Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (04/19/87)
Really-From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu KT News (coupled with some general aimless complaining): ^^^^^^^^ Well, Allan and Maura of Intergalactic Garage have put out a new KaTalogue update, and it's very tempting. First of all, they are offering NTSC VHS factory-sealed copies of The Whole Story for $29.95 post paid, if ordered by April 22. Seeing as how no-one in L.A. has even heard of a release date for this tape yet, it seems like a pretty good deal. Too bad there's no Beta offer, though. They also have the soundtrack to Castaway, the Nicholas Roeg movie featuring a brand new Kate Bush track, "Be Kind to My Mistakes", for $11.99 plus $2.00 postage. Again, this isn't even available yet out here, because the damn retailers never really make specific requests for new imports, they just wait around for the distributors to decide, and then they take whatever they're offered. The whole import business is enough to make you sick, you know? Why in God's name should someone have to wait more than eight weeks (who knows how much more) to receive a record, video-tape or laser-disk from Japan? If people did their jobs properly, it could be placed, filled and delivered to the customer's door inside of one week. and the Japanese import distributors speak Japanese, too -- haven't they ever heard of long distance??? Now, the mail-bag: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >By the way, should we record some kind of a tone or something >between each person's set of tracks to make things easier to distinguish/find? > >-- Mark Kat(e)souros Good idea, Mark! Each person leave ten seconds blank between their track and the one directly preceding it, and in the meantime let's have some Love-Hounds Jingles to put in between them. "Here's -- Paul -- Shaffer!" >Incidently, >Andy, I found your selections quite >interesting but, because each segment was so brief, had a hard time >getting a really good taste of anything. I propose we try to keep the >segments perhaps as long as a minute. Anyway, I'm off to record ten or so >minutes of my most recommended music. (This may not be my favourite music >though. By all means, make the samples as long or as brief as you wish. No-one has to edit anything down at all if they don't want. IED didn't intend for his segment to serve as a model for anyone else's -- it's much too uninviting to serve very well as a paragon of teasers. It's severely edited by personal choice, not particularly in order to win new listeners. Although he more or less likes the pieces on his track, he specifically tried to present them in a non-advertising way. To him personally, presenting a smaller selection of tracks with a longer playing time for each track would have placed too much importance on those pieces. He doesn't place too much importance on anything except Kate, and maybe Scriabin -- and no-one would have wanted a whole eleven minutes of Scriabin! So the natural alternative was to have fun with editing and try to put as much stuff by the listener as possible within the time alotted. Besides, in IED's opinion, any piece can be reduced to a few seconds of "core" material, a single passage that sums up the identity of the entire track. He doesn't think too much has been lost from any of those pieces, providing people are interested enough to listen hard -- not that anyone is urged to do so. -- Andrew Marvick
Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (04/20/87)
Really-From: Dave Hsu <hsu@eneevax.umd.edu> >Really-From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu > >They also have the soundtrack to >Castaway, the Nicholas Roeg movie featuring a brand new Kate >Bush track, "Be Kind to My Mistakes", for $11.99 plus $2.00 postage. Darn, thought I was going to scoop you...the _Castaway_ soundtrack has made its appearance in the D.C. area Very Recently. Yesterday and Today Records in Rockville ((301) 279-7007) had several copies in stock; being in too much of a hurry today, I didn't check their prices. More thinking in store before continuing the current _TD_ discussion. -dave -- David Hsu Professional Undergrad & System Fascist ARPA: hsu@eneevax.umd.edu UUCP: [seismo,allegra]!mimsy!eneevax!hsu USNAIL: EE Computer Facility, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park, MD 20742 "He works great wonders through sheer annoyance."