From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #26 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, January 27 2005 Volume 11 : Number 026 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Carla Holden makes it 10 on February 10 [Paul Schreiber ] scout niblett and giant and in uppsala [anna maria "stjärnell" ] RE: Silence vs Song ["Christy Horne" ] maple bee [anna maria "stjärnell" ] Before the Poison ["Christy Horne" ] Re: maple bee [fish ] upcoming Kristeen Young shows (fwd) [Neile Graham ] Re: Silence vs Song, Dinner in the Dark [gordodo@optonline.net] Re: maple bee [andrew fries ] Fwd: Ectophiles' Guide - General Comment [Neile Graham ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:30:36 -0800 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Carla Holden makes it 10 on February 10 NADD version - --------------------------------------------- Carla Holden graces Sunnyvale with a house concert. RSVP. Suggested donation: $10 Thursday, February 10, 2004. 8 p.m. Sharp. Sunnyvale, California 94085 What's going on - --------------------------------------------- We're celebrating the 10th house concert at my place the right way: Carla Holden plays the 10th of February. It promises to be a very special Thursday. In addition to great music, interesting people and homemade baked goods (yes, from scratch, you've been missing out), I'll be giving away some nifty schwag to celebrate. Just RSVP. And show up, of course. About Carla Holden - --------------------------------------------- It was sheer luck (and good traffic) that introduced me to the music of Carla Holden. You, on the other hand, don't need smooth sailing on the I-5 to make it to this show. A rare native Californian, Carla attended school in Jamaica. Then she *really* went to school in the talent-rich clubs of New York City. After returning home to LA, she put her new-found chops to use on _Wake Up and Love Me_. Her debut disc meshes lyrics that range from angry to vulnerable with a mix of scat, beatboxing, driving percussion and crunchy guitars. Carla's hard work hasn't gone unnoticed. She's picked up a pair of awards from ASCAP, heard her music on MTV and snagged DJ Dangermouse (_The Grey Album_) to produce her next disc. Check out Carla's new band's web site: http://www.iluvlux.com/ Hear clips from _Wake Up and Love Me_ here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/carlaholden/from/paulschreiber A bonus: advance notice - --------------------------------------------- For reading this far, you get a prize: the details of March's show. Award-winning singer-songwriter Adrianne will be playing on Saturday, March 5. Learn more here: http://www.adrimusic.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:10:44 -0800 (PST) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: scout niblett and giant and in uppsala Hi all. saw a gig by scout niblett and giant sand. ms.niblett was girlish presence who played guitar and sang or banged the drums like animal from the muppet show. whispery bits were interruppted by ear-bursting noise. she was a bit odd. but very accomplished. a version of ruler of my heart rocked. a stina/polly jean cross maybe. giant sand were all over the map as their album title says..howe gelb played guita and sang his own and others songs. initmate folk things lead to punkish noise and a great "i shall be realeased". gelb was most genial and the crowd loved him and the band. anna maria __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:12:20 -0600 From: Doug Subject: Re: Silence vs Song > But I wondered what mind could do when the flavor of its food suddenly > changed, when the input on which it depends just went away. To take this on an only slightly off-topic tangent: when's the last time you closed your eyes while eating and just took your time and savored each bite? Really focused your thoughts on the signals your taste buds were sending to your brain? It's amazing how good food really can be when we stop to do this. Like ambient listening, this is a pleasure that I long for but rarely am able to force myself to slow down enough to experience. Usually I have other things on my mind, or feel a need to read something (I just love reading while I eat). I'm surprised it's so hard to just stop and concentrate on how good food tastes (or how interesting ambient sounds can be, to bring this tangent back on track). - --Doug ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:35:17 -0500 From: "Christy Horne" Subject: RE: Silence vs Song Sounds good. Somebody come cook a home-cooked meal for me :) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Doug Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:12 AM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: Silence vs Song > But I wondered what mind could do when the flavor of its food suddenly > changed, when the input on which it depends just went away. To take this on an only slightly off-topic tangent: when's the last time you closed your eyes while eating and just took your time and savored each bite? Really focused your thoughts on the signals your taste buds were sending to your brain? It's amazing how good food really can be when we stop to do this. Like ambient listening, this is a pleasure that I long for but rarely am able to force myself to slow down enough to experience. Usually I have other things on my mind, or feel a need to read something (I just love reading while I eat). I'm surprised it's so hard to just stop and concentrate on how good food tastes (or how interesting ambient sounds can be, to bring this tangent back on track). - --Doug ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:33:11 -0800 (PST) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: maple bee hi.. it seems melanie garside has made a cd as maple bee called chasing eva..perhaps some of you remmeber her fossil solo record? I want to marry the front cover..she looks like she's auditioning for rasputina..well now she's a medivial baebe too. seems very tasty. anna maria Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:37:24 -0500 From: "Christy Horne" Subject: Before the Poison Just got my hands on "Before the Poison" by Marianne Faithfull, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave et al. Holy crap! Beautiful and fierce! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:56:57 +0100 From: fish Subject: Re: maple bee yeah, that maplebee cd is really awesome! I left a post on tripofagia about it before I even had the cd: http://forum.tripofagia.com/viewtopic.php?t=579 well I love it...also watch the short video clip on her page! ;) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:14:59 -0800 (PST) From: Neile Graham Subject: upcoming Kristeen Young shows (fwd) For those interested. - --Neile - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:45:38 -0500 From: Kristeen Young To: mattmoden@hotmail.com Subject: upcoming KY shows KRISTEENYOUNG AT GALAPAGOS (70 N. 6th St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn www.galapagosartspace.com) THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 @ 11pm ***new year! ***new material! ***same L train to Bedford Ave.!.... you know, you know, it's a ***wintermagicwonderland!*** LONDON SHOWS throughout March: 2nd, 14th, 24th, maybe 29th and 30th at the Barfly in Camdentown 10th at the Underworld in Camdentown in GERMANY: Look for an interview (and a song on their compilation) in the March issue of Eclipsed Magazine. ST.LOUIS SHOWS (and other midwest cities) in May. Hope your new year is the happiest, Kristeen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:00:44 -0500 From: gordodo@optonline.net Subject: Re: Silence vs Song, Dinner in the Dark I remembered hearing of a few restaurants that have started popping up doing exactly this...personally it sounds like a lot of fun - perhaps we should have an ectofestdarkness dinner and concert :) - -Jason http://www.dinnerinthedark.com/ Paris Eatery Leaves Diners in the Dark http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3889740 Blind Feed the Blind at New Paris Eatery Associated Press Writer http://news.jetbar.com/9232004/articles/D859BAK00.php PARIS They tasted like tomatoes, but in the pitch black it was hard to tell. A couple at the next table was obviously struggling with eating blind, too. "I don't know what it is," came a man's voice in the darkness. See your message here..."Oh! That's not good," his lady friend responded. This is dining in the dark, the concept of a new restaurant in the City of Light that wants diners to know what it's like to be blind. At "Dans le Noir" _ In the Dark _ it's not just that the lights are off and curtains closed. Diners sit in a room of inky blackness that the eyes never adjust to. And that's the idea. "It awakens your other senses," says the restaurant's owner Edouard de Broglie, who is not blind. "It alters your perspective, your relations with others. It shows what happens when you can't see." Fingertips seek out familiarity, patting the table for a fork, a plate, a hand to hold. The nose perks up to every passing plate. Covered by darkness, food is reduced to textures and shapes. One realizes the role sight plays in the joy of eating. Although privately run, the restaurant comes amid a growing effort to make Paris _ which is bidding for the 2012 Olympic Games _ more handicapped-friendly. City Hall has boosted its budget for handicapped concerns to $28 million in 2004 from just $2.5 million in 2000. A massive overhaul to make sports stadiums, cultural sites and public transport more accessible to the handicapped is planned over the next decade. A fleet of handicapped-accessible taxis also is starting at the end of this month. A cinema for the blind and deaf opened Wednesday in the Left Bank. It shows French films with subtitles for the hearing-impaired. For the blind, wireless headsets provide a voice that dictates on-screen action between the dialogue ("She gets out of the taxi." "Her hair is tied back in a loose bun.") For a trial basis, screenings are three times a week. Seeing-eye dogs are welcome. A blind woman who attended the opening said she felt like she was given the gift of sight. "I was so happy," said Maudy Piot, who runs an association for the rights of handicapped women. "I felt like a regular person. I saw a film I would never have been able to see before." Piot, like others in the blind community, has mixed feelings about the restaurant. She says that some blind people call it exploitation of a handicap to make money, or tasteless voyeurism. "But, it's extremely important," she said. "Even if it's only for a limited time, people with sight can understand our anxiety." The 55-seat restaurant, which opened in July on a street beside the Pompidou Center museum, draws a diverse crowd that comes for a variety of reasons. An American tourist who is progressively growing blind went for the experience of total darkness, and to show his wife what life eventually will look like for him. "This is a great place," said Mike Sahyun, a 34-year-old software developer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. "She gets to see what it's like for me." In the dark, diners meet a world with no shapes that is full of voices. The kindness of strangers is crucial. Blind waiters serve as guides, leading diners hand-on-shoulder from the lighted entrance bar through a series of black curtains to tables. Cell phones, watches and other objects that produce light are checked at lockers in the lobby. Smoking is not permitted. Pretensions, etiquette and vanity dissolve in the darkness. Once seated, strangers strike up conversation, seeking the reassurance that comes with hearing and touching what can't be seen. Try pouring a glass of water. "Stick your finger in the glass until it gets wet," advises a waitress, Celine Dos Santos. The