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 #893 ecto, Number 893 Monday, 6 December 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: Happy in the U.K.! Today's your birthday friend.... Cocteau Twins - Winter Wonderland I'm back! 1993 Happy Gift Project -- last call Quick thing (about the Goddess Concert) new lookalike candidate Fast Fast Fast comments Surprise, surprise... Whatever it is, have a good one Baraka ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 06 Dec 93 11:35:48 GMT From: GTP10@phx.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: Happy in the U.K.! Tim Cook wrote: > Compact Disc Services in Dundee are advertising all of Happys albums in this > months (Jan'94!!) Q magazine. Whoever it was from ecto wrote/phoned them - it > must've done the trick. Damn! You beat me to it! I was the person who phoned CDS about Happy. Needless to say I was very pleased to see the ad in Q, though it's taken a few months since my initial recommendation. Happy is listed in the Rock & Pop section of the CDS ad as follows: HAPPY RHODES: Rhodes I/Rhodes II/WArpaint (sic)/Rearmanment (sic)/Ecto/ Rhodesongs/Equipoise (Contemporary singer - Strong songs with a dark, mystical edge - Excellent music for Kate Bush, Enya & Joni Mitchell fans - Some feature very strange sleeve designs!) #14.95 I've mailed a copy of the ad to Happy. Geoff Parks ======================================================================== From: klaus@inphobos.wupper.de Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 12:06:28 Subject: Today's your birthday friend.... i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* ****** Chip Lueck ***** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * New or changes made since last post Marvin Camras Sat January 1 1916 Tapehead Jeanne Schreiter Tue January 3 1967 Capricorn John Sandoval Wed January 4 1967 Capricorn Paul Cohen Tue January 5 1954 Capricorn * Tony Garrity Mon January 8 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 9 1962 OfTheTimes Aaron Hawkins Mon January 12 1970 Capricorn Troy J. Shadbolt Thu January 14 1971 Capricorn Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited Dennis G Parslow Fri January 17 1964 SDCN Ilka Heber Mon February 1 1965 Nixe Bob Lovejoy Sun February 2 1947 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 4 1966 Aquarius Doug Burks Tue February 14 1956 Blank Jim Sturnfield Thu February 18 1954 Aquarius Juha Kannisto Wed February 18 1970 Aquarius Paula Shanks Mon February 25 1952 Pisces Brni Mojzes Fri February 26 1965 the vanishing boy Tim Steele March 8 Pisces kIrI Hargie Fri March 13 1970 Pisces Randall K. Smith Sat March 15 1969 Pisces Alan Sodoma Thu March 18 1965 LuckyLurker Barry Wong Thu March 19 1970 Merlin Graham Dombkins Fri March 19 1965 Pisces Ian Young Wed March 19 1969 Falling Rocks * Geoff Carre Sat March 20 1954 Pisces Bob Brown Thu March 22 1951 Ham Valerie Nozick Thu March 25 1971 Aries Marc Power Sun March 30 1958 The Project Warpaint Mon April 1 1991 Brilliant! Shorty Tue April 1 1980 happy cat David Dixon Tue April 7 1970 Aries Klaus Kluge Sun April 10 1960 Unicorn Steve VanDevender Sun April 10 1966 Racer Art Liestman Fri April 10 1953 Repeat Michael Bowman Wed April 11 1962 Aries Stuart Myerburg Mon April 14 1969 Aries T-Bone Wed April 15 1992 happy cat Mike DePumpo April 15 Aries Jeff Hanson Sat April 16 1966 Aries Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy Angelos Kyrlidis Fri April 22 1966 Taurus Kjetil Torgrim Homme Thu April 23 1970 Taurus Pablo Iglesias Thu April 23 1964 Positive Jeff Burka Thu April 24 1969 GoFlyAKite Christine Waite Tue April 25 1972 Taurus Geoff Parks Sun April 30 1961 Taurus William Morse Tue April 30 1968 Taurus Barney Parker Fri May 2 1986 happy cat Gray Abbott Tue May 3 1955 Suprised Tamar Boursalian May 3 Taurus Mark Semich Thu May 6 1965 Yield Joe Dembski Wed May 7 1952 Rumple Brian Gregory Thu May 9 1963 Eclectic Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Taurus Michael Colford Wed May 16 1962 Taurus Christopher Boek Tue May 19 1970 Taurus Gary Nichols Sun May 20 1956 FALLING ROCK Beth Perry Tue May 21 1957 Glad Yngve Hauge Fri May 21 1971 Gemini Perttu Yli-Krekola Thu June 