Chalkhills Digest Volume 6, Issue 119
Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2000
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 6, Number 119
Tuesday, 16 May 2000
Topics:
Aussie airplay
Re: Couldn't stand the "weather"
But Would They Edit it out of the Movie?
Phallusies
Leaving the shiny cage
one-trac cds; webste overll
XTC on MTV2 / Quays
Eat my list!
Beefheart Nightmare
XTC dub experiments
Video killed the Wasp Star, plus weathering
The color of music
Chalkheads Update
Love Tom Lehrer? Remember Klaatu?
blanketed by secrecy
iAgree
Re: The Mighty Heroes
Comsat Angels
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 May 00 10:41:49 AES From: Paul.Culnane@dcita.gov.au Subject: Aussie airplay Message-ID: <0004njnvthjx.0004yeqssuqu@dcita.gov.au> Hello Australian fans with access to the ComRadSat radio network, and who listen to Andrew Lambkin's CONTACT! program, will have been delighted to notice several tracks from "Wasp Star" being featured on the show of late. On the Thursday night show of 27/4 (yes, *that* long ago!), Andrew presented "In Another Life", "Playground", "Stupidly Happy" and "You & the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful". More recently, "I'm The Man Who Murdered Love" was played. Apart from anything else, Andrew has comprehensively beaten Triple-J to the punch (a sweet victory). He continues to champion XtC (he put a 3-hour interview special together in late '98 to promote "Song Stories"); and a vast array of other tasty music. You can view the CONTACT! playlists at: http://crash.tig.com.au/~andrew/contact.html (for the Wednesday night show), and http://crash.tig.com.au/~andrew/contact2.html (for the Thursday night show). CONTACT! airs in Sydney on Wednesdays at 10.00pm on 2RDJ-FM - 88.1 MHz. A separate program for other ComRadSat affiliate stations goes out every Thursday at midnight. Full details can be found on the websites. Andrew has promised to feature more Wasp Star songs in the coming weeks! Still no word as to whether Colin & Andy will be visiting Australia for promo appearances. Will let you know when my little birdy tells me. Finally, for those of you who've heard the new album: what's Andy singing just before the guitar solo in "Stupidly Happy"? I thought it was a mixing mistake where they forgot to turn off Andy's voice, but my mate Dom hears it as Andy muttering "gui-tar", by way of introducing the solo. Any thoughts? ~~we're Paul light PS: Messrs Strijbos and de Koning: would love to be there for the launch party and sample some special Apple cake. If you can stump for the planefare from Oz, I'll be there! But since you never write anymore, Marky-Mark, I'll just have to read about it later in the 'Hills 8^(
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:12:57 -0400 From: "Todd E. Jones" <toddjones@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Couldn't stand the "weather" Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20000515211257.01944af8@pop.mindspring.com> VanVleit (any relation to Capn. Beefheart?) spaketh: >"You, Clouds, etc" supposedly sounds so much like Sting? I think it's >just because of the jazzy vocal harmonies toward the end and the use of >the word "weather." Sting patented that word. Whaaa??? Check the weather references of Skylarking. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a track on that beautiful collection that isn't weather related, or at least has a weather reference. ...and that was about the time Mr. Summers was proving his credibility by trying to teach jazz cats to play rock- a disastrous proposition. Yes, the Stingster is a pretty capable songwriter, but only when he doesn't distract us with cloying references to his supposed culturedness. Swindon Forth... Todd Jones Manager, Producer, Insect Massage Therapist, Janitor HUGE sound generation and capture facility Cape Fear River Basin, NC http://www.mindspring.com/~toddjones
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 22:15:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jennifer L. Geese" <jlg@svsu.edu> Subject: But Would They Edit it out of the Movie? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10005152205350.24536-100000@tardis.svsu.edu> Ok - in the light of all the recent discussion about synesthesia, an interesting question has arisen from the farthest recesses of my mind. If your life had a soundtrack, what XTC songs would we hear on it? I don't think of music in terms of color, but I have a slight tendency to match songs with things that are happening in my life. For instance, I could hear "Dear Madam Barnum" playing in the background as I submitted my resignation from teaching, and "Green Man" is perfect for a crisp fall day, just warm enough to drive around with your windows open, nothing to do and the CD player in your car blasting it out. On a totally unrelated note, I am insanely jealous of those of you who actually get hear XTC on the radio even once in a blue moon. Up here in the wilds of Michigan, all I get when I talk about them is "XT-who?" Hoping WS is in my mailbox on 5/23, Jennifer, who doesn't think Andy looks like a potato in the slightest P.S. Happy birthday, Mike :)
