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 #184 ecto, Number 184 Saturday, 14 March 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Sarah McLachlan in Boston Fun Fakts! moreinfo:) Today I have more to say than yesterday Forgot something, as usual Happy Birthday kIrI Tori Amos in concert / Loreena McKennitt Tori on VH1 today (Sat. 3/15) ======================================================================== From: kyrlidis@athena.mit.edu Subject: Sarah McLachlan in Boston Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 21:13:25 EST Hi! Hot off the press: S McL is playing at the Charles Playhouse in Boston on April 6th. Tix are $12.50 and go on sale tomorrow at 10am. Angelos ======================================================================== Subject: Fun Fakts! Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 23:35:25 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu How perfect! I've been on a taping spree, and I discovered tonight that _Warpaint_ and _Hounds of Love_ fit _perfectly_ on a 100 minute tape! (well, okay, there were 12 seconds left at the end of side 2. Sue me.) One more week! Jeff |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 | ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 14 Mar 92 01:25:59 EST From: jessica@cs.rutgers.edu Subject: moreinfo:) hmm, the "6 to 10 day outlook" for philly says: "Temperatures to average below normal and precipitation to be near normal. Normal highs are in the mid 50s and normal lows in the mid 3 0s. Normal precipitation is 65 hundredths of an inch water equivalent." (actually it says all that ALL IN CAPS. But i thoguht i would spare you that) We're staying at the "Wyndham" which is right at franklin plaza. (by the franklin institute, which is where the IMAX theater is) It's not walking distance to where the show is, says joe, but i'm not *sure* of that., I mean, it all depends waht you consider walking distance:) could a real philly ectophile give more details? I don't mind anyway, we'll just take a cab. Also could a philly-phile tell us what the area aroudn the place where the show is will be like? When we are waiting outside for the show, if it is very cold will we look very silly if we are bundled up in blankets sitting on the side-walk? (such things are fine when waiting all night to buy dead tickets, but i'm not sure it's appropriate here..) We'll have to all bring thermoses full of coffee and hot chocolate, i'm sure it will be cold! I'll keep us up to date with the weather reports.. If doors open at 6:45, then i guess we want to be outside at 5:30 latest. shall we aim for 5? Should we then aim to eat at 3? And thus, meet at 2:30? Where, that's a question I don't tihnk has been answered yet. I've been listening to tori amos' little earthquakes lots lately. it's really very very very good. It was fabulous on first listen, and it just gets better and better the more i listen to it. i've also been listening a lot to All About Eve's latest "touched by jesus" which i think is much much better than their previous two, and that aside, is really very very wonderful. it's very different from the tori amos, but the two go well on a tape together. Dave S. tells me the all about eve hasn't been released here and there are as yet no plans to do so!! :P :P :P :P Get it on import then. I really highly recommend it. (for thos wondering, the "touched by jesus" is slightly sarcastic, not mmm, reverent or something.. It's hard to explain, i gues it's hard to be sure - the lyrics are really really good, very complex and intersting) mm anyway i'd better get to bed! jessica ======================================================================== From: kIrI Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1992 02:56:29 EST thanks to everyone for making my b-day a little brighter!! hope to see many of you soon... i've been tossing the idea for a video HGP around in my head. i was curious to see how many of you have access to a camara. this would be a difficult project cause of all the different types of systems, NTSC, PAL etc, but I think it would be really wild. what do people think... is it possible, how many people can get at a camara, how many people want to expose their mug to Happy etc. etc.??? kiri who has to sober up..hehe..yep a wild night..it's very cool having a friend with the same birthday as you...:) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Black room mirror echoes hargieka@craft.camp.clarkson.edu< > Warm blood tickles ebony lips Kirstin A. Hargie (kIrI)< > tear the cracking bone asunder "Just another 20-something< > set to grovel screams Gothic." < > fire whips < ----------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: 13 March 1992 15:27:36 CST From: Subject: Today I have more to say than yesterday Martin says: >Hialarooleealayhalaroonies! Is this an Outback colloquialism, an aborigine loanword, or what? Is the simple but elegant "G'day mates" no longer trendy in the western half of the country? :-) (Though a nation whose prime minister is as free-spirited and interesting to observe as a recent NPR report indicated he was is definitely onto something.) >I dreamt everyone from Ecto were having a little get-together in >Vickie's >apartment. I guess it was kinda like the one at the end of HGP vol II, >but we were ALL there. Try stuffing all of us, and the food, into Vickie's real apartment, especially the food into the kitchen. I know; I've been there. This is what makes it fascinating to study how the human mind constructs images on the basis of fragmentary