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Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/index.html Archives are available at ftp://www.ecto.org/pub/lists/fegmaniax/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Re: Mr.Showbiz Re: Give It To The Loave Boys I prefer East Grinstead the dark side of the force cats cradle tape tree Re: Mental Mastication Robyn At Sea ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 21:17:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Mr.Showbiz On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Russ Reynolds wrote: > There's a review of the new Hitchcock collection on the ABC site > {http://www.mrshowbiz.com/}... maybe i'm being dense here, but how is "beautiful girl" a tribute to john lennon? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 13:12:47 -0500 From: John Littlejohn Subject: Re: Give It To The Loave Boys At 08:20 AM 8/8/97 +0100, HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com wrote: > Besides why would he say "She pretty > good" then say he "loathed" her. Hey, just because a relationship is dysfunctional doesn't mean it isn't valid. JL ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 21:41:40 -0700 From: Matthew Knights Subject: I prefer East Grinstead Hi, my name is Matt and I live in Chelsea, London, England. I'm new to the list. My claim to fame is that Robyn once walked past me in Great Marlborough Street. What a pity I didn't have the nerve to introduce myself/say I liked his music/ask his plans or anything. Today I drove out of town with the 'Higsons' song in my head. I got quite close to East Grinstead. However, I've never been to Norwich so feel unable to offer any comment on the relative merits of either town. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Matthew Knights mknights@harrywasp.prestel.co.uk `Ton ame est un lac d'amour donc mes desirs sont les cygnes...' _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: "Eddie Tews" Subject: the dark side of the force Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 14:08:00 PDT > (H) Who still can't see that "Brenda's Iron Sledge" is about anything >other than sledging. "the ones on top are comfortable/ they're sitting on/ a human chain/ a human chain." etc. not that anyone gives a shit, but i wasn't trying to dis neil young. i love neil! i think FREEDOM is one of the few truly great albums of recent years. and i'll probably be saying the same thing about SLEEPS WITH ANGELS in the not too distant future. and the reason i listed him first is precisely because of his vaunted diversity. but i still can't see that he's more musically diverse than robyn. but, again, i suspect that i've been genetically hardwired to reach this conclusion. so don't lose any sleep over it, eb. we could add Feels Like 1974 to the list of topical songs. i think that robyn's topical songs do stand the test of time by the way, because they're more or less about universal themes, rather than, "the news of the day." plus they're generally pretty abstract, and can be enjoyed whether one finds a message in them or not. Personality Traits is about how we raise our children, yes? Legalized Murder: i don't know if you were joking or not, daniel. but you scared the shit out of me when you suggested that this song was written by morrissey. i raced home and looked it up. it was written by robyn. who wrote that m*a*s*h was the original real world? was that glen. that's pretty hilarious. it may cause me no end of pain and suffering to admit this, but what the heck, we're all friends here right? about the only tv shows i watch are: the simpsons, king of the hill, siskel & ebert, and the real world. let the ridicule begin. i used to enjoy the critic quite a bit, but i kind of drifted away from it. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 19:32:17 From: Michael Hooker Subject: cats cradle tape tree hello, way back in april i took names for a cats cradle tree. well, i finally got the tape. all those who were interested, please write again. it's been a while. owen, jude, i remember you guys. i think there was somebody else who already sent me a tape to trade, so i owe you too. SPEAK UP!!! :) thanks, Mike Hooker ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 20:07:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Mental Mastication I've been busy. Life is weird. Put up with my late responses. On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Russ Reynolds wrote: > Now here's my somewhat related idea: a CD changer with "link" and "omit" > capabilities for shuffle mode. Before pressing the shuffle button, you > could program your player to "omit" certain tracks. You could also "link" > tracks together to keep medleys in tact during shuffle play. These two > options would solve the two main problems with CD shuffling: partial medleys > and songs you just don't want to hear. Why hasn't this been done yet? (when > one of you engineers creates one of these, all I want in return for making > you rich is the prototype). When my friend Ryan bought his first CD player (the first CD player any of my friends had... a five disc Sony carrousel), we lamented the inability to do such things. We thought then, and I still think now, that CD players should be equipped with a simple programming language for ordering tracks and also for skipping to a particular point in any given track. I would love to be able to tell my CD player to play the first eighteen seconds of one song, the middle third of another, all of the fifth disc, and so on for the purpose of building tapes with very little mixing noise and lag time. It seems simple enough. Bah. I'm going to do it some day. I'm going to do it some day. I'm going to do it some day. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 19:28:12 -0400 From: dee zed stroke zero one five Subject: Robyn At Sea >Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:59:57 GMT >From: antwoman@lloyd.ftech.co.uk (Antwoman) >Subject: Robyn At Sea > >Robyn at Sea tickets sold out on 4th August. If have not received your >tickets and think you may have made it in on time, please e-mail me and I >will look it up. If you sent in a cheque with an SAE and missed out (meaning >you sent it after about the 2nd or 3rd), your cheque will be returned to you. >Jake Kyle (Homer) will also be joining Tim as Robyn's co-skippers on the >'cruise'. > >Antwoman ~5 coming soon (ish). Bon voyage for now. >A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .