From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org To: fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org Reply-To: fegmaniax@ecto.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org Subject: Feg Digest V5 #134 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 134 Tuesday June 17 1997 To post, send mail to fegmaniax@ecto.org To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@ecto.org with the words "unsubscribe fegmaniax-digest" in the message body. Send comments, etc. to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@ecto.org FegMANIAX! Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/index.html Archives are available at ftp://www.ecto.org/pub/lists/fegmaniax/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Nirvana and the Unlistenable Re: another long Kinks post Re: Nirvana and the Unlistenable re: Nirvana and the Unlistenable Re: Votes, &c. Re: Beautiful Queen promo? Re: Nirvana and the Unlistenable Elections... Re: twirling one's finger in a can of baked beans Re: twirling one's finger in a can of baked beans Dorset, Dignan, and Duplicity (i% Robyn Content) love the address! Element Of Light Parlez-vous Fegmanian? Re: Dorset, Dignan, and Duplicity (i% Robyn Content) Re: twirling one's finger in a can of baked beans Re: twirling one's finger in a can of baked beans Re: Parlez-vous Fegmanian? Re: Element Of Light fegmaniax.org I want...to be...a cowboy Addicted to noise has Robyn news today tee hee Re: Nirvana and the Unlistenable James - The Loneliest Feg? ------------------------------ Subject: Nirvana and the Unlistenable Date: Tue, 17 Jun 97 10:55:44 -0000 From: The Great Quail Eddie Trews, who says *far* too many nice things about me, I mean for someone not in the pay of my mother, that is, writes: >terry's dilemma: i know you don't like nirvana, terry. but maybe you >could borrow a friend's copy of NEVERMIND, and give it a listen or two. >i've always found that an excellent antidote to robyn overexposure. >kind of a musical enema, i suppose. speaking of which, has anybody else >listened, on more than one occasion no less, to METAL MACHINE MUSIC in >its entirety? I love Nirvana - one of the best groups of the nineties, I feel. Thanks for bringing that up on the List - I find that Nirvana gets unfairly slighted here on occasion. Oh, and yes -- not only have I listened to metal Machine Music in its entirety (Three times, I believe) but I have also listened to Diamanda Galas' "Plague Mass" im its entirety, which is definitely more of a trial to get through unscathed. I don't think I can do that one a second time, or at least not unless I am givin the old Ludovico Treatment from "A Clockwork Orange." The hardest album though - one I have NOT been able to make my way through in one sitting - is the CD "Torture Garden" by the John Zorn project "The Naked City." I tried, and I tried, and I tried, but I just couldn't do it. If anybody out there has done this, I bow to you and offer you my entire collection of "Chrome" albums. . . . -- QuailtonFink@Ebonics.org ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | "Keeper of the Libyrinth" | Sarnath - The Quailspace Web Page: riverrun Discordian Society | http://www.microserve.net/~thequail 73 De Chirico Street | Arkham, Orbis Tertius 2112-42 | ** What is FEGMANIA? ** "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 08:17:58 -0700 Subject: Re: another long Kinks post Ahhh yessss, the Coral Sitar, otherwise known as the Vinnie Bell Coral Sitar Guitar was made from 1967-1969 by Danelectro. I have many times considered getting one of these. Between George H. and Donovan and a bunch of other sixties guys quite a number of these things were made and are still available. Like the rest of the Danelectro/Coral/Silvertone line, these are of cheap construction, but seem almost as durable as they are kitchy keen. I got some of this info from: http://www8.geocities.com/Hollywood/1375/dano.html Coral Sitar: It's just like a guitar, but it has 13 tuned drone strings on the body of the guitar which vibrate sympathetically to those played on the fretboard. This guitar has two pickups for the set of six strings and one for the drone strings. This guitar is also distinctive due to it's unusual crinkle finish and 3-point body shape. The body is made of POPLAR (I wouldn'ta' thunk it). I believe that this design may still be manufactured by somebody. There was also a Danelectro, but it only had one pickup and no drone strings. Don't even bother getting one of these. Guitar Gear Geek at your service. -Markg ps: did rh play a Coral Sitar, or just backmask the intro to Airscape? I'm guessing backmasked guitar. M Godwin wrote: > PS Is it really a sitar on See My Friend, or a soundalike? Interesting > article by Steve Howe recently in Mojo on the electric guitar/sitar as > used by the Lemon Pipers - could it be one of those? > That pseudo-sitar thing is a Coral Sitar, if it sounds like a sitar with the secondary strings removed. My searches on "Coral sitar" using Lycos and Excite didn't produce much. That's all I know about the instrument itself, although I'd love to know more. Anybody? -- Ross Overbury - potatoes have more eyes, and longer ones, too! Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:20:53 -0400 (EDT) From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: Nirvana and the Unlistenable >>terry's dilemma: i know you don't like nirvana, terry. but maybe you >>could borrow a friend's copy of NEVERMIND, and give it a listen or two. >>i've always found that an excellent antidote to robyn overexposure. >>kind of a musical enema, i suppose. I agree with you here-- I have often found _Nevermind_ a kind of detox, not just as a musical enema, but shall we say, a "soul enema"! I used to work with this hideous woman (a *sales*person, need I say more) who used to sit in her office and scream my name, Edith Bunker-style, "E-el Jay!" (rather than simply walking the 15 feet or so over to my office to talk to me like a civilized human being). The only antidote to this woman was to play _Nevermind_ on my headphones, volume +10, over and over and over again. Then when I got sick of that, I switched to _Vee Vee_ by the Archers of Loaf. That will do it too! lj p.s., okay, green shirts would be nice, but might look too much like the ME shirt...also I might get it confused with my green Ace of Base Rules! shirt ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:24:02 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: re: Nirvana and the Unlistenable The Great Quail sed, after Eddie sed: >>terry's dilemma: i know you don't like nirvana, terry. but maybe you >>could borrow a friend's copy of NEVERMIND, and give it a listen or two. >>i've always found that an excellent antidote to robyn overexposure. >>kind of a musical enema, i suppose. speaking of which, has anybody else >>listened, on more than one occasion no less, to METAL MACHINE MUSIC in >>its entirety? I consider MMM a relatively tame listen when I'm in the mood to shake up the Etch-A-Sketch of my mind. But I tell you what, it sure used to light up the phone lines when I played it on the radio. I have the French CD version of it, and haven't heard the vinyl (noise takes on an entirely different character when it goes to a different medium, so I don't know if the CD is as abrasive as the vinyl). Or, there's nothing like a couple hours of headphone time with early Controlled Bleeding, Merzbow, or Wiseblood's "Death Rape 2000" -- the same two notes in a triplet over and over and over and over... to clear things up. I like a Robyn antidote every now and then, too, but I usually reach for the 1910 Fruitgum Co. It's so damned light, and fluffy, and bright, it makes everything good again. Or Violent Onsen Geisha, simply because you never know what's gonna happen in the next two seconds with that stuff. >I love Nirvana - one of the best groups of the nineties, I feel. Thanks >for bringing that up on the List - I find that Nirvana gets unfairly >slighted here on occasion. Whelp, I'm no Nirvana fan, but I won't belabor it here (Dinosaur, Jr. and Mudhoney were better bands and would have better carried that Grunge Banner). I think the world could have done without the Sex Pistols, too. >I don't think I can do that one a second time, >or at least not unless I am givin the old Ludovico Treatment from "A >Clockwork Orange." "And what have you got to play your fuzzy warbles on? Portable pitiful picnic players, perhaps? Come with Uncle and hear proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones! YOU ARE INVITED! ("bah-dah-dah, bah-dah-dah, bah-dah-dah-dah-dah...")