From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #14 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, January 16 2006 Volume 12 : Number 014 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: brokeback? long and pathetic (and V For Vendetta) [Doug ] NYT reviews Cat Power and Beth Orton [Kjetil Torgrim Homme Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ****************** Chris Sampson (chris@neuron.uchc.edu) ****************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited Dennis G Parslow Fri January 17 1964 ...of the Saint Ross Alford Thu January 17 1957 Positive Nancy Whitney Mon January 19 1959 slippery when wet 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 - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:26:42 -0600 From: Doug Subject: Re: brokeback? long and pathetic (and V For Vendetta) Can someone please tell me what the word "Brokeback" means in regards to this movie? Is it some kind of sexual reference? - --Doug ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:10:58 -0600 From: "Collected Sounds" <2345@collectedsounds.com> Subject: 40 yr old... was RE: brokeback? long and pathetic Meredith said: >I would say the most entertaining movie of 2005 was _The 40-Year-Old >Virgin_, but I mean entertaining in a GOOD way. :) I haven't thought enough about all the movies to say which is the BEST in my book, but that movie certainly is near the top. I was NOT expecting to like it that much. I thought it would be stupid, silly fun ala "Old School" but it was way better than that (and I liked "Old School") It was actually sweet at times....and yes, hilarious. And I don't usually like gross out/sex humor (I thought "Something About Mary" was stooooopid) so that's high praise coming from me. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:46:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: brokeback? long and pathetic (and V For Vendetta) - --- Doug wrote: > Can someone please tell me what the word "Brokeback" means in > regards to this movie? Is it some kind of sexual reference? No, not at all. It's the name of the mountain in Wyoming where the two main characters first meet, then meet again for vacations over the next 20 years. It was the title of the original short story. The movie was actually filmed in Alberta, I believe. - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... Happy's MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples and rarities: http://wretchawry.com - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:17:34 -0800 (PST) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: brokeback? long and pathetic (and V For Vendetta) - --- Xenu's Sister wrote: It was the title > of the > original short story. The movie was actually filmed > in Alberta, > I believe. Yes, it's all shot in Alberta except for a scene in New Mexico. I wonder if that was the Mexican scene. :) I've been to Riverton, Wyoming. That wasn't Riverton. But Alberta is a pretty stand-in for Wyoming. Ellen, who spent 21 years in Colorado once upon a time and is a mountain snob. (It's not a mountain until it's at least 10,000 feet in elevation. ;) "Literature stops in 1100. After that, it's just books." - -- JRR Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:41:41 -0800 From: "Allison Crowe Music Mgmt" Subject: Re: Imogen Heap was on Letterman http://www.youtube.com/w/imogen-heap-on-letterman?v=jn6AigJxTCc&search=imogen%20heap the above link at YouTube shows Immi's performance - and Letterman's intro/outro - for anyone who missed it ( : cheers, Adrian ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:38:36 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: brokeback? long and pathetic Hi, Laura Clifford wrote: >Entertaining? Did no one see "Wallace & Gromit???" > > *facepalm* Of course I did!! (Quite by accident, actually -- our local theater screwed us out of the screening of _Serenity_ we'd gone to see, so we did the two-for-one special while waiting.) I think that one would be a close second. :) Amy responded: >I haven't thought enough about all the movies to say which is the BEST in my >book, but that movie certainly is near the top. I was NOT expecting to like >it that much. I thought it would be stupid, silly fun ala "Old School" but >it was way better than that (and I liked "Old School") It was actually sweet >at times....and yes, hilarious. And I don't usually like gross out/sex humor >(I thought "Something About Mary" was stooooopid) so that's high praise >coming from me. > I *hated* _There's Something About Mary_ so I had my fears going in, but I absolutely adore Steve Carell so I wanted to give it a shot anyway. I couldn't believe how much I liked it, and the ending was so unexpectedly wonderful that it made me happy for days. :) That movie was the perfect ending to a particularly craptacular day involving an 8.5-hour drive down the world's most boring highway (I-5 in California). But I think I'd have enjoyed it under different circumstances, as well. - -- =============================================== 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, 16 Jan 2006 05:54:56 +0100 From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme Subject: NYT reviews Cat Power and Beth Orton The Slacker Divas' 10th Anniversary Gift By BEN RATLIFF Published: January 15, 2006 A STEP down from the platform of great female singers of exultation - Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Beyonci - and soon you encounter the sad slacker divas. Chan Marshall, who records under the name Cat Power, and Beth Orton, are among the best. Both have similar-sounding, slouchy-beautiful, middle-range voices. Both are about 10 years into their careers. Each has an exceptional new album: "The Greatest" by Ms. Marshall (Matador Records), which comes out next week, and Ms. Orton's "Comfort of Strangers" (Astralwerks), to be released Feb. 7. In both cases, the artists have changed bands, changed sounds and dropped some of their pretenses, though luckily for us, not all of them. In both cases, these albums are the best work of their lives. [...] the rest of the article can be found at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/arts/music/15ratl.html I can't wait to get my hands on these albums! - -- Kjetil T. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:46:21 +1100 From: andrew fries Subject: Re: NYT reviews Cat Power and Beth Orton "A STEP down from the platform of great female singers of exultation - Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Beyonci" ... who are themselves a step down from true goddesses like Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson. Celine Dion rules them all. It's all very clear. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #14 **************************