Chalkhills Digest Volume 5, Issue 321
Date: Sunday, 28 November 1999
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 5, Number 321
Sunday, 28 November 1999
Today's Topics:
Re: the meatitarians
Equipment List for D'oh
Dukes demos
enough already.
Re: Meatitarians
First Gig
Re: Toy Story 2
Re: I (gulp) agree with... Santiago
Re: XTC
}---:)
To Swindon , Or Not To Swindon ...
Good byeeeeee
Top 100 Albums of 1999
The loving's coming!
Blame Canada! Demagoguery now!
XTC LIVE AND DIRECT: fun time is over
gripe
Excuse the non-XTC content but ...
Garth Brooks's identity crisis
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19991126015924.007149c0@mail.interlog.com> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 01:59:24 -0500 From: David Oh <davidoh@interlog.com> Subject: Re: the meatitarians At 05:35 PM 99/11/24 -0800, Matt Hiner wrote: And finally, I've joined a group of concerned citizens called the meatitarians who are working judiciously to spread the word to help stop the innocent slaughter of our vegetable friends simply for human consumption. We have pledged to eat at least four helpings of meat, chicken, pork, fish, eggs, and cheese a day, and wash each helping down with a tall, cool glass of milk. Save the Veggies! ---------- sign me up! vegetables are living matter, too. can't you hear them screaming when you cut into or boil them? it's horrible! poor little vegetables! can they ever be saved? eat whatever you want, for whatever reason it is you want to eat it. or perhaps we should all just eat "gas and chemicals" because then no living thing would've been killed for our dinners! now, would some one pass the gravy please? sorry, no xtc content this time... peace & xtc, davidoh
------------------------------ From: unna@worldmailer.com Date: 26 Nov 1999 05:46:01 -0800 Message-ID: <19991126134601.3453.cpmta@c008.sfo.cp.net> Subject: Equipment List for D'oh Here it is: Etude by LaPatrie, nylon string (play every day) Morris, Powered Acoustic, slim line with heavy metal head Crate G10 XL Boss Turbo Overdrive OD2 pedal ART Multiverb LTX multi effects processor 1 pick (unused, I'm a finger picker) 1 glass slide (unused, I'm a finger picker) Favorite albums purchased in '99 1. AV1 1. Nonsuch 2. Massachusetts - by the Scud Mountain Boys 3. Odelay - Beck 4. Foo Fighters ( the one with fingernails ) Whew! That wasn't so bad. Please note that no albums except for one were released in '99. (I'm slow to buy things, have to be really sure that I want it....) -Laura
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 99 11:41:06 EST From: Jeff Rosedale <rosedale@columbia.edu> Subject: Dukes demos Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.4.943634466.rosedale@konichiwa> If you haven't visited the XTC Live and direct web site yet, do so and check out the Dukes demos. Can you imagine what they would sound like live?! I had become so used to the over-produced studio sound that this was pleasantly shocking to consider... maybe AV2 will rekindle more in this vein. --Jeff
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19991126220911.1749.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "rob allen" <prefab11@hotmail.com> Subject: enough already. Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:09:11 PST Can the fighting and arguing on Chalkhills please cease??? When I first started reading Chalkhills it was chock-full of great info. Now it's degenerating into childish namecalling and excessive foul language. Satanas (or whoever you are), if you've got a real problem with anyone on the list, tell Mr. Relph. In fact, I'm going to e-mail John when I'm done with this. Or, keep it between the offender & yourself. It's o.k. to conflict on issues concerning XTC or music in general here... but it should never been mean spirited. I've 'argued' my points before (see: Brian Wilson) but I looked at it as a spirited debate... nothing done in hate or anger. This crap has gotta stop. Thanks in advance, Rob Carson, Ca
------------------------------ Message-Id: <l03130301b46459f33990@[208.13.202.161]> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 10:40:31 -0500 From: "Christopher R. Coolidge" <cauldron@together.net> Subject: Re: Meatitarians >d finally, I've joined a group of concerned citizens called the >meatitarians who are working judiciously to spread the word to help stop >the innocent slaughter of our vegetable friends simply for human >consumption. We have pledged to eat at least four helpings of meat, >chicken, pork, fish, eggs, and cheese a day, and wash each helping down >with a tall, cool glass of milk. Save the Veggies! > >-Matt Hiner Actually, the only things that are completely cruelty-free to eat are that which is totally artificial. So let's get out the Kool-aid now, folks, and wash it down with a healthy serving of Cool Whip! Christopher R. Coolidge Homepage at http://homepages.together.net/~cauldron/homepage.html "A Great law protects me from the government. The Bill of rights has 10 GREAT laws. A Good law protects me from you. Laws against murder, theft, assault and the like are good laws. A Poor law attempts to protect me from myself." - Unknown
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Message-Id: <199911270038.TAA22055@nantucket.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 18:41:08 -0800
Subject: First Gig
From: "Diamond" <arnos@nantucket.net>
Hello fellow XTC fans and fan-ettes
I'm back from Thanksgiving. I ended up coming home a day early. I had a
great time, ate too much, all the good stuff. TWO HELPINGS OF PIE!!!
