Errors-To: owner-ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu From: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@athos.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #213 ecto, Number 213 Friday, 10 April 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* I wrote for you... (fwd) Sarah M on... Stuff mouth music! Sarah McLaughlin/McLachlan Ecto FAQ/The Personal Database Project Fluff (tm) ======================================================================== From: Jeanne B Schreiter Subject: I wrote for you... (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 22:59:34 CDT April 9, 1992 I wrote for you I wrote for you and no one else Laying on my bed feeling the sun come in and wake my eyes I arise and my feet touch the cold hardwood floor Clunk! Easing myself into these clothles bare is my soul waiting for you to run over me Take me, Take from me Take it and be gone But you stayed, living in my house, your scent wafting in the rafters enclosed in the beams tickling the child I called my own We all laughed Our pores sweating water molecules I swear we could have shit in our jeans and not cared. Well, maybe. Your hand touched the welts on my back these wounds I have scarring me silly Still you stayed with me holding my hand long into the night even when I cried and woke up in the middle of the night. Thank you and I love you. -JB Schreiter ======================================================================== From: Jeanne B Schreiter Subject: I wrote for you (3) (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 23:00:03 CDT April 9, 1992 I wrote for you (3) As I sit here in this wooden chair I close my eyes and the past passes my lids like a movie projector spewing out the tape of my life The scenes rush by stress and anger come rasging out where did I miss your serenity? Did you have any at all? You touch peoples lives yet you never feel like you've touched anyone but yourself The memories swirl around like cirrus clouds on a warm almost balmy day Remeber that day forget the next centre in on THAT one. Splash! The water fills your body cresent moon filling the other half your sight is unseen filmly transparent degrees webbed net down to the bottom where there is no air but there is life Your lungs burn with passion and unforgiven, unseen devotion screaming until the world went black and Cold. Cough. Cough. Cough. The clear blue comes from you throat and you belch like you've just drank a carbonated Coke. Fluttering eyes, blinking all around you. Questions and answers pour at you ingesting liquids not meant for consumption. You sat up and laughed. At your own stupidity. Woman of child water bearer Mother Earth ain't ready yet The tape comes to an end a chapter closes the lights flicker on and off The moon dips lowe in deep paradise Waiting for the bruises to stop. -JB Schreiter ======================================================================== From: Jeanne B Schreiter Subject: Sarah M on... Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 23:02:11 CDT As I was on a break from work, I saw Sarah MacLachan (sp?) on the Regis and Kathy show...one of those "talk" shows...anyway...I finally know who you guys are talking about.. Now if we could only get Happy on one...why doesn't her agent book her on one?? Jeanne ======================================================================== Date: 10-APR-1992 01:29:14.72 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: Stuff Hi! My thesis is done!!! Yay!!! Congrats, kIrI! I had all sorts of insights to post, but due to the late hour and the mushy consistency of my mind, it's all gone. Oh... I hate the New York Times. We get it and the Globe in our house, and I can't read the thing- it's too obviously trying to be intellectual and snooty, and it drives me nuts. Any paper that refuses to call Jerry Brown anything other than "Mr. Edmund G. Brown Jr." ranks as presumptuous in my book. According to my housemate, the reviewers there can't review anything but classical dance without getting all snarky about it, either. Besides, any paper that is ohne cartoons isn't worth my time. :) Thanks for typing that review in, Val. I'd wondered what you'd been doing while I was printing my thesis out. :) I was rather surprised to see Chris' post regarding Vickie's loss of net access, but I can't say I don't see his point. I'm sure she needed something like this to "get perspective", as he called it- you have to find time for everything in life. But I'm sure she'll be back before long, so not to grieve. :) But "Deeper Understanding" has just gained new meaning. Speaking of which, if I don't go to bed now I'll be even more of a mess in the morning. Ick. ====================================================================== |Meredith Tarr "Get to the point you sappy wimps| |Wesleyan University I haven't got a lifetime | |Middletown, CT Simplicity is beauty | |USA, Earth Are there poets less sublime?" | |mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu -Happy Rhodes | ====================================================================== ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 