Errors-To: ecto-owner@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 #732 ecto, Number 732 Thursday, 2 September 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: fantasies folk festival? Re: Hello there! the ectophilic tastes of the Fennster Hey bday you know they're hooked when... RhodeSongs blooper Back to...uh...normal Re: Actress for $400 Re: Back to...uh...normal HaPpY Birthday A Birthday Verse that could be Worse! Ringy Dingy mini-review: The Breeders The Joy Luck Club Happy in California?!? ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 14:29:16 PDT From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: Re: fantasies kelly intoned: > and then suzanne vega rides in > on a white horse A white *wooden* horse, if you will. :) D^2 ======================================================================== Date: 01 Sep 93 18:01:24 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: folk festival? Mitch Prattles: >I heard today on _The Midnight Special_ that David Massengill, some of >whose stuff is on the HBP tapes, will be on the bill at some upcoming folk >festival in Chicago, none of whose particulars I happened to catch. Hey, if you hear any more details on this, please let me know. Isn't it ironic that all the foreign (non-USA) philes are getting Rhodesongs before us domestics?!! (I know I'm waiting to buy the silly thing in a real store, and it's the first time I'll be doing that with a Happy release I don't already own; I assume more USphiles are doing that this time than before...) -mjm ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1993 15:19:37 +1000 (AEST) From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Hello there! In apana.lists.rec.happy-rhodes, article <199308311647.AA12871@lobby.ti.com>, you wrote: > Kyrlidis piped up: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Well here I am in Berkeley. My new account is: > > OOh, don't tell me... let me guess.... Hmmmm... Oh boy, I *love* > charades!! Uh, 2 syllables... starts with... um... sounds like...? > > Well, you could have looked at the header! For those for whom logic failed; kyrlidis@speedracer.cchem.berkeley.edu :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Subject: the ectophilic tastes of the Fennster Date: Wed, 01 Sep 93 18:02:41 -0700 From: johnz@eaglet.rain.com Was just reading through an interview with the rather delectable Sherilyn Fenn (_Twin Peaks_, _Boxing Helena_), when the interviewer enlightened us with the names of some of the artists he noticed in her CD collection. They were: Suzanne Vega, Kate Bush, and Annie Lennox. What, no Happy Rhodes? Hmmm... :) JohnZ PS: Happy birthday, Meredith! ======================================================================== From: katefans@chinet.com (Chris Williams) Subject: Hey bday Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 22:24:18 -0500 (CDT) (Hiccup in the telnet link...but "katefans" still lives!) HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Meredith!! Vickie (really and truly) ======================================================================== Subject: you know they're hooked when... Date: Thu, 02 Sep 93 01:04:53 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu ...the person to whom you sent a sampler begins a piece of e-mail by saying, "ooh, don't hate me if I break under the strain..." Mua ha ha ha! ;-) Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "When I look in the mirror, I see a little clearer/ | |SAFH Lite [tm] | I am what I am and you are you too./ Do you like | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | what you see? Do you like yourself?" --N. Cherry | ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: RhodeSongs blooper Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 10:21:32 BST Anybody noticed yet that the track listing of the new compilation claims that "The Wretches Gone Awry" comes from "Rhodes II" rather than "Rhodes I"? Perhaps Aural Gratification will correct the error if they get to make another batch of CDs. Another potential Happy Rhodes collectors' item??? :-) -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 5:24:32 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Back to...uh...normal Yep, back on rutgers (yay!), in the middle of a flame war on gaffa, depressed as usual. Yep, everything's back to normal :-). Sorry :-(. whine whine whine Chris is working in Kansas City again, gone for 2 weeks :-( whine Monday night was my last night with my therapist and they haven't lined me up with anyone else yet :-( whine It's really busy and tense at work :-( whine I feel guilty for being manic one day and throwing klauses at the list whine I feel guilty for being depressive the next day and not being able to muster the energy to respond to posts or answer e-mail and it all gets backed up and I feel overwhelmed and paralyzed and tell myself that I'll catch up during my next manic episode but during the next manic episode I do other things and never, ever get caught up and some people must think I'm such a bitch/lazy girl/rude person/busy net.goddess/whatever because I didn't answer their e-mail whine and I hate hate hate saying things like this because it sounds so lame and whiny :-( whine I hate getting involved in flame wars on gaffa and I swore it off but it still happens anyway :-( whine I think I have stomach flu and I feel horrible :-( whine I feel guilty because I owe so many things to so many people and I feel guilty because I owe so many explanations to so many people and I feel guilty because my illness makes me shut down when quieried or confronted with my obligations and I feel guilty because I know I'm not the nice person everybody thinks I am and I know I don't deserve all the nice things people say about me and I feel guilty that I'm dumping a lot of whine whine silly self-pity on Ecto and I know I'll hate myself for it tomorrow whine and I feel guilty about feeling guilty because I know that the people who care will care but I still worry about "compassion burnout" and I feel guilty that I'm whining about trivial things when there's so many bad things going on in the world and so many people have *real* problems :-( I have so little contact with my family that I haven't talked to my brother since Christmas and I talked to my father last night for the first time since I called him on his birthday in January and I wish I'd had a normal childhood and family life and I found out that my step-grandfather (the only maternal grandfather I've ever known since my biological maternal grandfather died when my mother was a young girl) died a few months ago and no one called to tell me :-( why didn't anybody think I'd care? :-( and that my 103-year old paternal grandfather was put in a nursing home months ago and no one told me :-( and that my father was in an accident and was in the hospital and no one told me :-( why didn't anybody think I'd care about these things? :-( And why did it turn out that my family is so distant (emotionally, besides geographically) that I haven't talked to my father about my mental problems since last *October* and I haven't talked about it to any other family members at *all* :-( why didn't/don't I think that any of them would care about it? :-( whine whine whine I'd better quit because I'm just making myself feel even worse than I did when I started this post. I'm not tired, but I'd better get some sleep. I'm so glad Ecto exists. Thank you Ectophiles, for being patient with me and for listening, and for caring. *HUGS* to all, and to all nighty night, Juha Vickie ps, on top of everything, I still haven't received RhodeSongs :-(. I know that that would cheer me right up :-) ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 02 Sep 93 14:08:09 MEZ From: Dirk Kastens Subject: Re: Actress for $400 Hi, Uli wrote: >> Is Jeopardy talk completely confusing everyone outside the USA? Is it >> or a similar show received elsewhere in the world? > >ha-ha :-/ > >Sorry, but how should we know to what we have to compare it if we have not >been informed of what it is. Or - do you have a similar show as let's say >the former German one EWG? See - you can't tell. I'd be glad to be >enlightened in what kind of show Jeopardy is, then I'd be able to tell you >if we have something similar... Yes, we have (or had) something similar. I saw a show on German TV, by incidence of course, where the host gave the answer and the people had to ask the question. I found it rather stupid, because everyone asked "What is...?" or "Who is...?" and the whole thing doesn't make sense for me. Most of the German game shows are copies of American or Dutch or other shows. Dirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ || \\\\\ || ///// | dkastens@dosuni1.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE || ))))) IRK || ((((( ASTENS | "Music's the way, the only way I know" || ///// || \\\\\ | Happy Rhodes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 09:14:19 -0600 (MDT) From: KELLY BAKER Subject: Re: Back to...uh...normal i love you vickie ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 02 Sep 93 17:10:56 +0100 From: Terry Partis Subject: HaPpY Birthday Here's wishing a Very HAPPY Birthday to Mary Lou Rowe on September 3rd Have a great day Mary Lou, And Very Happy birthdays to anybody I missed over the last couple of weeks while I've been off the net. Peace to all Terry === Only in your eyes lies your soul ========================= Happy Rhodes === _ __ Jolly Hockeysticks _ __ / `-' ( ,,, / `-' ( ,,, | I I ||||||[:::] Terry (Tel Boy) Partis | I I ||||||[:::] \_.-._( ''' (tgp@ukc.ac.uk) \_.-._( ''' With a smile and a song - I'm HaPpy Let me sleep awhile and dream of Avalon and the Beltane fires.................. ............................................our souls entwined for all eternity ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: A Birthday Verse that could be Worse! Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 17:22:03 BST So Happy Birthday then Mary Lou Rowe I had hoped that by now You'd be working here with us But it didn't happen E.J. Thribb (age: old enough to know better) -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 09:51:31 PDT From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: Ringy Dingy When I sent in my order for HR^5, I mentioned in my letter that I was thinking of doing what Kevin did and found my own record company to release my music on, so I asked for tips. Happy wrote me a letter back saying a) she liked my tape and b) I should call Kevin because he wouldn't possibly have the time to write that kind of stuff out. So I did, yesterday. You know, Kevin is really a tremendously nice guy. We talked for about 20 minutes. Apparently, the new tour is going to feature a pared-down band; Happy, Kevin, and maybe one other person. I asked him if there's any chance of getting out to California, and he said that it wasn't out of the question (!). The local college radio station, KALX (one of the most perversely eclectic stations I've ever heard), doesn't have Happy in the racks. I requested some Happy the other night, and the DJ mentioned on the air about an hour later, "To the guy who requested Happy Rhodes, I looked everywhere and didn't find anything. Here's a set to make it up to you." Then he played a set of Jane Siberry, Phoebe Snow, k d lang and Annie Lennox. I told Kevin to send KALX some Happy... I'm sure some of the DJ's there would flip for her. Kevin gave me some suggestions for distributors and CD pressers, and we talked shop for a bit. At the end of the conversation, he said that if he could be of any more help, feel free to call again (!). I want to buy this guy a beer. D^2 ======================================================================== From: David Koehler Subject: mini-review: The Breeders Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 11:09:21 PDT Hello all, This week the new and much-anticipated (by me anyway) album "Last Splash" by The Breeders was released. After listening to it for several days I am totally underwhelmed. Given the strength of their "Pod" album and "Safari" single I had high hopes for this one. The single "Cannonball" is great but I cannot find anything else that makes this record worthwhile. They even re-recorded two of their older songs (I Just Wannna Get Along, Do You Love Me Now) and ruined them. Its hard to pin down exactly what went wrong here. I think it's a fatal combination of sloppy playing, weak singing, and poor songwriting (excepting Cannonball and the two old songs). Adding insult to injury, the production is so awful that the album is almost unlistenable. Imagine 3 times the muck of "The Sensual World" and you get the idea. The Bottom Line: 2/10 (avoid it -- mine is going to the used bin) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David R. Koehler "I had me a vision drk@cardinal.stanford.edu There wasn't any television!" - Pixies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: 02 Sep 93 14:26:12 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: The Joy Luck Club Went to see a sneak preview of a really neat movie last night called the Joy Luck Club. The cast consists solely of Chinese actors: mostly actresses. It follows the stories of 4 women and their respective daughters. Each woman emigrated from China to US but not before undergoing some rather severe "experiences" in their homeland. This movie is fascinating for too many reasons to enumerate here, but I would like to recommend it to all ectophiles. I will say no more (because anything more that I say could influence how you view the movie). It should be in theatres soon. It is very different, very gripping, very genuine. The more I think about it, the more I like it, and the more I want to see it again. -mjm ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 11:37:48 PDT From: tjshadb@ecto.sandia.gov (Troy J. Shadbolt) Subject: Happy in California?!? Ohh, what do I have to do? Do I need to beg, plead, kiss feet? What, what! Tell me I'll do it! The thought of hearing a 'small, intiment' version of Happy is too much-- I, I can't hold on....I GOTTA HEAR IT! Whew, that was close. Anyway, where do the California people think Happy and Kevin should play? Bay Area? Los Angeles? Since there are (at least) three of us within a stone's throw of San Francisco I think it should be up here. I've got contacts, maybe we could even find a 'space' for them to perform! Troy getting REALLY excited just at the thought of live HappyMusic (TM). ******************************************************************************** Troy J. SHadbolt * "I steppie in between the molecules * to get me a better look at you!" ******************************************************************************** COSTUME CON 12, FEBRUARY 18-21, SANTA CLARA CONVENTION CENTER the most fun you can have with LOTS of cloths on! ******************************************************************************** tjshadb@ecto.CA.sandia.gov ******************************************************************************** ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 11:49:45 PDT From: "John M. Relph" Subject: Re: Happy in California?!? I think Happy &c should play at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. It's a very NICE venue. Tori Amos (and E!) played there last year. Very nice. Good acoustics, nice seats, reasonable size, not huge. In fact, I wrote Happy saying I thought she should play there. -- John ======================================================================== 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)