From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #14 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, 5 February 1995 Volume 02 : Number 014 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Neile Graham Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 13:59:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sarah's Freedom Sessions The CD is claimed, but if anyone would like me to pick up a copy for you while I'm in Canada this weekend, just ask and I will. I should be able to get it for around the same price (thought with provincial sales tax and GST [the Canadian national sales tax]) as I paid via mail order. We're leaving very early Saturday morning, but I'll try to check my email right before we leave to see if there are any requests. I may even be able to check my mail from Victoria. - --Neile neile@u.washington.edu ------------------------------ From: jeffw@triple-i.com (Jeff Wasilko) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 14:40:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: World Cafe schedule online? Someone posted a way to get the World Cafe schedule via gopher, but I can't find it now...Can someone refresh my memory? Thanks, Jeff - -- Jeff Wasilko, Systems Rep., Information International Inc. +1 617 937 9400 (jeffw@triple-i.com, jeffw@jane.camex.com) "With all the confidence I have, it seems I could go forever, but forever has no rest stops."--Happy Rhodes [smoe] ------------------------------ From: father bungholio Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 18:00:14 -0500 Subject: more ectopics sam@ansys.com (Sam Murgie) sez: >toyah has put out two albums >in the last couple of years but i have been unable to find them. anyone >in ectoland actually listen to these and/or could tell me where to find >said albums?????? i have _ophelia's shadow_ (1991) which is distributed by caroline in the states (eg records in the uk) so, assuming it's not out of print, it should be readily available. i think i bought my copy from noteworthy so that's a good palce to start (telnet netmarket.com or for the webbers: http://www.netmarket.com/). does anyone have a list of albums she's released? i vaguely remember that there are more than two but have no clue about what they might be. Chandra Lekha Sriram sez: >bad listening experience for the week--this ascension. 'twasn't john (not you, shepard) who lent it to you, by any chance? sometime-i-don't-remember-when, i picked up a single by them called "isabella" which is great. they released an album not long after which is still vinyl-only to this day. their second album (on disc) included a buncha tracks from the first. i bought both thinking that they would be as good the single. not so. sigh. i think i've listened to each about once. jrshepar@indyunix.iupui.edu sez: >I thought I was the only person in this hemisphere who even heard _of_ >Soundtrack! And yeh, "Lion of Symmetry" is cool! there was this guy on nm-list, i think, whose nickname was "lion of symmetry". he was in california so that makes three people in this hemisphere who've heard of _soundtrack_. five if you count me and an old college buddy who was a banks fiend. ;) woj ------------------------------ From: mcb@postmodern.com (Michael C. Berch) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 16:24:43 -0800 Subject: Re: Liz Phair > There is a fantastic alt-female singer in town. Her name > is Garrison Star and her music reminds me a lot of early > Happy stuff. Hmmm.... Mazzy Star's sister? :-) :-) - -- Michael mcb@postmodern.com ------------------------------ From: THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 20:27:57 -0500 (EST) Subject: HAPPY IN NYC JUICY DETAILS Hi! I called WFUV today to confirm that Happy really truly is going to be at The Bottom Line on Feb. 24, and Rita Houston (host of the event and DJ on the air at the time I called) said yep, "she's been inked". Rita said that "I hear seeing her live will finally convert me for sure", which I heartily confirmed. I told her that I knew people would be coming from Boston, Baltimore, and many places in between to see this, and I don't think she quite believed me. Anyway, tonight I came home to a mailing from The Bottom Line advertising the show (among other upcoming events), and an insert within containing squibs about all the artists performing that night was enclosed. Here's what it says about Happy: "Rolling Stone Magazine has described Happy Rhodes as 'Enya by way of Eno', and the early influences of such musicians as Kate Bush, Yes, and Queen can be heard weaving through her eight-album body of work. She is one singer/ songwriter who has embraced all of the