From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #166 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, June 13 2003 Volume 09 : Number 166 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Lizzie West ["Bill" ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Searchable archive ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] Re: a plea for help from the more technologically minded [breinheimer@web] Getting Happy's music to France [Xenus Sister ] Re: Searchable archive [Andrew Fries ] Re: Re: a plea for help [breinheimer@webtv.net] Fwd: Penelope Houston's new import CD is coming.. [Neile Graham ] Re: Searchable archive [Damon ] Weird Happy cover...what? [Xenus Sister ] Re: Weird Happy cover...what? [alberto carrasco ] yet another beautiful voice... [alberto carrasco ] Re: The world must stop now ["Michael Pearce" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:54:25 -0700 From: "Bill" Subject: Lizzie West Does anyone have information or opinions on her? Listened to her in the sountrack of Secretary. Thanks, - - Bill G. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 03:00:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Joerg Plate (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joerg Plate Mon June 12 1967 Gemini Chris Montville Tue June 13 1978 Gemini Ectoplasm (original name) Mailing List Thu June 13 1991 Fuzzier blue Paul Huesman Wed June 14 1967 coffee drinker Mark R. Susskind Wed June 15 1966 Gemini Dave Upham Sun June 15 1958 Gemini Mike Matthews Mon June 16 1969 Pr. SAFH Albert Philipsen Mon June 17 1968 Gemini Neal R. Copperman Thu June 17 1965 Gemini Susan Kay Anderson Tue June 17 1969 Gemini Ecto-The Mailing List Tue June 18 1991 Fuzzy blue Tracy Barber Mon June 18 1956 Gemini Greg Dunn Thu June 18 1953 + Paul Blair Thu June 18 1964 Objectivist Mike Connell Sat June 18 1955 Apollo David Lubkin Fri June 20 1958 OurLady Marisa Wood Fri June 20 1969 Gemini Cheri Villines Sun June 20 1965 Gemini-Leo rising Ray Misra Sat June 20 1970 Gemini Nik Popa Sun June 22 1969 Cancer Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Ethan Straffin Thu June 24 1971 Cancer Kevin Dekan Mon June 27 1960 Cancer Samantha Tanner Tue June 30 1970 Wild Goose BunkyTom Tue July 02 1968 Cancer Anders Hallberg Tue July 03 1962 Cancer Kevin Harkins Thu July 05 1973 Cancer Laurel Krahn Mon July 05 1971 Cancer John J Henshon Mon July 05 1954 The Year Of The Horse / Ruled By The Moon Jim Gurley Mon July 06 1959 Cancer Lisa Rouchka Fri July 08 1960 Moonchild with Java Rising Courtney Dallas Fri July 09 1971 Catte Michael Peskura Sat July 09 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. Tsai Sat July 09 1966 Cancer Larry Greenfield Tue July 11 1950 Virgo Rising; Gemini Moon - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 02:57:15 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: Searchable archive WRT Vickie's query: Sometime in the last few months, someone posted to the list that they had created a website for easy access to the archives of ecto digests, to supplement whatever is on the "official" ecto website at smoe.org. In retrospect it may or may not have been searchasble. I have forgotten the URL that was given--can anyone help out there? If all else fails, there may be no alternative to just perusing digests on the web, from around the time when the various tapes are likely to have been distributed to contributors. I noticed some spelling errors in the playlist that Neal posted for HGP91, which I won't go into right now. This is why it would pay to check the digests for playlists rather than relying on memory, or one's own notes. As I said before, I am happy to make whatever I have--tapes and playlist files--available. Hopefully, there is a way to electronically clean up the rather muddy sound quality on those tapes that I duplicated myself. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:00:07 -0400 (EDT) From: breinheimer@webtv.net Subject: Re: a plea for help from the more technologically minded thanks for the response. my budget is simply to keep it as low as I can to meet my needs. format is optional but previous statement would probably dictate cassette, unless of course I'm mistaken. decent is a clear recording of spoken word (generally loud voice) from one floor to another. it's a long story but I've got a neighbor who believes that if you do something he doesn't like it justifies retaliating however he can get away with. sound carries well here. thin carpet no padding i'm on 2nd floor he's on first. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:05:52 -0500 From: Xenus Sister Subject: Getting Happy's music to France I've received a letter from someone not on Ecto who wants to buy Happy's CDs. Here's the letter: ======== i'm a very old fan of kate (since the very beginning), and i only recently heard about happy. unfortunately, it is impossible to find her records in france, and i guess in europe ! her official site sends them but it seems complicated !!! do you know any european fan who could help me ? ========= Is there anyone who could help this person out somehow? If so, I'll pass along your e-mail to them. Thanks! Vickie ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jun 2003 22:47:41 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Searchable archive On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:57, Mitchell A. Pravatiner wrote: > WRT Vickie's query: Sometime in the last few months, someone posted to > the list that they had created a website for easy access to the archives > of ecto digests, to supplement whatever is on the "official" ecto website > at smoe.org. In retrospect it may or may not have been searchasble. I > have forgotten the URL that was given--can anyone help out there? Sure, here it is: or to search with Google, - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Grrr...Arrgh!" -- Mutant - -- 22:43:23 up 6 days, 7:28, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:07:03 -0400 (EDT) From: breinheimer@webtv.net Subject: Re: Re: a plea for help Nadyne@Sbcglobal.net wrote "define inexpensive..." Sorry for the late response. I tried forwarding a message I sent to someone (dmw) who responded off list but I guess it didn't work (perhaps because I sent it to the address in the digest header?). Anyway. Inexpensive means as cheap as possible while still meeting my needs. I'm guessing that this would make cassette the likely medium. Decent means being able to make out human speech fairly clearly. And what I'm trying to do is record my downstairs neighbor whom is a mean spirited vindictive sob who bears us ill will. I'm on the second floor and he's on the first. The carpet is quite thin and there's no padding. Sound travels fairly well and he sometimes gets loud. Everything else is a long story but believe me, this guy has a track record. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:22:20 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Fwd: Penelope Houston's new import CD is coming.. >Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:53:51 -0700 >Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:51:14 -0700 >From: "P. Houston" >Reply-To: phous@earthlink.net >To: penelope >Subject: (FWD) Penelope Houston's new import CD is coming.. > >Hi Friends, > >In three weeks my new CD "eighteen stories down" (on WEA Germany) - a >retrospective of my >first 25 years of songwriting and recording- will be hitting the stores >in Europe. > >I've picked what I think are the best songs from 5 studio albums, >B-sides, previously unreleased material and 4 brand new tracks! Having >written over 80 songs and covered a dozen more, it was a hard choice... > >Now, I want to know what YOU think are my best songs. Please take this >quick survey and you could win a free copy of my new CD! Three people >who complete the survey will be choosen at random on June 30th, 2003 to >win. > >http://www.penelope.net/survey1.html > >Thanks for taking the time and good luck! > >Cheers >Penelope > >PS If you absolutely can't wait to know what's on the new CD and you >feel you must pre-order it ASAP... go here -- >http://www.penelope.net/eighteen.html > >PPS to be taken off this mailing list reply with "Please take me off" in >the subject line. - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham .... neile@sff.net/@drizzle.com ... www.sff.net/people/neile Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal ........ www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....................www.ectoguide.org Co-Administrator, Clarion West ...................... www.clarionwest.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:00:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Re: Re: a plea for help breinheimer@webtv.net wrote: > Anyway. Inexpensive means as cheap as possible while still meeting my > needs. I'm guessing that this would make cassette the likely medium. > Decent means being able to make out human speech fairly clearly. And > what I'm trying to do is record my downstairs neighbor whom is a mean > spirited vindictive sob who bears us ill will. I'm on the second > floor and he's on the first. The carpet is quite thin and there's no > padding. Sound travels fairly well and he sometimes gets loud. > Everything else is a long story but believe me, this guy has a track > record. In this case, I'd just say that you should try to borrow someone's cassette recorder. A microcassette recorder (like college students used to