Thank you, Kasper.
I had a brief spell in Berlin when I was a tot (all very fuzzy now). It must have been wonderful to have an international upbringing though. I'm jealous.
[log in to unmask]http://www.fatmandancing.co.ukhttp://www.myspace.com/fat_man_dancing> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 12:00:56 +0200> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: SNAP Bass> To: [log in to unmask]> > thanks so much for this lifestory Tina. I should know better than to> make assumptions concerning peoples' upbringings. I just had a> discussion with my girlfriend, with whom I'm to live for the better> part of this year (till our rental contract is up) & who has some> anxieties about having moved away from her home -- an understandable> if slightly masochistic anxiety, since it is from her drunkard father> [not a bad guy] & bitter mother [doing better now I hear] & their> fights that she was desperate for YEARS to flee from. Anyway. The> point I raised in our discussion of her anxieties & my lack thereof> was that we had been brought up differently. She had lived in the same> house for her entire life; I had lived in three different London> addresses by the age of 2. Following which we migrated back & forth> between England & Finland for essentially the duration of my early> childhood. So I have these experiences stamped somewhere in the rotors> of my mind; I made this little apartment my home immediately. She> cannot see it, yet, as her home.> > one of the things I remember best surrounding-wise about my childhood> are the rickety wood bookcases full of books, mostly nonfiction I seem> now to recall; but it's an environment that made me partial to a sort> of bohemian sensibility (I've just been reading Austen & reading up on> her ironical critiques on 'sensibility', so this is tongue-in-cheek).> I wanted badly to say 'rhapsody' there; but that isn't a vestige of my> musical upbringing (L. Cohen, J. Karjalainen, T. Waits, J. Pizzarelli> are some names) but of my girlfriend Hanna's introduction to the 80s> 'regal'.> > well, sure got carried away with the narration there. apologies, blame> Stephen for bringing up prose.> > KS> > On 08/03/2008, Tina Bass <[log in to unmask]> wrote:> > Kasper,> >> > There was no music in my house when I grew up, unless you count Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash - and that was only for the short time that my mother dated plumber-with-aspirations-to-be-a-cowboy (and yes we are/were all English with no connections whatsoever to the Wild West). I have no idea why, what, how?!> >> > School Assemblies were a bit strange during that time too (the 80's/state school). Lots of singing. But, the only songs that I remember are 'kumbayyah my lord' and 'The ink is black, the page is white, together we learn to read and write, to read and write (dumdedumdum)'.> >> > I had lots of books because my grandad used to go to jumble sales (boot sales/yard sales) and he would buy every book for me. He would sweep them all into a binbag and dump them at my feet because he knew I would like that. He never hugged me once in his/our life. I only realised after he had died that he was suffering from Post Traumatic symptoms. He joined the Merchant Navy just before the 2WW broke out, and was forced into armed combat when the war started.> >> > And then my mother married a Drill Sergeant (low ranking Army officer/shouts a lot).> >> > I was born and raised in New Army Accommodation (imagine Stepford and you are getting close).> >> > No music.> >> > And definitely no poetry.> >> >> > I'm firmly middle-class now though. So, I've been told.> > [log in to unmask]http://www.fatmandancing.co.ukhttp://www.myspace.com/fat_man_dancing> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 14:49:52 +0200> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: SNAP Bass> To: [log in to unmask]> > that's mildly surprising, I thought most people who grew up while she> was recording would be enamoured of her. she's quite poetic though, a> master songwriter & guitarist> > KS> > On 08/03/2008, Tina Bass <[log in to unmask]> wrote:> > Thanks Kasper.> >> > I don't know nearly enough about Joni Mitchell. It's always useful to be reminded of her music.> >> >> > Tina> >> >> >> > > and her heart is full and hollow,> like a cactus tree> > -- JM> > KS> > On 06/03/2008, Tina Bass <[log in to unmask]> wrote:> > Frost> >> > I've got a tree,> > but it's not a very good one.> >> > Mine is like a cactus...> >> > Where does it go after here?> > Will it melt?> >> > Will it really go away?> >> >> >
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