From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #456 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, December 11 1998 Volume 07 : Number 456 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Da, Da, Da [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Ha-Ha Hairscape [LORDK@library.phila.gov] Beat the Boots! [Bayard ] Re: Beat the Boots! [Ben ] Re: Beat the Boots! [Bayard ] Re: Beat the Boots! [Eb ] bach [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Crablings unhatched [hal brandt ] Classical Recomendations [Michael Wolfe ] bach [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Top Movies of '98 [Michael Wolfe ] New Email Address [The Great Quail ] Re: Linctus House [ernovak@mindspring.com] the rest... [ernovak@mindspring.com] sometimes you gotta brag [Miles Goosens ] Re: Top Movies of '98 [amadain ] Re: frogs & progs [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer ] Re: New Email Address [Christopher Gross ] Album Ratings [Bayard ] Re: oh lordy, here we go [Eric Loehr ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #455 [edoxtato@ssax.com] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #455 [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Top Movies of '98 [Ken Ostrander ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 13:51:31 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: Da, Da, Da >Susan: >>Linctus IIRC is a kind of cough remedy. >Did someone say COUGH REMEDY? Where, where?? >Sucking on Cold-Eeze, Yea, Eb, just lick a house. You'll feel much better. At least Ben and Dave will. ;-) Hope you're feeling better. Hope Jeme's still among the living, and that the general anesthetic didn't cause him to blab every secret he ever had, unless those in ear shot were kind and understanding and won't demand money for keeping such secrets. I had a little bit of trouble with sodium pentathol once. Luckily my sweety was not evil about extracting and using the outflowing barrage of information. Happies, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:58:48 -0500 From: LORDK@library.phila.gov Subject: Ha-Ha Hairscape Theres something quite bracing about insulting someone you love. Makes the air smell cleaner, the lights shine brighter, and just plain gratifies that nasty little bit of you which really really gets off on such things. so, in this joyful spirit of playful sadism may I suggest a new Robyn site. Yes, the Ha-Ha- Hairscape site, dedicated to pictures of the man born on a bad hair day. Our hero, otherwise looking utterly delectable, except for the dead creature on his head. Maybe even some naked pornographic ones(graphically enhanced) spoiled by the wilting quiff tottering above the putative center of intrest. think of the possibilities. think of the wise ass captions. Bad hair at 15, at 18, while pretending to be a Beatle, with hair spray, with bolw dry, with gel. Those hitched-up cow licks in every manner of position. How bloody glorious. Not that I|d do any work to set it up, of course. Or do anything but critisize the pure soul who did. Still, a lovely idea all around. Not really UTM K (its something about the stress of christmass. It will pass.) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 17:08:12 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Beat the Boots! I've been comtemplating the idea of a "Beat the Boots" sort of masterplan involving copies of the robyn bootlegs that have come out over the years. What I'm wondering is, are any og them even worth having? I mean, _Invisible History_ seems good, but has been largely made obsolete by legit releases, as has _Rout of the Clones._ Your thoughts? Anyway, let me know if you have CDR capability, and maybe we can beat the boots... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 19:09:37 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Re: Beat the Boots! Let's see... "Invisable History" was the best, in terms of sound and content. But as you said, most of the best stuff on it has been released officially now. "Rout Of The Clones" is decent, but if you have that Soft Boys gig that was treed here a while ago you don't need it. The live material on "1976" and some other official releases are enough live Soft Boys to keep me happy for years. "Stand Back Dennis" seems to be a popular one, but the performance is mediocre at best. Yawn... I think Robyn is a great example of a "cult" artist who has more or less beaten the boots by allowing taping and not condeming those tape hoarding weenie scumbag stupid bastard filthy smelly traders. (Ooops I caught a momentary case of the Eb flu there... :) ) If I listed my favorite unreleased Robyn material it would consist entirely of stuff that apparantly has never made it into the hands of bootleg manufacturers. So, while the boots may not be totally "beaten" I think they are close enough to it. BTW what are the favorite tapes of other tape hoarders? Here's mine: 1978-1981 Rehersals, Demos and Outtakes compilation - mouth watering rare tracks! 