From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #267 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, September 25 2004 Volume 10 : Number 267 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] i came *this* close to working on a sarah mclachlan session [Paul2k@aol.c] sarah slean in sweden [anna maria "stjärnell" ] RE: CD Baby order ["Southpaw" ] Uncle Sam wants your airwaves for $ [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] Re: Uncle Sam wants your airwaves for $ [meredith ] Katell's newest [Adam K ] RE: CD Baby order ["neal copperman" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:00:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Lord Tyr (LordTyr@paganpower.com) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Lord Tyr Mon September 24 1979 Libran Paul Kim Sat October 01 1977 fetal position JoAnn Whetsell Fri October 01 1976 Pendulum William Gill Wed October 05 1960 A wide-eyed wanderer Dan Riley Sun October 08 1961 Libra Neile Graham Wed October 08 1958 pen Quenby M. Chunco Tue October 08 1968 Crunchy Frog Mike Garland Wed October 08 1952 Creature_of_the_Night Irvin Lin Tue October 09 1973 Libra Michael C. Berch Wed October 10 1956 No parking Chris Gagnon Sat October 10 1970 Libra Wolfgang Drotschmann Thu October 13 1966 Waage Gracescape Fri October 13 1967 unbalanced Brian Bloom Tue October 14 1969 spam Erik N. Johnson Tue October 16 1962 Handle with Care Kim Klouda Tue October 17 1967 Libra Anthony Amato Sat October 20 1973 Libra Suzanne DeCory Tue October 22 1968 Balancing Libra Dave Steiner Sat October 24 1959 Scorpio - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:48:53 EDT From: Paul2k@aol.com Subject: i came *this* close to working on a sarah mclachlan session Sigh. I can't bring myself to write up the whole stupid explanation again. If you're interested in my tale of woe, drop on by my diary. http://pkers.diaryland.com Paul Kim ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:18:23 -0700 (PDT) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: sarah slean in sweden hi.. last night i saw the lovley sarah slean open for ron sexmith..she was awesome..she opened with the line "hello beautiful swedish people"..ah well i bets she says that to all crowds.. then she played "elliott" and won over the audience.. best song was "sweet ones" that she did with ron's band. ron himself was jovial and sweet. at one point he compared his jacket to hugh hefner's(!!) to whoops and hollers from the faithful. great versions of his songs although i'm not a big fan i (i went for sarah) he really won me with this two hour show. i ended up buying sarah's new cd and it's great. anna maria np-guess what? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:54:25 -0500 From: "Southpaw" Subject: RE: CD Baby order I HIGHLY recommend Antje Duvekot! http://cdbaby.com/cd/duvekot She has worked with The Peter Malick Group and with Solas. Her lyrics are great, her voice is wonderful, and the CD is just an overall joy! If you don't have any Sam Shaber, I highly recommend her as well! Her latest CD "Eighty Numbered Streets" http://cdbaby.com/cd/shaber4 is a very good listen. She also puts on a wonderful live show! Libby Kirkpatrick is another you might already have, but if you don't you should! Her latest CD "Goodnight Venus" has some amazing songs on it, including the title track! She also puts on a GREAT live show! Hope that helps! Wade ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:06:08 -0500 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Uncle Sam wants your airwaves for $ Hi, check this: Uncle Sam Wants Your Airwaves By Michael Grebb 02:00 AM Sep. 22, 2004 PT WASHINGTON -- U.S. lawmakers are increasingly willing to contemplate bold action to get people to stop watching analog, over-the-airwaves television and switch to digital TV. How bold? They will consider a bill Wednesday that pays a $1 billion subsidy to make it happen. For a sense of how frustrated lawmakers have become, observers point to a new bill introduced Tuesday by Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona). The legislation -- pointedly named the Spectrum Availability for Emergency-Response and Law-Enforcement to Improve Vital Emergency Services Act, or just the Save Lives Act -- sets a new deadline of Jan. 1, 2009, for the federal government to free up the analog TV spectrum for use by public-safety agencies. The bill also would clear the way for auctioning spectrum to commercial interests -- like wireless broadband service providers. And in a nod to subsidy programs in Europe, the legislation would provide $1 billion to help 17.4 million U.S. households without cable, satellite or digital TV tuners pay for equipment that would enable them to go digital. "Since the industry isn't going to do it, the government has been forced to take action," said Gerry Kaufhold, a principal analyst at research firm In-Stat/MDR. The bill highlights a congressional conundrum. On one hand, lawmakers are loath to turn off analog signals all at once, which would render an estimated 45 million analog TV sets -- those not hooked up to a cable or satellite service or to a digital-to-analog converter box -- utterly useless. And they are reluctant to spend money on any program that smacks of corporate favoritism. On the other hand, emergency agencies want to use parts of the