Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 43 Send posts to fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu Send subscribe/unsubscribe commands to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu Send comments, etc. to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu FegMANIAX! Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/ Archives are available at http://archive.uwp.edu/pub/music/lists/fegmaniax/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Re: lyricky stuffsky Re: lyricky stuffsky Re: Parties Re: lyricky stuffsky Re: Parties Re: lyricky stuffsky To Redsfan (no RH content) Re: lyricky stuffsky activities forbidden on this list E. E. Cummings Feg Kegger pomes gathering Re: Feg Kegger Feg Kegger WTT/WTB: Robyn Hitchcock Massive International Feg-Kegger Conspiracy Re: Feg Kegger ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:29:13 -0500 (EST) From: Dolph L Chaney Subject: Re: lyricky stuffsky Fellow Fegs, the translations here have been reading "helpless diseased houseplant", but ROLLING STONE (fwiw, which isn't much) quoted it as "helpless diseased housefly". Dolph ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 12:46:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Re: lyricky stuffsky ======== Original Message ======== Fellow Fegs, the translations here have been reading "helpless diseased houseplant", but ROLLING STONE (fwiw, which isn't much) quoted it as "helpless diseased housefly". Dolph ======== Fwd by: Russ Reynolds ======== I've always heard it as "housewife". ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 16:31:42 -0500 (EST) From: ! Subject: Re: Parties On Tue, 27 Feb 1996 LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US wrote: > Sometimes I give a Spring Fling Thing in late May, I am > comptimpalating doing one this year. > > Are their any fegs in the area whod be interested in a terribly > wild librarian party in Philly? Or am I a lone feg in this part > of the world? ...well, i've probably driven from dc to philly for worse reasons! i also could be persuaded to ride-share for 1-3 like-minded dc fegs. doug mw ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:35:30 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: lyricky stuffsky Translations of what? Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Dolph L Chaney wrote: > the translations here have been reading "helpless diseased houseplant", > but ROLLING STONE (fwiw, which isn't much) quoted it as "helpless > diseased housefly". > > Dolph > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:40:55 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Parties On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, ! wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Feb 1996 LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US wrote: > > > Sometimes I give a Spring Fling Thing in late May, I am > > comptimpalating doing one this year. > > > > Are their any fegs in the area whod be interested in a terribly > > wild librarian party in Philly? Or am I a lone feg in this part > > of the world? > > > ...well, i've probably driven from dc to philly for worse reasons! > i also could be persuaded to ride-share for 1-3 like-minded dc fegs. > I'll go if you guys don't mind extending the carpool to Florida. Terry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 18:42:10 EST From: kenster@MIT.EDU (ostrander) Subject: Re: lyricky stuffsky >"Topping place: went there once, found another[1] moustache - one of >the Ruskies had it, ! Took it home, dontcha know, showed >the little lady, she put it on, left me for another woman, >hmmm. Rum things lefts. And women." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ great transcript! one correction that i can hear: "rotton things lefts." i am a bit bemused by the whole mustache thing though. anyway, how about the lyrics for 'when i was a kid'? i've always had problems with that one. ken ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:32:07 -0800 From: jmisaa00@ix.netcom.com (James Isaacs ) Subject: To Redsfan (no RH content) Hey all, apologies for the personal tone of this tome, but I have a note for Mark. E-mail me at jmisaa00@pop.uky.edu, so I can get your address and mail you the Reds stuff. Also, the Reds signed Joe Oliver yesterday. James ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:09:33 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: lyricky stuffsky > >hmmm. Rum things lefts. And women." > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > great transcript! one correction that i can hear: "rotton things lefts." i > am a bit bemused by the whole mustache thing though. I always heard it as "Rum things, lips." > > anyway, how about the lyrics for 'when i was a kid'? i've always had > problems with that one. Guess what I just finished doing. This is off of Invisible Hits version. Mostly track 8, alternate mix. @SONG: When I Was a Kid [[Voices are in []'s. Mostly on right channel on first version. Ones with *'s are one's that I'm sure of. The [[]]'s are comments. Right track on second version is completely clean. First version has more and louder messages. ]] When I was a kid I finished what I did and I went upstairs in my dressing gown So I was a kid. [Sure that I was more] Everyone is that [I just took a door] I went up and I made damn sure I [I took a lampshade or a hammer and I*] never came down Ain't it strange how people get older. They wear you on their head and [They stamp their feet on your legend*] print you on their shoulder. I never believe [I need to hold on*] I been more than three [I've been really sure] at least of all for me When I was a kid, I wore a broad brim and [I suck clod ?? and lethal out] sat on him [[This is where it gets weird. There are two tracks of about equal volume. On the "aging bee" bit, there are three distinct voices]] His toothpaste majored his heart like a level tool [Borrowed as I did, there were no father*] but sat form on a new Clyde devil and [The people that traced you on the Rio Grande] aging bee [all alone] [Only trout] I swear I could murder that guy though I always smile at him when he wanders by. [always smile when he comes by*] He turned me into a businessman. [He turned me into a businessman*] He turned me into a businessman. [He turned me into an Englishman*] He turned me. When I was a kid [More that he just did*] I drew blank mushrooms sat in forums, took it all Then I new I did [push*] have the lot when I got what I was given I just [took it*] took it and I just couldn't fall [wrap] Some people get bigger some just get dead when their figures are bled cause their heads are stoven right in at the waste of the time [Crow, laugh, you just] they've been living in their hats sublimely. [Music like marsh. They're just deaf.*] Time. Cleethorpes. Terry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:47:35 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeffrey with 2 f's Jeffrey" Subject: activities forbidden on this list Olisbos are not to be used to remedy xeronisus, nor even to madefy preparatory thereto. And no steenking randles! yeply said, Jeffrey yclept 2 f's Jeffrey In my CD changer: Talking Heads _Remain in Light_ Loud Family _The Tape of Only Linda_ Sky Cries Mary _A Return to the Inner Experience_ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:50:23 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: E. E. Cummings Re: Balloon Man/Prisoner debate, kinda. I was looking through an atrocious grammar book [Basically, I'm willing to speak and read English, but not acknowledge the existance of English "Great Literature". If the guy really could write, he'd do it in another language.] and I found this poem by E. E. Cummings [And I don't care how he capitalizes it.]. It doesn't mention which poem, but I don't think that this book would fake poetry.. [Sorry about being in such a surly mood. Really bad time in English class, which I haven't really liked since sixth grade. Curriculum focii include "Why you can't write but these famous people can.", "Books that we can pass off as 'Great' because no one understands them", "Various minutae and trivia which apply only to students.", and, oddly enough, "Why all white people are responsible for the collective misery of everything and everyone"] Oh. Sorry..here's the poem. it's spring and the goat-footed balloonMan whistles far and wee [I think that this predates both Prisoner and that Sci-Fi guy [What was the name and book on that one?] Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 01:32:32 -0500 Subject: Feg Kegger Is this truly possible? The thought of a drunken social gathering where the background music is all Robyn all night long? Where the parties bickering over stereo control are arguing "Fegmania" vs. "Moonlight", instead of Silverchair vs. AC/DC? Probably not, since we're so geographically spread out, but what a helluva(n) idea. I haven't been around long enough to know where all of you are from (anyone from LA other than Dave?)-- someone mentioned the bay area, and I'm there fairly frequently on account of the inlaws. Could be a mini-convention of sorts. As a West Coast rendezvous spot, I nominate the Monterey Bay Aquarium, for all the obvious reasons. We could then take over some kind of quaint bed & breakfast and bedeck it with Victorian Squid and all the other ecoutrements-- did someone say "theme dinner"? Acoustic perfomances of our many Robyn-inspired bands... tape trading up close & personal... and, of course, the booze. Veuve Cliquot indeed. Even as we speak... I'm getting drunk inside my house again. You may say I'm a geek... but I'm not the only one. -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 0:49:01 CST From: Truman Peyote Subject: pomes Oh yes, I had forgotten completely about that "Pan the Baloon Man" poem. Yes, it does predate the prisoner and Donald Barthelme (NOT the sci-fi guy that was mentioned before although if you want to debate whether or not Dnald B. writes sci-fi- well, I suppose you could but don't take me up o this one, I'm too muddled i the head right now). Anyway, I rather like E.E. Cummings (though he wouldn't appreciate the capital letters) and in fact, am an English major :). So I don't exactly share your views on the study of literature :). Besides, LOTS of people write better than I can, I'll admit. Some of them are even famous :). Perish the thought! Cheers, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 0:54:59 CST From: Truman Peyote Subject: gathering You're not the only geek Rex. Apparently you're not the only one on the west coast, either. As far as I am aware, there are only myself and Michael Brage out here in Chicago. A two person convention somehow doesn't sound quite as thrilling as a rollicking mob of fegs taking over a bed and breakfast :). Anyone feel like taking over the idea of organizing (Terry- you're a Virgo :):) you do it)? I'd be willing to come to one on the east coast if I knew well enough in advance to get a cheap ticket (and cheap accomodations). Course I'd rather everyone came here :). Susan the sociable gemini ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 02:00:06 -0500 Subject: Re: Feg Kegger With all of the discussion of a Feg get together, I thought I'd throw this idea on the fire... I'm a Music/Program director at a new radio station in Champaign, Ill. (home of the University of Illinois) called WEBX- The Web. We treat Robyn and The Soft Boys as CORE artists here basically because I SAID SO!!!! (By the way, believe it or not, we *are* a COMMERCIAL radio station that plays Robyn *every* day). So, here's my idea. Why don't we all meet here some weekend (say around Robyn's birthday or something) and we'll have a station party and play the bard's music OVER THE AIR all weekend! Hey, I'm the Music Director- what I say goes!!! We can dream, can't we? Sincerely Jay Hedblade ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 09:18:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Feg Kegger > As a West Coast rendezvous spot, I nominate the Monterey Bay Aquarium, It so happens I'm going there March 10 (the week after Robyn's B-Day). Unfortunately my wife is so sick of hearing Hitchcock music (give yourself a nice pat on the back if you guessed it's my fault) that I think a Robyn Hitchcock party during our Monterey weekend getaway is going to be out of the question. She is a big fan of Cliquot, though, so you never know. -Russ.(about two days away from finishing up the first draft of my comprehensive RH discography & song index) PS: any Pearl Jam fans catch Eddie's walk-on on Letterman last night? ------------------------------ From: jpartridge@accel.com Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 13:34:21 EST Subject: WTT/WTB: Robyn Hitchcock Here's what I've got to trade: CD: Rout of the Clones CD: Time Between CD double: Fast Forward #2 from Brinkman Records CD single: Ultra Unbelievable Love (390-688-2) CD single: Ultra Unbelievable Love (75021 7273 2) CD 3": Balloon Man 12": A Can of Bees (white back) 12": A Can of Bees (the ultra-rare hard-to-find pink back) 12": Black Snake Diamond Role on Armageddon Records 12": Perspex Island 12" test pressing: Globe of Frogs 12" blue vinyl: Flesh Number One 7" blue vinyl: 1980 Rehearsals 7" single: Give It To the Soft Boys 7" single: Anglepoise Lamp 7" single: Balloon Man (AM-3023) PLEASE HELP ME. I can't find this stuff anywhere: CD: Perspex Island on Go! Discs CD single: So You Think You're in Love - the German release CD single: So You Think You're in Love on Go! Discs 12": Don't Let the Hope Close Down 12": No Quarter - Music for WW III 12": Read My Lips: New Music that Leaves You Speechless 12": Black Snake Diamond Role on Relativity Records 12": Black Snake Diamond Role on BASE Records 12": fegMANIA! on Plane Records 12": Respect 12" single: Heaven on Relativity Records 12" single: Heaven on Plane Records 7" single: Heaven on Plane Records 7" single: Heaven on Slash Records 7" single: So You Think You're In Love on Go! Discs 7" single: I Want To Be An Anglepoise Lamp - Australian release VIDEO: Queen Elvis II and Beautiful Girl VIDEO: Driving Aloud VIDEO: Video Mayhem #5 Cassette single: So You Think You're In Love Flexi-disc: Heaven OTHER: That signed and numbered Respect lithograph that is making me sick because it's impossible to find anyone who has even *heard* of it (outside of this group) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 23:42:53 -0600 From: JH3 Subject: Massive International Feg-Kegger Conspiracy Hi! OK, so far we've supposedly got potential feg parties going on in Philly and in Champaign, IL. I'm not far from Champaign myself. Heck, I think this is a great idea! I'm there! There's nothing better than a party with decent tunes. But why limit it to the US? I mean, this is an international list... Why, we could have simultaneous parties even, going on all over the world on the same night... We could even set up some sort of communications link between the parties so that everyone could talk to each other, like a big international FEG PARTY. We could do it using computers or something... I mean, we wouldn't even need the parties, everybody could just stay at home and get really drunk while listening to Robyn Hitchcock records, and just communicate with other Robyn fans nationwide using some sort of huge computerized network, all you'd have to do is type stuff, about lyrics or gigs or whatever, into a computer and press a button and everything you were thinking could go out to everybody on the list all over the world, instantaneously... I mean, we wouldn't even have to be getting drunk simultaneously, you could get drunk whenever you wanted and then just read whatever everybody else was sending out whenever it was convenient, at respond to it at your leisure... Naaaah. Silly idea. --John H. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 23:53:15 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeffrey with 2 f's Jeffrey" Subject: Re: Feg Kegger On Wed, 28 Feb 1996 the godlike genius of Hedblade@aol.com wrote: > I'm a Music/Program director at a new radio station in Champaign, Ill. (home > of the University of Illinois) called WEBX- The Web. We treat Robyn and The > Soft Boys as CORE artists here basically because I SAID SO!!!! (By the way, > believe it or not, we *are* a COMMERCIAL radio station that plays Robyn > *every* day). Wait a minute. Did I read that correctly? Lessee: > I'm a Music/Program director at a new radio station in Champaign, Ill. (home > of the University of Illinois) called WEBX- The Web. We treat Robyn and The > Soft Boys as CORE artists here basically because I SAID SO!!!! (By the way, > believe it or not, we *are* a COMMERCIAL radio station that plays Robyn > *every* day). Yes, I did. Robyn Hitchcock as "core artists" at a commercial radio station. A new enlightened era is surely upon us! This is great--just turn on all those Urbana Champaign drinkers to Robyn--t'morrow the world.... Well we can dream, no? --Jeff Jeffrey J. Norman "Californians invented the concept of life-style. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee This alone warrants their doom." Dept. of English & Comp. Lit. --Don DeLillo, _White Noise_ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.