23-Nov-91 19:45:39-GMT,15220;000000000001 Received: from athos.rutgers.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA23920; Sat, 23 Nov 91 14:38:26 EST Received: by athos.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA16661; Sat, 23 Nov 91 14:38:18 EST Date: Sat, 23 Nov 91 14:38:18 EST Message-Id: <9111231938.AA16661@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 #59 ecto, Number 59 Saturday, 23 November 1991 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Testorama sold 1st CD Vicious Vick!! Stuff [tm] Call for symbolic acts of faith Everybody wants to get into the act (?!) The Turkeys Are Coming Oh--- Hoooooooooo weeeeeeee!! ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 22 Nov 91 03:46 CST From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris n Vickie) Subject: Testorama F U CN RD THS I GT THRU! Yippie! ObHappy (just in case): WOW! Vickie ll, a few of them, complaining about none of my posts showing up. I decided to try mail one more time and yow! 12 messages, many of them mine. Check out the dates and times of some of them and you'll see that it took them an ungodly amount of time to get through. It must be somewhat irratating to some that I always seem to be complaining, but I've become so dependent upon Ecto, and it's just downright scary when things go haywire. It's much much worse for me when I don't get incoming, then I *really* feel cut off. Ecto is addictive, I'm hooked...line and sinker! I feel like a junkie going through withdrawal symptoms when I'm cut off either way. Silly huh? I may never take another vacation again :-) :-) My apologies for my posts'o'panic.... Vickie ======================================================================== Subject: sold 1st CD Date: Fri, 22 Nov 91 15:47:51 N From: Klaus Kluge I've just sold my first _Warpaint_ CD ! Sofar I gave them away as gifts, but now one of my colleagues asked me to sell him the CD after I treated him with a selection tape (Angelos' selection). Of course that had nothing to do with my skills as a salesman (which are minimal, hmm ... nonexistent). Happy's music caught him. _____ Klaus Kluge --- kkluge@Materna.DE --- Countdown: 22 days ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 22 Nov 91 09:45:48 CST From: vishal@ra.csc.ti.com (Vishal Markandey) Subject: Vicious Vick!! Jessica writes: > Well, there are two pictures (at least) from the album - two are very > similar - the one of Kate with sand running through her fingers, and > there is also the one of her holding a peach - they are almost > identical as far as i can remember, except for the sand/peach > difference. I don't tihnk i actually *have* either of them, hmm.. > All my singles are at home - i tihnk one of the pictures is on the > sensual world cd single, and the other is on a poster? I'm sure > someone knows for sure, but it isn't me.. I have seen the "sand" picture on the TSW single, the poster, and the T-shirt. Never seen the twin "peach" poster, although IED had posted about in Gaffa when it came out. The vicious Vick writes: > Vishal! I was on the floor howling at what you said in rec.music.gaffa! > >> I have received several queries about locating Kate GIFs in the archives. >> Sorry I didn't respond sooner - I have been busy on Ecto (the Happy Rhodes >> mailing list :) and I don't read Gaffa on a regular basis any more thanks >> to the stupid flame wars here. > > HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA to you too, Vick!! Yes, the flame wars of late have been pretty stupid. Makes me nostalgic for The Happy Rhodes Flame Wars. Those were the days, sigh!! :) With lunch pail clutched firmly in hand, I remain: Vishal ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 22 Nov 91 09:50:05 MST From: dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu (Doug Burks) Subject: Stuff [tm] Greetings, Let's see what I have to catch up on.... Welcome to Claudia! At least you know what you're getting into here, before signing on. Happy birthday (+1 day) to Kevin (who probably won't see this) and Alan (who probably won't see it for another day or two). By the way, the distribution of birthdays on this list is weird. April 10 and July 28 each host three Ectophiles, and are obviously destined for world-wide holidays. (And, of course, only a warm fuzzy blue person can be born on August 32nd. :-) ) Yet there are three gaps almost a month long! Maybe this astrology stuff has something going for it. Naaah!!! Jessica told a story about photocopying her rear end: When I was an undergraduate at Ucla many years ago, a very well-written letter to the student newspaper described how the writer spied a couple of girls photocopying their rear ends amid much giggling in a library. They sprinted away when they saw him, but left a host of copies of their derriere scattered around the floor. He ended the letter with the classic line: "... which proves there's more than one way to get your BA at Ucla!" our e.e.cummings fan (woj) wrote: don't let them catch you saying they are seattlians - they'll probably hang you by your fuzzy blue ears (they're from olympia and think seattle sucks weenies). As a former Seattlite, I say, don't let Seattlites catch you saying Seattlians (though that doesn't have the death penalty like the one attached to calling San Fransisco "Frisco"). By the way, Olympia will always have a complex, being the state capital and playing a distant second fiddle to Seattle (and even Tacoma!), but I always thought that their complex was about the Olympia (the brewery) brewery being in next door Tumwater, in spite of having Olympia's (the city) name! :-) Vickie wrote: Ecto is addictive, I'm hooked...line and sinker! I feel like a junkie going through withdrawal symptoms when I'm cut off either way. Silly huh? No. I feel the same way. Let's hope the Drug Enforcement Agency doesn't hear about this and ban all fuzzy blue mailing lists. :-) By the way, does Court get paid by the exclamation point!!!!!!?! :-) Finally, 'terra incognita' means 'unknown land' and in its English borrowing usually leans towards the meaning of uncharted/unexplored land, the parts of ancient maps which were labelled 'Here be dragons'. Doug Burks _O_ dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu |< She really is!! ======================================================================== Date: 22 November 1991 09:19:34 CST From: Subject: Call for symbolic acts of faith Today's _Chicago Reader_ contains an insert from WXRT radio, including a ballot for this year's music poll. It occurs to me that Chicago area ectophile s could cast write-in votes for Happy and _Warpaint_. Submission deadline is December 9. It has also come to my attention that the December issue of _Playboy_ contain's that publication's music poll ballot for the year. Ectophiles every- where