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In defense of a little emotion

Well, I like Victoria Williams [I know, wrong list] and yeah, she's no UB40, 
but she has her own kinda thang.  If you can *grace* over [through, because 
of] the notably different voice, I think she has talent as a song writer and 
artist.  And, more importantly, she holds a place in my emotional past that 
I would not be the same without.  Without which I would not be the same.  
(Pearl Jam's version of Crazy Mary on the Sweet Relief volume 1 M.S. benefit 
album is quite something to behold.  Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it 
around.  Good advice.)  Back to the emotional thing - in a word as a 
freshman in college she was pretty cool to me and I appreciated the fact 
that she had laid down some tracks for us to listen to.  For to us to 
listen.  Or maybe I was just enamored by my older friends who liked her and 
since I was aping them in everything else, I had to adopt their preferences 
in music, too.  But I must admit she came alive, or rather, stuck around, 
after they were gone, after I was gone.  I still have my Loose tour tee 
(1995) with a child-like drawing of a donkey on it.  And it still gets the 
comments.  I certainly wouldn't call her popular (though I heard her husband 
with the Jayhawks in the grocery store the other day!)

I think the emotional thing (who was it saying that she patterns the moods 
of her life to OTR?  Life's soundtrack.) is really what makes me/us stick 
around for silly things like discussion lists.  Irony upon irony my 
emotional attachments may mean nothing to you if you knew them, and vice 
versa, but we are polite enough to let each other continue in our fantasies. 
  Derridian, I know, but true, and it's the sharing of those images/ideas 
that enriches our own experiences of the band.  Hence my little flashback to 
freshman year.  Hope you enjoyed it.

Well, since I'm at work, I should look busy.  Thanks for the break.  Wish me 
luck as I have a job interview at lunch.  And tell OTR to tour the South 
East sometime, too.

With emotion and scratches on records,

dean


That which you fear the most/
could meet you half way



The Barstool Philosophers rock your world with bottles in our hands and 
improv fresh out of our *happy places*.
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