From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #238 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, June 25 1998 Volume 07 : Number 238 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: fegmaniax-digest V7 #235 ["Scott (Ferris) Thomas" ] Movie Quiz [Paul Montagne ] Re: Movie Quiz [amadain ] Re: Film Oldies Quiz [amadain ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #237 [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] new musical adventures [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #237 [Tom Clark ] Re: CD Burners/Net Recording [Viccicraig@aol.com] BOSTON FEGS HEED THIS WARNING!!! ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: BOSTON FEGS HEED THIS WARNING!!! [Christopher Gross ] Re: Film Oldies Quiz [JH3 ] an old old thread [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Mad Libb silly letter [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Folky songs [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Re: an old old thread [amadain ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #237 [KarmaFuzzz@aol.com] Re: Film Oldies Quiz [West ] A New Head [Andyjames <9337381b@student.gla.ac.uk>] At last I can start suffering and write that symphony [Danielle ] Re: folk music again (Carl Palmer content) [dlang ] Re: Who are you that is so wise in the ways of starFegmaniaxing? [Mark Gl] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:19:42 -0400 From: "Scott (Ferris) Thomas" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V7 #235 Quoth heir (hier? hare? hair???) Eb : > >One interesting thing I have noticed is that Sony has really been > pushing > >the mini-disc as "the new thing". The question is, will they be the > next CD > >or the next 8-track? > > 8-track. > Well...I certainly hope not. I bought an MZR-30 just a short while back and, while I can see them slipping through the cracks a bit, I don't see them fading entirely. As far as convenience and concealment goes, the thing's great. Sure it hasn't a digital output on it (it's only the portable), but then, I haven't anything with a digital input on it. I used it to record a certain pair of gigs in NYC recently, and I think they came out pretty damned good. At $350 it was about 1/2 the cost of a DAT deck, about 1/3 the size, and a lot more durable. Dunno. Maybe history will spank me for it, but then again, maybe I'll like it. - -ferris. ______________________ Ferris Scott Thomas Programmer Funnybone Interactive ______________________ Pecking for the pellet. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:35:02 -0400 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #237 >Doris Troy: Lead vocals >George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Steve Stills and Peter Framton (sic): >Guitars >Billy Preston: Keyboards >Klaus Voorman: Bass >Delaney & Bonnie: Percussion >Ringo Starr and Andy White: Drums Dang, this opens up a whole new dimension for Nick Drake in the Six Degrees of Separation game... >I could rant some more, but I will stop now. I have countless other >reasons to hate BTE. I only need one: they suck. n. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:45:39 -0700 From: Paul Montagne Subject: Movie Quiz I think I know exactly one, "13 - You used to be big. - - I am big. It's pictures that got small. (Title, Director)" Sunset Boulevard Director - Billy Wilder ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Montagne Faculty Research Assistant Oregon State University Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Phone: 541.737.3319 Fax: 541.737.3052 Email: montagnp@ucs.orst.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:38:24 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: Movie Quiz I wish I'd seen this quiz earlier. People seem to have answered most of them already. >I think I know exactly one, > >"13 - You used to be big. >- I am big. It's pictures that got small. (Title, Director)" > >Sunset Boulevard Director - Billy Wilder Heh, I used to go around saying this all the time. One of my favorite lines in all of moviedom. It must be said with GREAT DRAMA, e.g., "I AM big! It's the -PICTURES- that got small!!!!". This movie has some of the most wonderful dialogue in the world. I wish I could remember who wrote the screenplay. Was it Wilder? They had FACES then, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:47:38 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: Film Oldies Quiz >2. - Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again. (Title, Director) Rebecca of course, as someone already answered. AL Hitchcock directed. >3. - In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and > peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. (Title, Actor) Orson Welles as "Harry Lime" in "The Third Man", Carroll Reed directed. >4. - The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. (Title, > Original Author) Mae West? >5. - Where's the rest of me? (Title, Actor) Oh this is killing me. I KNOW this. Just not now. >7. - General Smith reports a gas attack. > - Tell him to take a teaspoon of bicarbonate soda in half a glass of > water. (Title, Name of Character giving reply) > >8. - I wasn't speaking to you, I was speaking to Elvira. She's here, Ruth, > a few yards away from you. > - Yes, dear, I can see her distinctly, under the piano with a zebra. > (Title, Original Author) Hehehehe! That's good Sir Noel. "Blithe Spirit". >9. - Quick, Watson, the needle. (Title, Actor) "Seven Percent Solution" this sounds like. Was it Alan Arkin as Freud? >10 - (In French) Is it Eurydice or Death you seek? > - Les deux. (Title, Director) "Orphee", Jean Cocteau. >12 - What do they think I am, dumb or somethin'? Why, I make more money > than Calvin Coolidge, put together! (Title, movie innovation on which > the plot is based) "Singin' In The Rain". The transition from silence to sound. Very funny stuff. "Moses supposes, his toeses are roses!" >13 - You used to be big. > - I am big. It's pictures that got small. (Title, Director) Someone got this already. "Sunset Boulevard", Wilder. >16 - Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. (Title, Name of > Character) OH, this was a Marx Brothers flick. I'm pretty sure it was Groucho as Rufus T. Firefly. That's all I can get off the top of my head. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:59:28 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #237 >>I could rant some more, but I will stop now. I have countless other >>reasons to hate BTE. >I only need one: they suck. Actually I heard one of their tracks on a sampler (probably CMJ) that did not immediately cause projectile vomiting or internal hemmorhaging as far as I know. I think if you have a band name of "Better than Ezra" you should at least be better than somebody named Ezra. I knew Ezra. These guys are no Ezra. BTW, at the risk of being attacked by a Legion of Fire ants, I saw the X-Files flick over the weekend. I recommend it if you like that stuff or don't know if you like that stuff. If you definitely don't like that stuff, you should watch The Muppets Go Medieval (with Troy McClure) overandoverandoveragain. X-F wasn't brilliant, wasn't even great. I didn't learn a lot of new answers, but it was a good ride. Happies, - -Ezra's dead cousin Ralph, who died mysteriously upon accidentally mislaying his spanner between the hemispheres of his brain... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:42:01 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: new musical adventures On Wed, 24 Jun 1998 05:57:17 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > >Basically, there are so many bonuses for small labels or bands to go >web-based - no hassle about record deals, manufacturing costs, even >promotion is almost automatic - that a lot of them are going to go that >way. I'm looking into doing right now. I am too...look for http://www.crosslink.net/~jbloom/nonl.htm to become "nonl.com" in the relatively near future... Why bother with the whole "tour the country (to half-filled dives, usually) and then come back to a stinking retail/restaurant job" shite? With new technology, you can work a REAL job AND get a 'following'...interesting...in the future, intelligence (in technology and web-design) may be a real deciding factor in music (at least among upper-middle class whites- Must remember, large parts and social classes in the world do NOT have web access, and won't in the foreseeable future...) -luther ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 98 16:01:28 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #237 On 6/24/98 2:59 PM, Mark Gloster wrote: >BTW, at the risk of being attacked by a Legion of Fire ants, I saw the >X-Files flick over the weekend. I recommend it if you like that stuff >or don't know if you like that stuff. If you definitely don't like that >stuff, you should watch The Muppets Go Medieval (with Troy McClure) >overandoverandoveragain. X-F wasn't brilliant, wasn't even great. I >didn't learn a lot of new answers, but it was a good ride. Agreed. I saw it last night. I've watched the show for the past three or four years so everything was familiar. I'm not sure there was enough exposition for newbies, tho. Definitely not enough expostition of Scully!! ;^) Hey - Better Than Ezra vs. Goo Goo Dolls! To quote Butthead: "Night of the living bands that suck." Which reminds me - Semisonic has gotten some raves on this list, IIRC. But geezuss does that "Closing Time" song suck the lunchmeat! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:40:32 EDT From: Viccicraig@aol.com Subject: Re: CD Burners/Net Recording In a message dated 98-06-24 15:56:24 EDT, MARKEEFE@aol.com writes: > First, I'm going to moderately disagree with a lot of the people who >think that it's too soon to get all worked up about the possible future of a >mostly web-based record industry. Yeah, sure, a lot of people still don't >have computers or CD burners. But, 10 years ago, a lot of people didn't have >CD players, either. Now, very few people who could be considered potential >consumers of prerecorded music are without at least one CD player. Also, CDs >are, without a doubt, the industry standard. This sounds like a "no duh" >kind >of statement, but, 15 years ago, it might have seemed unlikely that this >would >be true. And, of course, 5 years ago, hardly anyone would imagine doing >anything at all with the Internet, much less buying huge