From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #40 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, February 2 1998 Volume 07 : Number 040 Today's Subjects: ----------------- JWH and the Utterly dispicable [dlang ] Yet more bloody WELSH content/winsconsin connection [dlang ] Missing Leaves [chichi@io.com (Zelda Pinwheel)] Robyn Hitchcock [Ross Overbury ] fegnudes [Bayard ] stuff [woj ] Re: JWH and the Utterly dispicable [amadain ] Re: fegnudes ["Michael R. Runion" ] Eno & Velvet Underground. Not remotely Robyn [james.dignan@stonebow.otago] Re: Eno & Velvet Underground. Not remotely Robyn [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 21:13:06 +2910 From: dlang Subject: JWH and the Utterly dispicable Mike wrote; 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. - -- transcribe it and post it , I could do with more laughs. Dave lang ( the old fart from down under ) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 22:43:43 +2910 From: dlang Subject: Yet more bloody WELSH content/winsconsin connection Gidday Fegs. I've been watching you lot wallowing in this veritable orgy of Welsh connections with a mixture of amusement and shame over the past week or so. Amusement, because although I reside in the antipodes, I am an official card carrying Welshman (although I have not set foot on the fabled province for many a year). In that case, why should I feel shame , I hear you ask?. We-e-e-e-e-e-e-ell, I can 't remember hardly any bloody Welsh, due to the fact that I was too busy singing and digging coal to learn any. Actually, as I am a Southwalian , its not surprising, as a majority of the population don't speak Welsh and those that do often speak a sort of pigeon Welsh, mixing the two languages and using more English words than Welsh. Anyhow, I find it humiliating that all you fegs can speak Welsh and I can't , so after I write this I will retire to a corner with a Welsh /english phrase book and not return until I am completly fluent in at least the most pungent and pithy Welsh put downs, so I can hold my own on the list when things get hectic. Several points have been raised about our singing habits and perhaps I can elucidate on some of them. Singing is actually a major problem in Wales, as it is often impossible to go to sleep at night due to gangs of defeated drunken Welsh rugby fans roaming the streets singing Sospan fach and other less lugubrious ditties. Moreover,carrying out normal activities in most shops, banks, apothecaries , cinema's and other public places is nigh impossible on nearly all occasions due to the incessant singing by the shop staff who all belong to male voice choirs practicing for Eisteddfodai. Due to equal opportunity laws, the situation has worsened as now all females belong to choirs too . I must admit that I bear my share of guilt .When I was in art college in Swansea we used to sing "Born under a Bad Sign" in close harmony to annoy our tutor and even now I wander around the house singing loudl;y and annoying all my close family members, so you see it is something that is inbred, genetic and impossoble to curb. However, James,. I'm afraid the only people in Wales who do NOT sing are policemen. I base this on personal experience. Whenever I encountered a policeman in my torrid youth in Wales they just refused to sing, they were too busy taking me into custody at two in the morning on suspicion of jewel robberies( the guy who fingered me actually committed the robbery) and trying to stop me from riding my 1938 Norton side valve 500cc bike and sidecar , complete with laundry basket chair. One of my friends was the son of the police chief of Swansea and he told me in strictest condfidence that his old man never sang, especially when Julian ( the son )absconded with his entire terms grant and bought a motorbike with the proceeds. Nope, they don't sing, bloody killjoys to a person they are. Finally, I can now break my cover as the antipodean Welsh connection in the fiendish plot to annexe Winsonsin . You got most of it right , but we Welsh are cunning you know. It was too bloody obvious to drop the state next to Wales, you must think we are twp ( dull or stupid) . The Irish sea would have been the first place to look.Ha , that was just a blind , you poor fools.The real site was down under.The reason I migrated to Australia in the first place was to set in train the 18 year process of brainwashing the Fegs, undermining the foundations of the state and establishing the Australian cheese industry so that all Ozzie cheeses would taste like Caerphilly. Once this was done, squads of specially trained Rock Wallabays and Wombats would kidnap Winsconsin , place a cardboard replica in the Irish sea and then ferret away the REAL=20 Winsconsin to the great Australian bight ( which no one ever visits anyway). Only then would the state be settled by plane loads of expatriate Patagonian Welshmen, all hand picked cheesy artsisans to the core, who would set up massive cheese processing plants , where our cheeses would be impregnated with microscopic Welsh language viruses which would worm their way into the unsuspecting consumers brain ,undermining their previous identity and brainwashing them into thinking they were fully functioning Welshmen. Then the world would have been ripe for the plucking , ready for domination by the Welsh cheese marketing board! However , our plans were dashed by your