Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 73 Send posts to fegmaniax@ecto.org Send subscribe/unsubscribe commands to majordomo@ecto.org Send comments, etc. to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@ecto.org 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: Guided By Voices and the Soft Boys Sorry. Deck of Cards Orange Alert Re: Existence OK City I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! So many threads, so little time veggie cats Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Re: Deck of Cards veggie cat love songs Re: Orange Alert Re: veggie cat Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! re: I HAVE seen a vegetarian cat rabid vegi cats Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Re: Deck of Cards Re: veggie cat re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Re: Orange Alert Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Orange alert Re: I have BEEN a Vege-Cat! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:27:16 -0500 (EST) From: Dolph L Chaney Subject: Re: Guided By Voices and the Soft Boys On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Aaron Mandel wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Nitnit wrote: > > > I found this in a local newsgroup. Anyone have an opinion on Guided By > > Voices? I've never heard of them. > > [Total rubbish snipped] > > I saw that review earlier today. I will try and refrain from talking > about the author's (clear) critical flaws and (inferred) total failings > as a human being. > > Instead, let me echo daramsey's enthusiasm about them and add this: Under > The Bushes... may be their most accessible if you want to access GBV from > the perspective of "normal" music, but the album that provides the > deepest insight right into the core of their groove right away is > Propeller. Go get it and don't believe anything you read on the net. I, too, will add to the ravings about GbV (plus, they're Dayton, OH, natives like me!). Great friggin' band -- go get BEE THOUSAND. NOW. It will make your innards sparkly. ===================================================================== Re: Robyn In the last few weeks, I've been nearing the completion of my Robyn collection (nearly everything legitimately released -- I only lack INVISIBLE HITS and the Soft Boys' twofer now). The three recent purchases have been the MY WIFE AND MY DEAD WIFE EP from Sequel with "I Something You," "Zipper In My Spine," and "Man With A Woman's Shadow", RESPECT, and A CAN OF BEES. The EP is *great*. As Dave "Blatzman" Santos mentioned, most of you probably already have it, I'm sure, but if not, GET IT. My opinion of "I Something You" changes from day to day -- some days I think it's brilliant, others I think it's dry in a really hideous way. Maybe it's both. Was "Zipper" in the set lists for the 1994 Soft Boys reunion? I ask because it sounds like an SB tune in a way that nothing else has since GROOVY DECAY. And "Man With A Woman's Shadow" is gorgeous -- if Robyn's not putting it on the new album, then that only increases my urging to the Fegs -- GET THE EP! (If you have a quality turntable, get the K 7" instead, since probably more of the money is getting back to Robyn [just a guess].) Anyway, RESPECT is an album I thought I hated. I listened to it once on loan from the library in summer 1994, and I was *sure* that I couldn't stand it. Really. Honest. I say this because I'm in awe of almost all of it now. Maybe it's because I didn't know that "The Yip Song" had such a deep meaning -- I just thought it was annoying. Maybe it was the bad taste that "Wafflehead" left in my mouth (now, I just hurry over to the CD player after "Then You're Dust" closes...). Thanks to the GLASS FLESH contributors who did RESPECT tracks -- it kept my interest in the album alive (especially "Serpent At The Gates Of Wisdom" -- kudos, James). I just bought A CAN OF BEES on Saturday. I had often wondered why Robyn considered Captain Beefheart such a big influence; I'm a Beefheart fan, and I just couldn't see Mr. Van Vliet anywhere in Robyn's work. Now, I understand. Sure, it's immature. Sure, it's brash. Sure, it's gonzoid. Sure, it lacks the subtlety of Robyn's best stuff. But, folks, I LOVE this album. It's powerful enough that he's *still* trying to get away from it, in a sense, almost 20 years later. Spew, spew, spew... Oh, and hey -- Green Day are what they are, which is "nothing to get hung about" either pro or con. (By the way, I almost caused them to get lost on the way to Lollapalooza in Houston...) Go get the Buzzcocks' SINGLES GOING STEADY instead. Going for your Master's Degree in Library Science does this to you. Forgive me, all. Dolph ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:56:21 -0400 Subject: Sorry. I promise never again to be really depressed, drink a bunch of beer, and let my stream of consciousness flow onto the Feglist. Sheepishly yours, Rx ------------------------------ From: rkarstro@cap.se Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 7:41:37 +0100 Subject: Deck of Cards Greetings everyone! I'm new to this list and this is my first "entry"; Does anyone know who did the original of "Deck of Cards", from the flexi disc given away with Bucketful of Brain no. 23 ??? It's credited to someone called Tyler, btw. I have a sneaking suspicion that I actually should know who did it :( btw, regarding Green Day, Rancid & whathaveyous...., well, being new to this list I did actually wonder for a while if I had accidently subscribed to some other list. Richard ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 96 23:17 PDT From: upstart@mindlink.bc.ca (Renee Lynn) Subject: Orange Alert >of us have. . .i guess many of us are uk'ers, though. . . (so can we imagine >robyn in the village, prisoner fans?). . .. . . tom If Robyn were in the village I wouldn't mind being stuck there. Actually, I have been to Portmeirion and it would be a perfect place to be stranded with him for a while... RLT (not a uk'er, tho) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 23:57:49 -0700 From: gondola@deltanet.com (E.B.) Subject: Re: Existence >But then, spontaneously, someone led the Whole Sick Crew into "She Doesn't >Exist"... and for a brief moment, I was at home. > >Rx Ah, "She Doesn't Exist." Maybe the most beautifully sad of all Robyn's songs, though maybe it's just because I relate to it so strongly. (There's a certain girl out there whom *I* have to pretend doesn't exist anymore.) I can't listen to that one with a dry eye...ever. EB PS Rage Against The Machine SUCKS!!! :) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 06:11:53 +0100 From: jsbarlow@mich.com (Jeff Barlow) Subject: OK City >Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 06:08:11 +0100 >To:Digital_Graffiti >From:jsbarlow@mich.com (Jeff Barlow) >Subject:OK City > >In the year since the terrorist attack against the Oaklahoma City Federal >Building, please pray for the restortation of peace in the United States.. > >Trampled Underground is black for the duration,,, F**k the C.D.A. | \|||| |------Trampled Underground: The Led Zeppelin Discography------| |Jeff Barlow Holt, Michigan, USA| |jsbarlow@mich.com Gabba Gabba Hey!| |=========http://www.mich.com/~jsbarlow/LedZeppelin.html=======| ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 05:56:39 -0500 From: Jay Brownlee Subject: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Fegs, It seems a match has been lit from the very kindling of this very reading list. Without going into all the cutesy details (godforbid you should want to know), the reader/poster called The Goddess [Sarah] and I have become a feg couple. And we need your help. Sure, you must all be thinking, "Gee this is real cute and all, but just what does this fellow feg think we can do for HIM? And, for-god-sakes, WHY?" You see, we need 'our song.' Which brings up an interesting topic: Best Robyn Hitchcock Love Song. You see- we have not been able to select one, as yet, and I think it is time to give this question to the most professional panel of Robyn-neers this side of Trinidad. Sarah and I need your help, fellow fegs. And we can't do it without you. The person that comes up with the song we use as "our song" may have our eternal gratitude as well as an occasional email if we ever have kids or something. Suggestions? Jay & Sarah ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 04:34:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Livia Subject: Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! all i wanna do is fall in love gets my vote every time On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Jay Brownlee wrote: > Fegs, > It seems a match has been lit from the very kindling of this very > reading list. Without going into all the cutesy details (godforbid you > should want to know), the reader/poster called The Goddess [Sarah] and I > have become a feg couple. > > And we need your help. > > Sure, you must all be thinking, "Gee this is real cute and all, but just > what does this fellow feg think we can do for HIM? And, for-god-sakes, WHY?" > > You see, we need 'our song.' Which brings up an interesting topic: Best > Robyn Hitchcock Love Song. > > You see- we have not been able to select one, as yet, and I think it is time > to give this question to the most professional panel of Robyn-neers this > side of Trinidad. > > Sarah and I need your help, fellow fegs. And we can't do it without you. The > person that comes up with the song we use as "our song" may have our eternal > gratitude as well as an occasional email if we ever have kids or something. > > Suggestions? > > Jay & Sarah > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 09:11:46 -0500 From: gene@cadmus.com (Gene Hopstetter, Jr.) Subject: re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! >Sure, you must all be thinking, "Gee this is real cute and all, but just >what does this fellow feg think we can do for HIM? And, for-god-sakes, WHY?" > >You see, we need 'our song.' Which brings up an interesting topic: Best >Robyn Hitchcock Love Song. My vote is for "I Used To Say I Love You", lthough it doesn't quite relate to the newness of your relationship. I think "I Used To Say I Love You" is about the absolute essentials of True Love: yearning, desire, the Beautiful Void That Can Only Be Filled By The Other, etc. That song tears me up every time. It's intimate and intensely personal, but also naive and, hell I dunno, it just plain aches. (More that any song Mr. Plain Old Morrissey could every write, IMNSHO.) +++++++++++++++++ Internet Publishing Specialist + Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + Cadmus Digital Solutions +++++++++++++++++ http://cjs.cadmus.com ------------------------------ From: LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 9:47:37 -0400 (EDT) CC: LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US Subject: So many threads, so little time Hmmm, afraid I must plead guilty to the anglophile thing. Its been a life long habit, formed perhaps by singing too many Anglican childrens hymns as a child. Actually , its much sicker than that. At a certain level of society status is determined by the ethnic origin of ones servents. Needless to say, back in the fifties and sixties(I have no idea how it works these days, having no servents) (or, perhaps I should say, being a servent(wage-slave morgage bound, wife as maid and mother)) ahh yes--back then if the help was black or hispanic, you yourself were no where. Middle-European twernt much better. We had a swiss maid, a french cook, and you guessed it, an English nanny pour little old me. Or rather several--my mother never being able to keep any employee for more than two years(if that). I remember one with a fondnest for liver and beating me with a mason-pearson hair-brush. Such are the roots of my love and hatred for all things Brit. Since Robyn seems equally ambivalent, I find him acceptable. I also like their history because it goes back so much further, in terms of bloodshed and such. After spending a rather hazy year in London, I decided the Brits were why we invented the neutron bomb--all those lovely ruins could be left standing and all those smug, uptight,hypocritical, whinging, naff buggers could be blown to bits. Speaking of anglophobia or philia, I had an odd dream last night: I was in along white, semi-transparent nightgown, taking the air on the local heath, the moon wafting in smokey currents down upon the menheirs,when I noticed a british phone box was standing right at the point in the circle where the moon alighned with Mars and something was in the seventh something. A giant squid with remarkably long legs was emerging from it, followed by a small red-head wearing a nametag marked 'Renneee!" Im not sure wether she was a squid too. the larger squid, then proceeded to wrap said long legs(and long arms, might I add)around my own, paying no attention to my attempts at starting a polite conversation on the roots of British ballads in suppressed occult material , since this squid much resembled a musician I once heard do just lovely ballads(I think The Crawling was my favorte love song he ever did, thou I melt to almost all of them, especiially One Long Pair of clairvoyent trousers that we're born in.) anywho, there I was trying to have a nice intellectual disscussion, but all that came out was--but sir, I dont even know thine moniker--to which he mocked me saying-- fair lay, tis Basil Robyn Fawlty Baker Williams Alfred, but I dont make movies. Fine , I said, but you must know, My piss glws in the dark. And he said, forsooths forwith, tis Ta, Kay the are you really still reading this, Cap how how navigated my path to your very door. So I bed him enter. I think Rennee was doing something quite satisfying with a china plug. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 96 10:06:15 CDT From: Truman Peyote Subject: veggie cats All I Wanna Do Is Fall in Love was the first one that sprng to my mind as well, but on further reflection....... Flavour (notice the u) of Night Beautiful Girl Element of Light September Cones would also work well as "our song". It's kind of a tough call because RH, like many other fine songwriters, doesn't write that many "just plain love songs". If we were choosing songs about regret, frustrated desire, or love lost there would be a much better selection to choose from :). Of course you realize also that picking an RH song as an "our song" also means that you will rarely, if ever, get the chance to get sentimental about hearing it at say, a party, on a jukebox somewhere, or on the radio :) and may get strange looks when making references to it. I'm speaking more or less from experience, as my boyfriend and I consider Syd Barrett's "Love You" to be our "our song", and find we don't get much occasion for random sentimental moments therefrom, as there seems to be no way to hear it but for one of us to choose to put it on the stereo :). Plus people look at us strangely when we call each other "little honey funny sunny morning", as well they might :). Susan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 08:55:49 -0500 From: Grant & Lorrie Subject: Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! > Sarah and I need your help, fellow fegs. And we can't do it without you. The > person that comes up with the song we use as "our song" may have our eternal > gratitude as well as an occasional email if we ever have kids or something. > > Suggestions? > > Jay & Sarah Congratulations-- My vote goes for "You and Me" This message from Grant and/or Lorrie in beautiful downtown Corvallis, Oregon See our ever-changing home pages at http://www.proaxis.com/~gburnell/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 08:56:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Deck of Cards On Fri, 19 Apr 1996 rkarstro@cap.se wrote: > Does anyone know who did the original of "Deck of Cards", from the > flexi disc given away with Bucketful of Brain no. 23 ??? > It's credited to someone called Tyler, btw. > I have a sneaking suspicion that I actually should know who did it :( The original "Deck of Cards" was written and recorded in 1944 by T. Texas Tyler. It became a hit again in 1946 when Tex Ritter recorded it and again in 1958 when it was covered by Wink "Tic Tac Dough" Martindale. I've not heard Robyn's version - until now I was unaware he even recorded this. E-me privately and describe it to me...I'd be interested to know if he remained true to the original. "It's a shame that everyone who knows how to run the country is either driving a cab or working as a bartender." --George Burns Glen Uber hirsute@u.washington.edu *Note my new WWW address: http://weber.u.washington.edu/d83/hirsute/ Dept. of Linguistics Univ. of Washington Seattle, Washington USA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 96 09:49:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: veggie cat susan suggested the following for our happy new couple: <> good ones...but how could you leave off "Love"? That one puts me in the mood every time (also makes me crave Wheat-a-bix). -russ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:54:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Jennifer Cynthia Waits Subject: love songs I remember Robyn saying that "Wafflehead" was a love song, so we have a pretty broad range of songs to select from! My personal favorites: I Often Dream of Trains, Airscape, Birdshead....they have romantic and wistful overtones/undertones to me...even if they aren't overt love songs. jennifer ************************frightening news story***************************** "The College Republicans will sponsor Conservative Week this week. Today is Quit-PC Day...Wednesday is an Earth Day with a twist...[they] will be putting holes in the ground as opposed to planting new grass...Thursday is Wildlife Awareness Day. This day will be celebrated with a cookout....Hamburgers will be provided free of charge...Friday is Ronald Reagan Day." (BG News, 4-16-96) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 08:53:17 -0800 (AKDT) From: Brett Cooper Subject: Re: Orange Alert I could see Robyn as the feature film version of Number 48, from "Fall=20 Out", the final episode. McGoohan is reportedly still casting the movie so you never can tell. It would be very entertaining to hear Robyn belting out his rendition of "Dry Bones"! Brett > > >of us have. . .i guess many of us are uk'ers, though. . . (so can we imagine > >robyn in the village, prisoner fans?). . .. . . tom > > If Robyn were in the village I wouldn't mind being stuck there. > Actually, I have been to Portmeirion and it would be a perfect place to be > stranded with him for a while... > > RLT > (not a uk'er, tho) _______________________________________________ "...And I laughed to myself at the men and the ladies, who never conceived of us Billion Dollar Babies..." -Alice Cooper, "Generation Landslide" _______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:13:35 -0500 (EST) From: Dolph L Chaney Subject: Re: veggie cat On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Russ Reynolds wrote: > susan suggested the following for our happy new couple: > > < well, but on further reflection....... > Flavour (notice the u) of Night > Beautiful Girl > Element of Light > September Cones>> > > good ones...but how could you leave off "Love"? That one puts me in the > mood every time (also makes me crave Wheat-a-bix). Also, don't forget "Midnight Fish"... Dolph ------------------------------ From: "Aaron J. Sparrow" Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:11:28 -0500 Subject: Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Congratulations, Jay and Sarah! >> You see, we need 'our song.' Which brings up an interesting topic: >> Best Robyn Hitchcock Love Song. As other fegs have already noted, he doesn't really have a whole lot of straight-up love songs, although there are some great ones that have love-song interpretations. I'm thinking here of Flavre (OK, so I'm a Francophile) of Night, Tonight and Cynthia Mask. Cynthia Mask is probably the furthest from being a love song, but it has a personal intimacy to it that seems appropriate for a couple's song. But I have to cast my vote for Underwater Moonlight. It's such a beautiful love story. I just want to cry every time I think of those poor figurines frozen still for 50 years. And it captures all the mystery, the yearning, the freshness, the romanticism, the sheer overwhelmingness of falling in love. And if either of you are Hank Williams (Sr.) fans, it makes a great sequel to Kawliga. Of course, if things should grow sour between the two of you, you have quite an arsenal of songs to remember each other by. Just be glad you're not Joy Division die-hards. >> Without going into all the cutesy details (godforbid you >> should want to know) Aw, you should have...there must be more saps like me out there who love to hear those stories. Aaron ------------------------------ From: Critica@aol.com Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:08:08 -0400 Subject: re: I HAVE seen a vegetarian cat Don't know if it's my first choice for Best Robyn Love Song, but "Glass" might serve your purpose well. Kinda tender & romantic. Cheers, Becky ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 96 14:19:36 PDT From: "Screamin' Jay" Subject: rabid vegi cats I, myself, in a black and cynical rut when it comes to all things romantic...I suggest "Cars She Used to Drive"....but then again I think Dennis Miller is an optimist.... Jay ------------------------------------- Jay Lyall "The All Amerikan Cid" E-mail: rasputin@onramp.net Date: 4/19/96 ------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: "Brian Huddell" Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 15:08:06 +0000 Subject: Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! "Aaron J. Sparrow" sez: > Congratulations, Jay and Sarah! > >> Without going into all the cutesy details (godforbid you > >> should want to know) > > Aw, you should have...there must be more saps like me out there who > love to hear those stories. Seconded. How about a subscription-only deal (don't want to frighten the amourophobes): "Sarah and Jay's Juicy Bits" or something like that? I think all the good "Our Song"s have been mentioned. In the spirit of those obnoxious Pre-nuptial Agreements, I propose you adopt "Linctus House" as your official break-up song, should the unthinkable ever come to pass, heaven forbid. Cheers, Brian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:35:49 -0700 (PDT) From: prometheus Subject: Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! my suggestions would be 'agony of pleasure' or 'st. petersburg' but i think that would reflect the pessimistic/self-mutilatory/ sexually fixated biases that have come into my being due to past events that have left me emotionally malformed like a spoon so elegantly stuffed into the garbage disposal along with ones favorite pair of fingers. just kidding. i actually would suggest "beautiful girl", which always makes me think of the love of my life. also you may choose 'i something you' in that it shows the full depth of the ambivalence that is that nutty emotion we call love, or could even be seen as an exercise in nietzschean deconstruction of subjective language. epicuriously mine jake prometheus 'pursue your best or your worst desires, and above all perish!'-nietzsche ------------------------------ Subject: Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Date: Fri, 19 Apr 96 10:38:29 -0700 From: Tom Clark Newly shackled Jay writes: >Sarah and I need your help, fellow fegs. And we can't do it without you. The >person that comes up with the song we use as "our song" may have our eternal >gratitude as well as an occasional email if we ever have kids or something. First off, let me say 'congrats.' Secondly, might I suggest 'Only The Stones Remain.' My wife and I consider it our song, but we're willing to share! We find Stonehenge a fitting metaphor for our time-tested lasting love. Also, the imagery of young boys spitting juice from out of their fresh young bulbs just makes us all horny and such. Good Luck! -tom & coleen ************************************* * Tom Clark * Apple Computer, Inc. "Do you really serve the Devil * tclark@apple.com If it's all God's plan? * tclark@netgate.net Good and evil need each other * http://www.netgate.net/~tclark Honey I'm your man" * -Robyn Hitchcock ************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:26:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Deck of Cards > Does anyone know who did the original of "Deck of Cards", from the > flexi disc given away with Bucketful of Brain no. 23 ??? > It's credited to someone called Tyler, btw. > I have a sneaking suspicion that I actually should know who did it :( Aerosmith > > btw, regarding Green Day, Rancid & whathaveyous...., well, being new > to this list I did actually wonder for a while if I had accidently > subscribed to some other list. Well, Robyn hasn't done anything for a few weeks, and we get restless when left alone.... Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks ------------------------------ Date: 19 Apr 1996 14:34:15 -0800 From: "Mark Gloster" Subject: Re: veggie cat >good ones...but how could you leave off "Love"? That one puts me in the >mood every time (also makes me crave Wheat-a-bix). > -russ I am in complete agreement here, but try the Meat Ruiner version from _Glass Flesh 1_, I go completely somewhere else when I hear it. If you have an "interesting" relationship, you may want to go along with "Agony of Pleasure". Hey, this is my last post as an empoyee of Apple. I got an offer I couldn't refuse. Vacation, then work at 3Com. I'll be looking at the digests for a while from home. If anyone would love to send me e-mail, I can be reached at "rubrshrk@cruzio.com". I look forward to hearing from you. By the way, congratulations! Toast, -Mark Gloster ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:38:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Oh yeah..I forgot. "Garden of Light", "Yes I Do" and "Love is What (frightens you the most)" are great love songs also... Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:34:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! > Sure, you must all be thinking, "Gee this is real cute and all, but just > what does this fellow feg think we can do for HIM? And, for-god-sakes, WHY?" > > You see, we need 'our song.' Which brings up an interesting topic: Best > Robyn Hitchcock Love Song. First, congrats. My suggestion for the song is, o course, "Love" from BSDR. I think that "But me I only dream of you/I hope that you are dreaming too" is a fitting closing line and ought to do well. Let me check my discography for ideas... So You Think You're In Love: Only if you aren't being straight about it. Ultra Unbelievable Love: Nah...the 'our song' type of song Lysander: Likewise..part of Robyn's school of "in love, but can't admit it" songs. If you go away: Too monotonous I'd go on, but I don't think that you'd want to read it. I suggest "Love", "Kingdom of Love", "Tonight", "Railway Shoes", "Wax Doll" or "The Devil's Coachman" Terry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:37:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! > >You see, we need 'our song.' Which brings up an interesting topic: Best > >Robyn Hitchcock Love Song. > > My vote is for "I Used To Say I Love You", lthough it doesn't quite relate > to the newness of your relationship. I think "I Used To Say I Love You" is > about the absolute essentials of True Love: yearning, desire, the Beautiful > Void That Can Only Be Filled By The Other, etc. I dunno. A song that starts "I used to say I love you. It wasn't really true" isn't always a good sign in a relationship. [It's better than "I don't want her, you can have her, she's too fat for me", though] IUTSILY strikes me as more of a song about lust masquerading as love than anything else. I like it just because it contains Robyn's only reference to a Bonzo Dog Band song "what I really meant was come on in my tent" Terry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:42:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! > "Aaron J. Sparrow" sez: > > > Congratulations, Jay and Sarah! > > > >> Without going into all the cutesy details (godforbid you > > >> should want to know) > > > > Aw, you should have...there must be more saps like me out there who > > love to hear those stories. > > Seconded. How about a subscription-only deal (don't want to > frighten the amourophobes): "Sarah and Jay's Juicy Bits" or > something like that? > > I think all the good "Our Song"s have been mentioned. In the spirit > of those obnoxious Pre-nuptial Agreements, I propose you adopt > "Linctus House" as your official break-up song, should the > unthinkable ever come to pass, heaven forbid. I say that we let Sarah and Jay tell us all the details and those who want Robyn content can pretend that its Robyn and Michelle. Also, I think that "Mellow Together" is a really *funny* choice.. Terry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:28:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Orange Alert Does this mean that we'll have one of those "Living with Robyn in a French chateau in The Village from The Prisoner" threads? Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Renee Lynn wrote: > > >of us have. . .i guess many of us are uk'ers, though. . . (so can we imagine > >robyn in the village, prisoner fans?). . .. . . tom > > If Robyn were in the village I wouldn't mind being stuck there. > Actually, I have been to Portmeirion and it would be a perfect place to be > stranded with him for a while... > > RLT > (not a uk'er, tho) > > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 18:41:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Eugene B Mirman Subject: Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! Wafflehead. That's love. -Eugene ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tipper Gore said to Lou Reed, "Lou Reed, how can we communicate better with our children?" Lou Reed responded, "We would probably have to sit down and talk about it over a bottle of scotch, and maybe, some crack." It's back! My lovely Humor Home page: http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~ebmF92 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 18:06:03 -0400 From: greybeard loon Subject: Re: I have SEEN a Vegetarian Cat! i'm glad to see that someone else singled out "glass", which is one of my personal faves. however, my first two thoughts for love songs that a newly-blissed-out couple may share were "swirling" and "i'm only you". also, if "she doesn't exist" is the song that someone-i-forget-who can't listen to without holding back a tear and a memory, "i used to say i love you" is mine. it's remarkably freeing, yet not surprising, when one learns that the emotions you feel at the lowest point of your life are not unique. woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:03:45 -0400 (EDT) From: jmisaa00@service1.uky.edu Subject: Orange alert I can see it now: #2: I am the new number two. RH: Who is Number One? #2: You are number six. RH: Ohhhh. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:58:28 -0500 From: JH3 Subject: Re: I have BEEN a Vege-Cat! First off, this business with the fave love songs is interesting and all that, but I'd like to hear more about the vegetarian cat. I've been trying to get my cat to eat vegetables for years and have had absolutely no success whatsoever. Does it have something to do with meat flavoring? Texturing? Really, I'd like to know. So far Terry Marks has been the only one to mention "Ultra Unbelievable Love," which I'd think would be an obvious choice. However, that's only because I've been married for 8 years, and the line "you've got to nail it down" seems more appropriate to me somehow after all those years of so-called wedded bliss. Besides, the rest of the tune has nothing to with love, which makes it an even better choice as far as I'm concerned. The last thing you want to hear after (or even during) a wedding is ANOTHER #$^@%#^&!! LOVE SONG. But NOOOOO, then you have to go to the reception... Also, my wife (who likes Robyn but prefers Nick Lowe for some reason) and I spent our honeymoon at Portmeirion, which for anyone thinking of going there is in North Wales near the little village of Penrhyndeudraeth (sp?). Generally you'd take the train to the slightly larger town of Porthmadog (accent on 2nd syllable) and hire a car from there. Or you can take the scenic route from the north via the Pfestiniog (sp? My Welsh is terrible) railway. A nice place and highly recommended, even if you're not a Prisoner fan. (We even chose Portmeirion china as our china pattern. Ah, the memories.) We were there in '87, so Perspex Island/"Ultra Unbelievable Love" hadn't come out yet. I did have a tape of EOL, though. Not many love songs on that, though for some reason hearing "Bass" always gets me in the mood, especially the part about "the gruesome tench"... --John H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.