4/19/84 Hope & Anchor - the Egyptians before they were the Egyptians, with what's-his-name on horns even! Hear the power go out and the boys keep rockin'! 5/3/89 Cubby Bear Lounge, Chicago (Worst Case Scenarios) - RH&E with Peter Holsapple and Peter Buck in a great laid back show with many cool retro covers. 10/17/92 Powerhaus Club, London - The Soft Boys meet the Egyptians! RH&E are joined by Kimberly Rew and Matthew Seligman to tear the roof off this sucka! "Unhatched Crablings", "Netsurfer Ghost", and "Robyn's X-Mas Party" - special thanks to Bayard for compiling these fantastic collections! Let's hope they give him the key to the vaults and we get the RH version of the Dead's "Dick's Pick's", but what would we call it? There are so many solo shows to name, just a few of my faves are 4/21/85 Ronnie Scott’s, 4/27/89 McCabe’s, the A&M Covers, and 3/5/97 8X10 Club. Bayard wrote: > I've been comtemplating the idea of a "Beat the Boots" sort of masterplan > involving copies of the robyn bootlegs that have come out over the years. > What I'm wondering is, are any og them even worth having? I mean, > _Invisible History_ seems good, but has been largely made obsolete by > legit releases, as has _Rout of the Clones._ Your thoughts? > > Anyway, let me know if you have CDR capability, and maybe we can beat the > boots... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:31:33 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Beat the Boots! > "Unhatched Crablings", "Netsurfer Ghost", and "Robyn's X-Mas Party" - special > thanks to Bayard for compiling these fantastic collections! Let's hope they > give him the key to the vaults and we get the RH version of the Dead's > "Dick's Pick's", but what would we call it? how about "Eb's Phlegm"? But seriously folks, thanks for the kind words, but the Xmas Party was done by Lobsterman (who also did the _Uncarved Pumpkins_ compliation way back when, before he was even on the list) and woj was behind the Netsurfer Ghost comp. Woj (<- that's only capitalized cuz it's the start of a sentence) even did another comp way WAY long ago calles something like "The Other songs about churches and fish" that was made obsolete by re-releases. I would really like to do more Crablings (this is the first year in 3 years i won't be able to do a couple volumes) but time is slipping through my fingers... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:38:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Beat the Boots! >> "Unhatched Crablings", "Netsurfer Ghost", and "Robyn's X-Mas Party" - >>special >> thanks to Bayard for compiling these fantastic collections! Let's hope they >> give him the key to the vaults and we get the RH version of the Dead's >> "Dick's Pick's", but what would we call it? > >how about "Eb's Phlegm"? You mean I can get MONEY for this stuff? I'll start filling some Thermoses right away! , Eb np: nothing at all...December lull ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 01:24:46 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: bach On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:23:17 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >> If you are a guitarist or bassist, and you want to be great: >> play Bach fugues every day for a year. Everything else will >> take care of itself. No, I didn't do this. I did a little bit >> tho, and that's part of how I got where I am. Where am I? On the movie CREAM"S FAREWEL CONCERT at the royal albert hall< jack bruce calls bach "the governor of all bass players." no lie! -luther ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:39:08 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: Crablings unhatched Bayard wrote: > I would really like to do more Crablings (this is the first year in 3 > years i won't be able to do a couple volumes) but time is slipping through > my fingers... I understand, but I'm truly disappointed. How 'bout an edition in the springtime? Even a single volume will do..! a 'Crablings' fan, /hal ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 02:05:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: Classical Recomendations >Thank you to Michael for giving the correct name to the Vaughn Williams >piece, and to two others for mentioning Marchaut, a recommendation I endorse. You're quite welcome; Vaughan William's Lark Ascending (jeesh, that's a great title) is also quite lovely, though quite a bit less weighty than the "Fantasia". Not that I think it matters to anyone, but I get the digest, and furthermore I've been on jury duty (!) this week. My email access is through work, so my turnaround time for the fegmaniax list has been sllooowww. I composed my post, regarding Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Copland, and Vaughan Williams, sent it, and watched in complete befuddlement as just about every point that I'd made in my post was made by somebody else, and THEN my post circulated. I hope that everyone believes me when I say that I wrote my post independently of everyone else, and that I'm not some kind of plageurizing jerk, unless I'm a psychic plageurizing jerk. Still, it was amazing (and not just a little bit eerie) to see that the minds at work here were so similar to my own. And as for Haydn being a sort of lesser, proto-Mozart, well, I guess that I have to agree in some senses. But I refuse to dismiss his output entirely. The man wrote some incredible stuff, and his Sturm-and-Drang period (symphonies in the 50's and 60') is particularly lively. The "London" symphonies don't suffer in comparison to any of Mozart's symphonies (98 is my personal favorite.) Plus, he invented, and later perfected the string quartet form, a form which is not nearly so well represented in Mozart's ouevre. I think that it's pretty exciting to hear the progression from late Baroque conventions to early classical conventions take place entirely within one man's body of work. You will hear no defense of Tchaikovsky from this quarter, however. :) - -Michael Wolfe (given the presence of so many Michaels, I should probably maintain a practice of signing with my last name included.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 03:11:38 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: bach On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:23:17 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >> If you are a guitarist or bassist, and you want to be great: >> play Bach fugues every day for a year. Everything else will >> take care of itself. No, I didn't do this. I did a little bit >> tho, and that's part of how I got where I am. Where am I? On the movie CREAM"S FAREWEL CONCERT at the royal albert hall< jack bruce calls bach "the governor of all bass players." no lie! -luther ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 02:34:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: Top Movies of '98 Someone tried to start this thread a bit ago, and I thought that I'd like to jump in. I am a movie buff in the extreme; one of my hobbies is writing film criticism for my webpage (if you're curious: members.tripod.com/~wolfemi). I think it's a LITTLE early for '98, given that Terrance Malick's The Thin Red Line is upcoming (God, I'm getting shakes just typing that!! 20 frickin' years!) and A Simple Plan opens tomorrow, both of which I have high hopes for making my eventual list. But I'm happy to give my opinion of stuff that's come out so far, for dissection purposes. Unfortunately, two VERY strong entries that I caught this year were at the Portland International Film Festival, and didn't get any kind of distribution, so it's pointless to include them here (except maybe to seem "arty".) This leaves a couple films at the end of the list that, while good, are way, way overpraised. I feel somewhat sheepish in that including them here constitutes a contribution (however miniscule) to the hype machines that have driven them. Hopefully we'll get a couple great ones out of Malick and Raimi, and maybe a couple of surprises, before the year is out. Without further ado, in reverse order: 10) Saving Private Ryan - I wrote this one up, and my review is a far more verbose analysis than I care to subject this forum to. Suffice it to say that it was supposed to be the anti-"war movie", yet the same orgasmic portrayal of violence undercut it at every turn. Even in spite of that, there's still so much to admire. 9) The Truman Show - Esquire's movie of the decade. Hmm. Well, not quite, but certainly an exciting demonstration of the possibilities of cinema as a tool for philosophical discussion. In a year that gave us "The Waterboy" and "Armageddon", that's good enough for slot 9. 8) Ma Vie En Rose - Sweet, gentle story of a young lad's gender confusion. Light, but never threatens to float away, thoughtful, but never didactic. Alain Berliner's Belgian production is a film that avoids every trap and settles on just the right tone. 7) The Horse Whisperer - I'm gonna lose a good deal of you here. What can I say? Beautiful to watch, doesn't insult the audience with romances that are spun in minutes of screen time, this is the rare movie that is as satisfying as a novel AND is actually better than the book on which it is based. Worth the long sit. 6) The Spanish Prisoner - Heh. They don't make 'em like this any more. A throwback to a Hollywood before they thought that a "plot" was where you buried all the bad-guys that the hero shot to shreds with two-fisted automatic pistol action. And Mamet writes a PG movie?!? Maybe those millenialists are on to something after all... 5) The Celebration - Oh, man. This one just grows in power for me with every second that I think about it. Vinterberg's adherence to the outwardly reductive Dogma '95 manifesto paradoxically allows him to create some of the most startling imagery in cinema this year. To say nothing of the first-rate story and acting. "More" isn't necessarily more. 4) Men With Guns - John Sayles' take on Heart of Darkness, with bits of The Canterbury Tales and the Wizard of Oz for good measure. The Secret of Roan Inish, Lone Star, and now this... Sayles is going to single-handedly save cinema. 