From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V3 #142 Reply-To: mad-mission@smoe.org Sender: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * mad-mission-digest-request@smoe.org * with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Patty's tour dates, go to: * http://www.spectra.net/~ducksoup/pattyg/patttyg.htm * OR * go to http://www.amrecords.com * then click "tour" and fill in the blanks :) * . * 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: mad-mission-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. mad-mission-digest Monday, May 17 1999 Volume 03 : Number 142 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: MM: Idolatry remembered [Han ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 00:19:06 -0400 From: Han Subject: Re: MM: Idolatry remembered HI, Keith... >>From Patty's side, her trailer is "home" while she's on the road. I wonder >how I might respond to people looking into the windows of my home, or waiting >beside my door? I'd like to think that I would smile, and talk, and sign >autographs, and I'm sure I would most of the time... but every time? In response to this thought... the night Patty opened for Lucinda (didn't stay for Lucinda.. Lucinda who?), I brought Patty lilacs and a card that I'd made, thanking her for putting her music and self out there... As I posted at the time (as a newbie ), the tech guys let me into her bus because I had given her her favorite flower. : ) I think part of the reason I got on the bus is b/c, obviously, at this point I am somewhat of a professional stalker (well, that's an exaggeration but I did learn a lot about schmoozing with techies from my time with Rob...). In any case, the time after a show is kind of an important schmoozing time for an artist, I think... from my observation, it kind of goes with the job. It's like: performance, then an hour or two of PR is required. No matter how tired you may be. Like any job... it's work. It's more satisfying at times, b/c it's highly creative work. But it's a job nonetheless. I found that there was a small group in the bus when I got on--perhaps press people--who'd had special access but were obviously drooling Patty fans like us. She was sitting on the hideous tour bus mafia-grey couch, looking beautiful, tired and small, but radiating that energy... and they were having trouble forming sentences in their awe, stumbling on and on playing "do you know?" games... I tried to recall what I'd learned. I said hello, shook her hand, she told me she loves lilacs--that they remind her of growing up in New England, and then I left... That was enough. I think the imposition is not conveying your appreciation, but being a psychic vampire, like some groupies can be. It' seasy to fall into--you don't know what to say. You babble. Just like when you try and talk to *anyone* oyu have some kind of crush on (i.e., the person is larger-than-life). I know that I am prone to being a psychic vampire, so I got out quickly. I was proud of my former-groupie self! Han, former occasional psychic vampire ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V3 #142 *********************************