From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #135 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, May 31 2000 Volume 05 : Number 135 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: OT: Alphaville and Camouflage Concert in Utah in July [Tony Rivera] Alloy: OT: SISSY FIGHT 2000 [MsSakamoto@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Calendar Project [Chris Cracknell ] Re: Alloy: OT: SISSY FIGHT 2000 [Chris Cracknell ] Alloy: Ancestry [Dennis S Alexander ] Re: Alloy: [OT] Not quite Radio Caroline ["Trevor James Blagg" ] Re: Alloy: OT: SISSY FIGHT 2000 [MsSakamoto@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Peter Maxell [Slarvibarglhee ] Re: Alloy: Peter Maxell [Jon ] Alloy: Sissy fight never mind [Jon ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:42:32 -0700 From: Tony Rivera Subject: Alloy: OT: Alphaville and Camouflage Concert in Utah in July Just wanted to mention that there's a great concert coming up on July 19th in Salt Lake City. It's the exclusive US appearance of: Alphaville and Camouflage (The Great Commandment) Also playing are Red Flag (Russian Radio) and a bunch of other great bands. The show is called Synthstock 2000. I, myself, am driving 13 hours from San Francisco just to see it. There's a web site (www.synthstock2000.com) but it's not very good. Best to go to A Different Drum (www.adifferentdrum.com) and click on concert information on the left, where you can also buy tickets. And if anyone wants more info, just email me privately. I'm not affiliated, just a fan, and I thought some Dolby fans may also be into some of these bands as well. Thanks for listening. Take care. Tony ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:06:51 EDT From: MsSakamoto@aol.com Subject: Alloy: OT: SISSY FIGHT 2000 In a message dated 5/26/00 6:55:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, crackers@hwcn.org writes: > SISSY FIGHT 2000. > http://www.sissyfight.com > Relive those painful childhood memories of being bullied on the playground > or teasing little girls until they develope eating disorders. Form cliques > and attack those different from you. All the joy of Jr. High is yours to > experience again through the eyes of a schoolgirl. > Part chatroom, part sissy brawl, all fun. > So if you check it out keep your eyes open for a cute little girl named > Ghastly. But be warned, I may look sweet but I'm a cold hearted bitch. I have to agree...it's a great way to work of stress (which is why I'm known to play when I'm supposed to be working)...and Crackers, look out for me...I'm a cute pig-tailed girl named Chasey. - --Suzanne-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:29:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy: Calendar Project In article <007f01bfc7cc$3346d880$5c3b893e@c8u2w5>, you wrote: >This is unbelievably generous. However, I'm sure that the rest of the group >will agree that this is too much. We are all lovers of Thomas' work, but > Indeed! I whole heartedly concure. CRACKERS (Besides it'll be fun just to do it from hell!!) - -- Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan * http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base * * http://www.netway.com/~hozervideo/index.html | Hozer Video Games * Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:29:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy: OT: SISSY FIGHT 2000 In article <90.4fed2af.26656b4b@aol.com>, you wrote: >> So if you check it out keep your eyes open for a cute little girl named >> Ghastly. But be warned, I may look sweet but I'm a cold hearted bitch. > >I have to agree...it's a great way to work of stress (which is why I'm known >to play when I'm supposed to be working)...and Crackers, look out for >me...I'm a cute pig-tailed girl named Chasey. ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ Good heavens Miss Sakamoto, I haven't heard from you in a long time! What time of day do you usually play? I'll try to get on then and we can form a clique and kick some sissy ass! I usually play in the day while I'm at home looking after the baby. The game would make an interesting cyber-anthropology study. Lots of Canadians in the game too. You can usually tell which players are male and which are female, often by their alias. Usually anything with "bitch" or "slut" in the alias is a guy. Plus they tend to really personalize things. What I've found works best so far is to cower like a scaredy cat. Be the quiet, mousey girl in the corner and hopefully you'll go unnoticed. Watch while everyone around you fights it out and when it's down to just a few girls figure out which is the strongest and try to hook up with her. Kinda like the same rules for prison survival when you think about it. So are any other alloyites man enough to put on a schoolgirl uniform and get into a Sissy Fight? CRACKERS (Sissy and proud from hell!!) - -- Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan * http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base * * http://www.netway.com/~hozervideo/index.html | Hozer Video Games * Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:56:04 -0600 From: Dennis S Alexander Subject: Alloy: Ancestry I wrote, > :: Ideally, I'd love to head for Ireland! I never knew I was even Irish in the slightest until recent hints and facts brought the truth to the fore. > It'd be fun to see just where my ancestors came from. :: Robin wrote, > Our plane crash landed there & the people were very good to us! Do you know what region your family comes from? I assume that's the incident you posted the picture of; the one with the strange