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 #472 ecto, Number 472 Wednesday, 3 March 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: Happy segue Ecto is busy! Re: zoolook/Philip Glass/etc Re: RBN (tm) Re: cohabitants and the German language Stomachs and eyes ======================================================================== Oops. This is a short digest. No particular reason :) --jessica ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 22:53:46 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: Happy segue Angelos has his priorities in order: > The following story takes place in Phobos at the wrong Century. Our heroes are > Gabrielle and Vern, two Cohabitants. Gabrielle is a Runner, and Vern is a > Rainkeeper. They are Waking up. > Gabrielle: Where Do I Go, Asylum Master? > Vern: To The FunnyFarm For We Believe He's Alive. ... :-) Wonderful!! Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 22:50 EST From: robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) Subject: Ecto is busy! Hi there Ectodelphians! Lots o'digests came in all of a sudden. Where to begin? Woj - I do like Belly. Tanys really sings her heart out, and the musicians seem to be really good. I guess I wish WXPN here would play some other songs by them! Would you recommend a few I might request, when I'm not bugging them for EQP material? Greg (and everybody!) - I have an idea as to the Meaning of Footah! Perhaps Greg is from New England, and is referring to the footer at the end of his posts!(: (note left smiley emoticon!) Mitch - WRT Cohabitants and Psychiatric imagery: Although this is not new to Happy (To The Funny Farm, Out From Under Me, Asylum Master et al), there is also the sci-fi theme of an interdimensional traveller. The song would make a great Star Trek script! BTW, hope you finally got the note! Oh, and I just wanted to check again, while on a psychiatric bent, if anyone here was familiar with R.D. Laing, esp. "The Politics of Experience". It was a great book for me, a real monument! Vickie - I stand corrected! Ecto is a List, not a board. We internet newbies have a lot to learn! Chip dropped by today, and in the course of our wanderings, we visited Borders Book Store here in town. They had several books on the Internet, including a book of lists which did _not_ include Ecto, or even Tori's list! But there sure is a lot going on! Wish I could get rec.music.gaffa or some of the other places of which people here speak, but my access is purely Email at this time. Chip suggested I check with U. of Penn to see if they offer public access via modem... By the way, it was great to meet Chip! Ectophiles getting together appears to be a common thing, and it continues to amaze me how absolutely wonderful this fuzzy blue list is! Vickie, please send me the FAQs if you can! It's always a good idea to start with some basics! Angelos - your Happy Segue post was intense! Absolutely wonderful! I know when Happy sees it she'll be... well, Happy! Great stuff! Yngueh - thank you for sharing your story with us! As you may know, Happy herself had a pretty rough start in life! Do you play an instrument? It's a great way to let your feelings out! I too was shy, my parents moved when I was young and it was never the same. I withdrew into electronics first, then music. Music healed me when I came back from Vietnam. And nobody's music reaches me more than Happy's! So I think you have found a good place here and I'm sure we all welcome you to Ecto! And I hope I have spelled your name right! Chris in OZ, I hope you have your post back! As Mitch mentioned, I seemed to be having some trouble with my service. I hope it's over now, but if not please bear with me and I'll keep trying! They sent me a software upgrade which I will install over the weekend. Thanks everybody for being here! I look forward to meeting more of you as time goes on! Till then, see you on the net! Bob Lovejoy ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 23:11:46 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: zoolook/Philip Glass/etc Anthony writes: > I'm surprised by the enthusiasm Zoolook has generated here. I remember Well, it's not one of my favorite albums, it wouldn't even be in the Top 100, but I do like it. > the sake of hi-fi and clever production, with virtually no depth or > emotional content. Sure, it's very impressive to take lots of snippets > from different languages and voices and assemble them into an album, Of course, the very best album in this "genre" is Brian Eno's "My Life In the Bush Of Ghosts" (the granddaddy of them all!) > but it didn't seem like he had anything to say with the album other > than "look what we can do!". I remember liking Laurie Anderson's vocal > on one of the tracks, but that was about it. The Laurie Anderson is my favorite part too. > Trivia (for