From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #168 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, June 15 2003 Volume 09 : Number 168 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Patti Smith Free Concert, Berkeley, June 15 [Joseph Zitt ] Re: A faster connection, as the expense of our souls ["John Zimmer" ] RE: First mention of Tori [meredith ] Re: First mention of Tori ["Michael Pearce" ] Re: First mention of Tori [meredith ] Re: First mention of Tori [Paul Blair ] Fwd: Singer Jewel Seeking New Manager [Neb Rodgers Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Paul Huesman (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 Marion Kippers Tue July 13 1965 Kreeft Ellen Rawson Thu July 13 1961 Double Cancer Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer R. Rapp Wed July 14 1954 On a Gray Eye Sojourn - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 01:41:44 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Patti Smith Free Concert, Berkeley, June 15 > music-wise; anyone in San Francisco should wander over to Dolores Park Cafe > tonight to see Natalie Wattre- great big voice and some amazing songs. Blame > Sally will be at the main stage (washington square park) at 12:15pm Sunday for > the San Francisco North Beach festival. Oh! That reminds me: Patti Smith is playing a free antiwar benefit concert Sunday afternoon at 1 PM in MLK Jr. Park in Berkeley. http://www.actionsf.org/#local1 I gotta be at work, dammit. *sigh* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 01:53:07 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Today's your birthday, friend... Mike Matthews wrote: > ********************* Paul Huesman (no Email address) ********************* *blink* Memory suddenly kicks in... Is he the wonderful vocalist/keyboardist who played with Happy on the MWABT shows? Has he shown up in other music? I sometimes have the goofy idea of doing an ecto scavenger hunt to scout out the many folks who now show up with no email address on the birthday lists... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:19:33 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Postal Service On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 Paul2k@aol.com wrote: > Has anyone heard the group Postal Service? I heard a song of theirs on > the syndicated version of the World Cafe and also on KCRW and found them > to be quite fun. Semi-retro synth indie pop with male and female vox. the male vox is ben gibbard from death cab for cutie, who put the record together with jimmy tamborello from retrosynthers figurine and dntel. the female vox on one of the songs belong to jen wood (ex-tattle tatle), an indie singer-songwriter who i recommend hugely. the rest are by jenny lewis from rilo kiley, who are apparently former dcfc labelmates. blah blah blah. i like it much better than a great many 'supergroup' projects. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:46:39 -0700 From: "John Zimmer" Subject: Re: A faster connection, as the expense of our souls I ended up going a more expensive route, but worth it I think. I rent Verizon's wires but use a separate ISP because a) using a telco or cable company for my ISP just gives me heartburn, and b) local/regional ISPs have, in my experience, been both very responsive *and* less attractive spam targets. YMMV, of course. Vickie said: > >That's all the bad news. The good news is that maybe, just maybe, > >I can get my Shoutcast running again (Comcast wouldn't allow it). > >That will be one of the first things we check when we get hooked > >up later this month. and Meredith responded: > Yay!!! That would be great. I'd tune in, for sure!! Thanks to > the Internet radio thread from a couple weeks ago I've been > checking out new things at work (I *love* Radio Paradise, thanks to > whomever mentioned them!), but I haven't heard one KaTe or Happy > track in my travels yet. (Hell, I've barely heard Tori...) That was probably me plugging Radio Paradise, and you're welcome. :) They do tend to live up to the "eclectic" part of their logo, but they include Kate, Tori, Sarah, and Vienna in their playlists, and have introduced me to some new (to me) artists as well. Good stuff. And count me in for your Shoutcast audience, Vickie! I hope you're able to get that going again; a stream with that kind of hit rate on my personal music-meter would be highly addictive. John ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:20:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: A faster connection, as the expense of our souls - --- John Zimmer wrote: > I ended up going a more expensive route, but worth > it I think. I rent > Verizon's wires but use a separate ISP because We do the same thing with BT and Demon. However, it's no more expensive on this side of the pond to do it that way. We love our broadband, yes, we do. Remember that pay by the minute for local calls here. Before, we were on Surftime, but only for nights and weekends. Now, if we're at home during the day (other than a weekend), we can go on line without worrying about the phone bill... Ellen ===== "Literature stops in 1100. After that, it's just books." - -- JRR Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:41:40 -0700 From: "William Mazur" Subject: RE: Australian Pagan Poetry--Louisa John-Krol: "Alabaster." Craig, Thank you so much for your marvelous review of "Alabaster". I have my copy on order from Middle Pillar. I can't wait to hear it! Bill M. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Craig Gidney Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 7:41 AM To: Twilight; Ethereality Review List; Ecto Cc: angelicvoices@yahoogroups.com Subject: Australian Pagan Poetry--Louisa John-Krol: "Alabaster." 1. The Throng on the Pier 2. The Lily and the Rose 3. Waterwood 4. Stone Lake 5. Me and the Machine 6. Light on the Wall 7. The Seventh Ingress 8. Paint the Wind 9. How should I your true love know? 10. The Search for Lost Souls - Midnight 11. Approaching the Island of Sirens 12. Dancing over Acheron http://www.louisajohnkrol.com LJK's new album is her most ecletic yet, and has more in common with Kate Bush, (circa "Never for Ever") or Happy Rhodes than it does with Loreena McKennitt, with whom she's often compared. The Renaissance-flavored "The Lily and the Rose," and the stately, Shakespeare-derived "How Should I Your True Love Know?" are the anomalous pieces here. Most of the material here takes finds LJK stretching her wings. The opening "Throng on the Pier" is orchestral pop, similiar in sound to the work Dead Can Dance's Brendan Perry explored on "Into the Labyrinth" and on his solo work. "Paint the Wind" and "Stone Lake" flirt with the straightforward folkpop craft of the Innocence Mission, while "The Seventh Ingress" and "Approaching the Island of Sirens" move into ambient soundscapes. Lyrically, LJK explores fantastical and mythological themes--she uses the texture of fantasy much the same way that Rhodes uses science fiction imagery. "Light on the Wall" is about leading parrallel lives, while "Waterwood" uses whimisical fairy imagery (butterflies on bicycles, tambourines in the sea) to describe looking at the world with child-like wonder. The prog-rockish "Me and the Machine" pits our herione against technology, with a non-Luddite conclusion--complete with computer generated voices, while "Throng" refers to the Illiad. At first listen, it appears that LJK has thrown her net and little too far and wide. But her glorious soprano voice is the silver thread that holds this tapestry together. Midway between Bush and McKennit, its crystalline purity holds the album together; her voice is the thematic continuity of this collection. Whether whooping like a Bacchante at the end of "Throng," or wordlessly soaring in "Ingress," it never fails to thrill. Her serene vocals bridge the gap between the dreamy acoustics of the Emily Dickinson poem set to music, "The Search for Lost Souls--Midnight" and the wild Bjork-esque electronica of the closing "Dancing Over Archeon." With "Alabaster," LJK moves to the forefront of the pantheon of progressive women. - --Craig L. Gidney __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:53:02 -0700 From: "William Mazur" Subject: RE: First mention of Tori I can completely relate to what Woj says about things getting physically engrained in your memory. I had recorded the Moody Blues' "In Search of the Lost Chord" onto cassette from my copy of the original LP. Although I didn't realize it at the time, as I was recording a copy to cassette, the record skipped on one line of "Voices in the Sky" and jumbled two words together. I listened to that cassette copy in my car for years. I now have the CD of the album. However, I still can't listen to the CD without expecting to hear that anomaly of those words being scrunched together. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of meredith Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 7:16 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: First mention of Tori Hi, woj noted: >somewhere around here, i still have the tape of little earthquakes court >sent me way back when. the funny thing about it is that she switched two >songs around to make it fit better on a c90 cassette. the end result being >that i am always surprised when, listening to the real album, "tear in >your hand" comes on instead of "little earthquakes". It's funny you should say that, because my tape of LE came from Klaus Kluge (Hallo, Klaus!), and he went ahead and put "Little Earthquakes" on the start of side B because he also tacked on the b-sides from the European "China" single. Even now, whenever the final strains of "Little Earthquakes" fade out on the cd, I still sit there expecting "Sugar" to start up straight away. :} >very interesting how listening to something over and over gets ingrained >in practically physical memory. It gets spooky. Another example: my first KaTe album was _The Whole Story_, which I bought back in 1987. To this day, whenever I hear "Running Up That Hill", I fully expect the next sound I hear after the song is over to be the that starts "Army Dreamers", so when "It's in the trees! It's coming!" emanates from the speakers I never fail to be startled. This, even though by now I've probably listened to _Hounds of Love_ 20 times more often than _TWS_. =============================================== 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: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 17:00:56 -0400 From: meredith Subject: RE: First mention of Tori Hi, Bill recalled: >I listened to that cassette copy in my car for years. I now have the CD >of the album. However, I still can't listen to the CD without expecting >to hear that anomaly of those words being scrunched together. The night before Patti Smith's _Dream of Life_ album came out, the Florida Tech station (WFIT, the station that shaped much of my musical life, bless it -- last I heard it was an NPR smooth jazz station with no more student involvement :P) played it in its entirety at midnight, and I, a poor soon-to-be-college student was ready with a cassette in the recorder. Unfortunately, halfway