Now I really feel like a dick, most of that didn’t post, so you got this strange thing about my screen reading program with nothing else before it, sorry. I can’t remember it all but… I wondered if I had the right to be here given I’ve only known about J since 94 and still haven’t heard some recordings, needing to import them to my native Australia. When you put it that way it sounds exotic, not as boring as it actually is. Anyway what I lack in experience I more than make up for in passion, hmmm. At that point I was thinking how multiply true that was. Anyway I raise two children by myself, have always been blind and have been studying for a Welfare Diploma, but have taken the year off to spend time and work with my son who has language/social issues. I’m bored out of my mind but according to proffesionals I make a great Mummy speech therapist/social trainer. I also write poetry and have had some stuff published in poetry journals and I hope to publish a book as soon as I can manage it. It’s mostly depressing and miserable which freaks some people out who know me personally and fret for my sanity, but it’s all O.K. As to why I love J’s music it’s because "he tells it" no, well maybe, but I think it’s in part because the music elicits an emotional response from me, a rare thing, and I’m sucked into caring about the person/situation/feelings recounted, even when I don’t personally relate. yYou all know how hard it can seem to find "real" people, and how J’s integrity and unique talent makes him special, and so do I, and of course "it rocks," had to write that. So I’ve liked the music since chancing upon a track on triple J and stopping to listen, right now it’s a sanity saver and I get to smile and stuff. Sorry again for the first fuck-up, hope you read on and got the alternative version, if you did, thanks,

Ash.

Hey people, thanks for the welcome, made me smile and pace around the house a lot, something I do when happy or the opposite, but in this case it was definitely a good thing. I, umm posted some poetry, or should I say I sort of lost all sense of perspective and couldn’t decide what to post and what not to and sort of sent more than I had originally planned. I’m wondering if anyone can bring themselves to read all that, but I hope you find what you read interesting. As for being "socially retarded" yeah, I’m there; I also have a "learning disability" of sorts that sometimes leads to me missing things that seem obvious to other people, you could call it "social naivety," though I now cover it well." I have problems with planning and complex attention tasks, doesn’t that sound cool? I score really really well in everything else if that counts, I’m babbling, enough now. I’m really pleased to be here, just sorry it took this long, I plan on sticking around,

oh, and I’m not at all offended, it’s rather a compliment actually, I’m female,

Ash Raven.