From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #424 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, November 12 1998 Volume 07 : Number 424 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: You are no longer under covert surveillance [mrrunion@mail.palmnet.ne] RE: Storefront ["Kieran Turner" ] mercury lounge tix on sale on-line [desmond in a tutu ] Re: You are no longer under covert surveillance [amadain ] long live fegmaniax [hal brandt ] Re: "Storefront" in London [hal brandt ] Re: Down w/ SUV's! [Ross Overbury ] Apropos of nothing. Completely pointless. Skip at will. [james.dignan@sto] Re: Apropos of nothing. Completely pointless. Skip at will. [desmond in a] Re: You are no longer under covert surveillance [Gary Assassin ] Re: magnavox commercial singer question beatles cover flat tv [S Dwarf <] Re: Beck v. Spirit [Eb ] Re: You are no longer under covert surveillance [dlang ] Robyn vs. Elvis Costello [Zelda Pinwheel ] Re: Robyn vs. Elvis Costello [lj lindhurst ] Re: You are no longer under covert surveillance [lj lindhurst ] Fuel cells and a little Robyn content [Christopher Gross ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:05:32 -0800 From: mrrunion@mail.palmnet.net Subject: Re: You are no longer under covert surveillance > Hello, all- > > I, a 24 year-old female from and in Chicago, have been lurking around > your list for over a month now, via the archives. I'm not sure how > much detail to give y'all here, maybe too much would be gauche. I will > confine myself to a brief timeline of my burgeoning obsession with > Robyn Hitchcock: Uh-oh! Brace yourselves for yet another slobbering onslaught from the Surreal Posse! By the way, hey, and welcome aboard. Mike n.p. Love & Rockets - Hot Trip To Heaven __________________________________________ Sent using WebInbox. "Your email gateway." Check us out at http://www.webinbox.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:22:34 -0000 From: "Kieran Turner" Subject: RE: Storefront Hi all :) Yes, you don't recognise my name. I was going to lurk a while before posting for the first time to the group, but since Storefront is just a tad topical at the moment, I'm saying hello on my second day as a subscriber... I promise not to be a complete nutter. :) Gary Sedgwick wrote: > Went to see Storefront at the NFT last night... and I was *hugely* > disappointed. It looked like an arty video of a bad gig to me. I didn't know if I *could* enjoy a concert film, since I always get the biggest buzz from the atmosphere, not just the raw performance. But the film delighted me, because although, OK, the performance was not intimate with US, it was unique to get close ups of Robyn, and in particular those painful grimaces when he's reaching the highest, sweetest notes. At a gig you just don't get that close - and of course you start to feel weird for staring somebody out! Cinematically, I thought the varying backdrops worked well - especially the single lightbulb for "You & Oblivion". > behind me discussing their hair loss and attributing it to something > about London - but not the water (!). Yeah, the audience was a bizarre mixture of festival-heads. It was kind of comfortable to recognise lots of vaguely familiar faces from gigs. And a distinctly shorter-haired Tim Keegan, amidst the crowds. Like one of those "An audience with..." TV shows with wall-to-wall "celebreties" ;) Annoying moment? I gave away a spare ticket to somebody without one, and a few minutes later saw the people I'd been talking to whisked away by Mr H... methinks there was a missed opportunity in there, somewhere. There - a mild "yes" vote! ;) K ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:01:33 -0500 From: desmond in a tutu Subject: mercury lounge tix on sale on-line >From: "Joe Knox" >To: >Subject: mercury lounge tix on sale on-line >Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:55:49 -0500 > >Tickets for the Mercury Lounge show are now on sale at TicketWeb: >http://www.ticketweb.com/user/nyc/venues/misc > >Nowhere near as bad as Ticketmaster as far as service fees go; I ended up >paying $49.18 for three tickets which beats spending ages on the F train to >the lower east side for the box office. Not much of a secret gig, though, >as they're advertising it in his name. > >joe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:08:11 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: You are no longer under covert surveillance > I, a 24 year-old female from and in Chicago, Hullo. I'm a 27 year old female from and in Chicago. You should have come to our Fegfest but I won't hold that against you :). >put it on a mix tape. I listened to this last night on my broken >walkman because we had a windstorm and the power was out, Yuck. Our power didn't go out, but the front door