through "Jackson Song" the record skipped. The DJ was probably out back with his water pipe or something, because it skipped for a full minute and a half. Naturally, this was all caught on my tape. It didn't take long before I knew *exactly* how many hippopotami to count to while fast-forwarding in order to proceed directly from the start to the end of the skip. I would amaze my friends with my ability to fast-forward just the right amount, even if I was deep in conversation at the time. That's how much I listened to that tape my frosh year of college. :) Those of you in Berkeley who can go see Patti Smith's upcoming free concert, don't miss it. She is a treasure. P.S. Yes, I bought my own legal CD copy of _Dream of Life_ as soon as I had the money. :) =============================================== 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: 14 Jun 2003 17:03:30 -0700 From: "Michael Pearce" Subject: Re: First mention of Tori At 11:15 PM -0400 6/13/03, broadway jack wrote: >one time at band camp, Xenus Sister said: >>Courtney Dallas gets the credit: > >somewhere around here, i still have the tape of little earthquakes court >sent me way back when. the funny thing about it is that she switched two >songs around to make it fit better on a c90 cassette. the end result being >that i am always surprised when, listening to the real album, "tear in your >hand" comes on instead of "little earthquakes". very interesting how >listening to something over and over gets ingrained in practically physical >memory. > >woj It was that tape that got me turned on to Tori and when she came to town I wangled a telephone interview with her "for the Internet." Funny how quaint that sounds now, but as Tori knew back then, the Net was something special. All of the questions I asked her were supplied by Ecto-folk. I still have that interview up on my site at http://www.moonmac.com/ToriInterview.html. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 21:06:07 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: First mention of Tori Hi, Michael posted: >It was that tape that got me turned on to Tori and when she came to town I >wangled a telephone interview with her "for the Internet." Funny how >quaint that sounds now, but as Tori knew back then, the Net was something >special. All of the questions I asked her were supplied by Ecto-folk. I >still have that interview up on my site at >http://www.moonmac.com/ToriInterview.html. Oh, wow. I had totally forgotten about that. What an amazing thing. Thanks for the reminder of days gone by!! =============================================== 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: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 21:24:00 -0400 (EST) From: Paul Blair Subject: Re: First mention of Tori - ---- Nadyne Mielke wrote: > There are several albums that I listened > to so many times that, if I hear just one of the songs on the album > (say, on the radio), I'm surprised when the next song doesn't get > played next. That's one of the reasons I love my iPod so much--most of the time I listen to music now I put the iPod on random shuffle across my whole music library. That way every song comes with a little startle; sometimes it's like listening to the song for the first time. pb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 19:56:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Neb Rodgers Subject: Fwd: Singer Jewel Seeking New Manager Well hey, if you're gonna make some changes, why not change everything! - -Neb - ---Original Message--- Singer Jewel Seeking New Manager Sat Jun 14, 1:21 PM ET By Melinda Newman http://tinylink.com/?GheCpfU92W LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - As Jewel debuts this issue at a career high of No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with her latest Atlantic Records release "0304," she is meeting with many top names in her search for a new manager, according to sources. Her mother/manager, Lenedra Carroll, will now primarily focus on Jewel's charity endeavors. In other management changes, Jennifer Lopez (news) is expected to meet with prospective new managers in a few weeks, according to her representative. The week of June 9, Lopez jettisoned both her longtime manager Benny Medina and Endeavor agent Patrick Whitesell, who had represented her for eight months. She is now booked by Creative Artists Agency. Reuters/Billboard __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:59:41 EDT From: SpiritWe@aol.com Subject: **Reminder: Rachael Sage in NYC Sunday 8pm (Tomorrow)** Hope to see some of our New York friends tomorrow at The Sidewalk Cafe! One of the first venues to support Rachael's work "back in the day", we're *so* excited to be part of their Pride Celebration, so please join us for some mystical mayhem & musical mishugas! Details below... peace & assist, xo The Folks @ MPress Sunday June 15 - The Sidewalk Cafe 8pm (w/ Dean Sharp & Stephanie Winters) Celebrating Pride Month! for more info call 212-780-9083 94 Avenue A New York, NY - --- and...SAVE THESE DATES: Wednesday June 18 - Meow Mix 8pm GIRLSALON (Featuring Betty & Jasper James & more!) for more info 212-254-0688 269 E. Houston St. @ Suffolk New York, NY Saturday June 21 - Cleveland Pride Festival 4pm also performing Sophie B. Hawkins and Blu Cantrell for more information call 216.371.0214 Voinovich Park Cleveland, OH * * * For a complete listing of Rachael Sage's upcoming shows throughout the summer, visit WWW.RACHAELSAGE.COM. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #168 **************************