technology the studio has to offer. Accompanying her astounding four octave vocal range on her latest release, _Building The Colossus_ (Aural Gratification), are special guests Jerry Marotta and David Torn. "Tickets to Required Listening - A No Risk Evening of Discovery #2 are $12.50 and on sale now at The Bottom Line box office. Due to the response we got to the first show in this series, we wanted to let you have the first dibs -- don't wait until the last minute to purchase your tickets!" Reading that the first time I thought it implied that Marotta and Torn would actually be *playing onstage* with Happy, but now that I check the syntax again I see that it's just saying they played on the album. Still, even though she's only going to have a 25 minute set it's going to be awesome. Tickets for The Bottom Line can *only* be purchased in person at the box office, which sucks for those coming from out of town, but I guess people don't normally come from out of town to see shows there so it's usually not an issue. I've already got someone lined up to get 10 tickets for me and 9 other people, and unfortunately she isn't willing to put more than that up front on her credit card, for which I really can't blame her. But if I can get a list of who is planning to come to this thing from away (as we used to say up in Maine :), I can see if I can work something out with her, like threaten to withhold her birthday present or something. ;> So if you're planning to travel to NYC for this, e-mail me pronto (Jeffy, I already know about you :). Tix are $12.50 each, and there are two shows: at 7:30 and 10:00. The group of 10 I mentioned above is going to the 10:00 show, and probably descending upon some poor unsuspecting close-by restaurant for dinner beforehand (and did I mention The Bottom Line is located just 1 block from the infamous Tower Records at 4th and Broadway, where Kate Bush made her last public appearance on these shores?). Crash space is limited but available at Casa Woj-n-Meth that night in lovely Boonton, NJ, 45 minutes from the venue. Happy's playing in New York City. That's just *too* cool. :> :> :> Meredith meth@delphi.com "My ears are lucky to hear these glorious sounds..." - HTR ------------------------------ From: THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 20:36:18 -0500 (EST) Subject: The rest of the story Hi! Oh yeah, and you might want to know a little bit about who else is playing that night before Happy, too. :) From the aforequoted mailing: "Kyle Davis was named to Billboard Magazine's top ten "unsigned" band list for 1994. Performing professionally since the age of 17, Davis has played periodically at the fabled Bluebird Cafe in Nashville; recorded with Bruce Hornsby's hand, The Range; opened for headliners as diverse as Little Feat, Suzanne Vega, and Bob Dylan; and has had his latest release, _Waiting For You_ (Windmark Records) produced by Don Dixon (REM, Marshall Crenshaw, The Smithereens). "The rumors surrounding Pete and Maura Kennedy are already accumulating. Legend has it their first date took place at Buddy Holly's grave in Lubbock, Texas, and after touring with Nancy (sic) Griffith, the duo began playing together. Winners of the Washington DC Area Music Association's (WAMMIE) 1994 "Best New Group" award, they have been compared to Richard and Linda Thompson and The Byrds, producing alterna-pop/folk-rock [??? - me] that is both rooted in history and thoroughly modern. "A no lesser light than Christine Lavin declared Barbara Kessler the "Best New Artist" of 1993. Cliff Eberhardt and The Story guest on her debut release, _Stranger To This Land_ (Eastern Front Records). She's won just about every folk award available in New England, making her a performer on the edge of surefire widespread recognition. Her playful ode to a childhood heroine, "Mary Tyler Moore", has been one of the most requested songs on Boston folk radio for months." So there you have it. Happy is going to blow the minds of everyone in the audience, and blow all the rest of the performers out of the water. IMHO. :) Meredith meth@delphi.com will copyedit for food ------------------------------ From: "THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE" Date: Thu, 02 Feb 95 20:36:18 -0500 Subject: The rest of the story Hi! Oh yeah, and you might want to know a little bit about who else is playing that night before Happy, too. :) >From the aforequoted mailing: "Kyle Davis was named to Billboard Magazine's top ten "unsigned" band list for 1994. Performing professionally since the age of 17, Davis has played periodically at the fabled Bluebird Cafe in Nashville; recorded with Bruce Hornsby's hand, The Range; opened for headliners as diverse as Little Feat, Suzanne Vega, and Bob Dylan; and has had his latest release, _Waiting For You_ (Windmark Records) produced by Don Dixon (REM, Marshall Crenshaw, The Smithereens). "The rumors surrounding Pete and Maura Kennedy are already accumulating. Legend has it their first date took place at Buddy Holly's grave in Lubbock, Texas, and after touring with Nancy (sic) Griffith, the duo began playing together. Winners of the Washington DC Area Music Association's (WAMMIE) 1994 "Best New Group" award, they have been compared to Richard and Linda Thompson and The Byrds, producing alterna-pop/folk-rock [??? - me] that is both rooted in history and thoroughly modern. "A no lesser light than Christine Lavin declared Barbara Kessler the "Best New Artist" of 1993. Cliff Eberhardt and The Story guest on her debut release, _Stranger To This Land_ (Eastern Front Records). She's won just about every folk award available in New England, making her a performer on the edge of surefire widespread recognition. Her playful ode to a childhood heroine, "Mary Tyler Moore", has been one of the most requested songs on Boston folk radio for months." So there you have it. Happy is going to blow the minds of everyone in the audience, and blow all the rest of the performers out of the water. IMHO. :) Meredith meth@delphi.com will copyedit for food ------------------------------ From: Sue Trowbridge Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 21:54:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: Upcoming musical guests on late night talk shows LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS, 11:35 PM ET) Thursday, Feb. 9: Hootie & The Blowfish. Monday, Feb. 13: Trisha Yearwood. Thursday, Feb. 16: Sheryl Crow. THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO (NBC, 11:35 PM ET) Thursday, Feb. 2: Travis Tritt. Friday, Feb. 3: Joni Mitchell. Monday, Feb. 6: Vince Gill. Thursday, Feb. 9: Harry Connick Jr. Friday, Feb. 10: Tom Jones. LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC, 12:35 PM ET) Monday, Feb. 6: Robbie Robertson. Wednesday, Feb. 8: Letters To Cleo. Monday, Feb. 13: Marcus Roberts. Tuesday, Feb. 14: Timbuk 3. LATER WITH GREG KINNEAR (NBC, 1:35 PM ET) Monday, Feb. 6: Mel Torme. Posted by Sue Trowbridge - -- way cool LOUD FAMILY homepage: http://www.charm.net/~trow/ - -- the only homepage weird enough to feature a GIF of a 75-yr-old furnace: http://www.access.digex.net/~trow/ ------------------------------ From: Philip Sainty Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 16:09:35 +1300 Subject: Re: HAPPY IN NYC JUICY DETAILS Meth meth'd: > Reading that the first time I thought it implied that Marotta and Torn would > actually be *playing onstage* with Happy, but now that I check the syntax > again I see that it's just saying they played on the album. Still, even > though she's only going to have a 25 minute set it's going to be awesome. Does anyone know if she's playing with a full band again? Or acoustic? Philip (hoping they get the mix right :) ------------------------------ From: Sue Trowbridge Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 22:30:10 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: ectopics woj wrote: > some stuff that hasn't been mentioned: > > the loud family - the tape of only linda: not ectoish but still damn > brilliant. the loud family is scott miller's (ex of game theory) latest > band. this is their second album. it's just plain nifty guitar pop with > weird twists, self-referential feedback loops, "hey-i-wish-thought-of- > that" lyrics and more in-jokes than a rocky horror viewing. paul cohen > and sue trowbridge will, no doubt, agree. ;) why yes. ;) Thanks for mentioning it; I don't know how much anyone would trust my objectivity on the LF, since I'm boosterish enough to maintain their homepage. Here's another band that's not exactly ectoish, but it *does* have two female singer/songwriters, so seems worth bringing up: Veruca Salt. I liked their song "Seether" enough to give the whole album a shot. (Plus I'm a big fan of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.") At first it didn't impress me a whole lot, but after a few listens, I found myself hooked, and I realized that all the songs I *really* like are by Nina Gordon. Who, BTW, says she's highly influenced by the LF's Scott Miller. :) Anyway, the album is called "American Thighs." The VS disc is currently taking up one slot in the five-CD changer I received for Xmas, along with Elastica's "Stutter" EP, the Loud Family, Ted Hawkins' "The Next Hundred Years" and Sebadoh's "III." Does anyone out there have one of those 100-CD