use) might even work. You probably don't need anything elaborate, especially since (hopefully) you won't need to use it repeatedly. /nm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:51:04 -0700 From: Damon Subject: Re: Searchable archive > WRT Vickie's query: Sometime in the last few months, someone posted to > the list that they had created a website for easy access to the archives that'd be me. :) > of ecto digests, to supplement whatever is on the "official" ecto website > at smoe.org. In retrospect it may or may not have been searchasble. I > have forgotten the URL that was given--can anyone help out there? If all it's searchable, but the search doesn't work terribly well, be warned. and some of the options shown on the `refine search' page don't work properly. but, such as it is, here it is: http://ecto-archives.usrbin.ca/ - -damon - -- dl+ecto@usrbin.ca: protecting my real address since 2002 (too late!) > EWS starts here! < ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:17:59 -0500 From: Xenus Sister Subject: Weird Happy cover...what? I was just looking at The Covers Project http://www.coversproject.com/artist/Happy+Rhodes I added most of the songs a couple of years ago, but who in the world added this, and where was it performed???? Tiptoe Through the Truffles originally by Franchi & Ingrassia ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:27:27 -0700 (PDT) From: alberto carrasco Subject: Re: Weird Happy cover...what? No idea... looks like a mistake offhand... but as you know... you could add Bowie's "Station to Station" to the list... Not to mention the Bee Gees song she's doing these days. (don't recall the name). Are "Running Up That Hill", "Starman", and "Long Distance Runaround" snippets in the tribute version of "Feed the Fire" too short to count? Xenus Sister wrote:I was just looking at The Covers Project http://www.coversproject.com/artist/Happy+Rhodes I added most of the songs a couple of years ago, but who in the world added this, and where was it performed???? Tiptoe Through the Truffles originally by Franchi & Ingrassia Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:28:59 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Weird Happy cover...what? alberto carrasco wrote: > No idea... looks like a mistake offhand... but as you know... you could add Bowie's "Station to Station" to the list... Not to mention the Bee Gees song she's doing these days. (don't recall the name). > > Are "Running Up That Hill", "Starman", and "Long Distance Runaround" snippets in the tribute version of "Feed the Fire" too short to count? And don't forget the Hamster Dance song! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:03:09 -0700 (PDT) From: alberto carrasco Subject: yet another beautiful voice... ...I don't recall seeing posted: Jorane. Her music blows me away as much today as the first time I heard her... and that cello of hers is as articulate a voice as many singers. Which reminds me... did anyone happen to tape Jorane's Bravo Canadian concert broadcast? I'll trade you something equally fabulous for a copy. You can e-mail me off-list. - ------------- I really think it is possible that our grandchildren will look at us in wonder and say: "You mean you used to listen to exactly the same thing over and over again?" ~ Brian Eno Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:03:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Mendelson Subject: happy gift project play lists in archives? Vickie -- Undoubtedly the play lists are in the ecto archives, right? Does anyone have the ability to search through the archives en masse? That would be the way to go there if no one has them in one convenient spot. - -mjm __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:36:11 -0400 From: meredith Subject: grand! Hi, Monday was one of those wonderful musical convergence days: I came home to not one, but two long-awaited CDs in my mailbox. The first one I opened was Erin McKeown's brand-new cd, _Grand_. I've been eagerly anticipating this one for a long time, made longer by the fact that just when Erin was finishing up recording, some new songs came to her that she just had to put on the CD, so that pushed everything back a couple months. Wouldn't you know it, two of those latecomers are the best tracks on the disc: the album-opening "Slung-Lo" and the best single song released so far this year, "Cosmopolitans". Once again, Dave Chalfant (formerly of The Nields) is the producer, and he knows just what to do to make Erin's music shine. Like _Distillation_, there is a variety of styles represented on the album, from Tin Pan Alley-like ditties to power pop to all-out rockers. And of course there's a Judy Garland cover ("Lucky Day"). Judy shows