From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V12 #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 Saturday, March 3 2007 Volume 12 : Number 041 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Alloy T-Shirt Design Contest Begins Today!! [Melissa Jordan Subject: Re: Alloy: Alloy T-Shirt Design Contest Begins Today!! Partner up with someone who has some art skills! Ideas + implementation = free t-shirts! :) Mull away! I have no design skills, either. Ideas, sure. Design savvy? Nope. Unless you count the crap I draw on MS Paint. (And no one should do that.) Cheers, Melissa Elaine wrote: Man! I wish I had some art skills! I'll mull it over. - --------------------------------- Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:35:14 -0500 From: "Thurlow, Robin" Subject: RE: Alloy: Alloy T-Shirt Design Contest Begins Today!! . . . . . Melissa, you have mad skills. I'm already way over-committed so I can't participate in the design contest.. but best of luck to everyone involved! I will of course be on hand to buy the t-shirts after they're made... will we have a black one this time around? Please make a black one! The last time I tried colouring the beige one with a black Sharpie & it didn't work so well. xx ~robin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:44:16 -0500 From: "Rochelle" Subject: RE: Alloy: Alloy T-Shirt Design Contest Begins Today!! Re: BTW, if anyone has webspace available (and the skills to post pictures) for the viewing and voting, please let me know. I volunteer webspace, as I have it and the knowledge for uploading photos. Question: You said, "The contest is open to members of the Alloy list only. Submissions from non-list members will be rejected." I have no talent at all in drawing or designing things like this, but my six-year-old LOVES to draw and LOVES TMDR (she met him after the Orlando concert and was totally starstruck). Would I be permitted to submit something she designed, or would this be against the rules since she's not a list member? I'm good with whatever the answer is. Rochelle ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:18:19 -0800 (PST) From: Melissa Jordan Subject: RE: Alloy: Alloy T-Shirt Design Contest Begins Today!! You bet, Robin! CafePress has black (and other dark color) t-shirts for both women and men. I just got an e-mail from them this morning that they're about to expand their size and style range in the next couple of weeks. Stuff guaranteed to suit everyone. :) What I'll do is set up a template for the winning image on a full range of the goodies CafePress makes available to merchants. Should be cool! Cheers, Melissa "Thurlow, Robin" wrote: will we have a black one this time around? Please make a black one! The last time I tried colouring the beige one with a black Sharpie & it didn't work so well. - --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:28:57 -0500 From: "C.D. Cracknell" Subject: Alloy: Wonderful World Of Medications Well, those of you who have read my blog now know why I've been strangely silent on Alloy as of late. Many, many personal problems getting in the way of my precious internet time. One of the advantages of the mess my life has become is the meds seem to really be affecting my dreams when I sleep making them seem much longer and with greater continuity and intensity than usual. I had a really bizarre dream the other night which I just knew had to be shared with alloy. As long time members know strange dreams involving our pal Thomas are not out of the norm for me but this one was really special. In the dream I was sitting in a Tim Hortons drawing a picture of Thomas no less when a customer came up to me and said "Oh you like Thomas Dolby? I love him!" So we had a long talk about both Thomas and myself and it turns out this random customer was a multimillioneir. So he came up with a business proposition. He wanted Thomas and I to perform a special concert together for which we would EACH be paid $250K (Canadian, but hey our dollar is getting close to being on par now). How awesome is that? Get $250K plus a chance to perform with one of my favorite musicians and netizens ever. How could I turn it down. Well there was a catch. This man had seen Thomas perform with the Lost Toy People as Brenda O'Leary and he had become completely smitten, head over heals love struck by Brenda. He wanted us to perform but as the O'Leary Sisters. Well much to my surprise Thomas himself enters the Tims and agrees to do the show (hey, $250K is $250K). So Thomas and I head back to my place and work out the details of our show and who exactly the O'leary sisters are. We decide the O'Learys were a well to do Beverly Hills family, old money types. Brenda was the older sister and the family favorite, always doing everything right, a Daddy's girl. Married off in some sort of old money family alliance as a trophy wife and she quelled the screams inside her head with diet pills and alcohol until the inevitable breakdown occured and she rebelled by becoming a rocker. My character, Tracy "Trixie" O'Leary was the attention starved younger sister who was envious of Brenda's good looks, good marks and all the positive attention she was getting from Daddy. Trixie was always the trouble maker, drama queen, and attention whore of the family and pretty much decided if she couldn't be the girl who did everything right she'd be the one who went