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 #503 ecto, Number 503 Wednesday, 24 March 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: hard to understand Suzanne Vega reviewed in New York Times Happy on the radio in Philly Re: MST3K Lurking too long Radieau daze :-) and other stories Tones and Hair Re: Radieau daze :-) and other stories belly? Arramaieda (Warning non KT, TA & HP stuff) Musical weirdness [oops, didn't send to list] Thanks Ancient Roman Calendars Ob Tanya Donelly's Belly Happy Trails- Call Now!!! Terra Incognita; Gruess'di!; Shona Laing ======================================================================== From: depeche@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (S. A. Ezust) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 13:52:03 EST Subject: Re: hard to understand [In message "Re: hard to understand" on Mar 23, Angelos Kyrlidis writes:] | | Mike M writes: | >Vickie treatises: | >> Yes, Laura mentioned this too. When Happy was giving me the list of | >> radio stations, she said "Boston won't play me because I'm too weird" | | >This is senseless. What is *weird* about Happy? Musically, I mean. | >Kate Bush is *way* weirder than Happy.... do they play that in Boston? I never heard Kate Bush on Boston radio stations either, come to think of it... Not that I listen that much though. | Senseless indeed. I think the main problem is record company support. | WFNX is a commercial radio station. The only non major label stuff they | play is local alternative rock. And Happy is not local (she's local enough to | me :-) ). Very true... I think a better radio station might be WZBC, FM90.3, boston college, which eats indy label music for breakfast, lunch and dinner! -- | Alan Ezust depeche@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |------------- McGill University School of Computer Science ----------------| Chew your gum and close your eyes and nothing can annoy you. - E.Ka-Spel ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 11:14:32 PST From: "John M. Relph" Subject: Suzanne Vega reviewed in New York Times Sorry for the non-Ecto and -Tori content, but several readers have expressed interest... Suzanne Vega Explores New Directions by Ann Powers New York Times March 1993 Suzanne Vega gained fame by sketching the view from life's corners. Her first two albums, which established her as a literate folk chanteuse in the early 1980's, offered delicate attempts to articulate the awkward and the painful. Ms. Vega's voice, prim as a china teacup, made her seem unduly coy at times, and as her career wore on, her songs became frustratingly oblique. But with hew new album and a tour that stopped at the Academy in New York on Thursday night, Ms. Vega demonstrated a willingness to try new musical and thematic encounters. Her sound first changed without her permission, when the dance group DNA remade her a cappella song, "Tom's Diner", to a loopy pop- industrial beat. Ms. Vega responded to this challenge with "99.9 F," her latest album (A&M), which interlaces her voice with dance rhythms and synthesizer effects. At the Academy, Ms. Vega and her four-piece band performed songs from throughout her career, but she focused on her developing voice as a folk artist with a folkie past. Ms. Vega has a talent for shifting the dynamics of her singing ever so slightly, increasing the intensity without sounding loud or strained. On some of the more rock-oriented numbers, she was overwhelmed by her band's aggressiveness. But on songs dominated by Stephan Gabory's keyboards and a dance groove, she wove her vocals artfully into the mix. "Blood Makes Noise" and "As Girls Go" percolated with energy. On the new album's title track, Ms. Vega's voice became the ghost in the music's machine, diagnosing society's fear of illness with the precision of a thermometer. Ms. Vega offered her enthusiastic fans an ample portion of her older material as well, including "Luka", "Marlene on the Wall" and a version of "Tom's Diner" in which the audience's raised voices became the backing track. But her show demonstrated how vital experimentation has proved for this once seemingly meek artist. ======================================================================== From: wrp@ivy.paramax.com (Bill Pringle) Subject: Happy on the radio in Philly Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 14:22:38 -0500 (EST) For those of you who are in the Philly area, why not call WDRE and ask them to play something from Equipoise? They aren't playing it much (or at all, maybe), but if enough people call and ask, maybe they will start giving it some air play. The number to call is 1-800-377-3273 (or FAX - 1-800-758-3273) -- ============================================================================ Bill Pringle Software Tools Paramax Corporation Voice: (215)443-7500 X4023 Internet: wrp@ivy.paramax.com UUCP: ...!uunet!mimsy!widener!gvls1!wrp%ivy ======================================================================== From: "Michael Blackmore" Date: 23 Mar 93 14:43:00 EST Subject: Re: MST3K Drewcifer, > up with the promo where Crow says "Bite me, it's fun!" Where the > HELL did that come from? :) I really don't know! Crow says it a lot in many episodes. I checked the MST3K FAQ and even the episode guide that I have, but not a thing is mentioned (other than the fact that it is a frequently repeated quote!). I could e-mail you those files if you're interested in even more MST3K info. - Michael B. *************************MICHAEL BLACKMORE************************** "There's something in the air besides the atmosphere." - Lene Lovich Lucky Number Michael B (michaelb@ksgrsch.harvard.edu) ***************A TRADITIONAL OF EXCELLENCE SINCE 1963*************** ======================================================================== Date: 23 Mar 93 15:00:39 EST From: Bob Brown <74756.1557@compuserve.com> Subject: Lurking too long Hi Gang - Thanks to all who sent bday wishes. I've been here, lurking, and enjoying the posts however a combination of long work hours and numerous stresses have pretty much kept me in the lurker mode. I'm glad I at least get to do that because I enjoy very much what all you active participants have to say. Vickie - Hope all is ok from your hospital visit. I've had a few scares like that myself...ain't no fun. Thanks for the posts on last years Happy shows, it brought back great memories of meeting you and the gang...and H&K of course! Bob Lovejoy - Hopefully we'll meet this weekend at 21st Century Sound. We're neighbors (somewhat.. I live in Lansdale PA) and it looks like we have some common interests - ie: listening to international broadcasts on SW, Happy evangilizing. Greg and Jessica - Are you guys coming down to Bryn Mawr Saturday? All - Saw Suzanne Vega Saturday evening at the Theater Of The Living Arts (TLA) in Philly. SV was real good, however someone in their infinite wisdom has ruined yet another venue in Phila. The TLA used to be a very relaxed and pleasant place to see a show. I've seen numerous artists - Jane Siberry, Laurie Anderson, The Story, Oregon, Tori Amos, David Wilcox etc. at the TLA but I will never go there again. They ripped out *all* the seats and we had to stand like packed sardines for close to 3 hours to see Suzanne. When I walked in and saw what they did I was both dumbfounded and heartbroken at the same time. I screamed some profanity and was very close to demanding my $20 back and leaving. However I did want to see SV, especially after Angelos report from Boston so I endured. (I have a herniated disk and standing for any length of time is very uncomfortable.) I was told by someone from Electric Factory Concerts that the reason they removed the seats so that they could pack more people into the TLA. More people = more $$$. Oh well, another good venue bites the dust. And I had given some thought to seeing Belly there tomorrow night...not now. Enough ranting. I'll pass along greetings from all of you to Happy (in person!!!) on Saturday. :-)) <----(me gloating Happily - hehe) Bob Brown 74756.1557@compuserve.com ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 14:20:49 CST From: Subject: Radieau daze :-) and other stories Toward the end of her history of Suspended in Gaffa, Vickie said: > I think I would love to be live again. As fate would have it, WBEZ, as part of its spring pledge drive, is having an "ask the management" call-in tomorrow morning at 9, and another one Monday night at 7. Now, if we all band together to call in and exhort them to add SiG, live, to their schedule... :-) It should be obvious to anyone reading the preceding paragraph that I'm as susceptible to the siren song of impracticable utopian scenarios as the next ectophile. Still, to paraphrase Anita Bryant, a day without imagination is like a day without imagination :-). While my attentions are still wired to the topic of the wireless, Julianne wrote: >So, any chance of Happy taking her radio tour out of the >east and into the midwest at all? I know there are tons >of fans out here in Illinois who would love to see her! I have, needless to say, passed a variety of information in the service of this end to Bob Lovejoy to transmit to Susanne. I would encourage Julianne to do the same WRT possible 60-cycle-whistle-stops :-) in Urbana (perhaps WILL or WPGU, insofar as I know anything about them). An etymological question: what's the etymology of "Ob," as in "ObHappy," which of course simply means "WRT Happy," "_In re_ Happy," etc.? ObBelly (inspired by the concert summary): Over the weekend I listened to thei r _Star_ album right after I listened to _Y Kant Tori Read_. Later, I listened to _Little Earthquakes_ again, and I had an epiphany WRT the sheer magnitude of Tori's artistic maturation within a single interval between two adjacent albums . But before I had this epiphany, I had yet another one, which was that how- ever splendid Belly's music may be, their lyrics didn't seem to me to be Really Deeper Thoughts, in the aggregate, than those on the other, which in retrospect should probably have been called "Y Kouldnt Tori Write In The First Place?" It is almost as if they figured that if they were going to record vocals, they would have to have _some_ sort of lyrics, so they made _some_ up. The way the lyrics were printed in the booklet wasn't very helpful either. (Be all that as it may, it has just occurred to me: If _Morning Edition_ were to separate two stories with a vignette from this album, would the wags around NPR call the musical transition a "Belly