From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #350 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, December 27 2007 Volume 13 : Number 350 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Note to the future [Mark Chapman ] Comics Blog - Kate Bush's Aerial (Seasonal Albums) ["mrproven3 dejazzd.co] Re: Note to the future ["robert bristow-johnson" ] RE: Note to the future ["Michael Colford" ] Re: Note to the future ["Xenu's Sister" ] Issa in the _Epoch Times_ [Philip David Morgan Subject: Note to the future I am absolutely thrilled that HR's new album finally came out... ...and I detest "Best of..." lists. Music ain't a contest. Back to lurk mode, Mark C. - --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:57:11 -0500 From: "mrproven3 dejazzd.com" Subject: Comics Blog - Kate Bush's Aerial (Seasonal Albums) Kate Bush enlivened this deadly week for me a couple years back when she released her long-awaited comeback album, Aerial.I got the album with that ghastly bane of Christmas spirit, a giftcertificate. The songs were all hymns to the Sun and the Sea, full ofthe sensual kookiness we've all come to expect from her. Albums canimprint themselves on the seasons for me.http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2007/12/worst-time-of-year.htmlAn interesting blog in and of itself, imho. Enjoy!/Tom ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:47:24 -0500 From: "robert bristow-johnson" Subject: Re: Note to the future > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Chapman" > To: ecto@smoe.org > Subject: Note to the future > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:21:57 -0800 (PST) > > > I am absolutely thrilled that HR's new album finally came out... > > ...and I detest "Best of..." lists. > > Music ain't a contest. > > Back to lurk mode, thanks for delurking and telling us the above. i pretty much share your sentiments. - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:52:00 -0500 From: Joshua Yu Burnett Subject: Re: Note to the future De-lurking as well: On Dec 26, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Mark Chapman wrote: > I am absolutely thrilled that HR's new album finally came out... > > ...and I detest "Best of..." lists. > > Music ain't a contest. I don't think music is a contest either (it seems silly to say that it is), but I love Best Of lists. To me, Best Of lists aren't about competition at all - they're fun ways to look back at the year in music (or books, movies, or whatever), go through everything you've enjoyed, and then share and compare it with others whose opinions you respect. I've read and listened to a bunch of Best Of lists this year, and I've got a list of a bunch of albms I want to check out as a result. So I don't see what could possibly be wrong with that. And if some people take it too seriously and make it into a competition, well, that's because they're silly, not because there's anything wrong with making and sharing Best Of lists. Josh ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:55:51 -0500 From: "Michael Colford" Subject: RE: Note to the future For my part, I love "Best of" lists, especially on ecto. It gives me a chance to learn about a bunch of new music from people whose taste I generally agree with. I have discovered many a new artist from folks on ecto, and life being the way it is, I often miss discussions throughout the year, but I make a point of checking the "Best of" lists of the people on ecto to find some new music. And yes, if I got enough music in 2007 to make a "Best of" list, Happy would be on it. Michael Michael R. Colford Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President P.O. Box 301237 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 781 526-5384 colford@chlotrudis.org http://www.chlotrudis.org/ "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!" - -- Kittie Farmer, Donnie Darko - -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Yu Burnett [mailto:josh@cajo.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 5:52 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: Note to the future De-lurking as well: On Dec 26, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Mark Chapman wrote: > I am absolutely thrilled that HR's new album finally came out... > > ...and I detest "Best of..." lists. > > Music ain't a contest. I don't think music is a contest either (it seems silly to say that it is), but I love Best Of lists. To me, Best Of lists aren't about competition at all - they're fun ways to look back at the year in music (or books, movies, or whatever), go through everything you've enjoyed, and then share and compare it with others whose opinions you respect. I've read and listened to a bunch of Best Of lists this year, and I've got a list of a bunch of albms I want to check out as a result. So I don't see what could possibly be wrong with that. And if some people take it too seriously and make it into a competition, well, that's because they're silly, not because there's anything wrong with making and sharing Best Of lists. Josh ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:19:53 -0800 (PST) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: Note to the future - --- Joshua Yu Burnett wrote: > To me, Best Of lists aren't about > competition at all - they're fun ways to look back at the year in > music (or books, movies, or whatever), go through everything you've > enjoyed, and then share and compare it with others whose opinions you > respect. I've read and listened to a bunch of Best Of lists this > year, and I've got a list of a bunch of albms I want to check out as > a result. Which is exactly why it would be nice to see Happy on Best Of lists, to let others know she exists and perhaps check her out. > So I don't see what could possibly be wrong with that. I didn't expect to see her on anyone's list outside of Ecto. Happy's too obscure, ignored, unknown. Only a tiny handful of people outside ecto know who she is. The release of Find Me didn't change anything about that. Inside ecto, **A HAPPY RHODES MAILING LIST**, I would have expected and hoped to see her mentioned on everyone's list. > And if some people take it too seriously and make it into a > competition, well, that's because they're silly, I'm silly thinking that the reason for this mailing lists' existence should make more appearances on Best Of lists after releasing an amazing longlonglong-awaited album? Thanks a lot. I wouldn't go onto a, say, Tori Amos or Kate Bush forum and lament that Happy's not on people's lists. That hurts too, but it's far more understandable that she's forgotten, ignored or unknown. If I can't say something about her being forgotten, ignored or unknown HERE then I truly have nowhere else to go to be a Happy Rhodes fan. Vickie - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music's the way, the only way I know... Happy Rhodes MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples: http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples Happy Rhodes on YouTube: http://wretchawry.com/happy/rarities/videolist.html Happy Rhodes Subtitled videos: http://wretchawry.com/happy/rarities/googlevideo.html Suspended In Gaffa: http://suspended-in-gaffa.com Streaming audio: http://www.myspace.com/gaffashow - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:57:14 -0500 From: Philip David Morgan Subject: Issa in the _Epoch Times_ Good ECTOfolk: Fans of Issa will find something to appreciate in Masha Savitz's piece for, of all places, _The Epoch Times_: http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-12-25/63213.html Towards the end of the article: "Issa examines human nature with unexpected, poignant, and ultimately redemptive results. "Her music, a kaleidoscope of whirling images and harmonics, combined with Issa's haunting and tender voice, pierces through our human notions, into a place of timeless knowing -- affirming, sacred, and unselfconscious, swaddled in possibility." Sounds like a good write-up to me... Philip David 2007.12.26-27 - --- now playing: golden silence, accented by the winter rain and the soft purring of my Mac Mini... - --- Yougasa Group -- Remaining calm, collected, and connected is what humanity is all about... http://www.yougasa.net/ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #350 ***************************