From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V6 #97 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, December 14 1997 Volume 06 : Number 097 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Biggest bland in the world, escluding both south and east Asian , markets, but still including Oceania and other landless places. [] speaking of Phillip Glass... [lj lindhurst ] Mean Fiddler ["Tony Blackman" ] Re: Yet more brushes with fame [Sean Hennessey ] Re: speaking of Phillip Glass... [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:54:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Children's Television Worship" Subject: Biggest bland in the world, escluding both south and east Asian , markets, but still including Oceania and other landless places. > > but the debate should be, who could fill a stadium, any size, anywhere, on a > > whim? > > michael jackson folks! can y'all think of any others? Of course we forget the most often quoted line in the musically related world..."The Chieftains have sold more records in Europe than the Beatles." Add to that all those TV commercials for Boxcar Willie [sp?] and others who have made more records than ______ [fill in the blank, or give a specific number greater than 30, or one album for every month the performer has been alive]. And of course, that Greek chanteuse [sp?/name?--the proto-type for that pop creation Lisa Loeb, who could not sing here way out of a wet paper bag] who puts out an album every month, literally, brings us to the phrase... "In their [insert native country here, but not the US or England; although Canada is foreign enough for most US TV goers] they are [insert ludicrous banter about near-sainthood]." .chris (who can't wait to leave) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 08:37:56 -0500 (EST) From: lj lindhurst Subject: speaking of Phillip Glass... This week's Village Voice has a huge story about him. There's a big full color photo of him on the cover with the caption, "Phillip Glass, the man who changed modern music." If anyone is REALLY interested, I suppose I could be talked into mailing you my copy of the Voice. I do have to go to the post office sometime in the next few days, so it wouldn't be a big deal... lj, who saw Luna last night (and it was without a doubt the best show I have seen in a LONG time! They did "Season of the Witch" as an encore!) (then I ate some Belgian waffles and various pork products) (parenthesis rule!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:19:48 -0000 From: "Tony Blackman" Subject: Mean Fiddler Am I the only one who went to the Mean Fiddler gig on Tuesday? I wish = I'd written down the set list now so I could recall it back to you. I = think it was the best Robyn gig I've been to for a while..... . To top = it off, there were no "special guests" this time, something I was = pleased to see as I'm neither a fan of the Dear Janes nor Tim = (Pudding-bowl Haircut) Keegan, just good old unadulterated Robyn. One highlight I enjoyed at the time of the encores was when someone = shouted "What's the pineapple for?" Robyn responded "Ask the = pineapple...... it could easily ask the same of us" If people did go, did anyone record it? I manged to turn my recorder off = when he came on stage, only realising when I went to change discs for = the encores.Doh! Is anyone going to Dorset village hall gig? I'm trying to get out of = what I've already organised for the weekend as I'm still smarting from = having been forced to miss the "Robyn at Sea" extravaganza. Tony. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 12:30:32 -0500 (EST) From: Sean Hennessey Subject: Re: Yet more brushes with fame Hallo all, > In a message dated 97-12-12 02:33:11 EST, you write: > > << 3. I once met Robert Smith and Lol of the Cure, after a Ride gig (the Cure > had just played New Orleans' major arena, and for some reason they popped > in). Smith's pupils were as big as saucers, his face was all wrinkled, and > he really "wasn't all the way there," if you know what I mean. My friends > and I began quizzing him incessnatly about My Bloody Valentine. (Hey, I > didn't say I liked the guy). He just kept saying he thought they were a > good band. >> I one met Belinda from My Bloody Valentine at ULU after a Pavement show. I had just been finished by my girlfriend, had stayed up all night, and drank way too much cider and all the dancing and heat from the packed room somehow gave me a panic attack. I was standing out in the foyer, holding a post and trying not to fall over and she came over and asked if I was alright. I stuttered, 'uh yeah', and she went and sat on the steps with a friend and laughed at me! Funnily enough, I had 'met' Kevin Shields a few weeks earlier at ULU at a Sugar show. All I had the nerve was to say 'hi'. I wanted to ask him about his flying saucer pedals, but I should have asked him about the Cure! :) tara - Sean ******************************************************************************* Sean Hennessey, President of the Boston Reds, an 'unoffical' Manchester United Supporters' Club url: http://members.tripod.com/~boston_reds/red_army.html email: suggs@tiac.net *Bassist: Slippy Keane* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 12:39:05 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: speaking of Phillip Glass... >This week's Village Voice has a huge story about him. There's a big full >color photo of him on the cover.... Does he look really "pensive" 'n' stuff, and have his finger oh-so-contemplatively pressed against his temple? Every picture I see of Glass, he looks like he's posing for a bust. Sheesh. Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V6 #97 ******************************