From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V7 #41 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, February 26 2002 Volume 07 : Number 041 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: 2002 Dolby Milestone ["p.latham2" ] RE: Alloy: [OT] ST:E theme - what the!? ["Robin Thurlow" ] RE: Alloy: [OT] ST:E theme - what the!? [Brian Clayton ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:47:58 -0000 From: "p.latham2" Subject: Alloy: 2002 Dolby Milestone I certainly agree 2002 should be celebrated, as far as i can see this will be more or less Thomas Dolby 25 years in music business (the 40 album) keeping us upto date . The Bruce Woolley album was released in the UK in 1979 - but before that Thomas had already been working with the Fall , the Members & the Passions etc- only Thomas will know exactly if he was first involved in the industry in 1977 or not -- but if so - cant be far from 25 years.- or if it was 1978 it means we can prepare for 2003. Oh and for info. - Wreck of the Fairchild was recorded Sept1981. By the way any of those people with a copy of the GAOW with the Wreck of Fairchild - isnt that a great picture of the shrouded woman with a plane on her face -- but who is she -??? id like to think its Lene Lovich , but it could be a just a passer by. A final matter - can i just say how much ive enjoyed the Winter Olympics - us Brits may not be famed for events involving snow - but wow a gold & 2 bronze --- yes the UK with a medal involving skis fantastic -- . There was also other great events - i enjoyed Belarus winning in the Ice Hockey think it was re Sweden - 5-4 - . the Aussi winning in the speed skating -- and hey wow , isnt the 'Skeleton' an amazing event. Congrats to all involved. Oh and spare a thought for us poor people - who dont have sky , so havent the foggiest what your talking about re the new Star Trek - i cant wait to see it - but probably not for another year on our TV's - ive loved all the other versions (just never got into Deep Space 9 ). Best wishes all from cold & damp & blustery Blackpool . Brrrrrrr Paul. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Clayton To: Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 8:13 PM Subject: Re: Alloy: Dolby gets a line in today's Washington Post > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Merujo wrote: > > > The Arts Section of today's Washington Post has a goofy article about > > 1982, the height of synthpop, and congratulating the "class of 1982" on > > its 20th anniversary. TMDR is mentioned as having (of course) blinded > > them with science in '82. > > I seem to recall SBMWS being more of a 1983 hit. According to the liner > notes of TGAoW, it was recored in August of 1982, along with OOoS. Then > add the time to get the single released, plus time to remix TGAoW yet > *again*, etc... so that anniversary is at least six months away. > > Going off the same liner notes from the CD, it appears that it was 20 > years ago last month that "Radio Silence (synth version) was recorded and > mixed, which seems to mark the end of the original production of the > album. (I don't have the dates for 'Wreck of the Fairchild' here.) Most > of the album was recorded from Septempter through December of 1981. > > Still, 2002 is a major Dolby milestone. Hey, maybe we should hold our > first Alloy convention this year! I seem to recall a certain musician > saying that he'd play for us... :) > > BC > > -- > begin > This .signature is unreadable in Microsoft Outlook. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:34:58 -0500 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: RE: Alloy: [OT] ST:E theme - what the!? - -----Original Message----- ::Slarv sticks head slightly above the parapet:: Guys, guys, it's science FICTION. A writer can write any damn think he/she wants to, and they often do It's so true.. remember *all* of the Star Treks which dealt with evolution in any way - especially the one in which Data's cat Spot was suddenly female for the sake of the storyline (they needed to have a pregnant cat as one of the characters) It had always been a boy in other episodes! Not to mention, the one in which Data's mom was playing viola and he didn't even give a size specification to the replicator when he asked it for one. Just a music 'insider' thing, most likely, and no one else would care... but in violas size is everything. There have been many well-written episodes in the series, but the poorly-written ones are by far the most fun and memorable :) xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:49:46 -0500 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Alloy: my friend's playing at CBGBs My pal Ian and his band are scheduled to play the world famous CBGBs club in NYC this Thursday at around 10pm!! I can't make it there, but anyone in the NYC area who wants to see a really good high energy show should check them out. I can vouch for these guys :) Their link is: http://www.thebeatings.com/rccw/ xxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:56:07 -0500 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: RE: Alloy: my friend's playing at CBGBs another thing I forgot to mention, for fans of artwork/illustration, check out the images on the RCCW page to see Ian's (aka:EEE) poster designs and other work. I thought Crackers especially might want to see it as a fellow artist. ~R http://www.thebeatings.com/rccw/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:36:03 -1000 From: Barbara Cohen Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V7 #40 > Everytime one of the producers goes on about how they have a scientist on > staff whose job it is to check their science for accuracy I just roll my > eyes and go "Sure you do! Sure you do!" > Heh. Actually, I have a number of colleagues who have been scientific advisors to Hollywood, mostly movies. The thing is, the producer approaches someone or some institution, to get a scientist to help out for free. then the scientist works with the movie people to point out how their plot is dead wrong and how it could be improved for scientific accuracy. Then the movie people ignore the comments but still claim to have done a lot of scientific consultation. Several people have ended up taking their names off the credits, or at least asking, but I know of one case where the movie people would not take the scientist's name off despite repeated asking. :) It's kind of fun to ask people about some of the stories they've been asked to work on, like one movie idea where the hole on the ozone layer broke free and headed straight for Los Angeles. "They" figure this out because the UV coming through the hole is like a deadly focused laser beam, killing all sea life in its path as it heads straight for the innocent citizens. Finally, it is thwarted by an ace military pilot who flies into the hole and sets off a bomb, thus destroying the hole. Star Trek begins to look good by comparison :) *B* - -- ______________________________________________________________________ Dr. Barbara Cohen, lunatic bcohen@higp.hawaii.edu Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology (808) 956-3901 (office) University of Hawaii at Manoa (808) 956-6322 (fax) Honolulu, HI 96822 http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/~bcohen/ ______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:13:17 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Clayton Subject: RE: Alloy: [OT] ST:E theme - what the!? On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Robin Thurlow wrote: > ::Slarv sticks head slightly above the parapet:: > Guys, guys, it's science FICTION. A writer can write any damn think he/she > wants to, and they often do... And that's called "fantasy". In science fiction, you are expected to play more within the rules. Usually, a good SF story involves a minimum number of fantasical elements (which are extrapolations on current knowledge), and the story proceeds from there withOUT throwing out the rest of established science along the way. > It's so true.. remember *all* of the Star Treks which dealt with evolution > in any way - especially the one in which Data's cat Spot was suddenly female > for the sake of the storyline (they needed to have a pregnant cat as one of > the characters) It had always been a boy in other episodes! That's not evolution, that's bad continuity. :) BC - -- begin This .signature is unreadable in Microsoft Outlook. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V7 #41 **************************