From: Automatic digest processor To: Recipients of SOMMS digests Subject: SOMMS Digest - 19 Jan 1999 to 20 Jan 1999 Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 1:58 AM There are 11 messages totalling 312 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Huh...? 2. CDNow coupon (3) 3. BHS Vid (5) 4. the coupon fiasco 5. and so we lose another... To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:10:11 -0500 From: Craig Griffith Subject: Re: Huh...? B L wrote: > Anson Watkins wrote: > >Whoa an R&B artist is not supossed to be diversifed in her musical > >taste. How dare she like or appreciate anything not put out by herself or > >Puff Daddy. The nerve of that girl to like something put out by Chris. > >Make her take it back. > > Since when did *Soundgarden* become *Chris*? I believe Anson was referring to the fact that Chris wrote the lyrics and music to Black Hole Sun. -- Craig Griffith: High school student, guitar player, King of Craigland http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/8509/ "I may make you feel, but I can't make you think" -Ian Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:50:18 -0600 From: "B. Kinser" Subject: Re: CDNow coupon On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Michelle wrote: > CDNow has a $5 coupon off, what they call the "Best of 98". There's not many on their list. And there's even fewer good ones. But it's worth checking out, just in case. > > Go to http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/redirect/leaf=best_of_98/from=beb:g:gcm:bo98b/ > > I will thank you in advance for not spamming me and this list with your piddly attempts to get us to buy CD's through CDNOW so your little "cosmic credit" program can help you get CD's. BK ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:05:28 -0500 From: James Reid Priest Subject: BHS Vid Hey I noticed the changes in the video too, way back when it was popular. Some other things I noticed were: Cheesey computer generated additions to the special effects. Also, in the scene with the people staring at the lamp... In the original I didn't see it but later they had some fake looking bugs flying around it. I never heard why the changes were made. Myself, I always blamed it on MTV trying to make it easier to understand for everyone. I kinda thought it was cooler to have the wierd old people staring at the light for no reason at all. I'd probably stare for a while too if there were butterflies or whatever flying around in my house. Just my derranged opinion though. I'd be interested in hearing the real reason for the changes... off he goes... Jim jrpriest@iupui.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:17:22 -0500 From: Geoff Kleemola Subject: Re: CDNow coupon I believe you are wrong Mr. Kinser. First off, that url does not look like a cosmic credit url at all. Secondly, cosmic credit doesn't work that way; they don't offer $5 coupons. Michelle's post was a sincere attempt to offer $5 off a cd for sommsters. I took advantage of it, and would like to thank Michelle. Geoff "B. Kinser" wrote: > I will thank you in advance for not spamming me and this list with your > piddly > attempts to get us to buy CD's through CDNOW so your little "cosmic > credit" program can help you get CD's. > > BK ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:20:39 -0500 From: Geoff Kleemola Subject: the coupon fiasco Upon further investigation, it does appear that SOMEBODY may have stood to benefit from that url. Geoff ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 05:48:21 -0500 From: "P. S." Subject: Re: BHS Vid hey alright, if MTV added those flies or whatever to the BHS vid, then is there a Canadian version of the video, cuz we got muchmusic up here, so are the discrepancies in the canadian version (if there is one). paul James Reid Priest wrote: > > Hey > I noticed the changes in the video too, way back when it was popular. Some > other things I noticed were: > Cheesey computer generated additions to the special effects. Also, in the > scene with the people staring at the lamp... In the original I didn't see > it but later they had some fake looking bugs flying around it. > I never heard why the changes were made. Myself, I always blamed it on MTV > trying to make it easier to understand for everyone. I kinda thought it > was cooler to have the wierd old people staring at the light for no reason > at all. I'd probably stare for a while too if there were butterflies or > whatever flying around in my house. Just my derranged opinion though. > I'd be interested in hearing the real reason for the changes... > > off he goes... > Jim > jrpriest@iupui.