button?" :-) ) ObMylene Farmer: She sounds good just from the description. Who says French goods aren't competitive on the world market anymore? ObFlutterby: this discussion, for whatever reason, evoked two associations for me above all others. One was the picture in the current issue of _Mother Jones _ which depicts a humongous tropical moth sitting on some guy's face, which it completely covers--way creepy. The other is the time I was walking through my neighborhood toward my house, and a butterfly alighted on my head, grabbed on tight, and for some time steadfastly resisted my efforts to shake it off. As I wrote the last sentence, as fate would have it, I recalled the new commercial for Ex Lax, which I have read about but never seen, in which a fuse is shown burning on a cannon, after which a butterfly comes fluttering out the other end, the point supposedly being that sometimes the gentle approach works best. This, in turn, has reminded me of the ending of the movie _All Quiet on the Western Front_, in which during a lull in the firing in the trenches, Lew Ayres reaches toward a butterfly sitting nearby, and is promptly blown away by a soldier on the opposite side. It may be just as well that this stream of con- sciousness has come to me at the end of this essay, rather than at the beginn- ing; else the temptation would have been too great to title this piece "Quick, Happy, the Flit"--to the confusion of just about everybody :-). Mitch ------------------------------- "But winter was still here, and still hard, and still bitter, even though they had escaped from the Norwegian language, language in which backward run words often and oddly placed are many oftentimes adjectives sentences in the. And they came into English, this beautiful, dreamlike language that we speak, in which our thoughts simply flow out of us; and yet still, in this beautiful language, we have words like 'depression' and 'despair' and 'cold' and 'March.'" --Garrison Keillor, 3/20/93 "Lake Wobegon" monolog "If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you just drank gin out of a bottle." --_id._ ======================================================================== Subject: Tones and Hair From: metatron!joe@dogface.austin.tx.us (Joe Zitt) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 15:35:24 CST ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu writes: > From: Ulrich Grepel > > > As every 'complete' instrument there should be eleven strings (or colors) > per octave. Not twelve, since that includes the first and final note twice. How's that again? A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G# looks like twelve to me... Of course, an 11 tone per octave scale could be interesting (if disorienting). I may try it if I ever start playing with alternate tunings on my EPS again. ObHair: Mine's just below my shoulders. ObHappy: That "Oh" at the end of "Cohabitants" could make for a cool drum sample. ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Radieau daze :-) and other stories Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 17:09:37 EST From: Angelos Kyrlidis Mitch wonders: >An etymological question: what's the etymology of "Ob," as in "ObHappy," which >of course simply means "WRT Happy," "_In re_ Happy," etc.? I have always interpreted ObTopic as: Ob(ligatory) Topic (mention). Correct me if I'm wrong. Angelos ======================================================================== From: depeche@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (S. A. Ezust) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 17:23:51 EST Subject: belly? COuld some kind soul please give me background info on belly? I never heard of the group until Vicki's concert review. What is the tori connection? What is the music like? -- | Alan Ezust depeche@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |------------- McGill University School of Computer Science ----------------| Chew your gum and close your eyes and nothing can annoy you. - E.Ka-Spel ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 20:02:01 +1000 From: GRAHAM.G.R.DOMBKINS@bhpmelmsm.bhp.bhpmel04.telememo.au Subject: Arramaieda (Warning non KT, TA & HP stuff) Hi all, I just thought I post a quick message about my birthday night out in Sydney. My sister and her flatmate had seen this new a-cappella (almost) group at their womens march a week before. My birthday present was a night in concert with them, down at the Rocks in Sydeny. Their name is -Arramaieda-, it was the name of woman in Tasmania who was noted for her haunting singing voice last centuary. We got there early and set up front and centre. Got ourselves a nice meal and listened to them sound check. Just from this little bit I could tell that this was going to be great! The group consists of four women, their voices encompassing the ranges from almost a bass up to alto. I find it hard to express in words but, they harmonised perfectly!! These women must have been working, listening and learning together for a quite a while. They fused to create harmonics and counterpoints at every turn. Hey, do you get the feeling I enjoyed myself! The only backing they have is clapping, foot stamps, djembe and daraboka. Oh and at one point they invited another bloke (Greg Sheehan of the groups