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 195 Today's Topics: ------- ------- the can opener Re: The Can Opener Re: feglaxitivity Re: feglaxitivity CRD: Oceanside Astrology writers Child of the Universe Re: writers poll Barthelme, Donald Re: Video Conversion to PAL The Infinity Concerto Re: writers poll Houston astros signs sxsw 95 Re: sxsw 95 Re: Astrology feglaxitivity Re: sxsw 95 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 08:49:06 -0600 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: aac708@Waldo.Angelo.Edu (eric gibbons) Subject: the can opener hello all and terry, what i would like to know is who says: " Oh Wendy dear..." it makes me laugh out loud. so cute slipping you the midnight fish, eric ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 23:44:42 -0800 From: Jon-Ross Habina Subject: Re: The Can Opener To: Bayard cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu 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! I always thought it was at least Andy and Morris, but I don't *actually* know; probably Mark and Steve or something... J-R ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 22:10:51 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: feglaxitivity To: Mark Gloster cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu > > 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.) Hmm. Well, I was born a Virgo, admittedly (spot on, Mark) but later gave up my astrological sign. I forget exactly why. I think it was just to irk someone who was into astrology, but I might've done it for other reasons. Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 22:26:49 -0500 From: mikeb@usa1.com (Mike Breen) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: feglaxitivity Hmmm.... Introduced to Robyn via college radio first, old college chum second. Currently without significant other, but have been working on an old band member who's a percussionist/singer. She and I occasionally write together. It would be a perfect match 'cause neither one of us would complain when the other couldn't be around because of which is something that I've broken up over more than once. >I would rather see a funny flick than a tear-wrenching "film". Ditto. I also think the Japanese animators are miles ahead of Disney (so it's unrelated, but it's still "film.") >I like to ski. I don't. Bad ankles and I hate being cold. Plus I'm a bit of... well ok, a big klutz. >I even like to watch football once in a while. Nope. Not me. My bandmates have been trying to get me to scummb for two years now. [Mark's comments about food deleted] Personally, I can't take seriously any meal that the recipe calls for crushed potato chips. The most experiance I've had with astrology was via an old roommate. She was _way_ into astrology, and could not understand how I could be a Gemini. She said that I was one of the most straight-foward, non-two-faced, laid back people she had ever met. Then she saw us play live and saw me go completely bonkers (karate chops to the Strat, racing around the club (I had a 50 foot cable), Rick abuse, etc). After that she said I was very much a Gemini. Aside from the two-sided thing, I have no idea what else I'm supposed to be. Authors... hmm, that's a toughie, but I will agree with Douglas Adams. I think that the most Robynesque _cartoonist_ would have be a toss up between Bill "Calvin and Hobbes yeah, I'm retireing, wanna make something outta it" Watterson and Gary "The Far Side ha, I'm already retired, you copycat" Larson. ---Mike (THIS SPACE UNDER CONSTRUCTION) Check out the Other Days home page at http://www1.usa1.com/~mikeb/odays.html mikeb@usa1.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 23:27:08 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: CRD: Oceanside To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps This is the easiest song I've done so far (easier than Beautiful Queen or Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole) Glad I didn't put a bounty on it, 'cause it's two chords.. @Oceanside: A Did you ever hover in the distance? Did you ever swoop down from the sky To the bright green lobster draped in seaweed and the deep blue ocean rolling by D maybe I will find today maybe I will lose tomorrow A gonna rock onto the oceanside Did you ever see into the future See the big red sun that won't go down And the giant moths upon the cliffside in the deep red scar that was our town maybe I will find today maybe I will lose tomorrow gonna rock onto the oceanside Babe, we're the king and queen of {nothing|something} everybody {glows|goes} and then they {know|come} We can make a moment last forerver Gaze across the ocean to the sun maybe I will find today maybe I will lose tomorrow gonna rock onto the oceanside gonna rock onto the oceanside gonna rock onto the oceanside gonna rock onto the oceanside ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 23:29:10 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Astrology To: The Devil You Know I know that you've all thought it, but..... If he treats you horribly, he's probably a Scorpio. Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 17:35:45 +1300 (NZDT) To: The Glass Hotel From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: writers >How about a favorite writers poll? Anyone up for it? John Sladek, Ray Bradbury, Terry Pratchett, Robert Heinlein (OK - I like science fiction. Any objections?), James Joyce (sorry!) and Dylan Thomas (gotta be in the right mood, though but), Flann O'Brien (who?), Mikhail Bulgakov (read "The Master and Margarita". It's heavy going in places, but brilliant!). Brian Aldiss I like, but his work is very bitty - some excellent, some terrible. O'Brien, Bulgakov, Aldiss and Sladek all have their Robynesque moments, especially Sladek. Has anyone mentioned Roald Dahl yet? BTW, Penguin Books are advertising in NZ at the moment using the slogan "It's always been fun to go to bed with a penguin". Sounds like that could have been a line from one of RH's songs... Funny. I read a lot of SF, but my favourite TV is detective stories - PD James, Colin Dexter etc. And I never read them... 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) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 23:35:06 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Child of the Universe To: The Devil You Know I'm sorry to post three times in a row, but I think that the chorus of Child of the Universe goes either doctor, dops you, dot she like you or dot me, dot you, dot she like you or possibly both... Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 22:04:43 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: writers poll To: BDWILLEMS@alex.stkate.edu cc: FEGMANIAX@ns2.rutgers.edu > 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. Since a poll on spouses would (hopefully) not be very interesting, I'll do a poll on what you're top 10 horoscope signs are. Note that "None" is an applicable sign.. Terry ------------------------------ From: TPJSHEDS@aol.com Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 02:13:49 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Barthelme, Donald So. Since we've all suddenly become frighteningly literary, I thought I'd share this; the opening paragraph of my favorite writer Donald Barthelme's "The Great Hug" which appears in his 1976 collection of short stories, "Amateurs." ****At the last breakfast after I told her, we had steak and eggs. Bloody Marys. Three pieces of toast. She couldn't cry, she tried. Balloon Man came. He photographed the event. He created the Balloon of the lst Breakfast After I Told Her-a butter colored balloon. "This is the kind of thing I do so well," he said. Balloon Man is not modest. No one has ever suggested that. "This balloon is going to be extra-famous and acceptable, a documentation of raw human riches, the plain canvas flag of the thing. The Pin Lady will never be able to burst this balloon, never, not even if she hugs me for a hundred years." We were happy to have pleased him, to have contributed to his career.**** Well, I wonder... Tim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 08:52:48 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Video Conversion to PAL To: Michael Brage , fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu On Mon, 4 Dec 1995 12:54:38 -0600 mbrage@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu (Michael Brage) wrote: >Eurofegs, > >I made a few phone calls for quotes on conversion of the video >compilation >from NTSC to PAL and got quite a range of prices. The quotes ranged >from >as little as $15.00 US dollars to the amazing of $150.00 (shocker!!). > >I also can mail the tape to this guy that I have purchased videos (of >this >nature) from. His price is $20.00. However, if I went this route, I >suspect that he would procure a copy for himself and sell it for >profit. >This idea to me is less optimal although convenient. > >Let me know, > Michael, I'd say do what's most convenient for you. Actually you don't have to do the conversion at all, as far as I'm concerned because my Mitsubishi VCR is capable of NTSC playback. However, it's mono only and it doesn't allow me to tape it in PAL on a connected VCR, so don't ask... :-) Thanks and greetings, Sebastian -- Sebastian Hagedorn Cologne University Germany Kempener Str. 66, 50733 Koeln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: 06 Dec 95 06:19:13 EST From: Aidan Merritt <101356.2516@compuserve.com> To: Fegmaniax Subject: The Infinity Concerto The recent kerfluffle about 'The Devil's Radio' reminds me of a message I've been intending to post for weeks: A long-out-of-print pulp novel from around 1972 called _The Infinity Concerto_ (by Greg Bear - republished in completely rewritten form recently as _Songs Of Earth & Power_) has chapters called 'Human Music', 'Underwater Moonlight', 'The Devil's Radio' and 'The Flavor Of Night', and also has a chapter which begins "Suddenly he had the feeling he'd been surrounded by shining horses coming in all directions". The book was published before either the Soft Boys or the release of 'Horses', so I assume it's just a coincidence. In its _Infinity Concerto_ incarnation it is a godawful turkey of a book. _Songs Of Earth & Power_, which is a completely rewritten version of _Infinity Concerto_ and its sequel, _Serpent Mage_ published as a single book is an adequate but not wonderful airport novel, and *doesn't* have these chapter headings. Fans of Greg Bear (if there are such creatures) should be warned that it is _completely_ different to his later, sci-fi, books; its basic premis is that a boy in LA discovers a tune that transports those who listen to it to Fairyland. yours etc aidan PS. 4 out of 10. Maybe 5 if I'm feeling generous. Not as good as T.M. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 05:47:25 -0800 (PST) From: Livia To: your mom Subject: Re: writers poll On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Terry Marks wrote: > > > 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. > > Since a poll on spouses would (hopefully) not be very interesting, I'll > do a poll on what you're top 10 horoscope signs are. Note that "None" is > an applicable sign.. gee, why not the top twelve? :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 09:21:29 -0600 (CST) From: JAY LYALL Subject: Houston astros signs To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu For the record I was born under the sign of Elvis...we share the same birthday in Jan. (differnet years, though)...now if I can get back to my over-sized brandy snifter of pills and fried chicken.... jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "All my friends do the model girl thing hist1a@jetson.uh.edu So I found me one University of Houston Now she wears my nose ring" --Lloyd Cole "Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip" "There's liquor on my breath --Robyn Hitchcock And you on my mind" --Replacements %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 10:27:16 -0600 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: aac708@Waldo.Angelo.Edu (eric gibbons) Subject: sxsw 95 dearest fegs, Is there anyone out there from a place called texas? better still is there anyone who attended Austin's South by Southwest music fest in March of 95?? Well Robyn played at (im sure this is old hat, but there is a point) the Texas Union Ballroom after John Wesley Harding and before Marshall Crenshaw. at any rate was anyone in attendence that evening.. It was my first and only (to date) Robyn Hitchcock show. I'd love to compare notes. yours, eric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 11:16:04 -0600 (CST) From: JAY LYALL Subject: Re: sxsw 95 To: aac708@Waldo.Angelo.Edu Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu > Is there anyone out there from a place called texas? better still >is there anyone who attended Austin's South by Southwest music fest in March >of 95?? yo >Well Robyn played at (im sure this is old hat, but there is a point) the >Texas Union Ballroom after John Wesley Harding and before Marshall Crenshaw. >at any rate was anyone in attendence that evening.. It was my first and only >(to date) Robyn Hitchcock show. I'd love to compare notes. > ....it was an ok performance..apparently the night before he played a real set somewhere in Austin that was kickin'....he did promise to be back in the new year... jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "All my friends do the model girl thing hist1a@jetson.uh.edu So I found me one University of Houston Now she wears my nose ring" --Lloyd Cole "Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip" "There's liquor on my breath --Robyn Hitchcock And you on my mind" --Replacements %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ From: cchenowe@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: Astrology To: a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 14:50:19 -0600 (CST) Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu > > I know that you've all thought it, but..... > > If he treats you horribly, he's probably a Scorpio. > oops, Terry, ya forgot the next, but very important lines! "he's a long kebab through your ovaries --the same goes out, the same goes in" I will personally vouch for the truth of these lines.... Scorpios are enchanting like cobras, and just as dangerous... charmingly dangerous, in fact..... :) . -empty girl ------------------------------ From: cchenowe@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: feglaxitivity To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 15:16:39 -0600 (CST) ok, delurk mode on, this is silly enough... a) astrology. I'm Cancer with Libra ascendant. Cancer is 'spose to be maternal....HAH! hate kids with a passion...however, if I could give birth to puppies or kittens, I'd be preggers all the time. oh well. I don't know if I believe it, but it's fun, and no, uh uh, the daily horoscope is BS. I like all the silly stuff...new age crystals, tarot, but the only one I really treat with great respect is the I Ching, using proper yarrow stalks, everything wrapped in silk, etc....Just In Case! I would not wish to offend it. anyway...seems that many of my friends for a time were Libra; I've heard one is often attracted to their asc. sign in friends. b) spousal types. No longer encumbered with the testosterone-laden curse who introduced me to the music of Robyn Hitchcock. It *was* a requirement to like what he played, as music was constant. Generally it was a good thing...I heard lots of great bands (Camper Van Beethovan, Wire, Pixies, Feelies, etc.) Unfortunately, he moved on musically and I really did not like what he played. Don't know if that was a symptom or cause of leaving, and don't really care. But he lives now in San Clemente and did *not* go see Hitchcock at two close venues... "too far" (whine) and "softball game". tasteless. ;) c) favorite authors: yeah, I'll be the lowbrow element, I don't care. After wrestling with computers and science all day and in magazines to keep up, I want a break!!!! give me fun!! P.G. Wodehouse, E.F. Bensen, Bill Bryson, Molly Ivins, A.A. Milne, James Herriot, and the sci-fi crew: Anne McCaffrey, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sir A.C. Doyle, and mystery types, Dick Francis, Agatha Christie, P.D. James, Dorothy Sayers; and no reading list is complete without Jane Austen. used to read Dickens, tired of the melodrama. love Paul Scott's Raj quartet! enough boredom for those who hate this thread....hit that delete key! lurking mode re-engaged....(I love that star trek feel, whoever came up with that) -empty girl ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 18:59:34 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: chichi@io.com (Zelda Pinwheel) Subject: Re: sxsw 95 At 10:27 AM 12/6/95 -0600, eric gibbons wrote:>dearest fegs, > > Is there anyone out there from a place called texas? better still >is there anyone who attended Austin's South by Southwest music fest in March >of 95?? I found the show to be a bit dissapointing...the SXSW crowd seemed kinda disinterested and the party attitude seemed to throw him off... to make matters worse, RH had some problems with his amp, causing him to cut his set short...he played to a much smaller audience a couple of nights before in Dallas and the show was warmer, longer and more intimate...a much better experience any way you look at it--stacy Last book read: Cherry Ames:Dude Ranch Nurse [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] 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...