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 #579 ecto, Number 579 Tuesday, 18 May 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* ani defranco Re: Pssst, gotch'r Happy news right here... Happy Rhodes Trying Again Relative to what?, or: The noblest Rhodes of them all Gas Food Lodging... Re: Vangelis Review: Lauren Christy Names I didn't think that far :) Names.... Pulse and other stories Wild Cranberries Mmmmph gurgle gurgle struggle mmmph ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 18 May 93 09:22:22 PDT From: stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Subject: ani defranco For those of you sufficiently close to Eugene, Ani Difranco will be playing for _free_ at the Willamette Valley Folk Festival on Friday at 8 PM. The Folkfest (as many around here call it) is put on by the EMU Cultural Forum, a student organization at the U of O, and is one of the more charming spring events on the U of O campus. And while I'm here and since Joe Zitt referred to _Wild Palms_: I've been taping it and watching it intermittently while it's been taping, but I'm starting to kick myself for not paying attention more. It's unusual for any American TV production to be so subtle and assume you have a) a brain and b) an attention span, which is probably why so many critics are having trouble with it -- their brains numbed by standard fare, they don't know how to handle a show that actually demands anything from them. A minor SPOILER alert, just in case, and then: I did notice a quite amusing throwaway bit in the Sunday night segment where a TV is on in the background and the following snippet of dialogue is heard: TV host: "So, Mr, Stone, the files were unsealed and it turns out you were right. Are you bitter?" Oliver Stone: "No, Bob, but--" It's a somewhat unsubtle reference to _JFK_ but amusing nonetheless. Coming soon: announcement of my 1993 tour plans, with a scheduled appearance in Atlanta and possible brief appearances in places on the way (possibilities include Seattle and Chicago). The Atlanta appearance will be at least July 3-5. ======================================================================== From: guetzlaf@gravity.cray.com (Cathy Guetzlaff) Subject: Re: ani defranco Date: Tue, 18 May 93 11:33:15 CDT Steve sez: >For those of you sufficiently close to Eugene, Ani Difranco will >be playing for _free_ at the Willamette Valley Folk Festival on >Friday at 8 PM. ...and for those of you who are female, Ani will be playing NOT for free at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in August. And as an extra bonus, that ecto-favorite Margie Adam will also be there! :-) -- Cathy Guetzlaff Cray Research, Inc. guetzlaf@cray.com ======================================================================== Date: 18 May 1993 14:05:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "she listens like her head's on fire.." Subject: Re: Pssst, gotch'r Happy news right here... > >H&K are working on the previously mentioned CD single, which will >be a promotion-only release, going out to radio stations everywhere. wonderful! >It will have: >Feed the Fire (album version) >Feed the Fire (acoustic version) >I Say (album version) >Ashes to Ashes (acoustic) >Save Our Souls (acoustic) even better! Feed the Fire must be one of my favorite songs from Warpaint. >There will be 1000 of these printed up, and when they're gone, that's >it, no more, they're Goldmine material. hmm... >THE GOOD NEWS: Kevin said that they would hold back a couple hundred >to be offered for sale **TO ECTOPHILES ONLY**. >Isn't life wonderful? It is if I'm an ectophile! am I? :-) (the rest of the message left me with one response...hoopy! what cool stuff to have happen) :-) Quenby ======================================================================== Date: 18 May 1993 14:50:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "she listens like her head's on fire.." Subject: Happy Rhodes Well, I'm far behind. A few weeks behind but there seems to be lots of interesting stuff going on. School just ended here and we have been blessed with a resurgence of winter.. everyone is wandering around moaning about the heat being turned off. wonderful! :-) The store said they would order Ecto for me and they did. When I walked in the store I could see *4* cds in a space that had been empty... they had Warpaint, Ecto, Rearmament and Rhodes II. I grabbed Ecto immediately and ventured back a day later to pick up Rearmament. There was a crack in the case and I was going to go for Rhodes II (thus breaking up my plan of working in reverse-chronological order:-) but as my friend remarked at the time....It's only the case. I spent the weekend in a happy fugue...I can see why Ecto has been listed as a favorite. It was intense, spooky and too close for comfort at times. Without getting too personal or irrelevent, I was brooding on something the day I picked up the cd. After finding it I was immediately in a better mood (after all it was something I had been looking forward to) and then I listened to it and it brought me back to what had been bothering me. It was just so...specific. Rearmament has been overshadowed thus