Re: loser's delete

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Hi Alex,

Looks like the Againinator is the device for you!  I'm looking forward to 
having you as a customer.

Gern Blanston,

Customer Support
Elektros Inc.

AaroneousAG@aol.com wrote:

> Hi, my name is Alexander Van Schtellten, and I subscribe to the Loser's 
>Delete mailing list.  I have three undergraduate degrees, which I 
>collected between between VERY brief tenures with various bands "around 
>town"  Every day, my mailbox gets filled to the brim with heated 
>discussions about the relative advantages of various prohibitively 
>expensive electronic sound manipulation devices.  I am an emotionally 
>under-developed, and compensationally cereberal, pseudo-artist with poor 
>social skills, who is either too egotistical, too insecure, or just too 
>deaf to share a stage or to understand the value of collaborating with 
>other musicians.  Perhaps I have given up on finding the right 
>combination, or hide behind the delusion that my musical profundity 
>exceeds the abilities of all those guys who seem to be able to pack clubs 
>despite their "barbarian" and simplistic overtures.
>
>    Consequentially, I fantasize about a device which will allow me 
>maximum control over every feature of a musical piece, knowing that, 
>until the day that a replicator is perfected to instantly clone humans, 
>this is as close as I can get to the ultimate dream of an entire 
>orchestra of only me playing every note exactly how I imagine it.  The 
>closer the manufacturers of electronic sound manipulation devices get to 
>realizing this dream, however, the more critical I become, and the more 
>impatient I become as well, because I realize that the absolute 
>elimination of randomness and chaos is inherently impossible in a 
>universe such as this, and it is this realization that makes me wail like 
>a banshee, or, more to the point, like an infant who has wet his bed and 
>realizes he is helpless to prevent it.  Come see me play at this coffe 
>shop/art gallery/library lobby, to people who either stare off into 
>space, nod "appreciatively", or just ignore me completely.  That's just 
>fine.  It only!
> !
>  proves I'm way beyond them.
>
>                A.V.S.
>
> Respect, right back atcha, Jamie.