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 194 Today's Topics: ------- ------- The Can Opener CRD: Cars She Used to Drive Neptune rising in the south-east FW: In the California office and out of it... Re: Feginactivity Re: The Can Opener Re: In the California office and out of it... mates-astro-wrtiters re: feginactivity Anticedents writers poll Partners and canopeners Feginactivity Re: feglaxitivity recent live songs ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 20:50:47 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: The Can Opener Bradley mentioned The Can Opener.. who are the other people who help to recite this epic? I think Robyn plays the part of the crusty old sea captain. Arrr! ------------------------------ From: Ross Overbury To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu (The list that invented itself) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 95 21:48:22 EST Subject: CRD: Cars She Used to Drive MORE ON MONEY: Canadian $5's gots Gene Wilder on 'em. ... and people think we're stodgy! That pyramid of yours is pretty cool, though. THE CARS SHE USED TO DRIVE (intro only) Here's what I hear on "Groovy Decay": I stuck a hyphen before the last 3 notes to give some indication of the timing. Hyphen inserted here! V E ---0---0---0---0----------------------------------------- B ----3---3-------3---------------------------------------- G --1--12--21-12---2--------------------------------------- D -------------------------------------------------------- Play the above twice, then it's E ---0---0---0---0----------------------------------------- B ----3---3-------3---------------------------------------- G -0---1---1-------1--------------------------------------- D --2---0---2-00------------------------------------------ twice. As I mentioned in my last posting, it's entirely possible that the part played on the G and D stings is played by a second guitar. If you listen to the recording, the G and D strings are played more prominently. -- Ross Overbury - Orb's surveyoR Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 16:23:22 +1300 To: The Glass Hotel From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Neptune rising in the south-east >This is the latest newsletter from Mrs Wafflehead... > >(I assume that "South East fans only" means that it was only mailed out to >people within easy reach of London, to save postage costs humph. You want south-east? They don't come much more south-east than here! > And another fegquestion (for anyone): I was also wondering how many people on > the list are astrology believers (or users) and how many are skeptic? newspaper horoscopes, nah. Precisely drawn, different-depending-on-what-second-you-were-born ones... maybe there's the tiniest grain of truth in them (and I have drawn a few up from time to time with the help of an old ephemeris :) Good time to state that the views expressed within are not those of where I workk, I think :) James James Dignan, Department of Psychology, University of Otago. Ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk St., St. Clair, Dunedin, New Zealand pixelphone james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz / steam megaphone NZ 03-455-7807 * You talk to me as if from a distance * and I reply with impressions chosen from another time, time, time, * from another time (Brian Eno) ------------------------------ From: "Winkworth, Nick SJ" To: Vyrna Knowl Subject: FW: In the California office and out of it... Date: Mon, 04 Dec 95 19:35:00 PST Best Vogon poetry I've suffered in ages. Gnawed both legs off! (..sorry. I was overcome by douglasadamsitis for a minute there!) -nw PS Anyone heard about some guy called Robyn Hitchcock?? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 23:12:21 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Feginactivity cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu > > And another fegquestion (for anyone): I was also wondering how many people on > > the list are astrology believers (or users) and how many are skeptic? I'd like to say that, not only am I a skeptic, but that I gave up having an astrological sign some time last year... Terry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 23:15:19 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: The Can Opener To: Bayard cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu If I remember the credits correctly.. Andy has a co-writing credit. Roger, Andy and (I think) Morris also have vocal credit on this one. Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Bayard wrote: > > Bradley mentioned The Can Opener.. who are the other people who help to > recite this epic? I think Robyn plays the part of the crusty old sea > captain. Arrr! > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 22:36:40 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeffrey with 2 f's Jeffrey" To: "Us...we wanna be some anglepoise lamps yeh!" Subject: Re: In the California office and out of it... Well, since James from NZ has been inhaling _Finnegans Wake_...: Let the screen brush the earth like a paper shard; early magic seized power, Roman Angus utter the other, belie. Aching onto the lewdest unsafe altar, admit these bights with aspic: between what dozens bemire on the cone, and citron eased on what it flays, there are arcane eons of Eden, eagle, cutlet-- nine of which descry early thin errata to be written. That editor, gushing pureed type to be tagged, attains a yield that teases anthems, terms, vermin, and whey. Should they kick the earth-surge so low that the fiend naps, nervy as fuel, to ensue and faint? Naggingly not: If these are to rise like ersatz eider, then is the exempt human. While escrow reships magic, not a fleet's gorge of stock in all: It does not hatch eerie hues, does not rearm such nits into metal history. Instead, it is an ileac eczema, like the eighth hernia, gleaned in a gland, by its power in ions. Within the heater alit the sisal and within the hero taps the isle of inset opal. One of the itchy horses impairs the scalp, inures a hilltop, between Heinz and Satan. There are metal nails in the hotrod, ores, octane-- all of which attest to nether angels upon the kether to be tainted. In Lethe, kabob as keno is tinted, as fuel that employs camels, pelf, and others. Should we notate the ransom perfume so thinly that the shard is obese as paper, to recall and remain? Utterly Roman-- if allowed apart enough from real Siam, then it is the pert niche that smashes the Nicene poem. While Niger raises argyle, not a twin's sloth at all. It notes the pond scree, redoes other steppes into shoals. Instead, it is a motif of ours, like Lanka-sized tubes strapped on the screen by their sodas in a snit. Within the rhombus are the outs, and within them the oats thereof. ********************* This "poem" was manufactured by taking a couple of paragraphs of text, snipping them into five-letter-long segments, running them through a spell-check program, substituting that program's first choice for every "misspelled" word, then re-inserting the resulting words into the syntax of the original few paragraphs (with minor alterations for "sense"). As you can tell, I ended up using the syntactical "frame" twice. And the opening "stanza" is formed from the *actual* five-letter words this method produced, plus a few ringers for syntax. Enjoy... --Jeff Jeffrey Norman "Let's just quit talking about it, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and start watching it on TV" Dept. of English & Comp. Lit. e-mail: jenor@csd.uwm.edu --Susan Lowry ------------------------------ From: LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 11:57:44 -0500 (EST) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: mates-astro-wrtiters Susan, you're fearless, 3 great topics and all together. Mates- Mine is great in this area, in that he honestly seems to like Robyn. This almost suprises me, cause left to his own he tends to put on the radio for a sports-talk show or moldy -oldies. But he's open to my bringin in stuff he actually dosnt fondly remember from high school. I married him, dear reader, because, I guess he is suprisin in such way. He shares my fondness for Porter/Gershwin/Arlen/Ellington -type stuff. Now if I can just stop him from playing Allman Bros. But hey, he driven me to Maxwells or the Ritz whenever Robyns hit NY but not Philly--so whats alittle whining blues vocals to that? Hes also as tall as Robyn, so hes sometimes the only other person in the room at RH's eye-level. Astro- Back in hippie days I was an astrologer (cum dealer, this is before I got responsible and went back to grad-school), so to say Im not a believer sounds facteous, but Im afraid t' is true. What I am is INTERESTED. I find it interesting to note correlations between people I experience and what their charts say. Im open , in short, to alternative forms of information. and astrology is one thats been around for along time, and like Tarot and Cabballa, presents interesting subtlties which more scientific systems of reality, by definition, overlook. And one of these days Im getting off my butt and doing a proper job on Robyns . Different years have been given, but my intuition(which may be wrong) says that Aries-Libra opposittion, squaring a Cap rising and I think something else, might just gift him with, as Auden wished for allgood poets--as much neurosis as he can just barely cope with. By the way, if thats true, thank God hes a Pisces, cause otherwise we might be talking sereal-killer. Any-one with any ideas on this can write me on or off line, if theyd like. Writers You had to ask. I can either lie or sound like a pretentious nit, and since I already sound pretentious, I guess thats the option I should pick. In rough order: Dante,Shakespeare, Spenser, all the romantic poets, Smart, Herbert, Wilde, Yeats, Auden, Eliot, Origen, St Clement of Alexandria, Boehme, Charles Williams, CS lewis, TH Whhite, The Troubador poets, the Chatres poets, Geoffrey Hill, St. Theresa of Avila--and for light--Wodehouse, Doyle, --and what I call crankiana, stuff written by true believers of unorthadox beliefs, and the truer their belief, the better. Its better than SF-- thou, yeah, I like Dick. So shoot me already Kay the over-read ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 09:19:13 -0800 (PST) From: griffith davies To: some kinda feg list Subject: re: feginactivity I was just wonderin' about a few things that might spark some activity into this group.... When I last saw Mr. Hitchcock perform (23 September 1995 - 8:00pm show), he did several songs that I did not (and still don't) recognize. One was about a Trilobyte, named Dwight. Mr. Hitchcock described the prehistoric animal as a stone