Thomas! Enough already! You are terribly missed at the Boards (well, Board, the FSM one isn't back up and probably never will be again.)

Something occurred to me just a day or two ago: perhaps you don't manifest because of all the Les Baxter CDs you promised to burn, and evidently never did. Hey, buddy, I'd genuinely forgotten about it until that possible correlation popped into my head; and let me assure you that one or another Les Baxter CDR that I don't have isn't a friendship-breaker. I know all about how hard schedules can be, and about what it's like to stretch a dollar so hard that it snaps in your hand. Even offering to make such a disc for nothing, especially for people you didn't really know, was such a generous largesse, only the meanest and most tight-fisted would want to yell at you for not delivering. (I genuinely hope it's as simple as that.)

Don't be a stranger, pal, please. I barely know you, but you seem like a special fellow, and I'd be dismayed if we didn't get to hang out one day and rant about movies in each other's respective direction. Last time you wrote me, you were already looking forward to precisely such a time yourself.

I'm not convinced you even receive these letters, but I'd like to know, one way or the other. I'd hate to think you got mashed by a bus or something.

Did you see BATTLEFIELD EARTH yet? It's the funniest movie of the year, and I highly recommend it. I howled from beginning to end, and frankly can't wait to see it again. If Ed Wood were alive, and had seventy million to blow, this is what he'd have made. Actually, Wood was a better director than Roger Christian, but that's a whole other essay ...

I hope you'll get this, Thomas. You have all my best wishes, either way. I'll be going to the Goldsmith concert in Detroit after all (you know that if you've been lurking); I've been earmarked to write the whole thing up (for the Board, at least, I doubt FSM is too interested since they didn't even MENTION the Detroit concerts in advance.)

PLEASE take care, be well, go on doing good work,

most sincerely,

(my real name, which he knew already, follows, along with e-mail address and even home phone number)

I KNOW!
I BEEN dere!

Tom Scofield is a friend of mine as well...perhaps the circumstances of life have prevented him from being here.

It could be anything.

BTW, you H'ness, FSM did mention the Detroit concerts. From Volume 4, Number 10:

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Goldsmith will be with the Detroit Symphony next June 1-4 for five concerts in all - "Pops Goes Hollywood"; see www.detroitsymphony.com .

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5 concerts? I thought it was 3?

Marian: There were five concerts in Detroit, it's just that none of us except Wedge and a couple of others from the Board attended the first two: an afternoon AND an evening concert on Thursday, June 1. I wondered if that's why Goldsmith seemed a little worn out on Friday night, but he was back in bouncy form by Saturday.

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I ducked out for a year and a half myself, without warning anyone

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Yeah, and as I recall, no one ever SCOLDED you for it either!!!

BAD ROCCO!
BAD, BAD ROCCO!!!

There.
Take that.

NP: BAD BOYS (Mark Mancina) (well, not really, but it would be appropriate) (in fact, you'd have to pay ME to listen to it)