From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #128 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, May 18 2007 Volume 13 : Number 128 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Fwd: ThrowingMusic | Shhhhhh! [neal copperman ] tori [anna maria "stjärnell" ] I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves ["Paul Blair" ] Re: strange covers ["Jeffrey Burka" ] Re: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves ["robert bristow-johnson" ] flim film milf limf mifl [Michael Mendelson ] LOB and Cyo Grace March Newsletter and Concert Info ["Cyoakha Grace" ] Blind Summer Fun - Cyoakha, Wendy Rule, Druids ["Cyoakha Grace" ] Re: flim film milf limf mifl [Timothy Jones-Yelvington ] Re: Last.fm, anyone? [Damon ] Re: flim film milf limf mifl ["robert bristow-johnson" ] Re: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves [Dan S <2005.carnivore99@verizon.] Adrienne Pierce @ Tangier (los angeles) [birdie ] Re: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves [CollectedSounds ] Re: flim film milf limf mifl [alan ] ... and for those of you in the Bay Area ... [meredith ] attention birdie and p2k and all other LA ectophiles ... [meredith Subject: Re: Fwd: ThrowingMusic | Shhhhhh! We just had Kristin out here in Albuquerque. It was a great show, and The McCarricks add a huge amount to the band. Their opening set was downright stunning. Really striking string arrangements played with cool electronic backing tracks in front of projections. We'd have them back in a heartbeat. We've got Rachael Sage out here tomorrow, which is always fun. Rare the Meredith and I get to be posting from the same state :) And if anyone wants to make a trip to New Mexico - - !Globalquerque! is shaping up to be quite ecto-friendly this year. Yungchen Lhamo (Tibet), Fiamma Fumana (Italy), Ilgi (Latvia) are all good ecto-style bands. Plus the rest is pretty cool too: Baka Beyond (UK/Cameroon), Koko Taylor (USA), Planet Drumz (USA/Puerto Rico/India/Nigeria), Petrona Martinez (Colombia) and more to come. You've all been wanting to come to New Mexico, right? neal np: Rought Mixes - Nathan Moore (local boy) . At 9:07 AM -0400 5/17/07, Karen Hester wrote: >Sorry if already forwarded ... >K. > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: ThrowingMusic > >If you're in the Boston area we'd like to let you in on an extra >special show coming up next weekend! > >Kristin's going to be playing an intimate, unadvertised, word-of-mouth >show on Sunday, May 27th at Hi-N-Dry Studio in Cambridge  doors are >at 7pm. If you missed any of the Boston-area shows or would like to >see this special line-up, don't miss out on this very last chance! > >Tickets are very, very limited and available through Virtuous.com for >$30. The show will feature Kristin with a full band and strings, the >McCarricks will be opening and admission includes food! Share this >info with your friends and we hope to see you there! >Love, >Your Friends at ThrowingMusic ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 04:28:02 -0700 (PDT) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: tori hi.. and to de-lurk..tori says she's a strange-patronisng abbreviation and this is a lyric? doesn't bode well. On other news..katharina nuttal's debut is spell-binding. i love the new order cover and her voice is just lovley. anna maria ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 07:37:14 -0400 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves The Emily Bezar/Noe Venable show last night was everything I'd expected. I only have time for a quick rundown, and I didn't save any setlists. Emily started out doing a few songs on piano and then moved to keyboard. I don't remember her as acting quite so "possessed" while playing--it's as if she's channeling something--but perhaps it's just because I'd never sat so close to the stage before. She started with a long song called "Cheerio" which she later said had to do with her annoyance at Americans who end their emails with "Cheers" ("That's a British thing, not an American thing.") While I was hearing it I had no inkling that's what it was about; it was a big, passionate song that in retrospect seemed a bit disproportionate in relation to the issue. But I have to admit I'm guilty on that count; I can only plead that I studied in England for a year, and I adopted that usage because I liked it and thought it would be good for Americans to appropriate, not because I'm trying to sound British. The keyboard songs had all sorts of interesting sounds and effects, sometimes veering into Happy Rhodes land, but with Emily's operatic vocals. Noe was brilliant too. There was one moment where, during a quiet part in "Flower in Time" (I think that's the title), just after she'd been singing about being a "prisoner of sweetness," a police car with a loud siren drove by outside. "I couldn't have timed it better myself!" she commented. Dan, Leif, Karen and I ran out after the show to catch Mieka Pauley at Pianos. When we arrived the previous band was on, and the degree of amplification drove us to wait outside. Mieka's set started with more or less the same volume, with the bass reaching in to my chest to rearrange my internal organs. I guess I no longer feel I need to prove that I can withstand that kind of assault, or pretend that I enjoy it, and I had to get up early this morning anyway, so I bailed after the first song. I'll have to catch her someplace else. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:15:28 -0400 From: "Jeffrey Burka" Subject: Re: strange covers meth sez: > Really, for its time Tori's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was a very unlikely choice. > Now it's almost trite for a female singer/songwriter to do a song by a boy, but > back in '92 that was really something. I'm surprised no one's mentioned Emm Gryner's _Girl Versions_. I would guess it was inspired by Tori's SLTS cover, but it's still a pretty amazing group of often unrecognizable covers. The Def Leppard one is cute, but I'm more impressed by the Blur, Fugazi, and Ozzy covers... Then there's my favorite cover band, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes...a punk supergroup that's released albums of covers ranging from 50s to current pop, country, and showtunes (?!). Great stuff. As for the other Topic o' the Week, count me as a fan of _American Doll Posse_. Definitely a return to form. I'm a little surprised at the hate people are showing "Yo George," particularly the "love the sentiment, hate the song" type comments. There are a few things I'm not crazy about -- "Fat Slut" springs to mind, though given its brevity, I'd see no reason to burn a new disc skipping it. For the record, I'm the category of people who thought _The Beekeeper_ was a snore, though I loved _Scarlet's Walk_ and listen to that probably as often as I listen to anything since _Boys for Pele_...pretty much everything between BfP and SW just sits on the shelf. jeff n.p. _American Doll Posse_, Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:16:26 -0400 From: "robert bristow-johnson" Subject: Re: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Blair" > To: ecto@smoe.org > Subject: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves > Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 07:37:14 -0400 > sorry i missed getting introduced, Paul (unless you were the guy sitting by woj). anyway... > The Emily Bezar/Noe Venable show last night was everything I'd > expected. ... it was better than i expected. i took a vacation day from work, i had 4 hours each way to drive (it was starting to get light when i rolled in to Waltham MA) and it was worth it. every minute (and that was a 4/1 cost/benefit ratio for me). i was pretty toasted that evening. i hope i behaved sufficiently okay. i know sometimes i can get pretty animated with multiple stimulus (there were at least three orthogonal axes of recreational stimulus that evening so that the root of my morning after angst). > Dan, Leif, Karen and I ran out after the show to catch Mieka Pauley at > Pianos. When we arrived the previous band was on, and the degree of > amplification drove us to wait outside. Mieka's set started with more > or less the same volume, with the bass reaching in to my chest to > rearrange my internal organs. I guess I no longer feel I need to prove > that I can withstand that kind of assault, or pretend that I enjoy it, > and I had to get up early this morning anyway, so I bailed after the > first song. I'll have to catch her someplace else. well i misted it. i came back to Rockwood and saw this Trevor Exeter play cello and he was fucking amazing. it's like the instrument was just an extension to his fingers. and self-taught too (but i think that's true about Happy), no lessons from Yo-Yo Ma. anyway, "ectogasm" was a pretty apt term for it. L8r, - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:31:29 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves >She started with a long song called "Cheerio" which she later said had >to do with her annoyance at Americans who end their emails with >"Cheers" ("That's a British thing, not an American thing.") While I >was hearing it I had no inkling that's what it was about; it was a >big, passionate song that in retrospect seemed a bit disproportionate >in relation to the issue. But I have to admit I'm guilty on that >count; I can only plead that I studied in England for a year, and I >adopted that usage because I liked it and thought it would be good for >Americans to appropriate, not because I'm trying to sound British. That's funny. I do that all the time. I wonder if I've ever done it in an e-mail to Emily even? I only do it on-line. For some reason, it isn't something