From: owner-basia-digest To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V1 #34 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org basia-digest Saturday, 17 February 1996 Volume 01 : Number 034 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: basia's publicist re: BASIA SUCKS Re: basia's publicist Re: basia's publicist BASIA ORDER! !AM! AutoReply for TimRu at spboscc5 Departures !AM! AutoReply for TimRu at spboscc5 Re: basia's publicist [none] Re: your mail Re: Ungh... Re: your mail & The Sweetest Illusion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vince Mora Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 00:32:29 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: basia's publicist > > BASIA SUCKS. PERIOD > > Juan Pablo Correa > > correaj@polaris.ncs.nova.edu > Ok, that'll do it...can we zap him or something? Juan, if you have such a > problem with Basia, why don't you just LEAVE. Because he feels a sense of power at trying to put down a large group of people who he has nothing in common with, while hiding behind his anonymous faceless computer screen. You see, such people simply don't have the courage to assert themselves in real life so they try and make up for it here. The problem is they just end up making themselves look more pathetic -- I mean, would any sane person walk into a movie theatre and tell the ENTIRE AUDIENCE that they're idiots for seeing that movie? Um, guess who ends up looking like the idiot. Just ignore him. His life is already sad enough, no need to flame him and make it worse. Vince - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- vince mora aka synth oberheim http://www.swcp.com/synth/ - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Are you an American?" "No, I'm Canadian. It's like an American, but without a gun." -- Kids in the Hall ------------------------------ From: kenneth.drew.3@nd.edu (Ken Drew) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 07:58:45 -0600 Subject: re: BASIA SUCKS >BASIA SUCKS. PERIOD > > >Juan Pablo Correa >correaj@polaris.ncs.nova.edu Is it possible to remove people like this from the list? Although their comments show a deep thought process, I think that they need to practice their work elsewhere. Just wondering..... KEN (kdrew@nd.edu) - ----------------------------------------------------------- *The Beat Farmers : WWW page at: * *http://www.ucsd.edu/sdam/artists/bf/ * *Webb Wilder : check these guys out! * - ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: "Carl Allison" Date: 16 Feb 1996 08:17:34 -0800 Subject: Re: basia's publicist As to whether you personally like Basia or not, keep it to yourself. Anyone in this newsgroup could probably post back to your network admin folks, so you should probably read the following excerpt with more than a little trepidation. I think the humor is great, but then... I'm a network admin type too. Excerpt follows... - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE SIGNATURE FROM HELL!!!! It's 200 pages long and got lots of ^Gs in it! And, it LOCKS UP YOUR TERMINAL! AND you won't find out it's from spt@waikato.ac.nz until the 199th page. And then it'll scroll past, you'll have to read the message again to find out that my post addr is C/- University of Waikato, Prvt Bag 3105, Hamilton New Zealand Here come those FORM FEEDS!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's a thursday, and I'm in a good mood. It's payday. I think I'll take some calls. I put the phone back on the hook. It rings. "I've been trying to get you for hours!" the voice at the other end screams "Not, it can't be hours" I say, putting "Blade Runner" back into it's cover and looking at the back, "it was more like 114 minutes. I was on a long phone call with the big boss, trying to get you users some better facilities" Hook; Line; and Sinker... "Oh. I'm sorry." "That's ok, I'm a tolerant person" I make a mental note to change his password to something nasty in the next couple of days. "Um, I need to know how to rename a file" he says. Oh dear... Hang on, it's payday isn't it?! I'm in a good mood. "Sure. You just go 'rm' and the filename" "Thanks" "No worries" (Now I'm in a REALLY good mood. I think I just might write that script to make saving impossible on rogue at random times like I've been think- ing about) The phone rings again. "Hello?" "Hi there" I say "Is this the Operators?" "Yes it is" I say, nice as pie "Could you get my printouts out please. I need them urgently, and I printed them over 5 minutes ago" "Your username?" I ask He gives it to me, and I write it