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 #717 ecto, Number 717 Tuesday, 24 August 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Spelling Mistake I'm (sorta) back... Debut lyrics Happy talk newsletters newsletters and news Re: Re: 4 non-blondes DeMent lament The Missing Piece Great Thunderstorms Errata RhodeZingers Re: I'M BACK!!!!!!!!! ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 23:24:39 MET DST From: Albert Philipsen Subject: Spelling Mistake >Some info for woy: KLM stands for Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, ^^^ I meant woj, of course. Sorry... Albert ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 18:11:55 -0400 From: Larry Nathanson Subject: I'm (sorta) back... Just wanted to write a quick note - After a summer of much needed relaxing, I'm back and in a much better mood (as some of you may notice!) The not-so-good news is that I'm not going to be able to keep up with all the mail that the list generates... :-((( HOWEVER, I'm still VERY interested in keeping track of Happy, and all of you -- I'll be reading the archives when I can, and I'd *LOVE* it if someone could drop me a note at major Happy events-- ie "Happy's got a new album out", or "Two major record labels are fighting over her..." etc... I hope all's been well - from the archives it seems like you guys had a great summer - and Happy seemed to really love the HBP... I'm very sorry I was away for that.. :-( I really wish I had an AG t-shirt-- I'm going to the MTV beachhouse tomorrow - I wish I could at least give them the exposure... Well, you all take care-- I'll be lurking in the shadows around here somewhere... :-) --Larry ======================================================================== From: jk101920@ee.tut.fi (Kannisto Juha) Subject: Debut lyrics Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 1:12:33 EET DST Hei all! Some people were looking for the lyrics for Debut the other day - I typed them up and now have them as a textfile (except the lyrics of 'Like Someone in Love', which is a cover I think, and my songbook doesn't include the lyrics for that one). If anyone still wants them I'll be happy to send them over by e-mail. Just tell me. I hope you received them Ilka! And now off to sleep... 'Never cry for the rain It brings us soothing sounds to sleep by' -HR I love this song! And always will. It isn't raining though. But it has been, oh yes, it has. Nighty night, Juha -- Juha Kannisto O jk101920@cc.tut.fi O I have a friend in Phobos O Savikukonkatu 21 O jk101920@ee.tut.fi O At times I think I'm almost there O 33530 Tampere O jk101920@cs.tut.fi O * Happy Rhodes * O Finland O +358-31-560941 O ~~~~~~~~~~~~ O ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 15:13:14 -0700 From: Michael G Peskura Subject: Happy talk Are we Vickie's sycophants ...? Nah, i think it more likely we are Vickie's acolytes! What a great image that was: Vickie 'n' Chris coaxing the poor little talking dictionary into saying 'naughty' things!! :) -- Michael Peskura -- University of Washington -- Seattle USA ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 18:46:44 EDT From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (proud to be your spud) Subject: newsletters newsletters and news WretchAwry sez: >You need to write Happy directly and get on their mailing list. Just say >"Hi, my name is Neal and I'm an Ectophile. Put me on your mailing list >so I can get your super-duper extra spiffy nifty newsletter. And make >sure that the Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe licks the stamp. Thank you" and send them $2.00. happy has decided that to continue the newsletter and to make it regular, she'll need a little help from those who want to remain informed. so, there is now a $2/year subscription rate. in other news, i got a newsletter from the moon seven times last week. they played at the blind pig in ann arbor last friday (sorry i didn't get the news out sooner for those of you who might have been able to make it). on the other hand, they will be playing tomorrow night (wednesday the 25th) at the illini towers (i assume this is in chambana?) at 10:30pm. other tidbits include the sad news that they won't be touring any time soon, the good news that the cd is out in japan, the good news that the "paris luna" video was shown on usa's "up all night" program, the good news that they are starting to work on a new release, the good news that they are on the 4ad tribute album _thurtene_ (i mentioned this a while back), and the good news that august features a blue moon as the moon will be full for the second time this month in pisces on august 31st. i finally ordered and received big hat's _inamorata_ cd. i'm glad i waited so long as the release i got has four extra tracks: "like we liked to do," "throwing the olden," "(i'm so) happy," (another candidate for the happy music tape) and "things go around." these later songs are taken from the _hathead_ cassette (which i may or may not have a copy of - i can't recall if the tape that woody dumas sent me was a pre-release of _shimmer_ or the _hathead_ release itself). they also threw in a few goodies for me too: a backstage pass from 1991 (the picture on it is hilarious: they are all sitting in a pickup with their legs hanging over the edge of the back strategically blocking letters in "daihatsu" so as to spell "da hats"), a few pictures of the