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 #146 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 146 Thursday June 26 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: ------- ------- San Jose, Thu 26th - Cone shoot! Re: I Am a (punk)Rock Life in a Scotch sitting room? elizabeth jade Ten Little Cones all in a row Re: elizabeth jade Re: San Jose, Thu 26th - Cone shoot! Re: Ten Little Cones all in a row Re: T-shirt Re: T-shirt Re: elizabeth jade Re: Ten Little Cones all in a row Re: I Am a (punk)Rock t-shirts, alphabetical albums Re: alphabetical albums (no T-shirt content, thank god) Re: Life in a Scotch sitting room? RE: elizabeth jade Re: t-shirts, alphabetical albums Re: Life in a Scotch sitting room? Re: filing music Re: T-shirt Re: filing music Brian Jonestown Massacre (RE: elizabeth jade) Re: Life in a Scotch sitting room? Re: filing music Costello, the well-known racist imperilaist The *Ultimate* Robyn Shirt! The Return of.... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:32:00 -0700 From: Nick Winkworth Subject: San Jose, Thu 26th - Cone shoot! Yep, it's cone huntin' season again! The message has already gone to all the Bay Area Fegs I'm aware of, but in case there are any cone-totin' ("Cone-Thothin'"?) lurkers, who may care to join us, here's the scoop: A small but select globe of Feg-persons will be gathering at lunchtime (noon-ish) at Guadalupe River Park in front of the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose, to photographically record their cones for posterity, singly and jointly, for the Mike "C Spot Runion" Virtual Cone Museum. If you want to join us, compare cones or whatever, drop me an email and I'll give you directions. To find us; we'll *probably* be the only ones with cones... That's Thursday June 26th - tomorrow. Noon. Be there or... er, not. Reporting live from Silly Cone Valley... ~N ------------------------------ Subject: Re: I Am a (punk)Rock Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:37:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Daniel Saunders" > My brother is a big punk music fan and he has a CD by Me First and the > Gimme-Gimmes (?) doing "I Am a Rock". Apparently all this band does is > punk covers of well-known artists. They've got entire CDs featuring Paul > Simon, John Denver, Neil Diamond, etc. It's pretty hysterical. That sounds about on par with Pat Boone's "Metal On My Mind: No More Mr. Nice Guy". For anyone who hasn't heard of it, this is not a joke. Pat Boone covering "Smoke On The Water", "Unchained Melody", etc. It sounds very frightening to me. Daniel Saunders Life is heaven and hell. All else is silence. - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:51:46 -0700 From: Nick Winkworth CC: "Bonde M'Teko" Subject: Life in a Scotch sitting room? Mike appended > "Yes son, now you can have gruts for tea - every day" Gruts? Yes Please. I'm a huge fan of Ivor Cutler, but out of touch since my sojourn in the colonies - is he still around? The Cutler-Hitchcock link never occurred to me before. But you know, maybe there is *something*. See what you think... ('course you need to hear Ivor's voice to get the full effect, but nevertheless) ~N -------------------------------------------------------- Big Jim by Ivor Cutler "Help!" What an arresting voice! Such a rich timbre... full and melodious. I wonder if it's a natural voice, or whether its owner has had it trained? I'll let him call again. Perhaps I shall then be better able to tell. "Help!" Lovely! Rich and sonorous. But trained? I'll ask him to call again. "Sir. Will you call again? I so enjoy the quality of your voice." The man I addressed was floating precariously, just above the surface of the canal. Hi! I recognize him. It's Big Jim! "Hello, Big Jim! How good to see you." "Ivor, you big twit! Get me out of here! I'm drowning!" called Big Jim, with that poignant sadness in his voice that has all the fathers of heavily-built daughters from Thrwn to Aberfeldd shaking in their shoes. "I'm wearing my good suit, Big Jim," I replied. "Please don't ask me to rescue you," knowing as I was speaking that I should be forced to save this life, human though it was. "Save me, you fool! You'd have it on your conscience!" Even at this moment, Big Jim was in full control of his facilities. He had me there, and knew it; knew he was safe on dry land already. I peeled off my clothes, even my string vest and pants, and plunged into the water. How soft it felt, like a housemaid's knee. It was two foot six at the edge, but towards the middle it was three foot six, and three foot nine in the dead center, where the barge keels had scraped a way for themselves when carrying a full load of pig steel. I swam over to Big Jim and gripped him, and hauled him to the bank, and climbed out, and pulled him after me. "You saved my life," he grinned, and pushed me back into the canal. "I can't bear to be beholden to anyone," Big Jim continued, as my head broke the surface, "so I'll take these," and he strolled off with my clothes. One could hear the fathers of heavily-built daughters from Thrwn to Aberfeldd beginning to tremble again. When it was dark, I left the soft water and ran stiffly home in my string vest and pants. They were already playing ping-pong in the orphanage as I passed. -------------------------------------------------- Copyright © Ivor Cutler, reproduced without permission ------------------------------ From: Jeff Vaska Subject: elizabeth jade Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 18:18:12 -0700 Yoy, Hey, after listening to the fine tape of robyn at the backstage I think I'll make this comment again... If you dig a song like "elizabeth jade," then you would probably dig the neo-psychedelic band "brian jones town massacre." Lush and psychedelic. If you can find it, get it, they are a pretty difficult band to track down. I think these kids spend ALL their time watching movies from the sixties... Ta-ra...jv ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 19:17:21 -0400 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Ten Little Cones all in a row Cone 10 is now ready for inspection in the VCM. Brought to you by Eddie Tews. If anyone can decipher the meaning of the mystical "D N Y K", please let me know. This is yet another cone that turns to the friendly insect world for inspiration. Enjoy. Eddie: I'll try and have your other two cones up and running by Friday. And I'll be working on your tapes this weekend. Mike "Well its a Runion for the money, two for the show..." Mike "C Spot" Runion, Cocoa, FL email: mrrunion@tng.net WWW: http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/default.htm ************ Visit the Virtual Cone Museum! ************** * http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/cones.htm * ********************************************************** "A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends, Drink another, coin a phrase..." -REM ------------------------------ Subject: Re: elizabeth jade Date: Wed, 25 Jun 97 17:29:43 -0700 From: Tom Clark "'gene hackman hatchet man'" On 6/25/97 6:18 PM, Jeff Vaska stated emphatically: >If you dig a song like "elizabeth jade," then you would probably dig >the neo-psychedelic band "brian jones town massacre." Lush and >psychedelic. If you can find it, get it, they are a pretty difficult >band to track down. I think these kids spend ALL their time watching >movies from the sixties... Opinion seconded. I've got the "thank god for mental illness" CD. Complete lo-fi wonderment. As the jacket says: "recorded for a total cost of $17.36. No shit." The only problem I have with it is that the CD pressing is also really cheap. So cheap that I can't play it certain CD players. "If you can't dig it, you ain't got no shovel." -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 19:10:59 -0400 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Re: San Jose, Thu 26th - Cone shoot! To Nick and anyone else attending (or simply photographing their cone)... Get good and close on the cones when you take the snapshots. Debora's cones that showed up yesterday in the VCM were well photographed, but I still had to cut out a bunch of surrounding. The closer you get, the better the artwork will show up in the eventual scan. I've received a few blurred photos with the cone taking up only a portion of the picture, and I've had to do some sharpening to the scans which introduces more complexity and loses some info and makes the file size bigger, etc. Anyway, just some tips. Wish I could be there with you all, but since I live on the opposite side of the country, it's probably out of the question. Enjoy the picnic. Mike "A Do Run Run Run, A Do Runion" At 04:32 PM 6/25/97 -0700, Nick wrote: >Yep, it's cone huntin' season again! > >A small but select globe of Feg-persons will be gathering at lunchtime >(noon-ish) at Guadalupe River Park in front of the Children's Discovery >Museum in San Jose, to photographically record their cones for >posterity, singly and jointly, for the Mike "C Spot Runion" Virtual Cone >Museum. If you want to join us, compare cones or whatever, drop me an >email and I'll give you directions. > >That's Thursday June 26th - tomorrow. Noon. Be there or... er, not. > >Reporting live from Silly Cone Valley... >~N > Mike "C Spot" Runion, Cocoa, FL email: mrrunion@tng.net WWW: http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/default.htm ************ Visit the Virtual Cone Museum! ************** * http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/cones.htm * ********************************************************** "A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends, Drink another, coin a phrase..." -REM ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 17:43:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Ten Little Cones all in a row On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Runion, Michael R. wrote: > Cone 10 is now ready for inspection in the VCM. Brought to you by Eddie > Tews. If anyone can decipher the meaning of the mystical "D N Y K", please > let me know. This is yet another cone that turns to the friendly insect > world for inspiration. Enjoy. DKNY, it says, not DNYK. Donna Karan New York? Like the clothing line DKNY? I have no idea why Robyn would mention it. However, there were quite a few striped things in a line she did not too long ago. Women's Activewear, mostly. That's the only DKNY I know. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 17:48:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: T-shirt On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tom Clark wrote: > On 6/24/97 12:16 PM, Capuchin stated emphatically: > >We should print a second design INSIDE the shirt. > Plus, what about those of us who like to wash their printed shirts > inside-out? Then you anal-retentive folks would find out that in the long run, it doesn't really matter which way you wash the shirt. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Subject: Re: T-shirt Date: Wed, 25 Jun 97 18:00:39 -0700 From: Tom Clark "The Lobster Gang" On 6/25/97 5:48 PM, Capuchin stated emphatically: >in the long run, it >doesn't really matter which way you wash the shirt. Prophetic indeed. If only Robyn had said it... -tc ******************************************* Tom Clark Apple Computer, Inc. tclark@apple.com http://www.netgate.net/~tclark "Knowledge Is Good" - Emile Faber ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 18:02:16 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: elizabeth jade >If you dig a song like "elizabeth jade," then you would probably dig >the neo-psychedelic band "brian jones town massacre." Lush and >psychedelic. If you can find it, get it, they are a pretty difficult >band to track down. I think these kids spend ALL their time watching >movies from the sixties... God, I heard an album by that band. I thought it was UNBELIEVABLY awful...just like some pot-addled feebs sitting around a tape recorded improvising songs on acoustic guitar. Oof! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 18:04:35 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Ten Little Cones all in a row Capuchin wrote: >DKNY, it says, not DNYK. Donna Karan New York? Like the clothing line >DKNY? > >That's the only DKNY I know. >J. Does Don Kirshner live in New York? :) Eb, recommending the hell out of the new(ish) Swell album, Too Many Days Without Thinking ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 19:58:57 -0900 From: BC-Radio@corecom.net (Buttafuoco) Subject: Re: I Am a (punk)Rock Daniel Saunders wrote: >That sounds about on par with Pat Boone's "Metal On My Mind: No More Mr. >Nice Guy". For anyone who hasn't heard of it, this is not a joke. Pat >Boone covering "Smoke On The Water", "Unchained Melody", etc. It sounds >very frightening to me. "Unchained Melody" was not on the album. Also, Pat Boone said on Jay Leno that it was a joke. Either way, it is selling albums as I picked it up for his rendition of Alice's "No More Mr. Nice Guy." Hey, I wonder what song of Robyn's he could do... In a perfect world I'd just be wasted, Brett ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:19:40 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: t-shirts, alphabetical albums >>If it turns out we >>don't like Robyn's design (which I think highly unlikely) we can either >>shrink it way down and use it as a tiny little emblem on the left >>breast...or we could put it on the inside. >We should print a second design INSIDE the shirt. I can't get over how >great that would be. Something nobody ever has to know about. less surreal, but possibly more sensible, a reversible t-shirt, with one design inside, one outside. Whichever one you prefer to wear inside is up to you. That way, if ya don't like Robyn's design, you can wear something he designed next to your heart, and display the 'alternative design'! >the Soft Boys which sit between Social Distortion and Talking Heads (I think) Sneaky Feelings and the Soup Dragons James (who does file his compilations after the "Z"'s, but isn't anal enough to sort them by title. If I did, it would probably be "Where the pyramid meets the eye". BTW, a friend of mine files The Beatles, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, etc, under "T" for "The". Is this the longest desultory bracketed mark indersted in signing off a message but not in a sig file?) Dignan James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 23:17:55 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: alphabetical albums (no T-shirt content, thank god) >>the Soft Boys which sit between Social Distortion and Talking Heads (I think) > >Sneaky Feelings and the Soup Dragons Sneakers and Sonic Youth. None of you guys have Sonic Youth albums?? Oh, and Hitchcock's between Hetch Hetchy and Robin Holcomb (another Robin!), and I think anyone who files Hitchcock records under "Egyptians" is certifiably nuts. That goes double for James' "Beatles under 'T'" buddy. ;) Additional note: Have you noticed there's some new female pop singer who just goes by "Robyn?" It's weird having to associate someone else with that "y" spelling. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:10:53 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Life in a Scotch sitting room? On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Nick Winkworth wrote: > Gruts? Yes Please. I'm a huge fan of Ivor Cutler, but out of touch since > my sojourn in the colonies - is he still around? He's very old but still performing. I haven't seen him for a couple of years, but he is billed at the current Laurie Anderson-organised music event on the South Bank. So maybe there is a point to Laurie Anderson after all! <:-} Thanks for the 'Big Jim' tale. I think RH is firmly in the same line of British eccentrics, even if not directly influenced. I will try to type in 'How to make a friend' sometime - but I have no idea what the effect is if you can't hear those warrum Scottish bass tones. Cheers - Mike ------------------------------ From: Jeff Vaska Subject: RE: elizabeth jade Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 08:56:45 -0700 So says EB... >God, I heard an album by that band (BRIAN JONES TOWN MASSACRE). I thought it was UNBELIEVABLY >awful...just like some pot-addled feebs sitting around a tape recorded >improvising songs on acoustic guitar. Oof! True and not true. Rumor has it that they are pretty big dopers, but they have a couple of records. Their latest (can't remember the title! - ugh, it's in my car right now) is darn cool. It's like listening to the movie soundtrack from a beatles movie re-interpreted by the rolling stones. Just my opinion... Woj...I think they are on BOMP records - out of san diego, san jose, san something... Tschus....jv ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:35:31 +0300 From: Noah Shalev CC: fegmaniax@ecto.org Subject: Re: t-shirts, alphabetical albums James Dignan wrote: >... > > . BTW, a friend of mine files The Beatles, The Byrds, > The Rolling Stones, etc, under "T" for "The". Is this the longest desultory >..... as 4 myself i never figured out wether the stones should b placed under R or under S (after all only the stones remain..) fotunately, i can put them just in between noe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:45:04 +0300 From: Noah Shalev CC: fegmaniax@ecto.org Subject: Re: Life in a Scotch sitting room? M R Godwin wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Nick Winkworth wrote: > > > Gruts? Yes Please. I'm a huge fan of Ivor Cutler, but out of touch since > > my sojourn in the colonies - is he still around? > > He's very old but still performing. I haven't seen him for a couple of > years, but he is billed at the current Laurie Anderson-organised music > event on the South Bank. So maybe there is a point to Laurie Anderson > after all! <:-} > > Thanks for the 'Big Jim' tale. I think RH is firmly in the same line of > British eccentrics, even if not directly influenced. I will try to type in > 'How to make a friend' sometime - but I have no idea what the effect is if > you can't hear those warrum Scottish bass tones. > > Cheers > > - Mike first heard him on robert wyatts 'rock bottom' than mannaged, to get an old lp. got any discography, or a film list of dear old mr cutler? BTW is it true he was convicted 4 child abbuse? noe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 97 09:25:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Re: filing music anyone else use the chronological method? I just number 'em as I get 'em and keep an index so I can find 'em. No need to periodically shift everything over on the shelf, and thumbing through the index trying to decide on something to play is much easier than cocking your head to read the sides of all those discs. For the record, I think I have more Hitchcock (incl. Soft Boys) than any other artist, with the possible exception of the Beatles. Both take up well over a page in the index. Zappa, Stones, & Kinks are at the next tier down. With certain artists I try to get everything, and it just boils down to who's got the greatest output. -rr ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 17:54:22 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: T-shirt > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tom Clark wrote: > > On 6/24/97 12:16 PM, Capuchin stated emphatically: > > >We should print a second design INSIDE the shirt. Is this a solution? Print on the inside of the T-shirt "If you can read this, I am wearing my T-shirt inside out". - Mike Godwin (This problem reminds me of the moment in 'Bananas' when the new dictator of San Carlos orders everybody to wear their underpants outside their trousers so that he can check that people are changing at least twice a day). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:10:40 -0700 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Re: filing music Okay, okay...I wasn't gonna get into this, but... My CDs are sorted by 'genre', whatever that means...and it's my own personal sorting. There's a Athens-mid 80's shelf, there's a gothic British shelf, there's a early punk shelf, there's a American acoustic shelf, there's a top 3 favorite bands shelf, etc. REM and Julian Cope have complete shelves. Robyn is on a longer shelf with the Cure. Within categories, artists are placed based on favoritism I guess, bands I might listen to less go on the ends. Each artist is sorted by album release date. No one else can find anything, but if they ask me, no matter where I'm at, I can say "3rd shelf, left door, on the right." My dream is to one day take a whole wall (or replace a set of sliding glass doors with a nice build in/recessed shelf thing...don't ask) and have everything alphabetical. Ah, one day. Mike "Runion on Empty" ------------------------------ Subject: Brian Jonestown Massacre (RE: elizabeth jade) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 97 10:16:41 -0700 From: Tom Clark "'fegmaniax@ecto.org'" On 6/26/97 8:56 AM, Jeff Vaska stated emphatically: >It's like >listening to the movie soundtrack from a beatles movie re-interpreted >by the rolling stones. Just my opinion... >Woj...I think they are on BOMP records - out of san diego, san jose, >san something... I think it's san francisco. BJM CD's available from CDWorld online (www.cdworld.com): METHODRONE . . BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE . . BOMP #4050 . . Streetdate: September 22, 1995 . . Category: Rock/Pop List: $14.97 Buy CD: $12.47 In Stock TAKE IT FOM THE MAN . . BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE . . BOMP #4055 . . Streetdate: May 28, 1996 . . Category: Rock/Pop List: $14.97 Buy CD: $12.47 In Stock THANK GOD FOR MENTAL ILLNESS . . BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE . . BOMP #4061 . . Streetdate: November 20, 1996 . . Category: Rock/Pop List: $14.97 Buy CD: $12.47 In Stock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:21:19 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Life in a Scotch sitting room? On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Noah Shalev wrote [re: Ivor Cutler]: > first heard him on robert wyatts 'rock bottom' than mannaged, to get an > old lp. got any discography, or a film list of dear old mr cutler? > BTW is it true he was convicted 4 child abbuse? Don't know the answers to these questions. I have the "Who Tore Your Trousers?" LP which is old and brilliant and got scratched by some idiot. There was an excellent album called "Ludo" which i never got hold of, but has apparently been re-released by Creation Records, though I wouldn't have thought Ivor had much in common with Oasis. I've got "Dandruff", and there are (I think) several of those "Life in a Scottish sitting room" albums. The only film appearance I know of is in "Magical Mystery Tour". He used to do support slots for the Soft Machine, which must be where the Robert Wyatt connection comes in. He has put out several books of poems and stories, including 'Gruts' and 'Many Flies Have Feathers'. Cheers - Mike PS I just ran a net search which came up with 75 references, including that Creation re-release. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: filing music Date: Thu, 26 Jun 97 10:30:42 -0700 From: Tom Clark "The Lobster Gang" Anybody have one (or more) of those 100 or 200 CD changers? It would be nice to organize a portion of my collection this way and always have them online. It would be even nicer to have a graphical display to search with. I'd be interested in hearing from anybody who has a setup like this. cheers, -tc ******************************************* Tom Clark Apple Computer, Inc. tclark@apple.com http://www.netgate.net/~tclark "Cheez Whiz is not something you eat... It's something you see a urologist for." - Dennis Miller ------------------------------ Subject: Costello, the well-known racist imperilaist Date: Thu, 26 Jun 97 15:13:19 -0000 From: The Great Quail This was thrown up: >Well, just to throw in my piece, I'd like to pipe in and say he's got a >certain punk sensibility (oxymoron? I don't think so) that he's managed >to keep over the years. And he certainly WAS punk at one time, or at >least believed he was... how else did he expect to get away with calling >Ray Charles a 'blind, ignorant nigger'? I know a guy who was "in" the punk and blues world for a while, and he knew Elvis in passing, and claims to have been in his company around that time. He says that Elvis was always doing stuff like that, and he dropped that comment solely to see what effect it would have on a Ray Charles enthusiast who wasvaguely bothering him. Well, I mean, I always *thought* he meant Elvis Costello, at least . . . . The Quail ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------ Subject: The *Ultimate* Robyn Shirt! Date: Thu, 26 Jun 97 15:13:09 -0000 From: The Great Quail Ok, Fegs, I have it - the *ultimate* Robyn shirt. First of all, it is green on the outside - the perfecrt mossy green that we're all picturing in our minds right now. Yesssss . . . that's the one. Now, the front has a left breast pocket, the perfect size to fit about 25 cards in. Cards? Well, yes - Fegmaniax! List cards, which we can all get made up at the local mall, you know, drop in a few bucks and crank out some business cards. They'll hold the email address, the URL, and instructions for buying multiple copies of "Glass Flesh." (And Mark Gloster can work in a "Monday's Lunch" plug on his. We're all the forgiving sort around here.) That way we can give our URL out real handy-like, not to mention that the pocket gives tapers a place to store "on the fly" set lists and Susan somewhere to collect phone numbers. Now . . . on the pocket, we place the words: "What is Fegmania?" which further enhances the idea of it holding list cards. Picture it: someone looks, reads, furrows their brow while they consider how dangerous you look, finally asks the question, and !!Bam-whizzo!! you whip out a card and hand it to him. Another Robyn fan is born. Now . . . on the right breast there is no pocket, but rather a small plastic patch sewn between the layers of the shirt. This patch serves two purposes: first, it provides an excellent place for older Fegs to stck their Thoth Pins without worrying about tearing the fabric of the shirt. But more importantly, there is a secret "Twix-tech" pressure-sensitive microchip sewn in there, and when you press it, it activates: Robyn's voice chirps from the shirt, delivering one of three randomized (but well-documented) quotes about the Feg List: "They might be Fiends," or "If I want to know what I'm up to I can look there", or "We must all hail the Great Quail!" This microchip will be ring shaped, so the Thoth pin will not interfere with it - and even better, pressing on the pin will actually active it! Now, on the shirt itself we have a Robyn original drawing that spans the whole shirt, sort of a cell -by-cell animation effect, like what he so kindly did for us on the cones. That way we can spin around rapidly (less active Fegs can just stand in the center of a playground merry-go-round) and have the neat-o effect of Robynimation(TM) as amazed onlookers see a cone slowly turn into an insect and finally blossom into a shirt. Or a dozen prawns in merry widows. Or something. The print is, of course, Upside-down Duck Orange. Now, the back of the shirt looks normal, right? Just the pictures associated with the wrap around animated cone effect. Normal, you say? Not quite. You see, the back has a *second* silkscreen: the entire Fegmania Manifesto! But won't that clash with the drawings? No, you see, not at all, because the Manifesto is screened in Glow in the Dark print, and is *invisible* under normal light! But under a black light, or in the dark, it glows, a ghostly statement to spook the old folks. . . . Now, you may think that's it, but - oho! - this is the ultimate Robyn shirt, not metely a really cool Robyn shirt. You see, this one is reversible, hee hee! By taking off the shirt and turning it inside out, you now have a shirt that is coated by that coolio heat-senistive fabric, the stuff that changes from one irridescent color to another across the temperature zones of your body! And that shirt has - brace yourself - a decal of Ziggy the Secret Squid! Yes! A really cool Squid silk screen, all Robynesque, its tentacles curled around the shirt and the two biggest ones forming sort of a heart shaped thingie right over your, um, heart. And there is print, of course: "I'm into you so far, I'm out the other side." Clever, eh? Now . . . on this "inside" shirt there is special room on the right breast - which is behind the front *left* breast pocket, so stitching here can be cleverly concealed by the front pocket when worn normally - special room to stitch in your own name! You see, the purpose of all this is simple - we must swear never to reveal the inside of the shirt, except at special and secret Feg gatherings! Then, oh yes, then, we all turn our shirts inside out and become members of the Feg Cult, all our names prominent, just like people in bowling cults. It could also serve as a Feg Recognition System. Come on, just think how smug you'll feel at a Robyn show, spying another Feg across the room in his shirt, both of you trading the secret smiles knowing that you are hiding the *real shirt* inside of you . . . you trade a meanigful look and slip off to the bathroom, pulling up your shirts and revealing your names to each other: "Ahhh . . . so you're Deborah, so you're Eddie, hmmmm . . . loved your post . . . thanks for the tape. . . " and then slip back out, no one the wiser that you have established contact . . . the Feg People. . . . yesssss . . . - The Quail ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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: RIELWJ@sbu.edu Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 15:38:40 EDT Subject: The Return of.... The mysterious disappearance of the Lord of the Dance was nothing more than a mild case of the Lurks. Thank you...good to be back... Just my own little contribution to one of the more recent threads going around here....first lp bought:Pyromania by Def Leppard. No...really...it was... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .