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ecto-digest            Friday, May 1 1998            Volume 04 : Number 135



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Today's your birthday, friend...                 [Mike Matthews <matthewm>]
  MOVING: New address                    [DanStarkDS <Carnivore@bigfoot.com>]
  Columbus, OH, ecto                                      [mbittner@juno.com]
  Re: Columbus, OH, ecto                            [Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>]
  Re: new guy...                                [FoghornJ <FoghornJ@aol.com>]
  dave matthews band                               [00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu]
  Tori concert-anybody taping it ?                  [MRL220 <MRL220@aol.com>]
  wpkn                                             [woj spice <woj@smoe.org>]
  Calling all Vancouver-ites... (sorry for the cross-post)  [Lawrence Kim <l]
  Jonatha news                                      [Paul2k <Paul2k@aol.com>]
  more Borders and Barnes and Noble stores to open!  [Riphug <Riphug@aol.com]
  Re: wpkn                             [Valerie Kraemer <valkraemer@igc.org>]
  Re: wpkn                           [Neal Copperman <elan@access.digex.net>]

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 03:00:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike Matthews <matthewm>
Subject: Today's your birthday, friend...

                                i*i*i*i*i*i
                                i*i*i*i*i*i
                              ***************
                            *****HAPPY*********
                      **************BIRTHDAY*********
            ***************************************************
 ***************************************************************************
 ******************** Geoff Parks (GTP10@cus.cam.ac.uk) ********************
 ***************************************************************************
 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

   Geoff Parks              Sun  April 30     1961     Taurus
   Barney Parker            Fri  May 02       1986     happy cat
   Gray Abbott              Tue  May 03       1955     Suprised
   Tamar Boursalian              May 03                Taurus
   Joe Dembski              Wed  May 07       1952     Rumple
   Richard A. Holmes             May 07                Taurus
   John Warren              Mon  May 08       1961     Taurus - the Ox
   Steve Ito                Fri  May 08       1970     DA Bull...
   Brian Gregory            Thu  May 09       1963     Eclectic
   Patrick Varker           Wed  May 12       1954     Torius
   Steve Fagg               Tue  May 13       1958     Nightwol
   Karel Zuiderveld         Fri  May 13       1960     Stier
   Miss Megan Celia Koster  Sun  May 14       1978     Taurus
   Michael Colford          Wed  May 16       1962     Taurus
   Christopher Boek         Tue  May 19       1970     Taurus
   Yngve Hauge              Fri  May 21       1971     Gemini
   Lisa Laane               Tue  May 22       1973     Gemini
   Jewel Kilcher            Thu  May 23       1974     The Gem
   Chandra Sriram           Thu  May 27       1971     Gemini

- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 03:23:47 -0400
From: DanStarkDS <Carnivore@bigfoot.com>
Subject: MOVING: New address

Hi folks,

Just a quick note to tell you I am moving this weekend, from Windsor,
Ontario where I have lived for the past 2.5 years to Toronto, about 4 hours
up the road.  If you have me in your e-mail address book, please note that
I will soon be closing my MNSi account.  I haven't picked out a new ISP in
Toronto yet, but the Bigfoot address I am writing from is a forwarding
service, and will redirect mail to wherever I am.  So, please use
Carnivore@bigfoot.com if you would like to reach me.

Thanks!
Dan

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 04:38:54 -0500
From: mbittner@juno.com
Subject: Columbus, OH, ecto

Anybody in the Columbus area know of any ecto-ish happenings 11 and 12
May?  I'll be in town on business and have those nights free.  TIA!


Matt Bittner

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 07:42:57 EDT
From: Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Columbus, OH, ecto

In a message dated 4/30/98 5:48:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mbittner@juno.com
writes:

<< Anybody in the Columbus area know of any ecto-ish happenings 11 and 12
 May?  I'll be in town on business and have those nights free.  TIA! >>

The only thing I could find is a Jules Shear appearance at a place called
Little Brother's in Columbus, Matt.  I'm just down the road (an hour and a
half drive), so I can try to find out more information if you're
interested.......

Jill :D

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 10:14:03 EDT
From: FoghornJ <FoghornJ@aol.com>
Subject: Re: new guy...

To those of you in the southwestern CT area, if you are not already aware of
it I would suggest you tune your radios to WPKN 89.5 FM out of Bridgeport.
That's where I first heard Happy Rhodes, and a lot of other interesting stuff
to boot.

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 15:38:51 -0500 (EST)
From: 00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu
Subject: dave matthews band

hmm...

i've been a DMB fan for like 3-4 years or something, and have
seen nothing but continual improvement and diversity in their
songs.  the new album uses different instruments and arrangements
and are great. :) i think their lyrics are FAR more interesting
than some of the other bands being played today (need i give
examples? ;) and they are all *Great* players.  their live
concerts are AMAZING! probably the best that i've ever seen...
really.  not only that, but i admire them and give them a great
deal of credit for *loving* what they do and just getting up
there and putting on a kick-ass show because they're all
talented and love to play... as far as the singles that were
played on the radio, "crash" was *way* overplayed around here
and when UTTAD came out so was "ants marching," but, that's
okay because i'd rather listen to ants marching 100 times before
i listened to smash mouth or third eye blind once... (no offense)
but i try to avoid the radio :)

didn't expect to see this thread here! ;)

jonatha tomorrow! kick ass! :)

jessica

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:49:23 EDT
From: MRL220 <MRL220@aol.com>
Subject: Tori concert-anybody taping it ?

HI:

I can't be around to tape the concert but am wondering if someone is taping it
and will make me a copy if I sent them two tapes.  Marty

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:04:10 -0400
From: woj spice <woj@smoe.org>
Subject: wpkn

also sprach FoghornJ:

>To those of you in the southwestern CT area, if you are not already aware of
>it I would suggest you tune your radios to WPKN 89.5 FM out of Bridgeport.
>That's where I first heard Happy Rhodes, and a lot of other interesting stuff
>to boot.

a-yup. there is (or was) at least two wpkn deejays subscribed to ecto at
some point in time: valerie kramer (still here?) and cliff furnald (now
unsubbed). friday nights are particularly ectophilic: from 6:30 to
nominally 7:00, kathy i-forget-her-last-name plays a wide variety of music
mostly by women. then, after he makes it in from the hinterlands, ray
terlaga does a fantastic show until 10:00pm, featuring a weekly aids news
round-up and skies over bridgeport, a summary of astronomical happenings
for the coming week. plus, ray has the coolest voice in radio!

i think binnie klein is sans show these days, but subs occasionally -- also
quite ectophilic.

speaking of wpkn, merrie amsterberg, who is playing in stamford this
saturday with barbara kessler, will be making an appearance on the air
earlier in the afternoon at 1pm. woo hoo!

woj

n.p. mila drumke -- illinois

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:18:42 -0500
From: Lawrence Kim <ljk1@cec.wustl.edu>
Subject: Calling all Vancouver-ites... (sorry for the cross-post)

I have just received word that ethereal singer Kristy Thirsk (formerly of the group Rose Chronicles, singer on the last two Delerium albums) has a new demo CD out.

I figure you Vancouver residents will probably hear the most news 'cos that's where she was last seen.

If anyone has any information, or could even get a hold of one, PLEASE e-mail me!!!

Thanks in advance,
Lawrence

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Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 00:02:34 EDT
From: Paul2k <Paul2k@aol.com>
Subject: Jonatha news

According to the latest Billboard magazine, Jonatha Brooke and MCA have split
up...according to the article, jonatha's manager felt that MCA didn't back up
the release of _10 cent wings_ and didn't give her the support she should have
had for the album and her touring.  *sigh*  that's three labels in 4 albums...

i think that's it for now

Paul "utinni" Kim

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:57:30 EDT
From: Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>
Subject: more Borders and Barnes and Noble stores to open!

From Publisher's Weekly:

<<Borders to Open More Stores, Warehouse, But Not Web Site--Yet

Borders Group expects to spend $160 million on capital expenditures
in the current fiscal year, the bookstore chain said in a filing with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. The funds will go toward
opening 43 superstores, including three international stores, as well
as eight new Waldenbook outlets. During the year, the company will
continue to open some larger mall stores that range in size from 5000
to 8000 square feet and carry between 30,000 and 40,000 titles. By
comparison, traditional Walden outlets average 3300 square feet and
have 15,000 to 25,000 titles. Of the 904 Walden outlets, 101 are the
larger format stores.

Also Borders said that during the year it will open a new state-of-the-
art fulfillment center in Nashville, Tenn. The facility will be able to stock
more than 700,000 book, video and music titles. Borders said the new
center will help support orders placed through its Web site as well as
provide delivery services for special, institutional and call center
orders.

Regarding Internet commerce, Borders said borders.com will open
for business some time in 1998 and offer books, videos and music.
Borders has postponed the site's opening several times now. >>

Oh, yeah.......I'm goin' to Nashville to get me some music!  ;-)
And in other news:

<<Barnes & Noble Expands Virtually and in the Real World

In other Web bookselling news, BarnesandNoble.com announced
that its distribution center now stocks 600,000 titles from more than
30,000 publishers. All titles can be shipped within 24 hours.

The company said that it has expanded its inventory of small-press
and university-press titles so much that it has, for example, more
than 900 titles from Louisiana State University Press, more than 500
from the University of Michigan Press, 23 from MacMurray & Beck,
52 from Steerforth and more than 900 from Blackwell Science.

B&N vice-chairman Steve Riggio commented: "In a little over a year,
we have achieved our goal of providing visitors to our site with the
largest number of book titles that can be quickly delivered of any
online bookseller."

In other B&N news, the company announced it is opening three more
superstores in the next few months in New Jersey, Massachusetts
and Texas.

Two of the stores will be standard-issue superstores, offering
175,000 book titles, 20,000 music CDs and cassettes and coffee, tea
and more. These stores will be in Deptford, N.J., just south of
Camden and Philadelphia, and Irving, Tex., a Dallas suburb.

The 25,700-sq.-ft. Deptford store, which is at 1553 Almonesson
Road, opens in May. The 25,000-sq.-ft. Irving store, located in the
Irving Mall, opens in September.

In September, B&N will also open a superstore in Watertower Plaza
in Leominster, Mass., about 50 miles northwest of Boston. The
20,000-sq.-ft. store will stock some 150,000 book titles and have
a coffee bar but will not sell music. >>  [blasphemy!!!]

Jill :D
on top of things once again

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:09:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Valerie Kraemer <valkraemer@igc.org>
Subject: Re: wpkn

To respond to Woj's recent discussion of WPKN and some of its ecto-inclined
programmers:

I'm still actively lurking in ecto-land, although I prefer to use the words
"absorbing" or "appreciating" rather than "lurking." I haven't had much to
add since I haven't bought a new CD in more than six months (horror of
horrors), and I haven't been to see any significant live music since I ran
into a bunch of you at the Ingrid Karklins concert in Middletown, CT, last
year. I almost went to see Susan McKeown last week, but I wimped out when
torrents of rain started falling.

The last name of Kathy "I-forget-her-last-name" is "DeMino," although she
rarely uses her complete name on the air. Binnie Klein has a regular monthly
show on the second Saturday of the month from 6:00-10:00 p.m. And finally,
Ray Terlaga not only has the coolest voice in radio but also one of the
coolest minds to match it. He will be the person interviewing Merrie
Amsterberg this coming Saturday at 1:00 p.m., although this is not his usual
time-slot.

Now that I've briefly delurked, I should use this opportunity to ask the
ecto crew their recommendations for the one new CD a person should buy if
they haven't bought any new music for the better part of a year.
Hmmmmmmmm??? Maybe I'll actually go music shopping this coming weekend.

- --Valerie Kraemer

  
At 10:04 PM 4/30/98 -0400, woj spice wrote:
>also sprach FoghornJ:
>
>>To those of you in the southwestern CT area, if you are not already aware of
>>it I would suggest you tune your radios to WPKN 89.5 FM out of Bridgeport.
>>That's where I first heard Happy Rhodes, and a lot of other interesting stuff
>>to boot.
>
>a-yup. there is (or was) at least two wpkn deejays subscribed to ecto at
>some point in time: valerie kramer (still here?) and cliff furnald (now
>unsubbed). friday nights are particularly ectophilic: from 6:30 to
>nominally 7:00, kathy i-forget-her-last-name plays a wide variety of music
>mostly by women. then, after he makes it in from the hinterlands, ray
>terlaga does a fantastic show until 10:00pm, featuring a weekly aids news
>round-up and skies over bridgeport, a summary of astronomical happenings
>for the coming week. plus, ray has the coolest voice in radio!
>
>i think binnie klein is sans show these days, but subs occasionally -- also
>quite ectophilic.
>
>speaking of wpkn, merrie amsterberg, who is playing in stamford this
>saturday with barbara kessler, will be making an appearance on the air
>earlier in the afternoon at 1pm. woo hoo!
>
>woj
>
>n.p. mila drumke -- illinois
>
>

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Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 01:17:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Neal Copperman <elan@access.digex.net>
Subject: Re: wpkn

On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Valerie Kraemer wrote:

> Now that I've briefly delurked, I should use this opportunity to ask the
> ecto crew their recommendations for the one new CD a person should buy if
> they haven't bought any new music for the better part of a year.
> Hmmmmmmmm??? Maybe I'll actually go music shopping this coming weekend.

Well, since this is ecto, and if this one new CD is going to be the only
one you get this year, perhaps you should wait a while longer and buy the
new Happy disc?

(If you didn't get Ingrid's Red Hand at the show in CT, then I'd pick that
one.)

Neal

np: Blue Rapture Live!

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