From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #661 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, November 20 2008 Volume 13 : Number 661 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, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Kristeen Young news ["Paul Blair" ] an announcement [cjmacs ] Re: an announcement [meredith ] Re: an announcement [neile ] Re: an announcement [neal copperman ] Re: an announcement ["Jeffrey Burka" ] Re: an announcement ["Aly-Neil Fields" ] Re: an announcement [Ellen Rawson ] Re: an announcement [morayati@email.unc.edu] Re: an announcement [Steve VanDevender ] RE: an announcement [Leonora Christina Skov ] Re: an announcement [birdie ] RE: an announcement ["Bill Mazur" ] Re: an announcement [jessica spurling ] Re: San francisco area reminder, this saturday! Re: My Brightest Diamond news [Tour (FREE TICKETS) | Remix EP | New Video] [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:00:04 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Jeff Smith (JefffSmith@aol.com) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jeff Smith Mon November 19 1962 Crash Kevin Bartlett Fri November 21 1952 Scorpio Sun - Capricorn Moon - Virgo Ascent Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Anja Baldo Tue November 23 1965 Garbanzo Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius 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 - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:53:33 -0500 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Kristeen Young news - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kristeen Young Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:19 AM Subject: small club tour > Hope you can attend one of the following KRISTEENYOUNG shows. There > might be a couple of more shows added (HOPEFULLY, all ages if we > can finagle it....is that how "finagle" is spelled? Probably > not)....so check www.myspace.com/kristeenyoung for show listings > from time to time. Also, we will have our new album, Music For > Strippers, Hookers, & the Odd On-Looker (which includes a duet with > Patrick Vaughn Stump of FALL OUT BOY) available, for the first > time, at these shows. > > >> KRISTEENYOUNG >> NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2008 TOUR >> >> >> THIS THURSDAY!!! November 20, 2008 8pm sharp| Pianos >> 158 Ludlow Street | New York, NY >> (212) 505-3733 | www.pianosnyc.com >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----- >> >> Saturday, November 29, 2008 10pm | The Distillery >> 1896 N High Street | Columbus, OH 43201 >> (614) 291-3448 | www.cringe.com/bs/distillery.htm >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----- >> >> Sunday, November 30, 2008 8pm| The Modern Exchange >> 12219 Dix-Toledo | Southgate, MI 48195 >> (734) 284-2547 | www.themodernexchange.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----- >> >> Monday, December 1, 2008 10pm| Red Line Tap >> 7006 N Glenwood | Chicago, IL 60626 >> (773) 274-5463 | www.heartlandcafe.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----- >> >> Sunday, December 7, 2008 10pm| EMO s >> 603 Red River Street | Austin, TX 78701 >> (512) 477-3667 | www.emosaustin.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----- >> >> Monday, December 8, 2008 10pm| Rock Bottom >> 1033 Avenue B | San Antonio, TX 78215 >> (210) 849-2243 | www.samusicscene.net >> ALL AGES >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----- >> >> Thursday, December 11, 2008 10pm sharp| Hotel Cafe >> 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd | Los Angeles, CA 90028 >> www.hotelcafe.com >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----- >> >> Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | The Record Bar >> 1020 Westport Road | Kansas City, MO 64111 >> (816) 753-5207 | www.therecordbar.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----- >> >> Friday, December 26, 2008 10pm-esque| The Way Out Club >> 2525 S Jefferson Ave | St. Louis, MO 63104 >> (314) 664-7638 | www.myspace.com/wayoutclub >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----- >> >> Saturday, December 27, 2008 | Radio Radio >> 1119 E Prospect Street | Indianapolis, IN 46203 >> (317) 955-0995 | www.futureshock.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:21:44 -0500 From: cjmacs Subject: an announcement hi all! i wanted to post this in case any of my old friends from here remember me (lately i'm down to one post per year): After 27 and a half years of domestic partnership, we have finally done it! Yes it is truly hard to believe - On Monday November 17, 2008 at 5:15 PM Chuck Stipak and Joe Helfand were married! Our lives were joined together with a beautiful Buddhist ceremony in our home in the presence of family and several close friends.The ceremony was conducted by our long-time friend Reverend Ocean-of-Wisdom. A celebratory party is already being planned for the spring so that we can share with all of you the great joy we now feel! We'd like to thank our family and all of our friends for all of their love and support through the years. Without you this never would have been! We'd also like to thank our legislators here in the State of Connecticut. Thanks to them we have now done something that a few short years ago was inconceivable. It is due to their compassion and wisdom that for the first time in our lives we can now enjoy the same civil rights that everyone else in this country enjoys! Much love and peace to everyone, Joe and Chuck (and Happy and Rufus, too!) ********** these electrons have been brought to you by: cjmacs@me.com cjmacs@comcast.