From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V3 #132 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Saturday, July 4 1998 Volume 03 : Number 132 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NO BASIA CONTENT ["Ashoke S. Talukdar" ] ON TOPIC Technically speaking, new Basia album [Jeff Hamilton ] Re: SOMEWHAT ON TOPIC Reading posts out of order... ["Ashoke S. Talukdar"] KIND OF OFF TOPIC BUT NOT REALLY: Suzanne V. and Basia T. [Jeff Hamilton ] Re: Basia video [Steve Mak ] Re: Basia video [combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 11:39:33 -0400 From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" Subject: NO BASIA CONTENT >Ben wrote: > >(I've all her studio albums, >and even the Capistrano bootleg I saw at Best Buy one day!) > Ditto here. That bootleg has my favorite versions "Luka" and "Left of Center". Ben you've have been reinstated to your former position in Ashoke's Hall of Flame ... er... I mean, yes FLAME! :-) ________________________________________________________________ Ashoke S. Talukdar | When the darkness takes you talukdar@morph.ebme.cwru.edu | with her hand across your face Home : 216-381-5872 | Don't give in too quickly Imaging Lab : 216-368-8812 | Find the things she's erased MetroHealth : 216-778-8987 | Find the line, find the face Pager : 216-670-5872 | Through the grain... Cellular : 216-317-7079 | Fax : 216-368-4969 | Suzanne Vega ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 12:38:01 -0400 From: Jeff Hamilton Subject: ON TOPIC Technically speaking, new Basia album At 12:27 AM 7/3/98 -0400, Bob Rumsby wrote: >Well Basia must have upset the management at Sony by her not >releasing a *NEW* >album, as I see that they have just released a 3 album boxed set >of Time & Tide, >London Warsaw & New York, and The Sweetest Illusion. What? I knew nothing of this. Does it have new pix on the packaging, because if so, then I guess I have to go shell out $40 for a bunch of songs I already own. Does it even have at least ONE new track? A remix? Anything? Jeff Hamilton - the capitalist http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffhamilton/ "The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable pi can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change." - FORTRAN manual for Xerox computers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 12:40:48 -0400 From: Jeff Hamilton Subject: SOMEWHAT ON TOPIC Reading posts out of order... At 11:39 AM 7/3/98 -0400, Ashoke wrote that Ben wrote that Ashoke wrote: >>(I've all her studio albums, >>and even the Capistrano bootleg I saw at Best Buy one day!) >Ditto here. That bootleg has my favorite versions "Luka" and "Left of Center". And then somehow I thought that BASIA had a bootleg out called the Capistrano bootleg and then I noticed I was reading posts out of order and that in an earlier post, Ben pretty much answered my questions about the boxed set. (And I was also wondering why no one had mentioned Basia recording a few Suzanne Vega remakes.) Eventually I will get myself back in order, I'm sure... Jeff Hamilton - the capitalist http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffhamilton/ "The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable pi can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change." - FORTRAN manual for Xerox computers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 21:23:39 +0100 From: "Alfred Wong" Subject: Basia video Ben, What is your postal address again? I can send you the interview videos. I have attempted to convert a copy to NTSC (but not sure if I have done it correctly), so I will also send you a straight PAL copy. Alfred ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 19:59:45 -0400 From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" Subject: Re: SOMEWHAT ON TOPIC Reading posts out of order... >At 12:40 PM 7/3/98 -0400, a somewhat confused Jeff wrote: > > (And I was also wondering why no one had mentioned Basia > recording a few Suzanne Vega remakes.) > Well this is an interesting point. I personally don't think it would work. Suzanne is a consummate songwriter and a story teller. Basia is a consummate musician and singer. I love both their work but don't see them mixing. It would be like having an Banana Split with a Beef Wellington. Ashoke. ________________________________________________________________ Ashoke S. Talukdar | When the darkness takes you talukdar@morph.ebme.cwru.edu | with her hand across your face Home : 216-381-5872 | Don't give in too quickly Imaging Lab : 216-368-8812 | Find the things she's erased MetroHealth : 216-778-8987 | Find the line, find the face Pager : 216-670-5872 | Through the grain... Cellular : 216-317-7079 | Fax : 216-368-4969 | Suzanne Vega ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 20:57:22 -0400 From: Jeff Hamilton Subject: KIND OF OFF TOPIC BUT NOT REALLY: Suzanne V. and Basia T. At 07:59 PM 7/3/98 -0400, Ashoke wrote: >Well this is an interesting point. I personally don't think it would work. Suzanne is a consummate songwriter and a story teller. Basia is a consummate musician and singer. I love both their work but don't see them mixing. It would be like having an Banana Split with a Beef Wellington. Of course not (my point being that I thought it had actually happened!). Suzanne Vega is, in my opinion, a little more exciting than Basia is (I can't think of a better word than "exciting", but those of you who listen to Basia and Suzanne Vega know the difference of which I am speaking. I don't mean that Basia's music is not exciting; I mean that out of the two of them, Suzanne Vega would be more likely to go bungee-jumping or drag racing than Basia would, and that part of her persona is reflected in many of her (Suzanne's) songs.). >Ashoke S. Talukdar | When the darkness takes you >talukdar@morph.ebme.cwru.edu | with her hand across your face >Home : 216-381-5872 | Don't give in too quickly >Imaging Lab : 216-368-8812 | Find the things she's erased >MetroHealth : 216-778-8987 | Find the line, find the face >Pager : 216-670-5872 | Through the grain... >Cellular : 216-317-7079 | >Fax : 216-368-4969 | Suzanne Vega Is there a phone number I can reach you at, just in case none of the above work? Jeff Hamilton - the capitalist http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffhamilton/ "The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable pi can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change." - FORTRAN manual for Xerox computers ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:43:44 +0000 From: Steve Mak Subject: Re: Basia video Can anyone help me to convert the Basia CD rom into a video tape? I don't have a CD rom player! Help! I will pay! Steve - ---------- From: "Alfred Wong" To: Subject: Basia video Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 21:23:39 +0100 Ben, What is your postal address again? I can send you the interview videos. I have attempted to convert a copy to NTSC (but not sure if I have done it correctly), so I will also send you a straight PAL copy. Alfred ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 05:09:42 GMT From: combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee) Subject: Re: Basia video Steve Mak writes: > > > Can anyone help me to convert the Basia CD rom into a video tape? I don't > have a CD rom player! > Help! I will pay! I will probably do a tape release too, but the CD-ROM will be distributed first -- its more durable, and easier to duplicate. - -- Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) PS: <53706f6f6e21> 48 /Helvetica findfont scalefont setfont show showpage ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V3 #132 ***************************