From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V6 #104 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, December 21 1997 Volume 06 : Number 104 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Fame with brushes (content=zero) [John Barrington Jones ] life on the mississippi ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: life on the mississippi [Capuchin ] Brushed by fame [Marshall Joseph Armintor ] Robyn Hitchcock's Christmas Party [Capuchin ] Re: BEHOLD: THE POWER OF CHEESE (but not really) [Nick Winkworth ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 02:45:29 -0800 From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: Fame with brushes (content=zero) Tom wrote: >Alright, stop pushing. I'll tell! > >I went to high school with Meg Ryan. And I went to high school with Chris Penn. I had a college class with Jimmy Osmond. And when I was in 5th grade my sister and I were invited up on stage to sing "Sipping Cider Through A Straw" with Vic Damone at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Wow----a night I'll never forget. :| - -jbj - -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-# John B. Jones Email: lobstie@e-z.net House of Figgy-- http://web.syr.edu/~jojones/hitchcock.html "When you're down/ It's a long way up When you're up/ It's a long way down It's all the same thing/ No new tale to tell" -Love & Rockets - -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-# ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 02:42:17 -0800 From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: Fame with brushes (content=zero) Eb said: >I once bussed Gordon Jump's table. Go on, beat that. Heh. ;) I bumped into Gordon Jump in a stairwell at a Red Lion Inn in Salt Lake City. I was going into the stairwell, he was on his way out. - -jbj - -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-# John B. Jones Email: lobstie@e-z.net House of Figgy-- http://web.syr.edu/~jojones/hitchcock.html "When you're down/ It's a long way up When you're up/ It's a long way down It's all the same thing/ No new tale to tell" -Love & Rockets - -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-# ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:09:25 -0000 From: "Matthew Knights" Subject: Fame with schoolbrushes (content=zero) While we're on this thread, all kinds of astonishing muso type people went to the same school as me. The ones before my time included Chris Squire, the bass player from Yes as well as Rick Wright (?) the keyboard player from Pink Floyd. Jonathan Miller, an Opera director in the UK also went to my school. More muso schoolboys - these ones all contemporaneous?? (I was there when they were there!) include Damon Hill, the British Formula 1 racing driver and part time lead guitarist. Damon was one year above me. A Cello teacher who left my school in the mid-70's to get a better paid job - he joined the Elecric Light Orchestra. On a really obscure note some kids at my school formed a little known London punk rock band in 1979 called The Wimps. They released a single and got some national airplay. The Wimps were two years above me. Finally, David Baddiel, a UK TV comic who jointly wrote last years Three Lions single in the UK went to my school. I think he was two years below me. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Matthew Knights mknights@harrywasp.prestel.co.uk `Ton ame est un lac d'amour dont mes desirs sont les cygnes...' _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:35:00 -0600 (CST) From: shmac@ix.netcom.com (Scott Hunter McCleary) Subject: Brushes with fame? Nah -- this is more like a broom. I once had to sleep on Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's couch. More to the point, I must confess that I once talked with the Emerson component of ELP for half an hour before realizing who he was -- I only knew that he _looked_ familiar. He thought it was hysterical once I realized who he was. Oh, and I got Michael Tilson Thomas mad enough in a master class once that he actually yelled at me. On a related note, a friend who worked on Capitol Hill once told me how they sent an intern to pick up Kurt Vonnegut at the airport, and she had no idea who he was (she even made a "Mr. Vonnegut" sign to hold up at the gate). He caught on to this right away, and all the way back from the airport he kept asking, "You're sure you've never heard of me?" She hadn't a clue. He was VERY amused to be in the company of someone who would NEVER ask him for an autograph or try to deconstruct Slaughterhouse Five. So it goes. ========= SH McCleary Prodigal Dog Communications 3052 S. Buchanan St., #A1 Arlington, VA 22206 shmac@prodigaldog.com www.prodigaldog.com Gestation Station: www.prodigaldog.com/baby/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:08:32 PST From: "Elizabeth Morgan" Subject: Re: speaking of death... I think I might be responsible for Chris Farley's death. You see, one night I rented a video with a friend and as it was rewinding Conan O'Brien was on. Chris Farley was one of the guests and he was making a total ass of himself. He kept throwing himself at the feet of girls in the audience. I have to say that I don't think he's funny at all. It got to the point that we couldn't watch any more of his antics. After maybe a whole 3 minutes the TV went off. The next day at work a friend (who kind of got me into Robyn to begin with) asked me if I'd seen Robyn on the show. NOOOOOOOOO!!! Robyn was the musical guest that night. God, I was pissed off. I mean, I was actually watching the show! I even had a blank tape! I've cursed Chris Farley ever since. I can't stand the sight of him. And to make this current, just the other day I saw the segment on someone's tape list and cursed Chris Farley again! I would have given anything to have seen Robyn's reaction as he watched the monitors backstage. I'm sure it was priceless. Elizabeth ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 13:40:20 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: life on the mississippi i was just thinking of a few fegproject ideas that can soon be put in the same file as the t-shirt and robyngame projects. but first, i have a query: can anybody tell me the exact date of the august '96 12 Bar show? it was the week after the bus tour is all i know. here's the setlist: green storm lantern, madonna, devil's coachman, i don't remember guildford, i'm only you, i something you, glass hotel, where do you go when you die?, thundering, i am not me, never top bleeding, airscape, freeze, heliotrope, allright yeah, de chirico st., beautiful queen, queen of eyes. homer backing on the last four songs. GREAT show! and an update: in an interview last year, mark radcliffe asked robyn if de chirico st. was a real street. robyn said, "i don't know. my girlfriend said it was." then he went on to tell about de chirico the painter, which story the great quail has already bountied upon us. ok, it strikes me that there are a hell of a lot of very, very good writers around here. the quail, the monkey, the reichsteins, jason thornton, natalie, .chris spring immediately to mind. there are others i'm not thinking of right now. it would be fun if a bunch of you more literary fegs each contributed a short story, and they could all be bound up in an anthology. maybe even released concurrently with the next GLASS FLESH or something. the other thing is, there are a lot of really good homepages here. these will be a lot of the same names, which makes sense, i suppose. quail has previously boasted that his is the greatest page on the whole world wide web, and he definitely delivers the goods. i just don't know how you find the time to be into so much cool stuff... i think eb's site is quite interesting, though you lose a lot of points for not endorsing wesley willis, i'm afraid. capuchin's looks great, but, as he says, it is yet a, "page of very little." outdoor miner's is awesome. it's almost scary how good your musical taste is, man. though i only glanced fairly briefly at natalie's it looks exceptional. like the quail, i can't fathom where you find the time. karen's is wonderful. great stories. and then these are just the ones that don't have much or anything to do with robyn. not to mention all the ones i haven't even seen. so, how about a feg homepage webring? would that be too difficult to pull off? i want to stress that i'm not volunteering to do any work here. as usual, i want someone else to do all the work, and i'll just enjoy the fruits of their labor like the deadbeat i am. is anyone else VERY VERY relieved that the cia's self-investigation found that they weren't responsible for introducing crack to south central? because i was kind of worried there for a second, you know? 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, 20 Dec 1997 17:04:18 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: life on the mississippi On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Capitalism Blows wrote: > capuchin's looks great, but, as he says, it is yet a, "page of very > little." Don't go here. I sincerely hope eddieboy is kidding. I haven't changed my page in something like two years. There are no links and only, I think, two original graphics (almost identical to one another as well as themselves). > i want to stress that i'm not volunteering to do any work here. as > usual, i want someone else to do all the work, and i'll just enjoy the > fruits of their labor like the deadbeat i am. Yeah, Comrade Tews, we know how Socialists work. With love, J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 19:12:27 -0600 (CST) From: Marshall Joseph Armintor Subject: Brushed by fame Not a great deal to relate. 1) I once met the Dead Milkmen before a show; I was friends in college with this guy Fran, who had taken high school history with the drummer's father, and he got us in....rather coincidentally, I had seen Rodney Anonymous on the tour at the Tower of London earlier that day. 2) I bumped into Paul Westerberg before a show on the Replacements' last tour, when half the band had been replaced but never mind. This was also in London at the Marquee...I was headed to the bathroom, passed by the stage door, saw a figure crumpled between two large speaker cabinets, and said "Hi." The disheveled pensive guy lifted his head a bit, and gurgled, "Hi." The thought *Shit, that was Paul!* pulsed through my brain. I backpedaled, Paul perked up. I said, "I.O.U." (the first track on _Pleased to Meet Me_...) [readers may ponder the possible double intention of this declaration] This goofy, gap-mouthed grin spread across his face;and he exhaled the word, "Rough." 3) I once played peek-a-boo with Eugene Chadbourne's 5-year-old daughter before a Mojo Nixon show. <> Cabell, the 20-century American novelist of the 20s & 30s? I've written on an associate of his during that period, Ellen Glasgow (also american)...one of my few forays into American lit. His critical writing is pretty interesting...very odd mechanical metaphors... ___________________________________________________________________ Marshall Armintor/mojo@rice.edu/Grad.English Dept. Rice University/ Fondren IT Systems Student Guy x5338 <> ______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 18:36:53 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Robyn Hitchcock's Christmas Party I just finished listening to this fine compilation for the first time. I'd like to go on record as thoroughly enjoying it. Some of the songs truly fantastic (as in, among the best things Robyn's done) and much more interesting, at least in my way of listening, to hear over and over than they were as 'new songs' at shows this summer and last fall. For me, it was a first opportunity to hear several tracks and the recordings, I think for the most part, retain that essential Robynness that makes a new song instantly lovable. I guess I'd just like to go on record with a public thanks. Thanks to all of the tapers who were fastidious enough make live recordings this clean and keep them freely trading. Special thanks to JBJ for the tape, the forethought, and lunch. Besos, J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 22:41:19 -0800 From: Nick Winkworth Subject: Re: BEHOLD: THE POWER OF CHEESE (but not really) lj wrote: > To tie into all of this (but not really), I saw a whole bucket full of > shaker fruits when I was at the music store earlier! They had lemons, > bananas, oranges and plums. $4.95 each. Plums are good - I have a plum. Now if only I can get another plum and a banana... ~N With too much time on my hands for a Saturday night. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 23:06:15 -0800 From: Nick Winkworth Subject: Re: Tying threads together again Eb bragged: > I went to the same high school as Jackson Browne. ;) > > Much later, of course. My best friend in college had the room that was occupied a few years earlier by Prince Charles' bodyguard... I only tell you this because I know you all care.. ;) ~N (Oh, and my first ever public appearance - in the musical performance sense that is - (a loooong time ago) was witnessed by a certain Mr. Hitchcock and some of his associates. No one else. Fortunately. We were *appallingly* bad! Needless to say, I was not bugged for autographs afterwards...) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V6 #104 *******************************