up all over the album, as a matter of fact: she's mentioned by name in "Cinematic", and while she's not named in the dark, groovy "Cosmopolitans" I knew instantly that the song is about her ("advice, agents, and taped late night whiskey/tiny cups for a tiny lady/opera heels are swiftly growing indecent/and a lady in descent/falling forward towards the cosmopolitans and ladies/looking for pills in draperies"). It was clear from the first listen that this disc is going to be in my top 3 for the year, easily. It kicks every imaginable kind of ass, and was every bit worth the wait. By contrast, the second brand-new CD I opened, Edie Carey's _When I Was Made_ suffers. I wish I'd gotten it on its own, because I'm sure it would have made a much better impression if I didn't have _Grand_ still jangling around in my head. I think I just need to put it away for a while and then go back to it with a clearer mind. The musical arrangements are a bit different from what we've come to expect from Edie (banjos!), which isn't a bad thing, and there are some great songs on it, most notably "Under This Sky", which is the best song about Sept. 11 I've heard yet (the refrain: "nothing bad could ever happen/under a sky this blue"). But there are quite a few tracks that sound very similar, so the album tends to disappear into the background for a while in the middle. So I'll file this under "return in a few weeks" and form a more solid opinion then. While I'm here, and talking about Ms. McKeown: last night, Erin did her CD release show at Joe's Pub in NYC. woj, Becky Montville and I managed to get a table right in front of the stage even though we'd arrived late (thank the gods for remembering to make a dinner reservation). The opener was someone we'd never heard of, even though many of the people in the room were there solely to see her: Nellie Kay. Picture "Growing Pains"-era Tracey Gold if she made a conscious effort to sound like Fiona Apple and look like Tori (dyed-red hair and all), and came from the same planet as Jane Siberry. She played piano quite well, and even threw a couple standards in, but her own stuff was straight out of the Fiona Apple man-hating, faux-rapping songbook. (I even thought her last song was a reprise of her first, until I realized that the lyrics were slightly different.) In between songs, she was completely random and surreal, and thus absolutely hilarious (hence the Siberry reference) -- at one point I think she was telling a story about how when she signed the 15-year contract with her dog she didn't notice the bit in his rider about daily Cocoa Puffs until it was too late. (Maybe you had to be there.) As an opener we certainly could have done a lot worse (namely by going to Erin's show at Joe's Pub this evening, where Felix McTeigue opened -- I had the misfortune of seeing him open for her at the Iron Horse back in February, and it was a truly painful experience). Nellie Kay will be opening for Erin at the Iron Horse next week, so we'll get to see her again. So anyway, Erin's now got the best band she's ever had, and the show kicked even more ass than the new CD. I knew we were in for it when she *started* with "Blackbirds", which used to be the show-ending tour de force. Now that honor has been afforded to "Civilians", which just might be the most affecting song she's written yet. During that one, she delivered a blistering guitar solo while standing on one of the tables pushed up against the side of stage right. Her trio's guitar/bass player is now Jason Kriegler, whom woj remembered from seeing perform with Chris Cunningham and Tim Hill once. He was simply stunning, and added amazing touches to the songs. Dave, her drummer was really good too. The set never lulled, and despite some minor sound issues (caused, I think, by the mere fact that the stage at Joe's Pub is too small to hold a piano *and* an entire band's stuff) it was a great show. I can't wait to see Erin again next week. =============================================== 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 =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jun 2003 19:24:38 -0700 From: "Michael Pearce" Subject: Re: The world must stop now At 1:55 AM -0400 6/12/03, Robert Lovejoy wrote: >You really had me thinking this was going to be groundbreaking, but I'd >suggest dropping the Darlene Edwards reference and replacing that with Mrs. >Miller! > >Bob, who now needs sedatives I thought of that, but too many people know who Mrs. Miller is. I figured I could make the point with a more obscure reference. Sucked ya in, didn't I? Michael PS: for Trivia fans - Darlene Edwards was really Jo Stafford. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #166 **************************