From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #232 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 Monday, September 3 2001 Volume 06 : Number 232 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: top 80 of the 80s ["Robin Thurlow" ] Re: Alloy: top 80 of the 80s [Elaine Linstruth ] Re: Alloy: top 80 of the 80s ["Robin Thurlow" ] Re: Alloy: top 80 of the 80s ["Robin Thurlow" ] Re: Alloy: top 80 of the 80s [Elaine Linstruth ] Alloy: Pop-Up Video (fwd) [Elaine Linstruth ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 17:56:07 -0400 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Alloy: top 80 of the 80s I've just tuned in (it's running in cycles all day today I think...) They're using a brief mix with elements of "She Blinded Me With Science" every time the show returns from commercial break :) So yes, Thomas *rules* VH1 today. The format for each entry on the list is to show bits of the video, and then interview the artist and get little facts about the background. I wonder, when Thomas' video comes up, will he have given an interview to them about its background? It would be such a nice surprise! xxxxx Robin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:01:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Re: Alloy: top 80 of the 80s And for 5 minutes in Lancaster, California on the afternoon of Saturday, September 1, 2001, he ruled the audio section of the Costco as I happened to walk through. heehee P.S. I forgot what number he is on VH1, so if someone could post what he says, or what they say about him, that would be really great! On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Robin Thurlow wrote: > They're using a brief mix with elements of "She Blinded Me With Science" every > time the show returns from commercial break :) So yes, Thomas *rules* VH1 > today. - -- Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA, USA "Parking under a shady tree to work on a crossword puzzle is a great alternative to being labeled a racist and being dragged through an inquest, a review board, an FBI and U.S. attorney's investigation and a lawsuit.." -- Seattle policeman Eric Michl on why his colleagues take passive crime-fighting approach in black neighborhoods, in _Seattle Times_ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 21:15:39 -0400 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Re: Alloy: top 80 of the 80s They showed clips from an interview done when the video had first come out. I'm such a geek girl... even though I've seen that interview before, I was so psyched to see Thomas on TV! There've been a couple of other people I thought were nice to see.. Cyndi Lauper (who just made an appearance with the Boston Pops over the summer.... in which she rubbed bums with prettyboy conductor Keith Lockheart, much to a lot of people's shock!) and the Talking Heads video where that strange dance is done over and over again. David Byrne revealed that he'd seen those dances done by a lot of teenagers in a park in Tokyo... they were just dancing in this really weird way, that he'd never seen before and didn't understand what it meant. Really fascinating.. I'd never known that. xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 21:30:26 -0400 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Re: Alloy: top 80 of the 80s He was #18 (the videos were chosen based on the influence they had on music style, video direction and production, fashion, etc) One thing I wish they'd pointed out is that Thomas wrote and directed that video as well. Many of the artists are talking about the videos, and saying... yeah, we hired so-and-so to direct, I really don't know what it was about but it was a great hit for us... I think Thomas should get special mention for having conceived of it & done it all himself. They've got MJ and Sting etc talking about how they were so involved in their videos. arrghhhh. ~scowl~ I have never seen the "Pop Up Video" of it, where they give the little captions on what's going on. But did they happen to say where it was filmed? I can't remember if I ever heard about this or not. I really like the interiors. xxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:41:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Re: Alloy: top 80 of the 80s I'm pretty sure they said a real or perhaps ex-hospital. I've noticed that show point out that several videos were all filmed at this closed sanitarium somewhere outside London -- Adam Ant's "Goody Two Shoes" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler were both filmed there. And some other video too, I can't think of it now. An Ozzy video maybe. Perhaps it's the same place? I'll look for the Pop-Up