From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V11 #55 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 28 2006 Volume 11 : Number 055 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: March 9th. ["Simon Bisson" ] Re: Alloy: TD Song Covers [Lee Jackson ] Alloy: Project B-Day ["Crackers" ] Re: Alloy: Project B-Day--yeah baby! :^) ["Kara R. Laidlaw" ] Re: Alloy: Anyone in the Pacific Northwest? [Robyn Moore Subject: Alloy: March 9th. Well, as I'm in SF for IDF that week, I and a few other UK technology journalists will be along to the March the 9th gig. I also seem to have convinced a fair few of the Bay Area folk I know to make it along... I'll be the one from round the corner from where Thomas used to live in London... See you there. (And, as TMDR sang "...it cost me ten dollars...") S. - -- Simon Bisson Freelance Technology Writer and IT Strategy Consultant mail: simon@sandm.co.uk -- web: www.sandm.co.uk techblog: itphasechange.wordpress.com -- blog: www.simonbisson.co.uk phone: +44 20 8875 9809 -- mobile: +44 7970 787068 -- skype: sbisson [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:01:53 -0600 From: Lee Jackson Subject: Re: Alloy: TD Song Covers On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:06:00 -0500, you wrote: >Here is probably the most unusual cover of Thomas by a heavy metal >band. This one definitely doesn't top my list as a favorite cover. > >You can hear a clip of this cover of SBMWS. >http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6968154/a/Ghosts+In+The+Machine.htm Ohmydearlord. THAT'S funny. I almost lost an eyeball laughing over that one!!! - -- Lee Jackson Garland, TX ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:00:10 -0500 From: "Crackers" Subject: Alloy: Project B-Day Speaking of Thomas Dolby covers, we should really look into restarting Project B-Day. Technology has come a long ways since the first project B-Day. More people should be able to participate being able to create musical and birthday greeting contributions from their own desktop computers. Heck the first Project B Day was done on cassette because CD-Rs were still an expensive rarity in those days. Submissions will be able to be sent in via e-mail because of greater bandwidth and storage limits (a gmail account should do the trick). What say ye Alloy? Anyone want to relive the glory days of Project B-Day? Crackers Ghastly's Ghastly Comic http://ghastlycomic.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:17:03 -0600 From: "Kara R. Laidlaw" Subject: Re: Alloy: Project B-Day--yeah baby! :^) Gawd, I'd LOVE to participate, Crackers m'man!!! But I don't know if I have the guts... ;^) my singing voice is pretty fair, though! I read in the Archives of Alloy how you guys used to do those "Project B-Day" tapes, and I was kind of wistful that I'd missed all that...well, now maybe I haven't, and there are other newbies around here as well--hi Cory!!! :^) Gosh, that all seemed like such fun--Thomas pretending not to know about the project, and saying that he'd pretend to be surprised when y'all would make the presentation...totally neat! :^) Welllll worth reviving, I'm sure!! :^) I guess I'll finally have to buy a microphone for the old 'puter, and sing a-capella, 'cause I sure as heck don't own a synthesizer now! ;^) Details, Sir Crackers, details please! :^) Love and singing scales, Kara! :^) ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, > From: "Crackers" > Date: 2006/02/27 Mon AM 11:00:10 CST > To: "Alloy" > Subject: Alloy: Project B-Day > > > Speaking of Thomas Dolby covers, we should really look into restarting > Project B-Day. Technology has come a long ways since the first project > B-Day. More people should be able to participate being able to create > musical and birthday greeting contributions from their own desktop > computers. Heck the first Project B Day was done on cassette because CD-Rs > were still an expensive rarity in those days. > > Submissions will be able to be sent in via e-mail because of greater > bandwidth and storage limits (a gmail account should do the trick). > > What say ye Alloy? Anyone want to relive the glory days of Project B-Day? > > Crackers > Ghastly's Ghastly Comic > http://ghastlycomic.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:46:41 -0500 From: "Cory Stickel" Subject: Re: Alloy: Project B-Day--yeah baby! :^) I'd totally participate if my instrumental skills weren't total CRAP. I'd love to do a cover of "Howard the Duck" for the project. 'Course, if there's anyone who knows about some TD karaoke, or is in Upper Michigan and interested in forming a band for a little jamming for the CD, I'm all game. Cory (aka. Europa) "When I played poker last night with a pack of Tarot cards, I got a full house and four people died." ~Steven Wright - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ With MSN Spaces email straight to your blog. Upload jokes, photos and more. It's free! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:46:42 -0800 (PST) From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Alloy: Updated TMDR Venue List (Attention, UK Peeps!) People in that green and pleasant land, look ye at the last item on the list, just added to the td.com forum today by Lunesse (along with a stop in Seattle...) 