From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #111 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 23 1998 Volume 07 : Number 111 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Old Thread: Driven to Tears [The Great Quail ] Showers, Nut-cases, Chats, & Posters ["JH3" ] Interesting Party News [Tom Clark ] Re: My dead god Seth [Tom Clark ] Re: Interesting Party News [Bayard ] Martyn Bennet? [firstcat@lsli.com] Re: Interesting Party News [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] singles? [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #110 [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #110 [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] off topic- radiohead [Michael Hooker ] Robyn's Gig. [woj spice ] Re: Seth [candlabra@lewiston.com] Re: fuckin' dipshit with a nine-toed woman [Aaron Mandel ] Name that (sad) tune [lj lindhurst ] Re: D# [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] nothing to do with Robyn at all [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James] Re: ^Thoth [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Re: fuckin' dipshit with a nine-toed woman [Eb ] Re: singles? [nicastr@idt.net (Ben)] The Big SXSW Report [chichi@io.com (Zelda Pinwheel)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 98 15:56:15 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Old Thread: Driven to Tears Well, I know this is an Old, Dead Thread, but I was recently going through my Fegmail I missed while in CA, and I discovered a half-written reply to an old thread. So I spruced it up a bit, threw some water on its face, and I am shamelessly hauling it out: James writes: >ah, another list and discussion topic: are there any songs that have driven >you to tears? (and not by being awful!) For their own sake, this is, rather >than for any connection with real life events. OK . . . I admit, I get all teary-eyed at just about anything. So laugh it up, here we go: "Wonderwall" -- This song has a very special and specific meaning for me, and can just kill me at times, reducing me to a Hallmark commercial trainwreck. And perhaps it's been all this talk about Oasis, but I've been listening to them a lot more lately, and damn, don't a few lines pop out to really give me chills? "Roll With It," has suddenly meant something to me. . . . it's amazing how you can hear a song a hundred times, then something happens and *boom* you hear it in a completely different way. . . . "If I was a Blackbird," "Loch Tay Boat Song," "Valley of Strathmore," "The Chill Eastern Winds" -- all my the Scottish songwriter Andrew M. Stewart, who used to front Silly Wizard. He can write the most wrenchingly simple songs -- never sentimental trash, but real honest pain. Which brings me to: "Brigit O'Malley" -- an Irish traditional song. Has this particular line of doom: "My heart is a cold thing; my heart is a stone." Two other traditional songs that have a similar impact are "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" and "Foggy Dew," but only when they are sung in a certain way. And while we are on Irish songs: "Fairytale of New York" and "Thousands are Sailing" by the Pogues -- Both make me teary-eyed for different reasons. "Cats in the Cradle" -- Well, most Harry Chapin songs can be pretty emotionally brutal under the right circumstances, but this fucker *always* gets me. Damn. My mother played Harry Chapin contsantly when I grew up, and the day he died she was devastated. I will never forget that day -- she cried all night long, playing one Chapin album after an other. It was the first day of my life I really understaood that music mattered, that it meant something deeper than a catchy tune. . . . "Just Like Heaven" and "Love Song" by the Cure -- Maybe it's a holdover from my Goth days, but two more songs that "put the lamp in my throat." Hmmm . . . you know, James (I think) wrote that "lamp in my throat," and for weeks I said it aloud under my breath, savouring its feel. And I am deadly serious -- only now do I realize that it was probably a typo for "lump." Damn. What a great typo. . . . Back to the weepies: "Black Peter" and "Brokedown Palace" by the Dead. . . . Dave will understand! "Running to Stand Still" by U2. That never got to me until I saw them sing it live, and then I just broke down. Ever since it still chokes me up in a sad, wistfully depressing sort of way. "Kentucky Avenue" by Tom Waits -- man, I really *am* a sap. . . . AND: "Adagio for Strings" by Sam Barber, and most of Beethoven's Piano sonatas - -- Melanacholy but not sentimental. Ach, there's probably a lot more, but that's all I could think about on the plane and sitting here. Russ Said: >On the other hand I can't think of a single Hitchcock tune that puts a lump >in my throat. Maybe this goes to what Eb was saying about a lack of emotion >in Hitch's voice. I mean, you'd think his father's death would have >produced a tear jerkin' ballad...instead he writes the Yip Song, almost as >if he's an impartial observer. But he also wrote "Railway Shoes," also (sort of) about his father's death, and