From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #85 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, March 3 1998 Volume 07 : Number 085 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NMH [Eb ] Re: Hitch [Tom Clark ] thanks! ["Maxey L. Mullins" ] Re: More politics. [Aaron Mandel ] 100% non-Robyn. Sorry. [Karen Reichstein ] imho & btw ["Maxey L. Mullins" ] Re: imho & btw [Bayard ] Re: imho & btw [jeffery vaska ] Re: imho & btw [Tom Clark ] Re: imho & btw [Aidan Cully ] Re: imho & btw [Capuchin ] xtc, Billy Bragg, "I know that tune" [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (] Hello ["Jon" ] slanted RS Reviews [Marshall Joseph Armintor ] Elvis, guitars, women, TV, Lovely Rita [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz] what he said [lj lindhurst ] Re: More politics. [Gregory Stuart Shell ] Re: imho & btw [Gregory Stuart Shell ] Re: imho & btw ["jbastin@stfx.ca" ] NMH and RIP [Keith Hanlon ] simple machines fest [wojs of mass destruction ] Re: 100% non-Robyn. Sorry. ["Maxey L. Mullins" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:33:03 -0700 From: Eb Subject: NMH FYI, I've forwarded a few of the NMH comments made here to the band's publicist (she's in Tennessee). Here's what she said, regarding Daniel's recent post. Thought it might be interesting/illuminating. Eb >don't know if you want to address mr. saunders' concerns, but fyi: ben >ratliff, the rolling stone reviewer, had never heard nmh before (the >assignment mystified us) and furthermore, he is the JAZZ critic for the new >york times--a jazz purist at that. he really had no business reviewing >"aeroplane" and the only reason it GOT 3 stars is that the RS editors are >all huge nmh fans. you should have been in our office the day that review >came in--we were all howling and moaning. only a DEAF person could call >jeff's melodies lackluster (i'm paraphrasing) or whatever. ludicrous. >insane. > >for the other end of the pole, allow me to forward the ptolemaic terrascope >review (it's long, sorry): > >NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL -- IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA > >During Neutral Milk Hotel's set at the first Terrastock, a few people >reported seeing me standing by the side of the stage bravely fighting away >a tear which was threatening my equilibrium. The song Jeff Mangum was >singing at the time was a new one on me, which made it even more curious >that it should have that effect. Maybe it was the accumulated emotions of >those three unbelievable days in April which caused the floodgates to open >at that particular moment, but hearing that same song again - 'Oh Comely', >featured half way through the new Neutral Milk Hotel album 'In The >Aeroplane, Over The Sea' - I rather think it was the music itself. Mangum >has an unbelievably passionate voice, the sound of a true artist, a vocal >poet with such eloquent delivery that every verse is like a painting. His >breath control is second to none; notes are held, twisted, spat out and >lingered over, holding you up in the air as if on the wings of a gossamer >bird, and he somehow writes songs which speak as if from the lining of his >innermost psyche. This sounds a curious thing to say perhaps, but Jeff's >music is to me the aural equivalent of lambing - at no other time has it >been granted to me to feel so close to life and death in the middle of the >night, to be so intimate with sex, soil, soul and spirituality. The whole >of 'In The Aeroplane, Over The Sea' is full of lambing moments, for example >the gorgeous title song with its haunting melody line, the opening, >cathartic 'King Of Carrot Flowers' suite and the stellar 'Two Headed Boy' >each typically starting with a strummed acoustic guitar coda followed (or >is it led?) by That Voice, any remaining spaces painted in afterwards with >trumpet and euphonium from the dextrous Mr. Scott Spillane, unmistakeable >drums and keyboard flourishes from young Jeremy Barnes and percussive >effects and deft touches on the musical saw from the boy genius Julian >Koster, almost as worthy of being a star in his own right as Mangum >Himself. Except my experience of each of them is that they're too >gentlemanly, unassuming and genuine in their pursuit of music which >actually means something to bother with such everyday nonsenses as fortune >or notoriety. The one perhaps accidental nod in the direction of wider >commercial appeal is 'Ghost', a surefire hit in an alternative Elephant >universe. It's followed on the album in typically, beautifully perverse >fashion by the second of two short musical interludes, a lilting Celtic >melody which, like the instrumental 'The Fool' with it's >school-marching-band-in-the-park-on-a-Sunday-afternoon sound, serves only >to underline the complexity of the remainder. Upbeat pop songs like >'Holland' suggest