kept blowing open in a most spooky way until I finally managed to shut and lock it (the 60 mile an hour winds were fighting me on this one so it took a couple minutes). I was afraid Jacob Marley or perhaps Elijah was coming to visit. For those of you who are not Weather Channel devotees- a hellacious storm hit Chicago yesterday, and if you live out East it is heading for ya, so take care. Did you know that if the storm that hit last night had been on water and not land it would have been considered a class 2 hurricane? Scary, eh? >gears. But, on the cusp of seeing EC for the first time, the >unthinkable and seemingly inevitable happened. I couldn't hold out any >more. I put all five gears in reverse and began driving aloud.) Yah. I know what that's like. I have that one obsession at a time going on thing too, as anyone around here who is sick of seeing the name MOMUS will surely testify. Although I still love my Robynmusic, naturally, or I wouldn't be here. > ps- I love Storefront Hitchcock LP. I love his voice. I'm going to >stop short of saying I love him, because I'm not that creepy. But it's >a struggle. If you can't say it here, then where can you say it? :) Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:50:50 -0800 (PST) From: VIV LYON Subject: Re: You are no longer under covert surveillance - ---Gary Assassin wrote: > > Your personality has passed the test for acceptance into our community. > The final test is whether you would be willing to participate in a feg > group orgy ;) Well. Only if my boyfriend can participate. It's okay, he's a much bigger RH fan than I, having been hip to the jive since college (83? Sorry, Dave, you're old and I don't keep track). He just informed me that he's seen Him ten or eleven times. I choked on my bile. But, sure, I'm a loving sort. Bring it on. We are joking here, aren't we? Vivien Thanks for the reception, innuendoes and all. ps- I think Dave will be subscribing soon too, if only to defend hisself, so that will be two more Chicago fegs. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:43:19 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: down w/ SUV's! As I work for an enviro, Ican tell you that such technology is just now on the way... ...but Americans seem to prefer SUV's anyway, like the gas will last foreve.r... =luther >Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:19:14 -0500 (EST) >From: Christopher Gross >Subject: Re: Technology (0% RH) > >On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Michael R Godwin wrote: > >> What is it with these diesels? All my environmentalist acquaintances >> assure me that diesels are cleaner than petrol engines, but - speaking as >> an asthmatic - it's always the stuff coming out of the back of diesels >> that makes me wheeze and cough. > >I think the theory is that, while diesels create more pollution at the >tailpipe, they produce less pollution overall because the fuel doesn't >have to go through the elaborate and dirty refinement process that >produces gasoline. I'm not sure this theory is correct, though. Of >course, it would be even better if everyone dropped both gasoline and >diesel engines in favor of hydro-electric fuel cells, but that's another >topic.... > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:07:18 -0800 (PST) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: re: Storefront Elliott Recovering beestung Eb noted: > Elliott Smith has teamed up with Steve Hanft and Jason Mason to co-write a > short film about his life and music that is equal parts documentary, > fiction, and dream. The film travels through Smith's haunts in Portland, > New York City, and various stops in between, and features footage of Smith > recording and performing, as well as interviews with filmmaker Gus Van Sant > ("Good Will Hunting"), Portland duo Quasi, and Smith's bartenders, fans and friends. Hey, thanks for the info Ebby! I guess this short film *won't* include the amusing episode of Mr. Smith buying a "DOS for Dummies" book from me, eh? Too bad! Didn't see any cameras nearby, alas. Carole, who has a hard time imagining Elliott as a computer nerd type.. ;) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:04:54 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: long live fegmaniax desmond in a tutu wrote: > though i doubt anyone was wondering (or maybe even care), i'm going to > continue to maintain fegmania.org. Good news, woj. Don't abandon the site! The Museum could disappear overnight ala Antwoman (although I'm hoping that doesn't happen.)However, you're the host with the most here and I'm glad you're not throwing in the towel. > sport utilities: hate 'em. i have a long commute and spuv's are the worse > thing on the road to contend with. there's nothing worse than aggressive > drivers in a spuv except timid drivers in a spuv. They sell more of 'em here in Denver than anywhere else. I'm with you. Hate 'em. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:17:24 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: "Storefront" in London Tony Blackman wrote: > there was an interview with Jonathon Demme. > That was fairly interesting, but he didn't really want to spend that much > time talking about "Storefront" ... The interview went out live through real audio (which > if I'd known about, I probably wouldn't have bothered going to it) and > there's going to be a transcript at http://lff.org.uk/live/#dem (allegedly) Or, if you just want the cool pic on the site instead, it's here: http://pix.lff.org.uk/films/storefront.jpg /hal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 98 21:34:36 EST From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Down w/ SUV's! luther sed: [stuff about fuel cells snipped] > As I work for an enviro, Ican tell you that such technology is just > now on the way... > ...but Americans seem to prefer SUV's anyway, like the gas > will last foreve.r... > Basically I prefer that idea to the continued use of fossil fuels, but doesn't most American "hydro" power come from coal and nuke plants? And "real" hydro, while clean at the receiving end, is just the lesser of evils. Damming releases mercury into the floodplain and methane into the air, and tends (here in Quebec) to displace a whole lot of Indians. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:52:00 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Apropos of nothing. Completely pointless. Skip at will. >And hey, I LIKE "Der Kommissar" and "Amadeus" a lot, eh? :) ah... I used to do a parody of that song called "Armadillos". I suppse you had to be there. >Anybody got the chords for "One long pair of eyes>?" >i had em once, but lost em. it's 022000 >the life ot a >complete stranger. But no stranger than any of you. eek! Welcome Vivien! If she's as strange as some of us... or even parts of some of us... or some of us's parts... or... (my left 2nd toe is pretty weird [1]) James [1] would you call that an index toe? 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: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:51:59 -0500 From: desmond in a tutu Subject: Re: Apropos of nothing. Completely pointless. Skip at will. also sprach James Dignan: >eek! Welcome Vivien! If she's as strange as some of us... or even parts of >some of us... or some of us's parts... or... (my left 2nd toe is pretty >weird [1]) > >[1] would you call that an index toe? no, but it's one helluva footnote. ba dum ching! +w ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:16:01 -0500 (EST) From: Gary Assassin Subject: Re: You are no longer under covert surveillance > Well. Only if my boyfriend can participate. It's okay, he's a much > bigger RH fan than I, having been hip to the jive since college (83? > Sorry, Dave, you're old and I don't keep track). He just informed me > that he's seen Him ten or eleven times. I choked on my bile. But, 11? I have seen him 11 times in a single year. > sure, I'm a loving sort. Bring it on. > > We are joking here, aren't we? I guess you haven't lurked long enough, or at least know me well enough. I'm dangerous, but lj told me that's not so just 5 days ago. > Vivien > Thanks for the reception, innuendoes and all. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:27:34 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: magnavox commercial singer question beatles cover flat tv Woj, or Ken or somebody: >>Ok, here's the question: There's this Magnavox commercial--for their flat >>tv technology--that has a few seconds of a the Beatles's song "Getting >>Better" being sung. Specifically, the line, "its getting better all the >>time" is sung by a raspy male voice. Who is singing this? > >matthew sweet after too many beers? It's the latest UK hype, Gomez. They're decent, but not quite my thing. I did post once before something to the effect of them being one of the few bands with an overt Grateful Dead influence who doesn't make my colon seize up. So use this measured praise however you wish. The group's debut album, Bring It On, is on the Virgin label. Viv: >My ears >prick up, however, when he plays Wafflehead while we make waffles. I >suddenly realize that he wants to have sex with me. I also suddenly >think of him in a sexual context for the first time. Well, that's a new wrinkle to appreciating "Wafflehead".... >First, throughout the past year I have been deep in the throes of an Elvis >Costello obsession. Way to get on my good side. ;) Also, I recently received this email from a former list subscriber: From Paula Carino Do you know anything about a possible "surprise" show in NYC on Nov 20, the Friday after the STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK premiere? If not, do you suppose you could forward this to the list, and tell people to e-mail me privately if they know anything. You are a stellar human, thank you. - --- I wasn't paying much attention to the posts about this gig, so perhaps some NYer can email her with the necessary info. Stellar Eb, wondering why no one's discussing the fairly Robyn-esque new Beck album ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:49:42 -0800 From: West Subject: Re: You are no longer under covert surveillance VIV LYON wrote: > I listened to this last night on my broken walkman because we had a > windstorm and the power was out, and am disgusted to tell you that it > shares tape space with Billy Joel and a song from Grease. Never disown your music. Someday, you'll be driving down the road of life--you know, the one Volkswagen commercials talk about--and that song you thought you'd left behind will come out of your radio, and you'll be singing at the top of your lungs along with your long-lost friend. Besides, I like Billy Joel; he's got a way about him. Don't know what it is.... > ( I also listen to DTTAH only once, long enough to tape Cindy of 1,000 > Lives.) Isn't that the most beautiful song? I knew a girl named Cindy in high school; she dropped out and vanished in the middle of our junior year. What the heck happened to her? > The Man Who Iinvented Himself yanks me forcibly out of my depression There were saxophones on the original mix of this song, but when they released the album on Rhino, a different mix was used. As a result, I never traded in my first copy. I still don't know what that's all about. > Happy the Golden Prince embarrassed me at first, but now I feel it > particularly is a work of exuberant genius. "This was flesh and blood!" It still embarrasses me. I really think you have to be male to truly appreciate this one. We all feel as though we should be in a bathroom, all the time. > My ears prick up, however, when he plays Wafflehead while we make > waffles. I > suddenly realize that he wants to have sex with me. Are you sure he didn't want to have sex with the waffles? Mmmmmm....lovely, gentle waffles! Here comes the syrup, my darlings... Um, where was I? > First, throughout the past year I have been deep in the throes of an > Elvis Costello obsession. You are not alone! I just saw him for the first time ever here in L.A. with Burt Bacharach. A fantastic show. Welcome aboard. Enjoy the show. Somethingly, West. - -- *********************************************************************** West 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, 12 Nov 1998 02:55:51 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Beck v. Spirit I've decided to break down and get a CD tomorrow. Is the new Beck album good enough for me to put off buying the eponymous Spirit album (remastered and with bonus tracks, no less)? (And is it just me or does Big Star's 'With my Baby Beside Me' sound rather like Spirit's 'I got a line on you'?) Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:44:53 -0800 (PST) From: S Dwarf Subject: Re: magnavox commercial singer question beatles cover flat tv desmond in a tutu sed: > also sprach Ken Sabatini: >>Ok, here's the question: There's this Magnavox commercial--for their flat >>tv technology--that has a few seconds of a the Beatles's song "Getting >>Better" being sung. Specifically, the line, "its getting better all the >>time" is sung by a raspy male voice. Who is singing this? > > matthew sweet after too many beers? according to the eMpTVee news, it's some band called Gomez. - --the artist formerly known as karmafuzzz _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 01:23:40 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Beck v. Spirit Terrence: >I've decided to break down and get a CD tomorrow. >Is the new Beck album good enough for me to put off buying the >eponymous Spirit album (remastered and with bonus tracks, no less)? This question presumes that others here admire Spirit to the overblown degree which you do. The new Beck is good. Not great. But I certainly like it better than anything by Spirit (and I do own four Spirit albums, including three of the reissues). Anyone else dumbfounded at how "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" is being promoted almost *purely* as a star vehicle for JL Hewitt's breasts? This film's advertising is shameless even by Hollywood standards. Ebby np: Elliott Smith/XO and A Brief History promo CD ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 21:44:11 +0930 From: dlang Subject: Re: You are no longer under covert surveillance The upstart Runion spake thus re young Viv : >Uh-oh! Brace yourselves for yet another slobbering onslaught from the >Surreal Posse! Pah, I'll