From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V5 #365 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, October 11 2000 Volume 05 : Number 365 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [AVALON] New Additions at Roxyrama ["=?iso-8859-1?B?VGjpcuhzZSBPJ0Rvb] Re: [AVALON] Esmeralda...the bells !! [Doll819@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] What's ROXY??? [Cecilia ] [AVALON] The 39 Steps [nick williams ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:19:13 +0100 From: "=?iso-8859-1?B?VGjpcuhzZSBPJ0Rvbm5lbGw=?=" Subject: RE: [AVALON] New Additions at Roxyrama Keep up the good work Chris! Without dedicated people like your good self, lazy fans (i.e. people like moi)would be languishing in a sea of ignorance! Cheers Therese > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org]On Behalf Of > Chris Turner > Sent: 09 October 2000 22:09 > To: Avalon > Subject: [AVALON] New Additions at Roxyrama > > > Hello All, > > Since I created Roxyrama a few months ago, several things have become > noticeable. > > Firstly the tremendous interest there still is in this band. I > receive over > 500 page hits per week, without the luxury of being listed with all the > major search engines. Feedback is almost without exception positive. The > most common question being: when will Roxy reform? > > Secondly, if you set up a site like this, you are expected to become the > font of all Roxy wisdom. It's not easy to answer the dozens of questions > fired at me each month, but it is wonderful to know that Ferry is so > appreciated. Recent correspondence has included enthusiastic requests from > Chile, South Africa, Scandinavia and Japan, and from young and old alike. > One chap mailed to tell me that his 12 year-old daughter had used the site > as the basis for a school project. > > Nicest of all though are the large number of contributions I have received > from callers. Mark Bennett-Tighe, a non-Avalonian, has sent me a series of > 70's vintage articles for publication, the first few of which can be found > under the articles index at www.roxyrama.com I will be publishing more in > the coming weeks. > > Regards > > Chris > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > _________ > Come to Las Vegas and hear the indestructible tagline sing > selections from "The Jazz Singer" ! > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Come to Las Vegas and hear the indestructible tagline sing selections from "The Jazz Singer" ! To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:54:12 EDT From: Doll819@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Esmeralda...the bells !! Hey Ivor! Not only are bells ringing, but at the end of the Stones Honky Tonk Women (on the LP), & at the end of REM's End of the World, you hear a horn honk a couple of times. See ya! Debs ___________________________________________________________________________ Come to Las Vegas and hear the indestructible tagline sing selections from "The Jazz Singer" ! To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 05:58:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Cecilia Subject: Re: [AVALON] What's ROXY??? - --- Alex wrote: > Oh, please, please, explain the meaning of the word 'Roxy' to a > poor > Russian!!! ages ago, someone told me Roxy is a medley between "rock" and "sexy". Cecilia better late than never rather nouveau than never __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Come to Las Vegas and hear the indestructible tagline sing selections from "The Jazz Singer" ! To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 01:03:22 -0700 (PDT) From: nick williams Subject: [AVALON] The 39 Steps Got hold of a copy of Hitchcocks "The 39 Steps" over the weekend having become curious after the recent discussion. A very nice film full of wit, romance, and suspense, if slightly naive and surreal by todays standards. Easy to see why Ferry liked this one. It's very similar to the early Bond movies. The central character, Richard Hannay, is the cigarette smoking, stetson and long tailed coat wearing smoothie who has girls clustering to him like moths around a flame. Hannay meets a mysterious women in a London theatre ("Your place or mine") and it transpires that she is attempting to foil a plot by foreign spies to uncover the secret of "The 39 Steps" ("What do you want from me"). The women is murdered in Hannays apartment during the night and he is immediately suspected ("Where do we go from here, I wish I knew"). Fleeing to Scotland in an attempt to clear his name ("Living on borrowed time, lets make a move") he evades continuous police chases only to innocently enter the home of the man behind "The 39 Steps". He survives an attempt on his life and also escapes from two spies (calling theselves the police) but is forced to do so while handcuffed to the women who led the spies to him ("Don't get me wrong this time"). She eventually discovers that Hannay is innocent and justice prevails with the real culprits being exposed. The film is a reminder of the power of b&w in a suspense thriller like this. A pity that it's rarely employed nowadays. Ferry would surely agree if the splendid b&w photography on the inner sleeves of Boys & Girls, Taxi and Mamouna as well as the dark shots from the New Town video are anything to go by. Anyway I can unhesitatingly recommend this movie to any Mamouna fans. It's a top movie for its time (1935) and it will give you a greater appreciation for the song. If you haven't already done so, go out and see it. Nick __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Come to Las Vegas and hear the indestructible tagline sing selections from "The Jazz Singer" ! 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