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VISITORS' REMARKS
( PART 3 )
LITERARY

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Hey, It's Not Me:   "Just found your site. Great song!"
        - Douglas Farah - co-author Merchant of Death - MD

Steaming Cup of Coffee: "I got a kick out of your coffee song."
        - Craig Fisher - writer, editor Los Angeles Times - CA

The Tired White Heron:   "Very nice!"
        - Susan Denley - editorial development Los Angeles Times - CA

"Hey Mick ... it looks great."
        - Tammy Abbott - former photo journalist LA Times - CA

"I checked out your website & found it to be incredibly well crafted as is your music. A thoroughly professional presentation."
        - Jon Stebbins - author Dennis Wilson - The Real Beach Boy - CA

What the Hell Did We Hit?: "We All Live in a Semi Submarine. Re authority: I am pretty well sourced. US & local authorities talk to me about it. I think it's just a case of asking, not any special status I have."
        - Chris Kraul - writer Los Angeles Times - CA

If the Holocaust Was a Myth: "I love your Holocaust lyrics -- I found the opening stanza to be especially poignant -- you definitely seem to have caught the essence of being a trauma survivor.

I just checked out some of your anti-war lyrics, & I'm blown away. I'm a Vietnam veteran, & just in the past month or so I've decided to devote my life to speaking out against war. I have had several of my anti-war poems accepted, but none have been published yet. Read a few more of your pro-peace, anti-war songs. Damn, sir, they're mighty fine."

Why Are They Shooting at Me?   "Back during the war, I asked myself that question a billion or so times, but you certainly caught the spirit. Great work. I've had at least one story and several poems that were widely interpreted to mean something altogether different from what I had intended. To me, that's the beauty of art."

"Great meeting you last night & I enjoyed your reading -- excellent presentation. Also, I checked out your website -- I really liked today's lyrics." (Go Off & Kill Someone)
        - Paul Hellweg - author, poet, film executive producer - CA

"You are doing great things with your music. Look forward to hearing some of your work again."
Shine:   "You have every right to be just as proud as you are - & I am surprised the glow that you are emitting is not turning the rain to mist before it reaches you. You produce good stuff."
        - Joe Thompson - playwright, songwriter, poet, artist - MD

I'm Voting for McBama;   Half a Heartbeat Away:   "I like the McBama song, & the Palin one even more. Hope you have great success with your music & can find a way to do it full time. Sure have enjoyed knowing you. I imagine our paths will cross again. Hang in there, & I hope it will be only good news for you & The Times."
        - Myron Levin - former investigative reporter LA Times - CA

"Night of Dying Moon is very nice. Hope you're circulating your material to all the logical places. Alas, West Magazine isn't going to be a likely publication outlet for you. It has nothing to do with the quality of your work, which is quite good. It's just that we're a magazine, & the chances of us publishing song lyrics is pretty remote. I hope you find a home for them, though."
        - Martin J. Smith - editor Orange Coast Magazine,
                        former senior editor West Magazine / LA Times - CA

"I am the excutive producer of The Rusty Humphries Show (a top 10 Nationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host in the USA). I came across your lyrics for Running out of Virgins in Heaven. Is this song produced where I could get a copy or do you have the capabilities to play this acousticlly on air live??? Please let me know. This song is GREAT!!!"
        - Levi May - radio producer The Rusty Humphries Show - FL

But With You I'm Fred Astaire:   "My fave of all! Great to find someone who makes you feel like Fred Astaire (or Ginger Rogers, as the case may be.)"
Don't Wake Me Yet:   "What a lovely song! Took me back to sweet moments in former lives -- or former chapters of this life. Do you perform anywhere?"

