From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #171 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, July 10 2000 Volume 05 : Number 171 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: song interpretation/off to Boston! ["Ian Gifford" Subject: Alloy: song interpretation/off to Boston! Robin Wrote: > > >Are a lot of people on vacation these days? Where for art thou? What >did everyone think of the Roseland Ballroom appearance? (apart from >wishing like hell you'd been there, as we all did) Everyone fell >silent, all of a sudden, even in the midst of such unexpected news... I >would've though the email on Dolby's fan list would be flying about >this. > I am not vacationing till Aug./Sept. unfortunately... I am quite busy as the production Co-ordinator for the "Home County Folk Festival" which happens here in London in 2 weeks. About The Roseland thing.... I am quite jealous of all of those "Bowie-netters". I would be quite happy however if we could convince Thomas to do his own type of Mystery Concert for US... even if it was a webcast... I am certain that if he were to do something like that it would be carried by "HOB.com" (House of Blues) What do you all think.... MAybe if we wrote Thomas letters hinting at this... he might just dust off his keyboards and go for it for some fun?? Hmmmmm? What are the chances?? Something to chew on me thinks... Peace to you all... enjoy yer holidays, Ian ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:34:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy: Song of the Week: Cloudburst at Shingle Street In article <3960FBDC.B9A4A4B5@worldshare.net>, you wrote: >Please everyone, post in and let us know how you personally feel about >this song, what it has meant to you, how it's impacted your life etc. I >love this song & it's always been rich in personal meaning for me. More >on that in a post yet to come! It has always been one of my favorite songs too. I was contemplating doing it for a project B-Day and may well choose it for next year. To me the song has always been about a guy who has kept himself emotionally (and possibly physically) unavailable. He's been afraid of being hurt and has kept himself isolated from the rest of humanity. Perhaps he's physically removed himself from the rest of humanity, living as a shut-in or out in a remote, isolated location, but I think he has more or less been keeping himself emotionally isolated in the same way you can be all alone in a crowded room. I think he has isolated himself not because he has a dislike or distrust of humanity but because of a deep fear of being hurt. If he doesn't let anyone get inside him, then nobody can hurt him. But now he has met someone who has changed all this. Someone who has stirred such a profound emotional response within him that he is even willing to risk the possibility of being hurt by leaving himself emotionally vulnerable. The barriers he has placed between himself and the world have been torn away. The flood gates have crumbled and now he is being soaked in a tide of emotions that he has kept from himself for so very long. The cloudburst is a rain of emotions and feelings and quite possibly tears. Tears of sorrow, tears of regret, tears of pain, but also tears of joy. It all washes over him now as he finally comes out of his shell, as he finally takes his head from the sands (and hands) he's been hiding it in for years. He rushes forth to embrace the new emotions, mindless, headlong, and blindly without excpectaion. He knows he might get hurt but that doesn't really matter to him because he has been keeping himself in a private hell of his own making for years. He has finally realized that the pain of being hurt by another is not as bad as the pain of being emotionally dead inside. So he has laid himself open, naked, and vunerable and is just letting the waters wash over him, caress him, and cleanse him. He was seeking to protect his inner-child. A part of himself that was wide-eyed and trusting, in love with everything. At some point in his life something must have threatened that inner-child so he locked it away where it couldn't be hurt. But now someone has come along and freed that inner-child. He finally realizes, in the end, that the self protection mechanisms he has put in place to keep him from being hurt emotionally are infact doing him more harm than good. He's terrified of drowning in the sea of emotions that surround him so he has built up all sorts of defences to protect himself. But without even realizing it these defences have become great weights of concrete and plaster that are pulling him under the waters he is so desperately afraid of. When he sheds them, he's able to float. He no longer has to struggle to stay afloat but can mearly bob along with the flow of the currents. 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