From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #62 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, February 17 1998 Volume 07 : Number 062 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: burning thoth [lj lindhurst ] that song! [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] british...intelligence? [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] Joe Jackson! [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] Re: best albums, perceived beauty, Rhymney [Capuchin ] Re: Oceania bashing?!/Joe [Ross Overbury ] Re: Joe (some proggie-gearhead content) [Eb ] Titanic again... [tanter ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:43:33 -0500 (EST) From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: burning thoth pecketh the quail: >>Eddie . . . that would be the coolest freaking thing in the world. . . . >>kicking up a cloud of dust . . . the sun setting on our caravan . . . >>God, I would love to have a Feggin' convoy! Just think of the evenings, >>when we park and gather 'round the campires to sing Feg songs, cooking >>beans and watching shooting stars. . Sounds to me like another lame attempt to convert us all into a buncha tree-huggin Deadheads! I apologize in advance if anyone sees this as an opportunity to talk about Jerry Garcia (again). l "living in 1998 unlike SOME PEOPLE with FEATHERS" j ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:02:19 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: that song! On Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:27:04 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > >On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, JH3 wrote: >> Mike Godwin asks: >> >what is the only song recorded by both the Marx Brothers and the Soft Boys? >> >> Hmm... I was going to say "Vyrna Knowl is a Headbanger," but I guess it's "A >> Most Peculiar Voice," isn't it? > >Good try, but no! Next guess? "I LIKE Bananas, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO BONES!!!!" =luther ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 01:57:22 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: british...intelligence? On Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:27:04 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > >> > Didn't SOMEBODY out there watch 'the human animal' or 'the >> >human sexes'? What about you Brits on the list? How is Desmond >> >Morris viewed on YOUR country? >> I left Britain when I was about 12, so I must admit I preferred Johnny Morris. > >I met Desmond Morris during my schooldays (c1960) when he used to host a >TV prog called 'Zoo Time'. Every week I'd watch to see if it was polecats, >leopards, wombats or something interesting, but it was almost always >sodding Congo the painting chimpanzee and a load of experiments featuring >apes, sticks and grapes. I believe he turned it into a book. You met Morris? i;m sorry, But I think he is incredibly cool... him and the "the day the universe changed" guy... Such intelligence is generally looked down upon on this side of the drink, from what I have seen so far... -luther ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:08:34 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: Joe Jackson! On Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:27:04 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > >>a dislike for Mr. McManus, who, in fact, >>forms a member of my musical Divine Trinity along with Messrs Hitchcock >>and Partridge! > >I've noticed this trinity before, and often wondered why people don't >extend it further to add in Joe Jackson. BTW - any JJ fans out there think >that "It's all too much" was inspired by Crowded House? Wow! cool! other JJ fans. "it's all too much", I can see the crowded house influence... to be honest, I didn't like 'Laughter and lust" all that much... some GREAT songs "stranger than fiction", "the old songs","the other me", "like drowning", "trying to cry", ...but the first half is kinda uneven...Maybe it's that I don't like the chessy distorted guitars... But, if you wanna talk GREAT songs, track down a copy of his performance on the 'house of blues' TV show from 1995... a song called "Ever After" which is BRILLIANT! Emotional as all hell...I am thinking of adding it to my bands set, segueing into "She doesn't exist", maybe before American Music Clubs "I;ve been a mess since youv'e been gone". JJ keeps on going... -luther ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:15:05 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: best albums, perceived beauty, Rhymney On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, M R Godwin wrote: > You're right. I must add "Lydia the Tattoo'd Lady" to my list of all-time > greats. And "No matter whoever began or commenced it - I'm against it". Brilliant song, that second one. Anarchy was never this funny. > Did you know that he filmed a song called "Dr Hackenbush" for "Day at the > Races", but they _cut it out_ so as to have more time for the water > ballet? That makes me ill. I tend to fast forward through most of those things... and, I have to admit, Harpo's harp playing most of the time. But I do like to watch Chico at the ivories. > Here's an easy question: what is the only song recorded by both the Marx > Brothers and the Soft Boys? Gotta be "I Like Bananas". J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:19:56 -0500 From: woj Subject: orion pictures okay you film buffs, did orion get sucked up by mgm? is that what the warner brothers guy referred to as "changes in companies" in that note he sent to john jones? is this old news? am i totally out of the loop? woj n.p. a roommate's guitar ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 98 21:29:33 EST From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Oceania bashing?!/Joe > Are you saying that vast numbers of Americans don't think that American > directors, actors, sports figures, and musicians are greater than others > from outside the US? Or that anyone doesn't prefer local talent? The > difference is that Americans, Britons, and to a lesser extent Canadians are > likely to think that most people will have heard of their most talented > people. > The Canadian case has an odd twist to it; we tend to ignore our own talent until it's recognised abroad. Often by this time they've given up on Canada and taken up permanent residence elsewhere. Maybe the primary reason for the exodus is the discovery of climes where your nostrils don't freeze together. The US is where the business is, and it's a nice little country, too. Bryan Adams was on TV last night expressing his disgust at having been judged "non-Canadian" for the purposes of our "Canadian content" rules. The rule requires a given percentage of Canadian music to be played on the radio. This rule also covers TV shows. Oddly enough, Month Python or Coronation Street count for 50% Canadian content, but Bryan Adams doesn't count for any (at least for this one particular bit of work, since there were too many furriners lurking behind him). Canadians look elsewhere to learn what's hip, except for Quebec which can't seem to extract its nose from it's, um, navel. Even foreign acts that make it big in Quebec are often obscure in the real world: Supertramp caught on here years before "Breakfast in America", and Shawn Phillips can still fill a room. PS: I'm really sorry about the Barenaked Ladies, but if you would have ignored them we would have, too. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:51:15 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Joe (some proggie-gearhead content) >>a dislike for Mr. McManus, who, in fact, >>forms a member of my musical Divine Trinity along with Messrs Hitchcock >>and Partridge! > >I've noticed this trinity before, and often wondered why people don't >extend it further to add in Joe Jackson. Well, I have pretty much everything by Hitchcock/Costello/Partridge...and zilch by Jackson. Perhaps this isn't unique.... Oh, btw: My email client froze the other night while I was reading email and I lost some before I could reply. Thus, I can't reply to Wankworth's latest gust of condescending old-fartism. You get a freebie this time, Nick! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:46:16 -0500 From: tanter Subject: Titanic again... All this conversation back and forth just reinforces my belief that it's just a BAD MOVIE! Those who liked it seem to have been blown away by the graphics and effects more than anything else--with a few votes for the sappy love story. But this could have been a movie about any disaster--even OK City. I feel for the victims of the Titanic whose story was trivialized for the sake of a few dollars. (Ok, maybe more than a few, but still..!!) Note that Cameron wasn't nominated for best screenplay. That says a lot right there. Marcy ps--someone mentioned the love scene in the car and I remembered the Newsweek article that came out 4 days before the release of the film. Kate says something about how they were covered in a gel to make it look like they were sweating and how gross she felt. I read that after I saw the movie, but I have to say that she did look darned uncomfortable! ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #62 ******************************