From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #270 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, October 6 2007 Volume 13 : Number 270 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: ecto-digest V13 #268 [Dave ] Ewww [Steve VanDevender ] Re: Review of Find Me? ["Jon Wesley Huff" ] Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Ewww ["Paul Blair" ] Re: Ewww [Steve VanDevender ] Re: Ewww ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: Ewww [Ellen Rawson ] Sonicbids ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: best worst song [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] Re: best worst song [Steve VanDevender ] Re: best worst song [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] Re: Review of Find Me? ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: best worst song ["Sue Trowbridge" ] Re: White Chalk packaging ["Sue Trowbridge" ] Re: best worst song [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:26:00 -0400 From: Dave Subject: Re: ecto-digest V13 #268 > Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:30:44 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Xenu's Sister" > Subject: Various regarding Find me (was ...found Oslo, Norway :) > > one is the now paid-for phantom Dave disc Letterman... bah. I knew there was a reason I hated that guy. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 23:42:33 -0700 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: Ewww Greg Blair writes: > Okay, since you brought it up, there is ONE SONG by KaTe that I just cannot > stand: 'The Infant Kiss' from Never For Ever. Yes, I know it's based on a > movie, but still, to me it sets the "Ick" factor at maximum. I always say to > myself, "what was she THINKING?!" whenever I hear it. It makes me look at KaTe > in a different way, and not a very good way. If I remember correctly "The Infant Kiss" was inspired by Henry James's novel _The Turn of the Screw_ whose protagonist is a governess who is attracted to her young mail charge. I was put through _The Turn of the Screw_ in a high school honors English class, and I can assure you Kate's song is far more pleasant than the book. If you don't know French, you could always listen to the version of the song she recorded in French, "Un Baiser D'Enfant", which is maybe even more pretty but not so obviously squicktastic. (Her other song in French, "Ne T'En Fui Pas", is even better and not icky even if you do know French.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 01:30:16 -0500 From: "Jon Wesley Huff" Subject: Re: Review of Find Me? Gary (and whoever wants to use this - I know there was talk of needing something for CDBaby) here's what I have. Feel free to use it and edit as you see fit. Hope it helps! Happy Rhodes returns after a long absence with Find Meher latest collection of songs and it is well worth the wait. Exploring a sound both familiar and new, Happy covers a lot of emotional ground on Find Me. The subject matter ranges from the defiant anthem "She Won't Go", the last thoughts of a dying crash victim in the title track, the lament of the eternal bridesmaid on "Chosen One" and the sweet tribute to a loved one in "Here and Hereafter." Happy delivers one of the best songs of her career with the elegant and mesmerizing "Can't Let Go," exploring how the emotional scars of the past can be both a source of inspiration and a curse. The incredible range of her instrument is complimented by a carefully crafted bed of electronics and traditional instruments into a sound that is both unique and incredibly listenable. Nowhere does this seem more apparent than the track "Queen" where she seems to ponder her role as siren to the marginalized, the searching and the broken. Thankfully she seems to be willing to take the mantle, as unwilling as it might be. We'll all continue to be the better for it. Jon Wesley Huff On 10/4/07, Gary Davis wrote: > Hi, folks, > > Got a favor to ask of you. I'm terrible at writing descriptions of CD's and > Happy hasn't written one yet for Find Me. I could use a good paragraph to > post on The Artist Shop and in my newsletter. Any Ectophiles who've > received their CD care to give it a shot? > > Thanks, > > Gary > > > ************************************************************** > Gary Davis > The Artist Shop The Other Road > http://www.artist-shop.com artshop@artist-shop.com > phone: 877-856-1158, 330-929-2056 fax:330-945-4923 > INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE MUSIC!!! > ************************************************************** > Check out the latest Artist Shop newsletter at > http://www.artist-shop.com/news.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 03:00:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* William Gill (no Email address) ********************* ****************** Birdie Breeze (birdies@ix.netcom.com) ****************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Gill Wed October 05 1960 A wide-eyed wanderer Birdie Breeze Mon October 05 1959 OooOoooWheeee Dan Riley Sun October 08 1961 Libra Neile Graham Wed October 08 1958 pen Quenby M. Chunco Tue October 08 1968 Crunchy Frog Mike Garland Wed October 08 1952 Creature_of_the_Night Irvin Lin Tue October 09 1973 Libra Michael C. Berch Wed October 10 1956 No parking Chris Gagnon Sat October 10 1970 Libra Wolfgang Drotschmann Thu October 13 1966 Waage Gracescape Fri October 13 1967 unbalanced Brian Bloom Tue October 14 1969 Libra Erik N. Johnson Tue October 16 1962 Handle with Care Kim Klouda Tue October 17 1967 Libra Anthony Amato Sat October 20 1973 Libra Suzanne DeCory Tue October 22 1968 Balancing Libra Dave Steiner Sat October 24 1959 Scorpio Tara MacLean Thu October 25 1973 Scorpio Elin Sjoelie Fri October 25 1974 Scorpio Jessica Koeppel Wed October 29 1969 Scorpio Kat Crowder Sat November 01 1969 Bunnies Katie Dougiamas Sat November 02 1974 Scorpio Anthony Horan Fri November 04 1966 Positive Michael Sullivan Mon November 05 1962 Scorpio Anna Pryde Wed November 05 1975 Scorpio Sun; Sagittarius Moon; Pisces Rising - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 07:39:22 -0400 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Re: Ewww On 10/5/07, Steve VanDevender wrote: > If I remember correctly "The Infant Kiss" was inspired by Henry James's > novel _The Turn of the Screw_ whose protagonist is a governess who is > attracted to her young mail charge. Adds a whole new meaning to "going postal"... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:28:19 -0700 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: Re: Ewww Paul Blair writes: > On 10/5/07, Steve VanDevender wrote: > > If I remember correctly "The Infant Kiss" was inspired by Henry James's > > novel _The Turn of the Screw_ whose protagonist is a governess who is > > attracted to her young mail charge. > > Adds a whole new meaning to "going postal"... Sigh. I just tried to type "male charge" again and got "mail charge" until I made myself look at it. I suppose this partly has to do with being a sysadmin who works on email most of the time; I type "mail" a lot more than "male". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:31:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: Ewww - --- Steve VanDevender wrote: > Greg Blair writes: > > Okay, since you brought it up, there is ONE SONG by KaTe that I just cannot > > stand: 'The Infant Kiss' from Never For Ever. Yes, I know it's based on a > > movie, > If I remember correctly "The Infant Kiss" was inspired by Henry James's > novel _The Turn of the Screw_ Greg was right in that Kate's song was based on the film "The Innocents" starring Deborah Kerr, and Steve is right in that the movie was based on the book _The Turn of the Screw_. Kate's song, however, was not inspired by the book, but rather, the movie. She saw it as a child, and certain scenes stayed with her through the years, and she wrote the song without having seen the movie again. Some may not know that. Old news, but some also might not know, and we're really proud... My husband Chris took a copy of the movie that was taped from late-night television, a cassette of the song, and edited together a video for "The Infant Kiss." (I helped!) Chris sent it to Kate and she liked it enough that she called him! I was at work, drat. He also gave Kate a better copy when we played fannish fans and met Kate's airplane when she came to New York to promote Hounds of Love (we drove from Kansas City, where we lived at the time). Over the years he's updated it several times, the most recent with video from the DVD and audio from the CD. It's on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUTkdw4C0XA > If you don't know French, you could always listen to the version of the > song she recorded in French, "Un Baiser D'Enfant", which is maybe even > more pretty but not so obviously squicktastic. Chris put his video together with the French version audio too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWSevsMRmJI (Come on, when else am I going to get to mention this stuff? Only when "The Infant Kiss" pops up as a topic of conversation. I had to take advantage of the opportunity) Vickie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:16:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: Ewww - --- Xenu's Sister wrote: > Greg was right in that Kate's song was based on the > film "The Innocents" > starring Deborah Kerr, and Steve is right in that > the movie was based on > the book _The Turn of the Screw_. Kate's song, > however, was not inspired > by the book, but rather, the movie. I was going to say that it was more inspired by the movie than the book I've taught over the years. (Steve, it's not that bad -- try it again! :) Ellen, English teacher for a quarter of a century. :) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:01:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Sonicbids I just used some of the money Happy gave me to sign Happy up for a year's membership at Sonicbids. Fingers crossed, her "EPK" (*rolls eyes*) is at: http://www.sonicbids.com/HappyRhodes I suck at this promotional shit. If anyone has ANY suggestions at how to make it more inviting and interesting, please do Happy a favor and pass them on to me. You have to pay out the backside to get in on any of the opportunities (even *after* you've paid for membership) so I probably won't be doing much of that, but the "Electronic Press Kit" is there and now that I've paid, accessible. About paying for the chance to be considered for opportunities...on the one hand I can understand because there are only so many spots, and there are billions of desperate bands who would pay and do anything to get their music heard, but on the other hand, Happy doesn't care if non-fans listen to her or not. If they do and they like it, great, otherwise, whatever. (that's my impression, not that I speak for her or anything, so don't anyone quote me). She'd never submit for these opportunities, though I think sometimes she should, and so do it for her, because I've got carte blanche from Happy to do whatever I feel like doing whereever I feel like doing it. I've got a bad attitude about it though, in this particular case, Sonicbids. In my way biased and militant mind, people should be clamoring for Happy to deign her presence for their project. They should be on their fucking knees, **BEGGING HER** to do/appear on their thing (be it songs in films or appearing on compilations or whatever), but that is an attitude that doesn't do Happy any good at all, and so I do (try to) keep it to myself. Loose lips sink ships, and all. Vickie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:31:26 -0500 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Re: best worst song Hi, I have from the Net a song with a room full of people who all said they knew the lyrics to Yesterday, but really didn't! -Lots- of humming. bye, me KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:03:26 -0700 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: Re: best worst song kerry white writes: > Hi, I have from the Net a song with a room full of people who all said > they knew the lyrics to Yesterday, but really didn't! -Lots- of > humming. bye, me Which reminds me of another wonderful bad song, "Leprosy" (to the tune of "Yesterday" by the Beatles). Done in barbershop quartet style, as I recall. Got played a lot on the Dr. Demento Show. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:27:11 -0500 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Re: best worst song Hi, 1958 Robert Mitchum was in THUNDER ROAD and wrote and sang the song. It was good. Years later he did a whole album that I picked up cheap for the Thunder Road on it. It turned out to be a slow ballad arrangement with Mr Mitchums 'soft' voice. 8-) errggh! In the 70's I met a guy who had, besides a lot of very good music, an LP by THE GODZ. The first group to use the name, they were 3 heroin addicts and the "drummer" admitted to playing the drums for the first time in the studio. Made White Light, White Heat seem like a ballad. errggh! He also had an album of Efinanny. Picture a jug band without the jug and have the 'blower' make 'Eeh Awwh' noises while the percussion is handled by a guy on hambones. Made Hee Haw almost listenable. errggh! errggh! ............ Anyone [here] old enough to remember novelty records from the early '60's? We have mentioned Charlie Drake, etc, but, how about the 'news reporter' asking questions and being answered by clips of popular songs? bye, me KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:39:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: Review of Find Me? - --- Jon Wesley Huff wrote: > Gary (and whoever wants to use this - I know there was talk of needing > something for CDBaby) here's what I have. Feel free to use it and edit > as you see fit. Hope it helps! Thanks for that from me too! I will use it on CD Baby. Vickie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:35:38 -0700 From: "Sue Trowbridge" Subject: Re: best worst song On 10/5/07, kerry white wrote: > Anyone [here] old enough to remember novelty records from the early > '60's? We have mentioned Charlie Drake, etc, but, how about the 'news > reporter' asking questions and being answered by clips of popular songs? Those became known as "flying saucer records" after a hit by Dickie Goodman (also known as "break-in records"), and remained popular well into the 70s (anyone remember "Mr. Jaws")? I was a diehard Dr. Demento fan when I was a kid and am pleased that there are people out there who have managed to archive all of his playlists online. Once in a while I'll remember the title of a song he played on his show 20+ years ago, like "I Need Your Help, Barry Manilow" or "The Whole World Sounds Like Michael McDonald," and web sites like http://www.themadmusicarchive.com can confirm that, yes, those obscure songs actually existed. - --Sue ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:24:34 -0700 From: "Sue Trowbridge" Subject: Re: White Chalk packaging Has anyone tried CDBaby's new MP3 downloads? http://cdbaby.com/mp3 One of the nicest things about this is that it provides a way for artists to continue to make their out of print albums available. For instance, Jill Tracy's "Quintessentially Unreal," which is OOP, can be downloaded as a zip file with a folder containing the MP3 files for each song, a JPG of the album cover, and a text file with song titles, notes, and links. The artist gets 91% of the profits. Good alternative for fans who don't want to pay $$$ for a CD copy on eBay. - --Sue On 10/4/07, Joseph Zitt wrote: > Karen Hester wrote: > > > Has anyone tried amazon's MP3s?. > > Yup, I bought Sheila Chandra's "Moonsung" and a Bowie EP through them. > Nice interface, though still quite buggy. The emails that they send out > come up as blank in Thunderbird, though if I View Source I can see HTML > data. Some links are to things that aren't actually there, and they have > the usual problems with names (I got an email from them about an album > that I might like by "Lake and Palmer, Emerson". ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:35:05 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: best worst song Hi, Sue Trowbridge wrote: > I was a diehard Dr. Demento fan when I was a kid and am pleased that > there are people out there who have managed to archive all of his > playlists online. Once in a while I'll remember the title of a song he > played on his show 20+ years ago, like "I Need Your Help, Barry > Manilow" or "The Whole World Sounds Like Michael McDonald," and web > sites like http://www.themadmusicarchive.com can confirm that, yes, > those obscure songs actually existed. I happily credit Dr. Demento (alongside Monty Python) with making me the twisted, broken person I am today. ;> My collection of the cassette tapes I made by putting my mom's ancient portable Radio Shack tape recorder up next to the speaker of my GE clock radio includes as many Dr. Demento shows as mixes of the top hits of the early '80s. I can still recite entire George Carlin routines (complete with bleeps ;) by heart. - -- =============================================== 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 =============================================== ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #270 ***************************