From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #450 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, December 8 1998 Volume 07 : Number 450 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Spoken word tape and Randi (was RE: Catching up...) [tanter ] Re: A show I'm sure Eb missed... [Eb ] Re: Hillage and Dillage [Eb ] Re: Spoken word tape and Randi (was RE: Catching up...) [Carrie Galbraith] Re: A show I'm sure Eb missed... [lj lindhurst ] Emerson, Lee and Palmer [Insomnboy@aol.com] Re: best of.... [Eb ] Re: Fave Discoveries [MARKEEFE@aol.com] top ten list [lj lindhurst ] Trying to ID an RH tape. [normal@grove.ufl.edu] Me. Show. Yay. [Capuchin ] Re: top ten list [Zloduska ] community of fegs...More plugz [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: Trying to ID an RH tape. [Bayard ] Re: community of fegs...More plugz [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: top ten list [Ben ] Re: Top 5 1998 [overbury@mustang.cn.ca] elliot smith [Joel Mullins ] Re: xtc [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Re: it's too early for me to think of a subject line [amadain ] Re: Me. Show. Yay. [Insomnboy@aol.com] Re: Re: it's too early for me to think of a subject line [MARKEEFE@aol.] Roofies [Eb ] Know that I'm not there [Natalie Jacobs ] M'aidez, techies! [Michael R Godwin ] Re: that classical stuff [Michael R Godwin ] (Fwd) Re: community of fegs...More plugz [overbury@cn.ca] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 16:46:54 -0500 From: tanter Subject: Re: Spoken word tape and Randi (was RE: Catching up...) At 02:32 PM 12/7/1998 -0800, John B. Jones wrote: > >>By the way, this talk about Robyn interviews sparked a thought: what's >>the status of the spoken word tape? > >Well, Randi has it. I've written her a few times, just to mention it, but >have never heard back. Not that I'm ticked or anything, considering what >she has been going through for the past many years. > >That makes me wonder: We haven't heard from Randi lately, or even from Tim. >Anyone know how she's doing??? Marcy, did you get the goodies sent off to >her? >And if so, have you heard back from her? The stuff has not gone off yet because I was waiting for one last item but I should get it in the mail by Weds. The last I heard from Tim, Randi was not doing too well. I spoke to her before her most recent procedure and it sounded like it could knock her out for a while. I wrote to Tim but haven't heard from him. I'm hoping she's OK. Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 16:49:20 -0500 From: tanter Subject: best of.... I love Eb. I think he's a great guy and I have no complaints about him. Well, so far anyway. But is it my imagination or, for the last few years, has he been the first to pop out a "best of the year" list? I'm wondering what his agenda is.... ;) Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:58:03 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: A show I'm sure Eb missed... >REVIEW/MUSIC: Goo Goo Dolls slide to new depths Actually, I might've gone to this show, if I wasn't sick and if Scarnella/Petra Haden hadn't been playing the same night. I was interested in seeing the opening band, Buffalo Tom. I've only seen them live once, and that was two albums ago.... About six hours 'til Rufus! Still coughing freely, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:59:28 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Hillage and Dillage DS: >I realized that Groovy Decoy has its defenders, and I would agree that >some of the songs are worthwhile, but I think the consensus is that the >production on the album is horrible, and a couple of the songs are >really bad. So what happened? He got hooked up with a proggie! ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:08:39 -0800 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Spoken word tape and Randi (was RE: Catching up...) At 1.46 PM -0800 12/8/98, tanter wrote: >The stuff has not gone off yet because I was waiting for one last item but >I should get it in the mail by Weds. The last I heard from Tim, Randi was >not doing too well. I spoke to her before her most recent procedure and it >sounded like it could knock her out for a while. I wrote to Tim but >haven't heard from him. I'm hoping she's OK. Thanks Marcy for letting us know. I've been wondering and a bit worried as well from so much silence. We all send our collective wishes for the best for her, I'm sure! - - c "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 18:11:10 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: A show I'm sure Eb missed... >>REVIEW/MUSIC: Goo Goo Dolls slide to new depths > >Actually, I might've gone to this show, if I wasn't sick and if >Scarnella/Petra Haden hadn't been playing the same night. I was interested >in seeing the opening band, Buffalo Tom. I've only seen them live once, and >that was two albums ago.... Oh, Christ-- Buffalo Tom was OPENING for the fucking Goo Goo Dolls???? oh, the humanity! hey, I'm seeing Rufus next week! AND the Afghan Whigs! AND I'm starring in my own new sitcom on the WB! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:53:15 EST From: Insomnboy@aol.com Subject: Emerson, Lee and Palmer EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Russell in Los Angeles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:17:29 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: best of.... Marcy: >I love Eb. I think he's a great guy and I have no complaints about him. Poor deluded creature. >But is it my imagination or, for the last few years, >has he been the first to pop out a "best of the year" list? I'm wondering >what his agenda is.... Well, in THIS case, my "agenda" was simply trying to combat a very, very dry spell on the list. And lookie lookie...now Fegland is flourishing again! ;P Eb now coughing: my respiratory system ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 18:22:27 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Fave Discoveries Ooh, this *is* a good thread! Let's see . . . there have been several for me. My year started with the tail end of last year's discovery, which was MBP (Brasilian pop; 70's stuff, mostly). Then came Richard Thompson, whose "You? Me? Us?" I'd been listening to for a couple of years, but I'd never been able to get into his other material. Then, one day, all of a sudden, out of nowhere . . . oh, sorry . . . then I just did! Next came John Fahey. Mmmm . . . John Fahey . . . if you like dark, deranged stuff and you also like solo acoustic guitar, then you gotta hear some of his stuff! Check out 1965's "Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death" -- it's amazing! Next was probably Kiwi Pop (thanks James, Danielle, et al!). I'd always loved the Chills' "Submarine Bells," but had never been sure what to check out next. Now I love it all and count the Verlaines as one of my favorite bands! Finally, it looks like the afore-recently-mentioned trip-hop/abstract hip-hop thing will be the discovery that finishes off the year for me. If you have yet to experience DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing," then you owe yourself a Christmas treat . . . oh, and for those who think that an artist whose name starts with "DJ" means that there must be rapping, violence and misogyny close at hand, then you definitely need to see how the odious creature known as "rap" has spawned this truly interesting genre of music (even while the elder creature continues to troll along, devouring white suburban teens and Billboard slots as it goes). Yup, these discoveries will probably have a longer-lasting impact on my listening habits then will any single release that came out this year (especially since I'd discovered NMH a couple of years back). Definitely a more meaningful sampling of my own musical adventures over the past year! True for others, too, or do a lot of y'all mostly get turned onto new releases, rather than old hidden gems? - -----Michael K. - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 18:40:54 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: top ten list 1. Neutral Milk Hotel, Aeroplane Over the Sea 2. Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach, Painted From Memory 3. Rufus! 4. The Afghan Whigs, 1965 5. Oasis, the Masterplan 6.Billy Bragg/Wilco, Mermaid Avenue 7. R.E.M., Up 8. Pulp, This is Hardcore 9. Soul Coughing, El Oso 10. Love and Rockets, Lift BIG disappointments: Hole, Celebrity Skin Liz Phair, Whitechocolatewhatever Possum Dixon, New Sheets Archers of Loaf, White Trash Heroes ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:01:12 -0500 (EST) From: normal@grove.ufl.edu Subject: Trying to ID an RH tape. I ought to be more diligent in my labeling of tapes. I've got one from 97-8. Following segment is from middle of side A. Can anyone ID, please? (Or do you-all need more than 5 songs?) Queen Elvis, Boeing Spacearium, [enter Peter Buck] Jewels for Sophia, Chinese Bones, Beautiful Queen And incidentally, what sort of classical music do you-all reccomend? Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:13:38 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Me. Show. Yay. OK, I just won tickets to this weird show tomorrow night hosted by the top 40 station. I told myself I'd only go if I won tickets and that I'd only even TRY to win tickets this afternoon. I won on the first try. So that's cool. I DID, however, have to listen to the radio for almost an hour! (Well, it was RealAudio, so I still get to be a nerd.) So the bands there are Sugar Ray The Flys Cake Soul Coughing Garbage Violent Femmes. Now, I wanted to go because I really like Cake and Garbage and Violent Femmes. I fear the teenykids that will attend the show... especially those with floor tickets like these. I'm writing to the list to get some info on the other bands. Doesn't JBJ really like Soul Coughing? Who are the first two bands? I never listen to the radio, so maybe they're huge hitradio kings or something. Je. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 18:42:53 -0600 From: Zloduska Subject: Re: top ten list of '98- 1) Plush, More You Becomes You (the best album of the year that no one is ever going to hear, other than the very few who believe me when I tell them how great it is) 2) The Church, Hologram of Baal (No one else thought this was fuckin' excellent???) 3) The Jacobites, God Save Us Poor Sinners (oh god, bless their beautiful souls, even tho' I don't believe in god I really do mean it) 4) Sonic Youth, A Thousand Leaves 5) The Dirty Three, Ocean songs 6) Rufus Wainwright, self-titled 7) Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 8) Elliott Smith, XO 9) Tortoise, TNT 10) Black Heart Procession, self-titled (another album with lots of SAW on it!!!) runners up: Storefront Hitchcock Grant Lee Buffalo, Jubilee Manic Street Preachers, This Is My Truth Now Tell Me Yours albums I avoided: >Hole, Celebrity Skin >Liz Phair, Whitechocolatewhatever Marilyn Manson, Mechanical Animals 'cramping my own style', ~kjs ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:56:39 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: community of fegs...More plugz Hi kids. I've been thinking about this since the great Karen R. so kindly put my sweety and I up at her house and Jeme gave us El Tour Grande Del Portlandia. Every feg I've met has been incredibly warm, wonderful and giving. A few thoughts on hollowdaze. If you just can't keep yourself from spending money, consider buying your gifts from a fellow feg. I know some fegs own/work in music stores, and why give fifteen bucks to CDwebmacallitz if you can buy from one of our own? Here are just a few ideas, but y'all should be able to come up with many more. I have taken it upon myself to plug these things. Nobody put me up to it ir paid me for it. Also, these are products and services I currently use on myself, family, cats, etc., so you know they are virtually plutonium free. I ordered Vinyl Storfront from Michael Keefe. It came quickly and undamaged, same price as everybody else (sorry, actually cheaper than some) and the service could not have been friendlier. Michael Keefe MARKEEFE@aol.com Discover Music Inc 3035 Se Division St #B Portland, OR. (503) 232-1505 (I got this right, right?) Dolph Chaney's CD, _New Bird Rise_ is available from him. I've listened to it twice now, and you will probably not find a male singer with a more beautiful voice. The melodies are gorgeous. The lyrics evoke pictures he sees. The CD shifts freely between lilting acoustic, challenging rock, and ambient fripplings, but it never loses it's center. While some of the lyrical content seems overtly Christian to me, it doesn't cause my usual reaction to such, as it seems more personal about Dolph's own relationship with his beliefs- not about what I'm supposed to do. It also doesn't resort to the claptrappy gamesaying devices of the spiritual music ideom which cause me to experience violent fits. The vocals, musicianship, songwriting, and production are all top shelf. It certainly doesn't sound like a first CD. This probably cracks my top ten for the year, which many of my past faves couldn't do this year (they don't have much time left to grow on me.) You can contact him at dchaney@ogelthorpe.edu Or just send him wads of money @ (please also encourage him to contribute more stuff to future _Glass Flesh!_ CDs;) ): Dolph Chaney 134 Bentley Parkway, Apt D Woodstock, GA 30188-5543 You can still get those _Glass Flesh!_ CDs from me and Bayard. And I have Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark's _Monday's Lunch_ CDs, too. They make great stocking stuffers, coasters, lip-stretchers, monacle frames, throwing discs, toaster smeller-uppers, knuckle-holders for tiny finger-guillotines, etc., but you can probably find hundreds more.... And hey, they come with great graphics! Bayard Catron walden@universe.digex.net 5905 Greentree Rd. Bethesda, MD 20817 Mark Gloster rubrshrk@tigermonkey.com c/o Tigermonkey 7960B Soquel Dr., Suite 214 Aptos, CA 95003 Glen Uber forwarded me a suggestion for revolting against the capitalization of goodwill, and avoiding the spending season altogether. I think this is a great idea, but I will cash your check if you send me one. I will be thinking of my feggy friends this holiday season. Best wishes go to Jeme and Randi, and anyone who has to deal with corporations and insurance companies, or families, or neighbors, or authority figures, or me. I'm rambling at this point, but I have great hopes for you all and continue to be really thankful to be in such great company. All the best, - -Markg "That's the last time I listen to the craziest people on earth!" - -Homer Simpson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 20:01:09 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Trying to ID an RH tape. That would be "VIVA SEA-TAC II", Friday the 13th of june, 1997. On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 normal@grove.ufl.edu wrote: > I ought to be more diligent in my labeling of tapes. > I've got one from 97-8. Following segment is from middle of side A. > Can anyone ID, please? (Or do you-all need more than 5 songs?) > > Queen Elvis, Boeing Spacearium, [enter Peter Buck] Jewels for Sophia, > Chinese Bones, Beautiful Queen > > And incidentally, what sort of classical music do you-all reccomend? > > > Terrence Marks > normal@grove.ufl.edu > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:32:37 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: community of fegs...More plugz >Hi kids. I've been thinking about this since the great >Karen R. so kindly put my sweety and I up at her house >and Jeme gave us El Tour Grande Del Portlandia. Every >feg I've met has been incredibly warm, wonderful and >giving. That's Carole R. Geez. It's a wonder a guy like me can get a job anywhere with a brain like this. Karen's really nice too. Happies again, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 21:25:00 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Re: top ten list lj lindhurst wrote: > 3. Rufus! All this talk of Rufus! I didn't know there were so many Chaka Kahn fans here! Hehehe... heh... uhmm....? :-o ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 20:27:26 +0000 From: overbury@mustang.cn.ca Subject: Re: Top 5 1998 Joel asked: > >I wasn't aware that XTC was releasing a new album this next year. Has > >anyone heard anything off it? and Eb hacked this up: > Why, what's this? About 16K's worth of gush from Steve Schiavo? So lump me in with Steve. *gush*! The only disappointment concerning the new material is that XTC's new label won't release a full CD of the guitar stuff and a full CD of the kestrel stuff. PS: 1) Thanks, Steve!!! 2) No longer coughing up colours myself as of this morning. 3) Nobody's claimed 'crotchety' yet. It's mine! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 01:52:54 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: elliot smith Well, I've been hearing so much about Elliot Smith on the list lately, that I figured it was worth my time to check out some of his stuff. So, I found a radio broadcast from KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. The interview was very amusing and I loved hearing the live performances. I definitely want to go buy a CD now. And in case any of you are interested in listening to this broadcast, here's the link: http://www.liveconcerts.com/lcarchive/instudio/kcrw/970506/Elliot_Smith/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:17:31 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: xtc >I wasn't aware that XTC was releasing a new album this next year. Has >anyone heard anything off it? XTC will be releasing TWO (count 'em!) albums next year - the first will be more left-field - experimental, orchestral, all sortsastuff, and is called Apple Venus. Due for release in about Jan or Feb. The second, tentatively Apple Venus 2, will be more rock oriented and is scheduled for later in the year. I've heard a few demo versions of the songs, and they ain't lost what they had, even after six years... if anything, they've had six years of getting better... >> "There coming to take me away, oh oh >> there coming to take me away, ah ah ho ho he he (something like that) >> to the funny farm......." > >I know this song from the swell Lard album, Last Temptation of Reid. >Not sure if it's a cover version or not though. originally by Napoleon XIV, there is a great cover of it by Australian funnyman Austen Tayshus. >Obsessive-Compulsive: "I Can't Stop" by Gary Numan Don't forget "I don't know how to stop" by Peter Gabriel >One of their favorite songs is this Welsh miners' protest song called >"Black-Leg Miner" - they've probably already taught it to their kid. >(Isn't "Bells of Rhymney" in the same vein?) sure is - my other favourite Welsh Miners' protest song is "Did They Understand?" - despite the fact that I think it's by Max Boyce. James (who's not prepared to say what the best release of '98 is until the year's over - who knows what I might hear in the next three weeks... I've only heard Mutations in the last week for the first time, and it reaches the parts that many other CDs don't reach... is this a record for a parenthetical comment in the sign-off line of an email message to Fegmaniax!?) 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: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 22:22:23 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: it's too early for me to think of a subject line >In a message dated 12/7/98 6:06:48 AM, you wrote: > ><<>2. Having now finally gotten Martin Newell's Greatest Living Englishman >>(which I love!), which other Newell/Cleaners from Venus/Brotherhood of >>Lizards would you recommend? Susan? Michael K.? Anybody?>> > > I missed this original post somehow. All I have is the Cleaners From >Venus' "Golden Cleaners," This is hysterical! You know, there does seem to be overwhelming evidence that Michael and I were separated at birth. I too was asked in this post, and I too only own one Martin Newell album. Only the one I own is different ("Greatest Living Englishman"- pretty great but not life-changingly so), so that's a comfort of sorts :). Love on ya, Susan most amazing discovery of 1998- Momus, "Tender Pervert" fave new album released in 1998- Pulp, "This Is Hardcore" (you were expecting a surprise here?) worst live experience- the saccharine girlie juggernaut known as Kahimi Kiri, with Jack Logan's falling-apart-on-stage at Schuba's being a very close second in terms of horror ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 23:33:50 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Me. Show. Yay. On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Capuchin wrote: > Doesn't JBJ really like Soul Coughing? Who are the first two bands? Sugar Ray had one massively awful radio hit called "Fly" -- imagine a third-wave ska band who were aiming for the putrid target that the Red Hot Chili Peppers hit with "Under The Bridge". however, you MUST go see Soul Coughing. the last time i saw them was an inauspicious radio-station-sponsored outdoor show and even so they were spectacular. some people find M. Doughty's vocals to be irritating rather than gripping, but it's worth finding out for yourself. oh yeah: arty New York funk with melodies and a genius for working in sampled real-world sounds. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 01:23:59 EST From: Insomnboy@aol.com Subject: Re: Me. Show. Yay. In a message dated 12/7/98 8:39:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, aaron@eecs.harvard.edu writes: > however, you MUST go see Soul Coughing. the last time i saw them was an > inauspicious radio-station-sponsored outdoor show and even so they were > spectacular. I second this, the time I saw them they were doing an in-store at the record shop I was working in at the time. It was without a doubt the best of dozens of in-stores that I worked at in five years. They absolutely smoke live. Especially Yabal Guvay, their drummer (ok, so I'm a drummer too, but this guy seriously impressed the hell out of me). Russell in Los Angeles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 02:08:41 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: it's too early for me to think of a subject line In a message dated 12/7/98 8:02:58 PM, you wrote: <> My brain! Give me back my BRAIN!! (yeah, sister Suzy always got the better half of the bargain) ;-) - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 01:19:08 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Roofies Well, I got back from the Rufus show a bit ago. It was very very good, but because his production/arrangements ARE a strong component of my admiration for his music, his sound does lose a little something onstage. In contrast to the time I saw him open for Lisa Loeb, he had a band with him tonight -- a guitarist, drummer and bassist. No Jon Brion. The musicians' names didn't sound familiar -- I don't think they're on the album. He played the whole album plus five non-LP tracks: three new songs written on guitar (oho), a piano tune which was apparently written for his mom's new album and an encore cover of a Loudon Wainwright song (I think it may have been called "One-Man Guy," ironically enough). For the latter, he called a friend out of the audience, who sang backup and played guitar while Rufus sang minus instrument. The crowd was a lot thicker than I hoped (I guess that Gap ad worked its magic), but happily, there were very few Beamers. Rufus played guitar as much as piano...that was kind of a surprise. He chattered a lot between songs, talking about life in LA, etc. Some cute comments, but nothing I'll bother repeating. Starfucking opportunity: Dave Foley and Stephen Root of NewsRadio, out on the town yet again! You gotta love that, two network TV stars just milling around the crowd with so little attitude. I didn't bother talking to them. Van Dyke Parks was also there, at a table off to the side. The two people whom I WAS planning to meet at the show either didn't show up or weren't findable, and that was a bummer for me. On the drive to and from, I listened to recent XTC demos. Purty good, purty good, although a few melodies are so complex that they're simply ungainly. I'm not crazy about that Middle Eastern wiggle thing XTC has been doing lately (see "Garden of Earthly Delights"), and there's more of that in the new demos. Hopefully, a couple of those songs won't make it to the final album. Otherwise, great stuff. Still soul-coughing, tEBerculosis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:32:45 -0400 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Know that I'm not there >Try an in depth analysis of the songs