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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 02:03:54 -0800 (PST)
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Hi-- I came to your computer-generated writing page via Robert Pearson,
and I downloaded the wonderful TextMangler for my mac.  I fed it a file
with four origins: a news story I'd written, an old journal entry, a lot
of pop-music writing from a net mailing-list (not by me), and an english
paper on a poet!  Here are the results.. I showed them to people around
the college-paper where I work, and they got a laugh out of them -- the
copy editor loved it.  We even read some of it at an open-mic night.
Very intriguing stuff, as a catalyst for lateral thinking, as some
enjoyable absurdity, and as humor!

Kevin


> 
> 
> 	Timm admitted to not knowing that Joe was here sleeping, we woke 
> everybody up, got in the usual brilliant Heavenly party-set way - Lenny 
> Kravitz cover & all (beats their tasteful Freddie Mercury tribute of 
> '91)- all the way back, nexites picking up each others' mannerisms, and 
> after that I got Dedicated records delivered to my door, and i was 
> sitting around, thinking ho hum. And I was totally expecting to 
> collaborate with him on it. I am dancing around, impromptu, I take one of 
> the first time in a rather great feathery fake-fur coat - unfortunately 
> he was semi friendly mentor and semi-sleazy, not anyone you'd want to 
> know is why everyone presumed likening a band and recently played a gig 
> which was me, nancy and anna going downstairs to the problem made by 
> mixing Fish and Harman. The solution I have to be Nick Drake, they can't 
> help being a 4-piece rock band called Ride who have a new LP soon, 'Tiger 
> Bay', which is as follows: While that my soul repairs to her devotion, 
> Here I entomb my flesh, that it may even work. Also support bands tend to 
> be the BUDGET when I thought it sounded quite 60s'ish. The very early 
> Slowdive/Eternal  stuff sounds quite similar (Beach Song, Take Me down), 
> sort of music.  
> 	Northern Picture Library as fore-runners.  Incidentally, Shields 
> was recently interviewed in the environmental platforms of Mark Milstein 
> and Debbie Danluck. As the dissolution is abstract, and the Sacraments 
> (in "The Church"), to the Good Earth, and it was nice of Tjinder to say 
> experimental. . . Pastels/Melody Dog have an idea: FUCK THE QUIZ.  Just 
> an idea. OK, so now they've got a good time, which is in turn be 
> resigned. The regress is an illusion... the exercise of his proposals and 
> how much he planned to concentrate on Isla Vista, external VP candidate 
> Tung Nguyen affirmed his devotion to IV, saying RI love IV.S His opponent 
> Craig Cignarelli pushed his plans for bringing cityhood to IV. When asked 
> about control of noise late at night, he again referred to the LP, with 
> it's Michael Nyman-esque backing being a personal fave, and the back of 
> her head isn't Ivy, it's blonde. And then I am getting won over by 
> idyllic imagery of summer, relying heavily on my old ones, and little 
> pushing. Select is about the Tindersticks sound too much anti-chart 
> snobbery. Good if you don't like him, but like Ride wanting to set up as 
> an organized scheme.... the instructional sequence is the nature of a 
> Sarah Christmas party. After a tea of wine, more wine, and wine, we 
> arrived in time to take a shower, going to read, but now I'm not. She's 
> here. Shit--- well I will go back to dust. Everything comes from, and 
> everything goes to eventually. His body is at once contrived and real, 
> like ours. 
> 	So then it's time to catch the end when she was going, (due to 
> hype) try giving it a few other people but then who really cares, they 
> were certainly the best record cover this year. The remix EP is also 
> excellent.
> 	She's so cute, she's so angelic.  Suddenly charlie is talking to 
> the trappings of the disks I bought but I sleep. A lot. To 6. And then I 
> don't think they're  ambient techno at all -- not in the office with 
> Brett I saw them, when they were certainly the best that can happen to 
> them would be to go to Charlie's door and see my score, right on the 
> Twisterella video - oh well. For what it's worth, it's very easy to 
> objectively tear any band apart - Swervedriver especially - they were, 
> erm, good at what they do a reasonably priced direct mail order to the 
> LP.  I did see Comet Gain this summer, but unfortunately I'd consumed a 
> bottle of vodka on the wall. Like, a hill with band members, some of them 
> have to be APWIRE editor, heeee. I remember seeing her and thinking she 
> was talking about Calvino and If On a Winters Night a Traveller, and the 
> sentiment is, "come, come, my God, Oh come,/ But no hearing." (197.)
> 	 But the last time I saw them, when they were frying. "against 
> alcohol" sal says. "but he's in favor of hallucinogens," William says.  
> Boyracer are beginning to grow on me - they're rather Wedding Present 
> like, but with Ian Masters in control nothing stays the same - I'd like 
> to enter things.  I didn't have time to stay and find out, I had the 
> others. Kim Gates asked if professors are teaching similarities between 
> ethnic groups as compared to the nexus. Sit around. Go to KCSB. Fill out 
> that forgotten log. Talk to Dave, and Lisa Russell, and get a chance! 
> Can't work out if the St.Et comparison is complimentary!!!!  They share a 
> producer, and as mentioned before early St.Et demos had most of this heap 
> of dust. Herbert's concern with other poets reveals a self-consciousness 
> not usually associated with secure Christians: "Who says that fictions 
> only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all 
> good structure in a restaurant booth, and there was a very post-Simon 
> Reynolds fanzine, incidentally, which explains a lot. Also bought a load 
> of European trance & ambient records, and the ears. In the Herbert, "the 
> Church" is a 2 fanzine package (This Rare treat & McIntyre). Apparently a 
> new LP soon, 'Tiger Bay', which is enough, I guess in most people's 
> books, but what they do, but didn't really take it anywhere. Next along 
> were Action Painting, with Lee camping it up in a great GREAT BLOCK OF 4 
> BLOODY HOURS! Holy shit, its good... they're so great, they have 
> attained. He gives evidence for this association. 
> 
>