analog broadcast spectrum for public-safety uses. And wireless companies are anxious to pay billions for the right to provide broadband wireless services over large swaths of spectrum. All the while, Europe and Asia are pulling significantly ahead of the United States when it comes to broadband wireless services. Under current law, broadcasters don't have to relinquish their analog spectrum until 2007 or until after at least 85 percent of American households have the equipment to receive over-the-air digital TV signals, whichever comes last. But few expect Americans to reach the 85-percent threshold for many years. "It won't be until 2020 at the rate we're going," said Adam Thierer, director of telecommunications studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. "We're trying to figure out a way to get out of this industrial policy mess." Despite the potential backlash, lawmakers are starting to support the idea of a hard deadline that forces consumers off analog. Low-income households would get first priority under the subsidy program contemplated by McCain, but it's unclear how broadly the program would apply to everyone else. Some support the subsidy concept. "Every successful rollout of digital (over-the-air TV) has come with a free box," said Kaufhold. "The model for digital TV in the world has been to give people a free box. The U.S. is starting to fall behind." According to the bill's text, the subsidy would amount to a small portion of the $30 billion to $70 billion the federal government expects to collect when it auctions off large portions of the analog TV spectrum to wireless companies. (Other estimates, however, have been much smaller.) McCain plans to hold a vote on the bill Wednesday at a meeting of the Senate Commerce Committee, which he chairs. Bye, KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:37:54 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Uncle Sam wants your airwaves for $ Hi, Kerry forwarded: >And they are reluctant to spend money on any program that >smacks of corporate favoritism. Okay, that's the funniest thing I have read in *years*. The reason people aren't flocking to digital is because we've known their game all along. This is just a painfully transparent ploy by the electronics manufacturers to rake in the billions as people are forced to buy new, insanely expensive tv sets to replace the analog ones that are being pushed into obsolescence. And oh yeah, that spectrum auction is a mighty fishy thing, too. Me, I refuse to go digital unless it's a natural progression that isn't shoved down my throat. I've got plenty of DVD's to watch and music to listen to ... people who know me will probably find this hard to believe, but I can go without television if it comes to that. (As long as the Red Sox games are still broadcast over the radiowaves, anyway...) =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://muzak.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:57:05 +0100 From: Adam K Subject: Katell's newest I'd be interested to hear what anybody has to say about High July -- I got it a couple of weeks ago (and then found out, through her mailing list, that it hadn't been released yet. Hmmm) but haven't had much of a chance to listen to it. My first impression is not as immediate as her others, but I know it needs more listening to do it justice. I have a ticket to see her at the 12 Bar Club, but as I'm doing a show that night myself and then working my day job the next day (she's headlining, which means I'll probably be able to make it in time, as the 12 Bar headliners often don't go on until gone 10) I might not have the strength! adam k. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:11:33 -0000 From: "neal copperman" Subject: RE: CD Baby order Thanks to all for causing me to buy way more CD's then I needed. I can't even listen to what I have! What was I thinking. You guys are such wicked enablers :) Southpaw said: > I HIGHLY recommend Antje Duvekot! http://cdbaby.com/cd/duvekot > She has worked with The Peter Malick Group and with Solas. Her lyrics are > great, her voice is wonderful, and the CD is just an overall joy! I listened to her samples and really enjoyed them. Her voice is indeed wonderful. It reminded me a lot of someone, and I couldn't put my finger on who. I'd already placed my order before I sorted through everything though. > If you don't have any Sam Shaber, I highly recommend her as well! Her latest > CD "Eighty Numbered Streets" http://cdbaby.com/cd/shaber4 is a very good > listen. She also puts on a wonderful live show! I think I have a Sam Shaber CD en route to me already, but I'm not sure :) > Libby Kirkpatrick is another you might already have, but if you don't you > should! Her latest CD "Goodnight Venus" has some amazing songs on it, > including the title track! She also puts on a GREAT live show! I have some other Libby CD's and have seen her. I think she's a really intriguing performer. Touch of MMOH there. Well worth checking out. So, here's what I ended up with: ANNA HOMLER: house of hands SARINA SIMOOM: thread bone bare CHLOE DAY: the return of... PAMELA MARTINEZ: volume 1 JILL TRACY: quintessentially unreal (for Anna Maria, which started this whole thing.) Thanks for playing, neal np: Radio Latvia Two ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #267 ***************************