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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040a11c3.png"> <div> <B>a</B></div> <div> <B>n</B></div> <div> <B>e</B></div> <div> <B>c</B></div> <div> <B>d</B></div> <div> <B>o</B></div> <div> <B>t</B></div> <div> <B>e</B></div> <div> <B>s</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#99CC00" FACE="Arial" ><B>Erno : The Psychedelic Folk Experience</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >     </FONT>|   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Erno : The Psychedelic Folk Experience"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id107.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="erno story part 2"><U>erno story part 2</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id108.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="michelles review of cbgb gallery gig"><U>michelle's review of cbgb gallery gig</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id109.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="michelles ps/cm session review"><U>michelle's ps/cm session review</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id110.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="michelles 3rd cello session email"><U>michelle's 3rd cello session e-mail</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id111.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ernos musical tirade"><U>erno's musical tirade</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id112.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="bands suck"><U>bands suck</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id113.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ernos pledge"><U>erno's pledge</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id114.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="musical saw promotion"><U>musical saw promotion</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id115.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ernos anger with booking agent"><U>erno's anger with booking agent</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id116.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="magical musical"><U>magical & musical</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id117.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="a message to bill"><U>a message to bill</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id118.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="phffft!"><U>phffft!</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id119.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ernos gig preparation"><U>erno's gig preparation</U></A>   |   <B>a message to jodi</B>   |   <A HREF="id121.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="the talking heads are finding me"><U>the talking heads are finding me</U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="2ecf4010.png" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <img src="HTMLobj-656/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="229" height="58">  </div> <bR> <div> letter to jodi</div> <div> after a rather rewarding day at my day job, i was compelled to put my feelings into words (however corny) for my girlfriend...</div> <bR> <div> hi there loved-one,</div> <bR> <div>     today, april 2nd 1998, was what i like to call an "aura day". it seemed that from the time i got up this morning to the time i'm writing this right now, i've received nothing but smiles and compliments from others. i like to think of this unfounded attention to be some sort of payback for the positive energy i like to give off every day. it's like new york city is one big mirror. the morning commute on the manhattan-bound "f" train was smoother than usual, as if the mta was returning good energies to me as well. the turnstile at 14th street seemed to turn on its own. i never actually made contact with its black metal bars, but floated along with them as the stile spit me out to the stairway to the surface. work itself seemed to float in a similar way. a co-worker came up to me and said "high five, babe..." i thought she had found the folder she had been looking for most of the day, but no..... somehow she got a cd of mine from another co-worker, and was so impressed with it that she had to walk 50-60 steps to tell it to me. it caught me off-guard. this is the first time someone was listening to my music that i didn't know of.</div> <bR> <div>     maybe this can happen on a bigger scale???????????? writable cd's have a unit cost of about $1-$2. a 40 minute cd takes 10 minutes to duplicate. that's 6 cd's every hour. by this time next year, i hope a few hundred people are putting in satellite parade for their friends, who may e-mail or tell me someday to give them a high five. hopefully, my hand will be tired. nyc has many faces. to me, it was a smile today.</div> <bR> <div> love,</div> <bR> <div> tom</div> </td> </tr></table></body>