an international drug smuggling operation but you didn't know how exactly. But you needed your MF fix more than you needed drugs or this non-Fruvous hat so you did it anyway, and eventually you got your merchandise and then found a new retailer to supply you with Fruvous's later albums. And then MF's website stopped getting updated and everyone at their Fruhead fansite was hopeful but confused as to what "indefinite hiatus" while the members "pursue other projects" meant, and much later you started periodically checking Wikipedia to see if they knew something you didn't. But you still have the tee shirt and you wear it all the time even though you know that means it won't last as a keepsake forever. And you're glad to have their albums, but you're sad that Live Noise is the closest you'll ever get to seeing them live. But you don't cry while you're wearing your MF tee shirt, though, because every bit of tearsnot shortens the life of the cotton, and you don't know what you'd have to go through to get another one. Filed under Journal, Peers & Peerless, Vanity Smurf  
Comments: Discuss this entry at LiveJournallol tearsnot... yummy! Nice flashback though to how things USED to be done... Posted by: Erin Monahan at October 16, 2005 11:12 PM 
please excuse - what is this "phone call" of which you speak? Posted by: Laurie at October 17, 2005 1:54 PM
Thanks Erin! Laurie-- as far as my archeologists can decipher, I believe the "phone call" was a transitional technology bridging antisocial introversion and human contact; significant because it allowed you to receive audible spam during dinner. Alex. Posted by: Alex at October 17, 2005 2:06 PM
I don't believe a word of this story. Amazon has been around forever. I read in a history book about a river they named after it years and years ago. Posted by: Ted Hobgood at October 18, 2005 12:47 PM
Hmm, Ted. And where did you get that BOOK about the Amazon, eh? Posted by: Alex at October 21, 2005 10:25 PM
I forget sometimes that this wonderful band wasn't just the resulting apparition of a fall down the stairs. Once, yes once, Amstutz Hall housed a couple of kids who reminisced of the beauty of a group with so much moxy, they were actually called that. Posted by: Jason at November 14, 2005 9:16 PM
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, LCRW, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, ChiZine, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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