From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V4 #136 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 7 2001 Volume 04 : Number 136 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Soundtrack for life [ThePsyche@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:21:43 EDT From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: Soundtrack for life Good day Gorka friends. I have been emailing with a couple of you off list about music and how it impacts our thinking. For me Gorka and a couple others have become the "soundtrack" for my life. I am going to follow that thread and see if I can get some of you to respond. Recently I had the opportunity to meet a bunch of folks that I found via the Internet and our common interest in the music of singer/songwriter David Wilcox. I have participated in that email forum for over five years now and the personal connections made there have really buoyed me through some very rough waters over the years. What we shared was nothing short of magical. Good people who all new the words to the songs of my life. But this Gorka group seems different. I know there are a number of us who have been signed on to this list for at least a couple of years and still, the list seems to limp along at best without every really attracting a strong thread base. We always are able to come out of the closet to bitch and complain though aren't we? Wonder what that says about the kind of folks this music attracts. Where the Wilcox weave has always been tight and colorful, the Gorka weave is loose, full of holes and pretty much sitting in the sewing basket waiting to have the holes closed up. (how is that for a bit of Wilcox metaphor magic) < chuckle> I have picked up the pattern today and will attempt to add my stitches to it. My challenge to this list is to come out of the "wordwork" and tell me, tell all of us why you are here. Maybe all you want is concert updates. Maybe you want to know about CD releases. Maybe we should part company? Or maybe, like me, you hope to find people who dig a bit deeper into the music and use it as a backdrop to what struggles (and joys) are going on in your life. To end this I will tell you about the baseball hat I bought myself for my 46th birthday. I was lamenting the way the years were going by so fast and looking in the mirror at the middle aged lady looking back had turned my mood that day. Out for lunch with friends and kids, I went in one of those monogramming shops. I was wearing a baseball cap, a black one, just plain, no design on it. I noticed that they did words on hats and immediately knew what statement I wanted to wear on my head. Feeling a bit old, having just had a bunch of major dental work, seeing the streaks of gray shining through my long blonde hair....I found the phrase to not ignore the fact that I was in the middle of my middle age, but to rejoice in it! And of course, the words were Gorka's. So if you see me these days, I have my favorite hat one with the words emblazoned on the front: People my age... Adios friends, Bryn, who is sure she inspired that song ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V4 #136 ********************************