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<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2>In the silence of sleeping
Brits, Brier Random had the gall to write:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Kinda peaceful, isn't it?? Just us Americans on the
list, no UK'ers still up this late... we can converse at will, without having to
translate their English into a language we can understand. But then they
wake up in the morning and hafta wade through our drunken americana from the
night before. But we have to do the same thing for their night-time
ramblings, only we're hit with it when we get home from work. Aaahh, time
zones. I wish we were all together, that this could be real time, that
y'all across the ocean could know that we're all one; we Americans are no
different at all from you (save for less affinity for vinegar with our fried
potatoes). I lived in Oxford for six (sick) months and almost became one
of you. I miss being British, though I never was. But in my St.
Clements flat I first discovered Housemartins and the Beautiful South (through a
Camden bootleg), and tea has never tasted the same since I got deported (a story
within a story there; some other time you voyeurs); and the point is that though
there is an ocean between us, the people aren't that different. Cheers to
whoever posted (I've erased it, damn) that he gained a different version of
yanks thru this list. And I don't want to get all misty & new-agey
about how this music has brought us together across the miles, so I won't.
F**k that anyway. But togetherness is cool.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>-Pish Spice</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>