Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960, in Richmond, Virginia) is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.
Mann attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes; the band released the EP Bark Along with the Young Snakes in 1982, and a compilation album was issued in 2004. In 1983, seeking a return to "sweetness and melody", she co-founded with Berklee classmate and boyfriend Michael Hausman the new wave band 'Til Tuesday Read Full BioAimee Mann (born September 8, 1960, in Richmond, Virginia) is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.
Mann attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes; the band released the EP Bark Along with the Young Snakes in 1982, and a compilation album was issued in 2004. In 1983, seeking a return to "sweetness and melody", she co-founded with Berklee classmate and boyfriend Michael Hausman the new wave band 'Til Tuesday, which achieved minor success in 1985 with its first album, Voices Carry. The title song is said to be inspired by Hausman and Mann's breakup; the video became an MTV staple, winning the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist, though Mann's signature spiky hair would lead some to dismiss the group. Mann performed with the rock band Rush on the song "Time Stand Still" (from Hold Your Fire, 1987), singing backup vocals and appearing in the music video. With Mann playing an increasingly important role in songwriting, 'Til Tuesday released two more albums, Welcome Home and Everything's Different Now. On the final album and tour, musician Jon Brion joined the band, which broke up in 1990 when Mann left to start her solo career.
Around the time of the first album's release, Mann began a romantic relationship with Jules Shear; they broke up before the final 'Til Tuesday album, which contained the song "J For Jules". Professional relationships from the band would continue: Hausman later became Mann's manager, and Brion produced her first two solo albums.
Solo career
In 1993, Mann released Whatever, her first solo album. Promotion suffered due to the collapse of her label, Imago. While only a small hit, the album was critically praised, and paved the way for her next release, 1995's I'm with Stupid, through Geffen Records. Again, reviews were positive, but sales were weak.
Mann had met musician Michael Penn in the 1980s and with comparable songwriting styles and record-industry woes to share, they struck up a friendship during the recording of Stupid, which blossomed into romance and their 1997 marriage. Around this time Brion produced her album Bachelor No. 2, but Geffen saw no hit singles in the material and ordered her back to the studio. The album languished while Mann and the label fought.
Meanwhile, iconoclastic film auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, for whom Penn and Brion had composed a soundtrack, became a close friend. Mann gained greater public recognition in 1999 — indeed, more than anything else since "Voices Carry" — when she contributed eight songs to the soundtrack of Anderson's Magnolia, including the Academy Award-nominated song, "Save Me". Anderson deliberately worked from Mann's lyrics to create the film's characters and situations. Due to this exposure, Mann became sought after to contribute to soundtracks, a success made ironic by the music industry's indifference.
Independence
Fed up with both ineffectual promotion and artistic meddling by her record label, an experience documented in her song "Calling It Quits", she struck out on her own and founded SuperEgo Records in 1999. Mann self-released Bachelor No. 2 in 2000 (see 2000 in music), having negotiated a contract release from Geffen, and though initially only sold at concerts and via her website, the album became successful, allowing her to secure retail distribution through SuperEgo. The album, which included some songs from Magnolia and new material, was widely admired and Mann's "more indie than indie" success was carefully noted by other musicians.
Mann, Penn, Brion, Fiona Apple, and other musicians had by this time developed a subculture around the Largo nightclub in L.A. Penn and Mann formed a concept called Acoustic Vaudeville to recreate it on tour in California and eventually on an irregular, ongoing national tour. The Acoustic Vaudeville shows intermix music and stand-up comedy; among the comedians joining them for individual shows were Janeane Garofalo, Patton Oswalt, and David Cross.
Aimee continued her solo career with Lost in Space (2002), a somewhat more sombre album in the same vein as Bachelor No. 2. In 2004 her website released the Lost in Space Special Edition, which featured a second disc containing six live recordings, as well two B-sides and two previously unreleased songs. In November of that year Live at St. Ann's Warehouse, a live album and DVD recorded at a series of July 2004 shows in Brooklyn, came out; the two discs were sold packaged together in either a CD jewel case or a DVD case.
Mann described her next album, The Forgotten Arm (2005) as a concept album set in the '70s about two lovers who meet at the Virginia state fair and are now on the run. The Joe Henry-produced album, which was recorded mostly live and has few overdubs, was released May 3, 2005. The album reflects Mann's interest in boxing in its illustrations as well as its title, derived from a boxing move in which one arm is used to hit the opponent, causing him to "forget" about the other arm, which is then used to deliver a harsher blow. The album received weaker reviews overall, with critics impressed at the totality but unimpressed with any individual songs.
