From: owner-alloy-digest To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V1 #18 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Tuesday, 9 July 1996 Volume 01 : Number 018 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Alloy: I like this biography thing . Re: Alloy: I like this biography thing . . . Alloy: FES web site feedback? Alloy: Bio Fwd: Re: Alloy: FES web site feedback? Re: Alloy: I like this biography thing . . . Re: Alloy: FES web site feedback? Re: Alloy: I like this biography thing . . . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Louise.Clay-Harrison@nmp.nokia.com (Clay-Harrison Louise (NMP)) Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 12:54:17 +0300 Subject: RE: Alloy: I like this biography thing . hallo all! Okay,...I s'pose I ought to take a turn,...although I'd say it's almost impossible to add to the lists you guys have already concocted,.. ---------------------------------------------------- As for a dream list, mine would shur-ley include all my personal favourites, including "Pulp Culture", "Airhead", "Hot Sauce", "Europa", "Weightless", "Flying North", " I Scare Myself", "Silk Pyjamas" "White City", and my all-time-favourite "I love you, goodbye" as a rousing finale. The concert would take place on the beach, in the endless twilight of a Finnish summer, at the best festival in the country, "Ruisrock", projecting clips from the old vids and "the gate" onto the backdrop. (sigh!) We've had nearly all the biggies here at Ruisrock, (this year, red hot chilli peppers, zztop, neil young, blur, pulp, etc. etc., so why not Himself?),...oh, and I nearly forgot,... the fade in should be the echoing weather broadcast from the end of "windpower". ------------------------------------------------------ ermm,....bio time,.. Me,...24 years old, Born in the North of England, came south to London for a few years, then went Flying North to Finland, and liked it up here so much that I never went back. I work in a multinational based over here,...( no Prizes)that makes those irritating things that interrupt people all the time,...( any guesses?) I found my first Dolby record,.( TGAOW ) on vinyl in a record shop in Finland on my first visit here when I was 16. I've been hooked on both country and musician ever since. In my spare time I'm usually making music, surfing the net, reading sci-fi or cycling on my mountainbike around the trees, by the lakes, or in the very pretty town of Turku, where I live. The music varies greatly from making all kinds of dance stuff (house, techno, jungle etc.) with a local DJ ( me doin the warbling), and playing on and off with several different bands ( more mainstream stuff),..even folk music for my sins. All I really wanna do in life, is, of course, to find some excellent musicians, sing and play my songs, record them on a album, and have Mr. Dolby as the producer,..... ah well, enough dreaming! It's been great getting to know all you folks! NEXT! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Louise Clay-Harrison "In the bath-tub of history, the truth e-mail lharriso@abo.fi is harder to find than a bar of soap, http://www.abo.fi/~lharriso and often harder to hold on to." and STILL under construction (Terry Pratchett, "Sourcery") ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: Juha Takkinen Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 13:38:41 +0200 Subject: Re: Alloy: I like this biography thing . . . Greetings friends: Ok, here comes the next one... :-) My name is Juha Takkinen, I'm 32 years old, and I live in Linkoping, just south of Stockholm, Sweden. I was born in Finland, though (and I speak Finnish, if you must know :-) I first heard (and saw) Thomas Dolby when he sang Europa and the Pirate Twins on Swedish television (the video). I bought Wireless immediately when it came out! I'm still waiting to see him live, though. First album was, of course, 'Wireless (LP) and first single Urges/Leipzig (EP). I'm also a fan of Ryuichi Sakamoto so it was interesting to see how Ryuichi and Thomas got together and did some tunes (I like Fieldwork). I play the piano and sing in a choir, by the way, so that's my personal experiences with music... :) When I'm not listening to Dolbyan music I earn my living as a research student (information filtering and text categorization) and also as a teacher, here at Linkoping University. As to the contents of a fictive concert with Thomas Dolby, well, my first request would be Nuvogue (imagine that one *live*...), and... Well, John has already showed us a listing of tunes - and that one really made me sweat, what a concert that would be... :-) All the best, /Juha - -- Juha Takkinen, M.Sc. juhta@ida.liu.se Bjornkarrsgatan 12 B:13 ph +46 13 17 90 22 S-584 36 LINKOPING, Sweden http://www.ida.liu.se/~juhta/ Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. - O. Wilde ------------------------------ From: Paul Baily Date: Mon, 8 Jul 96 22:33:11 +1000 Subject: Alloy: FES web site feedback? Hi folks, I was chatting with one of our Alloy siblings, Kim , who helps Clif & co. with the maintenance and day to day running of the FES web site we all know and love, and she had this to say: >I'd like to pose a question: what improvements/changes to the Flat >Earth site do the Thomas Dolby fans want to see implemented? ie: more info, >different layouts, more photos of Mr Dolby, more historical tidbits etc [Kim, I hope you don't mind me taking the liberty to quote you without permission but I figure while people seem to be near their keyboards, now would be the ideal time to ask.] So, good people, this flat old earth really is in your gentle hands: speak up now, don't be shy! thanks for your time, stay well, Paul. [who's still chuffed whenever he reads someone referring to Alloy as a real live list. :-) ] ________________________________________________________________________ Paul Baily paulb@powerup.com.au Consulting SE/IT gun for hire Brisbane, Australia There is a spirit here that won't be broken. ------------------------------ From: Bill Hargreaves Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 13:40:58 +0100 Subject: Alloy: Bio Greetings, my friends. I would not presume to inflict my choice of songs for the dream list on you. Apart from anything else, it would change from day to day, depending on my ever changing moods. However, I'll give you the bio stuff. Apologies in advance for rambling, but it's what I do best. First, I'm at that age when I should know the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything ..... but I don't. Anyone not familiar with the Hitch-Hiker's Guide will need to be told that that means I'm 42. I was born in Manchester in the North West of England and have lived here all my life, so far. I used to live in Didsbury, but now I live in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. I tell you this only because folk from abroad are often amused by these quaint English names. I work for the Government Office for the North West as System Administrator, Helpdesk Supervisor, IT trainer and general IT dog's body. Married with one wife and two kids (a son, 17, who's into metal but has a similarly eclectic turn of mind with regard to music, so he quite often borrows my Dolby CDs, and a daughter, 15 who has a slightly narrower horizon with regard to music, but I'm working on it). We also have one dog, one cat and a variable number of coldwater fish (currently 4 in a tank that has space for about 20). My wife is a big Simply Red fan, and often sees Mick Hucknall doing his shopping in Safeways. Myself? I like something of everything, thanks for asking. I'm currently working my way backwards through my friend's Jethro Tull collection, to see what I missed after abandoning them after War Child. I'm an old hippy at heart and like a lot of the old progressive stuff e.g. Yes, King Crimson, Family, John Martyn, Genesis before they went all commercial, Brand X, Talk Talk, Procul Harum, Carol King, The Band, THE BEATLES, ohh, I could go on and on, and more recently Scritti Politti, Bruce Hornsby, Paul Young, Tears For Fears, ohh, I could go on and on AND ON, and will, at the slightest provocation. What I DO like is musicians who can PLAY their instruments and sing in tune, not these nimnos who bung everything on a sequencer and stand there pressing two keys on their superwhizzo Taiwanese cheapo keyboard and "singing" the same line 45 times before the song fades out. OOOps, sorry, got on my soapbox there for a moment. Apologies; flame off. I started playing the guitar when I was eleven, but never had any lessons. Quinciquontly I don't know the names of the notes or chords I'm playing, but it doens't stop me enjoying it. One of these days I'm going to get my act together and learn about music. I briefly played bass in a "progressive" band when I was eighteen. We were pretty hopeless, and we didn't stick at it, which seems to be Rule 1 as far as making it in the music biz is concerned. Well, you can't (make it) if you don't (stick at it), even if you're brilliant, if you see what I mean. Though I DO have a car, I cycle to work every day, looking down on the motorists in their traffic jams from the moral high ground that we cyclists are supposed to occupy. I watch too much TV, read a lot of scifi, would like to get into astronomy, don't take the dog for a walk often enough (my current excuse is hay fever), really dig the internet but don't get to as many sights as I'd like to, and love music. My memory isn't as good as it used to be, but I can remember a lot of useless junk about who played what on what album, who played with what band and where they went next, yawn, yawn, boring, boring, etc, etc. I discovered TMDR through a friend, not long after GAOW was released, but have never heard Leipzig or many of the other tracks Thomas did that weren't on albums released in the UK. AND I don't know what this "kspace" place is that some Alloy contributors previously referred to. Those of you who drop in to the The Flat Earth Society's Tap Room on a regular basis will know me as Slarvibarglhee, which was a name given to me by a Scottish friend many years ago, when he rearranged the letters of my name just for fun. That's the Scotts for you. Don't mind a bit of fun as long as it doesn't cost too much. (Only kidding Doug, if you're listening somewhere; and no offence meant to any Celtic readers.) Come to think of it, that sounds just like ME i.e. a cheapskate!! Had enough yet? I have. TTFN/Live Long and Prosper/Be Seeing You Bill - X (his mark) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sig of the Day "I saw you and you saw me and for a moment