From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V3 #72 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, November 14 1997 Volume 03 : Number 072 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Tara Maclean album ["Neil K. Guy" ] Re: ecto ghost town! [nightwol@dircon.co.uk (Steve Fagg)] Re: ecto ghost town! [jason and jill ] The BIG announcement [ptv@scm-metals.com (Patrick Varker)] Re: Tara MacLean album [00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu] Re: ecto ghost town! [Damon des Jumeaux ] Re: ecto ghost town! [nightwol@dircon.co.uk (Steve Fagg)] Re: ecto ghost town! [nightwol@dircon.co.uk (Steve Fagg)] The Changelings this Saturday [Neile Graham ] Party Papers (was re: Janis Ian) ["Kenn" ] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 1997 HAPPY GIFT PROJECT ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner"] Re: ecto ghost town! [Brian Bloom ] watch out for Lili Fatale! [Justin Bur ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 23:02:11 -0800 From: "Neil K. Guy" Subject: Re: Tara Maclean album At 7:15 PM -0600 11/12/97, Jason M. Carter wrote: > For those of those interested (I don't know if this has been posted), Tara > Maclean's new album will be out in the U.S. on Tuesday. Yep! Sure is. A truck full of the darn things was parked in the Nettwerk driveway this morning and I couldn't park the Grocmobile. Ack. But just a minor clarification in case anyone gets their hopes up - it's not a full album. It's a 5 song EP with a couple remixes, a live track and a couple new songs. - Neil K. - -- t e l a computer consulting + design * Vancouver, BC, Canada phone: (604) 254-1002 * email: tela@tela.bc.ca web: http://www.tela.bc.ca/tela/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:24:35 +0000 (GMT) From: nightwol@dircon.co.uk (Steve Fagg) Subject: Re: ecto ghost town! Damon des Jumeaux wrote: > a quick search online told me that tinycwru does indeed still exist, > now at tinycwru.tinymush.com:4201... and my old player and the > entire ecto mush were still there! it seems incredible; that was > what... two years ago? more? Yeah! The crash which took TinyCWRU offline for a while and lost a few weeks' of changes, thus spelling the end of the EctoMUSH as an active area, was back in the first half of 1995. As far as I know, the move to tinymush.org (note: NOT .com) only took place this month: I got a nice Email from the TinyCWRU organisers earlier this week to say that it had happened. > has anyone else visited the place in the past couple of years? if not, i > must say it's a very interesting experience, walking through the ghost town > that was, for a short while, our home... remembering all those esoteric > mush commands... wondering what's become of some old friends. what a trip > down memory lane! makes me miss the old days on irc, too. Yep! I've been checking in there every few weeks to see that the link still works and to have a nostalgic look around. I've usually only spent a few minytes at a time online there, and have never encountered anybody in the Ecto area - it truly is a ghost-town! - nor, until today have I seen any evidence that anybody else ever went there but me. Finding your notes in the "Box H.A.P." in Jazzmyne's Java Joint this morning, Kalaleq, I felt rather like Robinson Crusoe finding Man Friday's footprints! If anybody would like to meet up there, I can connect between 5am and 2pm EST on weekdays and would love to have a brief chat sometime. Again, the address is: tinycwru.tinymush.org:4201 (there's a link from my web-page, address in the .sig below, which also has a link to Jason Grehes' web page with more detailed instructions) and the Ecto area is based around room #68340. Nightwol's Perch is on Block 100 of West Ecto Avenue. TTFN Steve Fagg n.p. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 n.r. Nothing (need a break after Keri Hulme's "The Bone People"!) - -- Steve Fagg (nightwol@dircon.co.uk) http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/1313/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 07:33:20 -0500 (EST) From: jason and jill Subject: Re: ecto ghost town! On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Damon des Jumeaux wrote: > well, just in case now i've gone and made someone who *wasn't* around then > curious: > > telnet tinycwru.tinymush.org 4201 > > create a character, do the newbie stuff, learn how to navigate, etc... > > @tel #68340 > > ... i can't believe it's all still there! It was down for a long time and saved to disk/tape. I don't know how, but it looks like I'm on some tinycwru announcment list and I got an email a few days ago that it was back. Checked in and everything's still there...even had some local-to-tinycwru email sitting in my account. Jason ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 07:46:04 -0500 From: ptv@scm-metals.com (Patrick Varker) Subject: The BIG announcement In this day of cliff-hangers, what with X-Files, NYPD Blue, Party Of Five, whatever, etc. etc., leave it to KB to come up with the most anticipated event of the year. Not that I enjoy wishing my life away but PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE hurry and come Friday!