ASK
MAX
M A X
S H A
R A M
*.Re:
politics too tragic,
how about some love advice
Max I've heard you are
something of a love guru and I need objective advice, Please help. Is
kissing, snogging, pashing whatever you like to call it an act of
infedility?
Does it make a difference how long the kiss goes on,? amount of tongue
sucking?Etc.
What if you can't stop thinking of that person since?
What about if there is prior history with this person?
Looking forward to your considered response.
Mick
Mick.
I hope you don't
mind that I forwarded your email to your
girlfriend/wife/partner/boyfriend/spouse. I think he/she should know.
Americans are big
on
'making out' - and it's all quite meaningless it
seems.
Like giving head.
But for me -
personally
- if you even get your mouth anywhere near my
lips it's a good indication that I'm going to be seeing you
naked. I mean...for me kissing is the stuff of death. Yes. You're
guilty. Public hanging. Off with your head.
They say eyes are
the
portal to the soul. Thatís why I keep mine open
when Iím kissing. Because eyes and lips...itís all the
same.
Time to take
inventory
on your current relationship.
*.
from a (FANNY)
VALENTINE
Max
is Busy Busy
The girl that I love
Has gone to New
York;
Too busy to
write -
Too busy to talk.
Now Max is in town,
Upon the sidewalk,
I find that my heart
Is lost in New York.
The girl that I love
Now lives in New
York,
With Mickey Dolenz,
And weird Peter
Tork.
If she'd be my
Mindy,
Then I'd be her Mork
When my spacecraft
landed
In downtown New
York.
I read in the News
Max had moved to
New York
And that some
German bloke
Ate his friend,
with a
fork.
It said that his
flesh
Tasted something
like
porkÇ.
I don't feel like
eating,
Now she's in New
York.
Itís
Valentine Day -
Sheís still
in New
York.
I shake the
champagne
And out pops the
cork.
If she was Kim
Basinger,
And I, Mickey
Rourke,
We'd both drink a
toast
To my love in New
York.
The girl that I love
Resides in New York.
I drink this slow
poison,
Like Clara von Bork,
Whilst a native
American
With a large
tomahawk
Cuts off my scalp
On my way to New
York.
The girl that I love
Fights crime in New
York.
She thinks she's
Columbo
(Played by Peter
Falk),
Who always sums up,
With his blackboard
and
chalk,
The name of the
killer
On the streets of
New
York.
So Max has received
This verse in New
York;
Can she now unravel
The mysterious talk
And found out who
wrote
it -
Her eyes, like a
hawk -
Before it is teatime
In Central New York?
The girl that I love
Has gone to New
York;
Because Iím
not
there,
I feel like a dork.
On
ValentineÇs Day
I always feel awk-
ward, 'cos nothing
rhymes
With Buffalo, New
York.
14 II 04
Dear
MysteryMasterMind,
Could you
indeed be a
woman? Your genius confounds me. Your email alias, baring the less
obvious and uncommon name of
Rosamund
is, alas, that of one of the most momentous mentors in my life. Is this
a co-incidence or indeed a clue as to your identity? Your
email arrived (from the uk?) as the phone rang. I casually followed the
trail of
your delicious wit then started to read aloud, thus
absorbing
my friend on the other end of the line into your teasing tale...
by the time we got to 'Clara von Bork' we were cramped with laughter.
The place from whence my heart was stole - burns...Will it grow back?
*
*.The
Last
Romantic
Dear Max,
it's
Valentine's Day;
here in London, the sun is shining and the streets are
filled with people
hurrying to meet their loved ones at lunchtime with
flowers, cards or
chocolates in hand. Why is it then that I, one of the last
true romantics seem
to make things into a St Valentine's Day Massacre at
this time each year? I
shall not bore you with previous year's disasters,
but this year I decided
to e-mail an anonymous love poem to a girl in
Canada, using an e-mail
address that should have masked my identity. Alas,
the gods conspired
against me, because I didn't check the 'send options' and
my real name was
emblazoned across the message that she received from me. I
got the inspired reply:
"I'm not sure I know you but uh, nice poem. :)" So
much for anonymity...
I
related
the details
of my disaster to a colleague who, in return, offered
me a crisp from a packet
marked 'Walker's MAX extra hot'. I hadn't visited
your site before today -
this was a sign, me thought, to seek advice from Max
Sharam, consoler of
the confused. Only she would know what I am doing wrong;
only she could tell
why the heart-wrought poems always brought back
heart-ache. Only she
could explain why, after eating the crisp, my taste
buds were still burning
ten minutes later. Please Max, what am I to do?
Shelley never had this
problem when he wooed Harriet & Mary; Rossetti never
got rejected by the
girl in the milliners shop. I have 364 days to figure
out how not to do the
same again to someone else next year. Any help would
be most appreciated.
Yours
in
poetic
desperation,
S.T.B
*Dear
Last Romantic,
...are you English?