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 19:54:39 PDT From: "Duncan Kimball" <dunks58@hotmail.com> Subject: Phallusies Message-ID: <20000516025439.49320.qmail@hotmail.com> Re: the Cerne Abbas Giant I'm still on the track of the exact reference, but I read recently that the figure, thought by many to be roughly contemporary with the Uffington White Horse (i.e. Iron Age) in fact probably only dates from the late 1600's, and is nothing more mystical than a rather large dirty joke. FYI here's an excerpt from the "Stone Pages" site: <http://www.stonepages.com/england/cerneabbas.html> "The first reference to this figure dates back to 1694: a payment in the Cerne Abbas churchwarden's accounts of 3 shillings towards the re-cutting of the giant. The first written reference is by John Hutchins in his Guide to Dorset, 1751, but no one knows exactly when or who first cut the Giant. Recently, the historian Ronald Hutton stated that it was cut in the 17th century by the Lord Holles' servants. In fact, it's unusual that, unlike the Uffington White Horse, there is no reference to the Cerne Abbas Giant in Medieval documents. During the Civil War (1644 - 1660), Lord Holles was Lord of the Manor but his estate was sequestered and mismanaged by his steward. Maybe then his servants, in this period of chaos, cut the giant in the hillside. "A local legend says that a real giant was killed on the hill and that the people from Cerne Abbas drew round the figure and marked him out on the hillside. Barren women were said to conceive soon after sleeping on the Giant's body, while young women wishing to keep their lovers faithful would walk around the figure three times. Another story ascribes the figure to the monks from the nearby abbey, who cut it as a joke against their abbot. The figure is kept free from grass by a scouring every seven years." It's now believed to have been cut during or just after the Civil War, and that it is basically a very large and highly visible rude cartoon, possibly aimed at Oliver Cromwell. Some sort of "Olly's a big knob-end" joke, I gather. (Oh your English humour! No wonder they called him The Laughing Cavalier!) Coincidentally, I saw a curious little item on telly recently which depicted some local nutter, dressed like a wizard (and looking like a complete berk) performing cod-pagan lerv rituals for credulous infertile couples. He claimed this "magic" would enable them to conceive - after which they had to hoof it post-haste across the valley and do the wild thing while lying on top of the Giant's doodle. Only in England. Romantically yours Dunks
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:48:58 EDT From: WESnLES@aol.com Subject: Leaving the shiny cage Message-ID: <37.538ba5b.26521f2a@aol.com> Fellow Chalkgeeks: I'm gonna be outta town until next Tuesday, 24th I believe, so I won't be alble to return any email until then. Anyone interested in trading, check out my massive XTC trade list, hours and hours of rare audio and video and one of the larger collections of memorabilia you're likely to run across. Check it out and decide what you can't live without and drop me a line. Just don't expect me to get back to you until after the 24th. Hmmmm, perhaps you should give it a few more days since I'll have a couple of hundred Chalkposts to read by then. wesLONG @ Optimism's Flames: http://members.tripod.com/~The_Last_Balloon/index.html
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:10:09 CDT From: "Megan Heller" <hellerm@hotmail.com> Subject: one-trac cds; webste overll Message-ID: <20000516041009.40942.qmail@hotmail.com> Cheryl shared-- >Currently listening to all albums that I just listen to ONE track on. I'm >in for a long night. :) I've done that before. It's fun, although it's terrible when it comes out of a night of me trying to decide which cds to sell. Of course, I end up not wanting to sell any and wanting to buy a few more. Our esteemed Mr Sherwood critiqued-- > >I think it was a flawed but bold attempt to create something cooler than > >your standard static html site. > >"Your standard static HTML site" has a damned good reason for existing. >Please, TVT people, understand this: Innovation at the expense of >usability is NOT COOL. This is the problem with graphics today. This is why most magazines are unreadable. This is why my father, who has been a writer and creative director in advertising for twenty-five years, is losing his mind. It seems like high-tech sites have turned into a case of "do it because we can". I would write more, but the 'i', the 'k', and the comma on my keyboard are non-functional. I've been typing using cut-and-paste for those letters. I'm that dedicated to Chalkhills. Nah, just that bored. m.
