From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V11 #12 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Thursday, January 22 2009 Volume 11 : Number 012 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] RE: Side Trips #1 ["keith a" ] Re: [idealcopy] RE: Side Trips #1 [giluz ] [idealcopy] new computer worm [Ari ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:19:09 -0000 From: "keith a" Subject: [idealcopy] RE: Side Trips #1 Came across this blog. Thought The Fall fans here may enjoy this bit! Side Trips #1 May 9, 2008 by Ben Former Fall guitarist Ben Pritchard was a contestant on Ken Bruce’s Popmaster quiz on Radio 2 this morning, phoning in as a regular member of the public rather than as any kind of a celebrity. However, in the way of informing listeners of callers’ interesting jobs or hobbies, Ken did bring up the fact that ‘Ben from Bury’ had been a member of The Fall, and offered the opinion that his six-year stint was pretty good going, considering. The guitarist, who played on Are You Missing Winner, County on the Click and Fall Heads Roll between February 2001 and May 2006, diplomatically described his time in the band as ‘an experience,’ which enabled him to meet ‘a lot of cool people’ and see parts of the world he wouldn’t otherwise have visited. Pritchard was actually sacked from The Fall in 2004, then swiftly re-instated, before resigning due to ‘irreconcilable differences’ with Mark E Smith, then re-joining, and then walking out along with the rest of the then-current line-up four dates into a disastrous 2006 US tour. When asked if he was currently playing in a band, Ben stuttered anxiously in the manner of a traumatised survivor of the Somme being asked if he was going to re-enlist, muttering something about playing along with records in a special room at home and trying to ‘improve himself.’ Choosing ‘this, that and the other’ as his bonus subject over ‘the Electric Light Orchestra,’ and despite being unable to identify the final hit by New Kids on the Block and wrongly guessing the year that ‘Puppy Love’ was a hit, Ben successfully answered questions on Imagination, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Manic Street Preachers, Yazoo and ‘The UB40′, among others. He won the contest, but failed to bag a state of the art digital radio when he was unable to name three chart hits by The Animals in ten seconds. ‘We gotta get out of this place!’ he cried in the dying moments, no doubt echoing his words on that fated US tour, almost two years ago to the day. http://hellisforhipsters.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:06:13 +0200 From: giluz Subject: Re: [idealcopy] RE: Side Trips #1 Enjoyable indeed! 2009/1/21 keith a > Came across this blog. Thought The Fall fans here may enjoy this bit! > > > > > > Side Trips < > http://hellisforhipsters.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/side-trips-1/> > #1 > > > May 9, 2008 by Ben > > Former Fall guitarist Ben Pritchard was a contestant on Ken Bruce's > Popmaster quiz on Radio 2 this morning, phoning in as a regular member of > the public rather than as any kind of a celebrity. However, in the way of > informing listeners of callers' interesting jobs or hobbies, Ken did bring > up the fact that 'Ben from Bury' had been a member of The Fall, and > offered the opinion that his six-year stint was pretty good going, > considering. > > The guitarist, who played on Are You Missing Winner, County on the Click > and > Fall Heads Roll between February 2001 and May 2006, diplomatically > described > his time in the band as 'an experience,' which enabled him to meet 'a lot > of cool people' and see parts of the world he wouldn't otherwise have > visited. Pritchard was actually sacked from The Fall in 2004, then swiftly > re-instated, before resigning due to 'irreconcilable differences' with > Mark E Smith, then re-joining, and then walking out along with the rest of > the then-current line-up four dates into a disastrous 2006 US tour. When > asked if he was currently playing in a band, Ben stuttered anxiously in the > manner of a traumatised survivor of the Somme being asked if he was going > to > re-enlist, muttering something about playing along with records in a > special > room at home and trying to 'improve himself.' > > Choosing 'this, that and the other' as his bonus subject over 'the > Electric Light Orchestra,' and despite being unable to identify the final > hit by New Kids on the Block and wrongly guessing the year that 'Puppy > Love' was a hit, Ben successfully answered questions on Imagination, The > Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Manic Street Preachers, Yazoo and 'The UB40′, > among others. He won the contest, but failed to bag a state of the art > digital radio when he was unable to name three chart hits by The Animals in > ten seconds. 'We gotta get out of this place!' he cried in the dying > moments, no doubt echoing his words on that fated US tour, almost two years > ago to the day. > > > > > > > > http://hellisforhipsters.wordpress.com/ > - -- Now playing: http://www.last.fm/user/giluz/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:57:43 -0800 (PST) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] new computer worm http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/116396 ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V11 #12 *******************************