could cast write-in votes for Happy that way. Their deadline is Dec. 15. There is always the outside chance that a tiny bloc of votes for the same obscure artist could attract at least a small amount of attention. The rest, a s they say, could be history. :-) Mitch Pravatiner ___________________________ "If you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but at least you won't come up with a handful of mud." --Leo Burnett ======================================================================== Date: 22 November 1991 09:26:04 CST From: Subject: Everybody wants to get into the act (?!) Today's _Chicago Sun-Times_ reports that Gary LaPaille, chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party, has given county cheirman samples of "Eau de Demo- crat" cologne and "I'm Gonna Wash George Bush Right Out Of My Hair" shampoo. I still think our variations on these themes are more imaginative than LaPaille's. --Mitch ======================================================================== Date: 22-NOV-1991 20:36:39.62 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: The Turkeys Are Coming Hi! I have a few things to comment on, but first, I just HAD to post this for the information of all the American Ectophiles: (From the Boston Globe, Wednesday, 20 November, 1991) "If you have a question about buying, cooking, or storing your Thanksgiving turkey, the Butterball Turkay Hotline- (800) 323-4848- is open between 9am and 9pm today through Friday and again next Monday through Wednesday; also from 9am to 7pm this Saturday and Sunday; and, on Thanksgiving Day itself, from 7am to 7pm"...at which point you're beyond hope anyway. :) Just wanted to prove to the international Ectophiles that the USA is a strange country, and it's getting weirder every day. Court, congrats on your find. I found some funky things in Germany, and I know that euphoric feeling! What, I was cut out of one of the GiFs???? I'm going to have to do something to whomever did that, like thank them. I HATE seeing pictures of myself? As for the misspelling of the name, only three people in my life have spelled it right on the first try. I wish I'd known you all through Ecto beforehand, because now I don't recall who I met and who I didn't, outside of Vickie and Chris and IED and a few others... that was sich a whirlwind day! Vickie, I'm glad your son is doing well, and it's good everything ended up okay- so often it doesn't! And maybe what I said about Drukman was unduly cruel, but sometimes net-personae like that get on my nerves. They shouldn't, I know, but they do. Vickie, I restrained myself from answering that Libertarian who wanted to spit in your face, because I didn't want to deal with his reply. Has he explained his beliefs to you? I'm curious to know what the hell he thinks we should do if we don't have some form of government-- I don't like the idea of being controlled by another person that much myself, but I like to think I realize that human nature dictates a need for it... sorry to put this here, all, so Vickie, e-mail me your answer (if you have one) to me, okay? I'm psyched Happy got more CDs- maybe now she'll send one to WESU and get played lots and lots and lots.... :) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Meredith Tarr "We let the weirdness in..." mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu -Kate Bush +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ======================================================================== Date: 22-NOV-1991 20:50:23.26 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: Oh--- Hi again... To those who have recently discovered the Innocence Mission: Run to the record store at which you found _Umbrella_ and pick up their first album, simply called _Innocence Mission_. IMO it's better than the second (I think all the songs on _Umbrella_ sound alike, but I like them anyway :), and is not to be missed!!! "I Remember Me" is the song they played on Letterman (where I first saw/heard them) and it's one of my very favorite songs ever. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Meredith Tarr "We let the weirdness in..." mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu -Kate Bush +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1991 01:40 +8:00 From: SVODOPIER@cc.curtin.edu.au Subject: Hoooooooooo weeeeeeee!! Hiyaloohareenies! Martin here [feel feel prod pinch] Yes, I'm sure.... Hoo wee.. I just had a rather freaky experience... What a day it's been! I was out for a jog around the neighbourhood before I went to bed (it's after 1am at the moment... I just got in) and I was just about home again, looking fairly dishevelled as you might expect, running along the road quite fast with bare feet and dressed in just an old grey engineering t-shirt and shorts... when a helicopter comes screaming up over the horizon and hovers about 50 metres above me, shining a REALLY BRIGHT spotlight right at me! I knew it was one of the police force's new toys - they just got a couple of huge police gunships - so I kept running, pretending I couldn't see them... AS IF! ... then within a few seconds an unmarked police car with another huge spotty on its roof came howling around the corner, down my street and racing up to me with its light pinning me to where I stood, transfixed to the tarmac like a butterfly on a board. In fact, I felt a lot like that Gary Larson cartoon with the guy being mesmerised by a spotlight from a UFO. By the time I managed to wave at them, they'd decided I wasn't a ruthless, dangerous desperado (little did they know my last speeding fine is three months overdue! Ha ha ha!) and were gone as quickly as they'd come, off to the north, flashing high-powered beams into everyone's backyards. Phew... Dem 'copters is LOUD! It felt just like a scene from Terminator or RoboCop or something. Of course, as soon as I got back home I put on "Pull out the pin" and "Waking the Witch" ... "Get out of the water" Never seen this kind of thing before. Perth is such a *nice* town. 1.1 million pop and 99% suburbs. In fact, often it's quite boring. That's why I can go out on the streets late at night. I didn't think we needed police aerial gunships... Maybe the pigs are getting bored too. :) Well, that's my night. Later, Mahrtihn --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All I've got is a card There's a cat in my alleyway A picture of her at the pyramids Dreaming of birds that are blue A knife held to her heart Sometimes girl, when I'm lonely Was there anything I could do? This is how I think about you. ----------------------- Go-Betweens...an Aussie band ---------------------- ======================================================================== 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! 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