From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V5 #248 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, July 25 1999 Volume 05 : Number 248 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Woodstock 3 and summer of sam? [dmw ] Notice: Rare Avengers items on ebay! [Neile Graham ] Re: The Blair Witch Project (tiny, minor spoiler) [Joseph Zitt ] Re: Cowboy Junkies and Amazon.com [Joseph Zitt ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:00:10 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: Woodstock 3 and summer of sam? On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Mark Miazga wrote: > > let me play the devil's advocate here..................has anyone complained > > that there are no male groups at lilth fair????? > > Well, I have, and I've heard many others do so. I think that after the first > year, Sarah didn't need to make Lilith Fair an all-female thing. Her point had um. didn't we just get through the argument about how many male musicians vs. female musicians were actually on stage at lillith last time round? not to mention where the money went. the people who put these things together -- this is not a slam at the musicians themselves, mind you, nor necessarily even the promotions folks -- are going to do so to maximize market share. you could less cynically phrase it as "attempt to please the broadest possible audience," maybe, but i doubt i'll ever be called "less cynical." but the bottom line is i think there are intrinsic market forces driving these things which are going to tend to make them less than satisfying for a bunch of discriminating music lovers like us. - -- d. n.p. new order _brotherhood_ - - www.fecklessbeast.com aug 5th velvet lounge FECKLINE 202-452-5594 - - "seventeen!" cried the humbug, always first with the wrong answer. - - oh no!! you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net dmw@mwmw.com - - get yr pathos:www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 14:50:28 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Notice: Rare Avengers items on ebay! From Penelope Houston's email list, just in case anyone here is interested in these. - --Neile n.p. Shirley Collins and Davy Graham, _Folk Roots, New Routes_ (just reissued) >Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:32:06 -0700 >From: Phuzz >Reply-To: phous@earthlink.net >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: penelope >Subject: Notice: Rare Avengers items on ebay! >X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > >Dear friends and fans, > >Just thought you might like to know about some auctions of rare Avengers >items on ebay: > >Here is a mint condition (probably never played) orange vinyl Avengers >LP on CD Presents from 1983. It's signed by me and Greg Ingraham and is >from a small stash he's had for years: > >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=135410797 > >And even rarer is this 1977 7" vinyl Avengers single on Dangerhouse >records: > >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=135413827 > >Anyone can bid on ebay. It's fun and these are being sold by a friend so >you don't have to worry about being ripped off. > > >Good luck! >Penelope >http://penelope.net/ >PS If you don't want to receive these messages, please email me to be >taken off this list! Thanks. > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 23:12:30 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: The Blair Witch Project (tiny, minor spoiler) On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:35:26AM -0500, There is no spoon wrote: > Tee hee hee! Wanna go caaaaamping?? You > bring the marshmallows and I'll bring the camcorder. Wow, I guess I'm glad I procrastinated until *after* coming back from Rose Mountain to see it... - -- | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/~jzitt | | Latest Solo CD: Gentle Entropy http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 23:23:29 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: heh. such timing. On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:06:18PM -0400, Jeffrey Burka wrote: > So far, the only interesting tidbit I've heard is that it'll feature > a track by Neshama Carlebach (mentioned here once before by Philip > David Morgan, though I'm not sure anyone else would have noticed) Ooh... what I've heard of her I've liked. I have her track on the Jewish Alternative Movement compilation, and I vaguely remember having heard more of hers... n.p.: A minidisc of rain at Rose Mountain n.r.: Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear, Brandon LaBelle and Steve Roden, ed. - -- | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/~jzitt | | Latest Solo CD: Gentle Entropy http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 23:33:44 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Cowboy Junkies and Amazon.com On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 07:57:05AM -0700, Greg Jumper wrote: > This is my second order from Amazon, and I've had damaged items in > both (books that appear to have been dropped on a corner, etc.), > despite the impressively anal nature of their packaging. Is this > typical of Amazon? (I've had far better luck with CDnow.) Perhaps > I'd be better off going straight to the Cowboy Junkies for their CD? FWIW, I've ordered gobs of stuff from Amazon and never had a problem. - -- | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/~jzitt | | Latest Solo CD: Gentle Entropy http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V5 #248 **************************