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 #294 ecto, Number 294 Wednesday, 15 July 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: psychowelders more rambling Buffy Sainte-Marrie and sampler tapes psychowelding your reality eep, braindance show cancelled thit'n'tat Today's your birthday friend... THIS_N_THAT used happy Tori videos Ancient Wonders ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 21:37:02 EDT From: Vickie Mapes Subject: Re: psychowelders Psychowelders c/o Rhondda Francis 3815 Walnut, #1N Kansas City, MO 64111 Be sure to mention me and this list, you might even get a discount (no guarantees though.) I have no idea about the cost of tapes/CD. I'll get that information when they come up here at the end of the month. 1) Great story Shelly, what a coincidence! Have you ever met Eric? He's a really nice guy, and I like his bass playing a lot. You're going to be commuting between Lawrence and Kansas City? Wow... 2) Thanks for letting me know woj, I'm glad you like them. What in particular did you like? Psychowelders were passed up by C'est La Mort :-(. Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 21:57:07 EDT From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu Subject: more rambling since greg has just introduced his cats, i feel inclined to introduce my plants to you as well (since they were, after all, named this past weekend moments after greg exited my apartment). their names are leif and phil (meredith's fault, not mine). they are dieffenbachias (say that ten times fast at midnight after laying in front of the tv screen for five hours) and they like medium to bright light and need to be watered about once every five days. they are really quite weird look- ing plants - about a foot high with elm-shaped leaves and a number of stalks sprouting from a common stalk that is under the dirt. unless you are a cat, they are non-edible. since angelos slammed tori, i'll slam sophie b hawkins (wink!). after hearing good things in this list and hearing one song of hers on meredith's last champagne jam, i bought the "damn i wish i was your lover" single while buying blank tapes today. i'd never heard that song, but i'm not surprised that it is getting airplay on mainstream stations (it is, right?). she's got a nice voice, but musically, it doesn't much excite me. i did find the other track, "don't stop swaying", to be much more interesting - and vaguely like peter gabriel's "red rain", but it too has a samey feel to it that will probably fade after a while. i did like that song on the champagne jam tape, but i don't know the title. it's the one that has the line "you can live me me!" (or something close to that in it). is the rest of the album more like that song? somehow, i suspect that this is the kind of album i'd like to get a dub of, but wouldn't pay money for... alan - i know i wasn't the person who mentioned having a ninth wave poster, but i do have one. it's just a shot of KaTe similar to (if not the same as) the picture on the back of the _hounds of love_ album. mine is all one color - brown - and about 1.5' by 2.5' in size. my knowledge on the ninth wave is sketchy (and i'm sure that others will get to it soon enough), but i'll toss in what i recall. it's mentioned in a tennyson poem, which is the source for KaTe's use of the term. i am certain that it also pops up in celtic myth as well (though i'll be damned if i can remember where - probably in the mabinogian, which is the welsh myth cycle), which is probably where tennyson got it from. the ninth wave is supposed to have magical properties attributed to it (like the seventh son of a seventh son). i'll have to go back and see if i can find where that reference in celtic myth is... woj (sweating a river in morristown) ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 22:12:16 EDT From: kosky@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Anthony Kosky) Subject: Buffy Sainte-Marrie and sampler tapes Thanks to Klaus for the enlightening info on Buffy Sainte-Marie, and to Bill for his info and recommendation of her greatest hits CD. Unfortunately I'm rather poor at the moment having aquired a large number of new CD's recently (six in the last week, including the 1st4 CDs), and am going to try to abstain from buying any more for a while. Also I just managed to pretzle the rear wheel on my bike and so will have to shell out for a new rim :-(. Anyway I think the Buffy Sainte-Marie greatest hits will be top of my list of new CDs to buy when my finances recover a bit, or perhaps second after Dr. John's new album. Also Angelos mentions ecto sampler tapes. Can someone fill me in on what these are/were? It seems like I could find some pretty neat stuff to contribute to such a tape. It would be fun to find out what other people on the list were listening to too. -Anthony ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 22:30:56 EDT From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu Subject: psychowelding your reality Vickie Mapes sez: >2) Thanks for letting me know woj, I'm glad you like them. What in >particular did you like? and thank you for the address! will send them a note in a day or so. teh song that grabbed me the most was "snakes and ladders". i think that i had heard it a few times when i finally got the point of the lyrics (longtime readers will know that i listen to the music first and then catch the lyrics later, so this is not surprising). however, these particular lyrics slammed me against the wall without warning. "we'll burn their buildings and their books as they once burned ours they'll hang on crosses as we once burned on stakes" that's pretty intense. i'm not sure that i fully agree with what i think are militant wiccan themes, but it's incredibly powerful none- theless. >Psychowelders were passed up by C'est La Mort :-(. really? that is a bit surprising on one hand but not so on the other (can we get more cryptic?). woody dumas has told me that he does not want clm to evolve into an american 4ad, which is why he has signed bands like east ash. in this respect, the psychowelders' mix of in your face rock and moodiness seems to be a perfect candidate for the label. however, considering that woody also gets tons of tapes by the week (even more than vickie or me!), i can see where some bands have to fall by the wayside. which reminds me, tel basta, who were featured on the last clm comp- ilation have a new album out. it's self-titled on delta records. i'm ordering my copy tonight. still sweating in morristown... woj ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 00:47:32 EDT From: jessica@maurolycus.rutgers.edu Subject: eep, braindance show cancelled Eek! John (the guitar player) has a hernia, and can't make tomorrow's show, so they've cancelled. He'll be out of commission for _3_months_, says lizzit, but they are hoping he'll be ok enough to play at the end of this month, when they will be recording a single on a compilation album for walden pond.. ah well! jessica ======================================================================== From: iamecto@chinet.chi.il.us (kirstin hargie) Subject: thit'n'tat Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 22:47:40 CDT Got my Tori ticket - yippie...soon to be ex-skeptic here. :) The ticketmaster wouldn't let me get Sarah tickets...i'll have to try again. Sarah is just coming under the wire, cause the next day I leave for school - should be an exciting week that one. Buffy St.Clare????? Excuse my ignorance - but who the heck is she - and where did she get that name. It almost sounds like a psuedonym. Eck. Hmmmmmm. :) Sounds like you've got some cewl kitties there Greg. Michael Peskura: Court sayz hi, she received the stuff you sent her, she says thanks and she'll get right back to you - or asap. Well I'm off to MS for the weekend, with a brief stop in Memphis to see Ms. Merow then she and I are driving down to good Ole MS on frid. Hope I don't melt. ta-ta kIrI  ======================================================================== Subject: Today's your birthday friend... From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 22:26:28 GMT i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* Herzlichen ********BIRTHDAY*** Glueckwunsch ******************* zum *** Mitch Pravatiner ** Geburtstag *********************** !!! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____ Klaus Kluge * klaus@inphobos.w.open.de * I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 12:22:58 EDT From: Chris Sampson Subject: THIS_N_THAT Greg writes: >one is getting a letter from Happy... the contents were personal; >much as i'd like to share them with my ecto friends, i think i will >simply say that i think Happy is an extraordinary person :) Lucky dog...no offense to the cats.... >two is the addition of two companions to share my apartment in new >jersey!! they actually spent friday night with jessica, but saturday >we stuck them into boxes and drove 'em up to new brunswick, and they >spent the evening and night moving into the spare room -- by sunday >they seemed quite comfortable... so everyone say meow to my new >cat-shaped friends, Binky and Face! (meow) Mia ia io to Binky and Face >i didn't name them :) Goes without saying..... >if i had, i'd have named them something sensible, like "ecto" and >"cooler" ;) Ditto...... Angelos writes: Tim writes: >First, I'm curious about the napkin/cat/tape thing. Should I try a paper or >a cloth napkin? Hmmm, or rather Hmmmm? What are you refering to? Apparently I haven't been paying enough attention to the aRcHives... Yes, please! I'm on a remote node, and can't poke around the archives. I believe Doug (or Jeff) volunteered to help me get some of the interviews.....guy(s)??? :) >I feel a bit out of place reading this mailing list sometimes because >a lot of the music referred to (Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, etc.) >is stuff that I don't like, for one reason or another. I am not *that* thrilled about Ms. Amos, so there! How could you *not* like Peter Gabriel though? :) Someone who doesn't like PG!?!?!?!? Where's the Central Scrutinizer when we need him!?!?!?! ;) >I think I should get back to work.... My epitaph, someday....... Greg adds: hahahahaha, i just thought of more names for my cats (first name is for the white trimmed, confident one, and the second for the all-black, quiet one): terra and incognita mia and io foo and tah The last is so obvious as to have been pur(rrrrrrr)loined. Small and big, this body I fit in is full of life and chasing footahs! -greg -- gb10@gte.com -- "close they eyes, I wake in much surprise run and jump on sunbeams dancing by" -- HR S. Alan Writes: (Hi, is it S. Alan, or just Alan....?) >I have a question: What is all this significance of the 7th, 8th and 9th >waves? I've heard references to them on this list, and I've seen song and >record titles use it (Suzanne Ciani and Kate Bush pop into mind), >and now I am reading the lyrics to a new Tear Garden album that makes >another reference