From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #361 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, September 17 1998 Volume 07 : Number 361 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #360 [edoxtato@ssax.com] D# and Vic Chesnut (sp?) [Ken Sabatini ] Librafegs. [Capuchin ] Re: Librafegs. [West ] Carmina Burana [Tony.Blackman@sita.int] FWD from Blue Rose ["Gary.Sedgwick" ] Birthdays galore [Natalie Jacobs ] Lou Reed Rocks White House [Rich Plumb ] Re: Librafegs [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain)] reed's latest gig [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain)] RE: Lou Reed Rocks White House ["Scott (Ferris) Thomas" ] Re: C. Burana (0%RH) [M R Godwin ] Re: Librafegs [amadain ] Re: Lou Reed Rocks White House [Christopher Gross ] Re: Lou Reed Rocks White House [Ethyl Ketone ] Re: O Fortuna! [M R Godwin ] Re: Lou Reed Rocks White House ["Bret" ] Bad Seeds Live [upstart ] Musician Article [Glen Uber ] Re: Bad Seeds Live [Capuchin ] Literary Trappings [Mike Runion ] Re: Literary Trappings [The Great Quail ] Oops! Sorry! [The Great Quail ] Bob Dylan News (Tangential RH relevance factor) [Glen Uber Dear Mr. Thequail - -Doc, who's giggling at work... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 19:16:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Sabatini Subject: D# and Vic Chesnut (sp?) said Terry: >Yawn, another D# post forwarded here by Eb. Can't he forward something >else occasionally? >Seriously, I think that Miss Sharpe has long since passed from the realm >of the humourously wacky into the dysfunctional. What purpose is served >by forwarding us her posts? Now you see, I thought that D# and Eb were the same thing and same people, and that Eb had written all that cooky Gilmour secret code stuff himself--mistakenly forwarding mail intended for the Pink Floyd list to the Robyn list. I must have missed previous discussions about this D# Pink Floyd fan or something. Well, now you know what I thought. This is really why I am posting: Someone decried how Vic Chesnut (sp?) was recently dropped from his record label after having just finished recording a new album. Since then I've read that he was allowed to take the finished record with him to whichever label he wished, which was good for Vic. And now I heard that it will be put out by Capricorn records on Nov. 20 (or 10th, I don't recall). So there you go. If you already new this, then good for you. Ken (unashamingly waiting for the Wedding Presents's upcoming disc of Peel Sessions recordings) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:18:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Librafegs. Eb and gnat and Dan-Yell and this monkey. Who else? - --J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 02:18:35 -0700 From: West Subject: Re: Librafegs. Capuchin wrote: > Eb and gnat and Dan-Yell and this monkey. > > Who else? I'm scaly. My birthday's coming up on the sixth, and I'm happy to report that I have the week off from work. All the better to sift through the numerous card and letter, as well as the many phone call and e-mail message, I am sure to receive. I am happier to report that this year, my birthday present came early: NUGGETS-- ORIGINAL ARTYFACTS FROM THE FIRST PSYCHEDELIC ERA 1965-1968. This box set from the inevitable Rhino came out Tuesday, and it's one of the greatest things I've ever heard in my life! I can't stop playing it! I also can't believe I never got into this particular sub-genre of rock and/or roll a long time ago. I strongly urge everyone to run out and get one for your own bad selves. MOULTY!!!! Somethingly, West. - -- *********************************************************************** West A. Moran E-mail: ipalindromei@earthlink.net "...No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity." "But I know none, and therefore am no beast." --William Shakespeare, "Richard III". ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:54:41 +0100 From: Tony.Blackman@sita.int Subject: Carmina Burana If nobody's mentioned it already... TGQ sed <> Wasn't that Ray Manzarek of The Doors? I've got his version somewhere and it's abysmal! Tony ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:28:34 +0100 From: "Gary.Sedgwick" Subject: FWD from Blue Rose >Blue Rose presents the BLUE ROSE AUTUMN PARTY! >featuring Ventilator (debut UK show), Tim Keegan & the Homer Lounge and VERY SPECIAL HEADLINING GUESTS!!! (to be announced later) >Tuesday 13th October 1998 at THE UNDERWORLD, 174 Camden High Street, London NW1. Tel: 0171 482 1932 >Doors: 7:30pm Tickets: £6.00 advance Who d'you reckon, then? Gary ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:30:44 -0400 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Birthdays galore >> On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Eb wrote: >> > There's only about two weeks until my birthday, so get to those >malls >> > already, folks! > >Capuchin: >> And I'm about two weeks after that. So don't spend all your money >on Eb. >> >> I'll even give you my mailing address and telephone number. So there. > >Danielle: >October 6th, thanks. Address and phone number on request. I suppose if I took astrology a tad more seriously, I could come up with some ridiculous theory about why there seem to be so many Libras on the list. Uh... let's see... Robyn's music appeals to Libras' intellectual nature. Yeah, that's it. Or maybe it's just that we like getting presents. :p n. (b. Sept. 27 - only ten days away! Address available on request :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:00:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Rich Plumb Subject: Lou Reed Rocks White House The following is an excerpt from this morning's Washington Post. It's part of an article describing last night's state dinner for Vaclev Havel. I wonder which classic Velvet Underground hits Lou played for him. Somehow I doubt Sister Ray was one of them. - -------------------------------------------- The real treat, however, was the entertainment. Reed, a founding member of the Velvet Underground, was invited at the special request of Havel, a fan for 30 years. Havel has credited the rocker with inspiring the Czech people and the Velvet Revolution. In an unprecedented stop, he dropped by a rehearsal earlier in the day with Havlova and Mrs. Clinton. Reed and Havel embraced; the first ladies were fascinated by the singer's glasses, which featured lenses that flipped up. "Have you patented that?" Clinton asked. At one end of the very grand East Room last night, Reed performed classic Velvet Underground hits in his irreverent, laconic style. The audience was attentive but seemed subdued, except for Vice President Gore, whose chair rocked constantly during Reed's 35-minute performance. At the conclusion, a smiling President Clinton said, "If you had as much fun as I did just now, you should give President Havel all the credit." Reed was unfazed by the stately surroundings. "We're just musicians, so we play a lot of places," he said of the unusual venue, teasingly noting that his was just another "New York band." Different city, same old gig. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:19:45 -0600 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: Librafegs >I'm scaly. Did a double take when I first saw this, as I associate scales with fish. It took me a few secs to realize you were referring to The Scales (tm). This was not my first doubletake of the morning- I already glanced at a To-Do list for the week and read "Clean Steve". Steve actually being stove, of course. Susan the caffeine-needing P.S. For those who are interested, Uncle Bobby's moon is in Libra. This may or may not be the connection you're looking for, Nat. Incidentally, yours truly has it on the ascendant. No, I'm not interested in debating with anyone about astrology at this time, been there done that, got a factory's worth of tshirts :). P.P.S. Carl (Karl?) Orff is the composer of Carmina Burana ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:37:33 -0600 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: reed's latest gig Saw something about this on the Cale list earlier. > a rehearsal earlier in the day with Havlova and Mrs. Clinton. Reed and > Havel embraced; the first ladies were fascinated by the singer's glasses, > which featured lenses that flipped up. "Have you patented that?" Clinton > asked. She's never seen these before? :) I notice this article also left out some weird remark of hers about the Velvet Glove and the Velvet Underground also. Another significant omission that some fegs may be interested in is that among Reed's band was the bassist from the underground (in perhaps the truest sense of the word- for a long time their existence alone was a dissident act) Czech band Plastic People of The Universe. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:21:11 -0400 From: "Scott (Ferris) Thomas" Subject: RE: Lou Reed Rocks White House Maybe the Black Angel's Death Song brings back some randy college memories for Bill and Al? "Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather...." F. S. Thomas programmer ________ FUNNYBONE Interactive fthomas@cendantsoft.com if 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' then what's the opposite of 'progress'? > ---------- > From: Rich Plumb > Reply To: Rich Plumb > Sent: Thursday, 17 September, 1998 9.00 am > To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Subject: Lou Reed Rocks White House > > > The following is an excerpt from this morning's Washington Post. > It's part of an article describing last night's state dinner for > Vaclev Havel. I wonder which classic Velvet Underground hits Lou played > for him. Somehow I doubt Sister Ray was one of them. > > -------------------------------------------- > The real treat, however, was the entertainment. Reed, a founding member of > the Velvet Underground, was invited at the special request of Havel, a fan > for 30 years. Havel has credited the rocker with inspiring the Czech > people and the Velvet Revolution. In an unprecedented stop, he dropped by > a rehearsal earlier in the day with Havlova and Mrs. Clinton. Reed and > Havel embraced; the first ladies were fascinated by the singer's glasses, > which featured lenses that flipped up. "Have you patented that?" Clinton > asked. > > At one end of the very grand East Room last night, Reed performed classic > Velvet Underground hits in his irreverent, laconic style. > > The audience was attentive but seemed subdued, except for Vice President > Gore, whose chair rocked constantly during Reed's 35-minute performance. > > At the conclusion, a smiling President Clinton said, "If you had as much > fun as I did just now, you should give President Havel all the credit." > > Reed was unfazed by the stately surroundings. "We're just musicians, so we > play a lot of places," he said of the unusual venue, teasingly noting that > his was just another "New York band." > > Different city, same old gig. > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 98 9:32:16 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Librafegs Liberate Ophiuchans from Libran oppression! - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:42:34 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: C. Burana (0%RH) On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, amadain wrote: > P.P.S. Carl (Karl?) Orff is the composer of Carmina Burana Fuck Orff! The C.B. are a bunch of 13th(?) century ditties which Orff arranged into a modern performable suite, IIRC. - - Mike (Stones and Keats) Godwin * * * * Madeleine Bassett: Bertie, you do know your Shelley! Bertie Wooster: Oh, am I? (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:40:16 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: Librafegs >Liberate Ophiuchans from Libran oppression! For what it's worth, I don't know OR know of any astrologers who use/believe in Ophiucus- they may exist but if they do they are as common as whangdoodles and definitely operate on the fringes of astrology. I see skeptics talk about it a lot more often actually. Kinda like the way I keep hearing people like R. Limbaugh get panick-y about all these hordes of book-burning man-hating feminist groups but in the women's organizations I've been involved in I have yet to meet one of these beasts- I know they exist but they're a lot less common than some seem to believe, and that's also on the fringes :). >Fuck Orff! The C.B. are a bunch of 13th(?) century ditties which Orff >arranged into a modern performable suite, IIRC. Sorry. Thanks for the correction, I should have written AFAIK because I wasn't quite sure. Figured someone else would know more about it and lo and behold, I was right! Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:23:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Lou Reed Rocks White House On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Rich Plumb wrote: > At one end of the very grand East Room last night, Reed performed classic > Velvet Underground hits in his irreverent, laconic style. > > The audience was attentive but seemed subdued, except for Vice President > Gore, whose chair rocked constantly during Reed's 35-minute performance. What I wanna know is, was Tipper Gore there? - --Chris "This next song is called 'Heroin,' and I'd like to dedicate it to a very special lady: Mrs. Tipper Gore...." --Lou Reed, 16 Sept. 1998 (in my dreams) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 98 10:34:24 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: O Fortuna! Sue and Mike wrote, >> P.P.S. Carl (Karl?) Orff is the composer of Carmina Burana > >Fuck Orff! The C.B. are a bunch of 13th(?) century ditties which Orff >arranged into a modern performable suite, IIRC. Well, yes . . . but he did write all the music and re-arrange the lyrics considerably, and there does remain some doubt as to how much original material there really was. . . . Believe me, I have the originals, and several versions of the Carl Orff piece. I assure you, Herr Orff was not slumming! He was, however, reputed to be a Nazi symp, so if you want to fuck him, fuck him for that. Or for that extra "f," maybe. Pesky Germans. By the way, how many other people out there cannot hear "Carmina Burana Part I" without seeing Arthur and his Knights charging across a renewed England? Ah, my beloved "Excalibur!" I always *hate* when other films and movie trailers use that. (Pet Quail Peeve: I also HATE when idiot movie-makers spoil Beethoven's brilliant "Ode to Joy" by scoring it to mindless violence and exploding cars. Only Kubrick, Coppola, and Besson can do sort of thing artfully! Grrrr. . . . ) And to round of the CB Fun-Facts, yes, Ray "Kyle McLaughlin" Manzarek did a version which was also pretty awful. But believe it or not, I have *another* electronically rendered version, but alas it is not with me, so I cannot recall the auteur. I do beleive however that there are red gargoyles on the cover, lightning flashes, a floating donut, and an image of a mysterious fat man eating a hat. - --Quail PS: Bayard, are you going to make us build a toolshed? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth: http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth "Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick as flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of whirlworlds. Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde . . . (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curious of signs (please stoop) in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world? . . . Speak to us of Emailia!" --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:17:38 -0700 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: Lou Reed Rocks White House At 6.00 AM -0700 9/17/98, Rich Plumb wrote: >The real treat, however, was the entertainment. Reed, a founding member of >the Velvet Underground, was invited at the special request of Havel, a fan >for 30 years. I've been listening to alot of Reed this week, getting in touch with my bad ol' self hanging with anger at this lay-off. And lots of NIck Cave. So tonight I have the pleasure of my first Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds live show in SF! Been a fan for 10 years and never seen them live! I hope it's not just the "kindler, gentler" Mr. Cave that his last cd exhibited. I need some of that biting, edge ballad stuf he is so good at.... Be seeing you, Carrie "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 16:46:26 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: O Fortuna! On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, The Great Quail wrote: > And to round of the CB Fun-Facts, yes, Ray "Kyle McLaughlin" Manzarek did > a version which was also pretty awful. But believe it or not, I have > *another* electronically rendered version, but alas it is not with me, so > I cannot recall the auteur. I do beleive however that there are red > gargoyles on the cover, lightning flashes, a floating donut, and an image > of a mysterious fat man eating a hat. File that alongside Ken Nordine's 'Colors' and Ramases 'Space Hymns', I think. "The rocket ship shape of churches probably dates back to Moses' visit to speak to God on the mountain and what he saw there" (Ramases). - - Mike G. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:59:34 -0500 From: "Bret" Subject: Re: Lou Reed Rocks White House > >I've been listening to alot of Reed this week, getting in touch with my bad >ol' self hanging with anger at this lay-off. And lots of NIck Cave. So >tonight I have the pleasure of my first Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds live >show in SF! Been a fan for 10 years and never seen them live! AAAARRRGGGGHHH!!!! Huge Nick Cave fan here, ............The worst part: Living in Dallas. If you had any idea how jelous I was of you right now. I'd miss the baseball game tonight (had to say it) to see Nick. I hate you. :) - -b NP: Let Love In (really, I just put it in) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:29:45 -0700 From: upstart Subject: Bad Seeds Live Hi all I had the great fortune of seeing Nick Cave live in Seattle the other night, and I have to say that it was pretty much the greatest show of any kind that I have ever seen. Even better was that I got the opportunity to tell him that in person after the show. He was very sweet (!!), signed an autograph for me... He could tell how nervous I was and actually tried to put me at ease. Who knew. out Paleoupstart (who made it back from Siberia alive..) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:21:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Uber Subject: Musician Article fegs, I missed out on picking up the September Issue of Musician that featured Robyn and Jonathan Demme. If anyone has extra copies they are willing to part with, contact me off-list. Also, has anyone transcribed the interview yet? - -g- - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg "Work is the curse of the drinking class." --Oscar Wilde - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:02:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Bad Seeds Live On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, upstart wrote: > I had the great fortune of seeing Nick Cave live in Seattle the other > night, and > Paleoupstart (who made it back from Siberia alive.) Are you kidding me? I turned down a chance to see that show (as super tempting as it was) in order to get some extra work done and get a good night's sleep... which was fantastic and my first in weeks)!!! Had I known you were going to be there, I'd've quit my job and stayed up all night. Bah! Good to see the little plane didn't toss you into the craggy rocks. - --J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:42:20 -0700 From: Mike Runion Subject: Literary Trappings Hey all, Those of you who attended Quail's East Coast Fegfest '98 must surely remember "Brewer" Tom. Well, his wife Maria is a high school english teacher and we've been talking a lot lately about incorporating popular music into the curriculum, giving students another way of grasping the material. Anyway, here's the full request from Maria. Any of you Pop/Lit lovers out there, I'd appreciate any input you could give Maria and I. Sorry for such a long post to the list. I just figured this would be up a lot of your alleyways (Quail, you there?)... Some examples: using XTC's "Dear God" to go along with Jonathan Edwards "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God", or using the Doors "LA Woman" to delve into the concept of personification, or using the Smiths "Cemetery Gates" simply because it namechecks Keats, Yeats, & Wilde. Please send all suggestions or comments to me offlist at mrrunion@palmnet.net. "Brewer" Maria wrote: > And I > have decided that I would like to incorporate music not just into the > poetry lessons, but into the rest of the lit as well, as a kind of > bridge across the centuries separating us from what these kids will be > reading. So really, what I'm looking for now are any > connections, musically speaking, that you could provide me with for > some of the other things they will be reading. Here's a list of the > most important stuff: > > Juniors: > The Declaration of Independence > The Devil and Tom Walker-Washington Irving > The Fall of the House of Usher-Poe (though I'm open to other Poe tales > as well; I might change this one) > Walden-Thoreau > Dr. Heidegger's Experiment (fountain of youth theme) & The Minister's > Black Veil-Hawthorne > Huckleberry Finn > The Outcasts of Poker Flat-Bret Harte > To Build a Fire-London > The Devil and Daniel Webster-Benet > Big Two-Hearted River-Hemingway (same here as Poe-I could change it) > The Lovesong of Alfred J. Prufrock-TS Eliot > > Their important poets: > ee cummings > TS Eliot > Ezra Pound > Robert Frost > Carl Sandburg > William Carlos WIlliams > Anne Sexton > Sylvia Plath > WH Auden > Emily Dickinson > > My seniors: > Beowulf > The Canterbury Tales-Chaucer > Morte d'Arthur-Sir Thomas Malory > Paradise Lost-Milton > The Open Window-Saki > The Rocking Horse Winner-DH Lawrence > The Door in the Wall- HG Wells > Pygmalion-Bernard Shaw > Macbeth-Shakespeare > Gulliver's Travels & A Modest Proposal (satire suggesting that the > poor Irish eat their children, thus decreasing the population boom and > ending the hunger problem in one shot)-Swift > Frankenstein- Mary Shelly > Across the Bridge-Graham Greene > > Their important poets: > Shakespeare > Edmund Spenser > John Donne > John Milton > William Blake (Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience) > William Wordsworth > Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Kubla Khan, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) > George Gordon, Lord Byron (She walks in beauty, like the night...) > Robert Browning > John Keats > George Meredith (Lucifer in Starlight) > WH Auden > Dylan Thomas > TS Eliot > and of course, > Margaret Atwood > > So again, anything that rings a bell or might tie in with a theme here > would be really valuable to me. > > Anything you can think of as far as demonstrating literary devices > would be great too. Some of the ones kids usually have trouble with > are: > tone-what the author is feeling vs. mood-what the reader is made to > feel > imagery-creating pictures in the reader's head > allegory-characters used to represent abstract ideas or moral > qualities > hyperbole-a great exaggeration used to drive home a statement or idea > irony-a discrepancy between the way something appears and the way > something actually is > motif-a recurring feature in a work of literature, like a name or > image or phrase, that contributes to the theme. > parody-the humorous imitation of a serious work > personification-giving human qualities to an inanimate object - -- 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: Thu, 17 Sep 98 15:21:19 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Literary