From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #276 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, October 11 2005 Volume 11 : Number 276 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] Re: News for Rebecca Pidgeon fans [gordodo@optonline.net] Ridiculously late to Kate [Ethan Straffin ] Ridiculously late to Kate [Steve VanDevender ] Re: Ridiculously late to Kate [meredith ] Re: Ridiculously late to Kate [Steve VanDevender ] Re: Dead Can Dance NYC [Craig Gidney ] Re: Dead Can Dance NYC [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:00:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ****************** Michael C. Berch (mcb@postmodern.com) ****************** ********************* Chris Gagnon (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 Tara MacLean Thu October 25 1973 Scorpio Elin Sjoelie Fri October 25 1974 Scorpio Jessica Koeppel Wed October 29 1969 Scorpio Kathy Clark Sat November 01 1969 Bunnies Katie Dougiamas Sat November 02 1974 Scorpio 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 - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:50:13 -0400 From: gordodo@optonline.net Subject: Re: News for Rebecca Pidgeon fans does anyone know where to find a copy of her stuff with ruby blue (before she went solo)...i have a 2 track cd single from the band and cannot seem to find anything else... thanks for the heads up on her new one :) jason - ----- Original Message ----- From: neal copperman Date: Sunday, October 9, 2005 9:12 pm Subject: Re: News for Rebecca Pidgeon fans > I didn't realize that was up and coming. I snagged a copy out of a > radio friend's throwaway pile last week and noticed it had a 2003 > copyright date. Guess it's been in someone's closet for a while. > > neal > > np: one word - hillstomp > nr: Straight Man - Richard Russo > Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner > > At 8:48 PM -0400 10/9/05, Michael Curry wrote: > >Rebecca Pidgeon has a blog at Huffington Post: > > > >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-pidgeon/ > > > >Among the other things she's been posting are free downloads of > >songs from her upcoming CD, Tough On Crime! > > > > > >Michael > > > > > >np: errr....nothing > >nr: Anansi Boys: A Novel by Neil Gaiman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:09:26 -0700 From: Ethan Straffin Subject: Ridiculously late to Kate How I hate to admit this, given how long I've loved Happy's music and basically worshipped the water upon which Tori Amos and Peter Gabriel walk, but it's true: I'm only now figuring out that Kate Bush is completely batshit brilliant. There is no hiding from the fuzzy blueness, so just tell me how many times I must listen to this entire box set as penance (and please make it at least ten). Whip me, beat me, make me listen to amazing music, Ethan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:07:42 -0700 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: Ridiculously late to Kate Ethan Straffin writes: > How I hate to admit this, given how long I've loved Happy's music and > basically worshipped the water upon which Tori Amos and Peter Gabriel > walk, but it's true: I'm only now figuring out that Kate Bush is > completely batshit brilliant. > > There is no hiding from the fuzzy blueness, so just tell me how many > times I must listen to this entire box set as penance (and please make > it at least ten). > > Whip me, beat me, make me listen to amazing music, Is IED still around on LoveHounds/rec.music.gaffa? He would be the one to make you say a million "Hail KaTe"s or bring by the truck with the 50,000 watt speakers and play "Hounds of Love" at you. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:27:13 -0500 From: Christopher Gagnon Subject: Re: Ridiculously late to Kate Steve VanDevender wrote: > ....or bring by the truck with the > 50,000 watt speakers and play "Hounds of Love" at you. I wish somebody would do that to me. (And I've been listening for years.) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:30:55 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Ridiculously late to Kate Hi, Steve VanDevender wrote: > ....or bring by the truck with the > 50,000 watt speakers and play "Hounds of Love" at you. Shouldn't that be _The Dreaming_? That album was, after all, "made to be played loud". ;) - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:51:32 -0700 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: Re: Ridiculously late to Kate meredith writes: > Hi, > > Steve VanDevender wrote: > > > ....or bring by the truck with the > > 50,000 watt speakers and play "Hounds of Love" at you. > > Shouldn't that be _The Dreaming_? That album was, after all, "made to > be played loud". ;) It is a dimly remembered bit from the Love-Hounds days; I think the 50,000 watt speaker truck was originally intended to help some heretical music critic see the light of KaTe. There is, of course, still the schism over whether _The Dreaming_ or _Hounds of Love_ is Kate's greatest album. I'm not having that conversation :-). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:54:48 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Dead Can Dance NYC Hi, This past Saturday, woj and I braved the rain and went to NYC to see Dead Can Dance at Radio City Music Hall. Things in my life had been so busy I hadn't really had time to get all worked up over the fact that I was *finally* getting to see DCD for the first time ever... and that's probably for the best. :) Our seats were waaaaay up in the third mezzanine, so I wished I'd remembered to bring my binoculars, but the sound was excellent up there. Thanks to the rain we got there a little bit late -- I think we came in near the end of the first song. I will never forget coming through the door and seeing the entire stage filled with musicians, and Lisa Gerrard standing behind a podium decorated with the same kind of fabric as the choir-robe thing she was wearing, so the end result was that she looked like she was part of the podium. (In its own way, it worked.) Nobody told me they'd be performing with a 50-piece orchestra!!!!!!!!! Apparently they only had an orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl and Radio City shows. It was amazing. Though for all that, I do have one niggle: really, is it that hard to find someone out there who plays the shawm in this day and age?! "Saltarello" was great and all, but it was kinda cheezy knowing that 90% of the melody was coming out of a computer. That aside, it was an incredible show. Brendan and Lisa's voices have held up perfectly, even after all these years. Today I listened to _Toward The Within_ for the first time in ages ... I was amused to note how similar the set lists were. :) DCD are making most of their shows (but alas, not NYC) available for sale soon via this site: I need to do some research to see if the set lists have varied at all on this tour ... I already ordered the D.C. show as a holiday present for a friend who really really wanted to be there tonight, but was unable to make it. If the shows haven't varied much, I'll probably just go back and amend my order to make it two. - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:34:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Re: Dead Can Dance NYC I was there, too. It was a fabulous show. I just saw them here, in DC. (Alright, I'm a fanatic). But this time I was seated a lot closer to the band, and see them smiling a lot. The last song Lisa sang had a Billie Holiday feel, with honest to God lyrics--in English. It was a nice touch, to hear her say a colloquial word like "OK", after all that angelic faux Latin. - --Craig meredith wrote: Hi, This past Saturday, woj and I braved the rain and went to NYC to see Dead Can Dance at Radio City Music Hall. Things in my life had been so busy I hadn't really had time to get all worked up over the fact that I was *finally* getting to see DCD for the first time ever... and that's probably for the best. :) Our seats were waaaaay up in the third mezzanine, so I wished I'd remembered to bring my binoculars, but the sound was excellent up there. Thanks to the rain we got there a little bit late -- I think we came in near the end of the first song. I will never forget coming through the door and seeing the entire stage filled with musicians, and Lisa Gerrard standing behind a podium decorated with the same kind of fabric as the choir-robe thing she was wearing, so the end result was that she looked like she was part of the podium. (In its own way, it worked.) Nobody told me they'd be performing with a 50-piece orchestra!!!!!!!!! Apparently they only had an orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl and Radio City shows. It was amazing. Though for all that, I do have one niggle: really, is it that hard to find someone out there who plays the shawm in this day and age?! "Saltarello" was great and all, but it was kinda cheezy knowing that 90% of the melody was coming out of a computer. That aside, it was an incredible show. Brendan and Lisa's voices have held up perfectly, even after all these years. Today I listened to _Toward The Within_ for the first time in ages ... I was amused to note how similar the set lists were. :) DCD are making most of their shows (but alas, not NYC) available for sale soon via this site: I need to do some research to see if the set lists have varied at all on this tour ... I already ordered the D.C. show as a holiday present for a friend who really really wanted to be there tonight, but was unable to make it. If the shows haven't varied much, I'll probably just go back and amend my order to make it two. - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:01:46 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Dead Can Dance NYC Hi, Craig Gidney wrote: > I was there, too. It was a fabulous show. Aw, I wish I'd known you'd be there ... not that it would've been easy to find anyone in that crowd, but hey. :) > The last song Lisa sang had a Billie Holiday feel, with honest to God lyrics--in English. It was a nice touch, to hear her say a colloquial word like "OK", after all that angelic faux Latin. I thought it sounded like Billie Holiday, too! It was rather jarring after everything else that had come before, but it was still cool. Since you're a fanatic, you might know this -- where can I find set lists online? I'm trying to figure out which show recording to buy, and I'm gathering the shows haven't all been exactly alike set-wise. - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #276 ***************************