looking eletric razor. The song was great, and had the entire audience laughing. Another song mentioned "Devil Radio". That's about all I can remember. The last song I have a question about might be an extended version of "I got a message for you". He was saying things like "Don't call me Stalin, darlin'," and something about Sven being a good name. Lastly, Mr. Hitchcock was a guest DJ on the local Radio station. (That's 89.9 KCRW Santa Monica, CA). He did the show called The Red Eye. I heard about 10 minutes of it (I was in transit). This was broadcast at midnight after the performance I saw. Does anyone know more about this, or better yet, Have it? Thanks.... ______________________________________________________________ Griffith Davies hbrtv219@huey.csun.edu "Took a trip around the world, and never came back... -Forever Changed" Lou Reed & John Cale ------------------------------ From: LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 13:53:06 -0500 (EST) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Anticedents In the long-windedness of my last posting I forgot to add whose writtings seem Robynesque. Definately baroque. Either Webster, Sir Thomas Browwne, or the Robert Burton who did Anatomy of Melencholy. But of that period, perhaps a discredited alchemist, in touch with the Cambridge Platonists( also known as theSoft Boys), but fallen out of favor, being prone to lurk around the ruins of Dr. Dee's burnt -down and ruined mansion, searching for fragments of manuscript upon which are written Enochian symbols he can not quite decipher, breathing in the river fumes of the fetid London mnisma. Or perhaps he was Lovecraft in an earlier incarnation. Kay the baroquen ------------------------------ From: BDWILLEMS@alex.stkate.edu Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 12:58:46 -0600 (CST) To: FEGMANIAX@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: writers poll Dear Fegs: For some reason I got up early today and decided that during my month away from grad school I would compile a poll. There have been some suggestions and lists thrown about, but I would like to complile a top ten list of writers that us fegs admire. I will close this poll on Dec. 20th and will post the findings sometime soon after that. "Beauty must be CONVULSIVE or nothing at all." -Andre Breton. Brian Willems bdwillems@alex.stkate.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 11:14:44 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin To: The apparatus in your car Subject: Partners and canopeners My wife relates to New Orleans jazz (Teagarden, Armstrong, Biederbecke type stuff) and while I wouldn't put her into the outright Hitchcock-hostile camp, there is certainly a pretty marked indifference: I'm sure she couldn't tell a Soft Boy from an Egyptian. My dead wife was more into Wham! and Abba. I'm not absolutely sure she's dead, but would be prepared to offer a small reward to any bounty hunter who was interested... The voices of Andy and Morris (late of the Egyptians - woe! woe!) are certainly present on Canopener - but I expect you knew that anyway. - Mike (Color Out of Space) Godwin "Out on route one twenty eight, out by the power line" PS I forgot to vote for THE ABANDONED BRAIN - curses! curses! Maybe next year... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 13:44:16 -0800 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: Grant Burnell Subject: Feginactivity >Hello! >Just wondering why the list has seemed so inactive of late. Is everyone >afflicted with seasonal depression? I miss getting my usual dose of fegmail >:). >News some of us can use: I spotted a new copy of "Rout of the Clones" at "The >Quaker Goes Deaf" in Chicago (yes, Virginia, that IS the store name) so I >assume you can order one from them if you don't already have it. >Fegquestion (for those who are blessed/cursed with romantic partners): Is your >partner also a feg? Merely tolerant? Outright annoyed? I'm curious about this. >And another fegquestion (for anyone): I was also wondering how many people on >the list are astrology believers (or users) and how many are skeptic? >And finally: How about a favorite writers poll? Anyone up for it? >Susan (aka Gussie "she would if she were a female newt" Fink-Nottle) I thought a reply to this post from Susan would be a good opportunity for an introductory posting. I've been reading the fegmail for about three weeks now and have greatly enjoyed it, especially the guitar chords and tab (not to mention the poll results). My name is Grant; I am 27 and live in Corvallis, Oregon. My wife, Lorrie, is also 27 and is also a devoted Feg. One of our first concerts together was RH&E in Eugene, Oregon (actually, our first show was Camper Van Beethoven at the same place). I am a computer technician and Lorrie manages two bead stores, one in Corvallis and the other in nearby Albany. We've both lived all our lives in various areas of Oregon. When I came to Oregon State University in 1986, my musical tastes were in a sorry state. I owned tapes by Phil Collins, Motley Crue, and many other top-forty acts I am ashamed to mention. Almost immediately, I met a guy named Paul who introduced me to his favorite music, which inspired me to to throw away my collection and start over. Paul was obsessed with Julian Cope, but Robyn Hitchcock was a close second. He and a friend once