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coffee spoons and knives

from no hugging = no learning by damezumari

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EXPL: coffee spoons and knives comes from the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot, that poem is sort of like a character portrait, there’s no big point to it per se, it just attempts to express what one guy is going through, he is pretty pathetic by a lot of people’s standards, lonely, awkward, has problems with women, he’s very anxious, neurotic, I really identify with him, and one of the things he talks about in the poem is the sort of talk that goes on in society, in scenes, in communities, talk that’s not so nice, not necessarily gossip, not necessarily mean, but talk that is essentially reductive, that talks about you like some simple thing that can be summed up in a few words, that sad old man, what a character, never dates, always going on about silly things, look at his thinning hair, look at his rolled pant legs, how sad, did you know he said this about her or she said this about him or he did this or she did this and I know its hard to avoid this way of doing things, of seeing things, life can be a melodrama without much effort, but with a little effort it seems like we ought to be able to treat others like human beings, like some one instead of some thing, we shouldn’t presume to know what goes into the decisions and the words and an odd hairstyle, we should care, and man, that is impossible, it is so hard, but life is about trying, not succeeding, not giving up, but trying, to me at least, it seems like maybe we could just remember that when we say ‘alfred’ or ‘eric’ or ‘jack’ or ‘sarah’ or any name that we are referring to a person, not a thing, a living breathing human being with thoughts and feelings and hopes and aspirations and disappointments, and words exchanged over coffee can shed just as much blood as knives wielded in anger

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we measure our lives with coffee spoons and knives rather than try to believe the easy lie. it's not over till it's over. but our own regrets, we can't let others forget. the blood we shed, it's not our own.

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from no hugging = no learning, released March 1, 2004

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damezumari Tulsa, Oklahoma

the band - started march 2003, from tulsa,OK. and san diego, ca
in its last recorded form:
craig maricle - drums
chris skillern - bass, voice
stephen paul - guitar, voice
eric titterud - guitar, voice
the band has previously included:
doug johnston (drums) and daniel sutliff (bass), who both played on the first three demos,
blake foster (drums), and aaron thornhill (bass) and mike laughlin (drums) ... more

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