From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #465 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, December 16 1998 Volume 07 : Number 465 Today's Subjects: ----------------- "Everybody's been pac man fighting (nananananananananaaa)" [james.dignan@] why? [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Good luck [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Re: why? [Eric Loehr ] Bugs [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] The Aging Artist [Joel Mullins ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #464 [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Di] Re: The Aging Rock Hipsters [Zloduska ] Re: The Aging Artist [Eb ] Taking on the various subjects - film in general (or specific and rambly) [Ethyl Ketone ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #464 [Ethyl Ketone ] Re: The Aging Rock Hipsters [Joel Mullins ] Re: Taking on the various subjects - film in general (or specific and rambly) [Joel Mullins ] Top 10 Films [Joel Mullins ] Re: The Aging Rock Hipsters [S Dwarf ] 100% RH, that's Ray Harryhausen [Michael R Godwin ] Haircuts (no RH) [toby ] MM Top albums of 98 [Gary Sedgwick ] Rephrasing?? [Ethyl Ketone ] Godspeed, John Glenn! [The Great Quail ] more more more Roofies/best live shows [lj lindhurst ] Re: Muppet-Fegmania! [The Great Quail ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:40:52 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: "Everybody's been pac man fighting (nananananananananaaa)" >> fegs, has there ever been a decade in film history so dominated by any >> one director(ial team)? > >How about that other Hitchcock in the 40's and 50's? go back further to Mack Sennet (sp?)! What's that show with claymation characters wrestling? Have they ever done Spielberg vs Cameron vs Tarantino? Why not? >And hell, I *liked* "Jurassic Park!" Loads of fun, man. Dinosaurs, >Jeme! Didn't you -- didn't you like the dinosaurs? I made a mistake with that movie. I read the book first. Thus, the movie was a huge disappointment. Especially the lack of a journey down the river while being attacked by Pterodactyls. James (a Wim Wenders fan) PS just for "The fegmaniac formerly known as the Human Mellotron": Monkees => Bert Jansch (Mike Nesmith worked on Jansch's "LA Turnaround" album) Jansch => Danny Thompson (both members of Pentangle) Thompson => Billy Bragg ("Dolphins", off "Don't try this at home") Bragg => Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 03:52:39 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: why? On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 03:51:47 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >. However, it's got heavy name >recognition, and because people know the characters, they can pretend it's >funny. I think that were the WCW to launch a plot-based strip involving >the exploits of its wrestlers, showing events in addition to the televised >ones, it could get into a number of papers. Why? It's already a 'flesh cartoon'! (OK, last nights episode where Ric Flair apparently REALLY had a heart attack wasn't that funny...) :-( But seriously, I actually think 'South Park' will not make it to the new millenium...The novelty will wear off quickly, especially given the short attention spans of kids (and adults) these days... Meanwhile, we will go on following the exploits of an aging eccentric british folkie... Here's a question no one wants to think about: how long can he keep doing it? Are there any rockers over 60 that are still doing it with grace? -luther ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 03:52:44 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: Good luck On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:23:50 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:03:15 -0000 >From: Gary Sedgwick >Subject: Shameless self publicity again > >Sorry to anyone that's tried to e-mail me over the past couple of weeks >- - I've been ill, off work, and therefore computerless. I got someone >else to record Robyn on GLR about a week ago, but haven't had a chance >to listen to it yet - I'll post the details here soon. > >Okay, self publicity aimed at UK fegs: the band I'm in - Fly - is >playing at the Rock Garden (Covent Garden) this Thursday evening (17th). >We'll be on at 9.45 - it's an up-and-coming bands night thing, so >there'll be 2 or 3 other bands on as well. And apparently it stays open >till 3am! If anyone wants a discount entry ticket, we'll be in the >Nag's Head (just up the road towards the tube station) from about 7. > >Also, our site is now completely non-java (Ross - could you check it >works on your machine?) > >Gary, I hope fly does better than MY band has done! If we DO reconvene, I think we will end up sounding a bit more like the excellent aussie band Single Gun Theory. Anyone else fans of theirs? -luther ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:08:34 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: why? On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, David