That's living!!!
Now, about my first gig. It went surprisingly well, considering what
happened before the show even started. my partner in this band, the
synthesist and co-vocalist, got a little bit of that Partridge
stage-fright. The only difference was that he wasn't on stage yet. The
day of the performance, he called me up and said he wasn't going to
perform because he was nervous. I still wanted to perform, but he was
really against it. The coffee house we were going to preform at is run by
our band teacher, and we work there even when we aren't performing. So, he
came, but without his synthesizer or our drum machine, so the only
instrument we had with us was my bass.
Luckely, when he got to the coffee house, the stage fright wore off,
and he decided to play anyways. Unfortunetly, we had no synthesizer for
him to play. We asked everyone who was there if they had any type of key
instrument (synth, keyboard, piano...) and, luckely, one of them had what
he called a "Salvation Army Organ" at his house. He went home to get it,
and we waited behind stage, hoping he would hurry up.
the "Salvation Army organ" was quit surprising, and not at all what we
expected. It was about the size of a cat, and looked like it was just a
solid box. There were hinges on the back, and it opened up to show two
octaves of keys and a bunch of little buttons like are found on an
accordian. It was called a "Pianorgan" a compination of a piano and an
organ, I guess, but we all called it the penis organ, cause that's what it
sounded like to us when we pronounced it. (Boy, we're a barrel full of
laughs, aren't we?) We played the three songs I told you about a couple of
C-Hill's ago, and did very well. Plus, my mom vtaped it, so she has
something to send to Before They Were Rock Stars when I become famous (and
I WILL become famous, mark my words.
By the way, does anyone know what XTC's first gig was? What did they play?
I'm sure It's in Song Stories somewhere, but I'm to bored to get up and
look.
