[lit-ideas] Re: I need new music
- From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:57:22 -0400
Mike has horrible taste in music. Every CD he's made for me I use as a
coaster.
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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