down for later. "No worries at all!" I say, and head to the printers. There's a HUUUUUUUGE pile of printouts there, and sure enough, his is at the top of the pile. I pick it up, split it out of the rest and pour our ink- stained cleaning alcohol all over it, run it over a couple of times with the loaded tape trolley then slam it in the tape safe door some times as well. Beautiful. "Here's your printout" I say "Sorry about the delay, we've got a few printer problems." He takes a look and shits himself. "Well, can I print it again?" he asks, worried "Sure you can" I say "But no promises, the printer's a bit stuffed today" "Well can I print it on laser - is that working?" "Yeah of course, but that'll cost you" I say, oozing compassion for the geek "It doesn't matter about the cost, THIS IS URGENT!" I slide-on back into the printer room and put in the toner cartridge we save for special occasions - the one that prints thick black lines down the middle of the page and is all faint on one side. It took me quite a while to make it like that too. The printout shoots through and I bring it out immediately - I don't want to miss this! "W-w-what's happened to my printout?" the geek squeals at me. Lucky I wrote that username down - I'm really starting to develop a taste for torture. "Well nothing. I mean sure, it's a little soiled, but that cartridge has already done 47 thousand pages and been refilled 17 times. It's quite good compared to some we get" Geek pays up and starts blubbing. "Hey now. There's no reason to cry! Have you got a disk with your work on it?" He gives me a box of diskettes and I step inside and run them across the bulk eraser. I come back out again. "Sorry, I just remembered, our machine is on the fritz, you'll have to take these to the other side of campus to the machine there, it'll print them ok, and it had a brand-new toner yesterday." "GREAT!" "No worries. Oh, and hold the disks above your head the whole way there, the arth's magnetic field is particularly strong today." "Huh?" "No arguements, just do it." He wanders off, hand held high. Shit, I hate myself sometimes! - -------------------------------------- Date: 2/15/96 4:15 PM To: Carl Allison From: basia@smoe.org BASIA SUCKS. PERIOD Juan Pablo Correa correaj@polaris.ncs.nova.edu - ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by quickmail.llnl.gov with SMTP;15 Feb 1996 16:14:25 -0800 Received: from smoe.org (jane.smoe.org [199.0.65.144]) by boris.tiac.net (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta9) with SMTP id TAA26479; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 19:10:25 -0500 Received: by smoe.org (4.1/SMI-4.1-hack1) id AA18808; Thu, 15 Feb 96 19:09:51 EST Errors-To: jeffw@smoe.org Received: from polaris.ncs.nova.edu by smoe.org (4.1/SMI-4.1-hack1) id AA18799; Thu, 15 Feb 96 19:09:31 EST Received: by polaris.ncs.nova.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA12913; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 19:05:19 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 19:05:19 -0500 (EST) From: Juan Pablo Correa X-Sender: correaj@polaris To: "J.S. Lohr" Cc: basia@smoe.org Subject: Re: basia's publicist In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 70 Sender: owner-basia@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Errors-To: owner-basia@smoe.org Reply-To: basia@smoe.org X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-request@smoe.org" with "unsubscribe" as the body. ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 14:41:56 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: basia's publicist On 16 Feb 1996, Carl Allison wrote: > As to whether you personally like Basia or not, keep it to yourself. Anyone in > this newsgroup could probably post back to your network admin folks, so you > should probably read the following excerpt with more than a little > trepidation. I think the humor is great, but then... I'm a network admin type > too. Geez, Carl...all he said was that he thought Basia sucked. He didn't say he was gonna blow up Radio City Music Hall or anything like that. :) BTW, you want to see some messages that are WORTH getting ticked off over, go to alt.music.bjork (and alt.music.nin and alt.music.nirvana and so on and so forth)... Beavis and Butthead do indeed exist, and they spend their whole day posting trash on those and various other newsgroups. This mailing list is paradise...most are, because it keeps the morons far and away in the tumultuous world of the alt.***.***. Toodles! JSL. ------------------------------ From: kenneth.drew.3@nd.edu (Ken Drew) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:23:41 -0600 Subject: BASIA ORDER! >I would like to reserve 1 each of the cd's. >Please let me know who to get funds to you. >Thanks! >Steven Williams >800-234-9999 x69697 BASIA NEWS: I have JUST received confirmation of my Basia order. That means that I need to arrange payment. For your order: Basia- Angel's Blush promo CD Basia- Half A Minute (2 versions) promo CD cost: $10 per CD your total: $20 My address is: Ken Drew 1640 Portage Ave. South Bend, IN 46616-1742 USA Please place a note and address with your payment to indicate what it is you wanted. Checks are fine. Also, please e-mail me your snail mail address so I can package your item(s). When I get your check, I'll send out the package. Thanks again! ------------------------------ From: SP-ABSENTEE-NORWOOD_at_spboscc5@smtp-gateway2.silverplatter.com Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 17:14:16 EST Subject: !AM! AutoReply for TimRu at spboscc5 ========================================================================== Reply to your message sent: 2/16/96 3:47PM Subject: BASIA ORDER! - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TimRu is absent from work and will return on 02/27/1996 Messages will not be automatically forwarded to any other user. A copy of your message will remain in his/her mailbox until he/she returns ========================================================================== This is an automated reply. I will be out of the office and not checking email u ntil February 27. Your message has been safely stored away and I will get to it as soon as possible upon my return. For immediate assistance in sales and product inquiries please contact: Robert Grabski (617) 769-2599 x193 RobertG@SilverPlatter.com or Grace Fauver (617) 769-2599 x187 GraceF@SilverPlatter.com Sincerely, Tim Russell Regional Coordinator, Canada/Australia/New Zealand SilverPlatter Information TimRu@SilverPlatter.com ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 17:21:52 -0500 (EST) Subject: Departures Now that a handful of individuals on this list have been "blessed" ;D with a copy or original of the "Departures" track, I wish some would come forward and give their opinions on what they thought of it, and maybe a comment or two on "The Sweetest Interview" for those who got that deal. I'm curious as to what people thought of Basia's odd vocals on "Departures." BTW, Ben, you should have your tape in your hand tomorrow, assuming the snow here didn't screw things up royally. I forgot to include the list of questions on "The Sweetest Interview" (you never hear the interviewer ask the questions, only Basia and Danny giving their responses), so...if you need it, let me know. And the tape deal still stands: just send me a tape in a reuseable envelope and a copy of "Departures" and "The Sweetest Interview" are yours! Also, the 7" "Departures" single is still up for sale: $10. And B.J. - still waiting for your address so I can send yours out...are you still out there? Toodles, folks! This is... ============================================================================= Like ohmigod! Roach has a homepage! Find him at the Internet Roach Motel!!!!! ============================================================================= "http://zeus.towson.edu/~jlohr1" Dig up all the dirt on Agitprop's Finest Son, the Net's most famous Roach, and Wal-Mart's Biggest Pain-in-the-ass. ============================================================================= note: the page is unfinished - please excuse some of the cruddy links! -Roach ============================================================================= ...the end. ------------------------------ From: SP-ABSENTEE-NORWOOD_at_spboscc5@smtp-gateway2.silverplatter.com Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 17:32:23 EST Subject: !AM! AutoReply for TimRu at spboscc5 ========================================================================== Reply to your message sent: 2/16/96 5:31PM Subject: Departures - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TimRu is absent from work and will return on 02/27/1996 Messages will not be automatically forwarded to any other user. A copy of your message will remain in his/her mailbox until he/she returns ========================================================================== This is an automated reply. I will be out of the office and not checking email u ntil February 27. Your message has been safely stored away and I will get to it as soon as possible upon my return. For immediate assistance in sales and product inquiries please contact: Robert Grabski (617) 769-2599 x193 RobertG@SilverPlatter.com or Grace Fauver (617) 769-2599 x187 GraceF@SilverPlatter.com Sincerely, Tim Russell Regional Coordinator, Canada/Australia/New Zealand SilverPlatter Information TimRu@SilverPlatter.com ------------------------------ From: "Carl Allison" Date: 16 Feb 1996 13:33:14 -0800 Subject: Re: basia's publicist I only subscribe to one newsgroup and this is it. The others have never interested me much and most are blocked from my access at a level above me anyway. But, if I've offended anyone with my reply I apologize. Still, Juan's evaluation was probably best kept to himself. - -------------------------------------- Date: 2/16/96 11:48 AM To: Carl Allison From: basia@smoe.org On 16 Feb 1996, Carl Allison wrote: > As to whether you personally like Basia or not, keep it to yourself. Anyone in > this newsgroup could probably post back to your network admin folks, so you > should probably read the following excerpt with more than a little > trepidation. I think the humor is great, but then... I'm a network admin type > too. Geez, Carl...all he said was that he thought Basia sucked. He didn't say he was gonna blow up Radio City Music Hall or anything like that. :) BTW, you want to see some messages that are WORTH getting ticked off over, go to alt.music.bjork (and alt.music.nin and alt.music.nirvana and so on and so forth)... Beavis and Butthead do indeed exist, and they spend their whole day posting trash on those and various other newsgroups. This mailing list is paradise...most are, because it keeps the morons far and away in the tumultuous world of the alt.***.***. Toodles! JSL. - ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by quickmail.llnl.gov with SMTP;16 Feb 1996 11:47:06 -0800 Received: from smoe.org (jane.smoe.org [199.0.65.144]) by boris.tiac.net (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta9) with SMTP id OAA04495; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 14:46:24 -0500 Received: by smoe.org (4.1/SMI-4.1-hack1) id AA25378; Fri, 16 Feb 96 14:44:56 EST Errors-To: jeffw@smoe.org Received: from zeus.towson.edu by smoe.org (4.1/SMI-4.1-hack1) id AA25369; Fri, 16 Feb 96 14:44:50 EST Received: (from jlohr1@localhost) by zeus.towson.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA27674; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 14:41:57 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 14:41:56 -0500 (EST) From: "J.S. Lohr" To: basia@smoe.org Subject: Re: basia's publicist In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-basia@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Errors-To: owner-basia@smoe.org Reply-To: basia@smoe.org X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-request@smoe.org" with "unsubscribe" as the body. ------------------------------ From: marion alice bell Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:31:57 -0700 (MST) Subject: [none] Get me the H*ll off this list!!! ------------------------------ From: Philip B Hall Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 20:51:57 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: your mail On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, marion alice bell wrote: > Get me the H*ll off this list!!! > ....she cried, desperately hoping to attract the attention of a passerby on the sidewalk 15 feet below her window. But what if whoever heard her was part of the conspiracy? Whom could she trust? Oh, it was awful! How could she have allowed herself to become involved..no..ENMESHED in this hideous affair? Please, PLEASE she whispered hoarsely to the walls surrounding her, please let someone HEAR me!! ------------------------------ From: "Carl Allison" Date: 16 Feb 1996 15:52:08 -0800 Subject: Re: I wish to apologize for my errant behavior. I'll unsubscribe and ask that you remain as one of the Basia supporters. Again, I apologize for that bulk mailing. - -------------------------------------- Date: 2/16/96 3:41 PM To: Carl Allison From: basia@smoe.org Get me the H*ll off this list!!! - ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by quickmail.llnl.gov with SMTP;16 Feb 1996 15:40:08 -0800 Received: from smoe.org (jane.smoe.org [199.0.65.144]) by boris.tiac.net (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta9) with SMTP id SAA06620; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 18:36:10 -0500 Received: by smoe.org (4.1/SMI-4.1-hack1) id AA27324; Fri, 16 Feb 96 18:35:48 EST Errors-To: jeffw@smoe.org Received: from pegasus.unm.edu by smoe.org (4.1/SMI-4.1-hack1) id AA27315; Fri, 16 Feb 96 18:35:38 EST Received: by pegasus.unm.edu (Smail3.1.28.1 #41) id m0tnZd7-0000HXC; Fri, 16 Feb 96 16:31 MST Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:31:57 -0700 (MST) From: marion alice bell To: basia@smoe.