"someday i'm going to have a project. it's going to be called 'stevie lips and the flaming wonders.' and i'm going to be stevie lips."
meryl on her future career plans, after a gig in erie, 11.1.03

"i'm very happy. i'm laying over everybody and Lucy is about to lick my face."
- maco, halloween '03

guy after our set: do you guys mind if i stalk you?
- binghamton, ny 10.26.03

"Y'know, it's interesting - you start connecting the dots and everything becomes lines."
- Meryl, 9.21.03

meryl: does this place [Erie, PA] close down late at night?
melissa: dude, this place never opened.
- after a late set at the Beer Mug, Erie, PA, 8.2.03

"In the end, crap don't mean shit."
- Profound, timeless musings from Meryl

"Don't even get me started on my theories about how this fucked up universe works."
- Meryl, 7.11.03

"I can't believe J. Lo's butt. I love a good, big booty."
- Ruby, 7.11.03

on our way to ladyfest ottawa, 7.4.03:
maco: Wow, i have no idea which gender that amazingly hot construction worker is.
barb: who cares? get them in this car and someone will figure out something to do with them!

"I don't understand people... and things."
- Meryl, 6.11.03

"Which 490 are we taking? It's either east or west, or north or south, or something like that."
- Meryl, requesting navigation to Rock-chester 4.3.03

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Eva, inquiring about Barb's pedal oil: "What is that for - is that how you glue your butt to the seat?"
-3.8.03

"The beauty of recording - you can fuck it up forever."
- Ruby 3.9.03

"Beep the cock. I mean, rock the beep."
- Eva, thinking of how to make Witching songs radio-friendly

"If you can't have the cock and you can't have the fuck, what's the point?"
- Meryl, lamenting censorship

"I can hardly wait 'til we go on tour. We're gonna be a bunch of retards in a van."
- Meryl 3.9.03

Maco, to Justin (our illustrious engineer): I like your socks.
Justin: Thank you. They're little girl socks.
3.9.03

"I'm sorry, I can't see you - I don't have my headphones on."
-Barb 3.11.03

"Is the ass syncopated or is it on beat?"
- a serious arrangement question from Meryl, 3.11.03

"Oh, that's such a good memory. I wasn't there, but..."
- Eva, 3.13.03

"My feet are cold and your butt is warm."
- Meryl, 3.13.03

Eva: You guys, I am acting very confused tonight.
Barb: Oh good, she's only acting.
- 3.11.03

"I'm halfway joking. And halfway just lying."
- Eva 3.14.03

"Shut up everybody - I must air guitar."
- Meryl 3.14.03

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"Meryl, I miss your strap-on."
-Ruby, 2.13.03

"I'm gonna open my nostrils - I don't wanna miss a whiff of that rock 'n' roll stink!"
-Mama Eva, 12.21.02

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"There's nothing I hate more than listening to a whiny bitch on stage with an acoustic guitar."
-Meryl, 2.11.03

"I'd rather eat a dead rat than listen to Joan Baez."
-Meryl, 2.11.03

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"The finish has been removed. She is stripped naked for my playing pleasure."
- Meryl, of her new vintage Telecaster, 11.6.02

"How will I be able to trust you with my raccoon?!"
-Eva, 1.5.03

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"Look at the humpability of that thing!"
-Meryl, of Maco's new guitar, 11.6.02

"If I could have sex with a guitar, I would have sex with this one."
-Meryl, of her own new (vintage, of course) guitar, 11.6.02

"Barb, I swear all those other guitars were just flings. *This* baby is true love."
-Meryl, of her newest (vintage, of course) guitar, jan.03

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"I would never go for a jog instead of practice. If you see me jogging on the street, it must mean I don't have practice."
-Eva 5.31.02

"He shouldn't be trying to trick me - I got knives!"
-Maco 6.4.02

"I need some sex slaves."
-Ruby 6.11.02

"Someone is drooling at me."
-Eva 9.22.02

"I'm a person-to-person person."
-Maco 10.6.02

"I don't mind a little lickin' and humpin'."
-Ruby 4.21.02

"Sometimes people think they're being honest, but really they're just lost."
-Eva 5.31.02

"I don't remember much."
-Meryl 4.14.02

"I used to study only horizontally."
-Eva 4.14.02

"I should have brought my spiked collar."
-Ruby 5.5.02

"It's the one song that's not just about sex - it's about amplifiers."
-Maco, of "Chocolate Mama" 7.1.02

"I aspire to be the dirty old man."
-Meryl 5.24.02

"You're a potato! You and James Brown would get along."
-Eva 5.31.02

"Who told you I wanted to meet you??"
-Maco, refusing to shake hands with a stranger at a party

"You've only got a 2 inch crotch on that thing."
-Ruby 5.24.02

"What lusty thoughts! The hair on my cheeks is standing!"
-Maco 6.11.02

"Distribute nicotine to Mama Eva."
-Eva 7.1.02

"Sheryl Crow - I want to take a shit on her forehead."
-Meryl 8.2.02

"You've got to hump it into submission."
-Ruby 8.2.02

"We keep laying turd after turd of solid rock."
-Maco 8.2.02

"You should have been there, man - you would have been knee jiving!"
-Eva 8.30.02

"Sex, drugs and rock and roll - I can't live without it."
-Ruby 6.28.02