Errors-To: ecto-owner@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #703 ecto, Number 703 Monday, 16 August 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* viewers :) Ecto-fete pix Female Artists Poll (thanks for reminding me, Vickie!) Reviews unsubscribe More Aimee Happy Birthday! Today's your birthday friend.... Happy Birthday to... Happy Bidet! Re: Christine's picture(uuencode format) Happiest of Birthdays Re: Call letters Re: Reviews Drum Corps Reigns again (non-Happy, I mean it this time :) ) bedtime babbling Searching for Bobby Fischer ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 14 Aug 93 14:34:39 EDT From: jessica@maurolycus.rutgers.edu (jessica) Subject: viewers :) It was mentioned that the "viewers" in the archives don't seem to work :) Had you read the INDEX file, which is highly highly recommended, you'd see that those aren't gif viewers at all, but viewers for the 'morph's! Does anyone have a PC (or mac, for that matter?) GIF viewer? I wouldn't mind making them available in the archives. jessica ======================================================================== Subject: Ecto-fete pix From: Tim Breitkreutz Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1993 12:53:24 -0600 All this talk of GIFs and ectohostelling has reminded me that someone took pictures at the Ecto-fete in Montreal in April. Does anybody have them? Justin? Liz? Alan? I can't remember whos camera it was... Anyway, I'd love to get a copy, somehow. Tim ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1993 15:41:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Female Artists Poll (thanks for reminding me, Vickie!) Hi! Vickie reminded me that I too had forgotten to cross-post this to ecto when I sent it. Unlike Vickie, I thought more of female vocalists than "artists", which was probably a mistake, but in looking at the list I don't think I was too far off from that categorization in any case. ============ Hi! This is in response to your poll in rec.music.misc. 1. Kate Bush 2. Happy Rhodes 3. Tori Amos 4. Sarah McLachlan 5. Ingrid Karklins 6. Jane Siberry 7. Katharina Franck [Rainbirds] 8. Natalie Merchant [10,000 Maniacs] 9. Laurie Anderson 10. Suzanne Vega Honorable mentions (in no particular order): Anneli Drecker [Bel Canto] Loreena McKennitt Annie Lennox Danielle Dax Bjork Elizabeth Frasier [Cocteau Twins] Chrissie Hynde Christine Lavin Sally Fingerett Aimee Mann Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com ============ Hmmm, now that I look at the list again, I see I did indeed include only "artists" in the sense of writing the music as well as performing it. Well. :) If I had done this list today, of course, it would be different, but we all knew that. (look up there for the name and address) ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1993 16:05:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Reviews Hi! I did these reviews a few weeks ago, but I've only just now gotten around to sending them to where they're intended to go: the Music Round Table on GEnie. The short ones are intended for the "ODRM Capsule Reviews", the longer ones will probably appear in Hi-Tech Home Weekly, an on-line bi-weekly music magazine recently started on GEnie that is supposedly also available elsewhere, but I'm not sure where. I'll have to check that out. I thought you all would be interested in them, feel free to pick them apart, it's too late for me to do anything about them now. ;) ============ Happy Rhodes- RHODES I, RHODES II Aural Gratification, AGCD0007 and AGCD0008 These two CDs represent a compilation of songs Happy Rhodes recorded between the years 1984-86, when she was learning the basics of recording at Cathedral Sound Studios in Rensselaer, NY. None of these were ever intended for public consumption, and the result is a sometimes brutal honesty that immediately draws the listener in to her sometimes frightening world and refuses to let go. Rhodes' voice has rightly been compared to Kate Bush and Annie Lennox singing a duet- her four-octave vocal range can easily mimic both in the span of a phrase. Musically the arrangements are simple: acoustic guitar, with electronic keyboards providing other instrumentation when needed. Her lyrics are dark, exploring the darker side of love and mental anguish from the personal perspective of a troubled childhood, in songs with titles such as "Possessed", "Under And Over The Brink", "Asylum Master" "Oh The Drears", and "The Suicide Song". Yet as Rhodes exorcises her demons she doesn't burden us with them, and even at their most depressing the songs still manage to be engaging and uplifting, and after many listens they remain fresh, with more details still to discover. Because they were not meant to be released in album form some songs are rough around the edges, and there one or two that should never have been committed to tape, but as a whole RHODES I and II are brilliant pieces of work, and an appropriate introduction to the wonders of Happy Rhodes' voice and music. =========== Happy Rhodes- REARMAMENT Aural Gratification, AGCD00011 Rhodes' third release on the independent Aural Gratification label, REARMAMENT delves deeper into the realm of synthesized sound, with lyrics similar in subject matter and scope to RHODES I and II. There are one or two songs here that could better have been left out, but as a whole the album is a meaningful progression from her earlier work. Amidst dark and sometimes suicidal themes