From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #321 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, November 27 2007 Volume 13 : Number 321 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: ANYONE IN/NEAR AMSTERDAM!!! ["Chris Boek" ] Re: holiday albums [Ellen Rawson ] Re: holiday albums ["Alexander Johannesen" ] Re: holiday albums [] Re: holiday albums [Bernie Mojzes ] Re: holiday albums [birdie ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:00:04 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Pat Tessitore (no Email address) ********************* ******************* Valerie Kraemer (no Email address) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Valerie Kraemer November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Sue Trowbridge Sun November 27 1966 Skytten Ward Kadel Tue November 29 1977 Sagittarius Jesse Hernandez Liwag Wed November 29 1972 Water Rat Mirko Bulaja Sat November 30 1974 Block Juha Sorva Thu December 02 1976 Sagittarius Chip Lueck Thu December 05 1968 Sagittarius Lenore December 05 sagi Michele Wellck December 08 Sagittarius Jeremy J. Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius Renee Canada Tue December 13 1977 Sagittarius Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti Sat December 15 1956 queen_nefertiti@prodigy.net Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Milla Wed December 17 1975 Sagittarius Chris Schernwetter Tue December 17 1974 Sagittarius Sherry Haddock Sat December 17 1960 Sagittarius Tracy Benbrook Tue December 18 1973 Sagittarius Mark Lowry Mon December 22 1969 Capricarius Kay Cleaves Wed December 22 1976 Prancing Pony Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Joseph Wasicek Sat December 25 1976 Brown Eagle - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:32:38 +0100 From: "Chris Boek" Subject: Re: ANYONE IN/NEAR AMSTERDAM!!! I arrived in Amsterdam this morning, and am planning to go to the Friday afternoon session. I'll report back once I've seen it. Chris. > > Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:43:00 -0800 (PST) > From: "Xenu's Sister" > Subject: Re: ANYONE IN/NEAR AMSTERDAM!!! > > So, I take it no one went to see this? A documentary about Kate(fans) > with, supposedly, Happy singing and an interview? On the big screen? > > You have 3 more chances. Yes, it will eventually be shown on Dutch TV, > but the television version is going to be shorter. Who knows what > they'll cut out for the television broadcast...could be Happy. If > indeed Happy is in it, which I don't know if she is, because no one > has come forward yet, here, on MySpace, or the Kate forum, with a > report from the screening. And who knows when it will end up on > DVD? > > *whimper* PLEASE someone go see this and report back. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:04:11 -0800 (PST) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: holiday albums I am very unlike you. Personally, I rather dislike Christmas music because it's horribly overplayed for about six-eight weeks, and you keep hearing the same songs over and over again in stores and other public places. Bleah. Plus, I'm not Christian. :) I prefer winter songs. Give me Joni Mitchell's "Urge for Going". I like Dar's "Christians and Pagans". I'll listen to the Festival of Light CDs (hey, Jane Siberry is on the first one, and Chava Alberstein is on the second! :) before I willingly submit to playing Christmas songs. If pushed, though, I can handle more folkie-type Christmas songs, such as those by the Watersons, particularly in their life performances, as they discuss the folkloric elements of the songs. Ellen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:28:10 +1100 From: "Alexander Johannesen" Subject: Re: holiday albums On Nov 27, 2007 9:04 AM, Ellen Rawson wrote: > I am very unlike you. I guess I'm a bit unlike the both of you ; I love Christmas music, as long it was written before 1800. Anything after that date I hate with a passion. Funny how everybody thinks Handel's Messiah is Christmas music though. It's almost as if people don't understand the context in which they live. :) Alex - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps - ------------------------------------------ http://shelter.nu/blog/ -------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:36:58 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: holiday albums Hi, Alexander Johannesen wrote: > I guess I'm a bit unlike the both of you ; I love Christmas music, as > long it was written before 1800. Anything after that date I hate with > a passion. I'm (mostly) with you. :) My all-time favorite Christmas album is the Boston Camerata's "A Medieval Christmas". It's just not the holiday season until I've heard that a few times. Lots of other Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque seasonal music gets