amounts of stuff of >off it. Obviously, it has yet to become "the norm," but I think it's >shortsighted to believe that this won't become the case....... I guess maybe what i was trying to say also which isnt a point i have seen discussed is this.....TONS of people already pirate the music, i can copy a CD to my HD run a server and you can all grab what you want off it (within reason depending on the server's abilities) sooooooo why i doubt this will ever turn a profit is simply because most 21 year olds etc who seem like an obvious market for this will be presented with this: A: you can buy this song and download and then if your friend wants it he can buy it and download it and same with everyone else or B: You buy it and give to all your friends, or Mass Mail it, out on your web site, or share with others or C: Some Guy cards it (cc fraud would big a big issue here no doubt~~if you think you are safe.....dont) along with tons of other songs, he has them he sends them around on IRC to people who want them or trade for them (this is already going on with regualar CD's and software~~there is little software you can not get for free) There is no way to curb this.....even if they do succeed at getting people to do it, i doubt their profits will make it worthwhile.....and i highly doubt that given the option most people would easily pick the cheaper way...... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 18:59:44 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: BOSTON FEGS HEED THIS WARNING!!! question. in one of the wafflehead newzletters, oh, it must've been summer of '94, she mentioned that robyn was putting together an album of himself reading his stories, some of which had appeared in albums, others of which had not. and i think andy was doing the music. i wrote her a year or so after that, asking her if this project was still in the works, and she said yes. but haven't heard anything about it since. anybody here know what's up with that? is this thing kaput? just judging from Happy The Golden Prince and Moose Mark, plus the readings from last year's eastern seaboard dates, i can't imagine it being anything less than stellar. well, just judging by the fact that it's *robyn* i can't imagine it being anything less than stellar... sounds to me like you're looking at the catalog number, which, yes, should be the same on all of 'em. the one i'm talking about was printed on the front cover, on the lower right hand corner of disc one. kind of a, you know, "limited edition" thing, or what have you. if you don't have one printed on there .chris, then i'm afraid you got yours too late, and you're out of the running for the photograph. yet another dead milkmen reference on feg!! stop it y'all, before i faint from overdelight. "what's a 'pederast,' walter?" "shut the fuck up, donny." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:52:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: BOSTON FEGS HEED THIS WARNING!!! On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Capitalism Blows wrote: > > yet another dead milkmen reference on feg!! stop it y'all, before i > faint from overdelight. Talk to me about Elvis! - --Chris PS: Eddie Tews will be happy to learn that I finally saw and enjoyed _The Big Lebowski_ a few days ago. ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 23:12:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: disgust-o-fic and Poppy Z. Brite (sub-zero RH content) On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, the dlangmeister wrote: > I wouldn't automatically label descriptions of violence "sick " anymore > than thee Grosser > m'dear, its just that that was the feeling it gave me , that this > description unnecessarily dwelt on the gross destruction of a human > being, to such an extent that it produced a feeling of revulsion in me . > What I sensed was that she was describing it just for the sake of it, as > if piling on detail after sickening detail would somehow prove something > and make her writing better . [snip!] Well, I haven't read the particular book in question [Exquisite Corpse], so I can't dispute your description of it. However, I have read her first two books and they aren't like that, so if you ever feel like giving Poppy another chance, check out Lost Souls and Drawing Blood. I believe John McIntyre already mentioned these two books.... Poppy Z. Brite isn't my favorite horror writer, but I think there's more than gore to her writing. I too have been turned off writers by a single book. For example, I've read one and a half of Dean Koontz's novels and absolutely hated them, so I've avoided him ever since. The guy's written dozens of books though, so for all I know I'm missing out on some that I would love.... And it's interesting to wonder what would've happened if the first Robyn Hitchcock album I had heard was my least favorite, probably Gravy Deco. (Not that I hate it, I just love it least.) Would I have even listened to the rest? Scary thought! (No doubt the Quail woulda shown me the light, though.) - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 23:29:51 -0400 From: "mr. pointy" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #237 also sprach Tom