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 09:43:07 -0500 (EST) From: 00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: Re: Tara MacLean album Yes, Tara has a cd coming out on the 18th, but it isn't a full- length album, it's her EP "If you see me." It contains 5 songs, Evidence x 2, Calls to nothing, If Only, and That's Me. One of the Evidence tracks is a remix, one is live from Lilith Fair. Jessica ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 09:46:59 -0800 From: Damon des Jumeaux Subject: Re: ecto ghost town! 'wol, jason: >got a nice Email from the TinyCWRU organisers earlier this week to say >that it had happened. >it looks like I'm on some tinycwru announcment list and I got an email a >few days ago that it was back. i'll bet i can answer this puzzle - we all had EMAIL attributes on our characters. so, they collect the lot of them from all players and do a big ol' mass mailing. which would also explain why *i* didn't get anything... the email on my character is an ancient one i haven't had for years. :) >Yep! I've been checking in there every few weeks to see that the link >still works and to have a nostalgic look around. I've usually only >spent a few minytes at a time online there, and have never encountered >anybody in the Ecto area - it truly is a ghost-town! - nor, until and has been for a *long* long time, it would seem, or at least my paukarut isn't a terribly popular spot... there's a big eye in my foyer that records all comings and goings... and it's been open (recording) since the last time i was there: - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Nov 5 18:52:21 1995: WizPop entered the foyer. Sun Nov 5 18:52:38 1995: WizPop left the foyer to go outside. Wed Jun 19 09:19:23 1996: Steal entered the foyer. Wed Jun 19 09:19:33 1996: Steal left the foyer to go into the paukarut. Wed Nov 12 19:56:43 1997: WizPop entered the foyer. Thu Nov 13 01:51:48 1997: Nightwol entered the foyer. Thu Nov 13 01:53:36 1997: Nightwol left the foyer to go into the paukarut. Thu Nov 13 06:31:39 1997: Kalaleq entered the foyer. Thu Nov 13 06:32:45 1997: Kalaleq left the foyer to go outside. Thu Nov 13 06:37:54 1997: Kalaleq entered the foyer. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- wizpop is my friend jeff - i mailed him about the fact that it was still there just last night, so it looks like he went to have a look. nightwol of course is steve... and i have no idea who steal might be. >me. Finding your notes in the "Box H.A.P." in Jazzmyne's Java Joint >this morning, Kalaleq, I felt rather like Robinson Crusoe finding Man >Friday's footprints! i can imagine! i almost felt jumpy wandering around... like i was going to stir up something scary or at least ancient... when i came across soot in the ecto room i had horrible visions of finding some dusty, maggot-infested mummified cat-corpse... ewwwwww. i `started' her just to break the illusion. :) >If anybody would like to meet up there, I can connect between 5am and >2pm EST on weekdays and would love to have a brief chat sometime. well, i may just fiddle around there in the mornings for a while now (and i'm in the EST time zone these days...) since i often wonder what to do with myself at that time anyway, if laur has classes - all my work currently still involves phoning people in vancouver, where morning doesn't start until after 11am here. >Nightwol's Perch is on Block 100 of West Ecto Avenue. and kalaleq's paukarut is in the 200 block... don't mind the nose. :) - -damon Damon Harper des Jumeaux _/\_ "God goes up the chimney damon@pobox.com __\ /_ like childhood Santa Claus" Laur & Damon: jumeaux@pobox.com \ / - Joni Mitchell, "Don't http://pobox.com/~jumeaux/damon/ |/||\| Interrupt the Sorrow" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 15:10:00 +0000 (GMT) From: nightwol@dircon.co.uk (Steve Fagg) Subject: Re: ecto ghost town! jgreshes@netaxs.com wrote: > It was down for a long time and saved to disk/tape. I don't know how, but > it looks like I'm on some tinycwru announcment list and I got an email a > few days ago that it was back. Checked in and everything's still > there...even had some local-to-tinycwru email sitting in my account. Looks like I was lucky! I never noticed it was down - whenever I ran through my links and tried the old chaco.com address TinyCWRU seemed still to be there. Looks like I'm on the same announcement list as Jason: I never signed up for it, but my Email address was listed in my character description so I guess they picked it up from there. It's good to see that the MUSH as a whole is enjoying a longer active lifetime than the Ecto area managed. TTFN Steve n.p. Britten: Piano Concerto n.r. Nothing (need a break after Keri Hulme's "The Bone People"!) - -- Steve Fagg (nightwol@dircon.co.uk) http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/1313/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 15:35:24 +0000 (GMT) From: nightwol@dircon.co.uk (Steve Fagg) Subject: Re: ecto ghost town! Damon des Jumeaux wrote: > i'll bet i can answer this puzzle - we all had EMAIL attributes on our > characters. so, they collect the lot of them from all players and do a big > ol' mass mailing. Yeah! That's bound