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  Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him
Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him (21:47)
"Electrician" is the debut album from the Firesign Theatre and, while (overall) a bit more conventional than their later releases, it is still very funny.
www.firesigntheatre.com /albums/album.php?album=wfte   (272 words)

  
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Moreover, like client-centered therapy, which trusts the patient to direct the therapy, modern librarianship has created systems which trust the user to use the library without intervention from a librarian.
I was waiting at home for the plumber that the idea for this paper took shape.
It is not the same as being focused on the details of a procedure or project to the exclusion of real expertise--mastery of a subject in a way that is contributes effectively to the mission of the entire organization.
www.ala.org /ala/acrlbucket/nashville1997pap/bolin.htm   (2367 words)

  
 Him Music and Discussion
All the people here who like HIM, please I ask you to move to Finland for a couple of weeks and I'm sure you all would hate HIM after that.
HIM have not changed their music just to be mainstream and their music is as good as ever...
hims music just goes from strength to strength and I think they are at their peak now.
www.gnoosic.com /discussion/him__13.html   (1198 words)

  
 Waiting For The Electrician, Or Someone Like Him
It does this by inserting itself into a wait queue for the resource and then waiting for a notification to continue.
When the process that is using it is finished, it will remove the first waiting process from the wait queue and notify it that it can continue.
When processes are waiting for access to one of these resources, the Progress Monitor will show a 4 character code in the "Wait" column of the User Control display (menu choice 1) and in oither displays that include process state information.
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 CD Liner Notes: Waiting For The Electrician
We considered Waiting for the Electrician itself to be something of a throwaway, something we could stretch out and wax self-indulgent about.
A portable stereo blasted Electrician onto the rooftop of a downtown Saigon hotel during the Tet Offensive, while a gaggle of stoned newsmen stood around listening and watching bomb bursts and artillery flashes in the suburbs...
Waiting For the Electrician or Someone Like Him is the first in a series of five albums by the Firesign based on the traditions of radio theatre - audio drama, "ear-plays," movies-for-your-mind - and the classic formats of Broadcasting's Golden Age, then only a decade or so gone.
www.doctechnical.com /fst/notes/wfte-cd.htm   (1366 words)

  
 The Loom : Waiting for the Electrician, or Someone Like Him   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Loom : Waiting for the Electrician, or Someone Like Him
King Aardvark on Waiting for the Electrician, or Someone Like Him
The gene regulatory networks look remarkably like the diagrams that ecologists were doing for keystone species back in the 70s and 80s.
scienceblogs.com /loom/2006/07/17/waiting_for_the_electrician_or.php   (2817 words)

  
 Firesign Theatre CDs & DVDs (Culture Planet)
Yeah, it's a little dated (1968), but it's a wonderful trip back in time to the days when "underground" FM stations were emerging and new and exciting music and comedic experimentation like the Firesign (or Oz Players...if you prefer) were given a once-in-a-lifetime format to push the envelope.
Like all of the troup's best work, this story is open to multiple interpretations, but themes that clearly play a role are selling out, conformity, obedience to authority, pacifism and commercialism.
If the suits had given them free reign, this would more than likely be a five star title (considering the strength of their recent output: the aforementioned "Death," "Bride," and "Boom Dot Bust").
www.cultureplanet.com /comedy/firesign.htm   (1067 words)

  
 popular music: someone (electrician definitive everybody)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
For those of you who know and loved this originally as an LP, you will be disappointed to learn that sony messed up the remix BIG TIME by deleting important dialog at the beginning of the second side of the album (of course, on the cd it would be the second segment).
It's like they took the old sound and made it in their own unique way.
i dont like them just for the melody but how they word their songs and that they use poetry a lot...
www.very-clever.com /music/someone   (1115 words)

  
 The Firesign Theatre: Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him - PopMatters Music Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
From their very first album, 1968's Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him, it was clear that this was a studio group to be reckoned with.
We've been waiting for this for hundreds of years!"), Western settlers (psyched to "carve a new life out of the American Indian!"), modern tourists who want to see the squaws, sons who don't want to be called Soaring Eagle anymore ("Oh, come on!
We live in a simple time where albums like these could never be produced -- we've lost the art of sublety anymore.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/f/firesigntheatre-reissues.shtml   (1592 words)