Coolongobra and Utungung) got up on stage to accompany them with vocal percussion, he's an act in himself! Their music moves from self compositions through African to American black congregational. All of it either making you want to get up and do tribal dance or sit spell bound. It was capped off with a third encore where they got the members up from the next band to play (an all female percussion group) and they jammed for what they called their extended version of 'Kaki Lambe', a song from Sengal. It's an invitation to dance and we did!! :-) Hey, they even did PG's 'Shaking the Tree'. Wow what a night! I hear they will be playing soon in Canberra. If there are any Canberrans reading this then as Molly says 'Do youself a favour and SEE them'! ======================================================================== : Graham Dombkins /\/\ : Personal Computer Services / / /\ : BHP Information Technology / / / \ : PO Box 261, Warrawong, NSW 2502, AUSTRALIA / / / /\ \ : A.C.N. 006 476 218 \ \/ / / / : Phone +61-42-757522 ext 6998 \ / / / : Fax +61-42-757908 \/\/\/ : E-mail GRAHAM.G.R.DOMBKINS@ : BHPMELMSM.BHP.bhpmel04.telememo.au : AppleLink GRAHAM.G.R.DOMBKINS@=D002183@INTERNET# : AppleLink AUST0387 : X.400 G=GRAHAM I=GR S=DOMBKINS OU=BHPMELMSM O=BHP : P=BHPMEL04 A=TELEMEMO C=AU ======================================================================== "Hello Earth!! "I'm out chasing hello Earth..." - KT nuns in the yard..." - TA ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Subject: Musical weirdness [oops, didn't send to list] Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 18:55:50 -0500 From: Michael Matthews Sorry, Mike Mendelson, for sending you two copies indirectly. And let's watch this 'Mike M' business, there are at least two of us, eh? :-) This is senseless. What is *weird* about Happy? Musically, I mean. Kate Bush is *way* weirder than Happy.... do they play that in Boston? Or does this mean HR the person is weird? And if so, how would they know? I think Happy's music is certainly as straightforward, musically, as many popular bands. Is it the lyric content? Too intense? There are so many other intense and depressing lyrics out there... I'm not going to offer any sort of evaluation (because, since I *like* weird music, I can't be trusted too much), but the usual reaction to Equipoise at work is "OK, who brought in the funky music?" I'm surprised they still have to ask, quite frankly. The musical tastes of my co-workers vary widely, from country to jazz to classic rock to modern rock. Come to think of it, classical was played dnce or twice too. When I made a feigned ... oh, drat, what's the word... insulted comment (like, "OK, FINE, I WON'T PLAY IT ANY MORE! OK???"), they were quick to say they didn't *dislike* it, they just needed some time to get used to it. I took this as an invitation to play it more often, although a few times a week is all I'll do. One guy called it "kill your mama" music, but he plays the "kick your doggie" country stuff all the time so that doesn't count. Besides, he was joking anyway. Then again, he *is* my supervisor... [One guy said he liked it, but the song "Closer" was a bit too weird for him.] -mjm - ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@ectds.com (NeXTmail accepted) - ------ The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it. -- Dizzy Dean ======================================================================== From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: Thanks Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 10:42:26 +1000 (EST) Thank you Drewcifer for taking my post the way it was intended. So much of the needless animosity I was referring to comes about because of misunderstanding. I was in several minds before sending it as to whether I should or not. I am now glad I did, as I feel very confident that this list will be flame free now, and that makes me Happy *:) Yesterday I received some stuff from Bob Lovejoy (Thanks Bob!!) and amongst it was some Happy interviews. I was very much taken by the fact that she sounds so down-to-earth and genuinely friendly, that I'd love to meet her one day. I envy all of you who have, and especially those who know her well (and get credited on her albums - *:) ). And I seem to recall you saying, Vickie, that you didn't like the sound of your own voice (or did I read that wrong ?); well one of the interviews was by you, and I felt your voice was very very melodious and ... well ... nice. Anyway, also on the tape was the Bartlett/Rhodes demos (or some of ... ?) which were really good too. The videotape he sent had the Gabriel interview and songs from the Jay Leno show. I had heard Digging in the Dirt live when he came to Adelaide, but without the saxophone(?), but he never did Washing of the Water. WotW is, I think, my favourite song from the album, and the version he did there completely blew me away. It was so emotionally potent, and the church organ sounds were really fantastic. Thank you Bob for allowing me to see this. It was really really really really really good!!!!!! Anyway, much to do. Byee Chris. -- | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||Christopher Boek - boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | || Dept Elec Eng Univ of Melbourne