From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V3 #268 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, November 28 1998 Volume 03 : Number 268 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: A Thanksgiving Present... ["Brian Cundieff" ] Hello there (new day for me) [Ray Navarra ] Re: A Thanksgiving Present... [Beverly Martin ] Re: Hello there (new day for me) ["Ashoke S. Talukdar" ] Re: A Thanksgiving Present... [combee@dacha.yak.net (Ben Combee)] Re: Odp: basia-digest V3 #263 ["Leslie Brown" ] Re: A Thanksgiving Present... ["Leslie Brown" ] Re: Hello there (new day for me) ["Leslie Brown" ] Re: A Thanksgiving Present... ["Leslie Brown" ] Re: A Thanksgiving (& Xmas & Hanukah & Kwanzaa&...) Present... [Joel Cair] Re: A Thanksgiving Present... [Beverly Martin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 02:53:38 +0900 From: "Brian Cundieff" Subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Present... From: Beverly Martin Date: Friday, November 27, 1998 00:26 >...as the HTML architect for Kevin Segura's Basia: The International >Discography -- we welcome you to the official grand opening today at: > > http://members.tripod.com/~Basiafan > > There is a quiz/survey at the "front page" and tons of graphics from >Kevin's massive Basia collection. Thank you both! It was really cool to see the covers of so many CDs I will never, in all likelihood, own--including those I purchased almost a year ago (*but never received*) from a certain (ex-?)list member. By the way, if anyone has any information about You Know Who, please e-mail me privately. Unfortunately, I can't change my display to 800x600. When I try, that paperclip guy from Word pops up and says, "Foo! Are you crazy?!!" My monitor is not exactly top of the line. Anyway, thanks again, and keep up the good work! - -Brian* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:21:16 +0100 (CET) From: Ray Navarra Subject: Hello there (new day for me) Hi everyone, I'm new in here; with thanks to Ashoki who told me that Basia mailing list exists. A little more about old shameless me: I love Pet Shop Boys, Massive Attack, Suzanne Vega, George Michael, Basia... I've got the rather diverse taste in music. I record my own songs, which you can preview on my website; one of them, "Rain Will Fall" was influenced by Basia's sound. My favourite Basia album: London Warsaw New York. Favourite song: Cruising For Bruising. This is a reply for first digest I received: > >Unfortunately for us, he is right. This album is really a "Greatest Hits > of > >Basia" rather than "The Best of Basia". You can almost tell that the songs > >were picked on the basis of popularity. > You think so? Some of them, obviously, but I've never thought of "Perfect > Mother" as being a popular kind of song. It was pretty popular in Poland; on the Radio 3 chart it went into top 20, if I remember. Wasn't this a single? > A fellow Suzanne Vega list member turns out to be a Basia fan also. His > name is Ray Navarra (I assume that's his real name). Anyway, he inquired Hehe, it's not, to be honest. It's my kind-of artistic pseudonyme. > >Yes, I know, she recently came to Poland to promote the album. She's done > >some interviews, but she didn't play live :( (she only played live here > >once, in 1994) > So she is doing at least SOME promoting. Once again on the other side of > the ocean. Drat! I had read this in the Polish newspaper called "Halo" which is not very reliable, but I think this might be true. Bye for now... (-) Ray [::: Ray, obviously: go to :: Features samples from my new album :::] [::: members.xoom.com/obvious :: "Discovering"; soon: Regrets promo MP3 :::] [::: Quite Pet Shop Boys: members.xoom.com/quite_psb :::] [::: Current number one: Robbie Williams "No regrets" :::] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:53:18 -0600 From: Beverly Martin Subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Present... Brian Cundieff wrote: > From: Beverly Martin > Date: Friday, November 27, 1998 00:26 > > >...as the HTML architect for Kevin Segura's Basia: The International > >Discography -- we welcome you to the official grand opening today at: > > > > http://members.tripod.com/~Basiafan > > > > There is a quiz/survey at the "front page" and tons of graphics from > >Kevin's massive Basia collection. > > Thank you both! It was really cool to see the covers of so many CDs I will > never, in all likelihood, own--including those I purchased almost a year ago > (*but never received*) from a certain (ex-?)list member. By the way, if > anyone has any information about You Know Who, please e-mail me privately. Hmmm... da insect??? Ja, we speak later you and I. > Unfortunately, I can't change my display to 800x600. When I try, that > paperclip guy from Word pops up and says, "Foo! Are you crazy?!!" My monitor > is not exactly top of the line. Darn! I will look into a fix -- won't bug Ben right now though. > Anyway, thanks again, and keep up the good work! > -Brian* Thanks for checking it out Brian! -- Beverly Martin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:52:01 -0500 From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" Subject: Re: Hello there (new day for me) Hi gang! I was meaning to post a Chronicle on Wednesday about Thanksgiving but pastry baking took preference and now it's lost its topicality! Will think of something else... I have a question for some of the veterans. How different is the "Baby You're Mine" street version from the studio version? (BTW, this is another song where I can't decide if I like the studio