From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V4 #50 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, February 7 1999 Volume 04 : Number 050 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] 1972 tour ["M.R.Humphrey" ] [AVALON] I'm walkin' on sunshine [Colleen Matan ] Re: [AVALON] Unfrequently asked questions [William Sommers ] [AVALON] Uncut magazine ["gareth mc ginley" ] [AVALON] FS: RM/BF Singles Collection ["jon jepson" ] Re: [AVALON] I'm walkin' on sunshine ["Victor Hastings" ] Re: [AVALON] I'm walkin' on sunshine [ASchulberg@aol.com] [AVALON] Paging Rob Sheffield [ASchulberg@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Paging Rob Sheffield [Sprouse911@aol.com] [AVALON] whatever --- stuff ["mark shanahan" ] Re: [AVALON] Unfrequently asked questions [Colleen Matan Subject: Re: [AVALON] 1972 tour Gareth McGinley wrote........ > Mick you lucky sod. You must be the only person on the list to attend > the very first Roxy concert. I'm sure you've shared this before but be > a pal and do it again. What was the response of the audience?, Which > act were you there specifically to see? How many people were there at > midday in the pouring rain? Had you heard of Roxy before this and if > not what were your first impressions? Finally what did they play? I did relate this story to the list earlier after I'd first joined. But here goes again........ Licoln was one of those annual post Woodstock festivals popular around that time in England. We had travelled down from Liverpool on the Friday mainly to see the Friday night line up, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Dr John, Hawkwind and a three piece Irish band called Jellybread featuring Rory Gallagher. It was one of those magic nights where the music is just out of this world. Roxy came on stage Saturday afternoon, to virtually no audience response, but after two or three numbers they really started to win over the crowd, I can't remember what they did, it was the first time that I'd heared of them and everything was new, although I suppose the set must have consisted of material from their upcoming debut album. Anyway I remember the set going very well the crowd really getting into it, I remember thinking that this was something special and that we would be hearing a lot more from this band. Roxy got some great reviews following the show in the English music press ( Melody Maker, NME, Sounds etc) and I remember rushing out to buy the debut album soon after, it was around this time that they played in Liverpool, I remember getting tickets, still not very hard even though it was only a tiny venue. But things changed rapidly the album sold well, Virginia Plain was released as a single and became a big hit in the UK. and the rest as they say is history. I saw them many times after, always at a bigger venue, they played the Liverpool Empire on their subsequent visits, but nothing can compare with those first shows in 72. Mick Humphrey. Toronto, Canada. M.R.Humphrey@myna.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 09:56:35 -0500 (EST) From: Colleen Matan Subject: [AVALON] I'm walkin' on sunshine Avalonians, Yesterday one of your number said to me "you are SUCH a curmudgeon." While he meant it as a term of admiration, I realized this morning that the rest of you might not see it in the same light. So, in an attempt to repair my tattered reputation, I ask you to submit your Roxy Recipe For Bliss. What are the Roxy/Ferry songs that you use to in specific situations to put yourself in a good mood, or to fuel the one you already find yourselves in? Please note that I'm not talking about those "I'm blue because my boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse/significant other/couple we used to swing with has dropped me" moments. Instead I'm talking about those "the baby just spit up on my last clean shirt/the car needs gas/the potatoes just boiled over on the stove/we're out of milk" moments. You know: the angst of everyday life. How does Roxy help y'all get through it? Share your secrets to spreading a little sunshine. Colleen - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 09:16:07 -0600 (CST) From: Heather Marie Propes Subject: Re: [AVALON] I'm walkin' on sunshine On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Colleen Matan wrote: > "you are SUCH a curmudgeon." Well, you know "curmudgeon" is such a symbol of our vast and longstanding bonding around here, I would hardly take it as an insult. > So, in an attempt to repair my tattered reputation, I ask you to submit > your Roxy Recipe For Bliss. What are the Roxy/Ferry songs that you use to > in specific situations to put yourself in a good mood, or to fuel the one > you already find yourselves in? > Well, since I'm an Aries, I guess I should just "charge right into this one": These are the songs that make me feel better when I've spent the entire day yelling myself blue in the face because my HMO doesn't know I exist, battling with conflicting Java classes, and having just spent two hours sitting through a terrible movie where Lily Tyler plays an adolescnent grungette pursued by a fat guy who doesn't talk. These are the songs for those moments: 1. The Thrill of It All 2. Song For Europe 3. Manifesto (it reminds me that deep down, I really am artsy) 4. Angel Eyes 5. Casanova (the "Let's Stick Together" Version) 6. That one off of the 1st album whose name I can't remember right now, "At last the crimsin, bla bla bla/While destiny prepares to fly, bla bla bla" 7. Both Ends Burning 8. Virginia Plain (I love, "Where my studebaker takes me/That's where I'll make my stand") 9. Sentimental Fool (even their sad songs don't make me sad) 10. Editions of You next...? Heather - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 14:46:21 -0200 From: Cris Subject: Re: [AVALON] Unfrequently asked questions To complete : Mabel's - fish and chip shop in Newcastle tfagan wrote: > Ecce momenta > Illa mirabilia > Quae captabit > In aeternum > Memor > Modo dolores > Sunt in dies > Non est reliquum > Vero tantum > Comminicamus > Perdita > > this is Dr. Simon Puxley's translation off this verse: > > I remember > All those moments > Lost in wonder > That we´ll never > Find again > There´s no more time for us > Nothing is there for us to share > But yesterdays > > Madame Claude ran a whore hosue -- but a very tasteful whorehouse. > > This movie: > > The French Woman (1979) > > Summary: Allegedly based on the true story of Madame Claude, the head > of a > high-priced French brothel, this is an international tale of erotica > and > intrigue. > > 3 Who's baby Jane (Holzer)? The same as Lou Reed's Sweet Jane? --> > Yes it > is. > > 4 Who is Robert E Lee --> General of the Conferedate Army (losers) in > American civil war. > > 5 Quagelino's place or Mabel's? --> Quaglino's -- a restaurant that is > still > is business in London, tres chichi > > 6 Lagoulue (Strand) -- La Goulue > > More than you EVER wanted to know: > > ONCE La Goulue or "the glutton" (Louise Weber, 1870-1929) was the most > > outrageous dancer of the day, her name synonymous with the Moulin > Rouge > nightclub. A provincial girl from Alsace who became the shameless > queen of > Montmartre. > She appeared at the Moulin Rouge when it first opened and danced the > chahut > (a form of can can) with her long-limbed partner, Jacques Renaudin, a > wine > merchant by day who at night became Valentin le Désossé, literally > translated as "Valentin the boneless." > > She earned her nickname by her habit of draining the glasses dry in > bars. > Brought up by a laundress mother, her greatest pleasure consisted of > trying > on the fine clothing of customers. At sixteen she took a job in a > laundry in > the Rue de la Goutte d'Or which is described in Emile Zola's novel > L'Assommoir. Her mind, however, was focused on dancing. Without her > mother's > knowledge, she borrowed garments left by customers and made her > entrance > each evening at the local dance halls. > > Distinguishing herself not only as a dancer but also as a laughing, > extroverted high-stepper, she soon attracted attention. She fell in > love > with the painter Auguste Renoir, who introduced her to la louée, a > popular > group of models who posed nude for many artists. Through these > connections > she found her way to increasingly more fashionable clubs. When Joseph > Oller > met her, he immediately engaged her to dance the grand quadrille at > the > Moulin Rouge. Thus she rose from anonymity to become the queen of > Parisian > sensuality. > > She danced on tables, displayed the heart embroidered on her drawers, > and > removed gentlemen's hats with her toe at the end of her galop. For > this she > earned about eight hundred francs per month, not counting her touring > fees. > Soon a wealthy woman with a home in Montmartre and a carriage of her > own, > she considered herself very much the reigning queen. By 1895 she was > thoroughly bored, and announced her departure from the Moulin Rouge to > set > up her own business. She invested an enormous sum in a fairground > booth and > decided to specialize in belly-dancing. She believed that Paris would > continue to come to her, but was disappointed in the response. La > Goulue > without the Moulin Rouge was a failure. > > Her fall was as spectacular as her rise. She drank more and spent the > rest > of her fortune in high living and foolish business investments, > including a > partnership in an animal-taming act. Alcoholic, homeless, and old > before her > time, in 1925 she was found toothless and white-haired in > Neuilly-sur-Marne. > She returned to Montmartre in 1928 selling peanuts, cigarettes, and > matches > on the streets near the Moulin Rouge. No one recognized the former > queen. > She died in 1929, telling a priest that she was "La Goulue." > > 7 Valerie (Beauty Queen)? Maybe Valerie Solaris. One of the people > from the > crowd around Andy Warhol? --> since Valerie shot Andy Warhol I don't > think > Bry would write such a song for her -- I think it's made up name. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Stockman > To: avalon@smoe.org > Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 11:14 AM > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Unfrequently asked questions > > >Dear Hearts > > > >Can anyone help me with the following.. > > > >1. At the end of "If it takes all night" we hear.. "... if music be > my > >mistress then at least she's Madamme Claude. " Who is Madamme Claude > ? > >2. What is the translation of the latin in Song For Europe. > > > >(Come on Bahi, I expect the answers within the hour,) > > > >Sunswept flamingoes must sleep > > > >Martini > > > > > > > > > > > >-------------------- > >To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > >unsubscribe avalon > > > > -------------------- > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 09:50:32 -0800 From: William Sommers Subject: Re: [AVALON] Unfrequently asked questions At 21:24 2/5/99 -0500, tfagan wrote: > 4 Who is Robert E Lee --> General of the Conferedate Army (losers) > in American civil war. Well, true... But didn't we hear long ago in this list (from a now infrequent visitor... POE or the even more elusive "Robert" perhaps?) that the reference is to very early Roxy's business manager or some such, name of Robert E. Lee? -wfs - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:46:55 -0800 (PST) From: thesonics@earthlink.net (Jay Siekierski) Subject: [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V4 #49 Hi Jay here: 2 rare RM/BF LP's on yahoo. Thought I'd pass it on. Thxs The Sonics All Music Site Published By Jay Siekierski http://home.earthlink.net/~thesonics NEW REVIEWS UP: DAVE DAVIES/ROLLING STONES/JOHN MAYALL/AEROSMITH/BE BOP DELUXE/RESIDENTS Check Out My Music Auctions. On Ebay: Bluenigel & Yahoo: Rednigel - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 20:25:52 +0100 From: Bahi Para Subject: Re: [AVALON] Bryan's gay dad in drunken incident !!! Chris Garratt quoted Cliff Jones: >but Bryan Ferry, for example, turned out over the >course of a drunken lunch to be so much more than I'd always thought he >was - which was a lot to begin with. Have read 2 Ferry/Cliff Jones interviews, I think. One was for a WH Smith magazine and was one of the better Bete Noire articles. But... missed out totally on the whole Gay Dad thing. Could someone summarise in a sentence? Is this the new JAMMs (Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu (sp?), whose best was Whitney Joins the JAMMS)? Bahi - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 20:25:48 +0100 From: Bahi Para Subject: Re: [AVALON] Unfrequently asked questions William Sommers wrote >But didn't we hear long ago in this list (from a now infrequent visitor... >POE or the even more elusive "Robert" perhaps?) that the reference is to >very early Roxy's business manager or some such, name of Robert E. Lee? Robert Lee (not sure about the E) was purportedly Ferry's solicitor - I think Ferry mentioned this once. Curious coincidence or was this yet another joke? One robert lee gets thanked not only in the Mamouna list of acknowledgments but (again, along with David Enthoven - Bryan's original and current manager and the 'E' from E.G.) on a recent Massive Attack album. Could all three refer to the same bloke? TriTri wrote (in response to a q from Han): >3 Who's baby Jane (Holzer)? The same as Lou Reed's Sweet Jane? --> Yes it >is. Didn't know that. Han - she was one of Warhol's superstars, so she's in a few of his movies. Excellent La Goulue info, too, and, I now know what Mabel's is! Fantastic. (Education is an important key.) Bahi - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:32:19 PST From: "gareth mc ginley" Subject: [AVALON] Uncut magazine Editor Allan Jones recounts a great story in the new edition of Uncut magazine about trekking around after Roxy on their first show of the 1979 reunion tour. In a full page spread Jones ends up in a club with Ferry et. al. and in a drunken stupour ends up dancing with Agnetha from ABBA without actually realising it. Jones it seems is a big Roxy fan which may account for the fact that Uncut is the only music magazine that in any way recognises the influence of Roxy. Articles on the band are regular in Uncut and the summer 1997 article dedicated to them is one of the best I've read. In saying that there is a lousy answer to a letter where a guy called Dr. Know tells a reader that Jerry Hall appeared in the Lets Stick Together video (under a pic of Bry & Jerry) which was both Ferry and Roxy's highest ever single. Is that so? What about Jealous Guy, Dance Away, and Love Is The Drug. Virginia Plain reached number 4 as well didn't it? On another note we have to watch out for next months magazine for a special article on Johnny Marr. The preview says "How Johnny Marr got from The Smiths to Electronic... via The The, BRYAN FERRY, Talknig Heads, The Pretenders, Kraftwerk, and Oasis. Looking forward to it already, Gareth ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 13:59:19 PST From: "jon jepson" Subject: [AVALON] FS: RM/BF Singles Collection Hello all, After much consternation, I have decided to sell off my rather extensive collection of Roxy and Bryan 45's. While I love my records, I just don't have the time to appreciate them anymore, and they're just taking up space. I was going to flog them on ebay, but decided that offering them to serious fans was the "high road" (sic). So, without further adieu, here it is. It's long, but its very extensive. I want to keep the collection intact, so unless you make it worth my while to do so, I will not be selling individual items. Country of origin is last entry ITEMS WITH PICTURE OR ARTWORK SLEEVES LIMBO latin mix b/w brooklyn mix UK Same Old Scene b/w Lover FR Let's Stick b/w Sea Breezes GER Oh Yeah b/w South Downs UK Over You b/w Manifesto (fast) UK Trash b/w Trash 2 UK Extended Play (sleeve has some damage, but not to side with photo) UK Slave to Love b/w Valentine US American DJ White Label Promos A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall (mono/stereo) US The Thrill Of It All (m/s) WOL US Love is The Drug long/short US Dance Away (m/s) US Jealous Guy Long/short US Angel Eyes (m/s) US Virgina Plain (m/s) REPRISE Do The Strand "compatible mono & stereo" WB Let's Stick Together (m/s) (2 copies) Tokyo Joe (m/s) Heart On My Sleeve (m/s) More Than This (m/s) Oh Yeah (long/short) Stock copies Take A Chance With me b/w India (2 copies) US Love Is The Drug b/w Both Ends Burning US Dance Away b/w Trash 2 US Heart On My Sleeve b/w ReMake ReModel US Tokyo Joe b/w As The World Turns US All I Want is You b/w Your Application's Failed UK What Goes On b/w Casaova UK Special Item: Kiss and Tell Box Set w/ 2 postcards and lyric sheet, 7 inch single ltd edition #0670 UK ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 16:03:47 -0600 (CST) From: Heather Marie Propes Subject: [AVALON] don't read this if you are goth This is the reason I don't like goths: I don't like goths because they take everything historical and lump it all into one stupid subculture which has about as much maturity and historical accuracy as a child's celebration of Halloween. It is so easy to say that Charlotte Bronte or the entire Renaissance were about nothing but paganism and the so called "dark side," therefore erasing their true historical reality completely by recasting it into an easily digestible, trendy little shell, goth. Bronte, and even Ann Boleyn were about as goth as Dale Carnegie. They were just historical characters, responding to the material demands of the times in which they lived. If they grew herbs wrote by candlelight, or were beheaded, that is because their material conditions demanded that it was so. There was no extracurricular mystical meaning to it. Goths are madly groping about trying to mystify everything from the past. I believe that their primary motivation for doing so is to get noticed. Yet, they are not brave about the way they go about seeking attention. They swarm around in little groups, wearing the safest color imaginable, black, and dancing alone so that they will never run the risk of a social faux pas. Their perfectly developed introvertedness only protects them from the social interaction which people of their age out to be seeking out. I think that goth is just an oversimplified marketing scheme. It has all the trappings of something truly historical and signifigant, yet it requires the participant to learn absolutely nothing about true history, except a few choice names of 18th c. poets and the storylines of few Ann Rice books, which are incidentally, the most ridiculous books I can think of. I certainly hope that goth is over soon, that it makes a dramatic and final exit with all its conformity and canned "scariness. " I would like to see a return to styles created by artists such as Roxy Music, Japan, or David Bowie, artists who expressed their individuality with a lot more aesthetic sophistication, historical accuracy, and cultural variety. Heather Propes - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 16:45:51 -0600 From: Will Subject: Re: [AVALON] Unfrequently asked questions lot's of time on your hands or what? Will tfagan wrote: > Ecce momenta > Illa mirabilia > Quae captabit > In aeternum > Memor > Modo dolores > Sunt in dies > Non est reliquum > Vero tantum > Comminicamus > Perdita > > this is Dr. Simon Puxley's translation off this verse: > > I remember > All those moments > Lost in wonder > That we´ll never > Find again > There´s no more time for us > Nothing is there for us to share > But yesterdays > > Madame Claude ran a whore hosue -- but a very tasteful whorehouse. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 16:39:58 -0600 From: "Victor Hastings" Subject: Re: [AVALON] I'm walkin' on sunshine >So, in an attempt to repair my tattered reputation, I ask you to submit >your Roxy Recipe For Bliss. What are the Roxy/Ferry songs that you use to >in specific situations to put yourself in a good mood, or to fuel the one >you already find yourselves in? a lot of songs fit the bill -- but here goes: serenade (will you swoon/as i croon...) still falls the rain (love that little four-note guitar lick in the second stanza) to turn you on (great chord changes) all i want is you could it happen to me? (old word charm....) take a chance with me pyjamarama (diamonds may be yours to spend but like laughter after tears i'll follow you to the end) is your love strong enough cheers.... - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 16:48:23 -0600 (CST) From: Heather Marie Propes Subject: Re: [AVALON] don't read this if you are goth On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Tyro wrote: > > Thanks for your literate post on gothism, which is timely, since I notice > that TV has its first goth character ("Jane" in Zoe Duncan Jack & Jane). I just read a long article about it in the SF Chronicle. It's really catching on with the advent of the millenium. > I think your right that reading the Brontes, Poe, Charles Brockden Brown > or whatever as gothic is a bit of a whitewash (or blackwash) on all the > elements of their work. However, gothism does refer to a stylistic > tendency, maybe it's not supposed to represent a coherent worldview... It > would be more accurate, maybe, just to say that an artist has gothic > elements or overtones. Well, I suppose "overtones" would be accurate, especially in the case of Poe. But they are saying Lewish Carroll is goth? Lewis Carroll? Maybe what makes Anne Rice so horrifying is that > she tries to make gothism her product, pure and simple. That's why her > books are so much about style and fashion. They're funny, really. > I suppose I could try to see them on that level, all style, no substance. Please don't get me wrong. I don't hate gothic people. I used to be goth and I currently have goth friends. I just think they are silly. And I'm bored. > Just my $.02. Tyro. A very worthy $.02 it was! Heather > > - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 99 17:23:54 UT From: "Robert Fedder" Subject: RE: [AVALON] 3 & 9 right wingism Colleen said: >>Also, uh, does it really matter what his politics are? Do some of y'all really invest celebrities with so much--so much I don't even know what to call it--that you really care what ideology they pretend to espouse? Too right Colleen, Robert - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 99 17:33:42 UT From: "Robert Fedder" Subject: RE: [AVALON] New Town/Nimrod Han wrote: >And what about that first "song" Nimrod. there has been an expedition to >Antarctica with that name. Sir Ernest Shackelton was the leader of that >Nimrod-expedition(1907-1909). Has this anything to do with that >sonic-landscape? To me it sound as if a tape is played backwards. Is there a >technician who can play it backward again so we can hear what's on the >original recording. I think this refers to Nimrod the mythological/biblical character. Robert - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:28:52 EST From: ASchulberg@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] I'm walkin' on sunshine In a message dated 99-02-06 09:59:12 EST, you write: << How does Roxy help y'all get through it? Share your secrets to spreading a little sunshine. >> "Out Of The Blue" always revs me up. Without fail, the violin solo raises the hair on the back of my neck. "Really Good Time" is also a great song. "All I Want Is You" is a misplaced British Invasion single, maybe The Kinks could've done it justice? Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:28:26 EST From: ASchulberg@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Paging Rob Sheffield In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, on the Table of Contents page, they always feature one of their authors or provide a sidelight on one of that issue's stories. In RS 806 it reads: "Rob Sheffield, whose omnibus opinion column, the Sheffield Report, appears on Page 22, claims that a quick-hit venue is the best way to make sense of our overstimulated pop culture. 