From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V6 #106 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, December 23 1997 Volume 06 : Number 106 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: What a complete Shambalas! [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer <] Mr. Mojo Risin' (splattered by fame) [Jason Thornton ] Cure singers on South Park [Jason Thornton ] Thanks! [griffith ] antiquiz!? [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] literary fegs [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] (noRH) Tony Blackman-personal [hal brandt ] better late and a complete nutter... [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 09:11:56 GMT From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: What a complete Shambalas! >>>>> "James" == James Dignan writes: James> (who gets annoyed that most people use the word James> 'contemporary' to mean modern) While 'contemporary' is most acceptable when used to mean "of the same period", it is commonly used to mean "modern". This second usage should be avoided where it could cause ambiguity (such as 'a Shakespeare production in contemporary costume'). I don't think there was any here; all the artists were current and contemporary at the time of writing. Stewart - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 08:43:48 -0800 From: Jason Thornton Subject: Mr. Mojo Risin' (splattered by fame) Marshall Joseph Armintor said: > 3) I once played peek-a-boo with Eugene Chadbourne's 5-year-old >daughter before a Mojo Nixon show. Mojo Nixon...ugh, that reminds me. I was, well, taking a leak before a Mojo Nixon gig at the Belly-Up here in San Diego, when a drunken' Mojo Nixon walked into the Men's Room. Finding all the toilets occupied, Mr. Nixon proceeded to piss in the sink. Sure, he won't piss in a jar...but the sink? That's OK. Interestingly enough, Mr. Nixon engaged me in conversation while he was doing this, jokingly saying something along the lines of "There are some sweet lookin' babes here tonight, and they're all here to see me." One of the few times I'll admit to NOT washing my hands after using the bathroom. This is the second message I've posted regarding my meeting with a "rock" personality in a restroom. Odd. - -- Jason R. Thornton // Chapman Stick, Silver #2125 "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson "...the Year 2000 won't change anyone here" - Morrissey, _Reader Meet Author_ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 09:19:05 -0800 From: Jason Thornton Subject: Cure singers on South Park "Glen E. Uber" asked: >Also does anyone know which episode of "SP" Robert Smith of the Cure >lent his voice to? I just checked my favorite Cure site...I guess Bob Smith just recently did a voice-over for an episode of South Park which has *yet* to be aired. Just watched the X-mas episode. Pretty damn hilarious. Cheers! - -- Jason R. Thornton // Chapman Stick, Silver #2125 "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson "...the Year 2000 won't change anyone here" - Morrissey, _Reader Meet Author_ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 11:15:58 -0800 (PST) From: griffith Subject: Thanks! Not to start another non-robyn thread, I'd like to thank everyone for answering my Kinks question. I scored a few Tower Records gift certificates that I will use for some of the Kinks suggestions. Also, I would to thank everyone on the list for another great year! griffith = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Griffith Davies hbrtv219@csun.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:57:16 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: antiquiz!? >James "purple spiral resplendent on a peach hatched background" wrote: >>1) Cornwall uses a white cross on a black background. Rhode Island has a >>golden anchor surrounded by stars on a white background with a golden >>fringe. >>2) Taniwha. It's a Maori sea-monster. >>3) Down two, then left. >>4) "Winchester Cathedral" was followed by "Finchley Central (on the >>Northern Line)" >>5) It's the Nahuatl Indian word for testicles >>6) V=E4tnaj=F6kull >>7) Polish, I'd guess. >>8) Aesculus hippocanastum. >>9) Stockton to Darlington, 1825. >>10) Elephant Island. It was Ernest Shackleton. >>11) Bramall Lane, The Dell, and Carrow Road. >>12) Claudia Schiffer, and a bath full of jello. sigh.. looks like I need to put the answers in. Mike got a remarkable number right - I'd give him about 6.725 out of 12, and wins first prize - an inflatable cassock-guard, with two overhead whinfrey cams and a removable swinging nadger. It should be arriving any day now... 1) what are the flags of England's westernmost county and the USA's smallest state? 2) close enough. I was actually asked this one 'what is the mysterious Maori word in the chorus of Split Enz's song "Dirty Creature"?' 3) what is Boz Scaggs's biggest selling album. The chess move suggestion is worth a point for ingenuity. 4) Mike sez: "What was the New Vaudeville Band's second single?" and he's right! 5) Where do avocado pears get their name? (fact!) 6) well that should be Vatnajokull, with lots of stray dots over the first a and the o. What is the biggest glacier in Iceland? 7) what is our beloved listmeister's ancestry? 8) what is the latin name of the Horse Chestnut tree? 9) Mike sez: "Locomotion Number 1 ran the first train on which line?" Give the man a big hand, folks! (that spare one on the middle shelf...) 10) The last Antarctic expedition prior to those of Scott and Amundsen was shipwrecked on a subantarctic island. Which island, and who led the expedition? 11) "Name three foopball grounds". More to the point, where do Sheffield United, Southampton and Norwich play foopball. 