From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V6 #92 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, December 9 1997 Volume 06 : Number 092 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Freebird -- a possible history [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programm] Re: Freebird -- a possible history [Eb ] Darling Budds of May [Natalie Jacobs ] I feel like asking a tree for an autograph ["Matthew Knights" ] Alison, the new Freebird (no RH!) [lj lindhurst ] Auteurs (was RE: Alison, the new Freebird (no RH!)) ["Chaney, Dolph L" ] FW: Alison, the new Freebird (with RH!) ["Bret" ] Re: I feel like asking a tree for an autograph [Bayard ] Re: you could have knocked him down with................ ["Glen E. Uber" ] Re: Meeting Robyn 101 [The Great Quail ] Some Kick-Glass Reich-n-Rile(y)! [The Great Quail ] personal best of Robyn [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] Re: Meeting Robyn 101: How and What to Say [Russ Reynolds ] To Quail (Daniel Lentz) [Eb ] Kimberley [Russ Reynolds ] mix tape I made for a friend [Russ Reynolds ] Viva Sea-Tac [oskjefte@online.no] Re: Viva Sea-Tac [squeaky watson ] Re: Mix tape I made for a friend [Ross Overbury ] Re: you could have knocked him down with................ [SydneyC33 Subject: Re: Freebird -- a possible history >>>>> "Russ" == Russ Reynolds writes: Russ> Am I the only one who yells "B*h*m**n Rh*ps*dy!" at every Russ> show? -russ [bowdlerized] Aargh! When I hear the word 'Qu**n', I reach for my shotgun. When Robyn plays Scotland, there's always someone yelling, "Furry Green Atom Bowl! Furry Green Atom Bowl!". - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 01:33:57 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Freebird -- a possible history I saw the Waterboys live once. I'm not a fan, but I sort of got roped into going. During one of the "request calls," several people around me were yelling out songs, so I decided to yell out "LARGE CERAMIC VASES"!!!! Everyone else went quiet, and looked at me quizzically. When they saw me smirking, they laughed and started yelling "LARGE CERAMIC VASES" too. Heh heh. The Waterboys didn't play my request, however. Eb, remembering his first and last date with Diana ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 08:46:39 -0400 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Darling Budds of May Eb sputtered, >Natalie wrote: >>I believe Eb recommended Harold Budd - a recommendation which I second, >>except that I was once chastised for calling Budd a minimalist - >>apparently he's actually "ambient." So it's not that there's only a >>little bit of him, it's just that he's hard to perceive. > >No, that wasn't me. I'm not much interested in Budd, beyond his Eno >collaborations. Stray away from the center two octaves of the piano, >Harold...go on, I dare ya. Budd's music strikes me as fairly banal, >actually -- quite dull, minus the benefit of Eno's accompanying landscapes. I've actually only heard Budd in collaboration myself (Eno and Andy Partridge), so I'll take your word for it re. his solo stuff. So if it wasn't you who recommended "Harold Buddha," as Herr Partridge calls him, then who was it? Mr. Dignan, perhaps? - - Natalie "Korsakov's Syndrome" Jacobs ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:55:02 -0000 From: "Matthew Knights" Subject: I feel like asking a tree for an autograph Carole wrote: I was only kidding ! But there is a serious point there somewhere. .Robyn once mocked his profession with "We're all the same. Male bipeds with big egos!" and all things being equal I think a male fan cannot approach a male performer as easily as a female fan can. I've got an open mind on this. Maybe I'm a little low on charisma. I struck up a brief conversation with Tim once. I was holding a champagne bucket full of ice and cold beers in the 12 Bar. I should have offered him one. I think Tim's really approachable and unassuming. A nice guy. Maybe age is a factor because I think some people become more inscrutable as they get older and Robyn (at 44?) has an intensity about him which can be fascinating but also intimidating. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Matthew Knights mknights@harrywasp.prestel.co.uk `Ton ame est un lac d'amour dont mes desirs sont les cygnes...' _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 09:46:01 -0800 From: Mike Runion Subject: Sampler With A Statue Have I slipped toes first into a mindless cesspool of incoherent thought, or was "Statue With A Walkman" included on some sort of UK CD sampler some years back? Any off-list info would be much appreciated. Mike, who knows his hemoglobin count...do you? - -- Mike Runion Cocoa, FL, USA /******************************************************************\ | VCM: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/cones.htm | | Fegmaps: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/fegmaps | | Spoken Word Tape: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/wordtape.htm | \******************************************************************/ "Wait a minute. Time for a Planetary Sit-In!" - Julian Cope ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 10:27:49 -0500 (EST) From: lj lindhurst Subject: Alison, the new Freebird (no RH!) >Aargh! When I hear the word 'Qu**n', I reach for my shotgun. > >When Robyn plays Scotland, there's always someone yelling, "Furry >Green Atom Bowl! Furry Green Atom Bowl!". > Anyone who has seen Elvis Costello perform more than once will also be familiar with what I like to call 'Alison Syndrome'. For example: When I saw Elvis perform with the Brodsky Quartet in Boston, some big fat soccer hooligan type sitting *directly behind me* kept yelling "Aaaaalison!" over and over again, to which EC curtly replied, "I'm not playing it, so shut the fuck up!" At another EC show, a guy nearby was screaming "Alison", and another fan told him to shut up. Right during a dramatic silent pause, the Alison-screamer replies quite LOUDLY, "Where do you think you are?!?! The opera?! This is a rock concert, and I'll yell whatever I want!" then lunged across three rows at the guy! (they were both thrown out of the show in about 2 seconds) I hate Queen too!!!! Over-rated, drama-queen shit(e) for sexually confused post-pubescent boys in 1979. But hey, is anyone out there into the Auteurs? I got _After Murder Park_, and it's starting to stick in my head in a big way. Does anyone know anything about these guys? Didn't they put a new record out this year? The lead singer's voice sounds very familiar, but then again, maybe I am getting him mixed up with that wuss from James. Insult tally: 4 (soccer hooligans, Queen, post-pubescent boys, James)(but alas, I did not insult Brian Wilson) lj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 11:04:21 -0500 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: Auteurs (was RE: Alison, the new Freebird (no RH!)) In response to LJ, Have not yet heard the Auteurs, but their singer has an excellent side project called Baader Meinhof that released a self-titled CD this year. Dolph ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:07:33 +0000 From: Jonathan Turner Subject: cambridge 4-dec-97 Tim and Jake opened, joined by two of Tim's pals - on guitar (the guitarist from Drugstore) and precussion (from a band who's name I've forgotten). A very nice, low-key set, including a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song." Homer have put out a CD version of their "Grow Your Own" cassette, which was given away to Homerama members earlier this year. The CD consists of the 8 songs from the cassette ("Acoustic Homer" stuff recorded in 1994/95 and featuring Andy Metcalfe on bass), plus "Indestructible" from the Lucky 13 CD single. I have ordering information somewhere if anyone wants to know how to get one, though I guess it'll be on their web page soon if it's not there already. Robyn's set list went something like this (though I've a suspicion that I've missed out something after RCE - it's a bit like that feeling where you think you've left the gas on when you've gone out). (Robyn acoustic, b&w spots) Cheese Alarm Chinese Bones Balloon Man ("Some people write songs about women or cars. I write about shapes. That's the Hitchcock schtick in a nutshell.") Trilobite (Tim joins on guitar, vocal and harmonica) Madonna of the Wasps Jewels For Sophia Queen Elvis I Feel Beautiful (Tim leaves) Raining Twilight Coast I Something You ("As you get older, you write less poetry") (Robyn goes electric) Raymond Chandler Evening (with long narrative middle section) (Kimberly joins on Very Loud Guitar and vocals) Kingdom Of Love I Often Dream Of Trains ("This is an encore song, but we're short of time.") Insanely Jealous - -- (encore, with Kim, Tim, Jake and the man from Drugstore; Robyn electric, big green apples) You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover (Willie Dixon ?) (RH: "I played this in The Northern Star in 1975." Audience wag: "You did a lot of things in The Northern Star in 1975...") Queen Of Eyes Adoration Of The City (I may have got this and QoE transposed) ("We recorded this last Thursday in London. Near the Hogarth roundabout.") Beautiful Queen Robyn very chatty, playing well and seemed to be enjoying himself. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 11:08:58 -0600 From: "Bret" Subject: FW: Alison, the new Freebird (with RH!) >Aargh! When I hear the word 'Qu**n', I reach for my shotgun. > >When Robyn plays Scotland, there's always someone yelling, "Furry >Green Atom Bowl! Furry Green Atom Bowl!". > Anyone who has seen Elvis Costello perform more than once will also be familiar with what I like to call 'Alison Syndrome'. For example: When I saw Elvis perform with the Brodsky Quartet in Boston, some big = fat soccer hooligan type sitting *directly behind me* kept yelling "Aaaaalison!" over and over again, to which EC curtly replied, "I'm not playing it, so shut the fuck up!" or after the calls (from an obnoxious frat boy but then again, aren't = they all)for Astronomy Domine rang out during every half second of quiet = at a Robyn Hitchcock show, Andy simply flips the guy off while Robyn = says..... 'Pipe down, we heard ya mate, but we're just not going to play = it'...pretty boring, I know, but the good part of the story is what the = fratboy did next....... shrugged his shoulders and left the show. ok, sorry, had to pass it along. - --Bret oh, also, several months ago, when Robyn was doing his tour of the east = coast, I met up with some fegs at Carborro, NC at which time there was = picture taking, and great rejoicing............but I cannot for the life = of me remember who it was..............I'm sure the guilty parties will = let me know. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 12:47:08 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: I feel like asking a tree for an autograph On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Matthew Knights wrote: > I was only kidding ! But there is a serious point there somewhere. .Robyn once > mocked his profession with "We're all the same. Male bipeds with big egos!" and all > things being equal I think a male fan cannot approach a male performer as easily as a > female fan can. I think this is true. Could it have anything to do with what happened to John Lennon 17 years ago today? Did you know the last photo of Lennon is of him signing _double fantasy_ for his assassin? Luckily there are exceptions and I'm sure he's a nice guy when you get to know him, just not so approachable. those moody artists! ;) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 18:25 +0000 (GMT) From: jharrisc@cix.co.uk (Jeremy Harris) Subject: Re: Robyn at Princess Charlotte Saul's right about the second track at Leicester being Lysander rather than Beautiful Queen. I thought it was strange I had him down as playing it twice! :-) Glad we agree on pretty much everything else.... - -Jeremy- (the short fat bloke in the Man With A Lightbulb Head T-shirt BTW, slightly to the left of the stage near the front) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 14:41:04 -0600 From: "Bret" Subject: you could have knocked him down with................ Clean Steve is one of my favorite RH songs, also seems to be one of his = favorites to play live. and seems to go through more metamorphosis that any other song I've had = the chance to hear. I was wondering is anyone on the list has made a collection of different = versions of this song? if not, then I am about to start it. I currently only have 5 but it's a = start. - --Bret oh, the best so far may be, 'you could have knocked him down with Dealey = Plaza' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:18:57 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Buddy Eb concatenated: >Natalie wrote: >>I believe Eb recommended Harold Budd... > >No, that wasn't me. it was me - I like his work, and yes, sometimes it does have pulse (or even the odd legume). As for the Eno list... aaaargh! That makes four digests we're both on... It's a very slow list, and quite sterile. Analogous to Music for Airports rather than Taking Tiger Mountain, if you know what I mean. woj sez: >or the knitting factory shows this past march where he called "raymond chandler >evening" rlc. one of you suffers from dailysex (erm, better make that dyslexia), I see James ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:29:40 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: watch out all you spacecats the estimable Johnny B. Jones made a tape called MINERAL MAN, all clean steves. i hear it's a very effective form of torture in some cultures ;) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 14:17:46 -0700 From: "Glen E. Uber" Subject: Re: you could have knocked him down with................ Bret hat geschrieben: > oh, the best so far may be, 'you could have knocked him down with > Dealey Plaza' My fave so far is the June 1997 Mill Valley version -- "You could have knocked him down with Marin County...if you could've afforded it..." - --g ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 97 19:10:43 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Meeting Robyn 101 >>Hmm.. Here's the scene: you and Robyn in a narrow lane, walking towards >>each other. You have to say *something* to this great man. >>What to do? >>Any other suggestions? 1. Well, I am always prepared for this moment. I have a trusty handy-dandy Celebrity Meeting Quailpack I tote with me at all times. Inside is a Harrison Ford poster, which of course he simply *must* sign. I also have a Robyn poster with me, just in case I meet Harrison Ford. (Ah, I have pleasant daydreams even *thinking* about the perplexed expression on Ford's face!) OK, so that's not true. How about this, then: 2. I walk up to Mr. Hitchcock and say, "Hey! Aren't you that quirky and eccentric English pop singer who sounds like John Lennon and is the inheritor of Syd Barrett's legacy, you know, the guy that sings enigmatic songs about fish and squid?" 3. Look at him right in the eye -- utterly unflinchingly -- and say, "Hey Robyn! I'd be glad to give you my autograph!" Then take out a pen and sign something of his, shake his hand, and let him get a picture with you as you chat about your recent projects. It may not work, but think of how much fun it will be! 4. Slink up to him and surrepticiously slip a Feg-List calling card in his pocket. (Yes, Robyn, we *are* fiends.) 5. Approach him openly and smiling. Shake his hand vigorously and ramble on about how much you love his work, how his songs were so much better than that other idiot you saw him with, that he is a fucking genius. Then part amicably with a cheerful, "It was so nice meeting you, Mr. Bragg!" 6. Get right in his way until he stops. Make eye contact and say very clearly: "Sooo . . . what Mike Runion wants to know is, where's *your* Feg-dot?" 7. Ask him for the time, completely "ignorant" of the fact that he's Robyn. Then when he gives it to you, or does not give it to you, initiate a half-deranged monologue about time and its many quirks. Of course he will begin suspecting you are a fan, so it is imperitive to remain oblivious to his reactions. Then ask him for a dollar. 8. Here's my favorite: wait until he goes into a restroom, then sidle up to the urinal. Suddenly look over and -- in complete shock -- utter, "Uh, it's, um . . you!" I can personally vouch that this has a charm all of its own. . . . - --The Quail - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | Literature Site - The Libyrinth: TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth www.rpg.net/quail | Vampire Site - New York by Night: riverrun Discordian Society | www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN 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: Mon, 8 Dec 97 19:02:51 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Some Kick-Glass Reich-n-Rile(y)! I know, I know. Silent for a few months, then you can't shut me up. Eb: >I just don't hear it. (Glass) I've never heard anything by Glass which I would rate >above "passably intriguing." Maybe the Koyaanisqatsi score. Maybe. On the >other hand, there is plenty of Reich music which I find utterly thrilling. That is odd, most people think Glass has more heart than Reich. (But I do indeed *love* Reich! It's like opening up the fabric of the Universe to see the clockwork keeping it all ticking.) But maybe you haven't heard all the right Glass stuff . . . I mean, I like Koyaanisqatsi, but it's certainly not his best work. And there are some Glass disks that are sub-par, as with any artist with such an oeuvre. But I would suggest the following Glassworks to anyone, each very different, each the best in its category: 1. Solo Piano: simply the most touching, haunting, evocative piano pieces since Beethoven's sonatas. Put this CD on when the snow is falling, and curl up with a cup of coffee. It's amazing, the sort of music that brings tears to the eyes for no reason other than its beauty. 2. Glassworks: The basic introduction to the Philip Glass Ensemble: small orchestra, keyboards, clarinets, flutes. Pieces of varying complexity, a great introduction to his aestehetic. 3. Akhnaten: his best opera, in my opinion. This is an amazing work, a staggering work. The voices are simply overpowering; and when the drums come in over the chanting at the "Funeral," eeek, it's just, well -- eeek. Later in the work there is this moment where he weaves together the voices with the orchestra in such a complex way, a dreamy intricate -- eeek. Mozart would be impressed, that is if he could restrain himself from adding more notes. I am happy to be alive on a planet and epoch that has this recording present. 4. Hydrogen Jukebox: With Allen Ginsberg, this is a setting of his poems to music. Ranges from the sublime to the knock'em out powerful. Allen reads some of them, others are given over to a chorus. 5. Violin Concerto: A very good introduction to Glass, his Violin Concerto straddles his middle and late period. Very moving, complexly circular, and well-structured. Gidon Kremer does a wonderful job. >Ehhh, I didn't buy it at all. [Nyman's The Piano] It just seemed like a good way to >contemporize the film for marketing purposes. Gee, Ed, then why didn't they get that bloody Williams, Horner or Zimmerman? I mean, the average person has not even *heard* of Mike Nyman - -- the movie "made" him in America to some extent. I can see if you don't like it, but I don't think you are being particularly fair. Hah. I bet you go to the Mike Nyman List and bait the hell out of them, don't you? Crafty, evil Eb. >Any of you minimalist folks like Daniel Lentz? I rarely hear mention of >this guy anywhere, but I have a couple of records of his that are really >beautiful. I think they're called The Crack of the Bell and On the Leopard >Altar. I have not heard of him! Could you email me privately with more info, maybe a few words on his style? >Eb, who saw the Steve Reich Ensemble live once and didn't hear one cry of >"Freebird!" during the whole show ;) That's because people generally yell out "1812 Overture!" at Classical concerts. But when I saw them, I kept joking with my wife that instead of Freebird, I should yell out "In C!" (A little Minimalist humor, there!) Natalie writes: >Great Quail, I still love you too, however, re. Philip Glass, I've heard >only a little by him, but what I have heard bored me deeply. I can say no >more on the subject and, indeed, I shan't. OK . . . that's perfectly fine. Some of my friends find early Glass so boring that I will purposely throw on "Einstein on the Beach" just to rile them. >I attended a Michael Nyman concert a couple of years ago. Strangely >enough, some guy in the back kept yelling "Wafflehead!" over and over. >I'm not sure why. Um . . . I though we never met . . . . >I believe Eb recommended Harold Budd - a recommendation which I second, >except that I was once chastised for calling Budd a minimalist - >apparently he's actually "ambient." So it's not that there's only a >little bit of him, it's just that he's hard to perceive. Heh. Nice distinction! But yes, technically Budd is "ambient," and Phil Glass hates being called a "minimalist." So does Adams, Riley, and (I think) Reich. Only Feldman seems to not care, and he's an ambient minimalist anyway. Or a minimal ambientist. Or . . . erk. These pesky labels. It was so much easier when there was only Stravinsky and Everything Else. >Greater minds than I can link all this up to Robyn. Not that I am a greater mind, but . . . . let's see, in an attempt to connect all the threads I've participated in over the last year: Harold Budd --> Brian Eno --> Laurie Anderson --> William S. Burroughs - --> Allen Ginsberg --> Philip Glass --> Laurie Anderson (oops) --> Lou Reed --> Andy Warhol --> John Cale --> Brian Eno (whoops, again!) --> Roger Waters --> Ute Lemper --> Mike Nyman --> Shakespeare --> Sir Francis Bacon --> Kevin Bacon --> Jonathon Demme --> David Byrne --> Phil Glass (again?) --> Kronos Quartet --> Steve Reich --> Kronos Quartet (hey! no fair!) --> John Osborne --> Grateful Dead --> Suzanne Vega --> Robyn. Take care, - --Quail PS -- A related knock-knock joke: Knock, knock Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Philip Glass. - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | Literature Site - The Libyrinth: TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth www.rpg.net/quail | Vampire Site - New York by Night: riverrun Discordian Society | www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN 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: Mon, 8 Dec 97 19:10:32 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: A Meek Explanation for Eddie's Query Hello Fegs! This is another one of my pesky love letters, unsolicited explanations, and shameless requests. Eddie writes, >VERY glad to see susie and jay more or less back in the saddle. but i'm >just about ready to propose a moratorium until such time as the quail >shows his face around these environs. what do they call that? lopping >of your nose to spite your face? something like that. anyway, i could >really go for some licorice right about now. That's very sweet, Eddie "Capitalism Blows" Tews! I am glad to know that someone noticed I was gone . . . as long time Listers know, it really does feel like a home, and it's nice to know that people miss you when you haven't returned for breakfast. I just thought I'd let you wonderful Fegs know that this List is indeed a second home for me. (You know . . . since they kicked me off the Michael Bolton List for my constant insistence that he cut his hair.) It feels nice to get email from members asking questions like, "Where have you gone?" and "Are you still on the List?" and "When are you going to pay me for Glass Flesh?" and stuff like that. I was going to resist making a public explanation, but when LJ Lindhurst showed up at my door with a box of chocolates and a dozen roses, I knew maybe it was time. So Mark, you don't need to dedicated your next CD to me anymore. But the reason I have not written is certainly not personal . . . (Well, except for Eb. I really don't like Eb, and he scares me. I have Eb nightmares the way other people have falling off a cliff nightmares, or Freddy Kreuger nightmares, or Hanson Orgy Nightmares.) It's just that I have been amazingly busy with my web design. (I am about to brag soon: be prepared!) My email is over a month backed up -- and that's my *personal* email, let alone my list mail. (I also belong to Lists for King Crimson, Rush, and Hawkwind, and a Finnegans Wake List. Yes, my dirty secret is out. I belong to the Hawkwind List!) I still read most of the letters, but until I catch up, I just don't have to time to write long-winded babbelogues about the End of the Universe. Which isn't to say that I no longer believe that the Fegs are a cult trying to immanetize the eschaton! I still believe that we are all doomed, don't worry. Did I mention I was going to brag soon? Well, the reason I am busy with my Web stuff is that my modernist/postmodernist literature web site, The Libyrinth, has been nominated for a Webby Award. This is, or so they tell me, the biggest award you can get for running a web site, and I will be flying to California to attend the ceremony. So I figured that I had better get the site looking as good as possible, because one of the judges is Scott Adams, and I cringe to think of Dogbert noticing even ONE DEAD LINK. (Thomas Dolby is also a judge -- cool, eh?) So I have been working my feathers off, updating it, revising it, placing small tributes to Thomas Dolby on every page, that sort of thing. If I were a vain bird - -- and I most certainly am not! -- I would even mention that the site is also eligible for a "Viewer's Choice" award, which is given based on an online voting poll. I am also quite judiciously refraining from mentioning that you may view the nominated sites online and cast a vote by going to "www.webbyaward.com" and registering. I mean, how tacky would it be to suggest to a WHOLE LIST of virtual friends that they help me win at least one award, thereby making my trip to California at least somewhat ego-gratifying? I mean, that would be shameless, and you need not fear me asking you to go to "www.webbyaward.com" and casting your vote for the Libyrinth as best Print/Zine site on the Web. So take care, friends, and know that I am still here, listening to Philip Glass and killing my brain cells with the likes of Joyce, Borges, Taco Bell burritos, and whatnot. Yours, - --The "Capitalism Blows; Communism Sucks" Quail PS: So this is not yet *another* message from me utterly devoid of Robyn Content: Robyn --> Thomas Dolby --> Webby Awards --> The Great Quail - --and that sure beats my Robyn experience of embarrassing myself at the urinal! - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | Literature Site - The Libyrinth: TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth www.rpg.net/quail | Vampire Site - New York by Night: riverrun Discordian Society | www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN 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: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 14:51:51 -0700 From: "Glen E. Uber" Subject: Beautiful Queen Robert Ware hat geschrieben: > My inquiry is this...In Beautiful Queen, is the lyric...with your > beautiful jeans...OR..with your beautiful GENE ?I'm guessing it's > the latter. The lyric sheet to MOSSY LIQUOR shows "With your beautiful gene." - --g ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 23:12:33 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: personal best of Robyn If anyone cares, here's the tape I made to introduce friends to Robyn: Oceanside Lady Waters Child of the Universe The President Grooving on an inner plane listening to the higsons the man with the lightbulb head chinese bones ride Acid bird the lizard strawberry mind =20 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 97 15:21:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Re: Meeting Robyn 101: How and What to Say how 'bout one of these: "Spare change mate?" "Hey...Didn't you used to be Robyn Hitchcock?" "You're pretty tall for a B+ artist" "You look familiar--did we go to school together?" ...or this variation: "Larry! Larry McCormick! Man, I haven't seen you in--oh...you're not Larry. Sorry, I thought you were an old friend of mine named Larry McCormick but I see you're Robyn Hitchcock instead." ;) -rr ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 17:44:29 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: A Meek Explanation for Eddie's Query Quail wrote: >(You know . . . >since they kicked me off the Michael Bolton List for my constant >insistence that he cut his hair.) Well, I guess you had the last laugh there, didn't you? >(I have Eb >nightmares the way other people have falling off a cliff nightmares, or >Freddy Kreuger nightmares, or Hanson Orgy Nightmares.) Me too. I also have nightmares about being forced to read gearheaded musings about mini-disc player specs. >It's just that I >have been amazingly busy with my web design. (I am about to brag soon: be >prepared!) My email is over a month backed up -- and that's my *personal* >email, let alone my list mail. (I also belong to Lists for King Crimson, >Rush, and Hawkwind, and a Finnegans Wake List. Yes, my dirty secret is >out. I belong to the Hawkwind List!) What about your dirty secret about Rush? ;) I saw Gus Gus and Seely live over the weekend...if they come to your town, see a movie instead. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 18:24:24 -0700 From: Eb Subject: To Quail (Daniel Lentz) Try http://www.newalbion.com/artists/lentzd/ to start. But I found over 100 Daniel Lentz links on the Web, so dig in. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 97 18:56:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Kimberley I for one am happy (and envious) to see Kimberely showing up at so mny Hitchcock gigs. I've always loved his "very loud guitar" and very english backing vocals. If anyone over there in the ol' UK gets a chance to talk with either of them at a future gig, see if you can find out whether they plan on doing any recording together soon. Mean time, I'd love to hear a tape of one of those shows if anyone would like to share. - -russ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 97 18:48:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: mix tape I made for a friend Since Eddie was kind enough to share the contents of his successful mix tape with us I thought I'd go the other route and list the contents of one I made recently that did NOT serve to convert a friend. side A Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Robyn Hitchcock-Balloon Man Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody side B Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Billy Joel-Piano Man Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody It seems my friend threw the tape in the trash halfway through the first song. (maybe I should have led off with "Piano Man"?) -russ PS if there is enough interest I will gladly set up a tree for this tape. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:56:33 +0100 (MET) From: oskjefte@online.no Subject: Viva Sea-Tac Someone asked about the first Sea-Tac show taking place April 10, 1994. I've checked with a source quite close to Peter Buck, and Peter didn't take part in this show. Robyn was backed by Young Fresh Fellows this night, billed as Popsycle Shop Incident, which, by the way, was Peter Buck's idea! Ole NP: Jacobites: Robespierre's Velvet Basement **************************************************************************** ************************** NP: JACOBITES: Robespierre's Velvet Basement LS: NIKKI SUDDEN: The Jewel Thief **************************************************************************** ************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 22:40:05 -0500 From: squeaky watson Subject: Re: Viva Sea-Tac also sprach oskjefte@online.no: >Someone asked about the first Sea-Tac show taking place April 10, 1994. actual date: october 4, 1994. >I've checked with a source quite close to Peter Buck, and Peter didn't take >part in this show. Robyn was backed by Young Fresh Fellows this night, >billed as Popsycle Shop Incident, which, by the way, was Peter Buck's idea! well, i'll be fahrvegnuggened! you're right! way back when, simone jarzebek (erstwhile fegster) sent me the croc's october 1994 listing (printed on bright orange paper) and the show is listed as "popsicle shoppe incident" (with the quotes). i never noticed that before. how odd (well, it's not odd that i didn't notice, but it is odd that it was titled that). rlc, er, dailysex, er, woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 97 22:51:32 EST From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Mix tape I made for a friend Russ said: > > PS if there is enough interest I will gladly set up a tree for this tape. > Yes, please do -- and set up a rope while you're at it. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 00:35:58 EST From: SydneyC33 Subject: Re: you could have knocked him down with................ Bret writes: << oh, the best so far may be, 'you could have knocked him down with Dealey Plaza' >> My faves: In San Francisco: "you could've knocked him down with a cone, if you'd bought one." In LA: "you could've knocked him down with a subway, if you'd built one." Sydney ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V6 #92 ******************************