From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V7 #173 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, August 26 2002 Volume 07 : Number 173 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Screen Kiss ["Sally Allan" ] Re: Alloy: Screen Kiss ["Andrea Curry" ] Alloy: website oddity ["Andrea Curry" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 05:52:51 +0100 From: "Sally Allan" Subject: Alloy: Screen Kiss > Screen kiss is one of my alltime favorites, Sally. I like your > interpretation of those lyrics. I like yours: > I was thinking something more prosaic, > basically that she had moved from the hills of England to the valleys > of California, but that she was still drinking her problems away. > Nothing has changed, except location. Echoes of "Leipzig" : Every > place is just the same, isn't it? Yes, I think you really get that sense from the song. After all, "every road has a name like Beechwood Avenue, or so it seems". Here she is with "a thousand miles of real estate to choose from" but it's all the same really, just like the rushes of the film, and the films that all blend into one in the memory until you forget who was in which film. Hollywood isn't really that different from Croydon when it comes down to the way life is. > My favorite lines are the ending ones, "Suicide in the hills above old > Hollywood is never gonna change the world/Any more than the invention > of the six-gun/Any more than the discovery of radium/Or california > tipping in the ocean." All of a sudden everything is turned upside down > and looked at from a different angle. Yes, again all those things which are apparently so dramatic turn out to be nothing in the great scheme of things. The music suggests it's a comforting message, but the words are pretty bleak. > Such a song... so full of emotion. For me, it is about love, intrigue > and jealousy, all those exciting Hollywood things that complicate real > people's lives and sometimes rip them apart. Thanks for giving me new ways to think about it, Sally ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:53:59 -0500 From: "Andrea Curry" Subject: Re: Alloy: Screen Kiss On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 05:52:51 +0100 "Sally Allan" wrote: "Suicide in the hills above > old > > Hollywood is never gonna change the world/Any more than the > invention > > of the six-gun/Any more than the discovery of radium/Or california > > tipping in the ocean." All of a sudden everything is turned upside > down > > and looked at from a different angle. > > Yes, again all those things which are apparently so dramatic turn out > to be > nothing in the great scheme of things. The music suggests it's a > comforting > message, but the words are pretty bleak. Or comforting in the way that sometimes being confronted with reality in the kindest way possible can be... the music plus the kind of harsh lyrics give me the impression of somebody walking up to this troubled, embittered woman, putting his arms around her and gently saying, "life is hard, but you do not have to do this thing." Andrea. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:02:29 -0500 From: "Andrea Curry" Subject: Alloy: website oddity sorry for the glut of messages tonight... triliana is bored. :> Was surfing around tonight and found that www.thomasdolby.com and thomasdolby.com go to two different IP addresses... the former has a correct virtual host setup; the latter does not and has the default apache message. Is this normal? I would think they would point to the same thing, but I am not sure. I am also not sure if anyone who deals with the website is subscribed to the list, but I thought this would be a good place to ask, since I can't find a 'contact us' anywhere on the site. - -me, again. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V7 #173 ***************************