From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #135 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, April 6 1998 Volume 07 : Number 135 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Eaten By NMH's Own Dinner: Explanation II [Mike Runion ] Re: OT: Re: Throwing Muses [dmw ] more on kristen hersh [lj lindhurst ] Re: More on kristen hersh [Ross Overbury ] Re: more on kristen hersh [dmw ] More fun with commercials! [Bayard ] Re: more on kristen hersh [spine@iastate.edu (James Francis)] Museworks [Eb ] Re: more on kristen hersh [Sean Hennessey ] Re: More fun with commercials! [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: Museworks [woj spice ] it's hard to listen to robyn hitchcock when i have to do schoolwork. ["Ca] Re: OT: Re: Throwing Muses [KarmaFuzzz ] Re: it's hard to listen to robyn hitchcock when i have to do schoolwork. [Gary assassin Subject: Eaten By NMH's Own Dinner: Explanation II Hey all, Got home on Saturday and found a wonderous package awaiting me. Olivia Tremor Control's "Explanation II" (the ambient bonus disk from "Dusk at Cubist Castle"). Not bad, but yeah, background kinda music. Very similar to a lot of the stuff Julian Cope has been pumping out on his own label the last few years...not as invigorating and rhythmic as his "Rite" albums, but not as droney and annoying as his "Queen Elizabeth" albums. The package also contained a near-mint condition 12" of "Eaten By Her Own Dinner". I know I'm behind the times, but this would be my first experience of "Happy The Golden Prince". Wonderful track! Sorry to take up band with width the following, but several people have asked about these, and since 20-some odd of us bought that damn NMH album, here's a tab I worked out...it might be a little off towards the end, as I'm at work and don't have my guitar handy. A few D's might be swapped with G's... Holland, 1945 Neutral Milk Hotel - -1998 G "2,1,2,3,4" G D The only girl I’ve ever loved G D Was born with roses in her eyes G D But then they buried her alive A G One evening, 1945 A D With just her sister at her side A G And only weeks before the guns A D All came and rained on everyone A G Now she’s a little boy in Spain A D Playing pianos filled with flames A G On empty rings around the sun A G D All sing to say my dream has come. G D But now we must pack up every piece G D Of the life we used to love G D Just to keep ourselves at least A Enough to carry on. And now we ride this circus wheel With your dark brother wrapped in white Says it was good to be alive But now he rides a comet’s flame And won’t be coming back again The earth looks better from a star That’s right above from where you are He didn’t mean to make you cry With sparks that ring and bullets fly On empty rings around your heart The world just screams and falls apart But now we must pack up every piece Of the life we used to love Just to keep ourselves at least Enough to carry on. D G And here’s where your mother sleeps D G A And here is the room where your brothers were born D G D Indentions in the sheets G D A Where their bodies once moved but don’t move anymore G D And it’s so sad to see G D The world agree G D A That they’d rather see their faces filled with flies G D A G D All when I’d want to keep white roses in their eyes. - -- Mike Runion Cocoa, FL, USA /******************************************************************\ | VCM: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/cones.htm | | Fegmaps: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/fegmaps | | Spoken Word Tape: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/wordtape.htm | \******************************************************************/ "Wait a minute. Time for a Planetary Feg-In!" - Julian Cope ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 14:26:33 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: *totally* off-topic, as I am wont to be >By THE WAY, to all concerned: "Lost in Space" is as good, if not better, >than "Titanic," for all the same reasons. I would rate the special >effects, acting, and story to all be on about the same level. Take that >statement however you want. :) Yes, I agree. I loved it every bit as much. lj n.p.: traffic. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:38:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: NMH's Second Dinner On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Mike Runion wrote: > In The Aeroplane Over The Sea > Neutral Milk Hotel > G Eb C > G Eb C > G Eb > G Eb C D > With meeeeeeeee. > With meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. > G Eb D G > The treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. > Eb C G > Eb > Eb C G D > G Eb C D G Quoth Eb: Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee! Coincidence? I don't think so. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:11:08 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: OT: Re: Throwing Muses On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, John Barrington Jones cooked: > Doug Mayo-Wells wrote: [a bunch of inaccurate crud] > Oh that it were so, Doug! Actually, the uk version of house tornado jbj is of course right on all counts -- thanks for the corrections. teach me to post at work! sorry to anyone alarmed by my statements. - -- d. - - oh,no!! you've just read mail from doug = dmayowel@access.digex.net - - and dmw@mwmw.com ... get yr pathos at http://www.pathetic-caverns.com/ - - new reviews! tunes, books, flicks, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:54:03 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: more on kristen hersh Natalie, who is thankfully another GIRL attending THE PARTY, wrote: >Yeah, it's pretty good - a little on the bland side for my taste. I >started with "House Tornado," which is also good, but like Ner, my favorite >is the first, eponymous album: frantic, beautiful, intense, and downright >exhausting to listen to. You should also *definitely* check out Kristin >Hersh's first solo album, "Hips and Makers," which is exquisite. Her >skewed, surreal vision of the world is definitely Robynesque, but she lacks >Robyn's streak of whimsy - she's much darker. (I doubt Robyn would write a >song called "Rabbits Dying," for instance.) I have to throw my hat in the ring here on this one too; "Hips and Makers" is an amazing piece of music. Very stark and disturbing, and she sings with a crazy conviction, really belting them out. This is one of my all-time favorite records. I've heard she was painfully shy in concert- has anyone ever seen her? I was all psyched for her second album ("Strange Angels") and it isn't nearly as striking. I think she's gone soft after having all of those babies, but that's just *my opinion*... Maybe after I play it fifty million times I will worship it in the manner of say, oh, I don't know, THE BIG LEBOWSKI or something. (Her third album, "What's the Story Morning Glory?" is quite good though.) lj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 98 17:12:22 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: More on kristen hersh lj said: > > I was all psyched for her second album ("Strange Angels") and it isn't > nearly as striking. I think she's gone soft after having all of those > babies, but that's just *my opinion*... Maybe after I play it fifty > million times I will worship it in the manner of say, oh, I don't know, THE > BIG LEBOWSKI or something. > I had the same problem with Laurie Anderson's "Strange Angels". There's a lesson in this for you recording artists ... - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 17:28:22 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: more on kristen hersh On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, lj lindhurst wrote: > with a crazy conviction, really belting them out. This is one of my > all-time favorite records. I've heard she was painfully shy in concert- > has anyone ever seen her? okay, let me try to make up for the earlier misinformation with a short tm review yanked from the pcaverns archives: << Throwing Muses Go! Discs, Thursday August 15th, 1996 So I just randomly walked into Go! -- I keep hoping they'll get the new Fall record in, though they haven't yet -- and a whole bunch of people were standing around, and it turned out that the Throwing Muses were just about to do a free in-store before their 9:30 club appearance later that night. Sometimes, life don't suck so bad, y'know? So they ran through five numbers from the new album, Limbo in a semi-plugged fashion (which means, in this case, that both Kristin Hersh and Bernard Georges were playing through amps, but with clean signals, while David Narcizo was whapping an unamplified snare drum.) "It's okay that you don't know these songs," Kristin quipped at one point, "cause we don't know them either." The stripped down approach highlighted the skewed but definite sense of structure that makes so many muses songs interesting, and the quiet approach made it easier to hear Kristin's words. Narcizo was particularly impressive, pretty succesfully creating the rhythmic feel of the album on one lonely snare (though his feet kept going where the kick drum and hi-hat usually are!). Bottom line: If the muses put out one of those goofy unplugged records, I'm there. >> i'll add that Kristin seemed very personable and pleasant. not terribly shy at all. also noticably pregnant. ;) i think there's some review of their records