| mel gibson vs. maccabees |
[13 Apr 2012|11:23am] |
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:11:55 -0400
Subject: Have you seen this?
From: lxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
To: garrydmessick@xxxxx.xxx; grantimatter@yahoo.com; mxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/joe-eszterhas-letter-mel-gibson-36949
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From: Christopher Moll <mxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: lxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx; garrydmessick@xxxxx.xxx; grantimatter@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:14 PM
Subject: RE: Have you seen this?
i read it earlier today...since a lot of it takes place in costa rica they should just adapt it into the next jurassic park flick.
crazy...
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On Apr 13, 2012, at 10:22 AM, "Grant Balfour, D.D." <grantimatter@yahoo.com> wrote:
That's brilliant.
Only replace the dinosaurs with 1st century B.C. Jews. The climactic final scene has Mel Gibson, Joe Esterhaz & his family and a visiting Catholic priest (played against type by Jeff Goldblum) locked in their villa's kitchen, devising Molotov cocktails out of cooking oil to fight their way through the army of Jewish clones that has besieged them for the past 8 days.
Once the party reaches the beach, Mel falls to his knees and shouts: "A MIRACLE! THANK GOD, A MIRACLE!"
It'll be beautiful.
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Learn. Sing.
http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/
From: Christopher Moll <mxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: "Grant Balfour, D.D." <grantimatter@yahoo.com>
Cc: "lxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx" <lxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>; "garrydmessick@xxxxx.xxx" <garrydmessick@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: Have you seen this?
jewrassic park?
On Apr 13, 2012, at 10:22 AM, "Grant Balfour, D.D." <grantimatter@yahoo.com> wrote:
CUT and PRINT!
That's a wrap!
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| two hungry stories |
[20 Feb 2012|11:46am] |
--- On Mon, 2/6/12, Grant Balfour, D.D. <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Grant Balfour, D.D. <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> > Subject: Re: Fw: proposal guidelines, proposal.
> > To: "Debbie Weston From" <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> > Date: Monday, February 6, 2012, 11:19 AM
> >
> > By the way, if you're interested, I've got a couple of African folk tales involving food and feasting.
> >
> > There's a particular kind of South African beastie who often disguises himself as a man in order to take food from people.
> >
> >
> > ------------- Learn. Sing. http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/
> >
From: Debbie Weston From <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> To: D.D.Grant Balfour <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> Cc: Jeannie Balfour <jeanniebalfour@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 8:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Fw: proposal guidelines, proposal.
>
> HEY Grant!
>
> When would be a good time to talk about your stories? I am hoping to get together with you lovely wife today! Call me...because I have a more flexible schedule than you do...and if I can talk we can get these down!
> 706.xxx.xxxx
>
> What is the name of the beastie? And where do the stories originate?
>
> Hope to talk to you soon....
>
> Thanks!
>
> Debbie
>
From: Grant Balfour, D.D. <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: Fw: proposal guidelines, proposal.
To: "Debbie Weston From" <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
Date: Monday, February 20, 2012, 11:46 AM
I actually got the books out this weekend - I have a children's book called "When the Drum Sang" that was published in America, and a South African anthology called Swazi Fireside Tales. The Swazi are a Bantu people who live in South Africa and (naturally) Swaziland. (Bantu is a pretty large language group, encompassing cultures from the Kikuyu in Kenya and the Kongo in Congo down to the Xhosa at the southern tip of South Africa. "When the Drum Sang" is not a Swazi story, but is a Bantu story - different versions will pop up all over sub-Saharan Africa.)
Practically every one of the stories in Fireside Tales has food in it. Shapeshifting is also a big deal - people get turned into cattle, steaks come to life on the embers, and innocent girls get changed into hideous half-crocodiles by day.
But the worst are the ogres. Actually, "ogre" is not the right word. There's an end-note to "When the Drum Sang" that talks about this character who shows up in these stories - they call it a zimwi. Sometimes a zimwi is a hyena (there's at least one Swazi Fireside Tale about a thug hyena robbing a farm boy's lunch). Sometimes the zimwi is a wicked old man who knows some tricks (like how to bring the cow you've just feasted on back to life, as long as the bones are in order). And sometimes the zimwi is a tall, strong man who's good at fooling people and stealing children (which is what "When the Drum Sang" is about). But whatever he looks like, he's always rapaciously hungry. He will browbeat the weak or trick the strong in order to eat everything they have.