far. How old is Happy Rhodes? (if nobody minds me asking) I seem to have been on a cd spending spree recently. In this past year I have acquired around 15 cds increasing my collection to around 40 cds (including singles). recent acquisitions include..Warpaint, Equipoise,Ecto, Rearmament, Belly-Star, Throwing Muses-the Real Ramona, Sundays-Blind, 10,000 Maniacs--Candy Everybody Wants, You Happy Puppet(cds), Maire Brennan, Clannad-Anam, Moon 7 Times, This Mortal Coil-Blood.. What can I say except thanks...if I hadn't been suscribed to this list I would never have heard some of these artists and missed out on some excellent music. when does the summer begin? we had a few days of extremely warm weather but I think it was just a fluke. The World University Games are being held here and they are surrounding the dormitories in wire fencing (to keep the athletes in and the rest of us out I guess). 10,000 Maniacs will be appearing on MTV unplugged in a week or so and did anyone catch In Concert on ABC? Aimee Mann, Tori Amos and Annie Lennox were featured. I wish they had shown more of Aimee Mann. I would like to hear what her album sounds like. I have Voices Carry, Welcome Home and Everything's Different Now on tape... and I have always rather liked Til Tuesday. Wild Palms. I have been trying to watch it but have had the show cut short by the unanimous votes of the people I live with who wanted to watch videos.:-) Fortunately, a friend at work has been taping the series so when I have the opportunity I will be able to see it complete. What I have seen of it so far has intrigued me. This is enough rambling for now. I still have dozens of mail messages to catch up on. Quenby ======================================================================== From: Andrea@hivnet.ubc.ca Date: Tue, 18 May 93 12:49:59 PDT Subject: Trying Again Hi all! I tried to post this a while ago and it bounced back. So here we go again. Of couse if this never arrives, it won't matter! Hi Chris! Well, I introduced Happy to about six choir members during our weekend retreat the weekend before last and got rave reviews! I know one person will definately be buying Warpaint at the very least. I'd love to sing Happy (and Kate for that matter) in choir but first I need a piece arranged for four-part harmony. Any volunteers? Wow, if the first tapes are no longer available - then I have one! I don't believe it! I've never had a possible collectors anything before. I'll take good care of it, promise. Hi Vickie! I'm only moving down the street actually. I will have my ver (oops - very) own piano! Not that I can really play it yet, but I plan on taking lessons. I hope this note makes it to Ecto :) Andrea. ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 18 May 93 15:45:16 CDT From: 'Mitch Pravatiner prattles'--Chris Boek Subject: Relative to what?, or: The noblest Rhodes of them all Jim Cullen's account of his successful search for his boyhood friend, Happy Rhodes--if I'm mentally crunching the imbedded data correctly--indicates that she has something in common with the inimitable Kylie Minogue, from the stand- point of having a sister named Danny--however spelt. Clearly, some people with this sort of genealogical exigency come up with better music than others, thus ruling out the likelihood of an empirical correlation between the two attri- butes. :-) Last week, I wrote of the resemblance of this affair, in my perception, to _The Prisoner of Zenda_. As fate would have it, one of the plots in yester- day's _Northern Exposure_ focused on Ed's efforts to get that very film dubbed into an exotic Amerindian language. Will the coincidences never cease :-)? Judging from the tone of the discussion, I assume that Vangelis of Jon and ___ is not the same Vangelis who did the score for _Chariots of Fire_ and similar lettuce-washers. But it does so happen that Jules Shear, mentioned in connec- tion with Cyndi Lauper's recent work, is the ex-boyfriend of Aimee Mann, whose music decidedly has higher and better uses than background for washing lettuce. Woj says WRT Ani Difranco: >canadians please add $2 per item. new york state residents add sales tax. > >(disclaim disclaim disclaim disclaim disclaim disclaim disclaim disclaim) > >however, i'll point out that i'm sending them money this week sometime for >a few cds, so there. However, I'll point out that Woj lives neither in Canada nor in New York State, which makes doing so relatively more painless for him :-). But seriously folks: Ani's music sounds really good, from what he writes of it. He's gotten me of a mind to acquire some of it myself one of these fine days, when and if I can get through the acquisitions of the past week, not to mention all the weeks that have gone before. Her name sounded vaguely familiar when I first read it in these pages, so I suspect I may have already heard (and probably liked) her stuff on _The Midnight Special_ at some point in the not -too-distant-past. Thank Our Lucky Stars, however, that the spelling of her name presumably eliminates the risk of a family connection to that most notor- ious bubblegummer of 1974, Tony DeFranco. (In the worst case, had they