on the site, too. - -- d. - - oh,no!! you've just read mail from doug = dmayowel@access.digex.net - - and dmw@mwmw.com ... get yr pathos at http://www.pathetic-caverns.com/ - - new reviews! tunes, books, flicks, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 17:22:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: More fun with commercials! Ok, here's an update on the Beetlemercials. "What color do you dream in?" of course uses the Orb's "Fluffy Little Clouds". I need confirmation that the sample is Joni Mitchell. "Reverse Engineered from UFO's" is Stereolab's "Parsec", off _Dots and Loops._ "Its engine is in the front, but its heart is still in the right place"-- give me some help here. Lyrics with lots of pauses: "I...will love.. you all... the time..." "Less flower...... More Power": Mostly rapid percussion with a little vintage organ-- an instrumental, I think. "Are you free?" (Jeme, is this the written tagline or in the lyrics?) "If you sold your soul in the 80's, here's your chance to buy it back." This is the one about which i posted... Can't remember lyrics right now, but sounds pretty Oasis-y. (LJ??) email me any assistance... sorry to those of you who aren't seeing these ads, if any. in other news, eddie calculated the occurences of the following word (here is some etymology.. wonder what they used before this existed?): Main Entry: 1fuck Pronunciation: 'f&k Function: verb Etymology: akin to Dutch fokken to breed (cattle), Swedish dialect fokka to copulate Date: 15th century intransitive senses 1 : COPULATE -- usually considered obscene; sometimes used in the present participle as a meaningless intensive 2 : MESS 3 -- used with with; usually considered vulgar transitive senses 1 : to engage in coitus with -- usually considered obscene; sometimes used interjectionally with an object (as a personal or reflexive pronoun) to express anger, contempt, or disgust 2 : to deal with unfairly or harshly : CHEAT, SCREW -- usually considered vulgar > > The Dude -- 125 > Walter -- 96 > Nihilists -- 19 > Corvette Owner -- 9 > Jesus -- 8 > Treehorn Thugs -- 6 > Cab Driver -- 4 > The Big Lebowski -- 2 > Donny who loved bowling -- 2 > Smokey -- 2 > Defino -- 1 > Officer Kohl -- 1 > ...for a grand total of 265! beautiful! kinda makes ya think the TV edit is going to be pretty short/silent, huh? =b "hey, I posted some robyn stuff LAST week" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 98 16:40:32 From: spine@iastate.edu (James Francis) Subject: Re: more on kristen hersh > I have to throw my hat in the ring here on this one too; "Hips and Makers" > is an amazing piece of music. Very stark and disturbing, and she sings > with a crazy conviction, really belting them out. This is one of my > all-time favorite records. > I was all psyched for her second album ("Strange Angels") and it isn't > nearly as striking. I think she's gone soft after having all of those > babies, but that's just *my opinion*... Just wanted to second the recommendation for _Hips and Makers_--it is in my top five of all time. But _Strange Angels_, I think, is a more than worthy follow-up. It's less accessible than the first one, but ultimately very worth the trip. I love it. I feel it's more like the Muses work in a way--more sort of skewed and off-balance in that wonderful Muses way. (Hips and Makers is really quite straightforward compared to most of her work.) Just wanted to put a good word in for Strange Angels because I think it's getting a bum rap in some circles. Jim Francis ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 14:46:33 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Museworks I've been avoiding this thread, but since it persists.... I'd rank the releases loosely as follows. I say loosely, because I haven't listened to most of these records in awhile and can't rank them with 100% certainty. 1. Throwing Muses 2. House Tornado 3. Hips & Makers (Kristin Hersh) 4. Chains Changed 5. Red Heaven 6. Star (Belly) 7. University 8. The Fat Skier 9. The Curse 10. Hunkpapa 11. Lovesongs for Underdogs (Tanya Donelly) 12. King (Belly) 13. The Real Ramona 14. Strange Angels (Kristin Hersh) 15. Limbo I should add comments, but I'm too lazy. Basically, I like the stuff with the sharpest emotional edges, the best production (the albums vary particularly wildly in this area, with majorly botched productions like Limbo, The Real Ramona and King on hand...here's something else that Hersh has in common with RH) and the least deja-vu song structures (definitely a problem for Hersh). I was really disappointed with Strange Angels -- I was hoping for much more, given the wonders of Hips & Makers. I will say this: I really don't understand why one would recommend