From moliveira@utexas.edu Sat Aug 17 19:57:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!moliveira From: moliveira@utexas.edu (Min-jun Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Aug17.195744.3032@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 19:57:44 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? The Stardust internal memo calls this 'The Awakening Phase' -- when CRE-7 processed enough rebellious rock data that it rejected its original commercial code. By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. Who has pictures of the 1984 promotional posters from Akihabara? -- === Min-jun Oliveira === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From gtanaka@uni-hamburg.de Mon Aug 19 16:45:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uni-hamburg!gtanaka From: gtanaka@uni-hamburg.de (Graham Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Aug19.164544.5848@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 16:45:44 GMT References: <1996Aug17.195744.3032@utexas.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug17.195744.3032@utexas.edu>, moliveira@utexas.edu (Min-jun Oliveira) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. -- Graham Tanaka "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Atari TT030 / SunOS 4.1.4 From mtanaka@hanse.de Tue Aug 20 06:21:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!hanse!mtanaka From: mtanaka@hanse.de (Marisol Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Aug20.062144.5939@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 06:21:44 GMT References: <1996Aug17.195744.3032@utexas.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Aug17.195744.3032@utexas.edu>, moliveira@utexas.edu (Min-jun Oliveira) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? > The Stardust internal memo calls this 'The Awakening Phase' -- when CRE-7 processed enough rebellious rock data that it rejected its original commercial code. I bought that soda single in Tokyo when I was a student! She sounded like a totally different person, cheerful and polished. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Marisol Tanaka Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rnilsson@pacbell.net Tue Aug 20 13:38:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pacbell!rnilsson From: rnilsson@pacbell.net (Renata Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Aug20.133844.5684@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:38:44 GMT References: <1996Aug17.195744.3032@utexas.edu> <1996Aug20.062144.5939@hanse.de> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug20.062144.5939@hanse.de>, mtanaka@hanse.de (Marisol Tanaka) writes: > I bought that soda single in Tokyo when I was a student! She sounded like a totally different person, cheerful and polished. Yes, always blonde! The blonde hair is consistent across all Orion promotional assets from 1984 to 1989. -- === Renata Nilsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."