Thanks | soundrops

Inn many ways my life has been quite wondrous. I owe so much to so many that I will never be able to reciprocate that anyhow, let alone with this shabby note.

Still, I must do something. Let me start with my Mum & Dad of course, for securing a safe and happy childhood for me, and beyond. For some time they have been the most ardent (though most discreet) Soundrops fans.

Then - oh, it gets really interesting for you, dr Livingstone, I presume - I'd like to thank all the sweet and lovely Ladies I have been madly in love with, or just pleasantly infatuated. In order of appearance then: Agnieszka, Magda, Aneta, Magda, Magda, Natalia, Maria, Anna, Joanna, Małgosia, Paulina, Alina, Ana, Marysia and Justyna. I would have never designed this model of River of Endless Love for myself, and as of now I'm still waiting for the Ultimate One, but God is not a fool, He knows what He's doing... As I stated in my song boringly called Ex - you are unknowingly still part of my heart, somewhere at the back door. I miss the bad old days, and I will never forget you . It was worth it. Thank you for all the inspiration and dizziness. And thank you for contributing to all the palace of hope I'm kind of recognized for. All the stories have gone white now.

- The Channels of Relief enter the stage now :) -

AND...

Marcin of The Bagers. You were the first person to embrace the odd man out in me. Thanks for Xargon, The Move, Studio Emptiness, the Christmas show that never was, the Woodstock '94 Sangria Party, Disco Relax, and for all the joys and disasters we shared!

Paweł & Adam or Adam & Paweł, never in a fixed order. Thank you for The Round Triangle, Suchar and more importantly for the friendboats which have lasted to this day despite my betrayals, weaknesses and ego. Friendokręt is what najbardziej mi się w życiu udao, and we all dobrze know it's not my merit.

Maria Magdalena the not saint. Too many people to list and too many memories to digest, luckily.

Turba & Rada Młodych. Thank you for the discreet spiritual guidance and all the laughs and blunders. I can still feel the warmth of 1994, though it was such a difficult time. Or perhaps that is why.

Marta, love, yeah it is not that, but still it lasts!

I/6. Oh yes, the pierwszy rok studiów lasted for all five years, because we never lost the early energy. In particular, Błażej - thanks for all the loyalty and all the mixture of music and psychology in our discussions, and Majkel (Where's Michael?) - for the most fulfilling laughter I've ever experienced.

Sister Morella - YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. YOU KNOW YOU ARE GRATEFUL.

Modern Life Is Rubbish. This is the moment where you really appeared in my life, and for so many times you saved my day that it's actually całkiem straszne. Wzorcowe siblings for so long, if there are ever. A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together. We will be good.

Siedemnastka. The less said, the better, but I can't forget all the good, can I. Whole lotta good. Perhaps I should list all the good places of yore. Wrocław, Kubalonka, Jarosławiec, Poronin, Dziećmiarki, Kopań and Weathertop. Hands across the water, heads across the sky!

Marek & Kasia of KONTAKT. All right, I'll work for you, but only for one year. Ha ha. From all the Pobiedziska to all the Ogniska these have been solid years. The best is yet to come. Huge thanks to all my colleagues (Szkaradek! Baś! Everyone!) and to all my students. I have forgotten most names and some faces, but apparently more and more people stay in my classes for more than one year, and I'm in touch with more and more students outside Kontakt? Perhaps I'm not a lousy teacher after all.

Enter Forum. This has been HUGE. A forum beyond the internet, killing the internet in a way, and creating its own web of human connections, full of <serce> <bum> and <bunglilulaj> We have laughed together and we have sufffered together. Objectively, it's five stars.

ANTIWITEK ahoy! My friend, you deserve a separate paragraph, or a separate entry here. (To be send as a text message starting with "ES JAKIS! ALBO..." Nabuchodonozorowany!)

But so do CRAZY & ELSEA, K.T.W.S.G., BARTZ, BOGUS, MIKI, ARASEK, PANKI, SMOKI, INWI, KAROLINA, stop... Too many to list again! What can I do? Ah, places! Places! Places will tell all the story! Thank you, then, Karkonosze, Maua Uonka, Szczęśliwice, Siemiatycze, Krasne Potockie, Krotoszyn, Puszczykówko, Arena, Ziemia Kłodzka, Rudawy Janowickie, Radocyna, Chełm and most of all, Skye, Skye, któremu ona życie ocalyła. Dziękuję za ukłon.

Let it be clear, at last. Abba - Thank You For the Music. Uu żarcik. But yes - 90125 thanks for you, guys. The Moody Blues for everything, Justin for the songwriting. The Beatles for the harmonies, Pink Floyd for the pastoral, ELO for all the layers, The Move for the drive (me nuts), Blur and Supergrass for the captured youth, Marketa for the spirit, and Anthony Phillips for the kinship. And all the rest of you on my last.fm page :)

http://www.last.fm/user/john_lodge/library/artists?to=2017-01-19&from=2007-03-03

And finally many thanks to ARMIA for being there in my life in person and in spirit since the year 1997. Tom, you were my "mistrz" for many years, and a good one too. Thank you for all the heart and understanding, and that evening with Satie in September 2006... Frantz, master of timing, thanks for making me feel at home in the band. And all of you zresztą: in order of (my) appearance (with you): Ślepy, Kmieta, Kuba, Aviator, Beata, Kaja :), Karol (!!!), Krzyżyk, Pablo, Afa, Merlin, Łukasz Kluczniak, Przemek Pacan, Amade and Litza. And Krzyś Pielgrzym and Andin. Thank you for all the lessons in modesty and joy!

This is also to all the other ones I shared the stage with, or just a mic in church, from Krosty through The 2B Girls and La Glorieta to Miła Starsza Pani. And all the ones I share credits with on studio releases, who I sadly never met in person (Stopa!) And to all the ones I was riding towards the East with. TAG JEST TAM!

This is the list of all the instruments I had an honour to accompany onstage: guitars, basses, keyboards, drums and assorted percussion (vibraslap, I can hear you), French Horn (ależ of course!, wchodził w odsłuch like crazy :)), harmonica, flute, accordion, sax, cello, violin, clarinet, trumpet and róg. Not bad for an amateur :)

Anna Koper, my soulfriend na wygnaniu, a Cho smile for you!

Anthony de Mello, the Desert Fathers, Anzelm Grun, John and Stasi (we know how to pronounce it, don't we) Eldredge, Sarah Young and Adam Szustak - thank you for your contributions to shaping my stupid heart. The Roraty & Wigilia Paschalna singers, thank you for expanding my pedestrian, Beatle-laden soul.

And finally finally (but not least) you, who are reading this and perhaps haven't been mentioned yet. You know, I'm not good at this, I've got a very irregural head. If you have found this site, you are important to me anyway. We'll meet (again), some sunny day-ay, hey hey hey.

As always, all glories to the Holy Trinity, without Whom none of this would have happened.

See you all sometime!

Here, ger or Everywhere!

(19/01/2017)

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