From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #484 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, December 24 1998 Volume 07 : Number 484 Today's Subjects: ----------------- more puking anecdotes! [lj lindhurst ] RE: polytix [VIV LYON ] Re: [Eric Loehr ] Re: Alt-Rock-A-Rama [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Fegunta numero uno: what is a pog? [The Great Quail ] Re: RH in Alt-Rock-A-Rama, and a question about God Almighty Himself [Eri] Re: Really Bad Things [Joel Mullins ] Re: Merry meet, merry part, etc. [lj lindhurst ] RE: Fobbed Eggs ["Partridge, John" ] Re: An Introduction [Bayard Catron ] Re: RH in Alt-Rock-A-Rama [Eb ] Re: fun for the entire family! [Bayard Catron ] Re: Feberge' Egg? [Insomnboy@aol.com] Hey Eddie [Bayard Catron ] lost fegs [Bayard ] Re: lost fegs [Eb ] Re: fun for the entire family! [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: fun for the entire family! ["Capitalism Blows" ] ah, the holy days ["Capitalism Blows" ] a festive thought for y'all [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dig] Spake Tanter with Banter! [Nos Ferraatu ] Storefront vinyl [Joel Mullins ] Re: RH in Alt-Rock-A-Rama, and a question about God Almighty Himself [S D] topical, with added content [VIV LYON ] Re: fun for the entire family! [Bayard Catron ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:05:20 -0500 From: lj lindhurst Subject: more puking anecdotes! eddie: >anecdote! >once upon a time, when i was working at ye olde country club, some kid >barfed on the floor in the middle of a party. none of the employees >would clean it up --reasoning that having to clean up a kid's puke would >be a fate far worse than getting the heave-ho, as it were-- so the boss >had to!! how much fun that was to watch! anecdote! Once upon a time, I went "cowboy line dancing" with my nutty friend Rob in Indiana. Keep in mind that we had NO IDEA how to line dance, and this was about the time that "Achey Breaky Heart" was all the rage and it seemed like EVERYONE was taking it very seriously (as you can tell, there ain't a lot going on in Indiana). So we [wisely] started the evening by drinking a great deal. This chick dressed in a white cowboy suit (with obscenely tiny Daisy Duke shorts) would come around and squirt shots of jagermeister (ecch) in your mouth with a fake gun. We thought that was hilarious, so we just kept doing it, and after a while, we were finally drunk enough to try line dancing. We got out on the dance floor and in one of the greatest shows of vomiting dexterity, my friend Rob managed to puke WHILE line dancing, and he didn't miss a beat! Of course, then there was jagermeister puke all over the dance floor, and people were complaining about their boots, so we were asked to leave. The end. >np, the dead milkmen, The Puking Song (not really. but limey, what a >beautiful song that is! "i puke on my pillow and i puke on the floor. >smells so good it makes me puke some mo-ore. i'm lying in puke six >inches deep. so i just smile and go back to sleep.") I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Dead Milkmen RULE!!!!!!! ...mmm, now I'm craving EGGS for some reason.... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:12:26 -0800 (PST) From: VIV LYON Subject: RE: polytix - ---Christopher Gross wrote: > It's *not* that simple, though. Why is your definition of socialism > privileged over those of millions of other socialists over the past > century and a half? It's priviledged because it's his own definition that he spent a lot of time thinking about and codifying. Your own definition of free market whatever is probably priviledged in your mind and discourse. > > the multinational coroporation is probably the most totalitarian > > institution ever devised. > > Wow! That's a pretty sweeping statement, even allowing for Tewsian > hyperbole. Better watch out that you aren't thrown into the Exxon-Mobil > concentration camp (so much more totalitarian than Hitler, Stalin and > Mao's versions). I'll tell you where the concentration camps are now- free trade zones and export processing zones (ie: sweat shop labor camps) in Malaysia, Dominican Republic, South Korea, Cuidad Juarez. Whole populations are made into our labor force to make products for Mall of America which stretches from sea to shining sea. It's not just the pathetic pay, it's not just the barracks, it's not just the poisonous and crippling work-place conditions or the lack or unionization (as if such an idea is anything but laughable in today's FREE market)or the fact that they're utterly disposable just lie the products they make. The point is that America and many other Western countries literally have enslaved the Third world. Sure, it's been going on for ages. But with our new technology, we can do it even more efficiently