From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #146 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 16 1998 Volume 07 : Number 146 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Wilder Shores of Ken Russell [M R Godwin ] Re: Yngwie vs. Robyn [M R Godwin ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #139 [M R Godwin ] Wilde, bad movies, and Lennon (rant content) [Danielle ] Re: pianos, fegtaste (was: [dmw ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #139 ["Caroline" ] Re: house of love [Noah Shalev ] Re: house of love [M R Godwin ] 1/1/39 setlist? [Russ Reynolds ] RE: 1/1/39 setlist? ["Chaney, Dolph L" ] Re: Neutral Mall Hitchcock [MARKEEFE ] nmh praises [Scary Mary ] Mangum Force [The Great Quail ] Robyn Hitchcock (0% NMH content) ["JH3" ] Re: here we go again..... (0% RH) [KarmaFuzzz ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock (0% NMH content) [Eb ] . [Eb ] Re: Mangum Force ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock (who's NMH?) [Bayard ] Re: Mangum Force [Eb ] Re: here we go again..... (0% RH) [Christopher Gross ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock (0% NMH content) [Ross Overbury ] Re: Wilder Shores of Ken Russell [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:59:30 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Wilder Shores of Ken Russell On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, amadain wrote: > P.S. Is "Peter's Friends" really the worst movie you've ever seen, Monsieur > Godwin? See "Lisztomania" and then get back to me :). Couldn't face it, sorry - not after 'The Music Lovers' and 'Tommy'. I sat halfway through 'The Devils' on TV and then fell asleep while Oliver Reed was frying some nuns. But there was a trashy thing about a dragon which wasn't quite as bad ('The Lair of the White Worm'? some name like that?) 'Start the Revolution without Me' (featuring D. Sutherland and E. Gould) was my worst of all time for many years, until 'Peter's Friends' came along. And 'Ned Kelly' is always bubbling under... I really liked 'Wag the Dog', though. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:08:33 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Yngwie vs. Robyn On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, David W. Dudich wrote: > Robyn is no slouch as a guitarist, I don't think! > Any other guitarists have opinions on his technical ability > (to say nothing of his melodic sense and, of course, his words)? Robyn Hitchcock is a very good guitarist in at least two (no, three) styles: 1) Byrds-style jingle jangle electric, using various effects on a 6-string Tele to give it a tinge of 12-string sound. Example: Queen of Eyes. 2) Folk-blues acoustic picker in the style of Scottish guitarists like Davy Graham, Robin Williamson, Bert Jansch. Examples: Man with a Woman's Shadow, Speed of Things. 3) Acid-rock solo guitarist in the style of Barry Melton, Syd Barrett, Roger McGuinn (again). Examples: Acid Bird, I'm Only You. But he certainly doesn't sound like Slayer or Yngwie. I think there are a few key things which all heavy rock guitarists do and Robyn Hitchcock doesn't: Use humbucker pickups Play lots of notes per second Bend the strings all the time One thing that does bother me about his playing is that he often looks extremely uncomfortable when playing the guitar, and his blink rate starts to go through the roof. It sounds fine when you listen to it, but he _looks_ as if he's struggling to find the notes. - - Mike Godwin PS (thinks) Is Martin Carthy Scottish? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:01:36 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #139 On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Katherine Rossner wrote: > Have you read Robertson Davies? _High Spirits_ is the book of ghost > stories, I think. (And then there's _The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks_, for > fogeys' delight. Yes, I've read all about Robertson's arguments with his coal-fired heating system. I even read _both_ of the trilogies - I think the later, Cornish trilogy is quite, quite brilliant. But he's too sly, and too obsessed with Mackenzie King (who he, anyway?) to convince as a writer of short ghost stories. - - Mike Godwin PS The E F Benson story I was thinking of was called 'The Face'. And my stepdaughter reminded me how good 'The Bus Conductor' is too. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:07:46 -0700 From: Danielle Subject: Wilde, bad movies, and Lennon (rant content) Someone (who *was* that?) wrote, re Wilde: >Well, Fry is better than I expected, but the film is so low-key that you >would never _guess_ that the guy had a sense of humour, let alone that he >was a brilliant and witty conversationalist. The Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle syndrome. Except Wilde has a better chance of success, since it doesn't feature the godawful Jennifer Jason Leigh. (Mini-rant: can someone - anyone - give me a film in which JJL features and is not unbelievably mannered and 'look at me, I'm acting'-ish? I've tried so hard to see her appeal, and failed. Why do they keep casting her?) Susan and West, I read Fry's The Hippopotamus too, and giggled a lot. Ben Elton's novels (to compare Britcomedians turned authors) are so biting they depress me (live is a different matter), but Fry's wit is less caustic. I dunno about A Bit of Fry and Laurie, James. It was underwhelming more often than not. The worst movie I've ever seen? Hmm, tough competition, even if we're not counting 'so bad they're good' movies like Caged Heat or The Creeping Terror... How about Independence Day? Offensive for *so many reasons*! Or for sheer dullness, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Other contenders: yep, Blue Lagoon. Pirate Movie. Kevin Costner films. The first three quarters of the Band Wagon. And, objectively, Camelot, though I have a soft spot for it. I also have high hopes for this season - - the preview for Armageddon made me moan out loud (the horror!), and The Avengers is shaping up to be a total travesty. Uma=Emma? I don't *think* so. My, I *am* cranky about movies this evening. But I don't understand what's wrong with Julian Sands. He's all right. His acting style has never offended me. And he can kiss me passionately in an Italian field whenever he likes. ;) Capuchin wrote about Lennon: > In the sixties he was too > dependent on the system to actually undermine it in any meaningful way. Nitpicking time. That was really the point, wasn't it? The Beatles were originally following a familiar kind of linear, progressive trajectory, utterly accepted, ubiquitous in the western world to an extent that no other popular entertainers had ever been, part of 'the system'. When they started to articulate the tension between the old order and the 'New Morality' (it was always capitalised), didn't we all sit up and take notice precisely *because* they occupied such an important pop-cultural position? It's much easier to change people's ideas (ideas are the important bit, behaviour follows) if a lot of them are accustomed to listening to you. It's much more complex than that, of course, but I don't have all night. Nor do any of you, I'll be bound. :) Danielle, who *swears* she didn't start the Neutral Milk Hotel thread on the Costello list - now, if you lot start talking about tampons, the whole thing could get far too spooky for my liking... ;) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:18:36 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Semicoatedfragilebiscuit... On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, amadain wrote: > It was a childhood favorite of mine, along with "Half Magic" by Edward > Eager (has anyone else here ever read that?) (yet another lit. post) Gosh, it's years since I read that. I associate it vaguely with 'The Phantom Tollbooth' in atmosphere. The plot is probably influenced by 'Five children and it', where the wishes all go slightly wrong. I wonder if it's still available? I have attempted Sheridan le Fanu, but he's too Gothic for me - a bit lacking in pith, I guess. - - Mike Godwin PS If we're recommending children's books, 'The weirdstone of Brisingamen' and its (superior) sequel 'The moon of Gomrath' have the authentic glamour. Both by Alan Garner. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:08:16 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: pianos, fegtaste (was: On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Capitalism Blows wrote: > before _eye_, he had a piano and one guitar.> > so exactly what year are you talking, doug? are you sure it wasn't > *between* the releases of INVISIBLE and EYE? well, yes, but invisible had >just< come out. i think i'd read about it in creem or something but hadn't found a copy yet. (this is back when they were all glass flesh import and not all that easy to come by) i managed to get invisible and element at about the same time, so my release date chronology is a tad shaky, but they were both (c) 1996, yes? my best guess is that the gig in question was in early 1987 -- maybe early spring or the tail end of winter, since i think jojo and i were already living together. eye was what, 1988? or later? it was post, uh, the one with "tropical flesh mandala," no? swearing on a stack of tentacles, - -- 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: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:16:53 -0400 From: "Caroline" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #139 - -----Original Message----- From: M R Godwin To: Katherine Rossner Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 9:25 AM Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #139 > >But he's too sly, and too obsessed with Mackenzie King (who he, anyway?) >to convince as a writer of short ghost stories. > mackenzie king was a bit of an eccentric canadian prime minisiter (from the 1920's to the 40's). his main advisors during this time were the ghosts of his dead grandmother and his dead grandfather. no joke. he often visited mediums in attempts to reach dead relatives and former prime ministers. caroline ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:15:52 +0300 From: Noah Shalev Subject: Re: house of love David W. Dudich wrote: > > I was wondering if any of you knew about a band called "house > of love". They were around in Robyns late 80's/early 90's commercial > heyday, and also had a definate Syd Barrett influence. They