From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #35 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, January 28 1998 Volume 07 : Number 035 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fwd: you and oblivion [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer ] Re: Sorry for my mistake causing confusion... [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Migratory game Birds [Gregory Stuart Shell ] Re: non-RH, Maxell tape "points"? [Dede Davis ] RE: replying to the lot in one go... [firstcat@lsli.com] Glass Fleshers [Jim Moore ] Oblique Strategies (no RH, except that he likes "Heroes" a lot) ["Chaney,] Re: replying to the lot in one go... [jeffery vaska ] Re: Sorry for my mistake causing confusion... [lj lindhurst ] Re: viva sea-tac [hal brandt ] Neutral Milk Hotel + Robyn content(!) [Stephen Buckalew ] Re: Sorry for my mistake causing confusion... [Eb ] Re: Cymri Fegg Llyst Dayyffidd! Hew hew hew. . . . [Tom Clark ] Re: Neutral Milk Hotel + Robyn content(!) [Capuchin ] Native peoples/Welcome Helen! (RH 10%) [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:07:53 GMT From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: fwd: you and oblivion >>>>> "Terrence" == Terrence M Marks writes: Terrence> Bah. I say that all of Robyn's albums contain his worst Terrence> side. If you want someone to like his music, just Terrence> praise it incessently and insist that they'd really like Terrence> it if they heard it. True - I gave 'Perspex Island' to a colleague, who remembers "So You Think You're In Love" being played. I was expecting them to like tracks like "Oceanside", but no, the current fave is "My Earthly Paradise". Most odd; mind you, I have the same colleague to blame for my new Roy Harper habit... OBTW, there's a Robyn CD listed in the UK new releases this week. Anyone know any more? Stewart (wanders off yelling "Chiiiiico! Chiiiiiico Mendez!") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 02:09:56 PST From: "Helen Percival" Subject: Sorry for my mistake causing confusion... Hi and thanks for everyone who wrote to me about the album "Glass Flesh" and sorry for my silly typing mistake when typing "I bought" instead of "i saw", I can see why it looked like a hoax. Next time I see it in a shop I will definitley buy it!!! I have, I think, all Robyns albums and also some singles and albums with other bands doing covers so this must be a "must get album". PS who is "quail", why must he be behind all this? Thank you Helen ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:36:58 -0400 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Rock wallabies >50 MaxPoints = A used copy of "Glass Flesh", autographed by Mark Gloster! >100 MaxPoints = A skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine. >200 MaxPoints = You, a keg, and Susan Dodge. Does this mean that if Susan collects 200 MaxPoints, she gets to have a date with herself? How... doppelganger-ish. A final note on Wisconsin: When I was little, my father used to tell me that everyone in his hometown of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, is actually a marsupial. Being a perspicacious lass, I asked him why he had a belly-button if he was a marsupial. He explained that Oconomowoc inhabitants have belly-buttons surgically implanted so that no-one will ever know of their marsupial nature... (It's true, you know.) n. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 06:30:33 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: Sorry for my mistake causing confusion... >Hi and thanks for everyone who wrote to me about the album "Glass Flesh" >and sorry for my silly typing mistake when typing "I bought" instead of >"i saw", I can see why it looked like a hoax. Next time I see it in a >shop I will definitley buy it!!! I have, I think, all Robyns albums and >also some singles and albums with other bands doing covers so this must >be a "must get album". _Glass Flesh!_, that brilliant CD by and for Hitchcock appreciatives is also available from the following sources via mail: Bayard Catron (otherwise known as the nicest and coolest guy on the internet, his competition exists only on this list.) You may contact him at: walden@universe.digex.net or, Mark Gloster (otherwise known as that self-absorbed rubber shark guy. Mark, when he's not making us laugh out loud with his self-depricating banter, is always trying to plug his own amazing music and favorite musical acts.) If you wish to contact him, his best email is: rubrshrk@tigermonkey.com Or you could reply to this message (but please, not to the group.) >PS who is "quail", why must he be behind all this? This should really be in the FAQ. This is one of those conspiracy thingies. It is a widely held belief that none of the participants of