Errors-To: owner-ecto@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 #290 ecto, Number 290 Sunday, 12 July 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* laurie laurie Laurie Anderson Live Tori in Chicago Re: Today's your birthday friend... Basic Instinct Hi! B careful what U say Re: Birthday Year... Best music deals Sophie B in Boston Box H.A.P. ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 19:19:39 EDT From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu Subject: laurie laurie a long time ago, i was poking through a record store and, in the laurie anderson cd bin (well, i guess it was that long ago - cds did exist when this story happened), i spotted a cd of hers that, according to the text on the back of the long box, was a collection of music from *before* the united states performances. i have never seen this cd again and would like for someone to either confirm its existance or tell me that i was dreaming. i have this sneaking suspcision that i was half asleep while looking at the _big science_ cd. however, but my memory tells me that i thought, "gee, never heard of that cd before" when i pulled it out. i'm still cursing myself for not having brought money with me that day... just a comment on steve v.'s mention that "ramon" would be an improbable song for laurie to record before _strange angels_: that song is probably the most powerful one on the album for me. something about the way the music just slides and spirals is entrancing. seeing her perform it in a stripped down version live was absolutely jaw-dropping. i heard an inter- view with laurie where she described what prompted that song. it seems that she stepped off a bus into an open manhole in manhattan. while in the hospital recovering, she wrote "ramon" to deal with the emotions of her predicament, specifically regarding the care and help she received from the people who were there when she had her accident. woj ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 13:29:11 EDT From: gda@wayback.creare.com Subject: Laurie Anderson Live I have to second the suggestion to see Laurie Anderson live, whenever you get the chance. Although she makes records, she really thinks of herself as a performance artist (or a storyteller), and the recordings miss a lot of what happens in the live performance (e.g. having Peter Gabriel or William Borroughs do cameo accompaniment). I'd also suggest seeing her movie, "Home of the Brave". Here in Hanover, the Dartmouth Film Society hosts, once per semester, some film personality - director, actor, etc. They compile a set of clips of the artist's past work, present them with an award, and then show one of the person's full-length features. Usually, between the award and the feature film, the artist gives a brief "thank you" speech. When Laurie Anderson was the honoree, instead of a short speech, she gave a TWO HOUR LECTURE on the evolution of her work, complete with slides and sound effects. It was great! The only bad thing was that many people weren't prepared for it; "Home of the Brave" started rolling at about 10 PM, instead of 7:30... The "United States" recording is my favorite. It's the best thing I've found for enduring waiting for delayed flights in some far-from-home airport. I get really engrossed in the music and stories and ignore the stress of travel. "In America, 'goodbye' looks just like 'hello'" - Laurie Anderson Gray Abbott gda@creare.com "Everything's real here. Many people are surprised." -Mr. Edwards at The Sword in the Stone ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 22:44:02 EDT From: Vickie Mapes Subject: Tori in Chicago Tori will be playing at the Park West in Chicago on Friday, July 31. The show is at 7:30pm and it's general admission (I'll be getting to the Park West early and sit right up front, since I was way in the back of the room at the other concert.) Tickets are $13.50, plus surcharge ($3.00) I just bought our tickets today. I'm so excited about her playing the Park West. It's a wonderful venue... Sarah McLachlan will also be playing the Park West on August 16. I'm a happy lady! Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 23:48:52 EDT From: Vickie Mapes Subject: Re: Today's your birthday friend... HAPPY BIRTHDAY Shelly!! (Oh, Shelly...my show won't be on this Monday) Welcome to new Ectophiles out there! Klaus, are our "signs" lost and gone forever? It's lots of fun knowing the Chinese signs for temporary purposes, but the individuality of the old signs were fun too. Can we have them back at some point? Ron, if I didn't like you so much, I'd be mad that you've come between Happy and I on the birthday list :-) Tori and Sarah both coming back...I'm just pleased as punch! This time I won't pass up a chance to tape them and get show IDs. Woj, I don't know about the CD you saw. We only have 2 Laurie CDs, Big Science and Home of the Brave. I have Strange Angels on cassette and the others on LP. I fully intend to complete my CD collection one of these days. I passed up a chance to get United States on cassette, hoping it (they) would be released on CD, but I've never seen them. I envy the folks who saw Laurie perform before the Strange Angels tour, that's the only one I've every seen. (Fade back in time...it was April 1990. Chris and I went on a concert vacation whirlwind. On Thursday we flew up to Chicago--we lived in Kansas City at the time--and that night we saw Marta Sebesteyen and Muzsikas. The next night, Friday, we saw the Bulgarian chorus, Le Mystere des voix Bulgares. Saturday night we saw Caterwaul. Sunday we rested :-). Monday we were bunped off a morning flight but received travel vouchers in compensation. We got back into Kansas City