From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #88 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, March 31 2005 Volume 11 : Number 088 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Zzzz... SNORT! (Totally Irrelevant and Self-Indulgent) ["Cynthia Conrad" ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Zzzz... SNORT! (Totally Irrelevant and Self-Indulgent) ["Robert Lovej] Re: Taking a break [Bernie Mojzes ] Re: Taking a break [dmw ] On flakiness and elation ["Xenu's Sister" ] jorane, feist, maria mckee, kinnie starr [paul kim ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:38:49 -0500 From: "Cynthia Conrad" Subject: Zzzz... SNORT! (Totally Irrelevant and Self-Indulgent) Might be a dopey thing to mention, but one of my cats just pulled me out of a deep sleep to let him outside. I was having a rather detailed dream about Meth and Woj! How odd is that? Well, not that odd I guess, as they live around the corner from me, but I don't really see them much. And they certainly don't show up in my dreams much either. Anyway, we were in a huge brown cafeteria with a bunch of other diners. I think it was at a university, or maybe a ski lodge. There was an auditorium stage where the farthest wall would have been. The entire cafeteria was lit from the ceiling by can lights, but the brownness of the walls, tables, chair and floor kept the light from bouncing around, so the place felt a bit cavernous. I thought, "darklighting," and the word seemed very significant to me. I often dream about "significant" words. From several tables away, Woj was trying to tell me about some filmmaker whose giant, frameless black-and-white stills were hanging on tall, brown cloth-covered room dividers throughout the space. They looked somewhat similar to Ingmar Bergman's work, very imposing and stark, lots of weathered people with windblown hair and tense expressions. Woj was telling me about the filmmaker's life (arcane tidbits like how he ate a big bunch of grapes every day for lunch) and something about a touring film festival. I was trying to tell Woj about my upcoming surgery to remove some cancer tumors (unfortunately, this part is not "just a dream"). It was an odd conversation, both of us talking about two completely different things, but somehow it was making sense anyway. We both eventually gave up the conversation, though, as it was getting pretty irritating to have to shout back and forth over the general din of the other diners (I thought, "dinnerdin," another significant word). No idea why we didn't just sit at the same table. I walked over to an area of the cafeteria where a few rows of padded folding chairs were set up. Meth was talking animatedly to what appeared to be a group of community theater enthusiasts about the virtues of a desk that had been transplanted next to one of the dividers. The desk looked like it was made of walnut. Spread across most of the desktop was an oiled and creased brown leather blotter with green blotting paper in it. Grinning wildly above the glow of a banker's lamp, Meth told the group how particularly impressed she was with two big silver metal-wire file boxes that were sitting on the floor out in front of the desk. They were both empty, but were decorated on top with dried starfish and blue and white swirled glass paperweights. I got the impression that Meth wanted to use the desk and accessories as props for a play she was directing--something along the lines of an adaptation of a Dashiell Hammet novel, with a seedy private-eye in it, no doubt. I was standing behind the rows of chairs, their occupants silhouetted in the darkness, when I noticed that some of the women in the group had their hair curled and tucked under at the tops and backs of their heads, one of those hairstyles popular in the 40s. Suddenly I felt confused about what year it actually was. And then I woke up. The End. Heh, heh. Yeeeep... Well, I was entertained anyway. Anyone else ever had an odd dream about fellow ectophiles or Happy herself? Erm... Back to sleep before I make a bigger ass of myself... :-) ==Cynthia== ==================================== Blood Ruby - blud roo'-bee (n.) atmospheric alternative music somewhere in the vein of dream pop, ethereal and neoprogressive rock See also www.bloodruby.com ==================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:00:02 -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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************* Jennifer Albert (no Email address) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 Noe Venable Tue April 20 1976 Aries Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy Kjetil Torgrim Homme Thu April 23 1970 Taurus Jeff Burka Thu April 24 1969 GoFlyAKite Christine Waite Tue April 25 1972 Taurus Matt Adams Thu April 26 1962 Taurus Brad Hutchinson Tue April 28 1964 What sign? Geoff Parks Sun April 30 1961 Taurus - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:44:18 -0500 From: "Robert Lovejoy" Subject: Re: Zzzz... SNORT! (Totally Irrelevant and Self-Indulgent) - ----- Original Message ----- > Anyway, we were in a huge brown cafeteria... lit from the ceiling by can > lights, but the brownness of the walls, tables, chair and floor kept the > light from bouncing around, so the place felt a bit cavernous. I thought, > "darklighting," and the word seemed very significant to me. I often dream > about "significant" words. The "Dark Light" was invented by Gyro Gearloose back in the fifties. It was a black bulb. You put it in a lamp, and when you turn it on, the room gets darker. (Patent refused). Actually, I meant to comment on this: > > From several tables away, Woj was trying to tell me about some filmmaker > whose giant, frameless black-and-white stills were hanging on tall, brown > cloth-covered room dividers throughout the space. They looked somewhat > similar to Ingmar Bergman's