been peas in a pod both genealogically and musically, I would have been able to apply the same pluralistic ethos as in my post last Friday, and point out what one Ani equals two of, about which enough said :-). ) WRT the Vickie/Victoria discusion: Vickie will doubtless be pleased to learn that last week it was stated on _Fresh Air_ that _Gas Food Lodging_ is soon coming out on video. It was in connection with that that they reran their earlier interview with GFL director Alison Anders last Monday afternoon, during which the batteries in my walkman ran out, and then they didn't run it again the next evening like I thought they would. One of the lesser perturbations of my life, but a perturbation all the same :-) >Did I ever tell the story about her coming over and borrowing a Walkman?) She once told me that VW still had the aforesaid Walkman, but as far as I know she's never spun the entire yarn. I think she should; it sounds like an enjoy- able one to have recounted. Steve, are you considering doing the Chicago Marathon in October? If so, I'll keep an eye out for the issue of _Windy City Sport_ with the particulars. WRT Quenby on the Buffalo weather: David Solzman once observed that "In Chicago, winter is the season after spring." It would appear to be a tossup, judging from Quenby's brief description, whether in Buffalo winter is the seas- on after spring, or after summer, fall is the season after spring, or what :-). Mitch -------------------------- Q: "Now that inflation is very low, do you plan to adjust your inflationary language downward? A: "No, no, I don't. It's difficult to answer that kind of question because it should be answered with a long routine, which I don't have." --Victor Borge, from an appearance at the National Press Club ======================================================================== Date: 18 May 1993 17:23:48 -0500 (EST) From: SANDOVAL@stsci.edu Subject: Gas Food Lodging... Well, GFL IS available on videotape. I've been trying to get a copy for awhile, but it's always checked out at the video store. Which makes me want to see it even more. :) Plus, I like Ione Skye. :) John ======================================================================== From: brianb@lobby.ti.com (Brian Bloom) Subject: Re: Vangelis Date: Tue, 18 May 93 16:41:32 CDT > > Judging from the tone of the discussion, I assume that Vangelis of Jon and ___ > is not the same Vangelis who did the score for _Chariots of Fire_ and similar > lettuce-washers. Actually, they are one and the same: Vangelis Papathanisou (pardon if spelled wrong) He actually has about a dozen albums out, many of which are very hard to find in the States... He has collaborated with Jon Anderson on a couple of projects... -- __ ____ __ ____ __ __ (__==__) /\ \ / \_\ / /\ / \ \ / |\ / /\ (oo) ( moo.) / \_\ / /\ |_| / / /| /\ \ \ / ||/ / / /-------\/ -' / /\ | |\ \/ /_/_ / / / \ \/ \ \ / |/ / / / | U.T.|| / \/ |_| \ __ \_\ /_/ / \ /\ \_\ / /| / / * ||----|| / /\ ./_/ \ \ \/_/_\_\/ \ \ \/_// / | / / ^^ ^^ \ \/ |_| \ \_\ /_/\ \ \_\ /_/ /|_/ / Br!an Bloom \__/_/ \/_/ \_\/ \/_/ \_\/ \_\/ brianb@lobby.ti.com .. but music hides me so well, ..and reveals me.. oh well - HR ======================================================================== From: depeche@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (S. A. Ezust) Date: Tue, 18 May 93 20:46:24 EDT Subject: Review: Lauren Christy Lauren Christy: Self-Titled Polygram/Mercury Records 314-512-719-2 It is very rare that I will take the trouble to listen to, much less actually REVIEW an artist who is already on a major record label. This isn't just snobbishness; I really don't like music if it sounds too "mainstream" - it grates against my nerves. There are exceptions, of course... We all admit to having our "guilty pleasures" and I have already admitted mine on this very mailing list on occasion. I also feel that there are many other musicians which deserve more exposure, so this is another reason I don't review or promote such music very often. But Lauren Christy is one of those rare occasions. Since I have in front of me her entire press packet, I can spew out a lot of useless information about her as well, so sit back and enjoy. Tori Amos she's not. Kate Bush she's not. But when you listen to this music, you'll realize that Lauren Christy's probably quite a fan of their music. I have a sinking feeling that she's had to make a lot of artistic compromises before she'd get put onto Mercury records though. Her voice is asthetically pleasing, and she sings in tune, but she doesn't have the range of Kate Bush or the sensuousness of Tori Amos, although she might come close. Her lyrics read like stories, and if you close your eyes you can see them as movies. This is a quality I admire in people like Suzanne Vega. Unfortunately, it is sometimes hard to get past the poppish sounds that are layered on top of her songs. Born and raised in London, Christy studied ballet dancing form the age of 11 to 17, and was in the Royal Ballet company at the height of her dancing career, but decided to explore the other side of her artistic expression. Her influences are broad and