." Sorry, couldn't resist. >The hardest album though - one I have NOT been able to make my way >through in one sitting - is the CD "Torture Garden" by the John Zorn >project "The Naked City." The only album I've had difficulty getting through is Controlled Bleeding's "Body Samples", and Nurse With Wound's "A Short Trip Through the Glory Hole" always creeps me out beyond believe. Oh and Jandek -- yikes, what the hell is up with that guy? Haven't tried that Naked City album, yet. +++++++++++++++++ "The world is a motor inn + Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + in an Iowa highway slum." +++++++++++++++++ -- Stephen Merritt ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:00:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: Votes, &c. On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, the woj of noise wrote: > also sprach Mississippi Malcolm McDowell: > >I dunno, I kind of like it. It's better than "funky denim wilderness", > > isn't it "funky denim wonderland"? Isn't it -cycling- madly through Honiton Clyst? ;) That's what I've always heard, anyway. As usual I could be wrong :). Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:09:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: Beautiful Queen promo? On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Clint Golden wrote: > Hi folks > > I was sent on a mission from a local record store owner to find him a copy > of this gem. Anyone see any extras laying around? He'll even give a > good bit of cash for it! Though this ain't the -exact- thing you're looking for, Dr. Wax Records in Chicago (the Hyde Park one) has a copy of the Robyn, Bob, and Albert CD for $30.00. What's up with that cover, anyway? It's probably just badly done graphics but I swear Robyn looks like he has a strange skin disease, not to mention that there is a picture of him on the back wearing a truly unbecoming suit with the most garish houndstooth-check pattern I have ever seen. Given the (ahem) sterling quality of the graphics, I can only guess at the sound quality! I thank the many bounteous deities that this is available via trade so that none of us have to buy this dern thing if we don't wish to. Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:18:21 -0700 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Re: Nirvana and the Unlistenable Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > The only album I've had difficulty getting through is Controlled Bleeding's > "Body Samples", and Nurse With Wound's "A Short Trip Through the Glory > Hole" always creeps me out beyond believe. Oh and Jandek -- yikes, what > the hell is up with that guy? Haven't tried that Naked City album, yet. My vote for one of the most unlistenable tracks ever is REVCO's "(Let's Talk) Physical", which consists of a single sample of Mr. Jorgensen screaming/gurgling the word "talk", repeated for more than 7 minutes. Truly horrifying and headache inspiring. %o The Running Ion ------------------------------ From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 08:49:29 -0700 Subject: Elections... Thanks for saying nice stuff about me and my weird music. okay, I would vote for a long-sleeved fern green shirt with a small, classy (gold and/or black) small pocket (no pocket, just decoration) decoration; A substantial backside decoration that might have something to do with RH's impression of us (all headblades and fiends) and some inscription (I like they might be FIENDS, if you make the last word big, nobody thinks that we're just a couple of clever nasal guys named John)- this can be in black; the web location may run down the left sleeve in black. Now that's cool. Have a shagadelic day. -Markg trying to be as cool as Tom C., but not succeeding. ------------------------------ From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 08:55:40 -0700 Subject: Re: twirling one's finger in a can of baked beans > i'd love to hear him cover Lonesome >Cowboy Bill. D'ja mean Lonesome Cowboy Bert, the classic Zappa ditty and my favorite all-around country tune? markg's fave flicks (I didn't send them in- doh!): 1. Repo Man, 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 3. Spinal Tap, 4. Nightmare Before Xmas, 5. Brazil, 6. Blade Runner... Actually the three Nick Park short animated movies, A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, and A Close Shave, kick ass. I something you all, but some more than others, -Markg (I now get fegmaniaX on two channels, I seem to be happier that way) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:57:36 -0700 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Re: twirling one's finger in a can of baked beans Mark_Gloster@3com.com wrote: > Actually the three Nick Park short animated movies, > A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, and A Close Shave, > kick ass. I second this recommendation. A Grand Day Out's the weakest of the three, but it was also the first one made. Perfectly sweet and twisted Brit claymation that keeps you on the edge of your seat better than half the big budget summer blockbusters. Quite Robynesque if you ask me, what with the evil penguin, the sheep, the knit-o-matics, the cheese! My 15 month old daughter adores these, as does her pop. "I was born to cheese you." Run, Ion...Run! ------------------------------ Subject: Dorset, Dignan, and Duplicity (i% Robyn Content) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 97 13:11:59 -0000 From: The Great Quail James writes: >hey now! There's no need for this! Runion is an ancient and noble name! I >did a quick scan on Not-scape to see what I could find: Bless you James Dignan, for both your astonishing research and for your witty paraphrasing. I wish Liecos and Disinfoseek could turn up that sort of information for me more often, heh heh. For your troubles, I appoint you the official Keeper of the Runion Sentence. >7) The small Dorset village of Runion Greatquail is the site of the annual >All-Britain squid-hurling championships. The national record is 177 feet, 4 >and 1/4 inches. I feel that I should add that Not-scape may have not been properly updated regarding this event. The judges later found out (Thanks to some loose lips at the local pub, the Inky Brew) that the winner had actually used an octopus with two extra tentacles stapled into his head, and several lead weights inserted into his tummy in order to give it extra throwing weight. Also, this "winner" turned out not to be all-British at all, but really a Bostonian with a vague lisp and a family history on playing pranks on the British that dates back to the Boston Tea Party. So the record of 174 feet, 3 and 1/3 inches (set in 1974 by Ray Davies, no relation to you know who) still stands. Or, to be more precise, flops. -- The Quail PS: A Runion sentence? I wonder if thats what a judge hands out to a woman who is found guilty of finding a Runion in her stalking. . . . PPS: Kill me now, it's only merciful. ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | "Keeper of the Libyrinth" | Sarnath - The Quailspace Web Page: riverrun Discordian Society | http://www.microserve.net/~thequail 73 De Chirico Street | Arkham, Orbis Tertius 2112-42 | ** What is FEGMANIA? ** "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:13:40 -0400 From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: love the address! >But don't ya see... if we leave the x in, it will be pronounced "fegmania >k'zorg." doesn't sound nearly as nice as "fegmania org." > >of course, i suppose we could always pronounce it "fegmaniax dot org." >i don't like that much either. why such digression? shouldn't we have the actual address on the shirt? and why doesn't anyone seem to include the awesome 'ecto' bit in the middle. i think it sounds perfect with it in! KEN ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:22:34 -0700 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Element Of Light Just a spout out... I popped in EoL last night for the first time in forever and realized once more how much I love that album. It's odd though. I originally had it on cassette, which ends with "Lady Waters", and played it to death. When I finally got it on CD (the glass fish, moist 3 version), the additional 4 songs seemed separate from the album as I'd known it. After listening to these 4 songs again last night, I had to jump over to my CD player and program them in and hit continuous repeat. They're truly excellent...though I fear they will always be 'bonus tracks' in my pre-set and quickly petrifying brain. Regarding the shirt: green, short sleeve (cheaper than long, where if you roll up the sleeves, the URL would be like http://remus.rut|/\|), well, nah, I like long too, gold & black lettering, graphics on back, "...they might be FIENDS!", Robyn-penned original art and hopefully lettering. Is this actually plausible though? Is someone really gonna corner him and beg? This would be truly awesome if someone could pull this off. runny un ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:59:33 -0700 From: Nick Winkworth CC: Hedblade@aol.com Subject: Parlez-vous Fegmanian? Firstly, I want to add my thanks to everyone who wrote about the Viva Sea-Tac gig. I almost feel like I was there (I wish!!). Even though I'm not a tape collector this is one I'd really like to hear. I might even be persuaded to participate in my first ever tape-tree, if one materializes. Nextly, Fegdomains: After much thought and deliberation I think I'm coming around to woj's side on the "with-an-x-or-not" question. Here's why: At first I thought like Mark; Fegmania! is an album, Fegmaniax is the the internet stuff. Then woj made the point that the web site and the list are different and serve different functions. I started to think about the idea of Fegmania as a place (like Tasmania or Rumania) - rather than a condition(!) - inhabited by the Fegmaniax (i.e. us). Anybody can visit Fegmania, but the Fegmaniax live there. OK so its a corny analogy, but it has a sort of internal logic that at least makes some sense. So if we have a Fegmania domain and a Fegmaniax mailing list, the next question is ????@fegmania.org. Post nextly: The pithy phrase or saying: The one thing I think is mandatory is that the quote should be internet related, not just some piece of a lyric we happen to like the sound of. "They might be fiends" fits of course, but it's not the only possibility. I like Robyn's quote (about Fegmaniax, no less): "If I want to know what I'm up to; I know where to look". It has that Robynesque surrealism, it's a quote by the man, and it's about us. What more could you want? Should it be in his handwriting? Nice, of course, but I don't think it's important. As long as we have a Robyn drawing I'd be happy. So who should contact Robyn/Steve to ask this favor? Well, Mr. Hedblade seems to have name recognition, at the very least. (of course any one of us could claim to be "yet another Hedblade", but I guess Sydney has the rights to that one!). How about it Jay? ~N Optional techno-babble section: I'm about to take the plunge into the Minidisc format. Anyone else out there use MD yet? Once I have my gear I'd be happy to act as an MD leaf/twig or whatever. Has anyone looked to MPEG3 as a means of distributing live recordings? Just curious... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:59:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: Dorset, Dignan, and Duplicity (i% Robyn Content) On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, The Great Quail wrote: > of information for me more often, heh heh. For your troubles, I appoint > you the official Keeper of the Runion Sentence. Is that a cabinet position (and Dignan was a part of the filing cabinet....)? > I feel that I should add that Not-scape may have not been properly > updated regarding this event. The judges later found out (Thanks to some > loose lips at the local pub, the Inky Brew) Too much of that Squid Ink Prawn Lambic, I'll wager. To paraphrase Martin Amis, we never had no trouble here exceptforthesquidinkprawnlambics. > that the winner had actually > used an octopus with two extra tentacles stapled into his head, and > several lead weights inserted into his tummy And why on earth was the winner going around with tentacles stapled into his head and weights in his tummy, and what shameful act is "used an octopus" a delicate euphemism for? :) Perv! Does the Daily Mirror know about this? Then again, I suppose they wouldn't consider it newsworthy unless Noel and Liam Gallagher were present yelling "fooking coont" at each other while the octopus was being used. > in order to give it extra > throwing weight. Well, I suppose superstitious people will stop at nothing. > Also, this "winner" turned out not to be all-British at > all, but really a Bostonian with a vague lisp and a family history on > playing pranks on the British that dates back to the Boston Tea Party. Oh, that's not so far back or even very original. Now if it had dated just a few years back before that to Paul Revere and the Raiders, then I'd be impressed. > So > the record of 174 feet, 3 and 1/3 inches (set in 1974 by Ray Davies, no > relation to you know who) Wang-bo! Wang-bo! Wang-bo! Wang-bo! Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ From: Ross Overbury Date: Tue, 17 Jun 97 13:58:57 EDT Subject: Re: twirling one's finger in a can of baked beans Mark Gloster said: > markg's fave flicks (I didn't send them in- doh!): > [snip] > > Actually the three Nick Park short animated movies, > A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, and A Close Shave, > kick ass. > There was a Wallace and Gromit festival on YTV (kids' network) here last night. My 3 daughters and I watched all 3! -- "Cracking toast, Gromit!" Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:05:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Vashty Hawkins Subject: Re: twirling one's finger in a can of baked beans On Tue, 17 Jun 1997 mrrunion@tng.net wrote: [re the wonderful Wallace and Gromit films] > I second this recommendation. A Grand Day Out's the weakest of the > three, but it was also the first one made. Perfectly sweet and twisted The later films are more sophisticated in animation and plot, but I love the sunglasses-sporting gaggle of mice in Wallace's cellar. > the big budget summer blockbusters. Quite Robynesque if you ask me, what > with the evil penguin, the sheep, the knit-o-matics, the cheese! And Gwendolyn Ramsbottom and the vicious cyberdog and the automatic jam-toast-catapult machine and a nice bit of gorgonzola ... Vashty ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:57:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: Parlez-vous Fegmanian? On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Nick Winkworth wrote: > as a place (like Tasmania or Rumania) - rather than a condition(!) - > inhabited by the Fegmaniax (i.e. us). Anybody can visit Fegmania, but > the Fegmaniax live there. Norman isn't here, he's in the Kingdom of Feg! > least makes some sense. So if we have a Fegmania domain and a Fegmaniax > mailing list, the next question is ????@fegmania.org. Dennis! Dennis@fegmania.org! Or Mucky. Or Reg. There are multiple possibilities here. > I like Robyn's quote (about Fegmaniax, no less): "If I want to know what > I'm up to; I know where to look". It has that Robynesque surrealism, > it's a quote by the man, and it's about us. What more could you want? Hmmm....I like that one too, but I still vote for "they might be fiends". Also I think dark ferny green is a very appropriate color indeed. As Daniel so rightly observes, it's a very RH-associated one. Love on ya, Susan noticing today that occasionally even the likes of Pete Townshend have their Robynesque lyrical moments. "today I saw you dressed as a flowerbed"? ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Element Of Light Date: Tue, 17 Jun 97 12:03:48 -0700 From: Tom Clark "The Lobster Gang" On 6/17/97 1:22 PM, Runion, Michael R. stated emphatically: >Robyn-penned original art and hopefully >lettering. Is this actually plausible though? Is someone really gonna >corner him and beg? This would be truly awesome if someone could pull >this off. The wonderfull Woj of Noise took the bulls by the horns and sent a message to the Antwoman people. Looking forward to hearing from them. -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:18:08 -0400 From: Bret Subject: fegmaniax.org all sounds like much fun......... and just to be on the safe side, I have registered fegmaniax.org, and have space set aside for it. (on the atdot.com machine) if anyone wants it I have no quamms about giving it up.....just wanted to get the request in (these things get weird sometimes) at the very least, I'd like alias fegmaniax@fegmaniax.org to the list addy ................. anything anyone wants me to do with it ????? woj if you want it, it is yours. --Bret ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:47:13 -0700 From: Eb Subject: I want...to be...a cowboy mark wrote: >> i'd love to hear him cover Lonesome >>Cowboy Bill. > >D'ja mean Lonesome Cowboy Bert, the classic Zappa ditty and my >favorite all-around country tune? No, he meant VU's "Lonesome Cowboy Bill." And he didn't mean Pere Ubu's "Lonesome Cowboy Dave" either. :) And by the way, if your favorite country tune is by FRANK ZAPPA, I think you're rather lacking in country-music appreciation. ;) Not sure what mine would be, but it would almost certainly be something by Gram Parsons ("Brass Buttons," "$1000 Wedding," "Hot Burrito #1"....). Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:19:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Lobsterman Subject: Addicted to noise has Robyn news today sorry fegs, i didnt have time to cut and paste it in an email, but the music news of the world section of the on-line mag Addicted to Noise has a feature on Robyn s Viva Seatac gig as the lead news article for today. And lots of news from Rick Gershon, Robyn's pal at WB. check it out! someone send it to the list as an email file, will ya?? its not too long. John -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Lobsterman + (John B. Jones) + lobstie@e-znet world wide web- http://web.syr.edu/~jojones house of figgy (24-7)- http://web.syr.edu/~jojones/hitchcock.html I'm on a reigning twilight coast.... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 97 16:12:28 EDT From: Jeff Rosedale Subject: tee hee Stopping to think what Robynism would belong on a t-shirt is like asking the computer on a TV spaceship to compute the exact value of pi. Steam, smoke and sparks abound in the underground vault. One that stuck in my head momentarily is "It's a sideways glance at a full-on world", since perspective is a big part of all this. If that's too grandiose, "Give me some fish eggs and a violin" has that immediate visceral appeal. Original artwork by the man himself would go a long way towards making this irresistable- in fact if such is commissioned, it might be fitting to wait to match the blurb to the orb, or whatever else is represented. Wishing I could teleport seamlessly to Seattle... --Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:47:18 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Nirvana and the Unlistenable >I love Nirvana - one of the best groups of the nineties, I feel. Thanks >for bringing that up on the List - I find that Nirvana gets unfairly >slighted here on occasion. Nirvana were my favorite new band since REM...no shit. >Oh, and yes -- not only have I listened to metal Machine Music in its >entirety (Three times, I believe) but I have also listened to Diamanda >Galas' "Plague Mass" in its entirety, which is definitely more of a trial >to get through unscathed. I think I've listened to Metal Machine Music twice -- I taped it from someone (on metal-bias cassette, of course!) I kinda dig it. I mean, I traded in New Sensations, Sally Can't Dance and Rock & Roll Heart, but I kept MMM. :) As for Plague Mass, ooh, that's a toughie. I actually have SEVEN Galas albums, but they're mostly on cassette and just for sick kicks. (So see, whoever asked, I not only have 19 RH albums, I have 7 GALAS albums.) The Singer, The Sporting Life (w/John Paul Jones), Saint of the Pit and You Must Be Certain of the Devil have their virtues, though.... >The hardest album though - one I have NOT been able to make my way >through in one sitting - is the CD "Torture Garden" by the John Zorn >project "The Naked City." I tried, and I tried, and I tried, but I just >couldn't do it. If anybody out there has done this, I bow to you and >offer you my entire collection of "Chrome" albums. . . . Jeez, that one's easy! I mean, hell, it's not even a half-hour long, is it? Sorry, I don't want your Chrome albums -- what else ya got? ;) Kudos to Gene for mentioning Jandek, 1910 Fruitgum Company and the legendary "Death Rape 2000" in the same post. Despite the fact that he's insane enough to think Mudhoney is better than Nirvana. ;) Eb, who ALSO owns Ken Nordine's Colors! ------------------------------ From: Martin_Bell@idg.co.nz Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:12:45 +1200 Subject: James - The Loneliest Feg? >Texas? You call THAT isolated??? AFAIK There is only one other feg within 1000 miles of here, and she is on a different island, some 500 >or more miles away! Draw a 1000 mile circle from your home, and you'll probably find everyone from Florida to Chicago to Colorado within >it! Some of you folks don't know overcrowding when you see it! :) and also :( and maybe >K|:u^^ Why James! You're forgetting the quietest kiwifeg of them all - me! (Well, I'm not really that quiet, it's just that I tend to explode in silence :-) That makes 3 Fegs in New Zealand - 2 in the North Island and 1in the South. I know I haven't posted before, but I've been hiding in the nooks and crannies of this list for a couple of months now (Thanks for the recommendation James :-). If I can keep up with the fast 'n' furious mailing schedule, I hope to become a more frequent poster (although I suspect the supernatural posting abilities of Susan and the Quail will remain forever beyond me). Now if James, the Nth Island she-feg and I can just convince a local promoter to bring Robyn down to these parts we could have a regular fegtogether. Obligatory Robyn Story #1: I saw Robyn and the Egyptians live in Athens, Georgia in 1989. But wait, there's more! During an interlude between songs, Robyn, with mock sincerity, indulged in a lengthy ramble during which he dedicated a song to those individuals who had chosen to carry out their higher learning in Athens, based solely on the fact that it was R.E.M's home-town. The mention of R.E.M. brought much clapping and cheering from the assembled throng (remember, this was shortly after "Green" and R.E.M's crossover into mass appeal). The band then proceeded to play - you guessed it - "Trash". I've never seen so many confused and bewildered faces in all my life. Surely their hero wasn't, as we say in these parts, "taking the piss"? I recounted this story to R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills during an interview for a local music mag a few years later, and he laughed so hard, I nearly got concussion. Martin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .