From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #230 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, 19 September 1995 Volume 02 : Number 230 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kerry white Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 21:19:57 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [none] Hello, Laurel, some of US are over 40. When I read a name unfamiliar to me it doesn't sync in, so when a friend told me of driving around, refusing to stop at his own house until Mirror Pool by Lisa Gerrard was over(NPR radio late-nite Sun), I did not react. Today I read the name and think about serindipity. Sheila Chandra ? Hmmmmmmmm! Have to check her out. KrW another message by using ------------------------------ From: Dan Stark Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:03:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Weeping Tile Hi, I wasn't sure about posting this Usenet review to the list, but I've become a major fan of this band, and thought the following article might do it more justice than my earlier attempt. I've had the Weeping Tile "eePee" release for two weeks, and have played it repeatedly every day since, not a normal thing for me as I rarely get through an entire CD at once. Warner recently released it as a preview to the full-length album coming soon (with different songs), but it has received virtually no promotion or resulting airplay. Just 7 songs, but it's wonderful! If you can't find "eePee" domestically (I could barely find it in Canada!), check your import section, it's available on Warner Canada's WEA label, CD 11279. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (This article, in edited form will appear, with the photos of Richard Gilmore, in the Friday, Sept. 22 issue of Id Magazine. If you're in Southern Ontario, pick Id up, and if you'd like more information about the magazine, call (519) 766-9336. Sarah Harmer of Weeping Tile is late and strange- and not necessarily in that order. "I'm surrounded by Computers right now. It's pretty bizarre." Harmer is working on the band's forthcoming full length for Warner Canada and Seed/Atlantic, and they're putting finishing touches at Creative House. "We're doing our album cover and design and everything. We've got the big deadline screaming down on us. We're trying to get it all together." And, at the time of this interview, the band (Sarah on guitar and vocals, Luther Wright on guitar and back-up vocals, Sarah's sister Mary Harmer on bass and back-up, and Camille Giroux on drums) are a week away from the deadline for all the "Hard copy stuff". In a perfect world, the album will be out by October 10th. And, while it is far from a perfect world, it's been a pretty good one for Weeping Tile lately. Springing from Kingston, the band had a 9 track cassette- and wound up releasing 7 of those songs on a cd, called eePee, with Warner Canada, (The reduction was Harmer's idea, not Warner's: "....I just decided to keep it sort of something that was more compact.") and then getting a deal with Seed/Atlantic. Conspiracy theorists can note the recent signing of the Inbreds (also Kingstonians) to Tag/Atlantic, and how it all seems a little too pat...... but Weeping Tile don't have time for that. Is it a big switch going from a DIY cassette to a major-label project that demands delegation and other people's timelines? "Yeah. You gotta be a little more organized... and I'm not really an organized person by nature. It's okay... It's more like a job, but it's cool....It's a lot to think about, more than I used to have to think about." Weeping Tile got critical raves for their style of music- not quite pop, not quite roots- and were fuelled by the charisma and soaring voice that Sarah had at her disposal. Add to that phenomenal emotional and economical songwriting, with a real sense of character (a different kind of voice) and you have a band that were, if not an overnight success, certainly not slowpokes. Still, there's a sense that this rush to glory might not be allowing them all the time they need to work on new material. "Right where we are right now, it's (The new album) at sort of a big climactic point right now. I think we'll get more time to be musicians shortly once all this stuff is swept away and dealt with." The forthcoming album was recorded in Hamilton at Grant Avenue Studios, which Daniel Lanois used to own. The album was self-produced; "By shaving off the expense of a producer we were able to get a lot more studio time and make a lot more mistakes and agonize a lot more, because ultimately it came down to us." It was awkward, though, or at least different from the experience of recording their tape - especially as Sarah was the only person from that lineup that remains in the band. "We started in