From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #327 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, November 20 2003 Volume 09 : Number 327 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] RIP Michael Kamen (just worked with Kate Bush too) ["Xenu's Sister" ] A few more Happy/Mechanicsburg 11-6-03 pics [Mark Chapman ] Toledo set list? [Greg Dunn ] NEW HAPPY VOCALS! ["Xenu's Sister" ] Toledo set list, and other things ["Xenu's Sister" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:00:03 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Jeff Smith (JefffSmith@aol.com) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jeff Smith Mon November 19 1962 Crash Kevin Bartlett Fri November 21 1952 Scorpio Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Anja Baldo Tue November 23 1965 Garbanzo Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Valerie Kraemer November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Sue Trowbridge Sun November 27 1966 Skytten Ward Kadel Tue November 29 1977 Sagittarius Jesse Hernandez Liwag Wed November 29 1972 Water Rat Mirko Bulaja Sat November 30 1974 Block Juha Sorva Thu December 02 1976 Sagittarius Chip Lueck Thu December 05 1968 Sagittarius Lenore December 05 sagi Michele Wellck December 08 Sagittarius Jeremy J. Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius Renee Canada Tue December 13 1977 Sagittarius Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti Sat December 15 1956 queen_nefertiti@prodigy.net Damon Harper Tue December 16 1975 COOL BANANAS Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Milla Wed December 17 1975 Sagittarius Chris Schernwetter Tue December 17 1974 Sagittarius Sherry Haddock Sat December 17 1960 Sagittarius Tracy Benbrook Tue December 18 1973 Sagittarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:10:43 -0600 From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: RIP Michael Kamen (just worked with Kate Bush too) cc'd to ecto and love-hounds Damn damn damn. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031119/ap_on_en_mu/obit_kamen_1 Grammy-Winning Composer Kamen Dies LOS ANGELES - Michael Kamen, the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer who fused hard-rock riffs with classical styling in albums for Pink Floyd and provided music for the "Lethal Weapon" and "Die Hard" movies," has died at age 55. Kamen collapsed in his London home Tuesday from an apparent heart attack, according to his Los Angeles-based publicist, Jeff Sanderson. ========== http://www.lmo.co.uk/?page=news&id=21 Kate Bush album sessions Michael Kamen wrote the string arrangements which will appear on Kate Bush's forthcoming album. LMO recorded the two tracks at Abbey Road Studio 2 on Saturday 11th October. Michael Kamen has collaborated with Kate Bush on numerous occasions, including writing string arrangements for her last album which LMO performed. They worked together in the mid 80s on the soundtrack for the Terry Gilliam film "Brazil" and a version of the title track appears on Michael's album "Michael Kamen's Opus". Michael Kamen conducted the 16-piece string section and the engineer was Simon Rhodes. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 01:16:57 -0800 (PST) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: norwegians Hi.. some new norwegian stuff.. bertine zetlitz "sweet injections" bjork in her pop mode meets bel canto in theirs.tasty stuff if a little too pop for me. magnet "on your side" great soft rock stuff from even johanson,he sings sweetly and does a great "lay lady lay" with gemma hayes. nicely orchestrated too. Sondre Lerche "faces down" young and impossibly cute pop genius..this album is full of clever arrangements and catchy yet subtle songs. new ep due soon too. anna maria(in awe of her scandinavian neighbours) np-midnight choir-undsung heroine __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:37:09 -0500 From: Mark Chapman Subject: A few more Happy/Mechanicsburg 11-6-03 pics > From: Michael Matthews > Subject: Re: A few more Happy/Mechanicsburg 11-6-03 pics > Mark Chapman's pics are available at > http://quasar.matthews.leesburg.va.us/images/HappyRhodes/ My thanks to Mike for posting these, and I hope this serves as additional proof that not all of my pics are exceedingly bad. ;-) ~MC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:21:04 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Review from SF Site about "Swan Sister." This one mentions Chris Rowe's story favorably (if briefly) Kudos - --Craig I confess to a soft spot for all things fairy-tale. I cut my teeth on Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, and I had access to all kinds of versions, even the older ones, less sanitized than the later incarnations which were so carefully cleaned up for the sensitive children of the new ages. There is a raw power in the fairy tale, a great truth hidden behind the silver tissue of lies. Be it Cinderella or something from Scheherezade's tales, the fairy tale has a Presence with a capital P. The classics will always be with us, but the classics, to Datlow and Windling, are not so much a final destination as the starting point of a journey which can take the reader to places quite unexpected. Swan Sister is a collection of 13 stories from such luminaries as Jane Yolen, Tanith Lee, Midori Snyder and Neil Gaiman. (Is there an anthology out there without a Gaiman story in it right now?) Some of the stories (Yolen's "Greenkid", for instance) left me with the impression that they were somehow truncated - -- the story was nice and complete and all that but there were things in it that were crying out to be developed further rather than just left stuffed willy-nilly into a tale as fairy-story window dressing. But I loved the old-fashioned feel of Christopher Rowe's "The Children of Tilford Fortune", and Gregory Frost's "The Harp That Sang" is a story with true fairy-tale grimness in it however well it lies disguised -- this is a story in the tradition