band and one of those funky eye thingies that is either open or closed depending on the light reflecting off it. wheee! second dan dixon's recommendation for _negativelandconcert_. the recording is a bit bassy, but it's crystal clear and it supports a good cause. if you're interested in getting a copy, drop whatis@gnu.ai.mit.edu a line and ask about it. +woj ======================================================================== Date: 24 Aug 93 16:58:04 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: Re: Re: 4 non-blondes Brian Bloom wrote: >Yes, that's actually a female singer. The group is 4-Non Blondes, >the song was probably "What's Goin' On?" or maybe "Dear Mr. President" Yup, thanks, that's it: What's Goin' On. I could have sworn it was a Rush song. Actually, I kinda like that song. It's particularly ironic that after getting used to Getty Lee's voice over all these years that here I hear a female who sounds like him and I assume she is a he, when all along he is the one who sounded like a she. This often has happened to me in reverse. For e.g. the Logical Song (Supertramp) I always assumed was a female singing. Anyone care to offer other cases of mistaken identity (I'm sure there are some funny gender benders out there). -mjm ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 16:27:54 PDT From: Neal R. Copperman Subject: DeMent lament Oh, before I forget, WOMAD in LA is on Sept 18. I don't know if anyone is actually in the area, but if anyone wants to get together and go or attempt to meet there, I'm game (and interested). Went and saw Iris DeMent last night at the Belly Up. I was pretty disappointed. She's responsible for the song "Let the Mystery Be" on the latest 10k Maniacs single, which I haven't heard. That song was the highlight of the last Maniacs concert as far as I was concerned. ID was a little bit country, and then a lot more country after that. She opened with "Mystery" and I didn't like it much at all. I warmed to a few songs, but mostly she just seemed very shrill to me. I was sad, because I suspected that I might actually like some of the songs, but not the presentation, since I already knew one song I liked, but not as performed there. She was a good storyteller though, and there was a very impressive local woman named Jules Keller (I think) who sounded like a cross between Mary-Margerat O'Hara, Maria McKee, Heidi (not Heidi Berri, just Heidi) and some wild beast, all of whom really had to go to the bathroom. Her first song contained some pretty incredible yodeling, and the rest of her songs had the breathy broken delivery of MMO'H, but without repeated words and phrases. The way she jumped and twitched through her set almost made me head for the bathroom though. Vickie, your CD-ROM sounds great. SOme friends of mine have one and we recently finished working our way through a hilarious game called "Day of the Tentacle". I gather there are many different formats, so maybe you couldn't use it anyway. It was probably almost as fun as talking to the dictionary. If you keep clicking on the words that it is going to speak, can you make it rap and stutter. s-s-s-s-sy-syc-syc-syc-sycophant. neal ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 20:01 EDT From: robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) Subject: The Missing Piece Hecko again, Those of you who have hosted Chris Boek: Are any of you missing a cassette of Peter Gabriel's Shaking The Tree? It turned up in his baggage and is available. I'll send it to the person or persons who claim it. One of those things! Bob the lost and found ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 09:06:32 CDT From: "Jeff "Chip" Lueck" Subject: Great Thunderstorms I remember reading a bit on thunderstorms in here recently, and was it Vickie who said that she hadn't seen a good one since she moved to Chicago? I would say the storm that ripped through here yesterday was notable, wasn't it?! It was pretty neat because I had turned on Rearmament and by the time 'Til Dawn Breaks came on, the storm was in full force and it was wonderful -- live thunder and lightning all through her heavenly voice. It was haunting, but yummy! See ya! -chip ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 11:38:32 CDT From: "Ecto's #1 Thumper of Necrotic Equines :-)" Subject: Errata Now that significant numbers of people are receiving copies of the HBP tapes, I somehow feel constrained to post the following, in the sweet name of what the late Joseph Pulitzer reportedly used to call "accuracy, accuracy and accuracy." May Doug, the HBP's very capable technical director, forgive me for what I am about to say; I may well be guilty of beating a dead horse, but this appears to be essential to my long-term peace of mind. While the documentation accompanying the tapes was in preparation, it was explained to me, a system glitch caused the computer to eat the email I had sent to Doug with the titles and artists of sundry musical numbers I had sub- mitted to the project, forcing him to proceed from memory. As a result, a few errors crept into some early copies of the inlay cards, and the detailed table of contents that accompanies the tapes; at least, they did on my set. All but one of these errors were corrected on the list that Doug posted to ecto. The documentation that came with your tapes may well be completely accurate; but just in case it isn't... 1) The global intro selection of "Happy Birthday" and the reprise of "Natural High" was performed by Gretchen Cryer (with the Company of _I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road_), rather than by Evelyn Cryer. 2) The selection by Carly Simon on Side A is titled "Love Out in the Street" (singular), rather than "Love Out in the Streets" (plural). 3) The filler selection by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann at the end of Side E is titled "The Wom Pom," rather than "Wompom." 4) The global outro selection by Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks is titled simply "Canned Music," rather than "Canned Music, Live Music." According to the utopian scenario, the sheer rarity of copies with the errors will make them valuable one day, somewhat like a sheet of stamps with one color printed upside down. At least now you know what parts will make them worth all that dough on the antiques market :-), and, conversely, what all that resplendent music is really yclept. Mitch ------------------------------- "Thank you for your attention." --Signoff announcement on Radio Havana (Cuber :-) ), 1966 ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 15:35:21 CDT From: Subject: RhodeZingers Woj wojes: >does that make meth ecto-goddess-deejay? or is that vickie as well? Which inspires Vickie to vickie: >Hey, we mustn't forget that Kiri is also an Ecto Goddess Deejay Lady! Which inspires me to propose we split the difference like so: Simply anoint Meredith as ecto-goddess-deejay-lady-northeast, Kiri as ecto-goddess-deejay- lady-south, Vickie as ecto-goddess-deejay-lady-midwest, and hang loose on the ecto-goddess-deejay-lady-west. Vickie vouchsafed the following additional observation: >LisaSusanLisaSusanLisaSusanLisaSusanLisaSusanLisaSusanLisaSusanLisaSusan > Don't get one without the other! Last week I got Lisa, but not Susan. Do I now get turned into a pillar of salt, or what? Vickie went on to recount Troy's observation: > PS: does anyone else think that Vickie should just sit around and tell > stories in front of a fire from now on? :-) Better she should just sit around and tell stories on this mailing list :-). With all the heat and humidity we've been having this week, fires tend to get a little uncomfortable after awhile. Should the task get too big for any one individual, I'd be quite willing to assume responsibility for the south side division of the Ecto Griot Society, leaving Vickie with only the north side division to worry about. > [...] (That reminds me of that Thomas Dubly >song "Hyperactivate" and I got these visions of Happy & Kevin's faces >on a box, on a body, rotating...) Sounds like Mel Brooks in _High Anxiety_ :-). >Wing that thing right on over to Ville de Bears and you too will be one ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Has the Parti Quebecois become a power in local politics there, or what? :-) >(And don't forget your bike. And wear your helmet. And wear a scarf (but not >a long one since you don't want to end up like Isadora Duncan). Eat your >veggies and don't sit too close to the TV.) Fear of product liability actions is impacting the damndest things, innit? :-) Who else knows the fascinating etymology of the word "sycophant?" Dave Dixon muses, bemusedly: > [...] They also stole a bag of compost >and some pots, for WHAT I can't imagine. It should serve a reminder that people are not always capable of being pigeon- holed neatly. Think about it: weird as it sounds at first glance, is there anything so _inherently_ incongruous about burglars who garden? :-) Neile reports in: >BTW, I'm listening to _The Lion and the Cobra_ for the first time in ages. >I know it's fashionable to dislike Sinead, but this is still a *fantastic* >album. "Troy" "I Want Your Hands On Me", etc. When I first got that one, my first reaction was to ask if they also had any records of Shel Silverstein's "Hooray for a Bald-Headed Woman" in stock. (They didn't.) My second reaction came days later, when it went on sale and I realized that my haste to acquire it had cost me an extra buck and a half or so :-). I still considered it a good album, however, and continue to to this day. If _World News Now_ ever broadcasts another newscast from Icelandic TV, or even (maybe especially) if they redo the legendary segment with the summer solstice report that never was, maybe they should use Bjork's "Human Behaviour" as the music for the weather and sports that half-hour. Sometime yesterday, I ran across another song for D**2's sample, but have since forgotten what it was. I know it wasn't "Happy Heart" by Andy Williams, which is the one that's popped into my head since I've been sitting here. Rose doesn't have _RhodeSongs_ in yet. It can be so reassuring to realize that some things are worth waiting for :-). Off to catch the rest of the Chicago Architecture and Design exhibit at the Art Institute. Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 23:19:48 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: I'M BACK!!!!!!!!! Yngve returns home: > I'm back again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!! **************************** ********* HUG ********** !! WELCOME BACK YNGVE!! ******** HUG ********** **************************** Vickie ======================================================================== 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)