In October 2006 Aimee released 'One More Drifter in The Snow', an album of Christmas songs. All bar one of the songs, 'Calling on Mary' were covers of holiday classics.
Mann's independence from the industry led her to more explicit political stances. She joined Artists Against Piracy, a group formed to act against the illegal downloading and file sharing of copyrighted music from the Internet. Mann, Penn and Hausman took their experience with SuperEgo to found the independent music collective United Musicians, which is based on the principle that every artist should be able to retain copyright ownership of the work he or she has created, in contrast to normal music industry contracts.
June 2008 brought the release of '@#%&*! Smilers,' a collection of songs featuring greater use of keyboards. Aimee's set at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in the same month featured a number of selections from the new album as well as a number of her concert standards. Aimee and her band covered Elton John's 'My Father's Gun' as part of the set.
Recognition
"I've had it" made it into Nick Hornby's exquisite book "31 Songs".
'The Forgotten Arm' - 2006 Grammy Winner for Best Packaging
Discography
With The Young Snakes
* 1982 - Bark Along with the Young Snakes (EP)
* 2004 - Aimee Mann & The Young Snakes (Compilation)
With 'Til Tuesday
* 1985 - Voices Carry
* 1986 - Welcome Home
* 1988 - Everything's Different Now
* 1996 - Coming Up Close: A Retrospective (Compilation)
Solo
* 1993 - Whatever
* 1995 - I'm With Stupid (1995)
* 1999 - Magnolia (Original Soundtrack)
* 2000 - Bachelor No. 2
* 2000 - Ultimate Collection (Compilation)
* 2002 - Lost in Space
* 2004 - Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (live album/DVD)
* 2005 - The Forgotten Arm
* 2006 - One More Drifter in the Snow
* 2008 - @#%&*! Smilers
Guest appearances and covers
* 1987 - "Time Stand Still" by Rush (backing vocals) on their album, Hold Your Fire
* 1996 - "Christmastime" with Michael Penn, played over the credits for the film, Hard Eight
* 1996 - "Baby Blue", a Badfinger cover, appears on the tribute compilation, Come and Get It: A Tribute to Badfinger
* 1997 - "Nobody Does It Better", a cover of the Carly Simon theme for The Spy Who Loved Me on the compilation, Shaken & Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project
* 1999 - "One", a Harry Nilsson cover for the Magnolia soundtrack
* 2002 - "Two of Us", a Beatles cover with Michael Penn for the I Am Sam soundtrack
* 2002- "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", a Beatles cover for the I Am Sam soundtrack, European Edition
* 2004 - "The Scientist", a Coldplay cover, appears on the second disc for the Lost in Space Special Edition
* 2005 - "That's Me Trying" by William Shatner (backing vocals) on his album, Has Been
* 2007 - "Static On The Radio" with Jim White
Acting
* Mann played the role of a German nihilist who sacrificed her little toe in the movie The Big Lebowski (1998).
* Mann and her band appear as themselves in the 2002 Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Sleeper", performing the songs "This Is How It Goes" and "Pavlov's Bell" at The Bronze. She has one line in the episode: "Man, I hate playing vampire towns." "Pavlov's Bell" also appears on the Buffy soundtrack album Radio Sunnydale.
* She and her band also play themselves in a 2002 episode of The West Wing, performing a cover of James Taylor's "Shed a Little Light" at a Rock the Vote concert.
* In 2006, Mann guest-starred as herself on an episode of Love Monkey, "The One Who Got Away".
* In 2011, Mann played a fictional version of herself in the comedy sketch TV show "Portlandia"
http://www.aimeemann.co.uk Aimee Mann Fan Site
Mann attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes; the band released the EP Bark Along with the Young Snakes in 1982, and a compilation album was issued in 2004. In 1983, seeking a return to "sweetness and melody", she co-founded with Berklee classmate and boyfriend Michael Hausman the new wave band 'Til Tuesday Read Full BioAimee Mann (born September 8, 1960, in Richmond, Virginia) is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.
Mann attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes; the band released the EP Bark Along with the Young Snakes in 1982, and a compilation album was issued in 2004. In 1983, seeking a return to "sweetness and melody", she co-founded with Berklee classmate and boyfriend Michael Hausman the new wave band 'Til Tuesday, which achieved minor success in 1985 with its first album, Voices Carry. The title song is said to be inspired by Hausman and Mann's breakup; the video became an MTV staple, winning the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist, though Mann's signature spiky hair would lead some to dismiss the group. Mann performed with the rock band Rush on the song "Time Stand Still" (from Hold Your Fire, 1987), singing backup vocals and appearing in the music video. With Mann playing an increasingly important role in songwriting, 'Til Tuesday released two more albums, Welcome Home and Everything's Different Now. On the final album and tour, musician Jon Brion joined the band, which broke up in 1990 when Mann left to start her solo career.