out of her way to do everything wrong, including running away from home as a teenager, hooking up with a punk band and living a bohemian existance blowing around the country playing dive after dive. Now the two sisters have hooked up and started their own band. We had written new songs and staged this wonderful electronic punk opera of a show and performed in this former movie theatre in Hamilton that was turned into a club (I think it's closed now though, I was there once for a fetish fashion show AIDS fundraiser). The reviews were through the roof and we were getting offers to take the show on the road as a tour. And then things got really weird. FOX TV wanted us to film a "Surreality Show". We'd have to be in character for a year, improvising a life as siblings as we toured around the country, living out of the cramped quarters of a tour bus and experiencing all the chaos of life on tour. I woke up when they told us we'd each be paid $5 million for the show. If there are any multimillioniers out there with that much money to throw into the show, I do believe I could be convinced to don the Trixie O'Leary costume for a year. You'll have to talk to Thomas yourself about getting Brenda signed on. Crackers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:37:19 -0800 (PST) From: Melissa Jordan Subject: RE: Alloy: Alloy T-Shirt Design Contest Begins Today!! Rochelle very kindly wrote: I volunteer webspace, as I have it and the knowledge for uploading photos. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Awesomeness, Rochelle! Thank you very much! I'll be in touch with you a bit later down the road. :) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Question: You said, "The contest is open to members of the Alloy list only. Submissions from non-list members will be rejected." I have no talent at all in drawing or designing things like this, but my six-year-old LOVES to draw and LOVES TMDR (she met him after the Orlando concert and was totally starstruck). Would I be permitted to submit something she designed, or would this be against the rules since she's not a list member? I'm good with whatever the answer is. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I think we should keep the submitted designs to actual list members only. We have a lot of proud parents of nascent Dolby fans on the list - maybe we can have an Alloy kids gallery later when I get the Alloy webpage up later this year. :) Cheers, Melissa - --------------------------------- Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:40:07 -0800 (PST) From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Re: Alloy: Wonderful World Of Medications Crackers, it's really good to see you out here again. :) And duuuude, you've just beaten my Vicodin dreams all to hell and gone, man. I love the fact that it starts in a Tim Horton's. I love drive-thrus where you can just grab a coffee and a donut. God bless Canadian commerce. :) Cheers, Melissa "C.D. Cracknell" wrote: I had a really bizarre dream the other night which I just knew had to be shared with alloy. As long time members know strange dreams involving our pal Thomas are not out of the norm for me but this one was really special. - --------------------------------- Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:47:44 -0500 From: "Rochelle" Subject: RE: Alloy: Wonderful World Of Medications My, but what a marvelously detailed dream! I felt like I was reading a book synopsis. That was great. Rochelle - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of C.D. Cracknell Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 3:29 PM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Alloy: Wonderful World Of Medications Well, those of you who have read my blog now know why I've been strangely silent on Alloy as of late. Many, many personal problems getting in the way of my precious internet time. One of the advantages of the mess my life has become is the meds seem to really be affecting my dreams when I sleep making them seem much longer and with greater continuity and intensity than usual. I had a really bizarre dream the other night which I just knew had to be shared with alloy. As long time members know strange dreams involving our pal Thomas are not out of the norm for me but this one was really special. In the dream I was sitting in a Tim Hortons drawing a picture of Thomas no less when a customer came up to me and said "Oh you like Thomas Dolby? I love him!" So we had a long talk about both Thomas and myself and it turns out this random customer was a multimillioneir. So he came up with a business proposition. He wanted Thomas and I to perform a special concert together for which we would EACH be paid $250K (Canadian, but hey our dollar is getting close to being on par now). How awesome is that? Get $250K plus a chance to perform with one of my favorite musicians and netizens ever. How could I turn it down. Well there was a catch. This man had seen Thomas perform with the Lost Toy People as Brenda O'Leary and he had become completely smitten, head over heals love struck by Brenda. He wanted us to perform but as the O'Leary Sisters. Well much to my surprise Thomas himself enters the Tims and agrees to do the show (hey, $250K is $250K). So Thomas and I head back to my place and work out the details of our show and who exactly the O'leary sisters are. We decide the O'Learys were a well