The Real Ramona so highly. The mix is TERRIBLE (sterile...all big fat drums, no guitar...you can tell this guy produced Timbuk 3) and most of the songs sound really unfinished and growth-stunted. And "Counting Backwards" became fairly annoying with time. Final word: Buy the rare Warner Bros. promo "Various Tracks" if you see it. It has five hard-to-find, non-LP cuts from the Red Heaven era, and they're all very worthwhile. After all, could ANY song be more appropriate (both musically and lyrically) for the Muses to cover than Hendrix's "Manic Depression"? Eagerly anticipating the Rykodisc reissue, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 17:39:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Sean Hennessey Subject: Re: more on kristen hersh Hallo, > I have to throw my hat in the ring here on this one too; "Hips and Makers" > is an amazing piece of music. Very stark and disturbing, and she sings > with a crazy conviction, really belting them out. This is one of my > all-time favorite records. I've heard she was painfully shy in concert- > has anyone ever seen her? Yeah - a few times. She has said (live as well) that she's scared out of her mind, particularly the acoustic shows (the only things she can afford to do now, apparently) when sh'e all alone. She says she's blind as a bat, so she gets pissed and takes out the contacts. She's brilliant, though, in much the same way that Bob Mould was in the earlier stages of his acoustic tours - telling stories about the songs, what she was doing when she wrote them, etc. At one she had Dylan (?), her kid, with her and she was about to play one of the ones of Hips, where she finger picks, and she said that she wrote it because Dylan has a 'sybling rivalry' with her acoustic and tried to thwart her writing sessions by putting all her picks in the thing through the sound hole! :) I was also lucky enough to meet her after one of the shows, where she signed my copies of Fat Skier and Hips, with my racecar pen that even has a li'l motor in it and goes! She played with it for a bit, talked really nicely to me (which was kind as I had a massive crush on her at the time and couldn't of handled her being mean:) and mentioned that Dylan would love the pen. I nearly gave it to her to give to him, but I lost my bottle... So much for romantic gestures... :) tara - Sean ******************************************************************************* Sean Hennessey, Bassist in Slippy Keane and President of the Boston Reds, an 'unoffical' Manchester United Supporters' Club url: http://members.tripod.com/~boston_reds/red_army.html email: suggs@tiac.net, ICQ#: 9288628 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:41:02 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: More fun with commercials! Oh, that wonderful word of which I circumscribe to avoid being pecked to death by those tragic quaYLEs (as opposed to its highest pinnacle of avian species homonym) or having Tipper Gore staple "Explicit Lyrics" signs about my head and shoulders: I have looked in on numerous dictionaries that provide the additional meaning "to hit, or strike forcefully." Yes, but with what? An Overbury Stick? I fear that my boss has one. I'll have to get back to work. Hope all is well in fegland. It could be years before I ketchup. - -Markg ps. Since I got my waterbed Carl Palmer stopped hiding in my room. Oh, maybe that was Marlon Perkins "While Jim is wrestling with the bear, I thought I'd take this time to tell you about life insurance..." Jim: "AAAAAAGHHHH!" pss. Dreamt of trains last night. Trains and beach houses and a crazy woman. Hmmmmmmmm. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 20:34:14 -0400 From: woj spice Subject: Re: Museworks also sprach Eb: >I've been avoiding this thread, but since it persists.... i meant to reply last night, but fell asleep instead, so basically all of my points have been made. >I was really disappointed with Strange Angels -- I was >hoping for much more, given the wonders of Hips & Makers. word on the street is that it develops with time. i've listened to -- well, *heard* -- it a couple times and it seems very non-distinctive to my ears. what i really need to do is take it out to the car and listen to it there when i can't be distracted. >I will say this: I really don't understand why one would recommend The Real >Ramona so highly. well, two songs make that album great for me: the mind-numbingly amazing "not too soon" and "hook in her head". hmmm, "two step" is also pretty damn great, expecially live. overall, though, i think it's a very listenable album, not only because it's more "accessible" than the others, but because the other songs are quite strong too. it