this list really exist- that we are merely ittum-dittum characters, no, charicatures in an expansive text-only graphic novel by The Great Quail. There is evidence on both sides of this argument, though he does seem to have some ties to Area 51. Since TGQ (note use of the word "Great" as a middle name) and the mysterious Mark Gloster both have such giant heads and have a proclivity for self-promotion and literary gibberish and mutual admiration, there is some discussion that they are the same person. The other side of that is that TGQ updates his website, spells words correctly, and is attached to the earth with stronger adhesive (at least his posts are,) may not be the same person. Of course, he may have multiple personalities and be responsible for much of the volume of this list. It is really hard to make it all out. This may be one of those AI programs that just generates an automatic response to anything that is sent out, like some of the old Susan Dodge/Terry Marks "carrot-o-matic" and the old grumpy "b+" eb autoresponse programs which used to appear here. I hope this helps: - -Mark Gloster (a really minor character, who thinks he is destined for his own superlative middle name.) You have come to the end of the GREAT Quail's auto response message #667. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:38:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Gregory Stuart Shell Subject: Migratory game Birds On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Helen Percival wrote: > PS who is "quail", why must he be behind all this? I think you mean "what is quail" According to Webster's New Collegiate, "quail" - to recoil in dread or terror. Now the "Great Quail" is something completely different. In this case, any of the various small American game birds. Regards, Gregory S. Shell Subversive Specialist System Analyst ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 06:57:22 -0800 (PST) From: Dede Davis Subject: Re: non-RH, Maxell tape "points"? - ---Tom Clark wrote: > fegPOINTS! > > Trade in your Maxell points for valuable fegMERCHANDISE! >... > 500 MaxPoints = All expenses paid trip to the world premier of > "Storefront Hitchcock"* Hey, I *easily* have 1000 points (somewhere)! Can I get two tickets to "Storefront"? Then I can see all my friends and aquaintances grovel for the chance to go with me. Always worth a chuckle. == Dede "Out of boredom/ I decided/ I'd get with it"--MCC _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 98 09:06:27 From: firstcat@lsli.com Subject: RE: replying to the lot in one go... I read somewhere that another of his favorite randomizing techniques was to put numbers on cuts of tape and then toss some darts...order hit - order of the tapes... I think there is an oblique strategies server somewhere on the net as well... Cheers Jay >sdomeone who does use these techniques frequently is Brian Eno - a perfect >example would be the almost Dadaist "Miss Shapiro". He has gone on record >(pardon the pun) as saying that his songwriting techniques include an >automatic writing-like method where he starts with an instrumental and then >sings any words he can think of over it, repeating the song again and a >again. After a while, some words stick, others drop out and are replaced >with some others which go more sensibly with the ones that remain, until >finally the whole makes a weird sort of sense. - -----------------End of Original Message----------------- - ------------------------------------- Jay Lyall Channel Sales Director Livermore Software Laboratories, Intl. 2825 Wilcrest, Suite 160 Houston, Texas 77042-3358 1-713-974-3274 jay@lsli.com Date: 1/28/98 - ------------------------------------- Two-Hour Luxury Goods Commercial Also A Spy Film ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:36:00 -0600 From: Jim Moore Subject: Glass Fleshers Newcomer Helly write: (BTW: Welcome, Helly!) >I was wondering if there is anyone who could help me, there is an album >i bought in a shop in Portobello road in London called Minus Zero >Records, it is called "Glass Flesh" and has lots of covers of songs by >Robyn Hitchcock on it. I can't find any mention of this in any of the >magazine articles i've read or interviews, and not on the web page >either. does anyone know anything about this album, is it worth buying, >because i haven't heard of any of the bands on it so I don't know if its >any good. Also, they have it on sale for 8 pounds, is it valuable so >should I buy it even if it isn't good? Wow! High irony, seeing that "Glash Flesh" is mostly the product of these here Feglisters--and promulgated mainly on this Feglist. Talk about going right to the source in the first go-around! I recommend "Glash Fless" -- it's superb! Cheers to Bayard and crew, and Helly--this is a great