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avalon-digest         Thursday, March 20 2008         Volume 12 : Number 361



                               Today's Subjects:
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  [AVALON] How could you choose between Brian Eno and Clay Shirky?  [Chandla]
  [AVALON] How could you choose between Bryan Ferry and Jimmy Somerville?   [Chandla911@aol.co]
  Re: [AVALON] How could you choose between Bryan Ferry and Jimmy Somerville?   [Larry Buchalter <lawrenc6@ix.netcom]
  Re: [AVALON] Roxy and other bands like SAHB  [Larry Buchalter <lawrenc6@ix]

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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:59:15 EDT
From: Chandla911@aol.com
Subject: [AVALON] How could you choose between Brian Eno and Clay Shirky?

Good times to be had last Monday night (March 17 2008) as Brian Eno, the  
"brains behind Roxy Music" - OK, OK, my quote, not actually said by anyone other  
than - gave another of his unfathomable talks, together with New Yorker  
professor and chief lecturer Clay Shirky. I must be getting the hang of these as  
it made much more obvious sense than some of the previous events where 
subjects  matter has included things from...well, what HASN'T it included? They seem 
to  ramble aimlessly on enjoying the view while nerdily recording the rise and 
rise  of technology in modern worlds (real and virtual) and the power 
networks that  inevitably spring from their loins.
 
Still with me?
 
Brian started grumpily enough and totally in keeping with his public  
face-to-face persona by criticising the hosts ICA for using too small a room and  
therefore "for the 19th time" selling out weeks in advance. "Would someone from  
the ICA please take note and hire a larger space next time?", he bleated. He 
had  a point - the Nash Room seems like a destination for people who enjoy the  
longest route to a long-forgotten loft in the rafters of an old  
mansion-house.
 
But warming to what is potentially a very cold sterile subject in the wrong  
hands, Brian softened up and talked about the origins of the Internet, the 
WELL  project, how dentists co-ordinating their diaries were responsible for 
online  bulletin boards, how the Internet "became established as this huge 
mastrurbation  machine...sorry, I mean marketing tool", flash-mobbing, the formation 
of the  2006 passenger charter created in USA by the revolt by users of 
airlines who  incarcerate them when flights are grounded using the Web to network 
and exert  their commercial influence, etc etc...we could have talked long into 
the night  but the talk was curtailed after 70 minutes because naturally Brian 
and Clay  have products to sell and sign in the bookstore downstairs - 
Brian's 2nd edition  of 77 Million Paintings DVD and Clay's "Here Comes Everybody" 
book.
 
What was mesmerising between snatches of information was the physical  
similarity of the two speakers. There may be decades between them in age but  both 
are dome-headed beshaven bespectacled intellects on human legs...and almost  
interchangeable but for the evident characteristics embued in each by upbringing 
 in Woodbridge, Suffolk and New York respectively. Magic (as Paul Daniels 
might  say).
 
All good  things
Richard Mills


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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:59:29 EDT
From: Chandla911@aol.com
Subject: [AVALON] How could you choose between Bryan Ferry and Jimmy Somerville? 

You don't have to! - check out www.myspace.com/herculesandloveaffair and  
play Blind with guest vocalist.
 
Quite brilliant - fair exchange rate for Daniel Craig on the bed, I'd say.  
And always happy to hear another track with Antony on vox...
 
All good  things
Richard Mills


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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:44:34 -0700
From: Larry Buchalter <lawrenc6@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: [AVALON] How could you choose between Bryan Ferry and Jimmy Somerville? 

I was listening to some elkie brooks on you tube about ten days ago and  
I suddenly had an urge to hear Sensational Alex Harvey Band "Vambo"  
again. the only time I everyr saw or heard them stateside was on a  
broadcast of Rock Concert as a 17 year old (50 now!) and a number of  
sites called the band a "glam band . How good were they really .  
Another site said they were the UK highest grossing concert act in the  
mid '70's. Alex had ben around since the '50's. But how did Zal  
Cleminson and the band compare to Bowie, Roxie Mott , T.Rex and the  
like?

Larry Buchalter
On Mar 19, 2008, at 5:59 AM, Chandla911@aol.com wrote:

> You don't have to! - check out www.myspace.com/herculesandloveaffair  
> and
> play Blind with guest vocalist.
>
> Quite brilliant - fair exchange rate for Daniel Craig on the bed, I'd  
> say.
> And always happy to hear another track with Antony on vox...
>
> All good  things
> Richard Mills
>
>
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> ____
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:46:01 -0700
From: Larry Buchalter <lawrenc6@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: [AVALON] Roxy and other bands like SAHB

I was listening to some elkie brooks on you tube about ten days ago and  
I suddenly had an urge to hear Sensational Alex Harvey Band "Vambo"  
again. the only time I everyr saw or heard them stateside was on a  
broadcast of Rock Concert as a 17 year old (50 now!) and a number of  
sites called the band a "glam band . How good were they really .  
Another site said they were the UK highest grossing concert act in the  
mid '70's. Alex had ben around since the '50's. But how did Zal  
Cleminson and the band compare to Bowie, Roxie Mott , T.Rex and the  
like?

Larry Buchalter
On Mar 19, 2008, at 5:59 AM, Chandla911@aol.com wrote:

> You don't have to! - check out www.myspace.com/herculesandloveaffair  
> and
> play Blind with guest vocalist.
>
> Quite brilliant - fair exchange rate for Daniel Craig on the bed, I'd  
> say.
> And always happy to hear another track with Antony on vox...
>
> All good  things
> Richard Mills
>
>
> _______________________________________________________________________ 
> ____
> To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with:  unsubscribe avalon


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