From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #198 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, September 28 2011 Volume 16 : Number 198 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Want to know what makes a diva blush? [Tim Jones-Yelvington ] random youtubs [Andrew Fries ] Re: random youtubs [Andrew Fries ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:10:36 -0600 From: Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: Want to know what makes a diva blush? ...Beautiful people like you! (Sorry... terrible, I know). Hi friends, With your help, I have taken a nice chunk out of the costs for my LIT DIVA EXTRAORDINAIRE performance project. Donations close* next Friday, September 30* -- so I've still got one more week to reach my goal! ...And you've still got one more week to get your name in a text, song, or perhaps best of all... decide what I wear! Every small bit helps -- *If each of my facebook friends gave just $5, I'd be more than $5,000 over my in**itial goal! * LIT DIVA EXTRAORDINAIRE is a multidisciplinary performance piece that explores what it means to materialize as indie lit's first "pop star," a seeming oxymoron. Your donations are helping cover the cost of technology, travel and collaborators. I have felt very privileged to participate in such a rich set of communities, online and off, and am hoping that this project will contribute something really unusual to "art" in general, and "indie lit" in particular. Check out my indiegogo page for more information, and to make a secure donation: http://www.indiegogo.com/LIT-DIVA-EXTRAORDINAIRE?c=home For an excerpt from a previous performance, visit youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvS_aFp5-zE And for a preview of one of my "lit pop" songs, visit soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/timjy/introduction-lit-diva Thanks so much for your support! ~ Tim Jones-Yelvington *** You are receiving this email because we are friends on facebook. I created this email list only to facilitate communications with my friends about this one-time campaign, and do not intend to spam you, or continue to use this list on any kind of regular basis going forward. Please email me should you wish for me to remove your name. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:02:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Amy Neufeld Subject: Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer mini-tour Not sure if this has been mentioned, but: "starting halloween night, amanda palmer & neil gaiman will be tearing up through the west coast of north america on a mini-tour. we'll have a piano, a ukulele, and maybe some other weird instruments, as well as some unpublished and uncollected Neil Gaiman stories and poems. we'll both probably switch up what we're presenting from night to night. we'll be taking questions from the audience, chat-style, and trying to do special things in each venue, busting out a few surprises, and more or less trying to feel like we've connected with you, the people we love and usually only get to talk to directly on twitter & blog-land". You can pre-order a digital download of the show for only $1.00 at Kickstarter (which also lists the dates and places for the tour): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amandapalmer/an-evening-with-neil-gaiman- and-amanda-palmer?ref=live Amy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:53:34 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: random youtubs - - I'm currently obsessed with, of all things, a couple of tunes from Les Miserables. Not the whole show, but I love this part dealing with a love triangle: Marius, who seems a bit dopey and unworthy to me (maybe I'm just jealous) meets Cosette (a cute, happy chimpunk in this version) and they fall madly in love on the spot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25QIme76Rh8 in the meantime cool and spunky Eponine (again - in this version, at least), who apparently was in love with Marius her whole life goes unnoticed... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nrgnDDmRt0 It's just beautiful, heart-breaking and ever so ecto as far as I'm concerned! Poor her - I'm totally on Team Eponine, but she dies soon after which just goes to show, my eye for picking the losing side is as keen as ever :) - - sticking with Les Miserables just a little longer, there is a movie version in the works with Anne Hathaway's name mentioned for one of the roles. It came as a complete suprise to me but Anne Hathaway can really sing! In fact she has fantastic voice, just check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EilYyLLK-do - - more conventional Ecto fare: The Jezabels, an Aussie band doing their brand of indie pop. Just released their first CD and apparently had a few EPs earlier, but I managed not to hear about them until now. Nice! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvUQ22Itxjw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvCr1UAcPc4 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:32:37 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: random youtubs ... and I just have to add a link for 'City Girl' - my favourite tune from The Jezebels CD... it's not the most exciting clip (just a picture of the CD cover) but the song is well worth playing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWzjD4hDPyM ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #198 ***************************