3) Out of Sight - The most fun I had at the movies all year. George Clooney becomes a movie star right before our eyes, and the lovely Jennifer Lopez is every bit his match. With Pulp Fiction, Tarantino said "hey, look what I can do!" Soderbergh's reply, in the form of Out of Sight: "yes, and here's why you'd want to." 2) Your Friends & Neighbors - Almost as chilling as his debut, this is Neil LaBute's follow up to last year's most mind-warping gut-check, In the Company of Men. Scary. I've written up this one in detail elsewhere, as well. 1) Life is Beautiful - Roberto Benigni forces us to take stock of what we know about the holocaust and to consider it in ways that I wouldn't have thought possible in cinema. His charm, innocence, and levity allow him to take us where the traditional paths for approaching the subject don't go. Well, no doubt there'll be some disagreement from you guys. There are a couple of films that were possible candidates that I missed, alas, but probably nothing that would've supplanted the top 5. Not a spectacular year, overall. I would rate my top three from last year in front of this whole list (For the record, those were In the Company of Men; Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control; The Sweet Hereafter.) Okay, then. Have at it! :) - -Michael Wolfe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 98 18:02:05 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: New Email Address I have a new email address: quail@panix.com I am sending this half as a warning, half as a test to see if it gets through. . . . la la la off to lower hemlines. . . . - --Quail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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, 10 Dec 1998 22:40:18 -0500 From: ernovak@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Linctus House Well, thought I'd throw in my interpretation of "Linctus House," especially since I've been listening to it quite a bit lately...I'm a new subscriber, so this should serve well as an introduction. The way I think of it, linctus house and flesh hotel _both_ refer to the body (as if there way a comma between them: "in linctus house, in my flesh hotel"). "Linctus house" (linctus, lincture being a kind of throat balm) implies, I think, that the body in itself can be a temporary salve that eases spiritual distress. It's easier to be "all body" and block out the spiritual and emotional. RH sings "and we'd say, hey baby, come on in and help yourself to my soul" - but it's a memory - there's no longer anyone there to get at (or who wants to get at) that side of him anymore. The narrator is consoling himself by basically lapsing into a non-emotional self. The "minds wide open like a big window in the evening air" simile works well against this sense of the physical (and aginst the lines "and I would hear the rain falling on the leaves outside/ but I couldn't stand to close the window" - implying despite the fact that there's no more meeting of the minds, it's still hard to end it). There is that line about him fearing for his skull, but I think of it meaning that he's afraid that after having been emotionally devastated, she'll aim for what's left. Well, my humble opinion. Lyrics meaning something different emily ernovak@mindsping.com - -----Original Message----- From: amadain To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 10:22 AM Subject: Re: Linctus House >>Hi all, >> >>I only very recently discovered the wonders of RH and I was blown >>away in particular by the song Linctus House on the compilation cd. >>Since English is not my first language I might be missing something >>but does anyone know what Linctus House exactly is? (I assume that >>"flesh hotel" refers to the human body. I could be wrong). > >I've been hoping someone else with a clearer grip on this would tackle this >one, as I'm not really amazingly clear on it, but it hasn't happened yet >(perhaps it is lurking in the shadows, then :)). > >There have been a couple discussions of this in the past. I don't think any >kind of consensus was reached. Linctus IIRC is a kind of cough remedy. >Someone else suggested that there is some wordplay involved, >"Linctus"/"linked us". Given the rest of the material on "Eye" (the album >the song appeared on originally, which you simply must acquire ASAP :)), >much of which is about the dissolution of a very emotional relationship, I >feel