had a > 'hit' of sorts called "i don't know why i love you", off a self-titled > album that has the sort of production PI shouldv'e had. > Anyone know where they came from/where they went? Donno much 'bout them, got that record though. The big hit on this one, as far as I recall was shine on. itis a recomanded album. all the best NOE ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:43:31 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: house of love I found this page quite informative, though it hasn't been updated since late '97: http://www.teleport.com/~luna/hol/news.html The latest 'Mojo' (the Underwater Moonlight one) features an interview with Guy Chadwick in which he claims to have played 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' every Sunday morning for the past 20 years. Gee whillikins! - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 98 10:32:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: 1/1/39 setlist? >>> Ticketmaster has tickets for Robyn Hitchcock at The Point in Atlanta, >>> Georgia on January 1, 2039. > >> possible set list: >> >> Statue With A Walker >> Where are the Prunes? >> Antacid Bird >Young People, they make Old People Scream! >My Dead Wife And My Dead Wife >Never Stop Bleeding (the low coagulates remix) >Senile, But She Was Happy >Furry Green Toilet Bowl >Heart Full Of Cholesterol >Mellow Together (the unplugged version) >The Man Who Urinated Himself >Only the Kidney Stones Remain >All I Want To Do Is Fall Asleep It's A Matlock Evening Transparent Liver Rock & Roll Bedpan Have A Heart Betty (I'm Arthritic) Verrucose Veins of the Queen Happy "The Golden Girls" Sandra's Having Her Gall Stones Out Black Snake Diamond Rocking Chair ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:58:38 -0400 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: RE: 1/1/39 setlist? Of course, all those titles are lovely, but the real occasion for that gig will be the premiere of his new song, "Point It At Me, Gran's Been Dead Quite A While Now" Dolph p.s.: I am not going to mention that I got a nice review at "100% Independent", nor will I give you the URL of http://pw2.netcom.com/~chrispy5/chaney.html to try and prove it. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:28:07 EDT From: MARKEEFE Subject: Re: Neutral Mall Hitchcock In a message dated 98-04-16 05:23:52 EDT, you write: << The set was beautiful and the horns made me tremble. The saw was appropriately haunting and the mousey looking girl standing in front of me kept backing up until I had to step around her >> Yeah, what was up with that chick?! Either NMH were so good that she could barely retain a sense of equilibrium, or Jeme and I are so damn good- looking that she was unable to control her impulse toward backing into us. High fives, Jeme! ;-) A wonderful -- yet tragically brief -- show. Oh, sure, they let the opening bands doddle around, not even starting until 10:30 or so, then they make NMH cut their set short, despite the cries of "Let them play!" from the audience. But they played their hearts out, Jeff Mangum flailing about with his amplified archtop, at one point tumbling over one of his bandmates (Julian?) who was kneeling on the floor at the time, probably bowing his saw. Super-high energy show! The sound kinda sucked (as it always does at Satyricon), but I'd imagine that, in a better venue, they would come across as flawless. They're a really tight band, no small thanks to their lanky, mop- topped drummer who looks as though his "Animal"-like (from the Muppet Show) drumming actually *will* save his life. I had thought, before last night, that they were a great "project band"; I now know that they are flat-out just a great band. Don't pass by the opportunity to check out Neautral Milk Hotel! - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:04:49 -0400 From: Scary Mary Subject: nmh praises You can count me in - I got the cd yesterday and I think it's great. Now I'm playing it at work (along with Olivia Tremor Control) and no one's made any negative comments! Mary ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 98 14:36:35 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Mangum Force Gene writes: >Ya know, I've got a coupla quasi-friends who released a Neutral Milk Hotel >single, and I might could get a hold of them, and get in contact with Jeff, >and maybe NMH will be in the area at the time, and... > >Guess that'd be cooler than just showing up with a bunch of radishes and a >polka-dotted shirt, eh? Hmmm . . . so . . . how, um, serious is this proposition, eh? I mean, it couldn't hurt to send him at least an *invite*, heh heh heh. . . . what do you think, Mike? Are you ready to jam with Jeff? - --Quail PS: But radishes are cool, too. Are they the quasi-friends you mean? I have some very nice pumpkin pseudo-chums I would like to introduce them to. . . . - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:54:17 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Robyn Hitchcock (0% NMH content) Hey everybody, There's this guy I've been listening to recently who I think some of the folks subscribed to this list might like. His name is "Robyn Hitchcock" (or something like that - I hope I've spelled it correctly). He used to be in a band called the "Soft Boys" and then he left to do solo records and also record with a backup band called "The Egyptians." I've actually bought quite a few of his albums and I've found just about all of them quite interesting and entertaining. And his live shows are really good too! He doesn't sound much like Neutral Milk Hotel, of course, but I thought some of you might be interested anyway... of course you might want to e-mail me privately about him, rather than fill up the list with a lot of off-topic stuff. JH3HeadedBoy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:49:47 EDT From: KarmaFuzzz Subject: Re: here we go again..... (0% RH) In a message dated 98-04-15 20:33:15 EDT, MARKEEFE@aol.com writes: > In a message dated 98-04-15 19:14:37 EDT, you write: > > << well, neither are that comforting ultimately. but in the sense that lone > psychos are random, as opposed to government (or other organization) > conspiracies are targetted, it's comforting to think that someone was taken > out for a legitimate reason, that john lennon or martin luther king were > truly > dangerous to the establishment (which they were), so dangerous that they > had > to be eliminated, so they didn't die in vain. with some random twit, their > deaths have less meaning in some way. >> > > Hmm. To my way of thinking, the nature of Lennon's or MLK's death isn't > so important as is what each person said and did during his (respective) > lifetime and the fact that each man died when he did, which thereby > intensified everything that his life had been about up until that point. > Maybe God (or who/whatever) was the head of the conspiracies in these men's > deaths. . . maybe their messages are kept most poignant due to each person > being killed "before his time." I don't know how firmly I believe in > destiny > and all of that (a bit, for sure), but it seems that, when we're meant to go, > the instrument of our undoing -- be it a freak accident, natural causes, a > nut > with a gun, or a government with an agenda -- is hardly as relevant as the > fact that that person's dead and that it was probably all part of The Big > Picture (which has a greater scope than any one government, of course). how one lives is always more important than how one dies. i think what i was trying to say is that somehow being brought down by "the man" makes you a better martyr than being brought down by "the lone nutcase loser." but certainly the most important thing about Lennon or King is their work, their art (and yes, i would consider King's Oratory art), and how it transformed the consciousness of the people of their age[s] and how it continues to influence people's hearts and minds today. I don't buy that dying young ultimately adds anything to their legacies though. If dying young were/was? a virtue, we'd all look up to Sid Vicious. > Treading on dangerous waters here, talking about religious/spiritual > beliefs. But, whatever. only dangerous is people lose their heads. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:23:25 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock (0% NMH content) >There's this guy I've been listening to recently who I think some of the >folks subscribed to this list might like. His name is "Robyn Hitchcock" (or >something like that - I hope I've spelled it correctly). He used to be in a >band called the "Soft Boys" and then he left to do solo records and also >record with a backup band called "The Egyptians." I've actually bought quite >a few of his albums and I've found just about all of them quite interesting >and entertaining. And his live shows are really good too! > >He doesn't sound much like Neutral Milk Hotel, of course, but I thought some >of you might be interested anyway... of course you might want to e-mail me >privately about him, rather than fill up the list with a lot of off-topic >stuff. What a prissy, utterly obnoxious post. Spare us the petulant whimpering. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:25:43 -0700 From: Eb Subject: . The death of any mailing list is pouting school marms who whine about offtopic content. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:21:27 -0400 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: Mangum Force Quail said: >Hmmm . . . so . . . how, um, serious is this proposition, eh? I mean, it >couldn't hurt to send him at least an *invite*, heh heh heh. . . . what >do you think, Mike? Are you ready to jam with Jeff [Magnum]? Well, it's kinda sorta serious. However, I did give my email address to the bass player for Olivia Tremor Control (you see, I invited them to stay at my apartment if they wanted to play in Baltimore...), and he said their drummer had an email account, and maybe he'll contact me, and if he does I'll ask him to put me in touch with Jeff, because there's a huge cult of radish-tossing, prawn-eating, toast-wearing, Fegmaniax who want to invite NMH and OTC to this special gathering happening in Pennsylvania. Tenuous, sure, but anything's possible. >PS: But radishes are cool, too. Are they the quasi-friends you mean? Sure, sure, radishes are my quasi-friends. But only after several pints of barley wine and playing "The Pit of Souls" real slowly over and over again for a few hours. (Look! There's the RH content!) ++++++++ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + Online Design Specialist II E-Doc + gene@edoc.com + http://www.edoc.com Voice: 410-691-6265 + Fax: 410-691-6265 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:54:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock (who's NMH?) Nice one, JH. Still, it can't top Doc's "Costello Binge-Snorting Helium" lampoon for making me spit my grape nehi into my keyboard. Man, I about busted a belt buckle imagining the look on Eb's face when he read that one (not that you, or he, necessarily had Eb in mind when you posted.) =b ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:03:35 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Mangum Force Jeanrote: >Well, it's kinda sorta serious. However, I did give my email address to >the bass player for Olivia Tremor Control (you see, I invited them to stay >at my apartment if they wanted to play in Baltimore...), and he said their >drummer had an email account, and maybe he'll contact me, and if he does >I'll ask him to put me in touch with Jeff My impression from my own OTC/NMH contact is that the OTC guys are *EXTREMELY* nice, while Mangum is more of a Robynesque nice-once-you-get-to-know-him-and-he-lets-down-the-barrier type. Oh, and JH3 informs me that his post was just a joke. If so, it came off very badly. Incidentally, you'll notice that I spared a list a review of the NMH show in L.A. Didn't see the point of further gushing. Eb np: Various Artists/Sing Hollies in Reverse (yet *another* tribute...) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:31:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: here we go again..... (0% RH) On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, KarmaFuzzz wrote: > > > > I'm not saying that I believe anyone other than Mark David Chapman was > > responsible for Lennon's death. I don't. It's just that I don't think that > > -in this case- the government conspiracy idea is completely and utterly > > unreasonable. > > It isn't unreasonable at all. the subject header though made it at least seem > that whoever posted this originally thought it was just another case of > paranoia (maybe i'm just reading too much into it having had a james earl > ray/mlk conversation inflicted upon me a few hours earlier) and of delusions, > when it isn't. as a species, we need our bad news to have some meaning, and > lone armed nutcases don't provide that for us. I have to disagree with Susan and KarmaFuzz here. Julian's theory that the government had his dad bumped off IS unreasonable. The US government would have seen little to gain (Lennon and the whole 60s generation were no longer seen as much of a threat by 1980) and a lot to lose (especially since the FBI and CIA were still smarting from the Church Commission's raking them over the coals in the mid-70s). Therefore I can't buy Julian's attitude that "well, that's the kind of thing that they would do, so I'm convinced." (Yes, that's a paraphrase.) So until some actual evidence (someone might want to explain to Julian what evidence is) of government involvement comes along, this particular conspiracy theory remains firmly in the unreasonable category. Julian Lennon said, re: John Lennon: >"He was dangerous to the government. If he had >said, 'Bomb the White House tomorrow,' there would >have been 10,000 people who would have done it," >Lennon said. "These pacifist revolutionaries are >historically killed by the government." What's really sad, and a little embarrassing, is the way Julian Lennon exaggerates his father's political importance. Maybe this was true in 1970, but certainly not in 1980. (And whoever explains evidence to Julian might also want to define pacifism while they're at it.) It's important to have a health sense of scepticism about government and authority figures. Automatically assuming the worst of them is NOT healthy scepticism. - --Chris the curmudgeonly ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:53:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Oops! (Was Re: here we go again..... (0% RH)) In my arrogance, I wrote "Julian Lennon" throughout my previous post, when of course I should have wrote "Sean Lennon." I guess I'm not perfect after all. That hubris stuff strikes again.... My apologies to Sean, and Julian, and whoever else might have been offended by this mistake. - --Chris the contrite curmudgeon PS: No apologies for my dismissal of Sean's conspiracy theory, though. ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:21:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Nashville you-know-what in DC Long-time Fegs may remember a brief exchange two weeks ago, when Tom Clark stumbled across Nashville Pussy on CDNow and I posted a brief, yet helpful, description of the band. Well, if anyone in the DC area wants to see how accurate my description was, Nashville Pussy will be playing at the Black Cat this Saturday, Apr. 18; tickets are $8. I'm not sure if I'll be going, myself, but I'm sure whoever does go will see a fun show. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:34:09 -0400 From: tanter Subject: 100% RH Robyn Hitchcock ;) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 98 19:56:14 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock (0% NMH content) > > What a prissy, utterly obnoxious post. Spare us the petulant whimpering. > So I was thinking ... Wheatsworth and bile dip! Yes, that's just what I need. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:17:29 -0500 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: Wilder Shores of Ken Russell >was frying some nuns. But there was a trashy thing about a dragon which >wasn't quite as bad ('The Lair of the White Worm'? some name like that?) Oh, "The Lair of The White Worm". It was about snake vampire monsters and a huge deadly worm that lived in a cave and a Roman snake cult revolving around it that thrived in a certain part of England and merged with Christianity, and the residents still celebrate the killing of the snake monster with a yearly morris dance, only.......maybe it isn't dead after all, because people are mysteriously disappearing. MOOHAHAHA! :) Anyway, I LOVE it, it's actually among my favorite movies. I've seen it several times and I always get a huge kick out of it. It's so kinky and hilarious, and had a real sense of place and of the power of folk myth. It reminded me a lot of "Fearless Vampire Killers", which I also love. I'll never forget Peter Capaldi staunchly marching around the empty mansion in a kilt playing the bagpipes to ward off the snake people :). Nor how wonderfully poker-faced and dry Hugh Grant was throughout all the goofy events- he acted for all the world as if he were actually in a Noel Coward play, and it was perfect. Actually, all involved were great and further, looked like they were having a great time and really enjoying the material, especially Amanda Donohoe as the evil snake vampire chick, a fun role if there ever was one. That was before Hugh was famous as a star of wholesome family-style comedies, of course. I wonder if that's still on his resume? :) >'Start the Revolution without Me' (featuring D. Sutherland and E. Gould) >was my worst of all time for many years, until 'Peter's Friends' came >along. And 'Ned Kelly' is always bubbling under... Ack. I tried to forget about "Ned Kelly". I wish you hadn't reminded me :). Some other worsts (aside, as Danielle said, from entertaining bad movies- because I don't count things as BAD bad if they at least entertain me, which is why I don't agree with "Plan 9 From Outer Space" being the worst movie ever made, because damned if it's not really amusing to watch the burning paper-plate spaceships fly through the air :)): Fresh Horses (a justly forgotten Andrew McCarthy/Molly Ringwald attempt at an "adult" vehicle) True Lies (don't get me started) Forrest Gump (again, don't get me started, and I don't want to hear from any lurking Forrest lovers, who all seem to act like the woman who bitched at LJ because she thought disliking "Titanic" was a sin against humanity- the movie is farging awful) Natural Born Killers Anything of Zalman King's (Ebby, you and I are as one on this) Six Weeks (Dudley Moore and Mary Tyler Moore in a stupid tearjerker- who thought of THIS combo?) Stir Crazy (whoever thought this one up should be shot. I can forgive an offensive premise, honestly, if the movie is FUNNY, but this wasn't, so it was just offensive and offensively stupid, not unlike "The Toy", which curiously enough ALSO featured Richard Pryor) Same Time, Next Year (a favorite of my mother's actually......GROAN) Anything directed by Edward Dymytryk (I think that's the spelling)- time to replace the overly-maligned Ed Wood and state the truth, that THIS guy is in fact the worst director of all-time Imitation of Life- I know that there are some cineast types who make a case for this film's "subversiveness" but I think they're overinterpreting because they think something this bad HAS to be a joke- all -I- saw on the screen was a truly awful groaner of a melodrama Class of 1984, Dangerously Close, Tuff Turf, a.k.a., the 80s pseudo new-wave youth culture trilogy (actually mildly fascinating in their sheer awfulness, sort of like a train-wreck that goes on for two hours) Pretty much anything with "as for you, Troy Donohue" :), although actually those on occasion can fall into the "so bad they're mighty entertaining" category, depending on my mood- "A Summer Place" is an undeniable hoot. And two I can't identify by name: Some stupid Wim Wenders (I think, might have been Fassbinder- I only remember it was some damn German thing from the 70s) movie about a suicidal writer who takes up with circus performers, I don't even remember the title but it was so annoyingly existential I wanted to smash it- the sort of thing "Sprockets" was invented to parody. Some late 60s/early 70s thing that had an older couple who gets divorced and each end up taking up with younger lovers, meanwhile their daughter decides that marriage is a fraud because of their divorce, so she lives with her boyfriend and gets pregnant, and they join a band with lots of long-haired stock Hollywood hippy extras, known as "The Comfortable Chair". I don't remember how it ends because I was too annoyed to finish watching it. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #146 *******************************