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:34:40 CDT From: "Megan Heller" <hellerm@hotmail.com> Subject: XTC on MTV2 / Quays Message-ID: <20000516043440.22966.qmail@hotmail.com> our man Ben Gott emotes-- >ANDY AND COLIN WERE FEATURED ON MTV2 AND WERE BEING INTERVIEWED AND WERE >PICKING ALL THE VIDEOS FOR A WHOLE HOUR AND ANDY WAS WEARING A LAVENDER >SHIRT AND THEY HAD TO TURN UP THE MICS WHEN COLIN WAS ON AND >AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! damn, I wish I had MTV2. >Andy & Colin picked a few Aphex Twin videos That I wouldn't have guessed. >Andy told a great story about talking to the same production company that >made "Sledgehammer" about making the video for "Shake You Donkey Up," but >then Virgin scrapped the single and, according to Andy, some of his ideas >for "Donkey" went into "Sledgehammer." The Quay Brothers? Oh my god, was he talking about the Quay Brothers?!! (The identical twin directors of the "Sledgehammer" video and a production company in their own right.) Pardon me while I have a private moment to imagine my alternate reality where there exists a video for "Shake You Donkey Up" directed by them. mmmmm. bah! More shattered dreams thanks to Virgin. m.
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 01:59:13 EDT From: KINGSTUNES@aol.com Subject: Eat my list! Message-ID: <9.57b2a68.26523db1@aol.com> My dear long lost pal Dom sez.....(Jeez, when will these guys give it a rest?) >>Yes, but that's not the point. The point is your list was WAY TOO F**KING LONG. It may well have meant a great deal to you, but I really don't want to waste valuable seconds scrolling through an interminable litany of soft rock and Simon and bleedin' Garfunkel. And no Akercocke??? Shame on you.<< Soft Rock? Simon & Bleedin' Garfunkel? NOW who's being the snob?????? Alright. You want short, O Master of Brevity, you got it. Don't worry, it won't hurt a bit. This is my definitive desert island variety can't live without, must, must MUST have and MUST finish listening to when it's on list. Bookends - Simon (better writer than metal will ever get, even if he is a soft rock wuss, and not even English! snort!) & Garfunkel. White Album - The Beatles. Inner Visions - Stevie Wonder. Katy Lied - Steely Dan. Learning to Crawl - The Pretenders. The Band - 2nd, self titled (oops, I meant tilted). Planxty - 1st. Skylarking (the original tracks, not with Dear God) - XTC Traffic - 2nd, self titled. Ben Folds Five - 1st, self titled. Axis: Bold As Love - Hendrix The Who Sell Out - The Who Overnight Sensation - Zappa & the Mothers. Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet. (Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown loses here only because it is a Christmas Album, and I'm keeping this to 20) Bright Size Life - Pat Metheney. Court & Spark - Joni Mitchell. Body & Soul - Joe Jackson. Classically Inclined - Los Indios Trabajaros Urubamba - Urubamba. The Brandenburg Concertos - Pablo Casals & the Malboro Festival Orchestra. There. 20. Sorry I couldn't think of less. Too bad you couldn't come up with more. >>What do you want, a fucking medal????? Sorry Tom, but you really should stop trying to justify your opinions by unzipping your trousers and anticipating stunned gasps from the rest of us.<< Sure, why not? By the way, if any of you lovely ladies would like to see my collection, feel free to get in touch. It's a very talented one, wink wink. By the way, Dom, nice ax job with the context on my thoughts about 'must'. Have you considered politics? Oh, and thanks for the note on Pigbag! Seriously! Other thread content - Anyone remember Jim Skafish & his band, AKA Skafish? XTC content - I have not heard any of WS yet, and I am really nervous about having heard Andy's demos now from reading the reactions. I heard AV1 before I heard any of the demos, and I didn't care for the AV1 demos at all for the most part. However, I was starved for something, and when I got the demos I was happy even though I wasn't crazy about the idea of hearing the other stuff before their final versions. I ate up the non-AV1 songs because I knew that many weren't going to be on the 2nd album. Now I'm worried, because I've gotten so accustomed to them I'm not sure how I'll react when I hear the CD. This is the first time I've experienced this. I LOVE the solo on the Church of Women demo, and from what I've read I'm in for a shock. Time will tell. By the way - (I haven't noticed anyone point this out, so forgive me if someone has already or if it's common knowledge) noticed that the shape on the WS cover is the inner eye of a peacock feather? It hit me when I saw one in a store this weekend. Tom (edit this!) K.