are some more optimistic moments. Musically, Rhodes shows some of her influences here (Peter Gabriel and Yes, to name two), and she explores the depths and peaks of her four octave range, often simultaneously on multiple vocal tracks- Kate Bush and Annie Lennox have never sung a duet, but the world need look no farther to hear how that would sound. [MAT] ============ Happy Rhodes- ECTO Aural Gratification, AGCG00013 ECTO is the fourth release by the singer/songwriter from Albany, NY, and marks a turning point in her subject matter from darkness toward the light at the end of the tunnel. Rhodes explores more diverse subject matter, but some demons remain to be exorcised. Rhodes explores more synthesized sounds, although her acoustic guitar is still very much in evidence, and her voice is as strong and versatile as ever, mimicing Annie Lennox and Kate Bush in the span of one phrase with ease. A departure from the almost folky flavor of some moments on her first two albums, RHODES I and II, and a progression from REARMAMENT, ECTO is considered by some to be Rhodes' strongest album to date, and this reviewer finds it hard at times to disagree. [MAT] ============ Happy Rhodes- WARPAINT Aural Gratification, AGCD00017 Released in 1991, WARPAINT is the album that really introduced Happy Rhodes to the public, and it can certainly be called her most accessible album to date. Her inner demons are no longer the prime subject of her work, and at times she even waxes political. She tends to stay within the lower half of her four octave range here, though not exclusively, and the musical arrangements are lusher and more layered than in her previous four efforts. Not undeservedly, this album garnered comparisons to Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson and Kate Bush, but Rhodes definitely stands in a class by herself. [MAT] ============ Happy Rhodes- EQUIPOISE Aural Gratification, AGCD00019 The latest album from Happy Rhodes stands in stark contrast to her very early work, but the progression from ECTO to WARPAINT to EQUIPOISE is clear. This is perhaps her most "user-friendly" offering: the songs tell different stories, not all of them personal, and although at least one inner demon still resides within ("Cohabitants"), as evidenced by "Closer" she clearly intends to leave her past behind and look toward a brighter future. The album starts off quite strongly with "Runners", a tongue-in-cheek look at our society's obsession with everything that can kill us and how to avoid the inevitable, and moves to the story of a vampire who seeks release from his immortality in the inseparable diptych "He Will Come" and "The Flight". Then comes "Out Like A Lamb", musically and vocally the most interesting on the album. From there things get a bit uneven until the final track, "I Say", which is by far the strongest of them all. Of her six albums, EQUIPOISE is Happy Rhodes' tastiest: there are definite shades of Gabriel and Yes here, and she uses her higher ranges more than on her previous two releases (there are moments where even the most learned Kate Bush fan will be hard-pressed to tell the two apart). It is hoped that six will be her lucky number, and on the strength of this CD Happy Rhodes may well soon become a household name. [MAT] ============ Hmm, when they're glommed together like this they sure are repetitive, aren't they? But they're not intended to appear together, so I had to keep repeating a few things to catch the reader's interest, I guess. Have fun, guys. :> Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 14 Aug 93 14:10:06 PDT From: tsai@ikos.com (Finney T. Tsai) Subject: Re: viewers :) :> Does anyone have a PC (or mac, for that matter?) GIF viewer? I wouldn't :> mind making them available in the archives. anonymous ftp to garbo.uwasa.fi under the directory: pc/gifutil There are tons of GIF viewers for PC's. Try to get a newer one cuz old ones may not support the new SVGA standards. Also in the directory: windows/graphics are those for MS Windows. mac/graphics is for Mac's. As for X-Window systems, 'xv' is so far the most popular one. You can easily get the source code from most public archive sites. Have fun! -finney "Now I want Spirits to enforce, Art to enchant; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardoned be, Let your indulgence set me free." - Prospero's Books ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1993 17:31:51 -0400 (EDT) From: WAYNERCLARK@delphi.com Subject: unsubscribe Please unsubribe me. I enjoy reading the list, but must be away from the computer for a while. Thank you Waynerclark@delphi.com ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1993 17:56:37 -0400 (EDT) From: consid Subject: More Aimee I went to Aimee's acoustic show Friday afternoon at the Inner Harbor Amphitheater in Baltimore. This was a really enjoyable performance -- even if it was about ninety-five degrees F! There was a fairly large crowd made up of Aimee fans, tourists, and businesspeople eating lunch ... it was obvious that many of the assembled didn't know who she was, but by the end of the show, everyone was cheering wildly! Aimee and her three-person band did several songs from "Whatever," including "Stupid Thing," "Put Me On Top," "I Should Have Known" and "Say Anything," plus three Til Tuesday songs -- "Voices Carry," "The Other End Of The Telescope" and one I can't remember the name of ... She was quite talkative & funny, asking us if we'd all remembered to