Fegmaniax Digest <==----------==> (Send posts to the list to fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu) (Send adminstrative requests to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu) (Send comments, etc to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu) <==----------==> Volume 3 Number 83 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Robyn in Rolling Stone Denzil... & Robyn the Man is there anyone left? is there anyone... tape tree stuff [][][][][][][][][][] From: "Robin Moses" To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 13:26:35 CST Subject: Robyn in Rolling Stone Just thought I'd let everyone know that Mr. Hitchcock is in the latest Rolling Stone (with Drew Barrymore on the cover). He's the featured artist in the "Q & A" section. I can transcribe the article if anyone is interested. Also - I joined this list after the tape tree had already formed, but I'd love to get my hands on some Hitchcock rarities/live material. Anyone who can help? Robin (yes, it's my real name) :) rmoses@cbafac.cba.uoknor.edu [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 15:05:43 -0500 (CDT) From: JAY LYALL Subject: is there anyone left? To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Hi all those brave hearts who are hanging out over the summer.... Robin (yes, its my real name)...sure it'll make a nice addition to the archive.... ...Paging Stefan Cooke...tapes in the mail..... and finally I've made the hard decision not to get the DAT machine...instead I'm getting an English foxhound, a Harrier to be specific, and I think it needs a good Feg name...I'm thinking Nigel...which is a good English name for a good English dog, except its a female and I'd hate to confuse its gender perceptions...any suggestions? jay [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 15:33:15 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Gene Hopstetter) Subject: Re: is there anyone left? >and finally I've made the hard decision not to get the DAT >machine...instead I'm >getting an English foxhound, a Harrier to be specific, and I think it needs a >good Feg name...I'm thinking Nigel...which is a good English name for a >good English >dog, except its a female and I'd hate to confuse its gender perceptions...any >suggestions? How about Hester? Or maybe Midge? (or maybe you'd like to see what's in my fridge...) Hulga? Willemena? Petunia? =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Writer/Layout/WWW Guy + Tulane Computing Services http://yodelling-hoover.tcs.tulane.edu/ [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 16:43:09 -0400 From: wombat toga party To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: tape tree stuff "Robin Moses" sez: >Also - I joined this list after the tape tree had already formed, but >I'd love to get my hands on some Hitchcock rarities/live material. >Anyone who can help? this reminds me: a number of folks got in touch with me about getting copies fo the in-store and netsurfer ghost tapes after i posted the tree. i replied to many of you that i'd be getting in touch with the brances about doing extra copies. do to some unfun family business, i wasn't too active on the net last week (the 1000+ unread messages in my mailbox attest to this, though i was a good boy and sent out regular digests and kept up with personal e-mail for a change). i'm working on getting spots for new leaves now and will post about that soon as i know what's going on. which leads me to one last note: if you want to get copies of these tapes and *still* have not gotten in touch with me about it, please do so *soon*. at some point, i'm going to have to cease managing the tape tree and people will have to fend for themselves. okay, enough meta-posting for now. next post will be robyntalk. promise. woj [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 24 May 95 16:07:55 CDT From: cheri@geoserv.isgs.uiuc.edu (cheri) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: is there anyone left? : :>and finally I've made the hard decision not to get the DAT :>machine...instead I'm :>getting an English foxhound, a Harrier to be specific, and I think it needs a *great* decision!! machines can come later. :>good Feg name...I'm thinking Nigel...which is a good English name for a :>good English :>dog, except its a female and I'd hate to confuse its gender perceptions...any :>suggestions? : :How about Hester? Or maybe Midge? (or maybe you'd like to see what's in my :fridge...) : Hester would not be the best choice; some "experts" have indicated that dogs don't like sssss sounds (hisses, like cats and snakes). I do not know if this is true, but negates 2 Hitchcock names...Cynthia and Sandra (having her brain out very much suits hounds!!) :Hulga? Willemena? Petunia? : :-( personal preference, but I don't like these. Petunia sounds like a pig. Willemina is generally german, isn't it? I vote for Fen. Means wetland, sounds Scot to me; and where is a harrier gonna scare up bunnies? In the muddiest spot imaginable, especially where the ticks are...yup, a fen. not very Hitchcockian or fegish tho. I also like Timber, Lyn, Leah, Leigh, (Vivien Leigh!!), Julia (Lennon's mom), Leighann (lee-ann pronounced). That's about as close to Brit as I can get offhand. Course "Lady Di" for your little bitch would be mean. or follow RH's song, Queen Liz, Queen (or Veins of Queen). kinda bland, everyone had or knew a Queenie uh....I could rant for a while....I made a list of 30-40 names when I was planning on getting a dog, so I go overboard on this. stopping. NOW. -cheri : : : [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 14:24:44 -0700 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: tclark@ftp.netgate.net (Tom Clark) Subject: Re: is there anyone left? >>and finally I've made the hard decision not to get the DAT >>machine...instead I'm >>getting an English foxhound, a Harrier to be specific, and I think it needs a >>good Feg name...I'm thinking Nigel...which is a good English name for a >>good English >>dog, except its a female and I'd hate to confuse its gender perceptions...any >>suggestions? > >How about Hester? Or maybe Midge? (or maybe you'd like to see what's in my >fridge...) > >Hulga? Willemena? Petunia? Brenda? [][][][][][][][][][] From: "Robin Moses" To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 16:33:14 CST Subject: Robyn in Rolling Stone Robyn Hitchcock Q & A by Chuck Dean - Rolling Stone, June 15, 1995, p. 26 Like his Rorschach-gone-awry music, Robyn Hitchcock speaks his mind but often lands in left field, yabbering. But it's nice yabbering-- eloquent and generally interesting. The one-man touring machine who fronted the Soft Boys and the Egyptians doesn't know how many albums he's fathered ("Twenty-four is a good guess," he says), but Rhino Records is pushing nine CDs' worth of material circa 1980 to '87, and he recently secured his hip factor by recording a three-song 7-inch on K Records. Not bad for an old-schooler still wrangling with life's heavies: sex, fame, drugs, and religion. "There's a theory that the Easter Bunny pre-dates Jesus," says the Englishman, who describes his tune "Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl" this way: "I suppose I was imagining I was a woman killed by a man pretending to be a woman. It's a discreet form of sexual suicide." But fret not, loyal readers, Hitchcock goes in for the save: "I'm happy to say I don't feel that way anymore." Whew! Q - According to principles of neo-cognitive psychology, the past is but an illusion that should be forgotten. Is it weird having yours documented on shiny discs that cost $15.98? A (Robyn) - I accept that. That's one of the paradoxes: You cannot go into the past, but the past can carry on in you. Q - Wow, that sounds like Stevie Nicks. A - [laughs] Well, that's consoling! Q - How old are you? A - At the moment, I'm 42, but I've been all kinds of ages. Q - That's old. You don't have much time left on earth. A - That's probably why I'm making more of it. It's not particularly old in terms of being an artist. I don't regard myself specifically as a rock musician anymore. Q - What do you regard yourself as? A - Just an artist, really. Q - Have you ever eaten a Big Mac? A - No. Beef should be restricted. If you want to eat it, you should grow your own. Q - What's your problem with beef? A - Anyone will tell you that it's enormously energy inefficient. It goes: Forest is replaced by cow, cow is eaten by a person, then a person shits. A perfect way to turn foliage into feces. Q - You know Americans; we love our burgers, and we love shitting. A - Well, it's time to think differently. Q - What the hell is "retrodelic"? A - That's a term I coined to describe my approach to music, which is basically pointing backward. I'm the last of the '60's rock stars. The last to hatch out, really. Q - After "Groovy Decay," you quit the business for about three years. A - I got very depressed. Q - Did you take pills for it? A - No, that defers it. That's just mortgaging your own depression. Q - What did you do? A - I drank a lot. I did some gardening. I did some articles under a different name, and I also wrote lyrics for the Damned. Q - What did you grow? A - What did I grow? Q - Yeah, in your garden. A - I didn't grow anything, I pulled things up. Q - That's weeding. That's not gardening! A - I was a gardener. That's what takes up the most time: pulling things out. I'd rather pull out weeds than teeth. Q - Are you eccentric? A - No more than Michael Jackson Q - Robyn, he's pretty eccentric. A - Yeah, but look at his music. He sells in billions to people who have no heads. Q - What's your R.E.M. connection? A - God, I met them years ago. Q - Has Michael Stipe made a pass at you?: A - No, nor me him, although he is gorgeous. Q - So you've had homosexual experiences? A - Years ago, but that was simply because I was sent to a good school. Q - Say what? A - There weren't any girls around, so you had to practice on men. Q - I see. Did you ever fuck your fans? A - Well, if you can call it fucking. I was usually too smashed. But, yes, but it was quite a while back. I certainly had my nose in the rock & roll trough. Q - A lot of your songs are about sex. Where does the preoccupation come from? A - [Sighs] Well, I don't think I'm the *only* person preoccupied by sex! Q - You're the only one with an English accent singing about it the way you do! A - Well, sex and death. Everything that lives has to have sex. I mean, televisions don't have sex. Lightbulbs don't, because they don't necessarily die. If you regard the computer revolution as a living organism, it will also die and need to have sex, so you may be confronted with the possibility of computers fucking in 50 years. I've got a feeling humanity is about to die out and replace itself with electronic babies. Q - Jeez! You're a paranoid's dream date! A - Well, I find it very difficult to reassure people. That's one of the hardest things about being a parent. Q - Did you have a shitty childhood? A - No, I had some very good bits, but there was something looming over it. Q - What did you want to be when you were little? A - A doctor. And I wanted to be a time traveler and build a time machine, but I wasn't scientifically endowed, so I became a cult figure instead. Q - Better a cult figure than a cult leader, huh? A - [laughs] Dead-right there. Q - Do you think Jesus would've dug your music? A - I think my stuff would've been too humorous for Jesus. That's one of the problems I've had with Christianity. It's humorless, and you're born into debt. You owe Jesus one because he died for you long before you were ever conceived. Q - I bet Jesus laughed. He was probably sitting around with the disciples, and they farted, and everyone busted out laughing. A - I hope so, but there aren't many references to our Lord farting. Q - Have you always been unplugged? A - I started out playing folk clubs on my own doing cover versions and comedy songs. Then I acquired musicians who became the Soft Boys, then the Egyptians, and now I'm on my own again. So, for a long time, yeah. Q - I mean mentally. A - [laughs] I don't know if I was ever plugged, man. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 15:09:30 -0600 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: bwayne@computek.net (Bret Bolton) Subject: Re: is there anyone left? > >good Feg name...I'm thinking Nigel...which is a good English name for a good English >dog, except its a female and I'd hate to confuse its gender perceptions...any >suggestions? > >jay >My first guess is that you could name her after my iguane Brenda......tends to make her (I think she's a her) very happy............. Bret W. Bolton bwayne@computek.net the truth is out there. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 15:37:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Doyle Hodam To: wombat toga party cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: tape tree stuff woj- Just joined this thing yesterday & am very interested in any rare or otherwise not commonly available stuff, or anything else. What kind of tape stuff've you got? hodam [][][][][][][][][][] From: bskaught@nwrain.com Date: Wed, 24 May 95 20:23 PDT To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: re: is there anyone... you could call it Cynthia. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 23:21:30 GMT From: rramsay@realres.demon.co.uk (Robert Ramsay) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Denzil... & Robyn the Man In message <10331@nimbus.demon.co.uk> Rob Collingwood writes: >Was Denzil really two people? I saw Denzil supporting Robyn twice up here in >the far north of the country and I'll swear blind there was only the one of >him both times. He's not bad, I think I'd describe him as a cross between >Billy Bragg and the Beautiful South, especially with that song about >football. Well, the lead singer/songwriter may be called Denzil, but there were definitely two guitarists... As for Robyn's various twitches etc., I think that, after observing him from the front row - er, pew, he has a 'drum face' (or in his case, a guitar face) - my mate Simon (a drummer) concentrates on his playing at gigs - and forgets about his face, which takes on a life of its own, somewhat reminiscent of his famous impression of a suppository using a sherbet lemon... -- Robert Ramsay - Reality Research rramsay@realres.demon.co.uk "I am naked to the invisible eye" [][][][][][][][] End of this Fegmaniax Digest. Archives can be found at ftp://fegmania.wustl.edu/fegmaniax/archives/ For administrative questions, subscription requests, and all that boring crud, send mail to fegmaniax-request@nsmx.rutgers.edu. Slipping you the midnight fish...