From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V12 #113 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 Wednesday, July 25 2007 Volume 12 : Number 113 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Look what I found on YouTube! :^) ["J. Kara Laidlaw" Subject: Alloy: Look what I found on YouTube! :^) Hello, ladles and dinnerspoons! ;^) With boredom did I surf the 'Net, and with boredom did I scope around on YouTube for any Dolby stuff that I hadn't seen before. And I found a couple of gems! Wait'll you guys see these amazingly quirky videos! :^D The first "new stuff" I found is a TV interview Dolby did in 1984 for a Canadian show called "The New Music". I did used to watch that show, I think, but somehow I missed this the first time around, and it's pretty cool! Goggles, people, we have goggles!!! 8^) And from 1981, TMDR, in white shirt and braces/suspenders, accompanying Lene Lovich in concert. There were TWO keyboard players onstage--the very bouncy, bare-armed guy, and the Thomas we know and love, looking all cerebral and "academic". About five minutes and 10 seconds in, everybody was bouncing around onstage, even Thomas! :^D This is me, trying to take everybody's minds off of whatever worries they may have, even for a few minutes. I'm trying to distract myself, as well. I was horrified when I heard how bad the flooding is in England--the worst flooding in 60 years, I heard. Unexpected, and bloody devastating. On the Prairies, at least, we know it's going to flood every year, and people who choose to build their houses on riverbanks get what's coming to them--they want the picturesque river view, but they end up with a flooded house. Manitoba is on a flood plain, so we know what to expect. We in Winnipeg are protected by the Red River Flood- way. And rural residents have the relative luxury of being able to prepare for rising rivers, by stacking tons of sandbags. But our English friends had no way of knowing how bad the flooding was going to be. All of our English friends have my deepest sympathy, for all that you may have lost. I hope, at least, that no *lives* have been lost. Kara ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 0:20:46 -0500 From: "J. Kara Laidlaw" Subject: Alloy: OT: My perkiness is sometimes fake. That's the truth. This is the real me, right here, having taken off my clown makeup. I don't like clowns anyway. Never did. I wasn't afraid of them as a child, but I knew they were just acting for money. I try to be optimistic, but I do feel things very deeply. I'm very realistic, actually. I wanted to explain that in case any of you were freaked out by the contrast in my attitude between the beginning and the end of my previous post. I really put it on at the beginning, although those videos *did* cheer me up, and I hoped they might cheer some of my fellow Alloyites up as well. Fake cheer is better than no cheer at all, right? Or is it?? Ack, global warming, flooding, heat waves, crime waves, war...I'd get pretty darn depressed if I didn't deliberately try to be positive. Yours in truth, Kara ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V12 #113 ****************************