I'd consider saying, but always felt it had a nice ring to ending a note. It's never in a British accent in my head. I don't think there is any way to end a letter that has a similar vibe. Ah well. I don't mind being someone's pet peeve either. cheers, neal np: Unreleased recordings - Muammer Ketencoglu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 08:59:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Mendelson Subject: flim film milf limf mifl JoAnn wrote: >Okay, what is an MILF? You must be living under a rock (or in Utah), but, in cases like this... Wiktionary to the rescue! ;-) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MILF - -mjm ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:46:47 +1100 From: "Cyoakha Grace" Subject: LOB and Cyo Grace March Newsletter and Concert Info Hello Friends of Cyoakha Grace & Land of the Blind. Here are 4 really cool & fun gigs for west coast fans. Hope to see you at one of these. I hope your Spring is lovely and all your dreams are pushing up through the winter waiting and starting to bloom anew. love, Cyoakha Grace 1. THURSDAY MARCH 15th 8pm FREIGHT & SALVAGE, BERKELEY Eda Maxym-CD release, with Stephen Kent, Cyoakha sitting in. This is a great folk club, Eda is new friend & nearby musical neighbor up on "the mt." who asked me last minute to sing with her for her cd release. Ectos, you'll love this concert, Eda has a beautiful smooth warm voice backed by dreamy-bluesy music with touches of world, (Imagination Club) great musicians featuring the fabulous Stephen Kent, Didjeridu master. Any SF fans of either amazing female vocals didj fans, you'll love this concert! $18.50 1111 Addison St. (510) 548-1761 http://www.thefreight.org/2007/0703-march/0703calendar.html 2. FRIDAY MARCH 16th CASPAR INN, 9pm Caspar, CA (on the beautiful Mendocino coast) 14957 Caspar Rd. Pre-St. Paddy's Day DRUID DANCE. Both CYOAKHA & KRYSTOV from BLIND join DRUID SISTERS TEA PARTY "Jungle-Gypsy-Celtic-Funk" for a night of up dancing fun!! This all female project features; Claudia Paige (Linda Perry) on drums, Kathy Buys on Celtic fiddle, Marcie Brown (Cirque du Soleil) on cello, Kate Aragon on bass, Cyoakha Grace as vocalist. Bring your dancing shoes!!! Lavendar Grace opens, & traditional Celtic band Bracken. Francesca will belly dance. 3. SATURDAY MARCH 17th MATEEL CENTER, Redway, CA (Humbolt's finest) 59 Rusk Land, Redway IRISH GOLD Benefit & Brew. St. Paddy's DRUID DANCE with DRUID SISTERS TEA PARTY, CYOAKHA sings lead & KRYSTOV joins Druids on didjeridu. Great concert hall up north, this is a lovely & early evening, including dinner, micro-brew tasting. DRUIDS play two sets, with Earth Projections by James Ficklin, & Belly Dancing by Lisa B. http://www.mateel.org/home.php To benefit for many local charities. 4. SUNDAY MAY 13th, THE NEW TEMPLE, HARBIN HOT SPRINGS, Middletown, CA LAND OF THE BLIND plays a Mother's Day Concert for MOTHER EARTH. BLIND will lead a musical Trance Journey playing 2 sets for The Mother. They also offer "Deep Earth Didjeridu" & Shamanic healing sessions after the concert to anyone wanting one. Celebrate Mothers Day up in the mts at this beautiful new age hot springs-resort. Concert is free for those staying at Harbin. TRANCE JOURNEY for THE MOTHER. In PEACE, and in Deep Appreciation for all of you, for your years of sweet support of Music of Spirit! And always with LOVE. Cyoakha Grace LAND OF THE BLIND DRUID SISTERS TEA PARTY http://www.myspace.com/landoftheblind music samples http://www.landoftheblind.com/ to order BLIND's CDs/Gigs/Bios http://www.sonicbids.com/landoftheblindcyoakhagrace Electronic Press Kit - Calendar http://www.cyoakhagrace.com/ for indie movie producers, pro bio http://www.myspace.com/cyoakhagrace free new downloads This email was sent to owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org. You can instantly unsubscribe from these emails by clicking the link below: http://landoftheblind.cmail1.com/.aspx/u/158488/48657974/ - --_=aspNetEmail=_293fad4962604b029b1b54732a4f7f26-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:29:34 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: flim film milf limf mifl I love that it means the "Abbreviation of Moro Islamic Liberation Front, an organization in the Philippines seeking to establish an Islamic state on the island of Mindanao." They must be so frustrated! First they don't have an Islamic state, and then their web site and mailboxes are always being filled with pornography! neal np: Amigo Musik sampler (from Sweden) - current track: "Whistling Away The Dark" by Jeannette Lindstrom . At 8:59 AM -0700 5/18/07, Michael Mendelson wrote: >JoAnn wrote: >>Okay, what is an MILF? > >You must be living under a rock (or in Utah), but, in cases like this... > >Wiktionary to the rescue! ;-) > >http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MILF > >-mjm > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative >vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. >http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:54:03 +1000 From: "Cyoakha Grace" Subject: Blind Summer Fun - Cyoakha, Wendy Rule, Druids Hello Spring! Here Comes the Summer-Sun! Will you be "BLINDED" by the light? NEWS: Summer includes a NW tour with Australian witchy singer WENDY RULE starting in SF and up to Oregon Country Fair! BLIND will also tour back east to STARWOOD FEST (Krystov's monster didj'in got us in!!) end of July/August for EAST COAST FANS!! Cyoakha is finishing up her beautiful FaerieFotos Calendar and releasing her stunning photography this summer! Cyoakha sings lead also with DRUID SISTERS TEA PARTY and their new live cd 'GYPSY LOVE CARAVAN' is released with a monster musical party Sat. May 19th in Berkeley! BLIND'S 2nd cd OUT OF CHAOS and Cyoakha's movie soundtrack, for H.P. LOVECRAFT's DREAMQUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH have both sold out on CDBABY.com and are being re-pressed! BLIND forms a "FaerieFolk" duo organic side project called GREEN FAERIE SESSION. BLIND plays FAERIEWORLDS! BLIND's 5th CD, sexy dance grooves, "ELECTRONA SHEMANA" releasing this summer also! Wild times, hope your Spring is all your dreams pushing thru and your summer is hot, fat and happy! LAND OF THE BLIND+++SUMMERTIME CONCERT SCHEDULE May 19 CD Release Party for DRUID SISTER'S "GYPSY LOVE CARAVAN" live CD! Cy & Krystov of BLIND joins the TEA PARTY @ Starry Plough in Berkeley with STEPHEN KENT & EDA MAXYM opening at 9pm! party til 1:30am!!! June 2 BENBOW ARTS FEST, Humbolt, Cy & Krystov of BLIND join DRUID SISTERS 8:30pm Main Stage! June 3 BERKELEY WORLD MUSIC FEST, Cy & Krystov join DRUID SISTERS @ 4pm FREE! by Cody's Books June 8 HEALTH & HARMONY FEST, Cyoakha & DRUID SISTERS all girl-groove on the Goddess Stage, Santa Rosa June 23 SOLSTICE DANCE, Fresno Pagan Pride, Fresno, CA July 5 SF Tour with WENDY RULE, Double Goddess Concert for PEACE, in Santa Cruz July 11 NW Tour with Wendy: New Moon Hareem Ritual-Party, Women only @ The Red Tent House, Portland July 12 SEATTLE PAGAN CONCERT, Concert Wendy Rule & Blind July 13 GODDESS GALLERY, PDX, FRIDAY THE 13TH Magic Concert! Cyoakha-Blind & Wendy July 14-15 OREGON COUNTRY FAIRE, Eugene, Oregon July 15 OCF Community Village Stage, 4pm July 20 FAUNS & FAERIES NW, Olympia, Washington July 21 FAERIEWORLDS FESTIVAL, Village Stage, Eugene Oregon 2:30pm July 25-29 STARWOOD FESTIVAL, Sherman, New York July 27 CHILL set at the PUFFERDOME, STARWOOD 11pm Aug. 1-13 BLIND tours NY, TBA Aug. 25 Cy (BLIND) & Claw (DRUIDS) debut MOONJUJU, NOR CAL WOMEN'S MUSIC FEST Laytonville, CA Aug. 27-Sept. 2 BURNING MAN, Black Rock City, Nevada In PEACE, and in Deep Appreciation for all of you, for your years of sweet support of Music of Spirit! And always with LOVE. Cyoakha Grace LAND OF THE BLIND DRUID SISTERS TEA PARTY - --_=aspNetEmail=_cfeb27a7b28b415ab2fa17d8a5e6ba4a-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:06:07 -0500 From: Sander Subject: Re: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves Paul Blair wrote: > She started with a long song called "Cheerio" which she later said had > to do with her annoyance at Americans who end their emails with > "Cheers" ("That's a British thing, not an American thing.") While I > was hearing it I had no inkling that's what it was about; it was a > big, passionate song that in retrospect seemed a bit disproportionate > in relation to the issue. But I have to admit I'm guilty on that > count; I can only plead that I studied in England for a year, and I > adopted that usage because I liked it and thought it would be good for > Americans to appropriate, not because I'm trying to sound British. Heh, I'm Dutch, and I picked it up after a year in Australia. Poor Emily; I can't think of a single instance where railing against a particular use of language has made any difference whatsoever. ('course, I've been guilty of it myself, but nowadays you can even hear me utter words like "blog" and "ajax" with a straight face. (I still cry a little inside each time I do, though. :P)) Cheers, Sander ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:41:54 -0500 From: Timothy Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: flim film milf limf mifl Or she just has the great fortune not to have been subjected to "American Pie." On 5/18/07 10:59 AM, "Michael Mendelson" wrote: > JoAnn wrote: >> Okay, what is an MILF? > > You must be living under a rock (or in Utah), but, in cases like this... > > Wiktionary to the rescue! ;-) > > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MILF > > -mjm > > > > ______________________________________________________________________________ > ______ > Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit > the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. > http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:19:55 -0700 From: Damon Subject: Re: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves teehee, had to chime in on this `cheers' thread - On 18 May, Sander wrote: > Heh, I'm Dutch, and I picked it up after a year in Australia. Poor > Emily; I can't think of a single instance where railing against a > particular use of language has made any difference whatsoever. ('course, > I've been guilty of it myself, but nowadays you can even hear me utter > words like "blog" and "ajax" with a straight face. (I still cry a little > inside each time I do, though. :P)) ah yes, i just noticed the other day that i said `blog' in a conversation, and i too cried a little on the inside. ;) i also say cheers a lot, and i've no real idea where it came from. i just like the sound, it's a very... cheery way to sign off. i use it in both emails and casual conversation. maybe it's something to do with having an english father, though i don't think i actually picked it up from him. one thing i've noticed in conversation is that often, even if someone has already said their own form of goodbye, and i then say cheers, they will say cheers back. it's infectuous! cheers - -damon - -- dl+ecto@usrbin.ca: protecting my real address since 2002 (too late!) > EWS starts here! < ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:47:37 -0700 From: Damon Subject: Re: Last.fm, anyone? hi all - i'm kalaleq on last.fm - i signed up for audioscrobbler several years ago but never used it until a few months back when i finally joined the 21st century and ripped my cd collection. now i rarely listen any other way. my current skew is towards feist, as my on-again-off-again roommate is currently in town and has a feist obsession. ever since i showed her last.fm, it's been her mission to take over my profile with feist, feist, and more feist. not that i particularly mind, though i wouldn't ever create so much of a bias on my own. it's also skewed towards genesis and they might be giants just because i have a lot of them and listen on random most of the time. :) On 15 May, Joshua wrote: > Perhaps the fine folks who look after the Ectophile's Guide could > implement some kind of feature that would allow us to post our > usernames for such things (including MySpace, LiveJournal, et all) so > we could find each other in various ways on various sites. that's kind of a neat idea, but the guide isn't really set up to be interactive like that and with the current codebase, i wouldn't want to contemplate it. besides, one of the good things about the guide, i think, is its focus - turning it into yet another community site would dilute that. you can always submit your bio as a commentator, and include such information on that - other than that, you could set up `ecto' groups on the various community sites and join those. or someone could set up some sort of separate ecto community site, but i don't think the guide would be the right place for that. cheers :) - -damon - -- dl+ecto@usrbin.ca: protecting my real address since 2002 (too late!) > EWS starts here! < ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:59:52 -0400 From: "robert bristow-johnson" Subject: Re: flim film milf limf mifl > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Mendelson" > To: "Submit Ecto" > Subject: flim film milf limf mifl > Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 08:59:11 -0700 (PDT) > > > JoAnn wrote: > > Okay, what is an MILF? > > You must be living under a rock (or in Utah), but, in cases like this... > > Wiktionary to the rescue! ;-) > > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MILF well, i'm 5 decades old, didn't see American Pie (yet), am no stuff-shirt prude or from Utah (but North Dakota is nearly as "red"), and i didn't know what it meant (until now). the funny thing is, because i post to USENET a lot (mostly comp.dsp), evil spam-bots have havested my email address and i get maybe a dozen spams a day. some of it is porn-spam (again, i'm no prude, but the subject lines of some of this porn-spam can make a longshoreman blush). "milf" was one of the words that had appeared occasionally. didn't know what it meant, but now i can use it to filter some of this before my virgin eyeballs will ever see it. :-) - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:10:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves Maybe it's something about BC? I say & type cheers, too. - --Neile On Fri, 18 May 2007, Damon wrote: > teehee, had to chime in on this `cheers' thread - > > On 18 May, Sander wrote: > > > Heh, I'm Dutch, and I picked it up after a year in Australia. Poor > > Emily; I can't think of a single instance where railing against a > > particular use of language has made any difference whatsoever. ('course, > > I've been guilty of it myself, but nowadays