Feglist. You won't find a better Feglist anywhere... Jim Moore ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:36:39 -0500 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: Oblique Strategies (no RH, except that he likes "Heroes" a lot) > There are several such servers on the Web. My personal favorite is > http://campuscgi.princeton.edu/~casey/strategy, which gives you a new > strategy every time you reload the page. > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 07:35:44 -0800 From: jeffery vaska Subject: Re: replying to the lot in one go... firstcat@lsli.com wrote: > I think there is an oblique strategies server somewhere on the net as well... yes, this does exist and works very well (for web stuff)...this is the url: http://www.dream.com/Oblique.html just hit the random button... ciao...jv ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:27:09 -0500 (EST) From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: Sorry for my mistake causing confusion... >PS who is "quail", why must he be behind all this? > THIS IS HILARIOUS!! And just when we thought it could get any funnier than that first post! I think Helen = The Quail but then again, I also think: The Quail = Kathie Lee Gifford ...so take what I say with a grain of salt. lj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 98 11:01:47 From: firstcat@lsli.com Subject: Speaking of ENO - --- On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:49:47 +0000 Reverend Joe McNally =20 wrote: >With all the talk about the UnGathering, this would probably be a good tim= e >to plug UnConvention itself. > >It's being held at a new venue, the University of London Union in Malet >Street, London (just a couple of streets west of the old venue), on the >25th and 26th of April. This year's theme is Cults, Conspiracies and >Cryptozoology; confirmed speakers are Brian Eno (BRIAN FUCKING ENO!!!), >Mark Chorvinsky, Doug Skinner, Colonel John Blashford-Snell, Robin Ramsay, >Jenney Cockell, Jack Cohen, Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince, Jenny Randles >(who will be writing three or four books during the con), David Barrett, >Jean la Fontaine, Ted Harrison, Sean Tudor, Nick Warren, Mike Dash and the >list's own Ian Simmons. All this and "special guest star" TV's Rev Lionel >Fanthorpe... > >Cost for the weekend is CURRENTLY =A320 for the weekend, or =A312.50 for o= ne >day (please specify Saturday or Sunday); these prices will go up to =A325 = and >=A315 respectively on 9th March. Advence booking closes on 6th April. Our >order hotline is 01795 414925, or you can post your booking (with credit >card details, name, address and daytime telephone number) to PO Box 444, >Woking, Surrey GE21 1GZ, UK. > >----- >Nothing in this post is necessarily the opinion of John Brown Publishing o= r >Fortean Times. On a bad day, it might not even be mine. >----- >I was there when Roy Stilling confused Legio IX Hispana and Legio II Augus= ta! > - -----------------End of Original Message----------------- - ------------------------------------- Jay Lyall Channel Sales Director Livermore Software Laboratories, Intl. 2825 Wilcrest, Suite 160 Houston, Texas 77042-3358 1-713-974-3274 jay@lsli.com Date: 1/28/98 - ------------------------------------- Two-Hour Luxury Goods Commercial Also A Spy Film ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:06:51 -0800 From: Mike Runion Subject: Re: Sorry for my mistake causing confusion... > >PS who is "quail", why must he be behind all this? > I think Helen = The Quail Most definitely. TGQ has finally gotten off his feathered duff and created a few new autofegs to keep the rest of us company while he waits forlornly for Storefront Hitchcock to be released. Unfortunately he gave himself away on this one, what with the hokey "Who is quail?" line. Tsk, tsk...don't you know by now that you can't trick your own figments of your imagination? We know who you/we are! Trick Robyn-content ruse: I've been trading with an off-list feg over in Orlando for awhile now and it turns out we both frequent the same fanatastic record shop in Merritt Island (unbeknownst to us both). Well, this seemed somehow cooler yesterday...you know, the old finally meeting up with a fellow feg sorta thing. By the way, hi to Elizabeth Morgan! TGC Auto Response Message #668. - -- 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: Wed, 28 Jan 98 09:29:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: viva sea-tac a while back someone posted the lyrics to Viva Sea-Tac. If someone still has this could you pass it along to me? Thanks. - -russ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:00:15 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: viva sea-tac Russ Reynolds wrote: > > a while back someone posted the lyrics to Viva Sea-Tac. That would've been Eddie Tews. > If someone still > has this could you pass it along to me? Sure! Glad to help. /hal People flocked like cattle to Seattle After Kurt Cobain and the falling rain Hendrix played guitar just like an animal that's trapped inside a cage And one day he got out Do you want to pay for this in cash? Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva viva Sea-Tac Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva viva Sea-Tac They got the best computers and coffee and smack Coming and going: it has to be Boeing The best form of defense is blow them up In a regular cup Have an espresso I will i guess so I feel my heart is going to have to jump right off of its pump And the Space Needle points to the sky The Space Needle's such a nice guy Though it never gets... Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva Viva Sea-Tac Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva Viva Sea-Tac Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva Viva Sea-Tac All the Norwegians Man you should see them Out in Ballard looking soulfoul at the pines...yep! [i think that's right. the audience went nuts when he mentioned "Ballard." it could be "pints" though, as there is a famous brewery in Ballard.] Roomy Martanikas [????] Sell a banana That counts up to a hundred and turns pink In less time than you think [i have no idea what this is a reference to, which is kind of embarrassing. if i knew, i might be able to better decode the first line.] Do you want to pay for this in cash? Well! Do you wanna pay for this at all? Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva viva Sea-Tac Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva viva Sea-Tac They got the best computers and coffee and smack Yep! All Right ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:00:06 -0500 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Neutral Milk Hotel + Robyn content(!) Wow...what synchronicity... I like....just bought "On Avery Island" by Neutral Milk Hotel yesterday! I love it...what a great album. Actually, everything I have by the Elephant 6 recording company is pretty excellent. PS. thanks to all the fegs who put Guided by Voices "Mag Earwhig" on their top tens...I got it on a whim and i've played it over and over for about a week. Speaking of turning friends on to RH. Every non-feg or not-yet-feg I've ever played "Beautiful Queen" for has gone berserk when they heard it for the first time. Also "Uncorrected Personality Traits (the song)" has always seemed to intrigue those unfamiliar with RH. I got turned on to RH at a place I worked, and I originally did not think much of him. I had two coworkers who were fanatical and played him constantly (Queen Elvis and Eye). I didn't dig him at all at first...then found myself humming the tunes when I wasn't at work. I think "Cynthia Mask" and "One Long Pair of Eyes" were the two that got stuck in my head first. The rest is history. I was thinking about putting up a guitar tab for "Out of the Picture", has that been put in the tab archive yet? <~~~Buckeye~~~> ***************************************************************************** "...everythings all on...it's rosy...it's a beautiful day!"--Syd Barrett ***************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:57:33 -0700 From: plpalmer@ix.netcom.com Subject: 3 for 1 tape spam RH 25% This is a strange post, but I'm looking for people, DAT or analog, who can tape any of these shows by an artist named Patty Griffin. Wed 2/11 - Carrboro NC - Cats' Cradle - 919-967-9053 Thu 2/12 - Washington DC - Metro Lounge - 202-518-7900 Fri - 2/13 - Philadelphia PA - Tin Angel- 215-928-0770 Sat 2/14 - Providence RI - Met Cafe - 401-861-2142 Sun 2/15 - Newmarket NH - Stone Church - 603-659-6321 Tue 2/17 - Portland ME - Raoul's - 207-773-6886 Wed 2/18 - Northampton MA - Iron Horse - 413-584-0610 Fri 2/20 - New York NY - The Fez - 212-533-3000 Sat 2/21 - Boston MA - Somerville Theatre - 617-625-1084 Mon 2/23 - Syracuse NY - Stylennes - 315-471-0861 Tue 2/24 - Cleveland OH - Wilberts - 216-771-2583 Wed 2/25 - Ann Arbor MI - The Ark - 313-761-1800 Thu 2/26 - Columbus OH - Little Brothers - 614-834-2205 Fri 2/27 - Chicago IL - Shubas - 773-525-2508 Sun 3/01 - Louisville KY - Twice Told Coffeehouse - 502-456-0507 Thu 3/05 - Nashville TN - Cafe Milano - 615-255-0073 Sat 3/07 - Austin TX - Cactus Cafe - 512-475-6515 Sun 3/08 - Austin TX - Cactus Cafe 512-475-6515 I know it's a lot to ask for someone to go and tape a band they probably don't like, so that why I'll tape/clone three shows in exchange for the one show you tape. Peter ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 98 16:24:24 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: replying to the lot in one