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- To: Ysobelle at aol_com
- Subject: Re: introductions are in order...
- From: SAMIAMNEAR at aol_com
- Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 23:29:30 EST
I am stucki in Indiana as well! I am trying to escape. OTR. I was born and raised in the western suburbs of chicago. I lived there until Sept. 98 - my mother passed away and I lived with her - and thus had to move to my brother's house in Indiana. I am still however commuting to my little JR college in IL. What a drag... Well, enough about that. Over The Rhine announce list has taken over my email! i try and try to get off the list but fail I must for mail keeps comin to me door. If you're at Cornerstone Festival this summer look for me on the new artists showcase. I'm not sure what i'll name the band, but I'm jamie Nichols. Last june, my friend made a kind of shotty recording of me and my guitar for my last spontaneous trip to cincinnatti ohio for a free OTR show. It was an interesting day. It rained, it poured, then the sun burned brightly on our necks. Very enjoyable show. karen was very nice and accepted my tape and lyrics. Couple months later I showed up at their show at Cornerstone. I waited around after their performance and asked Karen if she had listened to the tape. Unfortunately they had not had time due to preps for the touring with cowboy junkies. so I offered to grab my guitar from my tent (a mile or so away). She said that would be great. She said she should be done packing up and suck in 20 mins. or so. So I ran back to my tent, grabbed my guitar, my singing partner and my car. We drove back so it would go faster, duh. When we got there, my heart pounding, excited, the moment I had been waiting for...Karen was gone. She left with out me. And when I tried to talk to the new bass player guy, he pulled over Brian, the drummer boy, and just tried to find out what happened, I was surprised by the cold rudeness that they had displayed to me. Like a dork I cried. I was crushed. The band that had moved me so much, and seemed so deep and that I was vulnerable to, now had a pale cold face. It's taken me until now to listen to their music again. It's wierd the relationships we establish with people we dont even know, and yet their music touches the depths of our hearts and means something to us. So I pretend now that those songs have nothing to so with the individuals that make the sound. Like they're my private songs. If their was only one band, whose albums were the only albums I could ever listen to again, I would definately chose over the rhine. With out a question. Now, If I only had 4/5 people that I had to spend forwver with, and them alone, I would choose Becky, Debbie ( my sisters), Leah (Best Friend), Andy and Maybe my brother. maybe. My real address is jme_5 at hotmail_com. I am on my sisters computer right now. So, I encourage all to be strong in the Lord and to have peace in this crazy world we live in. Yours, Little Orphan Jamie
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