snuck into a club before a show and got to watch a RH&E rehearsal/sound check and then got his picture taken with RH. Paul was strangely enough a conservative republican who was an advocate of psychedelic drugs (go figure). Currently, I listen to a lot of Julian Cope, Scott Miller (Game Theory, Loud Family), Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker, Big Star, Cocteau Twins, and XTC. My tastes have also started leaning to the "Grunge" side and I enjoy groups such as Foo Fighters and Everclear. Has anyone out there gotten into the group Ween? Or is my brain the only one fried enough for their music? On the question of astrology - sorry, no hard-core believers here, although we hate to discount anything (except established Western religions). A poll on writers would be a great idea! Grant ------------------------------ Date: 5 Dec 1995 13:39:02 -0800 From: "Mark Gloster" Subject: Re: feglaxitivity To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Time:11:47 AM OFFICE MEMO re>feglaxitivity Date:12/5/95 Okay, here's the deal. My sweetie introduced me to the music of Robyn. She thinks he's the second greatest musical force in the galaxy (after me). She's wonderful, and a Scorpio. We have most things that are important in common: love, humor, music, cats, sex drive, politics. I would rather see a funny flick than a tear-wrenching "film". I like to ski. I even like to watch football once in a while. I don't think nuts belong in food. I'd rather eat vanilla gelato to any other cold dessert. I'd rather eat white cake to any other cool to hot dessert. Donne thinks I'm a little crazy, lack some kulcha, but intriguing nevertheless. --- About astrology, I have a considerable fascination with it. I don't think it is true in the sense that one may build any credible bias one way or the other, (and here comes the big) but I also think I can honestly identify some qualities that I find in people of certain signs. I think if I had more experiences with other signs, I would see the qualities of them. Some examples are: I know several Pisces. More often than not they tend to be extremely artistic, humanly powerful, wide-awake dreamers, and have a nearly or actually fatal flaw that keeps them from getting what they want. I am a Capricorn. I share this great sign with some people I wouldn't want to: Rush Limbaugh, Richard Nixon, Howard Stern. I also share it with some that are pretty cool: Adrian Belew, a couple of friends. Neutral: Elvis (I think). Caps seem to be lightning rods for some things. Magnets for others. I am a people magnet, but more often than not I frighten Libras, or make them nervous. I don't get it- it is just the way it is. Many people I meet and have instant rapport with are Virgos. I don't know why. I have tales of Taurus and Virgos and Scorpios, and the last three times I guessed Sagittarius, I was right. I guessed that Terry Marks was a Virgo- was that correct? (This was the only time I tried to guess someone's sign who I had not personally met.) I do know that I guess people's signs often correctly, and I don't really know much about astrology. When I am wrong, I have usually guessed their rising sign. It is a gestalt thing more than an intellectual one, and it is hard to find words that communicate the process within. Yep, I'm a skeptic too, but I have to be in awe of something that happens. By the way, I don't run around guessing everybody's zodiacle makeup. Just to let you know, I also don't ask when their birthday is before asking about their signs- I know that would be cheating. If anyone gets Rob Brezney's (former lead singer of great band "Tao Chemical") syndicated "Real Astrology" column, it's a hoot- he doesn't like Capricorns and he is in love with Scorpios. It just doesn't matter if it's real, it's fun to play with. --- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.- yea big time Tom Robbins- I know he rips of Vonnegut, but he does it well Douglas Adams- fer grins Dave Barry- I know, hardly literature Fyodor Dostoyevsky- that high brow enough? Thomas Mann- pretty impressive too. I'll think up more for the writers poll if I can punt start my brain. -Mark Gloster Mouth at Large ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 18:05:55 -0500 From: "32 flavors...and then some" To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: recent live songs griffith davies sez: >One was about a Trilobyte, named Dwight. this is a new one. for lack of a name, i think everyone is calling it (surprise!) "trilobite" (not the spelling). >Another song mentioned "Devil Radio". "the devil's radio" is the title. i don't know how new it is - i have a strong feeling that i heard it before the october shows, but i don't recall where or when. >The last song I have a question about might be an extended version of "I >got a message for you". He was saying things like "Don't call me Stalin, >darlin'," and something about Sven being a good name. that's "the devil's radio". woj [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. Archives can *not* be found at ftp://fegmania.wustl.edu/fegmaniax/archives/ The Archives are temporarily unavailable. For administrative questions, send mail to owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu For subscription requests, send mail to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu. Slipping you the midnight fish...