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 #455 ecto, Number 455 Tuesday, 23 February 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Color your way to Happy Brandenburg Jean Michael Jarre & Phillip Glass Re: DARPA-Net Elvira Madigan Discography of Phillip Glass The Story More of the same... cosmic pipage egapipcim soc ======================================================================== Subject: Color your way to Happy Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 18:08:34 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu I simply needed to add to this discussion that should you prefer to shop for Happy Rhodes CDs in DC instead of Chicago, you should hope a plane to National Airport. Walk over to the airport metro station, and hop the Blue Line. Transfer from the Blue Line onto the Red Line at Metro Center, being sure to get on in the direction of Shady Grove. At your second stop, Dupont Circle, head back above ground (be sure to use the Q Street exit). Cross to the East side of Connecticut Avenue and head north 1/2 block. As an added bonus, they may still have that copy of _White Out Conditions_ for only $13.99. Jeff ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 18:34:24 EST From: justin@crim.ca Subject: Brandenburg In English the name is used unchanged from German; -berg is therefore an error. In French, on the other hand, the name is Brandebourg, and the music, les Concertos brandebourgeois...! justin ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 18:34:24 EST From: justin@crim.ca Subject: Brandenburg Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 18:34:24 EST From: justin@crim.ca Subject: Brandenburg In English the name is used unchanged from German; -berg is therefore an error. In French, on the other hand, the name is Brandebourg, and the music, les Concertos brandebourgeois...! justin ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 16:23:56 PST From: tsai@ikos.com (Finney T. Tsai) Subject: Jean Michael Jarre & Phillip Glass Jens Said: :> :> Well, "Zoolook" is probably his most original album. "Equinoxe" is pretty :> good too, but the style is very different: Purely synthesizers, no vocals. :> :> I got the "Zoolook" LP a long time ago, and I had totally forgotten that :> Laurie Anderson does the vocals on "Diva" (in fact, I suspect I didn't know :> who Laurie Anderson is, at the time). As I haven't got a record player, :> I never look at the cover... Then, recently, my brother borrowed the LP :> and pointed out the credits to me! :> Interesting, now the dicussion turns to JMJ and Phillip Glass. In general I dislike Jarre's music. I feel it's pretty, but very shallow, comparing to Vangelis' works. However, "Zoolook" is an exception. Yes, it's very old: 1985, I think? It's ambitious. JMJ intended to incorporate all of the languages such as English, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and even some African native languages into this album. The music is quite minimalism-like. This might be the reason it wasn't so popular as JMJ's other works. Laurie Anderson did an amusing back vocal on one song, but I didn't feel anything special. Zoolook is the only JMJ LP in my collection, yet hope it's not the last one. :) -finney ======================================================================== Date: 23 Feb 1993 18:26:01 -0500 From: scasterg@waltham.columbus.oh.us (Stuart M. Castergine) Subject: Re: DARPA-Net > >ARPA-net joined universities..... > > actually, it was first invented (?) in the mid/late sixties to link up > the computers operating at different missile silos across the U.S.A. > Part of the wonderful US cold-war paranoia. It was only after they did > this that they discovered they could do nifty things like send electronic > mail.... > > and set up wonderful mailing lists, like this one for HAPPY! > Yeah, have you guys heard about the ICBM mailserver? It's really neat. just send mail to ICBM@silo.nuke.gov leave the subject line blank. Commands you can include in the body of the message include. HELP -- list of commands SITE sitename -- sends commands to a specific missile site. Default is "boulder1" ARM number -- arms a specified number of warheads at selected site TARGET degrees [NS] degrees [EW] -- sets destination for all currently armed missiles LAUNCH -- launches all armed missiles The server will execute until it comes to the end of the message or the first unrecognizable line. I've found that a good place to get destination coordinates is from the uucp maps. I've heard they're planning gopher, telnet and irc interfaces in the near future. Should be really neat. This is all classified information, of course. So if I suddenly drop off the face of the earth, you know who to blame it on. --- scasterg@waltham.columbus.oh.us -- Stuart Castergine ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 01:05:13 GMT From: brage@sphere.home.id.dth.dk (Jens P. Brage) Subject: Elvira Madigan Mitch writes: > Since I never saw the 1967 Swedish movie _Elvira Madigan_, for which the title > of today's essay was originally the advertising slogan, I don't know what