more personal. (Not a tear-jerker, but still more personal.) And for some reason, I find "The Yip Song" very harrowing and emotional - -- it is like an angry but resigned cry against the inevitable, and has this odd mixture of bitterness and hope that appeals to me. I know I may be in the monority here. . . . Robyn songs that can make me cry: "Autumn is your Last Chance," "She Doesn't Exist," and "The Speed of Things." - --Comrade Quailovitch - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:59:37 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: WRNR plug Gene sed: > Anyway, WRNR did not program Moss Elixir. I was told this by a > Robyn-friendly DJ when I requested "Beautiful Queen" once. I have heard > them play Robyn more than a few times, however, which keeps me tuned in. So what non-college station DID program ME? I certainly haven't heard anything on the radio off this disc. np: richard thompson, _watching the dark_ (ya talked me into it, folks!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:10:06 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Showers, Nut-cases, Chats, & Posters I once sang quite a bit of "Ted, Woody, and Junior" in the shower before I realized what I was doing. I'm not sure if anyone heard me... This from Eb, quoting Denise Sharpe: > There were newer songs of ELP's that described in detail my meeting > Carl and my departure... Then I started thinking it was all in my > head, but it wasn't because my husband saw everything he was doing too. > ...See famous people can do anything and get away with it. I don't know which is scarier, the idea that this woman actually exists, or the fact that someone married her. (Unless by "husband" she's simply referring to Roger Waters.) However, given that we live in the post-OJ era, I suppose she does have a point with that last statement. I remember that time Carl Palmer visited my 3rd grade class and stole my ice cream sandwich and ate it right in front of everyone, and nobody said anything! And then he killed Kenny! The bastard! From Eddie Tews: >it could only be harrison. >robyn talked about this somewhere, maybe SPECTRE. That's correct, it was Spectre. Though since then, I'd say we have been seeing a lot more Harrison Ford posters, esp. since "Air Force One" came out, where it's basically a close-up of his face with a plane in front of it. Maybe Robyn should've used James Caan instead... Dave wrote: >So these strange little questions form on the computer screen in front of >him, and Robyn H. pokes at the keys until the question's been adequately >answered. It doesn't even work that way - in almost every case, there's a moderator sitting at the keyboard and the musician/interviewee is just sitting nearby. The moderator's job is ostensibly to filter out sexual propositions and other obscene remarks (which comprise the vast majority or what gets sent through a typical chat room). But usually the moderator filters out *any* question or comment that might be even slightly negative or personal about the interviewee. There's nothing to stop them from walking out, after all. [In AOL chat rooms, the amount of chaff is so bad that they've set up an elaborate system of "rows" of 16 people each (actually separate chat room channels) in which normal comments are only seen by other people in the row, and not by the interviewee, who only sees questions that are submitted via a separate dialog box.] John H. Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 98 13:44:10 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Interesting Party News In a semi-private discussion, Mr. Nick Winkworth brought up an interesting idea: Why not steal Quail's thunder and have a West Coast Feg Gathering at the same time as our East Coast bretheren? Ok, so he didn't use those words exactly, but the idea does have it's merits! Anyone? - -tc "We gotta take these bastards. Now, we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part." "We're just the guys to do it." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 98 13:38:32 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: My dead god Seth On 3/23/98 12:56 PM, The Great Quail wrote: >PS: But I agree that the song reference is actually about the other dead >Seth, not Ye Olde Jackal-Headed One. I just could not pass up an >opportunity to show off my erudition, based on: (You decide): > >(a) Years of carefully studying ancient Egyptian scripts in Edwardian >London >(b) An unhealthy fixation on Wallis Budge and all things Egyptian, dating >from my Goth days >(c) A brief fling with the Rosicrucians (Ah, those grand old days in the >AMORC!) >(d) A really cool Doctor Who episode >(e) Too long playing Dungeons and Dragons How 'bout (f) All of the above? Whilst I'm feeling all verklempt (sp), here's a topic for you all to discuss amongst yourselves: Ya know the Doors song wherein Jim groans "Apollo idols I"? Well, could he actually be referring to Ay, King Tut's advisor and alledged killer? I know, who cares. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 17:14:01 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Interesting Party News The down side of a bi-coastal event is we wouldn't get Tom on this side. But, I do have internet-viddycam technology I could bring to the Quail mansion, so we can toast one another visually. =b "and then we'll meet in kansas the next week for a fegrugby match, and a round of fizbin" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 98 16:04:48 From: firstcat@lsli.com Subject: Martyn Bennet? Any of you heard of Martyn Bennet...I caught the tailend of his show...celtic house kinda stuff...he's out of Edinburgh - ------------------------------------- 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: 3/23/98 - ------------------------------------- Two-Hour Luxury Goods Commercial Also A Spy Film ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:44:46 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: Interesting Party News >In a semi-private discussion, Mr. Nick Winkworth brought up an >interesting idea: Why not steal Quail's thunder and have a West Coast >Feg Gathering at the same time as our East Coast bretheren? Ok, so he >didn't use those words exactly, but the idea does have it's merits! >Anyone? Yes, the Bejackalheaded Feathered Thunderer has no power over us if he loses his charge. This "operation dessert thunder steal" may wipe out my entire existence if modern theory of my origins is proven correct, but having taken a vote recently, this has been deemed "entirely worthwhile," or a "win-win situation all 'round." I think that Eb and voted twice on that one. I hope the "6 of 6" Bayardpersonality doesn't start faxing his butt to us every nine minutes. I think that #6 is not so evil as just terribly susceptible to The Great Quail, or should I say, Dr. Fun Hmuhman-Ra Quailhotep Sutekh Thoketh Lobotomekh Scott IV. You're out now too Q-man! I should have a working ISDN line by then if Tom doesn't already, and I should be able to have a happy net access solution for it as well. Some of the particulars, like internet audio/video and the actual brains to make such things work, may need to be supplied by other parties and/or become outwardly worked by that ingenuity and teamworkliness for which fegmaniax hope to be famous someday. Originally, I thought about going out there, but as I am but a mere shadow of a fraction of a pimple of Tom's personality(ies)- not to suggest that there are any imperfections thereon- I consider him a better and complete representative than the sharkwielding purveyor of much noise and silliness, and probably not in that order. Happies, - -Markg your sharkwielding purveyor of much noise and silliness and probably not in that order >"We gotta take these bastards. Now, we could do it with conventional >weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we >have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a >really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part." >"We're just the guys to do it." "Shit! 7 years a' college down the drain!" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:54:41 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: singles? On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:40:14 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >2) I think "Jewels for Sophia" would make a decent single. that and "dark dark dark dark dark dark dark princess". what else off the "xmas party" tape should be a single? Definately NOT "erie green storm lantern", which strikes me as Syd's "maise", pt 2.! -luther ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:47:27 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #110 On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:01:30 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >>>I think Eb's twin brother (sister?) may be Mr. B Natural, which should >>>produce an instant shudder among you MST3K fans... :-) >> >>Ahh! I just had this horrible image of Eb prancing around in baby-blue >>tights, squealing about "the spirit of music." Don't do that to me on a >>Monday morning! to quote tom servo, "store this image for another nightmare!!" :-) -luther ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:49:58 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #110 On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:01:30 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >> >>no, i think it would change the meaning. it could only be harrison. >>robyn talked about this somewhere, maybe SPECTRE. he said that harrison >>ford is not generally a much sung about person. said it in such a >>manner as to suggest that this was his attempt to right that wrong. > >I don't see how that changes the meaning of the song. The song certainly >isn't about Harrison ford OR Eric clapton. It's about radio programmers and >record weasels (one of the reasons I like it so much). who, ironically, ignored the song for grunge, which has now gone the way of the dinosaur... -luther ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:53:16 From: Michael Hooker Subject: off topic- radiohead hi, anybody got any radiohead boots or whatever? will trade for Robyn's or