Issue 22--October '99

As for news this month, there is not really anything new.  The Lassie Foundation is still planning on a fall release of the El Rey EP on Anisette Records.  The track list is "El Rey," "Crown of the Sea," "Conquer Me," "Promise Ring,"  "I'm Stealin'," and "I Can Be Her Man."
Be sure to catch
The Lassie Foundation USA
live at the Chain Reaction in Anaheim, CA
Thursday October 7th at 8pm
with Groundswell UK-former members of
Neds Atomic Dustbin
Lassie USA, plays at 9.30 pm
Groundswell UK plays at 10.30 pm
ALL AGES
$8 AT THE DOOR
1652  W. Lincoln Ave.
Anaheim, 714.635.6067
 

The Review of the Month--By Forrest Cokely

"The Heart"

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hand
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter----bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."

Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)

Seems like an everyday occurance to me . . ..

Inside a cursory examination of this poem we find two voices,  an observer, and an observed.
The observer quantifies the observed in disgust, ( 'a creature' {sub-human}; 'naked' {unrefined, without regard for the elements or his surroundings, plain.}; 'bestial' {an animal}.)  then goes on to describe his station in the world - 'squatting on the ground', and from there, realizing the observed's occupation 'holding his heart in his hand, and being sustained by that feast' the observer mocks this occupation by a question filled with sarcasm and disdain"Is it good, my friend?";
To this query the observed replies "It is bitter----bitter, but I like it because it is bitter, and because it is my heart."
The question I ask from this analyses is this . . . are you the observer, or the observed?
Do you taste the bitterness of your heart in satisfaction, or gaze in condemnation at those who occupy themselves in this honest pursuit.
Have you known the quantification of others, and still responded  with "I like it because it is bitter, and because it is my heart".

Can we break free from are schedules and have lunch today?
-- I know what I'm having . . ..
Love yourselves, feel free.
I leave you with another verse, and my best wishes,
-your servant,
--Forrest Cokely

Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side,
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
 - Jelaluddin Rumi
 

Links

ANNIE- http://listen.to/glamrock

Battered Fish- http://www.powerup.com.au/~battered

Dumpster- http://www.powerup.com.au/~dumpster

Havalina Rail Co. Website-    http://www.havalina.home.ml.org

Nzine-   http://come.to/nzine

Official Lassie Foundation Website- http://www.rollanet.org/~johnston

Sukafoi-   http://come.to/latemag

The Redcrown Republic    http://327.com/redcrown

Three Twenty-Seven     http://www.327.com/

Toupee Records- http://www.ozemail.com.au/~toupee

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Thanks to:  the Lassie Foundation and Forest Cokely

Until next month...   alyssa johnston