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fegmaniax-digest      Wednesday, August 26 1998      Volume 07 : Number 327



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Welcome to Disney Talk!  My name is Judas Wedgewood, and I'll  be your host.  ["Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail]
  Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #326                            [edoxtato@ssax.com]
  Re: Wading Through A Songlist      ["Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>]
  Re: Welcome to Disney Talk!  My name is Judas Wedgewood, and I'll be your host.  [Tom Clark <tclark@ap]
  Another cheeping test   [The Great Quail <thequail@cthulhu.microserve.com>]
  One Ring to Rule Them (and Patti, too!)  [The Great Quail <thequail@cthulh]
  contest                                [Bayard <walden@universe.digex.net>]
  Re: Disney, VC                                  [Eb <gondola@deltanet.com>]
  Re: Wading Through A Songlist        [amadain <sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu>]
  Re: Disney, VD                        [Jason Thornton <jthornton@ucsd.edu>]
  Mainstream Acceptance         [Marshall Joseph Armintor <mojo@is.rice.edu>]
  Eddie as Trainspotting Guy  ["Karen Reichstein" <karen_reichstein@hotmail.]
  Test Cheep                                [The Great Quail <aruch@fp1.com>]
  Celebrity Lookalike Quails  [The Great Quail <thequail@cthulhu.microserve.]
  Re: Welcome to Disney Talk! My name is Judas Wedgewood, and  I'll be your host.  ["Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotm]
  Celebrity look-alikes                           [Eb <gondola@deltanet.com>]
  Re: Disney, VC                     ["Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>]

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:00:12 PDT
From: "Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>
Subject: Welcome to Disney Talk!  My name is Judas Wedgewood, and I'll  be your host.

<> p.p.s.  Has Eddie been on a FUCKING roll lately, or what?
I think you're right. It might have something to do with the fact that 
he played Spud in Trainspotting and still isn't able to put together a 
sentence without adding the ultimate interjection!>

the stranger:  "there's just one thing, dude."
the dude:  "yeah, what's that?"
the stranger:  "do you have to use so many *cuss words*?"
the dude:  "the fuck you talkin' about?"
the stranger:  "heh heh heh heh.  okay, dude.  have it your way."


<I also hate the way the rides at Disneyland
let you out into the giftshops now-a-days.>

nah, they've always done that.  on the upside though, it's just 
ridiculously easy to shoplift from disneyland.  (we're talkin' Five 
Finger Discount, baybee!)  i mean, i used to have to get *two* lockers.  
one for all the crap i brought in, and another for all the crap i'd 
pinched from the gift shoppes.  eb, didn't they ever call a big employee 
meeting and say, you know, we gotta do something about this?
yes, i *am* a proud owner of the pirates of the caribbean soundtrack. 
are you?


<I went on Mr. Toad a couple of years back, and Hell seemed a lot less 
hot
than when I was kid.  For some reason, I remember just ROASTING 
before...>

boy, not me!  it's still as frightening as ever when you have to face 
the judge:  "GUILTY!  thank you, that is all."  then the doors swing 
wide, and it's into the motherfuckin' FURNACE.
in order, the ten greatest attractions at disneyland:
 1.  Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
 2.  Splash Mountain
 3.  It's A Small World
 4.  Pirates of the Caribbean
 5.  Space Mountain
 6.  The People Mover (may you rest in peace)
 7.  Storybookland
 8.  The Skyway (may you rest in peace)
 9.  Peter Pan
10.  Autopia (it's just way too easy to get into trouble on those 
fuckers)

the most overrated attractions:  jungle cruise (every time i hear one of 
those fucking hosers say, "the back side of water!" i just want to stand 
up and pee right on them), star tours, thunder mountain, the haunted 
house.
oh, and eb, i think the submarine ride itself is ok.  the problem is, 
the line's always dispropotionately long for the quality of the ride.


<RH, R&B,
Punk, Placentas, it all happens here, and this is an
interesting and great place to be.>

you forgot urinal cakes!!!!! 


<Um, by the way, I did that picture of 
Courtney Love, heh heh -- I picked the one that made her look the most 
trampy. Bitch.>

has anybody (apart from cindy, debbie, jeff, and vincent) heard of 
richard lee?  he hosts a local public access show called "now see it 
person to person -- kurt cobain was murdered."  at the beginning and end 
of every show, he puts up a little subtitle that says, "kurt cobain was 
murdered  as reported [today's date]"  i used to watch that show 
religiously, but haven't seen it in quite some time.  he always refers 
to courtney love as "courtney hole," which, while it isn't very nice at 
all, never fails to crack me up.  anyways, he, just a couple weeks ago, 
subscribed to eat the state!  just thought you had the right to know.


<Dave Lang made me (Yes! *Made* me!) search my email archives for old
"Surreal Posse" postings.>

ebisms.
this is one component that i think gets overlooked amidst the whorl of 
fun that is the eb experience.  eb deserves much credit for coining so 
many phrases that have become an indispensible element of the feg 
lexicon.
surreal posse, schoolmarm, b+, clippety-clop-brainfry-beat/proggie 
chord-counter/indignant deadhead, starfucker, weenieism, samey 
setlists...uh, help me out here, folks.  i'm missing quite a few.


<It is called "Trilobyte," and as he plays, thearcheologist - >

it's Trilobite, dammit!  in fact, i finally got around to looking it up 
just the other week, so's i could be 100% sure.  there's also an 
adjective, "trilobitic."


<Wow...it's been quite awhile since someone has called me "dude.">

well, i refer to you as, "ebdude" from time to time.  does that count?


<Does anyone know how many languages he's recorded 'Alright Yeah' in.>

just the three, to my knowledge.  


<I hate 70's nostalgia.  It's almost totally bogus.>

well, to quote lawrence welk:  "i'm going to go over here and beat off 
the band."


<> <Legalised Murder>
> Legalized Murder                                               
* No, it's English spelling, Legalised Murder.>>

i checked, man.  i checked two different places.  it's Legalized.
now, it certainly *is* conceivable that robyn had spelt it with an S, 
and somebody at A&M got a load of it, and cried, "we can't have that!"


<<Mystery Train>
> elvis grbac                                                   
* No, it's by Sam Phillips and Junior Parker>

but bayard's listed the original performing artists, not the 
songwriters.

what we really need now is for somebody with "vast musical knowledge" 
(godwin, dodge, eb, goosens, dignan, uber etc.) to go through bayard's 
list, 'cause there are a lot of covers that i missed.


<I think it's about friggin' time, too.  I'd prefer a Lord of the Rings
trilogy over a Star Wars trilogy any day.>

it's long been a dream of mine that terry gilliam would direct this 
project, with alec guiness as gandalf.  but they fucked around too long, 
and now guiness is probably too old to play the part.  did i miss it, or 
has the director not yet been determined?


<And we should start a campaign to get Robyn hired to play Aragorn, 
too.>

i don't know if you meant this as a joke or not, gene-o, but i think 
it's fucking brilliant!  i really think robyn's got it in him.


now, back to revelling in the glory of hurricane bonnie!


Are there not instances when the refusal to serve is a sacred duty, when 
"treason" means courageous respect for the truth?
               --Manifesto of the 121


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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:29:18 -0500
From: edoxtato@ssax.com
Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #326

Seventies nostalgia sucks.  I have to agree.  The decade that style forgot
is seeping into everything like creosote.  It sticks, it stinks, and it's
impossible to remove.

Sorry about the rant.

Ob Robyn and yet another attempt at Lord Of The Rings...
>>*As for casting, I would have thought RH was more of a Legolas than an
>>Aragorn. Presumably John Hurt will do Smeagol. Now, what about Gandalf
and
>>Saruman? Maybe one person to play both?
>Robyn ought to replace that bard that kept chanting "Frodo of the nine
>fingers" in the animated version.

Bobby Goldsborough (SP)?

:::shudder:::

Thank YOU, Mister Marks, for bringing back such a painful memory...

Look after yerselves...

- -Ed, Doc, who wants Orson Bean to do ALL the voices for the film.  If Orson
in unavailable, the project should be scrapped and all the money should be
spent on a nice party with hats and cake and ice cream.  No-one will be
allowed to tell their life's story.  _John Carter, Warlord Of Mars_ will be
discussed instead.

n.p.  Catherine Wheel, "Happy Days"

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:52:01 PDT
From: "Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Wading Through A Songlist

<> Fortunate Son

Creedence Clearwater Revival. Composed by John Fogerty.>

no, robyn has covered *The* Fortunate Son, which is a different one than 
the creedence version.  i don't know who originally did it, though.


<> Puppet Master                                                   

Metallica. 

Just kidding!>

that's a great album, though!


<> Space Odyssey                                                   

"Space Oddity" perhaps?>

no, it's Space Odyssey.  but again, i don't know who the original artist 
is.  i'm pretty surprised he's never done Space Oddity, though.


<> What Goes On                              The Velvet Undergrou  

The Beatles also had a song called "What Goes On". Composed by 
Lennon/McCartney/Starr. I suspect it's the Velvets, though.>

definitely the velvets.  although i haven't heard the largo shows from 
june yet, and he did a fuckload of beatles coverin' in those shows, so 
it's not *impossible* that he has now covered the beatles' What Goes On.   



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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:02:34 -0700
From: Tom Clark <tclark@apple.com>
Subject: Re: Welcome to Disney Talk!  My name is Judas Wedgewood, and I'll be your host.

On 8/26/98 2:00 PM, Capitalism Blows wrote:

><I also hate the way the rides at Disneyland
>let you out into the giftshops now-a-days.>
>
>nah, they've always done that.  on the upside though, it's just 
>ridiculously easy to shoplift from disneyland.  (we're talkin' Five 
>Finger Discount, baybee!)  i mean, i used to have to get *two* lockers.  
>one for all the crap i brought in, and another for all the crap i'd 
>pinched from the gift shoppes.  eb, didn't they ever call a big employee 
>meeting and say, you know, we gotta do something about this?

My sister used to work at a Disney Store In The Mall(tm) and she said 
they were instructed never to stop a shoplifter because it would cause a 
scene and the store wouldn't be a Happy Place anymore.  She said people 
would just shove loads and loads of Disney Shit(tm) into their shopping 
bags and walk out - and there was nothing they could do.

>in order, the ten greatest attractions at disneyland:
> 1.  Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
> 2.  Splash Mountain

http://www.flashmountain.com/

- -tc 

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 98 18:32:10 -0500
From: The Great Quail <thequail@cthulhu.microserve.com>
Subject: Another cheeping test

I am trying out my new work account, but I seem to only be able to reach 
the Feg List once in awhile. . . . 

So I *think* I now have it all configured right. . . . 

- --Quail

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For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania,
visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the 
human mind to correlate all its contents."
                       -- H.P. Lovecraft

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 98 18:42:24 -0500
From: The Great Quail <thequail@cthulhu.microserve.com>
Subject: One Ring to Rule Them (and Patti, too!)

Luther daves:

>I thought "Gone Again" couldv'e been better with a full band
>on every song, and "Wave"'s production SUCKS!

But for all you Patti Smithies who were discouraged by "Gone Again" and 
(maybe even) "Dream of Life," I can't recommend more highly her newest 
disc, "Peace and Noise," which is her best work since "Easter," easily. 
(I like it better than anything save "Horsies.") 

And about the "Lord of the Rings," I must go on record as saying I LOVED 
the Ralph Bakshi movie -- loved it, loved it! A mature and serious piece 
of avante-garde animation, I think the reason it is so reviled is largely 
because many Tolkein fans were unprepared to see the subject adapted so 
modernly. The weird animations of the orcs that combined live actors, the 
at-times almost frighteningly atonal score, the edgy implied 
homoeroticism between the hobbits. . . . and my favorite part, the 
Ringwraiths. When Frodo puts on the Ring, he doesn't just turn invisible, 
he slips into an entirely different *dimension* where evil saturates 
every sense -- and I think Bakshi rendered that magnificently! The 
Ringwraiths were some very terrifying creatures, completely corrupt in a 
way that only Bakshi could do -- they conveyed a sense of alien menace 
that could not have been done by Disney or Anime. 

>*As for casting, I would have thought RH was more of a Legolas than an
>Aragorn. Presumably John Hurt will do Smeagol. Now, what about Gandalf and
>Saruman? Maybe one person to play both?

Hmmm . . . what about this (pardon my spelling mistakes):

Linda Hunt as Gollum; Daniel Day Lewis as Aragorn; Mel Gibson as Boromir 
(Don't get mad, think about it! I mean, Brian Blessed would be the 
obvious choice, but Mel could bring that "Boromir as an asshole" factor 
more into play); David Bowie as Elrond the Half-Elven; Sir Alec Guinness 
as Treebeard; Sir John Gielgud as King Theodrin; Steve Buscemi as Grima 
Wormtongue (how can he resist the role he was born to play?); Nicol 
Williamson as Merlin (oh, wait! different movie!) -- ok, Nicol Williamson 
as Saruman; and Denis Leary as Tim Benzedrine. 

As far as Gandalf, that's rough -- but it *has* to be a distinguished yet 
slightly dotty old English actor. Sir Derek Jacobi? Sir Anthony Hopkins? 
Ian "Where's my stinking knighthood" MacKellan? Maybe even Gary Oldman, 
because I am convinced he can play *anything,*  and I have yet to work my 
favorite actor into it? 

And man, I don't even *know* who could play the elves! Maybe Tori Amos as 
them all? 

- --Grima Quailtongue


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human mind to correlate all its contents."
                       -- H.P. Lovecraft

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:00:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bayard <walden@universe.digex.net>
Subject: contest

Thanks to y'all and me, and especially Eddie fuckin' Tews, the songlist
now numbers a whopping 713 entries.  jeez, that bob guy gets around huh?
Just for fun, here is a little contest.

Anyone who can name the exact number of dylan covers will  win a prize
(yet to be determined- but i promise to think of something good.  i have
some ideas.)

OR, name the top three artists covered and number of songs covered for
each with a 2 song margin of error.

By covered I mean "Covered by robyn [Hitchcock]."*
Ya gotsta be pacific, here on the Gong list...

=b
ps. no SNEAKY using the songlist!

pps. SUPER DUPER EXTRA CREDIT for naming the number of robyn songs and
covers beginning with the words "I" or "I'm" or "I'll". (total)

* which is an anagram of Chock Itch


oh, and:
<<Mystery Train>
> elvis grbac
* No, it's by Sam Phillips and Junior Parker>

<but bayard's listed the original performing artists, not the
<songwriters.  

actually, i'm doing "author", "original band", and one or two other fields
to depict who's done them in the robyn camp.  (but thtat last bit is for
leter.)

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:09:15 -0700
From: Eb <gondola@deltanet.com>
Subject: Re: Disney, VC

Eddie Tews:
>nah, they've always done that.  on the upside though, it's just
>ridiculously easy to shoplift from disneyland.

Yeah, that's true. Not that I ever did it. And it's very hard to shoplift
as an employee, because the security guys at the employees gate demand to
see ALL receipts for merchandise you carry out. Disney definitely plays
hardball.

FYI, the coolest thing I ever saw sold at Disneyland: Tucked away in the
Adventureland giftshop, they had these HORRIBLE ceramic pencil sharpeners.
Tackiest things you ever saw. I believe they cost 50 cents. They were about
two inches high and wide, and all the sharpeners were shaped like little
toddler children. The kicker was that in certain cases, the holes in the
sharpeners were, um, distastefully located. I bought several of them, and
gave them to friends. Right now, I'm looking at the sharpener which I kept:
a little boy leaning back as if sitting on the floor, arms outstretched
behind him for balance, legs up in the air with a ball squeezed between his
legs...and a pencil-sharpener hole right in the middle of his ass. Owwwwch.
You know that's gotta hurt.

