From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #45 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, February 5 1998 Volume 07 : Number 045 Today's Subjects: ----------------- 'June 6th Movement' ["Matthew Knights" ] Re : Quailspiracy [dlang ] Re : Opinions wanted [dlang ] Re : Opinions wanted [Eb ] Re:Re:RE; opinions wanted was a major revelation for me. (And that wasn't ALL that long ago...1990, I believe.) [] Re: CAN (was - Opinions Wanted) [jeffery vaska ] Re: Austin, Young & Newell in June [Andy Holyer ] sxsw tix [vince ] Part 3: The Convergence ["Michael R. Runion" ] SXSW via Houston [firstcat@lsli.com] Re: a ten-bob note up my nose [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain)] Neil Young flick [Sumiko Keay ] defenders of perspex [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] FW: Britain's king of counterculture is killed in car crash [firstcat@ls] Re: Defending Perspex [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Welsh growth -- in Japan [Ross Overbury ] Re: sxsw tix [chichi@io.com (Zelda Pinwheel)] Dad's work [Timothy Jones ] ..Will Robyn bring the bearer of the banana? [Carole Reichstein Subject: 'June 6th Movement' Michael wrote: >(4) Anyone like June of '44? At school I was part of a subversive gang called 'June 6th Movement'. It involved me and my friends, all aged around 17, going around the school causing trouble. This included smoking in places you weren't allowed to, drinking in pubs near the school against the rules, going anywhere off limits and kidnapping teachers property and demanding a ransom (trivial stuff only). We were strictly non-violent and all demands were done with style and wit. No threats. Now June 6th is the anniversary of both D-Day in WWII and Princess Margaret's birthday - but I just can't remember which event influenced the gang name. Incidentally, we had a gang uniform. This involved dressing up in white lab coats ( we were Devo fans) and wearing special rubbery rock climbing shoes called Eb's... Matt _________________________________________________________________ Matthew Knights mknights@harrywasp.prestel.co.uk `Ton ame est un lac d'amour dont mes desirs sont les cygnes...' _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 20:42:06 +2910 From: dlang Subject: Re : Quailspiracy I read Dr Fanes post with a great deal of trepidation and dread, indeed , the conspiracy has gone even further than I thought and the machieavelian machinations of the cultists overide even my own part in the fiendish Welsh cheese board plans to dominate the Southern hemisphere. The implications of the good doctors revelations, if correct ,are not merely terrestial but have cosmic, nay galactic implications. However, investigations in the antipodean sphere by ancient historians connected to Monash University have led to further byzantine and Lovecraftian twists to this most labyrinthine and insideous plot . It appears that the origins of this whole ferago may go back over 40,000 years to the dawn of mankind in the most far flung depths of primeval Gondwanaland, even beyond, (as Dr fane stated), the earliest civilisations.. Recent excavations in the South Australian hinterland have led to discoveries of eldrich and sinister cults amongst some of the original Australian aborigines. In general ,the aboriginals have co-existed peacefully and at harmony with the biosphere and their dream time legends picture mostly benign but powerful spirits of the land and elements.However, there now appears to be evidence that there was amongst them a group that worshipped a specific giant bird god, of which they lived in great fear and loathing . It was long speculated that this bird god was probably an Emu or Cassowarry, but the excavations carried out by Professor Occer and his team of experts indicate that this was not the case.In an ancient cave on the Nullabour plain they stumbled on the remains of a unique artifact, a giant statue of a bird, some five cubits in height ,largely intact and carbon dated at being over 38, 500 years old! Further investigation showed that the bird god bore a marked resemblance to a giant quail.Now there are no known instances of quails being found in Australia, so this poses the question, how could aboriginals be worshipping a bird which does not exist in this continent ?and since Aborigines have never constructed stone statues,why had they gone to the trouble to create this megalith in a cave in the far corner of the benighted plain ? Interestingly , prof Occer found that the statue of the Giant Quail was not unknown to the local indigenous population. They shunned it as the evil one ,calling it"yunnamangulagungannnagubbaggul" which translates into "great fearful bird thingy ". Not conclusive proof I hear you say, but here the key word is FEARFUL. Collins English dictionary defines quail as " to shrink back with fear,to cower". Obviously the legend of the great fearful bird thing was so strong that it has persisted over nearly 40.000 years and the locals instinctively cower and avoid its shadow, which is reputed to turn anyone who falls within its pall into a giant mutant tree sloth. More worrying than this bizarre fancy is the fact that a stone plinth was discovered beneath the fallen statue. Much of its inscription was illegible, but the remnant hiroglyphics formed the letters t-S-t-KH, only one short step from prof Fanes babylonian "Thyt'stokh," the word that described the Small ground-dwelling bird with a little feather on top that comes to us from the sky and validatesour self-esteem with much of knowledge, but if we misuse it we decend into a negative shame spiral of guilt and evil." Coincidence ? I don't think so . More recently the Australian media reported that the remains of a giant sea monster were washed up on a Tasmanian beach, some thought it whale blubber, but others speculated that it was the remains of a GIANT SQUID. The Victorian squid revisited? Bass Strait is only a few hundred miles from Victoria. Perhaps a far fetched conclusion but bear in mind that there is a branch of marine biologists , known as the "Squidologists" who believe that the squid is the direct geneolgical ancestor of the bird, and as I quote from their pamphlet " A treatease on the amorphology of non vertebrates " published in the "Squidologistic digest "Feb 1943 - " it would not be innacurate to postulate that the nearest living relative of the Squid is the Quail,closely followed by the Kiwi." This was of course pooh poohed by the establishment , but we all know that they are a bunch of bullshit artists don't we ? Let us move further south , to the barren wastes of the Antartic. When that well known purveyor of so called pulp horror, the great HP Lovecraft, wrote "At the Mountains of Madness", he postulated the existance of an ancient civilisation created by a race of beings,The Great Old Ones, which he insisted bore some of the attributes of the squid, possessing ,"light grey flexible arms or TENTACLES... each giving a stalk of 25 tentacles" Although no trace of these fabled mountains have been found, geological disturbances do not rule out the subsidence of the entire range and the possibilities that the great city and its denizens still exist in a subterranean labyrinth beneath the impenetrable ice pack.The existance also of giant penguins in this city , as stated by Lovecraft, does not rule out the possibility that these birds are not penguins in but in fact Giant Quails which have adapted to the Antartic climes. It would only be natural that the birds would have come to resemble penguins in their adaptation over the aeons and Lovecraft innocently accepted the demented flubberings of Danfort as fact . We must also rememeber the warblings of that fab hippy combo. HP Lovecraft, who sang about the old ones on their "Mountains of Madness , LP, giving credence to the theory aslo if you play the record backwards whilst standing in an electrically charged field positive electrons you can clearly hear the refrain "all hail to the the great squid and quail " Buy it and see. The final link in this pacific triangle of Fegfiendishness comes at distant Easter Island, which is littered with the remains of giant statues . Now none of these behemoths bear a resemblence to Quails or Squids.But excavations carried out by Blatt and Pocock in the late 50's revealed the existence of an inscription on the base of one of the statues which when translated read "seek me within " Thus instructed, the archivists attempted to enlist the local islanders in dissecting the statue, but they found it impossible to gain the cooperation of any of them. Most refused, some blanching visibly at the mention of the inscription ,but one old man, blind and half dead, was persuaded to tell what he knew in exchange for a bowl of soot mixed with powdered pigs bladder ( a delicacy in those parts ) and he spoke thus. " Our ancestors worshipped not these statues, for they are merely a vessel to hide the malignacy within , which consumed our people until we did'st put awy the evil that threatened to destroy us all. We worshipped a giant bird,"Pugthullu" and his consort from the deep "Yub sholloth " , but they lead us into evil and we did'st do naughtty things with our livestock and we became degraded through excessive animal husbandry and lost the magnificence of our once great civilisation.In an attempt to regain our honour , we did'st create these statues and within them we sealed up this noxious entities, but it was too late for us as were past the point of no return, so verilly , we fucked up" There was no way of proving whether this was a total figment of the poor oik's imagination or not, as labour could not be obtained to dissect the statues, but I leave it to you dear reader to make up your mind. It is plain to me that this is merely another manifestation of the greatest conspiracy known to mankind, nay, the entire universe. It would appear that these threads are too complex to be a mere creation of humans, who can't even design a reliable toaster nowadays. No , this is much bigger than that, I believe that we are being manipulated by pan galactic superminds older than time itself, who, through their physical manifestations, HP Lovecraft,the Quail, the Squid, the Welsh cheese board and that well known entertainer Robyn Hitchcock ,are attempting to bring into being a New Galactic Order and that they have been doing so since time immemorial. Their methods are slow but sure and their greatest ally is the complete unlikeliness of the entire hypothesis, how better than to achive domination than through entities that are completely meaningless to the vast majority of the population? How we can protect ourselves from this dastardly conspiracy I know not, having been duped into trying to subvert a good portion of the planet myself, but I have seen the light, and from now on I dedicate myself to the task of making sure that we all know just what is going down. Which brings me to my final point. It is widely believed that we are all mere manifestations of the Great Quails mind , but could not the reverse be true, that we have manifested the great Quail , through fiendish manipulations of our collective psyche by the very pan galactic mind benders that created the conspiracy theory in the first place? Has anyone seen the Great Quail? Or if they have, has more than one person at a time seen him ? could he be like the ubiquitous "men in black ", everywhere and no where at once ? I notice he is conspicuous in his absence from the Fegphoto site. Is he a figment of our imagination , designed to occupy us with magnificent postings about the Grateful Dead, global conspiracy theories and other trivia whilst the evil denizens of the galaxy rub their tentacles with glee? I hope not. ( gibber , gibber), but I say to thee Fegs, BEWARE !!!!! Dave Lang. ( ye old demented farte frome downee undere) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 20:42:28 +2910 From: dlang Subject: Re : Opinions wanted On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Terrence M Marks wrote: > What do you-all think ofFocus/Thjis van Lijk (sp) Hmm , yes, at one time, many , many moons ago (like 1973), I used to like Focus. However, during a chemical excursion of particular weirdness, we perchanced to play one of their magnum opus's, the name of which escapes me.It met with a mixed reaction to say the least . My wife was in raptures with this goofy blissed out expression on her face, whilst the other two geeks in the room ( yours truly and Rich , who looked like the Sherrif of Nottingham in the Richard Greene series that used to be on british Tv) were both of the opinion that it sounded like several cats being strangled in slow motion. We just couldn't stop laughing at it, which spoilt it somewhat for me misses. I found Focus somewhat hard to listen to after that little incident. Anyway no one ever beat CAN in producing great euro rock , anyone else out there rate the Canster's ? I think they were tops - Holger Czukey their bass player also produced one memorable album Movies, which is well worth searching out. Dave Lang . (Ye olde farte from downe undere ) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 02:20:06 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re : Opinions wanted >Anyway no one ever beat CAN in producing great euro rock , anyone else >out there rate the Canster's ? I think they were tops - Holger Czukey >their bass player also produced one memorable album Movies, which is >well worth searching out. Can is awesome. The first time I heard Tago Mago and "Yoo Doo Right," that was a major revelation for me. (And that wasn't ALL that long ago...1990, I believe.) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 21:20:35 +2910 From: dlang Subject: Re:Re:RE; opinions wanted was a major revelation for me. (And that wasn't ALL that long ago...1990, I believe.) EB Sed Can is awesome. The first time I heard Tago Mago and "Yoo Doo Right," that was a major revelation for me. (And that wasn't ALL that long ago...1990, I believe.) AHHHHHH-Tago Mago- my favorite track is Augmn, I also used it to do drama with year eight high school kids for about five years.Just the first five minutes or so. I used them to create horror and haunted house sequences to it. Blew their little minds it did. I honestly can't think of a bad Can album, their variety is awe inspiring and they are able to create perfect soundscapes for almost any mood one can think of. One of the classic bands of all time. I have some good BBC tapes of them which are really good too. Dave Lang. (the olde fart , etc, etc, etc, ) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 02:57:47 -0800 From: jeffery vaska Subject: Re: CAN (was - Opinions Wanted) CANned fans... i actually have the entire CAN collection carried by mute records and it's a pretty diverse collection of sounds that range over 25 years or so. they messed with everything during their days... the talking heads - - up through "speaking in tongues" - owe ALOT to CAN also. last year a CAN tribute album was released but i've never even seen it - apparently beck does a track on it. holger czukay has a personal site on the web - http://www.czukay.de/ great CAN site at - http://www.club-internet.fr/can/ - has lots of info and the discography anybody who wants more info on this absolutely essential band (and rather unknown in the states until late) is more than welcome to send me a note. i recommend that everybody give them a serious listen. i could possibly put together a compilation tape or something if anybody wants...? yoy!...jv ps: i'd be really amazed if somebody could cojur up some kind of real connection between CAN members and Robyn (perhaps through Eno?) - there's my robyn content. Eb wrote: > > >Anyway no one ever beat CAN in producing great euro rock , anyone else > >out there rate the Canster's ? I think they were tops - Holger Czukey > >their bass player also produced one memorable album Movies, which is > >well worth searching out. > > Can is awesome. The first time I heard Tago Mago and "Yoo Doo Right," that > was a major revelation for me. (And that wasn't ALL that long ago...1990, I > believe.) > > Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 11:35:40 +0000 From: Andy Holyer Subject: Re: Austin, Young & Newell in June At 20:45 04/02/98 -0600, amadain wrote: > >> (3) A pal at another cool local record shop told me he was gonna try and >> get me a tape of a Hitchcock/Newell gig that apparently happened 5 >> months ago. Having never heard about such on this list, my impression >> is that he doesn't know what he's talking about. I just nodded though >> and said I couldn't wait. Anyone got a clue about this one? >> > >I seem to remember reading something about this gig on the jangly mailing >list (jangly being devoted to the music of Martin Newell and Captain >Sensible, as far as I can tell from the postings I've seen there- it's >supposed to be a list devoted to Martin Newell and "jangly pop" in >general, but I see more there about Captain Sensible than anything). I'd >say that my memory is probably somewhat reliable on this, given that >jangly seems to generate one or two mails a month, if that, so naturally I >remember them better than I would mails from this or the JOhn Cale list, >where people write a fair amount, plus it had to do with Robyn. I had >heard the gig was "planned", and heard no more, which is why I didn't >mention it here. Apparently it actually -did- happen. > The only gig I know of was the one they did in Lewes about 3 years ago. I don't remember much about the gig, because as Jim Davies put it, I was "the only person in the place more drunk than Captain Sensible" (I'd lost my job about a week before, and wasn't felling too happy). I know that Robyn has a good-quality DAT version of his part of the gig, but they were out eating earlier and didn't tape Martin's section (which is a pity, because he actually sang, rather than just poetry). There may have been other tapes. For that matter, there may have been other gigs. Either way, I'd like to know more - -&. Andy Holyer, Learn the Internet Ltd., Lewes, E Sussex Tel: 01273 485938 Fax: 01273 485939 Mobile: 0973 405836 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 09:52:51 -0600 (CST) From: vince Subject: sxsw tix Here's what I know about the SXSW film festival from having attended last year. The $175 tickets are for the conferences AND the film showings. They will also release film-only passes(though I haven't seen anything about these yet). These will be less expensive. For example, wristbands for the music festival are $65, while the conference/ music tickets are several hundred bucks. Folks with the full registration get in first, then film pass holders, then walkups. Sometimes, a premier will be a benefit for the Austin Film Society and admission is seperate from the SXSW passes. I haven't seen anything definitive about SH. Last year, the only film I couldn't get in to was Chasing Amy. I think anyone that really wants to travel to Austin for SH has a good chance of getting in. Good luck finding a hotel room. vince ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 10:22:36 -0800 From: "Michael R. Runion" Subject: Part 3: The Convergence Miles concluded part 2 with: > The EP murmurs to me. Minutes ago, this would have sounded like the > ordinary hum your albums make when they're sitting on the shelf communing > with one another, but using the EP to brake my fall must have shot some of > those sparks into me; as the murmur radiates up my feet, I understand its > wordless wisdom: > > "You can not defeat the Tower alone." > > Above, I see Mike pulling himself up from the cliff's edge, dusting himself > off. My little toe taps three times, and I safesurf as the EP carries me > back up. Now I understand why Mike and I were brought here. How do I make > him understand? I struggle to stand, most of my strength gone from the effort to save myself. I think of Miles limp on the rocks below, his tattered limbs ebbing in and out with the seawater swells. My mind conjures up the Underwater Moonlight album cover and I have to shake my head vigorously and stare at the sun to rid myself of the tepid vision. The ocean stretches to infinity before me, small birds swarming out on the horizon. It is late morning. How did I get here? I look down to the scattered mess of Julian Cope CD singles and broken vinyl 45's spilling out of my backpack at my feet. I pick up my yellow "Try Try Try" 7", an oddly rhythmic crack radiating outwards from the spindle hole. Everything seems broken, and the thought of Miles likewise far below assaults me once again. A tear forms and falls away. Suddenly the odd hum I'd been hearing all along grows louder still. I look up and to my suprise, an upright Miles rises beyond the cliff edge, his face frozen in a wry grimace. His feet are perched on a glowing purple and yellow disk. My god, is that a "Fear Loves This Place" 12"? "Miles! I thought you were dead? I'm so glad you're alright..." "No thanks to you!" he spits, but then his face bursts into a warm grin. "I'd have done the same thing...but that's behind us now. We have greater worries." He holds out his hand and I shake it hesitantly. "We've got to work together from now on...and I have a strange feeling others will be joining us. Here..." He pulls my numbered "Heed" 12" from behind his back, unbroken and sparkling in the sunlight. I take it in my hand and it too begins to hum. As I climb on, the weighty earth dropping below me and I see Miles' finger pointing into the distance. "There they are now." About a hundred yards away, we watch as a scraggle of people pull themselves up over the cliff edge, clutching at the cold British grass. One wears an upside down duck shirt, another a aging black "Chinese Bones" t-shirt. There are five in all from what I can tell. Each is mysteriously armed with a triangular shaped piece of orange plastic...cones! "The fegs have arrived," Miles chimes. We turn to study the eerie tower rising high above the forest, it's upper reaches lost in the mist. A shiver bolts through my spine as I hear the ghostly warble of some small bird drift to me from the nearby brush... - -- ******* 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, 5 Feb 98 10:16:53 From: firstcat@lsli.com Subject: SXSW via Houston Well I'm making the trek to Austin for SXSW....I'll be a drivin' if snyone want to caravan or car pool it....traveling fegs might find it cheaper to fly into Houston, rent a car for the weekend and drive the 2 hours to Austin...it is a fairly nice ride... cheers Jay - ------------------------------------- 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: 2/5/98 - ------------------------------------- Two-Hour Luxury Goods Commercial Also A Spy Film ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 12:38:33 -0600 (CST) From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: a ten-bob note up my nose >Actually, it kicks off with "Re-Make/Re-Model," which is even more >audacious than "Virginia Plain" would have been. Ack! Caught napping again! You're right of course on both points. >("Virginia Plain" was a subsequent single, and it's sometimes found >grafted >onto ROXY MUSIC -- Now this I didn't know. Every edition of the album I've ever seen has "Virginia Plain" on it as the fourth track. Interesting. It seems to fit in quite seamlessly, but then I've never heard the album without, so it's hard for me to judge otherwise. It reminds me a bit of a debate I got in recently with the SO about the exact number of Beatles albums, when he insisted there were more than 13, which was my count (figuring in the "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack). Turns out it was really more of a purist vs. non-purist argument, as I flatly refused to count anything but the Parlophone releases, and he was figuring in "Yesterday and Today" &c., which to my mind are -not- albums as God and the Beatles intended :). >I like Bryan Ferry, yeah, Has this idea ever occurred to anyone else here? I'm sure it has. I have a theory that Eno is to John Cale as Ferry is to Lou Reed. Not so much in terms of styles of course, but in terms of their aims, and in terms of the dynamics within the two bands. Bands with two compatible but fairly different types of visionaries (excluding Spinal Tap, of course :)) seem for the most part doomed to implode, though of course Ferry was able to keep Roxy going quite a bit longer without Eno than Reed kept the Velvets alive without John. Whether or not this had to do with Ferry having an easier to take leadership style than the notoriously acidic Lou, or with the fact that the music he was making with Roxy relied so much on the musicians' chemistry as a working band, whereas by the time the Velvets got to "Loaded" it was more or less a Lou Reed with band project anyway ("All Shook Down", anyone? :)), is hard to say. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 13:57:38 -0600 From: Sumiko Keay Subject: Neil Young flick Jim Jarmusch is the director of "Year of the Horse" -- the 1997 movie documentary of Neil Young. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 20:47:22 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: defenders of perspex On Thu, 5 Feb 1998 03:25:13 -0500, you wrote: > >Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:05:09 -0000 >From: "Matthew Knights" >Subject: See Kimberley Play=20 > >Robyn wore the salamander shirt for the final 12Bar show last night. If >anyone taped the show I'd welcome an e-mail off list as I would really >enjoy listening to it again. I felt last night's show was the perfect >Robyn gig. As an old 'Softie' the biggest thrill was seeing Robyn and >Kimberley head off into the night after their soundcheck, presumably for= an >evening meal somewhere and anticipating seeing Kimberley play for the = first >time since 1981. (Incidentally, I can't imagine R&K dining at = McDonalds - >I wonder where would they go to eat out?) Well, as we all know (right?), Robyn doesn't eat meat, and hasn't for some time, so all he could get at MCglobal is fries and a salad (I know first hand, it's all I can eat, too. :-) )=20 In other news, I am including an old clip from a Robyn interview, in an ATTEMPT to cajol the "anti-PI" camp to at least admit there are some VERY good songs on perspex (yes, I'' admit I would have rather heard them done on "Eye", though.) -luther M2: What about "Lysander?" RH: Lysander was a Greek general. But I was really thinking about the Lysander, a little aeroplane in World War II that used to drop =46rench resistance workers in the middle of the night in occupied Europe-a reconnaissance plane. It's a hovering song. It's about somebody not quite committing themselves to a relationship. It's an early autumn song_ You know those decals for model aircraft? When you put them in water, it takes a while before they float away from the paper. I imagined you have a parasol with birds and serpents on it. At some point they actually float off the parasol and start spinning around in the air by themselves-a bit like the birds coming alive in "Birds in Perspex"-all these two-dimensional beings being freed from what holds them. WHAT IS REALITY? M2: "She Doesn't Exist" tells an interesting story. RH: It changes persons. He starts off saying he couldn't care less, but he obviously does-just shows what you get for dwelling in the past. The idea is that there is a presence in your life-but you never see them. Michael Jackson may not exist, you never actually see him, or Winston Churchill. Madonna, God, any of them-people that are of some importance but are not physically there. They may never have existed. Sherlock Holmes didn't exist but he does now. He is now post-dated into his era. It's that gap. There is no physical proof of someone's existence, yet there is a mental residue. If you have a leg amputated, you carry on feeling it. It's like old girlfriends. The impression they've left on you is much more important than where they are now, or how they actually feel. Or whether they are even alive. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 98 15:26:35 From: firstcat@lsli.com Subject: FW: Britain's king of counterculture is killed in car crash I saw this and thought "how Robynesque" - --- On Thu, 5 Feb 1998 12:08:59 +0000 Spoon Unit wrote: >THE INDEPENDENT 5/2/98 > >The man considered by most to be Britain's ecstasy guru has died in a car >crash. Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent, considers the life of an >extraordinary individual who epitomised the idea of counterculture. > >Throughout his life Nicholas Saunders dared to be different. At one stage >he lived in a house in London with a duck pond in the front room and a >machine that blew giant bubbles into the road. The property was later >destroyed after a Danish girlfriend set light to a papier machd igloo where >she had been meditating. > >Saunders, who died aged 60 in South Africa on Tuesday in a car crash, >championed an unconventional lifestyle during the Sixties with the >publication ot the first Alternative London guide and later campaigned for >the safer use of the drug ecstasy. He was also responsible for transforming >Neal's Yard in Covent Garden into a Mecca for vegetarians, old hippies, and >new trendies. > >His three books, including E for Ecstasy, have become essential for drug >users and researchers, and his Internet website, which displays pictures of >ecstasy tablets, is accessed three million times a year. > >He started to rebel while still very young, attempting to blow up his >school chapel at Ampleforth in Yorkshire. The bomb failed to go off. > >His father, Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, was director of the London School >of Economics, which friends believe was partly responsible for turning his >son against authority. > >In London in the Sixties he took up squatting and in 1970 he printed the >successful Alternative London guidebook, offering information on clubs, the >women's movement and squatting. He later developed an old warehouse in the >then derelict Neal's Yard and opened the first wholefood warehouse in >London that sold goods in bulk. This led to a series of other shops >including a coffee house, a bakery and a dairy. > >In the 1980s he took his first ecstasy tablet, which was to transform his >life again. On taking the drug he decided that he had been mildly depressed >for the past decade and set about researching the properties of the new >substance. This led to the three books and a wealth of original survey work. > >On his website, - www.ecstasy.org - he published regular photographs of the >various ecstasy pills on the market with warnings about what contaminated >substances, such as brick dust and speed, they contained. > >At the time of his death he was completing research into a book about >natural drugs used by tribes throughout the world. > >He died of a brain haemorrhage after the car he was being driven in >overturned three times on a road at Kroonstadt, about two and a half hours >from Johannesburg. His driver was injured and there are suggestions that >the car had been deliberately targeted by roadside hijackers. Certainly >robbers had rifled his pockets before the ambulance arrived. > >Yesterday friends and drug experts paid their tributes. Georganne Downes, a >girlfriend of Saunders throughout the Seventies, and now the Countess of >Uxbridge, added: "He was an alternative Richard Branson. Everything he >touched turned to gold, although he always did everything on the cheap." > > _____________________________ > ++++++ TEMPEL OV SPOON ++++++ > @---@ _______________ @---@ > ||| ||| > ||| |\ _,,,--,,_ ,)||| > ||| /,`.-'`' -, ;-;; ||| > ||| |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ ||| > ||| '---''(_/--' (_/-' ||| > ||| ||| > DollyHead Nation > "A Distorted Worldview Since 1989" > > > - -----------------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: 2/5/98 - ------------------------------------- Two-Hour Luxury Goods Commercial Also A Spy Film ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 20:24:13 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Defending Perspex I have been listening to Perspex Island in my car over the past couple of days. I enjoyed it more than I remembered having enjoyed it in the recent past. But there still is something about that album that doesn't lure me in as much as RH's other stuff, including the other A&M releases sandwiching "PI" (Queen Elvis and Respect). It might be the production, which is less than crisp, giving everything this airy-muddy quality (like mud flying through air. . . or is it more like bubbles in the mud?). It might be the order of the tracks, with the album starting off so hyper-poppy then dissolving into the mellower and more reflective last few tracks; I think I'd rather the moods were mixed up more. I don't know that I wished it had been recorded more like "Eye", but maybe more like "Moss Elixir" -- some "band" songs, some solo songs. Then again, that was just where Robyn was at that point in his career. And that was where production was, too. Everything that came out in 1991 was over-produced (well, okay, almost everything). There are some great songs on the album -- She Doesn't Exist is a classic -- but, overall, I can't put it even close to the top of my list of fave Robyn albums. On the other hand, even the Robyn albums that are my least favorite are still better than most of the stuff out there. There's my $.02 worth -- at least, that's the value I'll be claiming on my 1040 (Fegmaniax *is* deductible, right?). - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 98 21:22:49 EST From: Ross Overbury Subject: Welsh growth -- in Japan From the London Daily Telegraph: A growing number of Japanese are signing up for classes in Welsh as the language develops a cult status that its devotees say gives them a sense of individuality in group-oriented Japan. Two Welsh-speaking clubs meet every month and Japan's first text book on the language has recently been published. The doyen of Japan's Welsh speakers is Hywel Glyndwr, or Professor Hioshi Mizutani. He has studied Welsh for 20 years and is the author of Mainchini Wales - Go O Hanasoo (Let's Speak Welsh Every Day). The 250-page book covers everything from pronunciation to culture and history. "It may even increase the number of Welsh speakers in an unexpected corner of the world", writes Alan Thomas, a Welsh scholar, in the book's preface. The Tokyo Welsh Speaking Circle, or Cylch Siarad Cymraeg Tocio, has found the book indispensable. The group has about 15 members and each session tackles a new conversation in Welsh. One member, who hardly needs to practice, is Takeshi Koike, a graduate student studying Old English. "Probably the best Welsh speaker in Tokyo", said one fo his Welsh friends. When he speaks English, his accent has a decidedly Welsh lilt, which he picked up along with his Welsh in Lampeter. "I learned the language in the choir," he daid, "I was the only man in the group and all the women were really keen to teach me Welsh." Koike said that discovering Welsh made him think about cultural diversity. "In Japan, we're more or less all the same. So, I was surprised to find out that even in a country the size of Britain there were distinct languages." He said the fact that Japanese take up unsusal pursuits, such as studying Welsh, reflects much about contemporary Japan. The pressure to conform to the group norm and not stand out from the crowd can be suffocating. "We are so homogeneous that we put osome value on things that only a few people do," he said. Yuko Nakauchi, 20, the newest recruit to the Tokyo circle, agrees. She only came across the language when she saw what she thought was a British film, One Full Moon, and did not understand what anyone was saying. Inspired, she went to Wales last summer for a course. Mizutani, who teaches a group of about 20 entusiasts in Nagoya, believes that with Japan's increasing industrial and tourism links with Wales, more Japanese will take an interest in the country and its language. - ------------------------------------------------------------ Mainchini Wales - Go O Hanasoo Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:29:30 -0400 From: chichi@io.com (Zelda Pinwheel) Subject: Re: sxsw tix At 11:52 AM 2/5/1998, vince wrote:>Here's what I know about the SXSW film festival from >having attended last year. The $175 tickets are for >the conferences AND the film showings. They will also >release film-only passes(though I haven't seen anything >about these yet). These will be less expensive. For example, >wristbands for the music festival are $65, while the conference/ >music tickets are several hundred bucks. > A call to SXSW confirmed that they will be selling film only passes for $60. They are not for sale as of yet...I was told to check back after Valentine's Day. The price will go up as the festival date approaches. >Folks with the full registration get in first, then film pass >holders, then walkups. Sometimes, a premier will be a benefit >for the Austin Film Society and admission is seperate from >the SXSW passes. I haven't seen anything definitive about SH. > This is all true! I was also told that there is no schedule yet...I reported previously that I thought the festival was over by the purported date of March 19th, but I was mistaken, the *conference* ends on the 15th, but the *festival* runs through the 23rd. I hope this helps...more later--z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This product is sold by weight, not volume. Some settling of contents may have occurred during shipping and handling. May contain peanuts. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 16:05:10 -0500 From: Timothy Jones Subject: Dad's work Hitchcock, Raymond: PERCY ; NY: Dodd, Mead, (1970),. 1st American, Cloth, dust jacket (slighly worn along edges and missing piec, ). Curious pencil inscription "To my darling Lady Bunkie from Percy.", 210pp, 8vo. (lst ed.: London, 1969). Comic novel about the results of a penis transplant operation, fiction (UR#:S1008132) Offered for sale by Stormgart Books at US$30.00 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:08:20 -0800 (PST) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: ..Will Robyn bring the bearer of the banana? ...Is there any chance that Tim Keegan will accompany Robyn to the screening of *Storefront Hitchcock* and the following gig? Tim Keegan *does* appear in the movie, after all. Shame on those SXSW folks if they didn't invite him! Does Timmy eat ribs? Does he own a pair of cowboy boots? Austin might make him a changed man. Alrighty. And hey, how many of you on this list went to the filming of SH? I know some people have muttered something about it. Hands please! You're about to be famous! (famous in the best possible way, obscurely so) Carole ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #45 ******************************