Ehawee is Gone:   "I was moved. & informed. I didn't know about those horrible rape stats. What you say about getting anyone interested in rapes among Indian women -- it's the chronic frustration of this business today. It's very hard to get stories in about the poor, the disenfranchised, the rest of the world except for war zones. Few outlets do it well, & one is NPR. Ted Koppel used to be the only guy on the networks to tackle stuff like street drug addicts and prisoners. I guess he's still doing it somewhere on cable, but not on Nightline. Keep up the good lyrics."
        - Susan Brink - health reporter Los Angeles Times - CA

Warm & Fuzzy Christmas:   "You wrote a song that warms the holiday heart. Well done."
& There She Goes (Home Again):   "I LOVE the song! It's beautiful. I went through two Kleenexes! It is so sweet. Keep 'em comin'."
The Tired White Heron:   "That is so lovely."
Wrong Man:   "This sounds like another among thousands of reasons to end the death penalty. I'm sure you wrote something potent."
Target on his Back:   "Yikes! That is one disturbing song. Although you compose it well, as you do all of your pieces, I'm not crazy about the theme. Too many weirdos out there with that in mind. Move on, por favor!"

Ugliest Christmas Tree:   "Oh posh! The song is great fun. Keep them coming. I love them. Count me among those touched. I'm amazed at your prolific output, the quality of your poetry & by your take on the world. As I said before, keep it coming! I hope you're continuing to write your great tunes. You DO write great tunes! I'll keep reading them."
        - Diane Wedner - former writer Los Angeles Times - CA

"I successfully eluded deportation. Actually, I should have started putting together the book Banana Republic the week the strip ended, and had it available when Bush was still around! (The book came out last Nov/Dec.)

Unfortunately, as thrilled as I am to have an Obama administration, many if not most of our banana republic problems will persist, some will get better, but it will take a loooong time to turn the ship around. I was very happy to hear Obama's early executive orders, but even in outlawing torture, the order leaves open the option of farming out our torture to third countries ("rendition") which is how most of our torture is done already. Also, the administration is threatening Britain's courts that if they pursue making our government records on torture public, we'll stop sharing our intel with their intel, and Britain backed down. Not much of a commitment against torture. But (sigh) it's a start in the right direction ...

I looked at your Plastic Rivers. That's a great song! I checked out some of the others: Green Hummer (great title). I like the line about "the original one that blocks out the sun"!  (© 2007 Mick Terry)
& Going To Hell In A Handbasket is great, especially the lines:
                'This world ain't going to hell in a hand basket.
                It's going to hell in a crate,
                all packaged and shipped in its own casket.
                And we're close to being way too late.   (© 2007 Mick Terry)
Great site! I hope you've been able to make a full-time career from your music!"
        - Kirk Anderson - cartoonist, author Banana Republic

"I keep coming back to your website. I find your overall presentation really quite funny. It was good to be there. I laughed, sometimes even out loud, at your puns & funs. I liked that you piled in interests & unrelated passions, as they're all a part of you. Your trains!

I liked your purpose; it matches my vision. I'm looking for a composer such as you who can reach to the depths of your feelings today, yet transform whatever anguish you find there into something powerful and good.

I like that you're theatrically savvy as well as brilliant in your composition. I wish I could get your songs out of my head. You are one of the funniest people I have ever not met."

The Things that I Remember: "Poignant & even a little fun."
Chicken Turkey:   "I love it! Love it every year."
Once Dark Wings:   "The fact that I can't say 'I like it' attests to how right on you got these lyrics."
The Hospital Tango:   "Making me kind of sick, so you must have done right in that one too!"

The Ugliest Christmas Tree: "Everyone, it seems, has an ugly Christmas tree connection. Great twist to a warmly identifiable story."
The Other Way:   "This needs to be on L.A. radio!!! Do you have music? Can you make it? Sing it yourself (for starters, just to get it out there and heard). Then send your own recording to CarTalk. IT WILL BE PLAYED. The Other Way - fantastic!"
        - E. Sandy Powell - playwright In Our Hands Now! musical;
                    author Geranium Morning, Daisy, What's Up? - OR

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