[lit-ideas] Re: I need new music

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Erin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andy Amago 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 9:22 AM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: I need new music


  > [Original Message]
  > From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  > Date: 6/25/2005 1:57:51 PM
  > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: I need new music
  >
  > Mike has horrible taste in music.  Every CD he's made for me I use as a 
  > coaster.  
  >
  >


  A.A. Why do I get this feeling that you torture ants before killing them? 
  Is that true?


  Andy Amago





  > Erin
  > Toronto
  >
  >
  >
  > Quoting Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
  >
  > > No Nellie sounds like Julie London or Peggy Lee -- a female crooner,
  but the
  > > songs are rap-like and very funny.  It's certainly suitable for
  children. 
  > > Erin has sad taste in music, that's all.  Ignore her.  Or try Jim
  White's 
  > > "Wrong-Eyed  Jesus"  I love that even more than McKay.
  > > 
  > > Mike Geary
  > > 
  > >   ----- Original Message ----- 
  > >   From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx 
  > >   To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  > >   Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 12:26 PM
  > >   Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: I need new music
  > > 
  > > 
  > >   So, Mike, I need some additional personal experience here -- did this
  > > indeed happen to you, when you listened to her?  I'm more or less
  assuming
  > > from Erin's review that it is not, at least, suitable for children......
  > > 
  > >   Julie Krueger
  > > 
  > >   ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: I need new
  music 
  > >         Date: 6/25/05 12:18:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time 
  > >         From: erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx 
  > >         To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  > >         Sent on:     
  > > 
  > >   Don't listen to Mike.  It's ghastly.  Absolutely repulsive.  You'll
  feel
  > > like 
  > >   killing yourself for weeks afterwards.  You'll wind up drinking a lot
  of
  > > booze 
  > >   in an attempt to forget the wholly wretched experience and then likely
  > > resort 
  > >   to antipsychotics, which, needless to say, will react poorly with the
  booze
  > > 
  > >   you're consuming until one night you'll black out and wake up the next
  > > morning 
  > >   in a tree seeing nothing but colours.  For your own sake, don't do
  it.  The
  > > 
  > >   woman's despicable.  
  > > 
  > > 
  > >   Erin
  > >   Toronto
  > > 
  > > 
  > >   Quoting Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
  > > 
  > >   > Try Nellie McKay's "Get Away From Me"  I love it.  But don't tell
  Erin
  > > that
  > >   > you've listened to her and especially don't tell her you like it. 
  She
  > > gets
  > >   > rabid about Nellie McKay.  Pity.
  > >   > 
  > >   > Mike Geary
  > >   > 
  > >   > 
  > >   >   ----- Original Message ----- 
  > >   >   From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx 
  > >   >   To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  > >   >   Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 10:52 AM
  > >   >   Subject: [lit-ideas] I need new music
  > >   > 
  > >   > 
  > >   >   Not Sarah McLachlan(sp?)-ish, probably not bluesy; something
  sedgy but
  > > not
  > >   > head-banger.  I've worn out my Annie Lennox "Bare" CD, Tori Amos
  (God I
  > > love
  > >   > those women), Cake, Johnny Lang, U2, and some others I'm probably
  > > forgetting
  > >   > at the moment.  I've done in Randy Newman's Songbook Vol 1,
  > > particularly
  > >   > "God's Song" (permit me to quote the lyrics, as that along with his
  > > entirely
  > >   > unique piano artistry and voice are grounds enough, is why that
  track
  > > is
  > >   > nearly worn down.)
  > >   > 
  > >   >   "God's Song
  > >   >   (That's Why I Love Mankind)
  > >   > 
  > >   >   Cain slew Abel and Seth knew not why
  > >   >   For if the children of Israel were supposed 
  > >   >     to multiply
  > >   >   Then why must any of the children die?
  > >   >   So he asked the Lord
  > >   >   And the Lord said:
  > >   > 
  > >   >   Man means nothing he means less to me
  > >   >   Than the lowliest cactus flower
  > >   >   Or the humblest yucca tree
  > >   >   He chases round this desert
  > >   >   'Cause he thinks that's where I'll be
  > >   >   That's why I love mankind
  > >   > 
  > >   >   I recoil in horror from the foulness of thee
  > >   >   From the squalor, and the filth, and the misery
  > >   >   How we laugh up her in heaven at the prayers
  > >   >     you offer Me
  > >   >   That's why I love mankind
  > >   > 
  > >   >   The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree
  > >   >   The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on sattelite TV
  > >   >   They picked their four greatest priests
  > >   >   And they began to speak
  > >   >   They said, "Lord a plague is on the world
  > >   >   Lord no man is free
  > >   >   The temples that we built to you
  > >   >   Have tumbled into the sea
  > >   >   Lord if you won't take care of us
  > >   >   Won't you please please let us be"
  > >   >   And the Lord said
  > >   >   And the Lord said:
  > >   > 
  > >   >   I burn down your cities
  > >   >   How blind you must be
  > >   >   I take from you your children and you say how
  > >   >     blessed are we
  > >   >   You all must be crazy to put your faith in Me
  > >   > 
  > >   >   That's why I love mankind
  > >   >   You really need Me
  > >   >   That's why I love mankind"
  > >   > 
  > >   > 
  > >   >   Turn THAT up at full volume and read the best pieces of Sexton and
  > >   > Zymborska (sp?) and see what happens to you.
  > >   > 
  > >   >   Anyway.  I'm open to suggestions for new music.  Anyone?
  > >   > 
  > >   >   Julie Krueger
  > >   >   trying not to live a life of quiet desperation
  > > 
  > > 
  > >   -- 
  > >   Erin
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  >
  > -- 
  > Erin
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