of Nick Drake or Daniel Johnston. >i presume even eb could agree that you've gotta include some wesley >willis here. Outburst is, really, an almost heartbreaking song. also >see Chronic Schizophrenia and Don't Curse In God's House. Katherine, back me up here - schizophrenia and depression aren't personality disorders! Thank you. But if you do decide to move on to other mental illnesses, Nick Drake's "Know" is the best description of clinical depression I've ever heard. And don't forget the light-hearted melodies of Ian Curtis! >two more suggestions for your kids' tape, natalie: Sister Ray and My >Ding-A-Ling. and i'm serious! if you put those on there, i should >think you'd be a cinch for the feg-o'-the-year award. It turns out that my friends' little girl is already a big Bauhaus fan, so I'm not sure if her mind needs to be twisted any further. Sister Ray would be great, though. >Huh. And yet Go 2 is my least favorite XTC album. Go Figger. Personally, I was never able to appreciate the subtle feminist satire of Andrea Dworkin's favorite song, "My Weapon." But "Red" kicks ass... >Anyone received any news of Randi lately? I talked to her at some length on the phone a few weeks ago. She sounded relatively chipper but was scared about an upcoming procedure. She said she would call back, but never did - I hope she's OK... worried and tired n. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 13:47:36 +0000 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: M'aidez, techies! OK, you can all have a laugh at this. Poor old Godwin still uses Word 6.0 in Windows 3.11. Word and I were chugging along together fairly cheerily (though often in moments of stress I would revert to WP5.1 for DOS) until Word 6.0 suddenly decided that Equation Editor 2.0 no longer existed - can't find it, no such file, don't know what you're talking about, those sort of messages. I reinstalled the Equation Editor (which was there anyway, as far as I could see) but it made no difference. I have now reinstalled the whole of Word 6.0 and Equation Editor, but Word still refuses to believe that EE is there, although I can see it in c:\windows\msapps\equation, where it always was. I have been managing by starting EE separately, then copying the equations into Word, but that is hardly satisfactory. Any ideas? - - Mike G. PS Report on SH follows anon. Robyn played a _new song_ and Victorian Squid before the Bristol screening. Glastonbury supremo Michael Eavis watched Robyn sing but did not stay for the movie. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:00:52 +0000 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: that classical stuff On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 normal@grove.ufl.edu wrote: > And incidentally, what sort of classical music do you-all reccomend? Mozart clarinet concerto, preferably performed by Emma Johnson Alfred Brendel whacking out Beethoven piano sonatas Julian Bream playing Spanish guitar composers (Tarrega etc) Julian Bream playing lute composers (Dowland etc) George Malcolm playing harpsichord (Scarlatti for preference) That kind of thing. Steer clear of the high romantics, though (Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Liszt, Spandau Ballet etc). - - Mike G. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:12:23 +0000 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: (Fwd) Re: community of fegs...More plugz > A few thoughts on hollowdaze. If you just can't keep > yourself from spending money, consider buying your gifts > from a fellow feg. [snip] > And I have Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark's > _Monday's Lunch_ CDs, too. They make great stocking > stuffers, coasters, lip-stretchers, monacle frames, > throwing discs, toaster smeller-uppers, knuckle-holders > for tiny finger-guillotines, etc., but you can probably > find hundreds more.... And hey, they come with great > graphics! > If any of you are waiting for one more recommendation before you spring for Monday's Lunch, here it is. It's social commentary slipped beneath a sly smile -- smart, fun music that will give you plenty to digest after your first listen! While the influences* are in plain view, their integration into Mark's own sound is seamless. Mark*** plays with rhythm like Jeme with a yo-yo (from what I understand of Jeme's** yo-yo skill). The instrumentation is of professional quality and the production will make you eat your heart out if you've ever tried to record at home. This is Good Stuff. Sharkmusic for fegpeople! .... hmmm. lip-stretchers.... * Influences offered for the purpose of allowing fegs to predict if they'd appreciate Mark's own style: I detect hints of King Crimson, Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, Laurie Anderson (roughly in order of quantity). Cool enough? ** Hey, Jeme -- best wishes. ***a.k.a. Mark the Dork - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #450 *******************************