13-Nov-91 23:21:27-GMT,13659;000000000001 Received: from athos.rutgers.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA00688; Wed, 13 Nov 91 18:11:37 EST Received: by athos.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA03724; Wed, 13 Nov 91 18:11:33 EST Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 18:11:33 EST Message-Id: <9111132311.AA03724@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 #41 ecto, Number 41 Wednesday, 13 November 1991 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Stuff [tm] Re: Welcome and pop quizzes and such When time stood still (part 1 and 2) Re: HCP Quick question ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 10:52:36 MST From: dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu (Doug Burks) Subject: Stuff [tm] Greetings, Ack! November's ecto file passed the half megabyte mark today!! I may have to come into work an hour early just to deal with Ecto: the Warm Fuzzy Blue Super-Popular Ever-Growing Mailing List. First, on the true silliness: I stand a hair over six foot tall, and that hair is brown and there's less of it than there used to be. I weigh 70kg (Vickie: 1kg = 2.2lb, 1stone = 20lb), look at the world through brown eyes, stand on it in size 10-1/2 shoes, and drive around in it in My Wild Blue Honda (singing "Off I go, in my wild blue Honda, flying high ...") 1979 Civic CVCC. I was born at 3:03am in Summit NJ, and since then lived in all over Northern New Jersey, Auburn NY, Terra Linda (San Francisco area) CA, Los Angeles CA, Seattle WA, Monterey CA, and Fort Collins CO. My marital status is available. Did I leave anything out? :-) [I certainly hope Vickie isn't recording any of this. I was surprised that anyone even wanted to compile the birthdays!!] Re the colors and music thread: I've always been the opposite, much more of an aural person than visual. (I hate saying 'aural'. People keep thinking you're 'oral' :-) ). People always complain how barren my apartment is, no paintings, no posters, nothing on my off-white walls. Yet I pipe my stereo into every room and have radios close at hand. My apartment is full of music (and books, but that's off the subject). Instead of music bringing colors or images, colors or images brings music, or more precisely sounds, to mind. The connections are never consistent, but are a strong function of my mood. I love John Cage, though I have never listened to a single sound from him, since his major point is "Listen! Music is all around you, no matter where you are!" (I've always felt that people who do by his music or attend his 'concerts' are missing the point!) I've noticed even silence has its own tones, often quite different ones. (Has anyone ever been in true dead silence? I have a couple of times in the deep wilderness on a dead still night. It's so quiet it almost physically hurts your ears!) Putting it another way, music and sound reach my heart and soul more consistently than light and sight. This rambling paragraph is probably missing my point by a mile and a half (two and a half kilometers if you're left-handed), but I hope something got through. Re the Sixties Top Forty list: I really didn't intend to make that a real quiz, but since Vickie started it, I might as well complete the list. Sugarloaf: Green-Eyed Lady (essential!) Ides of March: Vehicle (One of the things I really miss from this era of pop are the strong horn sections, such as Blood Sweat and Tears, early (very early!) Chicago, Tower of Power, and Chase. This is right in that list. Great!) Wadsworth Mansion: Sweet Mary (This probably didn't belong in the list. I don't even like it that much. The group's name has always intrigued me though. Anyone know of a Wadsworth Mansion somewhere?) The Flying Machine: Smile a Little Smile (Nice) Lighthouse: One Fine Morning (one of my all-time favorites) Go ahead and kick yourself, Vickie :-). A few comments on the other songs. "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes" _is_ wonderfully silly, and I always loved to sing along using variations of "Love Grows on My Rosemary's Nose". As for Zager & Evans, who knows if it was the first sf song hitting #1, but I do know that Zager & Evans are the artist to hit Number One, and never place anything in the charts ever again. Doug Burks _O_ dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu |< She really is!! ======================================================================== Date: 13-NOV-1991 13:59:57.58 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: Re: Welcome and pop quizzes and such Hi! Oh, the wonders of those of older generations... :) Thanks, Vickie, for informing me that Zager and Evans did that "In The Year 2525" song!!! I heard it on the radio one day when I was in sixth grade, and it scarred me for life. :) It's neat, I haven't heard it since, and have been forever wondering who the hell it was. Oh- and it's Napoleon XIV. I think I still have a couple tapes of old Dr. Demento Shows done when I was a seventh-grade Dementoid... and we have three of his compilation albums down in the station. *Wonderful* stuff!!! And I have to agree with you on the Courtney admonition- people can eat whatever they want, whether it's keeping kosher for religious reasons or being vegetarian for whatever reason. But I personally *like* my position on top of the food chain, I clawed my way up through centuries of adversity (are there any other omnivorous animals? I'm curious- I really don't know), and people telling me what to eat just makes me want to swing by Burger King and get a Valu-Meal. Besides, I hate green food. Ask my mom- drives her nuts! ;) Eagerly awaiting WXPN interview reports from observers... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Meredith Tarr "We let the weirdness in..." mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu -Kate Bush +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ======================================================================== From: Jeanne B Schreiter Subject: When time stood still (part 1 and 2) (fwd) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 13:18:50 CST Forwarded message: 10-25-1989 Time stood still I remember walking down the shore, eyes in the back of my head, following my feet, piercing the blue crested white sorrel wave images undefined Walking back to you stillness flooding my bones as marrow feeds me the shadow of your hand held back green with longing for the velvet flower skinned youth, Silent is the porcelain shell you weave tightly aroud the balcony, dreaming of the shark girl picking up sanddollars admiring the cracked freedom from the Catholic school. Softly she whispered marbled sights etched within her mind Softly the salt inhabited the rich copper sunken treasure in her platelets You turned away, green. Staggering from the sand seeped pool of mystery touched by the faces from high tide resoundance scraped the inner ear awake for a microsecond when time stood still. 11-12-1991 When Time stood still... Moments changed. The past burned into the present, I stopped following you and leaned out over the bow of the sailboat leaving behind your life for mine In the wake of pure dawn creamy gold sun like a easter morning chocolate egg just broken open by the coming of a new child. I awoke to the regressed passions Worlds of people, thought only to exist in fairy tales dreams I rubbed Jeanne's lamp to find the endless wishes in the ocean tides, green leaves nourished by the water of Wisconsin's pride. Never again will the soul be broken by misgivings* If my father were to die tomorrow, I would still be his daughter just as your fatehr has died, you will always be his son How it is, that we have changed, Man I see in the sky, No longer do I fly with you in metal-defensive, I touch the clouds with my fingertips cool and warm breezes enfold my body as if I were the bird-the wind holding my wings up, the waves as they whisper to the sands upon the shor and the shark who cannot stand still. JB Schreiter (it needs a bit of work yet, but it's coming along) ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 14:33:46 EST From: Nimue - Gwragedd Annwn Subject: Re: HCP I think it's a great idea. While I am not Christian and dont like to celebrate Christmas I do give Winter solstice/Yule gifts. I dont mind at all if this is a Christmas gift though........in fact I don't care what kind of gift it is I just think it's a great idea!!! (kuds to the Klaus man) Now I have to weed through my music and find something really obscure but wonderful :) I was thinking this morning that it would be really cool if Patrick and I could do our live impressionalistic version of Lorelei (by the Pogues) but it's going to be too late by the time I get home (and is Patrick around these days :) ). Oh well back to the drawing boards :) kIrI ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesus was way cool, everybody liked Jesus, everybody wanted to hang out with him. Anything he wanted to do he did, he turned water into wine and if he wanted to he could have turned wheat into marijuana, or sugar into cocaine, or vitamin pills into amphetamines. He walked on the water and swam on the land. --- King Missle "Jesus was way cool" HARGIEKA@CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU______________________________________________ ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 16:37:32 EST From: jessica Subject: Re: Welcome and pop quizzes and such Vickie writes: > Uh, Martin, how can you be black when you were "the only white child > raised among Aboriginals"? It did read like that at first, but he was following the pattern of the previous post, so I think "black" referred to hair color. > Sorry to end on a somewhat wour note, but you also said... > > and the FTP (her central gov type thing) makes > > it MANDATORY for all to be vegetarians!! Three MEROWS for her!!!! > Sorry, no merows from me. And it isn't because I'm a not a vegetarian, > but just because no eating habit should be banned OR "mandatory". I agree with Vickie. I don't mind people being vegetarian, but I wouldn't like for them to demand that anyone else had to be too. jessica || jessica || It is this that || Don't try to tell me there's no reason for || || lawrence || brings us || any moment in time, every memory of mine. || || koeppel || together. || Those years are lines of color on my face, || || dembski || --Kate || the past is warpaint. --Happy Rhodes || ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 16:58:45 EST From: jessica Subject: Re: HCP I can understand the conceern about the "christmas" present. Not being a christian, it's a very odd concept. Hoever I agree with kiri that it's just a fabulous idea anyway :) If *Happy* celebrates christmas, than i've no problem with giving her a christmas present, Just 'cause i'm not christian doesn't mean i tihnk other people shouldn't be. and i've no trouble with helping them celbrate their holidays so long as doing so doesn't iinfringe on other people. anyway, i've never felt christmas did that (infringe) so i don't have a problem with giving her a christmas present if she's christian. if she's not (even if she's not she may not care, but since some of us do..) then I say we just give her a present just 'cause she's obviously very special to us. jessica || jessica || It is this that || Don't try to tell me there's no reason for || || lawrence || brings us || any moment in time, every memory of mine. || || koeppel || together. || Those years are lines of color on my face, || || dembski || --Kate || the past is warpaint. --Happy Rhodes || ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 16:01:55 MST From: dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu (Doug Burks) Subject: Quick question Greetings, Did my WXPN interview post reach anyone? I submitted in this morning, and received my copy. However, Meredith's post today and the continuing silence makes me wonder. (Or was everyone just too stunned by Happy's interview to answer? :-) ). Doug Burks _O_ dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu |< She really is!! ======================================================================== 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)