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From: guetzlaf@appsdiv.cray.com (Cathy Guetzlaff)
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 95 8:23:01 CDT
Subject: Ani DiFranco

Just a couple of comments about Ani DiFranco and her sexual proclivities...

The one and only time I've had the pleasure of seeing Ani was at The Michigan
Womyn's [sic] Music Festival a couple years ago.  Her audience that day was
all women, mostly lesbians, and she continually commented on how comfortable
it was, how she really enjoyed being able to perform in front of only women, 
and in fact gently chided us for being much too easy on her.  That was certainly
true, she could have stood up there picking her nose and whistling the national
anthem and we still would have loved her.  I don't think there was any negative 
reaction to her bisexuality (as well there *shouldn't* have been...), she was 
speaking to our shared experiences as *women*, not as gay/straight/bisexual.  
At one point she mentioned getting flak about her bisexuality, but followed 
that with comments about how she also gets shit because of her bald head and 
nose ring.  That certainly wasn't an issue that day, what with all the short 
hair and interesting body art being displayed by the audience.  :-)

Ani makes frequent stops in the Twin Cities, so I'll have to catch one of
her shows because I'm curious to see if there's a difference in how she 
performs for a mixed crowd and how they react to her.  Besides, I find 
her music to be absolutely empowering and I could use a good dose of that 
right about now.  I could also use a new bandaid -- I ripped my finger open
playing softball last night and typing is aggravating the wound.  Eeeewwwww!
- -- 

 Cathy Guetzlaff      Cray Research, Inc.      guetzlaf@cray.com



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From: Brian Bloom <brianb@intex.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 08:17:57 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Moo-man changed inet providers

Hola folks, sorry to interrupt like this..
Just wanted to let any concerned parties know that I have switched
internet providers and am now brianb@intex.net.
The Netcom address will go away in a few weeks...

Now, back to our regularly scheduled Ectopics...

moo.

br!an
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   \__/_/       \/_/ \_\/         \/_/ \_\/ \_\/    brianb@intex.net
     .. but music hides me so well,  ..and reveals me.. oh well - HR

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From: lakrahn@imho.net (Laurel Krahn)
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 10:14:18 -0500
Subject: Re: _Weather with You_ (was: Re: sTuff)

At 08:47 PM 8/3/95 +1200, *pawwave* wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, Laurel Krahn wrote:
>
>>   One of my fave bands (also one of Shawn Colvin's faves, she was 
>> raving about them last summer at a folk fest, covered that song.. um... 
>> "Weather with you").
>
>"Everywhere you go 
> You always take the weather with you..."
>
>That'd be Crowded House. A mostly Australian band headed by a New 
>Zealander, Neil Finn.
>
>They recorded their last album "Together Alone" in New Zealand, I believe. :)

Eeek!  Did I not mention the band name before?  (no way of checking right
now)...

One can very easily find Tim Finn's solo albums used.  Cheap.  I like one of
'em for the songs he does with Neil Finn (his brother, "leader" of Crowded
House), along with brief appearances by Hothouse Flowers.  And then there's
a song he cowrote with Richard Thompson...  always a plus.

Best,

Laurel (lakrahn@imho.net) Krahn, Webspinner
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From: jeffy@wam.umd.edu
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 95 13:07:36 -0400
Subject: Re: _Weather with You_ (was: Re: sTuff) 

>>On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, Laurel Krahn wrote:
>>
>>>   One of my fave bands (also one of Shawn Colvin's faves, she was 
>>> raving about them last summer at a folk fest, covered that song.. um... 
>>> "Weather with you").

and Urs responded:

>>That'd be Crowded House. A mostly Australian band headed by a New 
>>Zealander, Neil Finn.

And Laurel exclaimed:

>Eeek!  Did I not mention the band name before?  (no way of checking right
>now)...

Nope, don't worry, it was Urs who didn't see the band name.  You definitely
included it (though as I recall it was outside and before the parenthetical
remark about Shawn Colvin).

I, too, saw Shawn last summer and heard her raves for Crowded House.  Of
course, I also got to see Mary Chapin Carpenter when she appeared out of
nowhere and did a couple of duets with Shawn.  heh heh.

