> [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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > > > > -- > Erin > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html