15-Nov-91 5:57:15-GMT,14931;000000000001 Received: from athos.rutgers.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA20437; Fri, 15 Nov 91 00:48:58 EST Received: by athos.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA07554; Fri, 15 Nov 91 00:48:51 EST Date: Fri, 15 Nov 91 00:48:51 EST Message-Id: <9111150548.AA07554@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 #44 ecto, Number 44 Friday, 15 November 1991 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: Happy Gift Project Present & Interview & Stuff small clarifciation Happy stuff (mostly) ok, ok, ok... ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 11:06:17 MST From: dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu (Doug Burks) Subject: Re: Happy Gift Project Greetings, Brian asked: Are the songs *supposed* to be Christmas oriented? Or are we just contributing songs we think would be cool for Happy to hear? Since I apparently started this, I'll kill it before it gets anywhere. No, my little joke about "Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer" was probably a too subtle little dig at the brouhaha over what to call the project. Though I too wonder what kind of songs we're talking about. Klaus' original proposal said "ONE song she/he would like to dedicate to her". That certainly covers a lot of territory, including 'cool' songs for Happy to hear. Should we leave it at time, or try for a more consistent theme? I'm happy (Has anyone else noticed your ears pricking up at the sight or sound of the word 'happy'?) with the current status, though it might be worth some discussion. Doug Burks _O_ dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu |< She really is!! ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 18:17:03 +0000 From: Steve Fagg Subject: Present & Interview & Stuff Hi everybody, I got back to work on Monday after a week's holiday to find over a hundred Emails from ecto! Unfortunately BNR don't pay me to read Ecto :-( so I've only just now caught up. Not that I'd have missed it for the world, even though I don't appreciate the works of Madonna nor those of Stephen King. I seem to have missed Klaus's suggestion for a present for Happy though, somebody fill me in on the proposal please. Although no Christian I have no problem with it being a Christamas present, the Christmas I and most people I know celebrate these days is a purely secular ocaision with no more relevance to Christianity than to the pagan midwinter festivals. The interview transcription was just great. I'd love a tape copy, would whoever is going to make copies be willing to buy a tape and mail it to me in the UK if I send over some dollars? Personal info: just a smidgen under six foot, 55 kilos ( = 120lbs = 8 st 8lbs, 14lbs to the stone over here), blue-ish eyes, dark brown hair (with traces of grey creeping in) worn very long in a pony tail, single, and I don't drive (I'm in the fortunate position of finding that shanks's pony, my bicycle, and public transport covers nearly all my needs). In common with many other people I still retain considerable affection for the pop music that was in the charts when I first began taking notice of such things. A lot of stuff from between 15 & 20 years ago has special nostalgic associations. Indeed I continued to take an interest in what was popular in pop up until about 1983/4 since when almost nothing has seemed worth the effort. Over the last few years I've hardly bought any new releases at all (I've been buying lots of back catalogue though, to get CDs of things I previously had on vinyl or tape), and Jane & Happy are just about the only two new artists to come to my attention since then (both the result of Vickie's championing in .gaffa - thanks Vickie!). Around half of the music I buy (and almost all of the music I see live) nowadays is what is loosly called "classical", though strictly speaking much of it isn't. Pop culture has definitely left me way behind these days and I've become what we used to call a boring old fart. Anyway... Time to go home now. -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-429531 Ext 2437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** Vita? Nole me vitae dicere! *** (pace centurians everywhere) ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 21:51 GMT From: The Cat O'Nine Tails for THIS Cat Apologies to all: i finally remember when and where i put my foot in my mouth about being a vegetarian... i HUMBLY apologize (please..all check my new personal name).. and i did NOT mean that i think every one should be a vegetarian..i think i wrote my point poorly..and that it was taken out of context... what i MEANT to say (and here i hope i dont mess it up again) was that i was glad to find that a writer that i MUCH admire believes in the same things ( well..some of them) that *I* do...i KNOW that vegetarianism isnt the right thing for everybody..and i CERTAINLY dont believe in forcing people against their will...god knows that when i visited Vickie at the beginning of the summer i was very much a carnivorous omnivore...i guess what i am trying to say is that i apologize...hope no one gets *too* offended by my carelessly written remark..i will now shut up and hide in a hole.... one question 'fore i hide...is ther time for me to tape this SILLY Welsh love song and send it to whoever is compiling the tape?? who is doing it BTW??? i need their snail mail address...IF it isnt too late...if not..i will try to come up with an appropriate song... Jessica: to answer your tattoo question..it is placed on the back of my head.. i have my long hair covering it so that it is visible only when *I* want it visible..it is a celtic know..about the length of my pinkie finger..and the width of half my pinkie finger...it is tasteful and NOT tacky!!! Mom had a heart attack when she guessed..my freind who had a cow tattooed on the abck of her NECk..(stupid girl..thats how her parents caught her,,and she was only 16) ..got caught and thus i was caught by implication...since i am 20..they cant do anything to make me remove it..**** em if they try!!!! i keep the hair shaved over it so that it is quite tiday and neat to see!!! i have freaked out quite a few people around here with it!! oh god..just re read my message..and saw that i had misstyped what it was..it is a Celtic KNOT...very neat design.. anyway...anyone who needs encouragement to get one..i HIGHLY suggest you get one in a rather obscure place..somewhere wehre you dont have to look at it for the rest of your life..if i ever (not likely) get tired of it.. i can always let my hair grow over it..and forget it!!! simple!!! merow.. well..off to dig my hole now...see you around Yule... a much subdued cat. ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 17:12:47 EST From: jessica Hmm, there's two different tattoos i want, I tihnk. One is a peach on my rear end. If anyone can figure out the two references (one of them is easy i tihnk, the other a bit harder) i'll be very impressed :) The other would be some celtic knotwork and/or vines in celtic knot-patterns, either going around my wrist and onto the back of my hand and up my arm, or around the ankle onto foot and leg. (or both?). Anyone see "The Last Temtation of Christ"? I lvoedd the tattooing on the woman with the tattoo (memory-less me doesn't remember the characters name, mary of something i'm sure).. So lets see who figures out why i want a peach on my rear. 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: Thu, 14 Nov 91 17:21:51 EST From: David N. Blank-Edelman > So lets see who figures out why i want a peach on my rear. It's not from the title of the Allman Brother's album "Eat A Peach", is it? Peace, dNb ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 17:26:06 EST From: jessica@cs.rutgers.edu (jessica) Subject: small clarifciation I mentioned there's two parts of the "peach on my rear end" question, but just to make it clearer, there's "why a peach"? and "why on my rear end"? :) And nope, it's not from "Eat a Peach" though "eat a peach" *did* help me reconfirm for a peach (I like that album muchly and a peach in memory of duane (sp?) allman is fine by me!!!). (apologies to new ecto members Jim and Cathy who are probably wondering what on *earth* tattoos have to do with Happy. Lets just say the list is getting a bit personal but we don't mind 'cause it's nice and blue and fuzzy. :) And yes i *definitely* like the idea of wrapping the gift in fuzzy blue wrapping paper!!! I've been tihnking about the song I choose, i'm thinking perhaps I'll do something of me singing. *Not* choosing a Kate song will be hard, maybe too hard.. my favorite "you're an amazing person who's had great influence on me" songs are all by kate.. Moving (which she's already heard me sing but i could do a better version of it) or Them Heavy People or Be Kind to My Mistakes, or or or.. jessica ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 17:54 CST From: vickie@chinet.chi.il.us (Vickie Ann Mapes) Subject: Happy stuff (mostly) Vickie here. Kevin just faxed me an ad that appeared in the Oct. 25 (!) issue of the CMJ report. I missed seeing it and I try to look at CMJ whenever I can, Kiri, you must have missed it too. Check around your station and find it. It's cool! 1/4 page, with a photo of the cover of Warpaint, and various blurbs underneath from radio station PDs, taken from the list of quotes that Klaus posted. Mine's not in there, and neither is Harry's! Darn :-) I can't tell the page number, but it's in the "Record Company Dialogue" section. At the top of the ad is, in HUGE letters "#1 MOST REQUESTED ARTIST IN 1991! WXPN-Philadelphia." Very neat! I didn't get to talk to the Hapster (Kevin calls her that :-) because she was fixing dinner. How mundane! Kevin said that KTCZ in Minneapolis is "playing the heck" out of Warpaint, and it's entered their Top 25 list. KTOO in Juneau, Alaska is playing a song, but he didn't know which one. Another station in Alaska, KBBI in Homer, has requested a Warpaint. Don't we have an Ectophile in Alaska? You've been very quiet, but if you're responsible for these Alaska stations becoming interested, our THANKS!! Band rehearsals start seriously December 2. I *will* be getting a copy of the WXPN interview from Kevin, as soon as he gets a copy from WXPN. Whenever that will be. I can include the entire thing in the Ecto Sig, which would cut down on the amount of tapes floating around getting stuff. How's that sound? It's only 20 minutes, and I can cut out more Happy songs, which are available on her albums anyway. I'll repost the infor about the Ecto Sig later. It's easily re-done, and this is worth redoing it for, so that means more people can be included. All the don't people haven't the slightest idea what I'm talking about, but you'll be clear soon. I don't have time to dig the Ecto Sig info up now, because I have to meet Chris for dinner. We're going to see Laurie Freelove in concert tonight. Yay! I'll tellyou about it when I get back home. I have been listening to Toni Child's new album over and over again. Oh my goodness, it's AMAZING! Very emotional, very angry, very beautiful. Truly excellent! Later... Vickie ps, Stephen Thomas, Happy will be writing something, so yes, she'll post to Ecto through me. pps, 4"2, 61 pounds, green hair, orange eyes, I drive a Big Wheel (Fisher- Price 1962) born at 32:33.34. Oh jeez, I gotta go... ======================================================================== From: foster@magnum.convex.com (Harry Foster) Subject: Re: Happy stuff (mostly) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 22:03:40 CST Harry here: :) Vickie there: > I have been listening to Toni Child's new album over and over again. > Oh my goodness, it's AMAZING! Very emotional, very angry, very beautiful. > Truly excellent! > I agree!!! This is an incredible album. A must listen! _ _____ _______ __ / /_/ / _ \/ / _ \ \/ / / __ / _ / / _ /\ / /_/ /_/_//_/_/_/ \_\/_/ ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 23:56:20 PST From: barry@gnu.ai.mit.edu Barry here, Hey vickie, I was just wondering, when do you thinkn the release dates for SIG ECTO outght to be? Also, how did the test ecto shirts come out? Which covers did you get printed up? Also, I was wondering, does anyone here like printout all the ecto posts? If so do you mail them out? Initially that's what I thought the Newsletter was going to be, a compilation of ecto posts. Barry ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 15 Nov 91 00:08:18 -0500 From: gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert) Subject: ok, ok, ok... hmm, lessee, i'm about 8 feet long, deep blue, with big white and yellow flowers, deep lopsided cushions, and... hold on! HOLD ON! sorry, that was my couch! durn, i *keep* doing that... hey, we are ECTO... we take what shape we please, dancing at the edge of vision... footah. -greg -- gb10@gte.com -- "Don't look for me Don't call my name I'll kiss you goodnight" -- HR ======================================================================== 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)