heavy airplay in my household around Christmastime, too. My other, more contemporary faves are Loreena McKennitt's "To Drive The Cold Winter Away", Susan McKeown and Lindsay Horner's "Through The Bitter Frost And Snow", and Jane Siberry's "Child". Can't have Christmas without those three, either. (But not until at least mid-December, please!!) - -- =============================================== 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: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:44:05 -0500 From: Subject: Re: holiday albums It starts WAY too early. I'm in total agreement that magic must be handled very carefully to retain its magic. Elevator music carols in the chemist or grocer are NOT the way I want to be greeted with my first Christmas music. Then it's overplayed and overwrought with bad performances. I don't celebrate Christmas, but I like "holiday" songs. Or "winter songs." I love the magic of winter, the short days and long nights, and Winter Solstice and the beauty of snow, etc. I love all of that, and there are some songs that go perfectly with that for me: Dar Williams' "February" and Joni Mitchell's "River" and well -- I really DO love The Little Drummer Boy carol and a couple others. O Holy Night, when sung beautifully, is a gorgeous piece of music. I can appreciate it -- even with the distinctly Christian lyrics, but I don't want it to be stuck in between Jingle Bell Rock and The Twelve Days of Christmas (which, imho, should be outlawed.) At friends' house for dinner last week, they had me put in their 6 CDs that take them all the way through the Christmas season... (They don't know how, and are a bit older, so I did it.) Among the reams of Dean Martin and Bing Crosby, they had some lovely Amy Grant and a beautiful Scottish Christmas CD and some haunting Celtic winter tunes that had nothing at all to do with Christmas. I found some of that very lovely and decided to get the names of a couple of the discs. (And I agree, Alexander Johannesen, regarding people totally misunderstanding Handel's Messiah. Why is it that people think it's OK to chop up an oratorio? I will never understand that, and if it's to be fully performed at Christmas then it should be at Easter as well, at the very least, and several times between (preferably only by professional chorus and orchestra, thanks. ;) Oh, I sound like Bah Humbug. Don't mean to be, it's just that Christmas is often a very lonely time for me since my husband died, and I'm still torn about how to handle all of the festivities combined with my feelings of "leave me alone." So thankfully there is music that does comfort me through the season, whether it's "traditional holiday music" is questionable, but it works for me. ;) Happy holidays to all who are starting already, Be well, Ella ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I may not be a first-class composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer." -Richard Strauss ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:55:27 -0500 (EST) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: Re: holiday albums There's nothing like working in a mall during xmas season and spending 6 weeks listening to Barbara Steisand's manic "Jingle Bells" on infinite loop. Perhaps that is why my favorite xmas album is "Horny Holidays" by Mojo Nixon and the Toadliquors. When "We Three Kings" goes We've been drunk for three days straight Singing like we are Tom Waits [indecipherable indecipherable indecipherable indecipherable] Following yonder star you know you've got an album full of enough holiday cheer for the whole family. brni ps i also love bing&bowie's "Little Drummer Boy" > Hi, > > Alexander Johannesen wrote: >> I guess I'm a bit unlike the both of you ; I love Christmas music, as >> long it was written before 1800. Anything after that date I hate with >> a passion. > > I'm (mostly) with you. :) My all-time favorite Christmas album is the Boston > Camerata's "A Medieval Christmas". It's just not the holiday season until > I've heard that a few times. Lots of other Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque > seasonal music gets heavy airplay in my household around Christmastime, too. > > My other, more contemporary faves are Loreena McKennitt's "To Drive The Cold > Winter Away", Susan McKeown and Lindsay Horner's "Through The Bitter Frost > And Snow", and Jane Siberry's "Child". Can't have Christmas without those > three, either. (But not until at least mid-December, please!!) > > - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. http://brni.livejournal.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:30:01 -0800 From: birdie Subject: Re: holiday albums A Very Vancouver Christmas...... http://www.myspace.com/veryvancouverchristmas ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #321 ***************************