20-Nov-91 23:18:12-GMT,12034;000000000001 Received: from athos.rutgers.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA03387; Wed, 20 Nov 91 18:05:57 EST Received: by athos.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA23199; Wed, 20 Nov 91 18:05:47 EST Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 18:05:47 EST Message-Id: <9111202305.AA23199@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 #53 ecto, Number 53 Wednesday, 20 November 1991 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Scribblings on pages welcome and apology and music Back to the heavyweight jam. All aboard! Ooops, sorry. Ecto - The Sweat Shirt Ecto education redux If for some chance... wow that'll teach *me* ======================================================================== Date: 20-NOV-1991 00:35:13.96 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: Scribblings on pages Hi! Jeff, I've done things like that. This week I sent a book by return mail back to the book club from which I'd ordered it, forgetting I'd ordered it and thinking it was the Main Selection of the Month, the card for which I'd forgotten to send in saying not to send it to me. Yesterday I got the Main Selection of the Month, and realized my boo-boo. Oh, well- I couldn't afford the book, anyway! :) Jim, I wish you the best of luck in your writing career. As one who has had to live with a frustrated writer and is now having fun dealing with the success of said writer and her tribulations and those of her friends as well, I can understand what it's like. I also admire you for wanting to show your stuff to the world- I wouldn't show anybody *my* stuff, except maybe under torture. ;) And the aforementioned writer does have a day-job, if you can call it that. If she were in it for the money alone, she'd have died in the streets a couple years ago. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Meredith Tarr "We let the weirdness in..." mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu -Kate Bush +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 01:22:36 EST From: jessica@cs.rutgers.edu Subject: welcome and apology and music First, a welcome to Terry Partis and Dan Becker! Second, an apology for the bounced messages of the past day, please resend any that bounced. The problem was (as it was before) that I rushed a bit too fast when sending digests out from Boston. Everything should be back to normal again. Third, I was in Boston to do some recording with greg. (Claudia, I am so sorry i didn't get to stop by to meet you! There just wasn't a chance at all! I'm still planning to come up when Klaus is here!) We recorded one of greg's songs called "Power". I've listened to it many many times tonight :):) I tihnk it came out quite well!! I *would* liek to re-record the lead vocals, and greg woudl like to re-record the lead guitar. heh, I have a feeling we'd want to no matter *how* good it is! and an additional quick fourth: even with bounced messages it's going to take me a while to catch up! I'm happy :) jessica ps: the other day someone mentioned how every time they hear the word "happy" their ears perk up and they wonder what people are saying and if it's "Happy" they're saying, not just "happy" :) Well, the other day at the music building on campus, I was waiting for Mrs. Fromer to get off the phone, and kept saying how great it is that "happy said this, and happy is doing that, and happy is really helping everything..." She *had* to be talking about a person, but I dind't imagine it could be *our* happy. It sounded like it was someone in Admissions. So i said "Happy is such an unusual name" and she said "yeah, isn't it great?" I said "Yep. I know an artist I greatly admire with that name, a woman from albany". She said "Neat. That was Happy ... i forget her last name ... from Admissions". "Neat", I said. :) pps: I was waiting for Mrs. Fromer to get off the phone so that I coudl arrange the time for my audition - it will be this friday at 1:30pm, I'm auditioning to be a Voice Performace major at Mason Gross School of the Arts (it's a part of Rutgers). as an MGSA student i can still take any CompSci class i want. as a regular rutgers student, i *can't* take voice lessons. wish me luck, it's very selective :) ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 16:38 +8:00 From: SVODOPIER@cc.curtin.edu.au Subject: Back to the heavyweight jam. All aboard! Subject: Re: what Jeff said (or what I think he thinks he said) [Jeff's interesting comments on writing's relationship to money] I agree entirely. And I couldn't help thinking how all you said applies equally well towards music these days. Which brings it all very nicely back to Happy. Yay! It'd be nice to help Happy get to the point where she didn't have to worry about the money aspect any more, and could get on with completely free expression. Much like the point Kate has been at for some time. THEN imagine what we might see. Mmmmhh. Martin P.S. Ugh, I used the word "nice" twice up there. I'm supposed to avoid that. Guess my brain must be just too full of happy warm blue fuzziness. ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 16:49 +8:00 From: SVODOPIER@cc.curtin.edu.au Subject: Ooops, sorry. Please excuse the confused quality of my last post. My only excuse is that it's nearly 5 in the afternoon and I just got up. These late nights are getting ridiculous. I find I've somehow slipped into a pattern nearly 12 hours out of synch with the rest of the country and I seem to be living on U.S. time. 8-| It's a worry, 'cos I can't seem to break out of it now. It's been a week! I need to go listen to some Happy. Yeah. Martin ,-------------------------+----------------------------. _ . | "First things first. | Martin Dougiamas. | ~ _/| Ll\ ~ | but not necessarily | sdougiama@cc.curtin.edu.au | | |_|__\ ~ | in that order." | Curtin University | ~ \ |_|_ / ~ | | Perth, Western Australia --+---> x~ `-' ~ `===== Doctor Who ========+============================' V ======================================================================== Subject: Ecto - The Sweat Shirt Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 11:50:09 N From: Klaus Kluge As promised, here is what became of my visit to the "funny shirt" shop. Considering the current time of year I thought that a t-shirt would not be a good idea, and decided for a sweat-shirt instead. And I got it! I took the cover of the Ecto-tape with me, and had that enlarged to it's double size (that is the size of four tapes). Underneath it now reads "ECTO - Happy Rhodes". I decided for a grey sweater, but that turned out to be not perfect. Some of the details (hmmm, are there details?) were lost, as the originally white parts are grey now. It surely would look better on a white background. But it still looks great! Guess if I put it on after coming home? OK, OK, I know it's a rhetorical question. :) BTW, I did some more preparations for my visit to Boston. So I now have an international driving license and an health insurance. _________________________________________________________ . * | "Tell me all the plans you have for the great beyond. | _ . * .* . | Will you be physical again, or be a cosmic vagabond." | (_) . . | countdown: 24 days --- Happy Rhodes --- | . . o | Klaus "cosmic vagabond" Kluge kkluge@Materna.DE | <== ======================================================================== Date: 20 November 1991 11:04:02 CST From: Subject: Ecto education redux In my amorphous little essay last week on curricular tie-ins that could be cited to establish the educational merit of Ecto, I inadvertently left off one significant area of knowledge, that what we do has interfaced, to-wit: ART APPRECIATION: Happy's original monster paintings on the inlay cards of the 1st4. Mitch Pravatiner _____________________________ "Headache throbbing like a drum?/Don't let it last and last/ Get quick relief with Bufferin/It's fast, fast, fast." --Doggerel from a 1952 commercial (first seen in modern times on _Our World_ (ABC-TV, 1986); brought to mind by an interview with the author of the new book _The Aspirin Wars_ run on _Fresh Air_ (NPR) Monday afternoon, while I was writing my last submission to this publication) ======================================================================== From: Jeanne B Schreiter Subject: If for some chance... Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 11:27:27 CST MjM...I got your parcel. Music in the form of a disk. Listening to it now. I like the music... send me your email address. Greg...Got the parcel...came in good order...THanks!!! ======================================================================== Subject: wow Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 17:56:09 EST From: jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu My life goes on in endless song above earth's lamentations, I hear the real, though far-off hymn that hails a new creation. Through all the tumult and the strife I hear it's [sic] music ringing, It sounds an echo in my soul. How can I keep from singing? When tyrants tremble in their fear and hear their death knell rining, when friends rejoice both far and near how can I keep from singing? In prison cell and dungeon vile our thoughts to them are winging, when friends by shame are undefiled how can I keep from singing? "How Can I Keep From Singing," words by Roma Ryan, performed by Enya 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 | ======================================================================== Subject: that'll teach *me* Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 17:59:33 EST From: jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu I shouldn't have posted before double checking the liner notes; "How Can I Keep From Singing" is listed as a traditional song. I'm not sure if this refers to the lyrics or the melody or both, but I am no longer certain as to whether or not those lyrics I just posted were written by Roma Ryan. Sorry. Jeff (who seems to be trapped in mistake-o-rama this week) (a day and a half so far and my mis-sent package has not yet returned 1 block down the street...;-) |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)