have you know sirrah that the members of the Surreal Posse are gentlemen, and would never lower themselves into responding with snide sexual innuendo's and deliberately weird posts in attempts to impress, infuriate, confuse or vex newbies.Well, all except the Great Quail, and probably one or two others as well, who know no better due to loose morals and uncorrected personality traits. . But I assure you young Vivian that there are some of us who have a moral code around here and the participation in the Feg Orgy is not mandatory, we just won't respond to your posts if you don't take part. Anyway no one with any REALLY infectious diseases would be allowed to get involved .In addition The Insect, Fish and Cheese dungeons are only for the more advanced intitates and Posse members who can recite all of the lyrics and setlists of all the shows , so Eddie and Bayard are the only fegs to have ever gained access, so you won't have to worry about what goes on in there........ Welcome to our nightmare. m'dear, glad to have ye aboard yours slobberingly dave np : Dark Star -Bickershaw 72 , with fireworks accompaniment! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 98 7:54:55 EST From: Ross Overbury Subject: Helen Percival There they go again! - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 08:00:40 -0600 From: Zelda Pinwheel Subject: Robyn vs. Elvis Costello >VIV LYON wrote: >> First, throughout the past year I have been deep in the throes of an >> Elvis Costello obsession. Then West said: >You are not alone! I just saw him for the first time ever here in L.A. >with Burt Bacharach. A fantastic show. It seems like several folks on the list hold Robyn and Elvis in similar regard. For me these are two artists who almost never let me down (can't say the same for Reed, Cale, Bowie, Bawb). Here's my question: if Elvis and Robyn were both playing in "Yourtown" on the same night who'd you go see? - --zelda P.S.-In Robyn's bio at Hitchcock.com, he makes a few cute parallels between his career and Elvis Costello's. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:49:11 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: Robyn vs. Elvis Costello >Here's my question: if Elvis and Robyn were both playing in "Yourtown" on >the same night who'd you go see? Better yet, who would win in the Thunderdome? I'd say Elvis. But then again, Robyn does have those long, sharp fingernails. not french today, no smelly butt, lj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:57:45 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: You are no longer under covert surveillance >> My ears prick up, however, when he plays Wafflehead while we make >> waffles. I >> suddenly realize that he wants to have sex with me. > >Are you sure he didn't want to have sex with the waffles? >Mmmmmm....lovely, gentle waffles! Here comes the syrup, my darlings... Oh, so this is why the Quail keeps playing "Pet Sounds"! Now it all makes sense.... on my way to buy three thousand Mercury Lounge tix.... lj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:36:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: magnavox commercial singer question beatles cover flat tv > > also sprach Ken Sabatini: > >Ok, here's the question: There's this Magnavox commercial--for their > >flat tv technology--that has a few seconds of a the Beatles's song > >"Getting Better" being sung. Specifically, the line, "its getting > >better all the time" is sung by a raspy male voice. Who is singing > >this? > --the artist formerly known as karmafuzzz replied > according to the eMpTVee news, it's some band called Gomez. Assuming it's the same Gomez, they are a newish British band with country/latin leanings IIRC. - - Mike G. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 08:45:47 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Beck v. Spirit On 11/12/98 1:23 AM, Eb wrote: >Anyone else dumbfounded at how "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" is >being promoted almost *purely* as a star vehicle for JL Hewitt's breasts? Frankly, I don't have a problem with that. If this one is anything like the first, she'd better be naked and covered in chick peas to get my $8. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:58:29 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Fuel cells and a little Robyn content On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Ross Overbury wrote: > Basically I prefer that idea to the continued use of fossil fuels, but > doesn't most American "hydro" power come from coal and nuke plants? > > And "real" hydro, while clean at the receiving end, is just the lesser of > evils. Damming releases mercury into the floodplain and methane into > the air, and tends (here in Quebec) to displace a whole lot of Indians. I'm not sure if Ross, Luther and I are all talking about the same thing here. When I first brought up "hydro-electric fuel cells," I was thinking of those chemical doohickeys that somehow produce electricity through the controlled reaction of hydrogen and oxygen. (Uncontrolled reaction of hydrogen and oxygen tends to produce fire, not electricity. Even I know that! To avoid the risk of fire, explosion, death, and bloody entrails strewn across the highway, many fuel cell plans use the hydrogen contained in relatively safe chemicals like ammonia.) Of course the production of ammonia or whatever will still require power from some source like coal ("It's as dirty to mine as to burn!"), nuclear fission ("Give the waste that keeps on giving -- for 10 million years!"), or, if we're lucky, something a little more environmentally friendly. At any rate, I think such fuel cells would be a serious improvement on gasoline, diesel or even natural gas engines. Anyway.... Yesterday I broke down and paid the extortionists at Tower $17.99 for the CD version of Storefront Hitchcock. What the hell, I thought, it's only money, and it will help convince Major Record Store Chains that carrying Robyn's CDs is a good idea. I noticed that they had the Soft Boys' A Can of [ahem] Bees for sale too, at the nice price of $12.99, so I picked that up ... and then, when I got to the register, A Can of Bees rang up at $10.99, two bucks below the sticker price! I figured that made up for the excessive price on Storefront Hitchcock. My Robyn luck is good, it seems. So far I've only listed to SH once, but I'm well satisfied with it. From the comments on the list, I expected the spoken-intro tracks to be more awkward and self-conscious than they are, so I was pleasantly surprised rather than disappointed. The semi-negative comments that I'd heard innoculated me against disappointment.... I also bought the LP version over a week ago (from Orpheus, a small independent record store in Georgetown), but being a lazy sort and not at home with my turntable very much anyway, I haven't gotten around to playing it yet. Finally, I just want to say hi to Vivien, Kieran and any other newcomers out there. Every one of you who joins makes me that much less of a newbie by comparison, so pure social-climbing self-interest would make me glad to see you even if nothing else did.... - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:21:59 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: reminder: Uz Jsme Doma show in DC tonight! This is just to remind you DC-area Fegs[1] to come on down to the Black Cat tonight to see Uz Jsme Doma[2], that Czech band that half of you probably think I just made up. They really do exist and they put on a great show. I'm not good at describing music, but if you try to picture a Central European cross between Frank Zappa and Neutral Milk Hotel you won't be too far off. Woj, I think, once mentioned having UJD's song "Jassica" on a compilation. "Jassica" is the story of a young, innocent female whale who ventures into a dockside tavern and falls in love with a human sailor. They have a brief affair, then the sailor ships out and the whale realizes she is pregnant. After numerous adventures, the two lovers are reunited, whereupon the sailor meets his new daughter ... who is, naturally, a giraffe. This is all, by the way, in an instrumental song. As a special added bonus, the Feg list's own Bayard Catron plans to attend the show! So now you all just *have* to come. Remember, that's tonight at the Black Cat, 1831 14th St. NW, Washington DC, 202-667-7960 (but no web page, the slackers). The opening band is Most Secret Method, and tickets are a mere $7. - --Chris, the ever-informative Czechophile [1] I'd consider "DC area Fegs" to be anyone closer than the UK or New Zealand. C'mon, you can all drive a few hours, or hop a quick plane.... [2] That's pronounced "Oozh smeh doema" ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:34:40 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Cone of Tomatoes Don't ask me why, but for some reason I felt compelled last night to do a nice vector-art version of Robyn's new tomato-on-a-cone (or whatever it is) logo. And now I've just added it to my Robynesque Symbols clip-art collection at http://www.alternatech.net/jh3/robyn, in case anyone's interested in this sort of thing for making J-Cards, or Christmas Cards, or what have you. (I'm printing it onto a tee-shirt iron-on right now...) In case you haven't visited the site before (and who has?) there are four separate ZIP files, one for each format I can properly export (AI, WMF, EMF, and Corel CMX), each containing all seven of the clip-art thingies I've done so far. What fun! John H. Hedges ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #424 *******************************