30-Nov-91 4:32:07-GMT,12032;000000000001 Received: from athos.rutgers.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA23439; Fri, 29 Nov 91 23:24:45 EST Received: by athos.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA16023; Fri, 29 Nov 91 23:24:43 EST Date: Fri, 29 Nov 91 23:24:43 EST Message-Id: <9111300424.AA16023@athos.rutgers.edu> 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 Subject: ecto #69 ecto, Number 69 Friday, 29 November 1991 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Snail mail just to hand... neck & Happy msg & HGP Re: postcards and enya High Sight The Peach ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1991 14:12 +8:00 From: SVODOPIER@cc.curtin.edu.au Subject: Snail mail just to hand... Martin here. * COMPLETE EMBARRASSMENT! * I just got some mail from Happy today. Along with a letter from Happy were two Warpaint postcards which I'd previously sent to friends (one in New South Wales and one in Switzerland)...... THEY'D GONE TO THE AURAL GRATIFICATION ADDRESS!!! On the Switzerland one the address was kinda mingled in a bit with the writing, and on the other I'd competely forgotten to even put the address!! I'm not easily embarrassed (ask my friends), but the topper is this. On both cards I'd recommended they order Warpaint (as ectophiles are naturally wont to do), but to help things along I kinda, well, exaggerated my relationship with Happy and Kevin ... rather than go through all the business of explaining H&K->Vickie->Internet->me I put "I heard from Kevin..." and "Tell them you're a friend of mine" etc. Eek. Happy wrote a very nice letter explaining how to address postcards properly and enclosed a few new Warpaint postcards and a "PostCat". 3-) (blush) Anyhow, at least Happy knew who I was just from the "Martin" at the bottom. :-) Also in the mailbox was a certain handsome young Happy-inspired monster from Kiri. Thanks Kiri! Not bad at all. I definitely think you ought to try painting it. Expect some return mail soon(ish)... (Finished my exams yesterday, and afterwards a few of the lads and I got a bit into the turps, so I'm not feeling the best this morning...! :-) err... what else? Ah yes, I have a Swedish cousin (Krister, age 21) staying over with us for an as yet unspecified length of time. His musical tastes run the gamut : all the way from Depeche Mode to Human League to Kraftwerk. 8-! Despite this, I played some Happy to him (the more synthy numbers) and to my surprise he thought it was 'quite cool'. Well,.. great! He also commented on the similarity to Enya. Which reminds me, I've not heard much Enya (only what's been on the radio) - which album would you people recommend as the first one I should get? Speaking of radio... late on Radio JJJ (the national commercial-free station) last night I heard part of a live interview with Emma from Lush. (Is that the blonde one or the other really pretty one?) She sounded fairly witless - perhaps she was just nervous. I hadn't heard much Lush before, either, but I liked the stuff from Gala the announcer played in-between. The same announcer later played the Sinead song from "Two Rooms". Afterwards he said that Sinead and *Kate Bush* were the only two credible musicians on the entire album... buy it, he said, just for them. Cool guy... I think he'd deal with Warpaint very nicely. Vickie: about your 'ectophiles sorted by age' list... I was hoping we could avoid any "ranking" of any sort in ecto... but you're right, the age range is interesting... I doubt many of us would have the chance to associate like this under more conventional circumstances. :-( Anyhow... I'm off to enjoy 30+ degrees clear blue weather. Ha ha ha! Martin (Fuzzy, warm and blue) <-- Hey! great name for an album! :-) P.S. Everytime I think about those postcards I cringe! ,------------------------------+----------------------------. _ . | Went down to New Orleans | Martin Dougiamas. | ~ _r' Ll\ ~ | Had myself a ball | sdougiama@cc.curtin.edu.au | | \ ~ | The ladies there, they don't | Curtin University | ~ \ ._ / ~ | care, they don't care at all.| Perth, Western Australia --+---> x~ `-' ~ `========== J.J. Cale =========+============================' V ======================================================================== Subject: neck & Happy msg & HGP Date: Fri, 29 Nov 91 09:57:09 N From: Klaus Kluge Alan about a message from Claudia > Just confused about something - if you're reading over Klaus's shoulder > and he is posting from Denmark and you're posting from Boston, how long is > your neck? :-) As Claudia is on Thanksgiving holiday 'till monday, I'll answer instead. It's quite simple, she only arrived in Boston on 2nd of November. You are slightly wrong about my location though. ".de" stands for Germany, not Denmark (which is ".dk"), although I've been born very close to the danish border. But you're not the first (and not the last) to slip on that. I even found the DE=Denmark as an example in an 'internetwork mailing guide'. Has anyone seen the message from Happy about Freddie Mercury? Vickie announced it, telling us to post it seperately, and mentioned it again more recently, but I haven't seen it in my digests. Re HGP: * P L E A S E * have a look how long your selections are and let me know. If you don't know, an estimation would be better than nothing. In a very short time we have to tell you what length of tape to send, but how can we do that if we don't know how long your songs are. Klaus (who want's to include a message, but still doesn't know what to say) _________________________________________________________ . * | "Tell me all the plans you have for the great beyond. | _ . * .