How do we thank Alizée?

[VVVACCPLPNLY]

Not that I think the letter is a bad idea, but I wish we had something more original. But what? If we do a letter, that would be great. I am 100% sure she would read it. French or English. But, what would we say? Other than thank you, I mean. The other letter did a fairly good job of showing how people here feel about her. So a letter saying 'thank you, we admire you' would not be that different. But a simple 'thank you' might not fully show some peoples' appreciation. But what else can we do? It feels like a letter is our only, and not necessarily best, choice. I will certainly help in writing one, but I just wish we could do something more tangible.

[Jess]

This is a great idea Scruffy !! In fact it would be great if the community planned more activities like this, it would keep everyone more involved and probably keep some of us away from trouble.

The letter itself could be made out of brief notes from all the participating members thanking her for her gesture in their own words, and then someone could translated it in French. We could also attach our signature at the end of each note, or just use the template that we already have. Also, even those that did not get a signed cd could participate, so that she can see that there's more then 50 members to this forum, we could add that we didn't want to bombard her with more cds.

Edit: Example of one note:
Alizée you're a great source of inspiration for all of us. Not only because of your talent in music, but also because of the unique and beautiful person that you've become. Thank you for taking the time to sign our cds, but most importantly thank you for sharing yourself with us, and enhancing the quality of our own life experience. Good continuation ☮ ♥ ♫ ~ Jess

[Scruffydog777]

I'd have to say I think something short and to the point would be best. I'm sure she read our open letter and I think it would be wrong of us to intrude more on her time when she must have tons of other messages from fans around the world. So like C4 said, concise, translated into French and delivered by Ben.

Originally Posted by Scruffydog777

I'd have to say I think something short and to the point would be best. I'm sure she read our open letter and I think it would be wrong of us to intrude more on her time when she must have tons of other messages from fans around the world. So like C4 said, concise, translated into French and delivered by Ben.

Then I would say that a one page letter expressing our gratitude towards her on behalf of all members of AA. Letter maybe of as short as mentioned by Jess. That would fulfill our purpose and save her precious time too. Maybe we can include few signatures if not all, as mentioned by C-4.

[sumi1]

Instead of a few signatures, why don't have it signed just as Alizee America Forum. It includes each and every one of us

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by sumi1

Instead of a few signatures, why don't have it signed just as Alizee America Forum. It includes each and every one of us

That sounds like a great idea to me.

[Jess]

Very good points !! If I may add another suggestion: Scruffy why don't you allow members to post their notes here on this thread and then you can select what you want to build this letter for her, kind of what Chuck did. Except maybe you shouldn't take as long ;-)

Although to be fair, it was worth the wait. I think Chuck did an awesome job with the letter, of course Scruffy enhanced it with his presentation, and lets not forget Docdtv who initiated this meeting with her. But you know what, it was all made out of bit and pieces of all those who participated.

[MYGOGT]

Originally Posted by Jess

Very good points !! If I may add another suggestion: Scruffy why don't you allow members to post their notes here on this thread

I think this is a good idea if you limit the "notes" to a one liner.

[FanDeAliFee]

Originally Posted by sumi1

Instead of a few signatures, why don't have it signed
just as Alizee America Forum. It includes each and every one of us

Originally Posted by Scruffydog777

That sounds like a great idea to me.

Originally Posted by Jess

...Scruffy why don't you allow members to post their
notes here on this thread and then you can select what you want to build this
letter for her...

I am not exactly sure about for what you propose we collectively thank her. Is it for doing a private meeting? Holding the Open Letter on camera? Signing the 50+ CDs? Acknowledging AAm? Being Alizée? All of the above? More?

If someone is able to personally thank her for an autographed CD in a substantive way, it would be nice to do so and then drop her a note, say on her new Facebook wall, or perhaps via AAm's Facebook wall, since she is a member of the AAm Facebook group.

I said thanks by leasing the Internet subdomain AlizeeRadio.com and pointing it at her Goom radio station, after which I PMed her about it via her Facebook account. If you are not a techie like me, you might instead buy another Alizée album for a friend or relative and say thanks that way.

Since AAm is based on a geographical idea, I think it would be nice if any collective thank you documented the locations of the autographed CD recipients. Using a world map, which especially zoomed in on the US, one can place a teeny CD icon on each approximate location a CD was shipped. (That would also remind some disappointed people outside the US that in the end, Scruffy went the EXTRA MILE to forward some autographed CDs overseas as well.)

It is not all that difficult to turn the CD icons into hot spots, so that when you mouse over one, up pops a window which displays a written message, shows a snapshot, or even plays an audio or YouTube thank-you. But would this be gilding the Lili? It would be work.

Alternately, one could solicit personal "thank-you, Alizée!" audio files, which could be overlayed upon one another to create a short, chaotic group thank-you sound file.

Or maybe Scruffy could draft a short thank you note which each of us reads to record an audio file, from which we snip one word per person, making up a sort of audio "ransom note"? With a personal photo or AAm avatar synced with those audio clips, a video could be assembled.