01:46:22 -0400 From: gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert) Subject: Re: Sarah M on... Jeanne-shark wonders: > Now if we could only get Happy on one [of those "talk" shows]... now now, remember, we *like* Happy... why put her through that kind of torture??? > why doesn't her agent book her on one?? agent?? mm, apart from Happy herself, there is only Kevin, Sue, and Bob, and they all like her as much as we do (mayhaps even a bit more deeply, in certain of those cases) -- why would *they* want to put her through that kind of torture?? mm, seriously, i understand that one has to do some pretty unpleasant things to get ahead in the entertainment business, but until Happy gets a distribution or recording contract with a major label (with major money), national tv is probably not an option... like woj said in rec.music.gaffa: > getting the single added at a "pop progressive" station like wxpn or > whfs or kits is a good, but hard, thing to do. but really, word of > mouth is often the best and goodness knows *we* mouth a lot of words in Happy's favor! footah! -greg -- gb10@gte.com -- "this is the ice age" -- martha and the muffins ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 02:02:56 EDT From: jessica@maurolycus.rutgers.edu Subject: mouth music! This morning i heard mouth music on the radio!!! COOL BEANS says me. wasn't even on WXPN, it was WPRB, the princetone station! nifty. jessica ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 9:34:29 MET DST From: Albert Philipsen Subject: Sarah McLaughlin/McLachlan hi ! Thanks to Valerie Nozick for typing in the concert review. Now I'm confused! Even The New York Times spells her name as Sarah McLaughlin, even though the name on the album is Sarah McLachlan. Can someone explain this to me? I can understand how someone could call Solace folky, but it's just the first impression you get from her music. Sarah McLachlan is rapidly becoming one of my favourite new artists I've heard for the first time this year, together with Loreena McKennitt. I discovered that a colleague of mine is a Kate fan (sort of). I'm using the _The Ninth Wave_ picture as a backdrop on my Apple Macintosh... He only has _The Whole Story_, but he did say that, according to him, Kate was the only good female solo artist around. He's still got a lot to learn... :-) Albert ++ `I know I'm sounding insane' :: Happy Rhodes ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 09:47:02 MED From: brage@id.dth.dk (Jens P. Brage) Subject: Ecto FAQ/The Personal Database Project Hello All, thanks for the fuzzy blue welcome!!! Having read the FAQ, I should perhaps introduce myself before entering serious lurker mode... ;-) The Happy Connection: --------------------- I've been a lurker in rec.music.gaffa for about a year and the Happy flamewar was at it highest when I joined. So out of curiosity I ordered the Warpaint CD --- and I liked it quite a lot! Later on I bought the first four tapes and another (signed) copy of the Warpaint CD and gave the original one to my brother, who also quite a Happy fan. I don't know why I haven't joined ecto ealier, but some recent postings in r.m.g. and a letter from Aural Gratification reminded me... Danish Happy Events(??!!): -------------------------- My brother, Kaare, was recently on a skiing(sp?) holiday, and in the bus (about 20 hours driving each way, I think) tapes were passed around for walkman listening, and my brother just happened(? ;-)) to have brought a copy of Warpaint along... That tape got a lot of notice, and he arranged for people to contact him once they were back in Denmark (he didn't have AG's address with him (bad planning! ;-)). So, I think my brother is collecting a list of people interested in ordering Warpaint or perhaps other HR stuff... Bank charges i Denmark make individual orders a somewhat expensive pleasure!. So now we just have to figure out how to get Happy some airplay on the Danish national radio, the local radio stations are probably not worth bothering with... Some personal info for your database: ------------------------------------- Birthday: 8 Nov 1964 Lives in: Copenhagen, Denmark Height: 187cm Weight: ~75kg Sex: Male Colors: Pinkish with gray eyes and dark blond hair Work: PhD student, working on automatic design of ICs. Interests: Computers (both hardware and software, though it's a long time since I last touched a piece of hardware!) Reading (SF mostly, have you read Cherryh? Superb characters, consistent technology and extreme plots!). Hiking (mostly in Sweden, Denmark is a little too flat to be interesting!). Music: I tend to like "weird music with female vocals" (my brother's characterization ;-)), but otherwise I've got a fairly varied taste e.g.: Bach Wagner Mikael Wiehe Bj"orn Afzelius Dexys Midnight Runners Bob Dylan The Colors Turned Red (Anybody ever heard of these?) Tangerine Dream Rush Prefab Sprout Pink Floyd Vangelis Kitaro (Obviously not listing music with female vocals!)