go... James >sdomeone who does use these techniques frequently is Brian Eno - a perfect >example would be the almost Dadaist "Miss Shapiro". He has gone on record >(pardon the pun) as saying that his songwriting techniques include an >automatic writing-like method where he starts with an instrumental and then >sings any words he can think of over it, repeating the song again and a >again. After a while, some words stick, others drop out and are replaced >with some others which go more sensibly with the ones that remain, until >finally the whole makes a weird sort of sense. - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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: Wed, 28 Jan 98 16:24:33 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Sorry for my mistake causing confusion... Helen writes, >Hi and thanks for everyone who wrote to me about the album "Glass Flesh" >and sorry for my silly typing mistake when typing "I bought" instead of >"i saw", I can see why it looked like a hoax. Ah, don't worry. I own two copies and I still think it's a hoax. And never apologize for causing confusion - you have logged on to one of the craziest, weirdest, friendliest, Ebbiest lists on the Internet. Really, we are more like a family. You brought us all an amazing amount of joy by your post -- for we created Glass Flesh, and we talk about it and joke about it all the time. It was just very strange having someone outside the list (Helen, dear, now you are inside, welcome!) pop her head in and mention seeing one in a store. I assure you there were hundreds of people laughing in delighted surprise at your initial post! It was akin to finding out that the mutant frogs you and your friends were secretly breeding in your underground lab had somehow appeared on Bill Clinton's podium during the State of the Union address and hopped across it, while you and your other mad scientist friends are stoned and eating nachoes while watching the speech. "Did you see that?" "What?" "The FROG, man." "Oh my God!" "That's OUR Frog." "I wasn't sure they really existed, you know?" "How'd it get there? Does that mean -- gasp -- other people can see the frogs?" "Well, Newt seemed to notice it. . . " "Pass me the cheese doodles." and so on. Um, welcome. >Next time I see it in a >shop I will definitley buy it!!! Well, if I know Bayard, you'll probably be finding one in the mail shortly anyway. And speaking of which . . . how did a copy get in a shop anyway? >I have, I think, all Robyns albums and >also some singles and albums with other bands doing covers so this must >be a "must get album" Hhmmm . . . other bands covering Robyn? Hmmm . . . do tell more! >PS who is "quail", why must he be behind all this? Oh Dame Percival, Ye Questing Feg, Ye hath found the Holey Quail! I confess to being the Quail. Why must I be behind all this? Well I have a bit of a reputation around here, I suppose. Most of us do: for instance, Eb is the token nay-sayer, Eddie the only living socialist who posts to non-Bragg lists, Bayard *is* Gandalf, Woj runs the list and may or may not exist. . . . and there are many many more. I have been on occasion accused of: 1. Leading a cult 2. Not leading a cult 3. Being a cult 4. Harboring an unreasonable worship of Rush, U2, and the movie "Dune." 5. Being a pigeon with a hankering for taco bell mild suace and owning a Web TV 6. Clogging the List with idiotic postings that have nothing to do with Robyn 7. Being Robyn in disguise 9. Being Billy Bragg in disguise 10. Lying about being Billy Bragg in disguise 11. Posting too much 12. Not posting enough 13. Maintaining Mark Gloster's brain in a secret tank 14. Flirting with the female list members (I would never do that, I assure you. If I wanted to flirt I would post something clever in order to personally welcome you to the Feg List.) 15. Harboring a strange resentment against the number "8" 16. Creating a post from a newbie named Helen Percival, a fictional name if I ever heard one Well, anyway. . . . Welcome! And furthermore, Helen, you may want to check out the following two important URLs: Fegmaniax!: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax This Robyn page is run by Woj, our Listmaster and Grand Old Feg, and serves as something of a virtual home for us; and -- Mike Runion's Fegmap Page: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/fegmaps This lovely page details all the locations of your new friends; and serves as something like your best friend's living room where you can crash for a few days until the police start looking elsewhere. - --The Great Quail PS: Sydney, where's that Egyptian Cream? - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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: Wed, 28 Jan 98 16:24:28 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Cymri Fegg Llyst Dayyffidd! Hew hew hew. . . . Dayyffidd Llibbric gewridded Yyesterposcht: >I know I'm just totally playing into Capuchin's idea that everybody but >him speaks Welsh (ssh! don't let on about the secret Welsh-language-only >Feglist!) Hew hew hew! "Capuchin" ken ni y Cymri Fegg Llyst! Grwaggeth annwn, "Capuchin" flyddiddh! Hyew hyew! Arafwch nawr, fwr twr wyddershin bydddyydad! Ipswch "Susan Dodge" iffy boffu boffu wydd "Bayardd?" Hew hew hew! Anga dando pwffll "Woj" yng "Eb" anga effyn dando Llymonguin y Lliagor y pwll hanner myceni zygote wiffle callyach bheur "bloody stupid Roger Waters album" fydd Radio Kaos wuffi buffy whampyre hoc wen gryggwdd? Murp. >I mean, I *like* all that Lovecraftian verbosity >Robyn throws around -- it's a big part of why I listen to him. Myy anddyyfth. Anna y llywellyn, "Lovecraft?" Ia Ia Qyddulhu! Ia Ia Shybb Mniggurraddh! Robbynn Hiddgcogh y llwedddi nwn arrafwll ar pwll! Ysgarth myffl wyfflspiffl IODOT wyll myceni gorinki goo? Y "Helen Pyrcifyll" ac henna gwr pawb "Glas Fllysh?" Draig boin oingo pen wyf: Noof! Narc Glocyster y Ybberi Sharc? Hew! Noof, glas noof! >So I think >this may be why so many language-lovers love Hitchcock lyrics. (This may >apply better to his 80s stuff than to his 90s turn towards short, stark, >simple repetition -- but we can always rely on his offhand flights of fancy >during concerts to give us our dose of descriptive adjectives!) Yndh. Glynphi gwnn, llylwl. Arranabach "Beach Boys" caernawn wynddi mwr glgg glugg. Y CD gorki pwrcc bwchwydd zyddeco Dayyffidd swl pwll arrafwch nawr pen guinne annwn? Hew. Grewl pawngi y "Gong Llyst!!!" - -- Y Grwydd Qwll - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 15:59:14 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: viva sea-tac On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, hal brandt wrote: > Hendrix played guitar just like an animal that's > trapped inside a cage > And one day he got out i think it's actually "one day he escaped." > Have an espresso > I will i guess so sometimes "you will? oh i guess so" i think > Though it never gets... high? by? shy? what?? Sorry, reflex from paricipating in Capuchin's lyrics verification project. =b ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:35:13 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Sorry for my mistake causing confusion... Man, why are all you guys f*cking with the new blood's head? Quit stroking yerselves. ;P Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 98 13:31:02 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Cymri Fegg Llyst Dayyffidd! Hew hew hew. . . . On 1/28/98 12:24 PM, The Great Quail wrote: >Hew hew hew! "Capuchin" ken ni y Cymri Fegg Llyst! Grwaggeth annwn, >"Capuchin" flyddiddh! Hyew hyew! Arafwch nawr, fwr twr wyddershin >bydddyydad! Ipswch "Susan Dodge" iffy boffu boffu wydd "Bayardd?" Hew >hew hew! Anga dando pwffll "Woj" yng "Eb" anga effyn dando Llymonguin y >Lliagor y pwll hanner myceni zygote wiffle callyach bheur "bloody stupid >Roger Waters album" fydd Radio Kaos wuffi buffy whampyre hoc wen >gryggwdd? Murp. Murp, indeed. I couldn't agree more. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:06:47 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: viva sea-tac On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Bayard wrote: > > Hendrix played guitar just like an animal that's > > trapped inside a cage > > And one day he got out > i think it's actually "one day he escaped." I'm almost positive it's "And one day he got out" on Robyn Hitchcock's Christmas Party. And one day he escaped 6a > > Have an espresso > > I will i guess so > sometimes "you will? oh i guess so" i think Again, that's what RH's CP says. > > Though it never gets... > high? by? shy? what?? I've assumed it was "high". > Sorry, reflex from paricipating in Capuchin's lyrics verification project. Don't I know it. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:10:07 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Neutral Milk Hotel + Robyn content(!) On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Stephen Buckalew wrote: > Speaking of turning friends on to RH. Every non-feg or not-yet-feg I've > ever played "Beautiful Queen" for has gone berserk when they heard it for > the first time. Also "Uncorrected Personality Traits (the song)" has always > seemed to intrigue those unfamiliar with RH. I have this very dear friend who hadn't heard Robyn since probably 1986 until she met me. I played Robynstuff just about constantly while she was around. She enjoyed it well enough and recognized most of the very early Egytians stuff and everything else was just OK. Then one day I was reading while she took care of her mail or something on my 'pute. I was