Chalkhills Digest Volume 15, Issue 24
Date: Friday, 13 November 2009
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 15, Number 24
Friday, 13 November 2009
Topics:
Re: WAY off topic!
"Living Through Another Cuba" is the MySpace song of the week
Drums and (Signature) Wires
I'm expecting a "pretty good" show in Santa Cruz on the 21st
Portmerion, backdrop for "The Laughing Prisoner"
Goofy Fotos
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:00:03 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: WAY off topic! Message-ID: <860138.44459.qm@web32006.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi: Not quite sure why John let Paul Culnane's (no doubt drunken) post make it into Chalkhills, but instead of countering Paul's inane ramblings by commenting on his own propensity to lie at every opportunity, or recall some of the more blistering comments Andy has had about the "interview" Paul conducted with him (or about Paul himself, for that matter), I'll simply take a page from the Coen Bros.' catalog and paraphrase The Big Lebowski by saying, "Shut the fuck up, Paul." -Todd
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:41:08 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@yahoo.com> Subject: "Living Through Another Cuba" is the MySpace song of the week Message-ID: <830216.50345.qm@web32008.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi: Over at the XTCfans MySpace site (http://www.myspace.com/xtcfans), the song of the week is "Living Through Another Cuba." If you want to know what historical mistakes Andy has made in his lyrics over the course of his career, or how he prefers to sabotage versions of songs he'd rather not keep, check out the XTCfans blog site at http://blog.myspace.com/xtcfans. We're the bulldog on the fence While the others play their tennis overhead... -Todd
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:26:31 -0500 From: Ben Gott <ben@loquaciousmusic.com> Subject: Drums and (Signature) Wires Message-ID: <4738AACE-E581-4388-8CD4-0E72CA707828@loquaciousmusic.com> 'Sup, gang? As many of you know, I am a middle school English teacher. What you might not know is that I work at a "laptop school" at which every sixth through twelfth grader is given his or her own machine. Each of these school-issued laptops comes with a school-issued e-mail account. One of my sixth graders' favorite things to do is to clog their signature lines with fluff: inside jokes, ASCII fish art, and especially song lyrics -- lots and lots of song lyrics. Recently, I got an e-mail about an assignment from a boy named George. His signature line contained the lyrics for some horrible metalcore song that he had been playing in class. I hate metalcore, and, in my reply, I gave him a hard time. "Hey George," I wrote. "Get the lyrics to that horrible song out of my head!" A few minutes later, he sent me the following message. The first line is what he wrote. The second line is his signature: > i changed it to a better song now > > Peter pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed > the starving and housed the poor Showed the vatican what golds for > But he made too many enemies Do we think the big "Nonsvch" poster in my classroom is rubbing off on my students at all? Yeah. It just might be. -Ben
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:22:14 -0800 (PST) From: Ryan Anthony <hamsterranch@yahoo.com> Subject: I'm expecting a "pretty good" show in Santa Cruz on the 21st Message-ID: <562688.16886.qm@web51401.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Having somehow gotten myself stuck in a cult whose members are obliged to send money on an irregular basis to irritable English gods who may or may not still be in the miracle-making business, or even alive, I did my cultish duty and bought the tarted-up remaster of *25 O'Clock*. Do you likewise. The equally tarted-up *Psonic Psunspot* will also make its way onto my CD shelf eventually, but I had to buy *25* now, because as the capital-letter-deprived Becki DiGregorio let slip in the previous Digest, I'm finally going to fulfill my oft-repeated promise to catch her act and drive from Tucson, Ariz., to Santa Cruz, Calif., for her Nov. 21 show at Asana Tea House. Will any of you be there? If you can shlep yourself to the Phoenix airport sometime in the evening of Thursday the 19th, or if I see you hitchhiking along Interstate 10 or 5 holding a big cardboard sign reading BEQ, I'll pick you up. I won't call out for "Free Bird" at the show, but the diva might possibly favor the house with a guitar-and-dobro "Susan Revolving," so I had to hear Andy Partridge's original demo, and that meant I had to buy *25*. I love it, as will you all, but it is truly nothing more than a cardboard box demo, and it ends so abruptly that I suspect Andy needs to have his prostate examined. He quaffed his pint, began playing, and a minute and 24 seconds later, had to drop his guitar and visit the loo. Seriously, I hope a guitar-and-dobro "Supplication" makes the playlist. I've lost a brother, too. In his liner notes to *25*, Andy credits Becki by name for her "pretty good version" of "Susan." I'm going to assume she will float back down to earth by the 21st. Ryan Anthony An independent Internet content provider P.S.: No sass out of you, Becki, for my stubborn insistence on using three capital letters when I type your name. That's how Andy did it -- plus he added a space after the *Di*. Maybe he thought it looked more psychedelic that way.
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:53:51 -0600 From: "James Kendley" <jkendley@sti-k12.com> Subject: Portmerion, backdrop for "The Laughing Prisoner" Message-ID: <8D3B62571D5E4C45B25FA281537B604857CFF0@stimail.sti-k12.com> p@ul, Read with interest your recent posting, "WAY off topic!". The promos you mentioned for "The Meeting Place" and "The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul" were actually segments of "The Laughing Prisoner," a tongue-in-cheek 1987 production featuring Jools Holland, Frye & Laurie, Chris Difford, John Peel, some guys from Swindon, Siouxie and the Banshees, Stanley Unwin, and a cameo by the late Patrick McGoohan himself. Was on YouTube for ages, sadly removed by user. Perhaps someone here downloaded and could share? XOXOXOXO Kendley
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:06:08 -0600 From: George Gimarc <george@gimarc.com> Subject: Goofy Fotos Message-ID: <66D5219B-8A22-4E50-B2DE-CEB11DB1EE27@gimarc.com> Found a few goofy fotos from the distant past that might amuse. We've got a snap from the recording of that Skylarking interview Lp for Warner Bros, a pix taken during the BC sessions in north London. Andy was mixing 'Seagulls Screaming..." and I asked him for an action shot. And Andy and I in some of the mummer suits that were still around at the time of skylarking. I couldn't take one home (no room in the suitcase) so I asked for a photo instead ! Best ! [ http://chalkhills.org/cgi-bin/img?images/photo/GG_WBROSspecial http://chalkhills.org/cgi-bin/img?images/photo/GG_seagullsBBC http://chalkhills.org/cgi-bin/img?images/photo/GG_Mummers ]
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