From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #148 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 Saturday, June 6 1998 Volume 03 : Number 148 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Dolby & other LP's & other things [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: Astronauts and Heretics [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: Awwwwww . . . [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: TMDR @ Epcot [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #145 [Wargun2438@aol.com] Re: Alloy: First Albums [Wargun2438@aol.com] Alloy: Interludes on the Midway [Robyn Moore ] Alloy: Awwwwww . . . ["Mary A. Brown" ] Alloy: Howard's mime? ["Mary A. Brown" ] Alloy: Howard Sway [John_Hanson_at_FRMA01@ccmailgw.mcgawpark.baxter.com] Alloy: Liggin' & Giggin' [John_Hanson_at_FRMA01@ccmailgw.mcgawpark.baxter] Re: Alloy: TMDR @ Epcot [RThurF@aol.com] Alloy: the weather [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Interludes on the Midway ["Michael and Denise Luckey" ] Re: Alloy: the weather [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: Thank you sir, may I have another [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: the weather [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Howard's mime? [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Howard's mime? [DAbbitt32@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Awwwwww . . . [CJMark@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Interludes on the Midway [CJMark@aol.com] Re: Alloy: the weather [CJMark@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 22:32:11 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Dolby & other LP's & other things At 12:10 PM 6/4/98 , you wrote: > >This one's easy! The first single I ever bought was "Tie A Yellow Ribbon >Round The Old Oak Tree" by Tony Orlando and Dawn. The first album I ever >bought was the soundtrack to "All That Jazz" which I just recently had >signed by Ben Vereen upon meeting him. Also, the first concert I ever >attended was Elvis Presley in 1975 at the Hampton Coliseum. Being 8 at the >time I don't remember much except for women screaming everywhere! Finally, >the first CD I bought was "The Golden Age Of Wireless" in 1984-the fact that >I didn't have a player was something I was totally oblivious to at the time! >Elvis and Thomas Dolby-what a double bill that could have been! >M.L. I don't remember for sure what the first album I bought was, but I suspect it was the DiFranco Family "Heartbeat, it's A Lovebeat" when I was about 10. "All That Jazz" is one of my all-time favourite movies, but I never got the soundtrack for it. Like you, the first CD I bought was without benefit of having a player, as well as being Dolby. In my case, it was the soundtrack to "Gothic", which I found as an import at a local new/used record store. I hadn't seen it in any other format, so I wasn't taking the chance that someone would buy it out from under me. ::grin:: (I did find a sealed vinyl copy about 6 months ago, which is now gracing my record collection. :)) Turns out it's actually a pretty good movie, too. Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 22:52:42 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Astronauts and Heretics At 01:01 PM 6/4/98 , you wrote: > >This has been bugging me for some time-do any videos exist from Astronauts >and Heretics? If so I have never seen them! >M.L. There are video clips from "I Love You, Goodbye" and "Close But No Cigar" over on the Flat Earth Society site. On the off chance that anyone who recently joined here hasn't been there, it's at http://www.tdolby.com and the clips are in the Projection Room, which is off the Library. If I remember correctly, and someone please correct me if I'm not, these videos were never aired on any music channels. Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 22:56:56 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Awwwwww . . . At 06:39 PM 6/4/98 , you wrote: > >Hi all.. > >First of all.. my Happy Birthday wishes to Stephen.. and Robyn too.. or was it >Robin?.. who I missed awhile back. I get so confused.. Actually, you sliced it right down the middle. Robin's was a few days ago, and mine isn't for a few days yet. ;) >I have been traveling for two months.. grasping a quick check of E-mail at >friends computers en route.. trying to get through the pile of wonderful >Alloy mail before collapsing. I am now finally home.. !! And can actually >respond to things said and read here.. I'll be back... Ooo...where'd you go? Great to have you back :) All messages tonight powered by the MTV Movie Awards. ;) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 23:02:31 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: TMDR @ Epcot At 07:58 AM 6/4/98 , you wrote: > >In case there is anyone else on the list from Orlando here is the >information on the event at Epcot that TMDR says he will be at. Also I >will be taking pictures, and possibly video taping the performance. I >will let everyone know when the pictures and possibly audio get posted >to my web site. That's really super of you :) Personally, I'm wondering whether this will show up on the Disney Channel later this year. I was over looking at the site earlier today, but they only have scheduled programming for June listed and I didn't see it there. Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 02:39:46 EDT From: Wargun2438@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #145 Amen. And have fun, ok? - -w ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 02:54:47 EDT From: Wargun2438@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: First Albums Well, except for a brief (and wonderful) foray into "Greensleeves" and Woody Woodpecker's song, I bought the singles "It Never Rains In Southern California" and "Boogie Woogie Flu" Those and a couple of LPs from my sister including one from The Fifth Dimension were my first vinyl bits of education. And then K-TEL came into my life... Ahhhh... - -w ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 23:59:04 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Alloy: Interludes on the Midway Here in Portland we have this big to-do called Rose Festival every year. Parades, concessions, and, of course, the obligatory traveling carnival with rides and games. Last night, Kevin and I and some friends of ours took Brigid and their daughter for one of the "All you can ride for $10" nights. So here we are, walking up and down the midway, with the girls stopping at every ride that caught their fancy. At one point, this meant listening to an extremely tinny version of 'The Entertainer' blaring from the ice cream truck set up across the street from the bunch of rides they insisted they needed to try all of. I had to agree with my friend that we were doing our time in 'Ice Cream Man's Hell'. ::grin:: As it got later, Kevin chased me off with some of the tickets we'd bought for ourselves to grab the rides I wanted before everything shut down for the night. I went off in search of the swinging Viking Boat ride, which I unfortunately discovered had been removed this year. :( However, as I made my way through the dust and crowds, the strains of a familiar tune hit my ears. I moved quickly to locate it, and found 'Science' blaring from the speakers on the Falling Star ride. As I stood there, watching the ride go around and around, and listening to it, I thought of the carnival travelling around the country, and all the people who would be hearing TMDR from such an unlikely venue. When it ended, I walked away to rejoin my family with a smile on my face and a spring in my step. :) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 03:37:26 -0400 From: "Mary A. Brown" Subject: Alloy: Awwwwww . . . Okay, Dearest Robyn, Spill it... You ever so coquettishly say: > Actually, you sliced it right down the middle. Robin's was a few > days ago, and mine isn't for a few days yet. ;) Yet you aren't specific. C'mon, Sweetie, you gotta know we love you, when's the big day? I'm appointing myself (un)offical keeper of Alloy birthdays so 'fess up. We want to know what day to thank the deity of our choice for bringing you into our midst. Lots of love (and thank you much for the hug, I really need it these days), Europa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 03:37:25 -0400 From: "Mary A. Brown" Subject: Alloy: Howard's mime? Robin ever so appealingly asked: > What I want to know is, was it Howard Jones who had that *mime* > in his videos back in the 80's? I could swear he's the one who > inflicted that mime upon us all, but my husband thinks it was in someone > else's videos though he place whose. can anyone help? Dearest One, You are absolutely right! HoJo used to perform with a mime named Jeb (Lemme tell you a story 'bout a man named Jeb/A poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed/... oops, wrong trivia). Personally, I was quite relieved that when I saw Howard in '84 (and later in '89 I think) Jeb was nowhere to be found. Call me crazy but mimes do rather give me the creeps. On the other hand, Howard is quite entertaining and if that '80s revival tour comes to SF, I'm seriously considering going. Europa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:25:09 -0500 From: John_Hanson_at_FRMA01@ccmailgw.mcgawpark.baxter.com Subject: Alloy: Howard Sway Salut ! In the eighties, several people told me that I looked a bit like Howard Jones. More recently a Frenchie (girly type) said Hugh Grant (more for the mannerisms & being English I guess). Personally I thought Howard Jones was crap. John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:32:35 -0500 From: John_Hanson_at_FRMA01@ccmailgw.mcgawpark.baxter.com Subject: Alloy: Liggin' & Giggin' Salut My first concert was Squeeze at Leeds Uni 1979, in between "Cool for Cats" & "Argy Bargy". They were late, but magnificent. I still have the lisitng of songs they played, personally given by John Bentley, bassist at that time. Last gig was Etienne Daho, at the Olympia in Paris last November. He was very good indeed, a real entertainer; the audience had an average age of around 28 and were all dedicated Daho fans, most probably from when he was at his peak in the late-eighties. The only two concerts I would really like to see are Saint Etienne and TMDR, of course. Ciao for now, John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 07:19:25 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: TMDR @ Epcot In a message dated 6/5/98 2:04:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time, kbrm@iefx.com writes: << I'm wondering whether this will show up on the Disney Channel later this year. I was over looking at the site earlier today, but they only have scheduled programming for June listed and I didn't see it there. Robyn >> In fact I thought perhaps the event would be featured in an upcoming issue of Discover Magazine... Robin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 07:30:40 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: the weather I just found out that my hometown area was pummelled by F4 tornadoes for hours