Being lazy, I recommend going for the static CD destination locator map, adding a couple frames of Alizée from the "coo-coo" and "autographing" video clips to establish context, and explaining both with a single paragraph thank-you text, which is posted to the AAm Facebook account in a way which will also create a note on the Corsican girl's Facebook wall because she is a group member.

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The sentiment of this thread inspired me to create the following for its own sake here.

<big><big><big>The 31st of March - Alizée Day in America</big></big></big>

It's almost unbelievable to hold an <i>UEdS</i> CD which Alizée herself so elaborately and artistically decorated and autographed.I don't write this to make anyone feel regret for not being able to share in this delight, but to express my sincere gratitude to ALL the people who helped make this possible.

And thank you so much, dear Alizée, for letting us feel that we're not just crazy people for adoring you and celebrating all the pleasure you have brought into our lives, some with little else to cheer the soul. It means so much that my life touched yours for a few brief seconds, even if only through the conveyance of some material goods. Princesse Lointaine, you will probably never see these words, but so many of us truly feel this way. You are something very beautiful in what is often an extremely ugly world with little hope. I'm grateful I could be alive at the same time you walked the earth and brought it delight through song and drama.

Since the day on which Alizée autographed our CDs is so special, on no one's authority at all, I am declaring the 31st of March as <i>Alizée Day in America</i>, now and forever. Perhaps other people here will embrace this as the special day which Alizée America will always celebrate.

To show my gratitude for this special day, I have fashioned the timeline below, which reviews some special events in history which transpired on the day in question. I hope it will bring a smile to those with a sense of humor - at least, perhaps, to those with one sufficiently twisted.

<center><big><big><big>It happened on<br><i>Alizée Day in America,</i><br>the 31st day of March,<br>in the year...</big></big></big></center>
<table cellpadding="10" width="720"><tr valign="top"><td><table cellpadding="5" width="400"><tr><td></td><td><big><big><big>France, including Angevin lands</big></big></big></td></tr><tr><td>1204</td><td>Death (exact date disputed) of Eleanor of Aquitaine, portrayed on film during 1968 by the late Katherine Hepburn, whom I <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=146139&postcount=12">courteously abstained from greeting</a> at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in the late 1970s, because I was deadly afraid jung_adore_ALIZEE would one day give me too much <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=152580&postcount=163">grief</a> for pestering her.</td></tr><tr><td>1596</td><td>Birth of famed mathematician and philosopher René Descartes, towering French intellectual, who did NOT say "Corse, ergo sum." Farriers who instruct their animals in arithmetic so they can do circus hoof-tap addition stunts, abstain from also teaching them any Cartesian geometry, out of grave fear of putting Descartes before the horse.</td></tr><tr><td>1889</td><td>Completion of the Eiffel Tower, which was mainly constructed to provide a cool backdrop for an Alizée concert. It ALSO looks like the letter A - get it? Never mind!</td></tr></table></td><td width="290"><object width="290" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QbzcFbhPV-o&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QbzcFbhPV-o&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="290" height="250"></embed></object><br><big>Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in <i>The Lion in Winter</i>, asking her boys (and also the ones who post to Alizée America?) to play nice!</big></td></tr></table>

