From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #22 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, January 23 2004 Volume 10 : Number 022 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: one more monkey [Greg Bossert ] Re: 3 things. [Greg Bossert ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Tori Singles [dmw ] dresden dolls - "a is for accident" [dmw ] one more monkey... [Alberto Carrasco ] AW: songs by the calendar [Stefan Adler ] death [Nadyne Mielke ] Re: songs by the calendar [Valerie Nozick ] Don't Ape Me ["Lyle Howard" ] Re: new in 2004 [andrew fries ] Re: songs by the calendar [Sherlyn Koo ] Re: songs by the calendar [Joseph Zitt ] Best of 2003 ["Matt Bittner" ] RE: ecto-digest V10 #21-monkey songs ["London, Sherry" ] sages, monkeys, missing shows [Paul2k@aol.com] calendars & monkeys... ["Michael Pearce" ] Julia Vorontsova on WFMU ["abaton" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:39:42 -0800 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: one more monkey On Jan 21, 2004, at 4:10 PM, meredith wrote: > I can't think of anything to add to this thread of songs about > monkeys, but a question hah! i can! and it is so pressing that it has pulled me from my double-pneumonia induced state of lurkiness: all monkeys are french! hah! i mock you with my monkey pants! - -g ('tah) p.s. did anyone get "Monkey Man" by Toots & the Maytals, also covered by the Specials, etc.? this is not the same as the Jagger/Richards song. I think Leadbelly did a song with the same title as well. while i'm jammin' on the theme, mon, Sly and Robbie wrote one (of many, i am sure) called "Monkey Business". p.p.s. what about the theme from The Monkees (hey hey we're the...) p.p.p.s dunno if there's a song called "Blue Monkey" but there's surely one called "Blue Monk", and given the number of late night bebop covers, some of them probably qualify as "fuzzy Blue Monk". but in ecto's honor, i am now humming my own version: "Fuzzy Blue Monkey". and the lyrics go like this: "sacre blu! i mock you with my monkey pants again!" and then there was a coup at the zoo... - -- "i've never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes - -- "except for bunnies..." - -- Anya ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:56:28 -0800 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: 3 things. On Jan 21, 2004, at 8:39 PM, Ethan Straffin wrote: > On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 07:14 AM, Adam K. wrote: >> 1) Buffy. I'm slowly working my way through the last series that I >> taped as >> BBC2 was throwing it, slapdash and bowlderised, onto our screens over >> here. > Yeah, from everything I've heard, the BBC's crimes against Buffy with > respect to scheduling and editing raise significant Geneva Convention > issues. I definitely recommend springing for the DVDs if you're at > all tempted. a friend from england has been staying with me for the last two months. a mate of hers had gotten her to watch an episode of season (erm, series) seven, and she was baffled but intrigued. mind you, this is a woman who has a 12 inch black and white tv, no satellite or cable or such. so, i sat her in front of the Sony WEGA with the full surround and subs, and pulled out the DVD box sets. i've been ordering from england (shh!), so that's 1-6 of BTVS and 1-3 of Angel. my friend reacted like any independent-minded anti-american-cultural-imperialism poetry-reading buddhist-studying person would: she started watching eight to ten hours a day until we had a little talk and settled on four a day, max. ;-) it's fun to watch it fast, from the start, and alternating every few eps between B and A. (this pneumonia thing was a handy excuse!) plus, just yesterday we made it to the musical. happiness. - -g - -- "i've never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes - -- "except for bunnies..." - -- Anya ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 03:00:05 -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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Terry Partis (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker Steve Hughes Thu January 24 1963 Aquarius Sarah McLachlan Sun January 28 1968 Aquarius Ilka Heber Mon February 01 1965 Mermaid Bob Lovejoy Sun February 02 1947 Aquarius Diane Burke Sat February 02 1963 slow children Timothy S. Devine Tue February 03 1970 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 04 1966 Aquarius Doug Burks Tue February 14 1956 Blank Jim Sturnfield Thu February 18 1954 Aquarius Juha Kannisto Wed February 18 1970 Aquarius Joel Siegfried February 19 Penguin Crossing Linda Saboe Tue February 20 1951 aimless - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:18:36 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: Tori Singles On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, fingerpuppets wrote: > one time at band camp, kerry white (kerrywhite@webtv.net) said: > > > Hi, I have a stand-alone CD burner and have made a couple of Best Of > >Tori singles discs. I am now ready to sell 16 of 19 singles and was > >wondering if any are collectible as far as an asking price or if I > >should just take them to a used CD store and see what they want to give? i don't want to get into the moral issue or into a protracted discussion about media longevity (can't afford the time, sorry) so let me phrase this carefully. there is probably near-consensus that the lifetime of CDRs will be substantially shorter than pressed CDs. the critical longevity difference: CDs have flat spots and pits (or bumps depending on your perspective); CDRs have spots where the burning laser scorched the medium to alter its reflectivity and spots where it didn't. the spots are much more vulnerable to decay by oxidation. some of the media may be less susceptible than others (archival-grade CDRs at least claim to be better) but note that this is a difference of degree, not of kind. there is no consensus on the lifetime of CDRs; it is a hotly disputed subject, and it will vary widely according to storage conditions (mostly tempature variation, humidity to a lesser extent). my practical experience suggests that the lifetime of CDRs stored in un-airconditioned apartments in Washington DC may be significantly shorter than 5 years in at least some cases. if it's stuff you want to keep listening to for the foreseeable future, i would recommend re-burning your CDRs every 3-5 years. Once there are enough errors for the errors to be audible, it's too late to make a new copy. *** one of the three or four favorite bands of my new hometown, the beatings (terrible name; terrific band -- very pixies-ish, but often more punk) has a song called "experimental test monkey" on their first ep, "6hz" - -- d. np dresden dolls (leaping onto the aforesaid list) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:56:05 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: dresden dolls - "a is for accident" cd baby is out of stock, and it's no longer available through the band's web site. i'm mad keen to hear it. if anybody knows of any retailer who's got a copy, or if anyone's got a copy that is expendable (i.e., you'd be willing to sell it), please drop me a line. thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 06:57:54 -0800 (PST) From: Alberto Carrasco Subject: one more monkey... How could I forget "My Monkey" by Marilyn Manson... with the immortal lines: I had a little monkey I sent him to the country and I fed him on gingerbread Along came a choo choo, Knocked my monkey coo-coo And now my monkey's dead At least he looks that way, But then again don't we all? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:12:32 +0100 From: Stefan Adler Subject: AW: songs by the calendar There's also 5th of July by Terry Reid Stefan (outing himself as someone who really admired the Bob Harris Show on British Forces Radio many a years ago ...) - -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]Im Auftrag von AzeemAK@aol.com Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Januar 2004 23:09 An: onealien@mo.himolde.no; ecto@smoe.org Betreff: Re: songs by the calendar In a message dated 20/01/2004 19:14:29 GMT Standard Time, onealien@mo.himolde.no writes: > July 4 - Aimee Mann - 4th of July > > Ani Di Franco also has a song called 4th of July Not forgetting 5th of July by Louise Goffin... Azeem in London ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:13:41 -0800 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: death At 08:09 PM 1/21/2004, Wade Alberty wrote: >A friend of mine likes "Death" songs...or more percisely, songs about >murder. >Nick Cave and Johnny Cash seem to be some good sources for those. Cowboy Junkies - Murder, Tonight, in the Trailer Park /nm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:16:06 -0800 From: Valerie Nozick Subject: Re: songs by the calendar I haven't been following all of this thread, so I may be repeating. From my latest obsession, '20 de enero' (January 20th) by La Oreja de Van Gogh. ==> Valerie - ----- Original Message ----- From: Wade Alberty Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:23 pm Subject: Re: songs by the calendar > Just listened to Rose Polenzani's "Ramon" > "On June the fourth we were to wed; I've slain your bastard boy > instead." > Just another to add to the list. > > Wade > > np: Suzanne Vega - Headshots [CD: Nine Objects Of Desire - Track: 02] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:09:56 +0000 From: "Lyle Howard" Subject: Don't Ape Me Neal said: <> Reminds me of an Even Dozen Jug Band tune (Evolution Mama) with the chorus of: Evolution, Mama, Evolution, Mama, Don't you make a monkey out of me. Wish I could remember more. Bye, Lyle P.S. The Google page has monkeys on it today. _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE online virus check for your PC here, from McAfee. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:25:20 +1100 From: andrew fries Subject: Re: new in 2004 raven@igc.org wrote: > Another says "If you love and adore EARLY ani - PRE DILATE - > you're in for a huge treat". Well, I *like* early Ani, and I definitely lost interest in what she was doing after Dilate... I think I should check this one out. I kind of would like to be able to like her again - she's really one of those artist whose importance goes beyond the actual art they make. But if I can also enjoy it as well as respect it, that's a welcome bonus. Ani - (horns, mariachi bands) = good news np: Greta Gertler - The Baby That Brought Bad Weather (it's nice but it isn't Peccadillo) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:00:25 +1100 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: Re: songs by the calendar Hey folks, On Thu 22-Jan-2004 10:16am, vnozick.mba2003@london.edu wrote: > From my latest obsession, '20 de enero' (January 20th) by La Oreja de Van Gogh. I'll toss one in too - Melissa Etheridge's "Royal Station 4/16". Which I didn't realise for the longest time was supposed to be a date written in US format... - -sherlyn - -- Sherlyn Koo - sherlyn@pixelopolis.com - Sydney, Australia ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jan 2004 14:04:55 -0800 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: songs by the calendar Ben Folds Five's "Brick" takes place the day after Christmas (consistently December 26). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:58:37 -0600 From: "Matt Bittner" Subject: Best of 2003 Yea, I'm late. Oh well. Not many music purchases this year. Plus, not all of my purchases were released in 2003 - some of them before. Of the ones I can remember, and in order of my enjoyability: Claire Holley, dandelion - I'm not sure if this was recommended here, or I saw it reviewed somewhere, but after tracking through only two songs, I had to buy it. Awesome! Edie Carey, When I Was Made - great stuff. For those that remember, I wasn't sure if I would be able to attend her concert or not. I'm glad I didn't miss it, because she's quite awesome - as is this disc. Looks like she's coming back in April, and I'm definitely there!! (If there are any who live in Omaha, you really need to check out The Darkroom Gallery). Vienna Teng, Waking Hour - I'll just reiterate what everyone here has been gushing about. Excellent, excellent CD, but it's third on my list "just because". Don't get me wrong, I still play it often enough and it is great. Then, in no certain order, Steely Dan's _Everything Must Go_ and Warren Zevon's _The Wind_. Both are superb, and I can't rate one over the other. So, like I said, a very slow year for music purchases. I also picked up a Christmas-oriented CD from Siucra which is great, but I usually don't lump in holiday music with the rest of the "booty". :-) Matt Bittner ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:02:03 -0800 From: "London, Sherry" Subject: RE: ecto-digest V10 #21-monkey songs I'm fascinated about why *monkey* songs have been on your mind, do tell ;-). I have always loved songs with Pink in the title. I want to add one monkey song for you... Monkey Back...Beth Hart Sherry - -----Original Message----- 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: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:02:12 EST From: Paul2k@aol.com Subject: sages, monkeys, missing shows Coming out of the gym this afternoon at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, what did I hear over the soundsystem? Rachael Sage's "Bravedancing". I felt like high-fiving someone, but there was no one there to share my giddiness. Occasionally, I've heard some good ectophilic music there, including Heather Nova and Jonatha Brooke. Someone's making nice decisions. Some monkey songs: XTC-The Smartest Monkeys off of Nonsuch Nil Lara- Money That Will Make the Monkey Dance off of his self-titled album I missed out on the Terami Hirsch/Charlotte Martin show on Monday because of work. But it's ok sorta, for two reasons: 1)Sylvie Lewis had to cancel her set and 2)I was assisting on a Lionel Richie session that day, and he was a blast. Lionel frickin' Richie, dudes. Wheee! Unfortunately, it looks like I'll be missing out on Anne Heaton at Genghis Cohen on saturday because of more work (this time with some really horrid Europeans doing some crappy dancey-ballads. The vocals are done by a guy who, I swear, has to be a castrato. It's like that opera-type techno song from The Fifth Element gone terribly wrong). I'm pissed about this, but what can I do? I have to work. I bought Anne's "Black Notebook" last year, and it was my favorite purchase of the entire year. I'm hoping that nothing pops up to prevent me from seeing Vienna Teng and Odessa Chen next wednesday. Paul ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jan 2004 20:27:51 -0800 From: "Michael Pearce" Subject: calendars & monkeys... Here's an obscure one: "Monkeys on the Moon" by Sopwith Camel, 1972 Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:48:54 -0800 From: "abaton" Subject: Julia Vorontsova on WFMU 21 year-old Julia Vorontsova is the most recent link to the underground folk singers who flowered during the Soviet era. Her expressive voice is truly a unique vehicle for the articulation of the complex and emotional poetic drama the genre demands. She has two events coming up in January: She can be heard performing live on WFMU 91.1 FM with Irene Trudel on January 26th at 3pm. Listen on the web at www.wfmu.org She will perform the next evening January 27th, at 8pm at Sin-i. Sin-i is located at 150 Attorney Street NYC. A review of her recent demo: Abaton Book Company Julia Vorontsova : 5-track CDR (RU,2003)**** "This young voice from St. Petersburg immediately brought me to mind one of my favorite voices, Ewa Demarczyck from Poland (from which I highly appreciate her "live" album from 1979). I'm one of those people who like a lot of deeply melancholic songs, sung with deep feelings and with a poetic approach. Inspired by earlier Russian bards, Julia writes beautiful love & friendship-songs simply accompanied by acoustic guitar, but with a beauty it becomes a must for acid/wyrd folk lovers. Highly recommended !" Gerald Van Waes New review added at: http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/RUreviews.html : mp3 here: http://www.abatonbookcompany.us/JuliaVorontsova.html mdabc ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #22 **************************