those interested in such things): Jean Michael Jarre is > the son of the French composer Maurice Jarre, who, among other things, > did the soundtrack to the film Witness. He also wrote the music for the film _The Magician of Lublin_ and the song "The Magician" which Kate Bush sings. *Nobody* has a tape of the original song, all we have are the snippets from the film. It's a wonderful little song and serious Kate fans would give anything to hear it in its entirety, without dialogue all over it. > On the subject of Equipoise, I'm confused by some of the posts along ... > doesn't seem to contain any of the embarresingly bad lyrics that would > occasionally crop up on her other albums. (hmm. I wonder if it's > concidered heretical to make comments like that here. It's fine, of course. Though I am curious as to which songs you're talking about. See, I agree about various lines and words here and there (such as her "baby" phase) and I'm just wondering if you're thinking about the same lines and words I am. Whenever you get a chance... Oh, I love her, babys and all! Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 23:18:10 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: RBN (tm) Angelos pants: > RADIO SHOWS!!! Yippee! :) Sounds awesome! Looking forward to a list of dates > and cities, which will hopefully include Boston! Acoustic versions of > EQP songs! That must be a heavenly experience! Vickie, PLEASE let us know > more details, like which songs she plans to do!!! Dunno, except that Kevin mentioned that he heard her plucking "Save Our Souls" in the living room. !-) MJM asked what a radio tour was, and it is her sitting in the station's studio, performing songs live. I imagine an interview would be part of it. Tori's done many of them, and is what she'll be doing tomorrow at 4:00pm on Q101. Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 23:42:33 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: cohabitants and the German language Uli riches: > P.S.: I really love Save Our Souls, and the 'trumpets' Dirk hears have never > ever even reminded me of trumpets until Dirk told us so :). Like Vickie I > these sounds are adding something ectoterestrial feeling to it. And I don't > like the sound of real trumpets anyway. There's just one thing that's worse, > and that's electric piano. Like in 'Mother Sea', that's a song I don't like, > same as 'In Hiding'. If it's a piano, it just has to be a real one! Um, I thought those two songs *did* have a real piano in them. I know that there is a real piano at Cathedral Sound, but if they recorded in the tiny studio then Martha would have had to use the electric. I honestly never noticed...I'll listen carefully the next time I hear those songs. Btw, the "trumpet" sound in Save Our Souls is actually a French horn sound. That's how I heard it (but then, I used to play French horn in band) and Kevin confirmed it. Uli, thanks for the .sig complement. Vickie ======================================================================== From: Martin Dougiamas Subject: Stomachs and eyes Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 13:22:47 +0800 (WST) Ho, people. I'm having my weekly lunchbreak, so I thought I'd dip into Ecto for a few minutes. Angelos says: >But can she resist my newly improved home made spinach/cheese pie and >pastitsio? I know I certainly couldn't! Pastitsio is my all-time ever favourite food.. and has been since I was little. Guess where I'm coming for dinner, Angelos? ;-) Care to give me complete directions to come over for pastitsio from my house? (ie blue lines/red lines etc) :) I wrote last week about seeing Gyan, Deborah Conway and Tommy Emmanuel in concert on Rottnest last Sunday... unfortunately the world conspired that day to keep me on the mainland and I had to miss it. The reviews were good, though. I'll have to catch her next time. As a consolation prize, I went and saw "Until the End of The World" for the first time instead. Wow! What a film! I absolutely loved it. Especially all the groovy little 8-years-in-the-future consumer products. The technology was very realistic ... it put most Hollywood SF to shame. And the Australian bush landscapes in the last half reminded me very much of Warburton in central Australia where I was born and raised. Cool. Anyhow, later, groovy people. Martin -- ,---------------------------------------------------------------. _ . | So we chase the explosions Martin Dougiamas. | _r| Ll\ | From horizon to horizon, martin@cs.curtin.edu.au | | | \ | Wrap ourselves around the distance martin@dialix.oz.au | \ |_ / | For as long as we can hold. Perth, Western Australia -+-> x~ `-' `= Slow Pulse Boy - And Also The Trees =========================' V ======================================================================== 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)