diverse, ranging from Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and Blue Nile to Bach and Public Enemy. At the age of 16 she led a group called Pink Ash, with 5 guys, and at 17 she joined an all girl group called Shi Shi Ha Ha ("in Japanese this word means the celebration of a young girls' first menstruation," Lauren explains). Now she lives in LA, and just finished a tour of North America. Live, she performs all of her songs with a piano ONLY, just like Tori (although I'm not sure if she plays herself while singing - does anyone else know?). I wish I could hear most of these songs that way, as I find the extra sounds thrown in detract from the quality of the music. She writes a sentence or two about each song in this press pack. I'll quote some of them without permission, and then share you my thoughts on a couple of songs which moved me. Rain - "You can pretend to everybody that youare fine, even to yourself. I wrote this in a positive frame of mind; four There areears later when I hear it I realized it's really a song about being unhappy and the peace you can find in your sadness" The sounds in this song reminds me a LOT of "should I say yes" by NU SHOOZ. The mood of the song reminds me a little of "Runners". But these are just my associations... You Read Me Wrong - "A long distance phone call from my boyfriend turned into an argument. I swore I had been faithful. He hung up. With no way of calling him back, I stayed up until the early hours writing this to let him know that I may be many things, but I am not the girl he thinks I am." Kinda poppy - the music doesn't move me very much - I wish she'd re-do this with just a piano. Steep - "No matter how much you love someone, we are humans, and humans change. This song is my way of saying, "I love you but you'd be better off without me. I need to be in the darkness for a while." A very sensuous song - my friend's favorite. Her voice reminds me a little of Tori here. The instrumental arrangement reminds me too much of early 80s "easy listening" though. River of Time - "If you go to the same place every year it usually looks the same. Every time I went out to the same river I realized how I had changed and it meant a different thing to me. In simple terms, when you're a child you say, 'Great, I want to jump in the river and swim,' and when you're older you say, 'Life stinks, I want to jump in the river!'" Vanessa's Father - "This is a story about a young girl who's best friend's father becomes obsessed by her and the confusion it causes in her." This is the song that got me hooked. The only instrument is a piano (yay!), and it's beautifully sensuous, and tells a very romantic, sad and happy story all at once. The story develops, twists and turns in very unexpected ways - I've never been pulled like this by a song except perhaps by Suzanne Vega's "Queen and the Soldier". If you hear only one song by her, hear this one! Adult Afraid of the Light - "Going out every night, sleeping till noon everyday, not facing the daylight and reality. This is about realizing that happiness doesn't come from being with al over or friends, it's inside you and once you find it you wake up smiling." Woman's Song - "Women are always ashamed to say how many lovers they've had because of the way society views them. I wrote this song deciding, 'I will not be ashamed. I'm a woman and every man I've slept with taught me something and I swear I don't regret a single one of them.'" In summary, I'm glad I got a promo of her disc, because I wouldn't actually buy it if I was in the store (too many other things to buy first). However, some of her songs are quite pretty, and I hope I have a chance to see her live sometime. I also hope that she doesn't have to submit to major-record-label compromises for her next album. -- | Alan Ezust depeche@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |------------- McGill University School of Computer Science ----------------| "Lick the carpet, dust the dog, mow the windows, shine the socks... You've got to keep things CLEAN!" - Edward Ka-Spel ======================================================================== From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: Names Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 11:12:29 +1000 (EST) Dirk writes ... > > But I'm not as enthusiastic as Yngwe (Hi, Yngwe, if only I knew if you > are male or female. Yngwe sounds like the German name Inge, so I suppose > you are female. But I was wrong with Brni, too. I know that the gender > is irrelevant but it's nice to know, though. Am I the only one who's > having problems with names?) > Not at all. I suffer from a similar difficulty I'm afraid. With the same people too :} Just for the record, I'm male :). But then there are enough famous film stars whose name is Christopher, so that should be fairly well known. Mind you I've known a few people who had names normally associated with the opposite gender, it was just the parents liked the name. Chris. -- | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||Christopher Boek - boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | || Dept Elec Eng Univ of Melbourne Australia | | | | | | | | | / "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| \_/\_/\_/\_/\__/(:*- some way or another" ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 19 May 93 03:37:23 +0200 From: yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no (Yngve Hauge) Subject: I didn't think that far :) A little misunderstanding between me and the guy I gave the CDs to made me miss the European radio-premiere of Happy Rhodes (She hasn't been played on the radio in Europe before, has she?). And I can't tell for sure what was played, but it doesn't matter, does it? :) The main point is that her music was played at all....I've decided to give this radio- station the CDs (as I haven't thought of that before :)) And back to something Vickie wrote some time ago : > What? A tape with everyone from Grace Darling to Bessie Smith to > The Innocence Mission to Dolly Parton to Dead Can Dance to Diamanda > Galas didn't drive you crazy? I'd better try harder next time! :-) I was sort of wrong about what I said --> I'm totally crazy about this wonderful music!! Take care, -- T ---- Only In Your Eyes Lies Your Soul.............. H | --- ----- ---- --- - -- - - - - - --- E |-- | | | | | | |__| | | |_ | | | | | |--- | | | | | --- --- - - ---- - - - -- - - - --- --- Yngve Hauge (yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no).....University of Tromsoe...Norway ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 19 May 93 04:04:30 +0200 From: yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no (Yngve Hauge) Subject: Names.... My name can also be a female name as it is related to both the norwegian god Froey and the goddess Froeya as is Inger, Inge (which mostly is used as a male name in Norway), Inga (which definitly is a female name). I opened this male with 'My name can also' that means I'm no girl (which is (I think :) ) that I'm a male person). And my name is written with a 'v' not 'w' (Yngve not Yngwe). I don't know if 've said this before but I have no clue how to pronounce my name in English, so please don't ask me :) Regards, -- T ---- Only In Your Eyes Lies Your Soul.............. H | --- ----- ---- --- - -- - - - - - --- E |-- | | | | | | |__| | | |_ | | | | | |--- | | | | | --- --- - - ---- - - - -- - - - --- --- Yngve Hauge (yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no).....University of Tromsoe...Norway ======================================================================== Subject: Pulse and other stories Date: Tue, 18 May 93 22:34:57 EDT From: Angelos Kyrlidis Funny how I can't find the sampler that Michael B. and Vickie talked about. My version has: Annie Lennox, Bruce Hornsby, David Bowie, Whitney Houston, bad boys blue, Kenny G, Jennifer Warnes, Aimee Mann, 2 Unlimited, James Brown, Kool and the gang, John Mayall, Basehead, 700 miles, Madkap, el general, Lisa Stewart, Lynda Barry, and Hubert Laws. Mitch wrote something to the extent that Vangelis Papathanassiou's music is ideal for washing vegetables. (this is from memory) Sorry, Mitch, but Vangelis is a very successful and quite talented musician. He started his career in the 70's with Demis Roussos in a band called Aphrodite's Child, then played keyboards for the seminal greek rock group Socrates for their album Phos (all members of this band have produced some of the most progressive greek music in the 80's and 90's, Eleftheria and Haris Alexiou being the ecto-popular examples). He later did some haunting work with Irene Papas, the second most famous greek actress after Melina Merkouri, called 'Odes' where he used synthesizers to create a truly impressive background for the byzantine hymns and folk songs that Irene Papas sang (sort of a preview of Le mystere des voix Bulgares). He joined forces with Jon Anderson of YES-fame to record a couple of very successful albums. He also wrote the music for movies like 'Bladerunner', and 'Chariots of fire', and also the music to a Carl Sagan series (I think it was called 'cosmos'). I wouldn't dismiss him altogether. :-) And he has something common with Kate Bush. He's scared of flying! :-) It's funny how the two most popular Greek musicians are instrumentalists (Vangelis and Yanni), but there is quite a difference between the two of them. I find Yanni's music as exciting as the tone of telephone (what I have heard of it anyway). I am sure that there was something else I wanted to comment on, but I can't remember, so I guess I will stop. Angelos 'I can tell you taste like the sky, cause you look like rain'-Morphine ======================================================================== Subject: Wild Cranberries Date: Tue, 18 May 93 23:18:40 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu a) today, driving along, I popped out my newly-made tape of Aimee Mann's _Whatever_ (go buy it!) and heard something I immediately identified as "Ecto Music." I enjoyed the song to the end, wondering who it might be and whether or not it was someone already discussed on the mailing list. To my surprise, the DJ actually back-announced it, cluing me into the fact that I'd just heard the Cranberries, so recently discussed here. Looks like another CD for the wish list. b) Wild Palms is _incredible_. Just thought you should know. Who was it who commented yesterday (today?) that the critics who said it was "too slow" were apparently on drugs (or words basically to that effect... ;-) I'm just so utterly impressed with it. Well, yeah, maybe Belushi should stick to comedic roles; he seems to really be struggling in a few spots. And the dialogue could use some polishing. But it basically blows away just about any "made for TV" item I've ever seen. And it's caught my interest in a way that "Twin Peaks" never did. I was rather surprised this evening to see the ad for the soundtrack at the end of the credits. Interestingly, during tonight's portion, I'd been thinking about how cool the soundtrack was, and how much I dug the choral bits that were in heavy use tonight. I hesitate to mail order something like that, but I've no idea of the soundtrack would ever be sold in stores... Anybody going to have the whole thing on tape? I'm semi-kicking myself for not taping it from the start, but hey, I had to keep my _Northern Exposure_ collection in order (I've managed to only miss taping one show this season... 23/24 ain't bad) Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "When I look in the mirror, I see a little clearer/ | |SAFH Lite [tm] | I am what I am and you are you too./ Do you like | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | what you see? Do you like yourself?" --N. Cherry | ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 18 May 93 23:24:41 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: ani defranco SteveVanD writes: > And while I'm here and since Joe Zitt referred to _Wild Palms_: > I've been taping it and watching it intermittently while it's > been taping, but I'm starting to kick myself for not paying > attention more. It's unusual for any American TV production to > be so subtle and assume you have a) a brain and b) an attention > span, which is probably why so many critics are having trouble > with it -- their brains numbed by standard fare, they don't know > how to handle a show that actually demands anything from them. I agree with your a & b, but I haven't seen any bad reviews yet. Not that I pay that much attention to critics, but I've only seen raves. I'm taping it too. Yow!! It's definitely worth repeated viewings. Unfortunately, I've been taping at 6 hr speed, and if I had it to do over again I'd tape it 2 hr. It's worth that too. The last time I taped a series at 2 hr speed (actually, the last time I taped a series at *all*) was _Twin Peaks_. _Wild Palms_ doesn't have anything in common with TP (well, except for Steve's a & b above) though. It's hard to describe and weird to watch, but patience rewards. (I'm saying this for future reference, if it's repeated or shown later outside North America.) 5 hours down, 1 to go... > A minor SPOILER alert, just in case, and then: I did notice a > quite amusing throwaway bit in the Sunday night segment where a > TV is on in the background and the following snippet of dialogue > is heard: > > TV host: "So, Mr, Stone, the files were unsealed and it turns > out you were right. Are you bitter?" > > Oliver Stone: "No, Bob, but--" > > It's a somewhat unsubtle reference to _JFK_ but amusing > nonetheless. :-). There are lots of great lines in WP. (Oliver Stone also has a great parody bit in the movie _Dave_.) > Coming soon: announcement of my 1993 tour plans, with a scheduled > appearance in Atlanta and possible brief appearances in places on the > way (possibilities include Seattle and Chicago). The Atlanta > appearance will be at least July 3-5. Great!! Vickie ps, the Victoria story will be forthcoming, Mitch... pps, as will the Scientology story, brni... pps, Tommy, whatcha think? "I feel Satanic. Let's put on some old Black Sabbath and eat sugar" WP Sounds good to me, I love early Black Sabbath. I must have some Hostess Cup Cakes around here somewhere...:-) ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 11:37:26 +0800 From: m.dougiamas@info.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas) Subject: Mmmmph gurgle gurgle struggle mmmph Hiyaloharoohie, people... Well, I've been "doing a Greg"... :-{ and now I know how easily it can happen. Net activities have dwindled to near-zero lately while I've been attending to activities that use up more of my senses at a given time... I'm still drowning under the weight of about 60 or more unread digests, but I'm steadily swimming to the top and looking forward to making my world a more ectophilic one again... See you all soon, Martin P.S. Note the new email address, too. -- .---- _ . ---------------------------------+-------------------------------. | _r| Ll\ Martin Dougiamas, Ectophile | You ask so many questions, | | | |_|__\ m.dougiamas@info.curtin.edu.au | What answers should I choose? | |->\ |_|_ / Curtin University | Is it schizoid paranoia | | ~~ `_' Perth, Western Australia | or just existential blues? | |_______ v __________________________________|___________ T-Bone Stankus __| ======================================================================== 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)