From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V3 #85 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 Wednesday, September 20 2000 Volume 03 : Number 085 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: John Gorka in Seattle? ["Steve McGraw" ] conscious listening [ThePsyche@aol.com] Richard Shindell in East Lansing, Michigan [patrick t power ] Re: conscious listening [SMOKEY596@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 06:25:16 -0400 From: "Steve McGraw" Subject: Re: John Gorka in Seattle? Good morning, Vince! According to the http://flemtam.com/jg-itin.html site you call 206-325-6500 for ticket information. Hope this helps; good luck! Steve Subject: John Gorka in Seattle? >Recently joined the list -- though have been listening and savoring John >Gorka for many years. John's music "speaks to my condition" >Heard that John will be in Seattle 9/29 yeah! at the Century Ballroom. This >so?. I haven't been able to find a ticket outlet - doesn't seem to be >listed in the usual places where music events are listed -- or maybe I just >missed it? >Any help would be appreciated >Vince in > >Olympia Washington > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 13:54:55 EDT From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: conscious listening I was talking with a new friend yesterday, about music and stuff and he mentioned that he doesn't like music on in the background unless he knows it well. He prefers to be in the moment with his music, not doing other things. How do you guys use music in your life? I have been thinking about the idea of conscious listening. While I agree that music is more than background noise, to me the music creates the mood, enhances my environment and draws me into another kind of consciousness, no matter what I am doing. I use music all day long, sometimes flipping back and forth between new and old, fast and slow, positive and negative. Gorka or the Blues. (was that redundant?) Like this morning, I came in from a bike ride and had stuff to attend to but instead I made apple bread and listened to new music. I got lost in the scents and the feel and the sound of my own kitchen...and my own head. Maybe its a girl thing...multi tasking, synapses' closer together, making more and frequent connections. Or maybe its just me. Found a song this morning, touching something in me and have played it over and over and over again. It is on the Mustard's Retreat CD Back to Back Part of Me Remembers I'm not asking much You don't have to call or keep in touch. I don't expect you'd do it anyways. There's something left, but it's mostly over, a few more lines, a little older and a bed that's all your own at the end of the day. Part of me remembers summer wine and winter's embers and the laughter of the children as they played. All my friends tell me, "Forget it. There's a new life, go and get it." Part of me remembers anyway. Well it's sad how blind we are to things gone wrong 'til they've gone too far and there's nothing that can set them straight again. And it's a funny place to stand, worn out hearts and empty hands, with your best friend there, but still to far away. Part of me remembers... Well, I'm no longer feeling sad, but old regrets are just as bad. They waste your time with little in return. That's not to say I don't remember, but it's like the sun in late November that tries to warm you through the cold, but all the while it's getting old. Part of me remembers... Enough delaying it and procrastinating....off to work. Oops, there goes the bread timer....I guess I have to take care of that first! Adios, Bryn, music junkie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:20:23 -0700 From: patrick t power Subject: Richard Shindell in East Lansing, Michigan Richard Shindell will be in East Lansing, Michigan this coming Friday (9/22) at the Ten Pound Fiddle Coffeehouse. The show begins at 8:00pm, doors open at 7:30. If you're interested, check out the Fiddle website at www.tenpoundfiddle.org or e-mail me privately. Pat * ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:55:58 -0400 From: "Steve McGraw" Subject: Re: conscious listening O.K., Paula-Bryn; here we go again! The last time I responded to one of your requests (campaign slogans), my message disappeared into a virtual JG black hole, but let's see . . . I agree completely with your friend and his "use" of music. As I have explained before, it is my nearly constant companion, a good friend who speaks to my interior, keeps me between the lines on the road and within the bounds of sanity at work. If I am into a particularly stressful time, then the music becomes even more important to me. During the campaign last year, I didn't much like walking from my office to my car (a two-minute stroll) because I had to be without JG's music during that time. And, if I left my tapes in the car or at the office when I was in the other location, I would take the precious time to turn around and go back and get them rather than have to function without the music for several minutes - or even hours! I don't have one of those fancy motorcycle helmets with the built-in speakers, but I rigged up a Walkman with earbud speakers so I could listen to the music while riding my bike. And when I go on motorcycle camping trips, I take along a couple of little external speakers which hook up to the Walkman, and I set that up even before I erect the tent! Me, a music junkie? Why, of course! Steve >I was talking with a new friend yesterday, about music and stuff and he >mentioned that he doesn't like music on in the background unless he knows it >well. He prefers to be in the moment with his music, not doing other things. >How do you guys use music in your life? >I have been thinking about the idea of conscious listening. >Adios, Bryn, music junkie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:11:57 EDT From: SMOKEY596@aol.com Subject: Re: conscious listening I definitely am a "conscious" listener! :-) I can't stand to have (good) music on if I can't listen to it properly. I'll have the radio on while at work or if I'm messing around the house or if it's a short car trip. But I save the good stuff (Gorka, Wilcox, Shindell) for times when I can reeeeally listen. And because it's so important to me, I make time for it each day. SMOKEY Conquer your fear, and master the game/Life is always and never the same, Use a little faith to light the flame/And I know you'll connect to you. Pop the cork, a champagne glass/Raise to the future, drink to the past, Thank the Lord for the friends he cast/In the play he wrote for you. Ellis Paul ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V3 #85 *******************************