From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V11 #47 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, February 21 2006 Volume 11 : Number 047 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Dear Mary...Help! ["Nigel Hollis" Subject: [AVALON] Dear Mary...Help! In the Xmas edition of the Spectator`s column "Your Problems Solved", the magazines "agony aunt"- "Mary" invites (quote) "some of her favorite figures in the public eye to submit personal problems for her attention". Brian Eno ask`s - "Dear Mary" "I often find myself in social situations where people I don`t know try to start a conversation by asking, "So what are you working on at the moment?" For some reason this perfectly innocent question annoys me - perhaps because I can never think of an answer concise and entertaining enough for the circumstances, or perhaps because I suspect that they don`t really want to know anyway. I wonder if you might be able to suggest a response which would have the effect of maintaning the good feeling of the gathering and yet not force me into a detailed and fruitless description of as-yet-unformed new work". A. "Any artist will agree - the question is maddening but it could also be open to domestic interpretation. Try to find common ground in your reply and extract some genuinely useful information from your interlocutor. For example, say you have been sanding a door prior to repainting it and it seemed to take an inordinately long time. Can they offer any tips on how to do this job most efficiently?" So there you go folks - next time you meet Mr Eno at a social gathering and you are lost as to what to ask him - how about "How is your latest work going -I am told it is to be called "Music For Sanding Doors To?" I wonder what our Mr Ferry might ask an "agony aunt" if so invited ???? N. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:32:23 EST From: JohnOBrien001@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Anorak Exam Platinum Edition To add some humour to the proceedings I have came up with another Roxy/Ferry anorak exam. If you score more than 70% you are elevated to the platinum anorak complete with Manalo Blahnik slippers. (1) Despite knowing that Brian in accounts is spelt with an i you insist in writing every bit of correspondence with his name spelt with a Y. (2) As you are now banned from putting any more Roxy/Ferry memorabilia/pictures on the wall by your long suffering family you get a copy of the Rossetti painting used on the More Than This single sleeve and hope they don't notice the reference. (3) You insist on writing "Bryan Ferry + Roxy Music" with a '+' and not '&' or 'and' as that's the way 'Flesh + Blood' was written. (4) Your own handwriting is similar to the font on the Roxy debut album. (5) Every time you see Brian form accounts you think to yourself "how cool you could have been". (6) You grounded your 11 year old for 3 weeks because she changed your PC wallpaper from the For Your Pleasure inner to a picture of the family cat. (Incidentally, called Eno) (7) Your PC spell checker is programmed to spell Dreamhome as one word just like the For Your Pleasure album. (8) You have tried every doorbell specialist in the country to see if they can supply you a custom made chime to the opening of Re-make/Re-model. (9) You have already burned a CD with the Roxy tunes you want played at your funeral with instructions to your family at what part of the service they are played at and have sealed it in an envelope not to be opened until you die. (10) You want to give Brian from accounts mother and father a slap. Good luck John O'Bryan ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V11 #47 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest