From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #188 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, July 21 2001 Volume 06 : Number 188 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: RE: alloy-digest V6 #185 ["Chris & Beena Cracknell" ] Alloy: possible virus? [Robin Thurlow ] Re: Alloy: possible virus? [hubcity@exit109.com] Alloy: "The Canadian Act confused American Audiences!" [OT] ["Ian Gifford] Re: Alloy: RE: alloy-digest V6 #185 ["Chris & Beena Cracknell" ] Alloy: YADD: Synths of steel ["Chris & Beena Cracknell" ] Re: Alloy: picture [Robin Thurlow ] Re: Alloy: YADD: Synths of steel ["Keith Stansell" ] Re: Alloy: picture [CJMark@aol.com] Re: Alloy: YADD: Synths of steel [Brian Clayton ] Alloy: 'allo Alloy [Tom Trudell ] Re: Alloy: YADD: Synths of steel [Merujo ] Alloy: more dolby video questions [Bluemeitz@cs.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 02:37:04 -0400 From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" Subject: Re: Alloy: RE: alloy-digest V6 #185 - ----- Original Message ----- > Har! Well, shame it was me and not you! Frankly, Crackers, you probably have > better-looking boobs than I do! http://ghastly.keenspace.com/images/ghastlyphoto.jpg You tell me. ~_^ Crackers (Autographed photos from hell!!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:44:59 -0400 From: Merujo Subject: Re: Alloy: RE: alloy-digest V6 #185 Chris & Beena Cracknell wrote: > http://ghastly.keenspace.com/images/ghastlyphoto.jpg > > You tell me. ~_^ Crackers, you win, no question! Vince Clark? No way! Cheers, Melissa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:42:01 -0400 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Alloy: possible virus? I don't know if this means anything, but the heroic smoe server has filtered out a non-member submission with a file attachment & bounced it to me... it's from "Sam Scobee" and the subject line is "Accounting Program Needs" The message to Alloy is: :: Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks :: Does this sound like a virus to you? Anyway if you get one like this, you might not want to open it since it's clearly being sent out indiscriminately. xxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:47:42 GMT From: hubcity@exit109.com Subject: Re: Alloy: possible virus? Robin, > Does this sound like a virus to you? Yes. Don't open the attachment. Unknown user + non-specific message + file attachment = virus, I fear. Delete the message and the attachment, and all will be well. - -Sean Carolan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:02:27 -0400 From: "Ian Gifford" Subject: Alloy: "The Canadian Act confused American Audiences!" [OT] Well.... I spent the better part of a morning downloading the songs from http://www.keithstansell.com/webshare/ and laughed my skinny tail off! I truly think that Crackers and I may have a musical future together. If you listen to these songs, we managed to pull off quite an eclectic assortment of tunes did we not?? I almost wish we were able to do Crackers spoof tune "Secret Cajun Man", ah but that will be a future posting I am sure. If you folks enjoy what Crackers and I have offered up here, please let us know ("no no no... don't encourage them..."). Some of these tunes are a little Risque in Nature but it seems that when you get together with Crackers it is hard to be anything But! My favorite line from the night was in the "Hungary song" when someone shouted out "Cornwallis" (I won't give away the surprise ;) ALso, for your info... I have all of my tunes from the play "CORE" in top notch recording format available at http://www.mp3.com/corethemusical I hope that you will check these out and send me some feedback. Once again these songs were all written and recorded and produced by me with 16 different singers and 5 top-notch musicians. The lyrics are by Jason Rip and I believe are completely Brilliant. Enjoy! CHeers all, Ian Ian Gifford Singer/Songwriter, Radio show host ("For The Folk"), promoter, producer. On-air Wednesday Evenings 8:30pm to 10:00pm (est) http://www.chrwradio.com ___________________________________________________________________ "All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song" Louis Armstrong, 1901-1971 ___________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:16:50 -0400 From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" Subject: Re: Alloy: RE: alloy-digest V6 #185 - ----- Original Message ----- > > http://ghastly.keenspace.com/images/ghastlyphoto.jpg > > You tell me. ~_^ > > Crackers, you win, no question! Wow... ... I guess I won the boobie prize. =^_^= > Vince Clark? No way! Yes, Vince Clark only dreams of having permanently erect perky pink nipples like mine. Incidently the photo was for a contest at my favorite webcomic. Readers send in a photo and one male and one female user would be picked to be characters in the comic. Alas, I didn't win even though I put on my best "porn leer". Crackers (Always a bridesmaid, never a bride from hell!!!!) CrAB - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html The Official Bira Bira Webpage - http://birabira.chaosmagic.com Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:23:26 -0400 From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" Subject: Re: Alloy: "The Canadian Act confused American Audiences!" [OT] - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Gifford" > I spent the better part of a morning downloading the songs from > http://www.keithstansell.com/webshare/ and laughed my skinny tail off! I really think the recording of "I'm On My Way" came out well. It's just a pity the tape recorder was so close to that noisey wench who just couldn't keep her mouth shut. Oh well. Istanbul sounds pretty cool too. The Legend of Bill came out pretty good too. I think we may well be the first people in history to have harmonized on the word Chlamydia.. > My favorite line from the night was > in the "Hungary song" when someone shouted out "Cornwallis" (I won't give > away the surprise ;) Yeah I also discovered the only flaw in that song. Half a dozen people yelling out different city names at once. Eh?! What?! One at a time! Crackers (I laughed until I plotzed from hell!!!!) CrAB - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html The Official Bira Bira Webpage - http://birabira.chaosmagic.com Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:00:27 -0700 From: Jon Drukman Subject: Alloy: picture i can't imagine anyone cares but if morbid curiosity gets the better of you http://cluttered.com/pics/press/small36.jpg - -jsd- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:02:19 -0400 From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" Subject: Alloy: YADD: Synths of steel YADD! (Yet Another Dolby Dream) What an odd dream last night. I'm on my way to judo practice when who do I run into at the rec centre? Thomas Dolby. I instantly think "Oh great, I'm having another Thomas Dolby dream. He alsways acts so weird in my dreams." Then I notice Thomas looks a little different than usually. He's become a little soft around the middle and his boyish good looks have become kinda dough-boyish good looks. So I ask him what he's up to and Thomas tells me that he's been spending too much time behind a desk and it's caused him to lose his hard body so he's given up his job at Beatnik to concentrate on a new career... ... becoming the new Richard Simmons. Before I can say "Someone wake me up!" Thomas is standing before me in a tank top and red and white striped puffy shorts leading a whole bunch of pudgie people in his patented arobic workout which seems to be a blend of karate and judo kata set to his own music. Well his class is soon over so he invites me over to his place to discuss his plans to become the world's biggest fitness guru. So we get to his house and his lovely wife is there and she tells him that someone from Beatnik called and there's a problem that needs his immediate attention. "Not now woman!" Thomas barks, "I have important business to discuss. Now bring us some lemonaide, we'll be in the den." So I follow Thomas into his den and his two daughters are sitting on the floor playing Nintendo and Thomas shoos them out saying "Daddy needs the TV to show something to a potential investor." Uh oh, I think, Thomas doesn't seriously expect me to invest money into this scheme of his. His wife comes in with a tray of lemonaide and then sits on the couch and shakes her head while Thomas rummages through a cabinet for a video tape. "You're not going to show him the tape, are you?" "Quiet woman!" he barks again, "This is important business. I'm setting out to change the world. All fat will be eliminated by the year 2010." "Look!" she says, "I told you I don't mind your love handles. I think they're kind of cute." Thomas scowls and continues to search for the tape then finds it and produces it with much fanfare. "Ta-dah!!!" He pops the tape into the VCR then sits on the couch beside his wife and fastforwards with the remote to the part he wants to show me. It's a cheesy home-made exercise video of him at the rec centre gym leading the same arobics class just saw to his music. "See! See! My special karate/judo kata arobics are scientifically formulated to create the maximum exercise benefits. I'm going to fucking BURY that Tai-bo guy. I'm thinking of calling it 'Sweating to the 80s', what do you think?" Thomas eagerly asks me. "How about 'Getting Stinky With Professor Thinky'." I suggest at which point Thomas starts getting quite irate about me not taking him seriously as a fitness guru and begins to rant and rave and I shortly thereafter wake up. I'm going to have to figure out what part of my subconscious Thomas represents and do something about it because he's almost always a bit of a goof in my dreams. Crackers (Dream a little dream of me from hell!!!!!) CrAB - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html The Official Bira Bira Webpage - http://birabira.chaosmagic.com Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:49:47 -0400 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: YADD: Synths of steel Chris & Beena Cracknell wrote: > "See! See! My special karate/judo kata arobics are scientifically formulated > to create the maximum exercise benefits. I'm going to fucking BURY that > Tai-bo guy. I'm thinking of calling it 'Sweating to the 80s', what do you > think?" Thomas eagerly asks me. > > "How about 'Getting Stinky With Professor Thinky'." I suggest ... ~shriek~!!!! LOL!! crackers, I forgot the Golden Rule, never to eat while reading your posts... I've just choked on my rotini!!! As far as interpretation... I notice that in the dreams you've had about Thomas, it seems like he's either abandoning his previous life and going for something new (like the sasquatch dream) or has lost all of his inhibitions and is really cutting loose (like the daffy duck dream)... Maybe on a subconscious level, there's some part of you that wants to take outrageous risks but the reality of everyday life calls for more of a controlled approach. Since Thomas is in the same profession & is also a family man, I can see your point in that some part of your subconscious might be identifying with him in trying to demonstrate something to you! xxxx RobinT ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:05:35 -0400 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: picture Jon Drukman wrote: > i can't imagine anyone cares but if morbid curiosity gets the better of you and it always does... (!!!!) I think this needs to go into the Alloy gallery, Jon, if you wouldn't mind! I can link it back to your professional site. And Crackers... care for an update? do beautiful breasts & a good 'porn leer' win out over the accordian & horn-rimmed specs? xxx ~R ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:31:21 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: YADD: Synths of steel Kind of reminds me of the wierd dream I had where I was a vampire and Thomas was this weird car salesman style funeral home director who was trying to kill my girlfriend with a ham bone. (''am bone - whack) so he could stuff and mount her. Oh wait - I think I fell asleep watching Rockula again. - -Keith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" To: Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:02 AM Subject: Alloy: YADD: Synths of steel > > YADD! (Yet Another Dolby Dream) > > > What an odd dream last night. I'm on my way to judo practice when who do I > run into at the rec centre? Thomas Dolby. > > I instantly think "Oh great, I'm having another Thomas Dolby dream. He > alsways acts so weird in my dreams." Then I notice Thomas looks a little > different than usually. He's become a little soft around the middle and his > boyish good looks have become kinda dough-boyish good looks. So I ask him > what he's up to and Thomas tells me that he's been spending too much time > behind a desk and it's caused him to lose his hard body so he's given up > his job at Beatnik to concentrate on a new career... > > ... becoming the new Richard Simmons. > > Before I can say "Someone wake me up!" Thomas is standing before me in a > tank top and red and white striped puffy shorts leading a whole bunch of > pudgie people in his patented arobic workout which seems to be a blend of > karate and judo kata set to his own music. > > Well his class is soon over so he invites me over to his place to discuss > his plans to become the world's biggest fitness guru. So we get to his house > and his lovely wife is there and she tells him that someone from Beatnik > called and there's a problem that needs his immediate attention. "Not now > woman!" Thomas barks, "I have important business to discuss. Now bring us > some lemonaide, we'll be in the den." > > So I follow Thomas into his den and his two daughters are sitting on the > floor playing Nintendo and Thomas shoos them out saying "Daddy needs the TV > to show something to a potential investor." > > Uh oh, I think, Thomas doesn't seriously expect me to invest money into this > scheme of his. > > His wife comes in with a tray of lemonaide and then sits on the couch and > shakes her head while Thomas rummages through a cabinet for a video tape. > "You're not going to show him the tape, are you?" > > "Quiet woman!" he barks again, "This is important business. I'm setting out > to change the world. All fat will be eliminated by the year 2010." > > "Look!" she says, "I told you I don't mind your love handles. I think > they're kind of cute." > > Thomas scowls and continues to search for the tape then finds it and > produces it with much fanfare. "Ta-dah!!!" > > He pops the tape into the VCR then sits on the couch beside his wife and > fastforwards with the remote to the part he wants to show me. It's a cheesy > home-made exercise video of him at the rec centre gym leading the same > arobics class just saw to his music. > > "See! See! My special karate/judo kata arobics are scientifically formulated > to create the maximum exercise benefits. I'm going to fucking BURY that > Tai-bo guy. I'm thinking of calling it 'Sweating to the 80s', what do you > think?" Thomas eagerly asks me. > > "How about 'Getting Stinky With Professor Thinky'." I suggest at which point > Thomas starts getting quite irate about me not taking him seriously as a > fitness guru and begins to rant and rave and I shortly thereafter wake up. > > I'm going to have to figure out what part of my subconscious Thomas > represents and do something about it because he's almost always a bit of a > goof in my dreams. > > > Crackers > (Dream a little dream of me from hell!!!!!) > > CrAB - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html > The Official Bira Bira Webpage - http://birabira.chaosmagic.com > Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:31:35 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: picture Cool shot.. Jon! Mark ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:46:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Clayton Subject: Re: Alloy: YADD: Synths of steel On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Chris & Beena Cracknell wrote: > Before I can say "Someone wake me up!" Thomas is standing before me in a > tank top and red and white striped puffy shorts leading a whole bunch of > pudgie people in his patented arobic workout which seems to be a blend of > karate and judo kata set to his own music. No joke, Crackers: the very next piece of email in my mailbox was a spam entitled: Fast And Easy Weight Loss!!!!!!!!!! BC - -- "No one can predict with certainty what the ultimate meaning will be of mastery of space." -- John F. Kennedy, May 25th, 1961 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:04:18 -0700 From: Tom Trudell Subject: Alloy: 'allo Alloy Thanks all and I must say first impressions of this list are, er, impressive! I guess those drawn to Dolby's music are more likely to be kind and articulate, so it seems. By way of introduction, I have lived on the west coast of the USA for all of my 37 years, now residing in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Wait, it's really not that nice, you and your teeming hordes don't want to move here - really, it rains FAR too much, oh the depression I feel it setting in. :) I first heard Mr. Dolby with the "Science" mtv video blitz in the early eighties, and kept loose tabs on his career. I must say that "Astronauts and Heretics" is an absolute corker of an effort, one of my favorites by any artist. I host a local public radio show in Astoria, OR - "the grooveyard" on KMUN 91.9, friday nights 10-12 p.m. - it's all about 70's funk, '80's junk, and some '90's acid jazz, plus a few novelty tunes. I'll post a playlist from my next show, it may give some of you ideas ?!? But my primary appreciation of Mr. Dolby is the quality of his recorded opus, for you see I too am a musician, songwriter, a dude in the bedroom full of overly expensive and often incomprehensible audio equipment. I very much identify with the "mad scientist" persona and one day soon I'll be throwing my creative sprog of a finished cd into the gaping maw of an inattentive and uncaring world. The joy! It must also be said that Thomas' presence on the list is completely cool. take care then and be good, and as a good-bye gesture, I'll mention 10 more bands/acts that, like Dolby, really have their groove together IMHO . . . 1. Down to the Bone 2. Galactic (speaking of New Orleans) 3. Byrne/Talking Heads 4. Level 42 - I confess to being obsessed with their songwriting and musicianship 5. Junk 6. Greyboy 7. Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits 8. ConFunkShun 9. Donald Fagen/Steely Dan of course goes without saying and with saying 10. Lloyd Cole - -Tom ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:56:19 -0400 From: Merujo Subject: Re: Alloy: YADD: Synths of steel Keith Stansell wrote: > Kind of reminds me of the wierd dream I had where I was a vampire and Thomas > was this weird car salesman style funeral home director who was trying to > kill my girlfriend with a ham bone. (''am bone - whack) so he could stuff > and mount her. Oh, Keith, please tell me you meant "stuff and mount" in the taxidermy sense, right? (Then again, either interpretation with a dead girlfriend is pretty creepy...) Ham bone. Why is that so damn funny? - - Melissa, I think I need sleep... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:33:17 EDT From: Bluemeitz@cs.com Subject: Alloy: more dolby video questions A few days ago, I posted a few questions about certain items that aroused my curiousity in certain TMDR music videos. Some were answered but I have more. 1- I inquired about the certain whereabouts of Dr. Magnus Pike. One response indicated that he died a few years back. Is this true? Perhaps somone would like to print a small bio about him and how he got hooked up with TMDR. Is Dr. Pike the one who appears in the Hyperactive vid? If not, who is he? 2- Someone stated the TMDR appears as the sleazy guy in the Airhead vid. It sure looks like him to me. Does he also play the person that is made up of montage pieces? To me it looks like him who plays the director in the vid as well. But who is the girl at the end that walks away with montage pieces person? 3- In the Radio Silence vid, what is meant by the phrase "Caroline 4-5-2"? It is repeated quite often. Isnt that Lene Lovich is the vid? You know, the one that looks like she is driving a car.. 4-I never saw the vids that were made from the Astronauts album. Anybody have these or know where i can access them? 5-In the Dissidents vid, toward the end, leaflets were dropped from the sky. It looked like Dolby's face was on the leaflet and looked like writing as well. Was this a real leaflet? Does anyone have a copy of one? What was the writing? 6- Can anyone provide any info about where and when the Live Wireless was performed? It looks like a real concert from the beginning of the tape. Was there more to the concert or is this it? Will this ever be released on DVD or on an audio cd? Thanks.. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #188 ***************************