From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #184 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Friday, September 12 1997 Volume 02 : Number 184 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: wah [bcohen@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Barbara A Cohen via apocalypse )] Alloy: Memories of things that never happened [Lem Bingley ] Alloy: Tour Cities ["Melissa R. Jordan" ] Re: Alloy: Stuff [Frank ] Alloy: This is from a friend of mine... Fwd: A question? [MsSakamoto@ao] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 23:29:18 -0700 From: bcohen@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Barbara A Cohen via apocalypse ) Subject: Alloy: wah Well, another semester has started and I have been completely snowed under. I'll not be able to get a musical sample infor the Project Bday effort, much to my dismay. I had planned to get all my friends together with various noisemakers and voices, etc, and do Hyperactive like a play, where everyone gets a part. Unfortunately, it is not to be. I'm organizing a field trip to Yellowstone, and we're leaving next week, and...and..and...wah. I really wanted to. On the bright side, I'll have time this weekend to fiddle with the new and improved proto tshirt design. To this end, could someone with the master city list kindly email it to me? I know it's been posted to Alloy, but I have this habit of keeping my inbox squeaky clean.... *B* Barbara Cohen Cosmochemical Cocktail Mixer, PhD to be ****************************************** Why be difficult when with a little bit of effort you can be impossible? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 10:08:25 +0100 From: Lem Bingley Subject: Alloy: Memories of things that never happened I bought a copy of the soundtrack from the motion picture 'Toys' recently and was quite surprised at what an excellent album it is (with the exception of the ghastly Enya track, IMHO). It struck me that The Mirror Song is the only Dolby track I've heard to date that didn't sound completely original (to my ill-educated ears at least). On first impression it seemed to have a heavy David Byrne/Talking Heads influence - almost to the point of parody in the way that the words are enunciated in the first verse. I wondered if anyone else had noticed this? Or are there loads of influences in his other works that I'm just too plain dumb to notice. Lem ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:58:53 +0100 From: Lem Bingley Subject: Re: Alloy: Alloy tapes At 14:42 10/9/97 -0400, Crackers wrote this from his own personal Hell: >Well you might be able to get a rough estimate by going to the post >office. Finding how much it will cost to mail the package to Canada, >then write a cheque for that amount, put it in the package and then >seal the package. Crackers, that's probably the least helpful suggestion I've heard in a long time :-) Roll on the days when we all use cybercash. What with the T-shirt and the tape, if I never have to think about sending money to foreign countries again it'll be too soon. Lem ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:34:17 -0400 From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Alloy: Tour Cities At 11:29 PM 9/10/97 -0700, Barbara wrote: >To this end, could someone with the master city list kindly >email it to me? I know it's been posted to Alloy, but I have >this habit of keeping my inbox squeaky clean.... I like a clean inbox (and outbox), too, but, strangely, when lightening struck near my office yesterday afternoon, my computer had some sort of spasm, and the next thing I knew, I had every message I'd sent or received for the past YEAR - and long since deleted - staring me in the face - and Eudora was telling me there was no space to write any new stuff! Spent a good hour trying to delete all the crud that had come back, without deleting the important stuff... Oy. Anyway, here's the city list: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Austin, Texas, USA Bethesda, Maryland, USA Boston, Massachusetts, USA Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA Calera, Alabama, USA Chicago, Illinois, USA Chorlton-cum-Hardy, UK Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Croydon, UK Denver, Colorado, USA El Llanito, New Mexico, USA Evansville, Indiana, USA Garland, Texas, USA Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA Hobart, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA Linkoping, SWEDEN Nashville, Tennessee, USA Orlando, Florida, USA Palmdale, California, USA Portland, Oregon, USA Rochester, New York, USA Salisbury, UK San Francisco, California, USA San Mateo, California, USA Santa Cruz, California, USA Santa Rosa, California, USA Turku, FINLAND Cheers, - - Melissa - ----------------------------------------- Melissa R. Jordan Remember The Women Pilots of WWII: Special International Projects Manager http://www.infinet.com/~iwasm/wasp.htm Goodwill Industries International, Inc. - ----------------------------------------- (301) 881-6858 (direct phone) (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 00:15:57 -0700 From: Frank Subject: Re: Alloy: Stuff At 08:38 PM 9/10/97 -0700, you wrote: >Frank, > >I'd like to apologize for not continuing my efforts to put RealAudio >snippets from all the albums on the web for you. It's a bit of a trick >to do and I guess I've just been busy with the new job and all. > >I'd like to suggest you go to your local Blockbuster Music store and >listen to the albums there. They will let you listen to any album in >the store for free. That will be much better than poor sounding short >snippets from the web page. > >Remember, the albums will be under "D" for Dolby, not "R" for Robertson >:) > >Happy Listening! > >Keith Stansell >Denver, CO >__________________________________________________ >http://www.concentric.net/~kasman >Frank wrote: > >> ....At this juncture, I don't know. I know nothing from nada. I >> believe I have >> heard something about Blinding and one other on a C/Net site. They >> were not >> snippets. They were complete renditions. Great. I don't know which >> site. I >> caught the URL by surprise and told the gang about it but that's about >> it. > > > > Keith, All is copacetic. And I do thank you. All is well in San Diego. Your friend. Frank ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:11:51 -0400 (EDT) From: MsSakamoto@aol.com Subject: Alloy: This is from a friend of mine... Fwd: A question? - --------------------- Forwarded message: Subj: A question? Date: 97-09-11 10:51:33 EDT From: I Pericles To: MsSakamoto Don't know if you'll have any idea about this, but since it DOES seem to be the basis for your screenname . . . I've wondered for a number of years if the Miss Sakamoto mentioned in "She Blinded Me with Science" refers to a particular, actual person. I know that on Golden Age of Wireless, Dolby worked with Akiko Yanno as a backup singer on one of the songs, "Radio Silence" if I remember correctly. Yanno is currently married to Ryuichi Sakamoto, and I THINK was at the time. 2 or 3 years after GAoW, Dolby actually recorded a track with Sakamoto himself. So there's certainly reason to believe Dolby might have had personal and professional contact with the Sakamoto household as a whole at the time the song was written . . . perhaps Ryuichi has an attractive sister? Or perhaps it's even a veiled reference to Yanno herself? I really have had no idea how to research such a question, but I thought there was some slim chance you might know the answer . . . or at least someone else who might give a damn about the question could have in the back of their mind! Pax, Peter ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #184 ***************************