W. Dudich wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 03:51:47 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > Are there any rockers over 60 that are still doing it with > grace? (Insert your own bad Jefferson Airplane related joke here) Sorry, I had to say it.... Eric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:05:26 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Bugs >Eddie: >> the funny thing is, it's just NOT a >>kids' movie at all. it's dark and horrific; and the dialog, i think, is >>a little too mature for the kiddies. and maybe that's why it's bombing: >>the kids don't get it, and the adults aren't aware that they're the ones >>who should be seeing it. > >I've read a couple of articles that say it's PURELY a question of timing. >The "Babe" sequel opened the same week as "A Bug's Life," and Disney's >marketing muscle convinced all the kiddies that they wanted to see talking >ladybugs over talking pigs. Thus, curtains for Babe. Simple as that. Too >bad. I *loved* about half of the original, though it started sliding in the >second half when the pig-as-sheepdog plot overwhelmed the simple barnyard >fun. from what I've heard (I havenm't seen it either) the Babe sequel is supposed to be aimed more at the adults than the kids too (anyone like to confirm?). I think that both movies therefore are suffering through 'demographic confusion' (or some other fuckin' twatfaced marketing wanker's jargon) [1]. >First-off, I've got some spare time coming up and I've decided to look >into...well, there's this one particular subgenre of playwriting that was >popular in England during the early part of this century and some of the >last one. I don't know what it's called, well, something like Wilde's >"The Importance of Being Earnest" or Milne's "Mr. Pim Passes By" or >Wodehouse's Same-play-every-time-with-slight-dialogue-changes. Light >comedy set in the upper class, usually involving an assortment of wards, >odd old men, battleax aunts who control the finances, and marriages. >Well, anyhow, I'm trying to find more of these, and I don't know where to >look because I don't know what they're called, if they're called anything, >so if you-all know of anything like this, let me know, ok? Check out also the work of the likes of Ivor Novello and Noel Coward. I realise it's not directly relevant but... not just in turn-of-the-century plays. It may be worthwhile you checking out some British comedy movies of the 1960s which often drew their inspiration from exactly these plays. In movie terms the Ealing comedies (made mainly at the Ealing studios in London and usually directed by the Boulting brothers) were very closely connected to this genre. "The wrong box" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets" are probably the classics of the type. Useless information for today: one such 1920s play featured the now classic line "Anyone for tennis?" The character who spoke these lines was played memorably on its first performance in New York by a struggling young actor (who later found some modest fame), by the name of Humphrey Bogart. James [1] ahem. Apologies. I don't know what came over me. Must be the general Christmas season increase in junk mail. Ah, but it was good to vent! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:01:23 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: The Aging Artist > Meanwhile, we will go on following the exploits of an aging > eccentric british folkie... > Here's a question no one wants to think about: how long can he > keep doing it? > Are there any rockers over 60 that are still doing it with > grace? No, I don't think there are. But maybe there are and I'm just not aware of them. I don't even think there are many rockers in their 40s or 50s that are still doing it with grace. Dylan's still great, even if you can't understand a word he says. But the Stones suck. Aerosmith sucks. And I hate to say it, but Lou Reed is way past his prime. Perfect Night is great, but that's about the only worthwhile thing he's done in a long time. I know that there are plenty of older artists out there who are still doing it with grace. But no one has aged as gracefully as Robyn has. So, he probably has a better chance of still being creative in his 60s than anyone else. Who knows. Hopefully, he still has a good 20 or 30 years left in him. But I kind of doubt it. - --Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:27:32 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #464 >> Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker -- Both are, of course, James Dignan. > >See below. (although it makes perfect sense... what with the Beaker >People connection and the fact that half the time he's trying to correct >the ignorance of others and the other half of the time he's just meeping >noisily.) yeah, but I've got too much hair for Dr BH and it doesn't stand up on end like Beaker's... James ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:49:30 -0600 From: Zloduska Subject: Re: The Aging Rock Hipsters Joel wrote: >No, I don't think there are. But maybe there are and I'm just not aware >of them. I don't even think there are many rockers in their 40s or 50s >that are still doing it with grace. Hosh posh, I say! Neil Young is the best artist I have EVER seen, young or old, and he's what..in his sixties by now, right? Bob Dylan is also still good, but in my opinion Neil exceeds him by far. Tonight I just saw Alex Chilton play, and he's still groovy, although he's getting up there in years. Also, Sonic Youth are in their 40's and such, but they absolutely RAWK and kick major arse, even today. ~kjs np: Jon fuckin' Spencer fuckin' BLUES EXPLOSION!!!!!!!!!!! (and that was the best "show" I have ever seen, may I add) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:00:21 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: The Aging Artist >But no one has aged as gracefully as Robyn has. Whoa, nellie!!! The Hyperbole Police ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:36:55 -0800 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Taking on the various subjects - film in general (or specific and rambly) At 6.55 AM -0800 12/15/98, Miles Goosens scribed: ... but one of the things that irks me the most about Spielberg is that he *does* mistrust his audience. For instance, the use of the spot color on the little girl's coat in SCHINDLER'S LIST just screams at me "I think you are such an idiot that I feel compelled to use this intrusive spot color, otherwise I am sure you would not know that this corpse piled in this wagon same little girl that Schindler sees playing in the street earlier." > This is exactly where Spielberg lost me completely in this film. I openly admit that I absolutely can't stand his films but this particular one began to insult me right with the pink dress. And what was that half hour of crap at the end where Liam Neeson breaks down and crys about how if he sold his nazi party pin he could have save 10 more people, blah, blah, blah. Uck! Complete crap. Even the superbly well acted horrid role played by Ralph Fiennes couldn't save this film. I shudder just thinking about it. But I have a solution to Spielberg film watching - don't. That's what I do! I'm the committee for non-attendence to Spielberg movies! At 12.15 PM -0800 12/15/98, The Great Quail penned: >I know this list is hardly complete, but I can't seem to match muppets >with Tom, Nick, Gene, Dolph, Hal, Danielle, Chris (all of them), Michael, >Carrie, Marcy, Godwin, Miles, Glen, Jason, JH3, Viv, Ben, Ross, Russ, >Ress, J Kat, Mary, Helen Percival, and all the other fun-lovin' Fegs. Any >suggestions? Wow. I'm sorta, well, proud you know, to not be matchable. At 4.17 PM -0800 12/15/98, MARKEEFE@aol.com scribbled: It wrapped up too neatly for me and there weren't very many surprises (with the exception of the killing off of the Spacey character). I don't know. Ah, but you DO know! It was formulaic to the point of absurdity. But damn it was well done. Nobody missed a beat. They had all the right moves. Not long ago I saw what proved to be a great double bill: "LA Confidential" with "Chinatown." (And don't tell me Chinatown isn't formulaic except that little part with the "my daughter, my sister, my daughter, my sister" line for Faye.) But they are both so well done and with such perfection in all aspects of production that you have to give them a look and appreciate them for being that; well done (considering most of the high on special effects, low on production values crap out there). With all that said - it's too early for me to list the 10 of the decade but Jarmuschs' "Dead Man" would be in there! And probably Svankmeyers "Faust" but I'd have to think about that. "The Kingdom, 1 & 2" would be shortlisted as would "Delicatessan", "The CIty of Lost Children", Kieslowskis' "Dekalog" AND "Prosperos Books". For films of the century we can't rule out the superb filmaking of Wojcech Has with his two fantastic 60s films "The Saragasso Manuscript" and "Sandglass." Then there is Tarkovsky, Parajanov and Wajda, just to name a tiny few of the heavy hitters. Be Seeing You, - Carrie (who apologizes for such a long post on film with no Robyn content but I am starved for good film these days. And I boldly state that I really liked "Elizabeth", so there). "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 01:42:35 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #464 On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, James Dignan wrote: > yeah, but I've got too much hair for Dr BH and it doesn't stand up on end > like Beaker's... And I'll bet Greg S. Shell hasn't *really* got feathers and a beak. THIS WHOLE MUPPETS THING IS A SHAM! Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:57:59 -0800 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #464 At 10.42 PM -0800 12/15/98, Terrence M Marks wrote: >THIS WHOLE MUPPETS THING IS A SHAM! OF course. The Quail has you all dangling on little strings again! Can't you see it!! Hmuh! (Did I say that???) Be Seeing You, - - Carrie "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 00:43:55 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: The Aging Rock Hipsters Zloduska wrote: > > Joel wrote: > > >No, I don't think there are. But maybe there are and I'm just not aware > >of them. I don't even think there are many rockers in their 40s or 50s > >that are still doing it with grace. > > Hosh posh, I say! Neil Young is the best artist I have EVER seen, young or > old, and he's what..in his sixties by now, right? Bob Dylan is also still > good, but in my opinion Neil exceeds him by far. Tonight I just saw Alex > Chilton play, and he's still groovy, although he's getting up there in > years. Also, Sonic Youth are in their 40's and such, but they absolutely > RAWK and kick major arse, even today. I did say that there are artists in their 40s and 50s who were still great. I think I mentioned Dylan, and yes I'd agree that Neil Young and Sonic Youth are both still great. What I was saying is that these people are the exceptions. Most aging rock stars are in my opinion just making fools of themselves. But there are those few who have managed to age gracefully and Robyn is one of those. - --Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 01:01:09 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Taking on the various subjects - film in general (or specific and rambly) >>This is exactly where Spielberg lost me completely in this film. I openly admit that I absolutely can't stand his films but this particular one began to insult me right with the pink dress. And what was that half hour of crap at the end where Liam Neeson breaks down and crys about how if he sold his nazi party pin he could have save 10 more people, blah, blah, blah. Uck! Complete crap. Even the superbly well acted horrid role played by Ralph Fiennes couldn't save this film. I shudder just thinking about it. But I have a solution to Spielberg film watching - don't. That's what I do! I'm the committee for non-attendence to Spielberg movies!<< I don't know exactly what it was about Schindler's List that I didn't like, but I know I didn't like it. I guess I just thought it was boring. Plus, making people feel sad when watching a movie about the Holocaust is no great achievement. Speaking of boring ass movies that won Academy Awards, how about the English Patient. That movie sucked! >>With all that said - it's too early for me to list the 10 of the decade but Jarmuschs' "Dead Man" would be in there!<< Hell yes!! Dead Man is definitely one of the best films of the past decade. As opposed to Schindler's List, Dead Man made me feel things I'd never felt before. >>For films of the century we can't rule out...<< What? As opposed to films of the century before? - --Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 01:16:16 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: searching Hey, I was supposed to mail one of you some postage for a Rod McKuen record. But I lost the address and I can't remember which one of you has the record. So, could you please get in touch with me off the list if you are the person I'm looking for. Thanks Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 02:00:38 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Top 10 Films Well, with all this talk on films, I thought it might be interesting for everyone to list their favorite 10 films. Has this been done before? You guys are always turning me on to new music, so maybe you could do the same with movies. And now that my semester is over, I'll actually be able to frequent my local video store and check out some of the movies that you guys consider your favorites. Well, I guess I'll get it started. Here's my top 10: (Note: These are my personal favorites. I don't necessarily consider them the best ever made.) 1. Midnight Cowboy 2. Vertigo 3. It's A Wonderful Life 4. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 5. Easy Rider 6. Taxi Driver 7. Smoke 8. The Phantom of the Paradise 9. Rope 10. The Sting - --Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:53:37 +0000 (GMT) From: S Dwarf Subject: Re: The Aging Rock Hipsters Joel Mullins wrote: > I did say that there are artists in their 40s and 50s who were still > great. I think I mentioned Dylan, and yes I'd agree that Neil Young and > Sonic Youth are both still great. What I was saying is that these > people are the exceptions. Most aging rock stars are in my opinion just > making fools of themselves. But there are those few who have managed to > age gracefully and Robyn is one of those. Of course, most of those who age gracefully are the same as those who were gracefully younger as well. other than maybe the stones and a few others, it's hard to think of too many absolute jokes at 50 that weren't somewhat of a joke at least at 25. at least, at 4 in the morning it's hard to think of them (or of those who gained grace with age)... _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:58:48 +0000 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: 100% RH, that's Ray Harryhausen > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Capitalism Blows wrote: > now you're *really* scarin' me, quail. Jurassic Park and Forrest Gimp > are probably the two movies i came closest to walking out of. > > > i swear to god, i thought they were barely a step above harryhausen. > very unconvincing, if you ask me. ??? Hey, what's this 'a step above Harryhausen' business ??? Best duel with a single skeleton: Ray Harryhausen, 7th Voyage of Sinbad Best duel with multiple skeletions: Ray Harryhausen, Jason & the Argonauts Best duel with a 6-armed goddess: Ray Harryhausen, Golden Voyage of Sinbad Best duel with a Gorgon in an otherwise appalling film: Ray Harryhausen, Clash of the Titans (I don't think he had much to do with the rest of the film) Best duel with Giant Crabs: Ray Harryhausen, Mysterious Island Best giant ape running amok in New York: Willis O'Brien, King Kong Best bronze giant called Talos picking up a _whole ship_: Ray Harryhausen, Jason and the Argonauts Best weird creature from Venus running amok in the Colosseum: Ray Harryhausen, can't remember the name, '20 million miles' came into it Best creature wrecking Coney Island: Ray Harryhausen, The beast from 20,000 fathoms I'll stop now. - - Mike Godwin PS Yes, I know that the Minoton in 'Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger' was a bore. But one boring monster doesn't nullify a whole stream of triumphs! PPS Did you notice that in that Hammer film 'The Gorgon', the Gorgon's name (Magaera) was actually one of the Fates? Or do I mean the Furies? "Once I was a seven stone weakling. Now I am two separate gorillas" (Stanshall/Innes) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:54:05 +0000 (GMT) From: toby Subject: Haircuts (no RH) > Yeah, but if you're a girl with a shaved head, everyone calls you Sinead > O'Connor, which gets pretty lame after a while. Also, another problem with Either that or drunk people (i) Think you're a bloke and try to pick fights with you or (ii) Make jokes about lesbians (my girlfriend works in a pub and gets this stuff every night...). > the shaved look: sunburned ears. It also means no fun with hair dye! > (Trying out every possible shade of red on my hair has been the highlight > of my year.) Well, if you have your hair grade 1 or 2 it becomes a lot easier to dye it silly colours - you just have to be a bit careful (using shampoo as a mask) not to do your whole scalp... when my hair gets any longer it's virtually impossible to keep it (say) red, but at this length it's easy... Tobu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:07:17 -0000 From: Gary Sedgwick Subject: MM Top albums of 98 Thought some of you Stateside might be interested in what the UK music paper Melody Maker rates as the best '98 albums: 1. Catatonia, International Velvet 2. Bestie Boys, Hello Nasty 3. Mercury Rev, Deserter's Songs 4. Pulp, This Is Hardcore 5. Air, Moon Safari 6. Beck, Mutations 7. Belle & Sebastian, The Boy With The Arab Strap 8. Ash, Nu-clear Sounds 9. Fun Lovin' Criminals, 100% Colombian 10. Sparklehorse, Good Morning Spider 11. Fatboy Slim, You've Come A Long Way Baby 12. Morcheeba, Big Calm 13. Gomez, Bring It On 14. Massive Attack, Mezzanine 15. Embrace, The Good Will Out 16. Lo-Fidelity Allstars, How To Operate With A Blown Mind 17. Money Mark, Push The Button 18. Asian Dub Foundation, Rafi's Revenge 19. Jurassic 5, Jurassic 5 20. Propellerheads, Decksanddrumsandrockandroll I can't be arsed to type up any more. My faves: 2 that I guess weren't included by MM for being 'old' artists - - John Lennon Anthology, and Bob Dylan Live '66; and Catatonia - International Velvet (deserved winner of the MM poll, IMO!), and Pulp - This Is Hardcore (yep, it grew on me. Still not as good as Different Class mind...) Gary ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:10:47 -0800 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Rephrasing?? At 1.01 AM -0800 12/16/98, Joel Mullins wrote: >What? As opposed to films of the century before? Let's say the top 100 films of all time.... (Hell Joel, doncha know about Roman cinema? Or all those great documentaries on the search for El Dorado in the Elizabethan era? Or those Mozart concert flicks???????) Be Seeing You. "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 98 11:34:07 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Godspeed, John Glenn! doug "Animal" writes, >i'm leaving for rehearsal right about now, at which time we may settle on >our new monicker. no one has vetoed: equisite beast, falling spikes, or >the narrow straws. What about "Godspeed John Glenn?" <--LJ's name> Now *that's* a great name. Hell, I want to go out and start a band just so *I* can use it, and here you toss it aside like an empty can of Duff. Think of the headline above your mug on Rolling Stone: "GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: in a Perpetual Orbit of Fame, Booze and Groupies." Other names I like so much that I want to start a band just to use them, with a few faux album titles to match: Dada for the Blind - "Alice in the Bat Factory" Mind the Gap - "Baker Street Bondage a-Go-Go" Rubber Monkey - "Jupiter or Bust," "Bring Me the Head of Jello Biafra" The Treatment - "Blood Occult," "Happy Doctor Cronenberg, OB-GYN" The Sprocket Bunnies - "Fuzz Stomping Tunes of Terror" Oasis - "What's the Story Morning Glory" Shadout Mapes - "Fun with Imperial Geologist Kynes" And my all time favorite: War Rocket Ajax - "The Barbarian Who Leapt to his Death from a Zeppelin" - --Quail +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:35:15 -0500 From: lj lindhurst Subject: more more more Roofies/best live shows Well, we saw Rufus last night and it was INCREDIBLE! Highlights: - -we managed to get the ONLY unreserved table in the house, a couple of tables over from the Wainwright/McGarrigle clan in the balcony - -the show was SOLD OUT, by the way - -the opening act was a guy named PJ Olsson, and despite the fact that he has initials for a name, he SUCKED! (He even sucked worse than Of Montreal, and that is my yardstick for measuring things that suck.) All of his stuff was so watered down and derivative-- and it wasn't even the GOOD kind of derivative. It was like he was derivative of something really dumb and derivative in the first place, like Bush. Not only this, but half of his instruments were on TAPE, including the lead guitar parts! (Ironically, the posters for him said "you've never heard anything quite like this before.") He was so bad that he even got HECKLED at one point! heh... - -Rufus was a welcome sight after this, and he never sounded sweeter. He played pretty much everything from the album, plus 3 new songs, all of which were quite good (and I don't usually have an ear for stuff the first time through)-- one of them was about 2 Greek boys in love! He also did a couple of songs that he wrote for his mom's album, "The McGarrigle Hour". - -Quail drank a lot of GIN, by the way! - -I accidentally dropped a big stack of half-empty drinks out of the balcony and into the crowd below - -Rufus' entire family joined him onstage for both encores! At one point, we had Kate/Anna McGarrigle, Loudon Wainwright III, Martha and two of his cousins all onstage singing with him. It was funny to see them all together, interacting-- Kate definitely seems to wear the pants in that family. Loudon's voice is so deep and beautiful, and everyone harmonized so well. It was definitely one of those once-in-a-lifetime performances. This was without a doubt one of the best shows I have ever seen-- if you get a chance to see Rufus, go!! best (rawk) shows I saw this year: 1. Luna!! -several times, several places, always just fucking incredible live 2. Patti Smith at the Guinness Fleah/Patti Smith at the Bowery Ballroom 3. Rufus at the Bowery Ballroom 4. Neutral Milk Hotel in D.C. at the 9:30 Club (right?) 5. NMHotel in NYC at the Bowery Ballroom 6. Robyn at the Bottom Line in June 7. Robyn at the Mercury Lounge in November 8. Shane McGowan and the Popes at the Guinness Fleah 9. BIlly Bragg/WILCO at the Guinness Fleah 10. Superchunk -a couple of times, always good I might have forgotten something though... - -Le PooPoo Poodle Francais ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 98 11:51:19 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Muppet-Fegmania! Thank you to Capuchin for not only completing the Muppet Inventory, but also clarifying and highlighting some fo the reasons I may have had in the back of my bird-brain when I suggested various muppets for various Fegs. >See, Tom and Nick and Dolph are just BEGGING to be muppets (though I >haven't met Dolph, I want to put him in a flannel bag and stick a big red >nose on him). Yeah, me too! So Dolph is "Dr. Teeth," LJ is Janice, dmw is Animal, and Michael K. is Floyd! So there we have the Electric Mayhem. And luther can be that stoned owl that plays with the every once in a while. Unless Dolph is Rolf. . . . >I'm getting it now... Nick, Glen, Ross... they're the wise >cracking rats. The Chris are Gonzo's chickens. Mary is The Count. Yes! Yes! YES!!! Perfect, Capuchin, all perfect! And of *course* Scary Mary is the Count -- I feel ashamed for forgetting one of my FAVORITE Muppets of ALL TIME! Forgive me, Scary Mary. >I guess Tom is Guy Smiley... that's kind of lame, but kinda fitting. No, no, it works! >Godwin is Pops the Janitor. (Why do I want to make J Kat the phantom of >the theater?) Oh, Jeme . . . I am almost weeping. Thank you. So what about the Swedish Chef? >Got a pocket full of quarters and I'm headed for the arcade- "Cuz I'm the great defender and I really think I've got it made. . . " - --Big Bird, who *still* likes Scooby snacks and also looks like Shaggy, and by the way, Pink's not well, he stayed back at the hotel. . . . PS: The Norman Fell memorial is *almost* done, but I still have a few finishing touches. I was distracted by my Harvey Corman sculpture. . . . +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. 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