the eloquent forcefulness that is Neutral Milk Hotel >live, and to close the album Jeff plays the same musical trick as he did on >the first, 'On Avery Island', reworking the earlier 'Two Headed Boy' at a >slightly different tempo in order that even your final impression of the >album is one of vague nostalgia. The band then lay down their instruments >and walk away, an almost chillingly simple conclusion. It only remains to >mention 'The Communist Daughter', a miniature psychedelic symphony in >itself, overshadowed inevitably by 'Oh Comely' but then not only the rest >of this album but, I suspect, much of what else is released in 1998 will >spend time dwelling in the shade of this particular masterpiece. > Simultaneously surreal, spiritual, plaintive, exhiliarating, initimate >and brilliant, 'In The Aeroplane Over the Sea' is an astonishing album. >Where 'On Avery Island' was a conceptually themed narrative based around >stories collected during Jeff's peripatetic existence, the no less >ambitious 'Aeroplane' came about as a result of a new-found stability both >in lifestyle and line-up, the songs tinged with nostalgia for past events >both recent - triggered often by something as simple as a mannequin in a >glass case at a penny arcade - and historic, with almost half of the songs >inspired by Jeff's reading 'The Diary of Anne Frank'. Speaking frankly >myself I find the album so overwhelming that it's difficult sometimes to >listen to it all in one sitting. I call that High Art indeed. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 98 12:56:16 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Hitch On 3/2/98 11:28 AM, Russ Reynolds wrote: >Hey, I was watching a TV bio on Alfred Hitchcock and I noticed everyone kept >referring to him as "Hitch". How come we don't do that? > >I'm going to start now. > >Hitch is one of my favorite artists. There. > >-rr Looks like things are kinda slow down at KSJO today... - -t "I'll be hitchin' one with Russ and the boys tomorrow" c ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 15:34:39 -0600 From: "Maxey L. Mullins" Subject: thanks! hey thanks a lot for all your wonderful suggestions concerning xtc and billy bragg. i did a little shopping today but was unable to find any bragg. i found a little xtc but nothing i didn't already have. oh yeah, somebody suggested that i give "the big express" a relisten since i hadn't heard it in a few years. so i did and i discovered something quite amusing. i only have half the album. a friend of mine made me a copy a few years back and i guess he forgot to record the second side because all i have is about 5 or 6 songs of it. that could be one reason why i never really got turned on to that album. i was missing the entire second side. anyway, i thought that was kind of funny. so, today, i didn't come home with what i had intended to get. but i am very happy with what i did come home with. i got "get happy" and "imperial bedroom." i like them both very much. the only elvis album i had before today was "my aim is true." that's a very good album, but these i got today are "getting me happier!" i'll have to wait a week or two before i can afford any more albums so bragg and xtc will have to wait. =joel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:30:17 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: More politics. On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Capuchin wrote: > If you express a sexual preference, that is sexism by definition. let's make sure we're using the same words here. do you mean that saying "i'm heterosexual" is sexist? or "i find woman A more attractive than woman B"? > If you say it's purely a decision BASED on those existing physical > differences, well, you're kind of shallow. shallowness isn't necessarily sexism, though fortunately these days sexism is usually shallowness (as opposed to being an expression of some bogus aanthropological theory). > He loves armpit hair just because it's growing on a woman? That's > completely sexist. He loves everything about women, even the things that > men and women share, just because they're women? That's sexist. to use a musical analogy, there are aspects of my favorite bands which i like very much but that are particularly irritating when used by less appealing musicians. for instance, robyn's occasional desperate-seeming rhyme -- "it rained like a slow divorce, and i wish i could ride a horse". i mean, come on. alanis takes a well-deserved drubbing for clunkers like that. but on robyn it's charming. often, attraction comes first, then an attempt to explain which facets it attaches itself to. a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:53:52 -0800 (PST) From: Karen Reichstein Subject: 100% non-Robyn. Sorry. Since there's been such a debate over Titanic, pianos and armpit hair lately, surely