Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 62 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: ------- ------- tropical flash medellin The literary Robyn Address needed -- Rob, who I met at the Bottom Line shows ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 23:14:38 -0500 From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu Subject: tropical flash medellin attention south american fegs! the colombian radio station mundo diners will be broadcasting a hour long special program about robyn this sunday. i'm not sure about the exact time, but anyone in bogota or medellin should tune their radio to 96.3 or 89.9 fm (respectively) to catch this broadcast. for more info, contact luis matta at diners89@medellin.cetcol.net.co. woj ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 01:14:42 -0500 Subject: The literary Robyn I mentioned some of this as a joke in a previous post, but where Robyn and the prose world are concerned... There is, of course, "Raymond Chandler Evening". Terry mentions Shakespeare. The "Chinese Bones" connection is abundantly obvious. I also maintain that "Knife" is a rewrite of the "dagger of the mind" soliloquy in "MacBeth", and rocks as such. The neat song in its Shakespearean angle, however, is "Lysander". I've previously mentioned my non-Feg fiancee Megan, and will now add that she's a "theatre person" with a BA in theatre arts from Berkeley, where she did a lot of directing. She knows her Shakespeare. Lysander, as many of you probably know, is the name of one of the princes in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The reference, when juxtaposed with the content of Robyn's "Lysander", has always mystified me. One night, I decided to run the song past my live-in Shakespeare expert, and see if she got it. I played it for her, laid out the lyrical content, and she said, "Oh, yeah, that totally makes sense". For some reason I never asked why, assuming that her greater familiarity with the play made her correct. In two subsequent live performances, I've heard Robyn explain that "lysander" was the name of a model of RAF airplane during WWII, and that the song basically concerns such a plane, miniaturized and painted pink and bedecked with mooseheads, which "circles your heart / Like (it) circled the world" etc... Especially for the UK Fegs... true or not? I wouldn't put it past Robyn to be working the Shakespeare reference and the name of a WWII bomber simultaneously, but I wonder what he might be up to in doing so. "Lysander" is a terrific song. I've ripped off that F# chord with the open E and B strings several times (also derived from Throwing Muses' "Red Shoes") in my own songwriting. Everyone who hears it inevitably says, "That sounds like Porno for Pyros' 'Pets'". If they only knew... Rex PS: The Lysander plane only developed the mooseheads as decorations at the Alligator Lounge show... at McCabe's last year it was just small and pink... which Robyn used as a segue into a discourse on how we are only comfortable with things at their current size, citing as his principle example housecats, who would surely eat us were they much larger. I agree with him in theory, but couldn't help but think of my own cats (pardon me, non- cat- owners Fegs) and how housecats are devolved to the point where, should they suddenly find themselves enlarged to lion-size, they wouldn't know what to do with themseves really. I think humans keep pets as a sort of genetic penance for domesticating such beautifully wild creatures to begin with. Must've been a bitch to achieve, and what did we get for it? Neurotic, miniaturized creatures for whom we must purchase pre-processed food unless we want to have an endless parade of dead rodents and birds presented to us as bounty. We deserve our fate. They are awfully cute at their present size, though. ------------------------------ From: "David C. Olstein" Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 10:03:10 -0500 Subject: Address needed -- Rob, who I met at the Bottom Line shows Rob -- yes, it's bad enough that it's taken me forever to make your tapes, but now I've gone and lost your business card. But the tapes are done (five 90 minute tapes), and I can send them to you if you e-mail me your address. If you still work downtown, you can pick them up from me at my office -- my number there is 212-504-6317. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.