Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ism780c.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!ism780c!dianeh From: dianeh@ism780c.UUCP (Diane Holt) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Jefferson Sellout Message-ID: <618@ism780c.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 05:39:01 EST Article-I.D.: ism780c.618 Posted: Wed Feb 12 05:39:01 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Feb-86 21:07:51 EST References: <592@smeagol.UUCP> Reply-To: dianeh@ism780c.UUCP (Diane Holt) Distribution: na Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA Lines: 60 Keywords: Gee, Doug Alan *does* have a friend... Summary: ...in spirit, if not in reality. In article <592@smeagol.UUCP> earle@smeagol.UUCP (Greg Earle) writes: >Funny, I don't remember Lewis Carroll talking about pills ... No, but he did talk about potions, cakes, and mushrooms that had some rather amazing effects... >C'mon Diane, get serious - there's songs where the meaning is questionable, >and there's songs where its all there in Black and White. This is one of >those. (Are "Black and White" anybody like Strunk and White? Maybe they wrote a book called "The Elements of Lyric Interpretation"?) For *you*, and for a "friend" of Doug Alan's, and, presumably, for Doug Alan himself, the song is "unquestionably" about *drugs*. Sooooo what? For me, it's about something else. (And, no, I *don't* happen to think it's just an homage to Lewis Carroll or just about "Alice in Wonderland".) I have *my own* interpretation of the song. BUT, mine isn't *any more right* than *your's*, get it? >Ask Kantner & Slick if you don't believe me... Yup. That's what I said, allright. Ask the author of the song if you want to *know* *for a fact* what it's really about -- anything else is pure conjecture. If you (or any others so inclined) want to use this newsgroup as a forum to discuss your interpretations of song lyrics, I certainly have no objections, just *don't* try to *prove* those interpretations based on "Well, gawd, *everybody* *knows* thaaaat..." In fact, I might suggest you consider starting a whole new newsgroup: net.lyrics, then we could get this stuff out of here, and those people that are interested in posting their own (or reading other people's) interpretations of songs would know precisely where to go (know what I mean?). >If anyone is interested, I hacked up this patch to uurec.c (v. 2.9) for >Netnews 2.10.3 - it looks to see if the 'From: ' line contains the strings >"dianeh" or "nessus"; if so it opens a pipe to /dev/null. Email me for it >:@) :@) :@) :@) :@) :@) :@) :@) :@) No thanks. I got a mail message from a reasonable person showing me their KILL file for 'rn' that should do the trick. Among its entries are: /Kate/h:, /Bush/h:, /nessus/h:. Now all I have to do is add /earle/h:, and I'm all set...hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Gee, we're all so cleverly nasty, aren't we? (Actually, I really liked Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love" album until I started reading this newsgroup. Since then, I've had to try to get the bad taste out before I could go back and listen to it unsullied again.) >To the UCLA Gang Of Four - Sorry I posted an 'opinion' of mine to the net >without your permission, I'll try not to do it again, promise!! Just don't >call me an asshole again, please, it hurts SO much ... I have no idea who those referenced people are, but I can't say I disagree with their opinion of you if your other postings have been as insightful and reasonable as this one. Diane Holt INTERACTIVE Systems Corp. (east coast:) ihnp4!ima!ism780!dianeh (west coast:) decvax!vortex!ism780!dianeh "Go ask Alice, I think she'll know..."