From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #16 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 Sunday, January 21 2001 Volume 06 : Number 016 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Crackers as TV star.... [Chris Cracknell ] Alloy: What a very odd week this has been. [Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy: Crackers as TV star.... In article , you wrote: >Hey Crackers, > >Be sure to tell us when you will next be hangin' with Ed. I will certainly >tape it. Ed can be an abnoxious little sock now and again, it should be >fun;) No problemo. Don't know when they'll be shooting new eps though. City TV is notoriously cheap. Right now their thinking is "Why make new episodes when we can re-run the old ones uncensored?" CRACKERS (Canadian TV Star 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: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 19:20:30 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Alloy: What a very odd week this has been. Well.... an ex-girlfriend (who I have never met and don't know nor even spoken or e-mailed with) of a friend of mine e-mailed me a suicide note last weekend. Nothing too odd about that, she's done it before. Of course the difference was this time she actually went ahead and commited suicide. Seems amoungst other things she was quite distraught over my friend infecting her with HIV. Well there's another bit of unexpected news. Don't know how my friend is dealing with this because I haven't been able to contact him. He's not a particularily stable fellow though so I've got a very bad feeling about this. But on the goodnews side of this week. I now have a "real" internet account. No more lynx text only browsing on a shell account for me. Nope. Now I have a DSL line. Woohoo! Finally I can download stuff and now have to leave the room. You see with my 33.6 modem (which would only connect to my freenet account at 28.8) I couldn't do anything else with my connection for those many hours it would take to download a large file. I've also given this Napster thingie that everyone loves/hates a spin. Oh the visions in my head of all the rare oldies, imports, and out of print songs that will be there for me to enjoy. Or so I thought. Looking for music from obscure bands/albums I discovered that it's really not to be found. Or if you do find some old out of print matterial from an obscure band you'll only find that one "big hit" they might have had. The more obscure stuff is nowhere to be found. Wouldn't it be cool if SOCAN/ASCAP/BMI etc. would set up something like Napster and have ALL their registered artist's work available there for download. They could even set it up so we could pay the 5.6 cent royalty (I think that's what SOCAN is paying now) per song when we download. All that old impossible to find music would be ours to enjoy again and the artists would even get their royalties. Of course I suppose the sheer resources involved in making such a project a reality really don't exist (at a feasable level) now adays. The search engine was a bit of a let down too. I was somehow imagining that you'd be able to enter in a lyric from the song you're looking for and it would find it (you know for all those songs you know, but don't remember what the actual title was or who the artist was). Nope, it's strictly a filename sort of thing. Speaking of Napster hide and seek... I found it ironic that I couldn't find a copy of "Evacuate Mississauga" anywhere on Napster but usually there are at least a half a dozen or so people on there who have an MP3 of one of *MY* songs! It's almost an ego thing. Wow... I'm good enough to be on Napster. Of course the worst thing is they're MP3s of some of my most pointless and thoughtless work. Two H-songs (hentai) I did a long time ago as a joke, "Don't Worry, Be Ecchi" and "I Wanna Slowpoke Your Cloyster (Until My Bulbasaur)". If you do a search for "AGNPH" you should find these songs. In an effort to balance it out I've put some drunken demos of my better written songs in my Napster folder (just search for artist "Crackers (demo)" and you should hopefully find them If I'm online. The best thing though to happen through Napster is that I have FINALLY found a copy of "Leaping Lesbians" from the album Lesbian Concentrate. On old, rare, obscure album from the 70s which I have desperately searched for. The bad news is even Napster fails to turn up any recordings by "The Brothers In Law". It looks like I'll have to fix my record player and burn my own damn CD. (Am I the only "Brothers In Law" fan in the world?) Ian, you ol' folkie you... you must surely know of "The Brothers In Law"? Right? CRACKERS (Hip waders on 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: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:22:19 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Re: Alloy: What a very odd week this has been. Hi crackers, I'm really overwhelmed by your story & I'm so sorry to hear about your friend's girlfriend (though you didn't know her it still must be quite shocking) as well as your friend himself. I hope you can get in contact with him. If you do, you can let him know that being HIV positive is not the same thing as having AIDS & there are a lot of different therapies he can go with which will keep him healthy. Over the last few years the medical community have made great strides in this. There are a few people close to me who are directly affected by this disease & it's not a death sentence if caught early - it does have to be handled properly and not ignored or reacted to with shame. There's even a form of medical treatment which a pregnant woman with AIDS can take, so that her baby will not be born with it (which I find amazing - but this is a sign of how far they have come with it) I hope you can get in touch with your friend & I'm very sorry about what happened. Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #16 **************************