In a message dated 4/16/99 2:19:43 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << 1) first of all, the cover.. i thought it was just some cool design.. but apparently, she htought they were tons of people mixed togeher.. like they were legs poking out.. [ I was initially convinced the cover was a close-up rendering of the pathogen responsible for the 1976 Ebola Zaire outbreak in Kinshasa, and assumed it was a hidden indication that at least Dan had been reading both Laurie Garrett's "Coming Plague" and the Scientific American issue from 1994 espousing the theory that Ebola was a form of eco-terrorism aimed at eliminating the African population.] 2) the paper airplanes... some sort of irony? [Actually, it is a comment on the seeming inability of our society, despite at least twenty years of recycling paper products, to purchase products made from over 50% post-consumer recycled pulp, allowing the demand for newly-processed fibers from deforestation to remain high, stabilizing the paper and logging industries in a direct refutation of mass public opinion.] 3) the grain silo's.. the cracked silo's.. and the waves of grain that need to be harvested and stored.. but alas.. the silo's are broken. [This concerns the Farm Aid series of concerts that, despite raising millions of dollars for direct farm relief, seems only to serve as a perverse opportunity for John Cougar Mellencamp to parade about the stage at least once a year with even a tinge of self-relevance and egotism despite lagging record sales and several canceled pavilion tours.] 4) the candy bombs.. poking fun at war? [The fallen candies have been pre-shrink-wrapped, continuing our dousing of the earth with unnecessary plastic products (much like the falling candies themselves) and the perpetuation of a hidden attempt by the candy industry to poison our children with a sugar high, causing a false sense of security and well-being.] 5) i don't get teh telephone one... [The telephone has been replaced by a number of other impersonal forms of communication, the shadow in the hallway a young man oblivious to human contact after spending ten straight hours in an AOL chatroom taking his first trip to the restroom and about to discover his innate human-animal self; it's a portrait of a rebirth about to happen.] 6) the deer.. mechanical animals.. perversion of nature.. [No, it's representative of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its impact on the human populations of the two territories on the eve of the Civil War.] 7) the road up the mountain... you gotta struggle to get where you wanna go. [This is a blatant commercialized product-placement for Amoco Ultimate gasoline and its supposed benefits; shockingly, I had heard that Jeremy was going to title his next solo effort "Think Different" and was going to feature a cover shot of him eating a granny smith apple.] 8) the water fountain... it's making fun of you..you fell for the mirage.. [This controversial shot is a political comment on the Florida aquifer's pollution over twenty years of depletion of the topsoil and groundwater resources through fertilizers and the application of agribusiness techniques that have destroyed family farms, turning vegetables into marketing opportunitites for multinational corporations whose CEO's would kick your grandmother off her tractor and force her to make small plastic toys in a sweatshop at gunpoint.] 9) Love and ROckets? whatever it means. i just heard of that phrase before.. [This is a subliminal sexual message from Will Goldsmith to Shudder To Think singer Craig Wedren, who called Will "Bacchanalian" in the Magnet article, and it is merely Will's not-so-hidden attempt to re-establish himself, in a Freudian sense, as having the most important phallus in the band.] 10) the masked sharks .... evil.. in the guise of friendliness... out for #1. [I thought it represented the downfall of man as explained in Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas' most recent prose, with a hint of sociological examination of the abstract noodlings of Foucault by virtue of the a priori effects of direct vector-plane symbolism.] 11) the politician... he's just saying whatever you want to hear.. no conviction behind what they promise. [The face reminds one of Bob Barr, Georgia arch-conservative Republican, who issued a direct confrontation to the Democratic party throughout the Monica Lewinsky controversy, eventually becoming a poster-child for a failed right-wing coup of the 1996 election; his placement aligns Jeremy with the millions of readers of the Starr Report who rebuke its gentle quasi-porn.] please tell me what you think.... >> Excellent.
