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 #652 ecto, Number 652 Thursday, 15 July 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: Back from hols (a Klaus) Jane's new one Local poll:Happy #1 solo artist Re: Back from hols (a Klaus) Re: Birthday Project Plea! monsters and music Heather Nova The Story DI{D,B,V}s Re: ecto #649 Crisp Rice Orlando Finis! Free Bob the Lengthy YAY! ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: Back from hols (a Klaus) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 13:57:33 BST OK, so I cocked up! I don't understand how the part-finished version of this got sent to the list. Sorry. I *HATE* Unix! The longer of the two should be disregarded. Thanks. -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== From: special K Subject: Jane's new one Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 9:05:45 EDT Hello, ectophiles. Sorry if this has been discussed here, I'm not on ecto right now, but need your help. ICE says that _When I Was A Boy_ would be out July 13. My record stores don't have it (and don't know why either). What's the deal? Please e-mail direct cuz like I said, I'm not on ecto right now. special K ======================================================================== From: alan moorse Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 09:08:50 -0400 Subject: Local poll:Happy #1 solo artist The annual Metroland readers' poll/best-of issue came out today, and my wife picked one up on the way to work. As we drove along, she read random entries to me (best local band, best local felon, etc.). Happy was the best local solo artist (and that after she's not local anymore!). And on top of that, I've heard Happy on the radio (college station) twice this week, though nothing from the CD5. I've finally received my CD5, and it only reinforces my love for Happy's acoustic work. I know she prefers keyboards to acoustic guitar, but honestly, I don't, and I'm in love with her acoustic songs. The acoustic Feed the Fire is just *it* for me. Those of you who haven't hear it yet can expect great aural gratification. alanm ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 14:19:05 BST Subject: Re: Back from hols (a Klaus) > What label is the Victoria Williams benefit CD on? Is there any > likelyhood of this being available in the UK? Aliter, is there a > mail-order source in the US? HMV put an Ad in VOX this month and the Victoria Williams benefit album was one of the ones they were advertising. It shouldbe out in the next couple of weeks. tim ======================================================================== From: alan moorse Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 09:52:11 -0400 Subject: Re: Birthday Project Plea! I say let Bob the Lengthy be overlong this once. In fact, I hereby donate 4 minutes of the time I was going to take with my submission. (The preceding is a clever cover for the fact that my submission was going to be short anyway) And in the tone of Albany's best public radio fund-raiser: Bob's gone to all this trouble for a cause that we all believe in (something nice for Happy, and something musical for someone musical), we OWE IT TO HIM to give him the opportunity to present this part of the present (in the near future). That's right, folks, Happy will get this, and she'll think we're all wonderful, and she'll be inspired to write, record, and even perform more music, so we'll all benefit. But first, we've gotta give Bob the chance, the indulgence if you will, to use FOUR LITTLE MINUTES of OUR tape time. Is that too much to ask? Of course not. alanm the proselytizer ======================================================================== Date: 15 Jul 1993 10:11:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "she listens like her head's on fire.." Subject: monsters and music Hello, I haven't posted in a while and I am woefully behind in my mail. I sent off for the cd>5 and I am awaiting it impatiently.:-) I didn't order Rhodes I because by some odd coincidence, the day I decided to get my money order, I stopped in Record Theater and there it was! Someone had been ordering more Happy cds. My friend bought something as well and at the counter put his cd on top of mine. The people in my house think that the covers to her albums imply some sort of death metal music and think the covers are quite scary. Another comment I received was "the music doesn't match the covers". I could argue a bit with that since monsters don't necessarily imply metal music and I like the covers. I played Cohabitants for a friend after buying Equipoise and received the comment "Are you trying to give me nightmares?" ha. So how long does it take for the cd>5 to arrive? Buffalo isn't that far from Albany (or is it Woodstock now?) Brief comment on Rhodes I: It's wonderful. I really like Wretches Gone Awry and Possessed. The lyrics for Possessed were written by Dave Snyder. Does anyone know who he is? There are some more questions I'd like to ask but they will have to wait. DIB's (I couldn't resist.:-) 1. The Lord of the Rings--JRR Tolkien 2. The Once and Future King--TH White 3. Little Women--Louisa May Alcott 4. Godstalk--PC Hodgell 5. Gone With the Wind--Margaret Mitchell 6. Les Miserables--Victor Hugo (unabridged version please!) 