Around the time of the first album's release, Mann began a romantic relationship with Jules Shear; they broke up before the final 'Til Tuesday album, which contained the song "J For Jules". Professional relationships from the band would continue: Hausman later became Mann's manager, and Brion produced her first two solo albums.
Solo career
In 1993, Mann released Whatever, her first solo album. Promotion suffered due to the collapse of her label, Imago. While only a small hit, the album was critically praised, and paved the way for her next release, 1995's I'm with Stupid, through Geffen Records. Again, reviews were positive, but sales were weak.
Mann had met musician Michael Penn in the 1980s and with comparable songwriting styles and record-industry woes to share, they struck up a friendship during the recording of Stupid, which blossomed into romance and their 1997 marriage. Around this time Brion produced her album Bachelor No. 2, but Geffen saw no hit singles in the material and ordered her back to the studio. The album languished while Mann and the label fought.
Meanwhile, iconoclastic film auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, for whom Penn and Brion had composed a soundtrack, became a close friend. Mann gained greater public recognition in 1999 — indeed, more than anything else since "Voices Carry" — when she contributed eight songs to the soundtrack of Anderson's Magnolia, including the Academy Award-nominated song, "Save Me". Anderson deliberately worked from Mann's lyrics to create the film's characters and situations. Due to this exposure, Mann became sought after to contribute to soundtracks, a success made ironic by the music industry's indifference.
Independence
Fed up with both ineffectual promotion and artistic meddling by her record label, an experience documented in her song "Calling It Quits", she struck out on her own and founded SuperEgo Records in 1999. Mann self-released Bachelor No. 2 in 2000 (see 2000 in music), having negotiated a contract release from Geffen, and though initially only sold at concerts and via her website, the album became successful, allowing her to secure retail distribution through SuperEgo. The album, which included some songs from Magnolia and new material, was widely admired and Mann's "more indie than indie" success was carefully noted by other musicians.
Mann, Penn, Brion, Fiona Apple, and other musicians had by this time developed a subculture around the Largo nightclub in L.A. Penn and Mann formed a concept called Acoustic Vaudeville to recreate it on tour in California and eventually on an irregular, ongoing national tour. The Acoustic Vaudeville shows intermix music and stand-up comedy; among the comedians joining them for individual shows were Janeane Garofalo, Patton Oswalt, and David Cross.
Aimee continued her solo career with Lost in Space (2002), a somewhat more sombre album in the same vein as Bachelor No. 2. In 2004 her website released the Lost in Space Special Edition, which featured a second disc containing six live recordings, as well two B-sides and two previously unreleased songs. In November of that year Live at St. Ann's Warehouse, a live album and DVD recorded at a series of July 2004 shows in Brooklyn, came out; the two discs were sold packaged together in either a CD jewel case or a DVD case.
Mann described her next album, The Forgotten Arm (2005) as a concept album set in the '70s about two lovers who meet at the Virginia state fair and are now on the run. The Joe Henry-produced album, which was recorded mostly live and has few overdubs, was released May 3, 2005. The album reflects Mann's interest in boxing in its illustrations as well as its title, derived from a boxing move in which one arm is used to hit the opponent, causing him to "forget" about the other arm, which is then used to deliver a harsher blow. The album received weaker reviews overall, with critics impressed at the totality but unimpressed with any individual songs.
In October 2006 Aimee released 'One More Drifter in The Snow', an album of Christmas songs. All bar one of the songs, 'Calling on Mary' were covers of holiday classics.
Mann's independence from the industry led her to more explicit political stances. She joined Artists Against Piracy, a group formed to act against the illegal downloading and file sharing of copyrighted music from the Internet. Mann, Penn and Hausman took their experience with SuperEgo to found the independent music collective United Musicians, which is based on the principle that every artist should be able to retain copyright ownership of the work he or she has created, in contrast to normal music industry contracts.
June 2008 brought the release of '@#%&*! Smilers,' a collection of songs featuring greater use of keyboards. Aimee's set at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in the same month featured a number of selections from the new album as well as a number of her concert standards. Aimee and her band covered Elton John's 'My Father's Gun' as part of the set.
Recognition
"I've had it" made it into Nick Hornby's exquisite book "31 Songs".