that there's something in that idea. The house that "linked us", where >I now live alone, kind of thing. Anyone? Bueller? > >As to English not being your first language: what I said to the native >French speaker who told me he loved Bob Dylan but confessed he had trouble >sometimes making out his meaning- "don't worry, I do too" :). > >Love on ya, >Susan > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 23:22:37 -0500 From: ernovak@mindspring.com Subject: the rest... ...lyrics mean somethind different to everyone (obviously). (sorry about that) - - em ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 00:55:22 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: sometimes you gotta brag Ever get a lot more than you bargained for at a show? I went to Tommy Womack's "17th Annual Christmas Writers' Night" earlier this evening (of course it's no more the 17th than it's the 50th year that David Letterman and Paul Shaffer have been working together), simply because I love Tommy's music (buy buy buy POSITIVELY NA NA), the price was right ($5), and the venue was intimate (the Sutler). The other people on the listed bill were all people I didn't know. Well, not only were the billed acts good (and doggone it, I'm having trouble remembering their names!), but then Bill Lloyd showed up to do a few gorgeous, melodic songs that sounded for all the world like they were torn from the Chris Stamey songbook. And then the evening turned into one big hootenanny, moving from the stage to the railing between the stage area and the bar area, as the small crowd gathered around to listen to the musically talented audience members take turns playing and singing. Among the people I recognized were Matraca Berg, Joe Ely, and Todd Snider, and I'm sure I'll kick myself when I find out who some of the other folks were. Somehow it was a very Nashville moment, yet it was atypical in that it was a group of truly talented outsiders passing the guitar around in an atmosphere of generosity and appreciation, rather than the insular Bluebird Cafe "aren't we all fabulous songwriters, worship us as gods" vibe. What a thrill to turn around in my chair to see Joe and Matraca at the table behind me! No more than thirty people attended the show, but I think at least ten of them ended up performing. What an unexpectedly fun evening! later, Miles ================================================== Miles Goosens R. Stevie Moore website, now with sound! http://www.rsteviemoore.com My personal page, all silent all the time: http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles Join the Wire Mailing List: http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/wire ================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 02:29:43 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: Top Movies of '98 >contribution (however miniscule) to the hype machines that have driven them. >Hopefully we'll get a couple great ones out of Malick and Raimi, and maybe a >couple of surprises, before the year is out. There's still a lot from this year that I haven't seen, and probably won't see until the timeliness of a 1998 list is already somewhat gone (in August of 1999 I post my list, finally, yanno- the moment would have sorta passed by then :)). For example, I still haven't seen "Truman Show", "Pleasantville", "Life Is Beautiful", or "Unmade Beds", all of which I have high hopes for, and there is "Speed" that looks -really- intriguing as well and might be something that'd make my list too. And given that Oscar season is really just starting to get in gear, I'd say it's not unreasonable to expect surprises. I would say tho, that I thought "Happiness" was easily the best film I saw this year, and I honestly don't expect to see anything in the next month or so that'll change that opinion. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 08:18:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: frogs & progs >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Mullins writes: Joel> Actually, the new Mercury Rev does use Hammonds. Okay, what I meant to say was 'use Hammonds extensively as a solo instrument'. I'm still refining my "Three Point Prog Checklist". - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:00:38 +0000 From: VS@nlpvf.xs4all.nl (Victor Schiferli) Subject: Linctus House / Album Ratings > I've been hoping someone else with a clearer grip on this would tackle > this one, as I'm not really amazingly clear on it, but it hasn't > happened yet (perhaps it is lurking in the shadows, then :)). Thanks for the explanation of Linctus; indeed there had already been some friendly fegs who mailed me off-list about this. The chorus of the song somehow makes more sense to me. I especially like the "linked us" association, although when I am thinking of it as "In my cough syrup house, in my flesh hotel" it gets if only slightly bizarre. Having