From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #9 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, January 9 1999 Volume 08 : Number 009 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Paragraph Hitchcock [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: a semi-recent Robyn interview/article [Joel Mullins ] C-H-E-S-N-U-T-T [Eb ] Cyberspace Hitchcock Update! [Christopher Donnell ] Call for ... Recipes?! [Bayard ] Re: a semi-recent Robyn interview/article ["Daniel Saunders" ] Re: Iraq and Reel ["D B" ] Re: The Q word and the X word. Y? Y not? stupidest song lines? [Mark_Glos] Re: I'm at home, but without Uz Jsme Doma [Zloduska ] Re: a semi-recent Robyn interview/article ["Capitalism Blows" ] [Fwd: Fw: Virus Alert] [Joel Mullins ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:13:19 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Paragraph Hitchcock In a message dated 99-01-08 03:57:58 EST, you write: << MARKEEFE> "a quirky folk-pop guitar hero," Aargh! You used the 'Q' word! Substitute 'whimsical', and I think you've got it. >> What?! Substitute the 'W' word for the 'Q' word?! I don't know that either one will suffice, actually. I think "whimsical" heads back in the direction of dandelions and moonbeams a little too much. Robyn's too dark and pychologically sophisticated to be considered "whimsical." What about "charmingly twisted" or "delightfully creepy" or "poignantly odd"? Robyn's is a difficult essence to capture in one neat tagline, I'm finding. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:52:37 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: a semi-recent Robyn interview/article > And I am typing "Hitchcock" as "H" in most places, purely out of laziness. > (By the way: I do not type or write "Christmas" as "Xmas" though--for that > would be putting an "X" over "Christ." That's just one of many things > I've learned from those years of Catholic school?) ;-> Yeah, I don't like it when people write "Xmas" either. I think that the most important part of Christmas should not be left out. That's why I call it "Gettingdrunkandreceivinglotsofpresentsmas." - --Joel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 16:10:21 -0500 From: Jeff Rosedale Subject: Glass prisoner Glass hotel is very cool, though I expected to see a formation of three cones following the "shrine" link. Anyone else into "The Prisoner" '60s tv series? --Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:27:42 -0800 From: Eb Subject: C-H-E-S-N-U-T-T Forewarned is foreskinned: I gather that Vic Chesnutt will perform on Conan O'Brien tonight, backed by Lambchop! Don't miss out. And yes, the Rufus/"Sessions on 54th Street" gig is on PBS this weekend. Tune in, and see if you can catch Quail and LJ swapping spit between songs. Eb, not the most vicious person on the list...at least, this hour ;) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:48:41 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Donnell Subject: Cyberspace Hitchcock Update! There are some new songs up on Cyberspace Hitchcock, everyone's favoritre Robyn Hitchcock MP3 site. These songs include the super-rare 'Ivy,' be sure and check it out! only at: http://www.geocities.com/~qrys/robyn/index.html == Christopher Donnell Hmmm.. you might as well check out my homepage at http://www.bigfoot.com/~qrys _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:56:06 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Call for ... Recipes?! Everyone please send me your favorite recipes for paella, beer, mixed drinks (Moss Licker, anyone?) and anything else delectable... what the world needs now is a FegRecipes page! Jay Lyall has already sent me the infamous Orange Cone recipe, a drink that makes a long island ice tea seem like a shirley temple.... =b ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:59:21 -0800 (PST) From: "Daniel Saunders" Subject: Re: a semi-recent Robyn interview/article > (By the way: I do not type or write "Christmas" as "Xmas" though--for that > would be putting an "X" over "Christ." That's just one of many things > I've learned from those years of Catholic school?) ;-> Interesting you should say that. According to Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things (a book everyone should have in their bathrooms, by the way): "The familiar abbreviation for Christmas originated the Greeks. X is the first letter of the Greek word for Christ, Xristos. By the sixteenth century, 'Xmas' was popular throughout Europe." Daniel Saunders, feeling quite cool tall vulnerable and luscious, thank you... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:18:42 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: The Q word and the X word. Y? Y not? > MARKEEFE> "a quirky folk-pop guitar hero," > >Aargh! You used the 'Q' word! Substitute 'whimsical', and I think >you've got it. a folk-pop guitar maestro with an offbeat worldview and a talent for wordplay? >And I am typing "Hitchcock" as "H" in most places, purely out of laziness. >(By the way: I do not type or write "Christmas" as "Xmas" though--for that >would be putting an "X" over "Christ." That's just one of many things >I've learned from those years of Catholic school?) ;-> it's not an X, it's a chi, the first letter of Christ in Greek. That's why orthodox churches have a chi between the alpha and the omega in many of their icons. It's a bit like putting an H to represent Hitchcock. James ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 21:39:20 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: The Q word and the X word. Y? Y not? In a message dated 99-01-08 20:21:06 EST, James, he write: << a folk-pop guitar maestro with an offbeat worldview and a talent for wordplay? >> I like it! Should this be adopted as the official one-line description of Robyn Hitchcock for the internationally clueless? It gets one vote from me. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:51:13 -0800 (PST) From: S Dwarf Subject: Re: Ludwig Van Natalie Jacobs wrote: > >PS Everyone knows that Germans are called things like Baron von > >Richthofen, and Dutchmen are called things like Rembrandt van Rijn. So why > >is it Ludwig VAN Beethoven and not Ludwig von Beethoven? > > Beethoven was of Dutch descent - I believe his name means something like > "beet garden." However, since "von" is a sign of an aristocratic family, > Beethoven liked to hint that he was, in fact, an aristocrat himself. He > wasn't. actually, it's because Camper Von Beethoven would have been a stupid name....... _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 19:07:13 PST From: "D B" Subject: Re: Iraq and Reel Dear readers: I couple of weeks back, just before Christmas, I rather childishly... Fuck, man, I can't write anything to this list, because I'm so conscious of how eb or amadain will react... - -db, thinking Lauryn Hill sucks, and I'm still listening to Shawn Mullins... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:57:35 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: The Q word and the X word. Y? Y not? stupidest song lines? "Quirky" is a word for which most of us who are have lost appreciation. It is a word that works like "foods craps." It is something somebody says without malice just before scraping us into the waste can of easy labeling oblivion. - --- "Xians" through usage, at least around these parts is not usually done with a nod to tradition, unless that tradition is "raising the hair on the back of the neck of Christians" or how can I save the hour-and-a-half to type those additional five letters. I think usage generally wins out, and the Greeks will just have to mope. FYI: This year, because of usage, (was it Oxford's?) an English grammar standard was changed to allow split infinitives. A lot of Star Trek fans are sleeping easier, knowing how well the words of James Tiberius Kirk foretold the future of grammar as we know it. - --- My house will be fumigated next week. I hope the lingering poisons don't cause me repeated projectile vomiting. - --- I think I'l like to compile a list of what I think are the stupidest song lines ever. They have to be embarrassingly stupid, so bad you can't say them without throwing or cracking up. Perhaps this is a start: "have you seen the color of my wind?" (is this from the Disney flick about farts? Is this really the lyric?) "I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all" (rawked the mall?) "A loaded six string on my back" (Bon Jovi may be just too easy to pick on.) - --- I saw some friends at Mac World yesterday, including Tom Clark, the deity of USB. - --- I hope you are all having a better year than last. Here are some Spanish blessings for you to enjoy: Vaya con queso. El gato huele como ella comio mas muchas frijoles refritos. Las montan~as salen del cielo y esta'n paradas alli'. - -El grande de goma tiburo'n no las grandes codornices, su madre era un ha'mster y su padre olida de bayas del sau'co. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 23:46:49 -0600 From: Zloduska Subject: Re: I'm at home, but without Uz Jsme Doma Christopher Gross wrote: >np: Uz Jsme Doma, Live At the Starfish Room And how does one go about procuring one of their albums/cds? I've tried to find "Fairy Tales from Needland", but to no avail. Thanks... ~kjs n.p. in my head- The disturbing dream I had last night, of my old highschool band doing a violin-and-horn-section-accompanied fully orchestrated version of "She's Hit" by The Birthday Party, while evading ex-dormmates with fluorescent yellow-toned skin and silver hair. Very bizarre. The cover of "She's Hit" wasn't too bad, actually. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 23:13:18 -0900 From: BC-Radio@corecom.net (Brett Cooper) Subject: Re: Glass prisoner >Glass hotel is very cool, though I expected to see a formation of three >cones following the "shrine" link. > >Anyone else into "The Prisoner" '60s tv series? > > --Jeff Yup. I belong to Six of One, The Prisoner Appreciation Society. I also have the entire series on video and laserdisc as well as all of the soundtrack CD's and other supplemental materials that I have come across over the years. Truly Patrick McGoohan's work has changed my life as well as I taught a high school unit on it. Brett ************************************************************** Cooper Collections P.O. Box 876462 Wasilla, Alaska 99687 (907) 376-4520 BC-Radio@corecom.net http://www.corecom.net/~no6pp/Cooper_Collections.