From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #20 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, January 21 2005 Volume 11 : Number 020 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Happy Show at the Tin Angel ["Marcel Rijs" ] Happy Show [javaho@iglide.net] Re: Happy Show [Doug ] Please, oh please, oh please....... ["Patrick Varker" ] the trauma of silence [Adam K ] kinnie starr, regina spektor in L.A. [paul kim ] LMP - a century of song [Karen Hester ] Re: the trauma of silence [Bernie Mojzes ] Re: the trauma of silence [Doug ] Re: Happy Show at the Tin Angel [Bernie Mojzes ] Happy heard today on XM radio!! ["Steve" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:00:03 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ************* Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson (no Email address) ************** ********************* David Beery (drum@traverse.net) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson Tue January 20 1970 Seanympf-Aquarius David Beery Tue January 20 1976 drum 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, 20 Jan 2005 10:53:08 +0100 From: "Marcel Rijs" Subject: Re: Happy Show at the Tin Angel Hi all, Ken osterhaudt wrote: > You may already know that Happy is performing in Philadelphia on the > 29th this month. Well, she's manufactured a short run of pre-release > CD's that will be for sale at the Tin Angel show ONLY. [...] > The CD's will be $15 a piece. We won't > be selling this item after this initial show, so if you can't make it > to the show, then maybe you can ask someone who is going to get you a > copy. Living in Europe can be such a drag sometimes. I do have Paypal and access to European cd's so if anyone would be willing to pick up a copy for me please contact me off-list for a deal. I would do anything to get a disc or two! Kind regards, Marcel Rijs - marcel.rijs@kb.nl afd. Communicatie - Communication department Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands Website - http://www.kb.nl ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:50:51 -0000 (GMT) From: javaho@iglide.net Subject: Happy Show I'm unable to attend Happy's show (damn and blast!), but would love to support her by having someone pick up a pre-release CD for me. I will happily PayPal someone or send a check ASAP or cash by carrier pigeon or whatever it takes to any kind soul who will do me this favor. I'll also include extra for postage and for a donation for Happy's CD-making expenses. Please e-mail me off-list if you can help. Thanks in advance. Lisa PS...Vickie, you need to talk HTR into doing a Chicago show. We, in the midwest, would be most grateful! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:13:36 -0600 From: Doug Subject: Re: Happy Show I second that. Please contact me if you can get a CD for me, for which I will gladly reimburse you! Thanks, - --Doug On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:50:51 -0000 (GMT), javaho@iglide.net wrote: > I'm unable to attend Happy's show (damn and blast!), but would love to > support her by having someone pick up a pre-release CD for me. I will > happily PayPal someone or send a check ASAP or cash by carrier pigeon or > whatever it takes to any kind soul who will do me this favor. I'll also > include extra for postage and for a donation for Happy's CD-making > expenses. > > Please e-mail me off-list if you can help. > > Thanks in advance. > > Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:03:23 -0500 From: "Patrick Varker" Subject: Please, oh please, oh please....... If anyone would be willing to pick me up a couple of copies of Happy's limited release, I will be eternally grateful. Please e-mail me privately and we'll work it out. Thank you in advance! Patrick Varker ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:58:38 -0600 From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: Happy Show at the Tin Angel First of all, yay! So that was the surprise Happy referred to. I didn't know. Second, I'm checking with Happy about something regarding me getting CDs for others, so hold on. I'll get back to Ecto asap. YAY! Vickie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:05:13 +0000 From: Adam K Subject: the trauma of silence Last night, as I came home from work, I fumbled in my pocket and turned off my iRiver. Or so I thought. This morning, ten minutes into my walk to work, I went to turn it on and found that I had, in fact, left it on all night and let the battery go flat. This meant not only a one-hour walk accompanied only by the sound of sluggish traffic and the weary shuffling of the feet of fellow commuters: It also meant, for a necessary trip that I had to take tonight to the suburbs of South-East London and back (a sizeable trip for me) that, again, I had nothing but a soundtrack of public transport. And it stank. To say it was an inconvenience doesn't come close: I felt bereft. My brain felt starved, my soul withered and the world looked a greyer, duller place. I actually felt lonely, as if I'd lost not just music, but a bunch of familiar friends and fond memories. Call it withdrawl, call it utterly pathetic. But tell me: Am I the only sad bastard who has felt like this? I figure if I can't ask ecto, who can I ask? adam k. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:25:35 -0800 From: paul kim Subject: kinnie starr, regina spektor in L.A. Talk about synchronicity. Every few days, I switch out the cds in my CD Wallet in the car because I do a lot of driving around L.A. for my job, and I need to constantly change what I'm listening to. Earlier this week, one of the CDs I selected was Kinnie Starr's "Tidy" from '97 or so. I hadn't listened to it in a few years and instantly got hooked on the grooves again. Then, today, I'm looking at the Hotel Cafe's website (the hotel cafe being a singer-songwriter friendly music space in Hollywood) and notice that Kinnie will be there next Tuesday at 8PM! I've only had the pleasure of seeing her twice, once at the final Lilith Fair of '97 in Vancouver, and then in Northampton at the Iron Horse at the end of her Scrappy Bitches tour with Veda and Oh Susanna. I'm so psyched. It looks like she's doing a little West Coast tour to support the U.S. release of her new album. She already played in WA and OR this week, and will be in SF on the 23rd. http://www.kinniestarr.com/live.html Also at the Hotel Cafe on Wednesday and Thursday is Regina Spektor. Paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:25:21 +1300 From: Karen Hester Subject: LMP - a century of song This article is cute: http://www.junkmedia.org/?i=1354 First paragraph: "On a particularly late night in 1999, Eric Haugen and Ryan Bessler of indie-pop duo LMP decided it might be funny to cover a song from every year since 1900. Instead of moving on to the next half-baked idea, or falling asleep, they actually followed through with it, posting MP3s on their website as the work progressed." Karen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:48:01 -0500 (EST) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: Re: the trauma of silence hmmm... the agony of hearing the world without a soundtrack... i used to write songs while walking to work - 25 minutes of no real distractions to spend running some vamp we'd jammed on the night before through my head on endless repeat, finding words that fit the sound, finding ideas that made the words make sense in relation to each other, stopping occassionally to jot a phrase or verse down. nowadays i don't make music nearly as much as i should, but i've started writing again. i don't walk to work anymore, but i do end up on extended trips, and sometimes it's nice to kill the soundtrack provided by the car stereo and listen to my own thoughts for a bit, then pull over at a rest-stop and spend a few moments tapping out marks onto the screen with whatever has bubbled out of the cauldron. brni On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Adam K wrote: > Last night, as I came home from work, I fumbled in my pocket and turned > off my iRiver. Or so I thought. This morning, ten minutes into my walk > to work, I went to turn it on and found that I had, in fact, left it on > all night and let the battery go flat. This meant not only a one-hour > walk accompanied only by the sound of sluggish traffic and the weary > shuffling of the feet of fellow commuters: It also meant, for a > necessary trip that I had to take tonight to the suburbs of South-East > London and back (a sizeable trip for me) that, again, I had nothing but > a soundtrack of public transport. > > And it stank. > > To say it was an inconvenience doesn't come close: I felt bereft. My > brain felt starved, my soul withered and the world looked a greyer, > duller place. I actually felt lonely, as if I'd lost not just music, > but a bunch of familiar friends and fond memories. Call it withdrawl, > call it utterly pathetic. But tell me: Am I the only sad bastard who > has felt like this? > > I figure if I can't ask ecto, who can I ask? > > adam k. > - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:03:17 -0600 From: Doug Subject: Re: the trauma of silence > To say it was an inconvenience doesn't come close: I felt bereft. My > brain felt starved, my soul withered and the world looked a greyer, IMO you've been spoiled by music. There are plenty of things to see and hear in the outside world...you just have to open your eyes and ears enough. Look at the world with new eyes and listen to it with new ears. Even in the dullest of places there is something to appreciate. If you're not satisfied, work at it harder. - --Doug "Instructions are for people who don't know what they are doing" - Bob the Builder ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:36:38 -0500 (EST) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: Re: Happy Show at the Tin Angel hi all, been a while... good to see you are still here. *smile* it's been some time since i've had the time for non-work-related email lists, but non-stop work isn't healthy. was wondering if any of the old guard ectophiles were gonna be at the tin angel show. i'm planning on being there, and can pick up disks for people, if vickie can't arrange something that makes more sense. other thing - linda and i can put up a few weary travellers if there's people on a budget coming to the show from out of town who need a place to crash. we're in the western 'burbs, but closer than albany, and cheaper than the hyatt... brni ps. kristin hersh (of throwing muses) is playing the tin angel on tuesday and wednesday 1/25 and 1/26. (see page 51: how to blow a month's music budget in a week). On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Xenu's Sister wrote: > First of all, yay! So that was the surprise Happy referred to. I didn't know. > > Second, I'm checking with Happy about something regarding me getting CDs > for others, so hold on. I'll get back to Ecto asap. > > YAY! > > Vickie > - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:32:01 -0500 From: "Steve" Subject: Happy heard today on XM radio!! I was listening to XM radio today, specifically fine tuning channel 76, when lo and behold serenading genius came on. I was darn near dumbstruck as I haven't heard her played on commercial radio before. (I guess XM qualifies as commercial). Anyway, It was very cool hearing her. It was so totally unexpected. Was actually a pretty god moment as I was sitting in my car waiting to pick up my wife from work, snow starting to accumulate, and no other sound to interfere with that voice. :-) That being said, would someone going to the Philly show be willing to pick me up a copy of her early release? I will be very willing to paypal the money to you in advance. TYIA. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #20 **************************