Re: VHEMT Money and Friends

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

Hi.

 > From: "Les U. Knight" <http://www.vhemt.org/~les>
 > Date: Thu  Dec 26,  4:38am
 >
 > Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 10:34
 > 
 > When I lived in America, my brother and I operated a bookshop - a kind of
 > alternative bookshop. We carried a lot of small press stuff, little
 > magazines, punk and other alternative music. I really dug that stuff -
 > Maximum Rock and Roll, Anarchy, The Match - Dead Kennedys, Black Flag,
 > Flipper, and other groups.

That's interesting.  This is how I started out -- maximum rock'n'roll and
then the Dead Kennedys.  Then Factsheet Five, then These Exit Times.  And
here I am!  But there have been other things going on in my life, of
course...

 > But now, having lived in Thailand for going on
 > 5 years, a lot of that stuff seems irrelavant to my life. This is
 > mostly because I have no one to listen to and talk to and bounce ideas off
 > of. Some friends in the states have been kind enough to send me
 > alternative zines and music and it just doesn't grab me like it used to. I
 > can't even find anything on the various discussion groups on the internet
 > that grabs me. Even the Anarchy news groups is profoundly uninteresting to
 > me. I'm not putting it or anything else down. I'm just talking about what
 > I can relate to. Here. In this life. In this particular place.

I hardly ever read MRR now.  And since Mike Gunderloy stopped doing Factsheet
Five, I haven't seen a single copy since.

Do you do any "Thailand" scene reports for MRR?  Just curious...

I've been meaning to put my musical preferences onto my home page, but I just
haven't had time to do it.  I hardly ever listen to music anymore -- the
problem with being a musician (or ex-musician due to my RSI) is that I'm always
analyzing the music.  So, most of the time I listen to talk radio; it's good
background noise.

I never read the anarchy newsgroups; it's just constant arguing with no one
capitulating.  I guess pride is the worst enemy of reason.