I
used
to go out with romantic English boys like you - who modeled
themselves on characters from Thomas Hardy novels...they all got
a bit much
for me (though
I
was
sort-of-kinda-hoping that your Valentine message may be for me!!).
This
is
the sum of my Valentine greetings these days - from the 'love of my
life'
(until
I fall again) in LA - whom I cut connections with recently
because because because because because I finally realised he had - no
heart,
only half a brain and no balls. At the risk of sounding
'bitter'
- I'm over playing Dorothy to emotional cripples. And
winding
down that cold brick road to find a home?! Hello!!
Bye
bye lover - because because because because, because...then
alasÖan
email from himÖ
'Dear Sotten Cock
Happy Valentine's Day'.
Does
he
really expect me to care? The thought was there - no?
So
you see, dear Last surviving Romantic - I have problems of
my own.
(I
never was one for all that mushy stuff - unless it's spuds with
peas & gravy).
But
back to more important matters - what record label are you with??
(ps.
I
lie. I had numerous, tender Valentine messages. Thank you all)
xmx
*.
Dear Max,
How many
bourbons ought one consume during the rituals of seduction?
I keep getting
it wrong. Should I switch to gin mid-flirt if I realise that
it's going
nowhere?
With
prurient admiration,
M.Vetushka
(Micheal Smith)
*You, my darling, are a Words Smith (not a Michael) and
could switch
to
anything you so
choose..(try switching to something other
than flirting - as it isnt really supposed to go anywhere)...but gin is
always good.
By the way - did you see the *surprise* ??? {go
'poetry'}
xmx
*.Dear Max,
I hardly see anyone -
basically a RECLUSE
.I don't have "F-U-N" - it seems so meaningless & frivolous to go
out & do mindless things. I'd much prefer to sit at my computer all
day. Scary?! That's basically what I do. I am lucky (like you) that I
can
travel the world a fair bit, but I was married and that lasted a big 11
months and since then I have kept mainly to myself and work and my
internet.
I'm actually working part time for an internet service provider ....
connecting people to the net and holding internet training classes in a
night school situation.
Scary?!
Dear Scary?!
...was she American?
I thought only US
marriages lasted such small distances. Did you try to understand what
differences you had? Get help? Was it LOVE? One of the greatest
achievements (wastes
of time!) in my life was 'working' on a relationship-! I really learnt
alot
about myself, men & women....AND my partner....but atleast it
lasted some years! 11 MONTHS hardly makes the Wedding expenses worth
it. I hope
the sex was good, especially for her cos she had to foot the bill!.
*.Dear MAX
:)
As it turned out it was more habit than
love. And like you, yes it was a huge learning curve. Luckily it was a
mutual break up and we have become very good friends ... AND SHE ISN'T
TAKING ME TO COURT!!!!! YIPEE! I've only had a couple of relationships
in the last 5 years since my divorce/separation and both have been OK
but with travelling and moving all over the place it's hard to keep a
relationship going .... I guess you know that feeling!!!!!
Dear
Scary?!
Don't forget you've got
a friend in Jesus. Stay away from the women - at least that way the
thrift shops won't fill up with second hand wedding dresses.
*.Dear MAX
I'm
a professional man of similar age to
you, and I have been a great listener to your music since I first heard
'Coma'. I missed seeing you in the Armadale Hotel because of a friends
illness, and I thought I had really missed out badly. I soon found you
were to be at
the Prince Patrick Hotel, and made sure that nothing was going to stop
me
from bring there. I was not disappointed, your performance was
fantastic. So good that I was going to go to 'the espy' to see you the
following night, but I already had commitments that couldn't be broken.
The reason for the title of this
email is
because through all my childhood and adolescence in Scotland, there
were lots of bands that I could send fan mail to, but didn't. Somehow
now though it seems more intimate to send an email directly to a person
(although I'm sure this is being intercepted by one of your key fan
club members. However if you are in Melbourne and you feel like talking
to a fully grown adolescent Scotsman, drop me a note, and maybe I can
find you on my huntinground. If this really is getting to you, and you
find the time just drop me a
line for a chat. You project a zany, quirky image, and I'm curious to
find
out more about you the person rather than the image. Thanks for your
time,
thanks for your music, and I do love the image. I hope your success
continues.
Best wishes and a little of my love,
Ken
from
Houston
for MAX SHARAM
Max...
I read about you in some magazine,
and I keep up with new music... some friend of mine dubbed a tape for
me and you were on it... btw, I'm a DJ on KTRU, off season this
semester, which is a Houston wide public radio station based at Rice
University... .... I like "Coma," I like some of the other songs, a bit
over the top maybe sometimes, but incredibly new and interesting...
unfortunately, I'm broke and the radio station doesn't carry your CD, I
went and checked today... so there... boo hoo hoo...
;-) also, I like
your label... they've got some of the best new music out right now.
g'luck...
bye now

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