From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V4 #39 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, February 27 2001 Volume 04 : Number 039 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Mad Cows! ["Sam & Sara Kniffen" ] RE: Mad Cows! ["Sam & Sara Kniffen" ] Re: Mad Cows! ["cycle12345" ] RE: Now I'm Looking Forward To You [Mike Daly ] Welcome Mike [ThePsyche@aol.com] Re: Now I'm Looking Forward To You ["John and Gail Lindekugel" ] Re: Now I'm Looking Forward To You ["cycle12345" ] Re: lost post ["cycle12345" ] Now I'm Looking Forward to You ["Vince Schueler" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 04:24:39 -0600 From: "Sam & Sara Kniffen" Subject: Mad Cows! Hi all! Sing with us! Oh, It's nothin but a butt... No, it's nothin but a butt... It's really really lean, Umm... I CAN'T DO IT!! Wish you all were here, cuz we're way into JG tonight and we heard that he plays with his songs and changes the words into X-rated lyrics in his livingroom with friends... so we did too! And we had some FUN! Something rhymes with lean and starts with 'V' and we had to stop the guitar because we were laughing too much! (I learned new things about my friends tonight.) But then we did some serious and relevant stuff which is very important in this day and age, I think... Cough! Like it really matters...: Mad Cows, shaking and falling, Mad Cows, out of control... Mad Cows, shaking and trembling, Human, examine your soul... (Does that offend anyone? We sincerely hope not. Here's to vegans everywhere! Oops, I broke my glass with that toast!) We have more... But it's all x-rated. At the least, R rated... So we won't go there... Unless you ask us to... heh heh... Just thought we'd toss out some good noise to this quiet group. We're trying to figure out how a snore is spelled... Inhale "skkkkkk" through the nose, exhale "shewwwwwww"... What a sleepy group tonite! And I was braggin this fantastic group up! I was saying, "Check out this good-noise group!" ("He says." <-- What's that JG song?) They've been hearing about you all for some time now. I know that not just anyone would be interested in JG - it takes a certain personality, he grows on a person (as we all know), and I had the right kind of group with me tonight (celebrating a friend's birthday, who's in bed now). So I popped the 'Body Parts Medley' (thank you Bryn!) into the tape deck tonite on our ride home through hills and dales of rural Iowa, on a road that used to be a wagon trail a hundred years ago... A great ride home! Took about 40 minutes. The snow has been melting and in the moonlight the fields looked as if you could skate across them. When we got home I hopped on the internet to introduce them all to you all, and no one's online! Sheesh! I thought for sure I could at least count on cycle12345@email.msn.com to be crashing the party! Who is that guy anyway? I'll tell you one thing for sure, he's a wild man! Wasn't 'Falling Fog' fun to read? (By the way, following the other day's thread, my choice for the song I didn't like at first is Cypress Trees...) I'm miffed. Where is everybody? But I won't unsubscribe until someone tells me to. Go ahead, do it! (Sara just told me to delete that but I'm insisting on leaving it in!) If one of you tells me to unsubscribe, I will. (Sara just told me to delete that one too.) I'm serious though! I am a head-over-heels John Gorka fan (and so is my amazing wife Sara), but if anyone's uncomfortable with me slamming into the group like I do, tell me and I'm gone. Who was that the other day that ended their direct email to me with a "poof"? Excellent! Was that you, Steve? Susan? Bryn? Picnic? Jos? I liked it and, if you don't mind, I'll borrow it: If someone says go, I'll just poof! Good night, good noise, and have a good week! Everyone - be kind to yourself. Oh, I heard a new quote today that I want to share with the group. Searching... Found it! It's this: "Numbers constitute the only universal language." Later, Gorkans! Sam, Sara, Tim, Witt, and Amy! (Sam -trying to figure out how to play D with an F#) PS: We mentioned JG so this message is relevant! Someone tell me JG didn't influence this message and I'll poof! PSS: Whoever is sending me the viruses, grow up! I've got tracer software now, so look out! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 04:45:15 -0600 From: "Sam & Sara Kniffen" Subject: RE: Mad Cows! Mad Cows to the tune of 'Brown Shirts'... Forgot to mention that... PS: Vaseline! Good night! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 08:04:54 -0500 From: "cycle12345" Subject: Re: Mad Cows! Good morning, Sam-U-Am and Sara-B-Awara! Right off the top, let me assure you that if you "poof" then I'll "poof" too, dude! If this list can't support our occasional forays to the outer limits, then we need to go to a place which can. Howsomever, having said that, I can tell you that this is a very tolerant place to be - just look at how long I've been here! Why, dirt arrived only a few days before me! If John Gorka were here, he'd be telling us to hang around and keep hitting this group with the oxygen and those electric shock gizmoes until we got a heartbeat again! Incidentally, I've received private e-mails, too, telling me how much "they" appreciate our humor and wit. We just need to learn how to control ourselves, Sammy! SAMMY?! I particularly enjoyed your "Brown Shirts/mad cow" discussion - that was hilarious to "hear"! I have received from one of our German members on the David Wilcox list a particularly funny "mad cow" cartoon which I will forward to you from my office later this morning . . . I was here, man, but I spent most of the day on and off the DW list (you two should join that one, too - that's how I discovered John Gorka! Thanks again, Paula-Bryn!) and doing more work around the house, and then talking with my brother on the telephone (what an antiquated method of conversation!) late last night after watching the latest episode of the "X-Files". Did you guys see that one? They just seem to get better and better! Nothing comes between me and my "X-Files - except maybe Scully . . . is she a doll, or what? I'm here if you want to come and abduct me, Scully! I'll be your "alien contact", bay-bay! Sammy, not everyone on this list, or on any "formal" list, for that matter, received my latest creation, "Falling Fog"! That was mailed out to a very select group of approximately 65 of my closest internet friends, from family members in D.C. and New Haven to a newpaper editor in Tacoma to . . . well, you get the picture. I've already gotten some very nice comments from several of you - thanks! Howsomever, if any of you who haven't seen it would like to read it, the reading time required is about one minute, except for Sam, who took it to the restroom with him and was gone for well over an hour . . . I listened all yesterday afternoon to the John Gorka CD, "Between One and Eight" which Jos (how do you say "Thank you, thank you very much . . . " in Dutch?) sent to me a few weeks ago. Later this morning I'll be dialing that number (800-695-4687) which is on Susan's and Paula's Gorka website (thanks again, ladies, you are truly our "cyberangels"!) so as to order early John's latest CD, "The Company You Keep" (which some of you have had in your possession forever, you lucky devils!) directly from Red House Records. They are only "open" from 9:00 A.M. until 5:00 P.M. central time, so get on your telephones now, people!!! John Gore-ka for President! Cue "Campaign Trail" and everyone sing along! "Pay my bills to the time collectors, taking more from me each day, and I pay them off a few words at a time . . . " Ahhhh . . . was there a more perfect song ever written? I don't think so . . . " . . . and the crowds will not forgive me if I lose . . . " Steve From samsara: Mad Cows to the tune of 'Brown Shirts'... Forgot to mention that... PS: Vaseline! Good night! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 07:05:38 -0800 From: Mike Daly Subject: RE: Now I'm Looking Forward To You Mary Sansone wrote: > Now I'm looking forward to you. > Bryn, stay-at-home-mother and house concert venue operator and writer > > Mary, manager of a Dr office, (who wishes she had found some way to be a > stay at home mother) Martin, High School Anquish Teacher on (perhaps permanent) sabbatical. Pursuing musicianhood. Occasional wilderness guide. Michael, Semiconductor salesperson in Boston. New to the list. Seeing John for the first time on 3/23. I cannot wait. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:25:04 EST From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: Welcome Mike Welcome to the Good Noise list Mike. You live in one of the Folkie Capitals of the country you lucky man!!! I remember my first Gorka experience. They say you always remember your first time with anything....you will have a wonderful time. I remember being taken aback by his on stage demeanor.....he totally disarmed me. I will look forward to hearing what you have to say about it and what your favorite moment of the evening was. For me, I got to see John at a very intimate and wonderful Folk Festival in Wisconsin. Twenty people plus me, my three year old asleep on my lap, sitting in the grass on a blanket. The moment I remember clearly was when he sang Thoughtless Behavior. The birds chirped, the people wandering around