Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 64 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: ------- ------- Danger! Minimal Robyn Hitchcock Content! Groovy Decay Robyn Hitchcock comics The literary Robyn Address needed -- Rob, who I met at the Bottom Line shows Jeffrey Lawrence anybody have these tapes? haircuts fwd: haircuts ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 96 20:43:00 -0600 From: Jim Moore Subject: Danger! Minimal Robyn Hitchcock Content! I can't wait until Robyn's new CD comes out, man. When it does, I'm going to, like, buy it, and then I'm going to listen to it, like, over and over again, like about 4,000 times without listening to anything else. Then I think I'm going to listen to something else, possibly the White album, or maybe the green one with the large [this space for rent]. Mentally deteriorating but waiting patiently, Girn (Beaker(J)im) Moore }8^) -- the man with the bracket head ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 08:05:53 -0600 (CST) From: VERMIN-IN-TRAINING Subject: Groovy Decay So I finally get back to town and stop by the ol' cd store to pick up the new Cracker, and they have a copy of GD ( the one with RH smoking while sitted at a table with a skull, a bottle..etc) ...if anyone is interested in it call Cactus Records in Houston...they will do the mail order thang.... ...now to wade through seventy pieces of mail....anyone want to give me a summary of whats been going on so I can just delete the lot? chairs 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, 3 Apr 1996 15:14:29 GMT From: Brandt Subject: Robyn Hitchcock comics Hello fegs! I just got email from Tom Spurgeon who is the Managing Editor of The Comics Journal published by Fantagraphics books in Seattle. He just confirmed that Robyn Hitchcock will be doing a big comics story in a forthcoming issue of Pat Moriarty's _Big Mouth_ comic book. Robyn himself had mentioned that Fantagraphics had indeed been talking to him about doing a comic story when he was on the Sound Opinions radio show on Q101 in Chicago last year. You can bug your local retail comic shop to start carrying more alternative comics, or contact Fantagraphics at 1-800-657-1100 for ordering info. Again, this project is still in the works according to Tom, so it won't be available right away (back issues ARE, however, if you wanna check 'em out! Support alternative comics!) An original work by Hal Brandt. Produced and Directed by Hal Brandt. Starring Hal Brandt. Edited by Hal Brandt. Best Boy - Hal Brandt. All names, characters, and incidents portrayed are ficticious. No identification with actual persons, places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. A BRANDT COMPANY ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 01:19:58 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Jeffrey Lawrence To 99.4% of Fegmaniax, I'd like to say "Sorry" To Jeffrey Lawrence, I'd like to say "I've got the tapes, but not the address. Would you be as kind?" Leave it on press, depress, depress Llama Taboot Taboot Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ From: Critica@aol.com Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:07:46 -0500 Subject: anybody have these tapes? Hi all! I'm looking for tapes of Robyn's shows from The Turning Point, in NY, from early April 1995. He played 1 night, 2 shows, in the first week of April (the 4th? the 7th? somewhere in the single digits anyway). I was supposed to get tapes from someone I met at the show, but you know... I'd appreciate any information you can offer on these dates. Thanks! --Becky critica@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 13:24:06 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: haircuts I've been looking through album photos and the series of videos and it occurred to me... Robyn really hasn't had a good haircut since 1979. He looks good on Invisible Hits, but after that... Any comments? Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Apr 96 12:23:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: fwd: haircuts ======== Original Message ======== I've been looking through album photos and the series of videos and it occurred to me... Robyn really hasn't had a good haircut since 1979. He looks good on Invisible Hits, but after that... Any comments? Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ======== Fwd by: Russ Reynolds ======== I thought his current haircut--as seen on the Conan O'Brien show--was pretty similar to the one he sported on IH. But then you're talkin' to a guy who hasn't had a good haircut since the third grade. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.