From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #152 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, June 1 2001 Volume 07 : Number 152 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide ["The Ectophiles' Guide" ] Cowboy Junkies "Open" WOW! [ABershaw@aol.com] OT: I really hate $cientology! [WretchAwry ] Re: Jonatha Brooke opener: Sarina Simoom [Andrew Fries Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** *************** Urs Stafford (Urs.Stafford@natlib.govt.nz) **************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Urs Stafford Thu May 31 1973 Give Way Perttu Yli-Krekola Thu June 02 1966 Kaksoset Alex Gibbs Thu June 08 1967 Betelgeuse Gleb Zverev Tue June 09 1964 Gemini Sonja Juchniewich Mon June 10 1963 Pegasus Joerg Plate Mon June 12 1967 Gemini Chris Montville Tue June 13 1978 Gemini Ectoplasm (original name) Mailing List Thu June 13 1991 Fuzzier blue Paul Huesman Wed June 14 1967 coffee drinker Mark R. Susskind Wed June 15 1966 Gemini Mike Matthews Mon June 16 1969 Sr. SAFH Albert Philipsen Mon June 17 1968 Gemini Neal R. Copperman Thu June 17 1965 Gemini Susan Kay Anderson Tue June 17 1969 Gemini Ecto-The Mailing List Tue June 18 1991 Fuzzy blue Tracy Barber Mon June 18 1956 Gemini Greg Dunn Thu June 18 1953 + Paul Blair Thu June 18 1964 Objectivist Mike Connell Sat June 18 1955 Apollo David Lubkin Fri June 20 1958 OurLady Marisa Wood Fri June 20 1969 Gemini Cheri Villines Sun June 20 1965 Gemini-Leo rising Ray Misra Sat June 20 1970 Gemini Nik Popa Sun June 22 1969 Cancer Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Ethan Straffin Thu June 24 1971 Cancer Kevin Dekan Mon June 27 1960 Cancer Samantha Tanner Tue June 30 1970 Wild Goose - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 04:16:36 -0700 From: "The Ectophiles' Guide" Subject: Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide Latest changes to the Ectophiles' Guide 27 May 2001 New Guide entries added for: * Life in the Garden Changes made to the entries for: * Merrie Amsterburg (new album) * Cindy Lee Berryhill (additional comments) * The Januaries (additional comments) * Kathleen Yearwood (new album) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this email because you have asked to be notified of updates to the Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music at http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/. If you are no longer interested in receiving these notifications, please unsubscribe yourself using the form at http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/guide.cgi?newsubscribe&action=unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:32:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Xenus Sister Subject: UK music lovers, there's a particular gem on eBay Hi, VM here, my Eudora has crashed and burned and until I figure out what's wrong (and because I'm fighting switching to Outlook with every fiber of my being), this will do for now. Folks in the UK (or those willing to pay postage from the UK to elsewhere) who are interested in Anne Pigalle should run, not walk, over to ebay and plug her name into the search. I do that every now and then because I'm still looking for some of her more obscure singles. What I found, and what you'll find, is someone who obviously doesn't realize what a rare gem he has, a CD of Anne's "Everything Could Be So Perfect" which, besides being rare, is a wonderful and beautiful thing to listen to. If nothing else, it's worth having just for the songs "Intermission (the Gods Are Bored)" and "The 1000 Colours Waltz" though all the songs are pretty good. Have fun! If nobody bids on it by the time the auction is over, I'll get it just to give it a good home, since he obviously doesn't want it! I do that a lot with Happy. If someone's selling a Happy CD, and *no one* bids on it, I'll often buy it just to give it away to someone who might appreciate it. Vickie (Still searching...in vain?...for a soundtrack to The Bride With White Hair) Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:07:43 -0400 From: Tom Masapollo Subject: Grey Eye Glances Quick Review Hello.... I attended the free Grey Eye Glances concert in Haddon Heights Park last night. Patti Shea opened for them. GEG were great! They did some old songs and some brand new ones. At the end of the concert, when they introduce each band member, each member does a solo act with a cover song that included the Turtles "Happy Together" and Jennifer sang Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll" for her solo. GEG played for over an hour in the delightful setting of the natural park. It was a good concert. later, tom m. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:34:06 EDT From: ABershaw@aol.com Subject: Cowboy Junkies "Open" WOW! I think the new Cowboy Junkies album "Open" is the best work they've ever done. I've listened to it a few dozen times now so its no rash decision. I'm very familiar with all their albums and this is the only one where I'm still getting more blown away with every listen. They finally capture the live dynamics they've tended to lack on many studio recordings. This is definitely not a quiet mellow album. Michael Timmins writing has never been consistently stronger and his guitar playing is out of this world on many tracks. There's an ominous quality to most of this material and some of it is very loud and dense with Margo's vocals blending into the arrangements and then surfacing to dramatic effect. The entire band has never sounded so inspired on a studio recording. And I must add its technically an astounding recording. Sit back, close your eyes (unless you're reading the lyric book, which you'll eventually be compelled to do) and play it LOUD. You'll be transported. ;-) I'm way into too many tracks to mention or I'll be here all night typing with my one finger... but I will single out "Thousand Year Prayer," which is a Millennium-inspired song, and unlike anything else on the album. It has got to be the most beautiful song this band has ever recorded. Texturally delicious! A taste of the first verse lyric: Here we are at the end of the-century-of-beauty-lost We greedily ate what you gave us, the rest we tossed We've trapped all your rivers, paved every pass. pulled at your sky til we caused it to rip But you've got Jimi Hendrix so let's call it an even split Very honorable mention goes to Karen Bergquist's harmony vocals and Linford Detweiler's sensitive piano. These two Over The Rhine members add a lot to this album, but are especially great on this tune. Ditto to Jeff Bird, who's electric mandolin and various instrumental seasoning is all over these songs. They're swinging through North America again and I'm sure looking forward to hearing all this material live. Alan NP: "Sleepy Little Sailor" - Oh Susanna (This has been in heavy rotation lately. If you liked her before, you'll probably love this most recent album. I've enjoyed all her past releases, but they all had a demo-like feel to them. Although that