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:37:15 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: an announcement Hi, cjmacs wrote: > i wanted to post this in case any of my old friends from here remember > me (lately i'm down to one post per year): ... and if folks don't remember or know him, y'all should be aware that Chuck is the original mastermind behind the "ectofest" concept. If it weren't for him, those original ectofests never would have happened! > Yes it is truly hard to believe - On Monday November 17, 2008 at 5:15 > PM Chuck Stipak and Joe Helfand were married! I already squeed at Chuck about this directly, but I'll do it again here too. Yay!!! (And can I just say how proud I am of our little state ... despite the nastiness that's going down elsewhere (Prop 8, boo hiss :P), Connecticut has relatively quietly just put it in the books and moved on.) Congratulations, Chuck and Joe!! - -- =============================================== 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: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:03:12 -0800 (PST) From: neile Subject: Re: an announcement Congratulations to Chuck and Joe! Wishing you many, many years of wedded bliss. - --Neile, who of course remembers you On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, cjmacs wrote: > hi all! > > i wanted to post this in case any of my old friends from here remember > me (lately i'm down to one post per year): > > > After 27 and a half years of domestic partnership, we have finally > done it! > > Yes it is truly hard to believe - On Monday November 17, 2008 at 5:15 > PM Chuck Stipak and Joe Helfand were married! > > Our lives were joined together with a beautiful Buddhist ceremony in > our home in the presence of family and several close friends.The > ceremony was conducted by our long-time friend Reverend Ocean-of-Wisdom. > > A celebratory party is already being planned for the spring so that we > can share with all of you the great joy we now feel! > > We'd like to thank our family and all of our friends for all of their > love and support through the years. Without you this never would have > been! > > We'd also like to thank our legislators here in the State of > Connecticut. Thanks to them we have now done something that a few > short years ago was inconceivable. It is due to their compassion and > wisdom that for the first time in our lives we can now enjoy the same > civil rights that everyone else in this country enjoys! > > Much love and peace to everyone, > > Joe and Chuck > > (and Happy and Rufus, too!) > > > > ********** > these electrons have been brought to you by: > > cjmacs@me.com > cjmacs@comcast.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:12:20 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: an announcement Congratulations Chuck & Joe! What exciting news. Maybe you should throw an ectofest to celebrate :) neal On Nov 19, 2008, at 5:21 AM, cjmacs wrote: > hi all! > > i wanted to post this in case any of my old friends from here > remember me (lately i'm down to one post per year): > > > After 27 and a half years of domestic partnership, we have finally > done it! > > Yes it is truly hard to believe - On Monday November 17, 2008 at > 5:15 PM Chuck Stipak and Joe Helfand were married! > > Our lives were joined together with a beautiful Buddhist ceremony in > our home in the presence of family and several close friends.The > ceremony was conducted by our long-time friend Reverend Ocean-of- > Wisdom. > > A celebratory party is already being planned for the spring so that > we can share with all of you the great joy we now feel! > > We'd like to thank our family and all of our friends for all of > their love and support through the years. Without you this never > would have been! > > We'd also like to thank our legislators here in the State of > Connecticut. Thanks to them we have now done something that a few > short years ago was inconceivable. It is due to their compassion and > wisdom that for the first time in our lives we can now enjoy the > same civil rights that everyone else in this country enjoys! > > Much love and peace to everyone, > > Joe and Chuck > > (and Happy and Rufus, too!) > > > > ********** > these electrons have been brought to you by: > > cjmacs@me.com > cjmacs@comcast.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:23:18 -0500 From: "Jeffrey Burka" Subject: Re: an announcement Awesome news, Chuck! Congratulations... I must admit, though, admit to a little jealousy. There's been some discussion that maybe such a thing is again possible in DC with a democratic congress (if you're not familiar with it, the ways Congress held up the domestic partnership law passed by the DC Council was absolutely appalling), but I personally don't see it happening any time soon. So, Marc and I will continue living in sin. SIN! Ahem. Anyway, thanks for posting about it...there are plenty of us around who still remember you! jeff n.p. _And Winter Came_, Enya ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:47:39 -0500 From: "Aly-Neil Fields" Subject: Re: an announcement LMAO, Jeff. "SIN!" *continues living in single sin* Congrats, Chuck and Joe. :) On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Jeffrey Burka wrote: > Awesome news, Chuck! Congratulations... > > I must admit, though, admit to a little jealousy. > > There's been some discussion that maybe such a thing is again possible > in DC with a democratic congress (if you're not familiar with it, the > ways Congress held up the domestic partnership law passed by the DC > Council was absolutely appalling), but I personally don't see it > happening any time soon. > > So, Marc and I will continue living in sin. SIN! > > Ahem. > > Anyway, thanks for posting about it...there are plenty of us around > who still remember you! > > jeff > n.p. _And Winter Came_, Enya > - -- NP: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:41:39 -0800 (PST) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: an announcement Many congratulations! And may the rest of the US go the way of Connecticut and Massachusetts soon! Ellen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:04:54 -0500 From: morayati@email.unc.edu Subject: Re: an announcement Congrats! I wasn't around for the beginning but, nevertheless, I wish you well. - -Sarah ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:14:02 -0800 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: Re: an announcement meredith writes: > cjmacs wrote: > > i wanted to post this in case any of my old friends from here remember > > me (lately i'm down to one post per year): > > ... and if folks don't remember or know him, y'all should be aware > that Chuck is the original mastermind behind the "ectofest" concept. > If it weren't for him, those original ectofests never would have > happened! I certainly can't forget Chuck after all the hospitality he and Joe showed me at Ectofest 2000. I almost felt like it was a waste to have paid for a motel room with all the time they had me over at their house that weekend. :-) > > Yes it is truly hard to believe - On Monday November 17, 2008 at 5:15 > > PM Chuck Stipak and Joe Helfand were married! > > Congratulations, Chuck and Joe!! And my congratulations too. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:23:27 +0100 From: Leonora Christina Skov Subject: RE: an announcement Congratulations! In the middle of the Obama craze my wife and I suddenly realized that California had voted against same-sex marriages and it completely took us by surprise. The Danish press seemed rather puzzled as well. In Denmark, same-sex marriages have been legal since 1989 and thank God for that. Otherwise I wouldn't be married today and neither would a fair amount of my friends.. All the best, Leonora www.leonorachristinaskov.blogspot.com > From: cjmacs@comcast.net> To: ecto@smoe.org> Subject: an announcement> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:21:44 -0500> > hi all!> > i wanted to post this in case any of my old friends from here remember > me (lately i'm down to one post per year):> > > After 27 and a half years of domestic partnership, we have finally > done it!> > Yes it is truly hard to believe - On Monday November 17, 2008 at 5:15 > PM Chuck Stipak and Joe Helfand were married!> > Our lives were joined together with a beautiful Buddhist ceremony in > our home in the presence of family and several close friends.The > ceremony was conducted by our long-time friend Reverend Ocean-of-Wisdom.> > A celebratory party is already being planned for the spring so that we > can share with all of you the great joy we now feel!> > We'd like to thank our family and all of our friends for all of their > love and support through the years. Without you this never would have > been!> > We'd also like to thank our legislators here in the State of > Connecticut. Thanks to them we have now done something that a few > short years ago was inconceivable. It is due to their compassion and > wisdom that for the first time in our lives we can now enjoy the same > civil rights that everyone else in this country enjoys!> > Much love and peace to everyone,> > Joe and Chuck> > (and Happy and Rufus, too!)> > > > **********> these electrons have been brought to you by:> > cjmacs@me.com> cjmacs@comcast.net _________________________________________________________________ MSN Style - alt for kvinder samlet pe it sted  klik her http://www.msnstyle.dk/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:30:12 -0800 From: birdie Subject: Re: an announcement Ooooo, we had a whole week of protests here. It was like doing a reverse bungi jump after Obama's win.....we went Whhhheeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! Estatic and the soon after, fell like stones..... Every night the chants of No on Hate and Equal Rights Now! wafted all the way into the hollywood hills from all the way down on santa Monica Blvd... I did the march on the Mormon Temple in LA... Then, we had a little break and the fires started. Stay indoors - do nothing, we were ordered. Really bad air. Things are just now starting to return to normal. It's been an extremely distracting past few weeks. Thrilled about that patch of blue sky in Conneticut!!! Have a wonderful time, Chuck & Joe. The world can use the inspiration! Cheers Birdie Ellen Rawson wrote: >Many congratulations! And may the rest of the US go the way of Connecticut and Massachusetts soon! > >Ellen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:16:59 -0800 From: "Bill Mazur" Subject: RE: an announcement Chuck, big congrats to you and Joe! - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of cjmacs Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:22 AM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: an announcement hi all! i wanted to post this in case any of my old friends from here remember me (lately i'm down to one post per year): After 27 and a half years of domestic partnership, we have finally done it! Yes it is truly hard to believe - On Monday November 17, 2008 at 5:15 PM Chuck Stipak and Joe Helfand were married! Our lives were joined together with a beautiful Buddhist ceremony in our home in the presence of family and several close friends.The ceremony was conducted by our long-time friend Reverend Ocean-of-Wisdom. A celebratory party is already being planned for the spring so that we can share with all of you the great joy we now feel! We'd like to thank our family and all of our friends for all of their love and support through the years. Without you this never would have been! We'd also like to thank our legislators here in the State of Connecticut. Thanks to them we have now done something that a few short years ago was inconceivable. It is due to their compassion and wisdom that for the first time in our lives we can now enjoy the same civil rights that everyone else in this country enjoys! Much love and peace to everyone, Joe and Chuck (and Happy and Rufus, too!) ********** these electrons have been brought to you by: cjmacs@me.com cjmacs@comcast.