From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #42 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, February 13 2003 Volume 09 : Number 042 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: Ashley's first acoustic show for 2003 + Badji Dance Co. [iTard ] Mind Meld/Star Trek ["Lyle Howard" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:56:14 -0500 From: iTard Subject: Fwd: Ashley's first acoustic show for 2003 + Badji Dance Co. curse you people in california who get to see ashley maher! *raises fist menancingly* ;) woj >From: Ashmaher5@aol.com >Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 04:57:22 EST >Subject: Ashley's first acoustic show for 2003 + Badji Dance Co. > >Hi One and All, > >Just to let you know about my first show of 2003, coming up this month! It >will be an acoustic 40 minute set as part of the closing reception for a >wonderful gallery's month-long exhibit of art from the Congo. > >The reception opens at 4pm with an hour or so to take in the art, hang out, >and have something to drink. We go on at 5:30pm. After us will be the >inaugural performance of three extraordinary new-to-L.A. dancers from the >National Ballet of Senegal. Awa Badji, Maam Djite, and Bintu Ly are dancing, >accompanied by Aziz Faye, Mamadou Badji, and Oumar M'Boup as the Badji Dance >Company. Please trust me...this is going to be gooooooooood!!! I feel >honored to be opening the evening for them. > >Details below: > >Sunday, February 23rd >The Backstreet Gallery >Closing reception >The Spirit of the Kongo: ancestral and modern day art from the Congo, Zaire, >Angola, Namibia, and Zambia. >4 - 8pm >show starts at 5:30 >11618 West Exposition Blvd. >(one block north of Pico, one block east of Barrington) >West Los Angeles 90064 >$10 >310 479 6262 >www.backstreetgalleries.com > >See you there! > >Lots of love, > >Ashley ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:32:42 -0800 From: The Todd Bramy Subject: Two Loons For Tea (was CDBaby order) At 1:55 AM -0500 2/12/03, ecto-digest wrote: >I agree that the Rachel Smith album is a must. If you haven't got the new >Jill Tracy yet - that might be an option. As I don't know what you haven't >got yet then I'll list those records I would have got if I hadn't already >got them - >Louisa John-Krol - Alexandria >Molly Zenobia - Wind Chains, >Anything by Ephemera >Natalie Zuckerman - Mortal Child >Two Loons For Tea - Looking for Landmarks >Land of the Blind - Ordinary Magic > >- -- Yngve I agree with Yngve's list. Particularly the Two Loons For Tea disc. I know I've mentioned this before, but I dig this disc to no end. Even more the more I listen to it. It's so layered and beautiful, I hear something new each time. A definite must! cheers! - Todd ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 03:27:18 +0000 From: "Lyle Howard" Subject: Mind Meld/Star Trek Hola, I just watched a nice little video called _Mind Meld_. It is a film of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner interviewing each other. As it started I was thinking I would rather have a professional interviewer getting the facts out of these two men, but the more I watched it the happier I was that they were having a meandering conversation. This video has a cable channel feel to it, so you may have seen it on TV. I have never heard of it before and found it enlightening and entertaining. I am a closet Trekkie or perhaps a mildly afflicted fanboy. Certainly not a rabid fan. But the film is affecting on a level other than Star Trek worship. When Nimoy and Shatner talk about getting older and facing death, they don't strike you as stars or actors, but as fellow humans trying to make some sense out of the cycle of life they find themselves in. Shatner is a bit smarmy, but it is so ingrained in his personality, you can't hold it against him. He is what he is and there's a lot of good there. Nimoy, though, is the kind of guy you'd want to hang out with. A thoughtful man pursuing many interests. I have been working lately with seventy and eighty-year-old guys and this video makes me see Shatner and Nimoy as two old guys who are looking out toward the end of life, just like the guys I work with. They have good stories about the past, a little fear of the darkness ahead, and a calm acceptance of the way things worked out, with hints of regret creeping into the conversation. One of the best parts of the video is when, at the end of the interview, Nimoy reaches over and touches Shatner on the forehead in a gesture of blessing or possibly mind melding. If the universe is just, that touch was not orchestrated. And those two are damn fine singers to boot, though no singing is in evidence on this video. Bye, Lyle n.r. _Solitude_. Anthony Storr. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? 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