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:10:32 -0500 From: jenny grover Subject: and so we lose another... I know this isn't SG related exactly. So sue me. I know some of you will want to know this, tragic as it is. >From KISW rock report (www.kisw.com): Our condolences to the family, friends and fans of Baker, the bass player for Mad Season. He passed away over the weekend of a Heroin Overdose. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:19:43 -0500 From: Jim Subject: Re: BHS Vid Hey I just watched the version on the Alive in the SU CDRom. It looks to me like the version I remember seeing first. Though the image is a little grainy, I sure can't see any bugs flyin around. The other cheesey effects are absent as well... no frog toungue on the barbie chick, no blobs in the sky... Anybody got an explanation for this? Soren Franson wrote: > At 09:43 PM 1/19/1999 -0500, you wrote: > >Hey > >I'm not sure about a different version for other countries. All I've got here > >is plain old MTV, but me and my buddies all noticed the changes the changes > >early on in the vid's popularity. I'm gonna check on the Alive in the > >superunknown CDrom, see which version is there... > >later > Well, it would be interesting to see the original version, if there's such a > thing. -- mailto:jrpriest@iupui.edu http://php.iupui.edu/~jrpriest/ "I wish I was the messenger and all the news was good, I wish, I wish, I wish-I-wish I'd change things if could" --E.V. 9/10/98 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:17:54 -0500 From: Michelle Subject: Re: CDNow coupon Geez, I don't check my e-mail for a while and I get bombarded with rude flames courtesy of Mr. Kinser and questions regarding my motives from other SOMMSters. Thanks Geoff, for defending my honor and anyone else who had posted regarding my innocent intentions. I do not get anything from CDNow for anything you purchase with that coupon. I had learned about the coupon from an e-mail I had gotten. I don't recall who the e-mail was from...maybe Geocities or Lycos. So maybe one of them will benefit if you buy a CD. So what? The point is, if you have a CD you've been wanting to buy, you can get $5.00 off. So, CDNow benefits, someone else (geocities or lycos) benefits, and you benefits. What the hell is wrong with that? Don't worry. The next time I see something that I think SOMMS subscribers may benefit from, I'll think long and hard before I share it. Michelle >I believe you are wrong Mr. Kinser. First off, that url does not look like a >cosmic credit url at all. Secondly, cosmic credit doesn't work that way; they >don't offer $5 coupons. Michelle's post was a sincere attempt to offer $5 off a >cd for sommsters. I took advantage of it, and would like to thank Michelle. >Geoff ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:35:01 EST From: Niki Freer Subject: Re: BHS Vid jrpriest@IUPUI.EDU writes: > The other cheesey effects are absent as well... no frog > toungue on the barbie chick, no blobs in the sky... just to add my $0.02... i always dug the "enhanced" version hunderds of times more than the original. the video is just a really nice video in the first place, but that ominous, flame throwing, comsic rock hurling Sun they added later just made the video for me. all my copies on tape are sans the sun, and i always feel like i'm missing out on something because of it. i always thought the sun added the extra *oomph!* to the video that it needed. mindriot ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:13:24 -0500 From: Jim Subject: Re: BHS Vid Hey I just watched the version on the Alive in the SU CDRom. It looks to me like the version I remember seeing first. Though the image is a little grainy, I sure can't see any bugs flyin around. The other cheesey effects are absent as well... no frog toungue on the barbie chick, no blobs in the sky... Anybody got an explanation for this? Soren Franson wrote: > At 09:43 PM 1/19/1999 -0500, you wrote: > >Hey > >I'm not sure about a different version for other countries. All I've got here > >is plain old MTV, but me and my buddies all noticed the changes the changes > >early on in the vid's popularity. I'm gonna check on the Alive in the > >superunknown CDrom, see which version is there... > >later > Well, it would be interesting to see the original version, if there's such a > thing. -- mailto:jrpriest@iupui.edu http://php.iupui.edu/~jrpriest/ "I wish I was the messenger and all the news was good, I wish, I wish, I wish-I-wish I'd change things if could" --E.V. 9/10/98 ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 19 Jan 1999 to 20 Jan 1999 ************************************************