of the original Cinderella, the one where real blood comes dripping out of the glass slipper. The Neil Gaiman offering is actually a poem, and in true Gaiman style -- the man is a born storyteller, that's all there is to that -- it's almost perfect. But the real gift of this collection is the title story, "Swan Sister" by Katherine Vaz. This is a writer I had never heard of before I saw this story -- fittingly the last in this collection -- but if the rest of the stuff listed in her bibliography is half as powerful as "Swan Sister" then I want to read all of it, right now. There are writers out there who can make you smile; there are writers who can make a lump come to your throat; but with this story Katherine Vaz joins that rare group of writers who can make you cry real tears, and have your heart smiling with the joy of it. This story alone is worth buying the collection for, even if the other twelve stories it contains weren't enough as and of themselves. Long live the fairy tale, in guises old and new. The children who live in us all will never stop needing them. reviewed by Alma A. Hromic __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:41:17 -0800 From: "London, Sherry" Subject: Help I need a little assistance, please. I have had a CD by Zok-Hammer for a long time and recently got hooked on it again. In my unsophisticated web search, I can't find either the lyrics or if she has done any thing in the past several years....does anyone know??? Any tidbits will be appreciated. Also, thanks to whom ever suggested Carina Rounds, Katy Carr and Thea Gilmore.....I am CRAZED!!!! Especially with Carina's intensity Thanks, sherry This e-mail/fax message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail/fax and destroy all copies of the original message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:54:44 -0500 From: Greg Dunn Subject: Toledo set list? Hi, all. I'm getting ready to finish the mastering of my Toledo CD; it turned out very very well -- but there are a few tracks I'm not sure of the names ('specially the new and non-Happy tracks! Could someone post a complete set list for the show? I didn't see one here on the list... - -- | Greg Dunn | The reason they call television | | gregdunn@indy.net | a "medium" is that it's neither | | The Sultan of Slack(tm) | rare, nor well done. | | http://www.indy.net/~gregdunn/ | - Ernie Kovacs | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:34:28 -0600 From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: NEW HAPPY VOCALS! For those who can't get enough, even if it's not her song and she's not singing lyrics, go to: http://www.soundclick.com/jeffoster Happy did vocals for 3 tracks for the new Jeff Foster CD produced by Will Ackerman and this site has streaming audio of all 3. The song where she's really front and center is "Haleakala." There are no words, it's just Happy's voice. "Just" - oh right. It's HAPPY! It's very nice. I'm not too sure how interested I'd be in the actual song if it weren't Happy, but it is very nice. She also contributed vocals to "Matt's Mood" and "At Last." She's far more scarce and fleeting in them. You'll have your ears cocked and suddenly think "oh, there she is!" and "shhhhh, listen, there she is, way back there and quiet!" (Headphones are recommended) V (Toledo set list coming in a couple of minutes Greg) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 23:03:43 -0600 From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Toledo set list, and other things Sorry about this (not getting it up sooner). I wasn't sure if Lynn was going to do it, and I've been super busy. Look For The Child Fall (new) Ra Is A Busy God To Live In Your World Can't Let Go (new) Ali (Hansford Rowe song) Save Our Soul - - intermission - Hillbilly Stomp (just kidding - a silly thing to get people back in their seats) Ashes To Ashes The First To Cry Tell Me When The Water's Gone (Hansford Rowe song) The Chosen One (new) Collective Heart In Hiding (partial - a capella - was a request from Lynn) Soon When The Rain Came Down And Dream Of Sheep ==================== Ok, so I came right out and asked Happy about sharing these (specifically, And Dream Of Sheep) and she just wanted to hear it/them first. I made an mp3 for her, but she's on a crappy AOL dial-up and can't really download anything (where's that millionaire or Genius Grant when you need it? Get that girl broadband!) so I have to make her a CD. Chris is out of town and I've been struggling with CD Architect. I'll get *something* on CD, but then I have to send it to her, she has to listen, then give me the ok. It's just taking longer than I thought. It is coming. I won't forget about you guys. I have Kenosha about halfway separated (separate wav files), and then I'll work on Chicago. I put up all my photos at http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/equipoise@sbcglobal.net (including a bunch of photos of our place, many with explanations). There are thumbnails, medium-sized, and large versions of all photos. The Toledo photos are GREAT!!! I didn't use a flash and didn't need one at all. Kenosha is more problematic. Most of them are blurry but I put them up anyway. They suck. :) One though, is really cool! I separated it out and put it up at my "placeholder" site (www.happyrhodes.org, which I'm holding in case Happy ever needs it. Network Solutions is holding happyrhodes.com and net for ransom. Bastards). The shot is technically bad, and a total accident, but I keep looking at it saying "wow, that is so Happy Rhodes." Let me know if you agree. Chicago, I was too unnerved to take many photos. I didn't think to use flash in Kenosha because Toledo came out so well. I didn't want to use flash in Chicago because she was right in front of me. There are some nice ones there though. Not everybody is identified yet. Chip and Mitch, I loved your accounts! Steve and Greg, it was great to meet you! V ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #327 **************************