gb10@GTE.COM (Gregory Bossert) (06/04/91)
Jorn says: > 1) He's got 500 names he mails to, ~300 in the US. Are we prepared to > welcome them all to Katemas parties? I hope we are, as they're surely the > truest and the bluest, but the thought is a wee bit alarming... "wee bit alarming?" "WEE BIT ALARMING!!??" sheesh, my housemates are going to *kill* me. like, "hi john, how's it going, oh by the way, i'm having 300 KaTe-Krazed fans over for dinner tomorrow..." maybe i can convince my parents to go out of town -- they've got a *big* house (well, harvard has a big house, and they live in it...) *anyway*, i'm working on some ideas for the Boston party -- leading concept is an interactive KaTe installation, using the pile of Macs and Amigas i've somehow accumulated. i'm working on a motion-to-MIDI converter to interface to the MAX software -- it ought to be a trip... ("...300 dazed and confused fans...") i just picked up a video tape at Second Coming Records in cambridge called "Kate Bush: The Collection" -- it's black with a color KaTe-in-a-wuthering- heights-white-lace-top-from-the-chest-up-like-page-three-of-the-tour-program photo. nice looking package, shrink-wrapped; i thing it said "mirage productions". anyway, it seems to contain most of the standard KaTe broadcast clips, including SNL, the dr. hook "interview", the strap-splitting _Wedding List_ (good lord, what poise!), etc. -- i haven't had a chance to watch the whole thing... some of the videos are very good quality (like "The Wedding List", some are less so, but *definitely* worth the $24 i paid. keep your eyes peeled! (BTW, anyone know anything about this video?) thank you thank you thank you Jeff, Vickie, Chris, et al, for the Happy lyrics! i'm waiting desperately for "Would That I Could" (sic?) from Ecto -- up there with RUTH for leaving me dazed and blind with rapture (which is awkward while driving, BTW; but what a way to go!) got another dozen+ GIFs, including the Lionheart/Tour of Life tour package; just have to get them up to alaska. many thanks to all who sent GIF conversion suggestions. (and apologies to dan RILEY who i've only known for 12 years for spelling his name wrong... gotta start sleeping more!) well, this is getting kinda long -- better footah off! -greg -- gb10@gte.com
jburka@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Jeff Burka) (06/04/91)
Greg sez: >thank you thank you thank you Jeff, Vickie, Chris, et al, for the Happy >lyrics! i'm waiting desperately for "Would That I Could" (sic?) from >Ecto -- up there with RUTH for leaving me dazed and blind with rapture >(which is awkward while driving, BTW; but what a way to go!) Well, geez, all ya gotta do is ask! _Ecto_ is the one album "we" always had the lyrics to (Happy sent 'em to Vickie KaTe-knows-when; Vickie sent me a xerox of 'em, oh, geez, a couple of months ago). I've sent out the _Ecto_ lyrics to a bunch of people. In addition, if you'd been a good boy and read your Shakespeare as a child, you would have at least realized that "Would That I Could" at least has *something* to do with _A Midsummer Night's Dream_. In fact, all of the lyrics except for the chorus are straight from the play (the beginning of Act II scene i). Realizing that not everyone has a bunch of Shakespeare lying around, here, for your reading pleasure, is "Would That I Could" "Would That I Could" Over hill, over dale thorough bush, thorough brier Over park, over dale thorough flood, thorough fire Would that I could, I'd be serving my Titania Would that I could, I'd never return Would that I could, I'd be loving my Oberon Would that I could, I'd stay for good I do wander everywhere, swifter than the moon's sphere And I serve the fairy queen, to dew her orbs upon the green Would that I could, I'd be serving my Titania Would that I could, I'd never return Would that I could, I'd be loving my Oberon Would that I could, I'd stay for good The cowslips tall her pensioners be: in their gold coats spots you see Those be rubies, fairy favours, in those freckles live their savours Would that I could, I'd be serving my Titania Would that I could, I'd never return Would that I could, I'd be loving my Oberon Would that I could, I'd stay for good I must go seek some dewdrops here, and hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear Farewell thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone Our queen and all her elves come here anon. Would that I could, I'd be serving my Titania Would that I could, I'd never return Would that I could, I'd be loving my Oberon Would that I could, I'd stay for good Excerpts of "Would That I Could" taken from A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare copyright 1987 by Happy Rhodes There. Now that that's done, I have a question of my own: Did Vickie 'n Chris post the _Rearmament_ lyrics the other night? All I got at my site were Volumes I and II and I'm *dying* to see the fully lyrics to "'Til the Dawn Breaks". Note: the lyrics that Happy sent to Vickie for _Ecto_ contain a number of errors. When I typed up my copy of the xerox, I fixed a couple of the errors, but not all of them. Vickie told me a while ago that she has a complete, error-free machine-readable copy of the lyrics. I assume she's going to post those to the net when she has a chance. For this reason I'm not going to post my own text file of the lyrics. If anybody would like them as they stand, please e-mail me for a copy. Jeff -- |Jeffrey C. Burka |"I've lost my way through this world of | |jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu | profanities/I thrive on the wind and | |jburka@amber.ucs.indiana.edu | the rain and the cold." --Happy Rhodes|