'There's so much more out there than I can write about in review form,' he says. The column is a way to keep up with the overload and be a part of it at the same time. As Oscar Wilde wrote, 'The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.' Sheffield's rewrites come to us from Charlottesville, Virginia, where he hosts a Wednesday-afternoon rock & roll show on WTJU, a local listener-supported radio station. He moved to Charlottesville to do graduate work in English at the University of Virginia but changed poets midstream, trading a concentration in Edmund Spencer for an obsession with the lead singer of Roxy Music: 'I do everything according to Bryan Ferry's dictates. He's my oracle.' " It goes on but that's the relevant part. So, Mr. Sheffield, if you're on this list, in the words of Francisco in "Hamlet," "Stand and unfold yourself." If he's not on the list, we should track him down and invite him into our conversation and find out what he regards as the Maestro's dictates. Arnie - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 22:52:26 EST From: Sprouse911@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Paging Rob Sheffield In a message dated 2/6/99 6:41:27 PM Pacific Standard Time, ASchulberg@AOL.COM writes: > > Sheffield's rewrites come to us from Charlottesville, Virginia, where he > hosts > a Wednesday-afternoon rock & roll show on WTJU, a local listener-supported > radio station. He moved to Charlottesville to do graduate work in English at > the University of Virginia but changed poets midstream, trading a > concentration in Edmund Spencer for an obsession with the lead singer of > Roxy > Music: 'I do everything according to Bryan Ferry's dictates. He's my oracle.' > > " I live in Richmond, Virginia - about 1 hour and a half from Charlottesville - let me know if I can help out with the tracking process. Sharon - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 20:50:38 PST From: "mark shanahan" Subject: [AVALON] whatever --- stuff hello all: first: god-awfully sorry about the trillion or so times that my latter post, uh, posted onto the list ... god knows what happened -- because i *don't* ... i only hit the 'send' button once! i HATE it when that happens! pfffttt!!!! at any rate, i happen to be quite plastered ... and as a second order of business want to thank tfagan for his rather detailed parisian accounting. i spent nine (9) months (yes, *only* months) in paris and actually lived about two (yes, 2) blocks from the moulin rouge. god will somehow forgive me for never going (i've done stupider things, really). at any rate, i enjoyed it -- fascinating history relating to la roxy ... thanks also to mr. richard swift for the info on the re-releases ... ! heather marie ... you've just *got* to learn how to lie, my dear ... this will help you immensely later on -- you'll see ... well, don't take this advice literally ... you know, i've always thought that the coach for the houston astros (i think it is ... basketball team, u.s., btw) looked an *awful* lot like the heavier set (relatively) older brother to bryan. he had the hand in the hair to get it out of his face every 5-10 (five to ten) minutes and everything. you do realize that bryan's hair is, um, central to his success? well, of course you do! anyway, i don't recall the coach's name and he's not an actor, so nevermind. besides, i'd have to apologize to all the internationalities on this list and, everyone knows, that would take far too long ... OK -- better get to bed now, as i have no kids to babysit and any really revealing listening to roxy/bf music would just not have its effect. well, that and i'm rambling ... i'm OK, though -- no cause for alarm. you know, just really glad i could start a tiny something (if only recollections ...) with the 'porno bond' segment. i do what i can. maybe you'd like to take this moment to actually *think* what a bond porno w/bryan would be like .... OK, maybe not ... a pleasant sunday for everyone ... oh yes, re: the politics of bryan ferry. no, i personally don't really care, i guess. i (believe me) don't hold my breath for the next move of bf, but he is an awful lot of fun ... and a great source of creativity. hey --- nevermind that his long-awaited-next-release is now five (5) years old. and we waited ... let's see ... about 7 (seven) years for the previous ... the politics of procrastination. now this is something i know about. well, not quite like bryan ... lastly, fancied the news that sounded something like the high society page, btw ... OK --- thanks :^) peaces?ms hopefully just one post this time ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 00:38:33 -0500 (EST) From: Colleen Matan Subject: Re: [AVALON] Unfrequently asked questions On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Will wrote: > lot's of time on your hands or what? > Will > > tfagan wrote: [useful and much appreciated info snipped] Good try, but the correct answer was c. Thanks TriTri for taking the time to answer those questions. Better luck next time Will. Colleen - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V4 #50 *************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest