April 3rd, 1998
 

no one has even hit up their record store yet have they?   The forgotten masses of Petersburg
will not lay down and die siliently! he hee heee
                                  The Sea
                                    by
                               MORCHEEBA
                             Flocking to the sea
                         Crowds of people wait for me
                        Seagulls scavange, still I scream
                       Worries vanish, within my dreams.
                             I left my soul there
                              Down by the sea
                              I lost control here
                                 Livin' free
                        Fishin' boats sail past the shore
                         Not singing Mayday anymore
                     The sun is shining, the boards are clear
                     Just you and I are walkin' along the pier.

                             I left my soul there
                              Down by the sea
                              I lost control here
                                 Livin' free

                     A cool breeze flows, but mind the wasps
                        Some get stung, it's worth the cost
                      I'd love to stay, the city calls me home
                     More hassles fuss and lies on the phone.

                             I left my soul there
                              Down by the sea
                              I lost control here
                                 Livin' free

Couple that with trippy funk and yer starting to git the idea comrades...don't be shy, ask for
them by name, MORCHEEBA.
                              Shoulder Holster
                                I am the Nu
                        For reasons I can never explain
                               I speak the truth
                         I put an end to all of your pain
                                I won't give
                     I wanna drag you right through your past
                                I'm on a roll
                          And I'm moving way too fast
                    Are we always looking over our shoulders?
                  Are we always pulling guns from our holsters?
                               I map the stars
                         I check every hour of the day
                              I stay well apart
                          And mold you with my clay
                              Out of the depths
                          Every soul can pay the fee
                             Those who are kept
                            I'm gonna set you free
                    Are we always looking over our shoulders?
                  Are we always pulling guns from our holsters?

                                I'll shed light
                         And tear apart all you believe
                                 One of us
                         Is greatful for all you recieve
                                 Pick it up
                         Till you find it hard to contain
                                  Let it go
                      Can you hold it all inside your brain?
                    Are you always getting scared of the future?
                  Are you always wanting someone to shoot you?
                    Are we always looking over our shoulders?
                  Are we always pulling guns from our holsters?

Nifty, huh? *giggles*  I'd send ya a wav file but a really good stereo sound byte eats up a
meg of ram or more and some of us are less than pleased to have to wade through two or
three megs of download garbage in order to get to our other mail *giggles* and not all of us
can run wav files let alone hear them in Stereo anyway so yer jus gonna hafta call yer local
radio station and request to hear them or hit up yer local shops and what not....They start
their tour this month, begining in Europe, (Lisa, Gilda, *nudge nudge poke*) and then the
States next month (*nudge poke nudge* everybody else except us poor schmucks in Alaska
'cause they AINT comin here *pout*)  MARK THEY ARE GOING TO BE PREFORMING
SOME BLOCKS AWAY FROM YOU NEXT MONTH GODDAMMIT FIND OUT HOW
MUCH TICKETS COST RIGHT NOW!

GILDA THEY ARE GOING TO BE IN MILANO THIS MONTH!  HOW OFTEN DO YOU
GO TO MILANO? IT'S NOT FAR....GO SEE THEM!  You've been working too hard
anyway, call in sick, go to a nice club and hear sweet passionate lovingly funky sounds for
an evening.  HAVE FUN!!!

*sigh*  okay, so maybe living on an island and working around a fishes schedule sucks a bit,
I dunno. *shrugs*   I miss going to concerts though, or rather being ABLE to go...seems like
no matter where I lived down south there was always SOMETHING groovy going on within
half a days journey from where I was at...in other words you only had to blow off a day to
go do it, concert, rodeo, ballet, museum, amusement park, movies, didn't matter, at most you
only had to blow off a day to do it...from here though it's two days bearass minimum and
rather spendy.  However, *grin* we DO have a rather nice movie theater out at the high
school now,  who knows? In a few years maybe we'll have a concert pavilion out at Elf
Woods, ey? *giggles*  Now  wouldn't that be nice?  With Sandy Beach Inlet and Devils
Thumb as the back drop? *snicker*  *bursts out laughing* May the glacier just march right
over the top of us if that should ever happen!  *sigh* Mark? In a way I hope that none of the
Elves return this season....the place is thrashed.  Not just the remains of human habitation,
but leached of mana, energies, ya know?  For the rest of you...Elf Woods is a stretch of
beach front land out past Sandy Beach Park towards Fredricks Point.  There are some
people living out at Fredricks Point.  Untill just last year the only way to reach them was by
boat or by the Fredricks Point Boardwalk (a wooden sidewalk that ran from Sandy Beach
out across the swamp/muskeg over streams and gulleys and so forth to these peoples homes
and various scenic overlooks)  Now however, there is a road running along side the
boardwalk, and sometime this year that road will connect up with the other one (I think) and
we'll be able to drive all the way around the island for the first time ever (whoopie*grin*)
Elf Woods lays between the road/boardwalk and the ocean, a thin ribbon of old growth
forest.  It is indeed an Enchanted place and those that choose to live there
become....transformed. *smirk*   Elf Woods proper has no boundries, they stretch into your
neighborhood, into your dreams, always in a state of flux.  The part that is here though is
defined by an old tiny Grapes of Wrath shanty hut on the Sandy Beach side up to an old
piece of rope tied to an even older tree branch hanging over a deathtrap pit full of knarled
stumps and other nasty bits and is lovingly called 'the swing'.  Some YEARS ago...20? a
rather Large tree fell smack dab across the Grapes of Wrath shanty hut...didn't crush it
completely, would NOT want to have been in it when that happend though *grin*  Unless
you walk up the beach this is most likely where you'd first enter the Woods.  It's a nice
visual reminder of just exactly where you are, he hee heee.  The Fire Pit divides the Woods
area in half, and really most tent/crash pads are located close to this central point.  A long
list of people have called that little plot of Earth HOME over the years.  It is a mystical
place for many....but it's not a concert. *grin*
Few of you will ever get to see Elf Woods.  But you CAN go to a concert.  Or spend the day
in an Art Gallery....Blow off a day.  Feed your head.

As far as life on the Rock goes, hell, I wouldn't know, I'm still on a half assed night shift
schedule, on call but No Work Scheduled every night so far...however they are fishing
Kashakes and it looks like I'll be on again tomorrow night for a while...been rainy and chilly
at night, I can tell you that, *giggles* oh, and every thing is closed, too. *laughs*

keep in touch,
seeya!
MORCHEEBA not to be confused with SUJIKO
ask for it by name

Torbjon

ps wow! my mail thingy is acting way weird...hmmmmmm