There was a similar sharpener which I gave away, which had a little girl
lying on her stomach, legs kicked up...with the hole located in a very
closely related zone. Oy vey.

A couple of months after I discovered these items for sale, they
disappeared from stock. I guess someone wised up.

I once saw Boy George poking around this shop, but that's probably
unrelated, isn't it? ISN'T IT? ;)

>eb, didn't they ever call a big employee
>meeting and say, you know, we gotta do something about this?

No, all the park departments operate very isolated from each other. Not
much group-hug activity. Though the place is a complete meat market,
datingwise. Heterosexual guys are at a premium, since the vast majority of
the male ride operators and performers (characters, dancers, parade
participants, musicians...) are gay. And flamboyantly so.

By the way, if you ever see Donald Duck "with his head off," you'll be
traumatized for life. Inevitable, it's the most gnarled dwarf you've ever
seen. And I ain't talking about Sleepy or Bashful here.

>yes, i *am* a proud owner of the pirates of the caribbean soundtrack. are you?

Nope, but I have this weird promotional tape called "Music of Disneyland,"
which has a great assortment of canned inside-the-park music. I never
listen to it though, because it gives me uncomfortable flashbacks of
walking around a deserted Fantasyland after the park's closing, a solemn
stillness in the night air...and the only sound penetrating the silence
being goofy carnivalesque Alice in Wonderland music boop-booping on eternal
repeat. <shudder>

>boy, not me!  it's still as frightening as ever when you have to face
>the judge:  "GUILTY!  thank you, that is all."  then the doors swing
>wide, and it's into the motherfuckin' FURNACE.

Yes, I've long observed that Mr. Toad's Wild Ride evokes a perverse
adoration among more twisted Disney enthusiasts. ;)

>ebisms.
>this is one component that i think gets overlooked amidst the whorl of
>fun that is the eb experience.  eb deserves much credit for coining so
>many phrases that have become an indispensible element of the feg
>lexicon.
>surreal posse, schoolmarm, b+, clippety-clop-brainfry-beat/proggie
>chord-counter/indignant deadhead, starfucker, weenieism, samey
>setlists...uh, help me out here, folks.  i'm missing quite a few.

Dare I say WHEEEE?

Say, I *like* this thread idea. ;)

>well, i refer to you as, "ebdude" from time to time.  does that count?

Nope. That usage contains irony (to borrow Capuchin's distinction).

In more musical news, I saw the Velvet Crush play last night, in a rare
live appearance. First time they'd performed in LA in about four years. The
venue was the El Rey Theater, the same place where my cherished Rufus
played a few weeks ago, opening for that vapid bubblehead Lisa Loeb. Boy, I
almost wish I had a tape of her embarrassing gee-whiz gush about
"seven-layer dip." Heh. Deliciously excruciating.

Anyway, the Velvet Crush are a really underrated band...if you're into
Matthew Sweet and that sort of edgy power pop, check 'em out. (Sweet even
produced their first album, if you don't know.) And don't listen to what LJ
says. I'm sure that everyone is too busy picturing her "mouth trick" to
listen to what her mouth is saying, anyway. ;)

Unfortunately, the band is really back at square one, nowadays. After
1994's excellent Teenage Symphonies to God, their next album was rejected
by Creation and they lost their record deal. (This, from the label who just
attempted to foist Arnold upon the unsuspecting public. Sheesh.) Now the VC
album has FINALLY come out as "Heavy Changes," but it's self-released on
the band's own Action Musik label. Sad. I bought it at the show last night,
but haven't played it yet. Interestingly, a friend told me that the only
reason the VC have money to press their own records is that they were the
backing band for some Japanese singer named "Puffy," who is unknown in the
States but sold a couple of million records over there. Hmm, there's some
JPOP fanatic on this list who oughta know...was it Jason Thornton? Another
blip of off-topic trivia: Velvet Crush figurehead Ric Menck will be
drumming with Liz Phair on her upcoming tour, so I'm sure that a few of you
will get to savor his distinctive gangly-geek appearance yourselves.

Oh, obligatory starfucking content: Mike Myers was at the show, standing
calmly amidst the most high-traffic area in the entire room. Interesting.
No one talked to him, either...I don't know if they were scared,
indifferent or simply didn't recognize him. He IS a very ordinary-looking
guy, seen out of context. But why isn't he out on the road, promoting "54"?
Hm.

Eb, who has never eaten Eddie on a fucking roll for breakfast and is only
mildly concerned by Quail's interest in homoerotic hobbits

PS  Thanks for the letter, LJ. I hope its point wasn't missed. ;)

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 18:42:35 -0600
From: amadain <sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Wading Through A Songlist

>Composed by Phil Spector/Carole King/Gerry Goffin. Originally
>recorded by the Chiffons, I think.

The Dixie Cups.

>> Heartbreak Hotel
>
>Composed by Mae Axton (Hoyt's mum).

I wonder if some kind of credit should be given to John Cale here, since
the SB's reading of it sounds like a cover of his cover.

>> Hedgehog's Song                           Incredible String Ba
>
>Is this a tribute to Ron Jeremy? ;-)

You're sick, Glen :).

>> Route 66
>
>Is this "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66"? I don't know who wrote it but
>the earliest version of which I am aware is by Nat King Cole.

It was written by a nightclub pianist named Bobby Troop, whose
show-stopping number it originally was :).

Love on ya,
Susan

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:27:59 -0700
From: Jason Thornton <jthornton@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: Disney, VD

At 04:09 PM 8/26/98 -0700, Eb <gondola@deltanet.com> wrote:

>Interestingly, a friend told me that the only
>reason the VC have money to press their own records is that they were the
>backing band for some Japanese singer named "Puffy," who is unknown in the
>States but sold a couple of million records over there. Hmm, there's some
>JPOP fanatic on this list who oughta know...was it Jason Thornton? 

Nope, not me.  I'm Canto-pop all the way.  Faye Wong, Jacky Cheung, Leon
Lei, Sammi Cheng, Andy Lau, David Bowie (one song, in Mandarin), all that
jazz.

I have one JPOP CD I picked up for free in Tokyo, but I've never bothered
to play it.  I'll check and see if it's "Puffy" though.

- --Jason

np:  The Smashing Pumpkins, "Adore"

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 22:59:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Marshall Joseph Armintor <mojo@is.rice.edu>
Subject: Mainstream Acceptance

   On the ABCNews website, there's an area entitled "Wall of Sound"
were they're currently conducting a poll on the 100 Greatest Albums,
etc. etc.  They ask for input on a different decade every week, and 
this week it's the 80s.  You can write in whatever you want (you choose
10), and they've got a list of about 50 or so to jog your brain.
The usual suspects are there (Michael Jackson, U2, Duran Duran, Police,
REM, blah blah blah), respected and also obvious critical picks
(_Shoot Out the Lights_, Cowboy Junkies' _Trinity Session_, Steve
Earle's _Copperhead Road_, etc) surprising pre-"alternative" picks
[The Fall's "This Nation's Saving Grace" (!), Wire's "The Ideal Copy"
(?)], and, nicely unexpectedly, _Element of Light_.
    So, hie thyself to:

 http://www.wallofsound.com/features/stories/top_100_albums/80s/

and stuff the ballot box for whatever RH albums you like.  Me, I 
wrote in _I Often Dream of Trains_, myself, but I doubt it'll 
overtake _The Joshua Tree_.

