From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #317 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, August 21 1998 Volume 07 : Number 317 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: not Re: Replacements [Aaron Mandel ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, film star/Nicholas Roeg [Capuchin ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, film star/Nicholas Roeg [Eb ] Re: [Fwd: Tim Time Out Preview] [Tom Clark ] Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) [Capuchin ] Sing along with Tim! [Carole Reichstein ] Re: Sing along with Tim! [Bayard ] shoulda seen this coming from me:-) [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Re: shoulda seen this coming from me:-) [tanter ] My cover, like Bill Clinton, has been blown... [maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net] REM update [Ken Sabatini ] oh what the heck, another Rufus post [Ken Sabatini Subject: Re: not Re: Replacements On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, dmw wrote: > np archers of loaf _white trash heros_ speaking of typos, they seem to have corrected the spelling on this one between the manufacture of the promos and the writing of the blurb that went with them. sadly, they neglected to fix the music... re tim keegan: really? i wish i had one of those "Are you now or have you ever been a Blue Aeroplane?" t-shirts. or that they would make another album. a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:46:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, film star/Nicholas Roeg On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, lj lindhurst wrote: > Roeg also did "Track 27", "Don't Look Back" [but not in anger], and the > awfully frightening and funny "children's" film, "The Witches" [promise me > you will not show this movie to your kids][unless your kid is Tom Clark]. Yeah... don't let your kids see this movie. Make them read the book! The movie was OK and fun and parts were really well done, but I wasn't happy with it. You can't give that book a happy ending! When I read the book in fourth grade, it ended with the boy being a mouse for the rest of his life. He lived with his grandmother and she made for him a variety of devices that allowed him to open doors and feed himself and slide down slides and things. It was super surreal and ultra depressing. Golly, I love Dahl. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:47:42 -0700 (PDT) From: fred is ted Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, film star - ---Tom Clark wrote: > I think Robyn would be perfect in a David Cronenberg film. Imagine him in the Jeremy Irons role in "Dead >Ringers" for instance. which one? ;) I saw Cronenberg's "Rabid" last week. Eeep. Waaay over the top--just the way I like it. A well-sustained underlying sexual hysteria vibe, a la "Dead Ringers." Nicely anticipates the disease-fear movies of the 90s. My Robyn star-turn? The Abominable Dr. Phibes! He could have alot of fun devising hideous fates, all drawn from his repertoire. How about being rubbed (to a nubbin) with grapes by a cluster full of apes? Or being forced to guzzle marshmallows and, well, you know. Come on other ranks! More possibilities? - -Possibly- Gamera, the giant Japanese flying turtle--its right for so many reasons. *Definitely* the Margaret Rutherford role in "Blithe Spirit" (or "The Belles of St. Trinian's"). He has that same whimsical comic energy. Serious roles? The lead in "Shine" would be a good fit. A troubled but gifted musician; and this time, the star plays for real. I'm trying to think of a role that would take advantage of his physical gifts--a penetrating gaze, strong hands, a commanding speaking voice. Something in the way of a Dracula/Svengali/Rasputin kinda role. Drawing a blank for an actual part... Ted "yeah, we get high on music (and film)" Kim Deal _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:03:31 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, film star/Nicholas Roeg Capuchin: >Yeah... don't let your kids see this movie. Make them read the book! The >movie was OK and fun and parts were really well done, but I wasn't happy >with it. You can't give that book a happy ending! When I read the book >in fourth grade, it ended with the boy being a mouse for the rest of his >life. Wow, interesting. I didn't know that the book ended differently! Coincidentally, I just saw this film again, on TV last weekend. Even if the ending was changed, it's still a very entertaining and imaginative piece o' work. Eb Inspirational verse of the day: "I don't know when they realized what Carl was doing for years. But I believe they knew a very long time ago. That is why there are Enigma clues in AMLOR. There are many things in that album that I can interpret too. But it wasn't until 1992 that I realized what Carl had been trying to do to me for years. I think many musicians knew of what he was trying to do to me, but they didn't need to help me out of his weirdness towards me years ago, because I wasn't aware of what was going on. "There is a silence that speaks so much louder than words of promises broken" I never tried to talk to Carl again and didn't even care or listen to the lyrics of Asia years ago. So my silence to Carl was more than his bands lyrics to me. I did make a promise to Carl years ago to always be a fan of his and to come around. This part of the Enigma is very strange. I never knew all the years what was going on, but now I do. The song Sorrow tells the story the most but like I say I wasn't aware of Carl's weirdness until 92. That's when I started believing in all his lies of love. It just wasn't enough for Carl, he was so obsessed with the fact that one person had his secret and had enough to ruin him. "There"ll be no safety in numbers when the Right One walks out the door" He's very obsessive about the image he built up and he would do anything to keep his secret safe even if he had to hurt me and push me to the bizarre limits. If you can't hear the story of a man's bizarre behavior towards a woman in the AMLOR and the Division Bell, then you aren't listening. and the lyrics "and G-D knows I've tried" is proof that Gilmour is not speaking about himself. The G-D represents Gilmour DG. So he is speaking from another man's point of view whenever he says "I". He does that almost all the way through the DB. Every other song in the DB is from the mans' point of the view (carl) and then the other songs are from the womans point of view. LIke Take it Back and then Coming Back to Life. Its all about the communication between two people and I am one of them. I just know too much and can see and interpret way too much for it all to be coincidence and the fact that I did get a very long look, smile and nod from Gilmour himself, that was all I needed. It really doesn't even matter if people don't believe me. I was hurt horribley by Carl and I have proof of that. I was helped greatly by the music of PF. The DB told me the truth about Carl and saved me from whatever I could have done to myself. Even if I don't have the proof you need right now that Gilmour does know me and did write the DB about all this, the fact remains that the DB did help me from a horrible experience. People are helped all the time from music and there are many stories about how music helped someone. No one has come forward and has stated that the DB saved their life. I have. My testimony is the proof that I was helped by it. So I don't have Gilmour telling you all about me so what, I am telling you that he and others helped me and the DB was a God send for real. When the DB came out, I went over and over it a millions times trying to see if I could be mistaken. I was so afraid I actually wanted to be mistaken, it was such a huge thing. But there is no mistake. There are just too many things that I can interpret and toomany things that have followed since the DB that tells me I have right. But as for proof positive for you all, that should come with time somehow." - --Denise Sharpe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 98 13:47:52 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: [Fwd: Tim Time Out Preview] On 8/20/98 7:42 PM, Mark Gloster wrote: >presidential electroluxation Sing a long with me if you will: Heeeeeere comes - the yodelling Hoover She's gonna yodel over yewwwww!! How's about a little perverted license: Here comes the Hoovering intern She's gonna archive all your goooooo! I'm truly sorry to have subjected you all to that. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:12:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Gary Assassin wrote: > Here is some info from my McDonalds expert! > > Ronald=frightening clown > Mayor McCheese=The mayor of McDonaldland, with a head that's a Quarter > Pounder with Cheese (not a Big Mac). There was also the police chief guy with a Big Mac for a head. > Grimace=Ronald's best friend. Never had four arms. There has occasionally > appeared a female Grimace, with a bow on top of her gelatinous > head. The pair have never been married, though, and Grimace is not > composed of any McDonalds menu item. He is just a big purple guy. > And blueberry was never a flavor of milkshake--only vanilla, > chocolate, and strawberry. I'm pretty sure that in the children's area of the McDonald's of my youth and before, there was a big plastic grimace with four arms... but he also had something like three faces on the sides the top lump that serves as his head. I think it was just an attempt to make him viewable and useful from all directions. But yeah, I'm pretty sure he's just had two arms in any kind of non-furniture representation. I don't know why I'm writing this. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:30:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) > > Grimace=Ronald's best friend. Never had four arms. There has occasionally > > appeared a female Grimace, with a bow on top of her gelatinous > > head. The pair have never been married, though, and Grimace is not > > composed of any McDonalds menu item. He is just a big purple guy. > > And blueberry was never a flavor of milkshake--only vanilla, > > chocolate, and strawberry. wasn't there also an orange specialty shake at one point, in addition to grasshopper green? it would be interesting to see a list of all the "menu items" that have failed over the years. i think the "arch delux" is already gone... =b "the hot side stays hot..." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 98 14:29:20 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) On 8/21/98 2:12 PM, Capuchin wrote: >I'm pretty sure that in the children's area of the McDonald's of my youth >and before, there was a big plastic grimace with four arms... but he also >had something like three faces on the sides the top lump that serves as >his head. I think it was just an attempt to make him viewable and useful >from all directions. methinks they were spiking the Happy Meals! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:49:14 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (caution: filling is hot) >> > Grimace=Ronald's best friend. Never had four arms. There has occasionally >> > appeared a female Grimace, with a bow on top of her gelatinous >> > head. The pair have never been married, though, and Grimace is not >> > composed of any McDonalds menu item. He is just a big purple guy. >> > And blueberry was never a flavor of milkshake--only vanilla, >> > chocolate, and strawberry. > >wasn't there also an orange specialty shake at one point, in addition to >grasshopper green? > >it would be interesting to see a list of all the "menu items" that have >failed over the years. i think the "arch delux" is already gone... My all-time favorite is the "Babe Happy Meal"! lj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:09:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Danielle Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content, and some arches) McDs. So universal. > wasn't there also an orange specialty shake at one point, in addition to > grasshopper green? > > it would be interesting to see a list of all the "menu items" that have > failed over the years. i think the "arch delux" is already gone... Well, in New Zealand there was a mango shake for a while - was that it? And of course, we still have the 'Kiwiburger', which includes such delicacies as beetroot. James and Martin, sing along with the 'Kiwis love.... Kiwiburger, that's our tucker' ad with me - I'm sure you both remember it. ;) There's an urban legend circulating that only two branches of McDonalds have ever failed. I don't know where the other one was supposed to be, but the Browns Bay outpost disappeared very mysteriously during my youth on Auckland's North Shore... Danielle, who wagged school a lot in the sixth form with her friend Matthew, and went to the Takapuna McDonalds in his little orange Mini _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 18:19:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Fuller Subject: from randi - I know another musician who has musical parents :} I totally forgot all about it... But it's so simple - well - now that I've remembered... Neil Finn's wife, Sharon - sings {and may play percussion but I don't have the disks with me} - on a few Crowded House albums - and Neil and Sharon have a son named Liam Finn. Liam Finn plays drums on Neil's new album "Try Whistling This" and he is on tour with Neil - playing guitar and drums. He also sings a song of his own for the second encore - a more grungy kind of song than his dad writes...but good in it's own way - - especially 'cause his voice is almost "exactly" like his dad's. {I know this 'cause a friend of mine taped the show for me} Okay - so Neil and his wife Sharon both sing, and their son Liam - is touring with dad playing drums and guitar - I hope he'll end up being a *famous* musician...he's only 15 or 16 right now. Does this satisfy you Eb ;} fading back into whistling a joyful tune, Randi *what scares you most will set you free* - Robyn Hitchcock *and the hunger inside won't go away...it's starting to rise and the longer you hide...the more you deny* - Neil Finn ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:20:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Bayard wrote: > it would be interesting to see a list of all the "menu items" that have > failed over the years. i think the "arch delux" is already gone... > =b "the hot side stays hot..." I was thinking about that old McDLT a few days ago. Can you believe they tried to market a burger that came in a double-wide styrofoam carton? And remember those big styrofoam Big Breakfast cartons? It pains me to think about how many of those things were handed to people driving by in their cars all those decades. But yeah, failed sandwiches and promos fly through all the time. A list would be really interesting. I really like that Disneyland web page that just reviews all the rides that are now closed. (It's almost as good as the site listing all the deaths and dismemberments that have taken place at the Magic Kingdom.) J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:25:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content, and some arches) On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Danielle wrote: > Well, in New Zealand there was a mango shake for a while - was that > it? And of course, we still have the 'Kiwiburger', which includes such > delicacies as beetroot. James and Martin, sing along with the 'Kiwis > love.... Kiwiburger, that's our tucker' ad with me - I'm sure you both > remember it. ;) Oh yeah... region-specific menu items are great. I remember some city had pizza and spaghetti... I don't remember where I was when I saw that. I didn't eat it. > There's an urban legend circulating that only two branches of > McDonalds have ever failed. I don't know where the other one was > supposed to be, but the Browns Bay outpost disappeared very > mysteriously during my youth on Auckland's North Shore... We had a discussion about how many Out Of Business McDonald's we'd seen in our lifetimes. I think the total was four. Still pretty amazing... and amazing that we remembered almost all of them (a testament to their infrequency). I read somewhere that, when averaged, each american lives within 6 minutes travel of a McDonald's restaurant. I guess that makes sense. I know I live within four minutes of two and eight minutes of four... it gets much higher if you have a car. J. -- who remembers a time when there were three McDonald's within fifteen blocks downtown. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:50:40 -0700 From: Jason Thornton Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (40% tentacle content in the new Sea Monster Burger) At 03:25 PM 8/21/98 -0700, Capuchin wrote: >Oh yeah... region-specific menu items are great. I remember some city had >pizza and spaghetti... I don't remember where I was when I saw that. I >didn't eat it. Someone told me that in Maine you can order lobster at McDonald's. At McDonald's in Thailand, you can get a Samurai Burger, which is essentially a teriyaki pork burger, if I remember correctly. Interestingly enough, there are no Samurai Burgers in Japan. I hear you can get a mean bowl of udon at any Tokyo Denny's, however. At Christmas time, the Japanese Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants dress up the Colonel Sanders statues in Santa outfits, and refer to him as, you guessed it, Colonel Sanders Claus. I think I'm off topic. Anyhow, I caught the Bauhaus gig last night, and just got tickets for the Irvine show next month. Goth city! Woo-hoo! "Undead, undead, undead!" - --Jason np: Bauhaus, "Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape" (oh, it just ended) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:49:15 -0700 (PDT) From: fred is ted Subject: Re: M2/Confessions of an M2 Addict - ---Terrence M Marks wrote: > > Does anyone else here get M2? > I think it's the last best hope for music television. Spam alert. I love M2! i was going to post on it when Randi brought up the down side of the vid industry and people were rapping MTV. M2 is what MTV used to be but better. All videos, remarkably open playlists, and a wider rotation list than most radio stations. Since I moved to a town with no real college radio signals (and just the usual couple of 'mersh alternative stations), M2 has helped me keep musically fresh since I left the East Coast. Current Fave: Fatboy Slim, "The Rockafella Skank." Perfect linkage of song and video. As a compulsive taper (well, I now use Minidisc),I have a good reason to love M2. The beauty of it is that the videos are presented in eight hour blocks, starting at 6:00 AM, and repeated at 2:00 and 10:00 PM. So I fire off an eight-hour VCR tape at 6:00 and visually search through the tape when I get home for any songs I want to record on MD or VCR. I've managed to compile over a dozen VCR tapes and dozens of MDs in about a year. The VJs are rawk crits like Matt (music trivia god) Pinfield and the ditzy but legit Jancee Dunn. The VJs are always low-key, usually perched in some Manhattan club. M2 plays all sorts of theme blocks. Alphabeticals, songs linked by a common word--you know the routine. These type of days are good cuz they *really* open up the playlist. Any resource that, fer