damage to the wing. Yes, my family comes from Ulster, Northern Ireland. My heritage is such a mish-mash, it's amazing. First, my first and last names are Greek; but I havn't a drop of Greek blood in me. The Scots eventually picked up the name Alexander from Queen Margaret (one of the many daughters of King Henry VIII) of Scotland who, when her husband King Malcolm of the Clan Donald of Scotland died, renamed her son Alistair (my MacAlister namesake) Alexander as it was a common Greek name she heard in the Hungarian courts when growing up. 3 kings in Scotland were named Alexander which owed to its popularity and permenance in Scotland. But, even though my blood and birthright come from Scotland (who originally were Irish invaders), my ancestry comes from Ireland. The Lowland Scots who were constantly raided by the Highlanders and the English for what very little they had (who were also extremely superstitious, dirty, immoral, etc.) were encouraged to go to Ireland where (I believe) King James had set up the Ulster Plantation. Having never had any ancestral records in Scotland, they kept of the practice in Ireland by not going to Church, even for their weddings and births. So I don't even have any ancestral records in Ireland. After being there for about 4 generations, about a million Irish (including a large number of these Scotch-Irish that I come from) left during the infamous 'potato famine.' for other countries. Eventually, my ancestors ended up in Chicago and helped rebuild the city after the infamous 'Mrs. O'Leary's Cow' fire; which of course would explain why I wouldn't be able to trace my ancestry even before that time. Then to top it all off, my great-grandfather James Alexander, abandoned my grandfather and great-grandmother when my grandfather was only 6. So I can say that I'm the first-born of the first-born of the first-born of a Scotch-Irishman (a term only used here in the US)... and that's as far back as I can directly go. But, then, I'm actually very much so, German; more than 50% at least. So, I'm Greek, but I'm not. I'm German, but I'm not. I'm Scottish, but I'm not. And I'm Irish, but I'm not. It's been an amusing puzzle I've been piecing together. So, I'm Scotch-Irish and that's about that. Also of interesting note, my middle name is Scott, given to me by my German mother (who has a wee bit o' Irish herself) who never really knew I was Irish. Also being Scotch-Irish, I may very well have some direct Irish blood in there (while my Scottish ancestors were in Ireland), but not even that can be proven, I suppose, except by genetic testing, if thats possible. I find the Irish quite ironic; ready to fill your glass with their finest whisky or Guiness, but ready for a fight if ya give em one! Doing all this Irish music, an interesting thing I found was, as one of my band leaders says, "The Irish are known for happy war songs and sad love songs." Hey, Keith, I may not be performing on Wednesdays for very much longer! You'd better get yourself in there lad, if ya want to hear my music! The best nights are the 1st, 3rd and 5th Wednesdays. 7:30 PM, 17th & Wazee, Common Grounds Coffee Shop. Be there, or be a stranger! ___________ JAMac (Dennis S. Alexander) www.dennisa.com - Nutrition/Income Opportunities "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:33:06 +0100 From: "Trevor James Blagg" Subject: Re: Alloy: [OT] Not quite Radio Caroline <> This reminded me of a very funny thing that happened about 5 years ago whilst searching the depths of my sock drawer. My sock drawer at my parents house was strategically situated next to the left speaker of my hi-fi.The hi-fi, which incidentally was turned off at the time.....However, on kneeling down with my ear at cone level I noticed a strange sound of operatic music coming from the speaker. I called my parents to come and listen, On entering the room, My parents and I unbelievably heard the music stop and the presenter announce the title of the piece before advertising the fact that we were listening to Radio Moscow. What's even more strange is that the only radio in the house was a small trannie downstairs!!! Scary me thinks, although my dad did offer his technical solution explaining that the cold war was over and that it was pretty unlikely that James Bond or anybody else of that ilk had entered our house in order to bug my Arcam. Also, on the point of radio, does anybody ever listen to Radio Caroline? It's my dad's favourite station, in my impossible attempt to sway him to become a Dolby fan, I tried to convince him all those years ago that 'Radio Silence' was all about his beloved station. I know for a fact that this well loved Pirate Station played Thomas' stuff fervently, however 452 is not a frequency that my dad recalls. I still wonder to this day if Thomas was having the same affair with Caroline 452 as my dad? I know that as the title suggests on TGAOW Thomas' lyrics often dove into the world of Pirate radio, probably due to a degree to Thomas' frustration with commercial radio markets at the time. I wonder if Beatnik was born out of this? I expect only Thomas will know the answer to these questions! Trev.