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 #510 ecto, Number 510 Sunday, 28 March 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* What A Sickening Irony... Re: Hair? Re: Pretentious Behaviour... Re: Albany - QE2 Re: Foxtrot et al... Re: Supper's Ready... A few quick notes Re: Einsturzende Neubauten ecto #509 Re: Camper Vantiquities NIN/MINISTRY (no happy material in this msg) Re: 21st Century Sound Happy Birthday I didn't see Happy at 21st Cent. Happy Sightings and Soundings Happy Happy Joy Joy WARNING: self-pitying rambling ======================================================================== From: rjk1@cec1.wustl.edu (Bob Kollmeyer) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 00:30:14 -0600 Subject: What A Sickening Irony... Caution: No Happy content; not even an ObHappy... For those who missed it (or for those who are on the west coast of the US and will have the opportunity to see it in around 45 minutes from what I understand, as well as those ectophiles scattered across the globe who will have no chance to see it), the wonderful folks at NBC decided that they should indeed censor Sinead's controversial performance in the rerun of the live show that aired tonight. I recall hearing after the original live broadcast a spokesman for NBC commenting that had they known such a stir would be caused, they would have seriously considered editing the broadcast which is shown an hour later on the west coast. I honestly didn't believe they would. I was wrong. They showed her performance of "War" and then cut to her standing on stage with a smatter of applause from the crowd. The picture of the pope was never visable. But wait. It gets better. The very next skit satirized book burners. OOOH! This steams me! Darn shame, that after enjoying Cheers every week for the last 10 years, I won't be watching the Grand Finale coming up before long. Darn shame. Congrats to David Letterman who will be leaving NBC shortly, though for more materialistic reasons. I wouldn't want to be associated with the network either. I'm not a happy camper. Grrr. bob ======================================================================== Date: 28 Mar 1993 02:37:40 -0500 (EST) From: tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Tracy Barber) Subject: Re: Hair? Steve Writes: EC>> Any other guys with long hair on the list? EC>Well, long-ish. I have a dark-brown pony tail which reaches about EC>half-way down my back. My hair used to be longer, but my previous boss EC>made me get it cut :-( I teach at a business college and was told I couldn't keep a tail, so I let it flop around for 2 weeks. Was then confronted and told it wasn't good "business practice" to wear it like that. Hmmpphhh. Almost quit the job and went back working for myself. Still might! Well, maybe... tlb --- * SLMR 2.0 * A yawn is a silent shout. ---- Tracy Barber tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ======================================================================== Date: 28 Mar 1993 02:38:28 -0500 (EST) From: tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Tracy Barber) Subject: Re: Pretentious Behaviour... Tyrone Writes: EC>pretentious: having or exhibiting pretensions or claims to admiration; EC>specif.:a) ostentatious; showy. b) ambitious in scope, subject, etc. I think a lot of critics are into pretentious bashing. A lot of the music attracts me because it is not "of this world" for the most part. Tangerine Dream to Robin Trower to Hawkwind to Happy to ... The list is endless. One pretentious act always accused is ELP. The darlings of the pretentious circle. If ANY ofthe critics could play keys as well as Emerson, they'd be be brilliant. A lot of musicians are dreamers, aren't they? Isn't this a way for them to dream aloud? This is a big discussion! (And, of course, not directed at you!) This, to me, is a topic that allows all music that is undesirable by most critics to get lumped into! The word "pretentious" has been abused as of late, in the articles I've been reading. We need a new word! If ANY of the critics could dream as well as the artists, then they be worshipped... But, as of yet, they are of this world... tlb --- * SLMR 2.0 * "A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices" ---- Tracy Barber tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ======================================================================== Date: 28 Mar 1993 02:39:16 -0500 (EST) From: tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Tracy Barber) Subject: Re: Albany - QE2 Mitch Writes: EC>If Happy ever plays the QE2 again, there may be something to be said for p EC>it the homage of putting "Rawhide" into the repertory (cf. Aykroyd and Bel EC>in _The Blues Brothers_ :-) ). If she does, we'll have to plan renting