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 #456 ecto, Number 456 Wednesday, 24 February 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* a quickie before I go to bed... A Special Offer to Ectophiles! More Misc. Messages... HaPpY Birthday equi poise Re: Elvira Madigan A gasp and a bubble from a drowning man... marillion ======================================================================== Subject: a quickie before I go to bed... Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 00:01:49 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Walking down the street toward the metro station (and work) this morning, I was listening, of course, to Happy on my walkman. I noticed, stuck onto the door of a store, a brigh red heart-shaped sticker, maybe 1.5 or 2 inches across. Printed in white letters, in two lines, across the middle was: I have a heart I almost lost it! Now if only I can find these stickers somewhere--they'll make perfect Ecto party favors! Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Fairies are the perfect people to do this | |(suffering Bad Grammar) | sort of work. Biologically, their upper | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | bodies are strong enough to wield a pickaxe...." | ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 21:00 EST From: robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) Subject: A Special Offer to Ectophiles! Hello earth, As many of you know, I'm in fairly frequent contact with Happy's manager, Susanne White. Susanne now has a computer, and has expressed an interest in seeing what Ecto is up to these days. I will be sending her a floppy with every digest I've received, along with a list utility to read them. If any of you would care to send her a message, please feel free! She works real hard promoting Happy's music, and besides, she grew up accross the street from where I now type this!!!:) If you want your messages to be semi-private, just e-mail them to me. Otherwise she'll see them in the digests I'll be copying. The really good news is that she has a modem, and we can look forward to her joining us on line in the future! Gray Abbott: Ecto-syncronicity strikes again! Gentle Giant is one of my all time favorite bands!!! In fact, I just sent Vickie a tape with a few of their songs on it! Yes, I see the similarity in some of Happy's songs! "Off from Out From Under Me" is a prime example of the Giant sound. Don't know if Happy is aware of them, though! What a world! S. L. Fagg - Did I note you mention there are tapes of Happy's Philly concert?? YIKES! Can anyone here assist me in obtaining one? It would be a dream come true! Thanks for your time, everyone! Happy Listening! Bob Lovejoy ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 22:35 EST From: robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) Subject: More Misc. Messages... So it seems I'm through... Hello again! Just wanted to add a few quick notes - Chip, I've been trying to Email you privately but my messages keep getting returned! Basically & if it's not too late, give me a call at Modern Video when you get to Philly! Hope this reaches you before you get here! Some mention on this board of Phillip Glass: He's in town this week performing Powaquatsi (sp.?) live to the film. I've always enjoyed his music, esp. Koyannisquatsi (which is a neat film in its own right!) Gray, I still can't get over your Gentle Giant post! They were such a great band! As you probably know, their bassist Ray Schulman produced the first Sugarcubes album, and their lead singer & Ray's brother Derek is President of Atco records! I think Kerry Minnear is still playing somewhere in England (any help there UK Ectophiles?). The sad thing about Gentle Giant is that you can't get their later albums on CD. Freehand is as far as the list goes, I think. There is an import available of _In A Glass House_, but I've yet to find it! See you! Bob Lovejoy ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 08:25:41 +0000 From: Terry Partis Subject: HaPpY Birthday Here's wishing a very Happy Birthday to Christine Waite on February 25th. Have a great day Christine, Peace Terry =============================================================================== _ __ Jolly Hockeysticks _ __ / `-' ( ,,, / `-' ( ,,, | I I ||||||[:::] | I I ||||||[:::] \_.-._( ''' Terry (Tel Boy) Partis \_.-._( ''' _ __ (tgp@ukc.ac.uk) _ __ / `-' ( ,,, With a smile and a song / `-' ( ,,, | I I ||||||[:::] I'm HaPpY | I I ||||||[:::] \_.-._( ''' \_.-._( ''' YYUR - YYUB - ICURYY4ME ================================================================================ ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 22:41 PST From: scottz@gentoo.com (Scott Zimmerman) Subject: equi poise Hi! Equipoise showed up in my mailbox on Saturday! Now just where can I get ahold of a really enormous Equipoise promotional poster? The album cover is so wickedly cool! After reading all of the comments about Equipoise here on ecto, and based on the way Warpaint took a while to grow on me, I was expecting to be somewhat underwhelmed by Equipoise on the first one or two listens. Silly me. The first time through it sounded terrific, and it continues to sound terrific! It's an excellent CD! For a 61 minute recording, it seems to go by really quickly. My favorite tracks right now are "The Flight", "Closer", and "Cohabitants". This CD has brought to my attention that maybe I should get back into one of my old habits. Up until a couple years ago, I would almost always read an album's lyrics during my first listen to it. In listening to Equipoise, by not having read the lyrics to "The Flight", the lines "his chest is bared and ready for her hand / his chest is bared and ready for her stake" transformed themselves into a sort-of "Meat is Murder Pt. 2": "ham is just as bad (& indecipherable jiberish) / steak is just as bad.... " :) hehe... Weird, huh? I was a bit disappointed by the true lyrics! Scott ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 5:24:54 EST From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: A Special Offer to Ectophiles! Bob (full of joy and love :) gives us the really good news: >As many of you know, I'm in fairly frequent contact with Happy's >manager, Susanne White. Susanne now has a computer, and has expressed >an interest in seeing what Ecto is up to these days. >[...] >She works real hard promoting Happy's music, and besides, she grew up >across the street from where I now type this!!!:) >[...] >The really good news is that she has a modem, and we can look forward >to her joining us on line in the future! Susanne is a delightful person in person, and a raving Happy fan -- which is to say, she would fit right in here on ecto :) previous attempts to get her on-line were unsuccessful -- it's good to hear that she might finally make it on... i am not sure how many new ectophiles have ectophied since the last FAQ, but if you are wondering, Happy, Kevin, Susanne, and company have been reading bits of ecto ever since the list started, but have never consistently accessed it via the Net. one can't help but wonder if Happy truly realizes what she hath wrought... though i tend to think that she would fit right in, herself :) re Gentle Giant: Happy's tastes in (other people's) music certainly seem to lean towards the progressive rock movement with which Gentle Giant is often associated... i think, however, (in line with mjm's excitingly chunky quote from Mitch) that tracing influences in Happy's own music is, in the end, unproductive. there are familiar elements, to be sure, that seem to come from a bafflingly wide set of sources, but when one pieces them together, they all fit (anyone else have the feeling this paragraph is extended a step or two past the warning label?) into a distinctly Happy puzzle. (oof, can one sue one's own brain for mental suffering after tripping over a misplaced metaphor at 5am?) i actually had an entirely different point to make, but i think i better sharpen it in a separate post. instead, i will take a second of your time (thank you) to plug *my* favorite recently-discovered more-or-less progressive rock band, Marillion (with thanks to jessica and Dave Steiner for the introduction :) i could go on with reasons why Happy fans would in particular enjoy the albums "misplaced childhood" and "clutching at straws" (the latter being the most stunning portrait of alcoholism i have yet encountered in popular music), as long as they could make the leap to Fish's voice (and that is quite a leap onto uncertain footing from the wide, smooth foundations of Happy's singing), and instead quote a bit from the song _warm wet circles_ "I saw teenage girls like gaudy moths a classroom's shabby butterflies flirt in the glow of telephone boxes; planning white lace weddings from smeared hearts and token proclamations, rolled from stolen lipsticks across the razored webs of glass" (footah) -greg -- bossert@vizlab.rutgers.edu -- == i have never been afraid to change == Happy == the circumstances of the world == Rhodes ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: Elvira Madigan Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 10:21:39 BST On Wed, 24 Feb 93 at 01:05:13 GMT, brage@sphere.home.id.dth.dk (Jens P. Brage) wrote: > 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". It was No. 21. Can't remember the K number off the top of my head. Great music. I had no idea that the nickname was so recently acquired. -- 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". *** ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: A Special Offer to Ectophiles! Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 10:30:31 BST On Tue, 23 Feb 93 at 21:00 EST, robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) wrote: > S. L. Fagg - Did I note you mention there are tapes of Happy's > Philly concert?? YIKES! Can anyone here assist me in obtaining one? They used to be available from the Doug Burks tape dubbing service. As these were semi-condoned bootlegs, distribution was limited at Happy's request. I don't know the full details so best check with Doug as to availability. Doug has lots of interesting Ecto-related tapes available, I speak as a satisfied customer (who's eagerly awaiting the addition of the 1992 HGP to the catalogue). -- 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". *** ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 5:50:50 EST From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: A Special Offer to Ectophiles! Bob wonders: >S. L. Fagg - Did I note you mention there are tapes of Happy's Philly >concert?? YIKES! Can anyone here assist me in obtaining one? It >would be a dream come true! with Happy and Kevin's permission, i made a digital recording of the Philly concert. due to a technical problem involving a spectator's foot and the power switch of my VCR, i am missing the second half of the second set. at the time, i was very concerned about limiting the distribution of this recording to ectophiles -- this, in fact, was part of the agreement i had made with H&K. i admit now that i should have simply placed a master copy into Doug's capable hands. instead, i started duplicating the tapes myself from the digital masters. (BTW, Doug should be commended a hundred times over for his dedication to his taping project -- it is time-consuming work). the first set of 20-odd copies went out successfully (H&K were my first customers ;), but the next round of orders got lost beneath successive waves of chaos and depression, and finally smashed up against the rocks of felony when my VCR got stolen. i do still have the tapes and the Sony F1 digital en/decoder, and i will eventually, i am sure, get organized enough to borrow a VCR and make a cassette copy. i will not accept any new orders -- as Terry and Steve and others will attest, i have been unreliable even in answering personal mail... i *will* get a decent copy to Doug, though, and to those who sent tapes or money... apologies for the slightly self-pitying apologies... (oops, there's another one ;) all in all, it is another example of Footah's Law, which i will get around to formulating any day now. no, really... -greg "The sky was Bible black in Lyon when i found the Magdalene She was paralysed in a streetlight, she refused to give her name She wore a ring of violet bruises, they were pinned upon her arm, Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she lead me by the hand To a room of dancing shadows where all the heartache disappears And from glowing tongues of candles I heard her whisper in my ear 'J'entend ton coeur, j'entend ton coeur' I can hear your heart" --Fish "Blue Angel" -- bossert@vizlab.rutgers.edu -- == i have never been afraid to change == Happy == the circumstances of the world == Rhodes ======================================================================== From: Martin Dougiamas Subject: A gasp and a bubble from a drowning man... Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 18:58:20 +0800 (WST) Hi ho, Martin here ... just taking a quick respite from working... Uli writes: >admit it?) ... (ok, this here is buried deep enough)... Heino... (Oops! I'm >away now... did I break the record for the worst record?) :-) As one of the probably very few people here who know who Uli is talking about, I hereby vote Uli the winner. :-) For those not in the know Heino is a guy with a very blonde and very bad wig, dark glasses and a deep voice who sings traditional-style german folk songs. And he always wears suits and smiles a lot. My german mother has a Heino record or two, and very occasionally Katie and I used to get it out, dust it off, put it on the record player and laugh ourselves silly while singing along. These records are from the sixties. A funny thing is my german great-aunt sent us a video tape last Christmas with some episodes of a german folk-music program, and guess who appeared on it? None other than the big H, looking exactly the same as he did on our records, with elderly women swooning in the audience just at the sight of him. :-) My sister and I were in hysterics. :-D Heino is an in-joke among my family. Stuart Castergine writes: > Yeah, have you guys heard about the ICBM mailserver? It's really neat. > [rest deleted] :-D I laughed at this. Re: Peter Gabriel and WOMAD Although I didn't manage to make it to WOMAD, many of the performers are coming over to the Festival of Perth over the next couple of weeks, so I'll still be able to catch them live. Yay! Unfortunately, Peter Gabriel is not one of the coming acts, although I heard an interview on JJJ FM in which he said he will *definitely* tour world-wide within a year..including Down Under... with a full band. Double yay! Re: Gyan Tim Cook, I got your snail-mail, thanks... the discs are forthcoming (I'll buy them this weekend). The other people I talked to about getting Gyan for, and anyone else interested, please email me again so I can get organised. I remember Mike Peskura and Woj but I'm sure I've some other people have slipped through the gaping holes in my memory lately. In other news, I'm going to a Gyan concert held on Rottnest this weekend, a small island about 20km off the coast of Perth. Should be good! Still poised to receive my Equipoise, :-( Martin -- COOKERY: Amphibian Relish Cover the toad in syrup and flour paste to slow it down, parcel it up in brown paper and serve tied securely onto the plate. Eat quickly. (It isn't very nice.) -- From Dr. Fegg's Encyclopaedia of *All* World Knowledge. ======================================================================== Subject: marillion Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 06:45:16 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu I'm getting a real kick out of seeing footah's Marillion lyrics in his 2 most recent postings. They've been one of my favorite bands for about 7 years now, and I've often been curious as to whether Happy, with her Genesis interest, is aware of them. To that end, I even included Fish's "Shadowplay" on the (I think still undelivered) HGP. Basically, I'd say that anyone who has any interest in Gabriel-era Genesis really ought to check out Marillion. Much like Happy/KaTe, when I played Marillion albums at school, people would walk into my room and ask what Genesis album I was playing. "This isn't Genesis." "Oh. Does Gabriel have a new album out?" And so on and so forth. And not only is the music great, but geez, Fish does have one hell of a command of the english language! "A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow Not the regal creature of border caves But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar Of some obscure Scottish poet. The mist crawls from the canal Like some primordial phantom of romance To curl under a cascade of neon pollen While I sit, tied to the phone Like an expectant father Your carnation will rot in a vase" Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Fairies are the perfect people to do this | |(suffering Bad Grammar) | sort of work. Biologically, their upper | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | bodies are strong enough to wield a pickaxe...." | ======================================================================== 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)