From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #306 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, November 5 2004 Volume 10 : Number 306 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: ecto-digest V10 #305 [paul kim ] Re: ecto-digest V10 #305 [heidi maier ] Emily Bezar Concert blurb [Craig Gidney ] Scott Andrew on filesharing [andrew fries ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Anthony Horan (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Anthony Horan Fri November 04 1966 Positive Michael Sullivan Mon November 05 1962 Scorpio Anna Pryde Wed November 05 1975 Scorpio Sun; Sagittarius Moon; Pisces Rising Jens Brage Sun November 08 1964 Scorpio Rising Lynn Garrett Sat November 08 1958 Scorpio Sam Murgie Fri November 08 1957 Scorpio Rachel Kramer Bussel Mon November 10 1975 Scorpio Neb Rodgers Tue November 10 1959 Space Available - Inquire Within Ken Latta Sun November 11 1951 Scorpio Craig Gidney November 11 Scorpio Michael Doyle Wed November 12 1969 Scorpio Dave Cook Mon November 15 1971 Scorpio Jeff Pearce November 16 Orpheus Naama Avramzon Mon November 18 1974 Scorpio Jeff Smith Mon November 19 1962 Crash Kevin Bartlett Fri November 21 1952 Scorpio with Saturn and Pluto issues Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Anja Baldo Tue November 23 1965 Garbanzo Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Valerie Kraemer November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Sue Trowbridge Sun November 27 1966 Skytten Ward Kadel Tue November 29 1977 Sagittarius Jesse Hernandez Liwag Wed November 29 1972 Water Rat Mirko Bulaja Sat November 30 1974 Block Juha Sorva Thu December 02 1976 Sagittarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 00:02:02 -0800 From: paul kim Subject: Re: ecto-digest V10 #305 re: The Who on CSI Mike, from what I seem to recall (and it might not be gospel), the usage of Who songs for all the CSI is just a matter of sticking with what works. Much like Law and Order has done with its variations, the showrunners wanted to keep the brand identity intact; part of letting viewers know that they are watching an L&O show or a CSI show is to use verrrrry similar theme music for each spinoff. I read somewhere that Dick Wolf called his L&O shows a brand, since they do have similarites (music, titles, chungchung), but are also unique in their structures while he said the CSI's are a franchise where each one follows the same exact formula, just in a different city. speaking of tv, I'm curious to know what anyone here thinks about the Comedy Central animated reality show Drawn Together. Are most of you offended by it? Has anyone enjoyed it yet? I ask because I'm a Production Assistant on it and I think it's hilarious (if a bit uneven at times). Oh, and meth, I'll try my darndest to be at the Rachael Sage show. Paul Kim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:53:25 +1000 From: heidi maier Subject: Re: ecto-digest V10 #305 paul asked: > Just wondering if anyone ever read if there's an interesting story about > Who tunes being themes to the three CSI shows? > > I figure it has to be one of two things. The producers just liked "Who Are > You?" for the first show and got the rights to it, and when a spinoff > happened, they just followed suit with another Who song, and again for the > third show. Or, perhaps there's a deeper connection between someone > involved with the CSI franchise and the Who in some sort. > > Anyone know? i recall reading in an interview with jerry bruckheimer, who produces the shows, i believe, that he was just a really big who fan and that the reason for the choice of theme tunes was no more complicated than that :) heidi. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:34:57 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Emily Bezar Concert blurb On Friday, October 29th, I saw the amazing Emily Bezar at the Berkeley Club. Around 40 people showed up for the release of her new album, Angels Abacus. In a recital room with a grand piano, decorated with flowers and candles, Ms. Bezar displayed her classical and jazz piano chops, and her operatic soprano. She hugged me after the show. Id describe her as Diana Krall on crack crossed with Kate Bush front Bitches Brew-era Davis, with the poetry of Hejira-era Joni Mitchell. ===== Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/ethereal_lad Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:39:09 +1100 From: andrew fries Subject: Scott Andrew on filesharing Scott is an independent artist and a web designer. Honestly, I appreciated his web-related endavours more than his music, but I really like what he says about copy protection and file sharing... I think he TOTALLY gets it: "as independent artists, all of the energy we spend worrying about filesharing and pirates and P2P and all of that scary stuff should be channeled into winning more fans and keeping them on our side. I don't say it enough so I'll say it here: I love my fans. I worship them. (I don't really feel comfortable calling them "fans"  I like to call them "listeners." But for now it's easier to type "fans.") It's the fans that encourage me to continue writing and recording, to keep trying to get gigs, to continue pursuing some sort of music career. Fans encouraged me to put out a record, fans bought the record, and fans spread the word. Right now, fans are helping me find gigs and giving me great ideas on what to do next. My mailing list is pretty small, only a few hundred names. But it means the world to me that handful of people are interested enough in my musical dabblings to trust me with their email address. In the end, fans are really all I've got keeping this whole music thing afloat. It really is that simple. And if I don't show proper appreciation for them, well, I just suck. Winning fans is hard work, and fans will hold us accountable and keep us on the path. True fans will let us know when we're hot and when we're making mistakes. Losing fans will do more damage to your music career than any P2P pirate. A fan should be far more valuable to us than a sale. (That's not to say I don't want CD sales, of course. I'd like to think I could quit the day job at some point and do this for you full-time. But I'm realistic.) The first thing on a musician's mind should not be "how can I keep my music off the P2P networks?" No. The first thing on our minds should be "how do I keep my fans happy?" followed by "how do I find more fans to keep happy?" I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that slapping copy-protection on our CDs and making it harder for people to enjoy our music is not keeping our fans happy. Putting copy-protection on a CD is like putting a big sticker on it that reads "hey, thanks for your money. Oh, by the way, I don't trust you, so I've removed your ability to play this CD in your computer, car or iPod. Enjoy!" It seems to me that when we have enough fans, we'll already have the best copy-protection ever: living, breathing people who want to support us, to see us do well. If you have 1000 fans and each of them buy your newest record, you'll have done better than 90% of records released on major labels! You've totally won! It's really hard to keep that goal in focus, especially when musicians are being bombarded with doom-and-gloom messages from the record industry. I don't know why we listen so much. So much of the system is totally irrelevant to our musical pursuits. Radio won't play our music. Labels won't develop our careers. A record that sells 100,000 units is considered a failure. Tell me again why I should help save this crumbling system? I'm more afraid of losing fans than losing control over what happens to my MP3 files. Fans give our music relevance and keep it relevant long after we're gone. How can we lose?" http://www.scottandrew.com/ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #306 ***************************