instance, plays Tenpole Tudor's "Wunderbar" from time to time has much to recommend it. M2 excels at the replaying of just that sort of semi-obscure gem from the past. The downside to M2 is that with the drastic cutbacks in video budgets (cuz MTV doen't play videos anymore, basically), current artists that are judged by their labels to not be a sure-fire hit (and thus worthy of congratulatory video) go begging. So you won't see NMH, OTC, Dan Bern, Rufus, etc. Sad but true. I have seen the usual A&M RH vids (Balloon Man, So You Think.., Madonna OTW) from time to time. Ok--I'll say something nice about MTV proper. "Sifl and Olly" is silly, dumb fun. Nicely moves in on the sock puppet niche now that Lambchop's been snagged by the rag and bone man. Ted "yeah, we get high on music (videos)" Kim Deal _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:43:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Sing along with Tim! Some kindly Feg just posted a newsletter he got from Flydaddy, regarding Mr. Keegan's booming career. It mentioned that Tim just got back from New York, where he recorded a song for the new Paul Auster (cool!) film. Said that he recorded the track with *Mira Sorvino.* What??? Mira Sorvino sings?? With Tim? If true, this is my David Lynchian moment for the day. Carole ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:06:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Sing along with Tim! On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Carole Reichstein wrote: > > Some kindly Feg just posted a newsletter he got from Flydaddy, regarding > Mr. Keegan's booming career. It mentioned that Tim just got back from New > York, where he recorded a song for the new Paul Auster (cool!) film. Said > that he recorded the track with *Mira Sorvino.* robyn mentioned something simliar at the rams' head show. but he said he was sending a tape, and mira's people would "drop her in." this was independent of (but not necessarily unrelated to) his comment about an australian guy singing one of his new songs in a film. the plot thickens. b# ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 23:54:59 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: shoulda seen this coming from me:-) On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 03:21:41 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:41:23 -0700 >From: Eb >Subject: brainstorming > >Question, sort of a higher-difficulty corollary to a recent thread: > >Sure, there's zillions of second-generation musical artists nowadays, but >can anyone name someone other than Rufus Wainwright who is the child of TWO >famous musical parents? EASY!! Teddy thompson, son of Richard and Linda!!! -luther ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 20:10:35 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: shoulda seen this coming from me:-) How could you possibly forget Sean Lennon? marcy hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At 11:54 PM 8/21/1998 +0000, David W. Dudich wrote: >On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 03:21:41 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > >>Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:41:23 -0700 >>From: Eb >>Subject: brainstorming >> >>Question, sort of a higher-difficulty corollary to a recent thread: >> >>Sure, there's zillions of second-generation musical artists nowadays, but >>can anyone name someone other than Rufus Wainwright who is the child of TWO >>famous musical parents? > > EASY!! Teddy thompson, son of Richard and Linda!!! > > -luther > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:41:40 -0700 From: maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net Subject: My cover, like Bill Clinton, has been blown... Hello All you Robyn Fans, Freaks, and on-lookers... I just wanted to introduce myself and to commend you on having the bestus mail thingie in the known universe... My name is Cliff Malloy (AKA Mousestalker), I am currently a buyer at the Virgin Megastore - Las Vegas... My previous lives included Photographer, Cab Driver, Record store owner/manager (where I met the uber-fantastic Glen), Actor (catch my awe-inspiring cameos in "Albino Brown in Liberace's shoes"... not available in stores at the moment)..., Stand-up Comedian, Bookkeeper/Accountant, Computer Programmer (back when PC's were a "new idea"), Religious zealot (I had a stint with the Way International in the mid 80's), Sailor (USS Saratoga), Disc Jockey (also with the aforementioned Mr Uber... ask him about the "Vinyl Resting Place sometime, eh), Station Manager, Postal Clerk, Coin/Beer can/comic and my current muse Record collector, as well as a bunch o' shit you aint never heard of... So what's my point... my point is to illustrate sometimes how closely this list parallels with my life... for instance, when you guys mentioned Rufus