become a RH all suddenly overnight I wondered how you Fegs rate his albums. What in your opinion is the best one, his masterpiece? (I understand Groovy Decoy is a bit of a clunker). I got hooked on the Uncorrected Pesonality Traits cd but right now I am playing Moss Elixir over and over again and I think it's one of the best ones I have heard, ever, in my life. I am playing a cover version of The Devil's Radio with my band and we made a quite successful band arrangement for it. Singing the words: "Darling you don't have to call me Stalin" always makes me smile. Victor Schiferli Nederlands Literair Produktie- en Vertalingenfonds Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature Singel 464 / NL-1017 AW AMSTERDAM Tel 31 20-6206261 / Fax 31 20-6207179 E-mail nlpvf@xs4all.nl Http://www.nlpvf.nl ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 02:35:28 -0800 From: Eb Subject: oh lordy, here we go >Having become a RH all suddenly overnight I wondered how you Fegs >rate his albums. What in your opinion is the best one, his >masterpiece? My favorite RH album is definitely "A Tramp Shining," though "The Yard Went on Forever" has its moments and "I, In the Membership of My Days" is *hilarious*. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 07:41:42 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: New Email Address On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, The Great Quail wrote: > la la la off to lower hemlines. . . . You fiend! Don't you know what that'll do to my extensive stock portfolio?! - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:24:15 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Album Ratings His best is underwater moonlight, i often dream of trains, eye, or element of light, depending on who you ask! (actually i guess it could be any one of them depending on who you ask. but those are the ones i remember from the last fave album poll. is there a fave album poll posted on fegmania.org or just the fave song poll?) I would like to point out that in the last "Fave other artist" poll, XTC beat the beatles. =b ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:42:32 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: oh lordy, here we go On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Eb wrote: > >Having become a RH all suddenly overnight I wondered how you Fegs > >rate his albums. What in your opinion is the best one, his > >masterpiece? > > My favorite RH album is definitely "A Tramp Shining," though "The Yard Went > on Forever" has its moments and "I, In the Membership of My Days" is > *hilarious*. > > Eb > "Someone left the prawns out in the rain...." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:31:17 -0600 From: edoxtato@ssax.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #455 >If you want to bring up your child warped (like my dad did) include >Stan Freeberg, Tom Lehrer and Spike Milligan. And don't forget Fred >Lane & His Hittite Hotshots' "French Toast Man" -- food hygiene >tuition should start early. Seconded. It's also good to include Johnathan Winters, Simon & Schuster, Shelly Berman, Flanders & Swann, the first four Bill Cosby albums, and Nichols & May. Heh... my brain hurts. - -Doc, glad to be no longer hearing Eb's reading of "Great Expectorantations" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 09:57:39 -0800 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #455 At 9.31 AM -0800 12/11/98, edoxtato@ssax.com penned: >Seconded. It's also good to include Johnathan Winters, Simon & Schuster, >Shelly Berman, Flanders & Swann, the first four Bill Cosby albums, and >Nichols & May. Let's not leave out Alan Sherman!! [...when Ben casy meets Kildare, it's called a paradox...] And to make the child a good red diaper baby, include some Phil Ochs. Be Seeing You, - - c "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:53:35 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: Top Movies of '98 >I would say tho, that I thought "Happiness" was easily the best film I saw >this year, and I honestly don't expect to see anything in the next month or >so that'll change that opinion. i'm with you. this wonderfully perverse film made every character seem real to me. no matter how dispicable their actions, they were all too human. not really a 'feel-good' movie; but i was never into that anyhoo. the only other film that comes close for me was SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS. natasha lyonne is a revelation. after that i really liked NEXT STOP WONDERLAND and CELEBRITY and, yeah, that SAVING PRIVATE RYAN thing. still have to see a bunch of movies like ELIZABETH, THE TRUMAN SHOW, PLEASANTVILLE, THE THIN RED LINE, and STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK. ken "i'm not shit, i'm champagne" the kenster ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #456 *******************************