some other bands tapes.i'm trying to impress my daughter here :). thanks, Mike Hooker ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:44:32 -0500 From: woj spice Subject: Robyn's Gig. received this today. any confirmation from our london correspondents? could this be the "all-star" gig robyn mentioned during the spinonline thing? +w >Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 04:52:23 -0800 (PST) >From: michael legge >Subject: Robyn's Gig. >To: woj@smoe.org > >Hello Fegmaniax! > >Just in case you didn't know, Robyn is also playing a gig at London's >Mean Fiddler on the 4th of April. > >See ya! Michael ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:00:51 -0800 (PST) From: candlabra@lewiston.com Subject: Re: Seth woj wrote: >also sprach M R Godwin: >>I haven't heard of this book, but like others, I had assumed that the >>reference was to the Egyptian god of that name. >you mean "set"? i'm no scholar of egyptian religion, but i don't recall >ever seeing "set" spelled "seth". >woj Obviously not a scholar of language either ; ) .What we know as the Biblical "Seth" is an English translation of a Hebrew word spelled Shin Tav , S T --> Sait, or Sais, (depending on whether your pronounciation is Askenazic or Sephardic), which, for all we know is the Hebrew translation for the Egyptian hieroglyphic "Set". Whatever. just felt the need to point that out. The pronounciations we think we know in our language ain't necessarily what they was originally. tata Figgus effigy-maniac ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:48:44 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: fuckin' dipshit with a nine-toed woman On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Eb wrote: > There's a difference between saying "Nyaaah, I have the new Vox & the > Ballbusters album already and you donnnn't" and saying "Hey, I heard the > new Vox & the Ballbusters album today and it's great!" there's a difference, but, if the listener is someone who knows when things come out in stores, it's not a difference with any bearing on how much it makes you look like a critic. > PS Hey, I heard the new Spinanes album the other day, and > it's...pretty good. like here, for instance. unless this is a joke about how they haven't released anything in two years and the two original band members aren't playing together anymore. this jumps out and screams at me because it means you're someone who gets promos before college radio stations do. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:03:30 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: time for a new thread >What's your favorite/favourite RH song to listen to while in the >bath/shower? I have yet to listen to him there but it might be interesting >to hear him alongside running water. sometimes I wish I was... opr maybe Ted, Woody and... ;) no seriously, I tend to sing in the shower, and I like to belt along the lyrics to (of all things) Oceanside. As for the bath, I wouldn't listen to Robyn music in the bath. Baths are times to relax totally. Late at night, by candlelight, with perhaps a well thumbed old book (Sherlock Holmes stories work well, for some reason), and for music? It's gotta be instrumental or with vocals that act as etra instruments, rather than intruding into my thoughts, and slightly exotic. Which could be anything from Nustrat Fateh Ali Khan to John Renbourn's wonderful "The Hermit", or Philip Glass & Ravi Shankar's "Passages", or the Tsinandali Choir. Maybe I should make up a "bath tape" of thigs like Chinese Water Python... James PS - have you ever tried fitting an outboard motor to a yellow-eyed penguin? Those damn things bite! (the penguins, that is...) 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, 23 Mar 1998 21:06:53 -0500 (EST) From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: My dead god Seth That STinkin Diseased Pigeon writes: > >PS: But I agree that the song reference is actually about the other dead >Seth, not Ye Olde Jackal-Headed One. I just could not pass up an >opportunity to show off my erudition, based on: (You decide): > >(a) Years of carefully studying ancient Egyptian scripts in Edwardian >London >(b) An unhealthy fixation on Wallis Budge and all things Egyptian, dating >from my Goth days >(c) A brief fling with the Rosicrucians (Ah, those grand old days in the >AMORC!) >(d) A really cool Doctor Who episode >(e) Too long playing Dungeons and Dragons Tsk. Yeah, THIS guy's gonna be throwing a rockin party, I can tell. You don't have one of those really long red scarves, do you? long live the revolution! lj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:08:28 -0500 (EST) From: lj lindhurst Subject: Name that (sad) tune Speaking of tear-jerkers, while shopping at the Five&Dime today, I was stopped dead in my tracks by the most strikingly sad Bruce Springsteen song playing on the radio. I couldn't hear the chorus of it, but one of the lines was, "my clothes don't fit"-? anyone? lj snippet of conversation overheard on the street today: "God made the snow and God will take it away. What a fucking asshole!" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:12:16 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: D# >>> Bloodied hands means they helped him in his game to hurt me. >>> Jeff Downs cowrote an ELP song with Greg. That is the song that >>> describes mine and Carls relationship. Its a romantic love song, >>> but it was all done to hurt me at the end of it all. So that I >>> would never be able to tell Carls secret that he's gay. [etc., etc.] > >Eb, this is beautiful. Makes me wish I still had a copy of DSM-IV close to >hand - there is a name for this type of delusion but I can't remember what >it is... ISTR it's projection, but it's been a while since I did any clinical stuff. It's one of the classic symptoms of schizophrenia (not that I'm suggesting that in D#'s case - no-one could do a diagnosis based on that little weirdness, and anyway ClinPsy isn't my area). James time for a disclaimer.. the message within is mine, all mine, heh heh heh, and not that of my workplace! 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, 24 Mar 1998 14:23:47 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: nothing to do with Robyn at all >- --the close of the eulogy: "donny who loved bowling." that just says >it so well! i mean, i would *hope* that whoever gave my eulogy would >finish it by saying, "eddie who loved robyn hitchcock." but somehow i >doubt if i will have earned it. I read this the day after returning from a wake, which, like all good wakes, was a riotous celebration of the life of someone only present in spirit. Dion was a raving loony in the nicest sense of the word, and had appeared in all sorts of comedy revues, where he stole the scene usually camping things up for all he was worth (he was openly gay and relished the camp stereotype - imagine a 250 pound Julian Clary with a walrus moustache...). Anyway, Dion would undoubtedly have been pissing himself laughing as we sat around watching videos of some of these reviews, yelling out "yay for the dead guy!" every time he appeared. Far better to go out leaving people remembering the happiness, I'd say. James 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, 24 Mar 1998 14:26:27 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: ^Thoth >So actually, in related items: it is not pronounced "Thoth," it is >really "Tot," very German and dire sounding. especially since it would then sound the same as the german word for "dead". James, approaching a posting limit... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:44:13 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: fuckin' dipshit with a nine-toed woman >> There's a difference between saying "Nyaaah, I have the new Vox & the >> Ballbusters album already and you donnnn't" and saying "Hey, I heard the >> new Vox & the Ballbusters album today and it's great!" > >there's a difference, but, if the listener is someone who knows when >things come out in stores, it's not a difference with any bearing on how >much it makes you look like a critic. Whatever...I don't attach much weight to this point. Anyway, it's not like critics are the only ones who hear albums prior to official release. Far from it. >> PS Hey, I heard the new Spinanes album the other day, and >> it's...pretty good. > >like here, for instance. unless this is a joke about how they haven't >released anything in two years and the two original band members aren't >playing together anymore. this jumps out and screams at me because it >means you're someone who gets promos before college radio stations do. OK, please pardon my giving some advance word. Some other folks might appreciate getting a peek ahead of the curve, so to speak. And if your college station gets a copy of the new Spinanes disc (Arches & Aisles) before it's available in stores, I trust that you'll keep your views about it *strictly* to yourself until the appropriate time. In other news, I just got back from the record store...finally bought "Zaireeka" and "SYR1." It shall be a night of earsplitting noise and blubbering Closed Captioned acceptance speeches. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 22:30:51 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: singles? >On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:40:14 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > >>2) I think "Jewels for Sophia" would make a decent single. > > that and "dark dark dark dark dark dark dark princess". > > what else off the "xmas party" tape should be a single? > Definately NOT "erie green storm lantern", which strikes me as >Syd's "maise", pt 2.! > > -luther I like the version of Elizabeth Jade from Sea-Tac II. I think it would make a nice single. So would Daisy Bomb, done electric with a band it could be a nice slice of power pop! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:40:39 -0400 From: chichi@io.com (Zelda Pinwheel) Subject: The Big SXSW Report Howdy Y'all, This is a wholly factual report concerning the recent feg-related events here in my fair hometown... Thursday: As "Storefront Hitchcock" was to begin at seven P, I of course had no alternative to arriving a couple of hours early. To no surprise whatever I ran across fellow lister, the lovely Carole Reichstein; soon followed by the sinsiter, malevolent presence of Jay Lyall; shortly followed by his actual, physical presence. There we stood, alone, for a hour and a half until we were divided in true Festival fashion into "industry weasels with laminated necklaces" and "the rest of us." But it did not matter, as the turnout was moderate and we all got boffo seats--the place filled just as the film was to begin. Briefly preceding the movie were some remarks by director Jonathan Demme (who himself was preceded by toadies) and then Robyn, who said among other things:"Yo! MtV raps!" This statement will be seen later as foreshadowing. The movie: if you were in the audience holding your breath to see yourself immortalized on the big, big screen then I'm sure your eulogy will appear shortly in my "in" box as nobody but Robyn, Tim and Deni appears. But even without our smiling faces it's quite good...intimate, etc. I didn't make a list of what appears but you can be sure that there are 15 tracks represented. It's well enumerated in the credits. Let's see...Feels like 1974, I don't remember Guilford, Let's go thundering, I'm only you, glass hoteL, a hAPPy Bird IS a FilTHY BiRD, I am not Me If you were at the filming, you will notice that sveral tracks with Tim and Deni were not included. Again, it was sublime, the audience at the screening was enthusiastic, and I'm sure I would have enjoyed it even more if I hadn't been afflicted with horrific, gut-wrenching stomach pains throughout the entire movie. Later that night Robyn was to appear (and did) conveniently at a theatre next door, preceded by Deni Bonet and SPECIAL GUEST. The aura of mystery: Who could it be? Billy Bragg? Peter Buck? Richard Nixon? Nope. It was Kathy Mattea. I'm certain some of you mercifully don't know who this woman is, and that's one of those "ignorance is bliss" examples people. She's a very saccharine, mainstream, very produced Nashville kinda country art...art... I can't say it. She was very wrong. I can't explain further, she was just WRONG. Anyway as she's a multiplatinum kind of wrong she got extra time for her set which was bad because I was getting sicker and sicker. I felt terrible three hours earlier at the screening but the movie took my mind from it. I went home, medicated, got back in time for Deni's set and found out about "special guest". With misgivings I paid, sat down and over the next two and a half hours got very very ill. I was sure that I would feel better during Robyn's set. Then the light at the end of the tunnel appeared and announced that Tim would play a set as well. And that was that. I was officially exceptionally sick and had to leave. No Robyn for me...and it was all Kathy Mattea's fault. I hate Kathy Mattea. Friday: Nothing important happened on Friday. Saturday: I got a message from the lovely Carole Reichstein. Robyn was playing a surprise surprise in-store at Waterloo Records with Billy Bragg. Guh! At around six P, Billy played songs from his next album, a collection of "lost" Woody Guthrie songs. Then came Robyn. About two songs into his set, he acknowledged the tomato that I placed on the stage. I should add that this was not just any tomato, but the most beautiful artificial tomato you will ever see. Tim and Deni joined him for the last few tunes. My tomato played second banana to Robyn throughout the brilliant set which included: Gene Hackman, Jewels for Sophia, and Madonna of the Wasps. After the show, I snatched my tomato from the edge of the stage, and hung around in anticipation of getting it autographed by Robyn. Before too long, someone from Robyn's entourage came up to me and said that Robyn would really like to have the tomato. (Apparently, this was a big deal, because the employees at Waterloo, were "paging" me and the tomato over the store's intercom.) I told the guy that I'd be honored to give Robyn the tomato, in addition to the half-dozen other fake fruits and vegetables I own, if only he would adorn one of my tomatoes with a scribble or two. The guy told me he could arrange that, so I surrendered the tomato to him and skipped out to my car to retrieve my satchel of pretend veggies. (By the way, one of the things I love about this list is that no one would dare question why I have a bag of artificial produce with me at any given time.) Fast forward to the present...I am now the proud owner of a tomato that has a face provided by the versatile and charming Antonio Banderas...oops! I mean Robyn Hitchcock. He signed it "Yo! MTV raps...Robyn Hitchcock". I chatted with him briefly about the film, and that's about it. Carole will have to fill in details about the SXSW showcase. Back to the Oscars, Zelda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This product is sold by weight, not volume. Some settling of contents may have occurred during shipping and handling. May contain peanuts. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #111 *******************************