than before! The wonderful thing is, with the lowering of the bar, we here at home will able to experience the bracing effects of our own market soon. We're bringing the war back home, because what lamely enforced labor and environmental regulations this country has will be impediments to trade with Mexico or any country with more lax standards than ours. >But seriously, I agree that multinational corporations > are too powerful, and that they often misuse their power. They always misuse their power. They never consciously act in the public interest. If I sound too absolute, I’m sorry, but I can’t think of one multinational that has done more net good than net harm. > But your brand of socialism itself is not going to > happen and wouldn't work if it did, so effort spent promoting it is just > so much effort pissed down the drain without helping anyone. No *one* person's conception of utopia will 'work' because no one person can implement their ideas by themselves. Once other people are involved, the ideas change and evolve. To condemn his defense of a system simply because it's never been tried- well, then I condemn the free market. >> of course, i really don't give a fuck *what* we call it, or how we label >> it. what really matters is speaking/acting out against lies and >> injustices. but it *would* be nice --and most likely helpful-- if we >> were able to communicate. if there were actually such a thing as a >> political discourse in this country. >I couldn't agree more! But how can we have discourse if we aren’t allowed to imagine solutions to the problems we discuss? Vivien _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:13:11 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 Mark_Gloster@3com.com wrote: > Eric Loehr said: > > > > > > > > > > > It looks like he got the same answers on James' quiz as I did. > > What do we win? > > -Markg > Hey, Mark -- thanks for making my latest e-mail screwup a pleasurable experience. (Was it good for you too?) That'll teach me to mess around with new nicknames (and we all know how painful THAT can be.) As far as our answers to James' quiz, I believe we win exactly the same as I got with my college diploma. (That and about $4.50 will get you the Desenex burger.) RH content: got the Launch CD-ROM -- I like it! Eric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:27:44 +0000 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Alt-Rock-A-Rama On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, lj lindhurst wrote: > But anyway, one of the chapters is called "Fifteen Alt-Rock Feuds", and it > lists "Elvis Costello vs. Bonnie Bramlett." Who is Bonnie Bramlett, and > why is she feuding with Elvis? Does anyone know what this is in reference > to? Bonnie Bramlett is (or used to be) part of 'Delaney and Bonnie and their Band featuring Eric Clapton'. Eric Clapton was very keen on her at one time, and when I met Eric (clunk) at the shooting for the Rolling Stones Rock'n'Roll Circus (clunk) he was wearing her cardigan, sort of orange with woolly squares all over it. They had a moderate hit with 'Comin' Home' in about 1970. Anyway, Clapton did a dreadful tour with them (they only played a 25 minute set at Bristol Colston Hall), then stole their keyboard player, bassist and drummer to form Derek and the Dominoes (IIRC). Don't know what Declan has to do with it. I know he once got into a fight with Stephen Stills, however. - - Mike Godwin Auntie: "I'm very modern! Let's put on some Leo Sayer and have a party!" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 98 13:41:57 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Fegunta numero uno: what is a pog? >Pregunta: what are "pogs" for, anyway? Because without "pogs," ock and oll would lack all those wondeful chod changes. - --Quail, still a huge Ush fan after all this time. . . . +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ 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, 23 Dec 1998 13:38:40 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: RH in Alt-Rock-A-Rama, and a question about God Almighty Himself On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, lj lindhurst wrote: > But anyway, one of the chapters is called "Fifteen Alt-Rock Feuds", and it > lists "Elvis Costello vs. Bonnie Bramlett." Who is Bonnie Bramlett, and > why is she feuding with Elvis? Does anyone know what this is in reference > to? Some of the details may be wrong (hey, I'm about a week older than Robyn - -- us old farts have memory problems. what was I talking about?) but here's the gist: Bonnie Bramlett was/is a singer who was married to Delaney Bramlett; they had a band called (wait for it...) Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, some/most? of whom went on to play on EC (Clapton)'s first solo album, and then Derek and the Dominoes. Anyway, years went by, Delaney and Bonnie (the band and the marriage) broke up, and we find ourselves some time in the late 70's or early 80's in a bar with Bonnie (who was I believe at the time singing in Stephen Still's band?) and Elvis, at least one of whom was drunk out of their minds. They got into some sort of argument, which resulted in a really pissed Elvis making a nasty comment about Ray Charles* being a nigger (which I believe he later "explained" as being made not because he meant it, but just to say what he thought would piss her off the most.) Anway, Bonnie apparently socked him off his barstool, so it would appear that EC was 100% effective in what he was trying to do. (An aside: hard to believe that Stills didn't get involved in this.) *(Ray Charles: that guy on the commercials with the Raylettes) I forget to remember to forget, Eric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:38:41 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Really Bad Things Bret wrote: > > >> The reviews have been *terrible*.... > >> > >> Eb > > > >So, what's your point? Don't take this personally, Eb, but I don't > >trust critics. Some people seem to think that critics have better taste > >than anyone else in the world. But I don't buy into that. I loved Very > >Bad Things. It's a great film! Hell, the English Patient got good > >reviews and that movie sucked. > sorry, just my opinion and all, but best film of the year? only if I were > as brainwashed as the general movie seeing public. > > again, just my opinion. English Patient? decent film. I didn't say it was *the* best film of the year. But it's *one* of the best I've seen all year. Of course, I don't get out to movies a lot. I really can't list my favorites of 1998 until the end of 1999 after everything's on video. But either way, I thought Very Bad Things was great. It was very funny and I really enjoyed it. On the other hand, the English Patient was boring as shit! - --Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:06:19 -0500 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: Merry meet, merry part, etc. nat writes: >Oh, *man*. Don't get me started. Apart from DiFranco's mainstream >counterpart, Alanis Morrisette, I have never heard a female voice so filled >with irritating, affected mannerisms. I just want to scream at her to shut >up every time I hear her. And I have a very high tolerance for annoying >voices, too (e.g. early Kristin Hersh, Robyn, Jeff Mangum, etc.). And of >course there's her whole "gosh, I'm so rebellious, I've got a nose-ring and >call myself 'punk-rock'" shtick... and she's so freaking pretentious, too. >Yuck. yes yes yes-- you put it perfectly!! But you are forgetting the Annoyance Super Powers of Aimeeeee Maaaaannnn! I will have a seizure if anyone plays an Aimee Mann record within a three mile radius of me. (So if I ever do flip out and take hostages, you now know what to play on the loudspeakers to drive me screaming from the building) hey look, I posted three times. Think I'll post some more. - -Msr. Adult Depends ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:10:55 -0800 From: "Partridge, John" Subject: RE: Fobbed Eggs Among other things, Eb said: > RH could possibly sound "current" with something as simple as a crafty > producer change. As I've said before, I'm looking forward to > Jewels for > Sophia more than any other RH album in quite awhile, because > Jon Brion is a > very modern, imaginative producer who might be just what Robyn needs. > Better Brion, than yet other '80s-generation murky-jangle producer who > makes him sound like old Go-Betweens and Love & Rockets > albums (as on Moss > Elixir). That is NOT what RH needs. [apologies to Viv for recycling an > email] I forget exactly how this thread started but the discussion quickly became pretty polarized, unnecessarily I think. Eb's assessment of Robyn's style and his commercial success are a) pretty accurate in my view; b) carefully reasoned if provocatively worded; and c) mixed in with some statements of personal preferences. I mean I think we'd all agree that Robyn's voice, while very evocative, does not match the pop-star template of, say, Jim Morrison. I also think we'd all agree that Robyn's lyrics are impenetrable compared to most of the other songwriters we listen to and like. As I've said in the past, I have a very positive reaction to his lyrics but they also do not match the pop-song template. So while I probably like Robyn's songs a lot more than Eb, I don't fundamentally disagree with Eb's thinking on why Robyn doesn't reach a broader audience. And I share Eb's hope that a more imaginative producer is what Robyn needs. I think Robyn's characterization of "production" as a sugary sheen hints at why this has been a weak spot throughout the A&M years. So to