show if I ever see that Science will be shown. I have access to a satellite guide that's sometimes really good with its synopses. The sanitarium I'm thinking of is described as being a high-society hospital for well-to-do women in whatever age it was constructed. (Victorian?) I know I typed up the Pop-Ups at the time it was new.. I'll look and see if I saved that bunch of tidbits in a folder somewhere (I think I did). - -- Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA, USA "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 "The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security." -- FBI Director Louis Freeh, 1993 On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Robin Thurlow wrote: > I have never seen the "Pop Up Video" of it, where they give the little > captions on what's going on. But did they happen to say where it was > filmed? I can't remember if I ever heard about this or not. I really like > the interiors. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:50:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Alloy: Pop-Up Video (fwd) Yep, I'm still a packrat. This is its third go-around! Doesn't give the name of the sanitarium, though. - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 10:54:52 -0800 (PST) From: Elaine Linstruth To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Alloy: Popup Video Since I guess I'm some kind of packrat, I hadn't deleted this email (circa 5/6/97). I missed whoever asked for it.. just saw where Beth had quoted from it. Anyway, here it is; delete if you're not interested (it's kinda long). - -- (opening sequence) "She Blinded Me With Science, The Golden Age of Wireless, EMI 1982, Director: Thomas Dolby" - -Filmed at a real London sanitarium in May, 1982 - -Thomas Morgan Robertson, Born October 14, 1958, Cairo Egypt - -Egypt was also a birthplace of science in 3,000 B.C. - -(with arrow on "Miss Sakamoto") Actress hired from a catalogue - -Activists claim 14 million animals each year are blinded by scientists. - -Dr. Magnus Pyke -- host of a BBC-TV science show. - -He says, "Science!" on the record. - -He taught at a school Dolby's sister attended. - -(at Miss Sakamoto's red skirt) Psychologists say red can represent lust. - -Most popular color car in the US: red - -Chemicals called pheromones are more important than a sense of sight in mating. - -(at TMDR's sniffing while on Pyke's couch) They don't have a smell. - -Thomas was nicknamed Dolby by high school friends. - -They read it off the tape recorder he was always fiddling with. - -He settled a trademark lawsuit with Dolby Labs in 1987. - -Only 2% of people hurt by health care providers sue (while Pyke is knocking TMDR's knee with a reflex hammer) - -Percentage of suits won by doctors: 76 - -Butterflies were released but they flew away too fast to be filmed (at the mad scientist with the 4-pronged butterfly net) - -(at the other scientists on the grounds) These extras were hired for their 'mad scientist' look. - -(at the scientist shuffling across the grass with the smoking presumably-jet-powered skates) Dolby's father, an archaeologist. - -The guy on the roof is a singer and Dolby protege. - -A decade later he jumped off a building to his death. - -The Grateful Dead appeared on a 1992 Dolby album. (I thought this one was rather tasteless, myself.. after the reference to the suicide.) - -Dolby went to a psychiatrist once in his life. - -He left feeling overcharged (at the electroshock therapy headgear part) - -St. Vitus' Dance (n.): a brain disease causing bizarre movements (outside, looking at the mad scientists dancing weirdly) - -Pyke refused to wear a lab coat because he wasn't an M.D. - -Fine for impersonating a doctor: $5,000 - -Dolby married Dynasty's Kirby Colby in 1988 (popup picture of Kathleen) - -Fine for impersonating an actor: $0 - -Two years later he played a sexually frustrated vampire in Rockula. - -The title cards were added after Dolby found the video "obscure." - -Pop-Up Video was added to VH1 14 years later. Closing card: - -Dolby calls Pyke a "stodgy old bird" who badgered him throughout the shoot about his cab ride home. Although well-known as a scientist in Britain, Pyke was upset when he traveled to America and people kept coming up to him and yelling, "Science!" Who was the suicide in 1992? I was surprised to see the Dolby explanation.. he's really had that nickname since high school? And that Mr. Robertson was in the video, that was interesting. The last factoid seems to quote Thomas about Pyke, so we can reasonably assume that all TMDR-related facts above were "checked." [END] ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #232 ***************************