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Saturday, January 31, 2004 |
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| Topics for Saturday, January 31, 2004 1. Football and other 'sports' - Green, Laurence 2. 5 YEARS - Michael Payne 3. Sloppy Seconds - jt 4. NFL - dean.osborn 5. Looks like a 5 year old digest edition - Andre Huijts 6. L[]Z, our Saviour - Eric J. Hansen 7. it's a three wiper, I bet. - Tom Foolery 8. VH1 Bands Reunited - LAURA KELLY |
| 1. Football and other 'sports' |
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| From: | Green, Laurence <Laurence.Green @ carillionwsp.com> |
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| Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:49:32 -0000 |
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There is an album out called ‘Greatest Hits Live’ but it just Mark’s group on one of their recent tours. My opinion about that state of Level 42, and by Level 42 I always mean 1980 – 1994, is that the musical heights reached by them, particularly between 83 and 85, won’t be surpassed or equalled either by solo efforts, or collaboration with other artists i.e. grupo mark king. Hence, for me, digesting continues as it did 7 years ago – homage to the greatness of 42. The possibility of a reunion – full or part of any of the original members remains a remote possibility, this would excite me but I’m not holding my breath.
Where are the Phil Gould songs we were promised?
I also think American Football is rubbish. All that armour – the wimps. I mean, I can understand wearing a helmet if you’re crouched down at silly mid off and a 300g ball could come hurtling into your face at 100 mph, but some big padded namby pamby coming running at you? Poor, like all US sports – running with a ball (American Football), putting a ball down through a hoop (basketball), putting a ball into a hole the size of a bucket (pool) – I could go on, I won’t.
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| 2. 5 YEARS |
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| From: | Michael Payne <michael @ journeyhouse.com> |
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| Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:59:43 -0600 |
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As Carl Mueller mentioned it has been 5 years since THE FUNKY BUS ran all over SE England thanks to the driving skills of Chris Dickman and Adam Hankinson. I remember a Burger King crown someone was wearing, I think it was Eric's "King of the Digest" Hanson. I also remember the wait (how many hours was it?) after the Leicester DeMontfort Hall with a few digesters that shall remain nameless. I guess that means that One Man is 5 1/2 years old now - where has the time gone- I was 25 when I joined this digest! That was a great trip, ended in the hotel pub at the hotel most of us stayed at in Wolverhampton, what was the name of it - I know I did not even sleep in the bed that I had paid £40 for - that could have been cider money! Oh yeah - that was the trip that I met Gary Husband and Boon for the first time at the London Shepard's Bush Empire - thanks to another digester that was even more pissed than I kept pushing more pints in my face (fkttbt) - I left my front row standing spot to go to the gents, had to shuffle past about a million people - tried to go back to my spot - did not even bother to try - so I went to the back bar where no other than Gary Husband w/ girlfriend were sitting, in not the most sober moment of mine - I remember saying to Gary who was just as pissed as I, that I "really loved his tracks If You Were Mine & Tracie and that it was sooooooo nice to meet him" and if I could buy him and his girlfriend a drink - I wound up buying him and his girlfriend about 4 drinks and talked with him for about 20 minutes! Needless to say the SB Empire gig is still hazy to this day, as was the taxi ride back to the hotel, and the curry house - which reminds me SHAME ON A FEW DIGESTERS who let me eat that Vindaloo curry in Leicester - could not taste anything for days! Anyway, that was a great trip, thanks to Shannon Hankinson for doing such a grand job on the shirts that year, even though it is too small now I must admit! Hopefully we can do this again when the real LEVEL 42 reunites again in 2010! MIKEY PS: New England Patriots 20, Carolina Panthers 10 - at least a ten point spread! Unless Carolina surprises them then they could possibly beat New England by 3, or a field goal breaking a tie! At least some the ads shoudl be fun to watch and of course Janet Jackson performing during the halftime show - PURE BLISS! | ||
| 3. Sloppy Seconds |
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| From: | jt <jtraci @ yahoo.com> |
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| Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:56:08 -0800 (PST) |
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| -Green, Laurence (aka He With the Crown of Thorns) > We should get together and think of a title for > Mark’s tour – Hmmmm. Well, with this new found disdain you seem to have for the Web-Thing (fashionable, at that), not too mention your resurrection, I take it you have little problem going over there and swiping ideas then? Go ahead, just take some of the actual suggestions; I’ll pretend I’m not looking. j(ay) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ | ||
| 4. NFL |
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| From: | dean.osborn <dean.osborn @ bt.com> |
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| Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:00:43 -0000 |
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| Yesterday, A.G wrote..... >>Incidentally, changing the subject and not that I wish >>to be provocative or anything, but American football >>really is dreadful. I mean really, really appalling. >>It's a sport for people with a concentration span of >>about 15 seconds. Fair enough for the Americans who've >>grown up with it and don't know better, but anyone >>this side of the Atlantic who pays it any heed really >>ought to be ashamed of themselves. Each to his/her own, but I'd rather watch American Football over soccer any day, and I'm English ! Personally I can't understand why anyone would want to sit through a snoozefest like Snooker or Darts but there you go... American Footie is a beautiful game, very cerebral. This year's Superbowl is a classic example of two evenly matched teams in terms of style and ability. Consider it one giant chess board, with the players as the pieces and the coaches scheming brilliant gameplans to counter each other - The Patriots' Bill Bellichick and Charlie Weiss are the masters of cunning gameplans and maximising the talent of the entire squad to contribute - no superstar ego's on either team this year - should be a great one. And of course, the whole spectacle of the event is something that only the Americans can do so well year after year. Dean | ||
| 5. Looks like a 5 year old digest edition |
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| From: | Andre Huijts <andre.huijts @ planet.nl> |
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| Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:51:45 +0100 |
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Wow, old and
familiar names around here.... :) Is this the early Level 42 digest revival
starting ;)
Just like to let you
know I will be in London for Gary's and Mike's gigs early March and hope to see
some of you again :)
It's great that Mark
does a lot of gigs in Holland the last years, but going over the London for the
gigs just adds a little something.
And I really look
forward to see Gary and Mike doing something really different for a change
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Groetjes,
André
P.S. How did you'all
like the D&V VCD ?
P.S.2 Bilal, thanks
for talking to Mike to add the gig on the 3rd, you da man !!!!!! ;) ;) ;)
;)
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| 6. L[]Z, our Saviour |
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| From: | Eric J. Hansen <ehansen @ worldmachine.com> |
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| Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:37:14 -0500 |
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Wow -- the "Return
Of Loz"... could win an Academy award! (Definitely better than
Cats.)
And oh geez -- 13
posts in one day, did I miss something? So much to
say!
re: ebay listings,
thanks for all the feedback. I'll see what I can put together. FYI
(geek notice),
I'll soon be porting
the web site back to Unix/Perl (from Windows/ASP), so my cleverness
should
go a bit farther
once this is done. I'm pretty sure I can screenscape ebay better with Perl
than with
ASP/VB/COM.
re: Web Digest
summary, I'm sort of enjoying the reduction in 'empty' Digests... so I
plan
on keeping things
the way they are now (once-per-week summaries). Seems like this
is
consistent with the
general opinion.
Tom
wrote:
Seriously, Eric,
the cold must have addled your brain.
I was afraid this
would happen... n.b. I'm about as much as a fair-weather football
fan
as you can get, so
other than rooting for the home team, I really couldn't comment
on
their chances.
But we'll see. :)
Mo
wrote:
Just wondering
if any Digest Members had heard AGs
Funk and Jazz compilations? They have kept me full of soul and classy jazziness. Aha! I knew
it... damn the RIAA... distributing pirated content warez! You
villain.
later
Eric 'go
Pats'
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| From: | Tom Foolery <grooveyardtom @ yahoo.com> |
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| Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:20:51 -0800 (PST) |
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| Peeps, I'd like to officially complain about all this "The Office" stuff as being totally off-topic, but it would take more than my American allottment of 15 minutes to compose it, and aw well I've forgetten all about it now anyway. Now, "The Young Ones" was brilliant, and I Want My MTV! In some defense of American football, I would say that it takes a lot of courage to artfully grab a post pattern over the middle, get smacked by a cornerback and a safety at car-wreck velocity, and hang on/still live. AG, my friend, could you elaborate why this seems mindless to you? And is this in comparison to soccer (yes, soccer!) where you run your ass off for 90 minutes and achieve the breathtaking score of 1-0? BTW AG's funk compilation is awesome. I made him one - he can listen to it from whatever prison the RIAA throws him into. father change diaper now, -Tom <<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>> Alan Parsons meets Mr. Rogers: "http://www.emeraldsoul.com" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ | ||
| 8. VH1 Bands Reunited |
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| From: | LAURA KELLY <allwyn2 @ msn.com> |
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| Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:37:18 -0800 |
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This show has been very popular these last 2 weeks. Any comments on
it? Tonight the reuniting of Squeeze. Most of these bands are from
the other side of the pond. Sorry couldn't bear to watch any of the Flock
of Seagulls. Although kajagoogoo kept me from changing the channel too
quickly. Their bassist is great and the singer held his own.
AG has compilation Cds? We would be honored!
Laura and everyone else you mention.
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