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 18:31:03 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: I'm off to a conference... I'm going to be away @ a conference from tomorrow until Saturday, but I'll do my best to keep in touch & get caught up on my emails (I owe a lot of emails!) This conference is an international bookbinding conference at RIT: http://wally.rit.edu/cary/book2000/book2000.html I know bookbinding sounds pretty boring to most of the high-tech people here, but I'm psyched :) Plus, it's the first conference I've ever been to of any kind (double psyched!!) I'm really looking forward to hearing hours and hours of lectures about bookbinding methods through the ages... and seeing examples of work from bookbinders around the world. Apparently this conference is drawing quite a huge crowd of professionals so I'm sure I'll get to talk to a lot of people from just about everywhere. If anyone's going to be in the Rochester NY area over the next few days drop me a line & we'll meet up! Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 18:42:10 -0400 From: Jon Subject: Alloy: sissy fight? can someone tell em what this game is, or where it is? soudns interesting. I love games >>Jon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 18:50:32 EDT From: MsSakamoto@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: OT: SISSY FIGHT 2000 In a message dated 5/30/00 4:38:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, crackers@hwcn.org writes: > What time of day do you usually play? I'll try to get on then and we can > form a clique and kick some sissy ass! Usually between 10:30 and 12, if I come into work early. Sometimes you can catch me on between 12 and 9, if I'm bored at work and think that I won't get caught. > The game would make an interesting cyber-anthropology study. Lots of > Canadians in the game too. I've noticed that, when someone asks where everyone's from, almost always at least half the room is Canadian. - --Suzanne-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 23:59:07 +0100 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: Peter Maxell Never mind THAT'S Peter Murphy. I don't know WHO Peter Murphy is. Would someone be so kind as to enlighten me? Thanks Slarv Dennis S Alexander wrote: > > That's Peter Murphy?! Years ago (make that decades ago), when my father > owned the Riverton (Wyoming) Home Entertainment Center, he had several > copies of that poster plastered around the store. I used to study it > wondering exactly how they created the image. ...And now I find out it > was Peter Murphy in the chair? That's so cool! > ___________ > JAMac (Dennis S. Alexander) > www.dennisa.com - Nutrition/Income Opportunities > "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - > Eleanor Roosevelt > > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:20:17 +0100 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: [OT] Not quite Radio Caroline Ah, the old radios. One of the things I really liked about them was that they had the NAMES of the stations on the dial; exotic places like Hilversum and Dublin, and stations like the BBC Light Programme. All you get these days is numbers and a damn quartz synth tuner that just isn't the same as being able to move that little needle along V E R Y slowly to see what exotic languages you could pick up. Regrettably I don't have any tuner with shortwave on it these days, though by coincidence I DID dig out my old JVC analogue tuner from the loft yesterday, which has FM, MW and LW, and a nice heavy tuning knob. In fact I had to get everything out of the loft, as we're moving house on Friday, so the house is full of assorted old boxes from things bought but now long gone, but my first 'real' hi-fi separates system is still there. I couldn't bring myself to part with it when I replaced it with a newer system with one of them new fangled CD player thingies. Somehow the world is a less exciting and mysterious place now that you can get a clean crisp signal with little effort. I seem to be showing my age. I'll get me coat (English joke, possibly not going to be understood by folk who haven't had the benefit of seeing The Fast Show.) Slarv. This message powered by BBC Radio 3 'Through The Night' - some geezer playing the piano - no idea who he is or what he's playing, but it's very restful. Paul Baily wrote: > Hi y'all, > > Wondered if I could ask a slightly OT question of you. > > I have fond memories of waaay back when I was a child how I'd go around to > my grandparents' home and spend ages in front of a gorgeous Grundig valve > radio that looked like it was fresh out of the 40's seeing what I could find > to listen to. > > > Paul. > [who's tossing up whether to start combing junk/antique stores for Grundigs > in the hope of hearing Radio Moscow again - or is my memory confusing > romanticism with reality...] > > This message powered by "Hotel California (unplugged)" off Hell Freezes > Over/Eagles. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:42:01 -0700 From: Tony Rivera Subject: Re: Alloy: Peter Maxell >Never mind THAT'S Peter Murphy. I don't know WHO Peter Murphy is. Would >someone be so kind as to enlighten me? Lead singer of Bauhaus, legendary goth band. Has gone on to a nice solo career as well. Best known songs are probably Bella Lugosi's Dead and She's In Parties, oh and Cuts You Up on the solo side. Tony ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:39:44 -0400 From: Jon Subject: Re: Alloy: Peter Maxell Slarvibarglhee wrote: > > Never mind THAT'S Peter Murphy. I don't know WHO Peter Murphy is. Would > someone be so kind as to enlighten me? > > Thanks > > Slarv > The lead singer of Bauhaus. Split. The other gusy became Love and Rockets, and Peter Murphy went solo. Big his was "Cuts You Up" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:43:56 -0400 From: Jon Subject: Alloy: Sissy fight never mind never mind,,,sorry I didnt see the web address teh first time around...just woke up ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #135 ***************************