From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #180 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, July 13 2007 Volume 13 : Number 180 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Who puts pep in your step? [Damon ] pepping one's step [adamk@zoom.co.uk] Re: Who puts pep in your step? [Doug ] Re: Who puts pep in your step? [gaseous clay ] "The Dark Is Rising" movie [Sherlyn Koo ] public service announcement [gaseous clay ] Re: "The Dark Is Rising" movie [Chris Morriss ] vienna teng dvd pre-order [gaseous clay ] Re: "The Dark Is Rising" movie [Steve Schiavo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:19:45 -0700 From: Damon Subject: Re: Who puts pep in your step? i have to nominate heather nova's `virus of the mind' from _south_. an album, i must confess, that i quite detested on first listen (i loved _siren_) - it sounded way overproduced to me. but i kept out of sheer inertia and now that i have my collection ripped and it comes up on random play, i find i do like it after all. funny how that happens. `virus of the mind' came up a couple of times recently and over the past week i've found myself spontaneously singing it and bopping away at my desk / on the street / wherever. virus of the mind indeed. others would have to be 10,000 maniacs `unplugged' album, deborah conway's _bitch epic_, much anything by erin mckeown, many of jill sobule's peppy songs... hmm, no doubt, kuma, regina can certainly do it sometimes. - -damon - -- dl+ecto@usrbin.ca: protecting my real address since 2002 (too late!) > EWS starts here! < ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:15:04 +0100 From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: pepping one's step Michael Quinn nominated a couple of Thea Gilmore tunes which I will, naturally, second, and add my own uplifting Thea songs: Generation Y, mainly for it's "Na Na/Na Na/Na na na nananana" chorus. "Let's make a Scene" which, for a B-side, is one of the best things she's ever done (yeah, yeah, IMHO) and which regularly has me bouncing across the room. Oddly, her "God Knows" has a strange, uplifting effect on me and puts a little spring in my step, despite its stately pace. I'd also like to mention Tori's "Bouncing Off Clouds" which is my stepper- pepper for this year. adam k. - ----------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:03:38 -0500 From: Doug Subject: Re: Who puts pep in your step? I'd like to nominate pretty much anything by Kay Hanley. Even some of her stuff with Letters to Cleo. - --Doug ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:07:36 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: Re: Who puts pep in your step? one time at band camp, Paul Blair (ciriwe@phobot.net) said: >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPDKHXWlLQ brilliant! well, to answer your question, my "up" music (aka, music to wash dishes or clean the house to) would be poppy stuff like belly or frou frou or au revoir simone or erin mckeown or palomar or suddenly, tammy! (ectophilic!), high-speed folk-ish stuff like charming hostess (ectophilic!) and boiled in lead (marginally ectophilic!), or so-called "pop punk" stuff like the descendents/all, dag nasty, or the vandals (not such much with the ectophilia). i'm also an afficianado of the new pr0nographers, who would fall into the first category, but i will single them out because their new album is brilliant and, after a few unsure listens, completely won me over. and, i might add, i'm enbarrased to say that their first two albums left me underwhelmed until _twin cinema_, their third, was released a couple years and completely blew me away. i revisted their earlier verk and i guess the ear wax was cleared from my ears since lo! they, too, are excellent. woj n.p. wpkn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:59:46 +1000 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: "The Dark Is Rising" movie Hi everyone, No musical content, but I know there are many fellow fans of Susan Cooper's "The Dark Is Rising" series here. I saw a preview for the upcoming film adaptation last night. It looks AWFUL, and it made me sad. The Stantons are now Americans living in England (WTF?????)! Will is a blond kid who looks like he came off the set of "Home Improvement", and Merriman has been made younger. Judging from Will's clothing, it's set now, not back in the 60s or 70s as the books were (there goes 90% of your atmosphere, right there). And the Stantons appear to be rewritten as a stereotypical dysfunctional family instead of the rowdy but supportive family that they were in the books. As an added bonus, it's been directed by the chap who made that miniseries about 9-11 that was debunked so vigorously by the left-wing media last year. And it's got that kid from "Everwood" in it. Check out the IMDB page, if you want to be as depressed about this as I am: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484562/ Sigh. At least it's got Christopher Eccleston in it... - -sherlyn ps - The new Harry Potter movie is awesome, though! - -- Sherlyn Koo | sherlyn@pixelopolis.com | Sydney, Australia ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:31:59 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: public service announcement binnie klein just played "i say" on wpkn. just had to share. you may now continue with your normal business. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:23:50 +0100 From: Chris Morriss Subject: Re: "The Dark Is Rising" movie In message <20070712105946.wcbc1mc9yccg0kgs@pixelopolis.com>, Sherlyn Koo writes >Hi everyone, > >No musical content, but I know there are many fellow fans of Susan >Cooper's "The Dark Is Rising" series here. > >I saw a preview for the upcoming film adaptation last night. It looks >AWFUL, and it made me sad. The Stantons are now Americans living in >England (WTF?????)! Will is a blond kid who looks like he came off >the set of "Home Improvement", and Merriman has been made younger. >Judging from Will's clothing, it's set now, not back in the 60s or 70s >as the books were (there goes 90% of your atmosphere, right there). >And the Stantons appear to be rewritten as a stereotypical >dysfunctional family instead of the rowdy but supportive family that >they were in the books. > >As an added bonus, it's been directed by the chap who made that >miniseries about 9-11 that was debunked so vigorously by the left-wing >media last year. And it's got that kid from "Everwood" in it. > >Check out the IMDB page, if you want to be as depressed about this as I am: >http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484562/ > >Sigh. At least it's got Christopher Eccleston in it... > >-sherlyn > >ps - The new Harry Potter movie is awesome, though! That's sad about 'The Dark is Rising' film, the series of books was very British (English/Welsh as least) in feel, so your description of the film isn't very inviting. (I didn't actually know there was a film adaptation of the series under way.) I doubt I'll bother to see this one. Has anyone heard much about the Philip Pullman "Northern Lights" (The Golden Compass) film? The reports I've seen here in the UK so far seem promising. - -- Chris Morriss ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:37:44 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: vienna teng dvd pre-order in case some of youse weren't aware (i wasn't or, if i had been, it slipped my mind). check it out at http://www.scarabcart.com/cgi-bin/viennateng/item.cgi?id=116 woj - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: DVD now available for pre-order Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:53:35 -0700 From: Michele To: illuminations@smoe.org Live at the World Cafe Live ;) 2007 is now available for pre-order at viennateng.com/merch - hopefully it'll be available to buy at the upcoming July shows, and it should be in for the August shows. Being one of the first 100 and 500 people gets you shiny extra stuff, so hurry! - --Michele ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:59:22 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: "The Dark Is Rising" movie On Jul 12, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Chris Morriss wrote: > Has anyone heard much about the Philip Pullman "Northern > Lights" (The Golden Compass) film? The reports I've seen here in > the UK so far seem promising. "You have to recognise that it is a challenge in the climate of Bush's America." "New Line is a company that makes films for economic returns. You would hardly expect them to be anything else. They have expressed worry about the possibility of HDMs perceived antireligiosity making it an unviable project financially. My job is to get the film made in such a way that the spirit of the piece is carried through to the screen, and to do that I must contend not only with the difficulties of the material but with the fears of the studio." - Chris Weitz - - Steve _______________ Interaction with cosmic intelligence may be influence by Penrose noncomputable Platonic wisdom embedded in Planck scale geometry. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #180 ***************************