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Right: The e-mail Carl + Ben wrote to their friend Marisa in the wee hours of 7 May 1995.

Above: on the way back from the Blackout REcords instore. On the el platform, (L-R) Carl, Marcel, Ben, Katie & Chris Hamer, heir to the Hamer Guitar fortune and estate.

we didn't see the grifters... JUST KIDDING! WE SAW THE GRIFTERS! WE TALKED TO THEM! THEY RULE! I LOVE THE GRIFTERS! THEY ARE GODS! it was so cool. It rocked my world.. okay uhh.... it's like 20 hours later now. we saw the grifters again at this tiny record shop, and their bassist came up to me with their new ep and said, "hey carl, do you have this?" and i was like "no..." and he said "do you want it?' and i was like "yeah!" and he gave it to me. IT WAS NEAT. ben's sister from texas is here. she is old, like 20 and stuff, and she got us into the show. this guy came up to me and ben and said 'you're not 21, are you?" and we were like "no... we're with her" and we pointed to ben's sister, and she got scott who's one of the singer for the grifters, and he told the proprieter of the empty bottle some stuff, and we got to stay. the grifters = YAY!. and tony had this surprise party that was quite lame, and we just sat there for a while and i ate pizza and had POP and sat there and some people smoked weed!!! DANGEROUS!! uh-oh! and we're back now. i'm gonna get the grifters cd i just got and listen to it more. we listened to it at tony's house, and they had a black light people were doing crack, no wait, not crack... im not sure ,ask the rabbit. After we left tony's we journeyed tp carl's (oh this isn't carl.) um... there we saw John(Shudder) uh we went to the basement and chriss tried to play a game of motorbike. denied. um Andy came down and told us about is escapade to the barbar. he had a 1:30 appointment and the dude who was cutting his hair wasn;t done with the previous customer untill ten till two. the dude took an hour trying to cut andy's hair so it would go a different way it didn;t look any different than it did this morning...... uh now ben and chris are playing starcom and Marcel is a MONKEY!!!!!! he got his feet stuck in between the pipes and got stuck hanging upsidedown. the grifters were cool.. monkeys are cool. --- katie. yesterday on the way home we had this whacked cab driver, and i don't think he's been in america very long, and he was like "there are other places in chicago that have bands." and we were like "oh" and then he said "some have two or three bands sometimes" and we were like "yeah..." it was pretty weird. he was annoying and it was three in the morning, but i felt like i had to be nice to him, cause he was nice. and stuff. the grifters are nice guys. the record store we went to today was cool. i want get some money and buy some 7"s, cause there might be some good music on them and stuff. the new grifter cd is awesome. i'll tape it for you. school is almost over. we get out like june 3rd, not including finals. the grifters consume lots of alchohol, and they were drunk last night, and today they were drinking! tomorrow Chlorine is practicing. EXCITEMENT CITY!! UHH THIS IS OVER. I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO WRITE, oh yeah, last night, me and ben were both wearing sonic youth shirts, and ben's sister was like " you look so cute in your sonic youth shirts" and she got drunk too!!!!!! !UH !O!O!OP!!1!!!!! okay, that's all i think.
okay bye
carl, katie, and NO ONE ELSE> okay beye@!!!