"When the Drum Sang" is actually a better zimwi story than a lot of the similar stories in Swazi Fireside Tales. (This book seems to tell a different version of the same story.)
There's a good summary of the story along with some fun storytelling notes up at that very first link. The nutshell version: A sweet girl with a beautiful singing voice is snatched by a bad man when out getting water. He stuffs her in a drum and makes her sing when he plays it, touring from village to village. Everywhere he goes, people are so impressed, they give him mountainous feasts. (Cue lists of foods: honey beer, pumpkin, steak and sour cream, bananas, papayas and black-eyed peas and fufu and cornbread and....) He stuffs himself, then, when everyone is asleep, he lifts the skin of the drum and feeds the little girl a couple of beans and a cup of water. This goes on for some time. BUT the girl's mother and father never stop looking for her. They catch wind of this marvelous performer, while searching from village to village, and hear him play - and recognize their daughter's voice. The mother leaps to grab the drum, but the father holds her back and watches. Big feast, everyone eats pumpkins and drinks honey beer, the zimwi gorges himself and passes out. The father doesn't indulge - he sneaks in lifts the skin of the drum and helps his daughter out. Then, while zimwi sleeps, he lights a torch, finds a beehive, and drives the bees into the empty drum. Snap! He puts the skin back in place, and takes his family and goes home. The next day, the zimwi heads off to the next town, starts playing the drum and no singing happens. He beats the drum harder - no singing. He yells and threatens, beats the drum again, no singing. So he yells, "Now I will beat YOU!", yanks off the drum skin - and is attacked by a swarm of bees.
Here's a Swahili proverb (just found on Google, not in the book): Zimwi likujualo halikuli likakwisha. The ogre who knows you does not eat you until it finishes you. (i.e. Someone who exploits you will make sure he has taken everything from you before he finishes you off.)
Now, one of the best food-related stories in Swazi Fireside Tales actually *isn't* a zimwi story at all. It's called "The Python's Tree," and is about a squabble over access to a mulberry tree during a famine. The tortoise solves the problem by being slow and quiet and listening carefully. The tortoise also sings, but since I'm sitting at my desk right now, I can't remember any of the songs. There's another couple of tellings of the story here, as "The Name of the Tree."
The nutshell version of this one is: There's a terrible famine, and all the animals are eating anything they can in order to stay alive. There's one tree that they want to investigate, but they're not allowed to. It's the python's tree. (Note: this is a big "forbidden fruit" thing. In some versions, it's God's tree, and I think the python in this Swazi story is a direct relative of Damballah from Voodoo.) The python is wound around the bottom of the tree, holding the branches high up, and no one dares take the fruit without his permission. (Note again: I'm saying "he" because the version I know says "he." Sometimes, the tree is said to belong "to Grandmother.") In order to eat the fruit, the animals have to ask for it by name. So they send an emissary to ask its name. The rabbits go, learn the name, but forget it before they can tell everyone else. Some antelope go, learn the name, but get distracted on the way home and forget it. The lion goes next, begs for the name, and the python says, "No - you animals always forget. No one's getting any fruit unless you can ask for it by name. I've told enough animals what the name is." So the tortoise sneaks up at night and sits there, rock-like, and listens to the python talking to himself. The python, sure no one is there, sings gleefully to himself about how no one can guess the name of the tree, his lovely Quechua tree (or whatever - I can't recall the proper name myself!). The tortoise works the name into a song of his own as he plods back to where the other animals are, then returns to ask for the fruit in the form of his song. Having been asked properly, the python unwinds and lowers the branches so everyone can share the mulberries.
Success!
We can talk more whenever you like - the books are on the dining room table with some other stories marked, if you and Jeannie want to go through them before I'm home.
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| an extended karass |
[01 Jan 2012|06:59pm] |
From: Gwen Davies <xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: D.D. Grant Balfour <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2012 11:48 AM
Subject: Baby circle complete
All knights (or racquetball fencers anyway) accounted for in the next generation. Just noticed that Kalin's baby is named Rowan.
Happy 2012 to you and the babies Evan, Grant and Rowan
Sent from my iPod
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| ...as played by "Tex" Ranger |
[28 Feb 2011|02:36pm] |
> From: James Shelton
> Subject: RE: Even if it was for just one day
> To: grantimatter@xxxxx.xxx
> Date: Monday, February 28, 2011, 2:06 PM
>
> Evening,
>
> Thought you might like an update on the video progress; we have an actress locked (Katie,
> the canadíenne from Peach Stone) to play Louisa, and
Oh, lovely!
>
> we have a volunteer to be a You-By-Proxy - if you look on my facebook list of friends,
> Toby "Tex" Ranger has volunteered to lip-sync. Now we just need to get
>
DEMAND #1: HE SHALL BE CREDITED IN THE FOLLOWING WAY:
...And Toby "Tex" Ranger as "grant"
BECAUSE THOSE ARE ALWAYS THE BEST CREDITS
> the ball rolling. One interesting thing to note; the original conception of the video has
> changed - whereas before it felt almost like a banishing ritual, now it feels more like a
> positive love story.
>
Nice! Places to go!
>
> Also, we've been asked to properly liase with the original musicians with what you would
> like to see in the video - so I have your liking for maps down, but is there anything else
> you would like to see (that we can realistically do) incorporated into the final project?
>
DEMAND #2: You! Has you watched La Jetee yet? MAKE ME A DREAM WITH THEM STILLS. A brief sequence! Slide my show!
pt. 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RntbEaJkzR8&feature=related
pt. 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdT1JarP7HU&feature=related
pt. 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZNjrn9vQkY&feature=related (1:47 will move you.)
28 minutes total.
only if it works with your overall vision, of course.
http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/dl77/dldpp/scan_zoetrope.jpg
: PERSISTENCE OF....
But it is so cool!
> Anyway, I trust all is well with you,
>
Aside from the bouts with madness, fine.
Do your professors require proof of liaising? I can write something more coherent, if it helps.
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| psychic nikki warns tokyo! |
[24 Nov 2010|11:12am] |
On Wed, 11/24/10, nxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx wrote:
From: nxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx <nxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Prediction
To: "grant b, sun reporter" <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 7:58 AM
> Grant in your issue thirty five two thousand and nine august I predicted an attack on south korea by north
> korea. I also saw japan being attacked that must be next. Thought I would let you know.
> Thanks nikki
> Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
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| reddit, on politics of the nobel peace prize. |
[09 Oct 2010|11:45am] |
syd_oc 15 points 1 day ago[-]
In other news, China invades Norway...
permalink
> dublinclontarf 78 points 1 day ago[-]
> Thats not how they work, let me fix that for you.
> "In other news, China has allowed a new province to join the PRC. The new province know as "Norway" will be
> given a special status with PLA troops providing security to the destabilised region.
> The local people will become one of China's official minorities. Some have already complained of the influx
> of Han Chinese and the difficulties they cause such, issues like providing jobs to only Han and so forth.
> However, this local approves, saying he believes it will bring more jobs and money to the impoverished area
> and thinks it's a good thing."
> permalink parent
>
> > BrotherSeamus 54 points 1 day ago[-]
> > |new province
> > Huh? Norway has always been part of China.
> > permalink parent
> >
> > > bobsil1 27 points 1 day ago[-]
> > > Those rebel Uighurwegians.
> > > permalink parent
> > >
> > > > porcuswallabee 6 points 1 day ago[-]
> > > > and their damned delicious noodle soup.
> > > > permalink parent
> > > >
> > > > > spinelssinvrtebrate 6 points 1 day ago[-]
> > > > > With lutefisk...
> > > > > permalink parent
> > > > > | load more comments (1 reply)
> > > > >
> > > diggfuge 8 points 21 hours ago[-]
> > > Yes, and the Western media is distorting history and trying divide our national unity by suggesting that
> > > Norway was ever once an independent nation. We will not let separatist destroy our harmonious society.
> > > Here we will interview a token Norwegian who will say how life was horrible before New China and that he
> > > loves his Han brothers.
> > > permalink parent
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| rubber is a movie about a sentient tire |
[14 Jul 2010|10:46am] |
>>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:06 PM, grant b, sun reporter<xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ain't It Cool News likes it:
>>>
>>> http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45742
>>>
>>> The main character is a tire.
>>>
>>> A tire.
>>>
>> --- On Tue, 7/13/10, Sam Goodstein <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>wrote:
>>
>> From: Sam Goodstein <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
>> Subject: Re: _Rubber_ is a movie about a sentient tire.
>> To: "grant b, sun reporter" <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
>> Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 9:18 PM
>>
>> Attire as character?
>> And as always Lao Tzu hits it:
>>
>> 'Spokes join the wheel, but the empty hub makes it useful.'
>>
>> or...dangerous?
>>
>> Sam
>>
>From: grant b, sun reporter <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
>Subject: Re: _Rubber_ is a movie about a sentient tire.
>To: "Sam Goodstein" <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
>Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 10:07 AM
>
>I'm not sure whether to groan in pain or forward this to everyone I know.
>
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| i feel a business plan forming. |
[09 Jun 2010|01:38pm] |
> From: Facebook <notification+osf9y4tc@facebookmail.com>
> Subject: Matthew Steinhoff commented on your Post...
> To: "Grant Balfour" <xxxxxxxxxr@xxxxx.xxx>
> Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 12:15 PM
>
> Matthew Steinhoff commented on your Post:
>
> "If you're insanely rich, you better hide out for 2010. Your heirs can save, literally,
> billions of dollars by killing you this year.
>
> Ms. Cox (of Cox Newspapers fame) died last year. She gave $5.4 billion dollars to the
> government. If her heirs had put her on a machine to keep her minimally alive until
> January 1, 2010, they could have put that $5.4 billion in their pockets.
>
> The motivation to keep rich people alive in 2009 is mirrored by the desire to see them
> dead in 2010."
>
> Reply to this email to comment on this post.
>
> To see the comment thread, follow the link below:
> http://www.facebook.com/n/?profile.php&id=650597320&v=wall&story_fbid=419444222320&mid=279bb48G26c753c8G4dfbe94G36&n_m
>
>
> Thanks,
> The Facebook Team
>
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| sekintani will get in your head. |
[06 May 2010|10:38am] |
>>> From: grant b, sun reporter <grantimatter@xxxxxx.xxx>
>>> Subject: explain this.
>>> To: "Garry Messick" <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx>
>>> Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 9:27 PM
>>>
>>> http://www.geocities.jp/sekintani/
>>>
>>> some imagery probably en ess eff double-you.
>>> --------
>>>
>>> From: "grant b, sun reporter" <grantimatter@xxxxx.xxx>
>>> To: Garry Messick <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
>>> Sent: Wed, May 5, 2010 9:41:06 PM
>>> Subject: more.
>>>
>>> for the love of god
>>>
>>> more
>>>
>>> http://yuhuang.tumblr.com/post/574884264
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------
>> On Thu, 5/6/10, Garry Messick <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Garry Messick <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
>> Subject: Re: more.
>> To: "grant b, sun reporter" <grantimatter@xxxxx.xxx>
>> Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 10:01 AM
>>
>> This isn't one of those "Ring" type of videos, is it? If we end up dead in a week, I'm
>> going to be pretty pissed.
>>
>> -----------
>From: grant b, sun reporter <grantimatter@xxxxx.xxx>
>Subject: Re: more.
>To: "Garry Messick" <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
>Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 10:26 AM
>
>You will end up EVOLVED.
>
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| support our academics: birthday wishes from the gulf. |
[10 Feb 2010|10:11am] |
--- On Wed, 2/10/10, Nicholas Meihuizen <nicholasmeihuizen@mac.com> wrote:
> From: Nicholas Meihuizen <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx>
> Subject: Happy Birthday
> To: "sun grant b" <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 9:24 AM
>
> Dear Grant Andrew Praschma Balfour,
>
> Here I am in Sharjah, still not joined by Elsa (who is
> waiting for her visa), thinking about my nephew's birthday,
> and getting ready to go evening classes. This is a strange,
> different world, but I am enjoying myself. The students are
> great, bright, sassy and quite often plain naughty, but I
> really like them. It is winter here, so the climate is
> really not bad right now, apart from the dust storms--very
> fine dust, like smoke, which blots out the sun. I've managed
> to get hold of a very luxurious looking apartment on the
> 16th storey of 40 storey (I think) block, which looks out
> over the Persian Gulf. Well, I've booked it, but have still
> to move in. Hope to finalize everything tomorrow. So here I
> am, tired, alone, bewildered, but enjoying it. And sending
> you all my love. The pictures are of my new university,
> Skyline University College, run by Indians actually, so it
> feels like home from that point of view (Gandhi, etc.)
