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 #525 ecto, Number 525 Monday, 12 April 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: requestorama Tape dubbing FAQ This Mortal Coil query Eeeeeek! details to follow Jaye Davidson and Belly? Stuff Whatever happens to come to my mind! :-) Updates and Bulletins from the Happy Zone Test! Sorry! :) The letter sent Re: Bacon in the sky It was much better than Cats ======================================================================== Subject: Re: requestorama Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 06:55:13 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Vickie sez: >I just sent the full set of lyrics to Jessica to be put into the >archives. Many thanks... >(what *does* she sing there???) and SOS, which I took a guess at. > >"Well, there's a beacon in the sky, meant to catch the rye" No, no, no. "There's a *bacon* in the sky, meant to catch the rye" ;-) You were close, Vickie. It's "There's a beacon in the sky, meant to catch *their eye*." I didn't even realize this was a questionable lyric or I would have told you a while ago. I've still no idea for the questionable line in OLaL. I'd accept "Be a mortal" for "The Flight" though I'm not entirely convinced. Jeff ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 07:19:20 MDT From: dbx@teton.atmos.colostate.edu (Doug Burks) Subject: Tape dubbing FAQ Greetings, Here are the answers to all of your questions you have asked (and some that you haven't :) ) about the Ecto tape dubbing project. * What tapes are available? Happy Gift Project 1991, Vol I (C-100) Happy Gift Project 1991, Vol II (C-100) These are songs selected by Ectophiles as a gift for Happy for the winter holiday season. It is quite an eclectic collection to browse through. Miscellaneous Happy tape (C-90) World Cafe interview of Happy, including live versions of "Feed the Fire", "Words Weren't Made For Cowards", and "Given In". The songs are included as originally recorded and in the context of the interview. The tape also includes two songs by Kevin Bartlett with Happy singing ethereal backing vocals, and the five Bartlett/Rhodes demos. Femme Music Collection Vol I (Lushy Pop) (C-90) Femme Music Collection Vol II (Mish Smash) (C-90) Femme Music Collection Vol III (Voices) (C-90) Femme Music Collection Vol IV (International Sampler) (C-90) Femme Music Collection Vol V (Easy, does it?) (C-90) Femme Music Collection Vol VI (C-90) A wide-ranging collection of female vocalists selected by Vickie Mapes Happy Rhodes Live! Albany NY 18 March 1992 Vol I (C-100) Happy Rhodes Live! Albany NY 18 March 1992 Vol II (C-100) Live recording by woj of the Happy Rhodes concert at the QE2. This is a high quality recording for the conditions. (Note that this tape will only be sent to Ectophiles. Please respect Happy's and Kevin's wishes and don't make copies of this for anyone who does not already own Happy's albums). The "Last" Champagne Jam 15 May 1992 Vol I (C-100) The "Last" Champagne Jam 15 May 1992 Vol II (C-100) The "last" Champagne Jam broadcast on WESU-FM in Middletown CT, hosted by Meredith Tarr, chock full of Ecto-style artists and even some (*gasp*) male vocalists. The recording is of decent quality. The Unofficial Happy Sampler (C-100) A sampler of songs by Happy Rhodes from all five of her albums, as chosen by Meredith Tarr. Happy Rhodes Live! Philadelphia PA 21 March 1992 (C-100) Live recording by Greg Bossert of the Happy Rhodes concert at the Harrison Auditorium. This is a good quality recording, though the last third of the concert was lost. (Note that this tape is covered by the same restrictions as the Albany concert tape). Happy radio tour (C-100) Recordings of interviews of Happy by Ed Sciaci and Helen Leicht, including live acoustic performances of her and others' songs. If you want the see the actual contents of any or all of these tapes, please e-mail me. A printed copy of the tape contents will be included with every order, along with a cassette label. * Sounds great! How do I get a copy of any or all of these tapes? Three methods of getting the tapes are available: * Establish a cassette account with me. In other words, send me a check to cover the cost of cassettes, packaging, and postage. Put in as much as you want, not necessarily just to cover a single order (though you can do that, too). After your first order, anytime you want a cassette, you would just e-mail me, and I can get things out to you as soon as possible without your mailing me anything. In this case, I would dip into my own supply of chrome cassettes which I've ordered in bulk (Thanks, Mitch!). Accounts can be opened or closed at any time. Put in as much as you want, as more tapes should be added. * Establish a cassette account, as in 1, except that I will purchase the type of tape you specifically request. Obviously the cost of the tape will be higher, though the packaging and postage will be the same. * Send me the cassettes you want to put the music on (C-90 or C-100) along with money to cover packaging and return