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V6TJZJ for ric.. c deariM i do my best each month to bring you events in my life that may in some way reflect, somehow, what may be going on in yours, we all harbour feelings of resentment, hate, fear, love, loss, desperation and what do we do about it? more often than not, nothing, we sit at home in the dark or lay in our beds and hold it all inside, and for the most part that's ok. really, i do it. but, often i let it airhead ali out. and why not? people, for the most part, are thin skinned and — me included — like to hear the truth, it puts it all in some sort of weird perspective, people i like or even love know it, and those i have no time for or even hate, Dear Discorder/Barbara, can't believe I wasted 15 min­ mostly about SLOAN, PLUTO, although in that category there are few, know it as well, honesty, i have been Hello from the dreary depths utes of my life on this" ... great CUB and my car, etc..) called too honest, i can take that, even if i have made a few people unhappy with journalism there). Anyways, of Winnipeg. I just picked up OKAY thanks! 11 my candidness. last month i ran into some opposition regarding that month's your October issue of thanks for the publicity (bad LOVE, Melanie OXOX installment of cowshead and i'll take the heat even if i don't necessarily agree DiSCORDER, and happened publicity is still publicity, cor­ with it. i was writing about my heart, a heart that is not unlike any of yours, to fall upon the 7 inch reviews rect?); thank goodness your Dear Airhead, regardless of whether or not you are involved with someone, our hearts break big corporate ads still keeps and get scarred whether we are in love or not. i have had mine broken and have section, and noticed that our The following statement DiSCORDER free. probably broken a few as well, so what am i trying to say? i don't really know, i (Elliot's) 7" was reviewed. should be known to all fellow Love, just know i have to say it. i feel a sense of desperation lately that i'm finding hard What a pleasant bit of jour­ cigarrette smokers: to put into words, when i sit down to talk or write about it. Vancouver's taking its nalism I discovered. I'm not Ben Sigurdson I don't litter the earth with toll on me. and it's not just me. others have complained to me that this "town" Elliot quite clear on the 'boy rock' my cigarrette butts/filters, not just isn't big enough or has enough going on. and they're right, but don't get me grouping you've developed, even the pavement. I am con­ wrong, i love this "town." so many lives in this "town," for better or for worse, but it seems that it would en­ Hello, scious of all those fiber-glass are linked together, it's basically impossible, if you're at all connected, to meet compass everyone from Earth My name is Melanie Hawkins filters being thrown on the someone entirely new. someone outside "the circle," the core, try walking around one day without running into at least one person you know, hard to do. some­ Crisis to Weezer. Just what and I have subscribed to the ground, and find them a gro­ times this is a good thing, while other times it's really nice to be anonymous, i'm the world needs ... vague DiSCORDER magazine. I am tesque sight. whining, i know, but i have no other way of telling these things, i was on vacation classification (oh yeah, Elliot very happy with it ... This is Please correct my spelk and by way of circumstance ended up spending two weeks as a tourist in my should be in Vancouver within just a note to tell the people ing, but send the message! I own town, holy shit, i thought i was going to have to create some world class the next few days ... and our in charge that I have moved save my butts in a metal tin disturbance to get something to do in the "city." two weeks of hoping some­ fill-in drummer is a female. ... Please send the until I arrive at a garbage can thing would happen, that there would be something to do. whatever, sorry, i'm a Does that throw a wrench into DiSCORDER to this address! I! or ashtray. Just do it, too. little scattered this month, i'll be back to my heartbroken, desperate self next things??). At least you were Thanks so much, I love The Girl in Green month, hell, it'll be a new year and i'll have all new stories and complaints, and as kinder than whoever re­ you guys.