you won't mind if I conduct an informal survey? Lately I've been thinking about the concept of "comfort food." You know what this is. This is the kind of food you eat when it's raining out, you're a little bit lonely, and you long for the kind of simple cooking you might have eaten as a child. In America, this kind of comfort food can range from tuna casserole to meatloaf to Rice Krispie treats. But I'm curious to know how comfort food changes according to geographical area. Being a Pacific Northwest kind of gal, I like smoked oysters on crackers myself. But what do folks raised in New Zealand or Canada or Texas like? Fellow fegs, what is YOUR particular comfort food favorite? I don't care if it seems odd or not. I know someone who used to eat cat food when they were little. This may or may not be published on my web page. You can email me personally if you like. It's amazing what you can learn about someone by their eating habits. Karen prepared for the barrage of prawns, tomatoes and possibly "toast!" submissions..... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 16:06:29 -0600 From: "Maxey L. Mullins" Subject: imho & btw please excuse my idiocy, but i can't take anymore of these acronisms without knowing what they mean. i've tried to figure it out on my own, but have come up short. would someone please tell me what "IMHO" and "BTW" stand for. i feel so lost. =joel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:29:40 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: imho & btw it's an internet thang. imho= in my humble opinion imo= in my opinion imao= in my arrogant opinion fwiw= for what it's worth ymmv= your mileage may vary afaik= as far as i know btw= by the way ttys= type to you soon ObEb= obligatory EbComment ObRH= obligatory robyn content then there are the smilies, AKA emoticons, way too many to list here. =b (=me) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 14:55:17 -0800 From: jeffery vaska Subject: Re: imho & btw Bayard wrote: > > it's an internet thang. > > ObEb= obligatory EbComment > ObRH= obligatory robyn content whoa, when did they adopt these new terms? i only submitted these ones for review to the internic last friday...hmmmm...the speed of things. attached are the web smiley thingys...my personal favorite is "smiley with a turban" but "pitbull smiley" is quite nice too - let's use em til we vomit... ciao...jv :-) Basic smiley :^) Smiley with a personality :) Midget smiley <:-l Dunce smiley ,-) Winking happy smiley :=) Orangutan smiley (-: Left hand smiley >:-> Devilish smiley (:-) Smiley big face >:-l Klingon smiley (:-( Very unhappy smiley @:-) Smiley wearing a turban ,-} Wry and winking smiley @:-} Smiley just back from the hairdresser 8-O Omigod C=:-) Chef smiley '-) Winking smiley X:-) Little kid with a propeller beanie :-# My lips are sealed [:-) Smiley wearing a walkman :-* Kiss [:] Robot smiley :-/ Skeptical smiley {:-) Smiley wears a toupee :-> Sarcastic smiley l^o Hepcat smiley :-@ Screaming smiley }:^#) Pointy nosed smiley :-d Said with a smile :-(=) Bucktooth smiley :-V Shouting smiley O-) Message from cyclops :-X A big wet kiss :-3 Handlebar mustache smiley :-\ Undecided smiley : = Beaver smiley :-] Smiley blockhead :-" Whistling smiley ;-( Crying smiley P-( Pirate smiley >;-> A very lewd remark was just made ;^) Smirking smiley ?-( Black eye %-) Smiley after staring at a screen for 15 hours straight ):-( Nordic smiley d:-) Baseball smiley 3:] Lucy my pet dog smiley :8) Pigishsmiley :-& Tongue tied :-7 Smirking smiley 8:-) Little girl smiley ):-) Impish smiley :-)8< Big girl smiley :/\) Extremely bignosed smiley :-0 Talkaktive smiley 8(:-) Mickey Mouse :-6 Smiley after eating something spicy +:-) Priest smiley ([( Robocop O:-) Angel smiley :-(*) That comment made me sick :-< Walrus smiley &-l That made me cry :-? Smiley smokes a pipe :-e Disappointed smiley :-E Bucktoothed vampire :( Sad-turtle smiley :-F Bucktoothed vampire with one tooth missing :-Q Smoking smiley :,( Crying smiley :-}X Bow tie-wearing smiley :-P Nyahhhh! :-[ Vampire smiley :-S What you say make no sense :-a Smiley touching her tongue to her nose :-{ Mustache :-C Real unhappy smiley :-{} Smiley waers lipstick :-r Smiley raspberry :-t Pouting smiley :-W Speak with forked tongue X-( You are brain dead l-O Smiley is yawing l:-O Flattop loudmouth smiley $-) Yuppie smiley :-! Foot in mouth :---) You lie like pinnochio O-) Smiley after smoking a banana =:-) Smiley is a punk =:-( Real punk never smiles 3:[ Pitbull smiley 8<:-) Smiley is a wizard :#) Drunk smiley 8-# Dead smiley B-) Smiley wears glasses |-( Smiley lost his contact lenses 8-) Smiley with big eye... perhaps wearing contact lenses... H-) Cross-eyed smiley ]-I Smiley wearing sunglasses (cool, therefore no smile, only a smark!) V^J Smiley with glasses, seen from the left side (tip head on right to see) +-( Smiley, shot between the eyes ~:-P Smiley with one single hair BI A frog ps: this list was lifted from www.netlingo.com...a really good source for internet definitions and dumb stuff like this. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 98 15:01:13 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: imho & btw On 3/2/98 2:29 PM, Bayard wrote: >it's an internet thang. > >imho= in my humble opinion >imo= in my opinion >imao= in my arrogant opinion >fwiw= for what it's worth >ymmv= your mileage may vary >afaik= as far as i know >btw= by the way >ttys= type to you soon >ObEb= obligatory EbComment >ObRH= obligatory robyn content > >then there are the smilies, AKA emoticons, way too many to list here. IIRC= if i remember correctly and, of course: WYLSMT,MPPP?= Would you like some more tea, miss polly prissy pants? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:40:50 -0500 From: Aidan Cully Subject: Re: imho & btw On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 02:55:17PM, jeffery vaska let loose: > Bayard wrote: > > > > it's an internet thang. > > > > ObEb= obligatory EbComment > > ObRH= obligatory robyn content [snip smiley list] > ps: this list was lifted from www.netlingo.com...a really good source > for internet definitions and dumb stuff like this. Yeah! RTFM! - --aidan ObOb= Obligatory Obligatory content. (ObEb: or Eb's much younger brother) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:20:35 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: imho & btw On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Aidan Cully wrote: > Yeah! RTFM! Sheesh, no kidding. (and how funny was it when I first realized that the rfc archive at MIT was at rtfm.mit.edu?) > ObOb= Obligatory Obligatory content. (ObEb: or Eb's much younger brother) Actually, I used to religiously read alt.fan.oingo-boingo and there ObOB means something else entirely. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:35:12 +0000 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: xtc, Billy Bragg, "I know that tune" >i liked, and still do: >nonsuch >skylarking >oranges and lemons try "English Settlement", then "Black Sea". TBE and Mummer were perhaps a bit too experimental for your tastes. ES is more, um, pastoral, I suppose is the word. It's older though, so the music's a little brasher at times. The same goes doubly for Black Sea, which was while they were emerging from the post-punk power-pop and beginning the more Kinksian picture-postcard pastoralism. Give the others though Mummer and Big Express time though. They take a while to sink in, but they're worth the effort. TBE sat on my shelf for several years before I finally got it. As for Billy Bragg, "Greetings to the New Brunette" is on "Talking with the Taxman about Poetry". Prior to that album, his work had been just him and guitar, and fairly abrasive sort of like a cross between "Eye" and the Clash. Since Talking with the Taxman, more instruments have been added and the sound has softened, although he can still rock out. I'd recommend "Back to Basics" - a compilation of his two earliest albums and one EP assembled on one CD, and "Don't try this at home", which is damn catchy and surprisingly melodic, if a little 'produced' in places. Sort of Billy's "Respect". >>that song. I've known that song for longer than I've been alive. It's >>always been there." I know. That doesn't make sense. But just occasionally >>a song will hit that way. Anyone know what I mean? > >I do know what you mean. It's kind of a hard feeling to define and it >doesn't happen that often. I think I can count the times I've felt that on >one hand (look! it's the five-finger game again! :)) and it's really random >in terms of style and such, given that the only examples that come >immediately to mind are "Mother of Pearl", "And So It Goes", and >"Subterranean Homesick Blues". The Jam's "That's Entertainment", Billy Bragg's "Cindy of 1000 lives", and Aztec Camera's "Good Morning Britain" did that for me. But you're right - it's rare. Your loving southernmost tendril (who would love to hear an Eno produced "Deliver Us from the Elements") James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 00:50:04 -0000 From: "Jon" Subject: Hello I will quickly introduce myself. I live in the East Midlands. First Hitch song heard: 52 Stations (It doesn't get much better) First Hitch gig: Manchester, Globe of Frogs. 87 or 88 i am not sure which. Hilarious . Fav gig: Cambridge - Boat Race '97 with Kimberely. "Queen of Eyes" - the warmth from the audience could have powered a town for a month. Fav song: Serpent at the Gates... It does not get much better. RE: Hitchcock and the E's. At the Leicster show last year, R said "I love all this unplugged shit, it's so Fuckin' easy" or something like that. I detect no desire to get back with the Egyptians. I blame Eric Clapton. Jon McG ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:44:17 -0600 (CST) From: Marshall Joseph Armintor Subject: slanted RS Reviews I've found that Rolling Stone tends to award lesser-selling,"unknown" non-corporate bands three stars because it's not totally dismissive, yet signals that somehow they think it's worthy. (In other words, covering their collective ass. It doesn't matter if that band just put out a masterpiece: the star ratings are agreed on by committee, not the person doing the review. (One reviewer quit after RS estimated his rapturous review of Guided By Voices' _Under the Bushes Under the Stars_ to be worth 3 stars.) Notable records given piddly 3-star ratings on first review: Nirvana's _Nevermind_, and De La Soul's _3 Feet High and Rising_. Dunno how folks feel about the quality of _Nevermind_, but De La Soul's debut is arguably one of the five greatest rap records ever made. To me, 3 stars now means run, don't walk your nearest rekkid store. (They also slighted Eleventh Dream Day's _Beet_ (1989) with 3 stars, but I doubt anyone remembers them...they were great, though.) marshall ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:48:54 +0000 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Elvis, guitars, women, TV, Lovely Rita >>And are Armed Forces and This Year's Model two of Costello's better albums? >My obsession with This Year's Model borders on the unhealthy. I *love* >that record with the kind of intensity normally reserved for people, pets >and Revolver. To answer your question, um, yes. Elvis C's five best albums, IMHO, are This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Imperial Bedroom, My Aim is True and Spike. Ifd I were to expand that list to ten, I would add This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Imperial Bedroom, My Aim is True and possibly This Year's Model. >Of course the player makes a huge difference. I still can't come up with a >single guitar player whose guitar(playing) can make me feel anything like >joy or giddiness. which I suppose is one of the inherent differences between us. Way back when I was about ten or eleven, I first noticed a piece of music for its intrinsic value, rather than as something to bounce around to or sing along with. The turning point for me came with the Hollies' "All I need is the Air that I Breathe". In particular that first note, which can still toss a stone into the still water of my spine. The same effects have occurred for me with numerous guitarists, from the "musician's musician" Mr R Fripp, with "I advance masked", to John Renbourn and Dominique Trepeau's "Caroline's Tune", from Andres Segovia's treatment of a work by Villa-Lobos through to "Mr Naff" M Knopfler and "Private Investigations". >>First, armpits are mostly kind of icky. They're these body parts that we >>tend to hide. It's a cultural thing for sure and it's maybe not as cool >>and earthy and honest as letting it all hang out, but there are reasons >>traditional and hygeinic. >Cultural, absolutely. Traditional, sure. Hygienic? Oh, come on. Not if you >wash. I can't believe this thread. Next you'll be wanting women to shave their legs as well. >i know there have only been something like fourteen episodes. but, as long >as we're busy ranking things...with the possible exceptions of potsie >webber and bicycle repairman, i'm ready to rank mr. garrison as the >greatest television character of all times. He must be good to rank above 'TV' John McAver. >Now that's surprising, as I would have said the same of the young Albert >Finney. In fact I believe that they were both considered good-looking in >their day. >There's two down. Anyone want to speak up for RIta? :) with those eyes, how could anyone resist her? She stares (stared? store?) deeply into our souls and reveals the quivering warmth within her, bursting to free itself... James "guitar groups are on the way out" (attrib. Dick Rowe, 1962) James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:01:16 -0500 (EST) From: lj lindhurst Subject: what he said It's true. I am now carrying Leonard Slatkin's child. lj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:59:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Gregory Stuart Shell Subject: Re: More politics. On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Capuchin wrote: > > If you express a sexual preference, that is sexism by definition. Does that mean lesbians are sexist pigs? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:14:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Gregory Stuart Shell Subject: Re: imho & btw On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Tom Clark wrote: > On 3/2/98 2:29 PM, Bayard wrote: > >imho= in my humble opinion > >imo= in my opinion > >imao= in my arrogant opinion > >fwiw= for what it's worth > >ymmv= your mileage may vary > >afaik= as far as i know > >btw= by the way > >ttys= type to you soon > >ObEb= obligatory EbComment Here are a few more. WTFN - why the fuck not DYLT - do you like taffy ELGH - eat lite go hungry OFG - ooh, free goo IC - invisible cola SEATAC - see everyone at the airport cry BBBBB - beer beer beer beer beer ALS? - are lesbians sexists? DLDH - drink lite drive home EAAT - even after all that WIN - well I never SGOF - six grams of fat SGOP - six grams of powder BBFT - big blue furry thing WAITIWB - wow, and I thought it was butter ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 23:20:44 -0400 From: "jbastin@stfx.ca" Subject: Re: imho & btw And also: WTFC? Gregory Stuart Shell wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Tom Clark wrote: > > > On 3/2/98 2:29 PM, Bayard wrote: > > >imho= in my humble opinion > > >imo= in my opinion > > >imao= in my arrogant opinion > > >fwiw= for what it's worth > > >ymmv= your mileage may vary > > >afaik= as far as i know > > >btw= by the way > > >ttys= type to you soon > > >ObEb= obligatory EbComment > > Here are a few more. > > WTFN - why the fuck not > DYLT - do you like taffy > ELGH - eat lite go hungry > OFG - ooh, free goo > IC - invisible cola > SEATAC - see everyone at the airport cry > BBBBB - beer beer beer beer beer > ALS? - are lesbians sexists? > DLDH - drink lite drive home > EAAT - even after all that > WIN - well I never > SGOF - six grams of fat > SGOP - six grams of powder > BBFT - big blue furry thing > WAITIWB - wow, and I thought it was butter ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 16:49:13 -0500 From: Keith Hanlon Subject: NMH and RIP > So could someone please tell me why this review is crap? > Because they give it 3 stars and then TRASH the album. On another topic (and I'm not sure if this has been brought up already), the Mommyheads have broken up. These guys have come along way since they started out in Brooklyn 10 years ago. After a move to San Fransisco in 1992/3, they were signed to Geffen, released one brilliant pop record ("Jaded" was my personal pick for song of the year), was totally ignored by their label, then finally broke up a few weeks ago. As a fan and a friend, I will miss them. Adam Cohen is currently working on a solo record, and keyboardist Michael Holt has a new band. If you'd like to hear selections from their out-of-print debut album ("Acorn"), go to my tribute page: http://www.greocities.com/SunsetStrip/Underground/6068 Fans of early XTC might like this record. Later! Keith ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 23:21:15 -0500 From: wojs of mass destruction Subject: simple machines fest also sprach The Great Quail: >I was, by the way, supposed to meet the infamous LJ Lindhust in DC before >the show. which reminds me: any of you yahoos going to be at any of the simple machines goodbye bash gigs the weekend of march 25th? i'm driving down from connecticut (hopefully catching sleater-kinney at the trocadero in philadelphia on the way down thursday night since i'll miss them in nyc on friday). would be nice to meet more fegs if there is convergence. woj n.p. dick gaughan -- handful of earth ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 23:19:56 -0600 From: "Maxey L. Mullins" Subject: Re: 100% non-Robyn. Sorry. comfort food, huh? well i'm a born and raised texan but i'm not sure my ideas will go along with the rest of the state. but anyway, i guess a damn good hamburger or maybe some cold pizza would be good. but probably the best "comfort food" that i can think of would be an ice cold beer. =joel Karen Reichstein wrote: > > Since there's been such a debate over Titanic, pianos and armpit hair > lately, surely you won't mind if I conduct an informal survey? > > Lately I've been thinking about the concept of "comfort food." You know > what this is. This is the kind of food you eat when it's raining out, > you're a little bit lonely, and you long for the kind of simple cooking > you might have eaten as a child. In America, this kind of comfort food can > range from tuna casserole to meatloaf to Rice Krispie treats. > But I'm curious to know how comfort food changes according to geographical > area. Being a Pacific Northwest kind of gal, I like smoked oysters on > crackers myself. But what do folks raised in New Zealand or Canada or > Texas like? > > Fellow fegs, what is YOUR particular comfort food favorite? I don't care > if it seems odd or not. I know someone who used to eat cat food when they > were little. > > This may or may not be published on my web page. > > You can email me personally if you like. > It's amazing what you can learn about someone by their eating habits. > > Karen > prepared for the barrage of prawns, tomatoes and possibly "toast!" > submissions..... ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #85 ******************************