BLOWUPRADIO.COM

WHERE NJ ROCK LIVES

SEPEMBER 15TH, 2001


WELCOME TO BLOWUPRADIO.COM'S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER!


This week's Newsletter is dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives from the tragedy of Septmeber 11th.

It is also dedicated in thanks to everyone who has helped our country in this time of crisis.


CONTENTS

1. Message from Lazlo
2. Headlines
3. Concert Calendar
4. End Notes


1. MESSAGE FROM LAZLO

It's amazing how your priorities can change in a week. This time last week I was looking forward to going into NYC for the CMJ Music Fest (which was planned to take place this weekend, but was obivously postponed). Now all I am thinking about is how can I help restore our country. My deepest sympathies go out to the victims and their friends and families. In a way we are all victims, because we will never be the same because of this tragedy.

Before I make a brief statement on the week that was I just need to say this. No one race, creed, color, religon, etc did this heinous act. This tragedy was the act of some truly evil people who are not indicitive of their culture. Terrorizing others of the same ethnicity would make us terrorists ourselves. We are all angry, but we cannot take this out on innocents. I am sure most of you understood that already, but my friends come from various ethnicities and backgrounds and several of them are afraid in anger people will associate them with the people who carried out the most vicious attack on America I've ever seen.

Like many of you, around 9am Tuesday morning I was at work when someone came running into the office saying that a plane hit the World Trade Center. Quickly we turned on a TV and watched with horror as the events of the day transpired. However, in our darkest hour, when a lesser country's citizens would have given up hope, I saw us banding together as a nation.

I saw people lining up to help the victims. People lined up for blocks to donate blood at blood banks. People ran down to ground zero, not to gawk and look at the carnage, but to ask how they could help. I've seen footage of New Yorker's who usually hate the police, cheer them on in their rescue efforts. I've heard stories of taxi drivers that have stopped charging passengers since many of the passengers were volunteers and resuce workers, this was the cabbies way of helping them. In times of sheer desperation, we are our strongest.

Last night I was driving home around 7:30pm and I passed street after street of people outside waving flags and holding candles. This is the America I love. We are all different, but when a crisis hits, we all band together as one.

I am reminded of a passage from the Dr. Seuss classic, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas":


"Three thousand feet up! Up the side of Mount Crumpit,
He rode to the tiptop to dump it!
"Pooh-pooh to the Whos!" he was grinch-ish-ly humming.
"They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming!
"They're just waking up! I know just what they'll do!
"Their mouths will hang open a minute or two
"The all the Whos down in Who-ville will all cry BOO-HOO!"

"That's a noise," grinned the Grinch,
"That I simply must hear!"
So he paused. And the Grinch put a hand to his ear.
And he did hear a sound rising over the snow.
It started in low. Then it started to grow...

But the sound wasn't sad!
Why, this sound sounded merry!
It couldn't be so!
But it WAS merry! VERY!

He stared down at Who-ville!
The Grinch popped his eyes!
Then he shook!
What he saw was a shocking surprise!

Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small,
Was singing! Without any presents at all!
He HADN'T stopped Christmas from coming!
IT CAME!
Somehow or other, it came just the same!

And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling: "How could it be so?
It came without ribbons! It came without tags!
"It came without packages, boxes or bags!"
And he puzzled three hours, `till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store.
"Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!""

and maybe AMERICA does too!

Peace,
Lazlo


Some find that music helps the healing process.
To hear the Blowup Radio Network- Where NJ Rock Lives, click HERE.


3. HEADLINES

This weeks Headlines include:

"BANDING TOGETHER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE"

"THE AFTERMATH..."

"HELP THE BOBFIELDS FIND THEIR GUITAR"

To read these news stories and others, click HERE.



4. CONCERT CALENDAR


Sunday September 16th

NEBULOUS THOUGHTS @ ZabbaZu

ELEMENT 101, A REMINDER @ the Step Inn Ballroom

CAMERON @ the Olive Branch (Philly)


Tuesday September 18th

GAREN (from GRANIAN) @ Cafe Eclectic

OSIRIS RISING @ Hooligans


Wednesday September 19th

OTHERSIDENINE (w/ Toots & the Maytals, Tom Tom Club) @ the Stone Pony

DAVE MURPHY & the HAMILTON ELECTRIC, BILLY @ Arlene's Grocery (NYC)


Thursday September 20th

CROPDUSTER, the ANDERSON COUNCIL, BASTARDS of MELODY @ ZabbaZu

LIQUIFYED @ the Old Bay


Friday September 21st

FALLACY @ Garfield American Legion Post #255

ROBIN RENEE @ the Metlar-Bodine Acoustic Cafe

VENUS BUTTERFLY, JUDGE DRAIN (w/ Quiet Riot) @ Brich Hill

OSIRIS RISING @ Hooligans

ERIK SIMONSEN & BILL "HACK" MILLER @ Menz's

LIQUIFYED @ the Elbow Room (NYC)


Saturday September 22nd

BARBUDA, BROWN, KING PICKLE @ Hooligans

BONGO JONES, the MARBLES @ Broadway Central Cafe

GRANIAN @ the Lions Den (NYC)


Sunday September 23rd

STICK FIGURE SUICIDE @ Elks BPOE (Boonton)

ROBIN RENEE @ Historic Mill Hill Park (Trenton)

13 HANDS @ the Living Room (NYC)


To see all the upcoming shows, click here.



4. END NOTES


Got a song, news story, upcoming gig, poem, or something for blowupradio.com?

E-mail us @ lazlo@blowupradio.com.



This E-mail is not intended to be spam mail.

If you would like off this list simply reply to this E-mail with the word "remove" in the subject.


All contents of this E-mail are right protected