From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #22 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, January 24 1999 Volume 08 : Number 022 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: hey Eddie [normal@grove.ufl.edu] Re: brit fegs help! [Richard Plumb at NTAC ] finally....something worse that fucking star trek ["Hallucinogenic Woodpe] SXSW [tanter ] ...help me... [Marshall Joseph Armintor ] amniotic [Natalie Jane Jacobs ] solidarity & the kingdom ["Capitalism Blows" ] Prisoner (in a chinese bakery) [dsaunder@islandnet.com (Daniel Saunders)] Re: words, words ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: hey Eddie [cinders blue ] The Thin Red Line [Miles Goosens ] Re: amniotic [Ethyl Ketone ] Re: Prisoner (in a stone boat) [Ethyl Ketone ] Re: solidarity & the kingdom [Bayard ] Re: SXSW [David Librik ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 01:46:54 -0500 (EST) From: normal@grove.ufl.edu Subject: Re: hey Eddie > Just wondering pointlessly: how many fegs actually own capes? I do. It's this nifty thing. The left half's light blue, and the right half is dark blue and the inside is yellow. It's..well, if you've ever seen "Unico in the Isle of Magic", it's the sort of cape Toby had, or at least a passable imitation thereof. Unrelatedly, I saw Olivia Tremor Control and Elf Power tonight. The bass guitarist from Elf Power mentioned Bayard to me a few times, which was really neat. Really enjoyable show, all around. Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:13:56 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Plumb at NTAC Subject: Re: brit fegs help! > > i'm going to london for a week on sunday. > what should i do while i'm there? > I'm not a brit feg, but when I was in london for a few days several years ago I spent one morning visiting Karl Marx's grave. == Richard Plumb reply to either: rplumb@cais.com or billytell@yahoo.com webpage: http://www.dc.net/rplumb/ _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 04:33:34 -0500 From: "Hallucinogenic Woodpecker" Subject: finally....something worse that fucking star trek did anyone else catch ben folds and william shatner on conan tonight and find it utterly creepy???? dave ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 10:29:04 -0500 From: tanter Subject: SXSW Hey all. Robert Fripp has already said he's going to be playing at this year's fest. Anyone know if Robyn is going? Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:14:24 -0600 (CST) From: Marshall Joseph Armintor Subject: ...help me... << Here's a sub-thread: words that would have disappeared from use were it not for the SAT: aver>> Hey!...Believe it or not, this word is in my active vocabulary... typically, I use it in the past tense, "X averred that he'd loaned me his Monkees album, when in fact it was the Homosexuals." When you're a post-mod academic, a lot of weird terms pass through your speech, things like "discourse," "power relations," "alterity," "site," "grapheme," and other forms of bullshit. I dunno what gets into me...where I dig them up. I've lately become obsessed with the Homosexuals, a great band who did an album, two singles, then disappeared, ca. 1978. I can only describe their opus _The Homosexuals' Record_ as being like if the Star Club-era Beatles were backing a flaming Robert Smith impersonator, shrieking and camping his way through a bunch of Bowie and Buzzcocks covers, recorded by a butterfingered 12-year old manning a "My First Sony" with Radio Shack And that's only the first side: the other side is comprised of bizarre dub experiments and a double-time reprise of the first side's obvious "hit," "Soft South Africans." I've been listening to a dubbed copy for years, but lately it me that it's not cool that I don't know, and nobody else seems to know, who the hell these guys were, and why their collective work hasn't been re-released SOMEWHERE. I appeal to the Feg oracle for help. Any input at all would be very much appreciated. marshall ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:13:40 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jane Jacobs Subject: amniotic > It seems not to be in the Oxford English Dictionary. Perhaps Mr. Blegvad > should have a word with them. I should say so! > > where art thou, O mighty fowl? > > Please, don't feed his megalomania. Oh, come on. I didn't even refer to him as "the GREAT Quail." Anyway, what's wrong with megalomania? It's a great word... > > squamous > > another word that deserves to be repeated over and over to make up for > its long neglect. I first learned this word when my mother worked for a cancer research lab. They were studying a type of cancer called "squamous-cell carcinoma." Even as a wee child, I loved the phrase. Some good midwifery/obstetrics terms: fundus polyhydramnios lochia - lochia rubria, lochia