From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #245 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, July 1 1998 Volume 07 : Number 245 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: erk [tanter ] I've got nothing but time for trades. [Lobsterman ] Re: lyrics again [Capuchin ] Re: Fwd: Re: Succour & The Shoes of the Phisherman's Wife [nicastr@idt.ne] Randi Spiegel's phone number [Carole Reichstein ] Re: white album contest ["Capitalism Blows" ] Tricky + Massive Attack [Tobyhello@aol.com] Re: erk [amadain ] Re: erk [amadain ] Re: erk [tanter ] Re: erk [amadain ] Re: white album contest ["mr. pointy" ] Re: Captain Sensible [nicastr@idt.net (Ben)] white album, lyric check ("Tonight") [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (] Re: Tricky + Massive Attack [nicastr@idt.net (Ben)] Re: erk [tanter ] Re: Tricky + Massive Attack [tanter ] Chapel Hill info? (no RH) ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] from randi - I snuck onto a hospital computer!! [Tim Fuller ] Painters Paint? [normal@grove.ufl.edu] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:04:09 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: erk At 01:47 AM 7/1/1998 -0800, Russ Reynolds wrote: >all of which came out in the Playboy interviews in 1980 when he was asked to >comment on virtually every song he wrote. It's a wonderful feeling to find >out the artist who wrote and performed your favorite songs (Cry Bay Cry was >another) sums them up as "a load of rubbish" I don't quite believe that he was telling the truth when he said all that. I think he was still feeling a lot of anger despite having some nice times with Paul recently. He complained about the Beatles all through the 70s but I never believed most of it. How could he be so negative about the very thing that made him rich--and he liked being rich. I also think that Yoko enabled his anger or at least had something to do with it. Some of the melodies on Double Fantasy are slightly reminiscent, at least to ME, of some of the nicer Beatle melodies he penned. Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:17:01 -0700 From: Lobsterman Subject: I've got nothing but time for trades. hi folks. I have some free time to do some trading. If anyone wants a copy of the Portland, OR show which I taped, I am looking for the following: low gen copies of all the Largo shows but the first bunch (the nov. ones)--in other words, the Jan. shows, and the recent shows. any masters of solo gigs from 1987-1990. I need more EYE tour shows. I am especially looking for a low gen copy of the Henry's Hideaway soundboard from Denver Co. (1990) any FM stuff I don't have (in-studios). anything else amazing. John ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:52:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: lyrics again Bayard wrote: > I am purty dern sure it's "a different disease IN another translation" in > 'flavor of night.' what do y'all think? Oh, you want to bring THIS up again, huh? OK, here we go. I was reviewing lyrics last night and going over everything again to fix typos and stuff. I had a huge backlog of lyricmail that is all sorted now. Anyway, I paused on this one particularly read your comments as well as eddie's. And Griffith wrote: > I always thought it was a dramatic pause between the two: "a different > disease, [. . .] another translation" but with an unrecognizable syllable, > like he inhaled or something, like he almost says "but" but decides against > it midway through the syllable, a sort of "bu'. . . another". Please > pardon my inadequate linguistic notation. This was Bayard's original assertion as well. Eddie seemed to think for a time that it was A different disease is another translation Here's the song with notes by me. Flavour Of Night Long, slender shadows pulsating in windows While feathery curtain hide fountains of eyes ## I'm sure it's "feathery curtain hide fountains" ## I say this is like "Tattered rags that hangs on nails" ## Robyn doesn't always stick to subject/verb agreement. ## He also alters number at will. From the light A different diseases; another translation ## I'm still pretty convinced of this, too ## If it's something else, it's eddie's "disease is" ## He very clearly says an S sound on both the album and the GAMH tape ## I don't believe the "vocal relic" is carried over to multiple live ## versions Though you don't understand the familiar sensation 5 But who needs to talk when you're caught in the flavour of night? And you, yeah you with your ice cream hands You, yeah you are my friend All that you want could be happening for you Just like the road that unrolls there before you 10 Tonight Eyes you don't trust but fingers have beckoned ## This line was also confirmed by GAMH. I'd suspected on headphone ## listening, but wasn't sure until it was clearly repeated. How long you got left? Well, how long do you reckon? But who goes to waste when they're tasting the flavour of night? And you, yeah you with your ice cream hands 15 You, yeah you are my friend How long you got left? About forty-five seconds 13a Bayard again: > btw ben, there is another list that has been set up by the mighty j. a. > brelin to figure out lyrics. unfortunately it's on hiatus at the moment > while its keep earns some bucks! Well, I've completed my contract and am again full of free time. I'm rebuilding all of the Soft Boys stuff so we can begin attacking it again. My friend Nathan gave me some fantastic insight into Wading Through A Ventilator. > i'm gonna get you succour, Youch. Good one. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:09:57 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Succour & The Shoes of the Phisherman's Wife >>As instrumental composition goes, I thought the album was >>mediocre for the most part. As instrumental improv goes, I thought the >>album was mediocre for the most part. > >Hmm, so who's good for that sort of thing? I've been in the mood for >instrumental improv lately, and have a little (Curlew, Krakatau, the whole >Thrill Jockey scene, and so on) but I need more. Pass on some >recommendations. TOO!!! (no forks though) A message for those in the know, or soon to be... : ) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 15:10:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Randi Spiegel's phone number A while back, Randi's kindly friend Tim Fuller posted her address and phone number. I kept the address, but lost the phone number. As I'm sending her a UPS package, I need this. If anyone has this number, please e-mail me directly, as soon as possible. Thanks! - -Carole ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:39:37 From: Michael Hooker Subject: off topic hi, sorry to be off topic, but does anybody know the address of a billy bragg mailing digest? i seem to recall some kind of silly dispute woth one some time ago. i hope i am not fanning any embers here. i like billy bragg quite a lot. thanks, Mike Hooker ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:01:19 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: white album contest so i was just sitting there (this was earlier today.) i was just minding my own business, preparing the bulk mailing for eat the state!, and listening to a robyn/deni show from '95. this guy from the seattle displacement coalition (i guess he's in his late forties) comes in, makes a quick photocopy, turns around to leave, and stops dead in his tracks. after a fairly long pause, he wonders, "who *is* this?" "robyn hitchcock!...like it?" "yeah...yeah, i like it *a lot*." "if you wanted, i could give you a few tapes." "sure! that'd be great! thanks!" and there you have it. our numbers increase by one. do i get some sort of commission, woj? interesting. i just assumed that since i got mine way up hear in the middle of nowheresville, that there'd be, literally, several dozen fegs who had a lower number than me. oh, the irony! i was just listening to captain sensible's REVOLUTION NOW!, which of course contains the most memorable snippet: "...the Dipping The Genitalia In The Horseradish contest?" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:50:51 EDT From: Tobyhello@aol.com Subject: Tricky + Massive Attack Personally, Angels... is one of my favourite albums of the year. It's definitely a lot less accessible than PMT, which wasn't exactly considered to be a commercial album... It beats Maxinquaye and Nearly God, but I don't consider it to be anywhere near PMT (which is, however, one of my favourite albums ever - the only track I ever skip is Ghetto Youth, and that's only if I'm not doing anything else while listening). The strange thing is that, prior to the release of Angels, he played a lot of amazing aggressive new songs live (sort of Money Greedy/Record Companies style), none of which have surfaced as yet (except for Tear Out My Eyes, which used to be a mad rant...). The first two Massive Attack albums are less dark than Mezzanine, but are both "genre-defining classics". They're somewhat inconsistent, but are pretty much compulsory, in my opinion... On the matter of Bristolian trip-hop, I saw Portishead at Glastonbury on Friday night, and it was the best gig of my life... a kind of quasi-religious experience, I guess. Sadly, I had to miss Tricky on Saturday, as I was filming for University Challenge - it's a real pity he's not playing again in the UK for a while (though I think he has a US tour in July). Sorry for being so off-topic... Toby ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:42:44 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: erk >It's worth noting here that Lennon HATED "Run for Your Life" and thought it >was one of his worst songs. Or so I recall. He hated "It's Only Love" too, >I believe. Well actually, they're both kind of lame duck songs, musically. I suspect that's the issue more than lyrical content, although he may have been embarassed about the former's lyrics. Curiously, it was -George- who supposedly really liked "Run for Your Life". Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:02:34 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: erk >Well, according to this book (_Many Years from Now_ by Barry Miles), after >about 1962 or 63 (I can't remember exactly), John and Paul smoked pot >routinely on an almost daily basis and then John moved on to much harder This is news? :) >I don't disagree with you. Miles says that it's about Cynthia and he >suggests that the drugs had a lot to do with their marriage falling apart. >I don't think the drugs are responsible for the emotion but maybe they did >influence the violence. I haven't heard of his having any violent >tendancies before the drugs.... Brush up your Lennon :). Seriously, read a bit about his Liverpool childhood and the fights he was in. He grew up in a tough place. Also, it should be noted that you don't have to be a violent person to have violent emotions, obviously, and that because you don't write or sing a lot about them in public doesn't mean they aren't there. I've noticed that we gentler promoters of peace and love type people :) often have a lot of resentments and anger brewing under there, and it seems to surprise people when they do see it just because we aren't so often public with them. I would also like to note something concerning habitual use of substances. Bear with me if I'm stating the obvious here but I wanna say it because this is important to me. My experience as a constantly-in-the-process-of-recovering alcoholic is that a drug dependence takes two forms. One obviously is emotional anaesthesia. The other is directly -counter- to anaesthesia- you give yourself license to act out in destructive ways. One of the hardest things in the world for me to understand and accept and swallow was that all of those shameful/self-destructive/just plain dumbass things I did while falling off my ass drunk were NOT anomalous. It was merely a matter of DEGREE. Facing the darkness within yourself is er, kind of a bitch :). I think this is why cold turkey quitting rarely works- because you have to face your reality, and merely "not using" makes it worse because it's like kicking away your crutches without seeing how you're crippled and trying to address -that- first. Substance abuse is a SYMPTOM only. I think attributing any kind of causality to it is false consciousness. It exaggerates, but it doesn't cause. >There's no condemnation--maybe that's what disturbs me about it. The drugs >are discussed in a very matter-of-fact way and in the direct quotes from >Paul, he does seem to be saying that the drugs were a big help. (all of >Sgt. Pepper is about drugs, for example) I'm afraid I don't buy this either. For one thing, I mean, listen to it! :) It's about a -lot- of things, LSD being just one. For another, I'm not sure I see matter of fact mention of substance using as being necessarily disturbing. Now if people are being callous or blind concerning -addiction- that's something altogether else. But merely mentioning pot-smoking is not really so much a big deal to me. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 22:12:58 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: erk At 09:02 PM 6/30/1998 -0600, amadain wrote: >Brush up your Lennon :). Seriously, read a bit about his Liverpool >childhood and the fights he was in. He grew up in a tough place. The stuff I've read doesn't lead me from street fights to violence against women. He did grow up in a tough place, but so have lots of people who didn't grow up to say violent things. But I don't think he was a violent person--I think he was a messed-up person. >>There's no condemnation--maybe that's what disturbs me about it. The drugs >>are discussed in a very matter-of-fact way and in the direct quotes from >>Paul, he does seem to be saying that the drugs were a big help. (all of >>Sgt. Pepper is about drugs, for example) > >I'm afraid I don't buy this either. For one thing, I mean, listen to it! :) >It's about a -lot- of things, LSD being just one. LSD isn't the only drug--Paul says that it's about the whole drug experience, not necessarily about one thing in particular. For another, I'm not sure >I see matter of fact mention of substance using as being necessarily >disturbing. Now if people are being callous or blind concerning -addiction- >that's something altogether else. But merely mentioning pot-smoking is not >really so much a big deal to me. It's all opinion. Drug use disturbs me, especially in people I admire. I've seen too many people's lives badly affected by drugs. It disturbs me when drug use is portrayed as a good thing--it's my opinion, not meant to be adopted by anyone else. Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 22:14:55 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: erk >The stuff I've read doesn't lead me from street fights to violence against >women. He did grow up in a tough place, but so have lots of people who >didn't grow up to say violent things. But I don't think he was a violent >person--I think he was a messed-up person. I only mentioned that because what you seem to be implying (if you're not, correct me :)) is that heavy drug use -caused- a violent personality where there wasn't one before. And there's clearcut evidence that this was an angry and sometimes violent person, well before the substances came into play. The anger and fear of abandonment -specifically related to women- were there LONG before the drugs were, and so was the fighting and even egging others on into violence. Remember this was a guy raised by his aunt, given up by his mother who actually LIVED NEARBY (i.e., right there in his face that she'd given him up, not in a faraway place or suffering from a deadly disease in a hospital somewhere or something), whom he adored. There was bound to be not a little anger and confusion mixed in there. Children don't always understand what these decisions are about, and childhood pain is hard to exorcise even when as an adult one comes to understand intellectually what happened. I don't think this was even close to being resolved as an issue or even really understood by him until around the time of "Plastic Ono Band", which is one of the things that makes that album so powerful. >LSD isn't the only drug--Paul says that it's about the whole drug >experience, not necessarily about one thing in particular. It's also about nostalgia, tenderness, love, yearning, and so on and so on ad infinitum :). >It's all opinion. Drug use disturbs me, especially in people I admire. >I've seen too many people's lives badly affected by drugs. I've seen people's lives badly affected by alcohol too (which I consider in with drugs too) including mine. Also coffee, cigarettes, food, workaholicness, you get the drift. I'm not offended when people mention them casually, and not disturbed by the mention of them in general. When - -addiction- is treated lightly, that is upsetting. It's ADDICTION that wrecks shit up the worst. My opinion, not meant to be shared by anyone else :). Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:00:21 -0400 From: "mr. pointy" Subject: Re: white album contest also sprach Capitalism Blows: >and there you have it. our numbers increase by one. do i get some sort >of commission, woj? yup. for every new member you bring into the fold, you get one free month of fegmaniax! woo hoo! >oh, the irony! i was just listening to captain sensible's REVOLUTION >NOW!, which of course contains the most memorable snippet: "...the >Dipping The Genitalia In The Horseradish contest?" dip dick in water make first-class man into third-rate boy. woj n.p. scrawl -- nature film (mmmmmmmmmm...scrawl...) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:44:14 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: Captain Sensible > >oh, the irony! i was just listening to captain sensible's REVOLUTION >NOW!, which of course contains the most memorable snippet: "...the >Dipping The Genitalia In The Horseradish contest?" For all Captain Sensible fans... what do you think is a good (non-Damned) album of his to start with? Also, didn't Robyn collaborate w/ him on some songs? I remember reading something about it in the liners to Rhino's "I Often Dream of Trains" CD. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:46:03 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: white album, lyric check ("Tonight") > >guess so. i'd never have believed so few fegs own a copy of the WHITE >ALBUM. such a breathtaking grand prize, too! a lot of them don't have numbers on 'em, that's all (mine doesn't, for one. Hm... "a lot"... may be a small sampling error here...) >Tonight > >I am me(??) and everywhere tonight I am here and everywhere tonight (?) >Tonight, where nobody sleeps >Tonight, I'm under the trees, it's alright I've always heard "tonight, where nobody sees" James James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:50:56 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: Tricky + Massive Attack >experience, I guess. Sadly, I had to miss Tricky on Saturday, as I was filming >for University Challenge - it's a real pity he's not playing again in the UK Is this the same game show that was once featured on the British comedy "The Young Ones"? The same episode that featured an excellent Motorhead appearance, I think! That is/was a funny show, I first saw it a year or two ago on Comedy Centeral, but alas, they dropped it pretty quickly... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 08:13:48 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: erk At 10:14 PM 6/30/1998 -0600, amadain wrote: >I only mentioned that because what you seem to be implying (if you're not, >correct me :)) is that heavy drug use -caused- a violent personality where >there wasn't one before. No, that's not what I meant. I think it drew it out more but it had to be there before. I think the drugs brought it more to the surface. It's ADDICTION that >wrecks shit up the worst. My opinion, not meant to be shared by anyone else The way Barry Miles presents it, it does sound like they were all addicted but he never goes the full mile (ha ha) and says that. I do wonder about a lot of it, especially when he offers no other real discussion of the Beatles' work. But he's quoting directly from Paul while he does what he does. It may be creative editing, of course, and I suspect there's a bit of that going on. Anyone else read this book? Marcy :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 08:16:51 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: Tricky + Massive Attack At 11:50 PM 6/30/1998 -0500, Ben wrote: >>experience, I guess. Sadly, I had to miss Tricky on Saturday, as I was filming >>for University Challenge - it's a real pity he's not playing again in the UK > >Is this the same game show that was once featured on the British comedy >"The Young Ones"? Yes, but it's also one of Britain's longest running games shows!! Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 08:50:47 -0400 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Chapel Hill info? (no RH) Howdy Fegs! My wife and I are gonna take a trip to Chapel Hill this weekend, and I was hoping someone who has or is now living there could send me some info: what's good to see, eat, what the good record stores are, etc. I'd certainly appreciate it. Oh, and please do it with private email. Thanks! +++++++++++++++++ "Quoting Neil Peart is one thing that shouldn't + Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + be allowed. Disregard the Free Speech issue; +++++++++++++++++ it's just wrong." -- John Littlejohn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:14:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Fuller Subject: from randi - I snuck onto a hospital computer!! - --------not from tim--------actually from randi-------- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Hello all in this most wonderfully excellent Globe of Fegs! First off - thank you Eddie Tews, Scary Mary, and Mary I met in Detroit... Could you three pleeeeeeeeease send your email addies to the above address? Okay, guess how I got onto a computer.... * * * * Watching waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much "Remington Steele" - it plays here in T.O. every day at 3:00 pm - and it's better than soap operas :} You can actually learn something... Like how to be the last one out of the "Patient Info Room" at the hospital and putting gum wrapped in sterile guaze into the lock - pretending to check the door and then scurrying off to your room. So - I got up early - it's Canada Day here - July 1st - so the hospital is relatively empty - and Tim gave me the number to his server - and here I am! This is fun 8-} Anyway - for those of you familiar with "The Sound of Music" - it feels like a 'lonely goatherd' is running through my insides - so I've been singing/humming the song constantly - to the annoyance of many I'm sure :} It's really boring in the hospital - but it always makes me happy to hear from my feg friends - and extra special hi's to Eddie, Scary Mary, Mary from Ann Arbour, Mike Runion - and his wife: - she dedicated "Arms of Love" to me when she sang it a few weeks ago at her regular coffee house gig, Ross Overbury, Carole and Karen of course, Bayard, jbj, Deni Bonet, Vicci, Mr. Hal, and everyone else I can't remember that has sent me email or mentioned me on the list. This is the best list with the best group of people EVER :} And isn't my best-friend Tim cool {I hope you are all nodding} I've known him for fifteen years, but he has been amazing to me, signing on the list, visiting me almost every day, passing on messages to me, writing email... I am truly blessed to know him... Anyway, I hope the goats go away soon, 'cause I'd like to find another theme song - pronto :} I'd better go, before some security guard catches me, I see one out of the corner of my eye, but I didn't even open the light in the room, and I hope the hospital can't trace this message - but I doubt it - 'cause as I said - I dialed in through Tim's connection. I miss you all - I miss hearing Eb's comments, Susan's analytical and entertaining words, Jeme's posts, Marcy's sense of humour, Bayard's point of view, oh dammit - I miss you *all* was what I really need to say... And just to encourage you to answer 'Mr. Pointy,' sir...I want to know if you got that name from the stake Kendra gave to Buffy... Welcome to all the new fegs on the list, Tim said there were some, you've just subscribed to THE best list ever...you're all very lucky...as am I...to be a part of this Globe of Fegs. And forgive me, but who is in charge of the first Glass Flesh cd - 'cause I never got one and if there are any left I'd like to buy one please - email me/Tim off-list... Okay, better get a move on, it is 9:45am, painkillers come at 10:00 am - thank G-d - may the goats calm down, may YOU ALL be happy, healthy and enjoying the summer, and I am blessed and honoured to know you all. Big huge feg hug to you all... fading back into yesterday before tomorrow comes, Randi *what scares you most will set you free* - Robyn Hitchcock *septicemia always wins* - wrong again Robyn :} pardon me susan for stealing your sig., but love on you all :} ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:20:24 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: tell me about your... 5% hitchcock content I think I'll pipe in here... Though my mom basically destroyed herself in front of my eyes with alcohol and I know some people who have eliminated most of their social and intellectual function with drugs and alcohol, I strangely have a difficulty with projecting great evil upon these substances. Many I know have probably become more well-rounded from their firsthand experience with them. I know that's not terribly PC of me to say, and I don't exactly practice what I preach on this matter, but I have a very strong sense of myself and the beasts within me.... Long ago I experimented with with alcohol and to a very small degree with pot and they didn't 'zactly work for me. I think that anyone should have a huge amount of respect for these things, including tobacco, religion, power, and money to avoid becoming lost in them. All too often people forget that the beast is within that compels the person to booze, snort, stink, puff, hork, manage, become saved, purchase, invest..., whereas many people who dabble in these things are extremely healthy. I think I'm agreeing with Susan's point that the problem and the symptom are not the same thing. Incidentally, I also disagree with the elements of 12-step programs that would tell me that addictions are bigger than myself, that I have no power over them, that if I substitute "codependent" (sorry, I don't like that word, but it is useful shorthand) behavior for a substance for similar behavior for a deity I don't have to deal with my root problems and will live happily ever after.... I fear that societally, we make too many excuses for people's choices and don't spend enough time looking at root causes. That's my rant. I'm trying not to be holier than anybody. Clearly I have my own issues, and I appreciate all of your restraint in avoiding constantly pointing out the violently obvious. Happies all, - -Markg "I'm not a moderate person. I believe in overdoing something entirely to the point of dying from it or leaving it alone altogether and dying for lack of it." - -approximate, may be verrrry close, RH quote from '90 GAMH show ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:28:25 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: University Challenge On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Ben wrote: > Is this the same game show that was once featured on the British comedy > "The Young Ones"? The same episode that featured an excellent Motorhead > appearance, I think! That is/was a funny show, I first saw it a year or two > ago on Comedy Centeral, but alas, they dropped it pretty quickly... Certainly is. I was on it quite recently, in, oh, er, 1975 actually, and it was exactly like the Young Ones: frantic efforts to remember the rivers of Yorkshire in the train on the way up - getting slaughtered by a toffee nosed Oxford college - all night drinking binge... At least no-one tried to play football with my head, although it felt that way for some time afterwards. - - Mike Godwin PS I didn't even get the P G Wodehouse question! I was listening through it, wondering whether they wanted the answer to be Aunt Agatha or Aunt Delia, and all they required was 'P G Wodehouse'! Bah. PPS Not that I'm bitter or anything... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 13:49:08 -0400 (EDT) From: normal@grove.ufl.edu Subject: Painters Paint? There is a song on the recent High Llamas CD called "Painters Paint". There is a song by Michael Marra that Mr. Simpson was kind enough to send me called "Painters Painting Paint". I was, within a week or so of noticing this, looking through my comic book collection and ran across (in "Booster Gold #3", if anyone cares) a piece of narration "joggers jog....painters paint...." Now, is this all one big coincidince, or is there a reference/explanation that someone could send me? Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #245 *******************************