7. Chinese Fairy Tales --don't know the author. It's from Czechoslavakia. 8. A Room With a View--EM Forester 9. The Joy Luck Club--Amy Tan 10. Dune--Frank Herbert 11. Gaudy Night--Dorothy L. Sayers That was hard. If there is anything I like more than music, its books. some honorable mentions... Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (both of'em) Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte (it was Charlotte wasn't it?) Watership Down--Richard Adams The Hunchback of Notre Dame--Victor Hugo The Three Musketeers--Alexandre Dumas The DarkAngel Trilogy--Meredith Ann Pierce Hatrack River--Orson Scott Card Enders War (Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead)--Orson Scott Card The Snow Queen--Joan D. Vinge Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy--Tad Williams A Wrinkle in Time--(thank you for mentioning this one Meredith! This was a wonderful book and a wonderful series) okay, I could go on but I don't have the time. I'll just skip the videos and bring 20 books to the desert island..afterall they are about the same size..;-) -Quenby ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 15:14:25 BST Subject: Heather Nova This was an impulse buy this lunchtime! What an interesting album. It's a mixture of styles but it's mostly Heather and an acoustic guitar. Sometimes she sounds a bit like Loreena McKennit and other times a bit like June Tabor and then sometimes she sounds like Bjork. At other times she sounds like, er, Heather Nova! Worht checking out. tim ======================================================================== From: ezust@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Ezust) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 10:32:38 EDT Subject: The Story The Story has a new album which should be out either this week or next week. If any of you get it and hear it, please post a review! I won't be able to hear it until I make it to Boston next month! -- | Alan Ezust ezust@{binkley.}cs.mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |------------- McGill University School of Computer Science ----------------| "Love means having to say you're sorry every five minutes." ======================================================================== From: Martin Hanley Subject: DI{D,B,V}s Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 16:38:39 +0100 (BST) Well, despite having already submitted my DIDs, I'll do another, with the added attraction (?) of some DIBs and DIVs. DIDs (no order): 1) KT - Hounds of Love 2) Sarah Maclachlan - Live 3) Jethro Tull - 20 Year Anniversary Boxed Set cheat cheat cheat :-) 4) HR - Warpaint 5) Enya - Watermark 6) Clannad - Banba 7) Gregson & Collister - Love is a Strange Hotel 8) The The - Soul Mining 9) Fairport Convention - Gladys' Leap 10) All About Eve - Scarlet and Other Stories DIBs (no order): 1) Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory 2) Iain Banks - The Crow Road 3) Robert Rankin - The Brentford Trilogy 4) Terry Pratchett - Mort 5) Stephen Fry - The Liar 6) Tom Holt - Expecting Someone Taller 7) Robert Rankin - Armaggedon The Musical 8) Iain Banks - The Bridge 9) Mark Wallington - 500 Mile Walkies 10) Stephen Donaldson - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant :-) (sorry, these got a bit silly in the middle) DIVs (definitely no order): 1) Aliens 2) The Italian Job (brrm brrm!) 3) Brazil 4) The Black Adder 5) Kate Bush - The Singles File (to sneak some more KT onto the island) 6) Red Dwarf V 7) er... 8) That's it. So there you have it. I think the books (and the vids for that matter) are straying to the slightly less than serious side, but why not, that's what I ask. Subject: Re: ecto #649 I just have to say, Mitch, Thank You for posting that Alan Sherman song. When I was in camp that year one guy kept playing it Over and Over and I really loved it by the end of the summer. I will have to go out and buy it sometime. BTW, now that Jeanne has OKed the inclusion of her lyrics with my song on the HBP, I should have the thing done and mailed to Doug on time. Yay! Thanks sharky! Peace. -mjm ======================================================================== Date: 15 Jul 1993 12:34:46 -0400 From: pas@math.ams.org (Paula Shanks) Subject: Crisp Rice Recently someone asked re "Orlando" to know more about Quentin Crisp, who appears in the movie. What I know about him: aged gay British writer/media celebrity. Author of The Naked Civil Servant, a book which dates from the early 70's, I think. I don't know if he's appeared in other movies or TV. I was astounded to read in Meredith's recent posting that "Happy has mentioned not having read Anne Rice." Can this be TRUE???!? I had concluded that two or three songs off Equipoise were very directly inspired by Anne Rice characters. {I don't recall the songs--haven't yet tattooed the titles on my wrist--but they're, say, cuts 2-3-4 or 3-4-5.