From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #94 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, April 2 2001 Volume 07 : Number 094 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [none] ["hj" ] Clip sought [Paul Blair ] guess who shops at the Fresh Fields on the 1400 block of P Street [Jeffre] Sturgeon's Law, Internet Radio, 15 minutes of fame [tenthvictim@mindsprin] Re: Sturgeon's Law, Internet Radio, 15 minutes of fame [Joseph Zitt Subject: [none] i love ecto but i have too many emails how do i get off? kk ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:02:41 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: Clip sought so here I am in the middle of the week and all of a sudden I get the theme music to the new CBS TV series "Big Apple" going through my head. I don't know that it's any monumental musical achievement, but I can't let go of it. Anyone know where I can get a clip of this? Thx, Paul ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 21:39:20 -0400 From: Jeffrey Burka Subject: guess who shops at the Fresh Fields on the 1400 block of P Street That's in DC, for those wondering. There was an article about the new Fresh Fields (opened in December) in a gentrifying sort of neighborhood here. I was rather amused when I saw: "All my friends have been debating this place," says Lida Husik, an artist who is white. "It makes me nervous to see this gentrification. At the same time, this is the best black bean vegan soup I've had in a long time." The full thing is at... http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/postmagazine/A2272-2001Mar27.html jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 21:46:26 -0500 From: tenthvictim@mindspring.com Subject: Sturgeon's Law, Internet Radio, 15 minutes of fame Howdy, If 90% of everything is crap, then does that mean one cut on a ten tune CD will be good? Or does that mean every tenth CD will be a knockout and the other nine will be unlistenable? I think we can work with the idea that one song of ten will be good. In order to make a good CD, all you need to do is put 100 songs on the CD. That guarantees ten cuts will be good. I have a punk compilation of thirty second songs. If you put 100 thirty second songs on a CD, it would take up fifty minutes. A decent length for a CD. Don't ask me how you will figure out which of the ten percent is good. If you want to listen to Brave Combo, the city of Denton is webcasting the music played on the local access channel. www.cityofdenton.com/council/radiodenton.asp is the address. They also play music from the UNT One O'Clock Lab Band (jazz) and the UNT Jazz Singers (one of whom has been the best college jazz vocalist a couple of times, according to Billboard Magazine: if you hear "A Foggy Day in London," that will be Kathy Jenson-Hole). I can't vouch for any of the others on the play list. I can't seem to get Real Audio to let me listen. I guess the fifteen minute clock is ticking on my stardom as a bluegrass musician. I found out in the last couple of days that Hober.com, an internet radio station is playing music from the CD I helped my friends, Homemade Jam, make. I played guitar on half the songs on the CD. If you should wander by the site and hear some hammer dulcimer playing, it could be Homemade Jam (Nathan Sarvis and Arlene Anderson). I hope I get invited to play on their next CD. So far, I'm impressed by the Hober programmer's choice of music. I even heard Nick Drake for the first time. "Crow Jane." Nice. Bye, Lyle n.p. "Motherless Children" Roscoe Holcomb on www.hober.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:08:27 -0500 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Sturgeon's Law, Internet Radio, 15 minutes of fame On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:46:26PM -0500, tenthvictim@mindspring.com wrote: > I think we can work with the idea that one song of ten will be good. In > order to make a good CD, all you need to do is put 100 songs on the CD. > That guarantees ten cuts will be good. I have a punk compilation of thirty > second songs. If you put 100 thirty second songs on a CD, it would take up > fifty minutes. A decent length for a CD. Don't ask me how you will figure > out which of the ten percent is good. I'm reminded of an essay by John W. Campbell called "How to Get Away With Murder". If I recall (some 20 years after reading it), the premise was that if you were to set into motion 1000 actions, each of which had 1% of a chance of resulting in killing the victim, you could be quite sure that the murder would happen and be pretty much impossible to prove. I can see holes in this, but it's certainly fun with statistics. n.p. Thinking Plague: In Extremis - -- |> ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp <| | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | Latest CD: Jerusaklyn http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 00:05:52 -0400 From: "Ted" Subject: Re: Sturgeon's Law, Internet Radio, 15 minutes of fame - ----- Original Message ----- From: Joseph Zitt To: Cc: ecto Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 11:08 PM Subject: Re: Sturgeon's Law, Internet Radio, 15 minutes of fame > > I'm reminded of an essay by John W. Campbell called "How to Get Away > With Murder". If I recall (some 20 years after reading it), the premise > was that if you were to set into motion 1000 actions, each of which had > 1% of a chance of resulting in killing the victim, you could be quite > sure that the murder would happen and be pretty much impossible to > prove. I can see holes in this, but it's certainly fun with statistics. > I remember that essay! It couldn't have been 20 years already! Something he called "rope theory" as opposed to setting off a chain of events. His analogy, as far as I can recall: I trip you, fall into a tub of water, a hairdryer falls into the tub with you, zap! Only the room was set up with hundreds of little accidents like that. Also his "Rope theory" created a plausible deniability, seeing as nobody could possibly believe it was a pre-meditated murder. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 00:18:39 -0400 From: "Foghorn J Fornorn" Subject: RE: Sturgeon's Law, Internet Radio, 15 minutes of fame Reminds me of an internet joke thing I received recently, a twist on the old infinite monkeys and typewriters theorem: If an infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks with an infinite number of shotguns (and ammo) are dispatched to shoot at road signs, eventually they will reproduce all the world's great literature... in braille. About the 90% guideline... I thought that pertained to FREE stuff. But perhaps I missed a piece of the thread. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #94 *************************