* . | Will you be physical again, or be a cosmic vagabond." | (_) . . | countdown: 15 days --- Happy Rhodes --- | . . o | Klaus "cosmic vagabond" Kluge kkluge@Materna.DE | <== ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 29 Nov 91 13:07 GMT From: "KaTe, HaPpY, and JaNe MAD!!!" Martin: i nearly died when you told us about those postcards!! HAHAHAHAHHA!! merow!!! as far as Enya goes..try her first album..it is self titled.. i also like Watermark but the first album has a much greater Celtic influence! which of course is my particluar love!!! one more question?? are you a blonde by any chance??HAHAHAH!! Court! ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1991 02:16 +8:00 From: SVODOPIER@cc.curtin.edu.au Subject: Re: postcards and enya Martin here. Court purrs: > i also like Watermark but the first album has a much greater Celtic influence! > which of course is my particluar love!!! I'm not real big on Celtic, but that's mostly due to ignorance rather than taste. BTW, a Celtic information Hypercard stack was recently released to the public domain, apparently it's pretty good. (Useable on a Macintosh only) Court then taunts: > one more question?? are you a blonde by any chance??HAHAHAH!! Oh ha ha ha, Courtney! :-) :-) Nope, black as sin and twice as nice. However, I do have a reputation for being an "absent-minded professor" when in the midst of some big project or other... I have been known (infrequently, thank goodness) to sit listening to an entire spiel from another person, apparently nodding in agreement, without even realising they have arrived and started talking! Martin ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 29 Nov 91 17:30 GMT From: "KaTe, HaPpY, and JaNe MAD!!!" Klaus: i would estimate that my tape is about a mintue and a half long.. i already sent that message to Vickie..as well as already having sent the tape to her..i sent a 90 minute but i also sent enough money so that it could be corrected if we needed a different length tape!!! does this help any?? yes..i DID receive that Freddy Mercury statement..i would forward it to you but i already put it in a file and i CANT get files to move out of my account.. only mail..*frustration* Calling all ECTOITES..esp European ones... i will be traipsing around Europe from Jan 1 to Jan 14...dont know where exactly yet..but thats good cuz i can change my mind!!!! =) i want to meet my extended ECTO family , so if you are interested.. e mail me and we can arrange meetings!!!! merow?? Court!!! ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 10:23:02 GMT From: I Muse Aloud Subject: High Sight I had a rare attack of creativity last night... ---------------------------- High Sight ---------- When I was young, but a child, I would run across crunching gravel And then the slick stepping stones Over twisted, tumbling water. Then I'd see the hill above me, Green and exciting and challenging, And I'd scramble up the rough turf Away from where I could see nothing. Sometimes I would have to stop, To sit and let my breath return, To let the ache fade from my legs And wonder how far I'd come. I would look down and around, Wondering where my Mummy was, And I'd see her, with Daddy, Walking as if it didn't matter. With the wind in my ears, Rumbling and growling, making them glow, I'd climb afain, sometimes walking, And sometimes using my hands, too. I'd feel excitement and relief, As I neared the hilltop, And the going got flatter, And I could rest again at last. Oh, I could see for miles, now, With the land unfolding beneath me, Filled with fields, farms, roads, All part of man's chaotic orderedness. Even the tall, beautiful, skeletal towers Of the clumsy mesh of power, Providing not a blight, but a contrast, Casting beauty into sharp relief. Now I am older, and a man, I wish I could find that hill, And be able to see clearly again, To understand my life's chaotic order. But I'm afraid of that hill, Because it may show me everything, And at the same time show nothing, Because I've forgotten how to see. But I'll show my child, one day, How to find their own hill, To know they can see everything, And not to fear the ground. And as I walk up behind them, And the turn round to find me, Will they merely think I'm slow, Or that to me it doesn't matter? --- Stephen Thomas - 26.11.91 ------------------------- Keep well, Stephen ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 11:17:46 GMT From: I Muse Aloud Subject: The Peach I was thumbing through some of my old Homegrounds the other day, and came across Kate's Peach Picture. It was in issue #36. The picture is OK - the contrast could be less sharply defined, IMHO. Anyway, I'm going to attempt to scan it, and get it into GIF form - unless it already happens to be on the love-hounds archive somewhere... Keep well, Stephen ======================================================================== To join ecto, please send electronic mail to the following address: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu To have your thoughts included in the next issue, send mail to: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To subscribe to "Ecto", the printed fanzine, send $8 to: Ecto PO Box 11291 New Brunswick, NJ 08906 Ecto is issued 8 times/year, and will include photos and as much material from non-net members as we can get! Donations above the subscription cost are welcomed - all money goes to bringing you better issues! Your "humble pseudo-moderator" -- jessica (jessica@athos.rutgers.edu)