and hours last Friday night... the same night Beth & Mark were visiting & we were talking about storms at dinner! One street right next to Binghamton General Hospital, where my sister once worked, is simply not there anymore. And the storm system crushed the nearby town of Spencer NY clear off the map (all the buildings, a few banks, four churches, etc) Owego & Oswego were badly hit too. I hadn't heard a word about any of it til I spoke with my mom yesterday, but she's saving the newspapers for me. Scary!! I hear there are bad storms springing up everywhere across America lately, so please please please everyone be safe (especially all you *travellers* out there) !!! Robin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:54:38 -0000 From: "Michael and Denise Luckey" Subject: Re: Alloy: Interludes on the Midway I don't know how many college football fans we have out there but a mainstay for nearly all bands as a halftime entertainment piece is Science! You can hear it at various games on ABC throughout the fall which is a little ironic since I gather TMDR is not much of a sports fan at all. M.L. - -----Original Message----- From: Robyn Moore To: alloy@smoe.org Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 7:03 AM Subject: Alloy: Interludes on the Midway > > > Here in Portland we have this big to-do called Rose Festival every year. >Parades, concessions, and, of course, the obligatory traveling carnival >with rides and games. Last night, Kevin and I and some friends of ours took >Brigid and their daughter for one of the "All you can ride for $10" nights. >So here we are, walking up and down the midway, with the girls stopping at >every ride that caught their fancy. At one point, this meant listening to >an extremely tinny version of 'The Entertainer' blaring from the ice cream >truck set up across the street from the bunch of rides they insisted they >needed to try all of. I had to agree with my friend that we were doing our >time in 'Ice Cream Man's Hell'. ::grin:: > > As it got later, Kevin chased me off with some of the tickets we'd bought >for ourselves to grab the rides I wanted before everything shut down for >the night. I went off in search of the swinging Viking Boat ride, which I >unfortunately discovered had been removed this year. :( However, as I made >my way through the dust and crowds, the strains of a familiar tune hit my >ears. I moved quickly to locate it, and found 'Science' blaring from the >speakers on the Falling Star ride. As I stood there, watching the ride go >around and around, and listening to it, I thought of the carnival >travelling around the country, and all the people who would be hearing TMDR >from such an unlikely venue. When it ended, I walked away to rejoin my >family with a smile on my face and a spring in my step. :) > > Robyn > > >@ Robyn Moore >@ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html >@ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 23:28:47 +0100 (BST) From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: Howard's mime? At 23:48 04/06/98 EDT, Robin wrote: > >In a message dated 6/4/98 10:13:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, DAbbitt32@aol.com >writes: > ><< I'm wondering if Howard Jones would be on the bill if TMDR had agreed to do > it. Anyone know? >> > >What I want to know is, was it Howard Jones who had that *mime* in his videos >back in the 80's? I could swear he's the one who inflicted that mime upon us >all, but my husband thinks it was in someone else's videos though he place >whose. can anyone help? > >Robin > > ..........."though he place whose"??????? Do you mean "though he can't place whose"? Anyroadup, it WAS Howard Jones, but Dave may be getting confused with Leo Sayer who, if my memory isn't playing tricks on me, was made up like a mime when he performed his first single. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 16:10:48 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Awwwwww . . . At 12:37 AM 6/5/98 , you wrote: > >Okay, Dearest Robyn, >Spill it... > >You ever so coquettishly say: > > > Actually, you sliced it right down the middle. Robin's was a few > > days ago, and mine isn't for a few days yet. ;) > >Yet you aren't specific. C'mon, Sweetie, you gotta know we love >you, when's the big day? I'm appointing myself (un)offical keeper of >Alloy birthdays so 'fess up. We want to know what day to thank >the deity of our choice for bringing you into our midst. ::blush:: And here I was figuring I'd slide out with a cupcake and a candle in a quiet corner of the lounge. ;) It's Monday, June 8th, and for the more inquisitive among us, I'll be 35. >Lots of love (and thank you much for the hug, I really need it >these days), Love you guys right back. :) (Is everything okay with you, or are you just a bit stressed? Have a few extra hugs for good measure.) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 16:20:54 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: the weather At 04:30 AM 6/5/98 , you wrote: > >I just found out that my hometown area was pummelled by F4 tornadoes for hours >and hours last Friday night... the same night Beth & Mark were visiting & we >were talking about storms at dinner! One street right next to Binghamton >General Hospital, where my sister once worked, is simply not there anymore. >And the storm system crushed the nearby town of Spencer NY clear off the map >(all the buildings, a few banks, four churches, etc) Owego & Oswego were badly >hit too. I hadn't heard a word about any of it til I spoke with my mom >yesterday, but she's saving the newspapers for me. Scary!! ::comf:: I recognize the state as NY, but which part are you from? Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 19:28:21 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Thank you sir, may I have another In a message dated 6/5/98 6:32:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Slarvi writes: << ..........."though he place whose"??????? Do you mean "though he can't place whose"? >> Yes, that's exactly what I mean! While I'm sorry to have possibly confused you, it's comforting to me to remember that even the best of us make typos, and that I'm in VERY good company (see Thomas' unique spelling of the word 'science' in a recent post... of course this was deliberate on his part, to be sure we're all awake... ) I have to say, without appearing to blame my equipment, that I'm a mediocre typist anyway & this techno-keyboard really does some nasty things to me sometimes without my realizing... especially when I'm half asleep still, or crunched for time, which seem to be the only circumstances in which I'm able to go onto the internet. I can't count the number of times I've somehow hit the wrong combination of keys & managed to send off half-constructed e-mail to people :( Robin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 19:38:29 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: the weather In a message dated 6/5/98 7:34:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, I wrote: << And the storm system crushed the nearby town of Spencer NY clear off the map (all the buildings, a few banks, four churches, etc) Owego & Oswego were badly hit too. >> While my mom insists it was Spencer NY, I heard of a different Spencer in a different state which was cleared off the map by tornadoes... I don't know if she's confusing the two in her mind from having read so many tornado stories in the news for the past week... just to let you know I am not sure if my initial info is accurate. This is either a vital update to you (if you know someone in Spencer NY!!) or it's just me sort of... talking to myself. Robin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 19:53:14 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Howard's mime? In a message dated 6/5/98 6:32:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Slarvi writes: << Anyroadup, it WAS Howard Jones, but Dave may be getting confused with Leo Sayer who, if my memory isn't playing tricks on me, was made up like a mime when he performed his first single. >> I wanted to clarify that I do indeed like Howard Jones, and have enjoyed his work... I wasn't trying to criticize him by inquiring about the mime! I just remember that in high school one friend of mine really HATED that mime intensely & always commented on it in a low, threatening tone, when the video would come on. Robin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 20:43:16 EDT From: DAbbitt32@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Howard's mime? In a message dated 6/5/98 12:41:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Mary_A_Brown@compuserve.com writes: << On the other hand, Howard is quite entertaining and if that '80s revival tour comes to SF, I'm seriously considering going. >> I don't know if he's going to sell it on this tour, but HoJo has a CD of tracks that haven't been released via retail, which he used to sell ONLY on tour stops. If he is selling it I heartilly recommend it to my fellow Alloyites as it's quite good. - -Dabbitt ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 00:50:55 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Awwwwww . . . So.. Hi Robyn.. Thanks for explaining reality to me.. and please accept my apologies for being confused. and .. happy birthday in advance.. !! Mine will be here soon too. I was all over the place. Went to Orlando to do 3 Chevy commercials.. (How I wish I was doing them next week, I would take a day off and go to Epcot!) Then to Miami for a Benjamin Moore spot.. Jupiter for 3 medical center spots.. then to ... hmm.. New York.. another Chevy spot there.. then back to Florida for a day.. before going to Marksville Louisiana.. to scout a commercial for a casino resort there. Then back to Miami for a music video.. "Willis" a new R & B artist. Then to San Juan Puerto Rico for another music video.. this one was in Spanish.. Frankie Ruiz .. before going back to Louisiana to shoot the casino resort spot.. then back to New York to edit it.. and help a friend move there. Finally.. two more days in Florida before coming home.. Whew.. well.. you asked! Now I want to stay home for awhile! I'll give back the floor here.. but it sure is nice to be back on my own keyboard! Ciao for now.. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 00:55:33 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Interludes on the Midway Robyn.. No wonder you're so friendly!! Portland is just down the street from my hometown.. Seattle! But I got tired of rusting.. so I left. Ahh well... good to hear about your run in with Science.. Ciao for now.. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 01:02:22 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: the weather Hey Robin.. El Nino is here.. alive and well.. and taking care of business in such an unpleasant way.. All winter I thought it was just hype.. but the reality is.. El Nino did an enormous amount of damage here in the States... and elsewhere too.. Hopefully he's moving on soon. Ciao for now. Mark ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #148 ***************************