Clark: >Hey - Better Than Ezra vs. Goo Goo Dolls! To quote Butthead: "Night of >the living bands that suck." hey, the first two goo goo dolls albums are pretty decent punk. forget the title of the first, but it featured the wonderous song "don't beat my ass (with a baseball bat)" and a killer cover of "don't fear the reaper"; the second was called _jed_. i don't deny their suckness now though. woj n.p. roy harper -- thedreamsociety ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:43:44 -0500 From: JH3 Subject: Re: Film Oldies Quiz I don't really like quizzes, but what the hey... >6. - It wasn't the airplanes, it was beauty killed the beast. (Title, > Number of Wonder of the World) King Kong, 8 (seems like an obvious one but I didn't see anybody answer it) >7. - General Smith reports a gas attack. > - Tell him to take a teaspoon of bicarbonate soda in half a glass of > water. (Title, Name of Character giving reply) I think this was from a Marx Brothers movie, probably "Duck Soup"... is this the one that has the direct connection to Robyn then? Or is this from "What Did You Do During the War, Daddy?" >9. - Quick, Watson, the needle. (Title, Actor) Isn't this spoken by Robert Stephens at the end of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes? Though Susan might be right about The 7% Solution - btw, it was Alan Arkin as Freud, with Nicol Williamson as Sherlock and Robert Duvall as Watson... >19 - You go - we belong dead. (Title) The Bride of Frankenstein! I'm shocked nobody got this! >20 - I am trying to recover an ornament that has, shall we say, been > mislaid. (Title, Actor _and_ Name of Character) The Maltese Falcon, Sydney Greenstreet as The Fat Man? - -JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:44:02 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: an old old thread Trying to digest more old digests than I could possibly believe would have built up, I realised another quick'n'easy Robyn->Brian Eno link was missed last month... Robyn->Morris Windsor->Adam Ant->Eno hmm... Robyn->Morris->Adam->Eno->Fripp->Greg Lake->Ca.. ...... ulp! James ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:44:18 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Mad Libb silly letter >Mad Libb: > >Hi, [a good friend's name]. My name is [fake name 1], and I work at the >[funny store name] in the same mall as you. My friend [funny name 2, >spelled like a pop star] [...] I gotta try this... Mad Libb: Hi, Dr Feldman. My name is Grunhilda, and I work at the Binkly Brothers Shoe and Waffle Emporium in the same mall as you. My friend Saltpeter and me (her real name is Sally, but she spells it that way cause of Peter Gabriel) always see you and we think you are TOTALLY obsolete!!! I remembered your name from your Viagra prescription and I looked you up on the Wombat Valley Weekly Salvo's Lust List. That is a nauseating picture of you. I don't know much about Gilbert O'Sullivan's music 'cept for that song "Oo wakka doo wakka day" but Saltpeter and me are going to his bar mitzvah next week cause your going to boil your face. Do you have a hot tuna for Sally, so she'll stop wallpapering you? She thinks your like the Penguin from "Batman" but I think your WAY shorter than that. The Penguin was pretty unimpressive, though. That's my favorite movie, 'cause I make my own decisions, too. Okay so I'll see you at the equator and I hope you don't play golf. XOXOXO, Grunhilda well??? James ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:44:20 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Folky songs >Not mine. I think Robyn has a lot of folky songs, a good many of which >don't sound like parodies. Much of "Eye" and "IODOT" as you said, also >"Speed of Things" strikes me as very traditional folk-sounding. And "The >Black Crow Knows" and "Lady Waters" as well, and I'd even say "Never Stop >Bleeding". I'd agree. The Black Crow Knows is folky in a Jethro Tull-ish sort of way, and I've long wanted to do a Steeleye Span like version of Lady Waters (I almost did it for the latest Glass Flesh, but didn't get the elements assembled properly). "Chinese Water Python" would not sound at all out of place on John Renbourn's marvellous "The Hermit" album, either (anyone else out there know this classic?) oh, and in all the fuss about *that* message, I forgot to say "Happy (belated) Birthday" to our beloved ex-Truman! Hope it wasn't ruined too much by the wazzock's mail! 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: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 01:16:36 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: an old old thread >Trying to digest more old digests than I could possibly believe would have >built up, I realised another quick'n'easy Robyn->Brian Eno link was missed >last month... > >Robyn->Morris Windsor->Adam Ant->Eno Ok, what's the Adam Ant link to Eno? I's befuddled. The Morris Windsor I can't recall offhand but it seems plausible. The Eno one has me stumped. Through a soundtrack album of some sort? Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 02:57:23 EDT From: KarmaFuzzz@aol.