La Locura Cura* - Relief Through Music @ Kimya Dawson 4 Displaced Teens: "i am just imagining having my cat die without listening to sting."

http://www.kimyadawson.com

GAWD! THIS BREAKS MY HEART. I know you were also a geeky teen (pre-teen!) music freak - probably hard to get stuff, too - and too smart & sensitive for your own good. Help find these kids, now displaced by Rita. And help them help other kids & teen survivors of Katrina. Mp3s, iPods, CDs, tape recorders, old Walkmans (men?), karioki machines, blank sheet music composition paper, whatever, send it to these kids (but check Texas addresses first). Throw in some gel pens & blank books while you're at it. Poetry books. Gloria Velásquez novels. Laptops, server space (can't we get the companies to donate?) Yeah!
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"i can't imagine being a teenager and going through tough times without my music.

and i am just imagining having my cat die without listening to sting. or being too shy to talk to ed without being able to listen to debbie gibson. or being pissed off about having to clean my room without having a suicidal tendencies cd to throw stuff around to. or driving around aimlessly without the violent femmes. or ending a fight with my brother without blasting metallica.

imagine losing your home, all of your possessions, and members of your family, some of your friends...and just sitting in a strange place. being told you can't go back AT LEAST for 2 months, but maybe FOREVER.

it might help a little to put on some headphones and escape.

so please help in any way you can. feel free to donate money too. this way if sheila and her friends meet anyone with a request for an album they are desperate to own again they can go get them a copy.

you can send your donations to:

Sheila Jozami
11423 Birchwood
Humble, TX
77338


Sheila and her friends are volunteering at the Astrodome and will distribute donations to teens relocated there and to other locations in the Houston area.

and

Daniel Hyde Schexnaydre
17120 Hwy 73
Prairieville, LA
70769

Daniel is a student at a Baton Rouge high school that has gotten 300 new students in the past week. He will distribute music directly to new students at his school. You can also contact him at starsandlemonade@hotmail.com about booking house shows.

and

Lauren Culwell
923 W Sycamore #11
Denton, TX
76201

Lauren is a good friend of mine who will be distributing donations to teens who have been relocated to the Denton/Dallas area.

and

Meagan Day
131 W. Lynwood
San Antonio, TX
78212

Meagan is a 17 year old high school student who will distribute donations to
teens in shelters in San Antonio.

and

Suki-Rose Etter
4210 N. Saranac Dr.
Tucson, AZ 87518

Suki-Rose is an 18 year old in Arizona. Her and her friends will take
donations to teens in the Tucson Convention Center.

and

Miriam Conner
8101 willet trail
Austin,TX 78745

miriam wrote this to me:
"ok well i am a 16 year old black girl who wants to help out. I am from new
orleans but i've lived in austin for 14 years my parents own a new orleans
style restaurant on the east side of austin called Gene's Poboy's i had
family in new orleans so i know what the New Orleaniens are going through.
I would hand out the cd players and walkmans to the kids my self down at the
convention center in austin, texas. i'd get my friends to help me deliver
and hand out things. i'd get the things from donations from my school and
any other school i can reach and also from anyone who wants to send things
to me. i'll accept all. ~~much peace and love~~~Miriam"

Carmen is willing to have people in Europe ship donations to her in Germany
and she will put together big packages and pay shipping to the United
States!!!

Carmen Gottschall
Ederstrasse 3
63303 Dreieich
Germany

Her email address is cargo78@gmx.de

Please bring donations to my September shows in Ireland and the U.K. and
they will be shipped to The United States by our good friends at LOCAL KID.
http://www.localkid.co.uk

You can take/send you donations to the Brighton and Hove Albion Football
Club Ticket Office and they will forward it on to the U.S.

Albion Ticket Office
5 Queens Road
Brighton
BN1 3WA

for more info:
reliefthroughmusic@gmail.com

links:
http://www.secondharvest.org
http://www.hurricanehousing.org
http://www.airamericaradio.com
http://www.nolahurricanefund.org"
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