From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #226 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, June 17 1998 Volume 07 : Number 226 Today's Subjects: ----------------- for fun.... [tanter ] How to spot a feg (pt. 1?) [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Patti !!!! [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Re: Erotic Robyns and Homeres with Fleadhs [Condiment Spice ] Fwd: How to spot a feg (pt. 1?) ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] woops! (is my face red) ["Jenee A. Jordan" ] whalebone corsets and watson ["Jenee A. Jordan" ] top best 100 movies [tanter ] Re: You and I in place, wasting time on dominos. [M R Godwin ] Jewels for Sophia=oral sex? [Karen Reichstein ] Re: How to spot a feg (pt. 1?) [Tom Clark ] Expert Robyn [Mike Runion ] Re: Erotic Robyns and Horses with Fleadhs [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:39:28 -0400 From: tanter Subject: for fun.... head over to the squeezefan.com website. I don't want to give anything away, but there's a rather spicy photo that might give you a chuckle. (Eb will love this one!) Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 01:51:03 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: How to spot a feg (pt. 1?) On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:38:35 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > >I was really hoping that there would be some obvious group of feglisters, >and that I could walk up and introduce myself, but nothing jumped out >at me. It occurred to me after the show that it is quite likely that >I could have met Bayard, at least, by going back to where the mike >stands were, but it was too late at that point. Next time I'll bring >my brain defogger with me... You know, here's an idea: Maybe we could wear something identifiable to make us stand out. The Richard Thompson list has it's instantly recongnizable black (of course!) "dee" shirts (I am modeling one in the photos from the last number nine line gig (more next month!) on the "fegfotos" page. The Patti Smith list had circulated and rejected the idea of wearing armbands with infinity symbols (if memory serves me well) at her shows to find each other. Myself, I went down to the tavern of Rams Head, and it took me a while before I recognized Bayard. So, how about it: What item of clothing should we wear to find each other? -luther ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 02:00:09 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: Patti !!!! On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:38:35 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > > >I was only a few short yards away from Her Pattiness. Oh. She is cooler >than Bowie, cooler than Shane, cooler than Nick or Tom or even Eb. Oh, >hell -- she's so cool she could punch Lou Reed in the head. She opened >with a kick-ass version of "Rock and Roll Nigger," and not a single iota >of anger, condemnation, or fierce joy was missing or diluted. This was >fresh and new, like she wrote it yesterday on the back of a napkin from >the Chelsea Hotel. She then proceeded through a set, and what a set. > >She was a woman possessed at times, it seemed -- gripped totally by the >spirit of her muse, I have *never* seen a performer more lost in her >work, more *part* of the music. And her band! Wow! There's this piece >from her new CD where she adapts the words from Allen Ginsberg's >"Footnote to Howl," speaking them over some very haunting and >improvisational music. Well, they played that, and Good Lord. It was not >music, or poetry, or performance art -- it was sheer fucking religion, it >was a cry from the depths of her spirit, it was the most intense >performance of anything I have ever seen -- by the end, I was literally >crying. And that was just one of the many times she did that -- she would >start the groove of a song, play it out slowly, and then build it up, let >it guide her, drive her, drown her; she struck the most amazing balance >with her band -- the synergy was indescribable. They *took* her places, >and yet her poetic chantings and gut-wrenching singing still commanded >them to follow her: I was reminded of this old movie I once saw, where a >Shaman was spaced out on drugs and chanting in holy ecstasy, guided >gently, lovingly, reverently by two assistants. (Lenny Kaye just loves >her, so much, you can see it.) I was, in short, in awe. > Agreed- religious trancendance by performance. >And on top of being almost prophetically holy, she was just so amazingly >cool. She knew that the whole stadium of drunken Saw Doctor fans was not >really into her, but ah, that small group in front of the stage . . . she >was just so happy, so delighted that we were there for her. She seemed so >kind, and yet so powerful -- and funny, too. My favorite moment was when >she actually "shooed" away a photographer from the photo booth -- >apparently she just didn't want to have her picture taken at that time! > >So I don't know if she is ever going to tour -- alas! she is not playing >the Fleadh in Chicago or the Bay! -- but please go see her if you ever >can. . . . and by the way, her latest album, "Peace and Noise," is, in my >opinion, something that ranks somewhere between "Horses" and "Radio >Ethiopia." Great, great. > >Oh, my Patricia! It's so good to really have you back. . . . YES! YES! YES! "Peace and Noise" is amazing! It has her doing that Alan Ginsburg spoken word piece, a ten-minute improvised field about a soldier in Vietnam dying and meeting "the gods of his ancestors", a couple of shoulda been hits ("Don't say nothin'", "Dead City", "Whirl Away").... BUT PATTI IN CONCERT- if she is playing near you, GO!!! -luther ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:57:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Condiment Spice Subject: Re: Erotic Robyns and Homeres with Fleadhs > and I swear that I will be a bit > more coherent than my new roommate, Shirley Feeney. Hey, Jet! Ragu, we don't take lightly to name calling around here! > Tim Keegan was really cool -- I never saw him before, and I thought he > played two damn good sets, especially his first, more light-hearted set. > The beer was so expensive that I couldn't buy "Acoustic Homer," "Sonic > Marge," or even "Eno Three-Speaker Maggie," but I'll keep my eyes peeled > for them in the future. For those who have been to the shows what Homer goods are for sale? Anything that cannot be had through mail-order? over, .chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:18:38 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Yay! I have an excuse to talk about Scott (was well-orificed remarks) > I think that, with his first three albums (Scott 1, Scott 2, Scott 3), >that was the point: Traditional wall-o'-strings pop, but with lyrics that >greatly transcended the usual topics of the pop vocal genre (ya know, >philosophy and squalor and stuff like that). True to an extent. One of the things I like about those records is the way they really push the genre limits intellectually and emotionally, proving that one need never limit oneself to "silly love songs" if one does not wish to :). Then again, seen on paper some of these songs are not particularly striking, he just manages to -find- the poetic melancholy hidden within them and make them sound as if they are. In particular, "Angelika" on "Scott 1" overwhelms me (the part where he sings "and now in my solitude/I tend the flowers that I buy" is so powerfully tragic I can barely stand it), but seen on paper the lyrics actually strike me as cheap bathos and not the epic tragedy it is when Scott sings it. The arrangements themselves are actually often quite subtly strange tho. Listen closely to "It's Raining Again"- very clashing and discordant underneath the smooth veneer, also "Big Louise", "Mathilde", &c. There's something about those arrangements that's quite different, more suited to the almost unrelenting darkness of the material, and listening to them back to back with say, a more traditional pop vocal album like "Hello Young Lovers" or even some of the early Walker Brothers makes that all too clear. I like that Ennio Morricone western soundtrack style that he sometimes favors too, although that seems much less striking than the others mentioned. In any event, I like the contrast effect that they have of pushing his voice to the forefront, giving it almost the feel of a human voice crying out from (literally) a wilderness. With Spector's production, the effect is to distract one to a certain extent from the fact that the voices in question aren't particularly interesting- the Walker arrangements are more to compliment and highlight the fact that this strong, dramatic voice shines against a strong backdrop. >Yeah, "Tilt" is nothing like his early stuff. I love both ends of his >career, >but "Tilt" is a fairly difficult album -- not as difficult as >some critics >would have you believe, though. I don't think so either. I think they were just startled by it, though I don't think they would have been quite so startled if they'd heard "The Electrician" or "Climate of Hunter"- they would have seen better where he was heading. The thing is, it seems a rather natural direction, having gone as far as he could go with the big string arrangements, to head out the opposite way. Again there is a real effect of a lone voice desperately crying out, this time from a void. The use of space in "Tilt" is really very effective. >Buckley's "Starsailor"? Actually, I think "Tilt" is really beautiful, in a >haunting way, of course. In a very bleak way too, and yes haunting, but to me his voice always had a ghostly quality, even when he was a Walker Brother singing "I Don't Wanna Hear It Anymore"- trust Scott to take a typical pop song about "you've got another guy and the neighbors are gossiping about it" and turn it into a kind of paranoid existential nightmare. >interesting images. Anyway, there's obviously a bit of Scott Walker (his old >stuff) in the young Wainwright, but probably the influences are a step removed >(via Roxy Music or something; I don't know). That would be my guess although I don't know enough about Wainwright's influences to speculate. I would also guess that that's where Jarvis Cocker gets it as well. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:23:14 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: a number of remarkably well-orificed remarks >If you get a question right, it's one point. If you get a question wrong, >it's minus 1/3 point. If you don't answer at all, no penalty. So if your >total wrong answers are a multiple of three (like mine were), your score is >an integer. I believe the SATS are scored in a similar manner, only with 1/4 of a point for wrong answers. Anyone else remember? Anyway, this is what explains the decimal scores, obviously. I didn't save my test so I don't have any way of knowing what my wrong answers actually were, but since my score was an even 143 I would assume they were also some multiple of 3. On a test like this it's better to leave blanks than to guess, which I rather foolishly didn't do enough of :), but I'm sure there'll be plenty more for years to come. Love on ya, Susan P.S. Actually, believe it or not I agree with Eb a good deal of the time. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:46:08 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: a number of remarkably well-orificed remarks >>I agree with Eb. I can't see this at all, and I too think Ron Sexsmith is >>wussy-sounding. A little too "precious folkie" for my tastes, but then I've >>never liked wispy voices, whether male or female. > >Aren't you a Nick Drake fan, or am I confused? I am. I don't consider Nick Drake to be in the same class. I wouldn't call Drake's voice wispy. Yes, a low intimate, breathy quality, but it's not quite what I meant by wispy. Also, Nick Drake, though he was breathtaklingly gentle, was not what I would call a wuss. He was also a very original writer, who used a lot of quite interesting voicings and arrangements, while Sexsmith, from what I've heard, strikes me as altogether a more traditional writer in that regard. I may be quite wrong as I haven't heard that much of his stuff. All I can say is that Nick Drake moves me, and Sexsmith snoozes me. Actually as far as contemporary folk or "folk" or "folk-pop" or whatever you call that stuff goes, I'm much more inclined to give props to someone like Luka Bloom than someone like Ron Sexsmith. Luka Bloom at least tries to kickstart some new life into it rather than merely skilfully rehashing. Can you picture Sexsmith successfully covering LL Cool J? I can't. Luka Bloom may not quite have his technical facility, which I will grant you Sexsmith has in spades, but he's ten times more original. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 03:07:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: How to spot a feg (pt. 1?) Luther wrote: >You know, here's an idea: >Maybe we could wear something identifiable to make us stand >out. The Richard Thompson list has it's instantly recongnizable black >(of course!) "dee" shirts (I am modeling one in the photos from the >last number nine line gig (more next month!) on the "fegfotos" page. I think someone should do a scientific study and see which percentage is higher -- the percentage of my posts that mention Neutral Milk Hotel, or the percentage of Luther's posts that mention Richard Thompson. I'm guessing that he'll win, but maybe I'm mistaken. ;) Eb, just back from the Jesus & Mary Chain PS Some folks from the band and otherwise went out drinkin' afterwards, and I now know William Reid's email address. Ha. :) PPS I've always hated the phrase "in spades" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 07:49:14 -0400 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Fwd: How to spot a feg (pt. 1?) David W. Dudich asked: > So, how about it: What item of clothing should we wear to find >each other? Toast! No, really. If woj would tell us where he got that spiffy toast t-shirt, we could all get one and it'd be the perfect identifier. Well, either a toast-shirt or huge paper machier Thoth headdresses, right? Uh-oh. Here comes the toast thread again. +++++++++++++++++ "We're using God like ketchup!" + Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + -- P. Catham +++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:24:40 -0400 From: "Jenee A. Jordan" Subject: woops! (is my face red) johnj wrote: > Er, that would be me (white t-shirt) and my friend Francesco (glasses). > I did, in fact, comment on your brie, which is only appropriate for > a Robyn show, I guess. For that matter, I may be shy, but