Errors-To: ecto-owner@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 #709 ecto, Number 709 Thursday, 19 August 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: Latin translations I thrive on the wind and the rain HaPpY Birthday Close Harmonia Mundi - more details The Kite Re: Latin translations Trivia Fall album releases Re: gifs, pifs, miffs, riffs Re: Beware the ides+1 of August :-) Re: Radio Welle usw. Re: Re: gifs, pifs, miffs, riff Rhodesongs et al. kateless Rhodes 1 and a vacation.. ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 2:02:12 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: Latin translations > Kate Tabasko writes: > > Archaelogists find this pillar (about elbow-high) with a Latin > > inscription upon it. What's it for? > > ___________ > > | | > > | TOTI | > > | E | > > | HORS | > > | ESTO | > > | | Ok, I've seen (er, been shown) the light. Clever! > All I could come up with was...uh...Totie's horse rest? :-) At least I was close (though it only counts in horseshoes, I know) Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 00:54:02 PDT From: stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Subject: I thrive on the wind and the rain We've just had absolutely the BEST thunderstorm I've ever seen in my life here in Eugene. Hundreds of lightning strikes. These massive _beautiful_ radiating cloud-to-cloud strikes with dozens of bolts that just seemed to come out of a single point and spread all over the sky. Big, loud booms going continuously. Remember that we don't get many thunderstorms in Eugene (although this year has been pretty good) and having one of this size at night makes for one of the most spectacular sights I've ever seen. I was really surprised, though, when the 11:00 news didn't even seem to notice. While the weatherman said how the 11:00 report showed partly cloudy skies in Eugene and no thunderstorms in sight, the clouds outside the window were flashing every five seconds and the TV was even showing static from the flashes. They must have a very well-insulated studio. All hail Happy Rhodes, Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe! ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 08:51:19 +0100 From: Terry Partis Subject: HaPpY Birthday Here's wishing a very HAPPY Birthday to Martin Dougiamas on August 20th. Have a GREAT day Martin PEACE Terry === Only in your eyes lies your soul ========================= Happy Rhodes === _ __ Jolly Hockeysticks _ __ / `-' ( ,,, / `-' ( ,,, | I I ||||||[:::] Terry (Tel Boy) Partis | I I ||||||[:::] \_.-._( ''' (tgp@ukc.ac.uk) \_.-._( ''' With a smile and a song - I'm HaPpy Let me sleep awhile and dream of Avalon and the Beltane fires.................. ............................................our souls entwined for all eternity ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 01:00:01 +22311732 (PDT) From: Neile Graham Subject: Close Hey, Vickie-- Close counts in horse shoes, but also counts in hand grenades and dancing. ;) BTW, I have a little photocopied flyer of my poems for promotion of my upcoming book (fall '94). If anyone wants a copy, just send me your snail address in email and I'll put a copy in the mail for you. --Neile neile@u.washington.edu ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 12:08:12 MEZ From: Dirk Kastens Subject: Harmonia Mundi - more details Hello, some more details about Harmonia Mundi: Eberhard Schoener has chosen this name because of its meaning "harmony of the world". The first part was played by four musicians (vocals, flute, violin, Kanoun) from Kairo. Their location was the citadel, on of the biggest and most beautiful mosques of the Egyptian capital. Next venue was Salvador in Brazil, where the singer Margarete Menezes, the percussionist Carlinho Brown and other musicians were playing, accompanied by the Stuttgart ensemble (George Kochbek on keyboards and other German musicians) and by the musicians in Kairo. The third broadcast came from Bali, where Prince Agung Raka from Saba and Pinda was playing with his Gamelan orchestra, accompanied by the Stuttgart ensemble, the Egyptians and the Brazilians. Then those four ensembles were playing together with the two Australian musicians, the avant-garde artist and cellist Sarah Hopkins and the Aborigine and didgeridoo player David Hudson. Finally a ballet ensemble from Stuttgart was dancing to the music from the four continents and vice versa, i.e. the four groups were dancing to the music of the Stuttgart ensemble. At the end, 12 cellists of the Berlin Philharmonics were playing a compostion by Eberhard Schoener. Schoener was travelling around the world for four months to chose the musicians and groups. He told them about his intention, let them play and recorded the music on ADAT (an 8-track digital audio system by ALESIS based upon S-VHS tapes). At home, he and the ensemble listened to the material and selected the appropriate parts. They had to chose four different parts that would harmonize. Then the musicians travelled back to the four groups with the revised music to rehearse with them. All in all it took one year to prepare the performance. Nice idea, indeed. Dirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ || \\\\\ || ///// | dkastens@dosuni1.