From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #15 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, January 17 2006 Volume 12 : Number 015 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: NYT reviews Cat Power and Beth Orton ["Peter Clark" ] Re: 40 Year-Old Virgin [Lisa ] Re: NYT reviews Cat Power and Beth Orton [Sue Trowbridge Subject: Re: NYT reviews Cat Power and Beth Orton Right, then. I'm supposed to punch up the balance of the article when the sorry excuse of a writer, plus the editor, cannot even get Beyonce correct in the first para? Phooey. Peter C - -= High Performance Analogue =- www.redpoint-audio-design.com - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kjetil Torgrim Homme" To: Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:54 PM 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 07:11:51 -0600 From: Lisa Subject: Re: 40 Year-Old Virgin Like others on this list, I was not expecting to like this as much as I did. It's hard to imagine a sweet love story couched in all of the crude sexual humor, but it was the perfect mix. Especially for those of us with a sort of sick sense of humor. Having Catherine Keener in it doesn't hurt either. Oddly enough (or perhaps not), I left my high-paying corporate job of 14 years last year, and just finished school to be an esthetician and make-up artist. Every customer I had for a wax asked me if I had seen the movie yet (because of the wax scene). I finally broke down and did. I don't usually buy DVDs, but that one might have to show up on my shelf--right next to Office Space and Badder Santa (talk about not wanting to laugh at a movie, but doing it in spite of yourself!). Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:15:12 -0800 From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Re: NYT reviews Cat Power and Beth Orton On 1/15/06, Peter Clark wrote: > Right, then. > > I'm supposed to punch up the balance of the article when the sorry excuse of > a writer, plus the editor, cannot even get Beyonce correct in the first > para? The problem was that the "e" at the end of Beyonce's name has an accent mark over it, and it didn't come through in Kjetil's post. Fear not, the NYT got it right. - --Sue T. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #15 **************************