From: Greg Hatmaker, gregh@mpinet.net
Subject: this little piggy had none
Date: 2/5/2002 9:12:54 PM
To: seance@lists.no-fi.com


So I get up in the morning and drive to the mall and nope, they don't have
it. Go to CD Warehouse and they don't have it either, but the woman in a
generic black R&R t-shirt behind the counter (playing mono in the
background) says, "Oh, I thought that was next week." I say, "Um, no,"
while she looks. Turns out I'm right (go figure). But this is cool, at
least she knows whothefeck I'm talking about, and I see that they do have
copies of p=a and GAF in stock. So, she surprises me and says, well I'll
have to put that one on order and adds it to the list, I really thought
they were next week. I kind of like them. Then she says, "I do have the new
Daniel Ash, if you want that?" and I look at her and go "Ehhhhhhh," in my
best whiney voice. While she insists, "Come on, you know you like him."
While I'm thinking, "Um. No." But say, "Maybe, but not that much. I like
this, though," and point to the sky and say "Mono is cool." She gives me
this blank stare that says "We don't choose the music, so I have no clue
what you are talking about," which is how I feel about Daniel Ash's solo
work. No idea. Silent Hedges was way cool but no that was Bauhaus. A
Strange Kind of Love was cool but, no, that was Peter Smurphy. I'm Alive
was cool, but that was Love and Rockets. I'm getting closer but I still
have no clue so I'll just smile my way through this. So, anyway, I tell her
about how when The Church played Melbourne, Florida in '88, all the little
goth boys and all the little goth girls came to see Peter Murphy. So when
Peter Murphy was done, everybody split. At least that's the story my
friends told when they came back from a show I couldn't afford to go to.
So, I told her that ever since that time, The Church have been associated
with gothbois and gothgoils, which couldn't be further from the truth
because The Church are jangly and psychedelic and beautiful and even rock
when they want to. So, I told her that when she mentioned Daniel Ash, I
just had to look at her like, "And this would interest me because...??" So,
then she tells me that she was one of those little gothgoils who stayed
around after Peter Murphy left. So, that was cool. So, as I was leaving, I
told her that when the copy she ordered comes in that she should buy it for
herself. At which point she gave me this look of "Um, no." How I treasure
our little talks. Well, at least the first one.

So...

Best Buy still doesn't have it on order. Even checked Walmart on the off
chance before I had to go into work. The only place I haven't looked is my
favorite coffee-creature hangout Barnes & Nobles. I'm pretty sure they're
not going to have it either. That's it, folks. That's it for the great
metropolis that is Melbourne, Florida.

Tell myself, oh gee, wanna buy it over the counter like people used to
do...wanna hand it over the counter to a record store clerk who says, "Oh,
The Church! I didn't know they were still making records. I used to love
them!"...wanna tell 'em all about The Church and how great The Church are
and this The Church and that The Church and ChurchChurchChurch. But where
the f! did they hide *my* Church album?

I STILL DON'T HAVE MY CHURCH ALBUM!!! 

Bastards.

g!








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