to do Beverly Hills family, old money types. Brenda was the older sister and the family favorite, always doing everything right, a Daddy's girl. Married off in some sort of old money family alliance as a trophy wife and she quelled the screams inside her head with diet pills and alcohol until the inevitable breakdown occured and she rebelled by becoming a rocker. My character, Tracy "Trixie" O'Leary was the attention starved younger sister who was envious of Brenda's good looks, good marks and all the positive attention she was getting from Daddy. Trixie was always the trouble maker, drama queen, and attention whore of the family and pretty much decided if she couldn't be the girl who did everything right she'd be the one who went out of her way to do everything wrong, including running away from home as a teenager, hooking up with a punk band and living a bohemian existance blowing around the country playing dive after dive. Now the two sisters have hooked up and started their own band. We had written new songs and staged this wonderful electronic punk opera of a show and performed in this former movie theatre in Hamilton that was turned into a club (I think it's closed now though, I was there once for a fetish fashion show AIDS fundraiser). The reviews were through the roof and we were getting offers to take the show on the road as a tour. And then things got really weird. FOX TV wanted us to film a "Surreality Show". We'd have to be in character for a year, improvising a life as siblings as we toured around the country, living out of the cramped quarters of a tour bus and experiencing all the chaos of life on tour. I woke up when they told us we'd each be paid $5 million for the show. If there are any multimillioniers out there with that much money to throw into the show, I do believe I could be convinced to don the Trixie O'Leary costume for a year. You'll have to talk to Thomas yourself about getting Brenda signed on. Crackers ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:49:17 -0500 From: "Rochelle" Subject: RE: Alloy: Alloy T-Shirt Design Contest Begins Today!! Just let me know about the web space, and no problem about my daughter. I think a kid gallery sounds fun. My daughter actually brought a picture she had drawn for Thomas to the concert we went to and she was able to present it to Thomas herself. Rochelle - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Melissa Jordan Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 4:37 PM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: RE: Alloy: Alloy T-Shirt Design Contest Begins Today!! Rochelle very kindly wrote: I volunteer webspace, as I have it and the knowledge for uploading photos. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Awesomeness, Rochelle! Thank you very much! I'll be in touch with you a bit later down the road. :) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Question: You said, "The contest is open to members of the Alloy list only. Submissions from non-list members will be rejected." I have no talent at all in drawing or designing things like this, but my six-year-old LOVES to draw and LOVES TMDR (she met him after the Orlando concert and was totally starstruck). Would I be permitted to submit something she designed, or would this be against the rules since she's not a list member? I'm good with whatever the answer is. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I think we should keep the submitted designs to actual list members only. We have a lot of proud parents of nascent Dolby fans on the list - maybe we can have an Alloy kids gallery later when I get the Alloy webpage up later this year. :) Cheers, Melissa - --------------------------------- Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:29:25 -0800 (PST) From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Alloy: Photo of TMDR & Ethel in NYC Nice photo up on Ethel's MySpace page: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=36362501&blogID=236098346 Spiffy jacket, eh? :) - - Melissa - --------------------------------- The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 23:47:49 -0600 From: "J. Kara Laidlaw" Subject: Re: Alloy: Photo of TMDR & Ethel in NYC Melissa sent us a photo finish with: ;^) > From: Melissa Jordan > Date: 2007/03/02 Fri PM 10:29:25 CST > To: alloy@smoe.org > Subject: Alloy: Photo of TMDR & Ethel in NYC > > > Nice photo up on Ethel's MySpace page: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=36362501&blogID=236098346 > > Spiffy jacket, eh? :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ah yes, Thomas and his unique fashion sense. Awesome jacket!! :^D Wherever he shops, I just don't think we have stores like that around *here*, but darn it I wish we did. ;^) I do, however, own a sweater from the early 90's that's emerald green, sapphire blue, neon orange, grape-violet and lemon yellow in a WILD pattern. Needless to say, I don't wear it in public very often. ;^)I just don't have the guts anymore--I was bolder when I was younger. But hey, neon colors are coming back--so maybe I'll start wearing it again once in a while. :^) Love and clothes that look like they were caught in an explosion at a crayon factory [and *I'm* usually the one wearing clothes like that!], Kooky Kara!!! :^D It's All About the Music. :^) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V12 #41 ***************************