From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #315 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, November 24 1999 Volume 04 : Number 315 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: details of the GrooveGrams contest! [Brian Clayton ] Re: Alloy: An ambition fulfilled. [Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: details of the GrooveGrams contest! On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 RThurF@aol.com wrote: > Yahoo! Music Gets Into The Groove With Beatnik GrooveGrams Contest; Fans Can > Win Prizes By Remixing Songs From Britney Spears, Puff Daddy, `Weird Al' > Yankovic, Lou Bega, and Others Wow, Weird Al and Beatnik! Two great things that go great together! "What's not to like?" BC - --- Brian Clayton "I hope I can continue to confuse and exasperate stemish@lns.com you for a couple more decades." -- TMDR ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:27:12 -0500 From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Alloy: Weird Al Meets Beatnik This is a riot! I'm so glad Yahoo got the link up for the GrooveGram contest. It's a hoot, contest or no. Personally, I like the "Oy Vey" and "Plotz" buttons on the Weird Al mix. It reminds me of my childhood in New Jersey. So... are Alloy members eligible for the Dolby "Win a Millennium Trip to England" contest? :-) - -- Melissa R. Jordan Owner/Artist, Compass Rose Studios (www.crstudios.com) Owner, Compass Rose Consulting (www.askcrc.com) Visit my new blank, websites! Text, pictures, and all that coming soon!!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:33:35 +0000 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: An ambition fulfilled. Chris Cracknell wrote: > > > I remember how thrilled I was when I finally figured out how to do that > "hum and play the flute at the same time" thingy he does. > He hums, he gargles, he spits and goodness knows what else. Interestingly (if you're interested in this sort of thing) he only found that he'd been using the wrong technique for twenty years when his daughter was learning the flute and he was trying to help her, only to be told he was doing it wrong. He's since had tuition and is finding it a lot easier. Tangentially, but maybe of interest here because I know there are some cat lovers on Alloy, he's also interested in breeding cats (see http://www.hdw-inc.com/Ian.HTM#ian if you want to know his thoughts on th matter). Oh, and growing his own chile peppers. All this and a whole lot more on www.j-tull.com. > > Yesiree, my hummers never fail to impress. > > Wait a minute... that doesn't sound right. That doesn't sound right at all! > We'll just have to take your word for that, sunbeam. > > CRACKERS > (Sitting on a park bench from hell!!!) > Slarvibarglee ('eyeing little girls with bad intent' [it's a JT lyric, for the unititiated, before you start thinking Slarv is a dirty old man]) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:35:11 -0600 From: "Brian R. Gilstrap" Subject: Existential Angst [WAS Re: Alloy: Welcome new members :)] Chris Cracknell wrote: > Ensign: Captain, we're picking up some sort of 'gay vibe' on the 'gaydar'. > > Captain: Lock the homing-erotic missiles on target. Set throttle on > "ramming speed". We're going in sea-men, DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!!! > > One of our submarines is missing tonight. LOL :-) > Luckily I've never had "existential angst". I've always been perfectly > comfortable with the possibility that life itself has no greater meaning > and no greater purpose. Even the thought that my very consciousness is > nothing more than a bi-product of chemical reactions in my brain has > never bothered me. I've got a number of friends who suffer > "existential angst" though so I get enough of it from them I suppose. > I can't help but think if they'd spend less time looking at their > bellybuttons and more time living life as she comes they'd be much > happier. [snip] Yep. That's what I found out... :-) Scoop - -- Brian R. Gilstrap gilstrap@inlink.com http://www.inlink.com/~gilstrap Husband and father, Tai Chi practitioner, Software architect Java developer, Macintosh User, Winnie-the-Pooh fan "Understanding is a three edged sword. There's your side, there's the other side, and then there's the truth." --Kosh ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:40:51 -0500 From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Alloy: OT - Advice for an Accidental Stalker, Please Hi, folks, I just had the most embarrassing thing happen to me. This evening, I dropped two friends off at the airport in Baltimore - they were headed to the Midwest for Thanksgiving. I was envious and melancholy and just kind of bummed out entirely. To cheer myself up, I decided to drive in to Fells Point in Baltimore - I know a great Egyptian cafe there, and I had a hankering for some good Middle Eastern food. Fells Point is where my old favorite tv show "Homicide" used to be filmed (before NBC canceled it.) I knew the crew was back