<table cellpadding="10" width="720"><tr valign="top"><td><table cellpadding="5" width="400"><tr><td></td><td><big><big><big>Outside France</big></big></big></td></tr><tr><td>1492</td><td>Spain compels its Jews to choose between religious conversion and expulsion. Some flee to the New World with Cristóbal Colón and form the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?url=http://popup.lala.com/popup/4756082741948067234&rct=j&ei=EfnMS_H8OJP09ASxrrmnD w&sa=X&oi=music_play_track&resnum=3&ct=result&cd=2 &ved=0CBEQ0wQoAjAA&q=Hip+Hop+Hoodios&usg=AFQjCNH5e f5wT4bbAbwoXk8OmkUCSVpg0A"><i>Hip Hop Hoodios</i></a> in what will become New Amsterdam, and later New York, where Edie Sedgwick will wear heavy makeup, resulting in some minor <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=155914&postcount=269">fashion squawking</a> among Alizée fans.</td></tr><tr><td>1703</td><td>Death of Johann Christoph Bach, composer son of his more famous namesake father, after whom I really suspect Alizée's little brother may be named. Well, Jo?</td></tr><tr><td>1727</td><td>Death of Isaac Newton, venerated revolutionary physicist, but not the creator of any fig pastries, as far as I know. His apocryphal apple is the namesake of Alizée's favorite computer firm, and the object which <i>Amelie</i>-star Audrey Tautou sought with <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=150833&postcount=17">Tom Hanks</a>.</td></tr><tr><td>1732</td><td>Birth of Joseph Haydn, celebrated musical composer, who passed away shortly after the bombardment of his Vienna neighborhood by a certain Ajaccio-born Emperor. Hint!</td></tr><tr><td>1914</td><td>Newfoundland - Tragically, seventy-eight hunters die, many crippled by frostbite, in a two-day-long storm when their sealing steamer, the <i>Newfoundland</i>, fails to pick them up due to mistaken orders. This is much too sad an event to mention in conjunction with anything Alizée, even in the "Hi, I'm a mentally-ill drug-addicted suicide!" era. </td></tr><tr><td>1917</td><td>US buys Danish West Indies and renames them the US Virgin Islands because lots of horny guys had always wanted to use the word "virgin" but had been afraid of getting into trouble for it in Victorian times. Not the reason Alizée did her Paris autograph session at the Virgin Megastore on the Champs-Élysées. Or is it?</td></tr><tr><td>1927</td><td>Birth of actor William Daniels, who, as cardiac surgeon Mark Craig, MD, in TV's <i>St. Elsewhere</i>, nearly knocked over Scruffydog in the visitor's lobby at <i>St. Eligius</i>, being distracted by having just lost the opportunity to do a high-profile transplant because of a <i>Coeur Déjà Pris</i>.</td></tr><tr><td>1943</td><td>The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical <i>Oklahoma!</i> opens on Broadway, but none of the cast members have <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=150760&postcount=352">tattoos</a>, to the <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=153627&postcount=356">great relief</a> of pepelepew.</td></tr><tr><td>1945</td><td>Death of diarist Anne Frank. Is this a lousy day for the Jews, or what? Also birth of Gabe Kaplan, star of TV's <i>Welcome Back, Kotter</i>, set in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, a reasonable Doppelganger of my "downmarket" childhood neighborhood, where "French" rarely refered to a Romance language.</td></tr><tr><td>1949</td><td>Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation. Canadians are now required by law to close the nearest door and look both ways before telling cruel "Newfie" jokes which would maybe make a sensitive teenage Alizée cry. </td></tr><tr><td>1959</td><td>Dalai Lama flees to India, helping crewcuts remain a cool US male hair-style until Alizée's beloved Fab Four arrive, yeah, yeah, yeah.</td></tr><tr><td>1995</td><td>Singer Selena meets with her fan club founder for the last time, making it MUCH harder for all future fan clubs to get private sessions with their idols.</td></tr><tr><td>2001</td><td>Demise of my physics lab instructor, Prof. Clifford Shull, born in the same city as avant-garde artist Andy Warhol. To the best of my knowledge, unlike Warhol, Shull never made any films which premiered in gay porn theaters, so maybe winning the Nobel Prize instead wasn't such a big deal after all.
</td></tr></table></td><td width="290"><object width="290" height="203"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/szxfd3tmtV8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/szxfd3tmtV8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="290" height="203"></embed></object><br><big><i>Ocho Kandelikas</i> by the <i>Hip Hop Hoodios</i>. When Alizée finally does a <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=149635&postcount=7">Christmas album</a> in franglais, this can be her token "Spanish" song, as an homage to Jérémy's late mother, ZL. It's very NYC, and the lyrics are even easier than for <i>Les Collines</i> - although Chuck may argue that is a <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=152570&postcount=161">disadvantage</a>.</big>
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<big><big>The author wishes to express his sincere gratitude to the <a href="http://lencyclopedie-alizee.wikispaces.com"><i>L'Encyclopédie Alizée</i></a>, which was extensively consulted to authenticate the information communicated here.</big></big>

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by docdtv

I am not exactly sure about for what you propose we collectively thank her. Is it for doing a private meeting? Holding the Open Letter on camera? Signing the 50+ CDs? Acknowledging AAm? Being Alizée? All of the above? More?


Since the day on which Alizée autographed our CDs is so special, on no one's authority at all, I am declaring the 31st of March as <i>Alizée Day in America</i>, now and forever.

I'm sorry to point this out Doc, it was on the 29th. I try not to be superstitous, but I do try and avoid the numbers 1 and 3 together in any combination and I hate to see the 31st be declared that special day if indeed it wasn't.

As far as what we are thanking her for. Well mainly for this private autograph session. One of the reasons for asking the people at the Virgin Megastore if it was okay to bring a bunch of cd's to the table was becuase we thought it would be rude, to have other people wait in line for so long. They could have easliy said, "wait til everyone has gone through, then you can bring your 50 cd's up" and everyone here would have been more than happy with that. But no, they went through the trouble of setting up this session. A great gesture on there part. Plus the fact that she used the gold pens just for us. Another great gesture that was almost lost to us.

As far as thanking her for holding the letter, I don't think we should thank her for that. It was almost kind of rude to present it to her again after it had been sent to her on more than one occassion. But I think it was a good way to make her connect that letter with our forum and letting her know that these are representatives of the forum that this very well thought out letter came from.

Presenting it to her again was like I said, maybe being a little rude, but when something like this is e-mailed to a star or even sent through the regular mail, fans have no way of knowing if it ever actually makes it to them. Could just be opened by a secretary who deems it meaningless and deep sixes it. So I've said it before, that seeing her actually hold it in her hands, I think meant a lot to the people who put it together and even the people who just read it and agreed with what it said.