Fegmaniax Digest <==----------==> (Send posts to the list to fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu) (Send adminstrative commands to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu) (Send comments, etc to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu) <==----------==> Volume 3 Number 164 Today's Topics: ------- ------ So many pigs, so little time JT's skinny on PV Re: JT's skinny on PV the moon inside (as seen from underwater) Robyn heists Syd lyric; spiders down on Highway 61. Re: JT's skinny on PV Re: JT's skinny on PV Since we talked about it twoo weeks ago.... MISC: Live Volcano on the Web muh? RE: Robyn at Home Aidan and Barb tour 95! Oasis Re: JT's skinny on PV Re: record labels & so forth Re: JT's skinny on PV Terry, do you relish Tofu? Only The Stones correction Verb Object Re: Oasis Re: Only The Stones correction Re: So many pigs, so little time Re: Aidan and Barb yet more swimmy things ------------------------------ From: jimm@dbu.edu Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 10:09:00 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: So many pigs, so little time Wow! I never imagined my pig question would get so many great responses! And so much variation! Robyn himself would be proud... I was making a connection (mistakenly?) between the two songs -- thinking that both were references to the same character. Perhaps Terry Marks, the resident celebrity and generally all-around great guy on this list, had the best explanation. Perhaps he didn't. It seems to me that it could either be "Lucky", "Bucky", or "Mucky" on Queen--but on "There's Noboby.." it has to be between "Bucky" and "Mucky" (because he uses "Lucky" in the preceding verse and I doubt he would rhyme "Lucky" with "Lucky"). I'm willing to concede that it is, indeed "Bucky", as well. I think that we should have a formal secret ballot vote, tabulate the results, write the winner on a small square of paper and then flush it down the commode. Much love and other things, Beaker ------------------------------ From: jimm@dbu.edu Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 10:26:00 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: JT's skinny on PV I am a recent list subcriber & so I imagine this has been hashed out before, but I have to admit that as I looked through most of the articles posted on the 'net from Positive Vibrations I found myself wondering... "Do Aidan and Barb REALLY like Robyn?" -Beaker "fish toast" Moore ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 17:05:22 BST To: jimm@dbu.edu, fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jturner@rpms.ac.uk (Jonathan Turner) Subject: Re: JT's skinny on PV At 10:26 AM 23/10/95 -0500, jimm@dbu.edu wrote: >I am a recent list subcriber & so I imagine this has been hashed out >before, but I have to admit that as I looked through most of the articles >posted on the 'net from Positive Vibrations I found myself wondering... > > "Do Aidan and Barb REALLY like Robyn?" No, they don't. They don't like ANYTHING. Even each other. Probably. They'd be much happier being goths. JT (I'm not THAT skinny) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 12:04:32 EST From: kenster@MIT.EDU (ostrander) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: the moon inside (as seen from underwater) kudos terry on posting my all time favorite robyn tune finally. i have been baiting my breath and waxing the hairs in my bath in a futile exercise of patience. i do have a couple of different interpretations of robyn's caterwauling: >And everything is lost upon the cracked and misted hull i say "blistered" hull >And I'm insanely jealous of the hairs upon your back upon your "bath"? >And I'm insanely jealous of the stains upon your feet upon your "sheets" and in "tonight": >In the sway of a teddy girl's hips "dirty" girl's hips? ken p.s. to belabor the porcine contentions: >who the hell would buy their kid a book about "mucky the pig"? :) why not? we all know how filthy they are. still, as we all know, "personality goes a long way." of course, a pig that's out on a limb might be trying to rise above the usual slime of his fellows. i like to think of a politician entangled in some scandal, knowing how bad it is, and wanting to get caught. either that or putting himself "out on a limb" to get someone's (who could it be?) attention. nothing seems to work. "i don't know why he never gets anywhere with you." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 16:09:44 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin To: The feisty barbel and the gruesome tench Subject: Robyn heists Syd lyric; spiders down on Highway 61. I was surprised to see a Syd Barrett lyric turn up in the last digest with no credit to the great man. Is Robyn claiming that he wrote Vegetable Man? I've got a tape of Syd singing it on the BBC in 1967... Excellent work on Tonight and Insanely Jealous, Terry! My only worry is that I remember it as "Insanely jealous of the spiders in your BATH" and that there is another line which ends with PATH. I will listen and report back. Concerning that Highway 61 album: could the person who is actually listening to it at the moment (johnj?) tell me whether it sounds psychedelic or not? I just can't remember (Alzheimer's strikes early in South-West England). I know that East-West by the Butterfield Band is pretty psychedelic, and Bloomfield recorded that at about the same time... - Mike (The Shadow over Innsmouth) Godwin PS Flashback to pre-school days: "Don't be such a Mucky Pig, son" "Avert your eyes from his gaze, Junior, and we may yet be saved"" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 13:52:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard To: dark globe of frogs Subject: Re: JT's skinny on PV > > "Do Aidan and Barb REALLY like Robyn?" > More than he likes them, i would think. ;) I think Aidan's parents wanted a girl-- look at his name in the mirror! (and say goodbye) :) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 12:42:28 -0500 (CDT) From: JAY LYALL Subject: Re: JT's skinny on PV To: jturner@rpms.ac.uk Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu >> "Do Aidan and Barb REALLY like Robyn?" >No, they don't. They don't like ANYTHING. Even each other. Probably. >They'd be much happier being goths. Goths?...as in the sacking Rome kind, or the pale skinned, all in black, vampire looking Bauhaus fans? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "Capy Toad Blast" "If you could free my inner child hist1a@jetson.uh.edu Then I could free your inhabitions." University of Houston --Lloyd Cole "I was born to cheese you." "If absence makes the heart grow fonder --Robyn Hitchcock Then I don't want to see you any more." --Replacements %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 09:22:36 -0500 (CDT) From: JAY LYALL Subject: Since we talked about it twoo weeks ago.... To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Path: news.uh.edu!news.sccsi.com!nuchat!academ!news.sesqui.net!dildog.lgc.com!news.tcst.com!op.net!uaem!marlin.ucsf.edu!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!ratty.wolfe.net!news.aa.net!announce From: "Daniel Bar-Even" Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.announce Subject: MISC: Live Volcano on the Web Followup-To: comp.infosystems.www.misc Date: 7 Oct 1995 02:24:56 GMT Organization: National Library of New Zealand Lines: 19 Approved: www-announce@boutell.com Message-ID: <454odo$8sp@holly.aa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: boutell.com Originator: announce@Linux Volcano-CAM on Mt Ruapehu is now online Mt Ruapehu, the largest mountain in the North Island of New Zealand, started erupting on Saturday 23rd September 1995. Not content with the television footage, network adventurers Julian Meadow and Richard Naylor decided to position a video camera on the mountain. It's connected via the Telecom NZ cellular network and is transmitting colour pictures over the net. Check out the URL to view the latest action, updated every 2 minutes. For more information contact Julianm@teleconsultants.co.nz -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Don't see your post yet? It's probably on the way. Be patient and read the charter FAQ of this moderated Usenet newsgroup, available on the Web at and posted twice weekly. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 13:54:12 -0600 (MDT) From: Horselover Phat To: exterminating angelfish Subject: muh? On Mon, 23 Oct 1995, JAY LYALL wrote: > >> "Do Aidan and Barb REALLY like Robyn?" hey, could somebody e-mail me privately and tell me who the hell aidan and barb are, and why we're concerned about whether or not they like robyn? btw, i'm casting my vote for the pig in between "eucky" and "gucky". heh. zach "the rats in the walls" hooker _________ MOONBOOTS MOONBOOTS MOON. ("i'm hol ding out for a spa ceman"). ------------------------------ From: jimm@dbu.edu Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 15:49:15 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: RE: Robyn at Home Bradley sez: >Am I understanding correctly that Robyn and Cynthia are no longer >together >(and does this mean no more "Airscape")? Does he still live on the Isle >of >Wite(sp)? I'm not a big gossip monger,really, but I like to know a >little >about my favorite musicians (unless it's Lou Reed-- that new book'll >scare the >hell outta ya...) > >Bradley Well, I just heard through the grapevine that Robyn has moved into a bungalow on the Isle of Wight with Lou Reed... with plenty of squid, of course. Beaker "and that could not have been rasher" MO(o)R(e) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 22:02:54 BST From: Jim.Davies@comlab.ox.ac.uk To: HIST1A@jetson.uh.edu, fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Aidan and Barb >They'd be much happier being goths. > Goths?...as in the sacking Rome kind, or the pale skinned, all in black, vampire looking Bauhaus fans? No, they'd be Goths of the Third Kind. Busygoths. They wouldn't sack Rome. They'd just hang around and bitch. Kind of an evil opposite of Laurence and Sally. Anti-Laurence and anti-Sally. Scary. Jim --> ...although he did sack himself, if that counts for anything... ------------------------------ From: bing@student.umass.edu Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 17:37:13 -0400 Subject: tour 95! To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu horrible.....horrible...... for three weeks we have been held hostage in Lubbock, Texas by an armed band of Branch Davidians. It is only now (since they have discovered that Kimberly is in Katrina and the Waves) that they have agreed to let us go. Except for Roger, of course, because he's the keyboard player. Anyhow, Kimberly has left to rejoin Katrina (or whatever) and everyone else has gone back to their law practices. Me? I'm heading to Florida... It was a great tour, lots of fun to see you all-- you can start signing up for the Rockpile/Brinszley 'Skaught' tour now... whew... last news from the road to ruin tour 95, Bradley Skaught and the soft waves egyptians ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 16:10:17 +0000 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: Jim Subject: Oasis I've just been playing Oasis's first album "definitely maybe," and have decided it seriously (cough) KICKS ASS - in fact, I would go so far as to say this is the meatiest, most raunchsome, ballsy and downright wonderful slice of fuck-you britrock since the Sex Pistols. Since I don't read the music press much, I have no idea how successful this band is outside the UK, and I'm curious. They've just released their second album, which I haven't heard yet. Reviews suggest they are mellowing and getting more Beatley - my instinct tells me they should stay raw, but we shall see. OK, they're not Robyn, they're nothing like Robyn. But this fact alone has enabled me to mention Robyn in this post. Robyn. There, I did it again. Oh by the way, I have some kitchen cleaning fluid. In big letters on the label it says "removes stubborn marks." I tried it on the Florida page of my atlas in a voodoo-related attempt to release Terry from captivity but simply erased Miami. Could US fegs please check whether Miami is still there. This will help determine the usefulness of kitchen cleaning fluid as a voodoo tool. Charmingly dangerous, ************ Jim Bower ** ******** ** * * * """" """" * ** (@) (@) * *stop press* { ' ` } FREUD SQUAD CD DEFINITELY available THURSDAY 26TH OCT *l (oo) l* ....Please form an orderly queue l ' l )======( l l` ' l `________' l l ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 18:00:00 -0500 (EST) From: Tracy Aileen Copeland Subject: Re: JT's skinny on PV To: jimm@dbu.edu Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu On Mon, 23 Oct 1995 jimm@dbu.edu wrote: > -Beaker "fish toast" Moore > Yesterday, two Greeks (one of them feg) drove from Cincinnati to my house, presented me with a jar of blueberry preserves, and demanded toast (something you can pretty much expect at my house anyway). The quote of the weekend was "It's also a jellyfish." Thought you'd like to know. Tracy "dances with toast" Copeland ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 19:14:53 -0400 From: beach house tiki god To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: record labels & so forth jimm@dbu.edu sez: >All that to say, Woj: do you know if Robyn has been in contact with >Real World for a possible record deal? not to my admittedly limited knowledge (contrary to unpopular opinion, i have no contacts within robyn's organization and am completely out of touch with record label rumormongering - i just know who to ask when a rumor needs squashing). i agree that the idea is intriguing, but, in my opinion, unlikely. and anyways, old blighty already has a representative on the label: senor gabriel himself! JAY LYALL sez: >Two words: Mory Amsterdam what do you *mean* "what is a morey amsterdam?"?!?! woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 19:59:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Dimitrios Kouroussis Subject: Re: JT's skinny on PV To: Tracy Aileen Copeland Cc: jimm@dbu.edu, fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu On Mon, 23 Oct 1995, Tracy Aileen Copeland wrote: > Yesterday, two Greeks (one of them feg) drove from Cincinnati to > my house, presented me with a jar of blueberry preserves, and demanded > toast (something you can pretty much expect at my house anyway). The They were rewarded with two slices of delicious, Italian, toasted bread with honey and blueberry jam. > quote of the weekend was "It's also a jellyfish." Words of the weekend: "Spit, pit, cop, cup, cap" > Tracy "dances with toast" Copeland Dimitrios "testoasteroned" Kouroussis ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 20:17:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Preety Gadhoke To: Fellow Fegs Subject: Terry, do you relish Tofu? A message for the crazed fegs (fondly used, of course) although it is a reaction to what Brooks Martin (yes, you) wrote on Saturday (Perhaps a snail might response slower) Recently subscribed to fegmaniax received a folder "half [full] of..messages about Terry." Welcome to "how-to-rescue-Terry" emailing list? (Pause.....double checking... robyn robyn robyn robyn robyn robyn robyn ahh.. it is the feg list.. *wax dolls*--*come on your...*--*Lucky*.. Florida residency has been wished upon me. Was it really you, Brooks? Sunshine State, hardly "a frightening place." Today and tomorrow (i.e. six months), will remain *trapped* in Galesburg, IL. (Three hour drive SW of Chicago) Then, off to Tampa-- (no one has the keys there) FL--barely a doll house; Barbie&Ken nightmare-o-rama: California! Don't you think? And now...back to your regularly scheduled program on: robyn robyn robyn robyn robyn robyn robyn robyn ======================================================= Miss P. Gadhoke email address: pgadhoke@knox.edu \\\\I'll shoot the moon ++++ I'm a house that \\\\Right out of the sky ++++ burns down \\\\For you baby ++++ every night for you -Tom Waits -RH ======================================================== ------------------------------ From: sprano@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 20:48:42 EST To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Only The Stones correction Thanks, Human mellotron, for transcribing "Only the Stones Remain", one of my faves, but the line "Coloured drums DISPLAY the night" should really be "Coloured drums EXPRESS the night." Tribal drumming and all that. By the way...please, Jim Bower, no more "Oasis kicks ass!" postings. YAWN. Zzzzzzzzzz...-HAL. ------------------------------ From: jpartridge@accel.com Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 22:49:19 EST To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Verb Object By the way, has anyone ever seen a punk compilation CD called "Punk: The Early Years"? According to the Muze system (found in Tower Records and other stores), this CD is supposed to have The Soft Boys doing "Anglepoise Lamp". It's allegedly put out by Communion Records (the same outfit what did that Byrds tribute I think.) I have had two record stores order it only to be told their distributor doesn't carry it. Anyone had a more successful time of it? On another topic: I was listening to Underwater Moonlight today and was struck by how much I like the guitar solo. To whom does Fegdom believe it belongs: Robyn or Rew or both? JP Cleanliness of the soul is more important ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 23:01:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Oasis To: Jim Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu On Mon, 23 Oct 1995, Jim wrote: > Since I don't read the music press much, I have no idea how successful this > band is outside the UK, and I'm curious. Never heard of them. > Oh by the way, I have some kitchen cleaning fluid. In big letters on the > label it says "removes stubborn marks." I tried it on the Florida page of > my atlas in a voodoo-related attempt to release Terry from captivity but > simply erased Miami. Could US fegs please check whether Miami is still > there. This will help determine the usefulness of kitchen cleaning fluid as > a voodoo tool. I am not stubborn. People keep telling me that I'm stubborn, but I'm *sure* that I'm right. Anyways, I'm still in Florida.. Terry "THM" Marks ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 23:12:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard To: sprano@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Only The Stones correction On Mon, 23 Oct 1995 sprano@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu wrote: > Thanks, Human mellotron, for transcribing "Only the Stones Remain", one of > my faves, but the line "Coloured drums DISPLAY the night" should really be > "Coloured drums EXPRESS the night." Tribal drumming and all that. i always thought it was "....drums that split the night." I've been noticing how wring I am in a lot of posted lyrics though (and how right i was in others that are not so right! ;) Speaking of lyrics, Mr DeLong, has your excellent lyrics archive migrated to woj's fegpage? I suppose i could always have a look for myself... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 21:56:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Miss Western Teen USA To: dennis Subject: Re: So many pigs, so little time On Mon, 23 Oct 1995 someoen with a @ symbol in their name, such as one jimm@dbu.edu, wrote: > Wow! I never imagined my pig question would get so many great responses! > And so much variation! Robyn himself would be proud... i have thought that it went something like: 'newt the pig is out on a limb, he's looking for someone to investigate him...' i could be wrong, but it would be a timely addition along with 'devil's radio' .chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 00:06:13 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeffrey with 2 f's Jeffrey" To: "Us...we wanna be some anglepoise lamps yeh!" Subject: Re: Aidan and Barb On Mon, 23 Oct 1995, blasphemously seeking the blood of precious stones, Jim.Davies@comlab.ox.ac.uk wrote: > >They'd be much happier being goths. > > > Goths?...as in the sacking Rome kind, or the pale skinned, all in black, > vampire looking Bauhaus fans? > > No, they'd be Goths of the Third Kind. Busygoths. They wouldn't sack > Rome. They'd just hang around and bitch. Goths? Visigoths? Hmmpph--those guys were *nothing* compared to the dreaded Invisigoths--they'd sack yr whole damned town and you'd never even see 'em do it! (Damn. I've waited *years* to find a venue for that cheesy pun. I want you all to know, you've made my life worth living again; you've fulfilled my deepest wishes. Except you, Edna--you've fulfilled my shallowest wishes...) --Jeff "I saw Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight Festival and he died a couple of days Jeffrey J. Norman later. He was really good, but I Dept. of English & Comp. Lit. didn't know he was going to die. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee He would have been 10 times better e-mail: jenor@csd.uwm.edu if I had." --Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 00:32:13 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeffrey with 2 f's Jeffrey" To: "Us...we wanna be some anglepoise lamps yeh!" Subject: yet more swimmy things Flushed and feverish, succumbing at last to the burning passion within, on Mon, 23 Oct 1995, beach house tiki god wrote: > >Two words: Mory Amsterdam > > what do you *mean* "what is a morey amsterdam?"?!?! As is well known (to paleontological positivibrationists at least), a branch of the moray eel family swam to the Netherlands some time in the late 1950s, purportedly to seek a less humid climate, but, it is strongly bruited about, really to seek some high-grade hash. At any rate, these eels quickly evolved, growing limbs within a week, developing the appropriate breathing apparatus within a month, and soon were hosting a local talk-show entitled _Fish: Meat or Not?_ (actually, it was in Dutch, which, rendered phonetically, ran something like "Pishky Dreedle Crenshgee Hawww"--apologies to our Nether regions...errmm, Nether readers, or whatever). Catching the attention of a local cigar manufacturer, the family soon were appearing in a popular series of ads featuring the famous slogan "If it's long and thick, we'll slip it to ya midnight quick!" (oddly enough, rendered in English rather than Dutch...) After a break in which they evolved far enough to remember to change paragraphs occasionally, the eels parlayed this TV opportunity into a regular slot on a comedy series called, in the Netherlands, _That Damned Ottoman!_. This show, concerning a Turkish man who broke into different people's houses each week and squatted on the floor, causing the head of the house to trip in comical pratfalls, was stunningly unsuccessful. Nevertheless, retrofitted with shiny American gadgetry (such as Mary Tyler Moore's stretch pants), the show became an American hit. The Turkish character, alas, sruvived only vestigially--but the eels were honored for their pivotal place in the history of the show by having a character named after them, the moray amsterdams. Next week: the history of string! --Jeff Jeffrey Norman "Solipsism is its own reward" University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dept. of English & Comp. Lit. --Crow T. Robot e-mail: jenor@csd.uwm.edu [][][][][][][][] End of this Fegmaniax Digest. 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