Australia | | | | | | | | | / "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| \_/\_/\_/\_/\__/(:*- some way or another" ======================================================================== From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: Ancient Roman Calendars Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 10:56:39 +1000 (EST) Uli writes ... > > Mitch mitches: > > WRT the Bard, it occurs to me that today is the Ides of March, which _Julius > > Caesar_ warned us to beware of. I looked up Ides in the online OED, and > > discovered that the Ides of a month is some number of days (which I forget) > > > > Go figure. > > I don't think Julius warned us to beware of it, he was warned... Anyhow, I > looked in my Digital Webster and found the following: > Thanks Uli for the definitions! I think you may find that Mitch was referring to Julius the play (hence his mention of the Bard) rather than the man. Yes, no, maybe ? 'spose it doesn't really matter. *:} Chris. -- | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||Christopher Boek - boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | || Dept Elec Eng Univ of Melbourne Australia | | | | | | | | | / "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| \_/\_/\_/\_/\__/(:*- some way or another" ======================================================================== From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: Re: hard to understand Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 11:01:06 +1000 (EST) Mike jm writes ... > > Vickie treatises: > > Yes, Laura mentioned this too. When Happy was giving me the list of > > radio stations, she said "Boston won't play me because I'm too weird" > > This is senseless. What is *weird* about Happy? > I played Ecto to a few friends at a party the other night, and the reactions of most of them was ... "That's weird!!" Just thought I'd throw an independent opinion on the matter *;) Chris. -- | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||Christopher Boek - boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | || Dept Elec Eng Univ of Melbourne Australia | | | | | | | | | / "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| \_/\_/\_/\_/\__/(:*- some way or another" ======================================================================== From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: Ob Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 11:05:44 +1000 (EST) Mitch writes ... > >An etymological question: what's the etymology of "Ob," as in "ObHappy," which >of course simply means "WRT Happy," "_In re_ Happy," etc.? > It is my understanding that the Ob stands for 'obligatory', coming from the habit of many mailing lists disliking posts that are not directly related to the subject of the list. Thus ObHappy means 'obligatory Happy reference'. This is my own interpretation however, not a law of the net, but it seems to fit. Chris. -- | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||Christopher Boek - boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | || Dept Elec Eng Univ of Melbourne Australia | | | | | | | | | / "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| \_/\_/\_/\_/\__/(:*- some way or another" ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 17:18:21 -0800 From: Michael G Peskura Subject: Tanya Donelly's Belly Mitch writes: > ObBelly ... > ... that however splendid Belly's music may be, their lyrics didn't seem > to me to be Really Deeper Thoughts ... > It is almost as if they figured that if they were going to record vocals, > they would have to have _some_ sort of lyrics, so they made _some_ up. > The way the lyrics were printed in the booklet wasn't very helpful either. Well, Mitch, i have been obsessed with the _Star_ CD for weeks, and one of my most prized possessions is my ticket to Belly's April 10th Seattle show. I plan to go & get Belly-happy & drink beer with Jim 'RocketMan' Gurley. Here's how "The Stranger," a local weekly, describes the CD: "_Star_ is intelligent, bold, fun, poetic, eclectic, crazy, inspirational, and cozy all at the same time ... As Tanya puts it, 'These songs are sort of twisted fairy tales, with inspiration drawn from dreams' ..." Well, the lyrics that have come from her dreams appeal to me! This is one of the best albums of the year (IMHO :). > ... into English, this beautiful, dreamlike language that we speak, in > which our thoughts simply flow out of us; and yet still, in this beautiful > language, we have words like 'depression' and 'despair' and 'cold' and > 'March.'" indeed. - Mp ======================================================================== Date: 23 Mar 1993 22:36:31 -0500 (EST) From: Meredith Subject: Happy Trails- Call Now!!! Hi! I wrote this on Sunday, and due to various weirdnesses and oddities, haven't gotten round to posting it until now. Vickie, take care of yourself, you hear? The world would be all the worse for it if you weren't in it. In other news, my interview with Happy should happen within the next two or three weeks. I checked with the techies at WESU this afternoon, and was assured the equipment will be in working order and that someone would be around in the evening to help me record the thing and put it together for broadcast on my