3.09.06 Mighty, San Francisco CA 4.12.06 House of Blues - Anaheim, CA 4.14.06 Canyon Club, Agoura Hills CA 4.20.06 The Aladdin, Portland, OR 4.22.06 Fenix Underground, Seattle WA 5.03.06 Joe's Pub - NYC 5.04.06 Joe's Pub - NYC 5.05.06 Sellersville Theatre Sellersville, PA 5.07.06 Rams Head On Stage Annapolis, MD 5.08.06 The Birchmere Alexandria, PA 5.11.05 The Club Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA 6.25.06 London Hyde Park Wireless Festival (with Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp and Lou Reed) - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:22:11 -0600 From: "Kara R. Laidlaw" Subject: Re: Re: Alloy: Project B-Day--yeah baby! :^) > From: "Cory Stickel" > Date: 2006/02/27 Mon PM 03:46:41 CST > To: alloy@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Alloy: Project B-Day--yeah baby! :^) > > > I'd totally participate if my instrumental skills weren't total CRAP. > I'd love to do a cover of "Howard the Duck" for the project. 'Course, if > there's anyone who knows about some TD karaoke, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I Googled "Thomas Dolby + karaoke", and some online places just have "She Blinded Me..." available, surprise surprise, and, uh, no thank you. ;^) Good thought, though, Corey! :^) But this other link came up, by coincidence, for this Keynote Transcript from 2001, the Keynote Speech of one Sean Maloney, then Executive Vice President of Intel. Has anyone else seen this? Thomas comes up on stage with Mr. Maloney about one-third of the way down the page, demonstrating a sort of karaoke thing whereby, using Beatnik software, you could strip the vocal track off of a song, because each track runs separately and simultaneously within the Beatnik software, or something really cool like that. Over my flat little head...no, not really, but I'm modest by nature. ;^) Love and great ideas galore, Kara [oke] ;^) ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, > or is in Upper Michigan > and interested in forming a band for a little jamming for the CD, I'm all > game. > > Cory (aka. Europa) > > "When I played poker last night with a pack of Tarot cards, I got a full > house and four people died." ~Steven Wright > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > With MSN Spaces email straight to your blog. Upload jokes, photos and > more. It's free! > It's All About the Music. :^) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:37:45 -0800 From: Patrick McMillan Subject: Re: Alloy: Project B-Day Cool idea! I'm in. (And you're all in trouble now.) This means we have 'till October, right? Patrick McMillan (a.k.a. shameless) On Feb 27, 2006, at 9:00 AM, Crackers wrote: > > Speaking of Thomas Dolby covers, we should really look into restarting > Project B-Day. Technology has come a long ways since the first project > B-Day. More people should be able to participate being able to create > musical and birthday greeting contributions from their own desktop > computers. Heck the first Project B Day was done on cassette > because CD-Rs > were still an expensive rarity in those days. > > Submissions will be able to be sent in via e-mail because of greater > bandwidth and storage limits (a gmail account should do the trick). > > What say ye Alloy? Anyone want to relive the glory days of Project > B-Day? > > Crackers > Ghastly's Ghastly Comic > http://ghastlycomic.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:14:01 -0800 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Anyone in the Pacific Northwest? This is what I get for getting behind on my mail - only just read this today. Of course, I dashed right out to one of the local Ticketmaster outlets and picked up my ticket. Didn't have time to get to the venue itself and back before Brigid got home from school, but for Thomas I'll live with the service charge. ;) Unfortunately, I had a good reason for getting behind - my beloved cat of 17 years, Catalyst, died recently and I've been in mourning. :'( So thanks to Thomas for giving me something to look forward to. :) Robyn M At 08:36 AM 2/19/2006, you appeared to say: >This was just posted to the forum on TMDR's official site: > > Thomas Dolby > Aladdin Theater, Portland, OR > Thu, Apr 20, 2006 08:00 PM > 20.00 > on sale 2/20 > > Coolness. I have to call my cousin, who lives in Portland. The > man loves good music. (Back in the day, he was the original guitarist > for Paul Revere and the Raiders. But, when the photogenic Mr. Revere got > a TV deal, he was forced to ditch his original bandmates to create > a prettier group of Raiders. Grrr, music and TV industries, grrr...) @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.wiccans.net/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.0/269 - Release Date: 2/24/2006 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:27:19 -0700 From: John McJunkin Subject: Re: Alloy: Project B-Day--yeah baby! :^) Shouldn't we have everyone pipe up with which tune they'd like to cover, so as to avoid duplication of efforts? Or is said duplication okie dokie? You can most definitely count me in. John On Feb 27, 2006, at 2:46 PM, Cory Stickel wrote: > > I'd totally participate if my instrumental skills weren't total CRAP. > I'd love to do a cover of "Howard the Duck" for the project. > 'Course, if > there's anyone who knows about some TD karaoke, or is in Upper > Michigan > and interested in forming a band for a little jamming for the CD, > I'm all > game. > > Cory (aka. Europa) > > "When I played poker last night with a pack of Tarot cards, I got a > full > house and four people died." ~Steven Wright > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > With MSN Spaces email straight to your blog. Upload jokes, photos and > more. It's free! ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V11 #55 ***************************