Kingston a couple years ago and the line-up rotated a bit, and then the summer that we recorded the EP, we had sort of had a drummer for a couple months, and our new guitar player Gord Tough learned all his parts in the studio.... We never had grand plans to release them (the nine songs that would wind up on the cassette and EP) or anything; I just wanted to record them before I hated them.... and the band sort of ended up going their own way." The Ep isn't even getting a headlining tour to herald it; Weeping Tile spent the summer going out West opening for the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir. Was that a good thing? "It was a welcome escape from the Ontario heat; it was almost a vacation. We played opening shows, 45 minutes.... (it was) a lot of waiting around, a lot of reading, hanging around, writing postcards.... It's an interesting thing, we weren't a touring band before......We didn't have to draw the crowd, it was an opening tour for the Bourbons, so we got to play for their crowd." Low in stress, high in mileage. Part of the appeal of Weeping Tile's material lies in the emotionality of it; deep without being maudlin, moving without being forced. Asking about Westray (a song about the Eastern mining disaster) and Basement Apartment (which paints an all-too real picture of living young and under-incomed), Sarah has different takes on the songwriting process, as to whether or not that kind of social-minded thought is a conscious thing when she writes. "Some of it's definitely conscious..... Subject matter happens differently for different songs... 'Westray' was written over a few months; I started it in BC when the mine disaster went down, I was watching TV and scrawled a few lines down.... then I found them a year later when I was going out east, and I went 'Hmmmmm.'..and I had this guitar line... so...." It's as simple as that. What with recent success and new tours, and so on, is it awkward to be evolving a public persona? Is it strange to be "Sarah Harmer Of Weeping Tile" as opposed to just Sarah? "UhHuh. Slightly. ....I sometimes say something and then all of a sudden visualize it in print and that freaks me out a bit. I don't usually go through that when I talk to someone on a day to day basis." However, the presence of bandmates can count for a lot, especially Mary. "We're all good friends in the band, it's a family feeling..... we bring along our cooler, and our juicer, make sandwiches in the van and play scrabble, so it's not too cold." Then in summation, Sarah explains how she could no more explain or quantify the Weeping Tile "sound" as she could any other band, or any piece of music. When asked to give her own, one sentence summation of what Weeping Tile do, her answer is hesitant but certain: "I would object to making that sentence. People think different things about music... you can be listening to something on your stereo and thinking about something else and it's all just out there...." Like dreams. Like Hopes. Like Things without deadlines or time concerns. Like the music of Weeping Tile. - -James Rocchi - -The Author can be reached at jrocchi@julian.uwo.ca - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DAN STARK ***NOTE*** dstark@freenet.npiec.on.ca ~\\|//~ NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada -(o o)- NOW IN EFFECT! - --------------------------------------------o000o--(_)--o000o---------------- ------------------------------ From: rlovejoy@netaxs.com (Robert Lovejoy) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:17:38 -0400 Subject: I'm still here! Hello ecto, Have I gotten behind! I've been a very busy websufer, having Netscape insted of Pipeline. I have let ecto fall behind a little, shame on me! I missed a great thread about emotional music, crying, et al. I'd like to go on record as being moved to great tears out of the blue by "Exile" from Enya's Watermark album. "Out of these dreams a boat I will sail home to you..." The words, combined with the achingly lovely and lonely music, are just so powerful. I have missed a lot more, so back to work trying to catch up! Pax, Robert ------------------------------ From: piquet the cat Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:18:24 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: Alanis 'vs' Alanis Morisette, with Sarah tacked on the end On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, Mike Uchima wrote: > bought it out of curiosity (it was cheap). Dunno if I'd call it Debbie > Gibson-ish -- but it definitely sticks to the top-40-dance-pop formula. Maybe Maybe I need to get my eyes checked again, but I read this as 'Debbie Gibberish'.... :) And onto a more Sarah note, a topic which has prolly been discussed here before: What's "Wait" about? I was listening to it the other day and it struck me that it could be a coming-out song... but then again, maybe not.... :) sherlyn =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= piquet the cat (piquet@geko.com.au). also known as sherlyn koo (sherlyn@geko.com.au). "... pray, in your darkness, for wings to set you free..." - Melissa Etheridge ------------------------------ From: yves denneulin Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:22:37 +0200 Subject: Concert Review: Lisa Gerrard in Gent Yesterday I went to the Lisa Gerrard concert in Gent with a friend. I didn't meet any ectophile and no one noticed my brand new Happy T-shirt. :-( I was quite anxious about how I would react to this concert for 2 reasons. The first one is that the last ectophilic concert I saw was Loreena McKennitt and it was so great that I feared anything coming after that would be a disappointment. The second one is that to fully appreciate Dead Can Dance or Lisa stuff I have to be in a certain mood and, having listened to Bjork the whole week-end, I wasn't in this particular mood. That was the state of my feelings when I entered the venue. First, a word on the merchandising : 2 beautiful posters and the tour program, no T-shirt. The program is gorgeous and really worth the 10$ it costs. The venue was of average capacity. A theater of roughly 1,000 places. As we bought our tickets late we were on a balcony, 10 meters from the scene. Not ideal but the view was good enough. The show opened by the reading of some poems by a man (the chorist). To be honest, I didn't understand everything he said :-) but his voice was really captivating and the 20 minutes went without notice. A little break (10 min.) and the show started. Lisa was wearing a long white dress much like the one Kate Bush wears in the Wuthering Heights video. At the beginning I had trouble to get into the song but when she began to "push" her voice, I felt long shivers going down my spine and I was completly entranced. From this moment, I didn't leave this state until the end of the concert. My friend told me later he was mesmerized and this is really the right word. Her voice took me and didn't release me until late in the night. It was a wonderful experience even if the sound wasn't perfect, perhaps because we were a bit far and not in the middle of the theater. I would have prefered a louder sound and a better balance, at times Lisa's voice was a bit covered by the instruments. One of the musicians, the drummer, impressed me particularly, he played an incredible solo. The show lasted a bit more than two hours. They didn't play any DCD songs, only stuff from the mirror pool (I think they played all the songs of the album) with a few original songs. We got 5 encores, one with Lisa alone with an accordion. Quite a strange combination! I can't give a list of songs because I see her performance as a whole not as a separate items and I was too busy listening to take notes. I won't say a lot about the visual aspect because I spent most of the time with my eyes closed to fully apreciate the music without being distracted by what I was seeing. The lightings I saw was quite nice and the main color was undoubtedly "fuzzy blue". :-) Each song has a particular lightning, the nicest being when a green projector was set just behind Lisa making her look like some kind of a ghost. If the tour comes near your town, don't miss it. It is an unique, sort of mystical, experience. It made me regret to have never gone see DCD live. - -- Yves. (diving back into the Mirror Pool :-) ) ------------------------------ From: bhutchin@pen.k12.va.us (Brad Hutchinson) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 06:32:19 -0600 Subject: Neile Richard wrote: >I've also cried when I haven't experienced those particular >situations, but the poem is just *that* intense. Some of the >remarkable poetry by our own ecto subscriber, Neile Graham, comes to >mind. > And I must agree!! Jill and I have been reading and re-reading her recently. Just another plug for Neile. Get her book(s)--is the first still available? Any news on that there award thingy? brad bhutchin@pen.k12.va.us ------------------------------ From: bhutchin@pen.k12.va.us (Brad Hutchinson) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 06:32:12 -0600 Subject: the lyric vs music question First--IwillneverletmyectoreadinggetsofarbehindagainIwillneverletmyectoreadi nggetsofarbehindagain. Now that I've done that--the lyric vs music question. What I guess could be long ago, in high school, I was given a Joni Mitchell album (_Blue_) because, as I was told, "you like words so much." And, to my amazement, I really loved this album for the words. Prior to this I liked music like the Alan Parson's Project's _Tales of Mystery and Imagination_ and _I, Robot_. Beyond that, I mostly liked