[kj] Hosannas, the painful Struggle

[Alex Smith]

Bo, your dedication is impressive. I'm sure you'll be karmically rewarded in a later life. Or not.

Alex in NYC

PS: "Invocation" = far and away my least favorite song on the album.



-----Original Message-----
>From: Bo Krogsgaard <t23 at mother.brap.dk>
>Sent: Jan 17, 2006 9:59 AM
>To: gathering at misera.net
>Subject: [kj] Hosannas, the painful Struggle
>
>
>So, after ages offline i got fed up with Romanian crossword 
>puzzle magazines and decided to go spend a night at the local internet 
>cafe, about $2 for seven hours ain't bad anyway. I skim headers of 
>Gathering for the past three months and see there's a leaked promo of 
>Hosannas. Of course, none of the links work anymore, so after a bit of 
>hunting i find a torrent for it.
>
>Now, having just moved back to Romania, i still haven't gotten a monitor, 
>but i do have a discman that plays mp3 cd's, so i give my girlfriend my 
>pen drive and she downloads the torrent and copies it to my pen drive. I 
>more or less run down to the internet cafe and ask them to write some 
>stuff to a cdrom for me (i talked to the guy the night before and he said 
>sure no problem, especially after i fixed their DNS problems for them).
>
>New guy at work. Apparently he was too busy copying stuff from another 
>hard drive, so the writer was unplugged, or, as he said, "it doesn't work 
>anyway".
>
>So, eager as a virgin teenage boy, i was very disappointed, like that 16 
>year old chick with the huge tits that said no to you back in the school 
>days.
>
>Around midnight i couldn't stand it any longer. My pen drive was burning a 
>hole in my pocket. My girlfriend had heard the new Killing Joke and i, a 
>fan for more than 20 years, had not. Something was terribly wrong, and 
>that something had to be fixed. Promptly.
>
>Solution: I grabbed the pen drive and booked seven hours at the internet 
>cafe, just to listen to the damned thing.
>
>I have now done so three nights in a row, plus six hours today. Somehow i 
>see this sum up to more than the CD will cost when it comes out.
>
>The struggle was beautiful ..
>
>
>b
>
>PS: Invocation owns everything on that album!
>
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