From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V9 #259 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, October 12 2004 Volume 09 : Number 259 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] The Porter [Chris Turner ] Re: [AVALON] The Porter [Jocelynfiske@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Ferry in proper full length film role! [Jocelynfiske@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Ferry in proper full length film role! [KWil632057@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Ferry in proper full length film role! [Jocelynfiske@aol.com] [AVALON] Roxy, Manzo, Eno in the news [DEAGLERR@aol.com] [AVALON] Ferry in proper full length film role! [KWil632057@aol.com] [AVALON] =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?In_memory_of_Glenn_Andr=E9_=28posted_for_Kari?= =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?=29?= [Colleen M] [AVALON] =?utf-8?Q?RE=3A_=5BAVALON=5D_In_memory_of_Glenn_?= =?utf-8?Q?Andr=C3=A9_=28posted_for_Kari=29?= ["Therese O'Donnell] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:00:23 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Turner Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Porter He's probably worrying about how to tell Mercedes that he's just bought an #80,000 Audi... Chris --- Chandla911@aol.com wrote: > He's still doing the lemon sucking thing... > > Best wishes > Richard Mills > > n/p Ed Harcourt > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 05:58:57 -0400 From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Porter More likely he's laughing at the fact that he'll be receiving the exclusive new Mercedes CLS free gratis for his involvement. I'm presently doing a project with Mercedes which involves persuading Mercedes drivers who are coming up to their 3rd year anniversary with the company to celebrate in leather (1st year is paper, 2nd year is cotton , just coincidence that 3rd year was more interesting!) Perhaps they can persuade the Old Boy to part with his leather trousers for the cause. I will endeavour to find out from them if it's possible to get the full film for preview. Knowing Mercedes it'll be out in the cinema before they even reply to a request, but if I have any luck I'll send it to J O'B to stick up on the site. Love the (anon) music to the clip BTW (very European Film Noire). Look out for Dani Minougue as one of the next backing singers on tour and Max Beesley thrashing his bongos. Jocelyn ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 07:50:07 -0400 From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry in proper full length film role! My spies tell me that serial-killing Mr F has been doing night shoots for Breakfast on Pluto for the past couple of weeks. I think Dr Robert might have to be employed by the on set caterers to make the Horlicks! Let's hope he doesn't end up on the cutting room floor (phwar nah, phwar nah). Jocelyn ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 07:55:46 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry in proper full length film role! Well, MY Spies tell me that Mr Ferry is so good in his brief role that the producers are finding a way to expand his part. M In a message dated 11/10/2004 12:50:07 GMT Daylight Time, Jocelynfiske writes: My spies tell me that serial-killing Mr F has been doing night shoots for Breakfast on Pluto for the past couple of weeks. I think Dr Robert might have to be employed by the on set caterers to make the Horlicks! Let's hope he doesn't end up on the cutting room floor (phwar nah, phwar nah). Jocelyn ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:27:28 -0400 From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry in proper full length film role! Well, MY spies tell me that Mr Ferry is so good in his brief role that the producers are finding a way to expand his part. M Isn't that why they employ fluffers? And BTW what's M doing at your place, she's supposed to be in New York. No 6 (packet of 20) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:45:27 EDT From: DEAGLERR@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Roxy, Manzo, Eno in the news the current UNCUT's free CD, MOB LIFE:great tracks from the films of Martin Scorsese, features the inevitable Love Is The Drug - as used in CASINO. They did however substitute the live reunion version. Last month's UNCUT CD featured Spiky Green Cactus by PM from the new album. ahdn't seen any notes onlist about either. You compleatist out there get busy! Thanls to my friend Barbara, the below article about Mr Eno from the NY Times. (NOTE in future please when listing an article from an online source, cut and paste as I have, see below, so there's no annoying sign in to these news sites! ) Grumpy regards, R Deagle Plugging in a Musical Visionary's Next Ideas By JON PARELES Published: October 8, 2004 Yoni Brook for The New York Times Brian Eno tinkers with computers to create song lyrics. Printer-Friendly Format Monday the musician Brian Eno visited Terminal 5 of Kennedy Airport, the curvilinear 1962 futuristic building designed by Eero Saarinen for T.W.A. that has been closed since 2001. An art exhibition of installations designed for the space had just opened there, and Mr. Eno, whose 1979 ambient album "Music for Airports" was reissued this week, was preparing a lecture-demonstration. He was in New York for appearances that included a dialogue with the filmmaker Todd Haynes last night as part of the Music and Media series at the Museum of Modern Art. Mr. Eno's lecture at Terminal 5 was moved when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey shut down the entire art exhibition after a opening-night party damaged the building. But on Monday, in the terminal's main lobby, Mr. Eno