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 #344 ecto, Number 344 Wednesday, 7 October 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Mike and Angel... Today's your birthday friend...(well...) Happy Brithday just kidding... Today (and tomorrow) is your birthday, friends .... Tori, bad & good news Patti Smith alert late night mumblings An epiphany... Art catches up with life Dirk was right-on ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 22:05:52 EDT From: Ode Subject: Mike and Angel... ...are now Ectophiles! They seem to be having trouble getting mail out directly, but can 'reply" to messages fine. They have a Compuserve account, so Bob Brown, or Mike Mendelson, are there any tips that you could give them? Mike has already found a site in Sydney where he can still use Compuserve, so they'll still be on when they move. Their address is: 72210.2035@compuserve.com oops, try again. 72210.203572210.2035@compuserve.com Welcome Mike and Angel Weaver!!!!!!!! Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 0:47:41 EDT From: Ode Subject: Re: Mike and Angel... > > ...are now Ectophiles! They seem to be having trouble getting mail > out directly, but can 'reply" to messages fine. They have a Compuserve > account, so Bob Brown, or Mike Mendelson, are there any tips that > you could give them? > > Mike has already found a site in Sydney where he can still use Compuserve, > so they'll still be on when they move. > > Their address is: > > 72210.2035@compuserve.com > oops, try again. > > 72210.203572210.2035@compuserve.com > > Welcome Mike and Angel Weaver!!!!!!!! > > Vickie > Well damn. I got a talk message from Chip as I was typing in Mike and Angel's address, so it looked as if the second part of the address appeared on another line. As I'm re-reading this, I realize that the address came out right the first time. Sooooooo, Mike and Angel Weaver's address is: 72210.2035@compuserve.com Really. Welcome, Mike and Angel! (This is too cool. On the same day, Mike and Angel become Ectophiles, Krys & Peter from Homeground become Lone-Hounds, and my son just got his e-mail account today also! We *will* get the whole world hooked up one day!) Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 1:07:09 EDT From: Ode Subject: Today's your birthday friend...(well...) Somewhere in the world, it *has* to still be the 6th. If I were there, I would say Happy Birthday Tim! Since I'm not, I'll say Happy Belated Birthday Tim! (Thanks for keeping us on our toes, Terry. I don't know what I'd do without you!) Actually, I remembered that the other day was Brian Bloom's birthday, and *he's* the one who started it all with the birthday list. But, I don't think he's on the list anymore. In spirit, Happy Belated Birthday, Brian. I miss your cow. Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 10:56:04 +0100 From: Terry Partis Subject: Happy Brithday Hi Dan Riley, Happy birthday to you on 8th October Terry ======================================================================== From: Ulrich Grepel Subject: just kidding... Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 11:08:10 MET > I just talked to Kevin on the phone (Or Kev as his friends call him... > really close friends like me call him Ke. :) ) <-- old Alexei Sayle joke. Now I know why there is a man called 'E'... ;-) Uli ======================================================================== Subject: Today (and tomorrow) is your birthday, friends .... From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 07:15:08 GMT i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* *** Tim Breitkreutz *** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *************** ***HAPPY******* ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* ******************* ****** Dan Riley ****** ***** Neile Graham **** *********************** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tim Breitkreutz Wed October 7 1964 Libra Dan Riley Sun October 8 1961 Libra Neile Graham Wed October 8 1958 pen Brian Bloom Tue October 14 1969 Libra Dave Steiner Sat October 24 1959 Scorpio Jessica Dembski Wed October 29 1969 Scorpio Katie Dougiamas Sat November 2 1974 Scorpio _____ Klaus Kluge * klaus@inphobos.w.open.de * I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== Subject: Tori, bad & good news From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 23:21:47 GMT What have I done to deserve this? Nothing on the telly, but zapping channels anyway, I saw a familiar face. Tori Amos in jeans talking to an invisible person on the streets of London. Looked like an interesting interview so I ran (as fast as you can with two crutches without breaking your neck as well) to the VCR to record it. Wow! That's truly great! Tori in a piano shop, happy as a child, running from piano to piano to play something, some really nice tunes, while talking to the invisible guy who occasionally throws in some words and Tori changes the music: "what was the first you played on the piano?" ... and Tori plays and sings some church music "can you play some Mozart?" ... and Tori does Some more interviews on the streets, some life songs, and I get the horrible feeling that something is very wrong. And indeed, my VCR forgot all the channels again and recorded just garbage. :-( Of course, I reprogram the channel again and record the rest, but I missed most of it, and the best part as well. I have about 10 minutes, but there's about 15 more missing. This was aired on the 3rd Dutch channel, in a show called "Lolapaloeza", and I'm afraid they don't repeat it. At least not this week. I had the impression that this was done for Dutch TV, or has someone else seen it? If this is unknown I can do a transcript of the interview part. That happened yesterday. After I wrote these lines, I went into the livingroom to check the spelling of the name of the show and had a look what was running on MTV at this time. And what did I hear? Ray Cokes talked about Tori Amos! So I showed my VCR where to find MTV again and waited. It turned out to be a "Best of" of "MTV Most Wanted" where part of the show is that they have an artist for a small interview and she/he/they will do one live song, mostly accustic. In the next hour I catched: Tori Amos, Silent