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:18:46 -0700 From: Herne <herne@earthlink.net> Subject: Beefheart Nightmare Message-ID: <3920F655.99A49B@earthlink.net> Some time ago I proclaimed that I was beginning my journey into the world of Captain Beefheart and that I would talk about it at some point. I haven't gotten to the point where I can say anything concrete. However I thought I'd mention that for some reason my cd-rom drive currently is playing TROUT MASK REPLICA and for reasons unknown to me it has gotten stuck on NEON MEATE DREAM OF AN OCTAFISH. It's as if it's on shuffle mode in one song and won't stop. It's been like this for a half an hour and I don't know why. I wonder how long I can let it go on like this before I lose my mind. This must be what it's like to lose your mind, When your thoughs just start repeating ... "Whale Bone, Meaty, Meat, farmhouse, fields 'n belts, Tra la, tra la, tra la." So if I descend into total madness before the evening's over, I'd just like to say that I'll miss you guys. Stirrupped in syrup, KL
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 01:14:32 -0500 From: Mark <lollard@usa.net> Subject: XTC dub experiments Message-ID: <3920E748.8BF24E0E@usa.net> wow......while anxiously awaiting my copy of Wasp Star, i have been really groovin' to Explode Together (Takeaway/TheLure of Salvage and Go+)....LOL....for the last 3 days as a matter of fact.....LOL....this has happened before with this album...i got my first copy of it on vinyl many many moons ago (sorry, I dont have it anymore)..then i got in on CD about 8 years ago......i've always liked it, but once in a while i really, really dig it.....and then just lately, man, it's blowing me away....awesome stuff....tunes like The Forgotten Language of Light, Shore Leave Ornithology, The Rotary, I Sit in the Snow and New Broom.....wow........it has been filling up "the waiting for WS" void perfectly I'd say.....lol..i mean POW! it's been...such a wonderful delight to listen to it... but i guess that happens to me with other XTC albums as well.......i will listen to one for a few days..really swim in it........(drove my wife crazy....LOL....playing XTC and Elvis Costello all the time)..... I was trying to think if i had a fave from XTC.....dunno...the one is real hard.....sure, some are mindshouting "ES" right now.....and i have to agree...but i think for me i would have to say.....hmmmmm..........Big Express..but i like em all, ya know?? Anyone know where i can get some Helium Kidz? When WS comes out........i'm gonna make a wonderful xtc anthology cd (for my own library of course)....I've been in an XTC only mode for the last 4 weeks...and i have my tunes picked out....well, all except a couple cuts from WS. Anyway, it is 4:20 here so it is time to stop, take a break...lol "We need a new broom, To sweep it all clean We need a beat boom We need a new scheme" Mark from the house on the hill in omahahaha Hey...how about the Stranglers? yeah baby....what an old codger i am... hehehe
------------------------------ Date: 16 May 00 09:07:40 CDT From: Mor_Goth <mor_goth@usa.net> Subject: Video killed the Wasp Star, plus weathering Message-ID: <20000516140740.16748.qmail@nwcst293.netaddress.usa.net> Greetings RN van Vliet <rnv@mac.com> wrote: >I think it's just because of the jazzy vocal harmonies toward the end and the use of the word "weather." Sting patented that word. You can't sing it without sounding like Sting. It's just not possible.< Funny, I always think of Tom Waits when I hear "weather" in a song. Anyone think he sounds like Sting? :) Anyway, apologies if this has already been addressed recently (I've missed quite a few postings recently. Does anyone have any news on if XTC will be doing a video for ITMWML or any other future singles? I know they haven't been entirely pleased with some of their videos of the past, however I don't think its possible to achieve major comercial success these days without one. Its sad, and its not how I would have it if I ruled the cosmos, but there it is. Look at good ole Carlos Santana. He's been making music for years. He makes video with plenty of beautiful people prancing about and he's got a best selling album. (Granted, there are plenty of other factors.. a decent guest singer, a generaly damn good tune etc.)
