From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #336 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, September 24 2002 Volume 02 : Number 336 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Fwd: Econoghost is here ["Roger Winston" ] [loud-fans] Loudfan in a Coma [Boyof100lists@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:29:40 -0600 From: "Roger Winston" Subject: [loud-fans] Fwd: Econoghost is here FYI. Krautrock lives!! Pick it up. It's snazzy. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Shalini Chatterjee Sent: 9/23/2002 11:19:18 AM To: Subject: Econoghost is here > Dear friends and music supporters, > > My original "krautrock" record hits the stratosphere today, thanks to > the hip and cool people at Berkeley-based 125 Records. For this release, > I'm going by the name Econoghost. > > Rather than burden you with a lengthy explanation about my inspiration > and why you might want your own copy, I'll just direct you to the new > website so you can read about it on your own and listen to a sample song > or two. It was recorded at Mead Hall Studios, mixed with Mitch Easter at > the Fidelitorium, and mastered by Don Dixon. > > It's a fun record, meant to be uplifting and versatile. > See www.interbridge.com/econoghost > > Your support through patronage is *especially* valued with this release. > > Econoghost is reasonably priced, and is available exclusively through > the secure 125 Records website at www.125records.com > > Thanks again for your support and I hope you enjoy the record! > > Shalini > > > www.interbridge.com/shalini > www.interbridge.com/econoghost ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 00:34:48 EDT From: Boyof100lists@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Loudfan in a Coma Warning. Mark Content. Strong Advisory. I spent the day with my friend Steph and her youngun and watched more TV than I have in years. Steph has been my pop cultural lifeline over the past 7 years or so, turning me on to great stuff like ABFAB and now, "My So Called LIfe," which she insists I watch her DVD of. I've mentioned I've been out of the pop culture loop since about spring 1993 when I had a roommate in an apartment I shared who paid for deluxe cable, but I did have basic cable as a youth, though it wasn't all that great (except for catching the '60s Japanese program "Space Giants" on WTBS, back when it was called WTCG). I literally begged for MTV for years as a youth until it was no longer the zeitgeist generator it was and then I was too old, and I didn't really care anymore. Here's my observation of cable now. The choices! So highly specialized! My favorite programming of the evening was seeing "Match Game '74" on a channel for game shows. I used to watch this show in 1974! OMG, orange carpet! (why God, why?) Poor Charles Nelson Reily. He's still very much alive, and has been sent out to pasture where all the old TV celebs go. There was an interesting article about him and old celebs (like Soupy Sales and Phillis Diller) in Wall Street Journal recently that I caught, talking about how nobody wants them on their shows anymore, a real evidence of the generational shift of power that has occurred since the early '90s. The contestants all looked like lobotomized aliens. I wonder what people will think of us in the year 2030. The other favorite was seeing Classic VH1, and the eighties program they ran. I got to see the videos for "A Message to You Rudy" by the Specials and "One Step Beyond" by Madness and "Best Friend" by English Beat I'd never seen before (these probably all played on MTV, but definitely not "Night Tracks" back in th' day which is all I had). Plus I got to see Camper Van's "Take the Skinheads Bowling" and the Femmes' "Gone Daddy Gone." This was f***ing great, and made my day. If I could just pay for this one channel I'd be happy. I wanted to see the big pop culture phenomenon stuff, so I saw Powerpuff Girls, but it didn't hold my interest. The style of the cartoon was good, though. Spongebob Squarepants was, well, it had a couple of moments, but the same deal (I flipped between commercial breaks). I saw the Sopranos like I've been wanting to see for years finally, and I liked it, but the thought came to mind if this is really representative of real northeastern US Italian-American mob life, or is it what we think it is through years of stereotyping, and finally believing the cliche? I mean, a black leather Italian blazer, a Punch cigar and brushing your hair back like Jimmy Swaggart doesn't make you mob boss. This kind of stereotyping is pretty evident I see as a southerner, where Hollywood really gets it wrong about it down here at times. Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. If you read this far, thanks for not deleting and giving me a listen. - -Mark S. np: Interbabe ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #336 *******************************