From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #23 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, January 25 2003 Volume 09 : Number 023 Today's Subjects: ----------------- miyazaki films finally coming out on Disney DVD! [Paul2k@aol.com] OT: Re: miyazaki films finally coming out on Disney DVD! [Philip David Mo] RE: Rumors of my demise are somewhat exaggerated... ["William Mazur" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 04:14:42 EST From: Paul2k@aol.com Subject: miyazaki films finally coming out on Disney DVD! It's finally happening. Disney is getting off their asses and starting to release Hayao Miyazaki's movies here in the U.S on DVD. On April 15th, they'll be releasing Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Castle in the Sky (Laputa) as 2 disc special editions featuring both the original Japanese language tracks and the new english language dubbings. Let's hope they release the rest of the Ghibli movies in a timely fashion. Paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:09:20 -0500 From: Philip David Morgan Subject: OT: Re: miyazaki films finally coming out on Disney DVD! Good Morning, Paul: > It's finally happening. Disney is getting off their asses and starting to > release Hayao Miyazaki's movies here in the U.S on DVD. > > On April 15th, they'll be releasing Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, > and Castle in the Sky (Laputa) as 2 disc special editions featuring both the > original Japanese language tracks and the new english language dubbings. DVDFile.com reports that the Region 1 discs will retail at $29.95 and supposedly have some extra material (no word yet on what those extras will be, however). EctoGhiblians may want to drop by Anime on DVD as the release dates draw near, for any advance reviews that might get posted. Chris Beveridge and his colleagues are a timely bunch, and I've often gotten solid buying advice from reading their reviews. The Disney-Ghibli news comes a little late for me, however: I am awaiting a code-free DVD player, as I now have the Studio Ghibli DVDs of _Spirited Away_ and _My Neighbor Totoro_; both are double disc releases from Japan. The _Totoro_ disc is of special import to me because the extras include a video piece on the Ghibli Museum Mitaka , which is a short walk from where my Japanese e-penpal lives. I think she can take special pride in claiming the Totoro as her neighbors... Meanwhile, here's hoping Disney learned something valuable from their _Pinocchio_ fiasco (among other things)... Philip David 1/24/2003 - --- The Polly Stephanson Project - big changes coming this Spring... http://homepage.mac.com/pollyshows/ - --- "Now go back and finish your oatmeal." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:21:22 -0800 From: "William Mazur" Subject: RE: Rumors of my demise are somewhat exaggerated... Welcome back Phil! - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Phillip Hudson Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:48 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Rumors of my demise are somewhat exaggerated... Hello all Fuzzy Blues; My sincerest apologies to all for disappearing so abruptly from the list without a trace. The past year has been one of the most hectic and intense times in my life, with job layoffs, abrupt moves, relationship breakup, getting mistaken for Chuck Barris and being subsequently detained by the Guatemalan Secret Police; the list goes on.... My life resembled a bad country song for a while, except I didn't have a dog to lose. ( I have since been adopted by an adorable coyote/shepherd mutt who found me a while back; I'm not sure if it were she or I who was lost). So anyway, I have been living on my looks and wits, both hopelessly inadequate to the task. I have missed my fellow Ectophiles a great deal, but did not want to re-sub until I had established a permanent Internet connection again (and/or a semi-permanent life!). This has now come about, so like it or not, you're stuck with me and my fatuous remarks again :) Where to start? Well this is Happy's list so we must honor her first and appropriately; I am in the process of creating a demo/promo CD to send out to labels, stations, promoters, etc, and the perpetually gracious and generous Ms. Rhodes has kindly allowed me permission to use Temporary and Eternal on it. I hope to get sufficient interest to work up a full commercial release sometime later this year. Thank you Happy, you are always a sparkling gem in my universe. The working Title of the CD is Runaway Shadow, ( the original title was "I've Suffered for my Music, Now It's Your Turn") and revision 1.0 currently has only 2 finished songs on it; an original ( produced by my good friend and studio parter, Bill Mazur) and T&E. Bill and I will be going into the studio this weekend to work on three more originals. We hope to have rev 2.0 finished in a few weeks. My producer, Bruce Bellochio, of Faultline Audio, is a great guy who is really committed to what we're doing, with a genuine liking for our music. Bruce is active in promoting a lot of local Indie artists, including Pipa Pinon, and Jeff Hunter, who both appeared at the EFW house concert in Boulder Creek a few years back. Check out the website