show. AND, I was able to talk to the SS (I mean MD), and it seems Equipoise has been deemed worthy of addition to the New Release rack, effective tomorrow. (I'm really getting sick of the musical tastes of the two Music Directors dictating what gets played on the entire station, but that's another story entirely...) Even if you don't live in the area, call (203) 344-7922 and request Happy! Looking at the Program Guide, the best times to call would be: Sunday, 11AM-1PM (my show :) Sunday, 3PM-5PM Monday, 3AM-5AM Monday, 8PM-10PM (that's the MD who liked the album) Tuesday, Midnight-2AM Tuesday, 12:30PM-2:30PM Wednesday, 7:30AM-9:30AM (this guy claims to focus on unknown artists, so why not?) Wednesday, 11:00AM-Noon (hosted by Anna Stookey, daughter of Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary... tell her I told you to call and she'll play it :) Thursday, 2AM-4AM Friday, noon-2PM (Chris will play anything :) Saturday, 4PM-6PM (if I'm not mistaken, this woman has called *my* show to request Happy, so it's a shoo-in) Pick up your phone and call now!!! :) I can't believe it's been a whole year since that magical week of Happy shows in Albany and Philadelphia, with an interesting blizzard in between. So much has happened since then... but I still remember every detail of the Albany show (but not much of the Philly show- maybe because Albany was the first time, and was branded on my brain the more indelibly for that?), and how much fun it was to meet everybody those few days. (Not to mention getting the opportunity to ask Happy her shoe size... ;) Here's hoping the next year brings lots more great Happy-related memories. Meredith meth@delphi.com "I know life is a relative term..." HTR ======================================================================== Date: 23 Mar 1993 22:47:57 -0500 (EST) From: Meredith Subject: Terra Incognita; Gruess'di!; Shona Laing Hi! The Story is playing the Iron Horse on May 8th? That's a Saturday night... I'll be there! Anyone else wanna go, we could do an Ecto-gathering there! Stephen Thomas wonders about Terra Incognita: }You know that bit in the latter third, where Happy sounds like }she's describing something to someone over a telephone, or into }a hand-held dictaphone. She seems to be saying something like }(this is from memory, so is pretty hazy) "... a [dragon? }creature?] .... turning into an oriental man travelling through }time .... he wants to get back, but I'm telling him he's going }to have to do it himself." The actual text, as near as I can tell, is: "...the creature... and then this creature turns into an Oriental man who's traveled through time accidentally, and he's asking me to help him get back, and I'm telling him that he can do it himself..." (Gee, shades of "Wrong Century" here?) }What is this about? Is Happy relating a fragment of a dream she }had? (sounds like that to me) Or is she talking about something }else? I always figured she was telling someone a dream over the phone. Why that bit is in this song, along with the later bit of her and (I can only assume it's) Kevin laughing hysterically, is beyond me. Maybe they're laughing at the cat? }Whenever I hear it, I'm put in mind of "Tea With The Black }Dragon", by R.A.MacAvoy, a most enchanting book. Ooh, another R.A. MacAvoy fan! Whatever happened to her? Von Wolfgang: }And Meredith :) Wo hast Du Deine Sporen in Deutsch verdient? ;-) An der Uni. I majored in German Language and Literature in college, and studied a year at the University of Munich. Now I'm doing nothing even remotely related to it, but hey, it's a job! }Oh, I'm sorry, I think it should be called "Oberstleutnant" and }not "Oberleutnant". But I'm not sure: I've never been there... Me neither... I was guessing based on a chapter of _Die Blechtrommel_ I read the other day... :} Von Klaus: }Is there someone in Ectoland who can tell me a bit about singer }Shona Laing (sp?)? Somehow I have the impression that I read a }bit about her, and it probably was here. She's from New Zealand, and came out with an album in 1988 that contained the song that embodied that summer for me (for reasons I'll never quite fathom, but there we are), "Soviet Snow". I saw the video on eMpTV's "Post Modern MTV" and "120 Minutes", and suddenly the song was all over college radio, or at least the stations I listened to. I got the album, _South_ once I got to college, and forgot about it after a while. She totally dropped out of sight, but last year she came out with a new album, the title of which escapes me now, and was imo horrendously awful. She's trying to be Patti Smith and failing miserably, even in her personal appearance. IMO, natch. Her lyrics have always been bash-you-over-the-head political (what was that about "pretentious"? ;), her music rather interesting but not really, and her voice somewhat like Patti Smith crossed with Chrissy Hynde on a bender. (That comparison is stretching it, but I've got Warpaint on in the background, and not much else can penetrate my brain when that's happening. :) My recommendation would be to find a copy of _South_ and listen to it before buying. Your mileage may vary. Meredith Gefreite, Happy Rhodeswehr meth@delphi.com "Get to the point you sappy wimps..." 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