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1. Joel E. Brooks
1245 Market Street
Apt #3310
San Diego, CA 92101
(424)731-3051
joelbrooks@ymail.com
Saturday June 28, 2014 11:43PM
Dear Alex Wood Stiff;
I am a former member of a band we were in together, called "Kosmik Debris"
back in 1996, though I missed the recording sessions with "Jerry Garcia Band"'s 1986
drummer at his studio in 1997 at which you and your cousin William Harrison Meyle,
Peter Constantinidis, Conner (Cruz?), and Pat (though I think I saw his name signed on a
wall in Ann Arbor, MI years later the name escapes me) attended and used my garage
recorded vocals here and there to include me, having written the harmonies. I later missed
the band reunion at "Summer Sundog Shakedown" and am still in a shameful misery
having done so. Please record again some music to call our own, this time with "Broken
Records" presents: "OZENOZ:ONE". ("OZENOZ AND EMINEM"... "and after all,
we're only ordinary men...") I have listed the numbers I feel you would (forgive me) make
"LIVE HITS" (rather than "DEAD ONES") with "The Record Company" with an asterix
(*).
Track Listing:

2. 1."Rest In Peace" - A very short, violent statement about what came to be of an
unnamed thug who went on too many killing sprees unjustified, and got his "two to the
head".
2. "Skills"- A very free, "SIMPLE" JAM with true spit about some of the most
amazing and death defying shit that has happened to me.
3. "Hood Rat"- A very simple, ass thumping for those who need to know the
order of the world we live in better than the ears they appeal all too often.
4."The Saint"- A very disillusioned, innocent and confused comment on the
nature of my life's work being tampered with.
5."The Missing Peace"- A very "RAP GOD" speed, quick whitted, nutty piece
about not owning "Us and Them" or how we are not ordinary men.
6."We Are My Home"- A very dropped D, power chord crunching and riveting
rip through the walls of my rubber chicken and the room in which I BIT no shit.
7."Spike"- A very double edged, two sided coin, tongue and cheek putting me to
peace, in this piece.
*8."Broken"- A very HIT, written HIT with use of the chords in THAT HIT
done backwards with Emajor, Dmajor, Aminor, and open strum to an Emajor chord in the
HIT CHORUS. Call me and listen to it before I HIT you with another HIT, if you like.
*9."Goodbye Love"- Very simply the best writing I have ever done in my entire
life put to an alternate tuning with a minor arpeggio, then a minor chord (open ringing)
progression with "August"'s chord progression from "Crazy Train" ("Anyday, anyday

3. now, change will come to the part of you that matters most") dropped a third and an open
major chord bridge part. Moves them to tears, read it and weep. Just don't come crying to
me, get over IT. We are good. Anyday now.
*10."We Are On Our Way"- A very dropped guitar low E string to a G, starts
with a catchy phrase out of a Dmajor, a run, and moving to a G major which is the
primary (and once got me a damned near riot in Pacific Beach) part of the chorus. Has
an open diad and triad finger picked part as a bridge in Em I believe, and a bubbly three
part descending triad hip hop guitar line for the "spoken word" section. Three part
harmonies that are so far from the guitar melody, and so ear catching, and so very good,
that I will get to watch "The Record Company" get it played "Live from Red Rocks"
over twenty million times on YouTube. Atleast I don't TOTALLY miss out on the show!
11. "Just kNOw"- A very somber, psyche rock minor melody, chromatic
descending piano piece and the words that come along with it and tell the story of my
melodramatic, unsympathetic ear to the very best my life has to offer, and yours too my
friend.
*12. "No Dice"- A very highly amusing letter I wrote to Marshall Mathers about
the several times we have bumped into each other and other stuff.
13. "OZENOZ AND EMINEM"- A very...well...a highly...uhh...I mean..."and
after all, we're only ordinary men". All except you and me. Say that last sentence again.
"Sounds like". I'll accept you and me...LOSE the rights to this one. But get mad airplay,
bitches. Two to the head, too, sooner or later.
Alex, I haven't done myself thorough justice so far as far as keeping in touch is

4. concerned. Perhaps I have felt a bit overshadowed until recently by my own lack of
success after such eager invites by you in early years to come out to the west coast and
try my hand at playing the part of the professional. Over the years I have learned so much
by watching your career. I wrote a piece for my blog, which recieved 93,000 hits in 9
months, about your career. I remember quite a bit of the things which should be included
in your personal "Wikipedia" entry (As well as "The Record Company"'s) including "The
Rose That Grew From Concrete", "Fourth Avenue Jones", "Stiff", "Stiffsongs.com", and
"The Frequency". I guess I should cut to the chase here, sorry, I'm a bit nervous.
PROMISE.
I have written a "concept" album under the pen name "OZENOZ" which is
included here in lyrical form. It has a story line, and reads quite well, so please give it a
whirl. "Broken", "Goodbye Love", and "I Am On My Way" are all exceptionally well
written pieces which I have completed on acoustic guitar and vocal melodies and
harmonies. "I Am On My Way" is a three part harmony piece that screams "The Record
Company" indeed. I have been very well recieved in my travels playing these songs, all
three have HIT potential. As does the rest of the album. But not without you.
PROMISE.
I am not picky as to what happens here in the sound. I am workable, with you on
board to eliminate "No Dice", but I am not sucking a fag, we have a lucky number, in
fact four. The album, it is unbelieveably fucking good, and entirely fucking true from
beginning to end. As am I. I have no studio, no equipment ("save my Franny"...a rusty
Franciscan acoustic) and no way of obtaining them nor the skill set required to make
what could be a musical masterpiece. I would not expect to perform it with you (or at all,

5. well, maybe just once if we could get EMINEM) and would give you whatever you ask
for as far as the money, royalties, etc. are concerned. You would retain the right to use
any and all of the songs at will for any project you are in, and I would be honored if you
would do so. Without you, I am but a mere writer with an ingenius logo, ingenius name
and domain name (OZENOZ.COM) ,incredible lyrics, a great concept, three written
possible blues based jam band hits, and no recording. With you, we a have mutually
shared success of one side project. PROMISE.
I am a writer. I think it is overkill, but anything, to convince you. I have three
suspense thrillers I am halfway through, a serial killer trilogy, and an Independent Film
Comedy "INGENIUS" script on the way just to name a few of the things on my desktop.
Also I have a work I am writing on Fusion Physics. I will include it in it's incomplete
form here. I have included here the script for the film "Telemarketers", what I will be
using my royalties to do once we have completed our project. I can do this anytime
because, "Workin'", "Ego Is The Drug", and "VW Girl", have been good to me. We are
not, nor ever will be in a band together again, if I have anything to do with it. Just a little
joke, there. PROMISE!
In conclusion, it is good. And will make us both a lot of money. And perhaps (Not
my call) "The Record Company" a hit. I will stay in the background as the writer if that
comes to pass, and I do believe it will, from "Broken", "I Am On My Way", AND
"Goodbye Love". Get my back, Alex, you won't ever have to, ever again. To have
"Promise" is like "The Golden Road of Unlimited Devotion". We never lose them, or
ourselves. Give me a holler. I will give you some ill spit and shit, and some chords and
melody to match your phrasing! And a whole lotta dollars and sense!!! "Just Know", "Us

6. and Them" ("OZENOZ AND EMINEM"), and "We Are On Our Way"! PROMISE!
Love Ya Brother,
OZEN
OZ
P.S. I got "SKILLS", Skills got me. Make me "DEAD" and set me free...
- For those of you who would like to know, I believe I do know Alex Wood Stiff's reply.
It goes kind of like this: "Rest in peace, hood rat! Skills? The SAINT?! The missing
peace! We are my home. Spike, broken. Goodbye love. We are on our way. Just know. No

7. dice."
Salut,
El
Stiffo
P.S. No fag. Just no. Two to the head.