Errors-To: owner-ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #222 ecto, Number 222 Wednesday, 22 April 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* high high high I wonder.... Wim Mertens Cool-i-o stuff birthdays Names and Birthdays Poem: Sun/Moon Forwarded mail... Fluff (tm) Modigliani Made Easy and other picture postcards catalogs, cds we bee Files and Servers and Nodes Oh My Ellen James Society ======================================================================== Subject: high high high From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 00:30:57 GMT OK, let me try the new address. Goodbye to Athos. You've done a great job, storing and sending out all those messages! Mitch brought up the lyrics of "Hoch soll er leben...", and Steve replied: > That's what you get for your elementary education--a song that > doesn't fit the tune unless you really bend it, and doesn't > mention one's Geburtstag at all. "Drei mal hoch?" Three times > as long as what? If we put the birthday celebrant's name in after > "Drei mal hoch" then we get the nicely recursive sentiment "Long > should you live, long should you live, three times as long as > yourself." First, and I think Mitch mentioned that, it is not a song specific for birthdays, but to celebrate a person at any kind of celebration. We could all start chanting "Hoch soll sie leben ..." when Happy releases her next album, or when Vickie reappears on these pages, er, screens. I don't know of any translation of "jemanden hoch leben lassen" which would give it the correct meaning, but there are expressions in the english language which point into the right direction. What about "high spirits" of "high life"? Wouldn't that be something to wish at a celebration? To put this discussion into a Happy direction: maybe we should rewrite "boomdidiwanahaihaihaihai" to "boomdidiwanahighhighhigh" to get the "hoch hoch hoch" and add yet another interpretation to this song. Greg wrote: > hmm, my liver was a bit high last night, after a couple of pints of > Guiness -- guess that makes me just a double, then... ??? You can get Guiness in Boston and you didn't tell me when I was there? It's my favourite beer! :) Mitch, I don't think a lot of people will read the HR Fan Club sandwich board when it has so much text (in small print to fit on the board). :) Chip: > Alles touristen and Non-Technischen Lookens Peepers! Where did you get *that* from! 8-) I've seen a couple of versions of this, but this is a bit different. Thanks, Barry, for sharing the two Tori Amos articles! Chip, in his party report: > experience in itself!). Those of you unfamiliar with Wuppertal are probably > wondering what the heck the Schwebebahn is. Well, it is the Wuppertal mode > of public transportation. It is a train system, but far from normal. You I would like to add that this is not a new way of public transport. It was build in 1898! Most of the route it is going over the river Wupper. > "band", as described in these pages by Albert, was nicht so gut. Albert > looked cute with the toilet paper in his ears. It almost looked as if he > were trying to stuff joints in his ears unsuccessfully. The It's a pity we didn't take a picture. ;) He was surely feeding his parasites. ;) Good night, Klaus. _____ Klaus "cosmic vagabond" Kluge oh these little earthquakes klaus@inphobos.w.open.de doesn't take much to RIP us into pieces ======================================================================== Subject: I wonder.... Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 21:36:05 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu All this talk about transport in Wuppertal has started me wondering if the people who came up with the theming for the Big Bad Wolf, a suspended roller coaster (one that hangs below the track) at Busch Gardens The Old Country knew about the Schwebebahn. The first half of the Big Bad Wolf has the trains careening mere inches from a mock-up of a Bavarian village. Which leads me to ask if that ol' Ecto synchronicity is applicable to yet more things: any other coaster freaks out there on the list? Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Show what you are / Be strong, be true | | | Time for you to / Be who you are." | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | --Happy Rhodes | ======================================================================== Subject: Wim Mertens Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 21:40:55 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu This question is actually mostly to Justin, but is somewhat applicable to Ecto, by the HGP vector... There's a commercial currently getting lots of airtime for some perfume or cologne or some other such smelly product called Incognito (no, _not_ Terra Incognito...;-). It seems that this commercial usually comes on when I'm either sewing or doing some other such activity because of which I'm not looking at the screen. _But_, I always end up looking up because the music sounds like a piece by Wim Mertens. It's really a great song, and at the end of the commercial a couple of female voices are added to instrumentation--the voices sound very similar to those in "The Fosse" on the HGP. So, my questions are: have any of you who happen to know Mertens' stuff seeen this, is it in fact Mertens, and if so, what's the piece from? I want it! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jeff (who finally got his Loreena McKennitt and Sarah McLachlan CDs back from his father and sister, respectively, and is in celtic heaven) |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Show what you are / Be strong, be true | | | Time for you to / Be who you are." | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | --Happy Rhodes | ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 9:33:10 MET DST From: Albert Philipsen Subject: Cool-i-o stuff hi ! Last Monday, I wrote: > Next, I'd like to compliment Diamanda Galas. She's the only singer > so far who can give me a soar throat. Yeah, right! It really sounds like there are some (cut?) throats soaring around at times on _You must be certain of the devil_. Great stuff! Klaus writes: > Chip, in his party report: > > "band", as described in these pages by Albert, was nicht so gut. Albert > > looked cute with the toilet paper in his ears. It almost looked as if he > > were trying to stuff joints in his ears unsuccessfully. The > It's a pity we didn't take a picture. ;) > He was surely feeding his parasites. ;) I'm glad to inform you that they aren't deaf yet! :-) > Klaus "cosmic vagabond" Kluge oh these little earthquakes > klaus@inphobos.w.open.de doesn't take much to RIP us into pieces What a wonderfully appropriate signature! How do you come up with them? :-) Well, I'm off to send some money to Happy. I wouldn't want to miss the first pressing, of course. Albert ++ `this isn't justice, this is revenge.' :: Happy Rhodes ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1992 08:43:36 EDT From: eperry@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: birthdays HAPPY BIRTHDAY Angelos!! Klaus, thanks for posting your birthday list and for keeping track of the new ones! Beth ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 15:13:12 MED From: brage@id.dth.dk (Jens P. Brage) Subject: Names and Birthdays Doug writes: > Happy Birthday, Harry!! Best wishes for a fuzzy blue year ahead. It's also > great to have another Ectophile reach my age!! :) And (a somewhat late) happy birthday from this ecto outpost... Also, best wishes to Angelos! > [ns1!? What unimaginative computer nerd named _that_ computer!? :) A Happy > Rhodes mailing list needs a better name to send its mail to! Maybe we should > ask Happy what name she would like such a computer to have and start a > campaign at Rutgers to rename 'ns1' that! :) :) ] Huh? When we chose vilya, nenya and narya for the first workstations in our research group, our colleauges considered *us* nerds! The situation didn't improve when we chose anor, osgiliath and ithil for the next set... :-) (If you don't remember these names, perhaps knowing that the owner of ithil does *not* like the "morgul" alias may help... :-)) As for an alias for ns1, how about: DawnBreak WrongCentury (Ok, a bit long, but one of my favorites!) Funnyfarm (Accurate? ;-)) Legend (Fitting!) Emortal Parasites (Probably not a good choice! ;-)) Jens P. Brage (jpb@id.dth.dk)| Between those in constant power and those in Design Automation Group |constant pain. Between those who run to glory Center of Integrated Electronics|and those who cannot run. Tell me, which ones Technical University of Denmark |are the cripples and which ones touch the sky? ======================================================================== From: Jeanne B Schreiter Subject: Poem: Sun/Moon Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 9:13:34 CDT Forwarded message: ======================================================================== From: tj@CS.UCLA.EDU (Tom Johnson) Subject: Forwarded mail... Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 9:37:04 PDT Jeanne B Schreiter blathers on: >From shark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Tue Apr 21 06:54:54 1992 From: Jeanne B Schreiter Message-Id: <9204211354.AA16875@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> Subject: To: tj@CS.UCLA.EDU (Tom Johnson) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 8:54:48 CDT When the sun set low into mother earth, the sky grew a pale blue, then red, then orange, the a darker navy blue...and the moon, so white in the clouds, rises to greet the blackness White upon black, black upon white. Each sits on each others back they are sisters and brothers Waiting for the rest of the world to come together. - JB Schreiter ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 08:26:25 MDT From: dbx@ventana.atmos.colostate.edu (Doug Burks) Subject: Fluff (tm) Greetings, [Hey! The birthdays are coming fast and furious!] Have a wonderfully WARM (as in beautiful gorgeous spring weather type warm) FUZZY (but not too much in your celebrating) BLUE (as in crystal clear sky blue) HAPPY (as in Rhodes, of course) BIRTHDAY, ANGELOS!! May the parasites in your ears never get old!! :) Some minor news on the tape dubbing front. Vickie asked me to replace two of the tapes. On the World Cafe interview tape, she replaced "SiG Junk" with the five Barlett/Rhodes demos. On the tape of her live Suspended in Gaffa, she simply put the music on, eliminating the show itself. All further tapes I dub will be from these, so those who ordered right away now have collector items. :) As for Vickie herself, I will simply second Mitch's advice that if you feel like writing a regular letter or calling her, I think she would appreciate it very much. Doug Burks _O_ dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu |< She really is!! ======================================================================== Date: 22 April 1992 11:55:47 CDT From: Subject: Modigliani Made Easy and other picture postcards Yesterday, I took the afternoon off from ecto-reading and writing to go to the Art Institute. While there, I looked up some books pertaining to the Ital- ian painter-sculptor Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920), to get the lowdown on what the _Philadelphia Inquirer_ story on Happy, as well as the _Chicago Sun-Times_ story on Andrea Marcovicci (cf. my April 15 posting on this topic), were driving at when they likened these women to Modigliani paintings. It turns out that many, though not all, of Modigliani's works feature people with some- what long, narrow faces, not unlike the vocalists in question. One of the paintings even looked--to me, at least--a little like Happy _per se_. Perhaps it would be well suited for use as the cover art for her next album. _In re_ the current brouhaha over what else to call the ns1 machine: the sheer elegance of Angelos' proof the other day that "ns" is not that far off from "hr" makes we wonder why we can't just call it "hr1." This is, after all, the same designation given to the first bill introduced in each session of the U.S. House of Representatives. (Wards weren't made for cowards, and all that :-).) In the alternate, I recall the pseudonyms once used by the restaur- ant critics for _Chicago_ magazine: Athos, archy, and Barnabus Barph. I think that ecto@archy.rutgers.edu, or even ecto@barnabus-barph.rutgers.edu, would fit in well with the laundry list of existing machine names that Jessica threw out at us. (The former option could come back to haunt us if a thread pertaining to The Roches were ever to emerge in these pages, but in this world nothing is assured anyway :-).) ***OR:*** While looking up some past email just now, I happened to notice that one note was relayed through the machine talcott.harv- ard.edu, presumably named in commemoration of the legendary Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons (who was not, contrary to urban legend, the role model for my writing style :-) ). We could honor the arguably most famous sociologist now on the Rutgers faculty, Irving Louis Horowitz, by adopting the moniker ecto@irving.rutgers.edu (maybe even get some attention that way from the man himself, possibly leading to some ink in _Society_ magazine, which he publishes on campus). Or possibly ecto@ozzie.rutgers.edu, after Rutgers' arguably most famous graduate, the occupationally ambiguous (at least on his '50s TV sitcom) Ozzie Nelson. There may actually be a rational nexus (albeit attenuated, but then what isn't in my typical system of logic :-) ) in the latter to what we're actually about, in that some of the surviving specimens of his show include commrcials featuring Happy Hotpoint, as played by Mother Rhodes' old friend Mary Tyler Moore. Back to earth: Meredith writes: >Mitch returns from the watery depths that are Chicago You'll all be happy to learn, I'm sure, that the water is _slowly_ being pumped out from under the loop, though things are likely to remain bollixed, in numerous ways, for some time to come. As fate would have it, I saw a comm- ercial for Crystal Light drink powder on TV the other night, which uses Enya's "Orinoco Flow" as a jingle. It occurred to me that that redoubtable little ditty lends itself ideally to use by documentarians with a sense of perverse irony, as background music for shots of saturated subbasements, seepage through crumbling tunnel walls, the spot where the river spirals downward through the hole in the bottom, etc. (Where is the late, great _NBC News Overnight_ now that we need it? :-) ) _In re_ Klaus' comments on German songs of encomium: to translate "jeman- den hoch leben lassen" as "let someone live high" may be less than 100% idiom- atic, but it sort of hangs together logically. Perhaps we should anoint Miller High Life as the official beer of ecto; if lagers can be dyed green at watering holes everywhere on St. Patrick's day, surely we can dye them blue with no greater effect on the flavor. My laid-back approach to ordering tapes of ecto-related stuff was force- fully brought home to me today by the news that the original forms of certain WXPN interview and SiG tapes will no longer be available. I predict that my grief reaction will be to try to look up the birthday of Marvin Camras, the father of magnetic recording, without whose inventions not even the _revised_ versions of these things (or much else of interest) would be available; and submit it to the administrators of the birthday list for consideration. Speaking of which, happy birthday to Angelos. Happy Earth Day to you. Mitch Pravatiner ______________________________________________ Waiting on my slumber They rest upon my pane My tiny acid friends Clinging to my rain And when I lift my shade They quietly fall through And soon dissolve my wall [...] We have the ozone hole So keep me company And when the sun comes We will be history --an environmental cautionary tale, shamelessly ripped off from Someone We All Know (if Angelos can try his hand at parody, so can I :-) ) ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 15:04:40 EDT From: tao@fechner.speech.cs.cmu.edu (Sammy Tao) Subject: Re: Modigliani Made Easy and other picture postcards The group Book of