version better than the BOB cut). To Beverly and Kevin: I can see it all now: Bev-N-Kev, Inc., Web Publishers for the Divas! :-D GREAT JOB with the site! I was glad to see that TSI was the favorite pic in the "quiz" results although, with relatively few responses yet, I think my vote kind tipped that scale - I'm glad!. :-) > Ray "who-is-not-really-Ray" Navarra wrote: > >A little more about old shameless me: I love Pet Shop Boys, Massive >Attack, Suzanne Vega, George Michael, Basia... > Oh dear! Now I am really afraid - you're not my clone by any chance are you? :-D Welcome to the gang!! We don't bite unless you want us to. And yes. "Perfect Mother" was a single that I tried, rather unsuccessfully, to find. It has recently become one of my favorite tracks. Oh well... Waiting for a concert, so I can light a candle for the chorus of "Clear Horizon". Meg, are you ready? (We have to go in TSI outfits of course, complete with a fake baby). Regards, Ashoke. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:06:08 -0600 From: Beverly Martin Subject: Re: Hello there (new day for me) "Ashoke S. Talukdar" wrote: > Hi gang! > > I was meaning to post a Chronicle on Wednesday about Thanksgiving but > pastry baking took preference and now it's lost its topicality! Will think > of something else... Hey.... now we need samples of this stuff, y'know! > I have a question for some of the veterans. How different is the "Baby > You're Mine" street version from the studio version? (BTW, this is another > song where I can't decide if I like the studio version better than the BOB > cut) To me, it wasn't a huge difference.... but then for me the live album is BOB anyway, it's like the cuts selected for CH were the "not-so-live" tracks. > To Beverly and Kevin: > > I can see it all now: Bev-N-Kev, Inc., Web Publishers for the Divas! :-D Heh. Mainly for my favorite Polish Diva. > GREAT JOB with the site! I was glad to see that TSI was the favorite pic > in the "quiz" results although, with relatively few responses yet, I think > my vote kind tipped that scale - I'm glad!. :-) Hehehehe..... thanks again. In fact, let's have some questions start get submitted here for next month (which will probably be January btw) > >Ashoke wrote stuff about Ray with this final send-off: > > Oh dear! Now I am really afraid - you're not my clone by any chance are you? > > :-D EEEEEEEEKKKKK!!!!!!!!! > > > Welcome to the gang!! We don't bite unless you want us to. > > And yes. "Perfect Mother" was a single that I tried, rather > unsuccessfully, to find. It has recently become one of my favorite tracks. Tis a great song. > Oh well... > > Waiting for a concert, so I can light a candle for the chorus of "Clear > Horizon". Meg, are you ready? (We have to go in TSI outfits of course, > complete with a fake baby). Hmmm... trailer trash Basia fans???? > Regards, > Ashoke. Take care, -- Bev ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:33:53 -0500 From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" Subject: Re: Hello there (new day for me) Bev wrote: > > Hey.... now we need samples of this stuff, y'know! > You'll have to come to Cleveland for the samples. > >Hmmm... trailer trash Basia fans???? > It's a fantasy! NOT! Anyway, it's better than carrying a beanie baby! ;-) Ashoke. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 21:15:53 +0000 (GMT) From: combee@dacha.yak.net (Ben Combee) Subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Present... Leslie Brown writes: > > Great site, but you might want to change the code to make the site fit > smaller monitors. Im on 15" one right now,and viewing the site is a real > pain with it. Maybe adapt your code so the size will be variable. (I > remember doing that before in class,but I can't for the life of me > remember how. :) ) Ben has BasiaWeb set up that way. You give me too much credit, Leslie. The reason why BasiaWeb works well at various resolutions is that it's mostly a text based site with a few pictures. The discography site, with its table-based layout, does take up a bit more screen room, as it has to maintin the relationship between items on a row. I'd suggest that maybe they remove their width=700 and width=650 attributes to be percent based, letting the tables adapt to smaller window sizes using the browser's own mechanisms. By the way, I noticed they were looking for additional webspace for other pictures. First, I give them my full permission to link to any images at BasiaWeb, and if they want to send me any pictures, I'll be glad to host them off my web server. Back to video work... - -- Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) ....will work for details on Katmai New Instructions.... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:01:48 -0800 From: Joel Cairo Subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Present... Ben Combee wrote: > > By the way, I noticed they were looking for additional webspace for > other pictures. First, I give them my full permission to link to any > images at BasiaWeb, and if they want to send me any pictures, I'll be > glad to host them off my web server. > Thanks for your efforts on our behalf, Ben-- that's very gracious of you. Hopefully, since Bev has moved us to Tripod.com, it won't be necessary to take you up on your offer of more space, but we'll see!!! And thanks to everyone that has stopped by to take a look for their kind comments... I know I speak for both Beej and myself when I say that they're very much appreciated. I think she's done a fantastic job with the site, and I'm very thankful for her efforts. We're still ironing out a couple of listings (most of which are, I think, my fault), but we're both pretty pleased with the site, and hope to keep it growing!! And finally, I hope everyone (who celebrated it) had a Happy Turkey Day yesterday, and Season's Greetings to all!!! - -Kevin (going to the fridge for a turkey-with-stuffing-and-cranberry sandwich...) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 01:21:59 +0000 (GMT) From: combee@dacha.yak.net (Ben Combee) Subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Present... OK, here's another entry for your compilation section Greenpeace Rainbow Warriors Geffen 9 24236-2 (DIDX 004711 and DIDX 004712) 1989 2 CD set (other formats ???) Basia appears on disc 2 with "Miles Away", the same version that is on _Time and Tide_ a scan of the CD cover is at basia.techwood.org/pics/grwlarge.jpg and grwsmall.jpg. I'll have them linked into the pics page soon too. - -- Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) ....will work for details on Katmai New Instructions.... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:18:56 PST From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: Re: Odp: basia-digest V3 #263 >I'm trying to translate the Basia's interview from 1997... >Maybe I will finish it tomorrow. > Aiiiiiiiiii!Ya know, that is one of the better things I have heard all day. (I just got back from the hospital again-not for me but my grandma. Suffice to say this holiday has been kinda rough) Big smile from me now! (I needed it) - --Leslie ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:31:14 PST From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Present... >Will try to make changes when I have time -- probably next week. Hey- still a kick-butt site! Good job! I'll see if I can dig the web professor up, but I have a feeling there are much more Web-adept folks on the list that would be of more help. :) (Hey Kevin, did you get my email of additions I found? My email was working sporadically at best that day :)) - --Leslie again ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:39:29 PST From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: Re: Hello there (new day for me) >I have a question for some of the veterans. How different is the "Baby >You're Mine" street version from the studio version? (BTW, this is another >song where I can't decide if I like the studio version better than the BOB >cut). Studio, man. All the way. No seriously, the 'street version' (that title always struck me as funny. What's she doing, busking? ;) ) is just Basia and the guitar. Its like the live version basically. I like. But I like the studio better. >And yes. "Perfect Mother" was a single that I tried, rather >unsuccessfully, to find. It has recently become one of my favorite tracks. *!!!!!* Whoa! I had no idea there was such a thing! Sweet! (Like I'LL ever find it! Its in some store at the edge of the universe along with ESCA-1276 or whatever that thing is called)(Oh yeah, and that Peter White-with-a-portrait-of-Basia single is there too.) > >Oh well... >Horizon". Meg, are you ready? (We have to go in TSI outfits of course, >complete with a fake baby). > You know, I was going to ask,but.... ;) - --Leslie still again ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:41:39 PST From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Present... >Hmmm... da insect??? Ja, we speak later you and I. Hee! I sure wouldn't want to be this 'insect' guy I think! ;) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 20:54:26 -0800 From: Joel Cairo Subject: Re: A Thanksgiving (& Xmas & Hanukah & Kwanzaa&...) Present... Leslie Brown wrote: > > > (Hey Kevin, did you get my email of additions I found? My email was > working sporadically at best that day :)) > > --Leslie again Yes I did, Leslie-- just haven't had a chance to add everything yet... I'm working on another surprise for y'all... and I think you'll like it!!! (I'll let everyone know when it's ready-- should be later tonight!) - -Kevin Here's a hint: Those of you whose systems can handle it should make sure that you have WinAmp (or whatever other little program you use for *those* kind of files) ready to go (hee hee-- love keeping you guys in suspense...!) - -K ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 23:15:12 -0600 From: Beverly Martin Subject: Re: A Thanksgiving Present... Ben Combee wrote: > Leslie Brown writes: > > You give me too much credit, Leslie. The reason why BasiaWeb works > well at various resolutions is that it's mostly a text based site with > a few pictures. The discography site, with its table-based layout, > does take up a bit more screen room, as it has to maintin the > relationship between items on a row. I'd suggest that maybe they > remove their width=700 and width=650 attributes to be percent based, > letting the tables adapt to smaller window sizes using the browser's > own mechanisms. I will be changing it soon.... but I was planning for a 800 x 600 resolution, sorry I'm somewhat spoiled with my 20" monitor.... sollie folks! > By the way, I noticed they were looking for additional webspace for > other pictures. First, I give them my full permission to link to any > images at BasiaWeb, and if they want to send me any pictures, I'll be > glad to host them off my web server. Actually, we're in good shape right now. We've got more than 8 MB to play with. > Back to video work... Let me know when you're ready for the labels...! -- Beverly Martin ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V3 #268 ***************************