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From: "Drew MacDonald" <drewmacdonald1@gmail.com>

> Stewart related:
> "That revelation, which I whispered to Charity in between songs, was 
> 'Oh.
> He's Jandek made normal.'  Charity replied, 'I had *just*
> thought that during that last song too!'"
>
> Jeez, no wonder you married her.

Indeed, one reason out of many.
>
> Oh, to share such a musical wavelength with a mate. I can only play 
> Audities
> music sparingly around my g.f., whose tastes run to hip-hop, house 
> and funk.
> "Everything you play sounds like the Partridge Family!" she's said 
> on more
> than one occasion. (One of these days, I will respond by putting on
> an ACTUAL Partridge Family record.)

Charity and I have points of departure: she will always like both Big 
Black and the Incredible String Band far more than I do, and she's 
mildly intolerant of my fondness for wispy-voiced female singers of 
uncertain pitch.  But overall, we've always been very much in the same 
ballpark, and we've each taught the other a lot: she used to sing in a 
local Balkan band, and everything I know about eastern European music 
(much of which I've grown to adore) I've learned from her expert 
tutelage.  In return, she previously had basically no knowledge of the 
Top 40 after about 1968 because she spent most of the '70s entrenched 
in folk music and after the punk explosion spent all of her pop music 
time deep into the college radio scene.  But overall, our musical 
tastes are similar enough that although we each have our own iPod, we 
have a single iTunes library that we both draw from.

Yes, I'm well aware of how amazingly lucky I am.

S

NP: Kevin Drew -- SPIRIT IF... (Although this is technically presented 
as a solo album, this is actually the new Broken Social Scene album in 
all but name: Drew wrote all the songs and sings everything except the 
absolutely gorgeous "Aging Faces / Losing Places," which Feist, Amy 
Millan and Emily Haines take the lead on, but just about every key 
member of BSS contributes heavily.  Supposedly, they're doing one of 
these for everybody, with Brendan Canning up next.)