restaurant's seven-person wait staff is registered blind, but its chef can see. Food arrives with a standard warning that prompts alarm: "Watch the plate. It's hot." Eating is challenging. Scooping a fork across the plate often comes up empty. Celine advises fighting the temptation to eat with your hands _ something a blind person tries to avoid in public. But, lowering the head to the plate seems just fine. Nobody can see. An infrared camera carried in by a TV crew caught many couples using the darkness to smother each other with affection. The restaurant also has its own infrared security system. One of the restaurant's aims is to focus the senses of smell and taste. But it's unclear whether that works in the food's favor. Diners can choose from a selection of Provence-style food or opt for a "mystery menu" that, for many, becomes a guessing game. "I don't know what it is," Adele Le Bardanchel, a 22-year-old Parisian told her boyfriend, unaware of a nearby eavesdropper. "Me neither," he replied. "There's a lot of oil. I think." Prices range from $35-45 per person, without wine. Earlier this month, the restaurant hosted Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who said he found his meal "enriching." "You can't completely experience a blind person's situation, but it makes you aware," he said, adding that the handicapped "have a place in this society _ a place that must be recognized." - ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:12 am Subject: Re: Silence vs Song > > But I wondered what mind could do when the flavor of its food > suddenly> changed, when the input on which it depends just went away. > > To take this on an only slightly off-topic tangent: when's the last > time you closed your eyes while eating and just took your time and > savored each bite? Really focused your thoughts on the signals your > taste buds were sending to your brain? It's amazing how good food > really can be when we stop to do this. Like ambient listening, this > is a pleasure that I long for but rarely am able to force myself to > slow down enough to experience. Usually I have other things on my > mind, or feel a need to read something (I just love reading while I > eat). I'm surprised it's so hard to just stop and concentrate on how > good food tastes (or how interesting ambient sounds can be, to bring > this tangent back on track). > > --Doug ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:21:51 +1100 From: andrew fries Subject: Re: maple bee anna maria stjdrnell wrote: > hi.. > it seems melanie garside has made a cd as maple bee > called chasing eva..perhaps some of you remmeber her > fossil solo record? Yeah I remember Melanie, now that you mentioned her! She completely dropped out of my sight after 'fossil' but now I see she's been active in other projects, under different names. That's interesting - it looks to me like her label wanted her to be alternapop hitmaker, while she had other ideas! Good for her. > I want to marry the front cover.. Yeah, back in the 'fossil' days, the picture was definitely my favourite part. I remember it a lot more distinctly than the CD itself :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:32:23 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Fwd: Ectophiles' Guide - General Comment Hi, gang-- Some of you might be interested in checking this out. - --Neile >Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 09:14:43 -0800 >Reply-to: "Luc-Rock Paquin" >From: "Luc-Rock Paquin" >To: ectoguide@smoe.org >Subject: Ectophiles' Guide - General Comment > >Name: Luc-Rock Paquin >Email: lrp@moviecritic.ca >Topic: General Comment > >Hello, > >I've been a fan of the Ectophiles' Guide for a least of couple of >years. It has become one of my main sources of musical discovery. > >I wanted to let you know that I've "created" a group for ectoguide >fans on AudioScrobbler/Last.FM (see URLs at the bottom). > >AudioScrobbler is a site that builds a profile of your musical taste >using a plugin for your media player. The system automatically >matches you to people with a similar music taste, and generates >personalised recommendations. > >Last.FM, AudioScrobbler's "sister site", adds the possibility of >listening to streaming audio, based on a personal profile, a >"musical neighbor" profile, or even a group profile. > >I've "connected" almost all of the ectoguide artists to the fan >group on AudioScrobbler, but unfortunately, there are still a few >that *nobody* on AudioScrobbler has listened to, which prevents me >from adding them to the connected artists. > >Anyway, I just wanted to let you know about the existence of this >fan group. The goal is not to replace EctoGuide.org, but rather to >use the AudioScrobbler/Last.FM enhanced functions for EctoGuide fans. > >http://www.audioscrobbler.com/group/Ectophiles%2BGuide%2Bto%2BGood%2BMusic >http://www.last.fm/group/Ectophiles%2BGuide%2Bto%2BGood%2BMusic > - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham .... neile@sff.net/@drizzle.com ... www.sff.net/people/neile Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal ........ www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines Editor, The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ........... www.ectoguide.org Workshop Administrator, Clarion West ................ www.clarionwest.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:46:02 -0500 From: "dave" Subject: Joan of Arcadia This Friday, Jan 28th, two songs by Mary Arden Collins (http://www.maryardencollins.com/ ) will be featured on Joan of Arcadia (http://www.joanofarcadia.com/). The songs are: "ONE MORE DAY" (playing during a scene in the High School corridor) "FREE" (playing during a scene in the High School parking lot) I've been following Mary's career for about seven years now, and it's great to see her getting some national exposure. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #26 **************************