we were free." Family - from "A Song For Me." - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: Paul Baily Date: Tue, 9 Jul 96 07:59:45 +1000 Subject: Fwd: Re: Alloy: FES web site feedback? Subject: Re: Alloy: FES web site feedback? Sent: 9/7/96 2:32 am Received: 9/7/96 7:48 am From: Chris van Rensburg, tom@tomkidding.com To: BigAl, alloy@smoe.org [ Oops! Abject apologies Kim, bad assumption on my part. -PB] Paul Baily wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I was chatting with one of our Alloy siblings, Kim > , who helps Clif & co. with the maintenance > and day to day running of the FES web site we all know and love, and she > had this to say: > Just so that you know, my esteemed colleague, Kim Cascone, is actually a guy. That is to say, he was always and still is a guy. Never once did he pose as or impersonate a woman ;-) Understandable mistake. - -- Regards, Chris (a.k.a. Tom Kidding) - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - Tom Kidding's World of Art, Poetry, Music, Songs, Thoughts & Links http://www.tomkidding.com "I experienced a personal epiphany at Jack in the Box. You could too." - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ From: ljackson@intex.net (Lee Jackson) Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 22:26:57 GMT Subject: Re: Alloy: I like this biography thing . . . Okay, brace yourselves - my turn. ;-) My name is Lee Jackson, and I am the Music and Sound Director for Apogee Software and 3D Realms Entertainment. I'm 32 and live in Garland, TX (just outside of Dallas) with my wife, Brenda, and my 9-year old son, Nathan. I will have been married for 13 years as of this coming October 7th. I was born on November 19th, 1963, in Austin, TX. I grew up in a suburb of Houston and moved back to Austin after I graduated from J. F. Dobie High School in 1981. I was enrolled as a music education major at the University of Texas at Austin for 2 years (until I ran out of $$$ - story too long to go into here). After that, I worked for the IRS for almost 10 years, until I could escape to a real job at Apogee/3D Realms in 1993. I did penance in Technical Support for over 2 years , and was appointed Music and Sound Director as of January 15th, 1996. My first exposure to TMDR was a viewing of Europa on MTV in 1982. Shortly after that, I saw Radio Silence. That's all it took - I was hooked. I ran out and bought the import version of The Golden Age of Wireless and proceeded to nearly wear its grooves out. When TMDR came to Austin for the Flat Earth tour, Brenda and I were there. We bought the obligatory t-shirts and stood right at the front center area in the pit - only 2 or 3 people were in between us and Thomas. Neither of us have been to a better concert since. Thomas's work has definitely been an influence on my compositions here at Apogee. I have done soundtracks for Rise of the Triad (when I was still officially a tech support rep), Duke Nukem 3D (as co-writer with Bobby Prince), and our soon-to-be-released Stargunner. Stargunner will feature heavy TMDR influences based on my experiences listening to The Gate to the Mind's Eye, and "Big Bang Backwards" in particular. Other non-TMDR influences that have affected my work include Rick Wakeman, Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, several other rock artists too numerous to remember, and just about every Drum and Bugle Corps that has marched in America since 1979. // Lee Jackson (ljackson@intex.net) // Music and Sound Director // Apogee Software, Ltd. & 3D Realms Entertainment ------------------------------ From: ljackson@intex.net (Lee Jackson) Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 22:28:56 GMT Subject: Re: Alloy: FES web site feedback? On Mon, 8 Jul 96 22:33:11 +1000, you wrote: >>I'd like to pose a question: what improvements/changes to the Flat >>Earth site do the Thomas Dolby fans want to see implemented? ie: more info, >>different layouts, more photos of Mr Dolby, more historical tidbits etc Speed improvements. As elegant as the site is, it is depressingly slow over a 28.8 dialup link. Streamline it first, then add more historical tidbits and other such goodies. // Lee Jackson // ljackson@intex.net // Garland, TX ------------------------------ From: Mary Ellen Spiegel Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 00:55:31 -0400 Subject: Re: Alloy: I like this biography thing . . . At 10:26 PM 7/8/96 GMT, you wrote: >Okay, brace yourselves - my turn. ;-) > >My name is Lee Jackson, and ... >Thomas's work has definitely been an influence on my compositions here >at Apogee. I have done soundtracks for Rise of the Triad (when I was >still officially a tech support rep), Duke Nukem 3D wait a minute here.... Duke Nukem 3D??? Duke??? THE Duke??? The "Shake 'Em Bay-bee" Duke??? Like wow man, is this like an AA meeting???? (Only kidding you big sexy slab of man you... ;) I'll have to check the soundtrack for Duke out again..... Toodle-pip, (did anyone ever find out the etymology of that phrase?) ME Emmy ME aka Femme Mary Ellen Spiegel pick one ;) Quote of the week: Percept without concept is blind. Concept without percept is empty. - -Unknown Relax, proposed home page is now a far and distant dream.... no no, don't cry ;D ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V1 #18 **************************