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 #414 ecto, Number 414 Wednesday, 3 February 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Enough lurking... Re: Equus ... Misc... Random ramblings redux Guilty secrets Re: HaPpY Birthday Re: Shame and other stuff Equus and the perils of smuggitude (a new word) The other side of 1992 ======================================================================== Date: 03 Feb 1993 13:29:45 -0500 (EST) From: SANDOVAL@stsci.edu Subject: Enough lurking... Ok, I've lurked for long enough! :) Here's the basic in fo: Name: John Sandoval Birthdate: 1/4/67 Birthplace: San Diego, CA Current home: Laurel, MD Married: 7/20/91 (Jennifer) Shoe size: 9 I found out about Happy from rec.music.gaffa. I'm usually not a very experimental person when it comes to music, but something told me I'd have to go for this one. Am I glad I did! My wife bought me Warpaint for my birthday (she found it at Sam Goody). Within a week, I'd made a trip to Tower Records, and was lucky enough to find the other 4 albums. I couldn't decide what to get, so I bought them all! My musical tastes are quite varied. My favorites include: Kate Bush, Oingo Boingo, Cocteau Twins, Concrete Blonde, The Beatles, Sting/The Police, Peter Gabriel, The Cure, and The Smiths. And, now of course, Happy. :) My wife and I moved to Maryland last September, after living all of our lives in San Diego. She works at Goddard Space Flight Center and I work at The Space Telescope Institute. We have two cats, Tomcat and Tempest. Well, I think that about wraps it up. Oh, a quick question. Who do I make the check out to for my Equipoise order? I want to send it off today, if possible. I look forward to meeting everyone here! You seem like a great group of people! John ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: Equus ... Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 18:29:35 BST On Wed, 3 Feb 93 at 11:23:02 EST, boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) wrote: > Has anyone out there ever seen a production of Peter Schafer's (sp?) play > 'Equus'. It's really deep and disturbing and well worthwhile if you ever > get a chance. Peter S is the guy who wrote 'Amadeus' which was pretty good > too. Too right. The first time I ever saw "Equus" (in the original National Theatre production, back in 1976) remains one of the most powerful theatrical experiences I've had. Powerful stuff, though subsequent productions haven't quite managed the air of menace created in the original. The BBC once did a radio adaptation that was almost frightening in its intensity. I believe I'm right in saying that a well-regarded film was made of it with Richard Burton. Has anybody seen that? Since you mentioned "Amadeus" I'll say that in my opinion that play was rather a shallow romp compared with the depth and inner complexity of "Equus". And the film was a poor reflection of the stage production, though anything that serves to introduce people to Mozart's incomparable music can't be entirely bad, n'est-ce pas? -- 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". *** ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Enough lurking... Date: Wed, 03 Feb 93 13:45:18 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu John Sandoval writes: >Current home: Laurel, MD Finally! Another ectophile in the DC area! (well, okay, Laurel is closer to Baltimore (and aren't you in the B-more area, Kristi?) but hey, Laurel is still the DC area...;-) >My wife bought me Warpaint for my birthday (she found it at Sam Goody). Which Sam Goody? I've check a few of the DC ones but I've never seen Happy there. And for that matter, which Tower? The only one where I've seen her stuff is the Tower in Rockville. >My musical tastes are quite varied. My favorites include: Kate Bush, >Oingo Boingo, Cocteau Twins, Concrete Blonde, The Beatles, Sting/The >Police, Peter Gabriel, The Cure, and The Smiths. And, now of course, >Happy. :) Ooh! And an Oingo Boingo fan! My, what good taste in music. ;-) Check out Bel Canto. >Well, I think that about wraps it up. Oh, a quick question. Who >do I make the check out to for my Equipoise order? I want to >send it off today, if possible. Make the check payable to Aural Gratification. The address (which you can find on your CDs) is: Happy Rhodes and Kevin Bartlett c/o Aural Gratification P.O. Box 8658 Academy Station Albany, NY 12208 wish I'd sent in my order earlier than last Friday. Jeff (who wonders who the first ectophile to actually receive _Equipoise_ will be) ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Enough lurking... Date: Wed, 03 Feb 93 13:53:02 EST From: Angelos Kyrlidis Jeff signs off by saying: >(who wonders who the first ectophile to actually receive _Equipoise_ will be) Let us hope that whoever it is will be sure to post all about it (with spoiler alerts for those who want them) since some of us can't wait. I will probably buy it from Tower if they carry it before my copy comes here (based on experience with AG it will be here next Thursday, ie. two weeks from when I mailed out the order and I most certainly can't wait til then). Angelos ======================================================================== From: special K Subject: Re: Enough lurking... Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 14:04:33 EST jeffy@somewhere said: > Finally! Another ectophile in the DC area! (well, okay, Laurel is > closer to Baltimore (and aren't you in the B-more area, Kristi?) but Nope. I'm in Hampton, VA. You may have thought I was at NASA-Goddard...I'm at NASA-Langley. And have yet to hear any Happy yet. I think I'll take a trip over to Norfolk (where they actually have some culture) and look for Happy stuff at Tracks this weekend. Yeah...time to spend some CD money! yours in kd fandom forever, special K ======================================================================== Date: 03 Feb 1993 14:18:17 -0400 (EDT) From: SANDOVAL@stsci.edu Subject: Misc... Jeff, Thanks for the check info. It goes in the mail today! :) Laurel seemed like the perfect place for us to live, since I work in Baltimore and Jennifer is in Greenbelt. My commute is a bit longer, but it's not too bad. Maryland seems like a very nice place... We saw Warpaint at the Sam Goody in Columbia Mall. I was pretty surprised to see it there. We'd gone to the Tower in Rockville right before Xmas, and they did have some albums, but the line stretched the entire length of the store. :( I went to the Tower in Annapolis to get the other albums. The had Ecto listed under the "R's" for Rhodes, but the rest were all in the "H"'s for Happy. Oh well... Being in San Diego, I had plenty of chances to see Boingo. I've seen them about 6 times. The best was a 3 1/2 hour concert in the San Diego sports areana. It was right after "Boingo" came out, and they played almost every song they'd written. It was great! I'll have to check out Bel Canto... Oh, and I happened to notice that Vicki had Concrete Blonde in her play list. I saw Concrete twice, the first time at a free concert at my school (UCSD). They were performing on the gym steps. This was right after the first album was released, and I got it the next day! I've gotten everything since... Hi Vicki!! :) John ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 03 Feb 93 13:17:44 CST From: The great alliterator? Subject: Random ramblings redux Happy Groundhog Day+1. Talk about the latent dysfunctions of sunshine: the little critter saw his shadow, and now we're at risk of ice-induced slip and falls, shoveling-induced infarctions, and the rest of such misery and vice. On the other hand, the further deferral of spring _does_ defer that long the return of whatever the downside of spring weather is (it escapes me just now); wouldst that it also pushed ahead the summer's heat and humidity :-). Somehow, this observance that I am now engaging a day late (if not a dollar short :-) ) triggered the recollection that Woody Allen married Louise Lasser on Groundhog Day sometime in the '60s. It's unfortunate, in retrospect, that the marriage broke up; I always considered _Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman_ to be funnier than _Peyton Place_, besides which Louise has never gone in for fling- ing lurid allegations about Woody. I was reminded by the almanac display just before the commercial on _World News Now_ that this date in 1959 was The Day The Music Died, on which Buddy Holly and colleagues' plane went down. Interestingly, there has been no sea- sonal spurt in postings to rec.music.misc offering exegeses of "American Pie," as I had suspected there might be. In the sweet name of accuracy, I should report that on hearing the second go- around of _All Things Considered_ yesterday, I discovered that the bill to legalize pet lobsters in Maine has been introduced in the legislature, but has not passed yet. The speculations about whether Happy will sing backup for Andreas Vollenweider brought back memories for me of a 1988 article on New Age music in general and AV in particular, in which one, nonetheless apparently satisfied listener was quoted to the effect that she used it as background music for washing lettuce. Let us hope that the only lettuce to be washed to the strains of Happy's music in the near future is the gross receipts from sales of _Equipoise_. Speaking of which: I should reassure Angelos--and the rest of you--that what- ever the turnaround time is for mail orders of the aforesaid album, it can't help but be shorter than was the case for me in November of 1990, when I was inexplicably captivated by a commercial for one of Time-Life's innumerable compendia of blasted from-the-past music. I forthwith called their 800 number to order it, and much later received a postcard stating that it was out of stock and on backorder. The superficial indications to date are that it still is. Add Time-Life to the ever-growing stable of labels that Happy should not consider recording for. Mitch ------------------------------------ "January brings the snow/Makes your feet and fingers glow. February's Ice and sleet/Freeze the toes right off your feet." --Flanders and Swann ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 15:49:02 EST From: kosky@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Anthony Kosky) Subject: Guilty secrets Hi All! I'm behind on digests as usual, but I figured I'd see if I could out do people on the Guilty Secrets front, and terminally embarrass myselt at the same time: Once, a long time ago, I bought the soundtrack to the film Grease. (luckily it was very warped so I took it back to the record shop, and didn't get another copy). Will that do? No? Well ok then, here goes: Once, an even longer time ago, I owned ALL of The Wombles records. There. I bet no one can beat that! -Anthony (who's now succeeded in destroying any semblance of credibility that he ever had) ======================================================================== From: "Michael Blackmore" Date: 3 Feb 93 16:16:51 EST Subject: Re: HaPpY Birthday Stephen, Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Stephen! Congratulations! - Michael B. ======================================================================== From: heath@iceblink.cs.jhu.edu (Dave Heath) Subject: Re: Enough lurking... Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 21:19:39 GMT jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu writes: >John Sandoval writes: >>Current home: Laurel, MD >Finally! Another ectophile in the DC area! (well, okay, Laurel is >closer to Baltimore (and aren't you in the B-more area, Kristi?) but >hey, Laurel is still the DC area...;-) Well, this gives me a good chance to test out the outgoing link to ecto. You may remember me as the mysterious "ecto@" person of a year or so ago. I think there are several ecto-types in baltimore. One of the local cd stores (An Die Musik) has carried Warpaint off and on for quite a while. Last time I was there they had both Ecto and Rearmament. I bought Warpaint soon after it became available. I have to admit that I thought it was nice, but I was not really that excited by it. I picked up Ecto at ADM, and like it much better. Any suggestions for what I should get next? (Despite my preference for Ecto, I'm thinking of ordering Equipoise). -dave ======================================================================== From: "Michael Blackmore" Date: 3 Feb 93 16:46:03 EST Subject: Re: Shame and other stuff Jim: I too must confess that I have had at one time in my youth owned an album of and listened to the music of the Partridge Family. ("I woke up in love this morning...") On a related note, years ago (in my punk phase) I had a hard core punk cover of the Partridge Family's song "I think I Love You" Needless to say it was quite different from the original! Sam: Sorry that in my last post I called you Jim. I'm filled with shame. :-( There's someone in my office called Jim Warren...and a dendrite in my brain misfired! I'll go stand in the corner without my supper now! ;-) Special K: says "Norfolk (where they actually have some culture)" Scary thought! I was born and raised in Norfolk, VA (my first 17 years of life). Other than Ghent (NARO cinema, Popouri restaurant, some good ice cream places and antique stores) and maybe Wards Corner (Tracks Records and a good used bookstore), I never thought of Norfolk as having culture! Of course, I guess compared to some of the other places around there it might ;-) Of course, the places I mentioned may all be gone now, because it has been years since I was last there! Anthony: says "Once, an even longer time ago, I owned ALL of The Wombles records. There. I bet no one can beat that!" Forgive your humble servant's ignorance but who are the Wombles? Of course, maybe I really don't want to know, it might scare me. ;-) I'll getting more and more into WARPAINT. I keep playing the tape over and over and have the songs going through my head. I even woke up this morning with some of the songs from it running through my head! I can't wait to get the other albums! I feel just like a kid! - Michael B. ("Ah...Ah...Ah...Staying Alive!" - Beegees) P.S. No I'm not a closet Beegees fan, but I do sometimes having the sound-track from Saturday Night Fever running through my head for no apparent reason! ======================================================================== From: alan moorse Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 17:27:08 -0500 Subject: Equus and the perils of smuggitude (a new word) I've seen Equus three times: twice on stage and once in the movies -- the Richard Burton film Steve mentioned. The film was definitely worth seeing, but the first stage production was by far the best (probably because it had AMAZING people portraying horses). It also made a strong impression on me because it was only the second professional production I had seen in my young life. Luckily, my dad was sitting between my mother and me, so she couldn't cover my eyes during the nude scene. She really made a scene a month or so before that, trying to cover my little sister's ears everytime a character swore in "That Championship Season." Burton did by far the best psychiatrist. I coined the word "smuggitude" because "smugness" didn't seem to fit in the subject line. When someone listed the ordering information for Equipoise (probably Vickie), I didn't keep the message because, I thought smugly, I live so near Albany that I can just trot out to the store and bring the disc home. No reason to wait for the mail. Of course, no stores will admit to having it in stock yet (prpbably because they don't). So would someone please tell me the price and the shipping charge. I am going to shamefacedly resort to mailing my order. (and how's that for a split infinitive?) alanm ...boldly to go where no man has gone before. ...to go boldly where no man has gone before. ...to get lost. ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: The other side of 1992 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:50:35 BST As I said, slightly controversially, some time ago I wasn't too impressed with the quantity of top-notch new music released last year in those genres of the popular music that interest me. However, I do think that 1992 was an above-average year for new recordings in what, for want of a better term, one might call the "classical" field. So, here's my top ten new recordings of 1992: Berg/Rihm: Violin Concerto/Time Chant - Mutter/CSO/Levine Bliss: Morning Heroes - Blessed/LPO/Kibblewhite Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - BBCPO/Klee Dvorak: Slavonic Dances - Labeques Ligeti/Lutoslawski/Schnittke: String Quartets - Hagen Quartet Lutoslawski: Piano Concerto/Chain 3/Novelette - Zimmermann/BBCSO/Lutoslawski Macmillan: The Confession of Isabel Gowdie/Tryst - BBCSSO/Maksymiuk Milhaud/Bennett/Rosauro/Miyoshi: Percussion Concertos - Glennie/SCO/Daniel Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 8 & 9 - Uchida/ECO/Tate Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations &c. - Harnoy/LPO/Mackerras All come highly recommended (by me, at any rate). -- 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". *** ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. 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