... Sadly, I have no musical talent myself :-( +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Greetings from: /\ Email: cbmehq!lenler!brage | | Jens P. Brage \SphereSoft Or: brage@sphere.home.id.dth.dk| +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Don't try to tell me there's no reason for any moment in time, every memory | | of mine. Those years are lines of color on my face, the past is warpaint. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 07:50:58 MDT From: dbx@ventana.atmos.colostate.edu (Doug Burks) Subject: Fluff (tm) Greetings shining Happy people, It's here! The day that should be declared an international Ecto holiday! The stars, planets, asteroids, and all sorts of cosmic debris (even Frank Zappa) must be in the right alignment for true Happy-ness on 10 April. We have four (count 'em, FOUR) Ectophile birthdays to celebrate today. Warm, fuzzy blue HAPPY BIRTHDAYs on the Happy-est day of the year to Klaus Kluge Steve VanDevender Stephen Golden Art Liestman Since EctoMa Vickie (who is recovering) and EctoMa sub Beth (whose computer may or may not still held be hostage by a winter storm power outage) both asked me to add their greetings here, I want to especially emphasize this: # # ### #### #### # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### ##### #### #### # # # # # # # # # #### ### #### ##### # # #### ### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #### # #### # ##### # # ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #### ### # ## # # # #### # # # # # # to KLAUS, STEVE V, STEVE G, and ART!! Also equally warm fuzzy blue welcomes to all the new Ectophiles out there. Given the number (94 was the last I heard), I know there are some that I've not personally welcomed. Feel free to jump in and at least say 'hi'. Also if you give us your birthday, you'll be fully and totally embarrassed on that day by posts just like this! :) Since Vickie is off-line, if you want a copy of our FAQ, feel free to ask me. I'd be happy to mail it to you. Congratulations to kIrI!!! (Do you know what you're getting into with graduate school? :) ) Congratulations to Meredith!!! Mitch asks: Will you feel the same way years from now, when the Giants are in San Jose and the National League is in Denver? :-) Yes (San Jose isn't that far from San Francisco, especially compared with the distance between Fort Collins and the Bay Area) and Yes (Hey, I'll get a chance to see the Giants at least a dozen times a year!) I've been a Giants fan since before an embarrassingly high number of Ectophiles were born. :) Why stop now? (Followups directed to rec.music.ecto.baseball. :) ) I know she won't see this, but I hope Vickie "recovers" soon and is back to the role she was born for, EctoMa. No "Vickies" :( [By the way, does anyone know if there is a real Hackers Anonymous, or something similar? This may be an organization whose time has come.] Finally, the tape dubbing project is actually ahead of orders! Also the costs are much cheaper than I feared. For US orders, the cost is $1.17 per tape, $0.44 for packaging, and $1.46 (seven tapes) or $1.04 (six tapes) [book rate]. If you've been holding back for fear of flooding me, now is the time to order! I know you're out there, because I gotten a number of e-mail notices of intention, but no actual orders in my physical mailbox. Why wait? If you have any questions or problems, just ask! Jessica queries: Hopefully dubs [of Sarah McLachlan's Boston concert] will work their way around. Perhaps it's something we could add to doug's list of things? No problem here, if that's what people want! Doug Burks _O_ dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu |< She really is!! ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 10:39:50 -0400 From: gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert) Subject: Re: Ecto FAQ/The Personal Database Project Jens (hi Jens) wonders: > Interests: [...] Reading (SF mostly, have you read Cherryh? Superb characters, consistent technology and extreme plots!). yep!!!!! i've read *almost* everything C.J. Cherryh (whose last name is pronounced "cherry", BTW. in fact, it *is* Cherry... she added the 'h' to make it look more interesting ;) has written! (i *think* that there is an early collection of short stories i don't have, but i can't seem to find it) in addition to a remarkable talent for believable characters, plots, and "world-building", she has got a wonderful ear for clear, beautiful prose. her science fiction tends to be tough, gritty, and realistic (i know that sounds a bit odd, but she really convinces you that she has been there and is reporting the simple truth...); her fantasy is beguiling, original, and not sappy... ;) *ahem* sorry for running on... ;) but i really do admire this woman's work. hmm, i have spoken about her with woj and claudia... anyone else a fan? if anyone is interested in a particular recommendation for a book by C.J., drop me a footah! -greg -- gb10@gte.com -- "i want to feel you in the dark, babe" -- HR ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is a README file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me (or leave in the incoming directory, just let me know) things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@athos.rutgers.edu)