From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #34 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, February 6 1998 Volume 03 : Number 034 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Misc ["Kevin & Robyn (Brott & Moore)" ] Alloy: Trials, Tribulations and T-shirts. ["Kevin & Robyn (Brott & Moore)] Alloy: Romance in Cyberspace, or How We Met. ["Kevin & Robyn (Brott & Moo] Re: Alloy: Misc [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Misc [Melissa Jordan ] Re: Alloy: Misc [Chris Cracknell ] Alloy: Dynasty Q&A [RThurF@aol.com] Alloy: One of our Synth lines.. ["Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Re: Alloy: Misc At 20.38 98.02.04 -0700, you wrote: >I'm just curious, how often to any of you hear Thomas on the radio? > >I listen to a very cool radio station here in Denver (KTCL 93.3 >http://www.ktcl.com) that can be heard playing "I Love You Goodbye" and >some other A&H songs now and then. I have also heard "Budapest by >Blimp" on there before. I don't think they play "Science" however. > We have a local 'alternative' station here in Portland (KNRK 94.7 http://www.knrk.com ) that occasionally plays "Hot Sauce". Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 23:33:21 -0800 From: "Kevin & Robyn (Brott & Moore)" Subject: Alloy: Trials, Tribulations and T-shirts. Thought I'd share with you all what I had to go through to get my shirts. :) Okay, my daughter's in kindergarten, so I have to walk her to and from school every day. Therefore, I'm out of my apt. at least twice during prime mail delivery hours for the neighborhood I live in. Monday, I dropped her off at school, came home, had some lunch and messed around on the computer while listening to the tape I put together to make sure it sounded alright. (It'll be in the mail soon, have to dub a few more copies first.) Didn't hear anyone knock during all that time. When it was time to go pick her up, I checked the mail, and lo and behold, it had been delivered, and there was a package slip in the box with the rest of the mail. Cursing my luck, I walked over to the school. The mother of one of my daughter's classmates and I have gotten to be friends, and she often gives us a ride home from school, as we don't live that far apart. When she found out I had a package slip, she volunteered to drive us to the Post Office. Unfortunately, upon getting there, there wasn't anyone available who was authorized to distribute packages, and the mail trucks from that day weren't back anyway, so we were told to come back the next day. So I spent a long, frustrating night knowing that my shirts were only a couple miles away from me, but I didn't have them. The next day, I rang up the PO to make sure they weren't going to automatically try to re-deliver it. They affirmed that they weren't, so we all drove out to the Office again after school. Fortunately, there was someone in who could give me the package, so I finally got them. I was so excited that I had to open them just as soon as I got into the truck. Of course, my daughter and her little friend just had to see what I got, so I showed them the t-shirt. My daughter took one look at it and said "Thomas Dolby! Cool!" and spent a few minutes explaining who he was to her friend. I think I'd better be careful, or she just might steal it from me. ;) End result after two days and two trips to the PO - I have my shirts and couldn't be more pleased with them. They're absolutely wonderful. :) Oh, and Miles, the cheque is all addressed and will be going out with tomorrow's mail. (Would've been today, but my husband accidentally took the chequebook to work with him. ::grin::) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 00:48:54 -0800 From: "Kevin & Robyn (Brott & Moore)" Subject: Alloy: Romance in Cyberspace, or How We Met. Like the subject header says, I met Kevin online. I was a room hostess on a national service for C=64 users named QuantumLink. (The original service that spawned what would eventually become AOL, but that's another story.) I had been single for a number of months, and had pretty much accepted that I was going to continue to be so for some time. One night in the early fall of '88, I was hostessing away, and in comes this guy with the handle 'KevinB'. We strike up a conversation, and discover we have quite a lot in common. A couple days later, he comes back again, and we have another nice long chat. Things go on like this for some weeks...long chats, much email, etc. Finally, one of us suggests a voice call. We take to each other voice just as much as we did online, and after burning up the phone line for a while, we both realize we've completely fallen for each other. By this time, the holidays are coming up. We're both living in the same state, but at opposite ends of it. (I was in SW Washington state, and he was in the Air Force, stationed at Fairchild AFB in Spokane.) However, he was going to be on leave to visit his family, which lived about 60 miles from where I was living at the time. So he arranged to come up to visit me the day after Xmas. He'd only just gotten back from Korea a few months before and didn't have a car, so he had to take the Greyhound. I went to meet him at the station, and knew who he was the minute I saw him, even though we'd never exchanged pictures. We took one look at each other, realized that we were just as crazy for each other in person as we were online, fell into each other's arms, and have been together ever since. He took me back to Spokane with him, and we got an apartment together. We lived together for a little better than a year, and got married in April of '90. In February of '92, we had a daughter, who will be 6 on Sunday, and have lived, if not completely happily ever after, at least reasonably so. :) That's it, hope you liked it. ;) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 07:37:11 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Misc In a message dated 98-02-04 23:14:00 EST, Keith wrote: << I'm just curious, how often to any of you hear Thomas on the radio? >> At work, we play WGBH which is all classical during weekdays, and sometimes when nobody else is in my department I crank up the punk show on WZBC in the afternoons (interesting, depending on who the dj is on any given day of course) I don't get to hear Thomas too often on the radio most of the time...but his songs do have a way of popping up when I least expect them, in odd situations, and seem almost to illustrate the given event. Weird. Robin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 09:40:06 -0500 From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Re: Alloy: Misc At 07:37 AM 2/5/98 EST, you wrote: >In a message dated 98-02-04 23:14:00 EST, Keith wrote: > ><< I'm just curious, how often to any of you hear Thomas on the radio? > I hear him at least twice a day on CTSNET On-Air.Com (http://www.controlroom.com/) That's the net radio station that plays in my office most of the day. - -- Melissa Melissa R. Jordan Associate Director Goodwill Global Inc. (301) 881-6858, ext. 4567 (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:45:08 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy: Misc I don't listen to the radio that much myself. I think the last time the radio has been on in my house was when a friend gave me a frantic phone call saying "They're talking about you on the CBC!!" I flicked on the radio and searched the dial but couldn't find the station until the show was over. Althought when I was renovating the living room a couple of years ago I listened to the radio while I worked and got to hear the extra long version of "One Of Our Submarines" which I thought was the Karioke version at first since there were no vocals for the first 3 minutes. Incidently, Thomas, is the synth lead in that song supposed to be some sort of tribute to "The Six Million Dollar Man" or is it just an increadable co-incident that it sounds so much like the theme song? CRACKERS (We can rebuild him from hell!!) - -- Accordionist - Wethifl Musician - Atari 2600 Collector | /\/\ *NEW CrAB URL* http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html ***| \^^/ Bira Bira Devotee - FES Member - Samurai Pizza Cats Fan| =\/= ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:43:51 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Dynasty Q&A Maybe someone here can enlighten me, since I missed the whole phenomenon in the '80's. What kind of character was this "Kirby Colby"? Robin who wants to one day name a punk band after her ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:27:45 -0500 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: One of our Synth lines.. Crackers wrote: > Incidently, Thomas, is the synth lead in that song supposed to be = > some sort of tribute to "The Six Million Dollar Man" or is it = > just an increadable co-incident that it sounds so much like the = > theme song? I have to politely differ with you on this one, Crackers. I, at least, = cannot recall any striking similarity between the two. I think he stole = it = from the Bee Gee's --- you know the one . Just kidding. I really think it sounds suspiciously like a melodic line in "Details" by= = Lene Lovich and Les Chappell, from the "New Toy" EP. I asked, but THOMAS WON'T TELL! /\/\iles ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #34 **************************