I'm no > trekkie, and I wasn't sure how far to press an acquaintance that > started with us kicking your friends out of our seats... SORRRRYYYYYYY :( I do apologize....feel like I've breached feg decorum or something, and certainly hate to accuse anyone of being a rabid trekkie falsely! Halfway through the show I realized I could have given the guys at the other table our seats (made their night really) while at the same time made my "big city" friends happy. Oh well, a good time was had by all, and I do apologize if that was awkward in any way for you and your friend. Can I still stay on the list? :) This just goes to show you, you don't necessarily know a feg when you see one....jenee - -- "What is heaven?........Heaven is relief from tired tootsies." - --from Diane Keaton's documentary, "Heaven" check out my web page: http://home.earthlink.net/~penpapercofe/ pen, paper, coffee - The elements of writing... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:27:59 -0400 From: "Jenee A. Jordan" Subject: whalebone corsets and watson john hedges wrote: > So, what sort of Holmes & Watson references did he make? (I guess I > could > wait for the tape, if I ever manage to score a copy...) Hmmm, if I > thought > there was any chance he might've been reading my stuff, I would have > inserted some Robyn references in there just to freak him out a bit. > Hey, > maybe it's not too late! > the one I distinctly remember was after victorian squid, where he talked about watson wearing a whalebone corset whenever he was in the mood. The homosexual references about watson/holmes were so thinly veiled you thought you were at a wedding!!! jenee - -- "What is heaven?........Heaven is relief from tired tootsies." - --from Diane Keaton's documentary, "Heaven" check out my web page: http://home.earthlink.net/~penpapercofe/ pen, paper, coffee - The elements of writing... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:48:43 -0400 From: Aidan Cully Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock/Chinese water python On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:33:06PM, mr. pointy said: > fegs, > > got this tab in the mail today. anyone want to comment or confirm? Yeah, it's the same one I submitted about a year ago.. If I remember right, it's actually on the web page listed under IODOT tabs. He probably got it from OLGA. - --aidan > >From: "Christopher Vuchetich" > >To: > >Subject: Robyn Hitchcock/Chinese water python > >Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 16:32:35 -0700 > > > >Hi there, > > > >was looking at your web site and saw your tab for songs, thought you might > >like this one as well, don't recall where I received this but it sounds > >pretty darn close to the song on the album. > > > >Christopher > > > >Chinese Water Python from the album Eye. > > > >Playing order: > >(Part One, Part Two) x2 > >(Part Three) > >(Part One) > > > >[Part One] > > [G] [C] > >E-------------------------------------0------- > >B-------------0h1p0-------1h3p1---0----------- > >G-0h2p0---------------0---------------0------- > >D---------0----------------------------------- > >A--------------------------------------------- > >E-3-----------3-----------3------------------- > >[G][D] [C] [G] [D] > >E-3-2-5-2-0-3-0------------------- > >B---------------0h1-3-1p0--------- > >G-0-------------------------2----- > >D---0-------2-2-------------0----- > >A---------3----------------------- > >E---------------3----------------- > > > > [G] [C] > >E-------------------------------------0------- > >B-------------0h1p0-------1h3p1---0----------- > >G-0h2p0---------------0---------------0------- > >D---------0----------------------------------- > >A--------------------------------------------- > >E-3-----------3-----------3------------------- > >[G][D] [C] [G] [D] [G] > >E-3-2-5-2-0-3-0------------------- > >B---------------0h1p0------------- > >G-0---------------------2---0----- > >D---0-------2-2---------0--------- > >A---------3----------------------- > >E---------------3-----------3----- > > > >[Part Two] > >(play this part three times, and on the fourth, play up to the first note > >in the G. Sustain this for a whole note) > >[strumming distinctly] > >[D] [C] [G] > >E--------------------------------------- > >B-----3--------------------------------- > >G-2-2-2p0-------------0----------------- > >D-0-0-----4---0---0-2------------------- > >A---------0---0-3-------3p2-------0-2h3- > >E---------------------------3-2-3------- > > > >[Part Three] > >[increased