From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #198 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, July 28 2006 Volume 12 : Number 198 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Boston Market very ecto friendly. [Dave ] Re: Boston Market very ecto friendly. ["Chris Stack" ] RE: Heather Duby ["JoAnn Whetsell" ] Re: merrie amsterburg news [Timothy Jones-Yelvington ] Re: Boston Market very ecto friendly ["Lyle Howard" Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Alvin Brattli (no Email address) ********************* ****************** Christy Eger Smith (no Email address) ****************** ********************** Shirley Ye (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Alvin Brattli Sun July 27 1969 Lefthanded Christy Eger Smith Thu July 27 1944 Horse Crossing Shirley Ye July 27 Lioness woj Sun July 28 1968 children at play John Relph Sat July 28 1962 Leo Bob Kollmeyer Wed July 28 1971 Leo Steve Lusky Tue July 29 1952 Bike! Kate Bush Wed July 30 1958 God Chuck Smith Wed July 30 1958 Reboot Yves Denneulin Fri July 30 1971 Lion-Heart Joel Kenyon Wed July 31 1963 Leo Allan Anderson Sun August 04 1974 Signifier/Signified Eli Brandt August 05 Leo Amanda Williams Tue August 05 1969 phoenix Martin Bridges Sat August 08 1970 BigGuy Rosana L. de Oliveira Wed August 08 1973 Leo Happy Rhodes Mon August 09 1965 HolyGhost Loretta Pontillo Tue August 15 1978 Leo Queen of the Jungle Tori Amos Thu August 22 1963 Leo Sam Warren Tue August 22 1961 Leo Henk Van Wulpen Sat August 22 1970 Leo Kerry White Wed August 22 1951 Exact Leo/Virgo Don Gibson Wed August 26 1959 Virgo - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:56:50 -0400 From: Dave Subject: Re: Boston Market very ecto friendly. I've actually walked out of a store because of the music they were playing (Best Buy blasting rap music all through the store). A Shop Rite supermarket I go to sometimes has some interesting music choices, I've heard the Ramones 'I wanna be sedated", and I seem to recall hearing King Crimson in there once. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:34:17 -0400 From: "Chris Stack" Subject: Re: Boston Market very ecto friendly. I had a weird muzak experience a couple of years back... I seem to have a lot of "synchronicity" events in my life. One of the stranger ones happened when I was at our local mall. Some bland song was being piped in and as a defense, Tori Amos's "Jackies Strength" started running through my head. I was very pleased, but a bit surprised when it turned out that that was the next song they played. I got a bit weirded-out though when I read the paper the next morning and saw that JFK Jr's plane had crashed. I was in first grade at a catholic school when JFK was shot. My dad's aunt used to give me framed copies of the photo of JFK Jr. saluting his dad's coffin, to give to the nuns. Chris www.stackdigital.com ============================= Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:33:37 -0400 From: breinheimer@webtv.net (bill) Subject: Re: Boston Market very ecto friendly. Does Sheryl Crow's "Home" count? I must admit that I've been known to enjoy the music that I've heard there.I'm not sure that I ever hear talking in these places like you would sometimes hear on satellite radio. I believe that many stores play music "sent" to them from corporate. This past weekend I had the "pleasure" of being in two separate Old Navy stores on back to back days and recognized the same sequence of songs (a jazzy tune, "ready, steady, go" and a rap tune- trying unsuccessfully to appeal to everybody) being played at each one. This may be meaningless to the young'uns on this list but as someone old enough to remember the horrors of early Muzak I tend to find the aural aspect of shopping and eating in public a vast improvement over the old days. I can still remember the pleasant shock of walking into an old department store and hearing Hot Tuna's"Water Song" But my biggest surprise came in a Kmart. I heard some loud music and when I went toward the source I found some sort of cheap "light show" device accompanying the Velvet Underground classic "What Goes On". Attention Kmart shoppers indeed. Anyone else old enough here to have shared these kind of experiences? np: Nick Drake- Made to Love Magic not so much new music as it is different but I'll happily take what I can get ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:13:10 -0500 From: "robert bristow-johnson" Subject: Re: merrie amsterburg news > ----- Original Message ----- > From: wojbearpig > To: "this collective heart" > Subject: merrie amsterburg news > Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:21:39 -0400 > ... > anybody wanna join me in cursing subscription radio? sure, why not? Curse you, Sirius radio. Curse you. - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:36:46 -0500 From: "Kim Justice" Subject: Re: merrie amsterburg news On 7/27/06, robert bristow-johnson wrote: > Curse you, Sirius radio. > > Curse you. This is a Sirius problem! - -- Kim Justice justicekw@gmail.com 615.406.4579 (uses no mins if you have Verizon Wireless!) "There can always be new beginnings -- even for people like us." - -- Susan Ivanova ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:20:07 -0400 From: "JoAnn Whetsell" Subject: RE: Heather Duby Yes, it's really good! Based on the 5 (of 12) tracks I'd heard I thought that the record sounded more poppish than her previous work but still good. The album is overall "poppier" than Come Across the River, her last album, but it's not mainstream pop. It's got a dark edge to it. Heather's piano playing is prominent, but on different tracks it's set to drum & bass, electric guitars, or trip-hop beats. Two piano-based waltzes, "Wrestle and Cuss" and "Gone Aground" strongly remind me of Come Across the River. And there's an excellent cover of "Love Is a Battlefield" as a hidden track. I can't put my finger on what I like about the album, but that's almost surely a good sign. After 3 years of listening to Come Across the River, I still can't put my finger on what's going on in that album or why I like it so much. I just know that I do. And the more I listen to the new album, the more I like it too. Full tracks at http://www.sonicboomrecordings.com/cataloginfo.php?catid=52; and at Heather's MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/heatherduby JoAnn -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Craig Gidney Reply-To: clgidney@yahoo.com To: Ecto Subject: Heather Duby Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:55:32 -0700 (PDT) >Just heard the new Heather Duby. She sounds amazingly like Lynn Canfield--same sweetly husky voice. The new sound is midway between moody indie rock and bedroom electronica. She also does a cover of...Pat Benatar's "Love Is A Battlefield"! (A hidden track). > > --Craig > > > Blog: http://ethereal-lad.livejournal.com > Music Blog: http://www.last.fm/user/ethereal_lad/ > Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:04:57 -0500 From: Timothy Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: merrie amsterburg news Oh dear. On 7/27/06 12:36 PM, "Kim Justice" wrote: > On 7/27/06, robert bristow-johnson wrote: >> Curse you, Sirius radio. >> >> Curse you. > > This is a Sirius problem! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:47:10 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Boston Market very ecto friendly. Dave wrote: > I've actually walked out of a store because of the music they were > playing (Best Buy blasting rap music all through the store). A Shop > Rite supermarket I go to sometimes has some interesting music choices, > I've heard the Ramones 'I wanna be sedated", and I seem to recall > hearing King Crimson in there once. We have the advantage in our store of being able to play just about any CD that we have in stock, as long as it doesn't have objectionable language. We've found that no matter what you play, someone will complain. A guy in a suit complained a few weeks ago about some KaTe Bush that we were playing, and asked for "normal" music. When asked what he would prefer to hear, he said "Jay-Z". Mmm-kay. Strangely, whenever we play Neutral Milk Hotel, someone buys it, though that album grates even on me (who was once accused of having the world's largest collection of records that sounded like vacuum cleaner malfunctions). I've found my tastes getting more conservative in terms of in-store play recently. But I'm definitely going to play the new Vienna Teng as much as I can. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:31:41 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: Charlotte Martin in NYC Because I figured some ectos might be interested: http://www.knittingfactory.com/ Sunday, September 24th Charlotte Martin Main Space 8:00 PM ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:58:36 +0000 From: "Lyle Howard" Subject: Re: Boston Market very ecto friendly Greetings, My pet peeve is the TVs that are appearing in all my local eateries. Probably just a reflection of all the high-class places I eat, but the corporate world has decided Americans can't be without a TV in the room for more than the time it takes to walk from your car to the burger joint. I sort of enjoy listening to awful pop music (back to the subject of muzak) while I'm eating my taco. Makes me appreciate my records/cds back at home. And how would I ever know what some lame band in Rolling Stone sounds like if I didn't hear them in public restaurants. That approach to music can lead to mistakes. I thought that big Coldplay hit was an outtake from a Sting album for many months. On the subject of ASCAP and BMI (huh?) they shut down my only outlet for musical expression a couple of months ago by forcing a local restaurant owner to kill his live music or face a monthly royalty charge. My friends and I were singing old bluegrass tunes (admittedly with a couple of pop tunes thrown in occasionally) in the back room of the restaurant while people tried to eat their steaks and chicken in peace. I don't think Tom Paxton or the Guthrie estate or Carter estate would have seen any of the ASCAP dollars anyway. Speaking of Bella Union here is an article about local boys making it big: http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2006-07-20/music/music.html Bella Union seems to have a thing for Denton bands. Bye, Lyle ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #198 ***************************