'The Forgotten Arm' - 2006 Grammy Winner for Best Packaging
Discography
With The Young Snakes
* 1982 - Bark Along with the Young Snakes (EP)
* 2004 - Aimee Mann & The Young Snakes (Compilation)
With 'Til Tuesday
* 1985 - Voices Carry
* 1986 - Welcome Home
* 1988 - Everything's Different Now
* 1996 - Coming Up Close: A Retrospective (Compilation)
Solo
* 1993 - Whatever
* 1995 - I'm With Stupid (1995)
* 1999 - Magnolia (Original Soundtrack)
* 2000 - Bachelor No. 2
* 2000 - Ultimate Collection (Compilation)
* 2002 - Lost in Space
* 2004 - Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (live album/DVD)
* 2005 - The Forgotten Arm
* 2006 - One More Drifter in the Snow
* 2008 - @#%&*! Smilers
Guest appearances and covers
* 1987 - "Time Stand Still" by Rush (backing vocals) on their album, Hold Your Fire
* 1996 - "Christmastime" with Michael Penn, played over the credits for the film, Hard Eight
* 1996 - "Baby Blue", a Badfinger cover, appears on the tribute compilation, Come and Get It: A Tribute to Badfinger
* 1997 - "Nobody Does It Better", a cover of the Carly Simon theme for The Spy Who Loved Me on the compilation, Shaken & Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project
* 1999 - "One", a Harry Nilsson cover for the Magnolia soundtrack
* 2002 - "Two of Us", a Beatles cover with Michael Penn for the I Am Sam soundtrack
* 2002- "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", a Beatles cover for the I Am Sam soundtrack, European Edition
* 2004 - "The Scientist", a Coldplay cover, appears on the second disc for the Lost in Space Special Edition
* 2005 - "That's Me Trying" by William Shatner (backing vocals) on his album, Has Been
* 2007 - "Static On The Radio" with Jim White
Acting
* Mann played the role of a German nihilist who sacrificed her little toe in the movie The Big Lebowski (1998).
* Mann and her band appear as themselves in the 2002 Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Sleeper", performing the songs "This Is How It Goes" and "Pavlov's Bell" at The Bronze. She has one line in the episode: "Man, I hate playing vampire towns." "Pavlov's Bell" also appears on the Buffy soundtrack album Radio Sunnydale.
* She and her band also play themselves in a 2002 episode of The West Wing, performing a cover of James Taylor's "Shed a Little Light" at a Rock the Vote concert.
* In 2006, Mann guest-starred as herself on an episode of Love Monkey, "The One Who Got Away".
* In 2011, Mann played a fictional version of herself in the comedy sketch TV show "Portlandia"
http://www.aimeemann.co.uk Aimee Mann Fan Site
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Save Me
Aimee Mann Lyrics
You look like a perfect fit
For a girl in need of a tourniquet
But can you save me
Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
'Cause I can tell
You know what it's like
The long farewell
Of the hunger strike
But can you save me
Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
You struck me down like radium
Like Peter Pan or Superman
You will come to save me
Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
But the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Come on and save me
Why don't you save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks who could never love anyone
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Aimee Mann
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santiagobenites
You look like a perfect fit
For a girl in need of a tourniquet
But can you - save me
Come on and - save me
If you could - save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
'Cause I can tell
You know what it's like
The long farewell
Of the hunger strike
But can you save me
Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
You struck me down like radium
Like Peter Pan or Superman
You will come to save me
C'mon and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
'Cept the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
But the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
C'mon and save me
Why don't you save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks who could never love anyone
omgthisissostupid
Lyrics
You look like a perfect fit
For a girl in need of a tourniquet
But can you save me?
Come on and save me!
If you could save me. . .
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone.
'Cause I can tell
You know what it's like
The long farewell
Of the hunger strike
But can you save me?
Come on and save me!
If you could save me. . .
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
You struck me down like radium
Like Peter Pan or Superman
You will come to save me?
C'mon and save me!
If you could save me. . .
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
'Cept the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
But the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
C'mon and save me
Why don't you save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks who could never love anyone
M-I-IX-XX
You look like
A perfect fit
For a girl in need
Of a tourniquet
But can you, save me
Come on and, save me
If you could, save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
'Cause I can tell
You know what it's like
The long farewell
Of the hunger strike
But can you, save me
Come on and, save me
If you could, save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
You struck me down
Like Radium
Like Peter Pan or Superman
You will come to save me
C'mon and save me
If you could, save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
'Cept the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
But the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
C'mon and save me
Why don't you save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
'Cept the freaks
Except the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks who could never love anyone
The_Regarded_Alex_Lifeson
While I agree with Christian Hernandez, I watching this for maybe the 200th time, but first on youtube and since I hit my 30s , and at 2:26 ... Dude.. Its a greenscreen and cast didn't have time to participate kinda wrecks the video for me, but like Christian, I'm Amazed it was made. I too love and might be obsessed with Magnolia (things hit you in waves in life). The camera shots, the lighting, i mean omg... I am obsessed with the content and presentation of this movie and now knowing what is so easily done with today's tech, PTA is that much more a genious. If an audience were to see this today, post 2021, they would ... fall in love with it. Part of me feels like the true movie connensuer would take better note of some of the tracking shots and camera tricks/methods/straight up inovative approaches used by under this directors direction.
