From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #356 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 Thursday, January 6 2000 Volume 04 : Number 356 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Hey...psssst ["electrix" ] Re: Alloy: London river of fire/New York City of smell [Slarvibarglhee Subject: Alloy: Hey...psssst Robin... I think you gave me Dolbyitist... the man was in a dream last night. It was the strangest dream... I was in this post-nuclear future. Was walking down the outsite market place. As I was passing down a stand, I observe TDR singing in a pole mike. When I listen further he was singing a song of his I had covered (none that I have heard him sing actually, sometimes tunes just comes in my dreams). I watched him for awhile. He ended the tune, aloofly walked over to some kinda stereo unit (or recorder?) and turned it off and took off. It was like... he just drop by and made cameo appearance during my walk. Sheeesh!!!! didn't even get an autograph! - ------ New Years Rez... a finished CD worth of musical materials. - ----- Where I was New Year? At home... I was yellow --- wasn't willing to be as adventurous as some. Just glad it was a non-event. I was already pretty sick of hearing the words Y2K and Millenium this and that. ... oh well, back to my nightmarish University start-of-the-trimester with brand new computers to finish setting up.... electrix ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 12:45:14 +0000 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: London river of fire/New York City of smell RThurF@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 1/4/00 5:00:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, timd@gmn.com > writes: > > :: Was anyone else by the Thames to see this river of fire?? It didn't work!! > I > got dragged down there by friends and nothing happened although the > fireworks were good. :: > > What was supposed to happen? I thought the 'river of fire' meant the > fireworks, figuratively speaking (and the reflection of the fireworks in the > water) Were they planning to do something similar to the trail of fire in the > reflecting pool @ the Washington Monument in DC? According to the organizers the 'river of fire' DID work, but it wasn't as spectacular as people had been led to believe. It was something similar to the DC pool, but was not noticed among all the other things that were going on. I saw the NYC fireworks on the BBC and the thing that struck me most about the whole thing was the amount of visible advertising compared with London. In London, I don't think I saw any advertising, but in NYC you could not miss the 'Discover Card' ad right below the '2000' and descending mirror ball, or all the other illumunated ads. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 09:40:09 -0500 From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Re: Alloy: London river of fire/New York City of smell Slarvibarglhee wrote: I saw the NYC fireworks on the BBC and the thing that struck me most about the > whole thing was the amount of visible advertising compared with London. In > London, I don't think I saw any advertising, but in NYC you could not miss the > 'Discover Card' ad right below the '2000' and descending mirror ball, or all the > other illumunated ads. The Discover Card ad bugged me. I thought it was obnoxious. It certainly didn't make me want to rush out and use one. Times Square is a swirl of big advertising signs anyway - many of them very famous (reminds me of Piccadilly Circus), but this was so obvious. Actually, the ad man who first decorated Times Square with some of its most famous signs (the moving pot of coffee, the smoker who blows smoke, etc.) just died last month. Times Square, after years of being the nasty, dirty heart of New York adult film theater/strip club squalor, was transformed by the Disney company into its current incarnation, which is a cleaned up version of Times Square circa the Golden Age of Advertising. NYC is still the only city I've been to that scares me. Back in November, when I very briefly on the West Coast, I got to meet the Pet Shop Boys after a concert (which was a lot of fun). I told them I'd flown 3,000 miles *just* to see them (I was kidding, but they thought I was serious). Neil Tennant looked at me like I was crazy. "Wouldn't it have been easier to see us in New York?" he asked. When I told him that New York scares the living daylights out of me, he and Chris Lowe exchanged amazed looks and laughed really hard. Chris then said to me, "But they have earthquakes here! New York isn't frightening at all!" I think they thought I was a loon. And, considering that their first single from the cd they were promoting was "New York City Boy", I imagine they have a particular fondness for NYC (and all the clubs there.) To each his own, I suppose! Cheers, Melissa - -- 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!!! ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #356 ***************************