postage. I will copy the tapes you request and return them. Consider opening an account, as it will save you having to mail an order, let alone the cassettes. * How much will it cost? If you use my stash of cassettes, the cost for the cassettes is $1.10 each. The packaging for mailing the cassettes is between $0.34 and $0.66 depending on the number of tapes mailed. The postage varies depending on the number of tapes and the destination. So far, it has ranged between $0.98 and $16.70. Big help, eh? If you wish a more precise estimate for your postage cost, I can give you one via e-mail. US orders will be mailed book rate, taking five to seven days. Non-US orders will be air mailed, taking about seven to ten days. As for foreign payments, so far everyone has sent either American cash or a money order denominated in US currency. I believe that I can handle anything denominated in US currency, and probably any cashier's check (a check drawn on the bank's rather than a personal account). * Where do I send the order? To me. My mailing address: Doug Burks, 2036 West Plum Street C7, Fort Collins CO 80521 USA Orders will be processed in the order I get them, with special dispensation for foreign orders. Please note that I will not process any e-mail orders unless you have an open cassette account. * Anything else I should know? Just a few odds and ends: If I make any mistakes, I will replace the tape for free. I intend to post a progress report on the dubbing operation regularly. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask! Doug Burks _O_ dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu |< She really is!! ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 10:43:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Real Nighttime Subject: This Mortal Coil query Hi! I've been eavesdropping on y'all for a couple of weeks now and finally have something to contribute ... This is to the person who asked about the cover model on This Mortal Coil's albums: According to the April 9 issue of _Entertainment Weekly_, her name is Pallas Citroen. Graphic designer Vaughan Oliver felt that "her ethereal quality evokes the band's hauntingly maudlin sound." (Maudlin? Not in my opinion.) I notice that there have been several references to a "Susanne" (an associate of Happy's, I presume). My first name is spelled the same way -- it's quite unusual in this land of Susans and Suzannes ... -Sue Trowbridge ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 11:06:58 EDT From: Alan_Moorse@mts.rpi.edu Subject: Eeeeeek! details to follow Remember the letter-to-reporters project? Well, the letters went out in this morning's mail. I'll post the text of the letter tonight. Meanwhile, the Albany paper started a series of articles on the Internet! So just a minute ago I talked with the reporter, who's interested in doing a story on Ecto, and I faxed him all the info. Then I called the AG number in Albany to warn Kevin. PROBLEM!!! The phone number for AG has been changed! I had thought they would keep the old number working for a few weeks after the move, and didn't check. Stupid move! So hey, all you volunteers, if a reporter calls you, make sure they've gotten the 914 area code number. If they haven't, it's 914-679-4728. Now I just hope the mail is swift and New York Telephone leaves the recording on the old phone number for a while. aw, heck alanm ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 12:06:39 EDT From: Laura Clifford Subject: Jaye Davidson and Belly? I heard that Jaye Davidson interviewed Belly on MTV over the weekend! Did anyone see this? Description? Thanks, Laura ======================================================================== Subject: Stuff Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 13:34:03 EDT From: Angelos Kyrlidis Hi, Before I start, let me say that I was laughing like crazy after reading Jeff's 'bacon in the sky' line. This made me wonder: Should the FDA or whoever devised the food pyramid be made aware of _Equipoise_? I mean the whole point of that is _balanced_ nutrition? :-) Watch out for _Feed our selves_, coming soon on ecto... On to more serious topics o' discussion: a) I went out CD browsing on Saturday (the nerve, after spending a mini fortune in Montreal! :-) ), and couldn't find but an imported CD single of Blood of Eden by PG, which didn't have the same listing as the UK CD5 I saw in Montreal, which was identical to what Dirk posted a while ago. This one had BOE, Mercy Street (8 minutes!) and Sledgehammer (!). I am curious, how many UK CD singles are there? Is there a US release of it yet? People at Tower didn't seem to know if there's one scheduled. BTW, PG's SNL performance was indeed great! The show was one of the worst I've seen. Also, FYI, the Happy CDs at Tower in Cambridge are still there. I guess only ectophiles and their friends are still the sole buyers of Happy in the Boston area. :-( Well, at least they're available. Oh, and I got a shock Sunday night when I heard Bel Canto played on WFNX! It was on a weekly show called 'Moods for Moderns'. If they play Bel Canto, they will surely play Happy there, so when I find out who the DJ responsible for that show is, I will pass the info to you. Another interesting tid bit was during the Boston Rocks! show, the DJ played a song that had a 2 minute break, and was surprised by it, meaning she hadn't listened to the song before. Is this how commercial radio works? Do they play songs without knowing what they sound like? b) Anybody know who Jakko Jakczyk is? He is a member of DIZRHYTHMIA, and is co-credited with Tom Robinson for the 'We never had it so good' CD. Interesting CD that one. Captures a not-very adventurous jazzy TR. Has some famous guests too, Kiki Dee and Dave Stewart being the most prominent. c) Jaye Davidson interviewing Belly? I don't think so. I think the bit Laura is referring to was a segment from MTV's Week in Rock, and unless I wasn't paying attention, it didn't quite look like Jaye to me. BTW, I saw TCG again this weekend, and thought once again that it was brilliant. The whole secret thing seemed *so* obvious this time around, especially in the _Metro_ scenes! d) The new Rolling Stone has a raving review of the new Bowie. I heard a couple of tracks at HMV which sounded *very* disco-ey. Any ecto-word on that one? That's all for now! Angelos ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 10:59:31 PDT From: "John M. Relph" Subject: Re: Stuff Angelos queries: > >b) Anybody know who Jakko Jakczyk is? He is a member of DIZRHYTHMIA, and is >co-credited with Tom Robinson for the 'We never had it so good' CD. Interesting >CD that one. Captures a not-very adventurous jazzy TR. Has some famous guests >too, Kiki Dee and Dave Stewart being the most prominent. Jakko also plays on Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin records, and has worked extensively with both Peter Blegvad and John Greaves. I believe he was also in the band The Lodge, with Greaves, Blegvad, and Kristoffer Blegvad. -- John ======================================================================== From: "Michael Blackmore" Date: 12 Apr 93 14:26:48 EST Subject: Whatever happens to come to my mind! :-) Angelos sez: > Being the third in number of posts/month on ecto Now, now dear boy, tied for third! With me I might add ;-) According to Dirk (thanks for doing this Dirk, muy cool!) > 79 Vickie (who else could be the Ecto-Queen?) > 32 Yngve > 31 Angelos > 31 Michael B. > 30 Mike "mjm" I'm kind of amused that even if you combine the scores of the next two people on the list you still don't equal Vickie. If fact, you have to add the next three people of the list to finally surpass her! Of course, we can't touch Vickie for quantity and quality! That's one of the many reasons we *love* you Vickie! :-) Uli: Many thanks for the Nina Lyric! It's nice to learn what she's singing about! I realize that I haven't been posting as much the past couple of weeks! *Horrors!* Partly because I've been spending a lot of typing time on a vegie list and writing e-mail to a couple of friends who recently moved (one to Mexico, one to Providence, RI & two to San Francisco)! If this doesn't trigger an abandonment complex I don't know what will! (If fact, a couple more of my friends are moving away this summer! Waaaaaaah!) HAPPY BIRTHDAYS TO: Klaus K.! Steve V.! Art L.! Stephen G.! AND MAY YOU HAVE MANY, MANY MORE! Welcome to Tony! What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite color? Peter G. on SNL: I was tempted to watch because of that, but I'd also do just about anything rather than watch SNL (including watch golf or listen to the complete Ring Cycle without a break!). So I didn't but I like to pretend that I did! (Huh?) As to the charge of US Americans not being as funny as Brits: Well, which country had Dan Quayle as VP! I mean it takes a great sense of humor to elect someone like him into the White House ;-) Other weird and unrelated details: One of my apartmentmates (a temporary one who leaves in a few weeks! Thank Kateness!) heard me playing Happy in my room. Then he insists that it was Kate that I was listening to! I insisted no that's Happy Rhodes. He then starts arguing with me that I clearly don't know what I'm talking about, until I yank the CD out of the player and show him that it's Happy Rhodes. He went off grumbling something about soundalikes and rip-offs. What a geek! Do you know in all my time and many posts to Ecto, I've never given my shoe-size? Well (may I have a drum roll please!) TA-DA: 7 1/2. On the hair today gone tomorrow front: My hair goes down to about an inch below my shoulders and is on it's way to my shoulder blades! Wow! Hearing about the Ecto-fete in Montreal makes me so jealous! Maybe I'll just have to have one in here in Boston! I've been thinking about that for a while, and it's strikes me as a cool idea. Maybe sometime in May/June? Then maybe I could finally meet some ecto- ites! Any interest? I can even put up a couple of house guests on the weekend of the fest! I saw a commercial for Clannad's new album on tv the other day! That was a shock. I'm not used to seeing music I like being advertised in a commercial! It's unnerving! I live the secret fear of waking up one day and finding that everyone likes the same things I do and has the same opinions I do! Eeeeeeek! Well, darlings! Perhaps that is quite enough for this one message, no? - Michael B. P.S. The sig. quote refers to the fact that I'm anxiously awaiting a call back from a woman that I'm supposed to go out on a second date with! It's driving me insane! You'd think I was a bloody 16 year old judging by how I'm acting :-) Wish me luck, because she and I are terminally compatible, now if only there will be mutually interest! *************************MICHAEL BLACKMORE************************** "Don't keep him waiting on the telephone line!" Rickie Lee Jones -The Real End- Michael B (michaelb@ksgrsch.harvard.edu) ****************A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE SINCE 1963**************** ======================================================================== From: drk@leland.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Whatever happens to come to my mind! :-) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 14:57:38 PDT Hi Ectophiles, Michael B. writes: > I saw a commercial for Clannad's new album on tv the other day! That > was a shock. I'm not used to seeing music I like being advertised in > a commercial! It's unnerving! I live the secret fear of waking up > one day and finding that everyone likes the same things I do and has > the same opinions I do! Eeeeeeek! Isn't that the one with the Volkswagon in the background? ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David R. Koehler "His DNA is skewed!" drk@leland.stanford.edu -- Dr. Beverley Crusher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: 12 Apr 1993 20:53:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Updates and Bulletins from the Happy Zone Hi! Well, I've been given a 24-hour reprieve: Happy had something come up for tomorrow night, so our interview is now scheduled for Wednesday at 7:30 PM. And, I'll be conducting it from my home instead of WESU, thanks to some uncooperative WESU people and a very cooperative colleague who has all the equipment I need. Yay for that. If any of you have last-minute questions, you can send them to me until tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. For some reason my VCR decided it didn't want to tape SNL on Saturday night, so I missed Peter Gabriel's performance... but they'll repeat it soon enough, I'm sure. Has he announced his tour dates yet? I trust those of us who hear will post the info immediately, yes? (And that goes for 10,000 Maniacs' summer tour as well, you hear?) It's funny- I've seen four SNL episodes this season, and as I recall I've been quite impressed with all of them. SNL has gone steadily downhill for years, but it seemed to me as though they might be getting their act together again. I guess I was wrong. (Drewcifer, I'm so happy you're the only funny American left. My heart leapt when I learned that there was at least one, and that I was privileged enough to know him.) Not. Okay, time to 'fess up- who gave Neil Gaiman two Happy tapes at a West Coast signing of his last week? He hasn't listened to them yet that I know of, but he did mention to me that someone had given them to him, and I made him promise he would let me know what he thought as soon as he had had time to listen to them. I don't know exactly when or where or which tapes, but I'll do my best to find out. His brain tends to melt in signings quite quickly... Finally, a bulletin to post on the Ecto board: When I was talking to Susanne White earlier, she asked me if I knew of any Ectophiles living in New York City- she desperately needs an intern. I couldn't think of any offhand, but I'm notorious for not paying attention to e-mail addresses unless I need to reply to something later. So, if there are any New York 'Philes out there, lurker or no who would be interested, drop me e-mail and I'll get you hooked up with Susanne. (Be advised, though- this is almost certain to be an UNPAID internship... but that shouldn't matter, right? :) Well, off to listen to all 6 albums for inspiration, and try to put this interview together! Ciao all... +===============================================================+ |Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| +===============================================================+ | The painted stage, it comes alive at night | | When all the world is dead | | And I become the sole audience, and they linger in my head... | | *Happy Rhodes* | +===============================================================+ ======================================================================== From: Tree of Schnopia Subject: Test! Sorry! :) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 18:22:03 EDT Forwarded message: > From relph@presto.ig.com Mon Apr 12 14:12:43 1993 > Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 10:59:31 PDT > From: "John M. Relph" > Subject: Re: Stuff > In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 12 Apr 93 13:34:03 EDT > To: FU_BLU_MA_LI > Message-Id: Ignore the above...just testing! Sorry to take up the bandwidth. Drywid ======================================================================== From: alan moorse Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 21:55:02 -0400 Subject: The letter sent What follows is the text of the letter I sent to a bunch of journalists today, plus the information sheet I attached. The target cities were Albany (NY), Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia (and Cherry Hill), Portland (OR), Washington (DC) and Dallas. I'm still waiting for information on contacts in Ottawa, and I might try a few radio contacts too. Publicity volunteers, please shout if you're called. I talked to the Albany Times-Union again, and the reporter is going to pitch the story to his editor as a follow-up to his series on the Internet, so there's already one good prospect. Well, here 'tis: 449 Second St. Troy, NY 12180 Name Paper City, State ZIP Dear Name: I would like to suggest a story that combines art and technology: music and the "electronic back fence" of computer network discussions. It concerns a new presence in popular music, singer-songwriter Happy Rhodes, and a nearly worldwide discussion of her music, with some participants right in your area. Ms. Rhodes is from upstate New York, just a few miles from my home, so I was startled to find that a group that was discussing her music via electronic mail included people not only in the U.S. and Canada, but also in Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Norway, and Denmark, where her music has never been carried in record stores. In January, weeks before her new album was to be released, fans on three continents were mailing orders to her record company. It turns out that Ecto, the Happy Rhodes mailing list, is an independent group with no direct connections to Rhodes or her record company, Aural Gratification. Some members of the list have struck up friendships with Happy and the people at AG since Ecto was formed, but no one at AG is on the list or even on the internet, the international network through which the mail flows. This isn't a record company's device for cultivating fans; this is fans spreading the word about Rhodes' music and discussing music in general. For decades, news of new and noteworthy artists has spread by word of mouth; now "word of net" is filling the same role. This looked to me like part of a trend -- independent electronic discussions spreading the word about new artists -- so I contacted the members of Ecto and asked whether any of them would be willing to talk about the list, their involvement, and music. Then I called the record company to see whether they'd mind my publicizing the mailing list. I've sent this letter to journalists near the "Ectophiles" who said they'd be willing to talk to reporters, and I've attached an information sheet about Ecto and Happy Rhodes and a contact sheet with the names and phone numbers of your local Ectophiles, Aural Gratification, and myself. I hope this piques your interest and that your readers enjoy the story. Sincerely, Alan Moorse Ecto: the Happy Rhodes Mailing List Ecto -- named after Ms. Rhodes' fourth album -- was founded in 1991, and the first message went out to six people. Today, there are roughly 150 Ectophiles, with new members joining weekly. Discussion on the list is not restricted to Happy Rhodes and her music, though it has been running heavily that way since the release of her newest and sixth album, Equipoise, in February. Other recent topics of discussion have included music by Joni Mitchell, Eddi Reader, 10,000 Maniacs, Thomas Dolby, and Bel Canto, the "golden disc" carried into space aboard the Voyager, and the documentary film "Brother's Keeper." The address of the list is ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu. Early on, members of the list, who call themselves "Ectophiles," teamed up to transcribe the lyrics of Rhodes' albums and store them on-line, an activity they continue today. They encouraged Aural Gratification to release Rhodes' early work, which was originally available only on cassette tape, on compact disc. And, like millions of music fans before them, they recommend this little-known artist to others, both verbally and electronically. I did some research and found that there are similar discussions of work by such popular artists as Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, and Frank Zappa, as well as discussions of musical genres such as rock, heavy metal, folk, and jazz, in the network service called Usenet. There are also computer mailing lists for the band Phish and the a-cappella quartet The BOBS. Happy Rhodes Happy Rhodes is one of the most talented vocalists, composers, and lyricists on the current music scene. Her voice is often compared favorably with those of Kate Bush and Annie Lennox, and her clean instrumental arrangements blend seamlessly with her multi-layered vocal recordings. Her words are written with intense honesty and a rare clarity of social, personal, and emotional perspective. With the help of engineer Pat Tessitore of Cathedral Sound, she recorded her first three albums, Rhodes I, Rhodes II, and Rearmament, which were released on the tiny Aural Gratification label in 1986, followed by Ecto in 1987. Her fifth album, Warpaint, received radio airplay, with the single "Feed the Fire" becoming the most-requested song of 1991 on station WXPN in Philadelphia. She later played to a standing-room-only crowd in Phidelphia's Harrison Auditorium and shared a stage with Jeffrey Gaines, Shawn Colvin, Live, and 10,000 Maniacs in a fund-raising concert for Action Aids and The World Cafe. Alan Moorse: Alan Moorse is a private citizen, not in the employ of Aural Gratification or any other person or organization involved in the production or promotion of the work of Happy Rhodes. I'm sending this out because I think it's a good story. I put a list of local Ectophiles here. ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 22:05:17 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: Whatever happens to come to my mind! :-) MichaelB says: > According to Dirk (thanks for doing this Dirk, muy cool!) > > > 79 Vickie (who else could be the Ecto-Queen?) > > 32 Yngve > > 31 Angelos > > 31 Michael B. > > 30 Mike "mjm" > > I'm kind of amused that even if you combine the scores of the next > two people on the list you still don't equal Vickie. If fact, you > have to add the next three people of the list to finally surpass her! > Of course, we can't touch Vickie for quantity and quality! That's > one of the many reasons we *love* you Vickie! :-) I find the statistic rather appalling myself. It just shows what a big mouth I am :-). (How in the world can I have so many postings and yet I still missed out on so much? I never told Gary how much I enjoyed his "Closer" intrepretation, I never told AlanE how much I appreciated his post about Zimbabwe, I didn't say "Yay!!" to Mitch's post about Fairuza Balk winning the Spirit Award for Best Actress in _Gas, Food, Lodging_, wait, make that ************ Y A Y !!! **********, because I really, really, really, really like Fairuza Balk (though I still haven't seen GFL yet. It's on video now, we just have to find a place that carries it. We love her from _Return To Oz_, which is one of our all-time favirite movies, and _Valmont_, which isn't, though we liked it) and I never said that I liked Jeffy's kite ballet story and, well, all *kinds* of other things. How bizarre.) > Uli: Many thanks for the Nina Lyric! It's nice to learn what she's > singing about! Thanks Uli, from me too. The Montreal reports were nice, I'm glad everybody had a good time. Hi Sue, welcome to Ecto! (and thanks for the TMC cover info) I feel so dumb that I didn't hear the obvious word in SOS. The way Happy strings out "theirreyyyyyyeye" made it sound like "the Rye" to me. Pfffftsplat! > As to the charge of US Americans not being as funny as Brits: Well, > which country had Dan Quayle as VP! I mean it takes a great sense of > humor to elect someone like him into the White House ;-) Right! And we also have Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson and Phyllis Schafly (or however you spell her name) for comic relief. Oh, and Camille Paglia and Andrea Dworkin. Ronald Raygun, Richard Nixson, Rush Limbaugh, Randall Terry...gee, I could go on and on... > Other weird and unrelated details: > > One of my apartmentmates (a temporary one who leaves in a few weeks! > Thank Kateness!) heard me playing Happy in my room. Then he insists > that it was Kate that I was listening to! I insisted no that's Happy > Rhodes. He then starts arguing with me that I clearly don't know > what I'm talking about, until I yank the CD out of the player and > show him that it's Happy Rhodes. He went off grumbling something > about soundalikes and rip-offs. What a geek! :-) > P.S. The sig. quote refers to the fact that I'm anxiously awaiting a > call back from a woman that I'm supposed to go out on a second date > with! It's driving me insane! You'd think I was a bloody 16 year > old judging by how I'm acting :-) Wish me luck, because she and I > are terminally compatible, now if only there will be mutually > interest! Good luck! Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 22:16:47 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: The letter sent > What follows is the text of the letter I sent to a bunch of journalists > today, plus the information sheet I attached. The target cities were > Albany (NY), Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia (and Cherry Hill), Portland (OR), > Washington (DC) and Dallas. I'm still waiting for information on contacts > in Ottawa, and I might try a few radio contacts too. !!WOW!! GOOD JOB, Alan!! Vickie ======================================================================== From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: Re: Bacon in the sky Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 12:42:40 +1000 (EST) Jeffy writes ... > > No, no, no. "There's a *bacon* in the sky, meant to catch the rye" > Oh yeah, sure. And pigs fly .... Chris. Just thought I'd throw that in. *ahem* -- | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||Christopher Boek - boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | || Dept Elec Eng Univ of Melbourne Australia | | | | | | | | | / "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| \_/\_/\_/\_/\__/(:*- some way or another" ======================================================================== From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: It was much better than Cats Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 13:09:46 +1000 (EST) Vickie Reviews ... > > We want to see it again and again... > > Seriously, it is a brilliant* film. I had seen it last week by myself > and tonight Chris and I went together. We were both in tears throughout. > We add our voices to those who recommended it, even if you know the > "secret" because we both knew beforehand and it didn't make any difference > in how much we were absorbed and emotionally moved. > Well, you've just made up my already made up mind about going to see this film. ASAP. Definitely. > I just found out yesterday that Neil Jordan also directed _The Company > of Wolves_, a movie we *loved*! I knew about _Mona Lisa_ and _High Spirits_ > (I wonder if there's a "director's cut" of that film, or at least, any > outtakes of Mary Coughlin performing. I really want to meet NJ just so > I can ask him) but I didn't remember about TCOW. I think we're going to > watch it again tonight or tomorrow night. We own it, but I haven't seen > it in ages. I'd been meaning to watch it again since I found out that > Danielle Dax is in it (though her part is very small, I heard.) > > The Company of Wolves R 1985 > > Stars Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Sarah Patterson > I saw this film aaaaaages ago now, and remember liking it _a lot_. I should go and try to find it and see it again. There's probably heaps of films like that. Oh well, I'll get around to them eventually. Maybe I should buy a video shop .... Thanks for reminding me of it!! Chris. -- | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||Christopher Boek - boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | || Dept Elec Eng Univ of Melbourne Australia | | | | | | | | | / "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| \_/\_/\_/\_/\__/(:*- some way or another" ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Whatever happens to come to my mind! :-) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 23:17:03 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Vickie sez: >We love her from _Return To Oz_ For some completely unknown reason, this made me think of Geoff Ryman's _Was_, which everyone needs to read. Basically the book postulates that there _was_ a real little girl named Dorothy Gael who was sent to live with Auntie Em (a first class bitch) and Uncle Henry (a child molestor) and who eventually has a brief run-in with L. Frank Baum who's shows up as a substitute teacher at her school. The book also deals with Judy Garland during the filming of _The Wizard of Oz_, a shrink-to-the-stars who met the "real" Dorothy Gael when he was in high-school, and a patient of his, an actor dying of AIDS. The book is somewhere beyond brilliant. In fact, I need to read it again. Time to go see if it's been checked out of the library... >I feel so dumb that I didn't hear the obvious word in SOS. The way >Happy strings out "theirreyyyyyyeye" made it sound like "the Rye" >to me. Pfffftsplat! There, there, Vickie, it's okay. We're not laughing *too* hard at you. ;-) Think about it this way...at least you're not the one who came up with "my oxy and my toe" or "and the clays maray" which prompted Happy to inquire as to what sorts of drugs mjm was using! And of course, I'm not immune. Still dunno how I managed to think that the "teddy bear" in "To the Funny Farm" was "daddy there." *oops* >Right! And we also have Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson and Phyllis Schafly >(or however you spell her name) for comic relief. That's Phyllis "Women Don't Deserve Equal Pay Because They Can't Do Equal Work" *Schlafly* (you dropped an "l"). Hmm. Maybe in honor of the MOW in less than two weeks, that should have been: Phyllis "See? The fact that my 42 year old gay son still lives with me and works for my Eagle Forum proves I'm not a homophobe" Schlafly. (which actually reminds me of the idiot editorial writer at the school I went to who, upon being accused of sexism responded "I can't be a sexist; I had to watch my grandmother die of breast cancer" Or something totally off the wall like that; nobody ever figured out what one thing had to do with the other, so we all just laughed at him) Oh, darn. There are just *so* many middle names Phyllis has! (and yes, I really heard her say that first one on a talk show a couple of years ago) Jeff ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)