From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #39 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, February 1 1998 Volume 07 : Number 039 Today's Subjects: ----------------- JWH and the Utterly dispicable ["Michael R. Runion" ] And so it goes [David Witzany ] ann b. davis portrayed "alice" on The Brady Bunch ["Capitalism Blows" ] back to Wales, briefly [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Re: What Robyn's lyrics mean & sundry PS's [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.a] Chariots of the Squids [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] SeaTac Xmas Party Trees [KarmaFuzzz@aol.com] Last Feg Top Ten 1997 List Statistics [dsaunder@islandnet.com (Daniel Sau] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 10:06:03 -0800 From: "Michael R. Runion" Subject: JWH and the Utterly dispicable On John Wesley Harding: I saw Wes back in 1990 opening for the Mighty Lemon Drops and Ocean Blue. I didn't have any of his stuff then, but he put on a great one-man-with-guitar show. Did lots of talking and joking. Quite Robynesque now that I think about it. I have Why We Fight, as well as his Pett Levels EP. Not bad, but I tend to agree with Katherine's dissertation on the man. On "nude poses of LJ" and TQG's idea of an addition to the fegmaps pages: I thought you all already had the URL to the FegNudes sight? I mean, I get about 300 or so hits a day, all from Pennsylvania, LA and someplace in New Zealand. That one shot of Mark Gloster makes me puke every time. Mike Runion n.p. A strange disk called "Ufonic" by Sabalon Glitz. Don't know my opinion of this yet (it was suggested to me while I was previewing Apples In Stereo and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci records), but the weird 20 minute long hidden bonus track is one of the strangest things I've ever heard. It's snippets of some radio interview with a UFO nut. Hysterical stuff about Hollow Earth theories and Venusian commanders living in Beverly Hills, all relayed in total seriousness. - -- ******* Mike Runion email: mrrunion@palmnet.net *** * Virtual Cone Museum * * http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/cones.htm * * Globe Of Fegs * * http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/fegmaps/ * ********************************************************* "Wait a minute! Time for a Planetary Sit-In!" - Julian Cope ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 14:29:48 PST From: "T.M. DiSandro" Subject: ** Robyn CD's For Sale ** Hello all! I am selling off a good bit of my "rare" Robyn CD's... Here's my latest offering (includes shipping w/i the USA!!) "Robyn Hitchcock" 10 Track CD Sequal Records Compilation - $10 US includes Non-LP "Statue With A Walkman" "My Wife & My Dead Wife" 4 Track CD Single - $10 US includes Non-LP "Zipper In My Spine" & "I Something You" "Balloon Man" 3 Track CD Single - $ 10 US includes Non-LP "Globe of Frogs (elec) & "The Ghost Ship" (diff. from You&Oblivion vers.) "So You Think Your In Love" 3 Track CD Single - $ 10 US includes Non-LP "Watch Your Intelligence" & "Eight Miles High" "Catalog Sampler" 20 Track Rhino 1994 Sampler - $ 15 US "The Yip Song" 3 Track CD Single A&M PROMO - $ 15 US includes Non-LP "Bright Fresh Flower" & "The Live-In Years" "Madonna Of The Wasps" 3 Track CD Single A&M PROMO - $ 15 US includes Non-LP "One Long Pair Of Eyes" & "More Than This" - both Acoustic Live versions live @ McCabe's from 1988 "Raw Cuts" THE SOFT BOYS - 6 Track EP - $ 17 US Recorded @ Spaceward 1977 Thanks! Terence ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:48:16 -0800 From: David Witzany Subject: And so it goes >Jason Thornton said: >At 12:26 PM 1/29/98 EST, Ross Overbury wrote: >>Susan was the one to say: >>> >>> Have you heard the Welsh? They really do excel. >> >>I thought they did Lotus! >No, that would be a Paradox. You guys are dBASEd! Dave. - -- David Witzany (witzany@uiuc.edu) ...one of Nature's bounds checkers ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 11:51:51 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: ann b. davis portrayed "alice" on The Brady Bunch the banana was purchased in athens. or are you saying there's a *second* one? that would make a lot of sense, because we all know oswald wasn't marksman enough to carry off the deed with only one banana. jeff vaska bought an antfarm there. or something like that. that's all i know. there's been quite a bit of confusion concerning robyn's seattle dates last summer. so here goes: - --june 7, at the backstage. as lobstie mentioned, this was his first performance of Viva Sea-Tac. - --june 10, at the two bells. roughly seven people in attendance, including jeme, who