From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V3 #253 Reply-To: eda-thoughts@smoe.org Sender: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk eda-thoughts-digest Monday, July 3 2000 Volume 03 : Number 253 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * eda-thoughts-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY * the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: eda-thoughts-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- ET: may you find some comfort here. [Naomi ] ET: statistic [Mango Ara ] ET: The Barbarian [Nondescript ] ET: "Dark Side Of Oz" to play on TCM Monday 7/3 [Mike Connell Subject: ET: may you find some comfort here. tribute to familiarity. it's a good place to be, i think, coming home to an answering machine full of "hey, it's me..." ===== "What is Desire? Desire is... complicated. One person always wants the other person more." -VS __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 10:22:33 -0700 From: Mango Ara Subject: ET: statistic i will be your statistic another one of those that hits the charts the newspapers will say, yet another tortured teenager, successful at shattering and the mangled mouth of its mangled body will call out screaming but it's a useless scream, because they're all miles and miles away, or might as well be, sipping their tea beneath a lush cement canopy, kissing under rumors that hang precariously like misletoe while i am off somewhere dreaming someday you'll find you've been somewhere slipping away so i will be another statistic. what is it this time? inhalers? a cement stairway? a tall lamppost? a building? a mountain? or my own reality, which is constantly redestroyed. i wonder is it too much, asking you to peel away your sticky smile and unleash the hostile undertone what do you see me as the happy quiet one, always wearing bells on her ankles, flashing various facets of rainbows and darkness sometimes i want to push away the world with my hands, and jump off a fucking wall and just fall forever statistically, males succeed more than females, three times more. the girls in their limp bodies with blood draining from their arms just sigh for one last call to weakness statistically, females try more than males, three times more. third time's the charm, so the cliche goes. someday you'll realize i was off somewhere slipping away just another statistic for you ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 20:30:10 -0400 From: Nondescript Subject: ET: The Barbarian He wasn't the sort of man you would expect to get drunk on. There were no neon lights, no bells or whistles to give him away. He just sat in a puddle of silence, of his own making and choice. I watched him drown before I decided to give him a piece of my consciousness. "The violins in my head are lovely," he said, after I acknowledged him. "They are splendid." "They are petty." I knew I was ambiguous and harsh in my reply. It made no difference. One man out of twenty, I sink them all in the end. And I had given up long ago. I used to try to be innocent, but I realized it wasn't up to me. Whether or not I am kind, I end up killing. And I remember seeing his face, so hurt, so crushed as velvet. I wanted to sprout wings and swoop him up in their feathers and plead forgiveness--he did not know I was a walking sin when he shared his strings with me. I wanted to cry to give him his oceanic silence back, and take away the salt of the sea that would inevitably seep into the wound I had just made. It is splendid, it is petty, and it is my undoing. I romanticize the insanity, you see, and he was very much the ideal romantic to me. I suppose that I must have assumed he would understand me, if he could be just as cruel. Yes, I need someone cruel. I need someone to keep me in check, to bruise me when I sin. I would be an eternal plum, hanging by the shred of a bough and lacking the sugar and the fairies. "You, too, envision bleeding oranges, cloudless?" To anyone else, his cryptic tongue would have gone unappreciated. Yet I heard, and I understood. The sunset was his personal hell. Perhaps he had once found a lover to share the sight with, and she had died. No, not died--there would not be such bitterness if she had left this world as blameless as daylight. The resentment in his undertones left me to know. She had gone, yet not in the sense of death. That would be conquerable, and he could imagine her as an angel, giving hope to such perishable mortals as myself. He loathed women because he loved them, and could never give up the grandeur of dreaming that there was one Eve for him, an Adam already betrayed. "But in the end, you cannot blame her, you know. Serpents will do what they will to spite any God." My serpents are asps, all in my mind. I have the devil in my subconscious, driving me mad. Tripping over his piano wire and falling face-first into the mud, I, too, have been Eve many times. Every woman is a whore; I just can't cope. And what is worse is that every one adores the primitive, the barbarian. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 21:34:53 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: ET: "Dark Side Of Oz" to play on TCM Monday 7/3 Repost of a post I made on another list a few weeks back. Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:55:00 -0400 Subject: "Dark Side Of Oz" to play on TCM Hi folks :-) I just read in the USA Today today that on July 3rd, Turner Classic Movies will be broadcasting the Wizard Of Oz, with Pink Floyds' Dark Side Of The Moon properly synched, so those of us that still have not experienced this recent phenomenon/discovery can do so. This broadcast will be at 11:00pm ET, with the normal Wiz Of Oz sound on the normal audio channels, while the Dark Side Of The Moon will be on the SAP audio feed. Don't be confused if you tune in earlier and see the Wizard Of Oz and fear that you missed it, TCM is also broadcasting the film at 8:00pm ET, but NOT with Dark Side Of The Moon on the SAP feed. If any list members here do not know what this is all about, perhaps someone else here can better explain it, as while I know the basics, I don't at all know any of the specifics that might draw in someones' interest. Mike ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V3 #253 **********************************