you can even hear me utter > > words like "blog" and "ajax" with a straight face. (I still cry a little > > inside each time I do, though. :P)) > > ah yes, i just noticed the other day that i said `blog' in a > conversation, and i too cried a little on the inside. ;) > > i also say cheers a lot, and i've no real idea where it came from. i > just like the sound, it's a very... cheery way to sign off. i use it > in both emails and casual conversation. maybe it's something to do > with having an english father, though i don't think i actually picked > it up from him. > > one thing i've noticed in conversation is that often, even if someone > has already said their own form of goodbye, and i then say cheers, > they will say cheers back. it's infectuous! > > cheers > > -damon > > -- > dl+ecto@usrbin.ca: protecting my real address since 2002 (too late!) > > EWS starts here! < > > - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- neile@drizzle.com / neile@sff.net .... http://www.sff.net/people/neile Editor, The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music . http://www.ectoguide.org Workshop Administrator, Clarion West ...... http://www.clarionwest.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 15:54:26 -0400 From: Dan S <2005.carnivore99@verizon.net> Subject: Re: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves Paul Blair wrote: >The Emily Bezar/Noe Venable show last night was everything I'd >expected. It was a brilliant evening, and it was great to see so many people from this group in attendance. >Dan, Leif, Karen and I ran out after the show to catch Mieka Pauley at >Pianos. When we arrived the previous band was on, and the degree of >amplification drove us to wait outside. >...so I bailed after the first song. I'll have to catch her someplace else. I feel bad about this since it was my recommendation, especially since there was a fat cover charge. Apparently the sound guy at that venue comes from the Spinal Tap school of amplification -- everything goes to 11 -- simply ridiculous for a female singer-songwriter. I'd only been to Pianos once before for a show, but that one was also ruined by the same issue so I guess I won't be going back again. Cheers... Dan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:57:48 -0700 From: birdie Subject: Adrienne Pierce @ Tangier (los angeles) Nettwerk recording artist Adrienne Pierce will be performing: Sunday May 20th 10pm @ Tangier 2138 Hillhurst Ave Los Angeles also: 7PM Shannon Hurley 8PM Suki Ewers 9PM Holly Miranda 10PM Adrienne Pierce $8 If anyone can make it and wants to meet up - holler! Cheers - i'm brit/american - i'm allowed :-) Birdie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 15:13:36 -0500 From: CollectedSounds Subject: Re: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves I say "Cheers!" when someone burps. Do you supposed that would bother her? *burp* ...Cheers! - -- Amy Collected Sounds www.collectedsounds.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:08:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: I'm one of Emily Bezar's pet peeves/Tori - --- Damon wrote: > > i also say cheers a lot, and i've no real idea where > it came from. i > just like the sound, it's a very... cheery way to > sign off. I live in England, and I don't use the word 'cheers' that often. Despite writing in 'British English' (and teaching it as well :) and adapting a number of different words, phrases and pronunciations, 'cheers' just doesn't sound right in my definitely-non English accent. (What's funny is that when I visit the States these days, people tend to think I do have an English accent. Nope, I certainly don't. My North American accent just is a lot softer. :) Oh, I meant to say something about Tori Amos on Graham Norton last week. She wore the bright orange wig and sat on-stage with Norton and Gerard Depardieu, the other guest. Later, she closed the show with 'Bouncing off Clouds'. Sunday's not-as-edited rebroadcast included her giving Norton a lesson in playing piano and keyboards simultaneously. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfcPIG8eFVk Ellen "Literature stops in 1100. After that, it's just books." - -- JRR Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:10:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: flim film milf limf mifl Hmm. Why am I thinking of the Samantha Bee bit on last night's (two nights ago in North America) Daily Show using the term 'nilf'? ;) Ellen "Literature stops in 1100. After that, it's just books." - -- JRR Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:36:13 -0700 (PDT) From: alan Subject: Re: flim film milf limf mifl On Fri, 18 May 2007, Ellen Rawson wrote: > Hmm. Why am I thinking of the Samantha Bee bit on last > night's (two nights ago in North America) Daily Show > using the term 'nilf'? ;) Because you watched it. (And you can't unwatch it!) You are not the only one, BTW. (And, yes, nilf.com is already taken.) - -- "ANSI C says access to the padding fields of a struct is undefined. ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct assignment in ANSI C is a violation of ANSI C..." - Alan Cox ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 17:59:26 -0400 From: meredith Subject: ... and for those of you in the Bay Area ... (footah and Jessica, I'm looking at YOU ;) THE "NEW ARRIVALS" TOUR Friday, May 25 Hotel Utah 500 4th St., San Francisco, CA 8:00 pm featuring Rebekah Jordan, Kristy Kr|ger, Rachael Sage, and Noe Venable! Tix = $12* *Bring non-perishable food items for donation to the San Francisco Food Bank and get a free promotional EP and poster Once again, I'll be running around in my funky sneakers keeping the trains running on time. I hear tell that Noe Venable will have a pretty cool accompanist for her headlining set, so come on down ... - -- =============================================== 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: Fri, 18 May 2007 17:56:46 -0400 From: meredith Subject: attention birdie and p2k and all other LA ectophiles ... Hi, Good show coming up at the Hard Rock Cafe in Universal City this Monday night: The New Arrivals Tour is a national tour in support of the May 8th release of New Arrivals: Volume 2, a compilation highlighting some of the best indie artists from around the country. 100% of proceeds from the sale of this record will benefit World Hunger Year. The New Arrivals Tour will extend through the summer and features a rotating line-up of artists from both New Arrivals releases coming to major U.S. cities. Each event will benefit both World Hunger Year and a local food bank. Monday, May 21: Hard Rock Cafe 1000 Universal Studios Blvd, Universal City (Hollywood), CA 7:00 - 11:00 pm featuring Todd Carey, Rob Giles, Rebekah Jordan, Kristy Kr|ger, Rich Price, and Rachael Sage! Tix = $10* *Bring non-perishable food items for donation to the Downtown Women's Center and gain access to a special VIP seating area and fun giveaways I will be there, running around in a bright red MPress Records t-shirt and funky Converse sneakers trying to keep everything happening on schedule. :) It would be great to see the birdies and the Paul Kims and anyone else who might be lurking out there ... - -- =============================================== 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: Fri, 18 May 2007 15:12:17 -0700 From: "Bill Mazur" Subject: OT: Please send out some love and good energy to Andy (FW: Camel Newsletter) I just received some very sad and yet, at the same time, uplifting news today. I know this is a bit off topic but I wanted to share this with all of you. Andy Latimer of the band Camel is one of my personal musical icons. I know some of you here also have great respect for the man. That is why I have forwarded this message. Please send him some love and light for his healing. His music has brought that to me in my life and I know that he has touched many others along the way. There are hundreds of well wishes on the comments page of the Camel web site to prove that point. - -----Original Message----- From: Camel Productions [mailto:ebeast@camelproductions.com] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 6:22 AM To: wpm@value.net Subject: Camel Newsletter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Nature of the eBeast May 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Camel Fans, At long last, our return to England is complete. As with most things, it has taken far longer than we had anticipated, but most things do it seems. It was more than worth the effort. We are both so happy to be back home. This eBeast is more of a personal message. We would like to share some personal news with you: Back in 1992, when Camel had well and truly returned to the forefront of their musical niche, Andrew began to display some unusual physical symptoms that necessitated a visit to the doctor. After some tests, he was diagnosed with a little-known blood disorder called Polycythaemia Vera (PV). It's rather like an upside-down leukaemia where there are too many red blood cells as opposed to too many white blood cells. For most, fortunately, PV is a slow-moving disorder and it hasn't had a tremendous impact on our daily lives. In fact, it has been quite cooperative. However, it is a progressive disorder, and has a very specific course that it runs if the patient responds well to treatment. Andrew has responded very well to all the treatments, at each stage, and seems to have been on a very 'normal' course. As time has passed, his health has gradually become less robust as it once was. Many of you know that he lost his voice on the past two tours, and a couple of shows had to be cancelled due to illness (Camel's only performance in Ireland). His immune