From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #167 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, June 27 2006 Volume 12 : Number 167 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Funny story [Timothy Jones-Yelvington ] Milla Jovovich article [Sherlyn Koo ] Car Crash Songs ["Lyle Howard" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:39:57 -0500 From: Timothy Jones-Yelvington Subject: Funny story This was a funny and Ecto-friendly story that I thought I'd share here. I don't mean to be patronizing with the lengthy explanation of who Hannah Fury is, as most of you probably already know. Rather, I've copied and pasted the text from my blog, where many of my deprived readers are unaware of the best in Ecto-type offerings. ~tim About a week ago, I went out with several Crate & Barrel friends to say goodbye to one of our cohort who is moving to St Louis (actually, the person we were bon voyage-ing is a recent DePaul grad who is a good friend of Kelly Carder). I came home intoxicated and checked my email to see if anyone in the lj community album_love had uploaded Hannah Fury's EP "I Can't Let You In." Hannah Fury is a lovely singer-songwriter who often gets described as a kind of dark, gothic parlor-ish Tori Amos. Hannah has a song cycle based upon Gregory Maguire's "Wicked" that captures the spirit of the text much more effectively than the musical. Most of it appears on her album, "The Thing That I Feels," which I already possessed. The final two songs are on "I Can't Let You In." Frustrated that no one on album_love had yet fulfilled my request, I went to Hannah's website and made an impulsive decision to order not only the "I Can't Let You In" EP, but also the additional two EPs by Hannah that I still hadn't secured. Cut to this afternoon, when I open my package from "Mellowtraumatic Recordings" to realize that I somehow ordered two copies of two of the EPs. I'd like to think that if I'd been sober, it might've occurred to me that $32.00 was overly much for three EPs. But knowing my mathematic awareness (or lack thereof), I kind of suspect Id've made the same mistake. It is, however, amusing to realize that the rash drunken purchase you've been joking about for the past week was more even more rash than you realized. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:45:42 +1000 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: Milla Jovovich article Hey kids, Not particularly music-related, but there's an interview/article on Milla here: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article1094900.ece I guess she has a new movie out... - -sherlyn - -- Sherlyn Koo | sherlyn@pixelopolis.com | Sydney, Australia ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:56:37 +0000 From: "Lyle Howard" Subject: Car Crash Songs Hola, I can't stand to hear "DOA." It's way too creepy to deal with. And, Bloodrock wasn't a 2 album band, they were more like a four or five album band. In junior high I palled around with the guy, Warren Ham, who took over lead singing chores for Bloodrock circa 1973. If I had known what a good musician he was (when I was a kid), I would have treated him with more deference. I saw Bloodrock in 1975 or so and they had gone back to the old lead singer. If I am not mistaken, John Nitzinger was the lead guitarist. Nitzinger is still a fixture in the Dallas rock scene. A good highway crash song is "Wreck on the Highway" by Roy Acuff, but it doesn't qualify as boppy or cheery. It is fairly morose. The chorus is: "I saw the wreck on the highway, but I didn't hear nobody pray." I especially like the part about how the whiskey and the blood run together. Steely Dan owns the patent to cheery sounding, depressingly worded songs. "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" is a bright and bouncy tune about an old lech luring preteens (or teens) to home movie screenings where he seems to have his way with the movie goers. Bye, Lyle ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #167 ***************************