From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #14 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 Saturday, January 22 2000 Volume 05 : Number 014 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Dolby dreams (was: gallery updates soon to come) ["Beth Meyer" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 21:36:10 -0500 From: "Beth Meyer" Subject: Alloy: Dolby dreams (was: gallery updates soon to come) Hi, folks; Well, those of you who are used to hearing from me may have been wondering whether I was still alive. I am, just totally swamped. (Basically, if I map out my waking hours, they end up being about 50% baby care, 49% work, and 1% everything else. Except this week I had a big deadline at work *and* my husband Mark had to be out of town for a business trip, so some of the sleep had to go...) Anyway, I had read this thread and, as usual, wondered why so many others here seemed to have dreams about Thomas Dolby and I never had. Well, last night (or technically, this morning) I had my first one. It was not as colorful as some of the others I've seen here, though it was certainly strange. The context started out at my old undergraduate college, which was a small liberal-arts school. Thomas was talking to me in a small classroom, pouring out his heart about how he was gay and currently miserable and wanted nothing more than to spend the rest of his life with Dr. Bob F. (a speech professor at said college, whom everyone suspected was gay, but if so was definitely still in the closet at the time). In my dream, I asked him, "so why don't you?" Just then, I became slightly more lucid and thought to myself, "well, gee, that would be a bit of a wrench for Thomas' wife and kids." Although Thomas looked like his pre-marriage early-eighties self in the dream, which would make sense, since that was when I was at that college on the speech team. Anyway, I then drifted back into scene two of the dream, which had Thomas and Mark and I sitting in the sanctuary of the church in Atlanta that Mark and I attended, chatting and waiting for the service to start. The Gay Thomas had now been replaced by the Crushing Bore Thomas. He kept going on and on and on about the particular settings of synthesizers and sound equipment favored by various musical artists whom we did not know. After he finished one treatise on this subject, there was an awkward silence. I tried to change the topic by saying something about our daughter Milena's latest "Gymboree" session (this is a company that sponsors playtimes for infants and toddlers where they can use all of this cool gym equipment). Thomas then proceeded to explain why all the artists who do children's songs are losers because they set their sound equipment like this blah blah blah blah blah... Meanwhile, I'm feeling helpless while Mark is giving me this look that says, why on earth are we hanging out with this dreadful person? That's when I woke up. I must say, if he's going to act like that in my dreams, I haven't been missing much. (Though I guess it's better than how he acted in Crackers' latest!) Take care, Beth Beth Meyer bethmeyer@mindspring.com - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of electrix Sent: Friday, July 10, 2893 6:44 PM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Re: Alloy: gallery updates soon to come Kathleen questioned: >which images?? The two legged coyote or me riding around on a >unicycle?? The entire dream Kathleen. The idea that it was 9pm and 9am is interesting. Being a big "fan" of Quantum Theory... and atom can exist in both places at once so I envision your imagery as such. In fact I ran into an online news article regarding this at abcnews.go.com linked as "Schroedinger's Cat Paradox Studied" and entitled "Quantum Paradox Refined": www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/quantumparadox000119.html The whole thing about the clouds on the ground was also an interesting imagery. It reminds me of the time I was in Germany visiting Garmish. There is a skiing resort there with one of the highest mountains in Europe. Friends and I went to the top-most resort on a cloudy and rainy day. From the very top we could see the clouds below us and sun shinning gloriously above us. It was such a surreal and spectacular view that I will never forget! On a dream note... in my anticipation of William Orbits new CD release, I dreamt yesterday about buying a William Orbit CD boxset and finding the time to pick up his new released CD (His new work was scheduled to be released January 17th. However, he hasn't released a box set as yet.). Psychically enough, I woke up that same morning to the radio piping one of his older songs and debuting one of his new CD title which was utterly beautiful... a rendition of "Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte - (Maurice Ravel)" His present work are interpretation of the works of "classical" composers. I once mentioned that, in my opinion, William Orbit is the Thomas Dolby of the 90's and present. This new release however now places him in the realm of "Fine Art." The innaccessible Orbit in its finest moment. For some of his critics, his new effort would have redeemed himself from the bowels of Madonna. All the cuts I have heard so far have been outstanding. I just ordered it from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/music-tracks/B000046S1W/ref=pm_dp_ln_m_ 1/002-7773138-4239453 "Pieces in a Modern Style" Until next time ---stay tune for further dream sequences! :-) "The Power of Dreams" --- TDR >electrix wrote: > >> I am not sure about the luck part... I mean, I would rather have dreams of Madonna or some other babes.. ;-) >> >> Actually, you must be thinking of Crackers, TDR has only been in my dream once. Probably instigated by Robin T. >> >> Your dreams is fabulous though, I wouldn't mind having that one. I could see a great video being film with those images! >> >> electrix >> >> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >> From: "Kathleen T. Presser" >> Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org >> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:10:41 -0800 >> >> > >> >Gee electrix, you sure are lucky to get so many dreams of Dolby. I can't remember the last time I >> >dreamt of Thomas Dolby. Seems years ago. The last dream I remember is riding around on a unicycle >> >running into a coyote with only two front legs. Kinda strange I guess. Had an apocolyptic dream >> >though where it was 9pm and 9am at the same time, the clouds were close to the ground and would >> >sometimes fall to the ground. It seemed to be twilight and morning at the same time. I was chased by >> >these electronic little devices. In the distance all I could see was a very big construction site >> >with bulldozers and construction guys giving orders. Try to analyze that one. >> > >> >Pax Aye, >> >Kate;-) >> > >> >electrix wrote: >> > >> >> Well... one thing for sure... I can't be accused of photoyearnalism once my face is up there ;-). >> >> >> >> electrix > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 22:18:06 -0500 From: "Beth Meyer" Subject: Alloy: Apologies Hi, again; My profuse apologies, particularly for those who get the digest version, for including all the previous messages in that last message. I was quite surprised to see that I had done that, since they were not visible in the composition window of my e-mail software when I sent the message. #&$@*!!! Think I'll go back to lurking mode now... - -Beth Beth Meyer bethmeyer@mindspring.com ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #14 **************************