all these years Shakespears Sister, Stay Suzanne Vega, In Liverpool _____ Klaus "cosmic vagabond" Kluge take a trip on a rocket ship, baby klaus@inphobos.w.open.de the sea is the sky - Tori Amos ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 12:07:30 -0700 From: Michael G Peskura Subject: Patti Smith alert (This is such a great list ... where else could i post this? :) >From a press release - _Woolgathering_ is Patti Smith's first book in fourteen years. Written expressly for the Hanuman format, these nine prose poems comprise a spiritual autobiography of early childhood through adolescence and towards life as a mature artist. Like her poet/mentor Arthur Rimbaud, Patti Smith burst upon the scene with incendiary fervor and effect, overthrowing the complacency that held a stranglehold on popular culture. In so doing, she helped create a revolution in style and attitude for a disaffected generation, the repercussions of which can still be felt today. Like Rimbaud, her renunciation of the public life of the artist led to sudden withdrawal into mysterious exile, as her life and work became the subject of rumor and speculation. Ancient yet innocent, fragile yet resilient, the poet searches for a structure to house delicate memories. With this slim volume, Patti Smith proves once again she possesses one of the finest, most resonant voices of her generation. 82pgs, three illustrations, paperbound with dust jacket Hanuman Book no. 45/ $6. Signed copies $20. include $1 book rate postage per book, plus 8.25% tax for NY residents from Hanuman Books PO Box 1070 Old Chelsea Station New York, NY 10113 Mp ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 01:55:08 EDT From: woj Subject: late night mumblings yes! the new vega album is a lot like her first album. i thought i mentioned that in my first post to ecto about _99.9 F^o_. if i didn't, i meant to. about a month ago, i picked up a single by tom robinson that was co-written by peter gabriel. peter, in fact, wrote the music for "bully for you". he does not contribute any vocals. it's not too bad of a song - certainly has that characterisitc gabriel feel, even when played by another band. i'm really quite amazed that i like the new rem album as much as i do (with the exception of two songs which are real clunkers). i should be asleep. woj ======================================================================== Date: 6 October 1992 15:33:32 CDT From: Subject: An epiphany... While leafing through Sunday's Sun-Times arts section on the bus home yester- day, I noticed a reference to Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and it dawned on me that all this time, I've been confusing them with Katia and Marielle Labeque, in my comments on Steve Fagg's query some time ago. All this helps to explain why no one can recall anything about the Labeques being from Montreal, where in fact the McGarrigles are from. A look in the library reference section has revealed that Katia and Marielle were indeed born in Bayonne, France (in the south thereof), in 1953 and 1956 respectively. Both are principally classical pianists, but one (Marielle, I think) is also into jazz. Yesterday's Sun-Times carried a wire story about Betty, the band that played at the Cubby Bear in Chicago yesterday. Their music sounds quite interesting. All this brings two questions to mind: 1) Are their recordings easily available, either in stores or elsewhere? 2) Sometime last winter, Greg, I think it was, wrote favorably of the music of a band of the same name. Anybody recall if he was referring to the same band as I am now? BTW: They were quoted to the effect that their name is an homage to Betty Boop , and several other great Bettys in history. Regrettably, they made no mention of Betty Page, the leading pinup model of the 50s, an original play about whom is now playing in Chicago, with the action centered on her persecution by the moral entrepeneurs of the day. Mitch ======================================================================== Subject: Re: An epiphany... Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 22:13:26 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Mitch sez: >Yesterday's Sun-Times carried a wire story about Betty, the band that played >at the Cubby Bear in Chicago yesterday. Their music sounds quite interesting. >All this brings two questions to mind: > >1) Are their recordings easily available, either in stores or elsewhere? >2) Sometime last winter, Greg, I think it was, wrote favorably of the music of >a band of the same name. Anybody recall if he was referring to the same band >as I am now? 'Twas me who brought up Betty around 9 months ago (a quick check tells me that I typed up the lyrics for Vickie on 1/17/92, and I'd had the album for maybe a month at that point). Yes, it's the same band. Their music _is_ quite interesting, and loads of fun. I don't have the slightest idea what the availability of _Hello Betty_ is outside of DC/NY, though I imagine you could find it *somewhere* in Chicago. Way back when, I sent a copy of the album to Vickie, so perhaps you could bum the tape from her if you care for a listen. So, Vickie, how was the show? I've *still* yet to see them in concert. In fact, I'm still missing all the concerts I want to see. Just last week, I missed Ferron. Jeff ======================================================================== Date: 7 October 1992 14:54:40 CDT From: Subject: Art catches up with life This afternoon, the Midnight Special played a song about Sergei Krikalev, about whom much was said in these pages last February. It's called something on the order of "Sergei in the Milky Way," by Fred Small; it's to the tune of "MTA," and is, in fact, dedicated to the Kingston Trio. Mitch ======================================================================== Date: 7 October 1992 11:23:15 CDT From: Subject: Dirk was right-on Having finally gotten to listening to _Maire_, Maire (clannad) Brennan's solo album on Atlantic (insofar as the cat would leave me alone long enough), I should like to second Dirk's words of encomium for it in these pages yesterday. Mitch ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. 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