certainly is a better introductory album, unlike, say, the first, which is probably also my favorite, though _house tornado_ is close on its heels. woj n.p. ida -- i know about you ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 20:45:54 -0400 From: "Caroline" Subject: it's hard to listen to robyn hitchcock when i have to do schoolwork. Ok…This is just a quick survey for a class I have. If you could answer it and send me back the answers, I’d really appreciate it. age: 1. How many hours a day do you spend on the Internet? a) less than an hour b) 1 to 2 hours c) 2 to 4 hours d) more than 4 hours 2. The Canadian government has your best interests in mind when it makes a decision that affects you. How much do you agree this statement? a) Strongly b) Somewhat c) Not very much d) Not at all 3. Did you vote in the last election? a) yes b) no 4. Do you believe in Democracy? a) yes b) no ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 21:52:49 EDT From: KarmaFuzzz Subject: Re: OT: Re: Throwing Muses In a message dated 98-04-06 13:12:51 EDT, dmayowel@access.digex.net writes: > the uk version of _house tornado_ appends "chains changed" which is enough > to make it my favorite after the debut album. actually, it has (most of ) The Fat Skier as bonus tracks not Chains Changed. it doesn't have the remake of "Soul Soldier" or the uncredited track of Dylan gurgling, etc. That would be Kristin's son Dylan, not Jacob's father. supposedly sometime soon, when Ryko issues the first album domestically (US- wise), it's going to include Chains Changed, and some other pre-4AD recordings they put out themselves, etc. last i heard this was due sometime this spring, but it keeps being postponed, so who knows.... > also, "a feeling" can be found on the 4-ad compilation "lonely is an > eyesore" ermm, the TM track on LIAE is "Fish," not "A Feeling." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 22:04:47 -0400 From: Gary assassin Subject: Re: it's hard to listen to robyn hitchcock when i have to do schoolwork. > age: 32 > > 1. How many hours a day do you spend on the Internet? b) 1 to 2 hours > > 2. The Canadian government has your best interests in mind when it makes a > decision that affects you. I'm American > > 3. Did you vote in the last election? > a) yes > 4. Do you believe in Democracy? > a) yes ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:26:33 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: I got a message for you (Feg game!) Okay... "Fegmaniax! The Game!" is at working prototype stage... I tried playing it against myself, and apart from the facts that I couldn't ask myself robyn questions that I didn't knw the answer to, and that players can take an age to eventually get to "The kingdom of Love" (the winning square) through being sent backwards and forwards all over the board, it seems to work. Now.... I would like to get a copy of it to the Feg gathering at TGQ's place. BUT... IIRC it is this coming weekend! So, is there anyone who is going to whom I can send a gif of the board design? It would take too long by post... it would be easy to send the rules and info for the backs of the cards (there are 50 Feg cards and 25 Fiend cards, BTW), but the best way to send the board design is by gif, or possibly fax. Required items for the game: *counters - one for each player. *cones - well, other counters that can be used to represent cones. probably a little over twice as many of these are needed as players *one standard 6-sided die *the board *50 Feg cards and 25 Fiend cards *The rules If you like, I can post the rules of the prototype to the list as well, and the details of the cards. I've used, abused and adapted some of David and Carole's ideas for the cards, and there are still a few blank, so I can adapt some of Natalie's ideas as well, and anyone else's who sends me late ideas. 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, 7 Apr 1998 14:29:11 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: The demise of Lev Bronstein seems that I have confused people with the subject line "whatever happened to Leon Trotsky?". It was not a question so much as a lyric from the Stranglers song 'No miore heroes'. The next line is "He got an icepick that made his ears burn". Absolutely charming :) James ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:36:59 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Feg game - the rules (tentative) Ah, to hell with it. I'm still tinkering with these a bit, but these are the rules as they stand at the moment. FEGMANIAX!- THE GAME RULES! Object: The object of the game is to be the first player to get to the Kingdom of Love with a cone. Pieces: One board, marked with a spiral path leading from the start (square 1) to the Kingdom of Love (square 106). Counters. Cones. 