a diner for the evening, I won't mind doing the footwork to get it done... Maybe Alan M. and I work it out! 8^) tlb --- * SLMR 2.0 * If this is a battle, then you have already lost. ---- Tracy Barber tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ======================================================================== Date: 28 Mar 1993 02:40:37 -0500 (EST) From: tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Tracy Barber) Subject: Re: Foxtrot et al... EC>Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 18:06:50 -0500 EC>From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Jeffy wrote: EC>I would suggest that one should *not* check with Tracy for further info, EC>as his is completely wrong. EC>Phil Collins joined Genesis in...um...'69 or '70. It seems to me that EC>he joined *after* _Trespass_ was recorded, but before it was actually EC>released, though I could be wrong on that. Either way, his first EC>album with the band was their third effort, _Nursery Cryme_. He also EC>makes his vocal debut on that album, singing "For Absent Friends." Ok, dude, I made a minor error but YOU blew it. Nursery Cryme came out in 1971, but the Charisma labels were not in sequence when I looked at them so I quoted out of sequence. Here's your humble pie: John Silver played drums for "From Genesis...", in 1968 and he took over for Chris Stewart, drums. This was before "Trespass". John Mayhew played drums on "Trespass". Collins came in for Nursery... and this was AFTER "Trespass". All this, courtesy of the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. Don't mess with the best. 8^) tlb --- * SLMR 2.0 * "Every why hath a wherefore." ---- Tracy Barber tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ======================================================================== Date: 28 Mar 1993 02:42:18 -0500 (EST) From: tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Tracy Barber) Subject: Re: Supper's Ready... Mike Writes: EC>Actually, I'm pretty sure that "flutterby" is an earlier form of EC>what we now call "butterfly", thus not at all originated by EC>Genesis, but I am rusty on my historical linguistics. EC>A classic case of cross-syllabic metathesis? The line goes: "to look for butterfiles, fluitterbyes, gutterflies..." I think that Gabriel was playing around there transposing the butter with flutter, but the gutterflies is a bit odd, eh? tlb --- * SLMR 2.0 * An optimist is a guy without much experience... ---- Tracy Barber tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 8:47 EST From: robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) Subject: A few quick notes Early Sunday morning, still in a little fog. Was it all a dream? No, it really happened, and in my digest this morning was Happy's post to ecto from Bob Brown's laptop! To think I was standing beside her as she wrote that.... As Bob mentioned later, she looked wonderful, and was in great spirits! While she was there, the store sold out of EQP (they had 50 copies!) I will be running tape tonight as she performs live on WYSP. Yngve, you may be interested to know that there was a new Carole King CD at the store. It was on an independent label, and I'm sorry the name of the lable has chosen to reside in a part of my brain that seems to be quite inaccessable right now! If it doesn't come back soon, I'll drop by the local Tower Record store and get the info for you! And as for The City, it was Charles Larkin on Bass, besides Carole and Danny. By the way, Charles also played bass for an unusual band called The Fugs, sort of a New York Beat (as in Kerouac) band. He's on an album called "It Just Crawled Onto My, Hand, Honest" which I think was released by Reprise Records! (Most of their stuff was on indie label ESP). And I'm sure I had my copy of "The City" in the late 60's... I'd like to take this time to express my thanks to Bob Brown for bringing me a few copies of the North American Shortwave Association Journal. Bob is the executive director of the NASWA, and the journals are full of up-to-the-minute information for shortwave listeners. As I've had a shortwave of some kind since I was 9 years old (Hey Bob, remember the Hallicrafters S-38D!!?), I found our meeting yesterday to be more ectosynchronicity! BTW, was it Mitch who is also interested in SWL? You should check with Bob! Steve Lusky: I read your post from last wednesday, and thought again of R.D. Laing's great book, "The Politics of Experience". Laing had his own ideas about schizophrenia, and whether you agree or not, this book makes excellent reading. I'd place it on my all-time top ten most important books. A while back I'd asked if anyone else here knew of it, but there was no answer. I think you'll appreciate the book. I'm not even sure if it's still in print, perhaps the library would have it. I read it in 1968 or so...It's quite powerful. Wow! As I write this, "Save Our Souls" came on the radio, on WMMR, Philly's mainstream High Power Group W Rock station!!! It's their Sunday AM "Acoustic Sunday", hosted by Helen Leicht... This was going to be quick notes? Sorry! Well, take care all. The Philly Radio barrage begins tonight. BTW, Kevin says he'll be playing bass for Happy as she performs live on the radio! Doug, the tape will be in the mail monday morning! See you all online! Bob Lovejoy "The 298,674,398th Beatle" "Only In Your Eyes Lies Your Soul" - HR "Happy Rhodes has stunning eyes!" - RL ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 12:26:52 CST From: vishal@ra.csc.ti.com (Vishal Markandey) Subject: Re: Einsturzende Neubauten Gee, I never thought I would be reading about Einsturzende Neubauten on Ecto, and here is Meredith warning Angelos about their pyromaniac activities!! They also got into trouble on their LA show (many years ago), for setting the stage on fire!! They are my second favorite industrial music band, next only Throbbing Gristle. Enjoy their show, and do tell us all about it!! - Vishal ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 14:13:35 EST From: kosky@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Anthony Kosky) Subject: ecto #509 Vickie wrote: >I'm dying to hear more from every Ectophile who was there, so please >post, ok? Well, there's not much to say beyond what Happy and others have already posted. There were lot of people who came to speak with Happy, and there was a long long queue. I spent a while queuing, and then decided to wait till the queue went away, and chatted with Kevin, Susan and the ecto-folks for a while instead. Eventually we all got to speak to Happy, who is remarkably friendly and open. I got her to sign a copy of equipoise for a friend in the UK, and asked her what Out Like A Lamb is about. Also I passed on a tape (Ashley Maher). 21st Century seems like a nice CD store, but a bit too far to bike for general purchases. While I'm here: For those interested, Laurie Anderson is playing at the Annenberg Center here at UPenn, on 14, 16 and 17 of April. She's doing the world premier of her new whatever-it-is-that-she-does called "Stories From The Nerve Bible". Phone number for the box office is 215 567 0670. Tommy Persson, I forgot to mention in my reply to your post: you should be able to get hold of Ashley Maher's CDs Hi and Pomegranite while in London, so I strongly recommend you do. I've not found trace of them anywhere else in the world, and I know the HMV store has them 'cos that's where my copies originated. Wonderful music. I'm listening to Nine Inch Nails at the moment. I borrowed the CDs from a friend to check out, and am getting quite hooked on them. Not really ecto-fodder, but very powerful stuff and musically extremely interesting. I also borrowed some Ministry, which struck me as rather boring and unimaginative. I've no idea why these two bands should get grouped together as they often seem to. bye all, -Anthony ======================================================================== Subject: Re: What A Sickening Irony... Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 15:43:49 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Bob sez: >the wonderful folks at NBC decided that they >should indeed censor Sinead's controversial performance in the rerun of >the live show that aired tonight. I was rather surprised when I first heard they were re-airing the program with the latest Sinead appearance in the first place. I'm glad they did, 'cause Tim Robbins was fantastic. Pity they botched the rest. >They showed her performance of "War" and then cut to her standing on stage >with a smatter of applause from the crowd. The picture of the pope was never >visable. Actually, it's a bit different from that; they showed her holding a picture of a child. The press after the incident first occurred stated that she had held/torn a picture of a child during the dress rehearsal and then used the one of the pope during the live broadcast. I'm still not sure exactly what sort of fast one NBC pulled, but they were definitely playing games. It's actually not the first time NBC has pulled something like this. Last year when Nirvana was on, at the very end of the show when the cast/guests are standing around the stage, Kurt Cobain jokingly grabbed Chris Novoselic (the bassist), put his hand over the bassist's mouth, and then mimed kissing him. A classic junior-high sort of joke, and completely harmless (as if it would have been harmful if Cobain *had* actually kissed Novoselic :-\). In any event, I don't remember hearing anything about this in the press, but it was certainly bandied about by a bunch of neandrathals on alt.rock-n-roll for a few days afterword. When NBC re-aired that show, the final segment of cast/guests on the stage had been edited so that the offending momements had mysteriously disappeared. The question is, is all this Lorne Michael's doing, or are the higher-ups forcing all this on the show? Jeff ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 16:06:32 EST From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) From: tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Tracy Barber) Subject: Re: Supper's Ready... Mike Writes: EC>Actually, I'm pretty sure that "flutterby" is an earlier form of EC>what we now call "butterfly", thus not at all originated by EC>Genesis, but I am rusty on my historical linguistics. EC>A classic case of cross-syllabic metathesis? The line goes: "to look for butterfiles, fluitterbyes, gutterflies..." I think that Gabriel was playing around there transposing the butter with flutter, but the gutterflies is a bit odd, eh? tlb i think that gabriel was, at that point, more fascinated with the form of words, rather than their meanings. wordplay, rhyme, the juxtoposition of seemingly unrelated words to produce new meanings, or to produce layers of meaning. there is imbedded here a theory that the *form* to a certain extent dictates the *meaning* of the text, and that by playing with the form, new meanings become possible. This is similar to gabriel's mask-wearing; at the time he was using a lot of costumes, masks, and makeup. He felt that the masks did not actually "mask" him or hide him, but rather allowed a trans- formation to occur that allowed him to say truths that he would not have been able to say otherwise. I'm pretty sure that this is what he's doing in both "Supper's Ready" and _Lamb..._, especially in the introductory paragraph of the story in the lamb..., the one that starts "keep your fingers out of my eyes." maybe i'm reading too much into this after absorbing too much french theory. but maybe not... :^> best, brni ---- Tracy Barber tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 13:08:15 PST From: "John M. Relph" Subject: Re: Camper Vantiquities >The other thing I got had me hopping up and down with glee. > It's _Camper Vantiquities_ by Camper Van Beethoven. It consists >of the _Vampire Can Mating Oven_ EP, which has never been released on CD >before, plus a bunch of unreleased tracks. Actually, the first release of _The third album_ (known as _Camper Van Beethoven_) on CD also contained the _Vampire Can Mating Oven_ EP. (This was the Pitch-A-Tent CD before the recent re-release by I.R.S., originally released in 1988.) >(I've been a CVB fan for years, but I learned my lesson about trying to >push them on to other people. I think that's true of most bands. I am always disappointed when my attempts to "enlighten" people about Campers, Cud, or Happy Rhodes backfire or have no effect at all. So I just play the music. If someone likes it, then that's nice. >Camper Vantiquities-Camper Van Beethoven IRS 0777 7 13211 22 >4. Axe Murderer Song (1992) > never released, from a bootleg (!) Not from a bootleg, but had been available to Camper tapers as a bootleg. This is actually two different studio takes edited together to produce one song with correct lyrics. Both original takes had "incorrect" lyrics. >10. Porpose Mouth (1986) > originally from a flexidisc, cover of a Country Joe and the Fish song But this version has been re-mixed as well. >16. Photograph (1987) > from Vamire Can Mating Oven, cover of the Ringo Starr song And then there is 15 minutes of silence, followed by "Om Eye", named for what it sounds like David is singing, backwards. Jonathan said that they (CVB) heard the backwards lyrics as: Oh my sweet Jesus we are one Oh my sweet Jesus we are two "Om Eye" is actually "I Don't See You" from _Telephone Free Landslide Victory_ backwards with added drums and bass (I think). Jonathan said that CVB used to spend a lot of time listening to their music backwards in hopes of finding new ideas (or maybe they just liked to do it). Morgan Fichter, the Jonathan Segel replacement violinist, played with Janes Addiction on their live tour, and then more recently appeared on The Wellsprings of Hope's album _Phonograph_, featuring Pat Johnston, Chris Cacavas, Penelope Houston and other regulars in the San Francisco folk-rock scene. -- John ======================================================================== From: depeche@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (S. A. Ezust) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 17:10:52 EST Subject: NIN/MINISTRY (no happy material in this msg) [In message "ecto #509" on Mar 28, Anthony Kosky writes:] | | I'm listening to Nine Inch Nails at the moment. I borrowed the CDs | from a friend to