allo!

["Carlo Eustaquio" <ceustaquio>]

Hi all, and hi Glenna!

I don't know if any of you guys still remember me... I was writing here
before with my yahoo. My name's Carlo, hope this
doesn't stray much from the current topic. Was hoping someone would know
Patti Smith's fanmail address/email or better yet,
could forward this message/2 url-links-to-drawings to Patti Smith's myspace
or email address?

I would very much appreciate, if ever. :) I wanted to send the actual
drawings but I've seemed to have lost
them after my wanderings.

Love you all. I don't have 12 or Trampin' yet but from what I've been
hearing and seeing in Myspace and Youtube it seems
Patti still hasn't lost the touch. Wish I could quit drinking/smoking so I
could still sing and holler like that 40 years from now.

Haha, am I so delusional as to think that this letter would really reach her
hands! :)

Oh if anyone finds this email annoying simply click on delete and ZAP gone!
:)

Warm Wishes,

Carlo Gabriel Eustaquio

p.s. anyone knows the chords of Southern Cross ...?

xxx

Dearest Patti,

Peace. Been planning to write you a letter for
so long. Wanted to send two drawings to you as well
but I've lost them after a few setbacks.
Thankfully, I scanned them:

http://nakedprey.deviantart.com/art/Patti-Smith-31459584
http://nakedprey.deviantart.com/art/Thinking-of-Jimi-31790573

Since then I've found myself living in the mountain
province miles away from where I've lived (a ghetto suburb in Manila)
and thankfully, by the grace of poetry, paintings, music,
my spirits are still up (though I am half-convinced my troubles
might be the death of me sooner than expected).

Well to cut the story short, the past year, art (yours included),
a handful of impoverished artists, and a Rilke book were the
only company I had. From the album 12, your cover of George's
(my favorite Beatle) Within You Without You renews in me a kind
of strange energy I felt 6 years ago when I wasn't so broken.
Southern Cross has always been my favorite song--though I can
only listen to it in my head now--but I remember the dignity I've lost
when I hear it then and the sound fits perfectly with the texture of
what I am going through at the moment, feeling aware again of the
spirits around, ministering, warning, generally, spooking my pants off.
I can sing it but I can't seem to find the chords, and I've yet to get a
new guitar as I've sold it after a starvation period. I want you to know
that I am one of those kids who picked up the guitar the first time
(few months after buying it) when you dictated the chords to
Farewell Reel, the first Patti Smith Group album I bought with
my hard-earned pay.

Even if I come from a different country, albeit more impoverished in a
lot of ways compared to most, I am grateful to your generation, your
friends,
and the wealth, inspiration and music you've brought to us to dream, fight,
if not for change, for ourselves and for our art. I would love to one day be
able
to glean something from all these, maybe a certain
wisdom/practicality/sensibility;
to be so blessed to create a body of work as great and with such depth of
humanity.
Thanks and blessings to you, Lenny Kaye, JD Daugherty, Tony Shanahan,
and your family.

Warmest Wishes,

Carlo Gabriel Eustaquio



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