listening to 1978-1981. At the end of Underwater Moonlight, she turned around and said "Wow. That was a really GOOD song." Whodathunkit? J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 98 18:51:50 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: On the Ebbishness of Eb Ebbie dear writes in response to my recent characterization of him as a "nay-sayer": >:P > >Again I say, my opinions are given honestly and sincerely, and not just to >knee-jerk deviate. I resent the above characterization. > >Eb You know, it just occurred to me how much Eb -- your name, not yourself - -- looks like a "sticking out of the tongue" smiley! Kind of a bloke with big eyes and no pupils . . . no, wait! I guy with *glasses!* That's it! Does anyone know if Eb wears glasses? Wait a minute . . . I bet "Eb" isn't really your name at all! We have just been *assuming* that, and all the time you are really "The Anonymous Emoticon of a Bloke with Big Square Glasses Who Is Vigorously P'thphing a Defiant Rasberry." It all makes sense now . . . . - -- Helen Percival PS: For those of you on the list who are new, Eb and I actually get along famously. As a matter of fact, after a recent Philip Glass concert we were discussing "Trainspotting" for hours while listening to Tool CDs in a local "Java and Body Piercing Boutique." Turns out that we both dated LJ Lindhurst before, back when she was going by the name of LJ Spice. Amazing what comparing old photographs can uncover! PPS: In all honesty, I value Eb's opinions tremendously, I consider him a delightful email buddy, and I know that all his opinions are very genuine and sincere. I know this because Mark Gloster scripts them that way. ______ You have come to the end of the GREAT Quail's auto response message #670. - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:50:01 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Sorry for my confusion-causing mistake... > Man, why are all you guys f*cking with the new blood's head? Quit stroking > yerselves. ;P disappointing. i was hoping for "Token nay-sayer?? I AM NOT!!" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 15:22:31 -0800 From: Nick Winkworth Subject: RE: alas, poor Helly (was: Hello?) Jay asked pointedly, > My question is who sold their copy? Luckily every copy is secretly numbered (right there with the clouds and flys) - and Mark and Bayard keep meticulous records. ;) So, before Helen brings shame and ridicule to you and your descendents by posting the tell-tale number to the list, would the culprit please stand up and prepare to receive a dozen lashes from the Quails ceremonial Wombat-o-nine-tails? ~N ...or is that the Wombats Quail-o-nine-tails, I forget. PS Despite its many virtues, Glass Flesh is NOT the album I would use to introduce someone to Robyn's music. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:03:16 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: "bust my portable cd player and cause me disharmony" --wesley willis i saw that in a goldmine ad and have ordered it. the "new british 'collections' cd" is what it says there. i'll let you know. happy to be the resident weiner/guinea pig. just as some movies fall through the cracks, (i've never, for example, seen any of the Godfather flickers) so do some bands. after hearing about robyn raving about them every other sentence, and reading all the stellar reviews of the new greatest hits package, i decided i'd check out the pyschadelic furs as soon as i could find it used, which i did yesterday. the first impression is that i like it quite a bit, but it sounds a great deal like the damned to me. not that i don't love the damned, but i was kinda surprised to hear another band sounding so much like them. "That socialism cannot or may never be attained does not mitigate capitalism's inherent inability to serve as the rational institutional standard for a just society or peaceful world, or lessen the need for a fundamental alternative embodying socialism's original objectives and inspiration to resolve many of the world's enormous problems." --Gabriel Kolko ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 98 15:45:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: viva sea-tac lyrics Using the lyrics that Hal posted as a reference here's what I come up with when comparing to the version on the Viva Sea-Tac II tape. Subtle differences from the Christmas Party version in both lyrics and structure (for instance "Do you want to pay for this in cash?" isn't repeated in this version). I don't have dates but seeing as Sea-Tac was a couple of weeks before Bumbershoot--which was in September or something--that must've been the earlier version. BTW, great tune. Hope it makes it onto an album. - -rr People flocked like cattle to Seattle After Kurt Cobain and the pouring rain [falling rain? sounds like "formed the rain"] Hendrix played guitar just like an animal that's trapped inside a cage And one day he escaped Do you want to pay for this in cash? Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva viva Sea-Tac Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva viva Sea-Tac Viva viva viva viva viva Sea-Tac They got the best computers and coffee and smack Coming and going it has to be Boeing the best form of defense is blow them up In a regular cup [I'll] have an espresso. You will? Oh I guess so I feel my heart is going to start to thump `cause it's right to the pump And the Space Needle points to the sky The Space Needle's such a nice guy Though it never gets...[that's the end of this line, no "high" or anything] Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva Viva Sea-Tac Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva Viva Sea-Tac All the Norwegians, man you should see them out in Ballard looking soulful in the pines And off in a dream All the groovers came from Vancouver and some of them came up from Oregon In case you don't know. Groovy Montana can sell a banana [this line is in question too. anyone?] That counts up to a hundred and turns pink In less time than you think And the Space Needle points to the sky The Space Needle's such a nice guy But you never know... Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva viva Sea-Tac Viva Seattle-Tacoma Viva viva viva viva viva Sea-Tac They got the best computers and coffee and smack [repeat] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:02:00 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Native peoples/Welcome Helen! (RH 10%) >James enlightened: > > >I'm no linguist. Even so I'm about to make the assertion that the following >three words have equivalent meanings in three different languages. > >'British' is a derivation of 'pretani', a Roman word for 'native peoples' >used to describe the ancient britons. Welsh is a derivation of 'Welisc', >an Anglo Saxon word for 'native peoples' used by the Saxons to describe the >Celts they were at war with. Cymraeg is the Welsh word for 'native >peoples', used to describe themselves. Not so sure about Welisc. I had alway believed it was a variant on Gwael, which is a sort of "proto-Celt" word for land. Celts from Wallachia to Gaul to Galicia have called their land after a variety of this word. The modern Welsh for land is Gwlad (as anyone who has heard their national anthem will attest). Cymru deriving 'people' is likely though. Interestingly, the Welsh word for English "Saesneg", derives from the word "Saxon", as does the more well known Scottish equivalent, Sassenach. As for the Maori, Tangata means men, or people, whenua means land, so the direct translation would be 'land people' or 'people of the land'. It is always used to refer to native races though. The origin of the word Maori is much more controversial and complex. Some say it means people in general, some say it derives from the word mauri, meaning a personification of a spirit. There was also another native race called Moriori, which can be translated as "*these* M(a)ori". Some say they were a different race, others that they were the same. Why am I talking about this here??? >Hi - I just thought I would introduce myself as a new subscriber to the >list. I have been a fan of Robyn Hitchcock for a long time (longer than >I like to remember) and this is the first time i have stumbled across >the web page and now the mailing list. welcome Helen! We do talk about Robyn here occasionally...honest... >I was wondering if there is anyone who could help me, there is an album >i bought in a shop in Portobello road in London called Minus Zero >Records, it is called "Glass Flesh" and has lots of covers of songs by >Robyn Hitchcock on it. I can't find any mention of this in any of the >magazine articles i've read or interviews, and not on the web page >either. does anyone know anything about this album, is it worth buying, >because i haven't heard of any of the bands on it so I don't know if its >any good. Also, they have it on sale for 8 pounds, is it valuable so >should I buy it even if it isn't good? Just in case no-one has said anything sensible about this and you haven't twigged yet... :) Glass Flesh was an album put out by members of this very mailing list, and contains some delightful renderings of delightful songs, from the aetherial "Love", through the Mars Attacks remix of Balloon man to the down home bluegrass of Brenda's Iron Sledge. There's also a substandard track by an unknown New Zealander who shall remain nameless. 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") ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #35 ******************************