[lit-ideas] Re: I need new music
- From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 10:04:53 -0400
We're just playing :)
Erin
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Amago
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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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