From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #253 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, September 25 2001 Volume 06 : Number 253 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Hello again ["Andy Venables" ] Re: Alloy: music ["Paulo" ] Alloy: Excuse me while I blow my own horn... ["Chris & Beena Cracknell" <] Re: Alloy: music [Chris Good ] Re: Alloy: music [Jon Drukman ] Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V6 #252 ["Erik Habbinga" ] Alloy: welcome, thanks, & an incredibly stupid dream ["Robin Thurlow" Subject: Alloy: Hello again Hi all, I must say how glad I am to hear that you're all safe and well. After the shock and disbelief of what happened last week, my first thoughts were of the folk on this list (although, to be honest this is my only international mailing list, LOL). Thank-you Thomas for reporting in, and sharing your thoughts with us again. Robin, we're here to listen and you should know we'd do all we can for you, so don't fret about spilling your worries. As for "what are you all up to?" I have to report that I'm up to my eyebrows in it. I haven't been so busy at work for many a year. Which is good, especially when The Management are grateful. My net access is still resticted to lunchtimes only, so by the time I've refuelled and caught up with my daily surf I just don't have enough minutes left to write in. I had thought I'd be able to compose some wordage in the day to post at lunchtime but the Management in my room can tell if I'm writing, as opposed to the mix of mouse-clicking and key-tapping that actual work sounds like. A few weeks back I got told off for typing too loud! If I really have to be sneeky I leave an open document I can switch to quickly, and say I'm writing up some notes :o) I'll have to practice writing by some point-n- click cut-n-paste method that would make text- messaging seem like a breeze, hehe. At the moment I'm just at home recovering from some bug so I've got the time to write. Here I am trying to live up to my old nickname of 'Ailment Man' (A man barely alive, we just can't rebuild him) but now the whole family is trying to compete. Emily had ear grommets installed last week along with an addenoid (sp?) removal, and didn't take kindly to the meds. Just about recovered from that she then developed a nasty cough, and by the time she had trouble breathing we thought it best to call out the Doc. "She really needs hospital" is the last thing a parent wants to hear... so down we rush into town (just three miles away - life on a small island has its benefits) and we face the trauma of trying to hook her up to a drip. Ten minutes of screaming later, they finally give up and give her some oral meds and after a night in 'Robin Ward' she's fit to come home again, although still not clear. All good experience for a not-quite-four-year-old, I'm sure. Such close-to-home stresses obviously hog the limelight here, even though last week's terrorism certainly puts all worries into sharp perspective. I'm loathe to pass comment on that topic. On the one hand a bully left unchallenged just gets worse, and really needs to be tackled. On the other hand I really must trim my nails a bit. What I mean is there is no easy answer and I feel waaay out of my depth tackling such an issue. So I'll shut up. One quote that has stuck in my mind was from the NY service attended by the UK's Tony Blair. A simple and obvious line, but it resonated strongly with me. "Grief is the price we pay for loving". Don't let the b*****ds get you down! +AndyJ+ - -- _______________________________________________ FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Talk More, Pay Less with Net2Phone Direct(R), up to 1500 minutes free! http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/link.cgi?143 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 06:53:31 -0300 From: "Paulo" Subject: Re: Alloy: music > I would love to know what people of Alloy have been listening to lately. Or > playing lately, in the case of our musician members. Anything you're > particularly drawn to right now? > > xxxxx > Robin T > THE GUNNMAN AND OTHER STORIES - PREFAB SPROUT (It's the new one. Although Thomas isn't involved the album is brilliant). SOMEWHERE DEEP IN THE NIGHT - SWING OUT SISTER (It is the new one. Unfortunately only released in Japan. Lots of sophisticated arrangements with a fantastic blend of melodies, jazz, orchestra, keyboards and vocals). PET SHOP BOYS (All albums. Now they have an extra CD with 12" versions, b-sides, unreleased tracks, etc...). LOVER'S ROCK - SADE (Her last album, released sometime ago). EL COCO (All albums. El Coco is an underrated 70's disco band). These are the new ones I've been listening to, but I always return to these artists' back catalogue, plus THOMAS DOLBY and KATE BUSH old recordings. Thanks Paulo Brazil ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:59:24 -0400 From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" Subject: Alloy: Excuse me while I blow my own horn... ... and giggle like a schoolgirl. I've just had the first parody of one of my characters in another (and much more popular) webcomic. http://smc.keenspace.com Sunday Morning Coffee, a webcomic news show that pokes fun at other webcomics, had fun with one of my characters this week. I'm as thrilled as a japanese fart-fetishist at a texas chilli competition. This week also marks an important event in my webcomic as my readership has now grown to over 3600 weekly readers, that's more readers than my hometown newspaper has. ^_^ If my readership continues to grow at this rate I should be able to run with the big boys in a year or sooner. Woohoo! I'll have to start creating some "Ghastly's Ghastly Comic" merchandise soon (that's where the money is at). I'm also thinking of adding an MP3 of the week section to my webcomic where each week I'll put one of my songs up and people can download them. Of course I'm horribly lazy when it comes to HTML programming so I don't know when I'll get around to this. I'll have to add my "cast" section soon too. This week I plan to add my last character to the strip. I must now do a silly dance of joy. Crackers (So very happy 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: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:11:56 +0100 From: Chris Good Subject: Re: Alloy: music Robin Thurlow wrote: > > I would love to know what people of Alloy have been listening to lately. Or > playing lately, in the case of our musician members. Anything you're > particularly drawn to right now? > > xxxxx > Robin T See music pages on my site: http://www.cix.co.uk/~mrgs/ - -- 'til the next time, Chris (Room 1 - Blue Hotel) - --- Blue Hotel's HOME on the Web - http://www.bluehotel.co.uk News - Reviews - Discography - Biography - Pix - Lyrics - Links - more ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:10:13 -0700 From: Jon Drukman Subject: Re: Alloy: music At 02:04 PM 9/23/2001 -0400, Robin Thurlow wrote: >I would love to know what people of Alloy have been listening to lately. Or >playing lately, in the case of our musician members. Anything you're >particularly drawn to right now? my current interest is electro/synthpop, with these in heavy rotation: felix da housecat - kittenz and thee glitz adult. - resuscitation ladytron - 604 what with the frantic pace of the world tho i need to relax, and these are what i'm using to that end: robert rich - bestiary subsurfing - frozen ants future sound of london - lifeforms dj food - kaleidoscope bo square - sizing things up ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:31:12 -0600 From: "Erik Habbinga" Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V6 #252 > Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 14:04:27 -0400 > From: "Robin Thurlow" > Subject: Alloy: music > > I would love to know what people of Alloy have been listening to lately. Or > playing lately, in the case of our musician members. Anything you're > particularly drawn to right now? > > xxxxx > Robin T > I've been buying new music constantly all summer. The stuff that has stuck in the CD player the most has been Shirley Bassey "The Remix Album", Pizzicato Five "The Fifth Release", and Van Halen "1984" (the remaster sounds excellent, it won't leave the CD player). Erik ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 01:29:08 -0400 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Alloy: welcome, thanks, & an incredibly stupid dream Warm welcomes to new members just joining us, a very warm "welcome back" to a member who has left and thankfully returned! ..and also, it's extremely nice to hear from those of you who usually lurk. Good to know you're all okay :) Like Andy, I'm having problems connecting from work. Even on lunch breaks, half the time our systems are down & it's impossible to get through! and my access from home is not completely reliable right now. I have lots of catching up to do in correspondence. But for now, please know that I'm very grateful to all who have written to reassure me about the last couple of weeks - which I know have been extremely difficult on everyone. And now I must confess what I dreamt last night. It was so ridiculous and so very, very stupid, I'm not sure what to make of it. Crackers, remember my dream about "Sunny", the little demon who was following me at the fairground, drinking dish detergent? I've just had an even stranger one along those same lines, only it wasn't Sunny this time - it was Osama bin Laden, and he was acting like a big goof. In this dream, another girl and I had just started new office jobs, and Osama was there too. On our first day at work, he began sneaking around after us everywhere we went... peering at us around corners, popping up from behind various pieces of furniture & waving, always trying to get our attention. A person who'd been at the office for a long time told us that Osama always behaved like this toward the 'new hires' and that he would leave us alone once he got used to our being around. But he was just really annoying. It got to the point where he would follow us out of work and do embarrassing things in public to make us look at him. At one point, my dream-coworker and I were driving down the road to go home, and who should drive up alongside us but Osama, waving like mad, beeping his horn. To make matters worse he even had an ornament on his car antenna that was a huge 3-D bust portrait of himself, with real fur stuck on where the beard was supposed to be, so that it bobbed & the beard blew in the wind as the car sped along. My friend and I kept saying, how are we going to ditch this guy? After weeks of living on my nerves, my subconscious must really be trashed, if it's giving me dreams like this (?????) xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #253 ***************************