From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #96 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 Tuesday, April 17 2001 Volume 06 : Number 096 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: little CNET ad [Lee Jackson ] Re: Alloy: little CNET ad ["Robin" ] Alloy: Star Wars fan film on Fox News ["Julie Sweeney" ] Re: Alloy: Countries (OT) [CRACKERS ] Re: Alloy: Chicken Lorry Blues and Rolls Royce High Life...... [CRACKERS ] Re: Alloy: A daft joke and TMDR Guitar question? [CRACKERS Subject: Re: Alloy: little CNET ad On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 15:48:29 -0400, you wrote: >Thomas has forwarded me a small MP3 file of a digest CNet created of his >interview for play later in the day, which he'd like me to share with >everyone. Since I can't send attachments through Alloy itself, please contact >me privately & I'll send it to you! Any chance you might still have it on your system somewhere? I'd appreciate a copy if you do. Thanks!!! - -- Lee Jackson Music and Sound Director 3D Realms Entertainment http://www.3drealms.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:33:04 -0400 From: "Robin" Subject: Re: Alloy: little CNET ad I do still have it (it's in the same folder as the Invader Zim remix!) and it's on its way. Anyone else? xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:29:52 -0500 From: "Julie Sweeney" Subject: Alloy: Star Wars fan film on Fox News Hey! Saw a Fox News little news thingy on Star Wars Episode II, the websites, etc. devoted to Star Wars, and then lo and behold, excerpts from Elaine's brother-in-law's fan film!!! This was around 12:30 central time; I think they sometimes re-run these kinds of features on their evening news programs. Elaine, congrats to your brother-in-law -- that's sort of big-time exposure for a little amateur fan flick... Fox even interviewed someone associated with it briefly, didn't see or hear a name attached to this guy. Julie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:18:27 +0100 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: Chicken Lorry Blues and Rolls Royce High Life...... CRACKERS wrote: > > I just love the names of places in England especially the ones that sound > sexually suggestive. > > > Crackers > (Exhasted from Dorking Surrey from hell!!!) Ah, yes, I remember that around the time of the Alloy Tour T Shirt Project a number of the Alloyed didn't believe that there really was a place in England called Chorlton-cum-Hardy, which also has a suggestive ring to it, but I can assure you that it DOES exist and I live there. Prior to that I lived in Didsbury, another quaint name, I think. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:14:35 +0100 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: Countries (OT) CRACKERS wrote: > Montreal, and ironically enough Hamilton (the city where I live) are > dangerous places. In Montreal you run the risk of getting caught in a > biker gang-war cross fire and in Hamilton you run the risk of getting > stabbed in the neck with a screw driver by an incoherent crack-fiend. > > How ironic that when the director of the movie Canadian Bacon wanted a > location to film that exemplified everything he feels is wrong with the > United States he picked Hamilton. > > CRACKERS > (You'll come for the pollution, but you'll stay for the > imported crack from hell!!) This may be a naive question, but if it's so bad there, why don't you move somewhere else? Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:34:25 +0100 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: Chicken Lorry Blues and Rolls Royce High Life...... Trevor James Blagg wrote: > > Absolutely not!!! > > The sort of Claret in the West Ham kit is the type you often find laced into > handkerchiefs or farmers' underpants. > also for Robin's benefit...In England, if you spot anybody wearing the Red & > White colours of Manchester United it's common tradition to spit in their > direction and call them a dirty glory hunter. This is good advice if you like hospital food, but otherwise I'd take it with a pinch of salt. > However it's no good > travelling to Manchester to meet one as you won't find any there. > This is an urban myth, as I, who live close enough to Man United's ground to hear the roar when they score, can testify. However, it IS true that only a small percentage of MU's fans hail from Manchester. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:30:00 +0100 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: A daft joke and TMDR Guitar question? CRACKERS wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Robin Thurlow wrote: > > > This is from the same dream of yours in which he chucked the modern > > world and went off to live with a family of Sasquatches in the Northern > > woods, isn't it? For some reason, this sticks in my mind. I love > > hearing about dreams, especially Crackers' dreams. > > > Then he finished the song and started bouncing around the parking lot > going "woohoo woohoo woohoo" like Daffy Duck and his wife gave me a lift > home in her car. > This one cracks me up every time. I can really visualise it. Occasionally I have vivid AND memorable dreams, usually which make little logical sense. I remember one where Rob Townshend, who used to be the drummer with English band Family in the 70's, was playing in our school orchestra. Can't remember anything else about that one now, as it was many years ago, but I DID have a strange one last night. I was on a training course in Rotherham (which is near the northern England steel town of