From: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org (goths-digest) To: goths-digest@smoe.org Subject: goths-digest V2 #191 Reply-To: goths@smoe.org Sender: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk goths-digest Wednesday, December 16 1998 Volume 02 : Number 191 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: NYEve with My Scarlet Life: A private (Gothic Pro)party!/th@'s where it's @ ["SeRa FeNe" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:25:54 PST From: "SeRa FeNe" Subject: Fwd: NYEve with My Scarlet Life: A private (Gothic Pro)party!/th@'s where it's @ SHiKaGO Goths!!!! Please take NoTe: FRiEnDLy advisory from your token-*lurker* >From: DivaNation@aol.com >Message-ID: >Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:11:44 EST >---(All Ages) New Year's Eve with My Scarlet Life--- >(Scary Lady Sarah, Chicago's "Nocturna" DJ, is hosting a >New Year's Eve party featuring My Scarlet Life. It's @ a >loft space, and should be lots of fun. Dress up! >Below is all the information. My Scarlet Life is NOT >putting on this show. You need to call the contact #s >below for any special questions, and to get tickets). > >----------------------------------------------------- > >DETAILS: > >*The American Gothic Productions Presents: >New Year's Eve: A Gothic Affair* > >-When: duh. > >-Time: 9:00p.m. until ? > >-Who: anyone (all ages!!!) inclined towards this type >of thing > >-What: The xxx? in line of the "A Gothic Affair" series >of events. > >-One ticket price per person will include: open bar >(mixed drinks/beer/wine/soda/juice); gourmet >vegetarian hors d'ouevres & sweets buffet; champagne >toast at midnight; party favours; dancing with d.j.s >Little Al, SLS, & others (Agent Spite???); live >performances by My Scarlet Life & The Read Letter; Goff-friendly vendors; the >AGP '98 photo gallery; >coat check; faboo atmosphere/decor/people!!! & you >never know what else! : ) > >-Price: $25. in advance; $30. at the door. >Advance tickets will be on sale *soon* at Medusa's Circle, >SpaceTime Tanks, Nocturna, & wherever else you run into >me. (I'm just waiting for the tickets to come back from the >printers!) > >-Where: The event will be held at a private venue, >The Lab, 329 N. Bell Street, Chicago. There is a secure >free parking lot for the building. > >Scary Lady Sarah: "This is a private party, which means >it's NOT being advertised in local papers & whatnot, but >feel free to invite your friends. At last year's New >Year's Eve A Gothic Affair, the attendance hovered >around 250! There will be 300 tickets available for >this year's, & that's it. It promises to be a grand evening!" > >"Oh, yeah...I forgot to add, that the party will be web cast >live, both audio & visual." > >CONTACT: >Here are my contact numbers: >sls@suba.com; >Home, 773-227-8131; >SpaceTime (every afternoon except Sunday either Eric >or I are here), 773-472-2700; >Mobile, 312-316-0039. >I will have invites out at Nocturna, etc. > >Hoorah! I can't wait. >Yours Truly, >SLS > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:26:59 EST From: MJWalker77@aol.com Subject: The Ice Hotel in the Magazine... Hello everyone, I was pleased with the questions that everyone came up with for Melora. It's really really good. I have interviewed a lot of bands before, and those q's were very good. Many props to Chris for compiling them. I am graduating from college this week, and my major was travel and tourism. It has been a fun program. Anyways, I have a very fond interest in scandinavia, and had heard about this place, the ice hotel, and knew it was in sweden. I called the swedish tourist board today to find out where i could get information, and they are sending it to me. I also found some stuff online about it, and I am sending this article. I just love how melora writes about obscure things that are indeed real. Melinda Sweden's Ice Hotel maintains chilly attitude toward guests By JIM HEINTZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JUKKASJÄRVI, Sweden -- Like many high-class hotels, the one in Jukkasjärvi lends clothes to guests who are improperly dressed. It's not a matter of style, but of survival: The hotel is made of snow and ice. The only kind of tuxedo that would fit in at the Ishotellet -- or the Ice Hotel -- is the sort sported by penguins. Guests who mill around in the lobby prefer snowsuits to Armani. Not that anyone does serious lounging in a lobby where the seats are ice blocks covered with reindeer skins. Instead, guests admire the vaulted snow ceiling and the ice chandelier (lit with low-heat optical fibers), playfully pretend to watch the ice TV and then head for the bar. Over shots of vodka -- there's no beer because its low alcohol level would allow itto freeze in the 23-degree room -- they talk bravely of