if you're interested. ( But don't look for me on it yet until I have Rev 2.0 pressed!) http://www.faultlineaudio.com/ If anyone would like to get a copy, please email me offline and perhaps you can send me an SASE, as I will gladly give away the promo CD, but funds and time currently prevent me from attending to the packaging and postage. ( Oh God, shades of Left Hand Demo appear: If I never got to thank Fog, Jeff and whomever else for picking up on that after my entire life went AWOL on me, please accept my sincerest thanks now). Bill and I have been playing out locally in the past few months, and we got to open for Dave Mason, ex of Traffic, a while back, along with some other gigs and a radio slot, and participate in a truly wonderful SF house concert, featuring the delightful Terami Hirsch ( whose wonderful tagline is "Introvert with a microphone")and Ecto's own treasure, Vienna Teng. I can't even begin to say how excited and happy I am for Vienna, after seeing her effortless performance on Letterman. For those of you unfortunate enough to have not yet met Vienna, she is one of the most gracious and wonderful persons one could ever hope to meet. The universe sometimes redeems itself by letting the good people get a share of the goodies. Now let's hold that thought for Happy's forthcoming release. BTW Vienna; thank you much for your kind words about me and Waking Hour on Ecto ( Bill read me your pre-show posting to the group) but I think your musical destiny was carved out long before I ever heard your CD. However, I always felt very honored that you asked me to review the CD, and I thank you so much for the ideas your music has inspired in my own songs. I wish you supreme success and great happiness. For anyone who purchased the initial Waking Hour CD, drop everything and get the Virt release; the arrangements are exquisitely crafted versions, which often differ quite considerably from the originals. I love both the albums, as I'm an arrangement hound, and need to hear these great songs in as many different ways as possible. OK, this email is now approaching Biblical size, so I should quit while I'm ahead. Warmest regards to all my friends on the list, and thanks again to Meth and Woj for making it happen. All the best Phil Hudson Extrovert with a Megaphone < ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:26:34 -0500 From: Jeffrey Burka Subject: Re: Rumors of my demise are somewhat exaggerated... William Mazur wrote: > Welcome back Phil! Yeah, what Bill said! Can't wait to hear some of the new stuff; I loved the cover of T&E on the 10th anniversary disc... jeff n.p. _Misplaced Childhood_, Marillion ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:36:37 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: matt's dilemma; edie carey & anne heaton in concert Hi, JoAnn reported: >I saw Edie Carey and Anne Heaton with Frank Marotta, Jr. play at the Fez >on Tuesday night. ?! You were there??? woj, JeffW and I were in the front, at the table directly in front of Edie. Where were you sitting? Your review pretty much summed it up -- it was a great show. Edie Carey is such a goofball ... and I don't know what was up with Anne, but it was massively entertaining. :) Frank Marotta, Jr. should have way more gigs than he does. He is a phenomenal guitar player, and a sweetie to boot. While I'm here ... woj, Chris Montville and I were at Makor on the Upper West Side last night to see Rachael Sage and Holly Figueroa. Rachael went on first, accompanied by Stephanie Winters on cello and Dean Sharp on drums. As always it was a great set. They did mostly brand-new stuff, since Rachael is currently in the studio working on her new album. "Prolific" is fast becoming inadequate to describe that woman. :) But the songs just keep on getting better and better... After a short intermission Holly took the stage, and Dean joined her. Dean and Holly had never played together before that evening's sound check, but he accompanied her for all but a couple songs, and it was incredible. It had been a couple years since I last saw Holly play, and she was even better than I remembered -- a voice equal parts Edie Carey and Joan Osborne, over an interesting self-taught guitar attack. Dean added just the right bits with his percussion, too. I'm *really* looking forward to Sunday's house concert with Holly now, even more so than before. Even solo, I know she's going to be phenomenal. So, NY/CT/MA area ectophiles, get your butts on down here on Sunday afternoon! ============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ============================================== Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://muzak.smoe.org NEXT UP: Holly Figueroa, 1/26/03 ============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 01:17:04 -0500 From: "dave" Subject: Mia Kim I saw this girl a while back when my brother's band did a show with her, thought she was quite good and may be of interest to some on the list here (hey JoAnn...).. she's got a relatively ectoish style.. I see she's got a CD out now, and has samples on her site, so give a listen (try 'Life Inc.' for starters). http://www.miakimonline.com/ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #23 *************************