From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #430 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, November 18 1998 Volume 07 : Number 430 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: East Bay Boogaloo [Ethyl Ketone ] Re: Delicious organ meat [dlang ] Re: East Bay Boogaloo ["J. Katherine Rossner" ] Oh, dear. ["Scott (Ferris) Thomas" ] Storefront in Scotland [HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com] Re: FW: Freebies [Capuchin ] Re: Momus. This post contains the word sex. Minors be warned. [Aaron Mand] Re: Oh, dear. [fred is ted ] Re: This is just to say... [Michael R Godwin ] NYC this weekend [Rebecca Lewis ] Re: NYC this weekend [Eb ] lem and robyn and my bright idea [VIV LYON ] Froom [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] dream tangent (RH content very low, writer advancing her own agenda) [VIV] fwd from Squeeze group [Marcy Tanter ] Re: dream tangent (RH content very low, writer advancing her own agenda) [MARKEEFE@aol.c] Re: lem and robyn and my bright idea ["Chris!" ] Eitzel (was RE: Froom) ["Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: Re: East Bay Boogaloo Hey all you home-fegs, Have a great time this weekend. I toast you from a distance. Can't seem to tear myself away from Belfast... - - Carrie At 12:03 AM +0000 11/17/98, Nur Gale wrote: >Gee.... St. John's is on College Avenue... no watering holes in that >neighborhood, but there are a number of coffee hangouts. > >Cafe Roma (corner of Ashby and College Ave... about 3 blocks south from >the Church) is one suggestion... or La Strada's (corner of Bancroft & >College -- where Colleg Ave. ends at the campus -- hmmmm... gee, about >6-7 blocks north from St. Johns) is another... lots of outdoor seating >at La Stradas. > >nur "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 21:51:42 +0930 From: dlang Subject: Re: Delicious organ meat Gnat wroted irrately( and who can blame her ?) >Is the Insect >Nation once more wrecking its revenge on an innocent Feg? Mr. Lang, >surely you must have a theory. I'm too tired to have a theory ,too many late nights looking for info on early 70's rock festivals.I tell you ,its surprisingly hard to find. I hate to disappoint you Gnat,but I need at least an hour to come up with something half way plausible over your ant invasion,and theres no way I can hack it. But refer back to my earlier dire warnings, add an invasion from outer space and random mutations and connection to evil bastard plots by the Quail , or Eb, or Runion or Woj or Fetter or even , Gnat, your good self, topped off with bizzarre interventions from the stalwarts at Friends of Feg and I reckon you'd have the gist of what I would have written had I been in the mood. yours knackeredly dave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:16:16 -0800 From: "J. Katherine Rossner" Subject: Re: East Bay Boogaloo >From: Nur Gale >Subject: Re: East Bay Boogaloo > >Gee.... St. John's is on College Avenue... no watering holes in that >neighborhood, but there are a number of coffee hangouts. > >Cafe Roma (corner of Ashby and College Ave... about 3 blocks south from >the Church) is one suggestion... or La Strada's (corner of Bancroft & >College -- where Colleg Ave. ends at the campus -- hmmmm... gee, about >6-7 blocks north from St. Johns) is another... lots of outdoor seating >at La Stradas. College and Ashby is probably closer than College and Bancroft--about a ten-minute walk. No watering holes? Last time I looked, within a block of that intersection there were two Chinese restaurants, a taqueria, an Indian restaurant, a pizzeria, a sandwich shop (where Dream Fluff Donuts used to be), something that might have been kosher vegetarian but I didn't look closely, and whatever's taken the place of the Russian restaurant (don't remember, but I'm pretty sure it was another eating place). Oh, and Ye Old-Fashioned Soda Fountain, or whatever it's called--or is that two blocks away from Ashby? Anyway, that's from memory; there may even be others. FWIW, I vote for the Indian restaurant. Katherine - -- Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. - Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:39:33 -0500 From: "Scott (Ferris) Thomas" Subject: Oh, dear. Can the end be that far off? LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Charles' teenage sons did a "Full Monty" striptease at their father's 50th birthday party but didn't quite go all the way, the Sun tabloid reported. Princes William, 16, and Harry, 14, played out a scene from the British hit film about male strippers as festivities continued until 3 a.m. Sunday following a more formal party for Charles at his Highgrove country estate, the paper said. "They danced, swayed and swaggered to Hot Chocolate's song 'You Sexy Thing,' which features in the film," the paper said. "And they burst into fits of laughter as they whipped off their shirts and unbuttoned their trousers. But unlike the movie's stars, they stopped there." __________________ F. S. Thomas programmer FUNNYBONE Interactive fthomas@cendantsoft.com For decades we always heard that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and let them bang away on the keyboard that they would ultimately type the complete works of Shakespeare. The Internet has proved that this is not so. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:31:25 +0000 From: HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com Subject: Storefront in Scotland Hi Guys, Saw the movie last night in Edinburgh and really enjoyed it. Bit disappointed with the man himself though. Talked for 5 minutes, gave us a song (can't remember title but it's one off JFS) then buggered off. After all this time I finally get to see him live and I could have missed it all had I blinked at the wrong time! If any of you English fegs go to see the movie tell him Hamish says "Nice film but make a bloody effort". (H) N.P. - Nothing by Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:07:22 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: FW: Freebies On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, The Rooneys wrote: > RH Vinyl: > One Long Pair of Eyes (Edit 3:56), The Ghost in You (Live 3:29), Freeze > (Shatter Mix 4:16). Red Vinyl. > Madonna of the Wasps (3:05), One Long Pair of Eyes w/ Spoken Intro (7:18), > More Than This (3:52). Purple Vinyl. > RH CD's: > Stand Back, Dennis! Live in Athens, GA 2/3/88 (worse even than GLTHO) > Rout of the Clones (Live in '78) (pales compared to Soft Boys double disc > collection) > Alvin Lives (in Leeds) Anti Poll Tax Trax with 1 Hitchcock Track "Kung Fu > Fighting" I would love to own any of these that you have left. I have the others and thank you most graciously for your generosity (no matter who gets what! J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:24:42 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Momus. This post contains the word sex. Minors be warned. sorry it took a long time to respond; i misplaced the message while trying to rearrange my mail. On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, amadain wrote: > But I'd also like to turn this in a different light for a second. To me, > Momus seems to be on a one man crusade to make the world be sexually > honest, and to talk about aspects of sexuality that nobody else will even > touch. perhaps... but when he approaches them with more archness than honesty, as i think he's started doing, it just reinforces the idea that these things are naughty and marginal. early on, he was much better at trying to get into someone else's head. > Also, he does try to get people to laugh about sex. This is a GOOD thing. people laugh about sex a hell of a lot, just not, perhaps, in the healthiest ways. hm. okay, "Tragedy And Farce" is funny, and i laughed at it because of my own experience with long-term pining (though no denouement as yet), but it's still a setup-punchline sort of thing, and i'm uncomfortable with that. to write a joke, you tweak the situation until the resolution is funny. when you're working out how you feel about an issue that some people consider too personal to bring to light (and because THEY feel this you think it MUST be brough to light) you don't have the luxury of setting it up so that it 'works'. you think about it and draw what conclusions you can. but, but, but aaron, is comedy an inherently flawed way of dealing with one's feelings about an issue? no, i'm not saying that. but. upon reflection, i think my real problem with recent Momus is the music. it sounds insincere, which is obviously a huge judgment call but it recasts my feelings about his lyrics. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:48:59 -0800 (PST) From: fred is ted Subject: Re: Oh, dear. - ---"Scott (Ferris) Thomas" wrote: > > Can the end be that far off? OK Fegs, it's punch-line time again. I'll start off the festivities. Whose end? Posh Spice's? or Nobody wants to see a Harry end... thankyouthankyouthankyou Ted "Yeah, we get high on music" Kim Deal > > LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Charles' teenage sons did a "Full Monty"> striptease at their father's 50th birthday party but didn't quite go all the > way, the Sun tabloid reported. Princes William, 16, and Harry, 14, played> out a scene from the British hit film about male strippers as festivities > continued until 3 a.m. Sunday following a more formal party for Charles at> his Highgrove country estate, the paper said.> > "They danced, swayed and swaggered to Hot Chocolate's song 'You Sexy Thing,'> which features in the film," the paper said. "And they burst into fits of > laughter as they whipped off their shirts and unbuttoned their trousers. But> unlike the movie's stars, they stopped there." > > __________________ > F. S. Thomas > programmer > FUNNYBONE Interactive > fthomas@cendantsoft.com > > For decades we always heard that if you gave a million monkeys > typewriters and let them bang away on the keyboard that they > would ultimately type the complete works of Shakespeare. > > The Internet has proved that this is not so. > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:06:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: This is just to say... > Gnat and Jeme: > > > p.s. I bet I'm even grumpier than Eb! > > > > That's as may be, but I believe I hold the record for all out > crabbiness. > On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Danielle wrote: > Can I have 'bloody irritated', please? Is this a universal feg-characteristic? Robyn certainly sounds pretty irritable on 'Trash' and quite a few others. - - Mike Godwin now humming: 'Eric the Half a Bee' by Monty P. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 98 15:48:11 -0400 From: Rebecca Lewis Subject: NYC this weekend Hi, Thanks to people on this list who told us about the show, I got a ticket to see Robyn at the Mercury Friday night. I'm probably going to have to pay for a taxi to take me back to Hoboken as it will be so late and I will be alone. But it will all be worth it. I'm thrilled! Thanks for the information, everyone who posted about it. This weekend, WFMU, the quirky noncommerical, free-form radio station (now of Jersey City, NJ) is having a record fair in NYC at the Metropolitan Pavilion (110 W 19th St, b/t 6th and 7th Aves). This is a great, great record fair. I have found lots of wonderful stuff over the years at these. WFMU raises all of its operating funds from events like this, along with the annual pledge drive. It starts Friday evening, but on that night it costs $20. (For the fanatics who want to go through the dealer's offerings first.) It costs $5 on Sat & Sun. I hope you don't mind my posting this information here. I frequently volunteer at the station's events. The station is run on the labor of volunteers. Only a few positions are paid ones. The DJs all work for free. They have a website (http://www.wfmu.org) where you can get schedules and listen to the station. It's a great place to search for out-of-print records and cds, along with all sorts of stuff. Rebecca Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:01:04 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: NYC this weekend Rebecca: >This weekend, WFMU, the quirky noncommerical, free-form radio station >(now of Jersey City, NJ) is having a record fair in NYC at the >Metropolitan Pavilion (110 W 19th St, b/t 6th and 7th Aves). This is a >great, great record fair. I have found lots of wonderful stuff over the >years at these. WFMU raises all of its operating funds from events like >this, along with the annual pledge drive. It starts Friday evening, but >on that night it costs $20. Meanwhile, I'm pleased because today, I'm mailing off a check for $22 to at last get a copy of my "Holy Grail" of records: "An Evening With Wild Man Fischer." Wooo! God bless Usenet! Eb.miserable.com np: Portishead/Roseland NYC Live ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:47:53 -0800 (PST) From: VIV LYON Subject: lem and robyn and my bright idea Actually, it remains to be seen if it's so bright. I first of all would like to ask if any on the list are fans of Stanislaw Lem, and furthermore if anyone has read the Golem story-cum-philosophical essay on the modern condition of man which comprises the second half of Imaginary Magnitudes? And further yet, does anyone agree with me that this, if anything in literature could, lucidly and cuttingly approximates Robyn's apparent philosophical outlook? One thing more- I'm thinking of buying a copy of the book for him and giving it to him (if I can without a herculean, stalking-type effort) when I see him (Huzzah!) on Friday. So there. Vivien My boyfriend got me some reading material for the train: Raymond Hitchcock's Sink the Lusitania! (the exclamation mark is his, not mine). While not science fiction, it is certainly la pere de Robyn. The author's picture and the picture of the man standing next to Robyn on the K single are identical. I'll let y'all know how it is. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:36:31 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: Froom On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 03:38:54 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > >Froom: American Music Club's _Mercury_. Other Froom productions have had >as strong a set of songs (RT's Rumor & Sigh, arguably Ms. Vega's 99.9F), but >even on those, the Froomisms didn't seem integrated. Mercury is full of odd >touches and unmistakeable Froomage, yet it fits the characters and settings >in Eitzel's songs. Comparing the versions of "What Godzilla Said To God >When His Name Was Not Found In The Book Of Life" (aka "Nothing Can Bring Me >Down") on Eitzel's solo _Songs Of Love Live_ with that on _Mercury_, all the >production detail *works* and elevates the songs. "Will you find me" is My personal fav among Frooms' production jobs (yes, even more than "behind grey walls" off "Rumor & Sigh" by R##### T#######.):-) Or, the strings on "Johnny Mathis's feet"...strings rarely work well in 'rock' music, IMO...now, a solo violin, on the other hand...:-) What has Eitzel done recently, btw? -luther ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:31:31 -0800 (PST) From: VIV LYON Subject: dream tangent (RH content very low, writer advancing her own agenda) Michael Wolfe wrote: >I had an odd dream the other night. I dreamed that I >was in the audience for a >production of Shakespeare's Julius Caeser. I once had a dream that two new Shakespeare plays had been discovered, and one of them was called "Damn!Damn!Damn!" As it turned out in the dream, it was a hoax and had actually been written by Thomas Pynchon and the cast of Saturday Night Live. Last night I dreamt that the people at the Mercury Lounge wouldn't give me my ticket. I could tell that they had it, but they were maliciously pretending that they didn't.(Persecution complex, anyone? I have plenty to spare) And though "Alright, Yeah" was playing in my head all night, I woke up with Vanessa Williams' 'Save the Best for Last' stuck in my head. Feh. Vivien just bought the train ticket, now all I have to do is think up a plausible lie to tell my boss. Dead relatives are not an option- I'm not superstitious, but that always seems like a karmically foolish thing to do. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:30:13 -0600 From: Marcy Tanter Subject: fwd from Squeeze group >I saw them last night and the new songs fitted easily into the set. They >were really cooking and every new song got a very good reaction. Domino and >Little King were amongst the best of the night. Glenn got very excited at >one point and said that after playing for a couple of weeks, they have now >stepped up to another level. I won't go through the set list because I >think it is the same as the other shows, but there were a couple of nice >funny moments: >Firstly, a very nice looking girl leaped onto the stage and started kissing >Chris D. He was very embarrassed, but cool. And the other was, during >Footprints, Glenn threw his guitar into the crowd. The recipient started to >play along very well. I couldn't actually see him, but I could here. At the >end of the song Glenn retrieved his guitar and announced 'Ladies and >Gentlemen, Nick Harper on guitar!'. He had done some top quality tunes at >the start of the night. A very talented gent. Dr. Marcy Tanter Assistant Professor of English Tarleton State University Stephenville, TX 76401 254-968-9039 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:59:27 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: dream tangent (RH content very low, writer advancing her own agenda) In a message dated 11/17/98 8:58:12 PM, you wrote: <> Aw, c'mon Quail! A reference to Pynchon! That one was way *too* easy. You're getting sloppy ;-) - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:17:06 -0800 From: "Chris!" Subject: Re: lem and robyn and my bright idea VIV LYON wrote: > My boyfriend got me some reading material for the train: Raymond > Hitchcock's Sink the Lusitania! Even though it is his father...worlds apart. I am certainly not into that sort of fiction so it is lost on me. Even with my interest, I could not get through a great deal of any of his books. In fact, I do not think I made it past the first chapter. Very masculine in ways. So, I sent them back to the library where they originated. .chris ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 08:20:29 -0500 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: Eitzel (was RE: Froom) What Eitzel has done recently: - - self-released a now sold-out CD, _Lover's Leap USA_ - - sang on the newest Congo Norvell CD - - released really good 3rd solo album, _Caught In A Trap And I Can't Back Out, 'Cause I Love You Too Much, Baby_, on Matador, with Kid Congo Powers returning the above favor by playing guitar, James McNew (Yo La Tengo) on bass, and Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) on drums - - sang on Froom's solo album - - seen the first two AMC albums reissued on Warner Bros., with plans for the next two (the awesome _California_ and _United Kingdom_) - - toured (Bumbershoot, Newport Folk Festival Tour) - - been dropped by Warner - - upcoming live dates: November 24 San Francisco Great American Music Hall December 5 Los Angeles Largo (early/late sets) December 8 London Twelve Bar Club December 9 London Twelve Bar Club ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #430 *******************************