seemed respectfully quiet and I felt that deep connection to the music and the community of people gathered together on the grass that day. I hope your first Gorka experience is as memorable for you. Namaste, Bryn, music junkie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:42:25 -0600 From: "John and Gail Lindekugel" Subject: Re: Now I'm Looking Forward To You > > Now I'm looking forward to you. > > Bryn, stay-at-home-mother and house concert venue operator and writer > > > > Mary, manager of a Dr office, (who wishes she had found some way to be a > > stay at home mother) > > Martin, High School Anquish Teacher on (perhaps permanent) sabbatical. > Pursuing musicianhood. Occasional wilderness guide. > > Michael, Semiconductor salesperson in Boston. New to the list. Seeing John > for the first time on 3/23. I cannot wait. Gail, social worker, small town newspaper writrer/photographer, mom to 4 charming children, 3 here on earth, one in heaven, loved gorka since a friend presented me with jack's crows on cassette tape back in 199 somthing... First live Gorka experince, The Listening Room-hastings Nebraska Nov. 1999 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:09:35 -0500 (EST) From: Melanie Vandermark Subject: Re: Now I'm Looking Forward To You At 10:42 AM -0600 2/26/2001, John and Gail Lindekugel wrote: >> > Now I'm looking forward to you. >> > Bryn, stay-at-home-mother and house concert venue operator and writer Melanie, marketing/sales manager for a scholarly publisher (pays the bills), part-time student in marine/environmental studies (feeds the mind), volunteer therapeutic riding instructor (lifts the spirit) Gorka fan for probably a decade, finally going to my first show April 19 in Annapolis, MD. Found the Good Noise here thanks to Paula-Bryn and Cycle Steve, David Wilcox list-compatriots! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:45:13 EST From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: Welcome Melanie OK, so I have taken it upon myself to be the resident greeter today. I am glad so many of the 99 members of this list are getting NOISY. Melanie...a fan for almost a decade and THIS is to be your first time? There must be a really good reason for this right? A woman with will power? Betcha can't go to just one? Adios friends, Bryn, who after the first time, has been back 10 more...# 11 coming up ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:31:59 -0500 From: "Diane Fields" Subject: Re: Welcome Melanie Bryn, may be like for me--he hasn't been in our area for awhile when I was in the same area LOL. I have sen John twice, but not recently--and I sure would like to. Checked his tour schedule and it doesn't look like that's going to happen any time soon. > Melanie...a fan for almost a decade and THIS is to be your first time? There > must be a really good reason for this right? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 17:41:57 -0500 From: "cycle12345" Subject: Re: Now I'm Looking Forward To You MEL!!! What's happening, kid? Do you realize that several of us are now "multi-listed"! Doesn't that sound cool, yet rather sinister, too?! "Multi-listed"! Wow! Threadmaster (AKA: Steve) > At 10:42 AM -0600 2/26/2001, John and Gail Lindekugel wrote: > >> > Now I'm looking forward to you. > >> > Bryn, stay-at-home-mother and house concert venue operator and writer > > Melanie, marketing/sales manager for a scholarly publisher (pays the > bills), part-time student in marine/environmental studies (feeds the mind), > volunteer therapeutic riding instructor (lifts the spirit) > > Gorka fan for probably a decade, finally going to my first show April 19 in > Annapolis, MD. Found the Good Noise here thanks to Paula-Bryn and Cycle > Steve, David Wilcox list-compatriots! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 17:53:11 -0500 From: "cycle12345" Subject: Re: Now I'm Looking Forward To You And the beat goes on . . . chuga-chuga-chuga-chuga . . . just add your "car" to the end of this train, and we'll see if we can get all 99 of us on one, long list! "Trainmaster" Now I'm looking forward to you. Bryn, stay-at-home-mother and house concert venue operator and writer Mary, manager of a Dr office, (who wishes she had found some way to be a stay at home mother) Martin, High School Anquish Teacher on (perhaps permanent) sabbatical. Pursuing musicianhood. Occasional wilderness guide. Michael, Semiconductor salesperson in Boston. New to the list. Seeing John for the first time on 3/23. I cannot wait. Gail, social worker, small town newspaper writrer/photographer, mom to 4 charming children, 3 here on earth, one in heaven, loved gorka since a friend presented me with jack's crows on cassette tape back in 199 somthing... First live Gorka experince, The Listening Room-hastings Nebraska Nov. 1999 Steve, locally elected circuit court clerk, aka: "the politician", Gorka fan for the past two years, first saw John perform live at the Birchmere in northern Virginia near D.C. in the fall of 2000. Favorite songs include "Campaign Trail" and "Silence" and "Flying Red Horse" and anything else he chooses to sing . . . Chuga-chuga-chuga-chuga . . . NEXT!!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:54:53 EST From: SMOKEY596@aol.com Subject: 7 of 99 Smokey, female, liberal banker (yes, Virginia, there is such a thing!), first saw John perform here in Bloomington, IN, sometime around '94 or '95? Catie Curtis opened for him. This was the show where I ran into him in a back hallway before the show and exchanged a few dorky words (mine!) with him. Now I'm looking forward to you. Bryn, stay-at-home-mother and house concert venue operator and writer Mary, manager of a Dr office, (who wishes she had found some way to be a stay at home mother) Martin, High School Anquish Teacher on (perhaps permanent) sabbatical. Pursuing musicianhood. Occasional wilderness guide. Michael, Semiconductor salesperson in Boston. New to the list. Seeing John for the first time on 3/23. I cannot wait. Gail, social worker, small town newspaper writrer/photographer, mom to 4 charming children, 3 here on earth, one in heaven, loved gorka since a friend presented me with jack's crows on cassette tape back in 199 somthing... First live Gorka experince, The Listening Room-hastings Nebraska Nov. 1999 Steve, locally elected circuit court clerk, aka: "the politician", Gorka fan for the past two years, first saw John perform live at the Birchmere in northern Virginia near D.C. in the fall of 2000. Favorite songs include "Campaign Trail" and "Silence" and "Flying Red Horse" and anything else he chooses to sing . . . SMOKEY "The memory is a useful thing, store the good stuff in the easy to reach places, put the rest in the attic with the cobwebs where it belongs..." - -Ellis Paul ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:51:17 EST From: Smithfinn@aol.com Subject: 8 of 99 OK, s'pose it's time for me to join in.... Bryn, stay-at-home-mother and house concert venue operator and writer Mary, manager of a Dr office, (who wishes she had found some way to be a stay at home mother) Martin, High School Anquish Teacher on (perhaps permanent) sabbatical. Pursuing musicianhood. Occasional wilderness guide. Michael, Semiconductor salesperson in Boston. New to the list. Seeing John for the first time on 3/23. I cannot wait. Gail, social worker, small town newspaper writrer/photographer, mom to 4 charming children, 3 here on earth, one in heaven, loved gorka since a friend presented me with jack's crows on cassette tape back in 199 somthing...First live Gorka experince, The Listening Room-hastings Nebraska Nov. 1999 Steve, locally elected circuit court clerk, aka: "the politician", Gorka fan for the past two years, first saw John perform live at the Birchmere in northern Virginia near D.C. in the fall of 2000. Favorite songs include "Campaign Trail" and "Silence" and "Flying Red Horse" and anything else he chooses to sing . . . Smokey, female, liberal banker (yes, Virginia, there is such a thing!), first saw John perform here in Bloomington, IN, sometime around '94 or '95? Catie Curtis opened for him. This was the show where I ran into him in a back hallway before the show and exchanged a few dorky words (mine!) with him. Susan, wife and mother of three, web co-mistress, employed by the International Crane Foundation, a conservation non-profit group. First introduction to Gorka's music was in 1993, first live concert was 1996 I think, and I still exchange dorky words with him! Now I'm looking forward to you...... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:17:45 -0500 From: "Melanie B. Vandermark" Subject: Re: Welcome Melanie At 12:45 PM 2/26/01 EST, ThePsyche@aol.com wrote: >Melanie...a fan for almost a decade and THIS is to be your first time? There >must be a really good reason for this right? I wish I could say there was! For the longest time, the only disc I owned was Out of the Valley, and while I frequently pulled it out for listening, Gorka never seemed to make it to the top of my must-see list. I don't even remember seeing dates for his shows when I was living in NY/NJ, although obviously he didn't avoid touring in those states for half a decade...clearly I was reading the wrong newspapers. ;-) In the last several years, since I have become a nearly permanent resident of the Ram's Head Tavern in Annapolis, MD, I