system has to work harder than normal, and being exposed to such a demanding tour schedule with so many different environments, it has been taxed considerably. He has had to deal with more than his fair share of colds, chest and/or throat infections. Nothing terribly serious, but it's not conducive to intensive touring. Ultimately, we were forced to announce the Farewell Tour, though Andrew was already thinking about the 'Retirement Sucks' tour. We have now come to the latter stage of PV, and a condition known as Myelofibrosis (MF) is taking its place. Once again, this isn't necessarily a fast-moving disorder. It can be for some, but Andrew is a strong-willed person and has virtually followed the medical text-book to date. I feel he will continue on this positive route. His physical symptoms have changed thought, and they're having a more direct effect on our lives than the PV symptoms. Fatigue is the most common symptom, and with the recent move, we have both been considerably more tired than usual, so it's not surprising. Andrew would be the first to tell you that he isn't exactly speedy when it comes to writing music that satisfies his heart. MF is having a direct effect on this, so he's slower than he has been in the past. But he's still thinking/writing/playing. The spirit is willing, the flesh is a little under the weather at times. There are a couple of reasons we have elected to tell you about this. The first is, of course, that he hasn't been in the limelight of musical output of late. Rather than continue the roaring sound of silence, we wanted to let you all know why. The other reason is a bit more down to earth. You have all been much like an extended family to us, and we feel you should know. Your support, both emotional and financial, has accorded us a life of musical freedom, and we have said many times in the past that we are eternally grateful. We say it again. That, in a nutshell, is how things are with us. We have thought that some of you may want to write to Andrew. Since he needs to conserve his energy to focus on musical pursuits and his general health, he won't be able to receive nor reply to emails. Instead, we have set up a special Guest Book where you can post words of encouragement. That way, Andrew can easily read them when he has the opportunity, and take strength from your words. Remember, just because there has been a medical diagnosis, life is not therefore cast in stone. The power of our determination is the only thing that can impress a stone. We see this glass as more than half full, and not empty in any way. Presently, we are looking for a home to buy, where we can build a new studio and get on with the business we both love. It's easy to look at the darker side of life, but I was certainly never one to take the easy path. There are so many blessings in our lives that deserve far more acknowledgement, from the simple song of the blackbird, to the strong relationship we have shared for nearly 30 years now. One of the beautiful things about this stage of life is gaining the understanding that it's really all about the little details, things that happen in the unexpected swiftness of a breeze. They are moments that make up the true quality of our lives. Everything in life is only as significant as we make it. That is the wonder of choice, where we think we have none. Our choice is to keep our eyes on the prize. We were given this life to live, not to stand idly by and watch what falls upon us. We are planning a new studio album and we are looking at the feasibility of some brief, mini-tours, as it were, as opposed to a 3 month odyssey of consecutive rehearsal and performance dates, with nothing but travel in between. Not only do we know that isn't good for Andrew's health, we just don't want to do it any more. Once Upon a Time, it was incredibly exciting to go from city to city, crammed on a bus, playing cards, watching the horizon change and fall behind with ever new horizons to chase. We think we'd like to stroll through it all now, taking a bit more time to savour those horizons and expand the pleasure of more intimate performances. Life isn't easy, nor fair. No one ever said it would be. But we can take life easier, and that's the special give of life for us right now. Yesterday, 17th May, was Andrew's birthday. For me, it was the best day that ever happened in the Universe. With our fondest regards to each and everyone of you, Susan Hoover Quick Links... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Official Camel Web Site Camel Shop Forward email This email was sent to wpm@value.net, by ebeast@camelproductions.com Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe | Privacy Policy. Email Marketing by Camel Productions | PO Box 3213 | Corsham | SN13 0WT | United Kingdom ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #128 ***************************