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 #1001 ecto, Number 1001 Sunday, 6 February 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: ectopics alien sex Fear and loathing in Rogers Park df tour schedule Re: ecto #1000 bards tapes, tapes, tapes Weekend... Re: gack Re: gack Robin Williamson ectopics Hey Bday! Re..Talked to Kevin.. Shawn Colvin--A Correction fly away, little dollars! another Klaus (TM) Address From Heaven? Tori Alert Re: Back from the grave Attn: Canadians Hi all, Explanations and Sorries for dealys ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 15:19:40 PST From: tsai@ikos.com (Finney T. Tsai) Subject: Re: ectopics woj writes: :> >Kate Jacobs, The Calm Comes After :> :> yeah! somewhere around here, i have some live recordings of her that :> were broadcast on wfmu at least two years ago. i've been meaning to get :> some of her work, but having gotten around to it. is this on bar/none :> records? Hoboken is an interesting place. It's supposed to be NYC's suburban, but many local musicians are into southern rock and country music. Doesn't Freedy Johnston also come from there? 'The Calm Comes After' is available in CD now, and it's only available from Hear Music, I think? Do you know Hear Music? It's a typical yuppie record store. Be prepared to pay some premium to be a yuppie there. Prices are 2 or 3 dollars more than what you get from Tower. They have fairly good folk/ethnic music collections. It's also the only place which carries complete catalog of David Byrne's Luaka Bop(lots of cool stuff such as Zap Mama and Djur Djura...etc.). There's one store in Stanford, one in Berkeley, and one in Boston. I believe they also accept mailorders. Haven't the address now. If you need the mailorder address, please drop me a mail. I will find it out for you tonight. -finney "A hundred is enough. Once you have counted one hundred, all other hundreds are the same" -- Peter Greenaway ======================================================================== From: "Bradley N. Hutchinson" Subject: alien sex Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 18:41:37 EST According to Tree of Schnopia: > > Dear Ectophiles, > > I haven't been around for a while...lurking, and trying to read the > material for four English courses (in late Brit Lit, American Lit, Arthurian > Tradition, and Alien Sex) has kept me beyond busy, to say the least. OK, I probably could have taken Arthurian Tradition (and did take Brit and Am Lit both parts, but things sure h changed since I was an Anguished Major!!! Alien sex?? Perhaps this is the class I missed that would have made it possible to understand some of the lyrics on the new Tori album??? I really like the album but find myself Fumbling trough confusion about some of the lyrics. It might just be the end of the semester I've graded too much mush brain that happens twice a year. But, Alien Sex in the Arthurian Tradition?? brad -- bhutchin@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu There's some real people in the world and some who are pretend. --Robyn Hitchcock ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 04 Feb 94 17:02:48 CST From: The kitty internet Subject: Fear and loathing in Rogers Park Last week, NPR ran a story about a man who keeps a diary of every minute of his day. When the reporter asked why, he could say only "I guess it's an obsession." This post, and previous ones like it, may well read similarly to this man's dairies; but by now most of you have probably become inured to my accounts of various parties at Gaffa Central, most of whose actual partying time actually went by in my absence; whereas much of the accounts themselves are devoted to descriptions of extraneous events. On the way to the event, I made an extended stopover at two Coconuts stores in the Loop, where they were having a coupon sale; and despite having to raid the ATM in the McDonalds across the street a couple of times, I managed to score the soundtracks for _The Thing Called Love_ (which omitted the performances by River Phoenix and Samantha Mathis in favor of tracks by sundry country headlin- ers) and _Even Cowgirls Get the Blues_, the new live album by Christine Lavin (for most of which she simply covers herself), and, most miraculously of all, _RhodeSongs_ (in the folk section, of all things). Feeling supremely pleased with myself, I proceeded to the subway. On the train, I saw the Coconuts store across from the Diversey station, where I'd once seen a CD by the Bobs in the racks. It occurred to me that since I still had one more coupon, I could look in there on the way back. Finally I got to the Morse station, and proceeded to Gaffa Central. My inner rhythms are undoubtedly different from those of any other Ectophile. I tend to arrive at ecto parties before anyone else does, and leave before many others do, mostly because of the skeletal state of long-haul public transpor- tation to my neighborhood on Saturday nights. Last Saturday was no exception. When I arrived, Chris and Vickie were still straightening up the apartment. The most notable occurrence during this period was the propensity of their cats to sniff my leg at length. It was at that time that Chris explained his concept of "the kitty internet," in which, in effect, I was the gateway through which the packets from my own cats were routed. Ultimately, Chris finished fine-tuning the TV, and our attention turned to a new tape of KaTe's first TV appearance. Eventually, Valerie arrived, and after a period of conversation, we resumed looking at the tape just mentioned until it dawned on us that MST3K was on. After watching that for a while, it occurred to us that not only was it a particularly bad movie, but those of us who watch MST3K regularly (which was everyone but me, since I don't have cable) had already seen it. So we switched to the tape of the concert in Toronto, with Holly Cole, Victoria Williams, Mary Margaret O'Hara and others, that Vickie attended some time ago. While we were listening, Chip, Laurie and Tim Cook arrived. Tim passed out copies of Tori's "Cornflake Girl" CD single to a number of us who didn't already have it. I pondered the cover art, in which Tori is surrounded by laboratory glass- ware, and pronounced it a metaphor for the decline of truly natural breakfast foods :-). It was eventually noticed that there was beer in the fridge that nobody had bothered with before. Given the choice of Beck's and Bohemia (from Mexico), everyone went for the latter. "The North American Free Beer Agree- ment," I quipped. Ultimately, Tim took pictures of the assembled ectophiles. It's the first time I can recall being photographed at an ecto party. Regrettably, I finally had to go, partly for the reason stated above and partly to be able to maybe get to Coconuts in time to look for the Bobs, and for Anna Domino. As I left the building, I passed by another tenant coming in with his dog. Coincidentally, on the way in I noticed another dog rolling in the snow in the courtyard. It seemed very symmetrical to have two dog sightings framing my cat interactions. As fate would have it, by that time the L station at Diversey had already shut down for the night. I didn't feel especially deprived, having made some good acquisitions for the day already. When I got home, my cats jumped at the chance to sniff my leg. The kitty internet was still up. I then stepped out again to leave some food for the cats outside. They didn't bother to sniff, being less people-oriented than the others. It is obvious that no information superhighway has yet reached all members of its species :-). Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 15:59:34 PST From: Neal Copperman Subject: df tour schedule In case anyone out there is conveniently located (to any of these places, that is), here are some disappear fear tour dates. If you haven't seen them, they put on a great show. If you are one of the people who recently bought their disc and thought it was fine but not particularly exciting, I'd still recommend checking them out live. Neal ===> disappear fear 3/5 MD W. MD Coll/Westminster 3/8 KY E. KY Univ/ Richmond 3/9 WV Jesuit Coll/Wheeling 3/11 MD Towson St. Univ/Towson 3/15 TX Sam Houston State/Huntsville 3/16 TX TX Women's Coll/Denton 3/17,19 TX SXSW/Austin 3/18 TX Trinity Coll/San Antonio 3/21 TX Antone's/ Austin 512/474-5314 3/22 TX Austin Coll/Sherman 4/17 CO Fox Thtr/ Boulder 303/443-5858 bookings: 313/995-9066 ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 19:02:24 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: ecto #1000 > ecto, Number 1000 > Friday, 4 February 1994 Wow! Happy 1000th from me too... MJM says: > >Can someone tell me how Victoria was on Letterman? I somehow managed to > >let it slip my mind and now I want to know what I missed :-( > > Mediocre. I was real disappointed. > I hope Happy Come Home and Sweet Relief > are better than this. I'm not as eager to buy them > now. (I have StS.) You're going to let Victoria's Letterman appearance affect your decision to get _Happy Come Home_? Are you serious? Where did *that* attutude come from? I would keep my mouth shut except that I *know* you like StS. Is Victoria supposed to be like everyone else now? Is she supposed to be slick and poised and not nervous at all? I was disappointed too, but I also know that everybody comes off looking bad on the Letterman show. She came off wonderfully on the MTV appearance. Give her a break. If you had StS and didn't like it, I wouldn't say a word. I know better though, so I'm just saying that I don't think it's fair to disregard Happy Come Home (especially) and Sweet Relief (which features lots of other people besides that Soul Asylum guy) of the basis of the Letterman show. Not fair at all. > Mexican Moon by CB: Now *that's* good stuff. "*that's*"?? Are you pumping up Mexican Moon by knocking albums you haven't even heard yet? Yes, Mexican Moon is a great album...my favorite so far by Concrete Blonde. Happy Come Home is also a great album. Vickie ======================================================================== From: "Bradley N. Hutchinson" Subject: bards Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 19:09:44 EST Diane wrote about Robin Williamson. I ran across him in Charles DeLint' fiction. BT, DeLint has thanked Kate Bush in his novels (for her inspirational music) and has written a novel based (it has to be!) on Experiment IV. The book is called "Angel of Darkness" and was published under his pen name Samuel M Key. Sorry, I'm still tangential. brad -- bhutchin@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu There's some real people in the world and some who are pretend. --Robyn Hitchcock ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 16:21:31 PST From: Neal Copperman Subject: tapes, tapes, tapes Thanks Dan (and others who responded outside ecto). All explanations were quite lucid (even Mitch's :) ). I stopped by the mall yesterday and had no problem picking up a pack of Maxell XL-I's. Taped readings by two poets (jimmy Santiago Baca and Jayne Cortez) and sax playing by Steve Coleman, and the results were pretty good. If the crowd started laughing, they could easily overpower the readers, but outside of that, I was pleased with the results. If I feel industrious I'll try it again at Ladysmith Black Mambazo's show tomorrow, and if I am still awake, Yo La Tengo's tonight. Thanks for all the advice. Neal ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 19:25:57 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Weekend... Hi Folks, The weekend is upon us, so I just wanted to pipe up and say "Enjoy" to everyone. Not that you needed my permission, of course. Film at 11. Vickie, thanks for the post on the conversation with Kevin. I'd forgotten to send in my two bucks so I better get moving if I'm going to catch the newsletter. Then again I trust the contents will appear here in ecto! I've been trying to reach Susanne White by phone with no luck this week. I'd faxed her the South African info, and wanted to follow up. Anyway, glad you got to talk to Kevin. Seems Happy might be recording somewhere other than Cathedral? We'll see... Hope you are all well, and once again, Enjoy! Bob the SIGless ======================================================================== From: Neil K. Guy Subject: Re: gack Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 16:30:38 -0800 (PST) > please unsubscribe me from this mailing list, before I drown in the > sentimental slop. Hmmm... this is an interesting recent phenomenon, eh? Perhaps public descriptions of ecto, such as the one in the mailing list list, should include appropriate warnings of ecto.content. Seriously. Maybe: WARNING: Ecto contains frequent amiable posts from a group of friends, hanging out and not letting themselves get fettered by list mandates or inconsiderate flaming. Oh, well. :) - Neil (bandwidth eater) K. -- 49N 16' 123W 7' / Vancouver, BC, Canada / neil_k_guy@sfu.ca ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 16:45:47 PST From: "John Relph" Subject: Re: gack X-Warning: Ecto contains frequent amiable posts from a group of X-Warning: friends, hanging out and not letting themselves get X-Warning: fettered by list mandates or inconsiderate flaming. Good idea! We'll just have this in the headers of all of our messages! On another note: I still have not been able to listen to the latest Shonen Knife CD, as my CD player had to go back in the shop yesterday (and of course yesterday was when I actually bought the CD). Perhaps I'll have a chance this weekend. Later, -- John ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 20:09:28 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Robin Williamson Diane mentions Robin Williamson: Robin was one half of The Incredible String Band, a major late sixties folk duo. The other guy's name is on the tip of my tongue, where it'll do you no good (sorry). They had a lot of albums out on Elektra, including "The Big Huge" "Wee Tam" and the classic "5000 layers of the Onion". Perhaps their best-know song was "First Girl I Loved", which was covered by many artists, including Judy Collins (who changed the gender*). They were critically acclaimed but did not sell a multitude of albums. Robin Williamson has been touring all along, and was here in the philly area not so long ago. *Gender changing in songs is an interesting topic. Some artists do, some don't. I remember Joan Baez not changing genders on songs she covered. Then again it may not be an interesting topic. Oh well. That's it for now! Bob the font of no ledge ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 20:24:09 EST From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (world serve your own needs) Subject: ectopics dbburke@mit.edu sez: >Last night we went to the _Freight and Salvage_ which is in a warehouse >here in Berkeley. A bard named Robin Williamson was playing. i used to play some of his songs back in ye olde college radio daze. i never got around to buying anything of his though i would have liked to. excellent harpist. >His harp. playing was positively enchanting and while he played he told >stories of Lear and Branwyn (sp)and Branwyn's *large* brother. that would be llyr, branwen and bran the blessed (and probably manawyddan as well, who was the father of all of the above). these people are figures from welsh mythology and can be read about in the second branch of the mabinogion, the book that contains all the prime stories of welsh folklore. like most celtic folklore, is somewhere between mythology (or at least tales of the gods) and history. tsai@ikos.com (Finney T. Tsai) sez: >Hoboken is an interesting place. It's supposed to be NYC's suburban, >but many local musicians are into southern rock and country music. >Doesn't Freedy Johnston also come from there? sure does. as do the marys (who penned the remarkable "the day roy orbison died" and yo la tengo, to name a few folks that people might recognize. lots of good stuff go down in hoboken. The kitty internet sez: >I pondered the cover art, in which Tori is surrounded by laboratory glass- >ware, and pronounced it a metaphor for the decline of truly natural breakfast >foods :-). ah, but was it a hot breakfast? ;) "John Relph" sez: >On another note: I still have not been able to listen to the latest Shonen >Knife CD, as my CD player had to go back in the shop yesterday (and of in a nutshell: more, same. a friend sent me a promo tape of the album as well as the "brown mushrooms" single (which has one remix and two non-album tracks). it's fun, bouncy guitar pop and easy to listen to. +woj ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 21:50:59 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Hey Bday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tto Stephen Thomas!! *HU(urk, sentimental sloppiness deleted) :-) Vickie ======================================================================== From: freeform@aol.com Date: Fri, 04 Feb 94 21:59:37 EST Subject: Re..Talked to Kevin.. Vickie wrote: >>>Most importantly, Happy's spending most of February in pre-production for the next album, and they hope to go into the studio (which one, or ones, is undecided) at the beginning of March to begin recording. Yes!<<< To which I reply: YAY! I can't wait to hear what the next album is going to sound like. How is she going to follow up Equipoise? Hmm.... It's also great to hear that Happy is getting more "global". I hope her albums do well in the other countries.. She certainly deserves widespread success. They hired someone named Cathy to help out, eh? I have a cousin named Cathy who lives in that area of New York who I think may have been looking for part time work recently. Hmm... Of course there are probably many Cathy's around there, but it would certainly be interesting if it were her! Haven't listened to much Happy lately, the new Tori's taking up my listening time.. I hope I get to see Tori on her tour this year! I saw her twice on the LE tour, and had an absolutely terrific time... Charles ======================================================================== From: Tree of Schnopia Subject: Shawn Colvin--A Correction Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 23:34:08 -0500 (EST) mjm, dear... ...there *is* no "title track" called "Fat City" on Shawn Colvin's _Fat_City_. It's a fan-flippin'-tastic tune called "Round of Blues". Just thought you might want to know...and now you've got me wanting to see her live. :) Oh...*HUGS*! Drewcifer -- ---- Andrew D. Simchik, as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu, Tree of Schnopia \ ---- ****************************************************************** \\bi/ *********************** a.k.a. Drewcifer ************************* \/ ****************************************************************** SCHNOPIA embodies nature, tranquillity, and truth. Tree, take root, So. -------------------------------QUOTES BEGIN HERE-------------------------- "Master Shamen, I have come with my dolly from the shadow side with a demon and an Englishman"--Tori Amos, "Sister Janet" ======================================================================== Subject: fly away, little dollars! Date: Fri, 04 Feb 94 23:39:14 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu This week has seen me on a CD shopping spree that's brought in more CDs in 5 days than I've bought in the last 3 months or so combined. Unfortunately, the spree must come to a halt because my part-time job isn't giving me *that* much income. Anyway, tonight's jaunt netted me, finally, the "God" single and Kristin Hersh's _Hips and Makers_. (as well as a couple of blank tapes...gotta start a follow up to my "LE and b-sides" compilation) The "God" single is, of course, wonderful. Tori has really leapt in my esteem with these new releases of hers, not because there was anything wrong with the '91-'92 releases but because she's managed to follow them up without losing anything. "God" contains the album version of the song as well as "Home on the Range (Cherokee Edition)" (which is Tori's reworking of the traditional song as pro-Native American/anti-white-settlers song) and piano suite comprised of two instrumentals, "All the Girls Hate Her" and "Over It." All three tracks are definitely worth having, particularly for the price of a domestic CD single. Artwork is very nice; I suspect Drewcifer will be pleased with the cover portrait of Tori. The back of the single has a really cool collage (for lack of a better word) which shows her name formed out of broken pieces of a lightbulb. Unfortunately, the thing is packed in what I'd have to call the bastard son of the digipack, something referred to as an FLP [tm]. Blech. _Hips and Makers_ is a very cool album too, though I'd hesitate in saying that it's truly _ectofodder_. I'm not sure how I'd further classify that, but I just don't see this one appealing to as many ectophiles as other stuff I've suggested or had suggested to me here. But it *is* a great album. The music is great and the lyrics are great. I'm not sure how I feel about Kristin's vocals. But some of the songs are just too cool for words. "Houdini Blues" comes to mind, as does "Your Ghost," "Beestung," and her cover of "The Cuckoo" and I really love the beginning of "Sundrops". But this music shall have to last me a while...unless, of course, I manage to find either of those import "Cornflake Girl" singles I've been searching for! Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Everything is still with a fear of never coming out | |Suffering Bad Grammar| Never following through / Never ever finishing | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | What we wanted to do." -- Melissa Ferrick | ======================================================================== From: klaus@inphobos.wupper.de Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 00:57:41 Subject: another Klaus (TM) It was my turn do some Ecto archeology again. Being up to date with the last month, I returned to November's messages. Some messages were still begging for a reply, so here I go. Jens> so this should win me the position of "Master Klauser of Ecto" for sure. Congratulations! Maybe we should rename this style of replying to old digests "jensing" from now on. :) Vickie> ps, someday, hopefully, we'll made it to a Wuppertal EuroEcto party! Anytime! Just come along and we'll throw a party! :) Uli> Yes, Ecto photo album! Klaus! Klaaa-hauuuus! Describe your photo album! Why are you shouting so loud Uli? I'm on the same continent. :) Our Ecto photo album was created back in 1991 when the 1st EurEcto Party was treated with a whole lot of pictures taken around Happy's Albany and Philly concerts, made and generously provided by Greg Le Footah. Several years and ecto gatherings later it has steadily increased in size, so that we soon have to start a 2nd album. It also contains printouts from those ectophile GIFs in the archive and other paraphernalia. Maybe I should write down a list of who can be found in the album. A couple of ectophiles will be surprised to find their names in it. Oh yes, as a bonus it also contains pix of severals ectophiles cats! Wanna see it? Visit us! Invite us! :) (yes sometimes we even travel with it) In any case, be prepared that you'll be in it afterwards. :) Art about "Delicious Monster": > Joie De Vivre - the elusive full length CD - presumably also on Flute - (1993). Full length? Only 33 minutes! Great 33 minutes, but they shouldn't charge the price of a full length CD for it. BTW, it's FLUTE 7CD ChrisF about CDC: > they are occasionally to busy (for instance now, when i tried it again) to > connect, but when you do connect, it is pretty straightforward to use (he > says after using it once for 20 min!) Twenty minutes? No wonder that it's always busy. ;) > >>if it's ethereal you're looking for, I'd suggest going for the "Heavenly > >>Bodies" compilation first > That would be "Heavenly VOices". > Heavenly Bodies is a Dead Can Dance spinoff on C'est La Mort. "Heavenly Bodies" is also an album by Barbara Thompson. Geoff> PS Tim (Cook) has already said he can come! Please tell me, why am I not surprised? :) It's still possible that we will come as well, but there are rumours that Tori will tour Germany at about that time. Angelos> I agree. I have a sealed copy waiting to be mailed to Klaus, and the > cover looks great. It should be scanned and added to the archives, IMHO. Thanks Angelos! Also, beside myself my scanner is waiting for the cover. > Justin asks: > >Is the text in the CD booklet slightly fuzzy in all editions, > >or is the Canadian version sloppily printed? > Add the US one to the list too. And the German one as well. I've also noticed something strange: on the top of the CD my release mentions that "Piano Suite" and "Sister Janet" were mixed by Eric Rosse, although the CD doesn't contain those songs. Those are on my "Cornflake Girl" single. Troy>ahem, but I want to know what the Klaus "inphobos" and my "ecto" are? The machine on my desk at work also is "ecto". It even has it's own internet number. Shall I have a look who's on #Ecto right now? Nah, I'm afraid I'm already too tired and we have to get up early today. Good night... ...Klaus. ___________________________________________________________ . * | "Tell me all the plans you have for the great beyond. | _ . * .* . | Will you be physical again, or be a cosmic vagabond." | (_) . | --- Happy Rhodes --- | . . o | Klaus "cosmic vagabond" Kluge klaus@inphobos.wupper.de | <== ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 1:59:39 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Address From Heaven? Am I the only one who FOTFL when I read this? > Yes the "address from hell" is no more > and I can now be reached on... > GRAHAM.G.R.DOMBKINS@bhpmelmsm.x400.bhp.com.au If the *other* one was the address from hell, what do you call this one? :-) (We love you no matter what your address is Graham!) *GUH* Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 23:51:54 PST From: kyrlidis@templeton.cchem.berkeley.edu (Angelos Kyrlidis) Subject: Tori Alert While being suspended under the pink I browsed through next weeks TV guide only to notice that Tori will be on Leno next Friday. BTW, are there any tour dates announced for Tori other than the DC date? I would hate to miss her as it seems I will be missing Sarah in SF at the end of May when according to the incomplete tour dates she plans to hit SF (I will be in Boston picking up my degree then). But I might catch Morphine next Saturday at the paradise in Boston, so that's a consolation :) angelos PS. I got Kristin Hersh's CD on Tuesday without having heard any tracks and from the exploratory listen I had it sounds great. ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 3:55:23 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: Back from the grave Martin Hanley wrote: > Hello there! > > Well, it's taken longer than I'd expected, but here I am again, > returning like the now legendary bad penny! Gone is martinh@sco.com, > to be replaced by a new, improved account... mhanley@bt-sys.bt.co.uk ! Welcome back Martin! While I'm at it, welcome back Yngve too! Because I'm occasionally on #ecto, I've talked to Yngve many times since he's been back, and I forget that on the mailing list it looks as if I'm ignoring his return. Never! :-) Vickie (who can hear the snickering of various #ecto'ers at that "occasionally" but I'm really not on there 24 hours a day, and since I'll hardly ever be on there once I go back to work, I'm taking advantage of the time I *can* be on there now :-) ) ======================================================================== From: Neil K. Guy Subject: Attn: Canadians Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 02:19:38 -0800 (PST) Well, this is too late for anyone now, I think... but a friend of mine interviewed David Wisdom, host of CBC Stereo's "Nightlines" tonight. And my housemate asked John to give Wisdom one of her echo mikes - those $1 hollow plastic dayglo tubes that have a metal plate or something inside so when you sing or speak into it it makes a kind of echoey reverby noise. Well he did, and Wisdom is goofily singing and stuff into the echo mike right now! :) Wow! My housemate's echo mike getting sung into in stereo, from coast to coast on the CBC radio network. :) And if he ever uses it again (doubtful, but who knows?) you'll know where it came from! But here's the ecto part... I asked John to ask Wisdom if he knew who Happy Rhodes was. He said he recognized the name but wasn't sure if he'd heard any Rhodes music before or not. Hmm... Maybe someone should do an Hour of Power (a regular feature on the show where listeners program their own hour of music and, if they live near Vancouver, drop in and joke with Wisdom) that's nothing but Happy Rhodes music. That probably wouldn't go over so well with his show, though. Actually I think I'll write to him and propose an ecto Hour of Power that involves me bringing my computer to the radio station and logging into IRC and talking with people on #ecto live, coast to coast. That would be unspeakably nerdy but probably kinda fun! :) - Neil K. -- 49N 16' 123W 7' / Vancouver, BC, Canada / neil_k_guy@sfu.ca ======================================================================== From: boek Subject: Hi all, Explanations and Sorries for dealys Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 10:56:34 +0100 (MET) Hi all, I'd just like to throw a little message up to say sorry to all those who've been sending me mail but haven't received anything even remotely resembling a reply in a long time. I've been having a few technical problems..... First, hacktic, the computer account that I pay for, decided to to something weird with their system and I've been unable to get onto them for a while, second, the Leiden Uni account has lost its telnet connection temporarily so I couldn't send email out from there (or something, in any case, the effect is right). Thirdly, the computer of my landlord that I've been using has just died so I couldn't get on. I finally managed to get hold of a rudimentary modem (1200 baud) for my computer which is where this is coming from, so I'm alive again, but it will take me a little while to catch up, as I have a 977 (!) message backlog, most of which, needless to say, will not be read. I hope to be able to filter out all mail that is personally directed at me, but I may not be successful. Please be patient and if I don't reply for a whil then just send it again. I hope to have everything sorted out by the end of the week. Thank you for your time :) Chris. P.S. Thanks Anthony for the Margot stuff - I look with anticipation for a package. The address is in my sig P.P.S Yes, Steve, I surviveed New Years inLondon, more later ... -- --_ /| \ ) Christopher Boek boek@hacktic.nl | \_| / PieterMolijnlaan 12, 2343 ES Oegstgeest +31 71 173984 | | /x ( <-- LEIDEN | \ == _ | "Hebban olla vogala nestas hugunnan hinase hic anda ===---/ |( thu" - Earliest surviving Germanic text (Gothic) -- ======================================================================== 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)