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no hugging = no learning

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I'm well aware these lyrics suck, but as an aside, when we went in to record, I had no idea if I would end up doing vocals or not. I had some basic lyrical ideas jotted down, and I figured I would just sort of try something and see if it worked and I assumed it wouldn't and we would just come back to it when we found someone to do the vocals regularly, but doug liked my vocals and so i just sort of defaulted to the job (which has resulted in an eternal tether to a mic stand live, which is very annoying, but such is life) - anyway, the point is that I could really only fit in one or two lines of vocals, and they were on the off-rhythm part, and, well, this is what you get when you don't prepare - sadly, i never learned the lesson and persist in the error today. But, there is an interesting story behind the name, which was the name of the release as a whole. The writers of Seinfeld, the TV show, had jackets made and put this slogan on the back (though it turns out that they meant “no hugging. no learning.” as in, “sitcoms with sappy endings suck, so let’s do something different”). My Shakespeare teacher told us this while teaching us The Merchant of Venice. He suggested that we look in the text for places where hugging might occur. Hugging is kind of like when you close your eyes in front of a cat. They interpret that as trust because you are making yourself vulnerable. It’s also a symbol of communication. The idea is that you come together and make yourselves vulnerable by expressing yourself. There’s no official place for two men to be intimate friends. If they are, homosexual jokes abound. But not every close relationship has to be about sex. It can be about hugging. It can be about vulnerability. It can be about communication. It can be about understanding each other. There is no essence to being a man or woman. All these norms are just things we learn from society and they are NOT necessarily the best way or the only way. The only way to learn from each other is to listen and to try to connect – and the point of any friendship or community should be to grow through communication and communion with another being.

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i'll stay the coward (because it's) the best i can get.

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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)
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