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 09:28:40 EDT From: Chauncy14@aol.com Subject: The color of music Message-ID: <c9.4c3ba35.2652a708@aol.com> Hello clan, I wanted to take a stab at the *color* in music concept too. The thought that music could be *organic,* like architecture can be, was the subject of a post a year or so ago by a fellow chalker. I am picking up where he left off. We know music has tension, and release within it. Most bands hardly know how tension and release is used, or that it is even employed. Andy P. does.... Andy Partridge, we know, compares his music to architecture by his version of tension and release the same way buildings use them in construction. These are called Themes. Passages are open and flowing, the building has some *relief,* some hidden passageways and then an clearing, if you will, to a wide open space. Music and it's construction can take on the same form as a building's asthetic feeling on our emotions. These *themes* can be expressed in a variety of different ways. (This is part of the way home to *organic* music.) Well, IMHO, color achieves this effect the same way. Color has tension and release too. Certain colors have one effect on our emotions which is vastly different from another color. For example, the color red could be *love, * which is the *theme* for the musical expression. How red is represented in music is likely to be found in the chord choices the musician employs. We know that the major chords are the happy ones and the minor chords are the sad ones. Now if the *love* song were a happy song, the chords would be major. Now if, and only if, the happy love song makes you think of the color red, then the effect is true and correct; or, to put it another way, the tension or the release of the song produces a red image in your minds eye. But, if the song were a sad love song, it's just possible that the shade of red may be different than a bright red rose, for example; more *magenta*? Either this is all a bunch of crap, or, we are on to something. We can think of a thousand and one explanations for this concept, but it's the one explanation that we can't think that would probably be the *true* explanation for organic music in the form of a color. Organic architecture is the natural essence of the materials placed in such order of construction, used in such a way that it interacts with all the principles of its construction and in the engineering of the structure, with all its natural materials used within, with direct and indirect light, containing open flowing spaces within, that the structure transcends itself beyond the normal realm of thought creating a finished product which is something completely new and exciting - and never used before in architecture. While we can only describe color without any real definite clarity, the same feelings are evoked when you visit say a Frank Lloyd Wright property, such as Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, or the R. Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York City. These feelings are represented so well that they can conjure up thoughts of color. When I was at the Guggenheim last year, orange was the color in my head. Musical expressions can evoke an organic response of color too. Your thoughts and interest in this subject are exciting and I hope someone day, that we can explain this phenomona in better terms. Organically speaking... Best, John Gardner Chicago
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:21:03 -0500 From: John Voorhees <johnvoorhees@johnvoorhees.com> Subject: Chalkheads Update Message-ID: <3921756F8A.5AFCJOHNVOORHEES@EXCHSRV> The Chalkheads station at MP3.com is now up to 15 songs, and at least 9 of them are the work of our fellow readers! We now also have songs by Agent Square, Lost Sailors, The Madhatter Flowers, Only Mortals, and Orchestraville! Come take a listen at mp3.com/stations/chalkheads . If you don't have a high-speed connection, you can still listen in lo-fi, and download the MP3's you like. Enjoy, John Voorhees
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:31:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Ryan Anthony <hamsterranch@yahoo.com> Subject: Love Tom Lehrer? Remember Klaatu? Message-ID: <20000516173101.23266.