Jeff



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From: lakrahn@imho.net (Laurel Krahn)
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 14:02:10 -0500
Subject: Winnipeg Folk Festival Report

Thought this report from the Winnipeg Folk Festival would be of interest to
you folks.  Lots of worldbeat and folk artists were represented there this
year... Along with other people who've had Ecto mention (Ani DiFranco, Dar
Williams, Boiled in Lead, and others).

Will Shetterly posted this report to Leadheads (the Boiled in Lead mailing
list) today and graciously gave me permission to repost it to Ecto.  

(When he refers to Emma in the report, he is referring to Emma Bull-- his
wife, also a writer, editor, musician of note that has been mentioned here
before.)

(I might also wanna mention that Will is also an outstanding writer and
editor-- some folks aren't aware of that.)

(They're also Cool People.)

<begin neato-keen forwarded message>
>To: leadheads@APOCALYPSE.ORG
>From: shetterl@MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU (Will Shetterly)
>Subject: Winnipeg Report
>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 95 03:32:36 -0500
>
>Winnipeg Folk Festival: 1995
>
>Emma and I've gone to seven of the last eight Winnipeg Folk Festivals (I
>missed 1994 because I was running for governor of Minnesota while trying to
>make an independent movie, but neither of those seem like good reasons
>now). I love this festival. It has never disappointed me. I say these
>things so that when I tell you that 1995 was a great year at the Festival,
>you'll understand that I do not say it lightly.
>
>On the Tuesday before the Festival began, we drove from Minneapolis to the
>Minnesota border to visit several of my relatives. Early Wednesday, a gray
>and damp morning that threatened to turn worse, we set out for Birds Hill
>Park, the festival site. I wanted to stop at the Mennonite Village Museum
>in Steinbach, Manitoba, where we had had a fine time several years ago,
>poking into old houses and eating traditional Mennonite food (essentially
>very satisfying eastern European peasant food with breads, stews,
>dumplings, pies, fresh vegetables, and such). But we wanted to have our
>choice of sites at the camp grounds, and we weren't sure what the
>Mennonites would serve for vegetarians (we were merry meat eaters when we
>had visited before), so we drove on into the gathering storm, arriving
>shortly after noon, just before the rain.
>
>We always camp with eight or ten other people, mostly Twin Cities friends
>whom we see too rarely during the time between Winnipeg Folk Festivals.
>Three of them had driven through the night to beat us to the camp ground
>and claimed a perfect location: high on the hill where you would never have
>to worry about drainage in a storm, next to the trees where there would be
>some shade during the day, at the back of the camp ground where there would
>be less foot traffic and we would be close to the less-used privies, with a
>fire pit so the fire dinks could get their nearly arsonous fix every night
>and a picnic table so we could, well, picnic on a table.
>
>After pitching the dining gazebo and our tent, we rested; a primary reason
>for coming on Wednesday is to have time to relax before the Festival begins
>on Thursday evening. A few more of our camping mates arrived toward
>evening. I don't remember that night's meal; in times past, meals at the
>campground had become increasingly elaborate over the years, but this year
>we had resolved to simplify our dining plans because they had been creating
>conflicts with hearing the music.
>
>To appreciate the conflict, you should know the schedule and the layout of
>the grounds: Most of the camping is in a field near the Festival proper,
>which consists of six small stages, a large main stage, an area called the
>Hand-made Village with miscellaneous goods for sale, and another row of
>vendors with a wonderful assortment of food for sale. It's a five to ten
>minute walk from the campgrounds to the Festival grounds, and that's if you
>move briskly and your tent is on the side of the camping area that's near
>the Festival. The Festival begins at 11:30 am on Friday, Saturday, and
>Sunday, when there's music almost constantly on all of the smaller stages.
>The only official break for dinner is from 6:30 to 7, when the music begins
>on the large stage and runs as late as 2 or 3 am.
>
>Because Emma and I had studied the schedule and seen that there would be an
>unusual number of acts we knew we wanted to see (which meant there would be
>even more that we would not know we wanted to see until we had seen them),
