5-Jan-92 22:11:43-GMT,12663;000000000401 Received: from athos.rutgers.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA14361; Sun, 5 Jan 92 16:59:15 EST Received: by athos.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA16213; Sun, 5 Jan 92 16:59:13 EST Date: Sun, 5 Jan 92 16:59:13 EST Message-Id: <9201052159.AA16213@athos.rutgers.edu> 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 Subject: ecto #99 ecto, Number 99 Sunday, 5 January 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* vagabond report 3 Boston Phoenix best music poll Re: Yet another deja vu Re: happy Happy story Re: Greg! Need your translation skills... Innocence Mission IM addendum ======================================================================== From: kkluge@xenox.ruhr.de (Klaus Kluge) Subject: vagabond report 3 Date: Fri, 3 Jan 92 19:15:39 MEZ Hi, here's Klaus, safely back at home, with my last vagabond report for this trip. And once again others have written about the highlights of the last day. Jessica and Greg did a wonderful job describing the adventures of five ectophiles on the big apple, leaving hardly anything for me to report. No surprise that, as they were some thousand miles closer to their terminals than me. So probably Angelos and Claudia will post their part of the story before me as well. An amazing story! Worth a motion picture with oscar chances. On that short notice we couldn't get a camera team, but Claudia took 2 or 3 pictures. We'll see if these will have archive value. Greg, driver and part-time tourist guide in NYC wrote: > to exactly how far away NYC is (about 200 miles), the concerted opinion > was "say what?" however, just a few minutes on the phone with jessica was > all it took -- by 7:30 we were on the mass turnpike heading west :) !!!! Hey, we would have risked loosing our reputation as cosmic vagabonds if we did not go, and Greg promised us CD music on the trip. We heard Sinead O'Connor, Mouth Music, Rainbirds, Lene Lovich, Fleetwood Mac. If there was something else I must have been sleeping. > soooooo, after a scenic tour of CT, the palisades, the geowashbridge, and > the hudson, we ended up on west 55th st. manohmanhatten. was 11:30, and It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It was dark, yes, but not stormy. So dark, that the scenic tour to and from NYC was limited to millions of lights, giving us only a small idea what was lying behind that brightness. But imagination is strong. > we closed the place out, eating beef, cheese, and chocolate fondues (but > not all at once, and Klaus had some cheesecake too) and after that, mmmmh, excellent stuff!!! > while jessica and i provided amusing entertainment *pretending* to be > lost ;) and then it was bye to jess, alas, and on the road to boston to Yeah, see NYC on the fun fuzzy blue trolley tour, starting and ending on the hour at "la fondue", West 55th st. ;) > was a *wonderful* night -- thanks to Klaus, Claudia, Angelos, and jessica!!! was a **wonderful** night -- thanks to Greg, Claudia, Angelos, and jessica!!! Jessica, NPBQDR moderator and part-time tourist guide in NYC wrote: > fantastic time, what an impression of NYC they must have gotten!!!! Only the best. We were not mugged, nor threatened by this huge ape on the empire state building. I wondered that there were less cars on the streets than I had expected (at 2 am). > that the "colored" part really *ought* to be fuzzy blue :) _Also_, i > had the photos that were taken when I first met happy in albany. (I'll _*Also*_, Jessica had parts of her family album with her, so we could admire her hair in several colours and styles, of which I personally prefered the blonde with blue streak. This trip had a good effect on my flying home. Sleeping from 7 to 12 in Boston is about the time when I am sleeping at home, so jet-lag is still a foreign word for me. The flight back was plesant. There were not that many people on the plane. Who want's to fly on New Year Eve? Airborne on time, 97 seats in use, 200 vacant. Champagne for the new year (at 11pm Boston time), two movies (Doc Hollywood & Blind Date), and favourable winds, which shortened flight time by an hour. At 12 Boston time I put Tribe's "Abort" into the DiscMan to compensate for the missed concert. How was it Greg? Oh, about the card from Happy: (which I like very very much, as you might have guessed) I don't understand why you didn't figure out who the guy on the right is. Can't you read? It's written on the picture! On the left that's Happy and on the right that's Holidays. ;) This is the famous couple whose name you could read everywhere the last weeks. :) ----- Klaus "cosmic vagabond" Kluge -*- kkluge@Materna.DE ----- It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but that's the weather for you. For every mad scientist who's had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night of his Great Work is finished and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who've sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime. Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch ======================================================================== From: kyrlidis@athena.mit.edu Subject: Boston Phoenix best music poll Date: Fri, 03 Jan 92 22:02:31 EST Hi Ectophiles, Welcome back Klaus!! See going to NY can reduce the effects of jet lag :-)! But seriously...The lataest issue of the Phoenix has the ballot for the best music Poll. Since Boston is a tough city for Happy to crack, it's probably a good idea for Boston ectophiles to get organized and make some noise by voting for Happy!! Other ectophiles are welcome to enter too. Unfortunately they only accept originals and I am sure the Phoenix is sold ONLY in Boston. So, if someone can come up with a good idea of how to get this done, post and let's all vote! BTW, for KaTe fans, Rocketman was voted 25th most popular song of 1991! Now how did I miss this poll? We could have had Happy in there... Till later, Angelos +=====================================+ |'My ears have parasites'-hApPy RhOdEs| +=====================================+ ======================================================================== From: vickie@chinet.chi.il.us (Vickie Ann Mapes) Subject: Re: Yet another deja vu Date: Fri, 3 Jan 92 14:11:20 CST Angelos writes: > I am writing from home where I just saw Yma Sumac on TV!! It was on > a movie called 'Secret of the Incas' and she sang Taita Inty! > Vickie, did you know of this movie? I didn;t and the last thing I expected > while watching it (which I wouldn;t ordinarily but anything about Machu > Picchu grasps my attention since my trip there) was to see Yma Sumac. Great that you caught this! Yes, I knew about it, but Ive never seen it myself. You lucky thing you! > Anyway, the movie just restarted, so I have to go... Uh, you didn't happen to tape it did you? Vickie > 'Mis orejas tienen parasitos' Greg! Need your translation skills... ======================================================================== From: vickie@chinet.chi.il.us (Vickie Ann Mapes) Subject: Re: happy Happy story Date: Sat, 4 Jan 92 5:09:38 CST Vickie here. I only have a minute, cos I might get kicked off any time now (trouble at Chinet, I'm on the Sysop's ShitList, it's a long story) but I wanted to say.... Fuzzy welcomes to Brian Gregory!! Good to have you here! I loved your story, how utterly cool...oh, btw, H&K are not on Ecto, but I'll pass your story along the next time I talk to them on the phone. They'll *love* it! Welcome back Klaus's sig line, you too Klaus! :-) Welcome back Doug, how was your vacation? Party time, Saturday, gathering of the Chicago area Happy tribes, will give us another indication of the critical mass possibilities. Bye... Vickie oh, ps, *ANY* e-mail should be sent to katefans@chinet.chi.il.us for a while, because vickie might go kaput anytime. (Sysop & I had an argument about me having this account...) ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 4 Jan 92 19:12:56 -0500 From: gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert) Subject: Re: Greg! Need your translation skills... i'm sorry, i can't hear you -- i have a parasite in my ear... [stock shot -- women clapping] well, let's take a look: > 'Mis orejas tienen parasitos' well, the spacing is *all* messed up, for a start.. it should read: 'mi sore ja sti en en paras it os' which is of course simply english: 'my sore jaw! stay in and pour as i toast!' a fine new year's sentiment. we can conclude, by the way, from the helpfully phonetic spelling and obscure idiom, that Angelos is from the town of Glaeful Pathes on Loch Urshuisuntyed in the Scottish Highlands... amazing what you can figure out with so little info, no? MacFootah! -greg -- gb10@gte.com -- "i want to feel you in the dark, babe" -- HR ======================================================================== Subject: Innocence Mission Date: Sun, 05 Jan 92 01:42:34 EST From: jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu Well, after hearing Ecto and Gaffa folk rave about them for years, I finally bought an album tonight (I finally bought a new CD player today and needed to celebrate...;-) -- their first/eponymous album. WOW! Great stuff. It sounds to me like one of Karen Peris' major influences is Jane Siberry. She also reminds me a lot of Mary Margaret O'Hara--but the way MMO'H *should* sound. What was(were) the single(s) from this album? I remember seeing a video on MTV or VH1 a couple of years ago, but I don't remember which song it was. I remember really liking it and thinking that I should remember the name of the band because I really wanted to pick up the album--and never getting around to it. My biggest complaint is the metronome sound in "Mercy." It's just too bloody distracting in what might be one of the best songs on the album. And why didn't you people tell me about that song?! Oh well. It's late. I need to go to bed. Jeff (who's incredibly happy because his new Kenwood portable is actually managing to play his copy of _Script for a Jester's Tear_, which he hasn't hear for months because the CD players he has access to can't handle the gouges he accidentally put in the CD) |Jeffrey C. Burka | "One day my kite will escape forever | | | And I will jump to catch the trailing | |jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu | string" --Karen Peris | ======================================================================== Subject: IM addendum Date: Sun, 05 Jan 92 09:38:24 EST From: jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu Ooops. I knew I shouldn't be writing about an album I'd only listened to once, and that in the dark (we lost electricity, so I sat in a dark room and enjoyed the album...but parts seem to have definitely blended together in my mind) When I wrote about that annoying metronome sound, I was actually thinking of "Curious," not "Mercy." *Both* are great songs. I listened to the album again this morning, this time on speakers, not 'phones, and found that that metronome is really cool on speakers...it's just that the way it's placed sonically on the left ear is distracting on my headphones. Now I want to go get _Umbrella_! Oh well...there's plenty of time for that. Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Show what you are / Be strong, be true | | | Time for you to / Be who you are." | |jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu | --Happy Rhodes | ======================================================================== To join ecto, please send electronic mail to the following address: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu To have your thoughts included in the next issue, send mail to: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To subscribe to "Ecto", the printed fanzine, send $8 to: Ecto PO Box 11291 New Brunswick, NJ 08906 Ecto is issued 8 times/year, and will include photos and as much material from non-net members as we can get! Donations above the subscription cost are welcomed - all money goes to bringing you better issues! Your "humble pseudo-moderator" -- jessica (jessica@athos.rutgers.edu)