2 1966 Kaksoset Mark R. Susskind Wed June 15 1966 Gemini Ronald Hogan Tue June 16 1970 Bloomsday Mike Matthews Mon June 16 1969 SAFH Albert Philipsen Mon June 17 1968 Gemini Neal R. Copperman Thu June 17 1965 Gemini Ecto-The Mailing ListTue June 18 1991 Fuzzy blue Tracy Barber Mon June 18 1956 Gemini David Lubkin Fri June 20 1958 OurLady Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Laurel Krahn Mon July 5 1971 Cancer Jim Gurley Mon July 6 1959 Cancer Courtney Dallas Fri July 9 1971 Cat Finney T. Tsai Sat July 9 1966 Cancer Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer John Zimmer Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Cathy Guetzlaff Mon July 18 1955 Cancer David Koehler Mon July 25 1966 Leo Tom Johnson Mon July 25 1966 Leo Rob Woiccak (woj) Sun July 28 1968 children at play John Relph Sat July 28 1962 Leo Bob Kollmeyer Wed July 28 1971 Leo Mark Carroll Fri July 29 1966 Hacker Steve Lusky Tue July 29 1952 Bike! Kate Bush Wed July 30 1958 God Liz Fri July 31 1964 Leo Eli Brandt August 5 Leo Happy Rhodes Mon August 9 1965 HolyGhost Ron Hill Tue August 11 1964 Leo Vickie Mapes Wed August 15 1956 Giddy Martin Dougiamas Wed August 20 1969 Positive Tori Amos Thu August 22 1963 Leo Meredith Tarr Wed September 1 1971 Virgo Scott Zimmerman Mon September 4 1972 Virgo Mike Mendelson Fri September 4 1964 Virgo Richard Dean Wed September 6 1967 Virgo David Blank-Edelman Sat September 9 1967 Neon Holly Tominack Thu September 10 1970 Virgo Chris Williams Tue September 20 1960 Neon 3-D Computer-generated Joe Zitt Sat September 20 1958 Will Hack for CDs Kelly Baker Sun September 29 1974 Libra Tim Breitkreutz Wed October 7 1964 Libra Dan Riley Sun October 8 1961 Libra Neile Graham Wed October 8 1958 pen Quenby M. Chunco Tue October 8 1968 Crunchy Frog Wolfgang Drotschmann Thu October 13 1966 Waage Brian Bloom Tue October 14 1969 spam Erik N. Johnson Tue October 16 1962 Handle with Care Dave Steiner Sat October 24 1959 Scorpio Andrew D. Simchik Sat October 26 1974 Scorpio Jessica Dembski Wed October 29 1969 Scorpio Kathleen Morrey Sat November 1 1969 Scorpio Katie Dougiamas Sat November 2 1974 Scorpio Anthony Horan Fri November 4 1966 Positive Michael Sullivan Mon November 5 1962 Scorpio Larry Nathanson Fri November 7 1969 Scorpio Jens Brage Sun November 8 1964 Scorpio Rising Lynn Garrett-KirchoffSat November 8 1958 Scorpio Ken Latta Sun November 11 1951 Scorpio Elizabeth W. Warwick Sun November 15 1964 Scorpio Naama Avramzon Mon November 18 1974 Scorpio Jeff Smith Mon November 19 1962 Crash Kevin Bartlett Fri November 21 1952 Scorpio Alan Ezust Fri November 21 1969 Earth Moving Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Sue Trowbridge Sun November 27 1966 Skytten Chip Lueck Thu December 5 1968 Sagittarius Ken Hoyme Sun December 8 1957 Sagittarius Jeremy J. Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius * Shelby Sun December 13 1970 Roscoe the Frog Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Karl Dotzek Sat December 30 1961 Capricorn Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- If anyone wants to be added to this list, or change their "sign" just e-mail me with the information...if you don't know what weekday you were born on, I can figure it out if you give your complete birthday. Thanks! _____ Klaus Kluge * klaus@inphobos.wupper.de * I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 13:40:25 GMT Subject: Cocteau Twins - Winter Wonderland Somebody mentioned this so I went and rushed out and bought it!! Well it *is* nearly Christmas. ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 8:42:45 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: I'm back! Hi all, we have returned from our Toronto trip and I'll be writing about it later. I just finished reading mail and I'm heading off to IRC to talk to Paul Antonov in Moscow. We might be in #ecto at some point, but he told me to go to #tusovka for now. My nickname is Equipoise. **WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME!!** YAY!! **HUGS TO YOU ALL!!