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:07:14 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Uz Jsme Doma I just sent this info to privately to kjs, but then it occurred to me that other people might also be interested. (Well, I can hope....) Sorry about the duplication, kjs! On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Zloduska wrote: > >np: Uz Jsme Doma, Live At the Starfish Room > > And how does one go about procuring one of their albums/cds? I've tried to > find "Fairy Tales from Needland", but to no avail. Thanks... I would be happy to help, Ms. Evildoer! ;) Get in touch with: Skoda Records PO Box 77611 Wash. DC 20013-7611 ph/fax 202-547-8006 email skodarec@bellatlantic.com The flyer says all CDs are $12 postpaid, but I'm sure you'll want to call or email first before sending money. The one you mentioned, _Fairytales_, is probably my favorite UJD disc, but of course you should collect them all.... BTW, the live disc I mentioned comes with the new reissue of _In the Middle of Words_ (_Uprostred Slov_). Track 14, "Napul," was recorded at the Black Cat in DC in 1996. It is, as far as I can recall, the only commercially released live recording where I was in the audience. I can't claim to be clearly audible on it, though. > n.p. in my head- The disturbing dream I had last night, of my old > highschool band doing a violin-and-horn-section-accompanied fully > orchestrated version of "She's Hit" by The Birthday Party, while evading > ex-dormmates with fluorescent yellow-toned skin and silver hair. Very > bizarre. The cover of "She's Hit" wasn't too bad, actually. Well, there you go -- that makes it all worthwhile. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 11:20:59 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: a semi-recent Robyn interview/article um, what? is he talking about the same recordings that are on sale at a store near you? can't be! this is a pretty baffling paragraph, all right. now, i will say that i didn't notice all the fucking overdubs and reverb when i saw the movie. i'll pay closer attention tomorrow. at any rate, thanks for typing this whole thing in, ken! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 11:47:14 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: ANOTHER BEST OF 98 LIST i agree. i like this album a lot, and i've been surprised to see how many people do not. right on, brother! listened to it the other day (i'm now on the who, and soon, very soon, wesley willis...) and it just doesn't grab me. can't say why, as i seem to like all the components just fine. but somehow, it doesn't add up to the sum of its parts. fuck yeah! testify, kenster! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 14:10:07 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: [Fwd: Fw: Virus Alert] Return-Path: Received: from mail-gw2adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (mail-gw2adm.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.60.102]) by mail1.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA21820; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:52:33 -0600 (CST) Received: from mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.38]) by mail-gw2adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA14124; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:52:31 -0600 (CST) Received: from gus ([12.74.4.241]) by mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.05 118 121 101) with ESMTP id <19990109155230.GPTQ29454@gus>; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 15:52:30 +0000 From: "Brenda Flores" To: "Stephen Zimmet" , "stephanie reber" , "Robert Rodriguez" , "Paco Rodriguez" <1Paco@airmail.net>, "Joel Mullins" , "Jeff & Jessica Mullins" , "Jean Marc Quintana" , "Jay and Rene McCoy" , "Doug Landry" , "David Diaz" , "brent dollar" Subject: Fw: Virus Alert Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:47:27 -0600 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990109155230.GPTQ29454@gus> - ---------- From: Jay McCoy To: Warren Joseph ; Mindi F Campbell ; George Pritchett ; Dick Rubright ; David Murray ; Brian Senecal ; Brenda Flores Subject: Fw: Virus Alert Date: Saturday, January 09, 1999 8:44 AM I don't usually forward these things because most of them turn out to be phony. The last couple of them I have received, however, were factual so I take the chance that this one is too. Jay - -----Original Message----- From: Arnold Sorensen To: J. McCoy Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 8:23 PM This is a bad one!! VIRUS WARNING !!!!!!! If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" DO NOT open. It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter out to as many people as you can. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; please share it with everyone that might access the Internet. Once again, pass this along to EVERYONE in your address book. Don't lookat any mail that says "RETURNED OR UNABLE TO DELIVER." This virus will attach itself to your computer components and render them useless. Immediately delete any mail items that say this. AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary measures and forward this to all your online friends ASAP. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #9 *****************************