From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V14 #299 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, November 1 2009 Volume 14 : Number 299 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Now on rotation at your local CVS pharmacy... [meredith ] Kevin Bartlett news [Paul Blair ] ecto-ish Halloween songs? [Bowen Simmons ] Re: ecto-ish Halloween songs? ["F.J.Fornorn" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:44:34 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Now on rotation at your local CVS pharmacy... Hi, Paul Blair wrote: > Vienna Teng, "White Light" woj and I heard this in a rest stop on the New York Thruway a few weeks ago. That wasn't as bizarre as our former housemate calling me from a Wegman's supermarket in State College, PA to report that she was hearing a Rachael Sage song in the produce section, but it was pretty close. :) The world of retail music programming is a shadowy one, indeed -- though I do know that CVS is programmed by an outfit called Pyramid Radio. Amazing that these things exist. Meredith :) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:38:10 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: Whoa Noe Venable sent this out yesterday and the poem at the bottom is so beautiful I had to share it. It didn't really all hit me until I tried reading it aloud. I may be taking liberties with the "This email should only be sent to those who have asked to receive it" part, but I'm thinking it's ok since she's so highly regarded here and news from her is of general interest. If anyone finds it unwelcome, please let me know and I won't do it again. - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Noe Venable's New York List Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:20 PM Subject: Noe Venable :: NYC Concert 11.05.09 :: Poem To: ciriwe@phobot.net 1. B B Noe Venable in Concert Thursday 11.05.09 at the Rockwood Music Hall 196 Allen St. (between E Houston and Stanton) New York, NY 10002 212-477-4155 We go on at 9PM no cover, but tip jar donations appreciated with Greta Gertler (keys, vocals) & Matt Kanelos (voice, organ, melodica, percussion.) We will be debuting a new song as well as continuing to play the old tried and true ones. 2. Other People's Eyes My interview on the Blog Talk Radio program bOther Peoplebs Eyesb aired live last Sunday. This was quite an in depth interview, in which we talked about music, art, education, and inspiration. B B B B Itbs now listenable via the showbs archives at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/otherpeopleseyes 3. B POEM Our hidden love is wilder than we know-- a let out breath of evergreen and spruce, the evening coming on, and spreading slow. Before I was your love I was that loose and captivating dark, I was unnamed. I was the shake of fur on shaggy buttes and rivers swollen with the sheeting rains. I have been the beetles that were drowned. I have been the mountain that remains, brown and certain as a muddy mound that passed its lifetime in a rocky brook before I was your love, we were the ground, where through the heated centuries we shook beneath life's smoky, undulating plume, watched men like starfish spinning in the soot where life throws up its colors in a bloom and beings drift their ashes back to earth each certain that its time has come too soon, arising and then diving in the froth of milky birth and form-dissolving end, where lives arise and comings, goings, cross. But how we can forget these things, my friend beneath the clanging changing of the hour where clambering word over word, and hand over hand in endless search of permanence and power in hurry as if the throne were never far we trample over perfect, blazing flowers. But sometimes something stops me where I stand I can remember long forgotten names I can remember stretching wide my hands, to summon something sentient and strange. Our fire beating back the dark, we call, all human only this side of the change from something into something else, I fall into the space between their names. B The age of mountains. B The age of waterfalls must flood our human frames, the age of oceans drown the sound of clocks in singing whales. B The dreamer turns the page. There, on the evening shore, we stop to talk where crabs bend their machinery to pray, the moonlight carving faces in the rock. The city's cloak of noises falls away. The ocean tumbles, tossing in its bed. I hear its fiery waves. B I taste its spray. I touch your fiery cheek, I taste the red of our lives' rivers, singing as they go to meet the midnight sea where they were bred colossal tideline, generous and slow our hidden love is wilder than we know. B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B --nv B 10/09 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B madLove, B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B noe Always, thank you for reading our missives. B More at www.noevenable.com ................................................................ This email should only be sent to those who have asked to receive it. To unsubscribe, just respond to this e-mail and let us know. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:00:39 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: Kevin Bartlett news Kevin's has started writing and recording songs recently; not Aural-Gratification-like material but more in the vein of David Bowie, Lou Reed, etc. He has a rough demo of "Car With No Wheels"--which sounds Pink Floydy to me--up on his Myspace here: http://www.myspace.com/kevinbartlettmusic He says he has about 12 songs planned, 5 of which are done and awaiting mastering; they'll probably be released digitally as they are ready. He also says he's having a lot of fun, and may eventually put a band together and do them live. And in case anyone's gone by Kevin's old Myspace page lately, there was a player of some sort linked to a message (someone named Jeramiah James?) that played when you accessed the page. Horrible stuff: raw, out-of-tune vocals--just so you know it wasn't Kevin. When he first told me he was doing songs and vocals I wound up on that page and wasn't quite sure what to say. I'm so glad it wasn't him! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:01:54 -0700 From: Bowen Simmons Subject: ecto-ish Halloween songs? Some seasonal suggestions (some more ecto than others): Kate Bush  How to be Invisible (Aerial) Siouxsie & the Banshees  Halloween (Juju) The Cure  Lullaby (Disintegration) Horrorpops  Walk Like a Zombie (Bring it On!) The Beautiful South  Woman in the Wall (The Beautiful South) Rsismn Murphy  Ramalama Bang Bang (Ruby Blue) Any others? (A little late for this of course, but there's always next year.) Bowen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 01:14:36 -0400 From: "F.J.Fornorn" Subject: Re: ecto-ish Halloween songs? Consider Concrete Blonde. On Nov 1, 2009, at 12:01 AM, Bowen Simmons wrote: > Some seasonal suggestions (some more ecto than others): > > Kate Bush  How to be Invisible (Aerial) > Siouxsie & the Banshees  Halloween (Juju) > The Cure  Lullaby (Disintegration) > Horrorpops  Walk Like a Zombie (Bring it On!) > The Beautiful South  Woman in the Wall (The Beautiful South) > Rsismn Murphy  Ramalama Bang Bang (Ruby Blue) > > Any others? > > (A little late for this of course, but there's always next year.) > > Bowen ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V14 #299 ***************************