  Marshall

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 21:33:26 PDT
From: "Karen Reichstein" <karen_reichstein@hotmail.com>
Subject: Eddie as Trainspotting Guy

<Glen mentioned something about Eddie really being "spud" from 
Trainspotting a couple digests back...>

That is so perfect. Of course! I see the ubiqitous "Trainspotting' 
poster in front of me now. Next to the blond guy and the little squatty 
guy with the bad moustache, I see him there...square glasses! Bald head! 
Of course! It's Eddie with a Scottish accent! 

Now for a heated discussion of "What celebrity do people think you look 
like?"

Karen
who gets tired of being compared to, uh, Joan Cusack. 

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 98 12:23:25 -0500
From: The Great Quail <aruch@fp1.com>
Subject: Test Cheep

This is a test to see if I can configure this blasted email server here 
at work!!!!

Um, Robyn Robyn Robyn. . . . 

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 98 12:59:57 -0500
From: The Great Quail <thequail@cthulhu.microserve.com>
Subject: Celebrity Lookalike Quails

Well, the three celebs that share my good looks are of course Doug the 
Quail-Man, Dan the Unspeakable Veep, and That Quail Robert. I mean, 
obviously! 

Weeeeell. . . . ok, not really. 

I have been told I look like a thinner Steven Spielberg, a heavier Chris 
Barron, or a bearded Gene Wilder. For you Irish music fans, I have also 
been told I resemble Manus Lunny, a statement with which I agree. I am 
also a dead ringer for the revolutionary period Trotsky -- my dream is to 
attend a Halloween part with an axe in the back of my head and a copy of 
"Das Kapital," but only Eddie would get it. Once in college -- sans beard 
- -- I was told I looked like the love child of Jim Morrison and Tom Baker. 
I'm still not sure how to take that, but my love beads are ready to jam 
the gears of any Dalek who gets too close to my stash.

This thread reminds me of one of my favorite parts of Gibson's "Virtual 
Light," a novel set in the near future. Recognizing that the media and 
the cult of celebrity has completely permeated our society, the law 
enforcement officials begin using software that takes a person's face and 
matches it to a series of celebrities, so they can say something like 
"We're looking for a man who resembles Tommy Lee Jones;" or "Have you 
seen someone that looks like Helen Percival?" and that sort of thing. . . 
. 

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The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society)

For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania,
visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the 
human mind to correlate all its contents."
                       -- H.P. Lovecraft

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:12:27 PDT
From: "Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Welcome to Disney Talk! My name is Judas Wedgewood, and  I'll be your host.

<My sister used to work at a Disney Store In The Mall(tm) and she said 
they were instructed never to stop a shoplifter because it would cause a 
scene and the store wouldn't be a Happy Place anymore.>

mercy!  i'm picturing a bunch of snipers dressed up like disney 
characters, casually picking off shoplifters as they exit the disneyland 
gift shoppes, to the horror of the witnessing children, the pa 
uninterruptedly cranking out Happy Music all the while.


<OR, name the top three artists covered and number of songs covered for
each with a 2 song margin of error.>

how about:
dylan, 18
beatles/lennon, 13
velvets/reed, 10


Rings casting:
assuming guiness is too old to play gandalf, what about branagh?  
although he may be too *young*.  and mickey rooney as bombadil.  is 
mickey rooney still alive?  now, how about a role for *my* favorite 
actor, john turturro?


 

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:41:09 -0700
From: Eb <gondola@deltanet.com>
Subject: Celebrity look-alikes

Well, I hesitate to name my celebrity doppelganger, though the comparison
has come up many times. Regardless, let me just state for the record: No
matter what you hear to the contrary, I have NEVER produced U2 and I DON'T
have a fetish for Asian porn. Got that, cisco?

Eb, who incidentally prefers the term "gondolism" over "ebism," but that's
not news to many of you....

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:41:40 PDT
From: "Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Disney, VC

<PS  Thanks for the letter, LJ. I hope its point wasn't missed. ;)>

um, i *think* i got the point:
turnips are bad.
(you gotta imagine mr. mackie saying it.)





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