hey auditeers,

poking in around the NotLame website in disbelief, i
discover that it's true, it's true! the DG oeuvre is
really honest-to-christ on sale through a commercial
outlet and they are totally reasonably priced, so let
me offer this advice: if you're thinking you need
these records, and i'm thinking you do, get em while
they're hot n gettable, my friends.  Because, sure, DG
is a tireless creator of charming, effervescent tunes
that bubble up under your grey matter like a lethal
cocktail of Poprocks and Dr Pepper, and sure he
doesn't skimp on the lush arrangements and sonic
details that cause a pop freak's hearts to soar even
as the lyrics break it (well, some lyrics more than
others), but given his notorious love-hate
relationship with the pop music machine, there's no
telling when these glorious suckers might be yanked
from the general purvue, thereby causing interested
seekers endless grief when they have to track down the
man himself on his only-intermittantly-working email
address and shell out $40 per cd. The music's worth
it, but why not make it easy on yourself?  By which I
mean to say:  RUN, don't walk.  Really.  NotLame.
Really.

In related news, I understand that some kind soul has
talked this same artist off the ledge once more (alan
haber, are you out there?), and despite lyrics to the
contrary ("..this'll be my last/ album for awhile"
from '01's "album" on One Brick Short) Grahame has
something slated for a spring release (April Fool's
perhaps?  And perhaps the joke's really on me then.) 
I would like some corroboration on this please, if
anyone has any (John B? Bruce?) - a gal has her
sources, but sometimes she can only trust them so far,
after all.  What the man has already put out there is
plenty to keep the fan fires burning anyway, but I
expect great things if this news is the real deal; a
little more time taken, a little more care given, and
of course, more of the same infectious ditties that
have been plaguing me for the past year or so.  If
there IS a release, I'll be lining up for it, anyway -
of this, I am positive.

On a wholey unrelated note, I am pleased that my
special order candy hearts have just come in, with
personalized "stalker talk" messages imprinted on
them:  anyone want some? I had to buy 10 lbs, but it
was worth it just to be able to put a heart that says
"I M N YR CLOSET" on that special someone's pillow
this valentine's day. Also available:  "U R RIGHT 4
ME," "I KNOW WHERE U LIVE," "I LIKE HOW U SMELL" and
my personal favorite "4EVER OR ELSE."

--kelly



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