From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #140 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, May 31 2007 Volume 13 : Number 140 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- EMMA, veeery siiiilly ["Karen Hester" ] Re: EMMA, veeery siiiilly [meredith ] Re: EMMA, veeery siiiilly ["Paul Blair" ] But I always like to get as many words in the last line as I possibly can... ["Paul Blair" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 12:26:38 -0400 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: EMMA, veeery siiiilly I lugged a vacuum up 5 flights and then ran to the Cornelia Street Cafe, thinking I was going to an Erin McKeown show. But EMMA (EM + MA being Miller, Allison) are more a jam band. They were very cute, the two women dressed in matching camel colored clothes that looked a bit like Edwardian desert explorer gear, or muted Rosie the riveters. Their hair was theatrically mussed up and I can't have been the only one who wanted to ruffle their adorable spiky heads. A keyboardist made weird sounds and 80s funky beats and they tinkled with a piano and punked out with guitars and banged drums. The instrumentals were less interesting for me but numbers about their "favorite television show" Commander-in-chief and illiterate football idol Dexter were funny (moreso if you understood the cultural references, which I didn't). Erin's one solo song 'Boat(s)' was gorgeous and trounced everything else. EMMA is noisy diverting fun, but I so want to see Erin solo now. http://www.myspace.com/WeAreEmma - no sound samples. K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:14:42 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: EMMA, veeery siiiilly Hi, Karen Hester wrote: > I lugged a vacuum up 5 flights and then ran to the Cornelia Street > Cafe, thinking I was going to an Erin McKeown show. But EMMA (EM + MA > being Miller, Allison) are more a jam band. *bangs head against wall* I was going to go to this show last night. But I thought it was Monday, so I didn't. Damned holiday weekends!!! :P :P :P Crap!!! I did get to see EMMA do a few songs as part of Jenny Scheinman's residency at Barbes in Brooklyn earlier this year ... that was really cool. But still ... dammit!! Glad you enjoyed it, Karen... - -- =============================================== 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: Wed, 30 May 2007 19:48:47 -0400 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Re: EMMA, veeery siiiilly On 5/30/07, meredith wrote: > > I was going to go to this show last night. > > But I thought it was Monday, so I didn't. You're not alone... A group I meet with got a notice today saying that there wouldn't be a meeting today since the group meets the first and third Tuesday of the month, not every two weeks. To which another member responded that another reason there wouldn't be a meeting tonight was that it's Wednesday. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 21:28:22 -0400 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: But I always like to get as many words in the last line as I possibly can... For the lyrically (?) minded, my sister forwarded me this from http://www.oedilf.com ************* If you have had any experience with the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), you are familiar with its astonishing size and depth of coverage of the English language. No one comes close to the OED as far as thoroughness is concerned. And yet, it's not the most readable of books, is it? Plot lines, character development, underlying themes... All these and more are sadly missing from the OED. All things considered, it's not exactly the kind of book you curl up with in bed on a brisk winter's evening. The OEDILF Project set out to change this. We wanted to make the OED more reader-friendly and what is the most reader-friendly of all forms of writing? Why, the limerick, of course! To this end, our goal was to rewrite the entire OED in limerick form. A tall order? Yes, admittedly it was but when we began we had hoped, with your assistance, to have completed this project before our grandchildren were all dead. Known in our earliest days as "The Oxford English Dictionary In Limerick Form" (or "The OEDILF," pronounced "oh-DILF") we were well into the A's and were enjoying the enthusiastic support of everyone from the Oxford University Press (OUP) (proud publishers of the actual OED) whom we had come into contact with when a slightly sour note was hit. It seems that every single agency in the OUP was rooting for us with one exception - the Legal Department. Objections were raised about our use of the words "Oxford English Dictionary" as the first part of our title. Somewhat oddly, they suggested we use the "Not the Oxford English Dictionary In Limerick Form" but by this time we had well over 600 limericks in the works and had noticed something a bit odd. Many of our limericks were based on words not found in the OED! Many people believe the OED contains ALL the words in the English language. Not so! It very certainly IS the largest dictionary in any language (20 volumes at present and the revision in progress will likely double this number) not to mention quite possibly the single most respected and revered dictionary in the world but it does not contain, for example, proper nouns as other dictionaries do. The adjective "Shakesperian" is in there but "Shakespeare" himself is not. Thousands of obscure or little used words which have made other dictionaries were deemed not quite up to snuff, for one reason or another, for the OED. With this in mind, and since we suddenly had to come up with a new name, we thought to ourselves, "Well, rewriting the entire OED in limerick form was an ambitious goal, all right, but what do we do know?" The answer was obvious -- Expand our goal, of course! It is now our intention to write at least one limerick for each and every definition of each and every word in the English language, whether it's in the OED or not, and to title this grand enterprise The "Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form"! The OEDILF Project, our online Limerictionary, is proud to present the work of writers living in more than a dozen countries. As an international writing project, our limericks frequently use local spellings, grammar, punctuation and, most likely, rhymes that may not be familiar to all readers. Please keep in mind that what may at first look like an error is more likely to be an appropriate regionalism, correct according to the standards of the writer's home country. All trademarks used within the texts of OEDILF limericks remain the property of their owners. Their use here does not imply any opinion regarding the products involved unless specifically stated by the individual authors who remain solely responsible for the content of their own work. Opinions expressed in limericks, especially those of a religious or political nature, may or may not reflect the beliefs of the OEDILF community as a whole or those of any individual writer, including the author of any particular piece in question. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 23:09:36 -0400 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: Favorite Intermissions: Music Before and Between Beethoven, Stravinsky, Holst http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/arts/music/30inte.html?_r=1&oref=slogin "Come intermission, when the audience wandered out, Mr. DeLaurenti perked up. He made his way toward the stage. With his MiniDisc recorder running, he secretly captured the random sounds that followed: woodwind noodles, honks of oboe reeds, the murmur of voices, the scraping of chairs." So, Woj, got any good ecto intermissions recorded? I adore the sound of an orchestra tuning, though it's about anticipation as much as the sounds. K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 19:23:15 -0700 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: New Suzanne Vega I just noticed that Suzanne Vega has a new album coming out. Titled "Beauty & Crime", it's due in America on 17 July. The rest of the world gets it more than a month earlier on 05 June. And now I see that I missed her performance on WFUV too. Sigh. And now I find out that we share a middle name, even though hers is spelled wrong. The wonders of the internet, eh? :) Of course, maybe one of the wonders of the 'net is that I somehow missed a mention of this album here. /nm - -- Nadyne Mielke nadyne@little-blue-world.org Little Blue World http://www.little-blue-world.org/ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #140 ***************************