THE REVIEWS ARE IN
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!Beau-t-ful!, John...
Industry poet- and essayist- and typist-laureate...
YOU know what's happnin', mon...

JOE: "Wow, for real?"
BRAD: "It's amazing..."
JOHN: "Indeed."

REGARDING THE GNU ONE:

As I was listening to the driving directions on H202, I was crossing Princeton Pike.
You said "look out for the car on your left Brad".

Meanwhile a car was approaching me from the right.

True, you said 'Brad', but I worry that lawsuits could be in your future.

Excellent.
Many thanx Joe for your digital art and audio assistance
on this recording.
Please give yourself much credit and also
our waitress Jennette!!!!
Interesting how on my new album it gets more and more like
Sigur Ros until the final consumate blending on the 10+ minute GENTLE DREAM.
Enjoy, sir,
and so many thanx, indeed.

Volcanic Mind

Oh the mind
Oh the trees
Oh the wind
In the trees
Are you there?
Holding fast
As the sea approaches
And your friend reproaches
A Jamaican holiday
Filled with ideas and sunshine
An Icelandic adventure
Among the rocks
The volcanoes know you
You are pleasant
And not war like
Can a typists dreams ever come true?

DEEP INSIDE

Let us go deep, deep inside the mind of Mr. Joe
and be as he is, if only for a moment:

At home yesterday, with track 1, I was thinking:
uh-oh, I steered John wrong...
But by track 3 I was in Iceland again, and knew I steered you right.

By the time track 8 came around, I was shaken to my core.
I cried.
I was scared.
I was happy.

Lets go to Hooters.

(REVELATION BLOG #s 1 & 2)

John said:
When I was younger, I had a fantasy of driving north up into permafrost Newfoundland
and stopping at the end of the road where there was a big pile of plowed snow and no more road. It was at that point I would BLOW MY BRAINS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!! I was lost and wailing and then CHRIST JESUS appeared to take me home. In a subsequent vision, he saved me from falling off a cliff into a LAKE OF FIRE. As the DEVIL SATAN bid me "COME". A summer vision, if you will.

And Joe retorted:
Wow, for real? Put that in your blog!
And Joe continued:
I'm in Iceland, listening to Sigur-Ros. I am absolutely mesmerized. Ambience with mystery and power in the undertones. I keep picturing an icy landscape, stinging winds, and monsters lurking in the snow. I am lost and wailing and no one will help me.

To say the album design is stark would be an understatement. The CD itself is white with some hints of off white. No writing. The jewel case front is a 6 page booklet. Each page is translucent white with ghostly images appearing to be grass or sticks sticking out of the snow. No writing. The back cover is translucent white, with the words "Sigur-Ros.com" - that is the only information on the whole album. My cd player here automatically retrieves album information from CDDB on the web. For this album, it retrieves nothing.

We are lost in the snow. Wailing. And no one will help.

I am Sigur-Ros's number one fan.

And Brad returned fire with regards to REVELATION:
Sunned and !Stunned! LEGENDARY 7 days in my life.
Touched by an angel on Jamaica shoreline, brought me to tears.
"It's amazing how we never die [, mon]"

Ochos Rios - on horseback in the Caribbean.

And John, standing by the sea having come full circle, replied:
Indeed.