Stephen,
Thank you very much. Whenever I write prose it is by way of explanation and it is wrapped in clingfilm. I spend a lot of time trying to get the wrapping off.
Tina [log in to unmask]http://www.fatmandancing.co.ukhttp://www.myspace.com/fat_man_dancing> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 13:27:42 -0800> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: SNAP Bass> To: [log in to unmask]> > Tina and Kaspar: Not to sound 'mentorly' or patronizing at all, but you both write totally interesting narratives which I sometimes find much more compelling or, say, 'rich', rich in content than what's severely limited by 'poetic form.' I am not suggesting you drop the latter (poems) at all, but I hope you have your prose lines and hooks out in those waters, too. I find what you bring juicy & interesting. And not for lack of 'tone'. > > I don't know if anybody else has this sense of mine(?)> > Stephen > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/> > 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 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 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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