** Vickie (been driving all night...the No Doze hasn't worn off yet) ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 07:35:50 +0700 From: dbx@ventana.atmos.colostate.edu (Doug Burks) Subject: 1993 Happy Gift Project -- last call Greetings Ecto-gentlefolk, [News item: Frank Zappa dies at 52. *snif* *snif* *sob* **sob** **SOB** ***WAIL*** :'( ] This is the last week for contributions to the 1993 Happy Gift Project. If you intend to contribute and you have not yet mailed your tape to me, you had better get off your butt and get moving. :) Currently the full list of contributions that I've received is: Doug Burks Michael Peskura Jens Brage David Dixon Let's make the final version of this list a wee bit longer. Okay? :) I have tacked the original announcement onto this note, just in case you have no idea what I am talking about here. Doug Burks _O_ @>->--- dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu |< She really is!! >>> Original announcement This is the initial announcement for the 1993 Happy Gift Project. December is a traditional time for gift giving, so The Management (Mitch Pravatiner and myself) invite everyone to contribute towards a collective gift from Ectophiles to Happy Rhodes. As per tradition (Ecto is old enough to have traditions!? :) ), you are invited to contribute a selection of music that you would like Happy to hear, along with any personal greetings, song introductions, whatever. The _only_ restriction is that your total contribution not exceed ten minutes in length. (Well, I don't know if we'd accept a John Cage homage called 9'47" :) ). Even then, feel free to add extra musical selections which can fill any leftover or odd spaces on the final tapes. If you do so, please make clear which selections are part of your official contribution and the priority you place on the additional bits. (We know. They are all great, but this still would be much appreciated. :) ) Original music is not only welcomed but encouraged! All of this will be copied onto a master tape, tied together with seasonally appropriate selections by The Management (Suggestions welcomed!) and the dulcet tones of Master of Ceremony Mitch Pravatiner. A copy will be mailed to one Happy Rhodes. The recent Happy Birthday Project also included a small gift, a kite handmade by Jeff Burka, a perfect addition to the tapes, in my opinion. It would be great to add a similar gift to this package. We hereby declare this electronic floor open for suggestions. I am also issuing a call for a volunteer to gift-wrap and mail the final package to Happy. Anyone should be able to better any ham-fisted attempt of mine. I would re-imburse any expenses of the wrapping and mailing. We hope that gives the spirit of this project, so on to the administrative details. Record your spoken greetings/introductions and musical selections on a cassette tape (heavily suggested: C-100 chrome bias, recorded in Dolby B) and mail it to me: Doug Burks 2036 W Plum St C7 Fort Collins CO 80521 USA In return, when the project is finished, I will mail all contributors a copy of the final 1993 Happy Gift Project tapes. Unfortunately, the number and length of the cassettes required to hold the final project will depend on the contributions. As a guideline, preceding projects have ended up on either two C-100 tapes or three C-90 tapes. If the project runs onto two tapes, I will supply the second tape (your choice of type) free to any contributors. If it runs onto a third (or fourth? :) ) tape, the responsibility for the additional tapes is yours, so please choose which tape dubbing project option you want to use. All return packaging and postage will be covered by me for all contributors. Copies of the 1993 Happy Gift Project will be available for non-contributors via the tape dubbing project. Watch this space in late December for an announcement. If you would like to include personal greetings or music introductions but have no way to record them, feel free to e-mail your greetings/introductions to Mitch Pravatiner (u15289@uicvm.cc.uic.edu), and he will record your greetings on a tape and mail it to me for blending with your musical selections. The deadline for all of this will be 10 Dec. Due to the over-burdened postal services in late November and December, please act soon! If you have any questions, comments, raspberries, feel free to post them or e-mail them to me or Mitch. I strongly encourage everyone to contribute. Don't worry about the quality of your selections. Just look at mine over the years and realize how easily you can best them! :) Let's make this the biggest and best project ever! Doug Burks _O_ @>->--- dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu |< She really is!! ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 11:24:50 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Quick thing (about the Goddess Concert) Chris and I are back from our Toronto trip and I'll be posting about it (in Ecto, don't worry Marcel) later. I did want to pass something along to North Americans though. The Christmas concert, called "A Choral Christmas," featuring Jane Siberry - Holly Cole - Mary Margaret O'Hara Victoria Williams - Rebecca Jenkins (plus, Tim Ray on piano) will be broadcast on CBC *and* NPR... CBC will broadcast it twice: "Hot Ticket" CBC Radio 740 - Saturday December 25, 1993 at 7:08pm CBC Stereo 94.1 - Sunday December 26, 1993 at 8:05pm There should be ads promoting the concert in Canada on radio, television (definitely Much Music) and in print. I know *nothing* about the NPR broadcasts except that in the program guide it says: "This program will also be aired on over 200 National Public Radio member stations throughout the United States." so I'd advise those in the USA to call their local NPR station for details. Even if you're not familiar with these women (any or all) and even if you think you *hate* Christmas music, this concert *SHOULD NOT BE MISSED*. It was **AMAZING**!! (Canadians might get to hear my dulcet tones :-). A fella from the CBC interviewed me before the concert. He was quite impressed when I told him that we'd driven from Chicago to Toronto *just* for the concert.) Here's more from the program guide: "Jane Siberry has invited some of her favorite singers to join her in this one-time-only choral adventure. The collective has visited libraries and poured through hundreds of traditional titles to select the repertoire for this special Christmas gathering. Join these innovative song stylists for an evening of wry vocal interpretations of Christmas favorites." (I'll probably post this to some Newsgroups too) Vickie -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Vickie Mapes "Fight for your right "My ears are lucky to hear vickie@pilot.njin.net to have a monster" TA these glorious songs" HR _________ "Imagination sets in, then |_ _ | _ The Happy Rhodes mailing list all the voices begin" KB |__|_ ||_| ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Searching for Happy Rhodes reviews, articles, interviews, mentions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ======================================================================== Date: 06 Dec 93 12:54:29 EST From: Mike Mendelson Subject: new lookalike candidate Newest Happy Rhodes lookalike candidate: Liz Story Re. Mayim Bialik: I mentioned this at least a year ago and everyone ignored me. Hah! Really tried to see Vartinna in Chicago on Sun. but the 5pm show was sold out and I couldn't make the 8pm show. So Cheryl and I went to Baraka at the Music Box instead (after picking up the Kate Pulse! at Tower -- yet another cool new take on Kate's visage -- stunning! Who thinks of these things?). The movie started out kind of slowly for us, but it picked up in the middle. The Dead Can Dance song was unquestionably the high point, proving once more that music is more powerful than images (?) -- well, maybe just proving that familiar music can change an ordinary duck-scene into something sublime. Our favorites were the people and traffic-moving scenes, and the way the fast-motion city scenes so mimicked natural phenomenon. One thing I would have liked, is if captions had told us what each scene was and where. That would have been way more fascinating. Instead, we just spent the whole time guessing. I still haven't read about the 950 Kate thing in Chicago over TG. Has anyone reported on this yet, or am I just not up to date on my digest reading (or both?)? "Love between the ugly is the most beautiful love of all" -(any guesses?) -mjmwhohopesyourlifeisimprovingdailycosmineis ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 12:18:41 CST From: Subject: Fast Fast Fast comments WRT Meredith's post on the concert theory of disease: if music can be that pathogenic, I fear for the impact that health care reform will have on it :-). WRT Gaffa: Studies of the hacker subculture have theorized that many of them have spent their lives with a deficit of significant social interaction, which predisposes to flaming at the drop of a hat. Things that make you go hmmm.... Within the hour, WXRT played "Eat the Music." It certainly is different from what we're used to getting from our Kate. Let me once again join Doug in imploring you to get your stuff in for the HGP. Welcome to America, Vickie :-). Mitch ------------------------------------- "I have to go get my teeth cleaned." --Barbara Hershey in _Hannah and her Sisters_ "Like MacArthur and the plague, I shall return." --Andy Montgomery In memory of Frank Zappa ======================================================================== Subject: Surprise, surprise... From: ecurrent@sizone.pci.on.ca (Mr. Plow) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 10:37:59 -0500 Well. I guess I should try to keep up with my ecto reading. If I *had* been keeping up, I wouldn't have nearly had a heart attack this past Saturday. So here I am, minding my own business, working my Saturday shift at The CD Bar here in Toronto, when this couple I've never met before in my life walks up to me. "You wouldn't happen to be Greg, would you?" the woman asks. "Uh... yeah" I say (meanwhile thinking "who wants to know?" :-) ). "HI! I'm Vickie from Chicago!" she sez, "and this is my Chris" (yes, she really *does* say "my" Chris... heh!). Whow! I'm sure my jaw must've hit the floor or something. Anyway, it was quite the surprise, and a pleasant one at that. Vickie gives as many hugs in real life as she does around here. :-) They're both just as nice in real life as they are around here. I felt very privlidged to be the first to show them the "Moments of Pleasure" CD singles, *and* to be the first person to play them "Show a Little Devotion". Luckily, the store wasn't too busy, so I had the chance to talk to them for at least a few minutes. For those keeping track of such things, they bought an issue of Rock CD magazine with Kate on the cover, an issue of NME from a few weeks back with a Kate interview, and a CD from Norway (? I *think* that was the country). They couldn't hang out too long, since their friend was waiting for them in the car, but at least I had a few minutes with some bona fide Net Celebs. :-) Greg Greg Clow - ecurrent@sizone.pci.on.ca - ecurrent@io.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "This alternative dance rock shit is the worst music in the history of the world! It depresses me that members of my species like this industrial Nazi death-rock garbage!" - Daniel G. Clowes, EIGHTBALL #11 ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 13:00:54 CST From: Subject: Whatever it is, have a good one I just remembered that in 3rd-grade German, we were taught that December 6 is a significant benchmark in the holiday season in German-speaking countries. I don't recall just what the holiday is today, but to all our German friends: Have a Happy. Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 20:40:44 +0100 From: yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no (Yngve Hauge) Subject: Surprise, surprise... Mr. Plow writes: > an issue of NME from a few weeks back with a Kate interview, and a CD > from Norway (? I *think* that was the country). They couldn't hang out > too long, since their friend was waiting for them in the car, but at > least I had a few minutes with some bona fide Net Celebs. :-) > By whom was the CD??? Yngve ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 12:11:58 PST From: Neal Copperman Subject: Baraka What mjm, you didn't find the list of something like 200 places scrolling rapidly by in the credits all the enlightenment you needed? I particularly liked the monkey in the hot spring in the snow covered mountains. Neal ======================================================================== 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)