tempo] > >E-----3--------------------------------------------- > >B-------------------3-------------0---------3---1--- > >G---------------------0-------------0h2---2--------- > >D---5---5-5p4---0h2-----4/2---0h2-------4-----0----- > >A-------------5-------------3----------------------- > >E-3------------------------------------------------- > > > >E-----------2--------------------------- > >B-------------------0h3----------------- > >G-----------------0-----0-------0------- > >D-2-----2/4---4/5-----------4---0------- > >A-----3---------------------5----------- > >E--------------------------------------- > > > >E-----3----------------------------------------------- > >B-------------------3---------------------3----------- > >G---------------------0---------0-------------0---2--- > >D---5---5-5p4---0h2-----4/2---2---2--/4--------------- > >A-------------5-------------3------------------------- > >E-3--------------------------------------------------- > > > >E------------------------------------------- > >B-----1------------------------------------- > >G-------------------0-----------2---0------- > >D-4-------2-----0h2---------------------0--- > >A-------------3-------3p2---0h2-3----------- > >E-------------------------3---------3------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:46:03 -0400 From: tanter Subject: top best 100 movies Let's see....they can rank the 100 top best, eh? I wonder what the 100 top would be....? Marcy ;) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 16:25:31 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: You and I in place, wasting time on dominos. On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Patrick Welker wrote: > Just to add my meaningless rantings to the chat. I think 'Barrett' is > the BEST album ever put out by any member of Pink Floyd's barber shop. > Solo or otherwise. Before I slip under the rock from which I came, one > question. WHAT THE HELL IS A GIGOLO AUNT? My theory, for what it's worth, is that the lyric began as: "I know what you are, you are a gigolo, aren't you, a gigolo, aren't you?" Then he realised that he couldn't scan the line and include the last "you" as well, so he changed it to: "I know what you are, you are a gigolo, aren't you, a gigolo, aren't?" And then, Syd never being too worried about the actual meaning of the words, "aren't" mutated into "aunt". As far as the comparison of his pre-1968 work and 1968-70 stuff goes, my feeling is that he did several great songs with the Floyd, including: Arnold Layne / See Emily Play / Lucifer Sam / Astronomy Domine / Scarecrow / Bike / Scream thy last scream / Apples and Oranges / Jugband Blues and he also did some first-rate songs on the solo albums, notably: Octopus / Terrapin / Baby Lemonade / No good trying / Dominoes / Gigolo aunt / and (can't remember what some of these are called, but they include the lines) "Won't you miss me?" / "You would hold your hand in mine" /"Inside me I feel alone and unreal". I think his songwriting ideas kept coming right through, but his performing ability / interest took a beating. The problem with the solo albums is that there are too many performances which are still at the demo stage, and he regrettably never showed any interest in tidying them up. But possibly one advantage of this is that they haven't "dated" in the way that a fully-produced 1968 record might have done (imagine "Baby Lemonade" given the full "Pictures of Matchstick Men" / "Itchycoo Park" treatment - on second thoughts, don't). Did any of you see that Italian booklet + mini-CD containing a long interview with Syd's sister which had been translated into Italian and then translated back into English? It also included some reproductions of the paintings he has been doing. - - Mike Godwin PS Spellings etc: "Deity" (pronounced Dee, not Day) "Po" (as in Tinky Winky); Poe is Berenice and the Murders in the Rue Morgue. X and P superimposed is the Christos symbol someone referred to: the X is the Greek Kh sound and the P is the Greek R. PPS I saw Shane McGowan and the Popes recently, and I really didn't find it funny or entertaining watching this drunk singer trying to stand up for the duration of the set. The Popes did a nice lift of the riff from "Just like Eddie", however. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 17:13:34 +0100 (BST) From: "BENJAMIN.BRETTENNY" Subject: Re: top best 100 movies On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, tanter wrote: > Let's see....they can rank the 100 top best, eh? I wonder what the 100 top > would be....? > > Marcy ;) > > Star Wars x 100 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:00:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Karen Reichstein Subject: Jewels for Sophia=oral sex? Jeez. What a way to start my morning. The Great Quail Wrote: >So . . . here's my question, and it is sort of PG-13. Does anyone else >here think "Jewels for Sophia" is about -- or at least inspired by -- >oral sex? It really struck me that way, hearing it twice in one night. >Sort of an erotic hallucinatory trip through the mind of . . . well, er, >you get the picture. So, Fegs and Fegettes, what do you think? You know, you might just be right. I'm trying to replay the lyrics in my head and all I can remember are bits of words like "really wasted" "pocket" and "so num-a-num" (as in "yummy" I presume). It's the chorus that stands out the most. Someone help us out and post the lyrics! So you think the term "jewels" might refer to, er, the family jewels? This is going to keep me giggling the rest of the day. But then lots of Robyn's songs are highly sexual, albeit abstract. I Am Not Me, Wafflehead, Agony of Pleasure, Perspex Island, and, most oddly, Wax Doll ("If I was man enough I'd come on your stump."