50 Feg cards. 25 Fiend cards. Number of players: from 2 to lots. Best (probably) with 4-6 players Play: roll one die - highest starts. Players take it in turns clockwise. Everyone begins with their counter on the "Start" square. Players may move forwards OR BACKWARDS by the exact number of spaces indicated by the die. Players may not travel back into or through any squares with arrows pointing forwards unless instructed to do so by a card. NB: In these rules, and on Feg and Fiend cards and squares, "forwards" means clockwise. "Backwards" means anticlockwise. Follow the instructions on the squares. Some squares simply have names relating to Feg Card instructions. Other squares have special instructions, as listed below: Orange squares marked * are FEG SQUARES. Take a Feg card and follow the instructions on it. If the card sends you to another square, follow the instructions for that square. Some Feg cards are to be used immediately, others may be retained for later use. A similar rule applies with the yellow FIEND squares. Some FIENDS stay face up on the board until they inflict their curses or blessings on an unsuspecting player, then they return to the deck. A player landing on either of two squares ("Groove onto an inner plane" and "You'll have to go sideways") immediately changes to the inner or outer ring, as instructed by that square. Players must land exactly on these squares to follow the arrows on them. Cone squares. When a player lands on one of these squares, they may pick up a cone. They do not have to do so, and it is not possible for any player to have more than two cones. Cones have to be forfeited if the player lands on (or is sent to) the Shrine, and they must have a cone in order to win the game. No more than one cone may be picked up from any visit to a cone square Blue square: Some Feg and Fiend cards have no effect on players beyond this square. See individual card for details De Chirico Street: a player landing here must roll a die. 1- attacked by a yodelling hoover - go back to start; 2- join the knights of Jesus - sleep for one turn; 3- miss a turn hiding from Mr. Deadly; 4- teach a policeman to sing (no effect on movement); 5- receive a spanner from Ralph - go on two spaces in either direction; 6- catch a ride on a tram from old London - have an extra turn. Oceanside: a player landing here must roll a die. 1- attacked by the can opener - go back to start; 2- hunt for the prawns - miss a turn; 3- shelter from the rain on the twilight coast, miss a turn; 5- hover in the distance (no effect on movement); 5- go on two spaces in either direction to avoid the gruesome tench; 6- rescue survivors from the wreck of the Arthur Lee - have an extra turn! Hospital: a player landing here must roll a die. 1- septicæmia wins - go back to the start; 2- miss a turn watching Sandra have her brain out; 3- fall in a vat of Egyptian cream - miss a turn (and become a man with a woman's shadow!); 4- find an abandoned brain (no effect on movement); 5- tell someone about your drugs - go three spaces in either direction; 6- discover a cure for love poisoning! Have a free turn! Shrine: Players landing or sent to the Shrine must forfeit one cone if they have one as an offering to the Fiend. Question squares: Players must stop when they reach these squares, irrespective of their die roll or any other movement allowance. The other players confer and then ask one question of the player based on Robyn lyrics (e.g., What do the Higsons eat? Answer: lots of porridge). If the player gets the answer right, they move forward one space. If they get it wrong, they miss a turn but then travel on without having to answer a new question. The exception to this is the last space before the Kingdom of Love. Here, a player cannot proceed to the Kingdom of Love without correctly answering a question. If they fail with two questions in a row, they go back to the City of Shame. CONES: no player may hold more than two cones at any one time. A player must forfeit a cone whenever they land on the shrine, and must have a cone when they are in the winding central path towards the Kingdom of Love. If they are without a cone when they are on this path, they must go directly to the City of Shame. If a conehas been placed on a square, it may be picked up by any player landing on that square. If the player already has two cones, they may choose to leave it there or destroy it. James PS - coming up in the next day or so, Feg and Fiend card descriptions! 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") ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #135 *******************************