put on our sunblock before going out and suggesting that we all come to their show that evening "because we'll be over our hangovers by then" ... I'm sorry I had to miss the P.M. show :( but I did enjoy hearing the "unplugged" versions. A small note on gif files posted to ecto -- for those of us who receive the digest, it's kind of a pain having to scroll thru 40-50 pages of M $%3#4@8R*3A etc. etc. ... is there any way these could be mailed separately to digest folks, or posted directly to the archives instead of to the list? Thanx! :) -Sue Trowbridge P.S. Happy Birthday Vickie!! :) You ARE a Net-Goddess to me! :) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * You know that your time is coming 'round Don't let the bastards grind you down -U2 * * * * * * * * * * consid@access.digex.net * * * * * * * * * * ======================================================================== From: Tim Breitkreutz Subject: Happy Birthday! Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1993 23:39:50 -0600 Best wishes Vickie! I hope this year is a great one for you! *Hug* Tim ======================================================================== Subject: Today's your birthday friend.... From: klaus@inphobos.wupper.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 93 09:24:04 GMT i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* ***** Vickie Mapes **** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Vickie Mapes Wed August 15 1956 Giddy Martin Dougiamas Wed August 20 1969 Positive Tori Amos Thu August 22 1963 Leo Meredith Tarr Wed September 1 1971 Virgo Mary Lou Rowe Sat September 3 1960 Virgo Scott Zimmerman Mon September 4 1972 Virgo Mike Mendelson Fri September 4 1964 Virgo Richard Dean Wed September 6 1967 Virgo David Blank-Edelman Sat September 9 1967 Neon Chris Williams Tue September 20 1960 Neon 3-D Computer-generated Joe Zitt Sat September 20 1958 Will Hack for CDs -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____ Klaus Kluge * klaus@inphobos.wupper.de * I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== From: Mike Matthews Subject: Happy Birthday to... Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1993 08:18:57 -36803936 (EDT) the net.goddess Vickie Mapes! *HUG* ------ Mike Matthews, matthewm@sgate.com (NeXTmail accepted) ------ ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 15 Aug 93 8:56 EDT From: robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) Subject: Happy Bidet! A-Ha! It is indeed your birthday. The celebration of birthdays is indeed a western thing. When I was in Vietnam, I noticed that the local folk did not celebrate birthdays indivdually, but as a group on New Year's day! On that day (which was not January 1 for them...more like the Chinese New Year) the entire population became a year older. And great people of their culture were not remembered on their birthdays, but on the day that they passed away. The relevance of this to anything in particular is unquestionably absent, nevertheless it may offer a small glimmer of perspective to the usual birthday greeting. As far as I'm concerned, celebrating birthdays is hunky-dory with me. An individual triumph rather than a group celebration. An incomplete sentence. Film at eleven. And so on this day, be aware that this is your special day to be pampered and idolized by all who are close to you. And with Ecto out there, they are legion. Ergo, quid pro quo, and cogito ergo sum, I offer you the famous Latin quotation: "Si Villi Si Ergo Fortibus Es En Ero" A phrase frought with depth and meaning, one that has changed my very life. Consider it a present of sorts, unless you are feeling out of sorts, in which case it is downright necessary. Then again, one never knows. Thank you for your time. It was great to speak to you earlier this weekend, and I look forward to meeting you and Chris ere long. Enjoy your day, and let me know if you need help with the translation. Yours in confusion, Bob Lovejoy ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1993 17:45:58 +1000 (AEST) From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Christine's picture(uuencode format) In apana.lists.rec.happy-rhodes, article <9308132157.AA06266@delaware.ikos.com>, you wrote: > Just thought some would have problems decoding > Christine's BinHex formatted picture. I converted > it to uuencode format and included it in the mail. Thanks for that, I spent a fretful five minutes trying to figure out exactly what a BinHex file was before deciding it wasn't supported on the Amiga in any case... :) Interlaced GIF, hmmm... Christine appears on my Amiga in a similar way to the way the teleport on the Enterprise works - blurry at first, but then the details get filled in... :-) Someone should make a directory at the archive site for these pictures! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 15 Aug 93 09:55:36 -0700 From: Michael G Peskura Subject: Happiest of Birthdays To you, Vickie!!! i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* ****** Ecto Ma!! ***** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Cheers! Mp ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 14 Aug 93 17:59 MET DST From: uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel) Subject: Re: Call letters > }Radio stations in Germany have 'better' (well...) names. > > Yeah, Radio Xanadu in Munich is my personal fave. :) > > }Or you can have stations with really proper names, as for > }example Antenne Bayern or Starsat Radio. > > Where is Starsat out of? I saw ads for it all over the place > in Germany, but never could figure out where the station was > located. The trick with Starsat Radio is that it is only availlable via SATellite. Or cable. But not with a normal antenna. I think it's located in Munich, but that's more or less irrelevant in that case. > I also liked Radio Welle ("Welle" = Wave). Cool name. :) Cool! Never heard of that one. Bye, Uli ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 15 Aug 93 14:19 MET DST From: uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel) Subject: Re: Reviews [Suspended In Duct Tape reviews Equipoise and the other albums in a good and honest way:] > ranges more than on her previous two releases (there are moments > where even the most learned Kate Bush fan will be hard-pressed to > tell the two apart). Well - this has never ever happened with this happy listener. Not even with the acoustic version of feed the fire :-/ :-( ;-)... Bye, Uli ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1993 22:14 EST From: Guyver-One Subject: Drum Corps Reigns again (non-Happy, I mean it this time :) ) hey all, Sat. night I went to my first and only Drum Corps show in Bloomington, IN. (I'll try to keep this short (even though I can ramble my opinions about this activity for quite awhile given the right situations) b/c I don't how many corps fans are on the list (if any)) anyway, the shows this year look pretty good all around, at least the ones I've seen, there are a few of the bigger corps who weren't at the show last night. The best news of this year is that the Star of Indiana has redeemed itself after that godawful thing they did last year. But I'll stop now. Any other corps fans out there?????? Happy B-day Vickie!!!! (just snuck it in :) ) looking forward for Finals on the 21st and hoping the PBS station doesn't mess with testing its new antenna during the broadcast... Kevin _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ /_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_\ // \\ \\ / \/ \/ \ // // "What is the reason / / >< \ \ * * * \\ \\ for having roses ! ! ! \ \ \ ! ! ! // // when your blood is * * * \ \ >< / / \\ \\ shed carelessly?" \ /\ /\ / // // \\ \\_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _// \_-_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_- -_-_/ Tom Servo on Catalina Caper: "was that the funny part?" "...yes, it's never too early to fuse your spinal cord together, in a few years these children will be addicted to painkillers, but for now little Billy is paralyzed..." -- Crow T. Robot -- ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 16 Aug 93 00:44:52 EDT From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (proud to be your spud) Subject: bedtime babbling anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) sez: >:-) No... I was actually referring to the wonderful and sadly very quiet >release-wise Ingrid Chavez, poetess, songstress and the only decent thing to >come out on Paisley Park records in years... yep. i picked this up in a cutout bin for $3 a few weeks ago after hearing her name on ecto courtesy of anthony and i must say that it is fairly enjoyable. the music is kinda what you'd expect to come out of paisley park, but with a chanteuse-ish and perhaps francophile bent. i enjoyed her "singing" most - a crooning sing-song whispered seductively. yum! S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk sez: >Why not give >out the Head Mammoth's name & address so that interested parties can >write in and ask (politely now, people!) if they'd be so kind as to >consider releasing the Victoria Williams albums on CD? was talking to a clueful record store employee last friday (they *do* exist! however rarely...) and he seemed to imply that the release of victoria's albums on cd was more likely that what vickie had to say. seems that mammoth is slowly be swallowed by atlantic who seems to be interested in seeing victoria's albums see the light of day again. hmmm. dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) sez: >Bratislava. balaclava. robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) sez: > Anyway, Greg and woj should be getting him next. Thought you guys >could: > A: Drive him down to Cherry Hill... > B: Put him on a train to Philadelphia... > or C: I'll drive up to pick him up... we'll figure something out by wednesday sometime. tuesday night, we're planning on taking him back into nyc to see tribe at the limelight (who are headlining there or so greg tells me). anyone else in the area going to be around? get in touch with us, bob, and we'll work out the exchange of christo from our care to yours. +woj ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 15 Aug 93 23:25:20 PDT From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: Searching for Bobby Fischer Hi folkls, Just saw "Searching for Bobby Fischer", and recommend it very highly! To anyone who's been or has associated with a gifted child, this movie will definitely speak to you. It does a better job of handling giftedness and its consequences than "Little Man Tate" did, I think. Go see it! Oh, and belated b-day wishes to Ms. Vickie! If Vickie hadn't have gone on and on about Happy, Tom Johnson would have never heard of her, and if Tom had never heard of her, I would have never heard of her, so here's credit where credit's due! Happy birthday, Vickie! D^2 ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)