From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V14 #72 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, March 15 2009 Volume 14 : Number 072 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Torchwood, theatre, wandering ever off-topic [Joshua Yu Burnett Subject: Re: Torchwood, theatre, wandering ever off-topic On Mar 10, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Adam Kimmel wrote: > I wanted to like Torchwood, but saw one episode and never went > back. It was a great story (cannabalistic village) but there > seemed to be just too many cliches at work, which was a shame. > Apart from the usual sexual tension, this crack team of > investigators entered the mysterious, sinister village....and > separated. They should watch more films. Natch, they got picked > off one by one, and it was all resolved by Capt Jack riding to > their rescue. I'd give another episode a try. Aside from that episode not being very good, it's also probably the least typical episode of the whole show. Josh ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:18:39 -0700 (PDT) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?anna_maria_stj=E4rnell?= Subject: sarah rabdau hi all.. forgot to mention Sarah Rabdau's new album which is very ecto. She used to be more ectronica, but is now heading somewhere beautiful and fierce. Really good songwriting and singing. sarahrabdau.com Anna ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:15:41 -0400 From: brad hutchinson Subject: Re: Torchwood, theatre, wandering ever off-topic ecto@smoe.org.Hi-- Just rejoined after many years. Anyway, I'd definitely try watching it again. The show is great. I bought the itunes radio episode yesterday (originally played on BBC radio), and it was fun too. Anyway, hi everyone! Brad On Mar 14, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Joshua Yu Burnett wrote: > On Mar 10, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Adam Kimmel wrote: > >> I wanted to like Torchwood, but saw one episode and never went >> back. It was a great story (cannabalistic village) but there >> seemed to be just too many cliches at work, which was a shame. >> Apart from the usual sexual tension, this crack team of >> investigators entered the mysterious, sinister village....and >> separated. They should watch more films. Natch, they got picked >> off one by one, and it was all resolved by Capt Jack riding to >> their rescue. > > I'd give another episode a try. Aside from that episode not being > very good, it's also probably the least typical episode of the > whole show. > > Josh ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:55:56 -0700 From: Gregory Bossert Subject: Re: Torchwood, theatre, wandering ever off-topic note that Torchwood has a bit of a story arc over the two seasons. it's not as extreme as, say, Lost, but still, some of the character interactions will make a bit more sense if you watch the show in order. i confess i drive all my friends crazy by insisting they watch shows in order, and it's sometimes taken me years to finally watch a series, due to the difficulty in finding one episode in the middle (a problem that has been made happily obsolete by DVDs, iTunes, and bittorrent.) - -g - -- www.suddensound.com -- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:05:44 -0400 From: Karen Hester Subject: Throwing Muses, 50ft Wave, Screaming Females concert was good Thurs at Music Hall of Williamsburg Opener Screaming Females are two blokes on bass and drums and a tiny woman (smaller than Kristin) doing speedy things on her guitar. Her voice was fairly monotonous until she did, indeed, scream. An impressive raw, impassioned noise, but best suited to de-phlegming the throat. 50 Ft Wave, Kristin Hersh's 'other' band, were next, and similarly noisy. Less concerned with melody than the Muses, and though there are interesting changes in time signature, they aren't dexterous and tangled like the Muses, more chugging away in one direction, then screeching off in another. A slab of sound. Kristin's voice is raw but 50ft aren't loose emotional music; to me they're very tight. If they were a sweater, there would be no bits of fuzz or untrimmed threads. But they aren't a comfy sweater, they're a concrete block thwacking your head repeatedly. I'm not a fan, yet, but 'appreciate' aspects of their music. Throwing Muses are my fav band of all-time, and this was only my second Muses concert. The opening - 'Start', 'Shimmer', 'Hazing', and others [gad I've forgotten], anyway, I was in heaven. They didn't let up - loud and melodic. Then the set-list alternated between songs I love and those I just like. Loved all the Hunkpapa songs ('Bea', 'Mania', 'Devil's roof'), and University and Limbo had at least three each. Only 'Fall Down' from Ramona, 'Pearl' from Red Heaven, 'Colder' from 'House tornado', 'Vicky's Box' (yey) from the first one. Overjoyed to hear 'Finished'. Annoying boys talked behind us about how much they love the Muses during the quiet bit of 'Pearl' (f*wits). The second encore (woo!) was 'Colder', which calmed people down and perhaps dampened their need for more; I don't think it was widely recognized. K ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:42:14 -0700 From: Gregory Bossert Subject: Re: Throwing Muses, 50ft Wave, Screaming Females concert was good thanks for the review! they're at the wonderful Middle East tonight in my home town of Cambridge, MA (and me out here in the bay area, alas). according to Kristen's site she's having dinner with Tanya and her nieces. yeep. ah, that's a great little club. i remember eating there before a Arson Garden show, talking with April Combs and she was just as sweet and cute as a little bunny, and then thirty minutes later her eyes were rolling back in her head as she snarled and spat her way through "Impossible Space". On Mar 14, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Karen Hester wrote: > 50 Ft Wave [...] If they were a sweater, there would be no bits of > fuzz or untrimmed > threads. But they aren't a comfy sweater that's definitely my favorite group description of the year so far!! speaking of Arson Garden, anyone heard anything from any of them? last i heard, only James Combs was still playing music, but, sheesh, that must have been 10 years ago... and speaking of "in search of..." artists, any news of: * Heidi Berry? * Heather Nova? (oops, looks like i missed two albums: "Red Bird" and "The Jasmine Flower" -- any opinions?) * Robin Holcomb? * Lisa Germano? (i missed "In the Maybe World"?) * Magnapop? Madder Rose? Ivy? Syd Straw (who seems to have a new one)? K's Choice? Bettie Serveert (i am up to date on them, but it's always worth bringing them up!)? Mae Moore? Donnette Thayer? Shivaree? Sarah Shannon and the rest of Velocity Girl? that's off the top of my head -- i could come up with more if i cleared the decade of dust from my CDs... 'tah. - -g - -- www.suddensound.com -- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V14 #72 **************************