I know it’s been a long time since we’ve spoken. I feel bad about that. It’s, uh, awkward, you know? Bumping into you like this, after so much silence between us? I really wish it didn’t have to be this way. We should work to make it different. Better.

Next week, why don’t you come around again? I’ll have this place cleaned up and then we can sit down and have a nice long conversation about The Valentines. We’ll have coffee - and bring some of those little ginger cookies I like so much. It’ll be nice. After that, we can do this on a regular basis. I promise. I really, really want to see you more often. You’re important to me. Really important.

But, until next week, read this review of Dallas’ own Tah-Dahs. On a similar note, congratulations to The Tah-Dahs for their recent Entertainment Weekly appearance - and then another by The Happy Bullets. And if we’re going to mention the Happy Bullets, we should also mention this.

See? It’s already getting better. I knew it would. We’re too good of friends to let anything get between us for long.

Until next week?

dconstruction

This city is just swimming in talent - and it’s all there for the taking, posted in online classifieds. This post didn’t actually come from Craig’s List, but Backpage.com, the Dallas Observer’s (and other New Times publications’) online classifieds. Regardless of where it came from, it demonstrates every quality of a good classified ad: it’s personal, direct, informative, brief and descriptive.

lead man
posted: November 3, 2005, 11:33 AM
hi my name is laura iknow a guy that would blow you away his voice is bigger and better than geoff tate of queensyche and he can lovesong andmake you feel it with every fiber of your body. he swept me off my feet 10 years in a locl karoke bar when he sang the search is over by survior he also writes his own stuff hes been in 2 bands and hes doen som tecahing as wellof voice there has been acable shot him performing and hes also sang at some of thelocalhotspots which are nolonger here, one time he was playing queensryche and singing i said is that you or geoff dont get me wrong hes doessound alot like geoff tate but he has his own way too , well if you wanna hear more callme at 214 703-9249 oremail me at lowrimorelaura@yahoo.com , he knows how to rock your world if you wanna be a singer he can teach you how so keep rocking

“Oh, wait. Uh-oh; there might be a few errors in there. Dang. But, I’ve already hit ‘post’. Well, I know what I can do:”

remake lead man available
posted: November 3, 2005, 01:39 PM
hi my name islaura i have avocalist that would blow you out of the water his name timothy gavin douglass hes 35 and can take asong especially alove song and make it his own, well ive seen him capture an audience like there was no tommrrow he can also teach voice , he use to rock the 80s and 90s hes still can rock your world now, hes also awriter he makes geoff tate o fqueens ryche sound bad. but we all know that geoff tate is agreatsinger, he sang slient lucidity and you could hear apin drop. well he can make dream theater sound bad alo hes got very powerful vocals.

“Ahh: much better.”

You’ve got a hell of a publicist there, Gavin. Too bad she’s neither silent nor lucid.