later that evening. Wednesday night we went to Lawrence, KS (Land 'o Shelly, William Burroughs and soon my son Adrian) to see Laurie Anderson. The next night, Thursday, we flew back up to Chicago and saw Jane Siberry. Friday night we would have seen Michelle Shocked but it was sold out :-(. We came back to Kansas City on Saturday. Whew! Besides all that *great* music, 2 other really important things came out of that trip. First, one of the people Chris met when we were in Chicago called him a few weeks later and offered him a job in Chicago. We looked at each other and went "Yeah!" and so we moved Gaffa Central to a bigger, better, but alas, not as pretty, Midwestern city. Second, those travel vouchers came in very handy when it was announced that there would be a fan converntion in London. Because of the vouchers, we were able to fly to London for under $400.00 for the *both* of us! Believe me, I'll never forget that Laurie concert and the week it happened in! It was a great concert too, though I was a bit disappointed when William Burroughs didn't join her on stage, as everybody expected him to. I don't think it's really necessary for Jessica to see Home of the Brave before getting the CD. It's pretty great even without the visuals. I was listening to it last night. "Language is a Virus" and "Radar" are my favorite songs on it. Top volume is the ticket! Vickie "One should judge polititions on their records and actions, not on the person they happen to bed down with" Me, after having heard one too many useless jokes about Hillary and Tipper. "One should either learn how to spell politician or get a different editor" Me, after screwing up, up there ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 21:23:17 PDT From: stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Subject: laurie laurie woj@remus.rutgers.edu writes: > just a comment on steve v.'s mention that "ramon" would be an improbable > song for laurie to record before _strange angels_: that song is probably > the most powerful one on the album for me. something about the way the > music just slides and spirals is entrancing. seeing her perform it in a > stripped down version live was absolutely jaw-dropping. i heard an inter- > view with laurie where she described what prompted that song. it seems > that she stepped off a bus into an open manhole in manhattan. while in > the hospital recovering, she wrote "ramon" to deal with the emotions of > her predicament, specifically regarding the care and help she received > from the people who were there when she had her accident. Wow. "Ramon" is one of those songs I list with my all-time favorites like Kate's "Suspended in Gaffa", Jane Siberry's "The Walking", and Happy's "Phobos". It is therefore amazing to hear that story about how and why Laurie wrote the song, because the first time I heard the song I was in very much the same state that Laurie was when she wrote it--I had crashed after hitting a crack in a sidewalk and spent several weeks in the hospital, and the friend who was with me when I crashed went out and bought me _Strange Angels_ because I wasn't able to get it myself. Even though I would have never guessed that the song had the basis that it did, it's not at all surprising why it has such an emotional resonance for me. At that same time "Strange Angels" had an equally strong resonance, since I was about two weeks into a six-week stay. "They say that Heaven Is like TV A perfect little world Where no one really needs you And everything there Is made of light And the days keep going by Here they come" ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 11 Jul 92 12:59:38 MEZ From: Dirk Kastens Subject: Basic Instinct HI folks, I saw Basic Instinct on Wednesday. The cinema was crowded with ca. 400 people and it was hot and stifling. The cinema is rather new and maybe the air-conditioning was overtaxed. We were on time but the only vacant seats were in the first rows in front of the 40 square meters screen. (Wednesday is the cinema-day where the entrance-fee is only 6 DM for each film instead of 9-10 DM on other days). We had to turn our heads around to follow the action and the picture was rather blurred. But nevertheless, the film was great. I'm a fan of Michael Douglas and enthusiastic about psycho thrillers (Silence of the Lambs, Knight Moves, Cape Fear etc.). After the final sequence the cinema was filled with a crowd of question marks hovering above the heads of everyone. Who was the murderer? Catherine or Beth? Or both? Who killed whom? Who invented the ice-pick? Any suggestions? Dirk P.S.: Laurie Anderson about Strange Angels: "It sounds old for me, compared to the things I'm doing now." (KEYS) ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 11 Jul 92 14:36:38 MET DST From: Albert Philipsen Subject: Hi! I am back in ecto! :-) Thanks for all the kind words and happy birthday wishes I received during my absence. Albert "The past is warpaint" -- Happy Rhodes ======================================================================== From: sae@cmpsci.suffolk.edu (S. Alan Ezust) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1992 12:11:47 EDT Subject: B careful what U say > On sun, 5th of April, Stephen Thomas says: > ] Consolation in the fact that I can almost guarantee that I was the only > ] person in London wearing an ecto T-shirt. On the 6th of april, 1992, Steve Fagg says: > You should be careful what you say (sounds like a good title for a song) Hmm! I am catching up on old digests and I just *HAVE* to wonder if this was a coincidence or what.... -- S. Alan Ezust sae@cmpsci.suffolk.edu Suffolk University department of Computer Science Cambridge, MA USA ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 12 Jul 92 0:03:18 EDT From: Vickie Mapes Subject: Re: Basic Instinct I haven't seen Basis Instincts yet, though I'd like to. Dirk, have you ever seen the original Cape Fear? It's worth watching, though of course it's very different from the original. I think it's gripping and scary, and, as frightening as Robert De Niro is, Robert Mitchum is my favorite for the role. Dosen't have Juliette Lewis though :-(. We just got back from from seeing A League of Their Own (*1/2, and that's only because most of the acting is pretty good. I especially liked Madonna, believe it or not.) Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 12 Jul 92 0:04:13 EDT From: Vickie Mapes Subject: Re: Hi! Hi Albert!! Welcome back!!! Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 9 Jul 92 17:22:34 est From: ajs@jloda.cci.com (Alan Sodoma) Word just in: Sophie B. Hawkins will be playing live a new bar/club in Gates (a town just on the West side of Rochester, NY) on August 4th. She'll be at 3D's. Time? I don't know yet. I don't know what the place is like, but it's new and they claim to have the biggest, most visible stage in Rochester. Also, most of the bands that I've seen advertised are of the hard rock/metal genre. Anyway, I'll be there. Should be fun. Al Sodoma ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Birthday Year... From: tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Tracy Barber) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 92 22:23:58 EDT Angelos, my age is 36. Born in 1956, although I don't know <> what day it was... 8^) Thanks, keeper of the E.mortal birthday list... tlb NP - "Ecto" by guess who! --- * SLMR 2.0 * If you don't fall down, you're not trying! ---- Tracy Barber tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us {n8emr|nstar}!bluemoon!bsbbs!tlb The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ======================================================================== Date: 12-JUL-1992 13:51:10.50 From: Valerie Nozick Subject: Best music deals Jessica writes: music deal you've ever gotten? For example, I just found a new copy of the Sophie album for $3 at a record store nearby, and the day before, I got a used CD for $4. Then there's the day I got something like 4 CDs and 3 tapes used for a total of $12, including stuff by Dead Can Dance and Laurie Anderson. I was jumping around for days after that trip. BTW, just to play devil's advocate, I think that Laurie Anderson is alright, but is overrated. Maybe it's just that she reminds me of a pretentious, new yorker ex-boyfriend of mine. He was overrated too. :-) But nevertheless, Laurie's music has never turned me on too much, with a few exceptions (Language Is a Virus being one of them). > So then just >the other day I happened to find strange angels in a used bin >or only $6.99! It's one of the best deals i've had, cd-wise, >in a while! i really love the entire album! Now i need to hear Okay, this brings up the obvious question...what was your greatestds ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Nozick "happy rhodes, kate bush, tori amos? vnozick@eagle.wesleyan.edu atlanta won't know what hit her!" ---a soon-to-be-southerner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================================================================== From: kyrlidis@athena.mit.edu Subject: Sophie B in Boston Date: Sun, 12 Jul 92 14:44:54 EDT Hi, :( She will be playing at the Paradise rock club Aug.15th. Guess where I will be? About an ocean away... :( But, since in the last week Tracy Chapman, David Byrne, the Lounge Lizards played in Athens, Greece, there is *still* some hope that I'll catch a good show while I'm there...Right? Yeah sure... Still it's encouraging that all these people are coming to Greece. The first Rock concert in Athens was in 1967, the day of my first birthday, and it was the Rolling Stones. Of course this was *one* day after the coup that brought Greece a 7-year dictatorship, and the concert was a riot, and no bands came to Greece til 1980 when the Police and Lene Lovich broke the unwritten ban and played. Since then, there was an ever-increasing number of concerts per year, never more than 3-4 though. But (it figures) since I came to Boston there have been *lots*! :) Anyway, just passing the info. I hope Sophie B. plays again in the fall. Angelos ======================================================================== Date: 11 Jul 1992 14:08:40 U From: "Chris Waite" Subject: Box H.A.P. Subject: Time:1:03 PM OFFICE MEMO Box H.A.P. Date:7/11/92 I got all the CDs in the mail yesterday and I've listened to them all. Of her new releases, I think that Suicide song would have to be my favorite because it sounds so *pretty*. Also, I think I read somewhere that not many people like Box H.A.P.? That song is one of my favorite. Telling yourself not to rely on your logic and to trust the inner emotions just hits home... "Feel" your way through life, don't "think".... so to speak. :) Does anyone know what the new album is focused on? Warpaint was more of an ecological album than the first four, and Ecto was more ghostlike than the others, etc. I like the first four albums a lot more than Warpaint. The only Warpaint song that really makes a deep impression on me is "In Hiding". I *like* to listen to Warpaint and I think that artistically it is a good album, but it doesn't get out the emotions of the earlier songs... :) I was just wondering what to expect of the next album... Off I go... *whee...* I might get to go to the planetarium in NYC ! :) Christine :) ======================================================================== 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@ns1.rutgers.edu)