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From: hasn@midway.uchicago.edu
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:44:24 GMT
Subject: Whats with the Kate (B) jargon?
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I've been listening to and playing Ms Bush's music for sometime now (my wife's a suprano and a pianist and I'm a guitarist so it works out well!). I also transcribe Kate Bush's music (for personal use ofcourse). So all in all I consider myself and my wife to be "fans" of Ms Bush. However one thing that has been bothering me for a while is this Kate Bush jargon. What's with the Kateness, Katemas, Kateicle, and so on and on. It reminds me of the sci-fi conventionheads or the Star Trekis (I saw them both in Chicago heading towards their relative conventions). It also reminds me of the episode of Saturday Night Live in which William Shatner played himself giving a speech at a Star Trek convention. He said "Get a Life, people, its not real, its a show, for god sake." I'm not implying that Kate Bush fans get a life, BTW. I'm just saying that is it necessary to bring the ( IMO, rather tackyish) Kate Bush jargon into it? This is an honest inquiry, since I absolutely cannot visualise of Kate Bush being the be-all-and-end-all (however she is a great songwriter/performer/singer) I do understand the nature of fan clubs, but why this jargoning deal?