whatever it was that other folks liked. (OK, I wasn't much of a Southern Rock fan but I could listen to it. . .). This album (_Blue_) changed me. I became interested in music for the lyrics. So much so that I memorized most of the album's lyrics and bought up all the Joni Mitchell albums that were out at the time. I dabbled in Joan Baez (not quite right) and Judy Collins (still not quite right). Then I discovered Genesis. This was another revelation! More words, more memorization and so forth. During my freshman year in college, I was introduced to Kate Bush's music by a woman with a lock of green hair who lived next door and on whom I had a crush. Another revelation. Except at this time all her music wasn't available in the US so I had to pirate some tape from this woman's collection. What, exactly, is my point? I don't know. Well, I guess it is that I've been led to great music via the lyrics. . . . I wish I could memorize as much as I used to! I guess I had too much time back then. This is why I love Jane and Happy and Kate and Peter and even Tori (whose lyrics can be great or. . .IMHO). Without lyrics that really grab me (and keep grabbing me over the years), I can't move a musician to the "greatness" file in my head. Now back to catching up. I think I'm only ten days behind now! :) brad You know, I guess Philip Glass is the exception that proves this rule. His "great" lyrics were written by David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Paul Simon et al on _Songs for Liquid Days_. And the trial sequence in _Einstein on the Beach_ is interesting. . . bhutchin@pen.k12.va.us ------------------------------ From: Marion Kippers Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:36:27 +0200 Subject: Re: Loreena McKennitt... Hi all, Matt wrote and Richard replied: >>Does anybody know if the list for Loreena is up yet? If I >>remember correctly, it was supposed to be up last Monday. >>Thanks. > >Well, it was supposed to start up automatically, and it hasn't >for me, so either its not up, or I've been dropped as a >subscriber. That wouldn't surprise me TOO much, since I'm a >recent addition, and if the list was restored from a backup, I >may have not been on it :( > >Oh well, any longtime subscribers confirm or deny its upness? I just saw this message from list-owner Christian Walters on alt.music.enya: >When it comes back up, which should be ANY TIME NOW, I >promise I'll post the new info to any newsgroup which might >even be tangentially interested :) So I guess we'll just have to wait a little while. As soon as I know the new list address I'll post it here. Best wishes, Marion ______________________________________________________________ Marion Kippers Wolters Kluwer Academic Publishers Automation Department Dordrecht, The Netherlands Marion.Kippers@wkap.nl "Leave the shadows dancing..." (OP) ______________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: Markku Kolkka Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 14:55:54 +0300 Subject: Sweet relief II Just found this item on "CyberSleaze", and thought it would interest ecto-people: >* An all-star line-up including MADONNA and R.E.M. is set to appear on a >benefit album for the >SWEET RELIEF FOUNDATION. The project was inspired by the case of singer >VICTORIA WILLIAMS, >the beneficiary of a 1993 tribute album to help with her multiple sclerosis treatment. SWEET RELIEF II will also >include performances from LIVE and COUNTING CROWS. The project gave over >$300,000 to needy >musicians last year Can you imagine Madonna covering Victoria Williams? - -- Markku Kolkka mk59200@cc.tut.fi ------------------------------ From: "she listens like her head's on fire.." Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:10:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Tori mailing list question Hello, I've been trying to get on the tori amos mailing list but I haven't been successful. There seems to be some arcane ritual I have to perform before the person in charge of mailing lists at that address will let me through and thus far I have not found it. Would anyone here be willing to let me know what it is *exactly* that I have to send to the address so I won't be rejected/sent back/bounced? thankyou... - -Quenby ------------------------------ From: "Matt Bittner" Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:17:27 -0500 Subject: Re: couple things On 18 Sep 95 at 20:22, THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE typed diligently: > Is it just me, or does good animation seem to be everywhere these days??? Nope, it's not just you. > >I'm glad > >it "got better". Did you catch the morning episode? Now that was a > >good one. Brain wanted to rule the world by becoming the "big > >cheese", and that's what happend. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. > > It's on in the morning too??? With our luck it's on the same time as The > Tick, and we can only tape one thing at a time. :P Yep. On in the morning. And you shouldn't have to worry about it being on at the same time. P&tB is on _Sunday_ mornings, 11:30am EST. Just check the same station that's running the evening episode. It _should_ be on, since it's the Warner Bros. Network. One might also like _Freakazoid_, but it's too "intense" for me. Although, the premiere episode had a great moment in it. The "bad guy" busted loose from the "local facility", and the "narrator" was wondering if there was any superhero that could "save the day". They panned to a crime scene with a silhouette of Batman fighting the criminal and the narrator says something like "Yes, there is a superhero who could save the day, but he's on another network". Since I'm a HUGE Batman fan, I'm hoping that once the animated series is over with on Fox that the Warner Bros. Network will pick it up. Matt - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Matthew Bittner WW1 Modeler, ecto subscriber, new dad, meba@cso.com PowerBuilder developer; Omaha, Nebraska "It must be inordinately taxing to be such a boob." - Brain - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ From: Richard Holmes Date: Tue, 19 Sep 95 08:17:02 -0700 Subject: Re: couple things meth@delphi.com (Meredith Tarr) writes: >Joanna commented: > >>Going off on a tangent: it has taken me some time to get used to >>singers who just don't enunciate. Or if they don't/can't/won't, I >>=do=... >>anyone else who seems to purposely keep the listener from hearing/ >>understanding the lyrics): I sometimes lose patience with them. > >That's the reason why one of my friends, who normally really goes for >such music, can't deal with Loreena McKennitt. Or Natalie Merchant, >for that matter. "If I have to read the liner notes to understand >what they're saying, it's just not worth the effort." I have a vastly >different opinion, but there you go. :) I think that I PREFER to understand on the reading, and if I can't do that, I *really* *really* prefer to have the liner notes with lyrics. It absolutely drives me crazy to have unclear lyrics, and no liner notes, especially if the music is enticing and you catch just enough of the lyrics to be intrigued. It reminds me of the cheap trick they teach rock musicians, that of "don't let anyone understand what you're saying, then they'll have to buy the record and listen to it over and over to get it"... I don't know where I heard this potentially urban legend, but it seems plausible to me. Of course, once you read Loreena McKennitt's lyrics, you can understand them... they aren't bad things to commit to memory either, since you can always bring them up in times of need :) >Kerry noted: >>Then there is when the structure of the lyrics make the tune into >>what it >>finally becomes: both Happy and Shawn Phillips(esp. Shawn) do this >>with a >>quick syncopation, a perfectly enunciated fast tongue-tangling >>impossiblity for us mere mortals. > >Have you heard Sheila Chandra? I think you should. :) Sheila Chandra is great! I still have to get some more of her stuff... I have "The Zen Kiss" and have given that on a couple of occasions for presents. I hear she has a new one coming out (from the guy at Blockbuster Music, no less (of course, it came up on the computer when he was searching for another of his, so naturally he asked if I'd like to put it on reserve!)). Does anyone have opinions on her earlier stuff which has been re-released? - -Richard. ------------------------------ From: Neile Graham Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:29:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Alanis: two versions of cd I also have one of the discs without the second "You Oughtta Know". I bought mine used and very shortly after it was released--it was a promo copy. - --Neile ------------------------------ From: Date: 19 Sep 95 11:42:33 EDT Subject: The Story / Patty Larkin Schedules Here are the latest Story and Patty Larkin Touring schedules... I haven't seen these here -- apologies if they've already appeared: [gripe: why o why won't patty come to chicago.... I've seen her here before...] [point of info: Jennifer Kimball, ex-Story member, is supposed to be touring with Patty Larkin singing BVs... but, you say, didn't she quit the story to avoid touring? yup. go figure *that* one out, my friends...] Jonatha Brooks and The Story Sep 27 1995 Washington, DC 9:30 Club, Info: 202-393-0930 Tix: 202-432-7328 ~$15 Sep 28 1995 New York, NY Tramps Sep 29 1995 Philadelphia, PA Theater of the Living Arts Info & Tix: 215-922-1010, ~$18 Sep 30 1995 Boston, MA Paradise Lounge Oct 1 1995 Portland, ME Raoul's Roadside Attraction Oct 4 1995 Toronto, ONT Rivoli Oct 5 1995 Rochester, NY Waterstreet Music Hall Oct 6 1995 Cleveland, OH U4iA Oct 7 1995 Ann Arbor, MI The Arc (2 Shows) Oct 9 1995 Chicago, IL Schubas Oct 11 1995 Milwaukee, WI Shank Hall Oct 12 1995 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Music Cafe Oct 15 1995 Boulder, CO Fox Theater Oct 18 1995 Vancouver, BC Starfish Room Oct 19 1995 Seattle, WA Backstage Oct 21 1995 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater Oct 24 1995 San Francisco, CA Slims Oct 25 1995 San Juan Capistrano, CA Coach House Oct 26 1995 West Hollywood, CA Troubadour On at least three of these dates Kevin Gilbert is the opening act. Most likely he's doing most of the dates. The Patty Larkin Band - The Strangers World Tour featuring Patty Larkin, Jennifer Kimball, Mark Schulman, Richard Gates, and Tom Hambridge. Sep 19 1995 Ithaca NY Ithaca Music Hall Sep 20 1995 Waldoboro ME Waldo Theater Sep 21 1995 Northampton MA Academy of Music Sep 22 1995 Cambridge MA Sanders Theater Sep 23 1995 Highstown NJ Grace Norton Rogers School Sep 24 1995 Newport KY Southgate House Sep 26 1995 Columbus OH Ludlow's Sep 27 1995 Bloomington IN Second Story Sep 28 1995 Grand Rapids MI Ladies Literary Club Sep 29 1995 Ann Arbor MI The Ark (2 shows) Sep 30 1995 Madison WI Barrymore Theater Oct 1 1995 Minneapolis MN Fine Line Oct 3 1995 Colorado Springs CO TBD Oct 4 1995 Durango CO TBD Oct 5 1995 Santa Fe NM Club Alegria Oct 6 1995 Boulder CO Fox Theater Oct 7 1995 Fort Collins CO Lincoln Theater Oct 8 1995 Salt Lake City UT East High School Auditorium Oct 11 1995 Olympia WA Evergreen State College Oct 12 1995 Corvallis OR Majestic Theater Oct 13 1995 Seattle WA Backstage Oct 14 1995 Portland OR Alladin Theater Oct 15 1995 Ashland OR Buffalo Music Hall Oct 18 1995 Carson City NV Carson City Community Crt Oct 19 1995 Los Angeles CA Troubadors Oct 20 1995 San Francisco CA Great American Music Hall Oct 21 1995 Santa Cruz CA Palookaville Oct 22 1995 Santa Rosa CA Luther Burbank Center Oct 23 1995 Solana Beach CA Belly Up Tavern Oct 26 1995 Pittsburgh PA Graffiti's Oct 27 1995 Vienna VA The Barns of Wolftrap Oct 28 1995 Philadelphia PA 1st Baptist Church Oct 29 1995 New York NY The Bottom Line Jonatha Brooke sings backup on Greg Greenway's new CD, SINGING FOR THE LANDLORD. yours in concert, - -mjm ------------------------------ From: maeldun@i-2000.com (Michael Doyle) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:22:51 -0400 Subject: Re: various threads woven together >Hi! > >Last week we taped 120 Minutes because we'd heard the video for Innocence >Mission's "Bright As Yellow" was going to be played (which it was), and found >that Alanis Morrisette hosted it. She did a very good job hosting -- maybe >she should do that and give up on music. (Sorry, but I still fail to see >what all the fuss is about... :}) But, we were quite pleasantly surprised >to find that they showed the video for Heather Nova's "Walk This World" as >well! Neatoid. Yeah, I saw that video, too. It must have been fun making it -- literally walking the world. And I hadn't suspected Heather Nova was so good-looking :) >Matt noted re Pinky and the Brain: > >>This is truly the best _current_ animation series. Unless you count >>The Tick, as well... > >Hmmm. We watched last week and weren't particularly impressed, though we >are going to watch it again in a few minutes. We watched The Tick for the >first time yesterday as well -- again, not particularly impressed, but we'll >keep watching to get a better feel for the show. Right now I'd have to say >the best animated series out there are the ones showing on eMpTV (of all >places): Aeon Flux and The Maxx (the creation of Sam Keith, who was the >first illustrator of The Sandman) in particular. And of course The Simpsons >will always have a special place in my heart. :) > My favorite animated show currently is Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist. It airs Saturday night 9 PM on Comedy Central and it's great. Very different than the other programs mentioned, because it puts very little effort into the animation, but a lot into the dialogue and voice-over performances. In fact, Jon Katz who plays Dr. Katz won an Emmy for his work on the show. The gimmick is that Dr. Katz's patients are real-life stand-up comedians, and the sessions are hilarious. But the real reason I love the show is Dr. Katz's anti-receptionist, Laura, who has to be the most fetchingly awful employee outside of the civil service. - - Mike Michael Doyle maeldun@i-2000.com ======================================================================= "The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been" - - Thomas Kinsella, "Nightwalker" ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #230 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu