--------------------------------------------------------------------- T H E G A R Y N U M A N D I G E S T (by subscription only - to unsubscribe, see bottom of this message) --------------------------------------------------------------------- (#2002-95) - Topics This Issue: 1) Praying to Lorne Michaels 2) My Jesus 3) Miscellaneous ramblings 4) Numpets lurking.... 5) I am a Muppet 6) good news/band news/Video Swap? 7) Update ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:18:18 -0400 From: Sean Subject: Praying to Lorne Michaels > From: Joe.Abell@chi.ddb.com > Subject: Numan on E! TV yesterday [snip] > lo and behold the Saturday Night Live (#97) with host Elliot > Gould was scheduled for the next day... last Monday (July 8, 2002). [snip again] > I was getting nervous since the 57th minute had hit and was > still in commercials... the show comes back with the cast with Gary and his > band all onstage saying the traditional good-byes... WHAT? only one > song... seems the show was edited/shortened. BUMMER! > > I surfed on over to the E! (eonline.com) website customer service page and > fired off this letter: [one last snip] > I wish your editing practices were not > so strict and I am asking for an explanation on why parts of the show were > cut... especially the part I was interested in. I believe they'll tell you it wasn't E, but Broadway Video (producers of SNL), who cut the show. All episodes have been cut down from 90 minutes to 60 for the syndication package... usually resulting in the removal of one of the musical performnaces. We all need to keep an eye out for a 90 minute rerun, which does happen once in a nu moon... but probably not on E. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:53:34 US/Pacific From: dr13@one.net Subject: My Jesus > From: Derek Langsford > I still think My Jesus could have been as big as AFE if given the chance. > Oh well, > Derek I agree, it is a great song that could have been huge if only radio didn't have it's collective head up it's arse/ass. t3rry ------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Us.Net Webmail. ------------ http://www.us.net ------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:06:08 -0600 From: "Joey Lindstrom" Subject: Miscellaneous ramblings Still no word on whether my new DSL line will be installed by the Friday deadline. However, I placed a call to Cadvision (my old ISP) today and discovered that the Friday deadline MAY not be carved in stone. In fact, the fella I spoke to said that they'll be shutting the network down over a 3 week period. So one possible permutation is that my new ISP is not able to get the line in until next Tuesday, but the old line STAYS ACTIVE until at least then. I just don't know. :-( As for Artful Records and the Rip singles, while I agree that more copies of them should have been made, you folks do seem to be missing a fairly important point here. The point of the release (and its appearance at #29 on the UK charts) is not to promote sales either of the Rip singles or the Pure album, but rather of Artful's "Exposure" double best-of CD. Indeed, on the audio clip I heard via a link from AFENET, the BBC announcer says that that (Exposure) is where the track is taken from. No mention of Pure at all. So if that's the goal, I don't see anything really terribly wrong with the approach, 'cept for the fact that us poor slobs in Canada get hosed by hmv.co.uk who allow us to pre-order the discs and then tell us, on release day, "sorry, we're all out". Geez, what's up with that? They had to know how many copies they were being allotted - why did they take orders for more copies than that? This is the first and last time I'll ever deal with them. / From the desk of Joey Lindstrom / / Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' / is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains / them, to make a choice- if the 'choice' looks like a 'sacrifice' -- / you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by / greediness... the necessity of having to decide between two things / you want when you can't have both. The ordinary bloke suffers every / time he chooses between spending a buck on beer or tucking it away / for his kids, between getting up to go to work and losing his job. / But he always chooses that which hurts least or pleasures most. The / scoundrel and the saint make the same choices.... / -- Jubal Harshaw, "Stranger In A Strange Land" / (Robert Heinlein) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 05:21:25 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?NumPet?= Subject: Numpets lurking.... > > Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 08:10:31 +0000 > From: "Ian Blair" > Subject: Numpet's... > > Hey - great to see a fellow Pethead here in > Numo-world! > > Valiumboy x And I'm not the only other one either! Neil Tennant's birthday today too!! (10th July) Glad to see more Petheads also, such good taste in music........ :-) Glad to hear Artful are pressing more RIP singles (hurray, I might now stand a chance of getting meself a copy!) - but Derek could be right - too little too late. Well atleast the chances are that Artful won't make the same mistake with the next release (toes & eyes crossed!). Cheers, The Petted One (Hey, anyone here like The Tea Party? Awesome stuff) ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:42:03 -0700 (PDT) From: keith thripp Subject: I am a Muppet --0-1788380925-1026286923=:29590 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Guys I am a muppet, i have not gone out of my way to buy the RIP single so, yesterday i went to HMV , VIRGIN and one other store to buy my copy and, not one copy was available. Why i ask ? . Anyone got a good reason for this ? Regards Keith Thripp (Portsmouth UK) --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? New! SBC Yahoo! 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I am a muppet, i have not gone out of my way to buy the RIP single so, yesterday i went to HMV , VIRGIN and one other store to buy my copy and, not one copy was available. Why i ask ? . Anyone got a good reason for this ?

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Keith Thripp (Portsmouth UK) 


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New! SBC Yahoo! Dial - 1st Month Free & unlimited access --0-1788380925-1026286923=:29590-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:21:59 -0700 From: Rod Reynolds Subject: good news/band news/Video Swap? Hi. The good news is that I got an email from hmv.co.uk and they have shipped my Rip singles! They should be here in a week or so. The bad news is that I do have a Touring Principle video, however, it is obviously quite ancient and does not work very well at all. As much as I'd love to copy and trade (I'd love to see the Newman Numan video!) I'm afraid the quality just isn't there. And I think you may find that's the case with quite a few of them, if not all. BTW I don't see a problem at all with fans copying things for other fans that are not available. If you're dubbing someone a copy of the Pleasure Principle remaster, however, that's a different story. Rod Los Angeles > > I know that this sort of thing is generally frowned on, but I thought it was > worth a try. > > I have been trying to get hold of the Newman Numan and Touring Principle > videos for ages now. Mainly via Ebay where they go for huge amounts of > money. > > I wonder if anyone would be prepared to swap me a copy of one of these for a > good copy of Micromusic? I only suggest this because these three titles are > all out of print, and if they do go back on sale at any point, no doubt we > will all be in the queue to purchase them. In actual fact I purchased both > NN and TP back when they were released, but unfortunately on Betamax format. > Doh! > > Gary > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:15:46 -0600 From: "Joey Lindstrom" Subject: Update In regards to my recent (long) post about a possible disruption in distribution of the Digest, here's the latest: I have been told that my new DSL line is *TENTATIVELY* scheduled to go online this Friday, the same day the old line is set to go offline. This will be confirmed tomorrow sometime. If that's the case, then there should be little or no disruption (other than a short-duration disruption caused by the changeover - there's a lot of reconfiguring to do!) Assuming this happens, I just have one word to say. "Phew!" :-) / From the desk of Joey Lindstrom / / "Make love, not treaties." / --Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Babylon 5 ------------------------------ End digest@garynuman.info Digest [07/10/2002 18:01] --------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- T H E G A R Y N U M A N D I G E S T is produced, moderated, and distributed by Derek Langsford, Dave Datta, and Joey Lindstrom dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu, davdat@allmusic.com, Joey@GaryNuman.Info Back Issues: http://digest.garynuman.info ------------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to the messages in this list, email: digest@garynuman.info If you want to be removed, or someone wants to be added, email: listserv@GaryNuman.info and include this line as the first line of your message body: SUBSCRIBE digest@garynuman.info (email address) or UNSUBSCRIBE digest@garynuman.info (email address) (email address is optional but useful if you have multiple addresses) If you want to switch between receiving Digests or individual posts, again send to listserv@GaryNuman.Info and include either of these in your message body: NORMAL digest@garynuman.info or DIGEST digest@garynuman.info ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please note: this mailing list is configured to automatically unsubscribe you if mail to your mailbox goes undeliverable for any reason. If you suddenly stop receiving this list, you should assume you've been automatically unsubscribed and should then manually resubscribe. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Gary Numan Digest is produced with the facilities of the Gary Numan Info Server and The Interocitor. All of the opinions in this digest belong to the respective authors and do not necessarily agree with those of the Digest Producers. This digest is published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and is governed by all applicable Canadian laws. --------------------------------------------------------------------------