Trappings Hi Mike! You implored the Fegs: >Well, his wife Maria is a high school english teacher and we've >been talking a lot lately about incorporating popular music into the >curriculum, giving students another way of grasping the material. Hmmm . . . here's a few, but they are biased in my musical and literary direction! Syd Barrett's "Golden Hair." -- Lyrics by James Joyce! Jefferson Airplane, "Rejoice" -- based on Joyce's "Ulysses" Kate Bush's "Sensual World," based on Molly's soliloquy in "Ulysses." Bob Dylan -- who stole his moniker from Dylan Thomas! -- mentions quite a few famous poets and authors in his early works, and name checks TS Eliot, Ezra Pound, Shakespeare, and many others. TS Eliot? One word: "Cats." Marillion wrote a long prog-rock song called "Grendel," based on the contemporary novel "Grendel" by John Gardner. Both novel and song tell the story of "Beowolf" from the monster's view. "Le Morte d'Arthur?" How about "Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" by Rick Wakeman? HG Wells: There was a concept album based on "War of the Worlds" and titled the same, featuring the bloke from Tin Lizzy and Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues. I won't even mention the instrumental based on "Frankenstein," heh heh. Alan Parsons Project did a work based on "Fall of the House of Usher," I think. Sting (former English teacher!) dedicated an album to Anne Sexton -- maybe he used her works in a song, I can't remember. But of course in "Don't Stand So Close to Me" he refers to Nabokov, for the obvious reasons. And the song "Nothing Like the Sun" is of course from the Shakespeare Sonnet. Rush's "Xanadu" is based on Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," and their "2112" is based on an Ayn Rand novel. Of course, "Tom Sawyer" is also an option! And on the CD "Signals," the song "Losing It" includes a veiled sketch of a fading Hemingway. The book "1984" has inspired works by the Eurythmics as well as David Bowie. Iron Maiden wrote a LONG song called "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," based on, yep, the work by Coleridge. They also wrote pieces inspired by Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morge" and Frank Herbert's "Dune." Blake: Joan Baez set Blake's "London" to music and song -- very VERY sad. Tangerine Dream set "Tyger Tyger" to music on an album of the same name - -- with the poem intact. These are all I can think of right now. If I come up with any others, I'll drop you a line! - --Quail Self-promotion time: *For more music and Joyce, check out: http://rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/joyce/joyce.music.html *For music and Pynchon, go to: http://rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/pynchon/pynchon.music.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth: http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth "Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick as flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of whirlworlds. Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde . . . (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curious of signs (please stoop) in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world? . . . Speak to us of Emailia!" --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 98 15:23:26 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Oops! Sorry! I just realized I sent my letter to Mike with the Feg address still attached! Sorry -- ! - --Quail PS: In ten minutes, Chris Gross will post and claim that I did it on purpose just to include more Iron Maiden on the List . . . . +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ 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 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:40:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Uber Subject: Bob Dylan News (Tangential RH relevance factor) Here's a news clipping from Yahoo! News that some of you might be interested in: Folk-rock icon Bob Dylan's Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert - -- The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 finally hits store shelves Oct. 13. The album -- which actually took place at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, but was mislabeled for years on bootleg recordings -- documents one of Dylan's legendarily fiery performances during his early, electric period. The two-CD set will be accompanied by a 56-page booklet containing rare photos and an essay by longtime Dylan friend Tony Glover... - -g- == Glen Uber - uberquity@yahoo.com Corporate Support Specialist AIM Business Services - Santa Rosa, CA 95401 Tel. 707.526.4008/Fax. 707.526.2102 _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #361 *******************************