Love has used a Modigliani as the cover art to their 12" single "Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes)". You can get a postcard of the painting from the BOL fan club. -Sammy --- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Sammy Tao, Dept of ECE |email: Sammy.Tao@speech1.cs.cmu.edu| ^G if | |Carnegie Mellon University|NeXTmail: tao@fechner.cs.cmu.edu | I'm an | |Pittsburgh, PA 15213 |"A straight mentirosa..." | Aggie! | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 17:09:03 CDT From: stern@chem.nwu.edu (Charlotte Stern) Subject: catalogs, cds we bee I just received the new CDs We Bee catalog. This is one impressive piece of work... and it is *most* impressive because it actually lists warpaint! for 13.99, I think. They also have plenty of other rare stuff that has been mentioned on gaffa and ecto over the years that I have never been able to find in any other catalog or store. Some examples: Annaboula, In the Baths of Constantine (13.49) Sally Barker, This Rhythm is Mine ( 12.49) Bel Canto, White Out Conditions (14.98) Creatures, Feast (19.98) <--- must be an import Foetus, Sink (17.98) Lisa Germano, On the way Down From... (13.49) Heavenly Bodies, Celestial (12.49) Hinterland, Kissing the Roof (10.98) Two Nice Girls, Chloe likes Olivia (12.49) Captive, Soundtrack (11.98) etc. Granted, Noteworthy's prices are generally at least $1 cheaper, but many of these rare things (including warpaint, for eg.) sure aren't available through them. They have two hot-lines: popular 1-800-CD-INFO1 classical 1-800-234-0600 Shipping is cheap (like noteworthy). To get a catalog, send 3$ (refundable with order of >$20) to CDs We Bee, South 3420 Whipple Street, Spokane, WA 99206-6308. While we're on the subject, I'll ask this question again. I own the From Brussels With Love movie sound track (on the Crepuscule label). Has anybody ever seen / know of the existence of the movie? Any help appreciated. -mjm (mike mendelson, stern@stella.chem.nwu.edu) ======================================================================== Date: 22-APR-1992 21:36:33.07 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: Files and Servers and Nodes Oh My Hi! Jessica, ecto@plasm really cracks me up- if you're taking votes, chalk one up from me. :) Mitch, a logout.pic file is one used by the computer geeks who like to customize their VAX environments for amusement in the terminal room. When I log off, I can incprporate a file into my login.com file that will run this logout.pic file and then log off- that way just the screen with the file on it shows up, and the "MTARR logged off at 12:34:47" doesn't show up. It leaves the people who come in after you wondering, so I've always had one. Mine used to be an ASCII Kate-symbol, which clued my close friends in on the fact that I had used that particular terminal recently, but now when I log off the screen looks like this: What is HAPPYVANGELISM? ------------------- Who confirms my reality, harbors my individuality? -------------------- Who is king over my domain, what's the force that has kept me sane? -------------------- Who put the bomp in the bomp bomp bomp? Who put the ram in the ramalamadingdong? Who put the boomdidiwana in the boomdidiwanahaihaihaihai? -------------------- Do I have to dig? Do I have to prod? -------------------- Get the true answers--$10 -------------------- Support your local email lists-- Keep them independent of newsgroups -------------------- ROSAS AND DRUKMAN MUST GO I'm sure you all appreciate my wasting your bandwidth with that interesting clarification, too. ;> I'm going to crawl back under my rock now, bye! (Welcome back Court!!!) ====================================================================== |Meredith Tarr "Get to the point you sappy wimps| |Wesleyan University I haven't got a lifetime | |Middletown, CT Simplicity is beauty | |USA, Earth Are there poets less sublime?" | |mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu -Happy Rhodes | ====================================================================== ======================================================================== Date: 22-APR-1992 21:46:30.63 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: Ellen James Society Hi again... Anybody know anything about the Ellen James Society? Their new album, _The Survivors Parade_, is in the station and I've intensely liked what I've heard so far. They appear to be from the Georgia clan, they thank the Indigo Girls in the liner notes and that sort of thing. Is this the only release from them? The Beautiful South also have their third one out... yay!!!!! It's good, too. Is Tori going to be on Letterman tonight? I really need sleep but don't want to miss it (and if anybody taped her MTV special, please e-mail). Ciao... ====================================================================== |Meredith Tarr "Get to the point you sappy wimps| |Wesleyan University I haven't got a lifetime | |Middletown, CT Simplicity is beauty | |USA, Earth Are there poets less sublime?" | |mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu -Happy Rhodes | ====================================================================== ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is a README file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me (or leave in the incoming directory, just let me know) things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)