From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V6 #54 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, November 2 1997 Volume 06 : Number 054 Today's Subjects: ----------------- stereo on and cooking bacon ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: stereo on and cooking bacon [Eb ] no rh content, sorry [Michael Hooker ] Re: no rh content, sorry [Bayard ] Browning, fish and similes [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dign] CRD: Fighting Someone's War (Rew) [Terrence M Marks Subject: stereo on and cooking bacon holy moly, that's some serious fegging! even quail and susie have posted this week. thanks all! "one more time for david crosby."--robyn hitchcock >I always heard this as "fontanel," which my dictionary defines as >"Any of >the soft membranous intervals between the incompletely ossified >cranial >bones of fetuses and infants." I.e., it's a hole in your head, a perfect >aperture for otherwise pleasing brown fluids to shoot from i still think it's "fountain," but this is a really cool thought. that's one of the (many) things i love about this list -- all the different lyrics we hear when listening to the same songs. all these years, i honestly thought it was, "willing to be dead," but just recently, it struck me like a gong that it's probably, "well and truly dead." i think the only other time i've heard of the word, "fontanel," is watching Raising Arizona. h.i. is picking up nathan jr., and ed says, "mind his little fontanel." did you know that robyn had played at clinton's inauguration in '93? i just found out the other day. pretty nauseating, really. i was also recently listening to an interview from last year where he said he hoped clinton would get reelected, even if he is "democrat lite." ah well, warts and all, eh? somebody was asking what the hell the line, "calls on anubis," is supposed to mean. robyn's been telling the story for a couple years about a lady who has anubis as a pet. she's listening to jane's addiction on the headphones, and she wants to feed anubis, but can't get to the cupboard because the cord is too short. whether that's what he was actually thinking about when he wrote the song is anybody's guess. but it's funny as hell. this year at bumbershoot, he added a very good bit about the ancient egyptians having lived in two dimensions. i like terry's dream-album concept. while i would of course love to hear whatever soft boys rekkid may or may not be locked away, it probably wouldn't sound too much different from CAN OF BEES. so i don't think i'd put it at the top of the list. judging from the interviews i read before cobain died, i was just INCREDIBLY excited about the next nirvana album, which he said was going to sound completely different. i think i'd put that #1. and #2 would probably be a velvets album recorded right after or during their '94 tour of europe. sometimes i think that live album is the best record since ABBEY ROAD. oh god, bayard, i was just fucking drooling reading about all the great stuff that's gonna be on your web page. thanks so much for being such a dedicated robynlover, and putting so much time and energy into it. what a trooper! and many thanks too for all the other fine souls who create and maintain robyn webpages, asking nothing in return: john house of figgy jones, mike runion pages runion, jeme hard drive capuchin, glen husky colored crystal branches uber, tracy rarities copeland, aidan kimberley rew merrit, nick fegfotos winkworth, and of course, the master woj himself. you all deserve something...i know! when we finally do get all the fegs together in one place, you can all go through the kilofeg spanking machine. yeah! i was at a robyn show once...i think it was portland '94, but i'm not positive...where he said that he liked to do one song per show that was in a different tuning. now, given that it took three freakin' years to elect the velvet underground, it's difficult for me to take the hall of fame too seriously. but, when does one become eligible? is it 20, or 25 years after your first recording was released? if it's 20, then robyn is eligible now. well, it must not be, or there would've been much talk about it around these parts, i guess. but i say, if he doesn't get in on the first ballot, we all go to cleveland and burn the fucking place to the ground. some nice chap keeps mentioning that we oughta compile a tape of robyn covering. it's a very good idea. but you'd really have to have one whole tape just for the sheena easton covers, and then one for everything else. just kidding, of course. he's only done four sheena easton covers to my knoweldge, which is far to few to merit its own tape. but i think you could at least fill up a 60-minute tape of all beatles covers: she said she said, rain, revolution, i saw her standing there, twist & shout, strawberry fields, you can't do that, eight days a week, baby you're a rich man, across the universe, that boy, cold turkey counts right?, a day in the life, yer blues. apart from the beatles, i count at least 50 covers that are not on CRABLINGS or OSCAR. so we could definitely fill up a tape or three. i mean, what i'd really love to see is for rhino to do it. but until then, anybody interested in putting something together, get in touch with me, and let's see how many we can come up with. Fuck You! I won't do what you tell me! (repeat fourteen times) --Rage Against the Machine ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 14:39:32 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: stereo on and cooking bacon >i think the only other time i've heard of the word, "fontanel," is >watching Raising Arizona. h.i. is picking up nathan jr., and ed says, >"mind his little fontanel." There was a Babes in Toyland album a few years ago called "Fontanelle" -- just a variant on the word.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 18:45:34 From: Michael Hooker Subject: no rh content, sorry hello, someone i know offered to make a b-sides cd for another digests listmembers, and was threatened with legal action. she didnt ask for money, but did solicit trades. i have seen a thread here regarding that type of thing before and am curious as to what the real deal is? can anybody help? thanks, Mike Hooker ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 21:43:26 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: no rh content, sorry > someone i know offered to make a b-sides cd for another digests > listmembers, and was threatened with legal action. she didnt ask for money, > but did solicit trades. i have seen a thread here regarding that type of > thing before and am curious as to what the real deal is? can anybody help? Seems weird, doesn't it? after all, it only amounts to a format change. sure, tapes don't have random access, but you don't see people getting in a snit about minidisc trading. tapes don't sound as good as CD's but most people don't get upset about DAT trading either. My theory is people associate the CD format with big bux b/c that's what everyone buys music on right now. Perhaps they fear it will go from a CDR or two for some online friends, to burning a dozen CD's a day off the hard drive and selling them for $20 a pop. (Some people do this.) Or maybe they think they're actually going to mass produce cd's with a duplication company. It's really wrong to sell someone else's (intellectual) property, but personally i don't think it's wrong to trade or give it away, regardless of recording medium, if it's unreleased and probably never going to be released. my 2 sense. =b ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 16:35:25 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Browning, fish and similes >>in other news, i was reading a book about bukharin that one of my >>leninist friends recommended (yikes! but don't nobody ever tell me that i >>don't expose myself to views that i find horrifying.) in it, the author >>quotes this line from a nazi poet: "when i hear the word culture i reach >>for my browning." i don't know nothin' about guns, but i assume that a "browning" is some sort of gun, maybe even a shotgun. probably just coincidence, but you never know. i guess i wouldn't *expect* robyn to be reading nazi poetry, but i wouldn't be shocked if he were, either. << ...he just went to very good schools ;) A browning is indeed a type of firearm, although I'm not sure what type. Of course, the reference could have been to a book of poetry... Robert wrote of fish occasionally, BTW: "Zooks, are we pilchards?" ("Fra Lippo Lippi"). I don't think he ever mentioned prawns, though. ObNZ music comment: np - "The dance of death ep" by Soluble Fish (I'm NOT making that up!) oh, and sorry to have confused people with the metaphor-simile thing. A metaphor's when you say something IS something (eg "the cliffs suspended on the waves" - they appear as if they were suspended, but Robyn says they ARE suspended, or all the ones in "I'm only you" - eg "I'm a policeman working in an empty house"). A simile is - as the name suggests - when two things are said to be similar (a vcery easy way to remember it!) (eg (another set of parentheses (not brackets - these [] are brackets)! (is this too concatenated?) but I digress...) "She pours you out like milk, and snuffs you out like silk") James 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: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 01:06:31 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: CRD: Fighting Someone's War (Rew) This is off of The Bible of Bop. Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu @song: Fighting Someone's War: E9 I am fighting someone's war A13 I am fighting someone's war Cadd2 D I am fighting someone's war E Get below (get below) A Get below (get below) E Get below (get below) A Get below (get below) I am burning up inside I am burning up inside I am burning up inside Get below (get below) Get below (get below) Get below (get below) Get below (get below) E9 Cadd2 E9 I'm gonna shock the whole world out tonight Cadd2 E9 shock the whole world out tonight Cadd2 Go ahead and hang up it's like you never even rang up E9 Cadd2 'cause I'm miles out of sight of you I'm burning out in spite of you I'll shock the whole world out tonight shock the whole world out tonight (Solo over E9 A6) E9: 020102 A13: X02022 Cadd2: X32012 (Or tune to EADGBF# and play E7, A7, C and Dsus2 [XX0230]) (Probably not the voicings Kimberly used, but...) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V6 #54 ******************************