Hi Everybody,

Am ensconced in Los Angeles, waiting for my studio to be prepared in Santa Monica, and getting ready to start work on a new movie.  While I'm saddened by your dark thoughts, Pat, I can certainly understand them. My elusiveness has caused even close close friends of mine to throw up their hands in dismay more times than I care to remember.  But as a musician as well as a parent, I have responsibilities, bith to my music and to my family.  For years I've dreamed of a longer, more open-ended music, eternally frustrated by straight songwriting, and have stumbled around looking for it like a blind man in a large, overcrowded room.  I think I may have found a way into that music, as well as a means for supporting my little one, in film music.  I hope you can spiritually support me in that endeavor.

I've never considered this site to be about me, per se.  If anyone is indispensable on this board, it's Dan, for his dedication as well as his cool, calm head.  This site is about you, and your communication with each other, more than me.  I don't know of any other place where people of such radically differing political and religious beliefs can communicate with one another so readily.  I, for one, have learned a lot about something that has always been a puzzlement to me--namely, the beliefs and reasonings of the hard right.  Not to mention, "cool music alerts", and the like.   So, please, remember, pop music is about the populi, and here, you're it.  I'm just an excuse for you all to talk to each other.  I'm just a member of this board, like anyone else who posts.

So PEACE!

yrs,

David Baerwald