Chalkhills Digest Volume 12, Issue 6
Date: Tuesday, 7 February 2006
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 12, Number 6
Tuesday, 7 February 2006
Topics:
Re: I'm Too Lazy To Do This Myself
"spam" filters
Quicktime Hits
Re: Guitargonauts calendar
Where Did the Ordinary MP3 Go?
Ordinary People and Spiral
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:58:15 -0700 From: "Lee Shedden, B&G" <lee@brindleandglass.com> Subject: Re: I'm Too Lazy To Do This Myself Message-ID: <91e330163ff50303e736f77f989705d4@brindleandglass.com> To Al LaCarte (cute!) If we're not too naff a crowd for you over there, there's a useful thread on the XTC Forum that deals with just this subject from a number of perspectives: http://www.xtcidearecords.co.uk/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=48&topic=50 Ra Ra! Lee Now playing: Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra: "Who Is This America Dem Speak of Today?" On 24 Jan 2006 04:33:38 -0800 (PST) Al LaCarte <allacarte@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I'm looking for a track list for a bestof The Warbles from 1-6.
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:52:07 -0500 From: John Relph <relph@tmbg.org> Subject: "spam" filters Message-ID: <17376.8791.509837.226727@f5.idiot-dog.com> Folks, Just a note for your information. Some so-called spam filters are refusing to deliver Chalkhills because of "obscene language". What the fuck is that about? Perhaps it's because some spam is for porn sites and contains "bad words". Or perhaps the spam filters are trying to enforce somebody's idea of acceptable language. Or perhaps the spam filters are written by lamebrains. I don't know. Do with this information what you will. Just do it while we talk about XTC. Oh yeah. Them. Speaking of XTC, Ben Gott pointed out that the Nouvelle Vague album with the cover of Making Plans for Nigel is now available on iTunes. And Ben Gott's covers of XTC and Andy Partridge songs are now available from Loquacious Music. I also discovered that the very strange "Polish" flexi discs thought to be issued by MOHO records are actually on the Russian label BudKon. MOHO is "mono" as in "monaural" in Cyrillic. Serious collectors believe the flexi discs may have been manufactured in Poland, but the label is definitely of Russian origin. Thanks to Paul Hilcoff, maintainer of the Husker Du discography, for much of this information. Fuzzies on the horizon... -- John -- np. Paul Dresher, "Dark Blue Circumstance"
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:46:43 -0800 (PST) From: Steve <ste7phen@yahoo.com> Subject: Quicktime Hits Message-ID: <20060201174643.99772.qmail@web53315.mail.yahoo.com> Hi Today is the 1st of February. I opened up Apple's QuickTime Movie Player while connected to the internet and was presented with an Apple link to an XTCidearecords quicktime page. This page has a link (blue button) that allows you to: *read lyrics and view photos while streaming audio* through quicktime ... a pleasant surprise! heres the link: http://www.xtcidearecords.co.uk/qt/xtcqta.htm Maybe someone has already spotted this. Worth repeating the news since its fun. Another Steve
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:55:26 -0500 From: brainiacsdaughtr@aol.com Subject: Re: Guitargonauts calendar Message-ID: <8C7F67C09AFB50E-12C4-4197@FWM-D41.sysops.aol.com> >>Anyway, he mentioned in passing that he was just making his annual Guitargonauts calendar, featuring 12 of the instruments from his collection. "How many of those do you do?" I asked. "Oh, just the one," came the reply.<< Now I totally want one of those calendars. Any way to convince Dave to upload the pictures to something like cafepress.com and have them print it out per order? Laurie Collins www.myspace.com/larcollinsmusic
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 15:59:47 -0600 From: "eriC draveS" <zoom98@mindspring.com> Subject: Where Did the Ordinary MP3 Go? Message-ID: <002601c6290d$26658960$0a0110ac@XLZOOM2> The XTC site has a new digital download for "Where Did the Ordinary People Go?" which is 0.50 pounds (forgot how to make the fancy "L", sorry about the American keyboard) and sounds gorgeous. The first hint of trouble came when I tried to play it, as it opened up Real Media (and for some reason, I couldn't turn off the animation) instead of CORE Media (which I normally use). Then I realized it was an AAC file instead of MP3. A little research turned up the fact that apparently some people can convert these to MP3 using something on iTunes, unless they bought the file with iTunes! Apparently AAC files are encoded so you can only burn them to CD a certain number of times, and iTunes wants repeat sales. Well, this wasn't very helpful as I could not burn AACs to CD at all! So I had to download a converter (the imTOO Audio Encoder, if you're wondering) which did the job nicely, though I had to use the "LAME" encoder (and I am told not everyone has this, but apparently it can be downloaded from somewhere). Finally, there is the fact that changing the song to MP3 introduced some audio loss which could not be prevented even though I set it to 320kb and 44KHz. (FLAC would be best, but almost none of my software supports it!) So. If you download this great song of Colin's, you're probably in for a bit of work to get it changed into an MP3. Is it worth the effort? Definitely. However, if they make me go through something even more convoluted next time, they might as well retire. ---- eriC draveS
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 18:54:41 -0000 From: "David Edwards" <davidedwards1@onetel.com> Subject: Ordinary People and Spiral Message-ID: <094001c62c18$042c57d0$cc864ed5@David> I'm really encouraged by the last two songs to emerge. I like CM's latest a lot (Where Did The Ordinary People Go?) - and I haven't been able to say that since about Nonsuch. Also really loved Spiral. On another t(r)ack, do people agree that the the quintessential XTC moment is the squirting, discordant guitar at the end of the chorus of 'Love At First Sight' immediately after Moulding sings those words? It is tangential perfection - the thing that makes XTC unique. Anyone know who thought it up and who played it? Cheers DE
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