clarify, my feeling is this: a) Robyn doesn't reach a broad audience; b) with relatively simple changes, Robyn could reach a broad audience; c) though simple, the changes are incompatible with what makes Robyn's music so enjoyable for me; so d) I hope he doesn't make those changes but rather continues to follow his own remarkable evolution as an artist. Lastly, I'm presuming a bit to say this but Eb's intentions are misunderstood (mea culpa) when he combines in the same sentence or paragraph assertions like Robyn is unsuccessful for reasons x, y, and z with opinions like Robyn is a B+. Most of us react to the B+ put-down and try to refute it by needlessly arguing x, y, and z. This is my effort at helping center the discussion on the actual topics in hand - I hope I haven't overstepped in the process. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:48:55 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Catron Subject: Re: An Introduction On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Tom Clark wrote: > On 12/21/98 3:18 PM, she.rex wrote: > > >(TC fans call themselves Timbos, in case you're interested.) > > Well, around here TC fans call themselves Mark, Nick, Russ, Glen, Quail, > lj, woj, the list goes on... I applied for membership, but apparently "Tom-Tom Club" only allows members with names of five letters or less! Dough! Tommeh, if you weren't my son, I'd hug you, I tell you whut! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:40:48 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: RH in Alt-Rock-A-Rama >They got into some sort of argument, which resulted in a really >pissed Elvis making a nasty comment about Ray Charles* being a nigger Actually, I believe the full quote was that Ray was a "blind, ignorant nigger." Doh. Eb, having ugly COSTELLO-L flashbacks PS I don't like Ani DiFranco either, mainly because her percussive songwriting style is all quirks and pops and spurts and riffs, and no melody -- blecch. Gives me a headache. Now admittedly, I've never heard a complete Ani album.... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 16:53:02 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Catron Subject: Re: fun for the entire family! On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Capitalism Blows wrote: > > my fave is the second one down. Also on that site, I see a connection: 22 May London, England 12 Bar Club Richard Davies with Neutral Milk Hotel and Tom Keegan [sic] and the Homer Lounge NMH>Tim>Robyn! (or does it only count if they play a song together? ah well.) I also hear that _I Often Dream of Trains_ was a very influential record for Jeff. =b ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:14:55 EST From: Insomnboy@aol.com Subject: Re: Feberge' Egg? In a message dated 12/22/98 2:53:09 PM Pacific Standard Time, vivlyon@yahoo.com writes: > Remember when Billy Idol turned cyber-punk? I'd like to forget. One of the biggest stiffs in record industry history. It included a FLOPPY DISC with computer stuff on it. WOW!!! HOW HIGH TECH!!! OOOOHHH!!! Russell in Los Angeles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:02:50 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Catron Subject: Hey Eddie Did you see that levi's commercial last night, the one with the girl who says proudly "I take full advantage of capitalism. It's a good system, because if you work hard, you should have nice things." Or something to that effect. In addition to XTC and this krusty ol' Dylan disc, I've been listening to _Globe of Frogs_ a lot lately. Glanced at the "Manifesto" just now and it seems relevant to a couple recent threads. Check it out. Also, I'm struck by how the three most culturally relevant tracks stand out as the strongest songs on the album, more effective than the others which are mostly mood pieces or fun bouncy numbers, or both, with varying success. (ie, the ones that dwell only in Robynworld.) Just a thought. If this thread is boring now, we can drop it. "even the President of the United States must sometimes have to stand naked" -Dylan, topical again by sheer cyclical luck. Time really is round! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:13:53 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: lost fegs Sorry to do this, but- is Jonathan Turner in the audience? Or anyone else who leaves near Camden? Also wondering about Vashty Hawkins, Dave Blatzman, Steven Matrick and Mike Breen. Thanks. Entering lurk mode. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 16:48:34 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: lost fegs >Sorry to do this, but- is Jonathan Turner in the audience? Or anyone else >who leaves near Camden? > >Also wondering about Vashty Hawkins, Dave Blatzman, Steven Matrick and >Mike Breen. Scary Mary? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 20:08:17 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: fun for the entire family! In a message dated 98-12-23 16:57:41 EST, you write: << NMH>Tim>Robyn! (or does it only count if they play a song together? ah well.) I also hear that _I Often Dream of Trains_ was a very influential record for Jeff. >> Yeah, at the show, the guy selling NMH shirts was wearing a Thoth T- shirt (as Jeme mentioned back in April, after he and I saw the show). - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:58:25 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: fun for the entire family! no, there was definitely one for the deuce. remember, jeme was running to tell his cabbie to fuck off or something, and he almost ran smack into robyn, which could have been very bad. and i was under the impression that even this was not the first one. Tim>Robyn!> speaking of tim, there's a review of the new album in the current Rocket, by the same guy who did such a nice write-up of june's croc show. he likes the album quite a bit, and mentions robyn a lot in the review. so, is the band now officially called "tim keegan and the homer lounge"? i thought it was just "the homer lounge," and i was never sure if that was a joke or not. the Superkeen single def. says just "homer." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:12:11 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: ah, the holy days feel free to sing along: It was Christmas Eve, babe On the Feglist And The Great Quail said to me: "Won't see another one." And then he sang a song 'bout he, and Susie too But I turned my face away As it were awf'lly blue We'll play some Robynsongs Eighteen, yeah, one by one I've got a feeling Eb's gonna do that, too So Happy Christmas I love you, Feggies! I can see a better time When all the fuckin' punk rat-bastard Capitalist crazies see the errors of their ways anyhow, here's a joke my dad told me some months ago, which i thought then --and still think now-- is uproariously funny. (as usual, it's probably *really* old, and i'm just outta the loop.) but it seems appropriate for the season: a tourist went to italy in the hopes of fulfilling his life-long dream - -- meeting the pope. he, along with a huge throng, went to the vatican for the pope's weekly address. after the speech, the pope went down into the crowd, walked up to a beggar dressed in pitiful rags, put his arm around him, and whispered into his ear. the tourist was stricken with jealousy, but hit on a plan. reasoning that the pope's time was precious, and he only had time to talk to the least fortunate among us, he immediately offered to pay the beggar a nice sum of money to swap clothes with him. the beggar agreed, and the next week, the tourist went to the address garbed in the rags. as he had the previous week, the pope descended into the throng, and seemed to be making a beeline straight for the tourist, who was giddy with anticipation. the pope walked up to him, put his arm around him, and whispered in his ear: "i thought i told you last week to get the fuck out of here and never come back." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 16:55:20 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: a festive thought for y'all The cat's father digs canals; The cat's father digs canals; The cat's father digs canals, A Shakespearian character owns a donkey, And the cat is a father. (or, as they say in Mexico) Felice Navidad; Felice Navidad; Felice Navidad, Prospero anno, E felicidad. James 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: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 10:53:31 -0500 From: Nos Ferraatu Subject: Spake Tanter with Banter! Spake tanter: "I don't like an artist because s/he's current, I like him/her because I like the music." YES! I've endured the sideways looks now and again in regards to Robyn....conversations like: "Oh, the guy who did 'Balloon Main'? I remember that one from, like, high school. He's still alive?" "Yeah. He's the one. You can go away now." To all of you with your ears to the ground out there, I just want to get mushy for a second. Have a safe and hap-hap-happy holiday season. From my house to yours I wish you only the best now and in 1999. - -f. np: Dean-O, believe it or not, "Making Spirits Right" - -- Ferris! http://pages.cthome.net/hellhollow PSS: check out the tape list if you're at all interested: http://pages.cthome.net/hellhollow/show.htm I still haven't added the 14 December Saint Etienne show from the Bowery Ballroom, but it's up to date other than that.... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:53:03 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Storefront vinyl Well, I finally got the Storefront vinyl...sort of. I live in a really shitty town that doesn't even have one store that sells records made after 1985. So, I asked a friend of mine who lives in Austin to locate and buy the SH vinyl for me. I've been bugging him about it ever since it came out. He kept telling me that he was having trouble finding it. I was starting to get really worried. But today, I got an envelope in the mail which contained a picture of the SH vinyl sitting on my friend's couch. It turns out that he's had it this whole time, but has just been waiting til Christmas to let me know. Basically, my present from him is not having to pay him back for it. Anyway, I still won't get to hear it til after New Year's when I go to Austin. What's the consensus? I get the feeling that most of you like it better than the CD version. - --Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 23:50:22 -0800 (PST) From: S Dwarf Subject: Re: RH in Alt-Rock-A-Rama, and a question about God Almighty Himself Eric Loehr wrote: > lj lindhurst wrote: > > But anyway, one of the chapters is called "Fifteen Alt-Rock Feuds", and it > > lists "Elvis Costello vs. Bonnie Bramlett." Who is Bonnie Bramlett, and > > why is she feuding with Elvis? Does anyone know what this is in reference > > to? > > Some of the details may be wrong (hey, I'm about a week older than Robyn > -- us old farts have memory problems. what was I talking about?) but > here's the gist: > > Bonnie Bramlett was/is a singer who was married to Delaney Bramlett; they > had a band called (wait for it...) Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, > some/most? of whom went on to play on EC (Clapton)'s first solo album, and > then Derek and the Dominoes. Bramlett also played Roseanne's best friend Bonnie for a couple years on her sitcom (when she worked at the department store lunchenette. > Anyway, years went by, Delaney and Bonnie (the band and the marriage) > broke up, and we find ourselves some time in the late 70's or early 80's 1979; the heavy r'n'b feel of Get Happy!! is often attributed to his feelings of regret regarding the incident (at least by critics) > in a bar with Bonnie (who was I believe at the time singing in Stephen > Still's band?) and Elvis, at least one of whom was drunk out of their > minds. They got into some sort of argument, which resulted in a really > pissed Elvis making a nasty comment about Ray Charles* being a nigger > (which I believe he later "explained" as being made not because he meant > it, but just to say what he thought would piss her off the most.) > > Anway, Bonnie apparently socked him off his barstool, so it would appear > that EC was 100% effective in what he was trying to do. (An aside: hard to > believe that Stills didn't get involved in this.) > > *(Ray Charles: that guy on the commercials with the Raylettes) supposedly Stills was in a different bar..and to be fully complete, EC actually called Ray an "ignorant ni**er." cuz that's so much better. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 08:23:31 -0800 (PST) From: VIV LYON Subject: topical, with added content - ---Bayard Catron wrote: > "even the President of the United States must sometimes have to stand > naked" -Dylan, topical again by sheer cyclical luck. Time really is > round! "Even presidents have newspaper lovers, and ministers go crawling under covers..." EC Thought I'd share two things with y'all: 1. Found a bar in Chicago* that has 'I Want to be an Anglepoise Lamp' on the jukebox. Made me so happy I could have cried. But I didn't. 2. Brought about ten Robyn/SB cd's to my friend Jeannie's house so she could decide which era(s) of music she wanted on the tape I'm making her. She seemed to enjoy almost none of it. I think she liked 'Trams of Old London' and 'Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom,' but that's about it. She has fairly eclectic and decent taste, but it seems she's not a big fan of humor in her music. It was so disappointing. I got to get a better class of friends. Vivien *(In case you're interested, it's the Gold Star on Division) _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:12:18 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Catron Subject: Re: fun for the entire family! On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Capitalism Blows wrote: > travelogue > (the first of its kind, i believe.)> > > and i was under the impression that even this was not the first one. by "its kind" i think i meant the kind of long, inspirational, long, feelgood fegfest travelogue we all aspire to, that's really very long. BTW, who holds the record for longest post ever - Jeme or the Quail? A long time ago I posted the 30k songlist, but that's cheating. I guess this honor goes to the Quail. I wonder who has the biggest total k posted? Hang on, I'll go download the archives. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #484 *******************************