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com> I'm more than 40 digests behind (they're clogging up my in-box!), so please accept my apologies in advance if this has been mentioned or even talked to death already hereabouts, but, since many XTC fans are bound to be fond of Klaatu and Tom Lehrer, I want to let you know about a pair of tasty re-releases. Remember Klaatu? No, not the robot (Bender's great-great-great-grandpappy?) in *The Day the Earth Stood Still*; I mean Klaatu as in the mid-'70s pop combo comprised of anonymous Canadian studio musicians which some folks took to be a second coming of the Beatles. My hypothesis is, Klaatu was a super-secret side project of the Residents. In Rhode Island at the time, I got a snootful of the "Beatles = Klaatu" campaign, because it was whipped up by a Providence-based rock critic, but after the Klaatumania blew over, I bought the band's first two albums, *Klaatu* and *Hope*, and enjoyed them thoroughly. Those first two releases share one CD now available from Collectors' Choice Music. (Klaatu released a third and fourth album in the late '70s which I never heard. Acquiring those discs is at No. 514 on my "Things to Do Someday" list, between No. 513: read *Naked Lunch*, and No. 515: hire an artist to create a fake H.L. Mencken postage stamp.) Mr. Lehrer, who needs no introduction in this group, has a three-CD compilation coming out on or about my birthday, May 23, which is a good day for releases, Chalkhillians would agree. Titled *The Remains of Tom Lehrer*, it appears not to be exhaustively complete -- it may or may not include the contents of the first Big Ten Inch Record Lehrer released on his own label around 1948, with lyrics (especially the reference to poll taxes in "I Wanna Go Back to Dixie") he later changed -- but it's a must-have regardless. Interested? Log on to the Critics' Choice Music website at http://www.ccmusic.com. (I have no connection to or interest in this outfit except as a satisfied customer.) Ryan Anthony An independent Internet content provider
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:11:04 -0600 From: "Bob O'Bannon" <batchain@earthlink.net> Subject: blanketed by secrecy Message-ID: <200005162011.NAA03871@goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net> >>there is a label called >>"Nonesuch" represented on this playlist by an artist named Bill >>Frisell, who seems to have 3-4 numbers on the list. Anyone know >>anything about this? Frisell just did a mostly-instrumental version of Costello's latest album with Burt Bacharach. I haven't heard it, but I have two other Frisell CDs which are quite an enjoyable listen. He's kind of a twangy jazz rock guitarist who emphasizes texture and atmosphere over speed and technical precision. He's normally found in the jazz bins, but that's a bit misleading. He's also done an instrumental version of John Hiatt's "Bring the Family," so given this habit of his, I would love to hear him do an instrumental version of an XTC album. Now I'll bet this is a challenge that has never been tackled on this list -- what XTC album would best transfer into a guitar instrumental? For some reason I want to say "Drums and Wires." Speaking of lost bands, has anyone heard of Blanket of Secrecy? They released one album back in the early 80s, which was rather catchy synth-pop in the vein of early Tears for Fears, but they completely disappeared after that. I've heard nothing from them since. Another decent lost band is In Tua Nua, whose album "The Long Acre" (1988?) was a strong collection of Celtic rock. They too have been AWOL since then. bob
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:14:55 -0600 From: "Bob O'Bannon" <batchain@earthlink.net> Subject: iAgree Message-ID: <200005162014.NAA16830@goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net> >>I agree with John Relph. I own a PowerMac G3 and I feel sorry for you >>Windows based platform users. As an iMac and iBook user, I agree with both of you. Apple is the XTC of the computer world. bob [ Please, no debates over which is better. -- John ]
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Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:26:26 -0500
From: "Paul Averitt" <paveritt@dallas.net>
Subject: Re: The Mighty Heroes
Message-ID: <000501bfbf75$0534f9e0$ec292cd1@louie>
I LOVED The Mighty Heroes. Where did you get this information you referred
to? I'd love to know.
Paul
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------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:45:35 -0700 From: Ed Kedzierski <ed.kedzierski@blvdmedia.com> Subject: Comsat Angels Message-ID: <08B5DDC2BABCD311BFC6005004A884B013B650@mgcservices.com> In 6-118, Jeff Smelser mentions the Comsat Angels and says: >Then they had to change their name to CS Angels in the states and it was a downhill slide to the cutout bins from there. Do you know why this was? I know that "Comsat Angels" was also the name of an early J.G. Ballard short story, and although he never really struck me as the litigious type, I had vaguely assumed that this might have had something to do with it. But you said "in the states"... could it be that "comsat", which seems to me a rather generic shortening of "communications satellite" is actually trademarked? Bizarre. Ed K. (PS: Ballard is one of my all time favourites, and that's one I'll gladly fight over!)
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