Sheffield) but for some reason I and all the other delegates found had wet paint on our clothes. This may be related to a current TV ad for virtually odour free paint in which people get paint on their clothes because they lean against recently painted walls but cannot smell the fresh paint. Anyway, to return to the dream, I took the train back to Manchester and when I got back to my office, got in the lift to go up to my floor. As the doors were closing I saw a couple of my colleagues heading for the lift, so I hit the 'STOP' button and returned the lift to the ground floor to pick them up. Then the lift wouldn't work and I asked a lift engineer, who happened to be in the lift with me, whether stopping the lift in the middle of its original journey might have upset its control mechanism, but before he could answer the lift began to rise, but with the doors still open. It was at this point that I woke up. And not a celebrity in sight. Sorry. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:43:59 -0400 (EDT) From: CRACKERS Subject: Re: Alloy: little CNET ad On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Robin wrote: > > I do still have it (it's in the same folder as the Invader Zim remix!) and > it's on its way. Anyone else? Could you send it to my real E-mail address? bcracknell@sympatico.ca CRACKERS (About to turf lynx from hell!!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:07:56 -0400 (EDT) From: CRACKERS Subject: Re: Alloy: Countries (OT) On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Slarvibarglhee wrote: > > This may be a naive question, but if it's so bad there, why don't you move > somewhere else? Mostly because we bought our house for $110K in 1990 BC (Before Crack) and now it's worth 65K in 2001 AD (After Drugs). Somehow random screw driver stabbings and a thriving prostitution industry just doesn't do much to boost property values. If I could manage to sell without losing my shirt I'd be out of here in a second but alas I cannot. So we'll have to stick it out and hope that things turn around. Sometimes neighbourhoods go through cycles. Take Parkdale/Roncensville area of Toronto. In the 40's it was a very posh era of town. When I lived there in the 80s it was a good place to get stabbed and robbed. Now my step brother lives there and he can't believe me that Roncensville used to be a hell-hole because the place is full of yuppies and artsy little stores. What turned around the neighbourhood? Shutting down a hotel that was nothing but a place to buy drugs and rent whores. So hopefully if they can fix up the downtown core of my city and get rid of the crack problem (I still say the "poison crack" trick would do the job) then maybe I'll be living in a nice safe area again. CRACKERS (Sitting with Tom Lehrer, poisoning crackheads in the park from hell!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:09:48 -0400 (EDT) From: CRACKERS Subject: Re: Alloy: Chicken Lorry Blues and Rolls Royce High Life...... On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Slarvibarglhee wrote: > Ah, yes, I remember that around the time of the Alloy Tour T Shirt Project a > number of the Alloyed didn't believe that there really was a place in England > called Chorlton-cum-Hardy, which also has a suggestive ring to it, but I can > assure you that it DOES exist and I live there. Prior to that I lived in > Didsbury, another quaint name, I think. Wookie Hole has always been a name that has made me giggle. CRACKERS (What Han Solo has on those long lonely space flights from hell!!!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:14:18 -0400 (EDT) From: CRACKERS Subject: Re: Alloy: A daft joke and TMDR Guitar question? On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Slarvibarglhee wrote: > This one cracks me up every time. I can really visualise it. Dolby Season! Wabbit Season! Dolby Season! Wabbit Season! I've often wondered if Thomas's wife would answer my wife's analysis of my dream with "No no, he WAS dreaming of Thomas and me." CRACKERS (Beak full o' buckshot from hell!!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:37:35 -0400 (EDT) From: CRACKERS Subject: Re: Alloy: (OT) continued adventures of Robin's tattoo artist On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Robin wrote: > been asked to be in director Roger "Rock n' Roll High School" Corman's next > slasher flick! Yay!! I know this is completely OT but I'm really psyched > about this :) A friend of mine and his band (Cadillac Bill and the Creeping Bent) were briefly in a slasher flick (which they scored the soundtrack for) called "Canibal Roller Babes" which stared, I think, Julie Strain. Saddly, I have yet to appear in any sort of film, slasher or otherwise, not counting films created by my college classmates and myself for projects (like the one where I was a psycopath who mowed down his class with an uzi. This was back in 1984 so I guess we were visionaries). I've not even been an extra in a film. The closest I've even come to being in a film was my first and last film audition for a Disney movie called Adventures In Babysitting. I didn't much care for the whole process of auditioning and figured I'd have better luck concentrating on my music career and maybe doing small live theatre productions than pointlessly wasting day after day standing in line waiting to audition for the role of bystander #3 and thug #2. "I'm sorry but we're just not feeling your 'yeah'." CRACKERS (Will act for food from hell!!!) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #96 **************************