Hello.
I've just come in from Center Harbor and the cold is positively biting. Upon
setting my coat and luggage at the foot of the mantle, I found a note slipped
that had been under my door, penned in what appeared some unbalanced
concoction (presumably hurried under the skittish concentration of a dull
lantern) of human bile and, apparently, calcium. From what I understand it
all pointed due north, toward Sky Harbor (goodbye?).
BEN: ....beration-beration--beration....
ALAN: Blasted! I shall never escape the ill wishes of these people...
D: "I took the keys from Maudlin Street" This is Morrissey, yes?
ALAN: Yes, as a matter of fact it is. An excerpt from the song 'Late Night,
Maudlin Street,' from the Viva Hate album.
D: I'm rambling so badly because I think the point of a mailing list is to
bring fans together, and such fans will typically have similar, or at least,
discussable viewpoints that can lead to further conversation. Anyway, as I
said, that could be pure bunk but that's my opinion.
ALAN: And it is a very fine opinion, but not the generality of this board.
Whenever someone brings up a topic non-SDRE related they will duly become
host to childlike bickerings from nasty little chalk faces who subscribe to
this list. Granted, the Welcome Letter does ask that only SDRE-related topics
be discussed, but the matter gets truly out of hand by some of the more
ridiculous buffoons around here. For instance, a while ago a long discussion
ensued about William's leaving the Foo Fighters and Nate's staying. People
all over the place where raising their fists against discussion of the Foo
Fighters, even though that IS related to SDRE. Not directly, but it is a very
important topic to a lot of SDRE fans. And then, if that isn't stormy weather
enough, one sad and lonely time someone posted about trying to locate
official lyrics for the pink album, and listed a few web addresses on the
SDRE site that contained pages for them but no lyrics. Some wise ass vomited
up some purulent account of searching for lyrics that do not exist not
pertaining to SDRE, and to get back on topic. The sense in THAT one? There is
none. You will find that this does happen, and sadly, it will probably never
stop. Now, I can fairly see subscribers getting upset at a month-long thread
about interesting hip hop groups, seeing as that is not even on the same
planet as SDRE, but still: If you don't like the thread, don't open the
e-mail. It isn't too much of a chore to delete it. I suppose some of you
batty lagoneers might protest to my taking things too seriously, but isn't
that sort of turning things around a bit?
BRITTYN: I saw this rerun of beavis and butthead.. you know how they have
music videos that they make fun of on there? well they had a seaweed video
on, from the album FOUR.. just thought that was pretty weird. um yep.
ALAN: I do remember that. It was for the song 'Kid Candy,' which was the
closet Seaweed ever came to hitting the big time, I presume. But I think MTV
played the 'Seven' video even more than that one. Around the same time,
though, that show also played the Quicksand video 'Dine Alone.' I can't even
remember what they were saying about the songs because I was so intent on
watching the videos, since they were so rare. Although 120 Minutes did play
Quicksand's first two videos a lot when they first came out. I wonder if
'Seven' ever showed up on that (the cartoon) show....
Thank you for your responses. It actually seems strange to me I didn't get
the jerks on me first...
"I should go . . . I should go . . ."
Alan.