have tried to see him every time he's played there...really, I have TRIED. But *every single time* a date was announced, I already had an out-of-town business trip planned, or an exam I couldn't miss for school, or some other completely un-reschedulable (is that a word?) commitment. Until now. When the tix for the April 19 gig went on sale last October, I went straight to ticketmaster.com, did not pass go, and picked up a pair (front row center!). THIS time, Gorka is my "previous commitment." :-) Oh, and I did finally buy a couple more CDs. Wow, there is *way* more to the man than Flying Red Horse. ;-) (Although that's still my fave.) >Betcha can't go to just one? That's what I'm afraid of! Luckily JG does not live right around the corner like our other friend DW, so I shouldn't be tempted *quite* as often...but I'm not sure my bank account could handle another artist added to my "must see anytime they are within 60 miles" list (which already includes DW, Steve Earle, Dave Alvin, Guy Clark, Marti Jones/Don Dixon, Christopher Williams, Steely Dan, and Neil Young...) Melanie broke but musically fulfilled ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:23:36 -0500 From: "Diane Fields" Subject: lost post Several others have mentioned 'lost' posts. I made a post this afternoon--about adding me to the list, etc. Hasn't appeared here yet. I"ve been on many mail lists over the years--can't remember posts getting lost. picnic Diane B. Fields picnic@charter.net dyer/weaver/colorist of interior textiles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:45:44 -0500 From: "cycle12345" Subject: Re: lost post Hello, Diane; it seems as though I remember reading a post from you earlier today, but now I can't find it. Please re-send your post and copy it to me individually so we can run a little "test" on whether it isn't getting out at all or just isn't getting out to the list. I've experienced the same problem several times, by the way, and sometimes others receive my messages on the list before I ever see them - strange . . . Thanks! Steve > Several others have mentioned 'lost' posts. I made a post this > afternoon--about adding me to the list, etc. Hasn't appeared here yet. I"ve > been on many mail lists over the years--can't remember posts getting lost. > > picnic > Diane B. Fields > picnic@charter.net > dyer/weaver/colorist of interior textiles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:33:45 -0800 From: "Vince Schueler" Subject: Now I'm Looking Forward to You Vince in Olympia, WA - Vulnerable bureacrat working on health care access for rural areas and the low income, father of Willis (9) and Shanta (3), part-time poet and full time music lover. John Gorka has been in my life since the early 90's can't remember exactly when though I remember hearing Branching Out early on If I fall in storm or slumber Please don't turn me into lumber I'd rather be a Louisville slugger... And had to know who had that wry dry humor. But what I've found since is John's music seems to speak to my life. Here are just a few of those connections. The first CD I brought was Temporary Road during the Persian Gulf War -- Temporary Road and Brown Shirts gave voice and poetry to what I was feeling -- I'm still active in the movement to end the Economic Sanctions that are devasting the people and children or Iraq. So much of John Gorka's music seems to touch me deeply and speak to my life. When I hear Semper Fi I think of my father who served with the Marines in the Pacific and was wounded several time and still does not talk about it much. After Yesterday came out just as my family was adopting our daughter Shanta and helped me embrace fatherhood. Just last week after a on-going spiritual discussion group that I am part of lead me to realize that my next challengeis to let go of the feeling of burden/calculus that I bring to relationships. For some reason that I was drawn to thegypsylife web site (wonderful by the way) and to the lyrics of new CD for the first time and clicked on "When I lost faith" - been carrying it in my pocket ever since and can't wait for the music to come. I find John's music a gift. On the Riverbank If I were to look beneath my feet Another universe I might find The colored rocks so bountiful In so many shapes and sizes The dusky rose  the grey green stone And over there obsidian Basalt black and aggregate White-speckled and the roan The waters work has rounded some And made a perfect skipping stone And there the quartz is veined throughout In a pattern like the sea I could go on, and on and on Till infinity ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V4 #39 *******************************