[lit-ideas] Re: I need new music

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:22:50 -0400

> [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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