From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #34 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, February 5 2006 Volume 12 : Number 034 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Jill's Mix CD [aural gratification ] Re: dancing fool [Neile Graham ] Re: dancing fool [Michael HH ] OT: Mr. Morgan goes to Washington (in a PDF) [Philip David Morgan Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Stephen Thomas (no Email address) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Stephen Thomas Fri February 04 1966 Aquarius Doug Burks Tue February 14 1956 Blank Jim Sturnfield Thu February 18 1954 Aquarius Juha Kannisto Wed February 18 1970 Aquarius Joel Siegfried February 19 Penguin Crossing Linda Saboe Tue February 20 1951 aimless Teresa Ross Wed February 23 1977 pisces Michael Curry Fri February 24 1967 Pisces Paula Shanks Mon February 25 1952 Pisces Brni Mojzes Fri February 26 1965 the vanishing boy Mark Bianchino Wed February 26 1964 Pisces Pamela Pociluk Fri February 28 1964 Pisces Marius Voina Mon March 03 1980 Pisces Peter Clark Thu March 04 1948 Pedestrian - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 03:07:18 -0500 From: aural gratification Subject: Jill's Mix CD Happy's "You Never Told Me" off of BTC. About some old friends of ours back in 1994 kb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 00:14:40 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: dancing fool At 4:43 PM -0800 2/3/06, paul kim wrote: [snip] >Dan, yeah, I was surprised at how, um, not-strong her voice was. The >first time she performed Hide and Seek, it took her a few notes to get >in tune (although I believe that song is particularly difficult to >start off in tune because her singing starts right at the beginning >with no note or chord to reference, and she's got those vocoder layers >messing around), and throughout all of her performances, there were >weak notes. > When we saw her on Sunday night here in Seattle, she said she was getting over the flu and still had a sore throat. A couple of times she had to stop to drink cough syrup. I'm sure she still was suffering with that on Tuesday. [snip] - --Neile - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 04:42:44 -0800 From: Michael HH Subject: Re: dancing fool Yeah, but I read an interview with Guy where he praised her vocal skills - saying she was one of the best singers he had worked with and had much to teach other female singers, in his opinion..... Personally, from what I have heard on her songs, I think she is an excellent singer. Maybe she just has performance nerves? Coming from UK to the rather huge and intimidating USA media circus - and performing alone (at least the few times I have seen her) - I think she is rather amazing. Mike On 3 Feb 2006, at 22:55, ecto-digest wrote: I believe that she's also said that she doesn't consider herself to be a singer, but a songwriter and programmer first and foremost. The misconception coming out of Frou Frou that Guy did all the music and she was just "the singer" thus irked her a bit. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:59:23 -0500 From: Philip David Morgan Subject: OT: Mr. Morgan goes to Washington (in a PDF) Good Evening, Ectofolk: I know this group prefers not to get political, so please bear with me. In the midst of planning some of the projects for my own imprint, Popular Domain [Mediaworks], I've been unable to turn away from the "net[work] neutrality" issue that is being raised by the advocacy group Free Press . Even as the so-called "new AT&T" (read: SBC + Ma Bell) began rolling out their feel-good "your world, delivered" adverts on TV and online, the company and a few other telecoms have been lobbying for the right to essentially make the Internet a for-profit commodity - or at least, that is what some deep-thinking pundits are saying at the moment. Jeff Chester has written quite a bit on the matter for the Center for Digital Democracy: http://www.democraticmedia.org/issues/JCnetneutrality.html While I'm not completely capable of confirming all he wrote in the essay, I can say why I for one left America Online a long time ago: I didn't like their idea of a "gated" online community, especially after tasting freedom when I signed up with a local ISP and eventually set-up a decent, working homepage (which also finally brought my friend, the storyteller Diane Wolkstein, onto a global online stage). I don't wany _any_ ISP, big or small, telling me which sites I can or cannot access. I do not want my downloads from the Internet Archive (or Jamendo, Opsound, or anyone else) going sour, no matter what I access from them. It's that simple. I don't want to go back to the bad old days of Prodigy or AOL. It's that simple. To that end, I made a US-letter sized handbill which, in a short while, I'll be tacking up in a couple of places at my Unitarian Universalist congregation to show my disgust with the idea of toll-gating my online world. You can scarf the PDF from my homepage - hell, go get it here: http://www.pdmediaworks.net/hands_off_the_net.pdf Done. Now, on to my house of worship, and please forgive my urge to get this out into the open. Maybe now I can start asking the kitchen-bound musicians in my congregation if they'd like to cut a CD-R or two... Philip David 2006.02.04 - --- Popular Domain [Mediaworks] - you gotta agitate sometime... http://www.pdmediaworks.net/ - --- "I tossed down the tongs, took the gloves off, and told the ice guy, 'Later'." ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #34 **************************