Re: BTN

[jackthecat]

and smythe was an item with john macenroe who was an item with tatum who was
an item with oliver....and her band was called Scandal...oi.
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Christian <gorimbaud>
To: <babel-list>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 6:45 PM
Subject: RE: BTN


> Further complicating matters (for the casual rock
> FM listener) is Natalie Merchant's version, which
> i've heard often mentioned by dj's is a bruce springsteen
> song (only).  Worse still, a "classic" station in upstate
> NY last year announced natalie's version as writ by bruce
> and the singer patty smythe !!!
> I was gonna pull the car over and call the station to
> correct them, but thought better of it when i realized
> that i would eventually get to the part of telling them
> that smythe and smith are two totally different pat's;
> that smythe sang in a band called scandal and was married
> once to richard hell, who played in the voidoids, who opened
> for smythe, i mean smith, who wrote in his book "richard hell:
> artifact" that patti smith was like "christmas on earth,"
> which was originally a rimbaud quote, who was shot by verlaine,
> (no not the one who played in television)(although Hell also
> played with television...)   well you see why i didn't call...
>
>
> Thomas Christian
> gorimbaud
>
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