Kevin Diamond
* ________________________________________________________________________
"Ana Ng and I are getting old and we still haven't walked in the glow of
each others magestic presence
Listen, Ana, hear my words. They're the ones you would think I would say if
there was a me for you"
John Linnell of They Might Be Giants
------------------------------ Message-ID: <383F0DB6.5C5B@bhip.infi.net> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 22:46:17 +0000 From: Brian <mattone@bhip.infi.net> Subject: Re: Toy Story 2 Tschalkgerz! >I'll be in line to see Toy Story 2 pretty soon. It says Randy Newman has some more songs it it.< I saw TS2 today. The first movie was an incredible piece of work. TS2 blows the first one away. As for the Randy Newman music, I didn't pay THAT much attention, but I will say that a song from the first movie is reprised in a rather fun way. -Brian Matthews http://www.angelfire.com/fl/sapringer
------------------------------ Message-ID: <383F4014.3CA27A1C@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 21:21:08 -0500 From: Jefferson Ogata <ogata@pobox.com> Organization: The Antibozo Subject: Re: I (gulp) agree with... Santiago "Diamond" <arnos@nantucket.net> wrote: > If you want to know more about this, read Even Cowgirls > Get The Blues, by Tom Robbins. T.R. was a Religion major in college before > he became a Novelist, so his novels are packed with religous references > and explinations. Mr. Robbins, like Mr. Partridge, is an Athiest. While it's true that there is good evidence Christ was not born in December -- winter, after all, is not a good time to conduct a census -- I hardly think Tom Robbins is a good authority to cite on any issue of fact. Religion major or no, Mr. Robbins, like Mr. Partridge, *makes stuff up*. It's science friction, my friend. -- Jefferson Ogata. smtp: <ogata@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~ogata/ finger: ogata@pobox.com ICQ: 19569681 whois: jo317@whois.internic.net
------------------------------ Message-ID: <383F0E3A.809@bhip.infi.net> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 22:48:30 +0000 From: Brian <mattone@bhip.infi.net> Subject: Re: XTC Tschalkgerz! > I was intrigued by a recent post from Iain Murray that stated that "Andy Partridge is an anagram of Dirty Red Pagan". I came up with a few more.< Sounds like someone's been playing aroundover at AnagramGenius.com. :-) -Brian Matthews
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Message-ID: <19991127052557.25677.qmail@wwcst212.netaddress.usa.net>
Date: 26 Nov 99 21:25:57 PST
From: vee tube <veetube@netscape.net>
Subject: }---:)
Received this today.
<incoming message>
FROM: THE HIGH SPAWNTRISS
TO: PEARCH
RE: EARTH!OUT!
Now, I'll admit, this is not the warning I
wanted to hear.I have tried my best to convince
the HIGH SPAWNTRISS that planet 'Hill should not
be reduced to ambivalence.
When I read, but,her assessment, RE: There appears
to be an insufficient supply of PAMPER's to any longer
contain the amount of urine these 'Monkey-oids'
produce. I doth protestied!
(yes my spill chucker works)
After 7! near insufferable years, F*kn XTC!
releases AV.1! And now! AV.2.! is on the horizon!
(not to mention F.W.)
And you want to eliminate the 'Chukies?
PLEASE! (I begged on bended fin) At least let
them live to hear AV.2. (she began to thump upon
her blow hole)
"If I grant you their remission,do you swear they
behave themselves?"
"No",sadly said I. "But! If I lay my essence
on your royal caviar, We shall rule the quantum
infinite cosmic aquatic, we shall,we shall."
She thunked upon this,She did,She did.
And, after much mutual masterfinage...
...She relented.
"You give good fin! You do, you do,
eh?"
Eh? Hey! Hey! I do! I do!
I only hope I can heep her distracted(and
satisfied) until AV.2. comes out.
(You Monkey-oids will have to do the rest)
PEARCH!OUT!
}---:)
* ___________________________________________
"I'm gonna grow fins!
and walk back in the water again."
Captain Beefheart
------------------------------ Message-ID: <009501bf38c4$d02081c0$645791d2@p13s574p> From: "John Boudreau" <aso1@mocha.ocn.ne.jp> Subject: To Swindon , Or Not To Swindon ... Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 19:26:01 +0900 Andy , Colin , Gregsy and Ian G. have lived in Swindon for most of their lives ; who cares if it is not the center of the cultural universe ? For me it would be a thrill just to walk down the same streets they do ; have a few pints at pubs they frequent ; and meet with the locals . I recall being in a central London pub way back in 1978 , and mentioning to someone I had met that the next day I was heading on up to Muswell Hill ( North London ) to spend a few days there . His reaction was : " Muswell Hill ?? Why would ANYBODY want to go there ? " . I explained that I had always dreamed of walking the streets of The Kinks' and Fairport Convention's Muswell Hill , two of my fave groups ( at the time ) ; and that it was a bigger thrill for me than seeing the Queen or exploring The Tower Of London ... On my way up to Quebec back in 1992 I visited the hometown of my literary hero Jack Kerouac - Lowell , Massachusetts . Now , all you New Englanders out there probably know that Lowell ain't much ; but I had to see the city that gave us that mad , genius Jack ( and of course pay my respects at his gravesite )... Swindon , Muswell Hill , Lowell ; these places - for better or for worse - played a huge role in the aforementioned geniuses lives ; and had an impact on the music and literature created by them ; therefore it is only natural that a fan would want to take the time to drop in for a look around when passing through . How many hundreds of thousands of fans have flocked to Memphis SINCE Elvis died ? Or Liverpool ? Our boys still live , sleep , eat , breathe and create in Swindon ; so next time you are in the neighborhood pay it a visit. And why not ? Sushiland John
------------------------------ Message-ID: <3840014D.E3E6D822@which.net> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 16:05:33 +0000 From: B Blanchard <b.blanchard@which.net> Subject: Good byeeeeee Dear Chalkillians all OK at last the date has arrived and David and I shoot off from sunny London to experience hayfever in December and Jan in NZ! We fly tomorrow Sunday 28th November returning 29th Jan 2000!!! Looking forward to meeting XTC friends on the other side of the world. Hope the gig went well Dom you missed a great pub-party last night. So did I it would seem! Ouch! Hope you all have a great millennium season good people. When I return 29th Jan 2000 and resubscribe I don't expect you guys to be bickering still. The fights and swearwords are fine by me, I like blood just as much as the next pacifist, but the namby pamby little footstomping sulks are getting a tad annoying! Love from BELINDA
------------------------------ From: WTDK@aol.com Message-ID: <0.712f88cb.257192ef@aol.com> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 15:02:55 EST Subject: Top 100 Albums of 1999 Another victory of art over commerce. Amazon.com just put up a listing of the top 100 albums of 1999 (for all genres of music) and guess who filled in slot # 11. I personally would have put AV1 in the top ten (just above Richard Thompson's Mock Tudor which was I think was number 6. Beth Orton was #1 which seems deserved). What was really interesting were the albums that didn't make the list (including some by some pretty heavy weight pop artists). A nice reminder that you don't have to sell 20 million copies to be recognized. On another note: Sometime back there was a complaint about the bonus tracks being on the middle of the CDs. While that's not an ideal spot (although some, like the bonus tracks for Big Express and Drums and Wires don't sound out of place), it's better than not getting them at all. I have the feeling with all the mergers we'll see more reissues like the Bowie catalog. They remastered the entire catalog using 24 bit technology, but dropped ALL the bonus tracks from every CD. A bit of a rip off for the fans.
------------------------------ Message-ID: <001d01bf38ab$995c7680$cb38d2cc@bestuspc2.san.rr.com> From: "Bob Estus" <restus@san.rr.com> Subject: The loving's coming! Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 23:47:04 -0800 All around the world, every boy and every girl, need the loving... >No matter how many times I try and keep it cool, some little dick comes up >and talks shit, while declaring they are the smartest of them all. The humble and the great, even those we think we hate, need the loving... >Grow up. Get a life. Just because your afraid of people in person, and >whimper a way like a little ______ does not mean you need to take out >your frustrations on the net. Soldiers of the Queen, all the hard men that we've seen, need the loving... >GROW UP! Its over all ready... Babies at the breast, those in power and those suppressed, need the loving... >Read through the messages. Those of you arguing with me are so damn >self rigtheous. I dont have time for this bull____ anymore. Sailors on the seas, or the clergy on their knees, need the loving... >Racist little biggots first got my friend to leave and I guess you cant even >stand having me around. All the rich and poor, even those turks we fight at war, need the loving... >Go off in your little world and learn some respect. All round the world, every boy and every girl, need the loving... >All this over spelling? Come over here Satanas, I have something for you. Let's face it you just can't hide. Yeah.... It's a *big* warm bear-hug. Ahhhh...There there... Hold on...let me sing another one...okay? Ever'thin'll be all right...Be all right, day and night-time...ever'thin'll be all right....hmmmm....hmmm....hmm... everyone's just begging to be loved, -Bob