} I am just agog at this information. Of course, my jaw has been dropping to the floor a lot lately. Like when the Toyota dealer told me they didn't have a rotor cap or plug wires in stock for my car. Again, agog. Late huzzahs to Mitch hitting the big 4-1. All the best people do this year. :) --Pshanks, Agog in A-Squared ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 13:03:34 EDT From: Laura Frank Clifford Subject: Orlando >I just saw Orlando tonight and I was a bit disappointed. On the plus >side it is one of the most beautiful lush looking films I have seen >in a while. Each scene was awash with colors and fantastic costumes. >It moved forward rather slowly (or gracefully if you are more generous), >and forward seems a bit of a misnomer, since it didn't seem to really >go anywhere at all. I would have expected a bit more character >development considering the time frame involved and the experiences of >the main character. The feminist points seemed rather blunt and >obviously stated, perhaps that is due to the age of the novel, but it >did seem the director had her hand in on it too. (I recently finished >the Female Man by Joanna Russ, and while this was obvious, at least >it wasn't shrill and overbearing like that book. Any defenders?) >All in all, I found it attractive looking, but not particularly >moving. Does anyone know what else Sally Potter has directed, and >how about who Quentin Crisp and Billy Zane are? All seem familiar, >yet I can't place them. > > Neal Quentin Crisp was the subject of 'The Naked Civil Servant' starring John Hurt many years back. Billy Zane was the bad guy in the Australian film 'Dead Calm' and Audrey's love interest near the end of Twin Peaks' run. And gee, I really liked Orlando. I think it looked so great because it had the same art directors as Greenaway's films... 'Orlando' was written by Virginia Woolf and based on the experiences of her friend Anita(?) Sackville West. I vote for giving Bob the extra four minutes unless other Ectoians feel strongly agin'. (I hope to put something together this weekend - it's about time I contributed to an HGP...) Laura ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 14:45:45 PDT From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: Finis! Well, I finally finished my contribution to the HPB yesterday. It's a song I've been twiddling with for the last few months.. I could never get the melody right, but now I think it's ready. Now if I could only think of a title... I recently posted a request on rec.music.newage, asking for information on getting a deck of "Oblique Strategies". These are cards invented by Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt used to circumvent creative blocks. If you get stuck on whatever it is you're working on (music, art, Great American Novel, etc.), just draw a card and do what it says. The cards say things like, "Water", "Think of the radio," "Remove specifics, convert to ambiguities", "Be dirty", etc. Well, within the same day, I got a complete list of all the Oblique Strategies cards, so I can make my own. If anyone's interested, I'll post the list here. I think Happy would really groove on these cards, so if I have time, I'll print up a deck and send them off to her for her b-day. Is there some sort of laminated card stock I can buy to make these cards? I want them to last. D^2 "Bruno Panz Jones! Don't get eat by alligator! Is party!" - The Kids in the Hall ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 17:04:15 CDT From: Subject: Free Bob the Lengthy I, myself, have no problem with Bob's original HBP submission running long. I don't think the last one that we all have used up all the available tape anyway, and thus far we haven't received enough submissions to fill up the available tape--something I hope each and every one of you will soon help to remedy (hint hint). WRT Steve F's question on mail-order places: Insomnia Records, Box 86308, Los Angeles, Cal. 90086 would be a good bet. Mitch ======================================================================== Subject: YAY! Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 18:10:29 EDT From: Angelos Kyrlidis Hi ecto, Well I have had two glasses of OUZO and a couple of glasses of Champagne, but what the heck, I have successfully defended my PhD thesis, and I have officially finished my years of study in Boston, so I thought I should thank you all for the last two plus years of keeping me up to date with what's happening in music/film/etc. It's not as if I will be leaving y'all, I *will* be back with a vengeance when I get an account at Berkeley, but in any case I don't know how much posting I will be doing till I go to Greece on Wednesday. Thanks ectophiles, and especially Greg, Liz and Jess!!! Angelos (Dr. Kyrlidis if you're nasty :) ) +=====================================+ |'My ears have parasites'-hApPy RhOdEs| +=====================================+ ======================================================================== 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)