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halloween tomorrow
Posted by Chris Stein at 10/30/2001 08:30:00 AM

this is a bit sooner than id intended to add but once again im greatly cheered to get all the reactions from out there... im continually impressed with how clever all of you are, (Lu thanks for the dream letter) i keep getting all these great statements from the mail:, yeah i think jesus and buddah would probably get booed in this climate also someone wrote "the only difference between a terrorist and a patriot is what side youre on" bravo... plus a lot more cool stuff dont hesitate to send any weird reports of dreams, aliens , bigfoots'; ghosts etc you know i love all that stuff ... i used to say i only celebrated halloween ... yesss the veil between the worlds is THINNNER etc etc as to current events : so after all the talk about the 'war' taking a long time and we should all be prepared for that now its like "shit weve been bombing away for a whole three weeks and it looks like the WAR IS A STALEMATE! SEND IN THE GRUNTS!!" right ? you all saw this ? so are we gonna wind up with another long drawn out (though more popular) war? even better is the deal with the announcements about something about to happen though what? where? who knows only dont worry just be on high alert... things are getting progressivly weirder.... like most of you im in the middle about all this i think american foreign policy since world war two has been the greatest contributing factor to our unpopularity, (what happened to the peace corps.? another fifteen minute deal) but certainly it sucks for a bunch of maniacs to be taking advantage of the freedoms of this country to raise havoc and destruction all very confusing still hope this isnt toooo pointless but the last batch of mail i got was very cool so i figured id put something up to say i read it all halloween tomorrow full moon chris

sun oct 28 (happy halloween)
Posted by Chris Stein at 10/28/2001 08:31:00 AM

thanks everyone for the continuing communication... ive finally listened to what is currently the next record in its entirety and feel fairly hopeful about it... it may get out by feb. but im not sure, but it is coming, theres still more work to do on it ive been getting mostly positive comments from you all, i wish i did have answers for everything but... did you see richard gere getting booed at that big rock show at the garden? apparently his asking for 'compassion' understanding etc. didnt go down well with all the heros who were in attendance... disturbing and contradictory... as ive been mentioning to people i remember very clearly the reaction to jfk's killing , that it was somber and fairly dignified, now, everyone jumping on the bandwagon of war and nationalism, selling t-shirts etc. to me the reaction of the media to all of the events since the 11th just feels weirdly gleeful, i keep feeling like so many people are happy to have this stuff to carry on about... just yesterday on tv i saw a head saying that perhaps all we were doing in afghanistan was making people miserable, i was kind of surprised to see such an unpopular view right there in almost prime time meanwhile everyone i know is very sceptical as to the credibility of what is supposedly 'news' does anyone really think that the masses are getting even a small part of the real stories? then i saw some dumb assed psychologist saying how people were 'stressed' etc. by current events. fears, insomnia,indigestion,general lousy feelings... HELLO! big news that i was just reading about the Mayans, that their culture was rooted in a recognition of 'terrible beauty' that surrounds human existance, to me that meant that the natural attraction we have to violence, calamity and blood is not something that needs be covered up and disguised the way it is today, we make our own neurosis and then keep it going oh well very cheerful... i WOULD however like to recommend that everyone try and catch INVADER ZIM which is a fantastic cartoon that plays mostly fridays 9:00 on nickelodeon, Johnen Vasquez is god, a lot of you must be familiar with zim and johnny the homicidal maniac, squee etc those not who like comics should check it all out again thanks all for the comments etc. ill keep writing when i can, cant guarantee any regularity happy halloween all chris