From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V3 #98 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, December 9 1997 Volume 03 : Number 098 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [matthewm (Mike Matthews)] [none] [Michael Colford ] One week to go ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] The Ma is out there and other stories ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] Top 5 ecto-ey cds [jason and jill ] Re: Jane Siberry in NYC 12/4 [Paul Blair ] Re: Top 5 ecto-ey cds [Joseph Zitt ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 03:00:15 -0500 From: matthewm (Mike Matthews) Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************* Ken Hoyme (hoyme@src.honeywell.com) ******************* ************** Michele Wellck (mwellck@alumni.stanford.org) *************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ken Hoyme Sun December 08 1957 Sagittarius Michele Wellck December 08 Sagittarius Jeremy J. Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius Renee Canada Tue December 13 1977 Sagittarius Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti Sat December 15 1956 Sagittarius Damon Harper Tue December 16 1975 Sagittarius Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Milla Wed December 17 1975 Sagittarius Chris Schernwetter Tue December 17 1974 Sagittarius Sherry Haddock Sat December 17 1960 Sagittarius Tracy Benbrook Tue December 18 1973 Sagittarius Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Joseph Wasicek Sat December 25 1976 Brown Eagle Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here Marvin Camras Sat January 01 1916 Tapehead Jeanne Schreiter Tue January 03 1967 Capricorn John Sandoval Wed January 04 1967 Capricorn Paul Cohen Tue January 05 1954 Capricorn Tony Garrity Mon January 08 1962 Pool of Life - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 07:51:28 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Colford Subject: [none] Just a quick note to say that I saw the Jane Siberry show in Boston on Friday night and have to report that it was brilliant. It was my 10th Siberry show, and ranks near the top. (Nothing can beat the first Speckless Sky show and the Walking tour shows that I saw.) The set has pretty much been reported as has the band. I have to say that back-up singer, Marlon Saunder was really amazing, (as was the rest of the band.) There are few male vocalists whose voices move me as much as his did. (The late Manny -last name eludes me at the moment- of the short-lived Boston band, The Walkers is another.) All the band was really top notch, and the audience was really responsive as well. I was really thrilled to hear Jane perform _Slow Tango_ as I'd never heard that live before. Really chilling, it moved me to tears (the first of several moments of the show.) Deana Kirk was enjoyable as well. She reminded me of Paul Cole (physically) and Holly Cole (vocally). See this show if you are a Jane fan and have a chance! Michael P.S. Any other ecto members/siblings at the Boston show? I was looking around trying to identify people without having ever seen them! - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Colford | Reading Public Library Head of Technical Services | Reading, Massachusetts colford@noblenet.org | *North of Boston Library Exchange* - -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 18:40:03 -0600 (CST) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: One week to go I have gotten emails from a few people, detailing what they are going to contribute to the '97 Happy Gift Project. It all sounds really good. It will all sound really better when it is augmented by your contributions. Act fast--The deadline is Monday, December 15, which is exactly one week from today. On the off chance that anyone actually still needs to receive this information _de novo_, the particuilars on how to prepare and send a contribution to the Project are reproduced below. So cross my palm with Oxide real soon, and make this year's tape worthy of the celebration of Happy's new lavbel, and the Project's sixth anniversary. Mitch - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:28:25 -0600 (CST) From: Mitchell A. Pravatiner To: ecto@smoe.org 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: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 18:52:32 -0600 (CST) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: The Ma is out there and other stories Vickie is still very much around, and will be glad to hear of the encomia recently given her in these pages. She and Chris still haven't fully offloaded their worldly goods after moving to a new apartment (partly on the bus, with my help) in September. Her puter is sick right now, and the mail is piling up in her shell account. I'm sure she would love to hear from you if you want to call or write (snailmail of course); email me if you want her new address/number. Last Friday I went to a campus screening of _When The Cat's Away_ (a marvelous film in its own right); before the show they were playing some ectophilic-type music that was so good, I felt constrained to ask what it was. Turned out it was another independent singer-songwriter with her own label. Her name is Lisa Cannon, and she is from Los Angeles. Her website has audio samples, among other things: http://www.cannongate.com . Browsing in a downtown department store today, I happened across a display of Clinique Happy at a perfume counter. I'm not what a 1.7 ounce bottle gives you for your money, which comes out to well over $30. It seems to have hardly any discernable aroma. It is too bad that Happy probably lacks any cogent grounds to sue for misappropriation of her name. Surely, our redoubtable hypothetical Happy fragrance, Eau de Drears, cannot help but smell better :-). Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:22:59 -0500 (EST) From: Neal Copperman Subject: More Jane On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Michael Colford wrote: > Just a quick note to say that I saw the Jane Siberry show in Boston > on Friday night and have to report that it was brilliant. It was > my 10th Siberry show, and ranks near the top. (Nothing can beat the > first Speckless Sky show and the Walking tour shows that I saw.) > The set has pretty much been reported as has the band. It's nice that while the shows are similar, there is also some variety between them too. We did not get Slow Tango in Annapolis. > I have to say > that back-up singer, Marlon Saunder was really amazing, (as was the > rest of the band.) There are few male vocalists whose voices move > me as much as his did. Marlon's mom was in the audience for the show here. Mid-show, Jane asked where she was. When she was finally found, stuck sort of off to the side, Jane was quite disappointed that she had such a terrible view of her son. After a few seconds of that, two women directly in front of the stage got up and offered their tables to his mom and her friend. So they had front row center seats for his big solo song. Now that's something I don't recall ever seeing at a show before. Neal np: Peter Gabriel - So ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:36:15 -0500 (EST) From: jason and jill Subject: Top 5 ecto-ey cds I just finished listening to Hounds of Love for the first time in a couple of years (my wife had been hiding the goddamn thing) and I forgot just how good it was. Started me thinking on what were the ecto-ey top 5, excepting anything by Happy herself (in which case some of the members of the list would be discussing only which five of her cds to include and what order to put them in. ;) ) The list I came up with was: 1) Kate Bush: Hounds of love 2) Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes 3) Peter Gabriel: 4th album (Security) 4) Sarah: FTE 5) Cocteau Twins: Treasure Anyone else? Jason ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:21:40 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: Re: Jane Siberry in NYC 12/4 Neal Copperman wrote about Deana Kirk: >I liked Deana a lot. ... I thought the style was a little >too samey, but was mostly compelling in her detailed, descriptive songs. >I was completely baffled by a song where she seemed to be singing "I'll >take the Casbah" repeatedly in the chorus. I agree--both about the style and that "Casbah" was how I heard it too. Shareeef might like it? - --Paul ***************************************************************************** "Let her out? But she's a killer!" "No she's not. And give her your coat." SINED "Why me?" "Because you're perfect." Paul Blair "You have a point there..." psfblair@ix.netcom.com ***************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 00:52:50 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Top 5 ecto-ey cds jason and jill wrote: > The list I came up with was: > > 1) Kate Bush: Hounds of love > 2) Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes > 3) Peter Gabriel: 4th album (Security) > 4) Sarah: FTE > 5) Cocteau Twins: Treasure I would probably choose Gabriel 3 or "So". I might also choose: 1) Ingrid Karklins: Anima Mundi (haven't heard "Red Hand" yet) 2) Jane Siberry: When I was a Boy 3) David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust 4) Toy Matinee: Toy Matinee 5) Dead Can Dance: uh, I'm blanking on album names. n.r. "Meredith Monk" (Deborah Jowitt, ed) n.p. Various Artists, "Ancient Russian Liturgy" - -- - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \|| |/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \| ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V3 #98 *************************