to be the answer. > and has been for a *long* long time, it would seem, or at least my paukarut > isn't a terribly popular spot... there's a big eye in my foyer that records > all comings and goings... and it's been open (recording) since the last > time i was there: Ooh! I didn't know I was being recorded - reminds me of the security cameras they seem to have everywhere around town IRL these days. > Thu Nov 13 01:51:48 1997: Nightwol entered the foyer. > Thu Nov 13 01:53:36 1997: Nightwol left the foyer to go into the paukarut. From whence I proceeded to New York City and got stuck in Times Square... Damon's implementation of the plot of "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" is a little spooky! :-) > i can imagine! i almost felt jumpy wandering around... like i was going to > stir up something scary or at least ancient... when i came across soot in > the ecto room i had horrible visions of finding some dusty, maggot-infested > mummified cat-corpse... ewwwwww. i `started' her just to break the > illusion. :) I've become rather comfortable strolling about the deserted streets and buildings - it feels rather like some kind of "Last Man Left on Earth" SF scenario. A village-sized virtual Marie Celeste! I imagine everywhere covered in a layer of semi-obscuring dust and wrapped in a ghostly silence broken only by my own muffled footsteps and the ocasional sound of a door opening or a long-disused machine, powered (like the CD player in Nightwol's Perch which endless plays the last record selected) by some unimaginably long-lasting power-source, being awoken from slumber. Even deserted, I find the MUSH conveys a powerful sense of reality that stimulates my imagination! Anyway... Enough rambling! TTFN Steve n.p. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 n.r. Nothing (need a break after Keri Hulme's "The Bone People"!) - -- Steve Fagg (nightwol@dircon.co.uk) http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/1313/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:18:28 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: The Changelings this Saturday A Changelings date. In Atlanta. - --Neile >Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 22:19:37 -0500 (EST) >X-Sender: nomad3@pop.mindspring.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: smoothie@ix.netcom.com >From: nomad@catgoddess.com (NomaD) >Subject: The Changelings this Saturday > >Send down your dreams into the void.. > >The Changelings will be playing the "Exquisite Corpse" art exhibition >opening this Saturday, Nov. 15th at Urban Nirvana. Doors open at 7:00pm. >The performances begin at 8:00 with Dance, Music & Poetry in the spirit of >the descent into Winter. >The Changelings play at 9:00. >Refreshments & munchies will doubtless be available. >A door donation for the performances is requested. > >Come feast on pomegranates. > >Christine Sibley's Urban Nirvana: 404 688-3329 >{on the corner of Wadell & Delalb Ave.} >Directions: >* Take 85 to exit 95 (Butler) > Lt. Edgewood. (go 11 blocks) > Rt. Wadell > U.N. is on the Left.. Park on the Street. > >OR >* Take Ponce De Leon to Bouelvard(southbound) > Lt. Edgewood > Rt. Wadell > U.N. is on the Left. Park on the Street > > > >Sleep to forget - > Dream to remember. > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:48:47 -0500 From: "Kenn" Subject: Party Papers (was re: Janis Ian) Joyce wrote: > What exactly is a "party paper?" Is there an official gay and lesbian > political party in the US (as in, Democrat, Republican, etc), and this > is their newspaper? If not, what do you mean by "party?" Oh, wow... As far as I know, there isn't any kind of official gay and/or lesbian political party in the U.S. Of course, I'm not really in the loop. I mean... I'm gay, but I don't involve myself with the gay politico circuit. I'm on the fringe, I think. It's kind of funny, though, that you conjured up the image that you did. Truthfully, I wish that a party paper was something as intellectually or socially redeeming as the picture you've imagined. :^) No... HX stands for "Homo-Extra." Basically, this little weekly rag is just a compendium of gay and lesbian nightclubs and bars and what particular parties they are throwing on any given day. Mixed in with those listings are two or three "news" articles, several pages of personal ads and a veritable bounty of classified ads (i.e., erotic massages, escorts, etc.). Gay politics are sometimes discussed in the "news" articles, but that's as close as they usually get to being anything more than a guide to good times. :^) Peace. Kenn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:28:25 -0600 (CST) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 1997 HAPPY GIFT PROJECT The contributors' copies of the 1997 Happy Birthday Project tapes are duplicated, and wending their way through the mail stream. And now it's time to start on the companion compilation for this year, the 1997 Happy Gift Project. This post is to invite you to participate. As veterans of this list know, and many newcomers might not, the Happy Gift and Birthday Projects are a series of compilation tapes that we on ecto put together, more or less semiannually, for Happy and for one another. The Birthday Project is assembled in honor of Happy's birthday on August 9th; the Gift Project is for the holiday season. Happy gets a copy of each, of course, and has remarked in the past about how much she enjoys them; each of the contributors also gets a copy, and noncontributing ectophiles are elegible to order copies. It is easy to participate in the making of this, the sixth anniversary edition of the HGP. What you need to do is dub one or more musical selections of your choice onto a 100-minute audio cassette, preferably with a spoken introduction, and snailmail it, along with another 100-minute cassette, to me. I then assemble the contributed materials into the final tape, send a copy to Happy, and then dub the contribtors' copies onto the tapes they send me, which they subsequently get back. Confused yet? :-) Your contribution can be any musical or spoken word material. Original performances/compositions are especially encouraged, but stuff that has already appeared on record is most welcome as well. (You should not, needless to say, contribute any of Happy's own recordings--coals to Newcastle and all that. But covers of Happy's songs that you perform yourself are fine.) Multiple selections are allowed. The total of all your selections, and spoken introductory material, should not exceed ten minutes in length--at least not significantly. I have sometimes accepted longer contributions; please consult me if you have something of the sort in mind. In addition to your "official" contribution, you may send along as much additional material as you like, to be used at my sole discretion to ensure that the compilation fills up both cassettes. While spoken introductions that you record yourself are very much preferred, we realize that not everyone is equipped to do that. So you also have the option of sending me a prepared text along with your tapes, for me to read on the final mix. The cassette with your contribution, the second blank cassette, the intro text for me to read (if applicable), and return postage should be snailmailed to me at this address: Mitch Pravatiner 8025 S. Oglesby Ave. Chicago, IL 60617-1134 USA In order to maximize the chances of getting the finished product into the mail (express or otherwise) to Bearsville in time for Happy to actually get it by Christmas morning, you should send your contributions in time for them to reach me by December 15. You can expect periodic posts to the list from me in the weeks to come, nagging you all about this :-). The going rate for return postage is $2 in the United States, and $4 US in other countries. If this is a hardship, let me know and we'll see what we can work out. The past several compilations have been very fine assortments of music, I have high hopes for this one. Some people expressed a desire to contribute to the '97 Birthday Project, but ultimately were unable to for various reasons. They are especially encouraged to try again this time. So--let's all get the ball rolling, and make this a musically merry Christmas for Happy. Feel free to email me with any questions. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:33:43 -0800 From: Brian Bloom Subject: Re: ecto ghost town! At 03:35 PM 11/13/97 +0000, Steve Fagg wrote: >Damon des Jumeaux wrote: >> i'll bet i can answer this puzzle - we all had EMAIL attributes on our >> characters. so, they collect the lot of them from all players and do a big >> ol' mass mailing. > >Yeah! That's bound to be the answer. Heh, Well, I just logged on and *amazingly* I still remembered my password. And the email address for my character is like 4 providers ago! So that would explain why I haven't gotten any of it.. ;) Yup, looks pretty deserted, but the bar seems to be in pretty good shape. 8) *moo* br!an ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 01:30:45 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Bur Subject: watch out for Lili Fatale! there's a new Montreal band called Lili Fatale - first album just released on Sony Music, first concert just happened this evening, first single now playing on MusiquePlus. They are something like a mix of Mylene Farmer, Autour de Lucie, and Jean Leloup. Singer Nathalie Courchesne has a good voice and overflowing energy and a very engaging stage presence; the guitarist Richard Valmont Binette and bassist Martin Beaulieu also sing backing vocals which really blend well with Nathalie. There were two additional musicians on stage, another guitarist and a beautifully relaxed and fluid (female) drummer. The music is sung in French with parts in English; it's very upbeat, with the irresistible sense of motion that Mylene Farmer has in many of her songs. There are bits of techno, ska, and anything else danceable mixed in. Oh yes, and the cd sleeve was done in bright red by the right graphic designer for the music. web site www.lilifatale.com (I haven't looked at it yet). the concert is repeated tonight, 14 November at 20:30 at the Lion d'or, Ontario at Papineau, Montreal; opening for the deliriously crazy Belgians of Sttellla! CA$12.50 incl tax. justin ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V3 #72 *************************