From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #58 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, February 28 2004 Volume 10 : Number 058 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Book to movie transitions... [Daniel ] New E-mail addy ["Southpaw" ] Re: Book to movie transitions... [Alberto Carrasco ] Re: Is it worth it? [fingerpuppets ] Ecto comes through again. (YKTR CD) [Ed Cole ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 00:01:12 -0800 From: Daniel Subject: Re: Book to movie transitions... Chad Lundgren wrote: > I can say it as loud as I want here....I LOVED SPIDER-MAN. And S-M 2 will be > even better. OK, the movie was pretty good, I agree, but the best thing about it was Weird Al's _Ode to a Superhero_ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 02:22:28 -0600 From: "Southpaw" Subject: New E-mail addy Hey all, Just wanted to drop a quick note. I am in the process of moving (within the St. Louis area,) and with that I am changing ISPs, so I'm here under a new e-mail address (if anyone cares.) So here it is, my new e-mail addy. :-) Wade ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 07:19:47 -0800 (PST) From: Alberto Carrasco Subject: Re: Book to movie transitions... - --- kerry white wrote: Hi, I once read a line that said," In matters of opinion our advisaries must be judged insane". - -------- Which is why... they make both chocolate AND vanilla. My favorite book to movie adaptation is probably "Requiem for a Dream". Hubert Selby Jr's book was a grim (to put it mildly) view of human obsessive behavior and addiction and the film unflinchingly captures the horror of the book. Not only a film-editing touchstone for technical geeks, the score as performed by the Kronos Quartet brilliantly mirrors the building intensity of the images. Not recommended for the faint-hearted... ~AC np: HR live in Kenosha nr: MM's Dude, Where's my Country - --- kerry white wrote: Hi, I once read a line that said," In matters of opinion our advisaries must be judged insane". An opinion is a mixture of our intellectual word thoughts and emotional 'felts' about a subject. It is this second factor that makes it "mean" so much. "I believe in [this], how could you possiblely not feel the same." Irwin and I are insane to each other. He will never feel what I feel about League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And I will never find less in it than I do, other than the usal time/familiararity attrition. It is [to me] an assumed but not mentioned part of the ecto-personality. Ectos realize this and don't 'flame'. I still wish I could see it on a big screen and Irwin still wishes he saw another movie on that flight. bye, KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:58:17 -0500 From: Greg Dunn Subject: Re: Is it worth it? >Hi folks, so the used CD store in town with the best selection has >the highest prices. They have a copy of Y Kant Tori Read for >$29.99. What do y'all think. Is that way overpriced. I haven't >heard it so I don't know just what to think. I am a big fan of the >earlier Tori albums. It's almost certainly a boot. That said, my copy sounds fine and I paid about the same for it. Don't know if that's a recommendation or an admission, but at least it's a data point. :-) If you're a Tori completist, it's worth having. There is some interesting music on the album. - -- - -- | Greg Dunn | Those who will not reason, are | | gregdunn@indy.net | bigots; those who cannot, are | | The Sultan of Slack(tm) | fools; and those who dare not, | | http://www.indy.net/~gregdunn/ | are slaves. - Lord Byron | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:46:05 -0500 From: fingerpuppets Subject: Re: Is it worth it? one time at band camp, Ed Cole (edcole@halcyon.com) said: >Hi folks, so the used CD store in town with the best selection has the >highest prices. They have a copy of Y Kant Tori Read for $29.99. What do >y'all think. Is that way overpriced. I haven't heard it so I don't know >just what to think. I am a big fan of the earlier Tori albums. like others, i'm pretty sure that this is a bootleg -- well, pirate really since it's an unauthorized release of a legitimate release. there is a handy-dandy faq which explains the differences between the legit yktr cd and pirates at http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/4370/yktrfaq.html as far the music goes, it's a so-so pop record, in my opinion. most of the press and interviews paints the y kant tori read band as a heavy metal or hard rock outfit and that seems to be what the band actually was intending to be. but, the record itself is not and that seems to be the fault of atlantic records who wanted to make tori more appealing to the masses. be that as it may, several songs on yktr aren't too bad and she still performs two to this day: "etienne" and "cool on your island". finally, there's really no point in spending $29.99 on a bootleg, unless you want a copy for the collectible value and are 100% sure that it is not a cd-r -- and even then, that seems a little high to me. if you just want to hear the songs and burn your own cd-r, head on over to http://www.toritraders.com/ and you can download a copy of the record in shorten format (ripped directly from an original pressed copy of the cd, not a pirate) which, when converted to wav and burned to a cd, will be as close as you can get to the original on a cd-r. and if you just want to hear the tunes, i'm sure you can find mp3s of the songs somewhere on the toriweb. woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:22:28 -0800 From: Ed Cole Subject: Ecto comes through again. (YKTR CD) Thanks to everyone who answered my question. All I knew about the CD was that it was out of print. I suspected bootleg(pirate) when I saw the "import" sticker but didn't know what label the original was released on or if there was an official import version. This one wasn't the Atlantic release. I don't care to support pirates, particularly overpriced ones that the store probably paid $2 for at the most. I sold a CD I didn't like to them once and was offered $1 cash or $2 trade-in value. Quite a racket. As a history buff I still would like to hear the songs. Thanks to Woj I'll be able to do so this weekend. My expectations aren't that high, I had read the Ectoguide entry a long time ago and know that it ain't her best work. Thanks again folks. Ed ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #58 **************************