has been part of her charm, Suzie U takes everything up a big notch on this and does it quite successfully, imo. ) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:37:52 -0500 (CDT) From: WretchAwry Subject: OT: I really hate $cientology! This is about as off-topic as could be, but really, can you imagine, getting arrested, standing trial, being convicted, fleeing the country, then being arrested again by a *SWAT* team, just for a POSTING in Usenet making fun of Tom Cruise and scientology? Of course there's more to it, but the more you know, the more your jaw will be on the floor, disbelieving that all this could actually be happening to this decent man, who has a conscience and a sense of humor, things that are alien (pun intended) to the "church." In one instance, the prosecutor presented the jury with words that were clearly threatening and were indeed posted by Henson. However, the jury was not told that Henson was repeating a WELL-KNOWN QUOTE FROM L. RON HUBBARD to make a point! The jury was not shown the entire post, let alone the entire thread, that prompted the charges. The jury didn't even know that the "religious" group in question was scientology. It just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Read more about this case at http://freehenson.da.ru and http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/17/0238223&mode=thread (more general info about the cult can be found at http://www.xenu.net or Karen's own page at http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/) Thanks to Mitch for passing this along to me. V - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 04:37:58 +0200 From: Karin Spaink To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net Subject: Scientology critic arrested by Canadian SWAT team The American Scientology critic Keith Henson was arrested on Monday 28 in Toronto by a heavily armed Canadian SWAT team on suspicion of terrorism and on the actual charge of not having informed Canadian immigration that he was a wanted fellon upon entering the country. There are three "minor problems" with this. One is that Henson is not a terrorist. Another is that he is not a fellon. The third is that he was not wanted at the time the entered Canada, last week. Henson's case is probably the most amazing and most outrageous internet-related legal case ever. In a thread on alt.religion.scientology on how "Cruise missiles" could be used to destroy scientology - an obvious reference to the persistent rumours about Tom Cruise's (lack of) virility - Henson wrote that "modern weapons are accurate to a matter of a few tens of yards". That's all he said. Based on this statement, the so-called "church" of scientology brought charges against Henson, claiming that he was interfering with the practice of a religion by threats of using deadly violence against its members. Henson was actually prosecuted on this absurd change, in the district court of Riverside county, a county that is in the grip of scientology. Not only was Henson prosecuted; during the trial, which the Register labelled "a true kangaroo court affair" the jury was not allowed to read the entire posting on which the charge was based. Judge Wallerstein ruled that the posting in its entirety was irrelevant and inadmissible and only allowed the jury to read the "incriminating" parts of Henson's posting out of context. Henson was found guilty of "interfering with a religion", which under California law is a misdemeanor. A few days before he was sentenced, while in Toronto and having little faith left in the US legal system, he decided to request political asylum in Canada. After Henson announced that he was requesting asylum, judge Wallerstein sentenced him to 200 days in jail and five years probation, the terms of which include random and unannounced searches of his person, home and car. Taste this for a moment: 200 days in jail and five years of random unannounced searches of his home for a Usenet posting poking fun at Tom Cruise's virility. It was presumably machinations of scientology that led to the arrest of Henson in Toronto, and it might be understandable that the Canadian authorities overreacted when faced with the allegation that a dangerous terrorist was on the lose. However, in the three days that have elapsed, these misunderstandings must have been cleared. Therefore, the prosecutor's motion to the court tomorrow will reflect one of two things: either a request for Henson's release based on the factual circumstances, or a request for his further detention based on political pressure from the cult and the US. Mesdames, monsieurs, faites vos jeux. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19071.html http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/17/0238223&mode=thread http://freehenson.da.ru - - K - - -- [Creationists] prove that evolution is not a condition which affects everyone equally. - Mykel Board, in Mykel's Column for MRR 213 # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net - -- Cyberculture@zacha.org http://www.zacha.org/mailman/listinfo/cyberculture http://www.cyberculture.zacha.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 15:52:59 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Jonatha Brooke opener: Sarina Simoom On Sat 26 May 2001 Jessica Byers wrote: > after seeing that post about emm gryner opening for jonatha brooke, i > had to tell you that the denver band SARINA SIMOOM is opening for > jonatha brooke on june 7th at the bluebird theater in denver. i've > mentioned them a few times before here, and i'm not sure if anyone > paid attention since i hardly ever post and nobody knows who i am. > but if you are going to that show anyway, or thinking about it, > please do pay attention to the opener. they're amazing. i havent > seen them with their new bass player, but the singer/songwriter, > jenna herbt, is pretty phenomenal and they are certainly very > ecto-ish. kate bush-ish vocals. tight band. dark. > > you can check them out at > http://www.velveteenrecords.com/html/body_sarina_simoom.html > or > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000053F8Z/qid%3D974963179/102-39 1497 > 5-3729732 It took me a while to get around to checking this one, but I'm glad I eventually did. I don't really have an opinion about them yet - I'm just going by the short real audio snippets found on that amazon.com page. But even they are enough to get me interested, and to add "Thread Bone Bare" to my list of items to order. I'd love to see them play, if only I lived a tad closer to Denver :) If you want to check them out, that amazon.com page is probably your best bet at this point, it looks like they registered a domain, but the site is still to be developed. I hope it will appear soon, and when it does, it will contain some mp3s... - ---------------------------------------------------- 'The trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.' -- Paul Ginsparg - ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #152 **************************