changers I've seen advertised? :) oh yes, I agree that the new Dead Can Dance video is BRILLIANT! - --Sue Trowbridge ------------------------------ From: Greg Bossert Date: Thu, 2 Feb 95 23:58:36 EST Subject: [none] approve qazwsx unsubscribe ecto ode@asarian.org ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: Date: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1995 18:12:08 -0500 (EST) Subject: Catsup on your fries, or Why Am I Freezing Hi! I've been holding a few ecto posts in my mailbox waiting for a chance to properly respond to them, and finally here we go: Neal Copperman noticed: >ROughly half of >the article talks about the ridiculous quotas record companies have for >female artists. I've seen talk of radio station regs prohibiting playing >too many women artists in a row, but hadn't heard of record company quotas. >They claimed that Magnapop was turned down by a major label because they >already had too many female singers. They also hypothesized a record company/ >press quota that only allows so many women in a given style. I'm sorry to say I believe this 100%, and I can't tell you how much it pisses me off. It's an extended symptom of the "If she wrote it, plays piano at least somewhere on the record, and sings it in a soprano voice, then she gets compared to Kate Bush" syndrome. There's this deeply rooted perception out there that there can only be one or two good female artists because that's all our half of the species can manage. I'm going to overgeneralize a bit now, but unfortunately I don't think I'll be stretching it too much: The music industry is dominated by men who still think that all a woman is good for is a pretty face and a pretty voice, but there can't be too many of them out there or people may start listening to them more than they listen to the wanking testosterone cases toting guitarz who play in bands like Winger and Bon Jovi (I had the grave misfortune to attend a party last night where at one point we ended up watching a Bon Jovi laserdisc - ecccch), and then they might start to notice that the women are better than the men, in creativity as well as musicianship, and then where will they be??? The music press is a bit better, but not much. B-Side magazine is the only non-exclusively-women's-music-oriented music publication I can think of where the staff is overwhelmingly female -- can anybody point me to others? As a result, B-Side tends to feature female musicians more often than many of its counterparts, for which I applaud them, and they don't seem to be excluding women musicians because there are already other women in those cubbyholes, either. (Personally, I believe that the record companies aren't allowing more women like Kate, Tori, etc. etc. loose on an unsuspecting world because they know damn well that if all that incredible talent were to be let out there at once there would have to be an implosion somewhere. They believe they are acting to save the universe as we know it. I say, screw the universe as we know it: it's better on the other side!) Mitch mused: >It's in the 680 Lake Shore multipurpose >building at Huron and the drive, which interestingly used to have the >address "666" until the building management decided that that was scaring >off potential tenants who believed in demonic posession (really). (I've >often wondered if such people think the 333 Wacker Drive office building, >itself a significant piece of architecture in this town, is only half >possessed :-). ) 666 Lake Shore Drive: the address of the Beast 667 Lake Shore Drive: the address of the neighbor of the Beast 333 Wacker Drive: the address of the Beast's baby brother I'll stop now. ;> >I did, however, read in _TV Guide_ that on the MTV awards show she engaged >in a rather gross and disgusting bit of business with Puck, whom I was >surprised still had any connection with the network, and whom Kennedy >cannot help but be considered considerably less gross and disgusting than >under normal circumstances. What did she do with Puck??? I'll kill her -- NOBODY messes with our cat on national television!!! Seriously, though, I doubt whatever she did with eMpTV's King Of Gross could have topped fellating the microphone behind Rudolph Giuliani... >But my bottom line in bringing all this up is >that we perhaps should be of good cheer: if Kennedy's vaunted >Republicanism is more than a shtick, maybe she's just what is necessary to >finally run the Sons of Newt into the ground :-). Hah! That's a good way to look at it. Go, Kennedy! (Though if she's *really* that much of a Republican, she might seriously look into changing her name. ;) woj yawned: >just finished delving through