in town, filming a Homicide made-for-tv movie, but I'd decided a while back that I didn't want to come up to watch any of the filming. I figured I had already had my chance, and I'd met all the cast last year - they were very kind to me. Tonight, I just wanted to grab some food and go home. The Nile Cafe was closed, so I went into a local pub and, lo and behold, there were two friends of mine who live in the neighborhood. We decided to hang out, have some cider, and just kick back. In the midst of our kicking back, two actors from the Homicide movie (with whom I became acquainted last year) walked in - these two are boyfriend and girlfriend in real life. I didn't see them, and I was in the middle of making a wild-eyed face in response to a friend's comment when they walked near our table. I caught myself with my jaw dropped and eyes bugged as I locked eyes with the actress. She, of course, had no idea that my face was NOT in response to seeing her. How could she know? She stopped dead in her tracks, turned to her boyfriend and said, "No way. We're not eating here. These people are already stalking us." I was totally shocked. First of all, my entire interaction with her last year was very friendly when her boyfriend stopped me on the street and asked me a question (I did not approach them). I thought she was quite charming, complimented her on her work on Star Trek, but that was it. Tonight, after the couple high-tailed it out of the pub, one of my friends pointed out that the actress must have thought I was making an "Ooooh, it's her!" face. I was mortified. Still, though, I didn't know why she would think that I was following her. A few minutes later, while I was still mulling this uncomfortable situation over, one friend asked me if I knew how much I looked like another fan of the show who was also up at the set last year. I hadn't realized that, since I cut my hair very short last week, I now mildly resembled this Canadian woman who is obsessed with the show and, in particular, with the actor whose girlfriend I just frightened. There is an actual medically-recognized mental condition where many people cannot tell fat people apart. I have this fear that this poor woman thought I was the obsessed Canadian fan from a year ago. I'm utterly embarrassed, as I'm generally the type of person who will walk across the street to avoid a celebrity, just because I don't want to annoy him/her. There are only a few people I've ever wanted to talk to and tell how much their work has meant to me - even then, I have to take a bunch of deep breaths and hope that I don't sound like I've been lobotomized when I meet them. These guys weren't on that list. I had no intention of disturbing their dinner, and I just felt awful that I made them feel that they had to leave the pub to have some privacy. Maybe they feel harassed. Maybe they *ARE* harassed back in California... There are lots of obsessed people out there, who stake out restaurants and grocery stores and parking lots, hoping for a glimpse of someone. Frankly, I think that's creepy. Part of me wants to send a letter of apology for accidentally frightening her and screwing with their plans. Part of me is really hurt (and a little indignant) that someone would assume that I was following them. And, part of me says, "Just let it go. You don't know these people, and you'll never see them again." I guess I just hate having anyone think I'm mental and to be avoided. Any suggestions for the best way to handle this? I don't think I'm ever going back up to Fells Point after tonight (unless I skulk around with a paper bag over my head.) Thanks for the advice. Best, Melissa ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 00:42:35 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: OT - Advice for an Accidental Stalker, Please Melissa, what a terrible misunderstanding! I can understand why you'd feel hurt by the appearance of this woman's snap judgement of the situation... but I'm sure it's best to try to step back from it a little bit, and try very hard not to take it personally. I know for a fact that you're the last person in the world who would behave inappropriately toward anyone. From the sound of it, the woman was probably tired, and her nerves were likely quite raw before she even walked in. I'm sure that even the most gracious and gentle people in the world must feel overexposed when having to meet with fans for extended periods of time. If they were in town doing this filming, I'm sure they were approached a lot, which could explain her overreaction / misinterpretation. Don't avoid Fells Point completely because of tonight, though... just try to blow the misunderstanding off as a freak occurance. You're not the sort of person who would gape at someone, so you shouldn't feel guilty if someone *thought* you were. Hold your head high and keep living your life, and everything will be sorted out in the wash. :) Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #315 ***************************