------------------------------ Message-Id: <l03130300b46635515795@[63.25.149.55]> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 21:16:19 -0500 From: MinerWerks <dminer@gte.net> Subject: Blame Canada! Demagoguery now! >From: Satanas Diablo <thedevil@minister.com> >Subject: Soul Sucking Jerks. > >" Grow up. Get a life. " >" Go off in your little world and learn some respect. " >" Grow up and stop acting like kids. " >" How self righteous can you all be? " >" Its people like you who judge people because they speak differntly. " Thanks for showing me how ignorent everyone is but you, = Derek =
------------------------------ Message-ID: <38405DF3.93776EEA@autoreverse.net> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:40:51 -0500 From: Ian C Stewart <ian@autoreverse.net> Organization: http://www.AUTOreverse.net/ Subject: XTC LIVE AND DIRECT: fun time is over Hello everybody Looks like XOOM.COM finally caught wind of my growing Real Media encyclopedia and decided to shut me down for any number of reasons listed all over the ubiquitous "terms of service" page! Oh well. Sigh. It was fun. So thanks again to everybody who checked out the site or requested some demos... maybe the site will resurface again at a later date...maybe not... XTC LIVE AND DIRECT SITE: Dead and Offline! Ouch. cheers Ian C Stewart
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From: ArtThief2@aol.com
Message-ID: <0.39264c40.25722137@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 01:09:59 EST
Subject: gripe
delurking to ask why satanas diablo doesn't just give up. you are not being
antagonized, you just perceive ("i" before "e" except after "c", except with
the sound of long "a") it to be so. either (exception to the rule) laugh
along with everybody or get off the list. your whining and victim stance are
tiresome and really take alot of fun out of chalkhills. sort of like i'm
doing right now, but what the hell.
you are free to talk about whatever you want, but realize that people are
going to flame and disagree with you. that's life, get a fu*king helmet.
you're not ignorant because you can't spell, you're ignorant because you
don't do anything about it.
uneducated, but literate,
AT
ps: apologies for prolonging the issue and indulging a paranoid, but i
couldn't keep it in any longer.
pps: anagram: satanas diablo = old santas labia
------------------------------ Message-ID: <006601bf3986$5cb91ea0$7a5791d2@johnboud> From: "John Boudreau" <aso1@mocha.ocn.ne.jp> Subject: Excuse the non-XTC content but ... Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 18:52:04 +0900 All , Check out these anagrams ... Evangelist Evil's Agent Desperation A Rope Ends It The Morse Code Here Come Dots Mother-in-law Woman Hitler Ronald Wilson Reagan Insane Anglo Warlord Alec Guinness Genuine Class Eleven plus two Twelve plus one >>This one's truly amazing: To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. And the Anagram: "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, >Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten." And for the grand finale: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong The Anagram: "A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars" John in Pin Pon ( sound a Japanese doorbell makes and = Nippon which means Japan )
------------------------------ Message-ID: <3841086E.6946F6F1@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 05:48:14 -0500 From: Jefferson Ogata <ogata@pobox.com> Organization: The Antibozo Subject: Garth Brooks's identity crisis So, what do all the fans of the Dukes of Stratospear, Spinal Tap, and Ziggy Stardust lurking out there think about Garth Brooks's little identity-creation experiment known as Chris Gaines? [For those not in the know: Garth Brooks is a big-selling country singer who has invented a rock star persona by the name of Chris Gaines, and created an entire history for the character, portraying it in a "documentary" aired on VH-1 entitled "Behind the Life: Chris Gaines", which disguises the hoax in a manner similar to that of the famous Orson Welles 1929 (?) radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds". Brooks stars in the program as Gaines, and is launching a tour including a Saturday Night Live appearance under this alias, to promote release of new pop/rock music under the false name, all apparently as a means of launching a career in another genre. The supporting label has launched web sites, both official- and unofficial-seeming to back up the fiction.] I have to say, it smacks of a fundamental dishonesty to me, but is it really any different from the Dukes? What say ye? -- Jefferson Ogata. smtp: <ogata@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~ogata/ finger: ogata@pobox.com ICQ: 19569681 whois: jo317@whois.internic.net
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