Here's for one to your question, :-)
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> 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.
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> 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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