From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #293 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 Thursday, November 8 2001 Volume 06 : Number 293 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Son of a diddly! ["Chris & Beena Cracknell" ] Alloy: ebay [Russell Milliner ] Re: Alloy: Burn Baby, Burn! [Slarvibarglhee ] Re: Alloy: Son of a diddly! ["Robin Thurlow" ] Alloy: RE: alloy-digest V6 #292 reply [bluemeitz@cs.com] Alloy: French translator Wanted! ["Robin Thurlow" Subject: Alloy: Son of a diddly! I've been feeling like crap for the past few months. It's been like I'm fighting off a flu or something. I'm tired all the time and I ache deep in my bones, stiff and sore all the time. On top of it the foot that got bit by a spider has been almost agonizingly painful 24/7 and my right hip has been not much better. Of coure I'm a guy so I do the guy thing when I get sick/injured. I apply the age old medical treatment known as "suck it up and walk it off". Of course I'm also a married guy. Women don't seem to be a big fan of that medical treatment. I guess my wife got tired of seeing me lurch around like Frankenstein's monster and the occaisional colourful explatives that I would issue forth when my foot suddenly ballooned up for no appearant reason, so she made me go to the doctor to get checked out. I'm figuring I'm just suffering from from a combination of things. My hands hurt because I spend so much time typing or playing instruments. My legs hurt because I was hit by a car when I was younger and applied the "suck it up and walk it off" treatment instead of going to the hospital and my foot hurts because it was bit by a spider and I damn near lost it. Everything I figure just hurts because I've got some sort of bizarre bug that my body is having a hard time fighting of. Well my doctor has x-rays taken then sees something he doesn't like in the x-rays. So I get a phonecall saying he sees something he doesn't like in the x-rays and wants me to go for a nuclear bone scan. Of course my doctor likes to play his cards close to his chest and won't even suggest a possible diagnosis until he has all the results in. Still, hearing you need a nuclear bone scan when you've been feeling as shitty as I have can be a pretty un-nerving thing. Now whenever I go for any sort of medical diagnostics I always psyche myself up for the worst possible result I can imagine. There are two reasons I do this. One is because for some reason I've come to believe that if I expect something to happen, it won't. You know, things like winning the lottery or the Toronto Maple Leafs winning the cup. I've been expecting those to happen all the time and they never do, so I always figure if I expect test results to come back absolutely horrible they won't. The second reason is if I'm expecting the worst then I'm prepaired for it when it comes and if it doesn't then I get to be pleasently surprised. Plus, if the diagnosis comes back with something pretty bad, then at least it's not *as bad* as what I was imagining. So I'm psyching myself up for these tests "Bone cancer! Bone cancer! Bone cancer!". Well yesterday I get the results of my tests back and my little pessimistic scheme has once again not let me down. I don't have bone cancer. I do, however, have osteoarthritis and I have it pretty damn bad. So the pluses are, I'm not going to die and finally all the crap that is wrong with me is finally explained away. The negatives are if I don't get this thing under control it could end up affecting my ability to make a living as a musician not to mention my ability to enjoy my favorite sport, Judo (which I haven't been participating in for a few months because I've felt so crummy), and my ability to move without feeling intense pain. The other negative is, due to digestive problems I can't take the normally prescribed arthritis medications. So I'm left with either painful injections into the affected joints, which in my case is every fricken joint in my body, or trying some herbal stuff. Now I'm not that big on all this touchy-feely "sit under a pyramid wearing a galvanic belt chanting to the goddess" new age crap that passes itself off as medicine. I'm very sceptical of herbals especially since some of them contain dangerous chemicals and hippy guru granola-heads '"prescribe" them with no real qualifications other than they could procure a bank loan to open up a sissy-assed healthfood store. None the less my doctor tells me this herbal treatment he wants me to try actually does seem to work in many cases. So I'm going to give that a go and I suppose I'll be making some "lifestyle" changes which I really don't want to because I've always rather enjoyed my "lifestyle". In anycase if anyone else out there has any experience with osteoarthritis I'm all ears. I was really quite shocked to discover someone as young as me can be stricken with it so dramatically. I had always assumed that arthritis was either something you were born with, or something you got when you were in your 60s. The strangest thing too is my big toe on my right foot is appearently the worst hit joint in my body, almost completely deprived of cartlidge... yet it's the only joint in my body I can think of that doesn't hurt. Then again, how often do you flex your big toe? Bizarre. Oh well... at least I don't have bone cancer, eh? Crackers (Owie owie owie from hell!!!!!) Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:13:53 -0500 From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" Subject: Alloy: Burn Baby, Burn! Well so far the CD>MP3 process is going along just swimingly. I've also come to realize there's no point in me burning *all* my CDs to MP3 as many of them were still in the orginal shrinkwrap. You see my wife used to work for and accounting firm that handled bankruptcies. When they handled the bunkruptcy for A&A records there were a whole bunch of CDs that technically wern't the property of A&A records (promotional CDs for playing in the store, etc. that are the property of the record company and have "NOT FOR SALE" printed on them). These CDs couldn't be counted as assets so they were chucked in a big box and employees were free to take as many as they wanted before the box became empty or the time came to chuck the CDs in the garbage. Our CD collection grew quite substantially that day. Unfortunately a lot of the CDs are stuff I'll never listen to. Sammy Hagar!?! WTF!?! Anyways. I have a second hard drive in my machine. It's only 2gig and I don't use it for anything, so I've been putting all my MP3s there and I think it will just hold all the CDs I listen to just fine. So I've been using Winamp (what an excellent application) to play the MP3s on that drive in random order. What an odd experience that is. With my broad tastes in music it's like listening to some really strange radio station. It will play a Doors song, then it will play a Thomas Dolby song, then it will play a celtic folk song, then it will play a Shonen Knife song, then it will play a Gregorian chant then an XTC song. I can't possibly imagine a radio station like that ever existing. Crackers (Radio G.E.E.K from hell!!!) Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:11:26 -0500 From: TextureWorld Subject: Re: Alloy: Burn Baby, Burn! Chris & Beena Cracknell wrote: >Anyways. I have a second hard drive in my machine. It's only 2gig and I >don't use it for anything, so I've been putting all my MP3s there and I >think it will just hold all the CDs I listen to just fine. So I've been >using Winamp (what an excellent application) to play the MP3s on that drive >in random order. Your goals are awfully modest! ;) I .mp3ed 99% of my music collection and that, with other mp3s, now takes up nearly 25 gbs of hard drive space on a 45 gb drive on my computer. Being on the Mac, I used iTunes (also an excellent application) and have several playlists to pick from, depending on my mood. I have a whole lot of different material . . . no Sammy Hagar, however. And, indeed, much better (and much different) than the radio. In fact, it was repeatedly going through my Thomas Dolby playlist that prompted my to subscribe to this list just recently . . . Best, - -- Kevin S. Willis - ------------ Roof & Shingle Textures I Human Skin & Hair Textures I Moon & Planet Textures - ------------ http://www.textureworld.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:25:25 -0500 From: Russell Milliner Subject: Alloy: ebay some folks out in alloy land may be interested in this one.. Lene Lovich No Mans Land Autographed by Lene,Les Chappell,&TMDR http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1483108053 - -Russ http://www.tmdrfan.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 23:34:11 +0000 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: Burn Baby, Burn! Chris & Beena Cracknell wrote: > > What an odd experience that is. With my broad tastes in music it's like > listening to some really strange radio station. It will play a Doors song, > then it will play a Thomas Dolby song, then it will play a celtic folk song, > then it will play a Shonen Knife song, then it will play a Gregorian chant > then an XTC song. I can't possibly imagine a radio station like that ever > existing. > You have just described 'Late Junction' on BBC Radio 3, 22:15 to 0:05, Mon-Thurs, which is what I listen to when I'm attending to me e-mail every night. So far tonight we've had Basque wedding songs, some orchestral stuff, some choral stuff, an Afghan song about brides painting their palms and grooms painting their little fingers with Henna (sung by an English woman who spent several years in Afghanistan studying their music) with the acompaniment of the only instrument Afghan women usually play, i.e. a kind of drum/tamborine, and I'm currently listening to a rather strange free form percussion piece. There's a lot of stuff that is of no real interest to me, but occasionally they'll spring something truly amazing on me, like Varttina, Mercedes Peon, Nguyjn Lj, Ben Harper, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Knut Reiersrud or Terje Isungset, or surprise me with something I just don't expect to hear on Radio 3, like TMDR, Tom Waits, Steve Hackett or Frank Zappa. Slarv Radio Geek from Chorlton-cum-Hardy (Listen!! I've told you before, it IS a real place!) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 23:40:39 +0000 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: Son of a diddly! Chris & Beena Cracknell wrote: > Well yesterday I get the results of my tests back and my little pessimistic > scheme has once again not let me down. I don't have bone cancer. I do, > however, have osteoarthritis and I have it pretty damn bad. Bummer. But at least now you know what it is. > I was really quite shocked to discover someone as young as me can be > stricken with it so dramatically. I had always assumed that arthritis was > either something you were born with, or something you got when you were in > your 60s. That's how I felt about sciatica. It doesn't help that mentally I still feel about 18, not 48, but the bod is definootly slowing down. > > Oh well... at least I don't have bone cancer, eh? > Yup. Console yourself with the thought that you might have given osteoarthritis to that dog damn spider when it bit you (I know, I know, it's not contagious, but allow me some artistic lisense please.) Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:39:44 -0500 From: Russell Milliner Subject: Re: Alloy: Son of a diddly! I dont know squat about osteoarthritis, but I can sympathize with the medical shock value. About a month ago I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes. Heck, I am only 31, and the only relative in my family who had it is a great-grandmother (who died of it). Now I am going through classes to learn how to control this before it kills me in some horribly painful agonizing death. :) They also tell me that my cholesterol is way outa whack, which when compounded with diabetes makes it worse. So now I have to check my blood a few times a day, stop eating fried food, and eat more of those fruit and vegetable things. I have never been much of a fruit or vegetable person, but I guess that is what helped me get to where I am today. On the brighter side of life though, I really dont feel bad. If I start exercising more, I may eventually be able to get off of the medication even. TTFN - -Russ Milliner http://www.tmdrfan.com/ Chris & Beena Cracknell wrote: > > > So I'm going to give that a go and I suppose I'll be making some "lifestyle" > changes which I really don't want to because I've always rather enjoyed my > "lifestyle". In anycase if anyone else out there has any experience with > osteoarthritis I'm all ears. > > I was really quite shocked to discover someone as young as me can be > stricken with it so dramatically. I had always assumed that arthritis was > either something you were born with, or something you got when you were in > your 60s. > > Oh well... at least I don't have bone cancer, eh? > > Crackers > (Owie owie owie from hell!!!!!) > > Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 23:05:11 -0500 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Re: Alloy: Son of a diddly! Crackers, I'm sorry to hear of your diagnosis. Osteoarthritis is something I'm actively hoping to avoid, since it runs in my family. My mother has been suffering with it for many years now. I've had a taste of what having osteo might be like, and it was awful. I was just on a 5-month course of a very toxic med which made every joint in my body ache, and also made it so I couldn't excercise vigorously without risking internal organ damage. I'm off the med now & though my hair is still falling out (gradually improving though) I'm glad to say that at least I'm not quite as ache-y these days. > I was really quite shocked to discover someone as young as me can be > stricken with it so dramatically. I had always assumed that arthritis was > either something you were born with, or something you got when you were in > your 60s. A woman Dave works with is caring for her husband, who is almost completely disabled with osteoarthritis at the age of 32. It doesn't run in his family, so they're not sure why he's stricken with this so young. About the herbal meds, see if you can find a real practitioner of Chinese medicine. Everything taken into the body is considered medicine, so the practice takes into account your entire diet, even down to the temperature of your food and drink, as well as many other things. It's been developed over thousands of years & works so reliably for so many ailments, it's being incorporated into traditionally western medical school curricula. You might want to ask around Chinatown in your nearest city for a good doctor there! take care.. xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:26:20 -0500 From: bluemeitz@cs.com Subject: Alloy: RE: alloy-digest V6 #292 reply >Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 21:19:53 -1000 >From: Barbara Cohen >Subject: Alloy: through the airwaves > >Today while typing away in the labyrinth I now call work, I heard this >little piano trill from far away. I think I have unusually good >faint-level hearing, so I can hear bits of songs that are really faint. >This one, all I could hear was this little piano bit, which I couldn't >place. Then again, through my vent? Since I knew I knew the song, I >went to go seek it out. As I approached another office, these funky >jazz horns kick in, and I recognize "I Scare Myself" coming out of a >doorway. I poked my head in, and actually it is quite loud and rich >coming from 4 speakers around a co-worker. :) I exclaimed that I was a >big TD fan. He said, "well I have 2 or 3 CDs that you're welcome to >borrow." Pah! 2 or 3 CDs! But it got me to thinking how many rarities I >have never heard, and how I should try to hear what the discussion is >about, when I happen upon today's alloy digest, calling for an MP3 >exchange. How happy I would be if our fearless leader thinks this is a >good idea too.... *hopeful puppydog-eyed grin* >- -- >_ Sounds like a good idea. But as mentioned by other alloy members TMDR might not like the fact he is getting his due. I wonder what Thomas thinks of this. Maybe he can make available some of the rare tracks in question on site where we can access for free or for a fee. I dont mind. Just wondering what tracks you are looking for. I found some on Napster a while back and have some in storage. Alas, I dont have the MP3 of Wreck of Fairchild, a friend found this for me and burned it on a cd along with a cd version of all the Live Wireless tracks he found. It was all there. Really!!! One just have to search for it. Some more than others. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 23:13:18 -0500 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Alloy: French translator Wanted! I wonder if I could make a request, and ask for the help of one of our French-speaking Alloy members. I need to write a brief letter to the Pompidou Gallery in Paris, to ask if they have a bookshop which may have catalogues of past exhibits available. If I write a brief letter would anyone here be willing to volunteer to translate it into French for me? I would really appreciate it & I'd of course owe you BIG TIME. Thanks :) !!! xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #293 ***************************