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:22:27 -0800 From: jessica spurling Subject: Re: an announcement Congratulations Chuck! I am incredibly happy for you! My ex, Christine, got married to her lovely wife Tami just a couple of weeks before the election here, thank goodness. They've had their wedding planned for this October for the past year - having no idea at the time how important it would wind up being that it happen before this election. Living in San Francisco as I do, this was a pretty hard election for our community both close and extended. It's incredibly helpful to see this kind of reminder that not every state in the country is messed up. :) And I'm truly heartened by Obama's election! Anyway, congratulations! And a million thanks for the ectofest concept! - -jessica meredith wrote: > Hi, > > cjmacs wrote: >> i wanted to post this in case any of my old friends from here >> remember me (lately i'm down to one post per year): > > ... and if folks don't remember or know him, y'all should be aware > that Chuck is the original mastermind behind the "ectofest" concept. > If it weren't for him, those original ectofests never would have > happened! > >> Yes it is truly hard to believe - On Monday November 17, 2008 at >> 5:15 PM Chuck Stipak and Joe Helfand were married! > > I already squeed at Chuck about this directly, but I'll do it again > here too. Yay!!! (And can I just say how proud I am of our little > state ... despite the nastiness that's going down elsewhere (Prop 8, > boo hiss :P), Connecticut has relatively quietly just put it in the > books and moved on.) > > Congratulations, Chuck and Joe!! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:31:53 -0800 From: jessica spurling Subject: Re: San francisco area reminder, this saturday! Re: My Brightest Diamond news [Tour (FREE TICKETS) | Remix EP | New Video] it works for me! i totally agree about her guitar playing, john and i were mesmerized. she's good and *interesting*. AND! I totally agree about them being LOUD! They should be load! we were so amazed by the rockingness of such artistry! I suppose you are right about the strings, and I think it's been nagging at me sligtly, a worry that this means the show will be quite different from what we've seen previously. I'm still excited though. it will be interesting. I must say I like the songs from Bring Me The Workhouse better than A Thousand Shark's Teeth overall - but I am also certain that that has mostly to do with my mood overall. A Thousand's Shark's Teeth is a little more mellow, and I've been in a loudish state for a while now. :) - -jessica ontario moe wrote: > one time at band camp, neal copperman (neal@swcp.com) said: > > >> Post some reviews! We've got the show here Nov 30 and we could use >> some nice reviews to promote the show :) >> > > okay okay! > > meredith was unable to attend the show because of work so i went to > the space in hamden to see them. met up with jason, michael curry and > another crypto-ectophile who had gotten there early and corraled some > seats up front. joined them and chatted for a while until the music > got going. > > unbeknown to me, there was a third band on the bill, playing first. > they were from burlington and i believe their name was maja or maca or > something like that. two guys, one guitar, on drum kit, one sequencer, > one singer, two mics. sometimes they were indierawk (tm) and sometimes > they were atmospheric. i actually kinda liked them except that they > played a wee bit too long and the drummer had only one setting: too > loud for the room. so, ear fatigue set in quickly. > > fortunately, claire and the reasons were pleasantly low volume. i had > heard a few songs from their record previously and wasn't too > overwhelmed but found them enjoyable. live though, they were very nice. > in this configuration, claire was joined by oliver marchon on > everything, marla hansen on viola and a cellist whose name is escaping > me. they were all dressed in red. including their shoes. claire was > sick. oliver may have been as well. not sure about that but we are sure > he does not like peanut butter. they played a too short set of vaguely > jazzy retro-pop which was, like the band themselves, a lot of fun. > > finally, my brightest diamond came on. shara was joined by the reasons > for her set and they went right into it. i'm always shocked by how good > a guitarist she is and how articulate her playing is so i spent most of > the show just pretty much watching her fingers. i think this > performance was better than the last time she was at the space and, in > fact, beat out the a thousand shark's teeth release show earlier this > year since it was just more cohesive and together. i don't remember the > setlist (and stupidly did not record for various stupid reasons) but it > was mostly drawn from the newer record. she did do her cover of "when > doves cry," which i could have lived without. it's a fine cover but > that's the prince song everyone does and i'd rather it not bump > something else out of the set. my only complaint: it wasn't loud > enough. granted, she was joined by strings but still, my brightest > diamond has a sound that benefits from volume, volume, volume. > > i suppose that's not really a review per se but it's all i gots! > > woj > > n.p. new pornographers -- live from the future ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #661 ***************************