From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V3 #69 Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org Sender: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk good-noise-digest Tuesday, August 22 2000 Volume 03 : Number 069 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Indoctrinating Our Children [Greg Steele ] Re: Indoctrinating Our Children [Kris Pancoast ] Philly Folk Festival [ThePsyche@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 04:58:30 -0400 From: Greg Steele Subject: Re: Indoctrinating Our Children ThePsyche@aol.com wrote: > > It was something I just wanted to share with all of you. Thanks for reading. > Have a good week everyone. > > Peace, The Most Hated Mother on Sheridan Rd. Just proves that God puts cute into kids to keep us from killing them sometimes :-) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:25:00 -0400 From: Kris Pancoast Subject: Re: Indoctrinating Our Children Bryn - Thank you for sharing that!!! What a nice story! Greg - I agree wholeheartedly!! Counting the days til John plays the Philly Folk Festival (5!!!) I'm excited that he's also going to be playing a workshop with Patty Larkin! I'll try to send along a review of the weekend next Monday. Have a good one! Kris ThePsyche@aol.com wrote: > I hope you all had a good weekend. > > I did, most of it anyway. Until this afternoon, after lunch. I guess too > much weekend caught up with my boy and he and I had a blow out fight, a major > mom/son disagreement that escalated into his telling me he doesn't love me > anymore and that I am the meanest mom in the world. > > Oh man...through the misty eyes and the half smile I was hiding, I wondered > how he and I got to this place. I didn't see it coming until I had to take a > stand and stay consistent. Parenting comes with the good days and the > not so good days and even the days where your kid hates you. > > So...the tension diminished and the house settled back down into our quiet > summer Sunday routine. He and I eventually ended up sitting on the garage > floor painting an old school desk I had grabbed out of somebody's trash pick > up. We spent some of that time talking about the why and what and how of our > bad fight. > > As we finished up, washing lime green paint off the brushes, he told me to > come up to his room when I was done...he had a surprise for me. > > When I got up there, he had a chair turned around facing the "stage" area and > I knew I was in for one of Ian's percussive guitar recitals and stream of > consciousness concerts. I signed in as requested and got my ticket (a > pokemon card) and found a seat near the front and settled in for the show. > > I managed to keep a set list: > > My Shower Is Big Enough For Five People > > Red Light, Green Light, Don't Walk In The Street > > and then he introduced this song especially for his Mom. He wanted to tell > her he was sorry for what he said. He did love her and she wasn't mean. > > I wrote down the lyrics as he sang: > > The Magical CD > > The magical CD, oh you can choose any singer you want, > Like John Gorka or David Wilcox > Or you can even pick your favorite animal-l-l-ll > Nu nu nu nu nu nu nu > > You could pick David Roth or Justin Roth too > Oh just any singer you want cause it is magic. > > Oh you can pick Tom Kimmel or Tom Prasada Rao > Or You can even pick a dog because we love dogs. > > Nu nu nu nu nu nu nu > > The magical CD for you. > > ...if I ever wondered if my music and house concerts and folk festivals were > having any impact on my son's childhood....I guess that little bedroom > concert answered my question. I sounds like he already even knows about > bootlegs. > > It was something I just wanted to share with all of you. Thanks for reading. > Have a good week everyone. > > Peace, The Most Hated Mother on Sheridan Rd. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:13:05 EDT From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: Philly Folk Festival krisp88@erols.com writes: << Counting the days til John plays the Philly Folk Festival (5!!!) I'm excited that he's also going to be playing a workshop with Patty Larkin! >> Be sure and check out a duo Mustards Retreat. I have in good authority that they are a pretty great duo. Let me know, I am thinking of booking them for an On The Map House Concert this winter! Have fun Kris. And thanks for the kind words. Adios, Bryn, music junkie ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V3 #69 *******************************