  
 Lexicon 2K - E's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Electrician was also a mysterious character that appeared in the HEMLOCK STONES play "The Giant Rat of Sumatra", and pursued the great ZEPELLIN TUBE that was stolen by Jonas ACME.
The "Electrician" seems to be derived from a dream Peter BERGMAN accounted from the Christmas Broadcast, KPFK Radio Free Oz, in 1967.
The FT's BBOP book describes how the hero transmutes from one play into the next(summarized here): "Waiting for the ELECTRICIAN or Someone like Him": The EVERYMAN is named "P" (after Phil, and in homage to Kafka's K).The play ends with "P" escaping from the country Enroute...
www.benway.com /firesign/lexicon/E.html   (674 words)

  
 FIREZINE #3: 30 Years of FIRESIGN THEATRE
The writing style was more of individual elements shining on their own with augmented snipings aimed at short sketches, like most comedy concept albums of the 60's.
At first, subtly, you become aware of him and then when you least expect it, you're in his lap, mouthing his words in your own brain, as a hypno-ventriloquist's puppet brought to life as we all become the 5th Krazy Guy.
The main thrust of the records was to lay down universal themes that would spring forth evergreen humors over the decades, leaving the more topical observations for the instant radio delivery systems.
www.firezine.net /issue3/fz3_05b.htm   (2444 words)

  
 The Loom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
luca on Waiting for the Electrician, or Someone Like Him
As I wrote in May, there have been some signs that scientists were gearing up to reconstruct the Neanderthal genome.
Another sign of the times is the fact that I've been asked to talk about blogging at meetings of science writers, as well as science-writing classes at journalism graduate schools, such as Columbia, Boston University, and New York University.
www.scienceblogs.com /loom   (2801 words)

  
 Firesign Theatre: Lexicon, Part 2/4
He had a dream of the electrician coming to pull the plug on the world, making everyone live real close together.
And so we are all now "waiting for the electrician" (or someone like him), very Samuel Beckett-like (Waiting for Godot).
Wait a minute...didn't I say that on the other side of the record.
www.faqs.org /faqs/firesign-theatre/lexicon/part2   (2468 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Waiting for the Electrician Or Someone Like Him: Music: Firesign Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The second half of the album is the title cut, a bizarre and dark bit of comedy that begins as a Berlitz language lesson and becomes one man's trip through a third-world nation pursued by admirers, secret police and plague-ridden natives.
On the whole, "Waiting for the Electrician" is quite the head-trip.
(someone could please tweak this for I know this is not EXACTLY the dialog).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005T7K3?v=glance   (1406 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Waiting for the electrician or someone like him
Find in a Library: Waiting for the electrician or someone like him
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 sUmUs cAcOOnUs, D. E., still waiting for the electrician, or someone like him.
Dr. Semicolon, the family doctor, diagnosed him with the very rare and effervescent Neurora Borealis, but those flashing insights in his hippocampus came at a price.
But he favors the serotonin and dopamine especially, allowing him to enjoy whatever self-indulgence there may be left in this life--and without guilt.
When the car in the next lane puts on a blinker, he is brain-stem-driven to speed up.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/DiLingo/sumus.htm   (682 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Firesign Theatre's Big mystery joke book: Books: Firesign Theatre (Performing group)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
I own the rights to this title and would like to make it available again through Amazon.
Waiting for the Electrician Or Someone Like Him ~ Firesign Theatre
No one under the age of 45 can truly appreciate this quartet that had me literally rolling around the floor,collapsed from helpless laughter--while those younger may laugh politely,today,these Bozos truly made the days of Nixon seem like a haze in the fog.We are all glad we made it.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879320788?v=glance   (559 words)

