From: Peter Schmidt Date: Sat Dec 28, 2002 7:56:42 PM US/Central To: lcc_news@thelcc.net Subject: [lcc_news] i'm too skinny. i should eat something, or something. deary, i know it seems like i only write when i want something and i must admit that this is at least partially true. when i need you to be there, "bloop" there it is, another email magically appears in your inbox, begging for what amounts to another late nite booty call. a quickie that surely gets me off but what about you? i do my thang and i'm gone until the next begging email arrives. have i ever even asked if you liked it, if there was anything i could do better. and what's worse, i expect you to be cool and let other people watch. it looks bad for me. but let me ask you something. when was the last time i heard from you? when did you last call me? sure, every few weeks i begin anew to beg for another late night liaison but maybe i'd like you to "entertain" me once in awhile. maybe i really want more and i'm just waiting to be asked. maybe what we have only hints at something more special, a love unfulfilled. with a little effort on both our parts maybe this could work long term. i know that it's a long shot but i was thinkin'...what if i got a real job? i mean you've almost got your degree and i could sell my toy collection and get a jiffy lube franchise. i know it's not "cool" to run a jiffy lube but those things can make good money. i took the van in the other day and the owner said that he starting turning a profit after just a couple years. i guess the hardest thing would be getting good help. people that wanted to show up on time and put in a good day's work. come on, i mean everyone can't be the boss. these guys a full dollar above minimum wage and i make sure they get one saturday off each month and all they do is complain! if they even show up at all. huh? oh sorry. i was just sayin'. but i guess i was talking about us. i know it'd be hard at first but we could make it work. and i know you probably wouldn't have guessed... but i think i'd make a good daddy. i'm really good with...what?! ok, ok, i'm getting a little ahead of myself but ... what if we just hung out a little bit. find out if we even really like each other. we owe ourselves that much. don't we? these kind of things aren't supposed to work but maybe it's cause no one ever tries. just tell me that you'll meet me next friday and we'll take it from there. that's right, another LCC show. Friday January 3rd Gypsy Tea Room w/ Baboon and Falkon (formerly the Falcon Project) and another band that i don't know. if you got drunk enough to convince yourself that you actually had a good time on NYE you will have had a full three days to recover by the time the 3rd rolls around. so no excuses excepted. i know, deep ellum sucks and you hate to go down there anymore but if you approach the gypsy tea room from the downtown side you can avoid the most disgusting parts of deep ellum and pretend you are in another city. i promise that you will be fine once you are in the club. and if you open up a club outside of deep ellum that will have us we'll play there. i must at this point say how great pointy shoe factory was when we played with them a couple of weeks ago. even though i had heard good stuff about them for a long time this was the first time i had seen them. no one in town like them. very dramatic, a sense of humor without being stupid, very cool boy and girl vocals. any comparison that i could make would not do them justice. stop making excuses and just go see them. also, i went to go see that moss eisley band that i keep reading about the other night and they were pretty good. apparently the band is a family affair consisting of three sisters, one brother and some other kid. they are all between the ages of 14 and 21 and they are christians. i couldn't make out any lyrics about god so the last point can safely be ignored. the sisters sang well together (the vocals occasionally reminded me of the cocteau twins), the songs had some interesting chord changes, the electric piano texture was particularly cool and the drummer pulled off some subtly interesting counter rhythms. all in all my jaw did not drop but they were definitely a cut above most bands that have gotten tagged with the next big thing. there is the air of novelty surrounding them because of the whole family and age and christian thing but they appear to have the talent to get beyond that if they are allowed to. my roommate (who also liked them) mentioned that the whole thing reeked of "the virgin suicides" somehow. i agreed. if you've bothered to read this far please drop a note to me at peter@thelcc.net and let me know that you got the newsletter. as i've mentioned i just recently switched mail servers and i'm still not convinced that everything is working properly. so if you got the time just hit "reply" and type "i got it". thanks. i could go on about how i watched part of "punk: from pistols to present" on M2 the other day which was supposed to show the lineage of modern day punk bands by first playing a video from a band that allegedly inspired them but mostly served to prove how badly the modern bands that they chose to play suck when compared to the real thing. i mean is it supposed to be doing a favor for that dashboard confessional twat by playing his crappy video right after "radio radio" by elvis costello? the only thing i could see that they had in common was that neither one is punk in the first place... but really, hearing that prick prattle on about how costello influenced his songwriting made me seriously reconsider the value of turning on a new generation to elvis. i could rant about how i don't know why the guy who hosted the show kept smiling so much while he embarrassed himself. frankly he creeped me out a bit with his cultish enthusiasm and his diehard smile. or about how if they really wanted to trace the influence of 70's punk they wouldn't have ended up at hot topic and mostly likely would not have arrived at anything calling itself punk anyways. i could go on about all of that but instead i'm pretty stoked that i got to see some cool videos by the damned, the jam, blondie, the buzzcocks and the clash. which brings me to... how sad i am about the death of joe strummer. i have suffered momentary pangs of sadness upon hearing about the death of whatever rocker bit it this month but usually it passes pretty quick. frankly i was more torn up about phil hartman's death than that of any musician (possibly because phil was still funny and most musicians had long since stopped entertaining me before they died. selfish, i know). but joe might be the only childhood hero of mine who remained a hero as i became an adult. he has been the first one to go who had a real influence on the way i think about the world (in ways that i am still discovering today). the lyrics of the clash may or may not have been naive or even somewhat contrived but they (and joe in particular) always seemed like true believers so it didn't seem to matter. and joe seemed like a true believer til the very end. go get yourself the "westway to the world" documentary and try to tell me that joe was faking it. maybe he never should have made that "cut the crap" album without mick but mostly he didn't shit on his own legacy like most people do when given the chance. i fell in love with the clash when "london calling" came out and i worked my way back from there. my brother took me to see the clash when i was in high school and it was the first real punk show i had ever been to. it was magic. joe had maybe my favorite rock and roll voice ever. the epitome of spirit over pitch. joe never quite hit the exact notes and i never really noticed. joe strummer probably isn't your hero and fair enough if he isn't. but do yourself a favor anyways and go listen to "sandinista". i'll miss him. see ya next friday, peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: lcc_news-unsubscribe@thelcc.net For additional commands, e-mail: lcc_news-help@thelcc.net