Wainwright (sp?), he shows up on the Lisa Loeb tour... then someone here mentions Paul Robeson, and the NEXT DAY in the mail, a close friend mails me his biography... Coincidence... maybe, but the point is that this is the most informed bunch of individuals i've ever met and I hope to contribute more here as the days go by... There is only one small complaint I have... I would like to see a little more soul content because that's the one thing that I can't find anywhere else on the internet... and I know you guys actually have some SOUL records/CDs in your collections... and I don't mean that whining psudo-soul shit that "passes" for music nowadays... actually you may refer to today's "black" music as CRAP (Computerized Repetitive African-American Performances)... I'm talking about anything before 1980... REAL SOUL, before the "blahs" set in... Anyway, I will welcome any and all inquires about anything within my realm and make up the rest as I go along... Talk at y'all later... Cliff L. Malloy AKA Mousestalker Bartender at Three Dot Lounge... Cliff's Album of the Day - 8/21/98 "Wanted" Richard Pryor - Warner Bros Records - 1978 e-mail maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net ICQ Number 12689312 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 20:46:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Sabatini Subject: REM update There had been at least one request about the new yet-to-be-released REM record, so I thought I'd post an update . . . The headlines of today's Athens Daily News (yes, there is such a paper!) include "R.E.M. not 'Up' for world tour." The highlights of this article are as follows: - - they are done recording for the new record (produced by Pat McCarthy and M. Stipe) - - its title is "Up" and it will be released on Oct. 27 - - the band has decided to pass on a 1999 world tour - - the new disc will include 4 of the new songs that the band played at the Tibetan Freedom Concert this year: "Suspicion, "Sad Professor, "Airplane Man," and "Parakeet." Other new tracks will likely include "Diminished," "Lotus," "Day Sleeper," "Hope," and "At My Most Beautiful" - - "Day Sleeper" be the first single, who's video is now being shot in New York by the Fnorri Brothers - - The band will perform the weekend of Oct. 17-18 at Neil Young's 11th annual Bridge School Benefit in San Francisco Well that's the meat of the article. I look forward to the band taking a break from Scott Litt (although I admit I haven't kept up with REM enough to know whether Litt produced either Monster or Adventures in Hi Fi)--I liked the sound McCarthy got out of Luna for their last record. Lastly, I've heard the band has taken a less traditional approach to a lot of their new songs, which would be nice. Ken *E. coli . . . its what's for dinner* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 20:57:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Sabatini Subject: oh what the heck, another Rufus post Said Eb on Wed, 19 Aug 1998: >Yeah, I heard that Rufus Wainwright would be on Conan this week, but I >didn't know which day. I trust that you'll ALL be watching tonight. ;) >Still, this booking is yet more validation that Rufus Wainwright is "for >real." I mean, clearly, the Conan show isn't booking him because they hope >to exploit Wainwright's gargantuan popularity. In fact, very few music >guests on Conan are picked for this reason. Heck, I haven't even heard of >most of those retro rockabilly-blues acts that the show regularly books. (FOR SOME REASON, THIS EMAIL CAME OUT IN ALL CAP'S--I FAULT MY MODEM CONNECTION) ARE YOU JOKING HERE EB? IF NOT, THEN THE MEANING OF "CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED" BECOMES YET MORE UNCLEAR--AN APPEARANCE ON CONAN VALIDATES A BAND'S ARTISTIC VALUE? LET'S NOT FORGET THAT RUFUS IS SIGNED TO DREAMWORKS, BY NO MEANS A SMALL LABEL--THIS IS A PIECE OF STEVEN SPIELBERG'S (SP?) EMPIRE, ALBEIT A STILL-UNPROFITABLE DIVISION. THE FACT THAT DREAMWORKS SPENT A RELATIVELY HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY RECORDING RUFUS' CURRENT RECORD OVER A 2 YEAR SPAN ONLY MAKES IT MORE SENSIBLE THAT THEY SUPPORT HIM BY *HELPING* HIM TO GET IN THE PUBLIC LIGHT WHENEVER POSSIBLE. PERSONALLY, I LIKED THE COUPLE OF SONGS I'D HEARD FROM THE RUFUS DISC, SO DON'T TAKE THIS AS AN ANTI-RUFUS POST. I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY HIS NAME KEEPS COMING UP AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN (EB?). PS FOR THE RECORD . . . I RECALL THAT A RECENT SPIN MAGAZINE GAVE THE RUFUS DISC A RATING OF 7 OUT OF A POSSIBLE 10, NOTING SOMETHING ABOUT THE WEAKNESS OF THE LYRICS. OF COURSE, I'VE NEVER BEEN TOO FOND OF SPIN'S RECORD RATINGS. KEN FAVORITE DISC OF THE YEAR THUS FAR: RICHARD DAVIES "TELEGRAPH" ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #317 *******************************