set up four boomboxes in a semicircle and inserted homemade CD's labeled "Low Velocity Piano." As he started each one, single sustained piano notes floated into the air, hovering or harmonizing at random, turning the space into a zone of serene contemplation. An onlooker joked that the technology was primitive. "It's primitive," Mr. Eno replied, "but it works." Mr. Eno has been turning primitive and not so primitive ideas into visionary music for more than three decades. For someone who has called himself a nonmusician, he has done well in music: producing definitive albums for U2, David Bowie and Talking Heads and releasing three dozen albums of his own. He is working on a Web site that will allow fans to hear his archive of unreleased music. He has also accomplished some major paradigm shifting. As a member of Roxy Music and on his own albums of songs in the 1970's, he shook up the sound and internal construction of rock tunes. He popularized the notion of ambient music, which is meant to be heard in the background, but has greater artistic ambitions than Muzak. Collaborating with David Byrne in 1981, he pioneered what might be called ethno-techno music with "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts." That album added studio backup to found vocals in ways that presaged hit albums from Deep Forest and Moby. Mr. Eno's four albums of songs from the 1970's have just been reissued, and current bands are still mining their brittle, unlikely combinations of instruments. Few, however, can match the articulate derangement of lyrics like, "If you study the logistics and heuristics of the mystics/You will find that their minds rarely move in a line." When he was writing those songs, "I don't remember ever spending any time writing lyrics,'' he said. "Basically it's as if I'm just taking dictation from somewhere. And I can't write lyrics like that now." Between other projects, he has been working for the last year to finish a new album of songs. By design and instinct, Mr. Eno has been a conduit of ideas from the avant-garde into pop. "I thought that I could import some of that stuff into pop and make something new," he said. Listening to Steve Reich's early tape pieces, Mr. Eno felt as if the music was "giving the material its own life,'' he said. "I realized that very complex things could come from the recombination of very simple elements. And that became the dominant theme of a lot of what I subsequently did. I got involved in a lot of different experiments of basically inventing systems that generate music." There have been very few technological advances for creating songs, he said. "If you think of all other aspects of music-making, they've all become much easier. But the song is pretty much where it was in the days of Chaucer. It hasn't moved on. It's still as difficult a problem. And particularly this applies to lyric writing." "I'm trying to develop a software that will become a repository for the kind of lyrical ideas you like," he continued. "You might include in it all your previous lyrics and other people's lyrics that you somehow respond to. Then, when you come to writing a new song, what you enter into the machine is the phonetic and rhythmic structure. And it starts looking through your database for matches." He also has a simpler method. Many singers find melodies and the beginnings of lyrics by singing nonsense syllables. Mr. Eno has started to play them into computer voice-recognition systems and see what comes out. "An amazing service as a producer, and something I would love to do, is to be able to combine several different lyric-writing technologies," he said. "And to go to a singer and say, 'O.K., do what you normally do; scat your vocal. Come back in a couple of hours and I'll have several hundred sketches of songs that you can look at.' " He relies on a more basic studio skill: extreme reactions to music. "I am hopelessly opinionated in the studio,'' he said. "I really love things or I hate them. And I try to change the balance within the material to follow the things that sound like something I haven't heard before. That's actually what I'm always interested in, I think: something I haven't quite heard." ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:19:58 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Ferry in proper full length film role! No wonder he was spotted at all the gangster related movie premieres in the last few months! Research! J n/p Let Me Kiss You - Morrissey (Exactly the kind of thing I'd expect from Ferry if I didn't know better). ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:50:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Colleen Matan Subject: [AVALON] =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?In_memory_of_Glenn_Andr=E9_=28posted_for_Kari?= =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?=29?= - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:57:24 +0200 From: Kari Solberg Subject: In memory of Glenn Andri I'm crying while I'm writing this. My wonderful, loyal young friend Glenn is dead. I just found out. He died on 18 June. It was a car accident. Some roadworks were going on... Glenn joined Avalon in April 2002. In the (now lost) section 'Profile' on Roxytalk Glenn Andre wrote about himself: Born: July 28th, 1984 so that means I'm eighteen this year (2002)!!!! Lives in: Vatvedt, Norway Occupation: Student A little about me: My name is Glenn Svendsen, and I live in Norway. My interests are movies, music, computer, quadrugby and lots of other things. I sit in a wheelchair after I broke my neck in 1998. I live with my Mum, her boyfriend and my brother (we also have a dog). Discovered Roxy/Ferry in: 1999, after I had been to his concert in Oslo Concert House. Favourite