many a message that piles up over a long >weekend of ignoring the net. don't tell meredith that i stayed up after >2 am to do this. ;) 3:30 AM, wasn't it? Be truthful, now... >(sheesh, i haven't stayed up after 2 am to catch up on e-mail on a week- >night since, um, i can't remember when! so i'm allowed.) Yeah, well, next time warn me, so I can be prepared to wake you up the next morning. Geez. :) >the murmurs. >my instincts are that i won't be >thrilled but who knows? that's what i though i'd think about dar williams >but i find that she's not too bad despite my acoustic prejudices. Hah!!!!! Mr. "I don't know what I don't like so I listen to everything", who has gradually changed his title to Mr. "I don't like anything I used to really like any more", is forced to admit that he might, just MIGHT, like something in a genre he has so vociferously denounced of late. I feel avenged, sir. And I'm not gonna let you forget it, either. ;> ;> ;> >varttina hits new york city on february 22nd, i >believe at merkin hall. i think i should look into that soon. Gack!!! You gotta start telling me these things! It's silly to still be communicating via e-mail when we're mailing from the same room, you goon. (woj was reading over my shoulder as I typed that last, to which he said, "gee, thanks" but I'm posting it anyway. :) >jenn vix - through the miracle of the postal system, i received a copy >of jenn vix's sel-produced and self-titled disc. You did?!? >i think this is the first time i've actually followed up on something >from that magazine which i seem to subscribe to only for douglas wolk's >reviews) What about the last disc, which featured Jewel Kilcher and that Swedish folk duo? >margaret leng tan - daughter of the lonesome idle: this is a collection >of john cage's piano pieces exemplifying the various types of altered >piano instruments that he used. leng tan is a highly regarded avant garde >pianist who, apparently, carries the cage torch following his death in >1992. i haven't listened to this much yet but i've enjoyed what i've >heard. (incidentially, this is on new albion records which is a label >making me very happy lately - i recently picked up the ensemble pan's >performance of guillaue de machaut's _remede de fortune_, a classic 14th >century love poem, on new albion and it's excellent - early music freaks, >take note!) Gack!!!!! This has gone too far, I can't take it any more. (woj here - fret not, ectophiles, we have ironed out this issue amongst ourselves and have reached a happy compromise.) We have? (yes, we have.) Oh. Whatever you say... Now to stop this before it gets Too Silly. +==========================================================================+ |Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| |Boonton, NJ USA finger info at: mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu| +==========================================================================+ |Excuse me Newt, but I don't recall being asked to sign on any dotted line!| +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ From: Christopher Boek Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 10:19:51 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalindromes Michael wrote ... > > The best and longest palindrome I ever found was: > > Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas > > Negativland released an album under that name once. :-) > I wonder what the backward lyric readers thought of that one ... Chris. - -- | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||| ||| Christopher Boek - c.boek@ee.mu.oz.au | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||| Dept Elec Eng Univ of Melbourne Australia | | | | | | | | | | Tel:(+613)- 344 7966(BH) 853 4296(AH) |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|"I've got no room for a quote" CB 1994. ------------------------------ From: Michael Handler Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 22:30:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas (Was: Re: , Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalindromes) I wrote: > Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas dan(n) wrote: > Are you sure that wasn't Soundgarden? Then Dave Dixon wrote: > Doh! Beaten to the punch! > Anyway, it was Megadeth, not Negativland that recorded an album with that > name. *blink* Does anyone know for sure? I thought for the longest time that it was Negativland who put this album out -- it was advertised in _Mondo 2000_, ferG-dsakes! It certainly doesn't seem like Megadeth or Soundgarden... ObSarah: Philly tickets went on sale as of 10 AM this Saturday (4 Feb). I called at about noon, got three tickets center