check out, and am getting quite hooked on them. Not | really ecto-fodder, but very powerful stuff and musically extremely | interesting. I also borrowed some Ministry, which struck me as | rather boring and unimaginative. I've no idea why these two bands | should get grouped together as they often seem to. Well, personally I don't think NIN should be grouped together with other NIN music, and the same goes for MINISTRY. Both groups have changed drastically between releases. Personally, I am not crazy about any Ministry which was released after 86, and I can't get into any NIN that came out after 1990. (I guess I'm just stuck in the 80s with respect to techno and industrial). But the stuff both groups produced before those respective years do belong in the same category, and perhaps the stuff they produced since then can also grouped together, as their evolutions are quite similar (although Ministry came first and NIN just followed). -- | 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 ======================================================================== From: golden@rumba.seas.upenn.edu (Stephen Golden) Subject: Re: 21st Century Sound Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 17:16:42 EST Hello everyone. Like a few others, I went to the Happy signing at 21st Century Sound ( thanks for the ride Bob! ). For some reason I expected as many ectophiles as the concert provided, but alas only Bob Brown and I were wearing our Ecto t-shirts ( which Happy complemented ). When Happy was signing my CD's ( I finally picked up Rhodes I and II!! ) she noticed that she had signed my tshirt already and we discussed the Philly concert. After the concert, I had directed her and the band to a place to eat ( this was after the WXPN party - about 12:30am ). The only place open was WaWa ( a convenient store/mini-restaurant ). I asked Happy if she enjoyed the food ( somewhat sarcastically ) and she told me she never had anything greasier - nor had she ever been assaulted by so many homeless people asking for money. Well, now she knows not to ask me for restaurant recommendations ( you find someplace after midnight!! :-> ) Overall, I had a great time ( I also picked up Boomerang by the Creatures ) and have been listening to my CD's ever since. Take care all... -- =============================================================================== Stephen A. Golden, Freak of Nature "How can you expect to be taken seriously?" golden@eniac.seas.upenn.edu - Pet Shop Boys ( 215 ) 386-9264 =============================================================================== ======================================================================== From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: Happy Birthday Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 11:13:06 +1000 (EST) Hello to Valerie Nozick!! You have the dubious honour of sharing a birthday with my brother. What a coincidence *;). Hope you had a fantastic birthday, even though this message is somewhat late!! 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: Sun, 28 Mar 93 21:11:44 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: I didn't see Happy at 21st Cent. Hi everybody! This is Julianne, and I've taken over Vickie's computer, apartment and all Happy and Kate stuff!!! Mwahh-ha-ha.... Just kidding. But seriously, I'm up in Chicago, having and awesome time with Vickie and Chris. This place is amazing. I've been in a constant state of awe since I stepped inside their apt. (note obHappy reference...here ob=somewhat UNobvious). Maybe not. Anyway, I'm a bit delerious. See y'all when i get back to Champaign. (Hi Michelle!) :) Julianne ps, Hi from Vickie! ======================================================================== Date: 28 Mar 1993 22:06:23 -0500 (EST) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Happy Sightings and Soundings Hi! As I type this, "Temporary and Eternal" is being broadcast on ECHOES. Yay!!! I also saw with my own eyes for the first time something by Happy on sale in a record store this afternoon- the Sam Goody on Chapel St. in New Haven had one copy each of Warpaint and Equipoise, and the guy at the counter said Equipoise has sold at least a few copies. When I got to WESU to do my show this morning, I was more than a bit dismayed to see that Equipoise had not been added to the new release rack, as the Music Directors had promised last week. Needless to say this pissed me off, and I made it known to the MDs... when I got home, there was a message on my machine from one of them saying that Equipoise has been added, and even on the bottom shelf of the rack, where it will stay longer than things officially numbered in the upper rack. Persistence prevails. :) So, take the list of times I posted earlier, and call (203) 