left his taping machine in the hotel. drat! - --june 13, at the crocodile. (Viva Sea-Tac II) - --august 30, at the opera house. (Bumbershoot) - --august 31, at the two bells. (Princess Di Memorial Gig) Viva Sea-Tac II 1/2 was supposed to have been sometime in august, and Viva Sea-Tac III was supposed to have been sometime in the fall. Viva Sea-Tac was the last song of the bumbershoot set, and was also played at the Princess Di gig. so that would've been the last time it was performed in seattle, although he has been playing it in britain as well. <`cause it's right to the pump> i still think it's, "wired to a pump." the criterion collection laserdisc of Holy Grail has something like this. first, one of the audio tracks has the japanese dub. so, you can watch the movie in japanese, which is immensely entertaining. then, as an extra, they've got one of the french castle scenes with english subtitles of the japanese translations. i'm telling you, it is just about the funniest thing i have ever seen. maybe one of these years i'll write it down and post it. hey, speaking of the damned. i just noticed that they're going to be in town on march 4, *with* the captain! i figure, if you all go and request Coward Of Treason Cove in your town, maybe by the time they get to seattle, they'll actually give in and play it. or Yanks With Guns. i could live with either. eb, you'll go see the captain, won't you? if it's not at the largo, i mean. "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: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:02:30 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Altavista translation I use Altavista daily, so I noticed right away when the Translation feature was added. Just thought I'd mention one minus, which no one else has brought up: The translator only translates a certain amount of text on a webpage. After that, it just gives you your original verbiage. I hope you all celebrated Claudine Longet's birthday in your own special ways. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 15:33:10 +0800 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: back to Wales, briefly >Do anglophiles not groove on the Welsh? >That's a real question, not rhetoric. don't know... but the word Anglo- comes from the Angles, the Germanic tribe who, along with their neighbours the Saxons, swept into Britain from the 5yth to 8th century pushing the Welsh back into Wales, Cornwall and southern Scotland (ever wondered why some Scottish and northern English placenames sounded Welsh? Penrith? Aberdeen? Perth?). Calling a Welshman "Anglo-" is on par with calling someone from Alabama a 'damned Yankee'. >I have *another* assertion which is that the slang word >'Yankee' is derived from the word 'English'. 'fraid not. It's from the Dutch name Jan Kees - a slang term given to the Brits by the Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam/York. It translates as John Cheese. Please direct me to Wisconsin. Jonathan sez: >Probably something to do with Robyn rambling on about >Aberystwyth at the 12 Bar last night). hmmm. the thot plickens... why is RH talking about Wales? >PS - I think my name is spelled "gruffydd" in welsh. correct, and with a surname like Davies, too, you see, boyo... >Of course the true test of all these supposed-writers of Welsh is the >singing test. It's all well and good to lay claim to the language of a >proud and long-suffering people, but can you sing like them? I don't care >if you can speak it backwards, if you can't sing like a miner, you're just >a big fake. (of course there must be the odd Welsh person who can't sing. >They are excepted from this test, naturally. I'm referring to the >infiltrators who are trying to undermine Internet attempts to keep the >Welsh language sequestered.) Do Welsh policemen sing? James (busy recording "Mae hen gwlad fy nghadau" for GFII) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 15:32:39 +0800 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: What Robyn's lyrics mean & sundry PS's >Subject: What Robyn's lyrics mean (in other languages) > >AltaVista has introduced a translation service between some European >languages (sadly no Welsh) at: >http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate >But it's best use is translating something from English into something >else, copying and pasting the result back in, and translating back into >English. I wondered what it would make of some of Robyn's lyrics, and >as we've been doing You & Oblivion on Jeme's list... someone on the flags mailing list uses this program to translate things from Catalan (or Spanish, one or the other) into English. About six months back he wrote that the Royal Banner of Thailand used to feature a completely worthless object. Turns out he meant a white elephant. He also wrote at one time that "the island Helgoland has no independentist movement - - it is stressed by the full totality of German authority". Which sounded a little worrying. James PS - has the list been weirder than normal recently? PPS - >>On another note, for all you Cope fans, there is a note that he's now >>touring solo - with a show that "can be as much talk as music". >> >>Remind you of anybody we know? > >Laurie Anderson! Billy Bragg? PPPS - >Umm...but what makes you think each of us has chosen only *one* non-English >language? Ya ne ponimaiyu yaz'uik Danske. 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: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 15:36:13 +0800 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Chariots of the Squids On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Nick Winkworth wrote: > There's a sinister plot hatching here... Hmmm. I am beginning to see the light... "Helen Percival", huh? Let's examine that name... Percival was the knight (sleeping or otherwise) who wished only to see the Holy Grail (Grail? Quail? coincidence?) in the Arthurian legends. Arthur, buried, reputedly at Winchester (but maybe there's no-one there at all...). Arthur, who was schooled by Merlin - traditionally seen as Welsh! Yes, yes, it's all falling into place... Merlin, who legend has it is still entrapped within a crystal cavern. To him, in a dreamlike state, it might seem like he was in some Glass Hotel.... The Merlin was also the name of the engine of the Spitfire, the plane that during World War II protected Britain from the inventions of one Dr Messerschmidt. King Arthur's sword was called Excalibur - a Latinisation of Caliban - "the shining path" (also a song by Shriekback and a Peruvian revolutionary movement, but I digress). "Helen"... according to my dictonary of first names, that means "The shining one" - verrry close to "the shining path"! Now, "The Shining Ones" is the name of a short story by Arthur C.Clarke about a giant squid, discovered in the Indian Ocean. The most famous discovery of a new species in the Indian Ocean this century was the coelacanth - in most dictionaries that is next to the coelenterate, the larvae of which are called planula! In the same collection of Arthur C. Clarke stories ("The wind from the sun") is a short story about HG Wells! HG Wells is of course mentioned in the song Victorian Squid. Victorian? YES - - as in Victoria, Australia, a state immediately to the north of Tasmania, which *not coincidentally* sounds like the name of this list! Tasmania CONTAINS WOMBATS! And what is the strait separating Victoria and Tasmania called??? BASS! What more evidence do you need? I bet Helen weighs the same as a duck! Or a quail... Erich von Dignaniken PS - ever wondered where all these conspiracy theories come from? And why they are created? Hmmm... PPS - seriously, welcome Helen. Don't worry - things will soon calm down to (heh! I almost wrote normal there!) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 23:11:54 EST From: KarmaFuzzz@aol.com Subject: SeaTac Xmas Party Trees could someone send me a copy of the sea tac and xmas party tape trees as i accidentally deleted them (or if your my branch, just contact me). sorry for wasting everyone else bandspace. i'll go listen to oasis as penance. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 23:40:56 -0800 From: dsaunder@islandnet.com (Daniel Saunders) Subject: Last Feg Top Ten 1997 List Statistics For the last time: What fegs liked about '97. Let's put this damn year to rest! Movies: 1. Titanic 2. Chasing Amy 3. The Sweet Hereafter 4. Contact 5. The Full Monty Music: 1. Ok Computer - Radiohead (11 votes) 2. Homogenic - Bjork (6 votes) 3. Time out of Mind - Bob Dylan (5 votes) 4. Earthling - David Bowie (5) 5. Brighten the Corners - Pavement (5) 6. I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One - Yo La Tengo (5) 7. Dots and Loops - Stereolab (4 votes) 8. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - Spiritualized (4) 9. Portishead (3 votes) 10. Pop - U2 (3) The contributors were: woj, Miles, Wookie Conscious, David Baker, Eddie Tews, Hedblade, James Dignan, Donald Snyder, Eb, Gene Hopstetter, Gregory Stuart Shell, Jason Thornton, Jeffrey Vaska, Jim Neill, Lj Lindhurst, Maisie Bomb, Marshall Armintor, Scary Mary, The Great Quail, and trentd. If you were left out, TOO BAD! It's all over! The people have spoken! Shame on you, woj, making me hold my breath till the very last minute... - -- Daniel Saunders Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #39 ******************************