>we resolved to keep the food and drinks simple this year. Despite that, I
>remember bits like crackers, caviar, and several kinds of pate; a
>surprising number of single malt whiskeys (a few were old enough to vote,
>so the 12-year-old was demoted to coffee Scotch); a bean soup that began
>life as something we made and brought frozen, but which merged nicely with
>soups and vegetables provided by other campers; pancakes one morning,
>veggies and eggs on another-- Suffice it to say that we ate well all
>weekend. Wednesday night, we slept soundly, for few other campers had
>arrived. On the other nights, we also slept soundly; thanks to exhaustion
>and ear plugs, the late-night music-making of other campers did not disturb
>us. (The Festival does offer a quiet camping site, but it's further away,
>and since we join the late-night music-makers at least once during each
>Festival, we've never bothered to camp at the quiet site.)
>
>Most campers arrived on Thursday, and the sun came out to greet them.
>During previous years, the members of our village had made excursions on
>Thursdays to a large Safeway in Winnipeg for general supplies and Canadian
>goodies (such as Coffee Crisp, a candy bar that makes Emma remarkably
>amenable to suggestion). This year, we decided to investigate the nearby
>town of Oakbank, where we bought cashews and chocolate at a candy shop that
>a woman ran from her living room; a fine selection of food from the local
>grocery store, including a broccoli-cheese pie; and bread and rolls from
>the local bakery, including an amazing garlic-cheese roll. Then we visited
>the costume museum a few miles further south at Dugald, and found it
>fascinating; Emma and I are into that history stuff. And Emma likes to sew,
>so she was able to consult one of the staff about the construction of a
>jacket like Doc Holiday wore that she's making for a friend of ours. The
>costume museum serves an English tea that we didn't have time to try, so
>we'll almost certainly visit it again next year.
>
>Didn't this festival have something to do with music? Oh, right:
>
>On Thursday evening, we wandered onto the Festival site, stood in line to
>have orange plastic wristbands attached to the wrist of choice, then passed
>through the line of people checking bags for alcohol (liquor is permitted
>in the camp ground, but the only liquor allowed on the Festival site is at
>the beer tent on the Festival grounds), and began our 84-hour immersion in
>music.
>
>The highlights (which means I'd risk buying an album from any of these):
>
>The Angstones, a fun band doing, uh, Balkan zydeco?
>
>Asza: Okay, they're a bit newagey for my taste, but they're astonishingly
>fine musicians. The quartet consists of a Chinese woman and men from
>Montreal, Uruguay, and Vancouver, all playing a number of unusual
>instruments from around the world.
>
>Les Barker and the Mrs. Ackroyd Band: British. Strange and funny. If you
>don't laugh during their set, you must be dead.
>
>Boiled in Lead. Sure, they're hometown boys, but they're great. They pretty
>much invented Celtic punk eleven or twelve years ago, and by the time
>people were picking up what they were doing, they'd moved on. I guess I'd
>call them a power world dance act now.
>
>Kevin Burke's Open House. A tight trad folk trio with a dancer for a
>percussionist. It sounds like a gimmick, but it's grand to watch and hear.
>
>5 Chinese Brothers. New Yorkers who play country-western music, but they do
>it well, with an art school humor that I appreciate.
>
>Ani DiFranco. We'd seen her before; whenever I think of her, I tend to
>think of the power of her stage presence, and I'm always surprised that
>she's also a fine songwriter.
>
>Djelem, a grand semi-traditional gypsy band.
>
>Freeway Philharmonic. I didn't want to like these guys. They're
>Californians in a lot of spandex playing things like the Chapman Stick,
>but, okay, they're great, somewhere in the misty realm separating jazz,
>newage, classical, and rock.
>
>Veda Hille. She seems like someone you should watch in a dark room, not in
>a sunlit grove. Art music for folks who like Kate Bush and Tori Amos and
>other women who aren't afraid to play with their brains.
>
>Koerner, Ray and Glover. More hometown boys, some of the first bad boys of
>folk. In the program book, they use their publicity photo from twenty-five
>years ago. It doesn't look like them now, but it looks like a modern band.
>Their sound? It's only gotten richer.
>
>Kolkheti Ensemble. A bunch of old guys in robes from Georgia, not the one
>in the US of A. I'd never heard of them. When I saw them, I expected to be
>bored. By the third or fourth song, when they pulled out their stringed
>instruments and began doing songs that sounded to me like the ultimate
>cowboy movie music, I knew my understanding of art had increased. Because
>we were on an extremely limited budget, I bought one CD at Winnipeg:
>theirs.
>
>Adrian Legg: astonishing guitarist, funny storyteller. He didn't seem to
>know what to do at a stringed instrument workshop when some of the kids
>(the woman from Asza, Joe Keszler from Boiled in Lead, & Oliver Schroer)
>went into a very strange jam, but no one's perfect.
>
>Laura Love Band. Another group I didn't expect to like, but they kept being
>put on workshops that I wanted to see for the sake of other performers, and
>each time I caught them, I liked them more. Laura Love's a young woman with
>an amazing amount of potential. It'll be fun to see what she's doing in a
>couple of years.
>
>Natalie MacMaster. Twenty-two year-old Cape Breton fiddler, international
>star, and deserves her fame. That she's cute probably doesn't hurt her
>career. Plays like a madwoman, and step-dances while she plays.
>
>Romulo Larrea Ensemble. Tango. I can't judge how good they were, but Emma
>and I had a whole lot of fun as they tried to teach a sun-dazed bunch of
>folkies how to tango on the grass. For the record, I think they were damn
>fine musicians, and the two couples dancing with the band made you
>understand why the Catholic Church didn't like the tango.
>
>Rory McLeod. I think Emma fell in love with him. His songs tend to be too
>long, but you understand why he's reluctant to trim them. Good storyteller,
>fine musician, darkly handsome. One of the better of the cursed
>singer-songwriter breed that you cannot help but stumble over at these
>things, but, unlike most of that solitary, unwanted, self-pitying lot,
>he'll happily back up other performers on percussion, harmonica, or even
>trombone.
>
>Moxy Fruvous. The cutest guys in Canadian music. Great harmonies, funny
>lyrics, and a nice understanding of politics. I've heard that their albums
>don't show them off properly, but their live shows are wonderful.
>
>The Nields, a folk/alternative New England band led by two sisters. They're
>still finding their own voice, but it promises to be a good one.
>
>Satan & Adam, an older black bluesman and a younger white one, doing very
>traditional but very powerful street blues with a Chicago R&B edge. I
>hadn't expected to like them, and they won me over.
>
>Oliver Schroer & the Stewed Tomatoes, a delightfully warped bunch of
>cutting-edge electro-folkies.
>
>Tarika. We first caught them as Tarika Sammy several years ago. This
>incarnation is as strong as I could imagine. They're an Malagasy band led
>by two sisters. Great tunes, vocals, rhythms, and all that musical stuff,
>plus a fine amount of pure showmanship.
>
>Loudon Wainwright III. He just gets better every year. I can't decide
>whether the intro to "I Wish I Was A Lesbian" was even better than the
>song, but it sure doesn't matter.
>
>Waterson-Carthy, a British trio consisting of Martin Carthy, Norma
>Waterson, and Eliza Carthy. Eliza Carthy can sing while she fiddles, and
>both astonishingly well; I fell in love.
>
>Dar Williams. We'd already bought her album, so we expected to like her,
>but we ended up adoring her. She's got several truly great songs, one about
>a babysitter, one called "When I Was a Boy," and another about pagans and
>Christians in the same family sitting down to a really quite nice Christmas
>meal.
>
>I'm slighting too many acts. There were several African and Latin dance
>bands that I danced wildly to, and a number of other fine performers who
>didn't get mentioned here simply because if I had to list everyone I
>enjoyed, I'd have to list everyone. It's not that I'm not an opinionated
>guy, 'cause I'm an extremely opinionated guy. It's just that the Winnipeg
>line-up is so strong, and the experience is so pleasant, that it's hard for
>me to dislike anyone. A couple of acts weren't for me, but during the day
>that just meant I wandered elsewhere, and at night, it meant I hit the food
>booths for some Indonesian or Indian food, or a cappuccino, or desert, and
>so I stayed a happy fellow.
>
>On Monday, we packed up in the usual state of contented exhaustion, had
>much-needed showers, stopped into Winnipeg for a Ukrainian meal with my
>folks, and headed home.
>
>Will Shetterly
>shetterl@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Laurel (lakrahn@imho.net) Krahn, Webspinner
Virtual Home:  http://imho.net/~lakrahn/index.html
IMHO Productions: Internet Consulting, Training, & Web Design


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From: "Jessica Koeppel" <jessica@erg.sri.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 12:03:39 -0700
Subject: Re: sTuff

On Aug 2, 10:21pm, THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE wrote:

> Nope, I didn't even know they'd changed.  The only radio I listen to from NYC
> is WFUV and WNYC -- what frequency is WNEW?

102.7 though i suspect this has already been answered.
It used to be a classic rock station.

Interestingly enough (well, to me anyway) 102.7 was the first radio
station I ever heard as a child. It was the only station (other than
classical NPR etc) that my parents listened to. To this day, it is
_still_ the only station they listen to (well I'll have to find out what
they think of the new format although I rather suspect they'll be
_pleased_ if anything). All my life I listened to 102.7. I felt
weird when a DJ left, someone who's voice i'd been hearing since I was
born..

But then I discovered Kate.. and after that, the classic rock format
held much less appeal - my last 6 or 7 years in NJ I only listened
to WNEW when i was for some reason in the mood for some classic
rock or I was at my parents house. I forget the name of the DJ who
does a show sunday morning I tihnk - my mom tapes the show religiously,
and often sends me (or plays for me) tapes - this guy played lots of
cool stuff like shawn colvin, robyn holcomb, sinead, tori etc.. Happy would
_defintiely_ fit into the kind of stuff he likes.. He's one of the few
still at the station who have been there for as long as I can remember.
Vin something (sounds liek Skelsa but who knows how it's really spelled)
i think, unless im' confused about who does that show.

anyway I wonder if he was any influence in the format change or if
this comes from powers greater..  weird stuff, when a huge station like
that that's been around so long changes so drastically.
I guess they lost the battle with K-Rock.

> many
> musical people (or people who are auditory learners in general, like me)
often
> sponge up accents without the faintest idea what's happening.  (Set me down
> in the South for a few weeks, and I promise you the results will be quite
> embarrassing. :)

I'll never forget my trip back to the states after 10 weeks in france.
My family eagerly awaited me at the airport, waiting to hear if I had
a trace of a french accent.. Unfortuantely, on the 7 hour plane ride
back, I had sat between two people from texas!! Any trace of french
accent I might have picked up was suddenly replaced by a southern drawl.

it _was_ embarrassing.

		--jessica

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From: geek the boy <woj@remus.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:17:59 -0400
Subject: Re: ecto-tv

lakrahn@imho.net (Laurel Krahn) sez:

>At 06:42 PM 8/1/95 -0400, geek the boy wrote:

>>i haven't watched it much, but what i have seen didn't impress me. 

>Now, now, Conan did write for SNL for a number of years, as well as for the
>Simpsons.  That counts as pretty good broadcast media.  

yeah, i know that (and i agree with meredith about his simpsons
episodes being amongst the best), but writing for talk shows is a
different from being the host. trust me, i did both at my clarkson's tv
station as well. (hey, another thing that conan and i have in common!
fortunately, none of the tapes have survived! ;)

"Chris Montville" <montvill@rci.rutgers.edu> sez:

>I'm not sure I like all of this conan-bashing, either.  

i guess i should also point out that late night talk shows are not one
of my favorite things and that will certainly bias my opinion of conan,
letterman, leno and the lot of them.

woj

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From: geek the boy <woj@remus.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:24:40 -0400
Subject: Re: Cordelia's Dog?

lakrahn@imho.net (Laurel Krahn) sez:

>I have their self-titled first album as well as a recent release on Omnium
>(Record label run by Drew Miller of Boiled in Lead) called "Comet"... 

the middle one is called _how can i sleep?_ and anyone with a modicum
of interest in american folk music should go out and buy it right now.
it features the wonderful "narragansett bay" and a version of "delia"
that blows johnny cash's socks off. go get, go get.

