From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V99 #100 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 99 : Issue 100 1061 subscribers Today's topics: RE: Level42 Digest V99 #99 Matthew Areford More bands to Cover 42 Dan Nesselroth Gaetan Duperron More freaky appearances of "42" Glen Hambly Re: Level42 Digest V99 #99 Laurence Green Re: Level42 Digest V99 #99 Nightfly83 Re: Level42 Digest V99 #99 ElSavannah 42 is the magic number The Boon CD Saga Comes to an End David J. Loundy Lumpy Custard ERICWHE01 ------------------------------ Subject: RE: Level42 Digest V99 #99 From: "Matthew Areford" Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 05:33:36 -0500 >> Beware Blockbuster. They custom-edit their copies of movies 'cause they, >> apparently, know better then you and I. > >You mean "better than you and me". Which leads me to believe that in your >case they're probably right. > Hate to be picky here, but this reply was so smarmy. The original was correct -- better than you and I. Matt ------------------------------ Subject: More bands to Cover 42 From: "Dan Nesselroth" Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 07:09:38 PDT This has become an obsession.....who should be on the l42 tribute album should such a thing ever exist? More suggestions.... The Carpenters singing "Two Solitudes" The Carpenters (again) singing "A Floating Life" Rage Against the Machine singing "Why are you Leaving?" Boney M singing "Are you hearing what I hear?" Rolling Stones singing "Fashion Fever" Six Finger Satellite singing "True Believers" (why not?) John Denver, were he still alive, covering "43" Donna Summer singing "Lying Still" Talking Heads singing "You cant Blame Louis" and lastly, The London Boys Choir singing "Heaven in My Hands" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Subject: From: "Gaetan Duperron" Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 07:44:29 PDT Hello everybody. Alex Friesen wrote: >Bought the Costello/Bacharach album for the sister-in-law, but >haven't had the, er, pleasure of hearing it yet. Any reviews? Yup, here's one. I am an unconditional Elvis Costello fan, and while not in any rush to run out and buy any Dionne Warwick, I can definitely appreciate the value of good musical tackiness. So hearing it was definitely a, er, pleasure. The arrangements are classic Bacharach, the lyrics are definitely our man Declan, but with the dial set to sappy. It's a mix that actually does work. Alex, are you no longer as big a (insert word that rhymes with "fool" here) as you can be? I was hoping that you would go on with that one for months! Current infatuations: XTC's "Apple Venus, Volume 1", Cassandra Wilson's "Travelling Miles" and Funki Porcini, "The Ultimately Empty Million Pounds". Good stuff. On to more Level-ly subjects. I finally tracked down a copy of "RITF- Platinum Ed'n". 'Got it from Amazon. I'll definitely be filing it in my "L42-stuff-that-I-bought-because-I'm-such-a-big-fan-but-that-if-in- my-right-mind-I-like-wouldn't-have" pile, along with the 2 remix albums and The White Funky. I had forgotten just how much I hate most of the remixes from that time. Also on the way: Mark King Live at Wolverhampton, courtesy of Cliff Barua as well as "Greatest Hits and More" (that Dutch double album - or, Hey! that Double-Dutch album!!!) from Novalis in France. I'm milking the product teets dry!!! Later! G ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Subject: More freaky appearances of "42" From: HighwayHamster @ webtv.net (Glen Hambly) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 12:41:33 -0500 (CDT) Another fascinating occurance of our favourite number. Five gallon buckets of oil products are shipped on a pallet......... ......14 buckets on a layer............... ................3 layers high..............wait for it....... yes, that's right......A TOTAL OF 42 BUCKETS TO A PALLET! ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Level42 Digest V99 #99 From: "Laurence Green" Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:55:35 +0100 >Subject: Running in the family Platinum Edition >From: "Ronald Kuipers" >Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 19:27:41 +0200 Yes, there were a few promo copies released that also had the ADSC mix on. They are VERY hard to find. I have never only once heard that a shop in Manchester once had one. I've never had the chance of getting one myself. LOZ ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Level42 Digest V99 #99 From: Nightfly83 @ aol.com Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:26:16 EDT > From: L.F.Green @ shu.ac.uk (Laurence F. GREEN) > Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 11:12:55 +0100 > > Blimey - AGeez post yesterday was a marathon. True, sorry about that one. It is possible to have too much of a good thing. Although it was worth the effort as I managed to offend Kurtis Kegley (receiving for my troubles a two word e-mail (no, not those two) typed in scary capital letters). He therefore has the enviable distinction of being the first person I've upset to whom I've felt absolutely no inclination to apologise. This is the guy who wrote, of a couple of swap deals gone awry, the following astonishingly absolute decree: "People who do not deal honestly with others and don't honor agreements should not be given the priviledge to be on the Digest or have their own Fan Newsletters or do business with fans or to swap items.Please pass this info on to others and warn them about these individuals." This was to alert us of the nefarious activities of that notorious shyster, Loz Green. Very Christian, I must say. The Sun Says: you dish it in public, you'd better be prepared to take it in public. And he can't spell. AG ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Level42 Digest V99 #99 From: ElSavannah @ aol.com Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:13:03 EDT Mmmmmm Let me see now Heaven: Mr (S) Pink! (doh) Hell: she can't help herself (possibly the worst song in living history) I have finally got the last in the batch of Shepherds Bush tapes done for all those who sent me tapes and will be posting them today. Winston - I have lost your address again me old fruit and would like to post my very interesting package to you so mail me! Carl and Laurel - I have lost your snail mail too so can you mail me so I get the tape and pics to you? I can't help feeling that Changes might be a slightly more heartfelt album that One Man (IMHO) The songs seem more personal but maybe that just reflects Mike's personality more whereas Mark seemed to be more interested in the music rather than the lyrics. I know that Boon wrote the majority of them but they do seem to take second place to the music in a lot of the songs. Mike's lyrics jump out at you from song 1 (Fallen Angel for example - currently playing on the stereo) Does anyone else think that Mike looks a tad scary on the Brighton Flyer? Anyway off to spend more money on pointless computer games ( I have just bought a steering wheel to play Touring Cars 2 - Oh what bliss!) 'Til the sun goes down Lisa 'Mrs Pink' "I've built a castle on the dreams of idle wasters............" ------------------------------ Subject: 42 is the magic number From: Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:33:41 +0100 Numbers game. I recently visited an apartment building here in Zurich as Im looking to move closer to work. The building in question is a 4 storey building and the owner has marked each apartment with a No. Those on the 1st floor are labelled 11 and 12, those on the 2nd floor are 21 and 22, Spookily enuff, Ive taken the partment on the 4th floor. The apartments id No. ? Yup 42 ------------------------------ Subject: The Boon CD Saga Comes to an End From: "David J. Loundy" Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:42:30 -0500 This past week I received a package from the Surrey Trading Standards office containing Boon's Tin Man CD in resolution of my dispute. (The final insult was that the customs declaration declared the vlaue of the CD as 12.99 instead of 8.99...) After the New York Times article ran, my Web page hits quintupled the first day, I received e-mail about the evil British oppressing the Indian subcontinent, a message from an e-commerce Web master spouting off about credit card fraud, three messages from people who wanted to share their own stories of merchant problems (two of whom established Web sites devoted to the issues) and notice of one publication that had infringed the New York Times article by translating it into another language and running the article on the publication's Web site without permission. Wired News, C|Net, and one other news outlet linked to the NYT article. For the sake of completeness, the final forwarded note: >Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 08:07:27 -0500 >To: peterdenard @ surreycc.gov.uk >From: "David J. Loundy" >Subject: Boon CD > > >Dear Ms. Gianfreda: > >I have received the CD. I would like to thank you again for your >assistance in settling my dispute with the Rock Relics Web site. > >Although I appreciate receiving the CD at no cost, as that was not my >expectation or goal, I am making a suitable contribution to a local social >service agency that provides assistance to the homeless in exchange. > >Sincerely, > >--David Loundy-- ____________________________________________________________________ David J. Loundy | E-Mail: David @ Loundy.com | WWW: http://www.Loundy.com/ "I love deadlines. I like | Phone: (312) 332-0954 the whooshing sound they | E-Law Listserv: make as they fly by." | Send a message reading "subscribe" --Douglas Adams | to Loundy-request @ netural.com ____________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Subject: Lumpy Custard From: ERICWHE01 @ aol.com Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 22:12:22 EDT As you all know, I hate to contradict people, but the person said that ‘nothing is now going on’ seems to be very mis-informed. Mark is going back into the studio (hence no April gigs), Boon and Phil are pursuing their own projects, Gary Husband is on tour and Mike Lindup is enjoying great reviews and plaudits as the Stunt Double of ‘the Cat’ in Red Dwarf. Now, I’d just like to say that I’m new to the Loz Green digest. I’ve followed him since the early literary days when I first read ‘Blizzard’ from Strata Publishing house with help from his friends Ike Ringpull, Moon Bald, and Jill Bald and with his agent Gone Bald. I then bought the craftily titled ‘Loz Green’ from the Cauliflower publishing house. This was a new step for Loz and bought his literary works to a wider audience. With the interest in his live recitals Cauliflower published some of his earlier works in a book entitled ‘Early Quotes’. Loz’s success spawned a new confidence in his writings, and he then started to write the enchanting ‘Keep away from the light’, a truly magnificent work , with poems like ‘Lycra Kid’, ‘Store this side up’ and ‘Fairy’s Cream’. It was at this time the BBC became interested in his work, and they produced a programme, ‘Sights and Sounds in Cromford’ which is now often shown in the early hours on satellite and cable tv. But Loz wanted a wider audience and yearned for international success. Goaded by his tastefully dressed Manager Saul Crickneck , he went to the States to promote his work but had little success. It was at this time he decided to come more into the mainstream of publishing, a move that didn’t go down well with his colleagues the Bald brothers. However, Loz still managed to write a hit book called ‘Rude Mothers’, with heart wrenching poems such as ‘A Floating Wife’, ‘Rude Achievers’, Cromford’s Shitty Dustmen and the rather raunchy ‘Seven Lays’. The most catchy and successful of this anthology was ‘Bot Water’. An outburst of ‘Bot Water’ is now an integral part of his live work. Loz then took time away from performing jointly with his pals, and wrote his eclectic individual collection ‘Under the Influence’. Loz was now coming to the peak of his creative phase, and began to write his masterpiece ‘Word Machine’, from which Loz has won several awards. But the cracks were beginning to show in his relationship with the Balds. Constant book signings and a change in literary direction bought the strained relationship to an end, and Loz and the Balds split in 1987. However, they managed to jointly write and publish the incredibly successful ‘Hobbling with a Gammy Leg’ before the split was formally announced. The world beating ‘HwaGL’ is certainly the most commercial of Loz’s work, and poems from it such as ‘ It’s Rover’, ‘To be in bed with you again’ , and ‘Mildred says’ are still performed all over the world today. However, Loz’s commercial success began to wane. In partnership with Ike Ringpull, he produced the scholarly ‘ Leering at my Mum’, which again achieved good sales in the bookshops. But their next venture called ‘Glam and teeth’ was rejected by Cauliflower as a write-off. Undaunted by this let down, Loz approached another publishing house ‘Arsey Hay.’ Arsey Hay published the book, but this proved to be a false dawn, and sales were disappointing. Loz decided to take a break from writing to concentrate on his family and his burgeoning Restaurant chain ‘Jim Diablos’. It was at this time that Ike Ringpull wrote his solo effort ‘Flanges’. With the constant touring and book signings taking their toll, Loz decided that there was room for one last book, and the retro-book ‘For Heavens Sake’ was published by Arsey Hay. It headlined with poems like ‘All over Stu’, ‘Learn to Say Maybe’ and the chilling ‘One hurls at Marillion’. It was at that time that Loz decided to call it a day and hung up his typewriter. But now 5 years later, Loz has risen phoenix-like from the flames, and has shown some of his best work in his new book ‘Woman’. I have collected all of Loz’s works, all the tour flyers, and I even have patented a stripy tee-shirt pattern similar to that worn by Loz on his web-site. If anyone has a lifesize cutout of Loz (again as per his website) I would like to swap it for an actual Loz red ‘Woman’ tour jacket. But he also writes a belting little book called ‘WORD MACHINE’, and I recommend you buy it. It is full of interesting info on your favourite band, with news, info and interviews. This is an unashamed advertisement for WORD MACHINE 3. All people, places and events portrayed in this piece are purely there for my amusement ;-) Eric W.