the night to come. "I'm not worried. If I don't make it through the night, at least I know I'll be well-preserved," said Tom Andrews of Hinsdale, Ill., a guest on a night when the hotel -- heated only by candles and human metabolism -- seemed toasty compared with the minus-8 temperature outside. The Ishotellet, now in its eighth year, has become an unlikely success story, drawing tens of thousands of people a year to Jukkasjärvi (pronounced YOU-kus- yair-vee), an end-of-the-road hamlet 100 miles above the border of the Arctic Circle. Last year, about 4,000 people spent the night. The $75 room charge includes mummy-style sleeping bags, foul-weather gear and friendly guidance. "Do some push-ups before bed. You have to be warm before you get into bed," said clerk Johan Woutilainen. He also comforted a nervous guest who worried that the snow walls might collapse. The Swedish military has tested this igloo-style construction by firing rocket-propelled grenades at it "and it only made a little hole," he said. Safety wasn't the question on Jennifer Hanley's mind as she stamped her feet and clapped her gloved hands and wondered why she'd ever left her warm hometown of Miami. She also knew the answer: Her Swedish boyfriend, Isak Hanno, had talked her into coming. "I guess it's true love. What else?" she said. The one-story hotel is built every December and lasts until sometime in May. This year's version sprawls over about 22,000 square feet and includes 29 rooms with beds that sleep up to five people, a chapel and an extensive art gallery. The annual rebuilding gives designers a chance to refine their ideas, and they've developed a style of striking elegance. The main hall is a long barrel arch of 5-foot-thick packed snow, bracketed by windows of translucent ice blocks sawed from the nearby Torne river. Because the river runs slowly, the ice freezes with few air bubbles and the density gives it a distinct blue glow, similar to the eyes of the neighborhood sled dogs. The candle-lit rooms range from spartan to spartan-with-class, including some that have ice sculptures and the VIP suite that has a laser light device that simulates the aurora borealis. What they don't have is bathrooms; facilities, with running water, are in a separate building. This was a topic of strategic concern in the bar. Andrews and friend Jim Ertle, both doctors, called on their medical knowledge to note that alcohol gives both a deceptive sense of warmth and increases the need to get up in the middle of the night. Then they ordered more drinks. As closing time approached, the guests lapsed into an apparently worried silence, and bartender Jan-Aake Hamlin offered encouragement, noting that the igloo's extreme quiet promotes excellent sleep. "Some people say they hear a sound they've never heard before -- their own hearts beating," he said. Tucked in a sleeping bag, the long winter's nap is unexpectedly cozy -- except for sleepers' noses, which have to stay outside the bag. In the morning, a smiling maid brought hot lemonade to each guest's room and reminded them that the nearby sauna was open. "It was a good night. I slept well," Andrews said. "But I admit my bladder was pretty taut by morning." - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -- For information on Sweden and other Scandinavian countries, contact the Scandinavian tourist board at 212-949-2333, 6 a.m.-2 p.m. PST weekdays. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:47:00 -0600 From: Vamprrella Subject: Review of HWQTF Just thought I'd share this review of the latest album I found at rock.com... Kristin - ------------------------------------- Rasputina's How We Quit The Forest Rasputina redefine the rock band with feminism, humor, and cellos. Three, to be exact, that this three-quarters female band (the drummer, Chris Vrenna, is male) use for heavy-metal type guitar drone (in "Leech Wife") and for bizarre baroque touches elsewhere. But this New York quartet is more than an instrumental novelty, instead it builds from the glam-rock tradition of stage-y complex songs, which does put the on-stage costumes (primarily corsets) of Agnieszka Rybska, Julia Kent, and Melora Creager (who also sings) a little more in context. As do the band's songs: smart, funny takes on everything from missing a program ("Watch TV") to romantic materialism ("Diamond Mind"), all with that complex and throaty sound that three cellos and a little computer programming can provide. Unusual? Yes. But if there's any doubt an off-kilter cover of Leslie Gore's hit "You Don't Own Me," part caterwaul and part Stravinsky, makes the message clear: Rock is what you make it, but you can always make it fun. -- acoustic editor Clea Simon. ------------------------------ End of goths-digest V2 #191 ***************************