Roxy-albums: Stranded, Manifesto and Country Life. Favourite Roxy-songs: Avalon, Same Old Scene, Do The Strand and Both Ends Burning. Favourite Ferry-albums: Frantic, Mamouna and Let's Stick Together. Favourite Ferry-songs: Cruel, Nobody Loves Me, Which Way To Turn, Casanova and Let's Stick Together. Shows: Bryan Ferry in 1999 (the ATGB-tour) and hopefully the tour this year. - --------- Glenn and I became very close friends, even if I'm old enough to bee his grandma! All because of our mutual love for Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music! We exchanged hundreds of emails. We called it 'Daily Mail'. When he for a long time didn't have internet connection, we wrote snailmails. He told me he had never been depressed even if he broke his neck when diving at 14! He loved life,..was so wise. Said he had so much to be thankful for, being alive! He was so proud last year, when he got his own apartment! Managed to do everything himself, sitting in his wheelchair, just with a minimum of help with cleaning of the house. Even his hands where crippled, but he got a position as an apprentice at a school office. His excitement had no limit when in June 2003, he could drive his own car..... He was the nicest and most optimistic guy I have ever met. Oh yes, we met in Langesund. My daughter took a picture of us, it's on vivaroxymusic/Fan pictures Frantic tour, Kari and Lenn (his name was spelled wrong there). Glenn had so many interests, and many friends. He was very caring, always comforting me when I was ill. Sent me a candle and a candlestick for Christmas. Last May, when he at last was able to get online again, he was so happy he could join Avalon once again. His last mail to me is from 4 June. As I never got any answer after three mails, I knew that something was very wrong and was worried, thinking of him every day. I found out the terrible fact today when calling his boss. This is hard. So sad..how can it be true that he is gone, not even 20 years old? It was an honour to be your friend Glenn Andri Svendsen... Takk for at du var min venn Glenn, jeg vil aldri glemme ditt ukuelige livsmot! Kari ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:38:56 +0100 From: "Therese O'Donnell" Subject: [AVALON] =?utf-8?Q?RE=3A_=5BAVALON=5D_In_memory_of_Glenn_?= =?utf-8?Q?Andr=C3=A9_=28posted_for_Kari=29?= This is a most moving tribute in the most tragic of circumstances. Superbly expressed. Therese Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org on behalf of Colleen Matan Sent: Mon 11/10/2004 22:50 To: avalon@smoe.org Cc: Subject: [AVALON] In memory of Glenn AndrC) (posted for Kari) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:57:24 +0200 From: Kari Solberg Subject: In memory of Glenn Andri I'm crying while I'm writing this. My wonderful, loyal young friend Glenn is dead. I just found out. He died on 18 June. It was a car accident. Some roadworks were going on... Glenn joined Avalon in April 2002. In the (now lost) section 'Profile' on Roxytalk Glenn Andre wrote about himself: Born: July 28th, 1984 so that means I'm eighteen this year (2002)!!!! Lives in: Vatvedt, Norway Occupation: Student A little about me: My name is Glenn Svendsen, and I live in Norway. My interests are movies, music, computer, quadrugby and lots of other things. I sit in a wheelchair after I broke my neck in 1998. I live with my Mum, her boyfriend and my brother (we also have a dog). Discovered Roxy/Ferry in: 1999, after I had been to his concert in Oslo Concert House. Favourite Roxy-albums: Stranded, Manifesto and Country Life. Favourite Roxy-songs: Avalon, Same Old Scene, Do The Strand and Both Ends Burning. Favourite Ferry-albums: Frantic, Mamouna and Let's Stick Together. Favourite Ferry-songs: Cruel, Nobody Loves Me, Which Way To Turn, Casanova and Let's Stick Together. Shows: Bryan Ferry in 1999 (the ATGB-tour) and hopefully the tour this year. --------- Glenn and I became very close friends, even if I'm old enough to bee his grandma! All because of our mutual love for Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music! We exchanged hundreds of emails. We called it 'Daily Mail'. When he for a long time didn't have internet connection, we wrote snailmails. He told me he had never been depressed even if he broke his neck when diving at 14! He loved life,..was so wise. Said he had so much to be thankful for, being alive! He was so proud last year, when he got his own apartment! Managed to do everything himself, sitting in his wheelchair, just with a minimum of help with cleaning of the house. Even his hands where crippled, but he got a position as an apprentice at a school office. His excitement had no limit when in June 2003, he could drive his own car..... He was the nicest and most optimistic guy I have ever met. Oh yes, we met in Langesund. My daughter took a picture of us, it's on vivaroxymusic/Fan pictures Frantic tour, Kari and Lenn (his name was spelled wrong there). Glenn had so many interests, and many friends. He was very caring, always comforting me when I was ill. Sent me a candle and a candlestick for Christmas. Last May, when he at last was able to get online again, he was so happy he could join Avalon once again. His last mail to me is from 4 June. As I never got any answer after three mails, I knew that something was very wrong and was worried, thinking of him every day. I found out the terrible fact today when calling his boss. This is hard. So sad..how can it be true that he is gone, not even 20 years old? It was an honour to be your friend Glenn Andri Svendsen... Takk for at du var min venn Glenn, jeg vil aldri glemme ditt ukuelige livsmot! Kari ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V9 #259 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest