Last.fm continues to amaze me - Rachid Taha fans contacted me

So, I am doing my regular listening to music and working and I get this in my inbox at last.fm

It is from the Rachid Taha fan club. They are trying to organize a gift for Rachid Taha for his 50th birthday.

But this is what blows my mind. A lady contacts me and it seems as though she created the profile just to reach me?! Now, that is some powerful wishful thinking on my part. But as I look at her profile, she signed up yesterday, she does not have any friends yet, no neighbors and she has NOT listened to any music.

The evidence is all here:
http://www.last.fm/user/caroleb60/

[as of April 2, 2008 she has not listened to any music. Why would she be in touch with me? I mean I like him but I don't know all his work. But, now, I am going to go back to radio and listen to his work. I have an album of his that I bought through www.emusic.com so I will listen. This is really TRIPPIN me out?!]

Wild thing though is that I have not listened to Rachid Taha that much and I was introduced to his work last year by another last.fm friend named Davinca who lives in Austria.

[email message I received from caroleb60]

Bonjour, nous sommes des fans absolus de Rachid Taha tout comme vous tous et nous avons eu l'idée de permettre à tous les fans d'offrir un cadeau-surprise à Rachid pour célébrer son cinquantième anniversaire qui aura lieu en Septembre 2008.
Voici notre idée:
Faire un montage artistique des photographies de chacun des fans de Rachid du monde entier.
Des petits formats bien sûr! Des JPEGs de 160x 160 pixels (20 ko max) seraient l'idéal.
Nous espérons avoir votre participation avec amour et enthousiasme!
(IL SERAIT IMPORTANT DE RECEVOIR VOS PHOTOS LE PLUS TÔT POSSIBLE SOIT, D'ICI MI-MAI SERAIT L'IDÉAL).
Merci à vous tous! Faites passer l’info …
Envoyez vos photos :
present4rachid@orange.fr
Hi everyone! We are absolute fans of Rachid Taha just like you and we had the idea to offer a special present to Rachid for his fiftieth birthday that will take place next September 2008.
To offer that opportunity to all fans of Rachid Taha all over the world, we'd like to collect a small format picture from every fan to make a collage Art-work.
We will need idealistically a JPEG format of 160 x 160 pixels (20 ko max).
We hope to get your cooperation with Love and enthusiasm!
(WE'RE EXPECTING TO RECEIVE YOUR PICTURES BEFORE MID-MAY, THAT WOULD BE APPRECIATED).
Thanks to all of you! Give the information around you …
Send your pictures:
present4rachid@orange.fr
CAROLE ET CHANTAL

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

You know something similar is being done but for Michael Jackson's 50th birthday. However, it is different. I am in his fan club so I received a message from them directly. Don't laugh, I still love his music. [It is about the MUSIC people]

Weekly, I listen to one Michael Jackson track I have been loving and ALL YA SLEPT on it. So, just know that the man is talented beyond belief.  The song is, "Heaven Can Wait" from his Invincible Album. Take a listen below.

I have been defending Michael Jackson for years to friends, family and any one who knows I adore his music. Then I had to just stop because of all the MEAN PEOPLE out here who don't want to know the truth. So guess what, if you want to mess with me again about Michael Jackson please READ this book The Conspiracy Theory by Aphrodite Jones.

After hearing so much about Michael's legal case in the news I had to know what really went down. I recently received the book DIRECTLY from Aphrodite Jones because I ordered it directly from her. I do have her autograph with a short message to me:

2nd Digression into the Prince Rambles..

[Question to all the Prince fans worldwide] So what are we doing for Prince's 50th Birthday???!?!? I guess I gotta find out. AHHHHHHHHHH. I am on the prince.org and housequake.com websites, but I am not that active.

After all the craziness went down between Prince and the websites, I was not feeling the vibe so I left.

But fortunately when I **lurk** I honestly have not seen anything too malicious towards Mr. Prince or I just have not paid much attention.

OHH NO, I feel like writing a Dear Prince Letter:

[Disclaimer - this happens time to time where I write a letter to Prince and it is complete craziness on my part but it is just how I feel and I have to get it off my chest. Further, I have to write it like this and BLAST my little emotions ALL over the web so I can GET his attention to TELL me what the heck is up!! I never get a response because I know he is not paying any attention to me so I feel as though it is okay with what I say, but it is all done in fun to vent my frustrations of 3121.com going down. See if 3121.com did not go down I would not be this pathetic in writing all these letters but then I do have a BONE to pick because he DID NOT SET up a web store so his LOYAL fans could buy a DVD of his Prince Concerts in London. Further, YOU KNOW IT WOULD BE REALLY NICE if you could get the Billboard Performance of the Joffrey Ballet dancing to your music available to sell to us but the more I think about it there may be some copyright issues for you to truly claim your profit. I already bought your perfume. So, what else do I need? I NEED A CONCERT!]]

[I am tired but have to get this off my chest].

Here is THE LETTER..

MY DEAREST PRINCE ROGERS NELSON

Prince, will you PLEASE RESURRECT your web page?

I mean I would like to read your blogs, thoughts about what is happening in the music business or shoot just write us (YOUR LOYAL FANS) a song every month. I mean I know you are always creating. You are a workaholic. I am just as bad. I cannot believe I have been non-stop blogging since last year. So, I **get it** of the working your butt off on what you are passionate about. But, if you choose not to do that, I respect it. As a voice of one of your millions of fans who adore your creativity, we miss not having a central place to communicate with you.

So, please think about resurrecting your web site. Or if you do, and you do not want to say anything, why don't you just put your site up and change the colors. I am not feeling that black color. Why not your Purple signature color? Breathe your voice back into the web. I feel as though you need to be on here or if you are on at least make notice by resurrecting that web page.

You know I write you these blogs and you probably will never see them or if you do you are either cracking up or you are just wondering too what can be done in your legal situations or you think I am completely insane. I am just a true appreciator of your music who sometimes does not care of what people think, and I have to do what I have to do to get my point across.

All I want to say is that I come always in peace. I only want your music. In fact, it was never a priority of mine to meet you ever since my family pretty much banned me from seeing the movie Purple Rain or going to your Purple Rain Tour in the 1984. I grew to appreciate your art. I know people are truly fascinated with your life of what you do day to day but to tell you the truth the only aspect I want to know is how you create music.

Other than that, those other times are with your true friends. I do not know you. If you choose to connect with some people then that is the jimmy jam good for them. I do not take offense of who you choose to reach out to on the web. However, it would be sweet if you would get that website up again so we know what the heck is going on.

So just know this was all written to say hey, I miss you kid! [[Prince]]

A fan who flew from New York City when the dollar was weak to see you in London, [There are a FEW of us especially a FEW BLACK PEOPLE who did this -- flew to LONDON to see you --so just know WE LOVE U PRINCE].

Continue to CREATE!

Jennifer ;)

[Follow the 3121.com tag to read all the Prince mania, notes]