From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V14 #147 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, May 30 2009 Volume 14 : Number 147 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Happy Rhodes Music in Green Burial Documentary [milli Subject: RE: Happy Rhodes Music in Green Burial Documentary thanx Sharon, i'm loadin' it now! ;)* > Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:56:24 -0400 >From: Sharon Nichols >Subject: Happy Rhodes Music in Green Burial Documentary >This is a short documentary made for the Hudson Valley Green Burial >Association by filmmaker Patricia Gillespie of Tisch School of the >Arts at NYU. There are several of Happy's songs used here by >permission. Sharon http://vimeo.com/4886935 - - -- >"As in the eye of Nature he has lived, so in the eye of Nature let him die."-- William Wordsworth ~ >Sharon Nichols ~ Executive Director, Hudson Valley Green Burial Association ~ myspace.com/nygreenburials - -- "Art Is The Lie That Shows Us The Truth" Pablo Picasso http://lv.raad.tartu.ee:10105/view/index.shtml http://lv.raad.tartu.ee:10201/view/index.shtml http://myspace.com/moondingo http://myspace.com/broomgirl http://radioparadise.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:35:40 -0400 From: "robert bristow-johnson" Subject: Re: Happy Rhodes Music in Green Burial Documentary this is very cool, Sharon. i like that "acoustic tribute version" of Feed the Fire so much that on this CD i used to burn (with Happy's permission) to give along with Many Worlds to clubs, etc. to potentially promote Happy's music, i included *both* this acoustic tribute and the first version of the same song. they both stand out on their own. also a quarter century ago, i used to be involved in a Christian community in Illinois where we buried our own ourselves. sometimes we were forced to accept embalming (if the body was to be viewed or transported after 24 hours or some time limit), but we dug and filled the hole ourselves and built the pine box, engraved a marker. it was not bad. i just wish i could have done that for my own parents when they left this planet. i thought about this since the 70s and i am considering putting something like this in a note in my will. do you know, are there any green burial sites in Vermont? one more thing, i am *certain* the statistic about the CO2 costs of cremation being equivalent to driving a car to the moon and back 84 times must be exaggerated. that's more than 10 million miles and i'm sure the fuel needed to do that is far more (orders of magnitude) than the fuel needed to cremate a single body. but otherwise, it's a nice presentation. - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - -----Original Message----- From: "Sharon Nichols" [factory22@gmail.com] Date: 05/28/2009 16:04 To: "ecto" Subject: Re: Happy Rhodes Music in Green Burial Documentary This is a short documentary made for the Hudson Valley Green Burial Association by filmmaker Patricia Gillespie of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. There are several of Happy's songs used here by permission. Sharon http://vimeo.com/4886935 - -- "As in the eye of Nature he has lived, so in the eye of Nature let him die."-- William Wordsworth ~ Sharon Nichols ~ Executive Director, Hudson Valley Green Burial Association ~ myspace.com/nygreenburials ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V14 #147 ***************************