From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #338 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, December 1 2003 Volume 09 : Number 338 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Bottom Line photos [Greg Bossert ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Canadians (Lindi / Andrew Haughton) [DanStark <2003.carnivore99@veriz] Vienna Teng Warm Strangers track listing [DanStark <2003.carnivore99@veri] Re: Canadians (Lindi / Andrew Haughton) [Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Bottom Line photos some great pictures there, meth. thanks! i really like 3901 and the enigmatic 3886. On Saturday, Nov 29, 2003, at 12:14 US/Pacific, meredith wrote: > [...] > http://www.smoe.org/meth/gallery/ > script.cgi?stext=&page=26&Show=Show&options=D&options=T&options=U&optio > ns=W - -g - -- "i've never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes - -- "except for bunnies..." - -- Anya ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Mirko Bulaja (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 Mark Lowry Mon December 22 1969 Capricarius Kay Cleaves Wed December 22 1976 Prancing Pony Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Joseph Wasicek Sat December 25 1976 Brown Eagle Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:05:34 -0500 From: DanStark <2003.carnivore99@verizon.net> Subject: Re: Canadians (Lindi / Andrew Haughton) Cynthia Conrad wrote: >Remember Lindi? Sweet vibrato, piano, Toronto, 2001? >http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/246/lindi.html? I could swear she was in >the Guide, but I don't see her listed... Yes...that CD might actually hold the record for the longest residence in my car's CD changer. All my other favorites seem to come and go from the rotation but for some reason Lindi has been stuck in there almost constantly. I treat it like an EP though - every time it comes up I just listen to the first five songs and then skip to the next disc, but those first five are still irresistible after all those plays! I was wondering what happened to her and I'm glad to see she's back - thanks! Speaking of car CDs, I just took a week-long road trip (from NYC to Atlantic Canada via Montreal, and back home through New England), and two CDs stood out on the road for very different reasons. First, Emilie Autumn's Enchant CD turned out to be the freeway favorite. A few songs do sound a little too derivative for comfort, but the rest sound original and the album as a whole is so enjoyable that we were willing to put up with Emily's sound-alikes of Fiona Apple, Imogen Heap and Poe in the process. It sounds like she is still searching a bit for her own musical identity, but she's very good and I expect her next album will probably sound more consistently like Emilie than anyone else. Enchant is available for free download at emilieautumn.com, but after hearing it I bought the actual CD. The road trip reject? Tales of a Librarian. Apparently this is Tori fulfilling her contractual obligation to Atlantic, and what a fulfillment album it is - An unlistenable collection of *terribly* remixed old songs with a couple of "new" duds from the vault (where they should have stayed) thrown in for good measure. "Tori" and "dud" together in the same sentence? Hard to believe, but there you have it. I would have much rather seen an official Atlantic B-side compilation than this. Sure, it still would have been nothing new, but at least it wouldn't have been such a disgrace, not to mention a waste of $15.99. Those are my ramblings for tonight, after 15 hours behind the wheel. Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:08:10 -0500 From: DanStark <2003.carnivore99@verizon.net> Subject: Vienna Teng Warm Strangers track listing Posted to Vienna's own discussion list today, I thought this might be of some interest here as well... >The guy who remixed Unwritten Letter #1 somehow got ahold of the new album >;O so here's the track listing: >http://www.aplmusique.com/fmd/recorddetail.asp?RecordID=4075 > >I'm kinda surprised at some of the songs that made it as well as didn't... > >--Michele Dan ------------------------------ Date: 30 Nov 2003 00:39:10 -0800 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Canadians (Lindi / Andrew Haughton) On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 00:05, DanStark wrote: > The road trip reject? Tales of a Librarian. Apparently this is Tori > fulfilling her contractual obligation to Atlantic, and what a fulfillment > album it is - An unlistenable collection of *terribly* remixed old songs > with a couple of "new" duds from the vault (where they should have stayed) > thrown in for good measure. "Tori" and "dud" together in the same > sentence? Hard to believe, but there you have it. I would have much > rather seen an official Atlantic B-side compilation than this. Sure, it > still would have been nothing new, but at least it wouldn't have been such > a disgrace, not to mention a waste of $15.99. Yeah, we've played it a few times at work, with the general reaction of "This she does as a retrospective?" Most of us could whip together both a Greatest Hits and a Rarities disc that would be more interesting and enticing in our sleep. But I haven't noticed what's on the accompanying DVD, which may be some sort of saving grace. OTOH, I may just be in a cranky mood from being surrounded for several hours this afternoon by a few hundred fans of Stone Cold Steve Austin, a professional wrestler to whom a book that he was signing was attributed - -- though I note that the credits have both a "with" and an "as told to". Eek. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:40:09 EST From: SpiritWe@aol.com Subject: check out this website In a message dated 11/30/03 2:56:37 AM, owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org writes: << - ------------------------------ Date: 29 Nov 2003 22:49:12 -0800 From: "Michael Pearce" Subject: A Compendium of Female Singers and Artists Just stumbled across this site. Lots of interesting bios and a few pix. http://www.swinginchicks.com/main.htm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:48:19 EST From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com Subject: Re: pop music In a message dated 11/30/03 12:56:37 AM Central Standard Time, owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org writes: << As for art vs. pop music, let's face it, there is always some music being made for the joy of making music and some made for strictly commercial concerns. And label owned tunesmiths writing for label owned "talent" predates even my long ago youth. This system has produced a great deal of memorable music as well as countless forgettable (and even regrettable) songs. And as great as Hoagy Carrmicheal's classic 'Stardust" is I suspect a look at the pop charts from that time would reveal more than there share of clunkers. >> Really liked your post breinheimer. One thing I've been thinking lately, though, is that a lot of music today reflects the consumerism and general superficial instant-gratification attitude that's growing more and more prevalent in many parts of the country. Just the other night I was at a party with a bunch of nineteen year olds. All hip-hop, of course. The range of lyrical topics covered was as varying and diverse as "we don't give a damn" to "we don't give a fuck" to "I'm a motherfucking P-I-M-P." Pretty boring, but as I looked around the room, I saw a lot of people who seemed to be mainly interested in drinking and hooking up. I've met plenty of young people who are amazing and beautiful, but so many of us have just never experienced anything but upper middle class lives where we get everything we want whenever we want it. In addition to not being exposed to much diversity in music, we don't hear much of a void in people bitching and bragging because that seems to be what's been on our minds most of our lives. "Stardust," probably isn't high art, but it seems to display more awareness and sensitivity than a lot of today's pop music. Sometimes I wonder why I spend The lonely night dreaming of a song The melody haunts my reverie And I am once again with you When our love was new And each kiss an inspiration But that was long ago Now my consolation Is in the stardust of a song Love is likened to a phenomena in nature like dust from a star. Pretty poetic in its own sweet, subtle way. There's definitely commercial music with this kind of tenderness in it these days (Coldplay, Dave Matthew's, etc) but maybe people didn't have as much stuff from the mall back then, were going through a world war, felt a little more reflective. Or maybe pop music today is just more diverse. I guess back then swing jazz and jazz ballads were kind of the overall vehicle, while today we've got techno, pop rock, hip-hop, new age, metal etc. joe joe and ellen music http://www.jotdot.net/joeandellen http://www.mp3.com/joeandellen ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #338 **************************