the > slogan actually had to do with the film other than getting people intrigued by > the enigma into the ticket lines. Well, it is a film by Bo Wiederberg(sp?), based on "actual events" which happened around the turn of the century (I think). The basic story was that a Swedish soldier (of some rank) fell in love with a Danish circus princess, Elvira Madigan (possibly the nationalities were the other way around), deserted the army and joined the circus. They were hunted through Sweeden and finally suicided in Denmark. At the time, this was a great scandal (and romantic story :-)) and songs were made of the affair. [Note: This is all from my pretty patchy memory!] Anyways, the movie was beautifully made, and a piece by Mozart (piano concerto no. 27, I think (possibly 21)) which was used in the film is now commonly known simply as "Elvira Madigan". I recommend Bo Wiederberg's films in general, every film of his I've seen has been very good... The slogan probably refers the story which sounds like something out of a fairy tale, but actually happened in real life... > CAT, YOU BETTER COME HOME > [...] > But she was a gypsy, she had no home > She moved to Spain and then to Rome > She moved to Copenhagen with a dog named Jens Wow! A cat with good taste! I've always been a dog person... ;-) [I was wondering if I should post about Elvira Madigan, but when I saw this, I didn't have a choice! :-)] Jens P. Brage | Dance the circle dance of dreaming, brage@sphere.home.id.dth.dk | lonely by the crystal sea. /\ | Spin the web of mist and moonlight, \SphereSoft | come, beloved, and follow me. ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 17:19:37 PST From: tsai@ikos.com (Finney T. Tsai) Subject: Discography of Phillip Glass Here's the discography of Phillip Glass from 1972 to 1989. Personally I prefer EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH, KOYAANISQATSI, THE PHOTOGRAPHER, SONGS FROM LIQUID DAYS, 1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF, and the new Low Symphony(sp?). What I feel is if you were a faithful Glass fan, the latest one is a must. It's an interesting variation. -finney ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GLASS, PHILIP MUSIC WITH CHANGING PARTS 1972 GLASS, PHILIP MUSIC IN SIMILAR MOTION / MUSIC I 1973 GLASS, PHILIP MUSIC IN TWELVE PARTS (PARTS 1 & 1974 GLASS, PHILIP LIVE IN PARIS 11/28/75 (BOOTLEG) 1975 GLASS, PHILIP SOLO MUSIC 1975 GLASS, PHILIP NORTH STAR 1977 GLASS, PHILIP EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH (4-LP BOX S 1979 GLASS, PHILIP DANCE, NOS. 1 AND 3 1980 GLASS, PHILIP (COMPACT DISC) DANCE NOS. 1-5 (2) 1980-88 GLASS, PHILIP (12-INCH) SOHO NEWS: DRESSED LIKE 1981 GLASS, PHILIP (COMPACT DISC) GLASSWORKS 1982 GLASS, PHILIP GLASSWORKS INTERVIEW 1982 GLASS, PHILIP (7-INCH) FACADES / A GENTLEMAN'S 1983 GLASS, PHILIP KOYAANISQATSI (LIFE OUT OF BALANC 1983 GLASS, PHILIP THE PHOTOGRAPHER 1983 GLASS, PHILIP (COMPACT DISC) MISHIMA 1985 GLASS, PHILIP (COMPACT DISC) SATYAGRAHA (3) 1985 GLASS, PHILIP SONGS FROM LIQUID DAYS 1986 GLASS, PHILIP (7-INCH FLEXIDISC) EXCERPT FROM D 1987 GLASS, PHILIP AKHNATEN (3-LP BOX SET) 1987 GLASS, PHILIP DANCE PIECES 1987 GLASS, PHILIP (CASSETTE-ONLY) MUSIC IN TWELVE P 1988 GLASS, PHILIP (COMPACT DISC) POWAQQATSI 1988 GLASS, PHILIP THE THIN BLUE LINE 1988 GLASS, PHILIP 1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF 1989 There's a couple of video items I know of. There's a 1 hour doc interview I don't know much about but have a copy of from PBS. There's a video of the opera Satyagraha, plus one that's either AKHNATEN or something on the making of it. Plus KOYAANISQATSI and POWAQQATSI... Other credits: Glass produced one or two lps by a band called POLYROCK in the early 80's. I believe he plays on one of these. %%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%% %% compiled by Malcolm Humes (malcolm@wrs.com) on 9/13/91 %% %%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%%=%% ======================================================================== From: depeche@cs.mcgill.ca (S. A. Ezust) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 22:47:05 EST Subject: The Story While I Was in Boston, I managed to catch The Story live at the HomeGrown CoffeeHouse in Needham, a venue which seems to have lots of interesting folky things happening there! Call them at 444-7478 for more info. Anyway, The Story is AWESOME live - a must-see for any ectophile. They're so much better live than on CD it's not even funny, either, so please don't buy their disc until you see them live, so you won't get turned off of them. They are incredibly graceful, witty, charming, and they sound wonderful on stage, since it's only an acoustic guitar and no other instruments at all. Their facial expressions and body movements transmit more meaning to the music as well. Their set on the 20th was the following songs: So Much (very emotional) Perfect Crime Satin On An Island (acapella with dancing) God Damn Everything But The Circus (can't get that melody out of my head now) Little Mermaid song (?) Guilded Cage Fatso (very funny live - everyone is rolling in the aisles) Grace In Gravity (very emotional experience) (intermission) Over Oceans Amelia Barefoot Ballroom Just One Word Dog Dreams (much better live than on CD) Alarm is on Love encore: Falling Away (very beautiful and a wonderful way to end the set) The Story Concert Dates (as of 2/18/93) 3/4 New London, CT Conn College 3/5 Pemberton, NJ Burlington College 609-894-9311 3/6 Philadelphia PA University Museum Auditorium (w/ david wilcox) 3/12 Grand Rapids, MI The Ladies Literary Club 616-241-1019 3/13 Ann Arbor, MI The Ark 7:30 and 9:30pm 313-761-1451 3/14 Chicago IL TBA 3/27 Tarrytown, NY Rarrytown Music Hall 914-332-8497 4/2 Deerfield, MA Deerfield Academy 4/3 Somerville, MA Somerville Theatre 617-496-2222 with Knots and Crosses 4/8 Celo, NC TBA 4/9 Asheville, NC TBA 4/10 Clearwater, Fla Ruth Eckert PAC with David Wilcox, Patty Larkin 813-791-7400 4/11 Philadelphia PA Cherry Tree Music Coop 215-247-1300 5/8 Northampton, MA The Iron Horse 413-586-8686 7/24-25 Hillsdale, NY Falcon Ridge Folk Festival 8/2-3 Blue Hill ME Left Bank Cafe 8/14 King of Prussia, PA Upper Merion Parks Folk Fest The Story's second album has a title- the Angel In The House and is supposed to be released sometime in Late Spring on Elektra! Booking: Fleming/Tamulevch & assoc 313-995-9066 Fax 662-6502 Management Toby Ludwig 212-633-8754 fax 633-9754 -- | Alan Ezust depeche@cs.mcgill.ca McGill University Computer Science | |------------------------ Montreal, Quebec, Canada --------------------------| Chew your gum and close your eyes and nothing can annoy you. - E.Ka-Spel ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 17:14:15 CST From: Subject: More of the same... Thanks to another misadventure with the function keys, the front end of today's screed went out before its time. We pick up the action somewhere in the interior of Garrison Keillor's "Cat, You Better Come Home," backtracking slight ly from the point at which it was interrupted :-). [...] She spent a zillion dollars on a solid gold yacht That was built in the shape of a flowerpot And nobody told her that a pot won't float And she sailed from Athens with her owl dreamboat The champagne popped and the music played And the people clapped on the promenade And the boat went BLOOP, the owl cried WHOO! Puff cried "NO!," and off he flew As the boat sank BLUB BLUB BLUB BLUB SSSS The cat went down in the watery abyss Everyone stood by the water's side And they watched the bubbles and they softly cried "Oh darling cat, oh angel flower" A team of divers dove for an hour And when it got too sad to watch 'em They hung out a sign, "Requiescat Pacem" And that was the last I heard until This morning, when the house was still Came a "scratch, scratch, scratch" from the windowsill And there with her nose pressed against the pane Burrs in her fur and drenched from the rain With tears in her eyes and big puffy lids Stood a former top cat who'd hit the skids She limped along on a homemade crutch She could barely stand, 'cause she weighed too much Approximately 93 pounds No wonder her tail dragged down on the ground And her tongue hung out on her double chin She looked like something that the cat dragged in I picked her up, my old fur sack She said "Easy Jack, take it easy on my back I got bad back problems and I'm not too swift On account of this rich, rich life I've lived "Ohh," she said, "I'm gonna give up gravy and goldfish pies Ragout of robin thighs Guppie fries and frog fillet Mouse morsels served flambe' White rats in chocolate sauce, Soup a la collie paws Chihuahuas in cheddar cheese, Chuck roast of Chickadees And one more thing, I know it well A cat should never drink muscatel She went on a high-fiber diet at once And she was her old self in about two months With a spring in her step, a gleam in her eye She'd hop to the windowsill, sit there and sigh If other cats could only know To hang their hats on the status quo And make the best of what you got And be who you are and not what you're not 'Cause the very worst thing that a cat can do Is to make all its dreams come true So cats-- You better come home You can seek your fortune, but nevertheless Remember your name and your address 'Cause someday, You'll have to-- Come home Moving right along... I've thought of a few other Happy segues: "Come Ona My House" by Rosemary Clooney with "Step Inside" "Mother Sea" with several things: "Yellow Submarine" and/or "Octopus's Garden" by the Beatles, and/or that venerable chestnut from early rock, "Sea Cruise" Kjetil says WRT Judie Tzuke: >She must be a well known, but local, British artist). Well known to the British, unheard of among record retailers locally, it would seem. :-) He goes on to say: >If you find my writing style difficult to understand, please send >me a note... If pressed, I suppose you could do the same to me, though I make no guarantees that I'd switch to all two-syllable words :-). For some unknown reason, it all reminds me of something posted today to comp-academic-freedom-talk? >Where else does he post? This is far too entertaining to give up. Vickie writes: (_Dance With A Stranger_ is the first thing I saw Miranda in. I used to have a poster from the film hanging in the bedroom. What a per- formance!) Those who know this film well may be able to spot the unintentional atrocious pun in Vickie's comment :-). WRT Bob's queries on the internet: you might also look at the book _The Inter- net Companion_, which just came out, I forget the author, but Al Gore wrote the preface. Steve V. writes: >(especially now that local Happy-playing >station KAVE has gone off the air from unprofitability), Wonder how much a dead station goes for these days. We could all pool our pennies, buy up what's left of KAVE, and start the first all-Happy station :-). Uli writes: >P.P.P.P.P.P.S.: I REALLY LOVE THAT SOS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, he means "Save Our Souls." Which gives me a spontaneous inspira- tion: why not segue the latter with "S.O.S." by ABBA? (In which case, save _our_ souls! :-) ) WRT the colloquy between Uli and Vickie on pommes frites: may we never live to see a fast food chain--in Old Blighty or anywhere else--plugging its french fries with an ad campaign featuring a team of cheerleaders, conveniently yclept the Pommes Pommes Girls :-) :-) :-) :-(' . If I'm applying what I learned by watching science fiction on TV correctly, wouldn't music and antimusic cancel each other out, creating silence (which some would consider an improvement over some kinds of music)? WRT the Internet's origins in the Pentagon's Arpanet: Kafkaesque, no, that 'twas the war machine made possible what we're all doing here? Seems to me like a paradox after Happy's own heart :-). Last but least: WRT Jeff's taking my color ball and running with it all the way to Dupont Circle, it just dawned on me that if one wants to take Amtrak to Melody Records, I think the Metro Red Line goes there direct from Union Station. By a convenient coincidence, the MBTA Red Line stops next to South Station, giving Happy-starved Cantabridgians an additional easy option down the Northeast Corridor. Mitch --------------------------------------- "Thought was sylph; more like elph." --Maryse Holder Happy Mardi Gras (which in French means "Fat Tuesday") ======================================================================== Date: 23 Feb 93 16:11:52 EST From: Mike Mendelson Subject: cosmic pipage egapipcim soc The Vagabond himself writeth: >After so many "ups" my first "down": I don't like the bagpipes in >"Out like a lamb". Musically they seem out of place in that song for me, >which is unusual, because so far I thought that the instrumentation was >always perfect. Ah, yes, the bagpipes... these continue to remind me of the segue between The Dreaming and Night of the Swallow. On the first 20 listens or so, I'd have agreed with you, Klaus, that the pipes were out of place. But like so many other musical interludes, that segue starts to grow on you. I am not claiming that the pipes *make sense* in any musico-ethno- physico-philisophical way... I agree that they don't, at least not obviously. But throw any sonorous foray on the end of a good song and sooner or later you'll start expecting it -- perhaps even liking it -- and pretty soon thinking it is genius. Well, I'm not at the genius phase yet, but I'm almost at the expecting stage (though sometimes I'm still a little shaken and stirred when the pipes come on like a non-sequitor). This touches on a topic I've deliberated many times in the past: song order and intention and anticipation. So often you listen to an album repeatedly, and begin to anticipate each song in its correct place. I have never been able to figure out whether this effect was intended by the artist (some instances are more obvious than others, of course) or just something that would happen regardless of the musician's ordering. What is the cause of that thrill/chill that you get when you use Shuffle (random) play (to which Vickie recently alluded)? In this matter I am actually quite the purist. I like to take the album **as a whole**, exactly the way the artist recorded it and placed it, assuming all along that everything they did was intentional. But alas this cannot always be true. I do have a patent disdain for people (though I too am guilty of this from time to time) who self-indulgently "edit" the artists work, by taping just the songs they like in the order they like them and leaving other stuff out. Compilations are OK, but one shouldn't let 3 songs replace the whole thing. I don't know why this bothers me so much... I guess it would be like chopping out the chapters of a book that you like while leaving out the ones you don't. Sure the "good" chapters might be good, but the background chapters are important in some other way. Hmmm... well, this is really subjective and is not meant as an indictment. -mjminphobos "Happy's music is replete with "emergent properties." Which is to say that much about it does not have clearly discernable roots in any of its antecedents--in the last analysis, it is, irreducibly, itself." -mp ======================================================================== 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)