344 7922 lots and lots and lots. (They cut "T&E" off in the middle... oh well, it's kind of repetitive anyway.) While I'm here, I want to rant about the plateheads at Wesleyan who insist upon using the record library as a source of free music. Literally within hours of being put out in the rack, The Moon Seven Times was ripped off. (I was beginning to think I was doomed as far as that record goes, since when I bought it last week I got home, opened it, and discovered no disc in the jewel box, and had to go to three stores to find another one...) I seriously doubt any of these cretins are lurkers on this list, but if they are, I'd like to say this: YOU ARE INCONSIDERATE, SELFISH ASSHOLES. DIE, MUSIC-THIEVING SCUM! There. I feel better now. :) Meredith meth@delphi.com ***Shameless Plug*** LORD OF THE TWO LANDS by Judith Tarr, a story of Alexander the Great in Egypt published in hardcover by Tor Books and available in the New Fiction section of bookstores everywhere! *** End Shameless Plug*** ======================================================================== Date: 28 Mar 1993 23:11:51 -0500 (EST) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Happy Happy Joy Joy Hi! Wow- Happy posted! (Now she'll become a lurker, and we'll all have to watch ourselves... ;) Glad to see a good time was had by all yesterday. Wish I coulda been there. :( Vickie, thanks for posting the info on Camper Van Beethoven! I saw them open for 10,000 Maniacs a few years ago (around the time of _Key Lime Pie_), and although I thoroughly enjoyed the performance and play their stuff from time to time on my show, I've never been into them enough to warrant buying an entire CD. My roommate, however, is really into them, and will be as excited as you to hear of this new CD's existence. Pam exits lurker mode: }May I start with a big public thank-you to Meredith for }introducing me to Happy's music? Thought so. :) Certainly. :) Always, er, happy to oblige. (And I must say, what I got in trade wasn't half bad, either...) }I got all six of her CDs shortly after getting a sampler tape }from Meredith, and have since made my own samplers for three }friends from another computer network. Since then, I've been }running around Albany buying the CDs for those who can't find }them in their own area! That "other computer network" is Prodigy, right? Bob Lovejoy and I and an increasing number of others have also been spreading the gospel on GEnie... do I hear any takers for America Online? (I dropped my account there, so I can't do it any more.) Delphi? (Although I do mail here, the time it takes me to do that just about exhausts my budget for Internet activities, so checking out the boards here is pretty much out for me at the moment.) Yours in the tireless fight to spread the word of Happy to the masses, Meredith meth@delphi.com "Now I can finally speak of the madness..." HTR ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 23:47:28 EST From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) Subject: WARNING: self-pitying rambling hi all, just thought that i'd take some time to whine about my day. i mean, it started out fine. i slept late, had a really weird dream which i managed to write down before i forget it (maybe it'll show up in a song somewhere along the line), read the comics that i bought yesterday. i logged in and one of the machines that i have an account on is STILL down (down since thursday, i guess)--and thats the one that gives me full usenet access *and* that my next project is due on. ah well. the really bad thing that happened was that some books in my room inexplicably fell down while i was on the other side of the room. when they fell they knocked a pencil holder a few feet in the air, whereupon it landed on a cup of tea. the tea flew a few feet, then landed on my printer, pouring the liquid into its innards. sigh. i suspect that its rather hopeless now. so i went to band practice. the singer never showed up ("I'll be a little late," he said). the guitarist decided to add another moniter to the system, and we spent 3 damn hours getting everything equalized on the mixing board. meanwhile, happy is playing live on WYSP (the classic rock station, of all places), and i am taping it on dan's stereo upstairs. except that his wife came along and turned it off right in the middle. anyway, if anyone in the philly area is willing to make a dub of that, i'd really appreciate it. sigh. tiger is still down. i can't get my gaffa fix. blech. maybe i should eat something. or go to sleep. my printer just flashes lights at me and smells bad. ecto is playing. remind me to tell you my theory of ghosts sometime. brni ======================================================================== 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)