From THOMASSON@CHEERS.gs.com Mon Oct 25 10:47:43 1993 Received: from camb.com by churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (5.65/4.0) with SMTP id ; Mon, 25 Oct 93 10:47:43 -0400 Received: from gs.com by camb.com (PMDF V4.2-14 #4085) id <01H4IZ3FDN7K8ZEEJL@camb.com>; Mon, 25 Oct 1993 10:45:27 EDT Received: from DECnet-Mail (THOMASSON@CHEERS) by gs.com (PMDF V4.2-12 #3223) id <01H4IXKZ3FVK8Y7J1Q@gs.com>; Mon, 25 Oct 1993 10:43:56 EDT Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 10:43:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Where are the Prawns? Subject: a beautiful discovery To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Message-Id: <01H4IXKZ64BM8Y7J1Q@gs.com> Organization: Goldman, Sachs & Co. X-Vms-To: @FEGMANIAX Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT i've just got back from a two-week driving trip in california. when the others said "next stop, monterey", i said "let's go stroke a greasy ray". they said "what are you talking about, you silly hippy?", but of course you all understand, don't you? so we had dinner at the sardine factory where the service comes with a flourish and an obseqious "if i may", and onto the aquarium. where i was amazed to see a tank full of small rays which apparently liked being stroked by people. so i stuck my hand in the water and one swam up and i stroked it. and guess what it felt like? sort of gelatinous and slippery. it's an amazing thing to unexpectedly stumble across the inspiration for one of robyn's songs. it's also humbling to realise how expertly he turns an interesting experience into a beatifully haunting song. for the record the fish do go through the trees - there's a kelp forest with fish swimming in and out which you can view from under the water through glass walls. there's also a circular tank about four feet across where thousands of sardines just swim round and round. my favourite exhibit (not mentioned in the song) was the cuttlefish which sat there watching me watching it with its skin gently scintillating and opalescing. Aquarium (from "Eye") In the aquarium, You stroked a greasy ray Just at the end of day Way down in Monterey In the aquarium, The fish went through the trees The planes went through the sea And you were still with me. Everything revolves around the sun. You know I'm going to miss you when you're gone. From andyh@cogs.susx.ac.uk Mon Oct 25 20:29:50 1993 Received: from rsuna-gw.susx.ac.uk by albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu (5.65/4.0) with SMTP id ; Mon, 25 Oct 93 20:29:50 -0400 Received: by rsuna.crn.cogs.susx.ac.uk (Smail3.1.28.1 #43) id m0orcIO-0004KMC; Tue, 26 Oct 93 00:29 GMT Message-Id: Subject: Re: a beautiful discovery To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 00:29:56 +0000 (GMT) From: "Andy Holyer" In-Reply-To: <01H4IXKZ64BM8Y7J1Q@gs.com> from "Where are the Prawns?" at Oct 25, 93 10:43:56 am Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1592 Recently, Where are the Prawns? said: ... > it's an amazing thing to unexpectedly stumble across the inspiration for one of > robyn's songs. it's also humbling to realise how expertly he turns an > interesting experience into a beatifully haunting song. > > for the record the fish do go through the trees - there's a kelp forest with > fish swimming in and out which you can view from under the water through glass > walls. there's also a circular tank about four feet across where thousands of > sardines just swim round and round. my favourite exhibit (not mentioned in the > song) was the cuttlefish which sat there watching me watching it with its skin > gently scintillating and opalescing. > I agree. Eye had never really grabbed, me, but last year I went to an HCI conference in.. Monteray. The conference reception was in the aquarium. The Kepl forest is really something - it's three storys high. Personally I loved the tank of anchovies - a cylinder, and all these flashing silvery fish swimming round, and round, and round, and... A few months ago, I gave "Eye" another go. And what did I find? It was a real "Aha!" moment. Cynthia must have *loved* taking Robyn there, it's such a Robyn place. It's just a shame that Monteray itself reminded me of a Californian Eastbourne. And Carmel? Sheesh, don't get me started, I go into my Lionel Bart accent and then I have to go and lie down... -- &ndy Holyer, COGS, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.## PGP Key by finger. ## "The English are the most tasteless nation on earth, which is why they set such store by it" - Joe Orton From DARAMSEY@vaxsar.vassar.edu Mon Oct 25 21:42:26 1993 Received: from vaxsar.vassar.edu by churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (5.65/4.0) with SMTP id ; Mon, 25 Oct 93 21:42:26 -0400 Received: from vassar.edu by vassar.edu (PMDF #2752 ) id <01H4JLP35IK0000FAQ@vassar.edu>; Mon, 25 Oct 1993 21:33:00 EDT Date: 25 Oct 1993 21:33:00 -0400 (EDT) From: DARAMSEY@vaxsar.vassar.edu Subject: Robyn at the Iron Horse...not. To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Message-Id: <01H4JLP374F6000FAQ@vassar.edu> X-Envelope-To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Vms-To: IN%"fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Phooey. Intrigued by the rumors I've heard that Robyn was going to play the Iron Horse in North Hampton on November 4, I called up the Iron Horse this afternoon to see if it was true. Unfortunately it is not. :-( The guy I talked to said that Robyn is NOT playing at the club, to his knowledge. Oh well. On another tangent, has anybody heard any new info. about a Soft Boys tour? daveR.