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Monday, February 02, 2004 |
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| Topics for Monday, February 02, 2004 1. Guaranteed Live audio, etc. - Anselm Gaynor 2. Level42Digest Lives! - Bilal42 @ aol.com 3. Football and fond memories - DonZipf @ aol.com 4. The Odd Couple - =?iso-8859-1?q?Andrew=20Goodwin?= 5. Conversations with Silence - ArceliaFM @ aol.com 6. US sports and Level 42 - Green, Laurence |
| 1. Guaranteed Live audio, etc. |
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| From: | Anselm Gaynor <anselm_gaynor @ btinternet.com> |
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| Date: | Sun, 1 Feb 2004 11:50:11 -0000 |
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Following Julian’s request the other day, I’ve managed to encode the stereo audio track from the videocassette into MP3. Question: does anyone know of any software (preferably freeware!) which can I can use to create an audio CD with tracks, and no annoying ‘gaps’? I can easily burn the MP3 to an audio disc, but of course it’s then one very long track, instead of split into tracks like a normal audio CD, or chapters on a DVD. If anyone knows an easy way of doing this, please let me know. If you can do it for me, even better! I’m happy to burn off a copy of it (2 x audio CDs) for anyone who has never got the chance to hear it before…I think the video has long since been deleted.
PS: It’s great to see the recent heavier traffic here on the Email Digest…I feared it would slowly die after the web version was introduced. I always preferred the email version, I just think you get better/wittier/more informed/less-PC discussions on here, and I’m all for that. Boo sucks to the web version - I’ve tried it, but I just can’t get into it at all.
PPS: Re: Tom Foolery’s comment the other day about
discussing L42 on the Blue Nile Digest (‘The Parade’)….I’m
also a member of that list, enjoyed seeing their reactions when the name Level
42 was mentioned. It really seems to be a name which polarises people into a
few distinct groups, when it’s mentioned. People you meet seem to think of
either (a) Jazz-funk lite, (b) 80s Essex/Furry dice
etc (c) Fantastic musicians. I thought the
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| 2. Level42Digest Lives! |
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| From: | Bilal42 @ aol.com <Bilal42 @ aol.com> |
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| Date: | Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:11:49 EST |
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| Egg-Sel-Ent! Good to see old faces, together with the new ones and friendly banter on the digest again. Welcome back, God bless ya all. Bilal | ||
| 3. Football and fond memories |
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| From: | DonZipf @ aol.com <DonZipf @ aol.com> |
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| Date: | Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:23:55 EST |
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| John Mawer wrote: > I still can't understand why they run plays where the QB (quarter-back for non-US > readers) hands off to a running back who proceeds to look for the largest group of > opposing tacklers and runs directly into them picking up a whopping yard or two if he's > lucky. In my "just-don't-get-it mind, I would think the plan should be to run towards the > goal line taking a route where the opposing team...isn't, instead of into the mass of > muscle directly "up the middle". Question two is if they run that play so many times > per game/season with meager yardage gains, why do they continue to run that play?? Because they'd rather have five fast pennies than one slow nickel...or something like that. Those "meager yardage gains" add up quickly. If you gain 2.5 yards four times, that's a first down, earning you four more tries. Better to inch your way into scoring territory and then take your shot, than to repeatedly make desperate flea-flicker attempts from the far end of the field (which seldom result in completions). Eric Hansen wrote: > (scratching head) I don't recall the Burger King crown, but my memory isn't what it > was 5 years ago :) It was a cardboard mask of the BK mascot's face, with crown at the top, of course. I have a pic here somewhere. I also remember it was "Free Fry Day", which should have been "Free Chip Day" in the UK, but that doesn't work, does it.... Lolita Jackson wrote: > The picture taken after the first ILF at Joe DaFlos in '98, when Mark surprisingly showed > up. There are about 20 of us in that picture, and it was the first time most of us had > ever met. How many times did we go outside to take that photo, as more and more people arrived throughout the day? If I recall, the largest assembled group had 33 people from seven different countries, or thereabouts. That was a wonderful day. Some of us rode the 100-year-old steam train on a tour of the island, which was great fun. How many of you can still find your souvenir "backstage pass" nametags? :o) Cheers - Don Z. | ||
| 4. The Odd Couple |
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| From: | =?iso-8859-1?q?Andrew=20Goodwin?= <thenightfly83 @ yahoo.co.uk> |
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| Date: | Sun, 1 Feb 2004 23:26:23 +0000 (GMT) |
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| >4. Re: Rubbish? Puh-lease >From: Andrea Smith < ardsmith @ ameritech.net> > >Soccer players don't take serious hits, simple as that. If David Beckham took the hits football players do, he'd wear every pad you could find. Well, each game has its own demands. Get your average American footballer to run constantly for 90 minutes, see how far he gets. >The last thing that really negates soccer for me are all the hooligans that fight after a game-what's the point? If you get banned from COUNTRIES b/c you can't control yourself over a GAME-that's just sad. Wahey! In the space of two days we’ve had the two oldest erroneous sports clichés in the book trotted out. First The Father, The Son & The Holy Laurence proclaims that American footballers are wimps for wearing padding (actually if you allow a 300lb man to run into you headlong from a couple of yards away without it you’ll break all manner of bones, not least your neck – this is an entirely different prospect from a rugby tackle where both men are mobile. Of course how much of a spectacle it is to see one 300lb man run headlong into another is a separate issue.) And now the old "football fans are hooligans anyway" line, a particular favourite of mine since I have to share an office with one of its adherents. Couple of points here. Firstly, hooliganism has nothing, repeat nothing, repeat NOTHING to do with football itself. It has everything to do with tribalism, atavistic urges, large gatherings of poorly educated testosterone and my particular nemesis alcohol, but football just happens to be the conduit for a problem in society. You could ban football and hooliganism would just change its allegiance. And secondly, it’s a far, far smaller problem than most hype would lead people who don't actually go to games (you know, Manchester Utd fans) to believe anyway. I’ve been to about 250 football matches in the last 10 years and not seen a single punch thrown, whereas the way Andrea tells it a riot is the requisite epilogue to every fixture. I can’t believe I’m being reproached on social violence by an American. And they say they don’t understand irony. >And how many British basketball players are there? Yeah, right. I can only think of one. Well, that might be because for the most part, we hate basketball. I’m quite sure a couple of my more misguided countrymen will now come out in support of it, but largely the English see it for the ‘you score then I’ll score then you score then I’ll score then you score then I’ll score then the whistle will go and one of us will be a point in front’ nonsense that it is. I might equally ask exactly how many great cricketers has America produced. I can’t think of any! Not even one! >Basketball is a world game like soccer By any criteria there is no world game like football – real football that is, the game where the world champions have to beat teams from the rest of the world. At its best football is like a simmering cauldron of sexual tension. For 90 minutes you sit coiled in anticipation, ready to explode in gratification at any moment. I think it was Tom who dismissed the 1-0 win as typifying what’s wrong with it, whereas actually that’s exactly what’s great about it. It’s not about what is happening so much as what could happen, about the journey rather than the destination. Yesterday’s Liverpool derby ended 0-0 and was rivetting from start to finish, an hour and a half of relentless potential. And that's quite enough about sport. Imagine what the silent 'majority' must be making of all this. >6. American Office >From: djames @ speakeasy.net < djames @ speakeasy.net> > >The most recent translation (Coupling) was bloody awful. I believe the term is GIGO. AG ________________________________________________________________________ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save £80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk | ||
| 5. Conversations with Silence |
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| From: | ArceliaFM @ aol.com <ArceliaFM @ aol.com> |
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| Date: | Sun, 1 Feb 2004 23:34:00 EST |
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My copy of Mike's CD was patiently waiting for me in my mailbox today, and I didn't show the package any patience back: I ripped it open and popped the CD in, and can't stop listening. I love this album, and my favorite track is "El Rincon Cubano"...at least for the moment, while I find more gems...
Mike, if you ever read this digest, I have to tell you the album was worth the 2 year wait. Every minute! "Conversations with Silence" is a brilliant title. Thank you for the music.
~Arcelia
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| 6. US sports and Level 42 |
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| From: | Green, Laurence <Laurence.Green @ carillionwsp.com> |
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| Date: | Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:19:44 -0000 |
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>but your post has no merit at all. J)))) That’s the idea!!!!! >>Pool…to the time of Ancient Greece and was played extensively during the time of Shakespeare, so that really isn't an American game. Hmmm, as far as I’m aware the sensible game of English Billiards went over to America, was immediately corrupted into a 4 ball version and eventually 15 balls in ‘space crater’ sized pockets. You still call imparting spin on the ball ‘english’ – am I right? Actually, I love pool – got a table in my parents’ garage, but not with the really big pockets like you have. Anyway, you’re not going to get one over on me on cue sports, I’m a bit of an expert. Heard the story about Mark, Phil and the pool table? They were in-between frames one day and a ball jumped out of a pocket, ran across the table into the other pocket. They ran away scared to death. It’s great to be back, I listened to The Pursuit Of Accidents resissued over the weekend, I noticed that the Remix of The Chinese Way at the end of the disc is excellent - a great finale See you L()Z
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