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 #770 ecto, Number 770 Saturday, 25 September 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: Follicle follies The sound of one hand playing? Nemo? Really? The sound of one hand playing? ======================================================================== Thanks to the timely and expert efforts of Dave Steiner, the Ecto digest is feeling much better :) (yah, Dave!) Hopefully, the rest of jessica's absence will be less eventful, ecto-wise -- though eventful is exactly what tommorow is for me, as i become an in-law for the first time (yah, sister Sarah!)... your humble footah... ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 25 Sep 93 14:00:52 -0500 From: "Dennis G Parslow" Subject: Re: Follicle follies AAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH! I worked a double yesterday, and did't see Leno. If anyone taped it, I would do (almost) anything for a copy!!!! Dennis Parslow "I don't write songs about girls anymore Troy, NY 12180 I have to write songs about women p00421@psilink.com No more "Boy meets girl, boy loses girl", More like "Man tries to understand what the hell went wrong!" "I'm an Adult Now" The Pursuit of Happiness _Love Junk_ ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 25 Sep 93 15:25:38 EDT From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) well, here i am, listening to the fixx _phantoms_ for the first time in years, and enjoying it immensely. now THIS is classic rock. :> "less people, more moving cities..." :> >What's wrong with listening to old music??? > nothing. i LOVE monk, and 'trane, and bird, and miles, and cannonball adderly, and and.... and we mustn't forget the count and the duke. >Modern music is good, but there's no reason to say classic rock isn't. If it >weren't for classic rock, there wouldn't BE any modern music -- it's all an >evolution. There are also some modern music singers who do covers of classic >rock songs once in a while, come to think of it... > >Classic Rock listener, and proud of it, the problem with most "classic rock" stations is that they haven't figured out that "old" and "classic" are not synonymous. "layla" is classic, "cold as ice" is not. >Mike Matthews, Mike_Matthews@sgate.com (NeXTmail accepted) > ************************************** hi chris! welcome back! (by the way, my legs are stronger now) how'd the pictures of billy penn and of the meridian building turn out? *************************************** >From: stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) > >It was me :-). How's the arm? Hope it's getting better, but >don't despair if it hasn't knit yet. The old med student's joke >is that two pieces of bone on opposite sides of a room will >eventually grow together. Waiting for it to happen is no fun, >though. I could tell lots of stories from my experience . . . >but generally only if someone asks. > i won't ask, but its heartening to hear it. 2 months of being one handed is a drag. i'm starting to understand the one-armed man's motivation for going bad in "the fugitive." the worst of it is that it hurts my back to sit at the computer, because my posture is off (i slouch differently on each side). well, no, the worst is that its tough to play bass with one hand, but i'm developing an interesting right-handed tapping style that works for certain bass lines (a little bit of phase shifting keeps it from being too percussive), and this is something that i'll be able to incorporate later (stanley jordan, move over...). we tried playing rush's "la villa strangiata" last week, but i failed that miserably. :( :) >I think I'd have to declare _Reach the Beach_ my sentimental >favorite. However, I really like all of their 1st4. After >_Walkabout_ they appearntly faded badly; the next thing I heard >was _Calm Animals_ and the first word was all too good at >describing the album. > i remember going to see a flock of penguins (because of this girl, see) back in 12th grade. they were terrible, but there opening band was amazing. first time i ever heard of the fixx. i saw them open for the moody blues, too (speaking of classic rock), which was a weird combination. ********************************* >stat! :-) We all chatted for a while, and they said they were going down to >Phillip Island (about 200Km SE of Melbourne) to watch the incoming penguins >that appear nightly there to the great amusement of busloads of Japanese >tourists, and asked if I'd like to come along. I thought what the hell, I >need a day off, so I agreed. Meanwhile in the background people stage-dived >to the tune of a Madness cover band who were so good they virtually *were* >Madness... :) > speaking of penguins.... i think that the problem with the united states is that most people think that Madness is having a liberal president (personally, i thought the madness lay in not inhaling), and all the cover bands are greatful dead cover bands (with an occassional pink floyd or led zeppelin or doors band for added variety). >Last night I went to see a relatively new Melbourne band called Holocene, as >I work with the bass player and promised her I'd turn up. Not a bad night, >but it was one of *those* nights - I was helping the band load their >equipment out (as I said, EctoHospitality, there is no substitute!) when I >managed, while carrying a hugely heavy guitar amp, to smash my forehead into >the edge of the overhanging front speaker at the Evelyn Hotel, apparently >something that happens quite frequently. I thought I'd just given myself a >bit of a bump to feel sorry about the next day, but alas, there was blood! >Urgh. It's only a flesh wound, as they'd say in a Monty Python film, but I >have a HUGE headache today. Don't try this at home - ouch. > :( ouch. i know about head-wounds. the only cure is to amputate. > Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au still waiting for a dead kennedys cover band, i remain brni "how do you know if you're inhaling?" -jennifer lynn smith ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 25 Sep 93 13:56:46 PDT From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: The sound of one hand playing? All, brni's mention of his mono-manipulo-bass playing reminded me of a story about a concert pianist who lost his right hand in WWI (I think.. it was some war). He commissioned numerous composers to come up with something he could play, and all turned him down except for one famous composer who wrote a "Symphony for the Left Hand" for him. Anyone remember who the composer was? I think it was Mahler, but I'm not sure.. Emily had to take one of her cats to the animal shelter on Tuesday. Agnes was bi-polar to begin with (you'd be petting her, and she'd be purring, then all of the sudden she'd viciously attack your arm w/ no warning), and after the move she just got worse. Kind of sad to see her go, since it's almost certain she'll be euthanised eventually, but at least Nemo (Em's other cat, who's a *real* sweetie) won't be terrorized anymore. We'll give Nemo a week to settle in and then get a nice new kitten. Go get Nirvana's new CD, _In Utero_. It's very, very good. D^2 ======================================================================== From: kmorrey@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Kathleen Morrey) Subject: Nemo? Really? Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 17:39:01 -0500 (CDT) > > Emily had to take one of her cats to the animal shelter on Tuesday. > Agnes was bi-polar to begin with (you'd be petting her, and she'd > be purring, then all of the sudden she'd viciously attack your > arm w/ no warning), and after the move she just got worse. Kind > of sad to see her go, since it's almost certain she'll be > euthanised eventually, Sorry about that. :( but at least Nemo (Em's other cat, who's > a *real* sweetie) won't be terrorized anymore. We'll give Nemo > a week to settle in and then get a nice new kitten. > My new kitten was dubbed Nema by my mother, while I was telling her over the phone that I couldn't think of a name - feminine of Nemo, no man, no one, nameless, etc... It was supposed to be an interim name, but it's stuck. I just got prescription eardrops from the vet for Nema Morrey; I thought that was cute. And just to get a little ectoesque stuff in this post (I _really_ have got to stop posting about cats here; someone give me a virtual SLAP), last night I had the ETM CD playing over and over for about 2 hours (my kitten was sleeping on my lap, she was so cute and ...sorry... :) ... anyway, I REALLY like CitW, I can't help it. Some of the lines, the way Kate sings them, really make me shiver with the depth of feeling. I know lots of people hate it, and lots of people love it, but I guess no matter what Kate always elicits DEEP feelings for her songs. Well, 'til later. Kath ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 26 Sep 93 01:48:38 +0200 From: yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no (Yngve Hauge) Subject: The sound of one hand playing? David Dixon writes: > > All, > > brni's mention of his mono-manipulo-bass playing reminded me of > a story about a concert pianist who lost his right hand in WWI > (I think.. it was some war). He commissioned numerous composers > to come up with something he could play, and all turned him > down except for one famous composer who wrote a "Symphony for > the Left Hand" for him. Anyone remember who the composer was? > I think it was Mahler, but I'm not sure.. > It wasnot Mahler but Ravel who wrote this piano concerto for the left hand. BTW I love this concerto -- T ---- Only In Your Eyes Lies Your Soul.............. H | --- ----- ---- --- - -- - - - - - --- E |-- | | | | | | |__| | | |_ | | | | | |--- | | | | | --- --- - - ---- - - - -- - - - --- --- Yngve Hauge (yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no).....University of Tromsoe...Norway ======================================================================== 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)