Errors-To: ecto-owner@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 #738 ecto, Number 738 Tuesday, 7 September 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Cranes coming! Re: Convinced My Visit To Chicago Re: Convinced Happy on WCBR DCD go olympic? For this she dismantles 10,000 Maniacs? and other stories Je Viens Re: Need an East Coast volunteer... ectogather -- SUCCESS AT LAST! ooooooooo Hellos! ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 16:11:06 EDT From: Laura Frank Clifford Subject: Cranes coming! Whee - going to see Cranes 9/27 at the Paradise in Boston! Anyone seen them yet on their current tour? Laura ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Convinced Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 16:25:41 -0400 From: "Dr. Dan" Well, here's how it looked here (loose mail): Mike Mendelson writes: >I that deleted > am duplicate from > now lines the > convinced are >digest. question do appear direct > The is, they in mail? >As rather and experiment, line > a stupid annoying each >in message at > this is least > dumb repeated once. >- > m > j > m - d a n ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 21:42:13 BST From: GTP10@phx.cam.ac.uk Subject: My Visit To Chicago Thanks to the wonders of telnet I'm logged in remotely from Vanderbilt University. I just wanted to publicly thank Vickie and Chip for taking time out on a Sunday afternoon to go to O'Hare to meet up with a complete stranger. The people on Ecto are just amazing! Vickie brought along a large collection of photos, so I was able to see some great pictures of Happy in concert (taken by Jessica's husband) plus numerous gatherings of Ectophiles and Gaffans in Chicago and indeed England. Now I can put some faces to lots of familiar names. Having been awake and travelling since 3.00 am UK-time, I was feeling pretty spaced-out by the time I arrived at O'Hare, so it was just wonderful to be greeted by two friendly faces. I hope I came across more coherent than I felt! Geoff Parks PS The cool thing at O'Hare is pretty damn cool! ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 14:08:18 PDT From: Neal R. Copperman Subject: Re: Convinced > I am now convinced that duplicate lines are deleted from the > digest. The question is, do they appear in direct mail? > As a rather stupid and annoying experiment, each line > in this dumb message is repeated at least once. > -mjm > Well, I would say that the above is how it looked when I got it, but if things are getting changed then what you get may not be what I included (huh?). Anyway, I think I got what you originally typed, which is 4 copies of the first line, 2 copies of the second and third lines, 3 copies of the fourth line an 5 signatures, give or take counting errors. ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 16:22:24 CDT From: Chip Lueck Subject: Happy on WCBR This weekend Vickie commented to me about the next milestone of Happy's airplay in Chicago will be when she randomly turns on the radio and hears Happy. It happened to me today! I just started modifying a program and realized that I didn't have any music on, so I flipped on my little walkman which was tuned to WCBR (albeit fuzzily) and I hear this incredibly familiar voice singing Feed the Fire. Wow. Now the question is whether or not an ectophile (or Charley) requested it, if it was another listener who heard it on WCBR before or if they are just automatically playing it. Wow. It's a Happy day! ======================================================================== Date: 07 Sep 93 17:14:36 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: DCD go olympic? >24 Montreal Olympic Um, ah, hmmm, a woj, are you implying here they would be playing the Big O, aka The Olympic Stadium? Well, either DCD have an untellingly huge following in Mtl, or they are playing in some collective musical effort, or there is a new pub called "Olympic." -mjm ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 16:27:37 CDT From: U15289@uicvm.bitnet Subject: For this she dismantles 10,000 Maniacs? and other stories Yesterday's Tonight Show was touted as having Natalie Merchant as a guest-- which it really did. What one wasn't prepared for was that she appeared merely as a backup singer for a country artist, whose name I've forgotten, though he reportedly led the Rolling Stone poll in his genre the last couple of years. At the very end, they were shown sitting by Jay Leno's desk, but there wasn't time for them to say anything. Maybe it'll be more worth watching tonight, when Andrei Codrescu is scheduled to talk about his new film _Road Scholar_. Fortunately, yesterday wasn't a total loss. On the basis of the favorable reviews it got in the papers over the weekend, I went to see _The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk_, unfortunately having to miss Martina Navratilova's last appear- ance for this year at the U.S. Open as a result. If this film hits the art-hou se circuit where you are, see it. It's sort of Hong Kong's answer to the _Airplane_ and _Naked Gun_ movies; the plot, about martial artists winning out over the warlords of imperial China, is often hard to follow, but the jokes are to be savored for their own sake. WRT Anthony's discourse on the Amber Nectar: Foster's, with its distinctive oilcans, is actually well known in the land up over :-). Less so Elephant beer; where is that from? WRT Dennis' discourse on the Video of the Month club: reassuring to learn that Warner's merger with Time-Life is finally producing something of value to the beleagured consumer. Historically, most of TL's mail-order recordings have been pretty unmemorable. Doug burks: >Canadian sampler has a high standard to shoot for! Any other regions want to >take a shot at this? Australia? Britain? Actually, I have gotten the idea for a Chicago sampler. There are, after all, a number of good acts in this town, of greater and lesser obscurity, varied genres, and varying degrees of recency, whose sides could be cobbled together into yet another act of surrender to creeping regionalism :-). WRT Vickie's close encounter with Mary Coughlin: Is that the same _High Spir- its_ that Daryl Hannah was in? If so, one might theoretically be able to make the EQP drop to Neil Jordan at Daryl's alleged wedding to young John, assum- ing it actually happens :-). Of the Happy lyric quotes selected by Yngve, these inspire me to comment: >"Where are my monsters and cats?" There's a difference? :-) >"Do you have the strength to pursue your dreams" Sounds like something that the Soloflex infomercial I saw the other day could have used. >"Is she near or are her brains asunder" Dunno why, but it reminds me of the genre of auto-crash songs that was popular in the 50s and early 60s :-). >"Guess I'll always try to search for the perfect truth" At first I thought this would be a perfect slogan for Rush Limbaugh (whose boyhood hero, it was recently published, was the legendary Chicago deejay Larry Lujack), but it then dawned on me that he actually thinks he's already found the perfect truth :-). >"You've made it this far, that's better than most" Just what I've always wanted to say to everyone who's ever tried to make sense out of my postings to this list :-). >"I'm only grabbing words just to ease the pain" Sounds like a copywriter for aspirin advertisments :-). >"You store your confidence on a shelf" Has potential as a slogan for Prozac :-). >"All the faith that you had can be born again" Has potential as a slogan for Jesus freaks :-). >"It's too too far to all my perfect stars" Sounds like a NASA official conceding that the latest probe won't work :-). >"For we believe in what we do" Why I continue to blanket Ecto with amorphous verbiage :-). >"Well I can't protect you, so be ready for the storm" Sounds like a lot of insurance agents in Des Moines and St. Louis :-) >"The issue is...does conscience survive?" Words for politicians everywhere to live by, which they often don't. >"Imagination abounds here" Best evaluation of my postings to ecto I've read today :-). >"There's too much to see in just one day" Life at the Cool Thing :-). >"I'm talking about connections between here and there" Same difference :-). >"You'll find me forever in hiding" Sounds like me (among many others) during much of the years in grad school :-). >"Roam the streets, invade their dreams" Sounds like the ideal motto for a nocturnal delinquent gang :-). >"Experience the other side" Could be a commercial pitch for almost anything :-). >"So keep your eyes searching in the clouds" Tongue-in-cheek slogan for an airline with a bad on-time record. Chip luecks: >[...] Like Charley's friend Joy said "You're a >natural Vickie". [...] Words in the great tradition of the _Doctor Who_ episode in which Romana is written out, toward the end of which the Doctor says to her, "You were the noblest Romana of them all." Personal to mjm: in the direct mail format, all the original lines survive. At least in my copy they do. WRT Madder Rose: I wrote a review of them for the Guide, which I have thus far been unable to locate in the archive. But I can tell you from memory that they're a pretty good male-female band, whose first album I gave a good evaluation. Stuart Rosenberg wrote me that he got the Happy sampler, but has thus far not had the time to listen to it. Hope springs eternal :-). Mitch ------------------------------ "If work's so great, how come they gotta pay people to do it? --Slats Grobnik ======================================================================== From: a_plante@crim.ca (Alain Plante) Subject: Re: DCD go olympic? Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 17:42:11 -0400 (EDT) > > >24 Montreal Olympic > > Um, ah, hmmm, a woj, are you implying here they would be > playing the Big O, aka The Olympic Stadium? Well, either > DCD have an untellingly huge following in Mtl, or they are > playing in some collective musical effort, or there is a new > pub called "Olympic." > > -mjm > Hi, She or he was probably talking about The Olympia... it's called Theatre Olympia... Alain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alain Plante | Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal (CRIM) Programmeur UNIX | 1801 McGill College, bureau 800 | Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3A 2N4 | Tel: (514) 398-8490 fax: (514) 398-1244 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== From: Tree of Schnopia Subject: Je Viens Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 18:36:08 -0400 (EDT) Greetings. I have returned, fluffier than ever. I've ordered all the Happy albums over the summer. After dinner I shall review them. It's terrific to be back. I've missed you all! Love, Drewcifer ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1993 22:53:20 +1000 (AEST) From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Need an East Coast volunteer... Vickie filmicly asks; > to it that I didn't know until