> Your uncle,
> Nicholas
>
> We'd rather have the iceberg than the ship,/ Although it
> meant the end of travel...
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| in praise of kindly old men. |
[09 Nov 2009|10:45am] |
> From: Garry Messick <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> Subject: This is beautiful
> To: "grant b, sun reporter" <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> Date: Monday, November 9, 2009, 10:33 AM
>
> I came across this on Jonathan Carroll's blog:
>
> "Near the end of his life, living in Berlin with his
> lover, Franz Kafka went for a walk in the park and saw a
> little girl crying.
> He asked her what the matter was, and she told him that
> she had lost her doll.
> Without missing a beat, Kafka assured the little girl that
> the doll wasn't lost, only traveling; Kafka knew this for a
> fact, he said, because the doll had written him a letter
> describing her journeys, which he promised to bring the girl
> the next day.
> Every day for three weeks, he brought the girl a new letter
> that he had spent much of the previous night composing,
> until she could no longer remember why she had been sad in
> the first place."
>
> Jeff Turrentine
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| harper's, I pwn you. |
[24 Sep 2009|06:22pm] |
> From: Balfour, Grant <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Subject: Regarding http://harpers.org/archive/2008/03/hbc-90002719
> To: harpers@harpers.org
> Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 6:19 PM
>
>
>
> Hi.
>
>
> I hate to be the one to point this out to you, but there's a really
> funny mistake in Scott Horton's otherwise solid translation of Pablo
> Neruda's "Song of Despair."
>
>
>
>
> The Spanish word "muelles," as in "Abandonado como los muelles en el alba,"
> means "docks" or "wharves." It doesn't mean "dwarves."
>
>
>
>
> (That image is a bit like Tolkien, or maybe Tom Waits.)
>
>
>
>
> You've got the line right when it repeats at the end of the poem, but not when
> it first occurs. Since your page is one of the first returns when one searches
> the internet for "Song of Despair," I thought it was worth mentioning.
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Grant Balfour.
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| one of our most awkward letters.... |
[17 Sep 2009|11:23am] |
> > From: Rxxxxx Txxxxxx <xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx>
> > Subject: Good Doc
> > To: "Grant B" <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> > Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 10:23 AM
> >
> > Pg. 50 story attached; clip on fax.
> >
>
>
> From: grant b, sun reporter <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx>
> Subject: Re: Good Doc
> To: Rxxxxx Txxxxxx <xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx>
> Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 11:20 AM
> Rxxxxx,
>
> This isn't a publishing crisis or a criticism in any way,
> but you need to know that this is nearly the same story you
> submitted for the 4th page Good Doc last week - the same
> source material but rewritten from scratch, as far as I can
> tell. On our end, there's no problem - we're just
> dearchiving a story from 2004 to fill the hole.
>
> On your end, I think you really should consider a visit to
> a real good doctor (as opposed to the one you play before a
> national readership) to make sure that head injury isn't
> playing games with your memory.
>
> We're all very concerned that you may have suffered a
> concussion or even have had a stroke due to the fall.
> We worry, Rxxxxx. Your well-being comes first.
> Go see someone.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> gb
>
>
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| a work email intercept from psychic nikki |
[22 Jul 2009|10:39am] |
> From: xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx <xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Subject: Correction
> To: grantimatter@xxxxx.xxx
> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 2:29 AM
>
> A meteorite hits the southwestern
> united states. Thanks nikki
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless
> Network
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| moving forward on the "liveaboard" concept |
[11 Jun 2009|12:02pm] |
> --- On Thu, 6/11/09, jeannie <xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
> > From: jeannie <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> > Subject: boat owner
> > To: "Grant Balfour" <xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> > Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 11:36 AM
> >
> > I would suggest you start paying visits to docks and get
> > the low down. Take one of the kids for some daddy time and
> > check out the scene.
> >
> >
>
> From: grant b, sun reporter <xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> Subject: Re: boat owner
> To: "jeannie" <xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 12:00 PM
>
> I absolutely love that my wife is
> telling me to make some "daddy time" by taking the kids
> "down to the docks."
>
> Oh, God.
>
> I can teach Sophia how to throw craps and make
> boilermakers!
>
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| hell of a world for new baby to be born into. |
[10 Jun 2009|03:05pm] |
> From: grant b, sun reporter <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
>
> Subject: Holocaust Museum shooter.
>
> To: "ilona balfour" <xxxxxx@xxx.xxx>, "Toni work Balfour" <xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 2:52 PM
>
> He left a manifesto on his website:
>
> http://xrl.us/bewa7n
>
> And more stuff in the Google cache:
>
> http://xrl.us/bewa79
>
> Keep his buddies the hell away from my niece.
>
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| the zine is a dictionary of JOY. Check it out. |
[03 Jun 2009|10:15am] |
--- On Wed, 6/3/09, Guy Lochhead <xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> From: Guy Lochhead <xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Subject: Re: possible interview?
> To: "Grant" <grantimatter@yahoo.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 6:51 AM
> Hello again Grant!
> The zine is complete! And I think it's pretty good.. You
> can download
> a PDF of it from our awful MySpace:
> http://www.myspace.com/aballfortheeyes (in the first blog)
> Or I can send you a paper copy? It's a lot nicer as a real
> thing I
> think because it's quite thick (60 pages) and we used a
> great printers
> called Footprint (http://footprinters.co.uk)... Just let me know
> where to send it, if you'd like one..
> Also, if you're interested, I just finished making a little
> CD. It's
> called 'At Home With Skate Rock' (Skate Rock being my very
> serious artist name), and it's free to download from here:
> http://www.bestnewfun.co.uk
> Or you can buy a CD copy from me or Alien Kiosk
> (http://myspace.com/neilakiosk) for £2..
> I'm really pleased with how the zine turned out, and I
> think you're
> enthusiasm and support really made a difference in keeping
> Poppy and I
> excited about the idea. I'm really grateful for your
> willingness to be
> interviewed, and I hope you enjoy the finished thing.
> Thank you again,
> Guy
>
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| i told him to look at stereo sanctity, too. |
[04 May 2009|01:51pm] |
> > From: Guy Lochhead <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> > Subject: possible interview?
> > To: guildmaster@guildofscientifictroubadours.com
> > Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 12:27 PM
> >
> > Hello Grant
> >
> > I am writing to ask if I could interview you for a small
> > (tiny)
> > magazine I'm trying to put together.
> >
> > My name is Guy Lochhead and I live in England. I'm trying
> > to start a
> > little 'zine'-type thing called Eye Ball with my girlfriend
> > Poppy. I
> > hope that it will be available for free online, and also to
> > buy in
> > physical form for as cheap as possible at various little
> > festivals and
> > things.
> >
> > I hope to fill the magazine with independent musicians and
> > artists
> > from all over the world - from... contemporary hardcore
> > groups to
> > Indian pirate radio station owners to.. you know,
> > whatever.. Poppy's
> > submissions have a sort of amateur scientific interest. I
> > can't really
> > be more specific than that because I don't really know..
> > She's spoken
> > about writing articles about fasha, white lions,
> > extinction, and a few
> > things on mythology and shamanism.
> >
> > We feel like your Guild of Scientific Troubadours ties
> > these two
> > approaches together, as well as being a totally fantastic,
> > admirable
> > collection of songs, and think it would be wonderful to
> > include some
> > words from you on the formation and progress of the
> > project.
> >
> > If you are willing to be interviewed, perhaps we could set
> > up a Google
> > Chat, or I could just e-mail you some questions? Whatever's
> > best for
> > you.
> >
> > I hope to hear from you soon. It's an especially exciting
> > idea for me
> > because I first came across your www.grantimatter.com site
> > a few years
> > ago, when I was about fourteen/fifteen. Yours was one of
> > the first
> > musicians/bands that I discovered on my own, and it kind of
> > set me off
> > on the cycle of devouring that I'm going to turn into my
> > part of this
> > magazine..
> >
> > Thank you very much,
> > Guy
> >
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