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-basia@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Errors-To: owner-basia@smoe.org Reply-To: basia@smoe.org X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-request@smoe.org" with "unsubscribe" as the body. ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:27:15 -0500 (EST) Subject: Ungh... On 16 Feb 1996, Carl Allison wrote: > I wish to apologize for my errant behavior. I'll unsubscribe and ask that you > remain as one of the Basia supporters. Again, I apologize for that bulk > mailing. CARL! Don't you DARE unsubscribe! I think you're just taking this a little too seriously - this is a MAILING LIST, not a friggin city council meeting. If you've offended someone (which I don't think you did) then apologize to them and let THEM do the unsubscribing. Its hard enough gathering together Basia fans as it is and I don't think we need to lose any over something as mindless as some lurkers being obnoxious. So, chill out! Have a coke and a smile, on me :) This is... ============================================================================= Like ohmigod! Roach has a homepage! Find him at the Internet Roach Motel!!!!! ============================================================================= "http://zeus.towson.edu/~jlohr1" Dig up all the dirt on Agitprop's Finest Son, the Net's most famous Roach, and Wal-Mart's Biggest Pain-in-the-ass. ============================================================================= note: the page is unfinished - please excuse some of the cruddy links! -Roach ============================================================================= ...the end. ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:12:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: your mail & The Sweetest Illusion On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, Philip B Hall wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, marion alice bell wrote: > > > Get me the H*ll off this list!!! > > > ....she cried, desperately hoping to attract the attention of a passerby > on the sidewalk 15 feet below her window. But what if whoever heard her > was part of the conspiracy? Whom could she trust? Oh, it was awful! How > could she have allowed herself to become involved..no..ENMESHED in this > hideous affair? Please, PLEASE she whispered hoarsely to the walls > surrounding her, please let someone HEAR me!! Bravo, Phil! What's with the lurkers goin' berzerk all of a sudden? Is there some sort of disease floundering about down there? Should we be calling a proctologist? Get on with your bad selves... BTW, I never did comment about the "dissatisfaction" some have with TSI: As I've said before, everyone's entitled to their opinion. When it comes to TSI, I think my opinion may be a little biased... I found out in February '94 that TSI was going to be released three months later. Naturally, I was ecstatic...it'd been over 4 years since we'd seen something new, so... when May finally rolled around, the excitement was unbareable. Frankly, it could've been a rap album and I still would've loved it, hence my "bias." Bottom line: since there are so few albums, its my opinion that to try to rank one against another would be a waste of time because each has its own characterisic: T&T was a modern jazz gem, LWNY was a higher-budget gem, and TSI was a parole and the end of a prison sentence (and a gem, just the same). I only ever had one problem with TSI, that being "The Prayer of a Happy Housewife." That song should've been a Side B, plain and simple. This is... ============================================================================= Like ohmigod! Roach has a homepage! Find him at the Internet Roach Motel!!!!! ============================================================================= "http://zeus.towson.edu/~jlohr1" Dig up all the dirt on Agitprop's Finest Son, the Net's most famous Roach, and Wal-Mart's Biggest Pain-in-the-ass. ============================================================================= note: the page is unfinished - please excuse some of the cruddy links! -Roach ============================================================================= ...the end. ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V1 #34 **************************