From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #296 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, October 20 2003 Volume 09 : Number 296 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: test [Jessica Byers ] RE: test / oh susanna in toronto... [Jason Gordon ] and Oh Susanna in London [Ellen Rawson ] Re: RE: test [cvilline@uark.edu] Re: New Artists ["thecritics" ] Harland & Rachel's [Craig Gidney ] OT: NOW report on education [kerry white ] RE: test / oh susanna in toronto... [Andrew Fries Subject: Re: test >Fill in the blank: >My least favorite vegetable is __________? Fennel. Which I love. jess ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 09:20:37 -0400 From: Jason Gordon Subject: RE: test / oh susanna in toronto... two points for jess...(meth may have had correct answers for questions 1 and 2, but unlucky for her we weren't playing family feud style because asparagus is number 2 on the despised list of vegetables...) Oh Susanna playing at: October 19, 2003 Indigo Bookstore - Eaton's Centre Toronto, ON 4-6pm My flight lands in toronto at 4:31pm...any chance in hell I will be able to catch the last 30 seconds of her performance???? of course I will also be at work on the 21 and 22 and cannot catch her then either...(but of all luck, I am in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 2nd of November and can see her there as well as catching Nina Nastasia the night before in Scotland...all these north american singers I cannot seem to catch locally...oh well :) For those interested - Oh Susanna's schedule... October 19, 2003 Indigo Bookstore - Eaton's Centre Toronto, ON 4-6pm October 21, 2003 Indigo Bookstore - Manulife Centre Toronto, ON 12-1pm October 22, 2003 Indigo Bookstore - Yonge & Eglinton Toronto, ON 12-1pm October 23, 2003 Indigo Bookstore - Yorkdale Toronto, ON 12-1pm October 26, 2003 The Cluney Newcastle, UK October 27, 2003 Lyric Hammersmith London, UK with Martha Wainwright and Mary Gauthier October 28, 2003 Bonaventure Bristol, UK October 30, 2003 Pavilion Brighton, UK November 1, 2003 The Band Room Farndale, UK November 2, 2003 The Liquid Rooms Edinburgh, Scotland November 3, 2003 The Arches Glasgow, Scotland jason, who is preparing to get beaten over the head (at least in the metaphorical sense from fennel and asparagus lovers :) ) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Jessica Byers Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 2:13 AM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: test >Fill in the blank: >My least favorite vegetable is __________? Fennel. Which I love. jess ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 06:43:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: and Oh Susanna in London - --- Jason Gordon wrote: > October 27, 2003 Lyric Hammersmith London, UK with > Martha Wainwright and > Mary Gauthier We have tickets to this one. It's during my half-term week so I don't have to wake up to teach at 6 AM the next day after a show and the two-hour trek back to the forest... I'm looking forward to it. I've missed Oh Susanna and Mary Gauthier on previous UK tours. Ellen ===== "Literature stops in 1100. After that, it's just books." - -- JRR Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:58:33 -0700 From: cvilline@uark.edu Subject: Re: RE: test > >Fill in the blank: > >My least favorite vegetable is __________? > > Fennel?? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:43:11 -0700 From: "thecritics" Subject: Re: New Artists Yeah, I think I could fill an entire digest of bands fronted by celebs but since 99% are fairly awful, it would be a waste of bandwidth. If anybody remembers Jake Gyllenhaal's band, you know what I'm talking about... Whedon is a huge fan/supporter of Angie's and I believe was an occasional attendee of their early shows. Actually, there's also a pretty lengthy music chain that extends from "Buffy" that goes beyond just Marsters and Head. Pretty much that entire cast has ties to the Los Angeles music scene in some way. I never really watched the show; an apparent mistake when friends railed on me for not buying Hannigan a drink at Spaceland many years ago. Here's another actor tie: "Cold Creek Manor"... Dennis Quaid & the Sharks and Juliette Lewis and the Licks (with Patty Schemel on drums). Lewis will be playing at CMJ this month. Also, I forgot to mention that Vixtrola, Jamie Blake's industrial pop/rock project with Paul Andrews, is no more. After a few years of wallowing through industry red tape, the group finally had enough and called it quits last month. I have to say that I'm fairly surprised that no label would pick this gem of an album up after Geffen already made the mistake of letting it slip through its hands. I received it last fall among a package of demos that I've already thrown away. With the latest signing craze of female rock acts, I can tell you they're better than most and that includes records from Fefe Dobson, Katy Rose, Wilshire, Alexandra Slate, etc.. As for Jamie, she plans to return to her solo roots and perform again around Los Angeles. As for fans, please tell any aspiring musicians never to sign under UMG (sans IDJ). It will save a lot of heartache down the road. Actually, I'd stay clear away from any majors until they work out all their merger issues. Get ready for the pink-slipping... http://www.vixtrola.com/ Now go buy Carla Werner's album... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:12:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Harland & Rachel's Some new CDs have arrived: Harland, "Salt Box Lane" is femmetronica; I hear Bjork, Bel Canto and tiniest bit of Madonna at her most adventurous. www.harlandmusic.com Rachel's "Systems/ Layers" More ambient and amorphous than their other work. I like it--neoclassical music mixed with Eno. It expands upon their work with Matmos. But it's not as tight as "Selenography." - --Craig __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 17:19:59 -0500 (CDT) From: kerry white Subject: OT: NOW report on education Hi, PBS' NOW prog has pointed out that the President's Education policy is based on the "Houston Miracle", which more accurately is called the "Houston misinformation campaign". The entire city's worth of schools have lied about having "zero dropouts", etc. Students were shuffled around and test scores changed in computer files. The system tries to say that one employee messed up at one school but does not reply about the other schools. Bye, KrW "The information superhighway is just CB with more typing" :Dave Barry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:33:06 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: RE: test / oh susanna in toronto... On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 23:20, Jason Gordon wrote: > asparagus is number 2 on the despised list of vegetables...) Jason, why waste your rage on asparagus or fennel when there are so many vegetables that *really* deserve all our hatred: RIAA, Microsoft, WTO ... Back to Ecto content, I noticed Greta Gertler "the baby that brought bad weather" on your list of recent purchases - what can you tell me about that one, and who released it? On a related note, my other old-time favourite was recently mentioned as well: Carla Werner, who now apparently has a record out with Sony. Any comments, anyone? About the music, naturally, but also, it being Sony, I'd like to make sure the disk isn't digitally crippled before I attempt to buy... - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Grrr...Arrgh!" -- Mutant - -- 07:52:20 up 6 days, 16:47, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.09, 0.05-- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #296 **************************