12) >:) Need the question be asked? (Ah, but how would you use the loofah?) James (answers on the inside of a postcard, please) 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: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:55:36 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: literary fegs "Capitalism Blows" muses amusingly: >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. Now THAT's a scary thought (or is it a ginger thought?)! FWIW - and I know none of you are interested - I have a piece of poetry in a web magazine at the moment: "13" magazine is run by John Micek, a member of the Church mailing list "Seance". It's hut-tup address is- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8729 Winston-Salem, NC. FWIW. James ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 17:00:39 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: (noRH) Tony Blackman-personal Sorry to use the list for personal matters, but I lost all my addresses recently in a hard drive crash and need to complete some unfinished business. This is for Tony Blackman of the UK: Tony, Please get in touch with me offlist concerning our tape trade. I've received your tape, but don't know what you want in return or where to send it. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:14:24 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: better late and a complete nutter... I guess I will finally advertise my brushless carwash of flames: As a wee thing growing up in Reno, the son of a casino manager I saw and met the greatest talents that came to that biggest of little cities. Here are a few examples from Mark Gloster's early years among the shining stars of the sixties and seventies: Donald O'Connor: Put me in his show, sang "Look at that Face" to me. He remembered me twelve years later as an adorable sandy-haired kid in the front row. Ed Ames: yawn. Barely remember him. Bill Cosby: very nice to me. This was before he turned into the Jell-O puddin unctious custard brain. Trini Lopez: pretty much my first musical hero. Really nice, great performer, did some great songs like the "Captain Kangaroo" ("Playin' solitair till dawn with a deck of 51, now don't tell me I've got nothin' to do") song. Tony Bennett: everyone thought he was great but me. I thought that he only sang about a three note range and those notes were never quite in the key that the band was. He was very quiet when we met him. I think he's better now. Norm Crosby: he was a good friend of our family and quite hysterically funny at all times. Once my dad had to refuse credit to another customer over a house phone at the dinner table while Norm used the other half of the princess phone that my dad was using, pretending to be on the other end of the line. This could have been the funniest moment of my life, but I know it really stressed my dad out, trying to keep from laughing. My dad liked to play golf with Norm because Norm played near his own handicap while destroying everybody else's game except my Dad's. Joe Namath at a golf tournament. Didn't know what to say to him. He was pretty much my favorite sports figure, and influenced my early life desire to play in pro football. My brain eventually developed more than the rest of my body which sugests my sad physical state of today. Later in life: Bob Weir: started out nice. Then he turned into an asshole when I didn't buy his bobby and the midnights album. Maybe he was just having a bad day. Maybe I'm okay with that. Sat next to Dick Van Dyke at a time when he was going through a rough divorce. He looked like jackhammered fecal matter and I certainly wasn't going to bug him. Robert Fripp: was with a friend who was trying to give ol' bobby a tape. Mr. Fripp was magically elusive. Adrian Belew: he always used to hang out in the back of the crowd before his Bears and solo shows. He was really nice. Arters Urbe: (for about a year, one of the greatest hockey goalies of all time) hung out with him at a party. He was extremely nice and somewhat shy. I tried to keep people from hounding him and sucking his blood. Rob Breszhny (RealAstrology guy and band leader of Tao Chemical and World Entertainment War): Great guy. Fun to hang with. Hung out w/him and bandmates before their shows. Doesn't return emails now that he's famous. (Nasal) John or (nasal) John from They Might Be Giants: saw him @ an acoustic show in SF.He later was at his t-shirt booth. I had just bought a shirt from him. The sweet teenage girl that was with us asked him why they played all electric at an acoustic show. He said "FUCK THAT!" (with a smile on his face). I think the girl was a teentsy bit shocked, but the rest of those present doubled over in laughter. I missed this scene by about ten seconds. Said "hi" to John Scully on a few occasions. He also tried to 'splain to me how he invented the color TV. I did not elect to purchase his oceanfront property in Beowawe, Nevada. To really brag: I worked just two floors away from TOM CLARK. I've seen NICK WINKWORTH play bass. I've attempted to trade repartee with the likes of RUSS REYNOLDS. I've touched the furry head of GLEN UBER(alles). I've seen SUSAN DODGE in one of those famous schoolgirl outfits. The famous BAYARD CATRON, which is not an acronym for what could be incorrectly assumed his real name, BARON CATYARD, hitherto famed highly of the european aristocracy actually slept at my house and played with THE BRAWN OF MY ENTIRE EMPIRE: DUSTY _THE_ TIGERMONKEY. Hey, I've even posed in real pictures (or photoshop retouches) next to SYDNEY OF GREATER CAUSES THAN I. I've met several people who are household names to each of you, and all of them more witty and fun and clever than a dump truck full of NBA zillionaires. Someday I hope to meet you all. Saucy Hollendaise to all. - -Mark Gloster ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V6 #106 *******************************