Errors-To: owner-ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu From: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@athos.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #163 ecto, Number 163 Thursday, 13 February 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: Blue? Re: Some advice on Warpaint CD Re: ectopost Re: Happy Dreaming Oh boy! archive stuff ectospasm Fluff (tm) Yikes Ecto Explosion merow ======================================================================== From: Kiri is ectO Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1992 22:41:45 EST Subject: Re: Blue? On Feb 12, 8:11pm, kyrlidis@athena.mit.edu wrote: } Are these the fuzzy blue algae-like parasites that are in my ears? :-) } :) :) } Angelos } +================================================+ } |'My ears have cyanobacteria'-hApPy RhOdEs (NOT!)| } +================================================+ }-- End of excerpt from kyrlidis@athena.mit.edu haha...well no, you probably won't find cyanobacteria in your ears but I'll be happy to check which kind of parasites you may find in your ears tomorrow :) On another bizarre twisted bio-geek note: In a cell undergoing ameboid movement there are two layers of cytosol. The outer layer is a gel-like ectoplasm. It is ecto because it is the `outer' plasm, and is more gel-like because of an abundance of actin filaments compared to the rest of the cell. Now imagine how being that ecto must feel? blooob blooooob What is Boskone?? kiri a sick bio-joke that i made up freshman year "The other day our teacher gave us an assignment where we had to write a paper, making sure we used citations. One of the students wisely asked.....Are we allowed to Cytoplasm?" hehehe guess you have to be a bio-geek to appreciate the sick humour in that one eh? :) -- _ |< | | ) | ^o o^ hargieka@craft.camp.clarkson.edu | \ \\I// "People who are easily shocked should be -vv- Shocked more often" Mae West ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 12:53:06 +0800 (SST) From: N_HAYS@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au (Martin Dougiamas) Subject: Re: Some advice on Warpaint CD Greg writes: > [10 very sound and quite hilarious reasons for buying the CD over the tape..] Perhaps we could add: 11) The CD contains additional tracks (True, these are only for timing etc but they are extra tracks) 12) You never have to turn the CD over to play the other side. You can, of course, but there's just some wierd Bartlett/Rhodes demos on that side. 13) You can play selected tracks over and over and over in any order you like as long as you like. 14) You can check your reflection in the CD if there isn't a mirror handy. 15) More people will notice the CD if they happen to be looking at your music collection 'cause the spotlight shining on it will be reflecting into their eyes. 16) The CD has a hole in the middle exactly big enough to fit your finger through, whereas the tape spools are always just that bit too small. This makes the CD superior for brandishing above your head at concerts. 17) You can drive a truck over your CD (remember the advertising when CD's first became available?) Try doing THAT to your tape. 18) Happy will like you more if she knows you have the CD. 19) The Warpaint CD will go much better together with the 1st4 when you buy them all on CD. 20) What else are you gonna spend your 12 bucks on? Laundry detergent? Come on, be serious. Martin ,---------------------------+----------------------------. _ . | Feel the searing heat of | Martin Dougiamas. | ~ _r' Ll\ ~ | heightened conciousness. | n_hays@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au | | \ ~ | Feel the yearning for | University of | ~ \ ._ / ~ | peace and happiness. | Western Australia | -->X~ `-' ~ `======== * Happy Rhodes * =+============================' V ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 23:02:19 EST From: justin@crim.ca (Justin Bur) Subject: Re: ectopost Alan is back! and says > And the other song she sings, which may or may not be a cover (I don't > have the disc, so you tell me) is called "Too Much" and that one can be > found on Beautiful Pea Green Boat's LP, Still Life. (referring to Mathilde Santing)... Too Much is Mathilde Santing's own song, "music and lyrics by Dennis Duchhart and/or Mathilde Santing", from her album Water under the bridge which contains no covers! now going to put on my urban-planning-student hat and be studious, which might result in an unwonted silence. justin ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 13:10:05 +0800 (SST) From: N_HAYS@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au (Martin Dougiamas) Subject: Re: Happy Dreaming Meredith dreams: >A bunch of people I can only describe as Amorphous Ectophiles and I were >in a school sort of place, sitting in a classroom. Hey! You people are like that to me in reality... I've never met any of you, or even seen any of you. Y'all are really just ectoplasmic voices to me... voices from the ether. Even if I try to visualise you I don't get much, just fuzzy blue shadows... Martin ======================================================================== From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris n Vickie) Subject: Oh boy! Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 23:13:08 CST Fuzzy apologies if I helped lunch anyone's mailbox. Barry mmentioned that it was quiet in ecto and I thought it was a perfect time to post the interview transcriptions. Now ecto is back to normal and I'm pleased. Meredith, I (buy the CD) like (buy the CD) your (buy the CD) subliminal (buy the CD) messages (buy the CD) message (buy the CD). Jokey, really, it's a good idea, if you have the money to spare. Even if you don't plan on getting a CD player for a while, it will still encourage the store to get more in, you can generate Happy talk at the store, and, you can always give it to someone as a present. A record store I worked at in Kansas City carried the cassettes (guess who talked them into it? :-) and I probably bought 3/4 of them, just to give away to people. Added up, if I still had all the ones I bought, I'd probably have at least 10 VI, 10 VII, 7-8 Ecto, and at least 5 Rearmament cassettes. They were so much fun to give away. I'm much more stingy now (now that I realize the cassettes are soon-to- be-collector's-items) and I usually just "lend" them out :-) or pass them along with asking for a promise that if the receiver isn't interested, will they please pass them around to other people, and it works well. FU_BLU_MA_LI?? I don't know either. I'm trying to work out anagrams. Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 02:53:32 EST From: jessica@cs.rutgers.edu Subject: archive stuff many thanks to martin for a new index file for the archive site! I only made a few minor changes, it's great. I've put the EctoFAQ up, too (also made a few minor changes). Gifs of ectophiles? fine by me.. :) I put the lyrics to point and pull and in between the lines in BR.lyrics, and the ones to when the rain came down in WtRCD, both in the lyrics directory. We need to work on the BR lyrics more.. (or at least, *I*'d like to :) I tihnk the lines in "between the lines" *do* say i sleep to the sound of bars (ie, i too tihnk the word is bars) however, i tihnk the next line is "Don't want to be here" differeing from the previous "I want to go there" no, i'm confused with the location, but you know what i mean, i hope. :) you can look in the file for clarification. I tihnk "in between the lines" is my favorite of the BR songs, but it's *really* a tough choice. it's just that that one is so, mm dancy, in a way, *all* of it just goes whooosh right into me and i move around :) i also incredibly love "when the rain came down" *sigh*. nearly 3am and my cold will only get worse if i keep it up. goodnight! hopefully i'll post more ectonews tomorrow! oh, i suppose i shoudl mention i spoke to kevin today, though i don't tihnk we really said anything of interest. I tihnk they're gonna mail something out soon, i am not *sure* but i tihnk the people on their mailing list will be getting it, and that means many of us.. like vickie said, if you want to be on their mailing list, just write and let them know, even if you have ordered recently. or let me know, with your address, and i'll pass the info on. About susanne, I dunno if i mentioned - she's gonna use kevin's account. i'm going to "look the other way" jessica ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 00:46:30 PST From: stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Subject: ectospasm It's been a long time since I found the time and inclination to babble about my life in general to the mailing list, so here goes. I got the Ecto SIG and HGP tapes from Vickie on Monday, and today I finally finished listening to them all (first the SIG, then HGP 1 & 2). I was especially impressed by Angelos's contribution of "Meno Ektos", the They Might Be Giants song that I've never heard before, my first exposure to Danielle Dax, and many other songs that I would otherwise never have heard. It was also cool to hear so many of your voices. Now I have voices that I can put to your words when I read your posts. And I'll do sort of what Vickie did earlier and feel insecure about the way my voice sounds on tape. I've always hated the way my voice sounds on recordings. In my head I have this deep, warm, sort of gravelly voice that's strong but not usually loud. On tape I sound nasal and have a drawl where half my words stretch out much longer than I hear myself saying them. Hopefully this impression is just because I'm comparing it to the way I sound in my head and doesn't sound as bad to everyone else. But I'm glad I contributed and I'm glad Happy enjoyed it. This is truly something unique in my experience, to know a bunch of fans who have shown this kind of support for one of their favorite artists. I am really enjoying having my new modem, which for you techies is a 2400 baud V.42bis. What this means in less technical terms is that it goes at at least 2400 baud but usually transmits at more like 4800-9600 baud when I'm reading text. Sure makes it easier to wade through all these Ecto messages and those gigantic Love-Hounds digests (Ron Hill has more interviews! Oh no!) I ran a race this last weekend and won a $25 gift certificate to a local hippie grocery (and I mean hippie in a nice way) and more importantly one dozen truffles from the Euphoria Chocolate Company, a true blessing on the face of Eugene. If there are better truffles than Euphoria makes I would probably die if I ate one. As it is I call them Chocolate Orgasms, by analogy with Hershey's Kisses. Although this El Nino thing is making our weather look way too springlike here, I have been skiing on the increasingly thin layer of snow up in the mountains here. I get to ski every Friday (after prearranging it at work) and I'm now doing volunteer sit-ski instruction for the program I ski with, which is a lot of fun. Although last Friday one of my charges wandered off before I could work with him more, went screaming down a run, and apparently crashed and slid to a stop on his face, indicated by the inch-in-diameter strawberry that he got. We're hoping to keep him a little more mellow this Friday. Another beginning sit-skier appears to be picking things up quite quickly, although he's also into speed. We also have this really cool kid who's learning to ski, but who has moderate CP and has a little trouble coordinating all the movements needed to make turns. However, he's really having a good time and we've got some ideas for ways to make it easier for him to ski. I will be traveling to Los Angeles for the weekend of 15 March, and would love to meet any Ectophiles there. Mail me if you're interested. Alas, I really doubt I can afford to go to Philadelphia for the 21 March Happy concert, although it's very tempting and I would love to meet all of you. However, if you do want me to come visit your city, you can tempt me by sending me details about any road race with a large wheelchair division in your local area. As for work, well . . . they just printed up a million brochures promising a product that I am the sole programmer for, so I have been committed in the most serious way. And today I got a summons for jury duty starting next month, which isn't going to help one bit. But now it's quite late and I'm very tired because my coach has me on a weight program that should make me very strong if it doesn't kill me first. This is one of those times that proves Dave Barry's theory about exercise, which is that it makes old age more bearable by getting you used to the aches and pains and tiredness and weakness while you are still young. Today I did a weight workout lasting about 75 minutes, swam 850 yards (not much by my standards, which were set when I swam 3600 yards in a stretch), then did about 250 crunches (the partial sit up that's better for you). Don't try this at home unless you have a high pain threshold and have been working up to it for months. If this is gloating, it's like gloating over how many times you can hit yourself in the head with a brick while crooning. G'night, all. ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 08:20:21 MST From: dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu (Doug Burks) Subject: Fluff (tm) Greetings, C'mon, Mitch. Harry Nilsson's "Spaceman" fits that lonely stranded cosmonaut better than you remember: Bang, bang, shoot 'em up, destiny Bang, bang, shoot 'em up to the moon Bang, bang, shoot 'em up, one, two, three One, two, three, four I wanted to be a spaceman That's what I wanted to be But now that I am a spaceman Nobody cares about me. Hey, Mother Earth, won't you bring back down Safely to the sea? Around and around and around and around is all she ever say to me. I wanted to make a good run I wanted to go to the moon I knew it had to be real fun I told them to send me real soon I wanted to be a spaceman I wanted to be it so bad But now that I am a spaceman I'd rather be back on the pad Hey, Mother Earth, won't you bring back down Safely to the sea. Around and around and around and around is just a lot of lunacy. Yeah Yeah Around and around and around and around and around So bring me back down Around and around and around and around and around Safe on the ground Hey, Mother Earth, better bring me back down Safely to the sea. But around and around and around and around is all she ever say to me. You know I wanted to be a spaceman That's what I wanted to be But now that I am a spaceman Nobody cares about me. Say Hey, you Mother Earth, you better bring me back down I've taken as much as I can Around and around and around and around is the problem of a spaceman. (Of course, this misses all the fun of Nilsson's vocal acrobatics). By the way, the song is on his _Son of Schmilsson_ album, a wonderful, wild, wacky, off the wall, even a bit controversial album. Its highlight is the most straightforward 'you done me wrong' song I've heard. As for "M.T.A.", I'll let Mitch post the lyrics (one transcription per evening is enough for me), if he wants. It's a wonderfully absurd song/story, if any of you get a chance to hear it. However, applying it to the cosmonaut, I would say a closer parallel would be if Charlie was stranded on the train because the transit authority went out of business. Happy stuff? You want Happy stuff? Okay, how about this. I got my ticket yesterday! Of course, that's just cheapest part of my upcoming trip. I'll get the airline ticket next week. As for the concert ticket, people have expressed some curiosity about what it looks like. It's just your run of the mill computer-generated piece of stiff paper. Of course, it does have something very special on it -- the two words "Happy Rhodes". Tons of happy :) :) :) Angelos, are you still looking for numbers? FU_BLU_MA_LI is no mystery. It's just one of those obscure error codes that that VMS loves to spit out (though Happy replaced the dollar sign but an underscore). Just like every other one of them, I have no idea what it means. (At least, Unix error messages are readable, if equally opaque. ("Not a typewriter"? Okay, tell me something I don't already know!)). :) Doug Burks _O_ dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu |< She really is!! ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 14:47 GMT From: Merow!! in case all of you are wondering where the EctoCat has gone... well..sorry folks...i have mono..thus you wont be hearing much more than sick weak cat mews coming out of my for a while... (mono=glandular fever for those Europeans out there) i am still reading mail and all and answering occasionally..but i get these dizzy spells that make it hard for me to concentrate or be able to sit at the computer for long periods of time.. anyway..just thought my family should know... (crawling back into my hole to whimper and moan) meeeeeww (sick mew) court the sick cat. ======================================================================== Yep, there were 6 of the above. I figured one was enough :) --jessica ======================================================================== From: Kiri is ectO Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 11:00:39 EST Subject: Yikes Ecto Explosion Did everyone else get _6_ copies of sis's/ectocat/merow/courtney's last letter?? Guess ecto is feeling as good as I am today. kiri "excuse me could you pass me the mustard" -- _ |< | | ) | ^o o^ hargieka@craft.camp.clarkson.edu | \ \\I// "People who are easily shocked should be -vv- Shocked more often" Mae West ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 08:56:59 -0800 From: Michael G Peskura Subject: merow Hope you feel better soon, Courtney...See? It's warmer over there by the radiator. Take care. Mp ======================================================================== 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@athos.rutgers.edu)