From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #54 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, February 12 1998 Volume 07 : Number 054 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fledgeling site needs cheeps of help [The Great Quail ] les voix d'annoyance? [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] mirthful Mozzer and laughing Len [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jame] Re: A Modest Proposal: The Fegmonomicon [Bayard ] Re: one prawn [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] prawns? You got 'em! [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Can't sing, but he knows it? [Eb ] Re: DEfleNSEd [Bayard ] Re: Screeching Hitchcock [Terrence M Marks ] Re: DENSEb [Terrence M Marks ] More on the Feg Directory [The Great Quail ] Kershaw Session [Alfred Masciocchi ] witty rejoinder [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] x-files (segueing it into a more robyn related thread) [dwdudic@erols.com] FegWorld? [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] Jane? [hal brandt ] Re: Kershaw Session [hal brandt ] Oscars. (Robynless) [Capuchin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 98 18:57:30 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Fledgeling site needs cheeps of help Hey. . . . As I have mentioned in another posting, I have been recently collecting together all of my Feg links. This has acted as the catalyst to finally do something that I have wanted to do for a while, and that is create a very small Robyn page. Knowing that our Feggish needs are met perfectly well by Woj, Mike, Nick, and John, this page in no way is meant to be a big Feg resource . . . merely as a site to collect all my links, display my tapes, and maybe create a few new Robyn fans who surf in from my homepage. It is still seriously under construction, and lacks a real name as of yet, but it may be found at: http://www.rpg.net/quail/fegmania I just placed the page online this morning, and I am making a small plea for a little help: 1. I am including one of my favorite Robynisms, the dread Feg Manifesto. But -- ha! ha! -- isn't if funny how you *think* you know something until you actually have to type it out? Turns out that I can't quite make out all of Robyn's squidgy handwriting, and I am missing a few words. If any of you know the Fegmania manifesto, could you please correct my errors? I'd appreciate it tremendously! (Heh. "If any of you know . . . " Right.) 2. Part of my page will be a constellation of links to Feg's homepages. If any of you have a personal page, and I have not listed it, please email me the URL. I am growing restless in my nest and I want to flap around other folk's homepages for a while! 3. Part of what I am offering -- hell, the *only* truly original thing I am offering! -- is a gallery of Robyn images that I have worked over with a few gallons of coffee and Adobe Photoshop. They are intended merely as items of amusement, virtual post cards if you will. So . . . if any of you have any cool Robyn photos saved as image files, I'd appreciate if you could email them to me. 4. Any other suggestion at all would be fine -- if I am missing important links, or you think of something else I could add, whatever. . . . Again, with the exception of my quailishly retouched photos and my (soon to come) list of tapes to trade, this page is not intended to offer anything really new. I just want to collect all my Robyn stuff, make a page with all our Feg links, and maybe snare a few potential pre-fans who wander in from one of my sites. . . . Cheep on ya, - --Quail - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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, 11 Feb 98 18:57:34 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Long Live Eb! (0% Quailspew) Wow, I step out for a day or two and I miss a tiff! Eb writes: >I think trying to "demonstrate >vast music knowledge" is far more proper and relevant than trying to >"demonstrate vast capacity for writing long, self-indulgent, meaningless >surrealistic rambles." Eh? And yet which of these two objectives takes up >more space on this list, hmm? No contest. But note that I never complain >about Quailspew etc. (though others sometimes do). Thanks, Eb! I mean, I only post once or twice a week, but I think we all know that I am the first to admit that I engage in long self-indulgent rambles: certainly surrealistic, and quite often meaningless. Odd that I would be attracted to a Robyn Hitchcock List, eh? And I would like to add that I do not do this in order to look clever or to show off any supposed "creativity." I do it because it is fun, and I like this List, and I enjoy immensely the weird responses I get -- as I enjoy creating fun replies to other postings, all of which frequently knock me out by their sheer imaginativeness. We have some of the finest minds on this List, and they all amaze me: the wild creativity of Mark and Dave, the quick wit of James, LJ, and Nick, the endless compassion of Bayard, the storytelling abilities of Capuchin, the effervescent dexterity of Susan, the tireless talents of Mike, the playful intelligence of Natalie, the boundless skill of the eternal Woj, the refreshing openess of Terrence, the omnipresent friendliness of Eddie and Tom, the welcome ministrations and Feg experience of Jay, Tracey, Russ, Miles, John, Gene . . . and of course, the vast musical knowledge and piercing critical capacities of Eb. . . . and many, many more . . . all these form the rich and glorious tapestry that is the Feg List! All true, but we all know the real reason Eb doesn't complain about my postings . . . he secretly enjoys them! Yes, Eb *love* my rambles . . . . or at least he reads each one thoroughly enough to comment wryly upon them. (Of course, Eb is a rock critic, so obsessing about what he hates may be part of his genetic makeup. . . . ) And I, in return, love Eb's postings -- as a matter of fact, his list of annoying vocalists caused me to burst out loud into laughter more than a few times. And my students were taking a chem test! Sheesh, I'm sure they thought I was up to no good. . . . So Susan, you are not the only one who enjoys both "kinds" of non-Robyn postings. . . . In short, anyone who thought that Eb was being showy or self-indulgent just didn't take the time to read the tone of his post -- or doesn't really know Eb's sense of humor yet -- that pointed and excellent humor that responds to his critics by immediately turning his erudite post into a quiz! >Boy, are you talking out of two sides of your mouth here. Kindly thumb back >to the recent Julian Cope and "Hey, I'm new -- what's Glass Flesh?" threads >for some stunning examples of panting oneupmanship. For the record, I *liked* the weird Cope thread . . . and followed the development with as much anticipation as my wife used to follow those Maxwell House commercials with Buffy's Giles Rupert in them. "One-upmanship?" No, not at all. I think this sort of thing is more like a creative feedback loop -- something quite unique, and possible only on a Mailing List such as this. That's part of the reason I love this List - -- I feel that we have sensed the possibilities of such a forum and have taken it to a level beyond most other lists. I mean -- and I echo Nick, here -- half the reason some of us are thinking of flying out to Texas is meeting fellow Fegs, not just seeing the movie! >And just about every time a new sweet young thing "Sweet young thing?" Hmm. I sense trouble. . . . >introduces herself to the list, the whole >"Surreal Posse" starts strutting and prancing about, flashing their peacock >feathers.... Ouch! "Peacock feathers?!" I'd like you to realize -- if you look back over those posts -- that I made an honest effort to welcome Helen to the list, and my *single* post concerning her was almost devoid of surrealism! As a matter of fact, I gave her the URLs for some of the Feg Web sites and told her that we were actually rather friendly, etc. So I don't really know why I am being slyly accused of -- if I may actually *state* what is clearly implied -- accused of egotistically flirting with new women in order to show off my alleged creativity? I mean, Eb, I always assumed that you kind of liked me in a grudging "Siskel/Ebert" or "G. Gordon Liddy/Tim Leary" kind of way. But that kind of hurt. Unless you really meant Peacock feathers, that is. . . . Oh, yeah . . . and the original Eb-post: >the guy from Laibach, Laibach! Ha! Me and my friends have this running joke . . . imagining how Laibach would cover any given song, say like "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" or "The Boxer" and then doing our best to imitate it. . . . . of course, the dumb bastards went ahead and released "Jesus Christ Superstar" and really sort of out-did us all. . . . >Allen Ginsberg, Jad Fair, Daniel Johnston,the GTO's, Mark Mothersbaugh, YESSSS!A Devo reference that didn't come from me! Yessss! >Claudine Longet and that guy in a-ha. What, the animated guy? >(I would add Alice Cooper, but that >might wake up the Lurking Creature....) Um, Eb . . . you, uh . . . you forgot Bono. How could you miss that opportunity? - --Quail PS: Mike writes, >I think Eb is really the personification of the Hellraiser box. Get too >close and it sends out all these hooks baited with bloody shards of >musical critique eager to rip the flesh off your bones and reduce you to >a quivering screaming waste. Quick, look out! Hey Natalie . . . that gives me some great new ideas for some Feg action figures! PPS: Eb . . . um, *what* lurking creature? - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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, 11 Feb 1998 18:23:09 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: DENSEb I was mostly just poking fun at ol' Eb there. . . and, more so, his reputation. I would guess that he actually *does* like a great amount of really good stuff, which is why he has an informed opinion. Thanks, Eb, for warning us about the musical atrocities which lurk out there, even if doing so drastically mars (or, perhaps, ameliorates) your reputation. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:17:30 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: DENSEb >---Eb wrote: >> PS Negativity of the day: Don't buy the new ... >> Jolene albums ;) >WHOA! I'm a lurker extraordinaire, but I had to peek out for this. >Please, *please*, PLEASE ignore Eb on this one. If you're an >alt-country fan (like myself) at least give the Jolene a listen before >choosing whether to buy it or not. Boy, I suuuure wouldn't file Jolene under "alt-country." They just sound like another watered-down, post-post-grunge band to me, a la Seven Mary Three, Hootie and all those other Better Than Matchbox bands which I don't even bother to pursue. It's well-intentioned and earnest (which is more than I can say for a lot of those groups), but...zzzzzzz. Oh, and don't buy the new Pure album either. ;) Aaron wrote: >it's more in the inflection. i mean, both are appropriating the imagery of >similar periods in time; oldham, i think, is just bad at faking an >appalachian accent and knows better than to try too hard. i will try to >find specific examples, but i know i heard jeff mangum's weird american >brogue flutter rurally in places. I suppose I know what you mean, though it doesn't bother me. That "flutter" is probably why I initially compared NMH to the Incredible String Band. Final note: I apparently posted some private email from Bayard accidentally (the gripe about me straining to demonstrate "vast musical knowledge"). Oops, sorry about that. You have to remember -- this is the one list which I don't get in digest form. And when I get posts from the list, I often hit "reply" without even reading the original email (especially when it's a response to a thread which heavily involves me). And since Bayard almost never sends me private email and his subject line was the same as the ongoing list thread, I assumed it was another post and just hit "reply." And thus, the distinction between email and post was lost. Oh well. I'm surprised that Bayard would save that juicy dig for private correspondence, anyway. Eb, miraculously letting the anti-Costello comment pass untouched ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:06:43 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: les voix d'annoyance? >I like all of those voices better than Morrissey. Though Chadbourne is >certainly decent competition. Here are some other voices which I like >better (let's see...): Ringo Starr? Peter Tork? Although I'm a closet goth, Wayne Hussey should be on the list somewhere, too. James ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:02:09 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: mirthful Mozzer and laughing Len >> Sorry, people, but this is one of my little bugbears. The Smiths are >> *not* usually depressing, though that's the common misconception. They >> are blackly humorous. Morrissey really is one of pop's great comedians, >> and I could quote zillions of his lyrics which are intentionally funny. > >I vote with Danielle. I've always thought Morrissey was very witty more >often than he was very mopey. And yes, there are many many lyrical >examples of this, probably too many to name here. This is exactly what gets me about Cohen. Everyone goes on about how depressing he is. But it's just witty black humour (albeit a weird European/Canadian mix of black humour). A song about the LA riots with the chorus "Look - democracy is coming to the USA", for example, shows that the tongue is fairly firmly in the cheek. James ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:53:51 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: The Fegmonomicon > http://www.rpg.net/quail/fegmania/sample.html > > Take a look at it and let me know what you think: > > 1. Is this worth doing? Is there enough interest? Yes. In fact I was planning on doing something very similar, with the data to stored in Robynbase. (It has a "fegs" table.) I was going to call mine "The Order of the Sacred Crab." But Fegmomonometre is good too. > 2. If it *is* worth doing, does the page look good? Yes. > 3. Are the questions ok? Personally, I am a major list-maker and such. I > know that some of you won't feel like answering all the questions, and I > guess that would be fine. Yes and yes. > Again, let me know what you think -- if the public/private discussion > tends towards the positive, I will start the project. Yes. If you would like, I can collaborate with you or leave it to you (your prototype is really snazzy.) But check with woj too, I think he has somewhat similar plans and it would probably be best to avoid duplication. =b ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:06:57 -0600 From: Miles Subject: Re: boggle-playing chicken At 12:42 PM 2/11/98 -0800, Capitalism Blows wrote: >as for "vast musical knowledge," i'll stack outdoor miner's up alongside >anybody's. While Eddie's praise is certainly appreciated -- and is making me blush -- I'm outdone by many folks on this very list, including aaron mandel, Eb, James Dignan, and many others. Through 1988 or so, I could have been a contender, but that was the year that I (1) got married and (2) embarked on my ill-starred graduate school foray. Suddenly I didn't have the time to pore through every review in OPtion or to write every indie mail-order house in North America or the money to support my album-buying habit, and ever since, I've been working from behind. In fact, 90% of the new stuff I buy, I buy based on the recommendations of denizens of this list or Loud-Fans (the Scott Miller list), so it's your collective wisdom that keeps me in the game at all. But really and truly, when I visit Eb's website, I've heard of maybe half of the bands he reviews, and have actually heard maybe half of that half. I'm in the second division at best. So I decline the award -- or maybe I should give it to Jack Lemmon? later, Miles ============================================================== JASON WILKINS (of Neilson Hubbard): Victor's was just starting to happen, then it burned down. BILL LLOYD: That's a pretty good metaphor for the Nashville rock scene. -- NASHVILLE SCENE, Jan. 15, 1998 Miles Goosens outdoorminer@mindspring.com http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles ============================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:15:05 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: one prawn >Falco... I actually quite liked some of his music... and he was responsible for one of those wondeful mondegreens, when I actually hears someone singing along to his best known song's chorus: "Armadilloes armadilloes, armadilloes..." Another one in the list of voicelessness: Mick Hucknall. Also (although my opinion may be a minority on this one) the poor-person's Joan Armatrading clone, Tracy Chapman. Both Chapman and Hucknall have, as my ex is wont to say*, "voices like geese farting in a fog". James *I think she probably got that from Billy Connolly, but I'm not 100% sure. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:31:18 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: prawns? You got 'em! Calvin Johnson -- vice-president to Martin Van Buren Yamatsuka Eye -- a dish of prawns served on a bed of raw noodles Timmy Taylor -- usually known as "Little Timmy Taylor". The boy who prompted Oliver Twist to ask for more Ray Collins -- inside right for Tranmere Rovers, 1957-1964 Kim Shattuck -- inventer of the roller-blind Tuli Kupferberg -- Austrian secretary of state for industry Mac McCaughan -- Morning talkback host, Radio Glasgow Dagmar Krause -- Cousin of the cook from "Benson". Often referred to, never seen on-screen Gibby Haynes -- Australian athlete. World indoor record holder for the women's javelin Eric Bachmann -- Managing director of the German national rail network Corin Tucker -- forgotten member of the 1980s "brat-pack". Went on to appear in endorsements for insurance companies Scott Miller -- writer of the great American novel "The Unholy Earth". Died of drink in Managua, in 1957. Jad Fair -- held every two years in Copenhagen, it is the biggest non-permanent carnival in northern Europe. James ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:25:17 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Can't sing, but he knows it? I am SICK of reading my posts today (ha), but I just HAD to forward this post from the Jazz Butcher mailing list. I suppose that it supports BOTH sides of the Great Morrissey Debate.... Hellraiser Box - ---- >>>I thought i'd share this excerpt from an interview with the Jazz Butcher >(aka Pat fish) from contrast magazine circa '86. > >Nor does their current tag as a sort of "Lloyd Cole and the Smiths gone >wrong" outfit describe the anomaly: "I think that's basically because >Lloyd Cole and I are the only two people with sensible haircuts in the >entire industry. I quite like his music, but to suggest that we're >influenced by him is ridiculous. We just have the same record collection, >probably. And I quite like the Smiths - I like Morrisey, he's an >individual; >he can't sing, but he knows it. It's funny about the Smiths: when we >began, everybody thought we were all ha-ha-ha, and the Smiths began and >they went 'Poor miserable bastards'. But I notice that the Smiths are >getting funnier and funnier, and we're getting more and more miserable, >so maybe we're like passing each other and waving out the window..." > >just thought i'd share<< ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 19:21:08 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: DEfleNSEd my buddy eb wrote: > Final note: I apparently posted some private email from Bayard accidentally > (the gripe about me straining to demonstrate "vast musical knowledge"). > Oops, sorry about that. You have to remember -- this is the one list which > I don't get in digest form. And when I get posts from the list, I often hit > "reply" without even reading the original email (especially when it's a > response to a thread which heavily involves me). And since Bayard almost > never sends me private email and his subject line was the same as the > ongoing list thread, I assumed it was another post and just hit "reply." > And thus, the distinction between email and post was lost. Oh well. I'm > surprised that Bayard would save that juicy dig for private correspondence, > anyway. you clipped the attributions to me from your initial post, but now everybody knows I'm the one who raised the objection. you're going to ruin *my* rep next! (endless compassion.) ;) but I want to put this whole mess to bed and just say i didn't mean it as a juicy dig. i meant it as a polite reminder that we each have an obligation to moderation and self-contemplation. not that i am not sometimes guilty as well, but saying someone else is just as bad, or worse, is not a valid excuse IMHO. and i've sent you a fair bit of email, eb. you just don't respond to very many things i say. i try not to take it personally. sorry everyone. i didn't mean for this to become another Big Dumb Thread. We all know discussions of how to deal with the high traffic problem are counterproductive by nature. =b ps. if you just hit "reply", how did feg's address get in the header? mighty perculiar mail proggie you have there. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 20:51:06 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Screeching Hitchcock > great range and emotional versatility. As a fair-to-middlin' singer, I'm > quite envious of his abilities. He's definitely got a distinctive voice, I'd like to take this moment to point out that there's a fair difference between having a good voice and being a good singer. By my estimation, Robyn has an average voice, but is, currently, an above-average singer. (n.b. The average Beach Boys fan agrees that Carl had a better voice, but Brian was a better singer. Stevie Wonder and Harry Nilsson's were both great singers with mildly above-average voices. Jim Morisson had a great voice but was a limited singer) Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 20:41:58 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: DENSEb > Still, it would be fun to get some brave volunteer(s) for assuming the role of > Eb's good-twin: S/He Who Likes Nearly Everything. Any takers? (raise hand) Last year, I bought 30 albums, listened to each of them, and said to myself (and sometimes to the list) "Yeah, this is the best album I've got". I like some songs written by Mike Love and Pink Floyd's early post-Barrett works. I find it hard to understand why albums by The High Llamas, Sopwith Camel, Tintern Abbey, Viva Saturn or Jeremy Enigk aren't selling like hotcakes. The only three pieces of music that I own and dislike are The Kinks' Preservation II, a truly hideous Soft Boys demo, and XTC's oranges and lemons. I think that the Potsdamer mix of Another Brick in the Wall isn't all bad. (Oh...just remembered about Galaxie 500's "On Fire", David Gilmour's "About Face" and Van Dyke Parks' "Orange Crate Art". But six is still a pretty low number of things to dislike and they *are* bad. And no, I don't try to create an artificially low number of disliked CDs by selling the bad ones back [because most record stores either won't buy them or offer me an obscenely low amount of money (rather like textbook stores in that regard, eh?)]) Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 98 00:01:02 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: More on the Feg Directory In regards to the Fegmonomicon proposal: Well, it's only been a few hours but I already got a bunch of mail saying that the Feg directory is a good idea. (Um, Terrence even mailed me a completed bio page already.) Bayard also mentioned that both he and Woj were planning to do something similar, and I do not want to nose in (er . . . beak in?) on someone else's Holy Calling. . . . So who should take the initiative on this one? I am still willing, but I don't want to steal Bayard's main ideas for his RobynDataBaseFishThing, and I don't want to anger the Woj Gods. Bayard suggested a collaborative effort, which is also fine with me -- and would be most welcome! So I will wait a day or to for all the Fegs to clock in, and me and Bayard and Woj (isn't that an Adrian Belew song?) will sort out the details. After that, I suppose a general Bio form or something will be emailed and the the tidal destruction, the moral melee, can begin. And a few other things: 1. Frozen Shooting Pistol: Hal graciously found the Fegmania!!! squidgy words for me, so I call that scavenger hunt to a close, and: 2. If anyone has any other ideas for questions on the bio form, send them over (Michael Keefe had a few good ones I shall add tomorrow), and: 3. To resurrect an old thread, I have every Tangerine Dream album up until Underwater Moonlight and a few Amon Duul albums, so I may be able to privately answer some krautrock questions, and: 4. I subjected my ENTIRE High School to "Globe of Frogs" this morning. (My HS is equipped with TVs in each class and a TV studio staffed by students -- the morning homeroom announcements are done as a news program. During the opening twenty minutes of school, the TVs broadcast PSAs over a "soundtrack," usually a CD chosen by students or a faculty advisor. Today I bribed a student to play Globe of Frogs, heh heh.) The results, at least in my homeroom, were surprisingly favorable! Youth of America, the time to Embrace Fegmania is nigh! - -- Revolutionary Comrade Quail PS: As Lovecraftians and Pythagoreans already know, "Fegmonomicon" is Greek for "Ye Book of Naming the Fegs," a hallowed tradition passed down from the Followers of the Sacred Crab (Knossos chapter) - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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, 11 Feb 1998 23:17:49 -0500 From: woj Subject: Re: Come in number 51, your time is up also sprach Gary Sedgwick: >Did anyone else not get digest #51? over the past couple days, smoe.org's access provider played some games with their mail transfer agent which necessitated some surgery to sendmail last night. i'm surprised that #51 didn't make it out eventually. if anyone didn't get it, you can always retrieve it, at your leisure, from the archives: or, if you prefer: . woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:57:20 -0600 From: Alfred Masciocchi Subject: Kershaw Session On 15 December 1997, Andy Kershaw broadcast a "lost" Robyn session. It featured 4 songs - I Saw Nick Drake, It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry (Dylan cover), If You Were A Priest, and DeChirico Street. Kershaw indicates that it was recorded earlier in the year but doesn't say when. Anyone know the date of recording? I also think there were other songs recorded at the time which were broadcast nearer to the recording date. Anyone know about these other songs? Thanks, Al ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 05:05:41 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: witty rejoinder On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 03:25:17 -0500, you wrote: >>> >>>the xfiles has been washed up for a couple years in my opinion - i just >>>can't watch it anymore - just can't do it. > >Not that I am a big X-Files fan or anything, but I heard that King >subbmitted the story to the producers of the X-files, who deemed it "too >gruesome". Instead of trashing it, they rewrote the script, and King didn't >put up a fuss. So what you saw was not 100% Stephen King's fault, I guess. It still sucked. :-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 05:04:57 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: x-files (segueing it into a more robyn related thread) On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 03:25:17 -0500, you wrote: > >I have no idea how the demographics fall out on this issue, since my >limited internet time precludes me from sifting for nuggets of wisdom in >the heavily-trafficked X-FILES newsgroups and lists, but my wife and I >strongly prefer the "one-shot episodes." When I first started watching the >show midway through its first season, one of the things that attracted us >to it was that it was the first almost-purely episodic show of such quality >since... since... THE TWILIGHT ZONE, perhaps. What Letterman would call a >"good old-fashioned creep-out." Almost all my favorite episodes -- the >"fluke man," the cockroaches, the stigmata, to name a few -- were >"one-shot" deals. I find the "juicy conspiracy saga" to be more >distracting than savory. the conspiriacy stuff is pretty naff... the one-shot ones are more interesting.... otherwise...well, I just think cigarette man was MORE Pretentisous than ELP! Personally, I think they oughta end the series with Mulder caught wearing Scully's clothing in a small town in the Pacific northwest where the there is DAMN good coffee, and no one is innocent. (Get it?) (reference to 'viva sea=tac') -luther np- "oh mercy" uncle zimmy anyone else love this album? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 05:12:17 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: FegWorld? On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:55:58 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >What do you think about having a main Feg directory? I mean a site that >collects our names, and each name links to a personal Feg page with a >neat-o GIF and some personal fun facts: sort of a Feg Bio. I have the >room on my server, and I am willing to take completed bio forms and GIFs >(or JPGs, of course) and hammer them into HTML. In short, I will maintain >the page. I know this idea has been floated around before, so I just >thought I would pitch it out again. We could call it something like "The >Feg Directory," "Ye Book of the Zinc Pear," or "The Fegmonomicon," which >is my personal favorite. It would make a delightful companion to >"Fegmaniax!," the Fegfoto Gallery, and Mike's "Globe of Fegs" map page, >and we can keep the URL secret if we wish . . . so those pesky Billy >Bragg fans can't get to us. Sounds good to me.... but how will we escape the Cope worshipers? :-) -luther ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:50:35 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: Jane? What's with the @jane.smoe.org? Who's Jane? Am I the only one seeing this? /hal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:45:45 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: Kershaw Session Alfred Masciocchi wrote: > > On 15 December 1997, Andy Kershaw broadcast a "lost" Robyn session. It > featured 4 songs - I Saw Nick Drake, It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A > Train To Cry (Dylan cover), If You Were A Priest, and DeChirico Street. > Kershaw indicates that it was recorded earlier in the year but doesn't > say when. Anyone know the date of recording? I also think there were > other songs recorded at the time which were broadcast nearer to the > recording date. Anyone know about these other songs? The first broadcast was 6 Jan 97. The songs were "Let's Go Thundering", "Where Do You Go When You Die?" (the definitive version to date), and a great "Polly On The Shore" + an interview to boot. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:53:24 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Oscars. (Robynless) Um, no Robyn but it's thread-related. Two Danny Elfman nominations and one Elliot Smith. I just thought it was interesting. Other than that, the nominations were predictable and painful. (Kate Winslet? She acts like a tenth grade pseudogoth drama queen. And, well, she looks like she works every day to keep off the same's figure.) OK. Enough. Sorry. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #54 ******************************