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #237 tclark@apple.com writes: > Hey - Better Than Ezra vs. Goo Goo Dolls! To quote Butthead: "Night of > the living bands that suck." yes, but which one is Better Than Ezra, which one's Collective Soul, Tonic, Matchbox 20, (other than the one with Dylan's kid) The Wallflowers? at least with the Goo Goo Dolls, you know they're the ones who are unto The Replacements as Green Day are Buzzcocks. the rest of them don't even that much personality. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 01:58:15 -0700 From: West Subject: Re: Film Oldies Quiz M R Godwin wrote: > 5. - Where's the rest of me? (Title, Actor) Everybody tackled the other ones, so it seems this is my only chance to demonstrate my film-lore expertise. This line was spoken by Ronald Reagan in "Kings Row", and although he was not referring to his mind at the time, he is now. Susan--"Sunset Boulevard" was written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman Jr. They won an Oscar for it. This is still my all-time favorite horror movie. Yes, horror movie. Think about it. Somethingly, West. - -- *********************************************************************** West A. Moran E-mail: ipalindromei@earthlink.net "...No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity." "But I know none, and therefore am no beast." --William Shakespeare, "Richard III". ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 13:26:41 +0000 From: Andyjames <9337381b@student.gla.ac.uk> Subject: A New Head Hello, This is my first posting, so I'll introduce myself. Erm...yeah. I'm Andy. Have a cucumber and marshmallow sandwich. Or don't. Nice to meet you anyway. I wont be on this list for a very long time, cos at the end of September I won't be able to access the University computers. I've been a RH (and SB's) fan for a few years, and I've finally got round to getting hold of some guitar tabs, thus enabling me to perform 'My Wife & My Dead Wife' at the acoustic night I go to in Glasgow every week. I t should make a change from the usual musical diarrhoea offered by most of the muso-types who tend to dominate the place.... Speaking of The Softies, does anyone know what exactly will happen when Rykodisc can no longer release the SB's back catalogue? At the moment, i get money from our wonderful social security system, which currently adds up to £16 per week. Yeah, seriously. So if I want to get my mitts on 'A Can of Bees' or whatever, will I have to rely on secondhand shops, or will some other record company pick up where Rykodisc left off? If there's anyone on this list from Glasgow: Awright, howya doin'. I was sure there was another Hitchcock fan in Glasgow somewhwere! Then again, that might just be wishful thinking... I'ts awfully considerate of you to think of me here And I'm most obliged to you for making it clear That I'm not here.... Andy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 00:58:33 -0700 From: Danielle Subject: At last I can start suffering and write that symphony Eb wrote: > Yes, soon after I posted your comment, the "fucking" part came back to me. I was going to make a joke here. But it seems redundant, somehow. Let's all just take a minute to read that sentence over again, and snicker in a small-minded way. >From Bayard: > whoa, i have a CD Eb doesn't have? Holy toledo! Thanks Ed! And I've got Abbasalutely. He doesn't have that either. More to the point, he really wants it. ;) Bret said: > And if your hands were metal, that would mean something > Quite possible the best line from the 'movie' > you've made me smile already today, (and I needed it) Oh, good. :) I wondered if anyone would pick it up, actually. I'd never seen MST3000 before, it was just the stuff of northern hemisphere legend. I haven't laughed so much since I saw The Creeping Terror. James asks: > Can > internet CD shopping give you that satisfaction? In the words of the great > Alexei Sayle: "Can it? Bollocks!" Yes, the thrill of the hunt... but James, didn't you kill my brother? (No, wait, that's not what I wanted to say. Just a pop-cultural glitch.) I love finding exciting things too (ah, that 'Firepile' 12-inch EP set)... but sometimes it just gets too frustrating to search for things for weeks on end. And haven't you found that when you're *way* down here, import prices are so astronomical that it's actually marginally cheaper to get whatever you're looking for off the web? Eb remarked: > It's worth noting (esp. to a NZer like you, James) Does James possess some special qualities as a NZer that Martin and I (and god knows who else is lurking around here) don't have? Is it the Otago thing? Are South Islanders superior? Dash it all, I *knew* the family should have stayed on the Mainland! ;) Oh, the quiz. Um. This is what I know. Very little. And by the time this turns up you'll all have answered them anyway, but I feel compelled. One and three are bugging the hell out of me. I *know* I know them. What remains of my brain after a day of packing clothes and books into boxes came up with this: 2. Rebecca, yes Marcy, it is dir. Alfred Hitchcock (with that great and bizarrely erotic scene with Mrs Danvers and the underwear!). For a bonus point: no, she doesn't have a name in the book, either. 4. Is this The Picture of Dorian Gray? Oscar Wilde if so... but it's one of those very overused epigrams... 12. Singing in the Rain. The advent of 'talkies'. For a bonus point: spoken by Lina Lamont, played by Jean Hagen. Other memorable lines from her include: 'I am a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firmament. It says so. Right there.' My imitation of her is stellar, if I do say so myself. ;) My favourite musical number from this film is 'Moses Supposes...', closely followed by 'Make 'Em Laugh', but that's because I think Donald O'Connor is utterly divine. 13. I have a vague Sunset Boulevard feeling about this one... but that's just a guess. 17. Gone with the Wind, of course, as Marcy said. Scarlett O'Hara, on the staircase at the Wilkes' plantation, talking about Rhett Butler. But we all knew that. Sleep sleep sleep. Neat neat neat. Danielle ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 09:34:24 -0400 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Fwd: Mad Libb silly letter James Dignan sed: >Do you have a hot tuna for Sally, so she'll stop wallpapering you? You know, I could *swear* I heard the Soft Boys perform that song once. ++++++++ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + Online Design Guy http://extra.newsguy.com/~genehop/ ++ All hail Brak! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 23:41:52 -1851 From: dlang Subject: Re: folk music again (Carl Palmer content) Of course we do, its as common as muck, I have lots of spare copies if >anyones interested .Carl Palmer played spoons and kazoo on most >tracks.Now mention something we HAVEN"T heard.......... Oh come on! You just said that to work "Carl Palmer" into the discussion. If you *really* had a copy, you would know that Helen Percival plays spoons and kazoos. . . . Alack, thou art right , good Sir Quail. Thou hast verily seen through my pathetic guise, you varlet you.....Theres no way I'll ever mention Carl Palmer again my fine fellow, except for just then , so that will be the final time I will ever mention Mr Palmer or even Carl ever again and I truly promise I promise not to even refer to old Carlo or Mr P, let alone calling him CP . Honest. dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 08:08:02 -0700 From: Mark Gloster Subject: Re: Who are you that is so wise in the ways of starFegmaniaxing? <> >yeah. when we were having dinner at the...uh, was "the patio" the name >of that restaurant? what a dumb fucking name for a restaurant! be a >cool name for a band, though. anyhow, i told the shark that, as great >as his cd is, he really ought to be a stand-up comic. his response? >"what am i, a clown? i'm here to fucking amuse you?" then he pulled >out his revolver, and it all went downhill from there. Sorry, I got that one from the Sam Peckinpaw Gunplay Jokebook. It was supposed to work in all situations. Many years ago, when I used to pal around with the likes of Andy Kauffman, he used to teach me his highest art of making people feel uncomfortable. This, he said was better than making them laugh. Yea, we used to sit around the kitchen, eating anything that wouldn't move and throw things at the garbage can, behind which Carl Palmer was crouched, believing he was undetected. Occasionally I would stroll over and say, "I'm going to pull some meat out of the garbage." I would reach behind the can, put my whole arm down some facial Palmer orifice and pull out a liver or a kidney and come back and enjoy it with some Worcestergloucestershire sauce with Andy. You know, we must have eaten 15 of his kidneys and they all tasted a little like formaldehyde or formaldejekyl or formaldodecahedron or something. Maybe the joke was on us. That Carl Palmer is one strange guy. Once we took John Belushi to the Gold Medal factory. He put the whole thing up his nose. Then we told him it was just flour. He said he caught a huge buzz anyway, plus, he's not going to be in any shape to get us back after that, right? We used to share our comedy routines with that "You can call me Ray" guy, but he just never once laughed. He would say, "Uh, I have to use the bathroom." This, of course made us laugh uncontrollably. Then every time we saw a bad comedian we'd say we had to use the bathroom and just about wet our pants we were laughing so hard. Actually, I was deeply flattered by Mr. Blows' statement. I have always thought about doing comedy, but realistically thinking kind of prevents it. Most of my "humor" completely depends upon interaction and not joke telling. I think I put lots of humor in my music, but some people just say "Uh, I have to use the bathroom." The other problem is that it is one thing to makes Fegs laugh. I mean, most Fegs I know can appreciate the brilliance of Wodehouse AND the high intellectual art of the Terrence and Phillip show. It is an entirely different matter to make people laugh who can't stand to miss a rerun of "Who's the Boss." There are more of them than there are of us, and I hate to do Tony Danza impressions. Hopefully Fegs can tell the difference between truth an fiction. Most of the people at the table spent the whole evening in the bathroom. - -sharkthing ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #238 *******************************