From: Scott Douglas, raiderlover@adelphia.net
Subject: Re: The Crap in the Cracks of the Sidewalks - the new long awaited album! ; )
Date: 2/28/2002 5:01:12 PM
To: Salonen@aol.com
seance@lists.no-fi.com



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Salonen@aol.com 
  To: seance@lists.no-fi.com 
  Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 11:29 PM
  Subject: The Crap in the Cracks of the Sidewalks - the new long awaited album! ; )


  In a message dated 2/23/02 4:30:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, nydrummergirl@yahoo.com writes:



    AINT NO WAY an organization like the NEA types gonna
    DONATE money for a profit making buziness even if we
    think it is culturally relevant.  Its commerce.  YOu
    don't see the NEA and NEH giving money to Sony Music,
    do you? 


  Yes, The Church are probably fairly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, as we all may be - who knows - can't get too philosophical here, and they certainly weren't my central focus as I waited for the cleaning crew to come to my dad's apartment and clean up the mess he left after he checked out via a .357... but the great thing about art and music and poetry and literature and books FOR ME  is that two and a half years later, I could stand in the House of Blues, listen to the Church and realise, wow,  I was happy again, that I could feel again, and that I could enjoy music again. I wasn't dead - I still had the ability to enjoy what I once loved. I thought I'd lost that forever. We need our 'crap in the cracks of the sidewalks' (love that one!) as much as we need our reality checks methinks. It's just keepin' the whole ball o' wax in perspective I guess and definitely keeping a sense of humour!!!

  Kindly,

  Denise : )

  Denise
  I must say this even though you've heard it already....but very well said.  I as well need great music to help me through the everyday hum drum of life.  Music (and the arts in general)  are what makes life worth living.  So I tend to disagree when it is said it is crap in the cracks of the sidewalks.  Rather this is one of the things that make everyday existence breath.  Anyway...very well said.

  Scott