+w


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From: geek the boy <woj@remus.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:48:10 -0400
Subject: Re: ramblings and such

pink <iflin@artsci.wustl.edu> sez:

>	my question of the day: no one has replied back to me to my 
>message that i asked about a month ago about the band MOUTH MUSIC.  has 
>no one heard them?  i want some info puhlease....

mouth music is made up of martin swan and whomever he has singing for
him at the time. in the past, that has included mairi macinnes, talitha
mackenzie, michela rowan and jackie joyce. i'm not sure who is singing
now, since i haven't picked up their latest album yet. there are three
albums to date: an eponymous one, _mo-di_ and _shorelife_. my
understanding is that martin was originally asked to produce music for
a television show about the celts. he enjoyed making the
celtoelectrotribalbeat music so much that mouth music was born. i
really enjoy the first album, kinda lost faith with the second and
haven't heard the third yet (though i have heard the "emphasis track"
and thought it was alright).

>	and i have to say it, but i am getting bored with the music that 
>i am listening to.  i listen to ecto stuff all day long at the bookstore 
>and now i need something.  

new non-ecto? new ecto? what? 

>	enough ramblings.  someone please coem to my rescue.  oh yeah, 
>and i am looking for some good recipes for chicken.  i keep on making the 
>same three dishes!

okay, here are a couple. the first is a favorite of mine which is
indigenous to where i grew up (southern tier of new york around
binghamton). the second was given to me by a friend in california. no
idea where he got it from.

>Spiedies ala Endicott, NY.  Original recipe from Northern Italy.
>
>Ingredients:
>
>1 to 2 lbs. of lamb (best), pork, beef, chicken, or venison (tenderize)
>cut up into bite-sized chunks.  Remove any large pieces of fat.

(i always use chicken, which is why i'm sending this.)

>1 cup of oil
>1 cup red wine vinegar
>Salt & pepper
>Four sections of garlic, cut very small
>2 tbsps. dried parsley (or 4 tbsps. fresh)
>2 tbsps. dried oregano (or 4 tbsps. fresh)
>Small amount of mint (fresh or dried leaves, ground) to taste
>
>One loaf hard-crust Italian white bread.
>Onion and green pepper optional.
>
>Mix ingredients into a marinate, and soak meat in marinate overnight at
>least (longer is better) in a refridgerator.  When ready to cook, put meat
>on skewers and cook over a medium hot open grill.  Rotate often enough to
>brown without burning.  Extra marinate should be brushed or poured onto meat
>while cooking to keep it moist and add more flavor.  Do not overcook, as it
>will dry the meat excessively.
>
>Spiedies should be served on Italian bread.  Some like to add catsup, spicy
>mustard, or A1 sauce.  Real Italians fry up a pan of onions and green pepper
>and add copious amounts to the sandwich, usually with mustard, often on a
>submarine sandwich/hogie/torpedo/foot-long roll, slightly browned on the
>grill.

(any displaced bingotownies on ecto?)

>Lowfat, colorful, tanty and seasonal - lotsa corn.  Bone and skin breasts
>of chicken then dry-rub with salt, pepper, and fresh thyme.  Trim corn
>from a coupla cobs.  Boil some water in a pan and blanch the corn for
>maybe 2-minutes, stop the corn from cooking immediately by running under
>cold water, drain and reserve.  Ya want it crunchy.  Chop red onion, red
>bell pepper, seeded tomatoes, and scallions.  Mince garlic.  (It's
>important to mince the garlic rather than chop like the other components. 
>Do not chiffenaud anything for this recipe.  Size and shape contributes
>to presentation, mouthfeel, and taste.) Heat a dollop of olive oil in a
>skillet and saute' red onion and garlic for a few moments, then add 
>remaining produce.  Saute for a while then add a couple splashes of dry 
>white wine.  After liquids reduce slightly, add balsamic vinegar to taste.
>Steam broccoli.  Cut cooked polenta, cooled on a board (traditional) or 
>in a baking pan (cheating), into strips 1.5" wide and 2-3" long.  Heat 
>oil in a pan on high then reduce to med-hi.  Add polenta strips, cooking 
>on both sides to a golden hue.  While polenta cooks, grill chicken 'til 
>done.  Plate your food, spooning the corn relish over the bird.  Serve
>with a wheat beer garnished with lemon, complements the tangyness in the 
>relish.  For a light, zippy dessert, slice fresh strawberries and drizzle 
>a small amount of balsamic over top.

woj

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From: maeldun@i-2000.com (Michael Doyle)
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 19:55:15 -0400
Subject: Ars Poetica

Hi all!

I dropped off for a while this week while migrating to a new ISP. I have to
say I missed all of you cluttering my mailbox with your irrepressible
chatter. To quote Vickie, "I love this list."

Anyway, I join you this evening with my latest fave rave spinning in my CD
player -- Ars Poetica. Has anyone heard of this group? Has it been mentioned
here before? The album is a self-released, self-titled disc from 1993 and
it's gorgeous. Woody at C'est La Mort recommended it and acquired it for me.
He described it as Area with a bigger production budget. *I* describe it as
Love Spirals Downward vectored in the direction of Rose Chronicles. And I
think Stephanie Wicker, the lead singer, has a better voice than either
chantreuse of the aforementioned bands.

Being a self-released jobby, the liner notes are spare. Anyone have this
disc or know more about the band?

- - Mike

Michael Doyle
maeldun@i-2000.com
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"You can make a conspiracy out of anything, if you work hard enough at it."
- - Michael J. Arbouet


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From: maeldun@i-2000.com (Michael Doyle)
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 19:55:22 -0400
Subject: Re: sTuff

Jessica wrote:
>Interestingly enough (well, to me anyway) 102.7 was the first radio
>station I ever heard as a child. It was the only station (other than
>classical NPR etc) that my parents listened to.
- -snip-
>But then I discovered Kate.. and after that, the classic rock format
>held much less appeal - my last 6 or 7 years in NJ I only listened
>to WNEW when i was for some reason in the mood for some classic
>rock or I was at my parents house.

Ya know, now that I think about it, the demise of classic rock in my musical
taste may accurately be dated from my discovery to Kate, too! Weird. I'd
never thought about it that way.

I was first shown Kate's albums at a cast party in high school. My director
showed _Never For Ever_ to me, promising to play it once the Duran Duran
crowd left. Inexplicably, I had a negative reaction. Kate impressed me as
just plain weird and I didn't like the music.

Sophmore year at college -- at the height of my interest in classic rock --
I found _The Whole Story_ lying about a housemate's room, wound to the start
of side 2. I wanted to see how weird it was, so I popped it in his box and
hit play. At that moment I heard "Running Up That Hill" for the first time.
My life hasn't been the same since.

About a year later, I started to catch faint signals drifting from Long
Island on the frequency of 92.7. And what Kate started, WDRE completed. Save
for acts like Hendrix, Bowie and Led Zep, classic rock all but perished from
my listening interests.

>I'll never forget my trip back to the states after 10 weeks in france.
>My family eagerly awaited me at the airport, waiting to hear if I had
>a trace of a french accent.. Unfortuantely, on the 7 hour plane ride
>back, I had sat between two people from texas!! Any trace of french
>accent I might have picked up was suddenly replaced by a southern drawl.
>
>it _was_ embarrassing.

I've been known to acquire an Irish accent when in Ireland or talking to
Irish people, though I feel I'm otherwise accent acquisition immune. An
American friend I met in England would slip into an English accent at times.
I later found out he'd do the same thing at home in the US, involuntarily
and without Brits around...

- - Mike

Michael Doyle
maeldun@i-2000.com
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"You can make a conspiracy out of anything, if you work hard enough at it."
- - Michael J. Arbouet


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