Chalkhills Digest Volume 15, Issue 20
Date: Saturday, 12 September 2009
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 15, Number 20
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Topics:
XTC promo for sale on ebay
XTC Vinyl
Urgh! Watch out for Warners...
Buying Beatles on 090909? Talk about it here!
XTC seen in hilarious video
Artwork - XTC weeds
URGH!
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 09:15:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Myers <mmyers1446@yahoo.com> Subject: XTC promo for sale on ebay Message-ID: <847386.30302.qm@web65614.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> hi everyone wow these digests don't out too often anymore... it saddens me that there is so little news about our boys.... anyway.... I have a nice Skylarking promo up for sale on ebay if you're interested... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180402941063&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT Mike
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 12:11:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "mr. Morris" <mgr44634463@yahoo.com> Subject: XTC Vinyl Message-ID: <953765.56325.qm@web57903.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Hi, I put all of my rare XTC vinyl on e-bay, many hard to find items, going for 5 days, if you could let your readers know. Not your typical collection, lots of rarirtes. Thanks, Steve Morris
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:13:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Happy Puppy Records <happypuppyrecords@yahoo.com> Subject: Urgh! Watch out for Warners... Message-ID: <456052.54897.qm@web53904.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Thanks for the posting on this - but I would warn people to read reviews (if you can find any) about this title before you buy. Warner Archives has had a lot of problems with their product, and it's pressed on a DVD-R, not a real DVD and they have major compression problems sometimes. Check out the home theater forum for more: http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/284170/official-warner-archive- dvd-review-thread/210 > Subject: Urgh! A Music War on dvd > Message-ID: <811829.74873.qm@web51702.mail.re2.yahoo.com> > > I just found this online: >http://www.avclub.com/articles/warner-archives-releases-urgh-bad-ronald-mikes-mur,31885/ > > Warner Archives, the dvd on demand service that reissues > old movies, > will be releasing Urgh! A Music War. Don't know the > date, but > hopefully soon. > > My blog: http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 23:23:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Ryan Anthony <hamsterranch@yahoo.com> Subject: Buying Beatles on 090909? Talk about it here! Message-ID: <343344.27202.qm@web51411.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Are some of us planning to buy one or more remastered Beatles albums when they hit the street on 090909? Word on the wire has it the improvement is stunning -- you can hear Ringo's fag ash hitting the studio floor! you can hear Yoko's body hair growing! -- but I want to read some reviews first, and I'd rather get the good word from Chalkfolk than from anyone else. So, if your first spin on Sept. 9 transports you to Abbey Road Studios and plants you onto an engineer's stool at the left hand of George Martin, please talk about it here. If Andy himself writes such a review in the *Swindon Chipwrapper*, would someone post the link? Ryan Anthony An independent Internet content provider
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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 13:02:40 -0400
From: Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>
Subject: XTC seen in hilarious video
Message-ID: <20090905130240.1102f26b.jh@brainiac.com>
"Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his
doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City Utah and
tries to convert Mormons to atheism. Needless to say, the locals were
not pleased."
at 4:10 into the video: "May I offer you a reading from 1980's concept
band XTC?" and there's a brief shot of Andy and Colin.
http://www.break.com/index/door_to_door_atheists_bother_mormons.html
--
Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@brainiac.com
Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 12:23:19 +0100 From: John Gray <jt.gray@btinternet.com> Subject: Artwork - XTC weeds Message-ID: <84FBC735-A388-4167-98F8-A77CC6729FC3@btinternet.com> I am making copies of the XTC weed CDs for a friend, and no longer have some of the artwork. Does anyone know where I might find artwork for XTCW02, XTCW04, and XTCW06? I thought it was on the weeds webpages, but couldn't locate any. thanks John Gray
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 07:22:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Hiner <gopack50@sbcglobal.net> Subject: URGH! Message-ID: <522785.29816.qm@web82207.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Tyler pointed out that: "I just found this online: http://www.avclub.com/articles/warner-archives-releases-urgh-bad-ronald-mikes-mur,31885/ Warner Archives, the dvd on demand service that reissues old movies, will be releasing Urgh! A Music War. Don't know the date, but hopefully soon." The official DVD-R release of URGH! came out several weeks ago. I ordered a copy at the beginning of August and received it about two weeks later (I assume they are pressing copies as they are ordered). If you are hoping for a spruced up version of the movie, you might want to take a pass. The copy they are selling is from one of the better prints, but it is not remastered in anyway. There are no bonuses, and the sceen selection doesn't take you from band to band, but automatically drops you in 10 minute intervals. It also claims to be letterboxed, but it didn't appear that way on my screen. The sound quality is decent, and the picture looks a lot better than my ancient VHS copy. But if you want a copy, you should probably order it soon. Apparently they didn't notify any of the artists about this, so it will only be a matter of time until a few lawyers contact Warner and this movie falls out of print again. There was an interesting interview with Jim Skafish about this at the URGH Yahoo site: http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vYml0Lmx5L2htbXYw -- "Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em That I got no cerebellum Gonna get my PhD I'm a teenage lobotomy"
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