stage, third row. I paid $86 for them, but I got them. :-) And I'm getting copies of the Canadian Freedom Sessions disc for the two wonderful girls who are going with me to that concert. :-) - -- Michael Handler Civil Liberty Through Complex Mathematics Philadelphia, PA "Toi qui fais au proscrit ce regard calme et haut" -- Baudelaire * Skotoseme PGP Key ID FC031321 Print: 9B DB 9A B0 1B 0D 56 DA 61 6A 57 AD B2 4C 7B AF ------------------------------ From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 95 18:11:45 +1000 Subject: Re: Hi, HBs, Thanks, Betty, One From The Heart, TV, Due South Vickie goes epic: > Michael, _One From The Heart_ is one of our all-time favorite films! [...] > Even as I'm saying this, I can't really recommend the film. Not if it's > watched the way most people watch movies. That is, on a 13", 19" or > even 25" TV, with all the lights on and the phone ringing and things > going on to distract you. It really has to be *experienced* and to do > that, it must be breathed in, it must envelop you. If you must see it, then > come to Chicago when we get another big screen projector (one of these days) > and watch it with us :-). Or, at least, watch it on the biggest screen > possible, and turn off the phone and the lights, and just flow with it. That is, I feel, the only way to watch a movie, and it's how I watch mine all the time. My TV's a modest 29" thingy (Panasonic called it "The One", so how do they explain the fact that they had to give me a second one that actually worked properly? :-) and I feel that's plenty big enough for most films, even letterboxed widescreen things. To avoid interruptions from the phone and housemate, I always seem to start watching things at 1 in the morning, and just get drawn in to the film. I mostly listen to the sound in headphones, which helps a lot with the flow factor. It's a bit hard on the neighbors firing up the 200 watt-per-channel Klipsch Speakers Of Doom in glorious Dolby Surround at that time of the morning, too. :-) > now get the Discovery Channel again! Oh, I'm so pleased! When we lived > in Kansas City, I got hooked on Beyond 2000, and the Discovery Channel > in general, and I missed it. They're back, and it's nice. You Ozzies > have one of the best shows in the world with Beyond 2000. Thanks!! You're welcome. :-) It's quite pleasing that Beyond 2000 gets such a big international audience; it's been going for years here, and was originally a program on the government TV channel called "Towards 2000". Years ago. :) The people that produce that show formed a company called Beyond International a few years ago, and got into film distribution; they're currently holding onto (and not intending to release, it seems) the new film by Richard Lowenstein (director of "Dogs In Space"), "Say A Little Prayer", which I really want to see. No fair. Not only does it look more than a little Ecto-friendly, it also stars a woman named Fiona Rutelle, who I used to work with around 1987. Here endeth the trivial diversion. :) > Ramble ramble ramble blah blah blah :-). :-) BTW, Vickie - do you still want that tape of the director's cut of "Bliss" that I taped for you all those months ago? I mailed you about it a while back but I suspect the email may have been a casualty of the Bermuda NetTriangle. Just in case you didn't see the mail, I also added an episode of "The Comic Strip Presents" screened here recently that starred none other than... Kate Bush! > Hey, now that My So-Called Life is off the air (temporarily, I guess) We haven't even seen the first season of that here yet! The soundtrack's out, though - and it has Frente!'s "Book Song" on it! Check it out, US people; this song was originally on the Australian "Clunk" EP, their first release on Mushroom. Audio recommendation: "Lost In The Translation", on Axiom Records (via Island). A double CD with only 8 (very long) tracks, this is Bill Laswell doing the ambient thing, and it's the most inventive and compelling ambient stuff I've heard since David Sylvian's "Gone To Earth". In fact, it's way, way better than that. And now, back to my search for a place to live - four weeks and counting, and all I see are dumps and shoeboxes. Just my luck to be searching nfor a rental in the worst rental slump since 1988. :-( - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au Physical mail: P.O. Box 40, Malvern 3144, Victoria, Australia "The red sky was bleeding glimpses of heaven, in sections of seven..." - Rose Chronicles reaching lyrical perfection on "Awaiting Eternity" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #14 ************************* ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu