From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #225 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, July 12 1998 Volume 04 : Number 225 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? ["Bill" ] Friend of Samson? ["Joanna M. Phillips" ] Imogen Heap's I Megaphone [Kyri ] Re: Friend of Samson? [Horter!!!! ] Re: Imogen Heap's I Megaphone [JavaHo@aol.com] Re: Indigo Girls (fwd) [Riphug@aol.com] Christmas in July [Riphug@aol.com] Imogen's delights for Veda's :) [Kyri ] the all-new ectophiles' guide :) [just plain damon ] Re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? [mbittner@juno.com] Seattle trip [mbittner@juno.com] Re: Susan McKeown (JC, and Happy!) [Neal Copperman ] Re: Susan McKeown (JC, and Happy!) [Michael Curry ] Re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? and New Ectophiles Guide [meredith ] Re: (re)discoveries [Riphug@aol.com] Re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? [Carolyn Andre ] Re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? [Riphug@aol.com] Mon night TV PBS [kerry white ] The music I bought at the beach [Riphug@aol.com] John Lennon Tribute Album [Riphug@aol.com] Re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? [charley darbo ] Re: The music [Jill] bought at the beach [Carolyn Andre ] Re: one more time: falcon ridge? [Bob Brown ] Re: one more time: falcon ridge? [meredith ] Re: The music [Jill] bought at the beach [Riphug@aol.com] House Concert: Rose Polenzani and Susan McKeown [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 23:15:26 -0700 From: "Bill" Subject: Re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? On 98/07/11, at 11:06 PM, Sharon Nichols wrote: >Samson Music is conjuring up 500 mousepads with a "Many Worlds" image. >Unfortunately, this item will be _exclusively_ for top level executives. >Happy would like to know if this is an item that you would be interested >in if it was added to her merchandise goodies. Please post your thoughts >on Ecto for everyone to read, and Happy will consider this endeavor if >there is enough interest. And only if. If only I used a mouse... But, I'd probably still buy one. - - Bill. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 03:08:13 -0400 From: "Joanna M. Phillips" Subject: Friend of Samson? I have tried *several* times to sign up to be a "friend of Samson Records". It always sends me a 501 Method Not Implemented error. :-( Is this due to the fact that I refuse to put my unlisted phone number in one of the blanks and also didn't fill in "online service"? I don't use an "online service", I use a local Internet service provider. Please, someone, tell me what I should do or whom I should write so I can sign up. Thanks ahead of time! fleur ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 03:49:39 -0400 From: Kyri Subject: Imogen Heap's I Megaphone Hi there fellow ectophiles... I was sure it wouldn't take long for you lot here to discover Imogen's music; it's only a week now that I've heard of her but her album is purely FANTAsTIC! she's certainly very like Tori (with massive bursts of Kate's mid-career dark sounds intermixed with Garbage's electronic music)..but Imogen combines it with trip-hop at times...*very* distorted sounds at other times...lots and lots of piano...weird lyrics. An example is Leave Me To Love (on 'Shine' single). The piano I'd swear is played by Tori..and in Father Lucifer type melody..but Imogen sings in a mostly distorted voice (when she's not screaming), guitars are *extremely* distorted (I'm not even sure they are guitars )..the whole effect is like Tori tearing out pieces of herself whilst singing The Dreaming tunes and playing happy tunes on her divine piano. Her website is: www.imogenheap.com Kyriacos ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 03:52:09 -0400 From: Horter!!!! Subject: Re: Friend of Samson? At 03:08 AM 7/12/98 -0400, Joanna M. Phillips wrote: >I have tried *several* times to sign up to be a "friend of Samson Records". >It always sends me a 501 Method Not Implemented error. :-( Is this due to >the fact that I refuse to put my unlisted phone number in one of the blanks >and also didn't fill in "online service"? I don't use an "online service", >I use a local Internet service provider. > >Please, someone, tell me what I should do or whom I should write so I can >sign up. Thanks ahead of time! I actually got the same exact thing several times, and I filled in all their little boxes. Oh well. Eventually they may get their full act together. Tom ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 08:07:53 EDT From: JavaHo@aol.com Subject: Re: Imogen Heap's I Megaphone Kyri nods: << I was sure it wouldn't take long for you lot here to discover Imogen's music; it's only a week now that I've heard of her but her album is purely FANTAsTIC! >> Well, as predicted, this CD has not left my changer. I probably let it cycle through 5 times yesterday at work. My oh my! I was trying to think of standout cuts. "Sweet Religion" certainly registered first, then "Candlelight"..."Rake It In"..."Useless"..."Oh Me, Oh My"... Oh hell...they all stand out now. I knew she would draw instant comparisons to widely varied artists. I don't know if I really make the Tori/Kate connection other than some wicked piano and some out-there songs. I've never heard Garbage (maybe I should???) so I can't make that connection. I think, for now, I'll stick with my original impression: Alanis (in the Fiona Apple range) meets Veda Hille with Sarah Slean on piano... npimh...intro to "Sweet Religion"....Java ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 08:26:25 EDT From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: Re: Indigo Girls (fwd) In a message dated 98-07-10 23:49:43 EDT, jzitt@humansystems.com writes: << Sherlyn Koo wrote: > > Amy Ray of Indigo Girls > > Emily Sailor of Indigo Girls > > Gail Ann Dorsey > > Lisa Germano > > Lourdes Perez > > Kate Schellenbach of Louscious Jackson > > Jane Siberry > > Jean Smith of Mecca Normal > > Josephine Wiggs of the Breeders > > Thalla Zedek of Come One of the venues listed for this tour is here in Cincinnati -- a little hole in the wall called Bogart's. I just can't imagine that all of these artists would be performing at each venue the same evening. I'd guess instead that they'll be rotating kind of like the Lilith Fair artists do. And, unfortunately for me, the night that they're scheduled to appear at Bogart's, I'll be in Kansas City seeing Tori Amos! :( Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 08:26:25 EDT From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: Christmas in July In a message dated 98-07-10 23:56:42 EDT, jzitt@humansystems.com writes: << Funny you should say that: I just picked up Jane's "Child" (not Jane Child) for $3 at Borders and have been listening to it somewhat repeatedly. July is about the only time that I can listen to Xmas music without wanting to defenestrate something...>> Don't you just love that album, Joe?! ;-) I was lucky enough to see Jane Siberry in concert last December and she performed several of the songs from "Child." She is one of my very favorite musical artists! Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:16:26 -0400 From: Kyri Subject: Imogen's delights for Veda's :) Hi there, is there anyone in the USA who wants to grab hold of Imogen's album 'I Megaphone'? Although it's seriously understocked in London I've ended up with two copies (one on order really) as I firstly ordered the album and then found it elsewhere. Basically I want to swap it for Veda Hille's 'Spine' as that's impossible to get in the UK (plus Veda is famously late in replying to order emails..it's a month now). Please email me on: kyrie@compuserve.com if interested. Kyri ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:16:14 -0700 From: just plain damon Subject: the all-new ectophiles' guide :) hi all! for the past week, i've been working rather furiously on a complete second-anniversary (well, approximately?) redesign of the ectophiles' guide web site. i've been thinking for a long time that the pages i originally designed (two years ago - wow) really didn't do justice to neile's project and the work she's put into it, so when i suddenly realised i was sitting around this summer with very little to do, i knew where to find a project :) the new guide is based around a cgi program which makes it a lot more versatile, especially in terms of navigation. i've taken a frames-without-the-frames (using tables) approach to said navigation, though i've made sure as i went that everything is navigable (if a little cluttered) in recent versions of lynx. jeff has been most accomodating, setting up the smoe.org web server so that i don't have to resort to ugly urls involving a cgi-bin directory, to which i've always had an aversion. so i was able to develop everything locally and then just slurp it on over to smoe with no hassles. thank you jeff! however, i am leaving tomorrow at 5am (down to dallas, texas (in the summer... ugh) for laur's jaw surgery) and won't be back for about two weeks. i'm the only person who's really tested the new guide, and it's possible something could cause it to have a seizure i didn't anticipate. also, i'd like to give neile time to familiarise herself with the administrative side of things - i'm certain she'll have no troubles, but again it's possible i didn't anticipate everything. the solution, i think, is to give the new guide a sort of beta-test all around. so i've put it up at http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/new/ - all ectophiles are encouraged to try it out - make sure everything works, and go ahead and try to confuse or break it - and report back to me with any comments (positive or negative), concerns, rants, problems, or things that make them go 'hunh?'. bear in mind, though, that i won't be able to reply to anything until about two weeks from now. please don't give out the url, as after the two weeks, if all goes well (i.e. when i come back there's still a new guide and not a big hole in the web, and i don't have an inbox full of death threats ;) we'll replace the old guide and open the new one up to the public. :) i must admit i'm quite pleased with the new guide - it's been a fun project and a learning experience, and i like to think the usefulness and attractiveness of the site have benefitted :) thanks to neile for coming up with the whole idea of the guide in the first place, not to mention pouring so much time into it over the past couple of years - and to jeff and smoe for giving the project a home! so... beta-test away! - -damon Damon Harper des Jumeaux _/\_ "Canadians lie awake at night damon@pobox.com __\ /__ worrying if there's a hyphen Les Jums: jumeaux@pobox.com \ / in anal retentive" http://pobox.com/~jumeaux/ |/||\| - Red Green ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:01:46 -0500 From: mbittner@juno.com Subject: Re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? Count me in. I think that would be great. Matt Bittner _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:02:40 -0500 From: mbittner@juno.com Subject: Seattle trip I'm still wondering if anybody knows of anything happening in Seattle - or places I should visit. I will be in town this Thursday night (the 16th) through the night of the 20th (Monday). Matt Bittner _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 11:23:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: Susan McKeown (JC, and Happy!) On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Michael Curry wrote: > I had expected that Jeff, Ofer and visiting ectophile Neal would all be > there, but I had not expected well-known ectophile Bob Brown to be in > attendance as well. Um, wasn't that Bob Lovejoy? The show was indeed a blast, particularly the neverending humor. Johnny Cunningham is hilarious! The rest of this post is about Happy's new album, so if you don't want to read comments or impressions about it, stop here. THere are no dramatic spoilers, but some details. Jeff and I listened to a tape of the new Happy disc (courtesy of Matt Bittner) on the ride down to Ofer's radio show,. It definitely builds off the Aural Gratification ambient albums, but making them more like traditional songs. The music is very dense and thick, and much darker than BtC (yay). My first impression, in the car, was quite favorable, though I felt that a lot of the electronic sounds already sounded a little bit old, and perhaps too heavily applied. Perhaps later I'll apreciate the complexity. Oh, and the title track was quite familiar when it went by. Jeff and I decided it must be what she'd been calling Jork at the live shows for a while. It's hard for me to imagine this is going to be the album that breaks happy though. It sounds less accesible than BtC (which is also a good thing in my book). Nice packaging too. (We saw the actual disc at the radio station. I think I've seen most of the pictures already at Sharon's web-site.) Neal np: Sam Phillips - Omnipop (what movie did she have a bit part in? I was trying to remember the other day.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 11:32:15 -0400 From: "Tom Ditto" Subject: re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads???? >Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 23:06:32 -0600 >From: Sharon Nichols >Subject: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? >Samson Music is conjuring up 500 mousepads with a "Many Worlds" image. >Unfortunately, this item will be _exclusively_ for top level executives. Grrrrr This is something I'd rather not know. Samson, let your hair grow. Remember your namesake. Find your real strength. I think Happy said it best, "It's the music." * Tom ditto@taconic.net "Do you copy? Over" * Tinker Street Cafe concert July 7, 1996 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 10:34:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Curry Subject: Re: Susan McKeown (JC, and Happy!) On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Neal Copperman wrote: > > I had expected that Jeff, Ofer and visiting ectophile Neal would all be > > there, but I had not expected well-known ectophile Bob Brown to be in > > attendance as well. > > Um, wasn't that Bob Lovejoy? Doh! How embarassing... please pardon my ecto-error. Mike np: Lunasa -- Lunasa nr: Lord of the Isles by David Drake | Michael Curry / mcurry@io.com / mcurry@smoe.org | | http://www.io.com/~mcurry | | Am I bitter? Do I sound bitter? -- Veda Hille | ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 13:07:52 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? and New Ectophiles Guide Hi! Sharon reported: >>Samson Music is conjuring up 500 mousepads with a "Many Worlds" image. >>Unfortunately, this item will be _exclusively_ for top level executives. And Paul replied: >Samson has 500 top level executives? Or are they planning on stacking the >mousepads like pancakes from the floor until they reach the desktop? Hah -- that's exactly what my first thought was!!! While I cringe at the thought of all this "Happy marketing", the idea is just silly enough for me to want one. :) The New Jersey Devils mousepad we got at the playoff game we attended this past season has turned out to be a piece of crap anyway, so we could use a new one. Oh, and while I'm here -- Damon, the new Ectophiles Guide site looks *great*!!! Looks like a lot of spring cleaning has been going on in the ecto web world lately. (Speaking of which, I need to get cracking on fixing the remaining things on the ectopages, I know, I know...) +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY: the Veda Hille mailing list *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 13:14:26 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: (re)discoveries Hi! mjm fonted: >3) Cranberries -- No Need to Argue (now playing) > Wow. This is just a great album. I never listened to it enough when >it first came out. > My favorite song is probably still Empty, but there are at least 5 >others that could be: Icicle Melts, 21, Yeat's Grave, etc. > Does anyone think any of their other albums are better?! (not sure if >I've heard them all) I think the only good album they've ever released is their first one, but I will admit that I bought the CD-single for "Salvation" because I really really liked the song, and the video messed up my dreams for days. :) >To be fair, before these 3 (re)enterred my consciousness, it was Patty >Griffin, Living with Ghosts for about 3 months. Absolutely stellar. Is >this her only release? She just released a new record called _Flaming Red_, which has been discussed quite a bit here in the past couple weeks (and especially the past couple of days). I haven't been able to bring myself to listen to it yet, since woj confirmed that she's still SCREAMING AT ME, but I'm sure I'll get into the right mood eventually. >It's amazing how I can subsist on just a very small number of CDs >(sometimes just 1) for a long stretches of time. Doesn't take much to keep >me entertained. I get that way too. For the past week pretty much all I've listened to is The Nields' _Mousse_ and Emily Bezar's _Moon In Grenadine_, because those are the two discs I've had in the car. I did listen to Susan James' new one once, but not enough to really form an opinion of it. We've just been getting too much stuff lately, there's no time to get to know anything. I'm sure Jill knows what I'm talking about. ;) Off to see Rose Polenzani and Susan McKeown -- whee! +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY: the Veda Hille mailing list *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 14:35:43 EDT From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: Re: (re)discoveries In a message dated 7/12/98 1:17:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, meth@smoe.org writes: << I did listen to Susan James' new one once, but not enough to really form an opinion of it. We've just been getting too much stuff lately, there's no time to get to know anything. I'm sure Jill knows what I'm talking about. ;) >> Oh,yes.....I most definitely do! I took a bunch of cds with me to the beach (we just got back) and listened to Shai nO Shai, Simply Red's "Blue", and a number of other great albums on the way down. Finallly! Then I made quite a haul at a used cd store at the beach (where I became instantaneously famous due to the large number of obscure cds i bought) and was able to listen to Neil Finn's "Try Whistling This," Paul McCartney's "Off the Ground," an album from Jude Cole from 1992, and others. One of my discoveries was an album from 1996 by a woman named Zoe Pollock (although she seems to just go by her first name). Have any of you heard of her? And now to play catch-up before I leave again this Thursday for Delware. Going to see Jennifer Kimball and Deanna Kirk at the Tin Angel in Philly. If any of you will be there, I'd love to meet you! I'll also be attending Lilith Fair in CamdenNJ, and in Columbia, MD (Saturday only). Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 13:55:08 -0500 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? Sharon reported: >>Samson Music is conjuring up 500 mousepads with a "Many Worlds" image. >>Unfortunately, this item will be _exclusively_ for top level executives. being slightly confused here: seems to me that a record label is looking for visibility with the media market which may give the recording airplay. Music directors at radio stations don't sound like _top level executives_ to me ... djs at community/college/etc. radio stations don't sound like _top level executives_ to me ... plus, I figure Samson must already have an arrangement with a distributor - so they can't be targeting _top level executives_ at distributors ... oh -now I've got it! _top level executives_ at retail chains like Tower and HMV!! ... er, thinking about it, tho - don't _top level executives_ use a lot of those pocket pilot things or laptops while travelling nowadays?? (er, mouse pad goes where, exactly???) ... oh, well, guess that marketing degree is about 20 years too old .. there must be a new strategy nowadays. I'm sure there *are* meaningful & significant _top level executives_ who will eagerly use a Happy mousepad -- and understand its point!!! ... Now all that needs to be done is insert into each mousepad one of those mini-audio chips that plays a selection from the CD when the mouse passes over certain locations in the pad ... back to some web work on my 2 desktops using my 2 mousepads of Melissa Etheridge and my cat (well, one of those changeable ones soon due for a concert photo of Susan McKeown at the Fleadh) ... Regards, Carolyn Andre - ------------------- Chicago, IL / USA | Support Independent Music! Use the Internet candre@enteract.com | Carolyn's House of Music: http://house-of-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 15:03:22 EDT From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: Re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? I guess I would order a mousepad just to help out Happy. Right now I'm using my Sheeba records/Jane Siberry mousepad (yes, I *accidentally misplaced* my kids' Lion King mousepad). My marketing degree is 21 years old, too, Carolyn, and I agree that there must be a better premium or way to get Happy's name out in the marketplace. But I guess mousepads are cheap and a reasonable way to start. Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 16:40:25 -0500 (CDT) From: kerry white Subject: Mon night TV PBS Hi, Evening at Pops Mary Chapin Carpenter/Michael Moschen. I will be taping this for the Michael Moschen. (If you ever saw Moschen In Motion, you'd know why.) CYLL KrW Help wanted? Inquire within KrW "Animals without backbones hid from each other or fell over." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 18:41:14 EDT From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: The music I bought at the beach Barenaked Ladies - "Stunt"......I love these guys! Hope this album doesn't put them further into the mainstream. Tiddas - "Sing About Life"......An Australian friend of mine told me about Tiddas -- ear-pleasing three-part female harmony, which reminds me of Rebecca Campbell's a capella group Three Sheets to the Wind. Tanita Tikaram - "Everybody's Angel".....whoops! I already had it! Anyone want to buy/trade for this second copy? Kennedy Rose - "Hai Ku".......I haven't listened to this yet, but recall liking what I had heard from this female duo on Women Live at Mountain Stage. Everything But the Girl - eponymous......Where *was* I in 1984 when this was released? This is more jazzy-poppish than later albums, but I like it. Red House Painters - eponymous.....I was surprised at how *dark* this album is. Maybe I was thinking of someone else...... Zoe (Pollock) - "Hammer"......Worth a listen, but she won't become one of my favorites. Jude Cole - "Start the Car".....I've already decided who I'll give this one to. Not really my taste. Mila Mason - "That's Enough of That".....I haven't played this one yet.....all I know is that she's Canadian country and I've heard her on some soundtrack or compilation I have (the name of which eludes me right now). Tanita Tikaram - "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness".....I definitely didn't have this one already and hasn't had a chance to listen to this yet. How many albums *does* Tanita have? Garrison Starr - "Eighteen Over Me"......Not bad, but nothing special. Just one of those singers who sounds like she's yelling instead of singing....even on the slow, soft songs. The Housemartins - "The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death".....How could anyone *not* like these wacky guys? Even my husband thought they sounded a lot like BNL. I'm glad I've ordered their latest release! Sun60 - "Headjoy".....Haven't heard this yet, either, but I liked "Only" and their self-titled albums, so hope this will be all right, too. Tim Finn - "Before & After"......I'm afraid I'm going to be passing this one along. Neil is definitely the better half of the Finn Brothers. Wild Colonials - "Fruit of Life"......I had to buy this because someone hasn't returned my copy and I love this group. Angela McCluskey's raspy voice always gets to me! Paul McCartney - "Off the Ground".....Produced in 1993; I guess I was too busy being a new mommy to have heard any of the songs off of this album. I always like Paul. And FYI.....This month's Q magazine includes a Summer Festivals '98 sampler (which I haven't listened to yet); here's the track listing: 1. Primal Scream - Movin' On Up 2. Blur - Song 2 3. New Order - Temptation 4. Garbage - Push It 5. Space (with Cerys of Catatonia) - The Ballad of Tom Jones 6. Pulp - This is Hardcore 7. The Charlatans - The Only One I Know 8. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Bombin' The L 9. Robbie Williams - Let Me Entertain You 10. Cornershop - Brimful of Asha 11. Ian Brown - Cropses In Their Mouths 12. Spiritualized - Broken Heart 13. Bentley Rhythm Ace - Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out! Doesn't really sound very ectophilic, but I thought I'd pass along the information anyway. Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:05:23 EDT From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: John Lennon Tribute Album This was posted to harbinger, but the poster didn't name her source: <> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 16:10:43 -0700 (PDT) From: charley darbo Subject: Re: Happy Rhodes Mousepads??? - ---Riphug@aol.com wrote: > > I guess I would order a mousepad just to help out Happy. Right now I'm using > my Sheeba records/Jane Siberry mousepad (yes, I *accidentally misplaced* my > kids' Lion King mousepad). > > My marketing degree is 21 years old, too, Carolyn, and I agree that there must > be a better premium or way to get Happy's name out in the marketplace. But I > guess mousepads are cheap and a reasonable way to start. > > Jill :D Well. Like anything else, you get what you pay for. The mousepads my partner and I sell as NicePad,Man, Inc. cost us--in runs of 5,000--almost $10 apiece. And we have to sell them for $11.95. It'll be a while till we show black. To be fair, we decided not to skimp on quality. Our pads have comics images on them, and we hoped to tap into the comics-collector crowd, so the printing is the highest art-reproduction quality. And the other materials, too, are of the highest quality we could find. I've seen some giveaway mousepads, though, of a much, mush lesser quality; I even have one that's printed on cardboard. They called a mousepad when they gave it to us, but it is _not_ a mousepad. Let's hope Samson decides to invest something in these things and make them worth keeping on all those top level executives' desks for a while. If not, they run the risk of putting money into something that only an Ectophile could love. If they're cheaply made, only established Happy fans will want one. If they have some practical value, they'll have, I would think, a great deal more promotional value as well. - --charley _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:52:33 -0500 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Re: The music [Jill] bought at the beach >Tiddas - "Sing About Life"......An Australian friend of mine told me about >Tiddas -- >ear-pleasing three-part female harmony, which reminds me of Rebecca Campbell's >a capella group Three Sheets to the Wind. I was quite taken with their music back in '95 or '96 when I saw them open for Billy Bragg and then had a second chance to catch them at an 'instore' in Borders the next day. Yes, their voices do blend together well - and those native percussion claves & such add a nice touch. Do any of our members from Oz have more info on what they're doing lately?? >Wild Colonials - "Fruit of Life"......I had to buy this because someone hasn't >returned my copy and I love this group. Angela McCluskey's raspy voice always >gets to me! hey - yes, great group. again - are they still together?? I recall them coming thru Chicago maybe last year, but I didn't get down to see them. Angela's sense of humor live is great as well! Regards, Carolyn Andre - ------------------- Chicago, IL / USA | Support Independent Music! Use the Internet candre@enteract.com | Carolyn's House of Music: http://house-of-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 21:26:30 -0400 From: Bob Brown Subject: Re: Susan McKeown On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Neal Copperman wrote: > >> I had expected that Jeff, Ofer and visiting ectophile Neal would all be >> there, but I had not expected well-known ectophile Bob Brown to be in >> attendance as well. > >Um, wasn't that Bob Lovejoy? > >The show was indeed a blast, particularly the neverending humor. Johnny >Cunningham is hilarious! > Nope.... not Lovejoy, but indeed it was I, Bob Brown. Good to see you guys there! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 21:38:43 -0400 From: Bob Brown Subject: Re: one more time: falcon ridge? At 08:27 PM 7/8/98 -0400, Meredith wrote: >Hi! > >Okay, so the date is looming ... just who is going to the Falcon Ridge Folk >Festival, anyway??? Don't be shy - despite what Paul2K may say, we're not >*that* scary. :) > >woj and I are getting 3-day camping passes, but we may not end up getting >there until Saturday anyway (depends on what happens). > Myself, John Senft, and others are staking out our plot of land (NieldsNook) on Thursday evening as we usually do. You and woj and anyone else that would like to join us are more than welcome. If you're interested in camping in our area drop me an email and I'll try to describe where we've been putting down the last few years. BTW... Meredith, I was surprised I didn't see you Friday night for Susan M. Mike's description of the show was great... I loved it. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 22:04:18 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: one more time: falcon ridge? Hi! Bob Brown (woj and I already slapped Neal and Jeff for leading Mike astray on who you really are, btw ;) posted: >BTW... Meredith, I was surprised I didn't see you Friday night for Susan M. > Mike's description of the show was great... I loved it. We would have been there, but instead we were in New York City at the Church of St. Paul The Apostle seeing Sequentia's performance of Hildegard von Bingen's _Ordo Virtutum_, as part of this year's Lincoln Center Festival. As much as I would have liked to experience the insanity that was Johnny Cunningham and Susan McKeown, I think I picked the best alternative possible. :) Sequentia is a Medieval music ensemble based in Cologne, which over the past several years has dedicated itself to recording the complete extant works of the 12th century abbess and visionary Hildegard von Bingen. Their goal has been to complete the project in time for the 900th anniversary of Hildegard's birth, this fall. They've managed to do quite well for themselves with this, too: the album _Canticles of Ecstasy_ was one of the best-selling classical albums a couple years back. The culmination of this project is the full staging of the _Ordo Virtutum_ ("Play of the Virtues"), which was Germany's first "morality play" and is widely regarded to be the first opera, if one wants to apply that form to this work. The story is quite simple: the Soul (Anima) is tempted by and eventually led away by the Devil (Diabolus), but is brought back through the gates of Heaven by the intercession of the Virtues, who then bind the Devil and cast him back into Gehenna. With the exception of Diabolus, who was played by the male director of the ensemble and whose lines are shouted, all of the parts are sung by women. I can't find the words to describe just how beautiful Medieval modal vocal music is when sung in an acoustically friendly space by ten women with sublime voices; I'm sure those of you who are familiar with the music of the period know what I'm talking about. I spent most of that hour and a half with tears in my eyes. It was, quite literally, stunning. +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY: the Veda Hille mailing list *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 22:14:41 EDT From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: Re: The music [Jill] bought at the beach In a message dated 7/12/98 8:57:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, candre@enteract.com writes: << hey - yes, great group. again - are they still together?? I recall them coming thru Chicago maybe last year, but I didn't get down to see them. Angela's sense of humor live is great as well! >> From the Wild Colonials' website at http://www.geffen.com/wildcolonials/: <> Goody! Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 22:18:38 -0400 From: meredith Subject: House Concert: Rose Polenzani and Susan McKeown Hi! This afternoon woj and I met Mike Curry, JeffW, and Neal at Tom Neff's house in Lyme, CT to eat way too much really good pastry (courtesy of Sloan Wainwright's bakery) and listen to two wonderful performances in his shed. Rose Polenzani played first, followed by Susan McKeown. I've heard quite a bit about Rose Polenzani in the past couple months, both here and on the Nields list, but I'd never heard a note of her music before today. I liked her set quite a bit, and I'll pick up her CD if I run across it once it comes out next week. Her voice reminded me of Edie Brickell, though her music was pretty straight-ahead intelligent acoustic folk. She seemed to be existing on a planet entirely her own, but that might just have been a function of the elimination of the distance between audience and performer when there's no amplification and you're all sitting in a really small room. After a short break Susan began her set. She was accompanied by compatriot Amon O'Leary, who played bouzouki and guitar. They started off with a couple standbys from _Bones_ ("Jericho" and "Ce-Leis E?"), then moved to a few from _Bushes And Briars_; the ubiquitous Rosie Wall song "Daddy's Little Girl" (a very different, subdued version from the accordion-laced song I'm used to); a couple from the _Peter And Wendy_ soundtrack; and a couple traditional tunes I'd never heard Susan do before. Erin McKeown, who had shown up to surprise her friend Rose and her cousin Susan joined in on "Albatross", playing guitar and trying to sing backup, the former done a bit more successfully than the latter, but it was still good. :) I was continually amazed by how wonderful Susan's voice is -- that's crystal clear normally, but it's underscored when there's no mic and she's still filling the room and then some. I think there were several people there who had never heard Susan's music before, and I daresay she won over some new fans, as usual. After hanging about a bit the ecto contingent went to a local restaurant recommended to us by Tom's wife for dinner, and then we each went our separate ways for home. It was good to see you, Neal! Hopefully we'll run into one another again before you head for the great Southwest. +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY: the Veda Hille mailing list *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #225 **************************