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE || ))))) IRK || ((((( ASTENS | "Music's the way, the only way I know" || ///// || \\\\\ | Happy Rhodes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 12:33:40 MEZ From: Dirk Kastens Subject: The Kite Hi, I've just viewed the kite gifs. What a WONDERFUL kite, Jeff! You did a great job. Congratulations. I wish I could see it fly. Dirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ || \\\\\ || ///// | dkastens@dosuni1.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE || ))))) IRK || ((((( ASTENS | "Music's the way, the only way I know" || ///// || \\\\\ | Happy Rhodes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 08:20:18 EDT From: rmorrow@afit.af.mil (Robert K. Morrow) Subject: Re: Latin translations > Archaelogists find this pillar (about elbow-high) with a Latin > inscription upon it. What's it for? > ___________ > | | > | TOTI | > | E | > | HORS | > | ESTO | > | | > TO TIE HORSES TO. AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGH, my brain hurts. Bob Morrow ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 08:31:49 EDT From: Laura Frank Clifford Subject: Trivia mjm asks: >1) Here's a musical trivia question for Dirk and all you other > know-it-alls: The song MacArthur's Park... cake's sitting > out in the rain, etc. What is this song about? I'm sure > I heard the story once, around the time of the remake in the > 70's but I forget. I always thought it was allegory for a love relationship. 'and it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again...' Laura ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 09:19:34 EDT From: ksilver@engr.startek.com (Keith Silver) Subject: Fall album releases Vickie writes: >ps, H&K have a suprii-ise, H&K have a suprii-ise, can't tell you mo-ore, >sorry, sorry, sorr-ry. (Soon, you will know, soon) Is it just me, or does Vickie do this to us a lot? Oh well, I guess that's one of the perks of being an Ecto-Goddess-Lady. ks ksilver@startek.com "Peter would like to apologize for rhyming garment with varmint twice on the same record." Think Tree ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: gifs, pifs, miffs, riffs Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 14:55:11 BST On 18 Aug 93 at 15:13:27 EDT Mike Mendelson wrote: > Bob sez: > By the way, I haven't gotten anyone's gif to run on my PC. Strange! > > Neither have I. I know I used to be able to ftp gifs and download them > to my PC with kermit, but now wingif (the windows gif viewer) will > not display gifs. Does anyone have a reliable way to translate > gifs into bitmaps (which MS Windows is much friendlier to) and > could such things be posted in archives? My solution to the wingif/Windows 3.1 incompatibility is to keep a copy of Windows 3.0 lying around purely so that I can run wingif under it! Once converted, the bitmaps load OK under Windows 3.1 of course. Possibly not convenient for everybody's purposes, but it does the job OK for me. -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 09:17 MET DST From: uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel) Subject: Re: Beware the ides+1 of August :-) > I grep'd Herr Grepel's post, and found this: > > >> I also liked Radio Welle ("Welle" = Wave). Cool name. :) > > > >Cool! Never heard of that one. > > He's never heard of Deutsche Welle, one of the major radio networks over at > his end? Kafkaesque :-). As Meth already pointed out this is a different station. It seems like those nasty call letters without the capability to identify oneself with them are more easily to differenciate than our long and wordy names. Now if I only knew the frequency of the Neue Deutsche Welle... ;-) Bye, Uli ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 09:33 MET DST From: uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel) Subject: Re: Radio Welle usw. Meth says: > dish for my box (hell, I never paid the stupid fees, so I was > operating my radio illegally as it was ;) I was never able to Well - technically you would have been allowed to listen to this station since it is a commercial one. The fees (that are STUPID) are distributed to the public stations ('Oeffentlich-rechtliche Sender', what's the proper English word for this?). Even if you want to refuse to listen/watch any of these stations, you can't. If you have a TV or a radio, you have to pay. They do not even believe you if you make it technically impossible to receive the public ones. Bye, Uli ======================================================================== Date: 19 Aug 93 14:54:49 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: Re: Re: gifs, pifs, miffs, riff My solution to the wingif/Windows 3.1 incompatibility is to keep a copy of Windows 3.0 lying around purely so that I can run wingif under it! Once converted, the bitmaps load OK under Windows 3.1 of course. Possibly not convenient for everybody's purposes, but it does the job OK for me. -- I can't even get wingif to work on the gifs in -- win3 any more! The second decodes about 10% before -- it UAE, whereas the 1st one kills wingif right off. -- Steve, maybe you could post your bitmaps to the -- ecto archive? -- -- mjm ======================================================================== Subject: Rhodesongs et al. Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 15:45:53 EDT From: Angelos Kyrlidis Thanks to Vickie and Alan for the info on the new Happy comp. It sounds to me like a nice compilation that could have waited another 3-4 months... But, hey, the artwork should make the $$ worthwhile... ;-) In other news, I was surprised to find CDs by Big Hat and Spore in Athens, as well as tons of Contagion CDs (with Drukman remixing a tune). Some acts have better distribution than others. The following info is for Suzanne: =============================================================================== The best person to contact in Greece is Yannis Petridis. He is a prominent DJ/magazine editor/Virgin Records exec. Tell him that a long time fan of his radio show is now living in the states thought that he would appreciate Happy's music. I found his magazine address: Yannis Petridis Chief Editor Pop and Rock 13 Vouliagmenis Avenue Athens, GREECE 11636 Tel. (30-1) 9247309 FAX. 9243577 =============================================================================== And guess what I was asked in the departmental headquarters a moment ago... 'Could I please borrow your Happy Rhodes tapes?' I was totally surprised... I am now printing out lyrics for the person... Happyvangelize. It works. AND I had a letter from Happy answering some questions. The most interesting news is that she is singing 'Vita mort est' (Life is death) in 'The flight'. She's great!!! That's all for now. Please resume sending e-mail to athena, as my account is back to normal! Angelos (who is probably the only person left who hasn't heard the new KTB songs, except MoP (Thanks C&V)). ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 13:29:04 PDT From: Neal R. Copperman Subject: kateless Angelos: DOn't feel too bad, I haven't heard even one of the new Kate songs yet :-(. Vickie: I accidently saw "House of Cards" last night, and really enjoyed it. SOmetimes I thought things got a bit too hysterical, but hey, it was an emotional situation, and I thought they did a fantastic job of bringing you inside the little girls world, showing you that although it appeared dead and lifeless from the outside, that there was an awful lot going on inside. Really pretty fascinating. That was also an impressive bit of programming going on. In minutes Kathleen Turner was able to program up an incredible 3D world (he says very sceptically). It kind of reminded me of a movie, I think it was called "Paperhouse" (?) (or dreamhouse??) about a little girl who draws pictures and then basically lives inside them. She's working out her own problems inside the world of the pictures, but they did a similar type thing in making her world real. And I saw it accidently because it was just as I was walking into the theater, having bought my ticket and everything, that I realized I was not going to see Music of Chance, which is what I had set out to see but is actually not playing anywhere in town anymore. Sometimes I have to wonder about myself. Neal ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 16:49:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "she listens like her head's on fire.." Subject: Rhodes 1 and a vacation.. Hello, I am happy to say I made a convert the other day...I made my own Happy Rhodes compilation for a friend who is in love with the songs from Rhodes 1 (the first Happy cd I let him borrow..) and now is determined to buy it.. yay! I informed him of the upcoming Rhodes Songs release which I am eagerly awaiting.. what can I do? so much good music out there...the new Aimee Mann (which I still haven't picked up even though I have all the 'Til Tuesday stuff) Bjork (human behaviour was great!) new Kate Bush, Sarah McLachlan, Cocteau Twins and 10,000 Maniacs stuff coming up in October... it is just too exciting..:-) the other thing I would like to ask is that I be unsuscribed from the mailing list starting Friday, August 20 until September 1. I will miss getting your mail but I will be away from a computer and my account doesn't have the space necessary to accommodate it. If it is alright, I will send mail when I have returned to suscribe again... I hope to hear from you all again.. -Quenby ======================================================================== 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)