From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #441 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, November 29 1998 Volume 07 : Number 441 Today's Subjects: ----------------- A song ID? [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Christmas time again. [RH=0] [Bayard ] re : Robyn at the Sandy Denny show ["Matthew Knights" ] Re: A song ID? [dmw ] Re: m*u*m (he's English, remember? ;) [tanter ] tape tree two [Bayard ] 3/4 mummies from India (1950s monster movie content, 2%) [james.dignan@st] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:28:38 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: A song ID? Hey there! I hope all you Fegs had happy Thnksgivings! :-) So, I heard a song at Chili's (yes, the suburban chain restaurant) the other night that I'm trying to I.D. (title and/or artist). The two main lines from the chorus are: "The streets where I come from / Are paved with heart instead of gold." It's a 90's alt-pop-rock tune. Sounds a bit lie Cracker, or Material Issue. or something like that. Any clues? Thanks! - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 02:02:17 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Christmas time again. [RH=0] Hey yawl, [1] Tis the season, and people are bugging me to tell them what to buy me in the coming holiday consumer feeding frenzy, so I figured I'd just ask santa for some CD's. And as you lot know more about music than anyone I know, i figured I'd ask YOU for some recommendations, via private email of course! Tell me anything you think would be helpful - your top discs of all time or whatever, stuff you think i might not know about, stuff i probably do know about but may never have checked out yet, etc. New stuff. old stuff. I already know about Dan Bern and Neutral Milk Hotel. If it helps, here is a brief profile: Fav Robyn: Eye, Trains, Y&O, InvisoHitch Other favs: XTC, pink floyd, love n' rockets, inspiral carpets, the penetrators, elektronika (or whatever they're calling it this month), mark gloster and big rubber shark, dan bern beer du jour: Maudite thanks for your kind indulgence and i'll hear from you soon! =b [1] I know y'all is misspelled and not proper usage. Save your breath (; ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:23:46 -0000 From: "Matthew Knights" Subject: re : Robyn at the Sandy Denny show Reynardine is my favourite song on Liege & Liefe. This breathtaking song has to be heard for its haunting Denny vocals and Thompson guitar work. I looked it up on a folk site and it's a traditional song over 100 years old. Even so, did anyone cover this in the tribute gig ? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:23:34 -0000 From: "Matthew Knights" Subject: Juicy Chine 10% Robyn Browsed the Robyn Museum Site las night. Enjoyed the brown sepia photos of Robyn playing on the Isle of Wight one with his back to the sea and, my favourite, the one of him dwarved by two open top buses. I bought tickets for this gig but my friends pulled out a week before and, deflated, I decided not to go alone. A constant regret. A couple of language questions ... Wight : I've heard 'wight' is an ancient English word meaning 'man'. Can any linguists on the lists confirm this ? Chine : is this the local word for a steep gap in the rock leading down to the sea - much like a Norwegian Fjord ? Robyn's Storefront comments about the crumbling the Isle of Wight are not exaggerated. The sea is gobbling up the English south coast at a ferocious pace. The beach where Julius Ceasar landed to conquer England in 55 BC is now half a mile out to sea under hundreds of feet of water. Similarly, the beach where William/Guillaume the conqueror landed in 1066 is now underwater. As recently as 6000 years ago, when Stonehenge and the pyramids were being built, there was no sea and you could walk across a land bridge from Kent in England to Flanders in Belgium. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 08:27:56 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: A song ID? On Sat, 28 Nov 1998 MARKEEFE@aol.com wrote: > other night that I'm trying to I.D. (title and/or artist). The two main lines > from the chorus are: "The streets where I come from / Are paved with heart > instead of gold." It's a 90's alt-pop-rock tune. Sounds a bit lie Cracker, > or Material Issue. or something like that. Any clues? Thanks! "Streets of Where I'm From" by the Old 97's, from the (excellent!) _Too Far to Care_ album. I've got a moderately gushy review of it on my web site, and i really like their other stuff, too. - -- d. n.p. ida _ten small paces_ p.s. to anyone accustomed to mailing me direct-like, this here's where i live, at least for the nonce. rip digex. - - oh no!! you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net dmw@mwmw.com - - get yr pathos:www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 15:40:51 -0500 From: tanter Subject: Re: m*u*m (he's English, remember? ;) At 09:26 AM 11/24/1998 +0000, overbury@cn.ca wrote: >Juventus/Johann/Giovanni/Jon/John said: > >> Concerning the James' subject line: >> I don't know why, but I generally like English spellings over >> American (the country of which I am a member) like grey instead of gray, >> colour instead of color, fegmania instead of fegmayniah, etc. But I have >> never liked "mummy." My mother surely isn't a rag-wrapped, dessicated, >> myrrh-smeared corpse with her vital organs in canopic jars. > >Not that there's anything wrong with that.... Well, actually, Joyce does own/run a crafts shoppe in which there are many things made of and with fabric. One could argue that she is rag-wrapped... Marcy ;) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 23:18:41 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: tape tree two Eddie suggested (in his oh-so-subtle way)[1] that with the advent of this latest nifty gig (the merc lounge thing) perhaps it's time to start up the next installment of the permanent tape tree. So what I need to know is, are you all finished with your obligations for the first one, which is posted at: http://158.72.105.122/gh/tapetrees.htm If you have not yet received your tapes, please POLITELY remind your assigned branch. If you have never heard from your branch, let me know. If you have questions, suggestions, or want to be added to the tree, see me. =b [1] a long message consisting solely of the word "permatree..." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:09:16 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: 3/4 mummies from India (1950s monster movie content, 2%) >To expand: "Mum" is ordinary working class (as in "don't forget the fruit >gums, Mum!") whereas "Mummy" is strictly upper-middle female usage. > >(But as far as I can make out it isn't top-drawer upper class: I just read >Nancy Mitford's 'Love in a cold climate' and it's strictly 'mother' in >that - and of course NM was the world authority on U and non-U). well, Charlie Windsor addresses Liz as "mummy"! >Playing triplets 'inside' 2/4 or 4/4 is fairly standard - it makes it >sound as if the tune is going to switch to 6/8 or 12/8. It only sounds odd >if you play 4/4 _against_ 3/4 with identical bar lengths, because then >you've got two different crotchets, the one being 33% longer than the >other. I think this is what is going on in the unlistenable 'Superman'. A really odd one is Paul Simon's occasional trick ("Learn how to fall", "59th Street Badger song") of playing tree equal length notes *per bar* of 44. It makes it sound as though the melody and rhythm sections are working on different time signatures. Oh, and since everyone elkse is doing it... PERSONAL DATA: Favorite Smiths Album: Dream of Life, by Patti, produced by Fred. Not Patti's best, but you wanted one they both worked on. Do I Really Think Life is a Dream?: Yes - a dream within a dream, no less. Do I Dream about life anyway: Certainly! One day I hope to have one! Do I Feel Bad About It: No, as 50s monster movies go, 'It' was pretty reasonable. Number of Indian Restaurants 100 miles of My House: (James thumbs through the yellow pages) Four. The Asiana, the Little India, Tiger Hill, and the Travancore. Greatly outnumbered by 10 Italian, 22 Chinese, and even 5 Cambodian, but well ahead of the one each Scottish, Caribbean and African. Best names: "A Cow called Berta" and "Ruby in the Dust". Oddest idea: "Tulls" - a Jethro Tull theme restaurant. Number of Indian Reservations within 100 miles of My House: surprisingly, none, but there are rumours of a Pueblo village somewhere near Kaitangata. James ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #441 *******************************