From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #283 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Saturday, May 17 2003 Volume 02 : Number 283 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 06:36:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas Bandits > As I'm both sad and very tight, I'll grab anything that's free ( so err.. no I won't be bothering with the Apple pay as you download thing.. what's that all about?. Soulseek & KaZaA for me. Hail to the thief ). Hmmmm.... one thing is that companies are cracking down hard on any copyrighted material stored on computers.... and the line between personal and company computers is pretty thin. If you bring it to work, you'd better have a licence for it. Even on an iPod. Now, when are we having our Good Corporate Citizen chips implanted? :-) (right in the middle of our foreheads) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 12:46:43 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stu=20Bird?= Subject: Re: seven-seas Bandits That has always been the case here with my last employer. Right back to 96, they wouldn't have anything "non-company" on their machines. That includes screen savers, wallpapers, word and excel templates etc etc. They put a script in the log-in sequence that reset all the desktop settings on boot-up. Of course those of us who knew the relevant filenames etc could change and rename etc.... And as I haven't even got a job, it's no real hassle... plus I don't think I could be lugging a 19" monitor around with me ;-) Stu Amy Moseley Rupp wrote: Hmmmm.... one thing is that companies are cracking down hard on any copyrighted material stored on computers.... and the line between personal and company computers is pretty thin. If you bring it to work, you'd better have a licence for it. Even on an iPod. Now, when are we having our Good Corporate Citizen chips implanted? :-) (right in the middle of our foreheads) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 08:49:27 -0600 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: seven-seas Winnipeg Sun http://www.canoe.ca/JamAlbumsM/mcculloch_i_slideling-sun.html Slideling solid pop-rock fare=20 By DARRYL STERDAN Winnipeg Sun - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- SLIDELING=20 Ian McCulloch=20 (True North)=20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- Believe it or not, this isn't the first solo album from Echo and the = Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch. It's his third. Perhaps the fact that = it's been more than a decade since his last album -- which was called = Mysterio, in case you're playing a bar trivia game or something -- might = explain how successful they were.=20 Thankfully, Slideling is a highly appealing effort that deserves a = better fate. These 11 tracks are laid-back, warm-hearted pop-rock = constructed around strummy guitar lines, hummable melodies, = straightforward arrangements, heartfelt lyrics and McCulloch's romantic = rasp.=20 Granted, it's a long way from the angst and intensity of classic = Bunnymen sides -- in fact, the soaring, hook-laden choruses of cuts like = High Wires could easily have flowed from the rhinestone-encrusted pen of = Neil Diamond. And before you bombard us with e-mail, we mean that as a = compliment.=20 From stem to stern, Slideling is a set of solid, top-quality pop-rock = fare that ranks among McCulloch's strongest and most approachable work = in years. Hopefully, we won't have to wait another decade for another = dose. =20 [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of storymark.gif] ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 17:01:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas Winnipeg Sun > http://www.canoe.ca/JamAlbumsM/mcculloch_i_slideling-sun.html > Slideling solid pop-rock fare > By DARRYL STERDAN > Winnipeg Sun Eh Ted, this guy a friend of yours? > SLIDELING > Ian McCulloch > (True North) Interesting to see the indie record label's name.... no Echo mention, and no Coldplay tossers mention. > straightforward arrangements, heartfelt lyrics and McCulloch's romantic > rasp. ACK! No rasping, crooning is okay! > From stem to stern, Slideling is a set of solid, top-quality pop-rock > fare that ranks among McCulloch's strongest and most approachable work > in years. Hopefully, we won't have to wait another decade for another > dose. Stem to stern.... closet Bunnyfan! Though "most approachable" is a bit of a backhanded compliment. Still, one of the best reviews I've read: informed, and yet typically subdued (as is the Canajun way). - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 21:03:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: seven-seas OT Austin music scene I finally hipped to where the English folk might hang out -- the curry shop! (aka Indian food restaurant hereabouts). I ordered some takeaway and my ears caught the sound of an English accent from the bar. I looked over and saw a -- male -- somewhere in his 30s -- shaved bald, pale and scrawny, but covered with tattoos. He was talking to his mate and I politely (?) sidled over and asked him where he was from. He said London, but that he'd lived all over. From a bit of the conversation I gathered he was in a band, and sure enough he was, but was in the middle of forming a "supergroup" who would be mega in time for next year's SXSW (this is an overused line!). Since he mentioned SXSW, I said I'd really liked the Coral's show, but that I heard that they were just media darlings back home. He said: "They're good -- they're all under 22, they're young, and that's where the magic is." Hmmmm.... We discussed the finer points of scrumpy, which Somerset is synonymous with; I mentioned the bit about dead rats in the vats giving it flavour (think of the hillbilly stereotype stuff) and he laughed and said he loved the cloudy stuff ;-) then said that he had a pit bull and a Jack Russell terrier (he lives here in Austin) and never sees a rat. He introduced himself as David and I left with my takeaway. We'll see if he makes it by next March ;-) On the way home I decided that "Playgrounds and City Parks" is trying to win my vote for favourite song away from "Kansas," and that it is such a great song for summer.... why on Earth the comparatively anemic "Slideling" got the nod as single continues to elude me. - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #283 ********************************