unveiling of the location of our cardboard replica , curse you fegs! Anyway I=92m off to do some more singing in the garden as its 10;30 pm and I haven=92t annoyed the neighbours for at least 30 minutes. Bore da Dave Lang ( the old fart from down under ) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 23:25:29 +2910 From: dlang Subject: RE:back to Wales, briefly James blathered: 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! You are close, but the true Hitchcockian connection comes back in the eighties when Robyn visited Australia on a so -called promotional tour.Whilst in Adelaide he passed on secret infromation to a promoter called Vic, now by an astounding coincidence Vic's name does not contain a single similar letter as the word REG.! If you cast back your minds to that meorable post by Dolph, where he talks about RH's so called fixation with Reg Dwight, otherwise known as Elton John.Now consider, although there is no visable similarity between the names Vic and Reg, they both are THREE LETTERS LONG !!!!!!!!, see the fiendish connection? Theres more convincing proof,whilst staying with Vic Robyn passed on to me details of the annexation of Wisconsin in code during his acoustic gig at Big Star records , which I did not attend! However,five years later, I talk to Vic in Bigstar and record him some Little feat boots, he doesn't hand on the details of the plot!!!But ,theres still more . Another five years later my friend Ian meets Vic at a kindergarden function, discovers he runs Bigstar and trades with him, he does not introduce me to Vic.Another year later I join the feglist , read Robins coded message to me on the list disguised as the 12 Bar club post, totally fail to see its significance because I am not even aware of the existance of a code, let alone able to read the code which Robyn had not passed on to me at the Big star gig which I did not attend in the late eighties and I STILL do not meet Vic. However, I do redord him some RH tapes and Ian tells me about how Vic met Robin the eighties. I have a brainwave, realise Robyn was talking to me in code a decade ago, Iisten to a tape of the show, suss out the code and am about to put the dastardly Welsh plan to turn the entire global population of cheese eaters into Welshmen into train when i realise our plan is scuppered because some crucial details have have been posted on the Fegmaniax list !!!!!! also , my duaughter and I have recently been singing the Old trout mask replica refrain" A squid eating dough through a polyetheline bag, etc, and james mentioned squids !! so it all dovetails pretty neatly I think Its all quite simple really when you reason it out. Dave lang ( the olde fartt from dowyn undere) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 07:19:01 -0400 From: chichi@io.com (Zelda Pinwheel) Subject: Missing Leaves Hey Kids! If anyone knows the whereabouts of: Ner or Jason Legacy , could you tell them that I have analog copies of Robyn's X-MAS Party waiting for them? I've tried contacting them several times to no avail. Also, if anyone missed getting on this tree and wants one, just let me know Thanks--zelda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This product is sold by weight, not volume. Some settling of contents may have occurred during shipping and handling. May contain peanuts. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 98 10:12:58 EST From: Ross Overbury Subject: Robyn Hitchcock Just kidding! Ha ha ha. - -- Peredur, Son of York ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:08:38 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: fegnudes Mike "There is Power in a rUnion" sez: > > 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. If I may point out, some clever fiend has photoshopped RotoMark's smiling face onto the body of a young bill clinton (note the "tell-tale bend".) It's a fegfake! Sure hope my ex-feg ex-girlfriends don't send you anything. (Then I won't have anything interesting to put on my home page.) =b ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 15:35:08 -0500 From: woj Subject: stuff fegs! first, there is now a news-only list called fegmaniax-announce. it is a news-only list announcing tour dates, album releases, etc. it is moderated, so it should be low-volume (it's not like there are daily happenings in the world of robyn anyways). i'll be forwarding news-worthy posts from fegmaniax to fegmaniax-announce, so there will be no need to be subscribed to both lists. fegmaniax-announce is an alternative for those who are interested in just knowing what's happening with robyn, and not the rest of the fegs as well. if you want to join, send a note to majordomo@smoe.org which says subscribe fegmaniax-announce if you want to leave fegmaniax as a result of this, add an unsubscribe fegmaniax(-digest) as well. as always, if you need any help, let me know. second, did anyone tape robyn's appearance on andy kershaw in january? i'd like a copy. other stuff: Alfred Masciocchi sez: >CD ROBYN HITCHCOCK Due 1/26...New British "Collections" CD! (details to >follow)...$16.00 > >Anyone know what's on this? huh. i haven't heard anything. my first hunch would be an uk release of _uncorrected personality traits_, but that's probably an incorrect guess since it doesn't make sense to change the title. bootleg? i'll check with antwoman. if/when anyone gets this, please post the details. dsaunder@islandnet.com (Daniel Saunders) sez: >Shame on you, woj, making me hold my breath till the very last minute... you realize that i posted a top ten list of albums of 1997 which i *had not* heard yet, right? (i've since remedied at least two of them: picked up tanya donnelly's _lovesongs for underdogs_ used yesterday and heard radiohead's _ok, computer_ in someone else's car a week ago; no opinion on either yet.) a long time ago, david willems asked: >Are the new chords being posted to this list going to make it to the tab >site? the tabs which are on the fegsite now are the ones which were on jay's version of the site right before it disappeared. i have not had the time to update them (or rearrange them, for that matter), but i am saving all the tabs which are posted to feg so that i can add them to the site when i update it. eddie suggests: >so, how about a feg homepage webring? has anyone done anything about this yet? i, for one, think this would be kinda neat and would volunteer to own the ring if no one else wants the job. jim neill lists in his top ten: >Abra Moore: Strangest Places > >Former Poi Dog Ponderer makes a surprisingly moving solo debut. A few clunkers >but the best tracks really shine. not debut, but a second solo release. the first is 1995's _sing_ on bohemia records. i prefer _sing_ to _strangest places_ (which was actually removed from the cd player five songs into the first listen, though i've come to like it more since then). it's more acoustic and more varied in style -- more like one of the early poi dog albums, i suppose. woj n.p. nicky skopelitis -- ekstasis ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 15:46:09 -0600 (CST) From: amadain Subject: Re: JWH and the Utterly dispicable On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, dlang wrote: > Mike wrote; > 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. > -- Sabalon Glitz is a band started by/featuring one Chris Holmes and his then girlfriend Carla Bruce (who ended up marrying a guy named Lee, which leads to endless annoying karate jokes :)), who for a long time worked at the illustrious WHPK 88.5 fm, where yours truly has been a jazz dj for about four and a half years :). Around the time he was really behind Sabalon Glitz (currently his energies are mostly directed towards his other, "more pop" band Yum Yum) he co-hosted a radio show on WHPK called "In Advance of the Landing", which was devoted to interviewing such people, in a completely serious style. It was extraordinarily entertaining. I'd bet that that's where the interview comes from. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 20:43:31 -0800 From: "Michael R. Runion" Subject: Re: fegnudes Bayard wrote: > If I may point out, some clever fiend has photoshopped RotoMark's smiling > face onto the body of a young bill clinton (note the "tell-tale bend".) > It's a fegfake! Yes yes! I can see the anti-aliasing blurs now. Sweet Jesus, what a sicko. But wait, what's this? There, under the right...uh...you know. It looks like a tattoo of some sort. Three letters? "T","G"..."Q"! - -- ******* 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: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:36:19 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Eno & Velvet Underground. Not remotely Robyn someone mentioned a while back - I think on Fegmaniax - that Brian Eno, in his early days, was very much influenced by the Velvet Underground. Then Eb replied that the first melody line on Eno's first solo album was very similar to that of "Monday Morning". I came across an even stronger similarity yesterday: listen to the Velvets song "Lisa says", then listen to Eno's semi-instumental "Taking Tiger Mountain". Pay particular attention to the chiming rhythm guitar line... James ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 19:57:36 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Eno & Velvet Underground. Not remotely Robyn >someone mentioned a while back - I think on Fegmaniax - that Brian Eno, in >his early days, was very much influenced by the Velvet Underground. Then Eb >replied that the first melody line on Eno's first solo album was very >similar to that of "Monday Morning". Arrgh...that's "SUNDAY Morning"! :/ Picked up a pretty fair album from the semi-legendary Wherehouse cutout bin today: "So We Go," by the Hang Ups (Clean/Restless, 1996). If you like vaguely nostalgic jangle-pop a la the dBs, check this group out. Surprisingly well-crafted stuff, though wimp-rock haters won't go for it. Oh, and in a totally different vein, Air's Moon Safari is kinda nifty too. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:17:25 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: RE:back to Wales, briefly On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, dlang wrote: > I have a brainwave, realise Robyn was talking to me in code a > decade ago, Iisten to a tape of the show, suss out the code and am > about to put the dastardly Welsh plan to turn the entire global > population of cheese eaters into Welshmen into train when i realise our > plan is scuppered because some crucial details have have been posted > on the Fegmaniax list !!!!!! Hrrm. I guess that explains why I don't speak Welsh and haven't known anyone who does... I very rarely eat cheese. Damn, this is making sense. Je. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #40 ******************************