?????). I've never figured that last one out. karen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 98 12:43:53 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: top best 100 movies Ben wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, tanter wrote: > > > Let's see....they can rank the 100 top best, eh? I wonder what the 100 top > > would be....? > > > > Marcy ;) > > > > > Star Wars x 100 > Take two "Lathe of Heaven" and call me in the morning. I personally blame "Star Wars" for ruining at least a decade of science fiction. "Star Wars" is why the "bad guy" in Dune was squishing little mousoids and drinking their juices. He may as well have twirled the ends of a waxed mustache and cackled. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 98 10:05:29 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: How to spot a feg (pt. 1?) On 6/16/98 6:51 PM, David W. Dudich wrote: > You know, here's an idea: > Maybe we could wear something identifiable to make us stand out. We should all wear Bayard-inspired goatees! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:07:35 -0700 From: Mike Runion Subject: Expert Robyn Hey all, Well, see, I'm in this Expert Systems class (my final semester of grad school!) and we have to develop a simple expert system (ES) related to some hobby that we feel like we're an "expert" in. So, I'm pondering and mulling it all over and my wife suggests a Robyn Hitchcock ES. I think, yeah, like it'll ask all these vague musical reference type questions and spit out recommended Robyn albums. It'll assume the user knows next to nothing about Robyn, but you know, like someone recommended him, and they just want to know where a good place to start is. Anyway, here's the qualifiers (and choices) I've come up with so far: 1. Which format? (CD, vinyl, all) 2. Are you interested in: (readily available titles, everything!) 3. Which types most interest you? (albums, singles, all) 4. Which decade do you like? (70's, 80's, 90's, all, the newer the better) 5. Are you interested in only "popular" phases of his career? (yes, no) 6. Do you like? (simple acoustic arrangements, full electric, both) 7. Do you prefer? (solo, full band, both) 8. Which artist do you like the most? (Dylan, Lennon, Barrett) 9. Accompaniment? (piano, sax, violin, synth, odd sound effects) 10. Do you enjoy cover songs? (yes, no) 11. Do you prefer? (studio recordings, live, both) I'm also gonna throw a few in there regarding lyrical styles, perhaps even song subjects. If any of you out there in fegland can think of any interesting question/selection choices that's you'd want a computer to ask you in aiding its recommendations, feel free to email me offlist. Mike (whose finally glad he can weave Robyn into his grad courses somehow) Runion p.s. Hey there, Lurker Tom. p.s.s. Yeah, and my comment on "Jewels for Sophia" is that it is indeed one of Robyn's most blatantly sexual lyrics ever. And yes, those jewels are indeed the big ready-to-burst cajones ("See I bring you colored ones!") - -- 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 Sit-In!" - Julian Cope ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 98 10:02:03 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Erotic Robyns and Horses with Fleadhs On 6/16/98 5:46 PM, The Great Quail wrote: >(My mom is a huge Joan Baez fan. As a child, I actually >confused her with Joan Baez because my mom *looked* like Joan Baez, I have one of those celebrity "Think Different" posters on the window of my office. Out of all the "different thinkers" I could have chosen (e.g., Picasso, Einstein, Ghandi, Martha Graham), I chose........Joan Baez!! Yes folks, it's just another piece of the Great Quail's World Domination Through Mind Control puzzle falling into place. >So . . . here's my question, and it is sort of PG-13. Does anyone else >here think "Jewels for Sophia" is about -- or at least inspired by -- >oral sex? Perhaps you could post some lyrics in defense of your theory? >I was only a few short yards away from Her Pattiness. Oh. She is cooler >than Bowie, cooler than Shane, cooler than Nick or Tom or even Eb. Of course I'm flattered to be included in this list. But I'm not even cool enough to say the words 'Patti Smith.' Hell. I'm barely cool enougn to say 'Patty Smyth"!!! It's finally summer in Sillycone Valley! - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #226 *******************************