work, very imposing and stark, lots of > weathered people with windblown hair and tense expressions. Woj was > telling me about the filmmaker's life (arcane tidbits like how he ate a > big bunch of grapes every day for lunch) and something about a touring > film festival. Sounds a little like "Ashes and Snow": http://www.ashesandsnow.com/ Anyway, keep on dreaming! Bobbo the Hutt ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:03:49 -0500 (EST) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: Re: Taking a break On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, andrew fries wrote: > Bill Adler wrote: > > > I use Streamload, www.streamload.com, to backup my MP3 and other multimedia > > files. For $100/year you get unlimited storage. And unlimited means > > unlimited. I have 700+ gigabytes of stuff on Streamload. (Streamload does > > limit your downloads, but if you're using Streamload just for backup, that's > > not an issue.) > > That's interesting info about Stremload, I haven't heard about them > before. Though I see they offer unlimited storage space, but the > download is limited to 120GB a year on $99 plan - which means if you > ever need to restore from your Streamload backup, it will take you 6 > years to get it all back! Well, I guess that's better than losing the > stuff altogether :) or pay more to upgrade your plan in case of catastropic failure. > 700GB is kind of expensive to backup no matter what. But as long as the > data fits on one drive, I think the cheapest off-site solution would be > to just get a spare hard disk, copy your data to it and ask some friends > to keep it in their cupboard... I'm thinking of doing just that. or, if you and a friend both have broadband and a home network, each of you put a linux machine online at your friend's house and use it to back up your important files. assuming you have a friend who also desires offsite storage so you aren't just using someone else's bandwidth/power. :) most of my really important/irreplacable files are documents - ascii files, mail folders, some texts i've written. what i use is one of these: http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0161246 lot easier to transport than a standard hard drive... - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:14:30 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: Taking a break On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, andrew fries wrote: > 700GB is kind of expensive to backup no matter what. But as long as the > data fits on one drive, I think the cheapest off-site solution would be > to just get a spare hard disk, copy your data to it and ask some friends > to keep it in their cupboard... I'm thinking of doing just that. FWIW, that's pretty much what I do, only the "friends" are colocators, and the "cupboards" are server farms. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:08:07 -0800 (PST) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: On flakiness and elation No need for a screed on being forgetful and then discovering something that makes you feel like you're 5 and it's Christmas morning... A simple URL will do the job for me: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/equipoise@sbcglobal.net/my_photos I didn't even remember I did this! Oh, I remember putting up some of the early "our apartment" photos, but not the Happy concerts, and not the Innocence Mission shots. It's a bit freaky, really. How could I have forgotten this? Probably because it resides in the same part of my brain that houses the "you're gonna back up, right?" nag. Part of it is also because I never ever use that email address and so it's not something I revisit often. The main thing to say is...YAY! You can be sure that I'll be making use of this or other Image Hosting services in the future. Stuff only on hard drive - BAD Stuff put online even if you forgot you did it - GOOD :skips off to do cartwheels: Vickie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:36:26 -0800 From: paul kim Subject: jorane, feist, maria mckee, kinnie starr Jorane at 9 PM at the hotel cafe next wednesday. 8 PM, san franciscan Amy Cooper opens. Anyone in L.A. will be there if they know what's good for them. And it looks like her album will be out on a U.S. label soon, too. Feist. Meredith, it seems like Canadian indie music is becoming a new "fad", maybe not supplanting all the "new-newwave/garage band" bands with "the" in their names, but definitely making the rounds among the "tastemakers" and the rock critics. We can only hope that deserving artists like Sarah Slean and Emm Gryner and Veda Hille et al. get their due recognition out of this, much like Broken Social Scene, Stars, and Feist are getting now. Helping Feist's cachet is her stint with BSS, as well as her being a former housemate with Peaches, and being big in France. And we can't discount the fact that her album Let It Die is quite good, of course. :) Thanks for the heads up on Maria McKee. She'll be doing a cd release party at the Hotel Cafe on the 19th of April. Interesting to see how packed the venue is for her show since she played the Roxy, 3 times the size of the HC, when she released High Dive a few years back. And Kinnie Starr is back at the HC at the end of April! Woo! I missed her the last time she was here because of family plans, and now I don't have to beat myself up for skipping her show. Finally, my friend victoria insisted I go check out a brit named Nerina Pallot last night at the HC. She followed The Dilletantes, which is Kay Hanley and Michelle Lewis' new project. Nerina was fabulous. She reminded me of Fiona Apple and Rachael Yamagata at the piano (more engaging though) and Joni and Beth Orton on the guitar. Her second album comes out in the U.K. next week, and they're looking for a deal here in the U.S. Paul ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #88 **************************