Re: My failed attempt

[chrisw@wwa.com (Chris Williams)]

>Ok, this is a true story.  Disturbing, but true.
>
>Last week I was killing time at work, I mean having a meeting at work, with
>a co-worker and the subject of music and Kate came up.  My co-worker was
>not familiar with Kate so I thought - "Here is my chance to do some
>missionary work!"  The next day I brought in "The Line, the Cross & the
>Curve" for her to see.  At lunch she took it into the conference room (we
>have a TV-VCR in there) and I went out to get some lunch.
>
>I got back and was eating at my desk when she came into my office with the
>tape, looked at me and said, "Artists!" , rolled her eyes and left.  Well,
>I was dumbfounded.

   Was she referring to Kate? Or are you an artist?

>When I could manage to get up from my chair I went to her office to try to
>talk to her.  She then tried to get me to listen to The Violent Femmes. 
>(They sounded like the Ramones hopped up on estrogen to me.)  I haven't
>talked to here since.

   Before I try to interest anyone in Kate, I try to have a pretty good
handle on what other artists they like. Then you can carefully pick
an appropriate song. 

>Anyone else had a terrible experience like this?  I mean, I tried! 

   Actually I rarely expect anyone else to "get" Kate. I discovered
her music in 1979 on Saturday Night Live. All the other people I knew
who saw it just thought she was "weird"; some thought she was drunk.
I, in the other hand, *had* to go out to get her album the very next
day. So I never expected anyone else to understand. I found my 
girlfriend Vickie (we've been together for 15 years) via an ad
in a music paper trying to locate other Kate fans.

>Ken
>
>P.S. Over in alt.music.pink-floyd they were having a discussion about
>whether Kate and Dave Gilmour had/are having an affair.  Some of you want
>to go straighten those heathens out?

   I'm aware of the discussion (I have a service that mails me every
post where the words "Kate" and "Bush" appear together). As they refer
to Guilmor as "...that fat bastard" I didn't relish jumping in.

   It's not true, BTW. It's a sexist assumption by people unable to
imagine that any woman could succeed solely on her talents.




Chris Williams of
   Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
      chrisw@wwa.com
"How perfectly goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" - C. Crumb