From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #353 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, December 30 2007 Volume 13 : Number 353 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Why Happy didn't make my best of-list (and why I'm out of here..) ["] A happy end? [Leonora Christina Skov ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:29:31 -0500 From: "Richard Messum" Subject: Re: Why Happy didn't make my best of-list (and why I'm out of here..) I'm only a recent convert to Happy's music, and to date i have just the "Find Me" CD (although i have recently ordered some others), but this is a universal theme and so i feel qualified to put my oar in. I think that everyone has, on occasion, sent an e-mail they have later regretted. Whether the message was written when depressed, or drunk, or angry, it happens. The rule is, apply brain before clicking "send." And i wish i had remembered this rule every time! No artist is infallible. I can find no fault with "Find Me," i think it's brilliant, but as i said above, it's the only one of Happy's CDs i have as yet heard. Sooner or later, all of our favourites disappoint us. That just means that they are human. It doesn't mean we can't still love them, it just means that we think that they have made a mis-step. I'm sure that the artist thinks that their song or project or whatever was just fine. In fact, i can't think of a single one of my musical heroes who hasn't let me down at some point. John Lennon? "The Wedding Album" et al. Kate Bush? Performing "Comfortably Numb" with David Gilmour. (I love him and his song, i just think her performance was ill-advised.) Rory Gallagher? Er, actually, i can't think of any instances when *he* let me down, but that could just be me LOL. And, in conclusion, wouldn't it be a boring old world if we all liked exactly the same things? Happy New Year! Richard - ----- Original Message ----- From: kerry white To: That warm and fuzzy [place] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 4:55 PM Subject: Re: Why Happy didn't make my best of-list (and why I'm out of here..) Hi, Vickie has her ups and downs - like any normal human- and writes when she is down. She may be Ectoma, but, she is just a member of a mailing list. Leonora Christina also has her ups and downs and while down (presumably) she let two posts to a mailing list get her down. We all know there are no ecto police and the reason we are flame-free is that we all let differences go by with a (non posted) 'that person must be crazy'. I once read that anyone with a differing opinion must be considered crazy because we can see the truth they are incapable of seeing. Our doors of perception are always blurred by our own knowledge base. Don't say 'I am leaving' say "I don't agree with the opinion stated". Here endith the sermon. bye, KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? - -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.11/1201 - Release Date: 12/28/2007 11:51 AM ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:11:35 +0100 From: Leonora Christina Skov Subject: A happy end? Hi again, Actually, I was neither down nor in a specifically bad mood when I clicked 'send' last night. Although I am presently completing a children's book about a 7-year-old girl who loses her parents I'm fairly happy. Writing (in Danish..) is certainly what I do best. However, the 'why-is-Happy-not-on-everyones-list'?-thread left me with the impression that you had to be Happy's no.1 fans to post here on Ecto and I just figured I didn't belong at all. I should add that I hold you, Vickie, in very high regard as I actually found out about Ecto because you mentioned it on your splendid Suspended in Gaffa-webpage. I love that page and have craved your music collection a thousand times. So when you expressed your discontent with the missing Happy I took it for granted that you spoke on behalf of everyone and well, that saddened me. Even though I have never met any of you I do feel I know you a little through all your entries on the list. English is not my mother tongue and besides writing I am a debater here in Denmark so I might have expressed myself harsher than I intended. I could have asked you whether you had to be huge Happy-fans to count yourself among the happy ecto-people instead of deciding to leave the list like that and I am sorry. Blame it on my sensitivity towards not belonging. I'd really like to thank those of you who wrote me back and I'm glad the mystery is now solved. AND I'm planning to give Happy another go.. All the best & happy new year, Leonora www.leonorachristinaskov.blogspot.com www.leonoraschoice.blogspot.com > From: spriggsoc@cyg.net> To: ecto@smoe.org> Subject: Re: Why Happy didn't make my best of-list (and why I'm out of here..)> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:29:31 -0500> > I'm only a recent convert to Happy's music, and to date i have just the > "Find Me" CD (although i have recently ordered some others), but this is a > universal theme and so i feel qualified to put my oar in.> > I think that everyone has, on occasion, sent an e-mail they have later > regretted. Whether the message was written when depressed, or drunk, or > angry, it happens. The rule is, apply brain before clicking "send." And i > wish i had remembered this rule every time!> > No artist is infallible. I can find no fault with "Find Me," i think it's > brilliant, but as i said above, it's the only one of Happy's CDs i have as > yet heard. Sooner or later, all of our favourites disappoint us. That just > means that they are human. It doesn't mean we can't still love them, it > just means that we think that they have made a mis-step. I'm sure that the > artist thinks that their song or project or whatever was just fine.> > In fact, i can't think of a single one of my musical heroes who hasn't let > me down at some point. John Lennon? "The Wedding Album" et al. Kate Bush? > Performing "Comfortably Numb" with David Gilmour. (I love him and his song, > i just think her performance was ill-advised.) Rory Gallagher? Er, > actually, i can't think of any instances when *he* let me down, but that > could just be me LOL.> > And, in conclusion, wouldn't it be a boring old world if we all liked > exactly the same things?> > Happy New Year!> > Richard> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: kerry white> To: That warm and fuzzy [place]> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 4:55 PM> Subject: Re: Why Happy didn't make my best of-list (and why I'm out of > here..)> > > Hi, Vickie has her ups and downs - like any normal human- and writes> when she is down. She may be Ectoma, but, she is just a member of a> mailing list. Leonora Christina also has her ups and downs and while> down (presumably) she let two posts to a mailing list get her down. We> all know there are no ecto police and the reason we are flame-free is> that we all let differences go by with a (non posted) 'that person must> be crazy'. I once read that anyone with a differing opinion must be> considered crazy because we can see the truth they are incapable of> seeing. Our doors of perception are always blurred by our own knowledge> base. Don't say 'I am leaving' say "I don't agree with the opinion> stated". Here endith the sermon. bye,> > KrW> I'm Peter Pan!> I'm perpetually young!!> OW!! What's wrong with my back?> > > - -- > No virus found in this incoming message.> Checked by AVG Free Edition.> Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.11/1201 - Release Date: 12/28/2007 > 11:51 AM _________________________________________________________________ Bliv sladderkongen pe Messenger http://www.messengerplayground.dk/aktivitet ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #353 ***************************