From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #59 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 Friday, March 10 2000 Volume 05 : Number 059 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Overwhelming ["electrix" ] Re: Alloy: TOTALLY HIGH ["electrix" ] Re: Alloy: Overwhelming [lulfstedt@amadeus.net] Alloy: US work ethics... [jonathan.chiddick@nokia.com] Alloy: Grand Piano's, Keyboard gear... ["Damien J Sweeney" Subject: Re: Alloy: Overwhelming Melissa wrote: >:-) So, whether you knew it or not, you were giving me a nice dose of >therapy, and I'm grateful. I think we are all here with a common bond... personally, I think we are all spiritually wired to empathize with each other. I will certainly take a moment to *visualize* what Miles proposed. I for one have first-hand experience and unswaying belief in this technique. There is Universal energy that permeates beyond space and time --- sometime all we need do is acknowledge it. Just remember Melissa, we all have a purpose in this world... we can either succumb to hopelessness and suffering or rise above it. The way I see it...if you are in this world, you already have the goods to beat the odds. Robin wrote: >bad business dealings are reason enough to exact some very potent >forms of spiritual/psychic justice. Business is a crucial part of >society and anyone blatantly abusing their business relationships is >seen as a danger to the societal (and therefore spiritual) balance of >the group. This reminds so much of the Republic by Plato. In a positive interpretation, a society based on the gestalt of its nation. >All artists in African societies - dancers, musicians, carvers, >painters, etc. - are thought to be powerful intermediaries between the >world of the living and the world of the spirit, and there is nothing >joking about it. Facinating. Yes.. Plato covers this aspect also... the role of the musician, warrior and philosopher King. Not suprisingly... there was much interchange of culture and knowledge between Greeks and the land of Africa. electrix ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:50:28 -0800 From: "electrix" Subject: Re: Alloy: TOTALLY HIGH >Heh, it's been a couple of years since Shoutcast debuted...I set up one of >the first servers and had the #1 shoutcast off and on for a couple of >weeks (like, 20 listeners!) These days a friend of mine shoutcasts (or >icecasts: same mp3 streaming, but under unix) a public radio station or >two, helping to get that alternative programming into people's >ears. It's really an amazing thing! Interesting... and, yes, amazing! The thought had enter my head that it would be cool to have an Alloy station... dedicated to the artistry of... nah! electrix ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:22:22 +0100 From: lulfstedt@amadeus.net Subject: Re: Alloy: Overwhelming Melissa, I for one will be visualising the exact scenarios that Stephen mentioned. You have all our wishes, hope and love behind you 100%,.. We're thinking of you, Lissu From: "Stephen M. Tilson" on 08/03/2000 20:39 GMT Please respond to alloy@smoe.org |---------> | | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> | | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> |To: | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> |alloy@smoe.org | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> |cc: | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> | (bcc: Louise Ulfstedt/NCE/AMADEUS) | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> | | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> | | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> |Subject: | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> |Alloy: Overwhelming | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | >-------------------------------------------| Dear Melissa, Double Ditto what Robin said. As is clear from time to time, Alloy is a special group of caring and thoughtful people who have built community out of the ether. (thanks, Paul and Robin) Know then, that regardless of the number of actual replies you might receive to your post, we are with you in heart and spirit. May I ask then, that Alloy-at-large take a moment, individually, to *visualize* a few events in Melissa's immediate future? Please: ********************************************************************* Melissa's mother, vigorous, out of bed, unencumbered, and in the company of her daughter. ********************************************************************* Melissa unfettered by bills. Rent paid. Happy home. ********************************************************************* Melissa working and happily so. ********************************************************************* Thank you for entertaining this notion! With love and care, Stephen /\/\ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:44:43 +0200 From: jonathan.chiddick@nokia.com Subject: Alloy: US work ethics... Hi Melissa, 'really sorry to hear of you troubles. Treating anyone like that especially in your current situation is cruel. Good luck to you. US employers are rather infamous (in Europe) for their oft' insensitive and outright callous behaviour towards their employees. It happens in European countries too but thankfully not measured on the same scale; at least not here anyway. It always satisfies me to see the US 'big guns' in the company that I work for get kicked into touch when they are on foreign turf. Best wishes to you. Give 'em hell!!! Jon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:44:18 -0800 From: "Damien J Sweeney" Subject: Alloy: Grand Piano's, Keyboard gear... >Subject: Re: RE: Alloy: Grand Pianos >> Here's another topic of debate for all you Alloids--if you could buy >any grand piano, baby or otherwise, what would you choose? We'd love to >know what Thomas plays!!!!!! >~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ ^~^ > >If *I* were going to buy a grand piano? Hmmmm.... well I wouldn't. Nowhere >to put on in my house and they require too much upkeep. I'd just buy a >digital piano, not sure of which model because I haven't looked in a keyboard >magazine in years. I just picked up a copy of Electronic Musician after oh, say 8-10 years off and was freaked out. Cripes, I need a whole new lexicon just to read the damn ads! Things have changed. I remember when a full second of sampling time on effects was the cat's meow and man, like, 2 MB on your sampler - whoa! Look out! I gotta read up before I buy anything... >It was bad enough when it was "If you don't have the latest Gizmotronic >KX-2000a then you're crap" but now it's also "If you don't have the >latest Gizmotronix KX-2000a AND this 1975 Analogasmic Vintage Synth you're >crap". Ain't that the truth! I spent a TON in the 80's and early 90's on gear and it was bad then. Now you have to have been smart enough to keep your old gear AND get all the new stuff! Although Keyboard mag. and Electronic Musician are not as bad as they were then. Too much gear and turnover back then. New stuff every month. Hey, I think I still have an old Keyboard mag. with an interview with Thomas after Aliens came out - Anyone else see that?/want a copy? It was his take on the album and working with Clinton. - Gotta dig that up and read it again. >Well... I'd probably buy one of those Yamaha fully midi automatic grand >pianos. That would be neat. AMEN brother Beavis! THAT may be the one to own...! The ultimate MIDI controller. That, with the studio equipped house to keep it in :) Tubes and wires! Fins and gills! Oh! Oh!! ...Maybe someday! Later all, D. Damien J. Sweeney - ... and at that moment, I thought of my mother. dsweeney@netpros-inc.net President/CEO Network Professionals, Inc. (Formerly PC Professionals, Inc.) We Make It Work! with Experience, Innovation & Integrity Voice: 715-849-4700 Fax: 715-848-0711 Free: 888-828-PROS (7767) Web: www.netpros-inc.net Land: Network Professionals, Inc. 530 McClellan Street P.O. Box 1726 Wausau, WI 54403-1726 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 12:49:31 -0500 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: Grand Piano's, Keyboard gear... > Damien wrote: > :: Hey, I think I still have an old Keyboard mag. with an > interview > with Thomas after Aliens came out - Anyone else see that?/want a copy? It > was > his take on the album and working with Clinton. - Gotta dig that up and > read > it again. :: If you find it, please let us know what the date is :) I think I *may* have it, but if not I'd love a copy!! Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #59 **************************