  
 Dwarf/Electrician Live On Stage
The Firesign Theatre wrote and produced the LP album Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers in 1970 and it immediately became a favorite of High School and College kids facing the Viet Nam draft.
Waiting For the Electrician, or Someone Like Him was written in 1967 at the height of L.A.'s Love-In Summer and released early the next year when Firesign was playing on stage at folk-clubs.
Firesign performed scenes from "Electrician" and "Dwarf" in 1974 at Carnegie Hall, and the group has frequently featured selections from both texts on stage and, in 2001, in front of cameras for the DVD Weirdly Cool, made for Public TV and released by Rhino.
firesigntheatre.com /announce/dwarf.html   (597 words)

  
 THIS IS SIDE FIVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Well, you can still take the quiz and test your FireKnowledge.
"Waiting For the Electrician or Someone Like Him" (30 points total)
The title "Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him" was a reference to what play (title and artist)?
home1.gte.net /vzeeg1nj/firesign/quiz1.html   (460 words)

  
 Cast and Crew
She has been a member of Wolfpack since Midsummernights Dream where she played Starvling/fairy, then in Hamlet as Rosencrantz, and her last show with Wolfpack was Waiting for The Electrician or Someone like him where she played P. She was also seen in Julius Caesar at the Open Fist Theatre and various independent films.
He thanks Fred for bringing him back to theater, Kevin for the opportunity, and Rebecca for her unending support.
But his best job had to be as host of FX's "The X Show" which allowed him to interview centerfolds, review video games and attend The Asylum, a professional wrestling school.
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 Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him CD () - SHOP.COM
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 Cover Art:  Firesign Theater - Waiting for the Electrician...
Cover Art: Firesign Theater - Waiting for the Electrician...
Notes: Bizarre even by the standards of the Firesign fond this record spent much time spinning on college campuses throughout the 70's.
If anyone has any additional information pertaining to the album or players you can send an E-mail to Tralfaz.
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 Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him Music CD is available from Bestprices.com
Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him Music CD is available from Bestprices.com
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 Over Here....   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Thanks go to Michael Packer for his prize donation.
"Waiting For the Electrician or Someone Like Him" (30.5 points total)
"Waiting for Godot;" Samuel Beckett (2 points for each answer)
home1.gte.net /vzeeg1nj/firesign/answer1.html   (750 words)

  
 Firesign Theatre Chrono Site
4 - 5 / 1967 "WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN" (LP) - The group officially forms, writes and records some of the basic tracks for their first album, eventually dropping the OZ prefix.
4 / 28 - 29 / 1967 "WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN, OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM, ANYWAY" (TP) - The group's first stage appearance, as "The Bulgarian National Ensemble In Exile" performing at The University of California's Experimental Arts Festival, in the Student Union, a piece later used for their first album.
1 / 1968 "THE FIRESIGN THEATRE PRESENTS WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM" - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE (LP) (8T) {(CT) RELEASED C. '80s} - COLUMBIA CL-2718 (MONO LP), CS-9518 (STEREO LP), 18C-09518 (8T), PCT-9518 (CT) - (LP) - The group's first album was released, selling less than 12,000 copies the first year.
www.firezine.net /faq/fst-zine-faq-2.html   (3496 words)

  
 Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Firesign Theater: "Temporarily Humboldt County"
CONQUISTADOR 3: We’ve been waiting for this for hundreds of years.
CONQUISTADOR 1: Come on, Father.  Nobody in their right minds would live in this stinking desert.
“Temporarily Humboldt County” [transcription of scene 1, dialogue only], Waiting For The Electrician (Or Someone Like Him).
www.autodidactproject.org /other/FS1.html   (367 words)

  
 No Anchovies? You Got the Wrong Man
Thanks to Cyclops (www.cyclops-photos.com) I have new sounds from "Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him," "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers," "How Time Flys," and "The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra."
Sounds from WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM (1967)
WakeUpTime.WAV (50 k file) -- "...This is the tape you've been waiting for."
www.boo.net /~rarnold/firesign/tft_sounds.html   (1348 words)

  
 Dead to the World - 2002 complete
Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him (incomplete due to CD player problem -- sorry!) - Firesign Theater, Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him
Ain't Nothin' Like a Family - The Rowan Brothers, Crazy People
Like a Buddha - Railroad Earth, Bird in a House
dttw.gdhour.com /dttw2002.html   (4050 words)

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