to it.. Is it biblical or something? (my religious >background is nil, so I always assume that if I don't understand a >reference, it must be biblical or something).. Good question, I have some one to ask about that, though he's not in the office just yet, and, he might not know anyway....For a more mainstream reference, we turn to Sting: "I said love is the seventh wave" Any answers (for that matter, a list of waves 1-9 inclusive, would be nice..... On an only (barely) tangentially (adverbally, apparently) related note, can anyone name the seven wonders of the ancient world? When I was at the Grand Canyon, the bus driver said that it was one, but never mentioned the others....I could only come up with 2 or 3 guesses. P.S. Sorry for a repeat (encore presentation) of the ooooooooooooops post, my mailer informed me that it HAD NOT been sent. "To err is human, To really screw things up, you need a computer" -source unknown Chris Sampson ======================================================================== Date: 15 Jul 92 13:17:43 EDT From: Subject: used happy Subject: used happy (for some reason my subjects haven't been getting sucked in by the digester... any ideas j? I added a manual subject here as the first line in my message. Maybe this will help.) I was poking around in a used music store down the street from my apt. in Evanston on Fri, and lo and behold, there was a used copy of warpaint on sale for $6.50!!! Happy must really have made the big time now! I was polarized between letting it lay there for some poor unHappy- exposed soul to pick up and revelate, or buying it and giving it to someone I know as a gift / using it as a sample copy for potential fans. I bought it. (guess the decision wasn't that hard) -mjm (mike mendelson) (mjm@zylab.mhs.compuserve.com) ======================================================================== From: kyrlidis@athena.mit.edu Subject: Re: THIS_N_THAT Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 13:47:00 EDT Chris writes: >>I think I should get back to work.... > My epitaph, someday....... Heh! :) > On an only (barely) tangentially (adverbally, apparently) related > note, can anyone name the seven wonders of the ancient world? When > I was at the Grand Canyon, the bus driver said that it was one, but > never mentioned the others....I could only come up with 2 or 3 > guesses. Bzzzt! Sorry but the bus driver was wrong. The Grand Canyon isn't a man-made structure and therefore doesn't qualify. And it has been there for more than 3,000 years, which is when mankind started building things that could be classified as 'wonders'. Let's see if my high school education was any good... 1) Chaeop's Pyramid 2) The Hanging Gardens of Babylon 3) The Colossus of Rhodes [HEY! Happy should name her next album Colossus. 'Colossus' by Happy Rhodes. The eigth wonder! What an ad campaign!!:) ] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ H A P P Y C O N T E N T 4) The Parthenon in Athens [not the one in Nashville, TN :)] 5-7 ???? Now I consider my self brain-dead. I can't even remember all 12 of the tasks pf Hercules... Pooh!! In other news, I am moving this afternoon... And I am going to Greece for 5 weeks on Sunday. There are *so* many things to be done, my natural reaction is to ignore them... But I really shouldn't... Angelos ======================================================================== Subject: Tori videos Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 13:54:38 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu I seem to remember somebody (woj, I believe) saying something a few days ago about finally getting to see the _other_ Tori Amos video, "Crucify." I thought i'd saved the message to respond to later, but now I can't find it. In any event, as far as I know, there are currently *4* Tori Amos videos: "Silent All These Years," "Winter," "China," and "Crucify." So far, I think the best single scene in any of her videos are the mutiple Tori cheerleaders at the end of "Crucify." _Wondeful!_ If I've imagined the whole thing about the posting I think I'm responding to, well, sorry... Jeff (who will one of these days come by a way to copy his Tori-on-MTV-and- Letterman for woj...he promises!) |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Show what you are / Be strong, be true | | | Time for you to / Be who you are." | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | --Happy Rhodes | ======================================================================== Subject: Ancient Wonders Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 13:57:44 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Angelos sez: >Let's see if my high school education was any good... > >1) Chaeop's Pyramid >2) The Hanging Gardens of Babylon >3) The Colossus of Rhodes [HEY! Happy should name her next album Colossus. >'Colossus' by Happy Rhodes. The eigth wonder! What an ad campaign!!:) ] >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >H A P P Y C O N T E N T > >4) The Parthenon in Athens [not the one in Nashville, TN :)] >5-7 ???? Hmmm. wasn't the Library in Alexandria (Egypt, not VA) one of 'em? How about the Sphynx? Or does that just get lumped in with the Pyramid? >There are *so* many things to be done, my natural reaction >is to ignore them... But I really shouldn't... But it's so much fun to have to improvise in a hurry! Good luck getting ready... Jeff ======================================================================== 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)