From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #242 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, June 29 1998 Volume 07 : Number 242 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: rap rant #1 [tanter ] Hitch tape tree [jimm@sirius.com] i forgot! ["Capitalism Blows" ] Robyn songs on net [Viccicraig@aol.com] Re: NASA Clapping? [Capuchin ] Re: Film Oldies Quiz [M R Godwin ] Steerpike Hitchcock [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: Huh? [M R Godwin ] Re:Squeeze albums [tanter ] Santa Cruz fegdaze? [Mark Gloster ] Re: Dan Bern [tanter ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #241 [edoxtato@ssax.com] Re: Santa Cruz fegdaze? [Mike Runion ] Re: Santa Cruz fegdaze? [Bayard ] Silver Dagger WAV [Lobsterman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:38:03 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: rap rant #1 At 04:19 PM 6/28/1998 +0000, David W. Dudich wrote: > Plus, if you argue that rap lyrics makes black kids (and white >kids, too- witness the recent school shootings) violent, well, what >does Robyn's lyrics make US do? well, they make us talk about placentas.... Marcy ;) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 17:32:45 -0700 From: jimm@sirius.com Subject: Hitch tape tree somehow i missed out on this. would love the GAMH show and other recent stuff. have many,many masters of RH 1986-1994....please reply.... james jimm@sirius.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:08:18 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: i forgot! everyone after both shows agreed that the third line of Viva Sea-Tac is: And before *him* the rain as in, before they flocked here for kurt cobain, it was the rain they were flocking here foor. "What the fuck! There's a house burning in the middle of I-5!" --Capuchin ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 17:38:29 EDT From: Viccicraig@aol.com Subject: Robyn songs on net okay so lets say i was going to make a bunch of MP3's of songs and put them on web for access by all, what would you suggest or like most to see? Please be descriptive if there is like more than one version of the song and try not to suggest too many...maybe like a top10 or 20 list, but this is a project i am going to do, so people have access to "rare" or other RH songs...... p.s. MP3 is a file format, i will also make a shareware version of mp3 player available and a pirated full version for those who dont care about such things... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 23:35:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: NASA Clapping? On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Mike Runion wrote: > Lobsterman wrote in with the Portland setlist, which included: > > I Thought I Heard NASA Clapping > I'm pretty sure I've seen this on a few of the other recent setlists. > Anyone want to describe it, or if they've got a tape, transcribe it? As > many of you know, I work down here launching shuttles and space stations > and other assorted nonsense, and I'm ultra-curious about this here RH > ditty. I don't yet have a copy of this one on tape, but I've heard it twice on consecutive nights and I'm going to go out and say it's probably my favorite new song in a very long time. The title was from Michele, but she hasn't yet created an etching to go with the title. It's pretty much a love song (and Robyn's been writing TONS of those lately), but it's fun. It has all of these great moments and individual success points and each is accompanied with the chorus "and I thought I heard, yes I thought I heard NASA clapping..." I think it's a great metaphor. It's like his life is up on those huge screens in Mission Control and each time a great moment takes place, all the folks stand up and cheer as if they've pulled off something incredible (and in my mind, the bald guy's headset falls off every time). It makes me think of the scene in The Truman Show where Truman's father comes back and Christof cues the music and everyone cheers. It's upbeat and catchy. And the first line made Ian guffaw at the Portland show: Who's gonna be the greedy boy? ME! Actually, I think I can transcribe the first bit from my head, but the mood is just impossible to transcribe. Who's gonna be the greedy boy? ME! I've gone and eaten what I love. YOU! I'm gonna shove the rats' tails in the black slot behind the letterbox (OK, I'm not sure of that third line, but it's not as far off as you might think. It's the word order, not the words, that are incorrect.) It has some great fast singing and lots of punchy bits. Phew! J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:13:21 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Film Oldies Quiz On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, amadain wrote: > > > >2. - Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again. (Title, Director) > > Rebecca of course, as someone already answered. AL Hitchcock directed. OK > > >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. OK > > >4. - The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. (Title, > > Original Author) > > Mae West? It's the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. > > >5. - Where's the rest of me? (Title, Actor) > > Oh this is killing me. I KNOW this. Just not now. Ronald Reagan in Kings Row (he's lost his legs) > > >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) Groucho as Rufus T Firefly in Duck Soup > > > >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". OK > >9. - Quick, Watson, the needle. (Title, Actor) > > "Seven Percent Solution" this sounds like. Was it Alan Arkin as Freud? No, it's The Hound of the Baskervilles with Basil Rathbone as Holmes > > >10 - (In French) Is it Eurydice or Death you seek? > > - Les deux. (Title, Director) > > "Orphee", Jean Cocteau. OK > >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. OK > "Moses supposes, his toeses are roses!" But Moses supposes erroneously! > >13 - You used to be big. > > - I am big. It's pictures that got small. (Title, Director) > Someone got this already. "Sunset Boulevard", Wilder. OK > >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. No, that was covered above. This is Dr Hugo Z Hackenbush (Doctor Hack-in-a-puss as Chico pronounces it) in 'Day at the Races' > That's all I can get off the top of my head. Pretty good - 12 points! - - Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 08:33:58 -0400 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Steerpike Hitchcock > For many years he had >played by himself in the vaults and turrets of his father's castle, >occasionally drawing back the musty curtains of burgundy red that masked >him from the challenging sun or the ovulating moon. This is SO Mervyn Peake... I never realized it before... n. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:38:23 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Huh? On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Natalie Jane Jacobs wrote: > There were also numerous Squeeze albums on > sale, but I wasn't sure which one to get... any advice? (Not that it > matters much... at $1.50 a pop, it's not like I'll be losing out if an > album turns out to be bad...) "East Side Story" is a good one, and the one before that is nice too, I think it's called "Argybargy" - it includes 'Pulling mussels from a shell'. - - Mike Godwin n.p. Bonnie Tyler, "Lost in France" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 08:43:26 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re:Squeeze albums At 01:38 PM 6/29/1998 +0100, you wrote: >"East Side Story" is a good one, and the one before that is nice too, I >think it's called "Argybargy" - it includes 'Pulling mussels from a >shell'. > Anything by Squeeze is good! ;) If you're limited, I highly suggest _Play_ and _Frank_. _Some Fantastic Place_ is also good. Many people think ESS is their best but I think every album has songs that are good. _Play_ is probably my favorite overall, but that changes with the wind! Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 06:05:35 -0700 From: Mark Gloster Subject: Santa Cruz fegdaze? Some of us Bay Area feg persons discussed getting together on July eleventh (I spelled this out to avoid confusing our British contingents). There is an added incentive to get together for our devious and secret purpose- Dan Bern is playing that night at the Kuumbwa. I expect that this time Dan will be playing some more recognizable material. Russ, you may have to circle that date again on your calendar. This time in pen. Y'all are invited. Let me know if you can make it. I think we're going to host a party here (meaning Aptos, which is just a few miles from Santa Cruz) in August that will be one of those feggathering thingies. I hope all your brains and livers are very happy. And other organs too. - -Mark G ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:54:43 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: Dan Bern He's coming back to Northampton, Mass. if anyone's interested. Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:57:46 -0500 From: edoxtato@ssax.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #241 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:19:06 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: rap rant #1 David quoted: >>Rap lyrics seem counter- >>productive to me and like they probably have a hand in keeping the vortex of >>poverty and violence a-swirling. Yeah, I suppose the same argument can be extended to country music and the sale of trailer homes... >Well, it is interesting to note that Snoop-dogs had a hit >called 'gin and juice', if you consider that, from what i have heard, >gin was first distilled as a way for british (or was it irish?) >factory owners to keep their lower classes in line... I think it was British. If you read Robt. Hughes' _The Fatal Shore_, he has quite a lengthy section in the early part of the book regarding the social climate in England in the late 18th and early 19th century. If you're into such things, it's a facinating read. >It is a shame, too, because I like old rap (krs-1, etc) before >it got this "my trigger in my bitch in my crotch" stuff. Also, on >apurely musical level, the creativity just went out the window. Rap, for the most part, just seems to me to be like the rest of Top 40. Dull. I really don't dig on "Kill the muthaf**kas" any more than I dig on "I wanna do you all night long." >Plus, if you argue that rap lyrics makes black kids (and white >kids, too- witness the recent school shootings) violent, well, what >does Robyn's lyrics make US do? Post e-mail. >>Clapton's lyrics, on the other hand, seem >>merely cathartic to me. >-actually, they strike me as rather silly, really. ;-) I agree. Clapton falls in that dull catagory for me too. Loads love him. That's fine. He knows one end of the guitar from the other... but as I have said more than once on this hyar list... he don't do nothing for my soul. And frankly, "If You Fall Out A Window Can I Write A Hit Song About You" just sickens me. I understand he's grieving and cathartic... but to me that's a personal thing. You wanna do something about it Eric, donate the proceeds of that song to the local housing authorities and town councils so they can put screens or similar sorts of safety covers in the windows of tall buildings. (Just a thought. I'm gonna get flamed for this ain't I?) If I wanna listen to blues music, I go to the bar down the street or to Rosa's or any one of a jillion joints that play that stuff. It's better live, and I don't have to mortgage my liver (an interesting prospect, I wonder if there's enough left to mortgage) to get nose-bleed seats. And I think about the lyrics of the blues tunes I know and they're ALL mean, in varying degrees. Alcholism, violence (domestic and otherwise), assault, robbery, rape, arson, disease, divorce, storms, various flavours of religion... it's all in there, innit? All part of life's rich tapestry. I dunno if tunes like that incite people to violence anymore than listening to Ice Cube or Bad Manners. I dunno if it's possible to do a study like that. But I betcha someone's gonna try. There's a limited number or original themes for PhD's. Anyway, I gone on way too long and now I've GOT to do some work. Look after yerselves... - -Ed, Doc, this bloody heat is making me really cranky ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:22:59 -0700 From: Mike Runion Subject: Re: Santa Cruz fegdaze? Mark Gloster wrote: > > Some of us Bay Area feg persons discussed getting together on July > eleventh Wow, I'm honored! I wasn't aware you guys knew when my birthday was. - -- 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: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:26:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Santa Cruz fegdaze? On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Mike Runion wrote: > Mark Gloster wrote: > > > > Some of us Bay Area feg persons discussed getting together on July > > eleventh > > Wow, I'm honored! I wasn't aware you guys knew when my birthday was. You're driving out for it, right Mike! (; time for a planetary feg-in... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:18:02 -0700 From: Lobsterman Subject: Silver Dagger WAV for those interested in digitized Robyn, I have placed about a minute and 1/2 of Robyn's cover of Silver Dagger from last week's Portland, OR show on the HOUSE OF FIGGY page. It is located where the spoken word soundbites are usually kept. - -jbj - -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-# John B. Jones Email: lobstie@e-z.net ICQ: 13097212 AOL IM: Lobstie House of Figgy-- http://web.syr.edu/~jojones/hitchcock.html "He treats objects like they're women!" -The Dude, "The Big Lebowski" - -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-# ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #242 *******************************