From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #81 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, March 22 2004 Volume 10 : Number 081 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Jorane's new albums [karen hester ] ecto passed in Google page rankings by...well, ecto [Michael Curry ] Re: Running up that hill - cover [Greg Bossert ] Fwd: [Dresdendolls] The Dresden Dolls Go Back To Their Roots [Michael Cur] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* John Stewart (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John Stewart Sat March 21 1970 Aries Bob Brown Thu March 22 1951 Ham Valerie Nozick Thu March 25 1971 Aries Tom Proven Sat March 27 1971 Eat at Joe's Jennifer Albert Wed March 30 1966 Aries (w/Cancer rising!:) Warpaint Mon April 01 1991 Brilliant! 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Bravo Mon April 05 1971 Dandelion Wine Brion McIntosh Sun April 06 1958 Aries Marcel Kshensky Thu April 06 1950 Aries Bill Mazur Mon April 06 1953 Aries Sun/Cancer Rising David Dixon Tue April 07 1970 Aries Heidi Heller Mon April 08 1974 Aries Jill Hughes Sat April 09 1955 Aries Klaus Kluge Sun April 10 1960 Unicorn Steve VanDevender Sun April 10 1966 Racer Art Liestman Fri April 10 1953 Repeat Stephen Golden Sat April 10 1971 Jokey Michael Bowman Wed April 11 1962 Aries Wolfgang Ullwer Fri April 11 1969 Widder Janet Kirsch Thu April 11 1974 Aries Jerry Tue April 13 1971 Aries Stuart Myerburg Mon April 14 1969 Aries T-Bone Wed April 15 1992 happy cat Jeff Hanson Sat April 16 1966 Aries Michael Klouda Mon April 17 1967 Aries Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:49:11 -0800 (PST) From: karen hester Subject: Re: Jorane's new albums I feel similarly about 'evapore'. I loved the loud guitars and songs on 'vent fou'; 16mm might be more satisfying for a cellist, but it verges on exercises to my ears. 'evapore' similarly leans towards soundscapes and abstraction, rather than songs. There's some pretty tinkly piano on 'Cornelia' and 'Help'. The song that stands out for me is 'Pour ton sourire' - written by Daniel Lanois, he's the other musician on it, and it has all the reprehensible funky 80s-ness that his work is characterised by. Ick. Karen > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:11:45 -0800 > From: Neile Graham > Subject: Jorane's new albums > > Does anyone have any comments on them? I'm updating her page on The > Ectophiles' Guide and while I like them I don't have much to say > about them. (Actually, I find the soundtrack a little much of a > sameness and find evapore to be more of 16mm when I really would much > rather have had more vent fou.) > > - --Neile __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:19:20 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: ecto passed in Google page rankings by...well, ecto This morning I happened to do a search on Google for the word ecto, and the number one spot now goes to http://www.kung-foo.tv/ecto/ what is ecto? ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX (we also have a Windows version in the works), supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as TypePad, MovableType, Nucleus, Blogger, and more. ecto is the successor of the wildly popular Kung-Log, which has been in use by thousands of Mac users and which earned a 4.5 mice in the MacWorld July 2003 issue, a 4.7 rating by users of VersionTracker.com, and a 5.0 rating by users of MacUpdate.com. Our beloved Ecto home page now comes in second. Hopefully, years from now, after ecto (the software) gets bought up by AOL or Microsoft, we won't start getting nasty letters from lawyers for using the name.... Michael np: a very ecto-ish mix of my own devising nr: A Scattering of Jades by Alexander C. Irvine ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:09:17 -0500 From: Tom Masapollo Subject: Running up that hill - cover Don't know if anyone has heard this yet, but there is a German Goth band that does a cover of "Running up that hill" The band is called "Within Temptation' and apparently had some technical problems with the DVD plus edition before finally releasing the cd's. Actually there is a 3- track single CD a 5-track limited edition CD and a DVD plus edition with a video of RUTHill. All of these have several covers of RUTH on them. I haven't heard any of the above CD's yet but I am curious to see how the covers turned out. later, tom ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:08:23 -0800 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: Running up that hill - cover On Mar 21, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Tom Masapollo wrote: > Don't know if anyone has heard this yet, but there is > a German Goth band that does a cover of "Running up that hill" > The band is called "Within Temptation' [...] yah, the video was on heavy rotation during my most recent trip to Berlin. actually, it was an ad which seemed to consist of the entire video, on a non-video type station. all in all, i'd call the cover competent but uninspired. the video looks great, if prefabricated: guys in black trashing their guitars with intensely focused angst while the angelic singer floats overhead in a flowing red dress and a lot of makeup. her voice was good, the guitars were chunky and fierce, and... while i was briefly entertained, overall it was a bit of a yawn. on the same trip i was listening to Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and decided that i'd much rather hear the real KaTe play with Billy Corgan. no, honestly, i think it works. that lead to more mystifying mental matchups, of which the only one worth repeating would be Tori and Amon Tobin. no, no, really, that one works too. 'tah - -g - -- "i've never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:06:46 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: Fwd: [Dresdendolls] The Dresden Dolls Go Back To Their Roots For those ectos in the Boston area.... >From: "Amanda Palmer" >Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:40:01 -0500 >Subject: [Dresdendolls] The Dresden Dolls Go Back To Their Roots > > >THE DRESDEN DOLLS > > >.....Thursday, April 8th..... > >The Lexington High School Auditorium >251 Waltham Street >Lexington, MA >(about a thirty minute drive from the city on rt. 2) > >as a Benefit for the LHS Drama Dept. >all ages > > -7 p.m.- > > >with > >The Cast of "Kindred" > >Quay (NYC) > >the comedy of Eugene Mirman > >and other special guests > >tickets are >$10 for students with ID/$20 for adults >(ticket price was misprinted as $15 in last email, our mistake) >reserve tickets by emailing: >bogart@sch.ci.lexington.ma.us > > >....a note from amanda.... > >every year, there is an event sponsored by the boston globe and the mass >cultural council called "The Massachusetts High School Drama Guild Festival". >tons of schools around the state prepare a forty minute piece of theater >and present it in rounds of competition, culminating in a final round at >the john hancock theater in boston. >their website is www.mhsdg.com > >Steve Bogart, the director at lexington high school, has consistently >produced mind-blowing plays with the students....instead of choosing your >average short play from off the shelf, the students instead engage in a >very intense, usually very emotional workshopping process through which >they create a story and piece of their own through improvisation and >collective writing. >Lexington has won first place in the festival several times in the past >few years, and I have seen some of the productions, they are incredible >and put most shows I see in professional theaters in boston to >shame. "Globefest", as we called it, was a completely amazing expertise >that I went through several times in high school and was inspirational in >the process we used to write and perform "Hotel Blanc" (if anyone saw it - >this was a workshop piece I directed and organized about two years ago at >the middle east in cambridge). > >My senior year, a play I had written called "Asylum" (based on the album >by The Legendary Pink Dots), was chosen to go the the festival in lieu of >the usual group workshop piece because Bogart had other commitments and >could not direct it. It was a very avant-garde show, with no dialogue and >a very abstract plot, and it was disqualified in the preliminary round on >the grounds that it was "not theater" but rather "performance art", and >this was not acceptable. The rules were changed later to include more >far-out stuff but meanwhile we decided to put the show up in boston to see >if people would dig it and with the help of Joe Bonni (who was running the >Pit Report zine back then, later to morph into the editor of the Weekly >Dig), we staged the show at the Middle East Downstairs to a great >response. The youngest actress in the cast was fifteen, I was >seventeen. That was 1994, and my first foray into the dark and seedy >world of Boston nightclubs. > >and now to the point: >Bogart's group of actors last year were chosen, against high odds, to >perform last year's piece, "Kindred", >at the Edinborough Fringe Festival, by all accounts THE most prestigious >showcase for avant-garde theater in the world. >They need money to go, and we want to help them. > >I cannot say enough about how much the quality and integrity of steve >bogart and the drama department at lexington high school saved me during >high school. I was involved in lots of productions, as writer, >workshopper, actor and director and the things I took from those >experiences have stayed with me to this day and continue to inform the way >I approach art, performance and life. > >........................................... > >joining us on the stage will be the cast of the show, who will perform a >vignette from the play, >and we'll be joined by fellow lexington alums Quay (another kickass >piano-and-drums duo....is it something in the water?) and >Eugeen Mirman, an up-and-coming comic currently in NYC who has performed >on Conan O'Brian and other fancy places. >Eugene once directed me in a play on this same stage when I was a >freshman....my role was to wrap myself in christmas lights, >come screaming and ranting onto the stage during an "insane asylum" scene >to a song by Jethro Tull, and then drop dead/flop around like a fish. > >.................................................... > >stay tuned, hopefully next year we will hit greenville, NH (brian's alma >mater) for another rousing auditorium spectacle ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #81 **************************