the interview. Mary Coughlin and Neil > Jordan are very good friends and have been for years. Mary has been in > 2 Jordan films. Besides "High Spirits" she was in one called "Miracles" > which I have never seen or heard about. Mary even bought her house in That's "The Miracle" - a sweet and small film that Jordan shot in Irelend just prior to "The Crying Game". It's about a teenage boy in a small town who falls for a strange woman who arrives in town, who has more of a connection to him than he realises. It's very much like a Bill Forsyth film. FoxVideo just released it on tape here, but I don't think it was ever released in the US. Yet. > because Mary said that he would definitely be at the show, along with > many of the cast and crew from Vampire. It would be a perfect chance to > get Jordan a copy of Equipoise in an informal setting, free of red tape. And to kidnap Tom Cruise so they have to recast... :-) Gary Oldman for Lestat! Two vampire pics in a year! He can do it!!!! :) > (An aside about "High Spirits" that she threw out was that it was > massively, heart-breakingly re-edited by the studio before release. > Mary's part was a *lot* bigger and most of it ended up snipped out. Most of the cast have said at various times that the film's producers brutally altered the film, completely destroying Jordan's original intentions. > She said that Neil owns the rights to the video release but that he > just hasn't had time to mess around with it. I hope someday we'll > see the director's cut of it.) The film didn't do all that well, so it's unlikely. But it would be nice. I'd be curious to see if Jordan's version was actually funny, unlike what finally came out... > I had such a great time yesterday! It started out by meeting an English > Ectophile and ended up with sitting in a bar having a drink and chatting > with Mary Coughlin! Chip and I went out to O'Hare and met with Geoff "we Who is this Mary Coughlin person anyway? :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1993 22:45:45 +1000 (AEST) From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: M7x In-Reply-To: <9309070501.AA01011@romulus.rutgers.edu>; (apana.lists.rec.happy-rhodes) Reply-To: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au Organization: Disorganized... In apana.lists.rec.happy-rhodes, article <9309070501.AA01011@romulus.rutgers.edu>, you wrote: > >WHAT'S THE SECOND CD?! I was only aware of their (to die for) > >eponymous release (and wasn't there something released on cassette way back > >when?). Are there, then, two M7x CDs available *currently*? > > the only cd that has been released is the first one. the second one is not > yet in extant as that is what they are going into the studio to record. I asked, assuming you were talking about a 4AD band, Shock records here about M7x and they told me they were distributed here by RoadRunner Records, who specialise in thrash guitar music. What gives? :) > hmmm. did you mistake the _thurtene_ compilation wherein their cover of > xymox's "michele" appears for a second cd, jeffy? They do a cover of "Michelle"??? Oh wow.... I wish this CD had been made available to the public... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: 07 Sep 93 12:47:19 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: ectogather -- SUCCESS AT LAST! Well, the trials and tribulations we went through on the 1st long weekend of the summer were easily subplanted by the joy and success experienced on the last long weekend of the summer. I was finally able to meet some east coast ecto personalities in person. Always interesting; sometimes traumatic; often accompanied by unusually long periods of staring. Since I was stranded in Spring Valley, I personally owe great shovels-full of gratitude and appreciation to woj et. al. for not only picking me up en route to the village but also for providing a rather, shall I say entertaining, drive home (hint: we picked up another person to add to the gaggle of wesleyan women in the backseat, and it wasn't a real huge car). So let me just say thank you and great meeting you all: rob, meredith, valerie, shura, greg, joe and jessica. Yay! And to paraphrase vickie: hugs! What we actually did is kind of irrelevant in face of the fact that we did it together, which of course is the key. I'll let somebody else describe it, if they want. All I remember of note is a lot of duran duran worship. :-) Now (everybody join in for the chorus): YOU ALL HAVE TO VISIT CHICAGO! yours, -mjm ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 19:29:18 -0600 From: nixie de la seanympf Subject: ooooooooo Ok, so I'm new to the list, and hi everybody. Perhaps this is deja vu, mais I recommend the movies Orlando (well, it is virginia woolf, and the director is really talented), and an older one, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead because it is delightful and witty and has Science! :) ok. so for a fantastic catalogue I need to req. from AG? -seanympf ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 21:50:23 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Hellos! Hellos to Sean(?) and Alain, welcome to Ecto! Drewcifer and I have already had an e-mail exchange (Andrew, you have to post what Happy wrote on your CD!) but to make it public... ************** WELCOME BACK ANDREW!! ************* It's good to see you back! Vickie ======================================================================== 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)