I will always feel like this is an underrated movie - if you have a loved one who might be older or just doesn't like movies or sitting down and watching something without things blowing up... Know that they will love and think about this flick for weeks after seeing it for the first time. It evolks a certain amount of emotion (i dont care how many times you have seen it - EMOTION) that i rarely get in scenes or movies today - i say rarely because I do get that occasional magnolia moment - but i feel , even if others don't credit it, that this movie set a few bars - tall ones... If your someone who can erase my mind for a period of time (or forever) and want to really do me a favor, erase my mind and let me watch this for the first time again.
The true test of a movie that is truely great is a movie you have seen a thousand times, yet when you watch it with someone who has never seen it before, its like watching it for the first time again x2. Thats how I feel anyway. Goodfellas does it for me too but in a different way.
There are certain things that are speacial to me - things that are as much mine as the director who put it together - this is one of them. If anyone knows what i'm talking about - get's that certain joy in a movie - please let me know what that movie is called in case I have not seen it. Please give me the gift of enjoying something you have the same love for. My logic is that we love this movie, so pretty much every suggestion/referral is going to be a potential life making moment.
Regardless or our politics, creed, physical properties, and cultural proclivities - we are here together - in this thing we call life - right here right now we share a common love that nobody can take from us no matter how hard they try. I am pleased to scroll through the comments when i get a chance - it warms me to know that so many from so far away from me share a common bond. I try not to scroll through them all because I cherrish the few moments i get to enjoy this or parts of this masterpiece while taking in the words/feelings/thoughts/and yes- criticisms occasionally, that others have shared thoughout what will hopefully be an infinate amount of time apart and together in this great big world. Every time I begin to forget the true meaning of what it means to be alive (and im not religious but who knows, everyone evolves and changes) I come back to this.
I just believe in the goodness of humankind and I don't know how to spell so well and every time i have ever put something in a spellchecker / word/ etc it gets kicked back.. so I don't want that and this comes from the heart which is the most important of all. Keep on keeping on and know that no matter what life throws at us... We just figure it out in our own way. I'm sure countless people have looked at me and assumed (in a negative sense) that I was somebody I am completely the opposite of. Never underestimate the power of humankind - everyday we surprise our-own-selves.
Christian Hernandez Music
As someone obsessed with Magnolia, i’m actually pretty blown away that this music video got made. The film was complicated enough to make! Yet they actually took the time to have Aimee come in on 8 separate occasions to lip sync while some of the finest actors on the planet just sat there in the shot. How in the hell did they manage to get all of this done?
Also, one of the best casts for a music video, even if they’re not doing anything
Cockoff Gewgle
@MemoryLaneCinema It was a very long and "complex" film. With different parts being filmed weeks and months apart.
Christian Hernandez Music
@MeMyself andI I’m so obsessed, that I literally just bought a prop frog from the movie 🐸 😬
MeMyself andI
I'm OBSESSED with Magnolia too!
It's so sad that every character in the movie wants to be loved but can't seem to find it
This song just epitomises the whole feel of the movie
hocuspocusfocusable
Truly a remarkable film...and one of my favorites, ever...
Aimee is amazing...saw her recently in Concert...
Love her.
Happy Birthday Aimee!
howlock
That's the 90s, baby
Carolina Velasquez
Paul Thomas Anderson should be considered one of the greatest directors of our time. Magnolia and Boogie Nights are simply flawless!
Daniel Steven
In fact, he is considered as one of them.
Uma Horder
he us the true best. 9. years late. god.
Planemo
As a PTA fan, i'd say that magnolia and boogie Nights are anything BUT flawless. Every Paul film oozes so much confidence and bravado that it overshadows questionable writing or directing choices. His strength (as for many classic directors) lies in how high he reaches. Any flaw is easily forgotten then. When I watch Magnolia, I remember why i liked it and enjoy it everytime, but the day after, I realize that it's not as carefully thought out and it's extremely megalomaniac.