information--the comparison with the real world :-). >all I can remember is an >impression of your respective somatypes... and that Mitch had a short- >cropped black beard.... ah well. In the real world, I don't, proving my point again :-). Sure you're not confusing me with Freud, who did, and also wrote the book on interpreting dreams (the probable source of the intermixture of mental images)? :-) >Meanwhile Vickie... was recreating >the experience for us by wiring herself physically into a huge mass of >electronics along one wall (Yes, "wired into gaffa central" is definitely a >memorable little phrase) until she was almost entirely covered in wires and >tape and gunk (gaffa?) Martin may have a brilliant career as a writer of speculative fiction with a mildly kinky subtext (cf. Jane Fonda in _Barbarella_). :-) :-) Beth writes: >re: _I've Heard the Mermaids Singing_. Justin >wrote that the piece is called _Lakme_ which, I have to admit, sounds a >little more like the title I hear on the HGP tapes. Am I confused? I've just been listening to the HGP, and it seems that the Flower Duet (and it really is Duet) is an area from the opera Lakme (or however it's actually spelled). >Here, here! Or as they spell it around the parliament in Westminister, "hear, hear." (Not to be confused with the loing defunct Evanston record store Hear Here.) (There, there, don't be so distraught about a simple spelling error :-).) >the thesis numbers crunched! Hey Mitch you wouldn't want to lend me >your >free-flowing ability with the written word... :) When I was young the administration tended to frown on ghostwriters for theses, proposals, etc. Your own free-flowing words will probably get better results, especially since I lack your intuitive knowledge of seals. Besides which, with the possible exception of arcane terms of art from the natural sciences, it is possible that the natural scientists you'll be doing business with may react better to plain English than to the kind of obscurantism that I deal in (not to be confused with the kind of obscurantism that some people in the natural sciences deal in :-) :-) :-) ). But keep in mind that Washington in August and some parts of northern Canada in winter (much further north, I'm sure, than you are) can make _each other_ seem relatively more attractive, so it's all a matter of short-term perception. Mitch ____________ "Center shot, eh?" --Doug McKenzie "Take off, eh?" --Bob McKenzie (or was it the other way around?) ======================================================================== Date: 13 March 1992 16:11:58 CST From: Subject: Forgot something, as usual Just joining everyoneelse in wishing Kiri a happy birthday. Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 14:30:43 CST From: Vickie via Chip Subject: Happy Birthday kIrI Vickie here. (tm) I'm sitting in Chip's office and he's letting me pass a message along, which is: *** Happy Birthday kIrI! *** Mitch came over yesterday and brought a printout of the birthday list. The next bday is Alan Sodoma on the 18th (Albany Day!). So if I don't get another chance, *** Happy Birthday Alan! *** Then, on the 19th is Barry's birthday, so: *** Happy Birthday Barry! *** (Please *someone* give Barry a ride to Philly.) I have to go now, but I'll be back as soon as I can! Hello Everybody and hugs to you all! Love, EctoMa (Vickie) ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 14 Mar 92 13:45:09 MET From: Albert Philipsen Subject: Tori Amos in concert / Loreena McKennitt Hi! Nothing but talk about the concerts lately! This is really making life hard for a lonely Dutch ectophile. On the other hand, I might be able to see Tori Amos life tomorrow!!! She is giving a solo concert in Amsterdam, in The Roxy, Sunday at 4pm. This seems to be a pretty obscure concert, because at the ticket agency, they didn't know anything about it. I'm just going to take a look and see if I can get a ticket at the door. About Loreena McKennitt: I've fallen deeply in love with her album The Visit. The music has the same wonderful, soothing effect on me as Enya's. The Visit is easily available on CD over here, and I promised Court (meow!) to get her a copy. I'm also very much interested in getting Loreena's other albums. For anyone who is going the see the Happy concerts (I'm jealous): I hope you enjoy them!!!! Meanwhile, I'll be listening to my Happy Rhodes collection, and all the other wonderful music I came to know because of you. Less than two weeks before the European ectophile party! I'm so exited about meeting Klaus & Claudia, Chip & Michelle and Court! Anyone else coming? Alb(any)ert Phil(ly)ipsen ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 14 Mar 92 13:41:35 -0600 From: rjk1@cec1.wustl.edu (Bob Kollmeyer) Subject: Tori on VH1 today (Sat. 3/15) Well, Silent All These Years won VH-1's little phone in contest by one percent, so if anyone wants to check out Tori, they play SATY between the 11th and 10th video in their top 20 countup. Unfortunately, I don't know when they replay the countup. I do know that it is on right now, and they should be playing SATY right around 2:00pm central time. I am almost positive it is on again later tonight (around 11:00pm-midnight). Just thought it might be of interest. Sorry to tease those who cannot get VH-1. Bob K. "snow can wait I forgot my mittens wipe my nose get my new boots on I get a little warm in my heart when I think of winter" --Winter, Tori Amos ======================================================================== 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)