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To: epicure who wrote (86472)	8/25/2000 3:02:59 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

Yeah, X, I dig those lyrics! Will check the Crash Test Dummies out (and ask son Conrad about them). Thanks.

To: epicure who wrote (86472)	8/27/2000 6:10:06 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 108807

OwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOw! So here it is, after 5:00 in the morning, and the Hydrocodeine wore off already and the pain in my jaw woke me up and I've popped another pill and I have to wait for it to take effect ow ow the dentist took out the implant on the far left on Thursday because he thought it was causing the numbness that makes me drool and slobber all over my face ow ow when I eat ow ow which means I have to hide out from the rest of humankind ow ow because he thought it was too long and skinny and was hitting the nerve so he replaced it with a short and squat one and it is even worse ow ow it hurts this Hydrocodeine is not doing the job and I need some percocet or something so what do I do until ow ow the pill and the no-no vodka & orange juice chaser kick in and I can go back to bed ow ow? Well, I go to the Barnes & Noble site to check out The Crash Test Dummies, and to listen to "And God Shuffled his Feet." My musician son tells me The Dummies is not really a "group," but a loose assemblage of top session musicians. Unfortunately, however, the snippets on B&N are too short to give much of a picture of the music, as distinct from the lyrics you supplied me with, X. But what I did hear was distinctly disappointing. Why is it that when the music is interesting, the lyrics are awful; and when the lyrics are great (as in this case), the music is not particularly interesting? It's as if pop, as a genre, strives to avoid achieving all-round excellence. But the whole song may be much superior to the snippets (I hope). Meanwhile, I am intrigued by the title of yet another song on that album, "Afternoons and Coffeespoons." It must have been inspired by Eliot's The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock: ..... Do I dare disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. For I have known them all already, known them all:--- Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons. I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. So how should I presume? ............................ Pretty heavy duty, when one begins analysing the literary influences on a rock group! Encouraging, anyway. All is not lost, perhaps. Joan