alba, etc. fontanel cotyledons I will describe what these are upon request. ;) > Just wondering pointlessly: how many fegs actually own capes? I have > two with me here, and another five or so under my mother's house in > the Antipodes. They're mostly 35-60 years old, of course... the pride > of the collection is the black velvet opera cloak with green satin > lining, c1940. I feel like the Quail *should* own one, even if he > doesn't. And Nat, too. Lots of fegs. In fact, I can't think of another > group of people with a higher 'capeworthy' quotient. Whatever that > means. I'm sorry, I generally associate the wearing of capes with either goths or with chubby, pasty-faced science fiction fans (or both). Anyway, to wear a cape effectively, one must be tall and dramatic-looking, and I am small and stumpy. > Eb doesn't have one. More's the pity. I think he'd make rather an > imposing figure, as he swept wrathfully along the streets of Los > Angeles. ;) I can see this, actually. n. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:09:04 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: solidarity & the kingdom people are gonna tell you, "wallace beery, wrestling: it's a b picture. you tell them, 'BULLSHIT!' we do NOT make b pictures here at capitol." anyway, <... Kimberley wouldn't have been on it anyway, it was before his time. the guitarist would be Alan "Wang bo" Davies.> you're right, of course. (by the way, who are you, "surfer ghost"? you've said some interesting things, but never properly introduced yourself. at times, i wonder if this "surfer ghost" could actually be robyn unlurking.) but i always think of it as kimberley on those recordings, which is too bad, really. the playing's really quite good. especially on The Yodelling Hoover (one of the more criminally neglected of all robynsongs, methinks.) i read somewhere once, robyn explaining why they'd replaced wangbo with kimberley. wish i could remember the exact quote, but it was something along the lines of, it had to do with greed. as if the stones, witnessing his pyrotechnics, had recruited hendrix to play for them. did i read this in the chronology somewhere? the only thing that was pretty time-intensive was the alphabetizing. and it was one of those things where, you know, i was thinking: no sweat. just a little cutting-and-pasting is all it is. but the list just kept going on and on and on. and on. <> "Thank you, followers. This is a song about Keith Richards." > --1981, introducing Only The Stones Remain Hey, I have friends that DO think that's what the song's about.> well, the great thing is, if, when listening to the song, you pretend that this *is* what it's about, it's quite an enjoyable experience. when you think about it, it would make a pretty good plot for a "sci fi" movie. can't you see some would-be auteur pitching it to a big-shot studio exec, arms gesticulating madly: "men were executed! women bled! bees and fish changed hands, and children stayed up late! colored drums, they stretched the night. there was a taxidermist, grinnin' with delight. but now they're gone! yeah. only the rolling stones remain!" um, i don't know what to say about this. but seems like something *ought* to be said. if any feg has ever had a cooler occupation, i guess i wanna hear about it. that's one of those things, if you do follow that link, you know it's going to change your life for good. but you just don't know, until it's too late to turn back, whether it's been changed for the better or the worser. i thought we were all in agreement that ms. speigel was to be feg of the month? i think i do have a few, yes. but for the record, it's not really a cape. i guess i'd call it a floor-length vest. and there you have it. i once visited poe's grave in baltimore. and my uncle chucky and i once tried to find his grandmother's grave, in helena, montana. http://leb.net/iac/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:56:02 -0800 From: dsaunder@islandnet.com (Daniel Saunders) Subject: Prisoner (in a chinese bakery) I too am a huge fan of the prisoner - one of the few shows from that era which still stands up today, far more so than something like Star Trek. I have one observation to make, which is that I think Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control sound a lot like the prisoner score on occasion, especially the extraordinary music from "The Girl Who's Name was Death". When I first listened to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea I thought exactly that: Syd Barrett crossed with the Prisoner. Now whenever I hear the album I think of the beach at Portmeiron, the little boat, and one of those helicopters coming down from above. - -- Daniel "Are two united off-topics as good as one on-topic?" Saunders Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:37:33 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: words, words <"The ocelot must keeell every day to survive." --Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills> "instead of a dentured ocelot on a leash, i'd rather be a kite." fuckin' *awesome* word! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 15:55:27 -0500 From: cinders blue Subject: Re: hey Eddie also sprach Danielle: >Just wondering pointlessly: how many fegs actually own capes? more importantly, how many fegs own kilts? woj ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:42:09 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: The Thin Red Line Melissa and I just got back from seeing THE THIN RED LINE. Wow. The film's defenders have been far, far too lukewarm in its praise. I'm not going to attempt to review the movie, but Melissa immediately said that it's the best 1998 film she's seen, and it's pretty close with me (still thinking THE BIG LEBOWSKI is tops, but by a much narrower margin). That's all for now -- got to run out in a couple o' hours to get to the Sutler early for the Lucinda Williams / Willy Nile / Tommy Womack show... 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: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:29:31 -0800 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: amniotic At 10.13 AM -0800 1/23/99, Natalie Jane Jacobs wrote: >> > squamous >> >> another word that deserves to be repeated over and over to make up for >> its long neglect. > >I first learned this word when my mother worked for a cancer research lab. >They were studying a type of cancer called "squamous-cell carcinoma." >Even as a wee child, I loved the phrase. This is a word I learned in 1983 when my father died from "squamous-cell carcinoma" and further heard it repeated incessantly when the lawsuit he instigated finally made it to the courtroom against RJ Reynolds in 1985. "Squamous-cell carcinoma of the bronchi" certainly keeps jurors from understanding that it is lung cancer. Gee, start a new job and lose a week checking mail and look where the list is...in the dictionary! One of my favorite books! 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: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:41:54 -0800 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: Prisoner (in a stone boat) At 11.56 AM -0800 1/23/99, Daniel Saunders wrote: >I too am a huge fan of the prisoner - one of the few shows from that era >which still stands up today, far more so than something like Star Trek. >I have one observation to make, which is that I think Neutral Milk Hotel >and Olivia Tremor Control sound a lot like the prisoner score on >occasion, especially the extraordinary music from "The Girl Who's Name >was Death". When I first listened to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea I >thought exactly that: Syd Barrett crossed with the Prisoner. Now >whenever I hear the album I think of the beach at Portmeiron, the little >boat, and one of those helicopters coming down from above. And today I am making a tape of Prisoner music for a friend headed out on a road trip and was actually recording music from "The Girl Who Was Death" when I read this. Now I am paranoid, again. Ah, the beach at Portmerion... The stone boat, all that sand, and Rover. Be Seeing You, - - Carrie ps: I will give NMH another listen after reading this. pps: I finally got hold of some of Goran Bregovics' music from the film "Arizona Dream." "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:40:27 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: solidarity & the kingdom > i read somewhere once, robyn explaining why they'd replaced wangbo with > kimberley. robyn "explains" why they ditched wang bo, on Tom's tape of the 9-24-89 TT the bear's show. The whole thing should be on my site in the coming week. > > > i thought we were all in agreement that ms. speigel was to be feg of the > month? yes yes of course! She was nominated by me, and Eb seconded. But you were also nominated. Of course, as Capuchin said, I have the final say, heh heh.... [i mean, there ARE enough months in the year to go around, esp. when you consider i'll no doubt be doing this from now until i get sick of it, sometime in the next millenium. which starts almost 2 years from now.] > i think i do have a few, yes. but for the record, it's not really a > cape. i guess i'd call it a floor-length vest. Oh!!!! The orange Thing? That thing looks great! What a getup! How soon can you get me the pictures? (Randi or Tim, I'll be needing pictures from you too! I'll return them after I scan them, along with some robyn goodies...) =b ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 06:54:30 -0600 From: David Librik Subject: Re: SXSW tanter wrote: >Hey all. Robert Fripp has already said he's going to be playing at this >year's fest. Anyone know if Robyn is going? Well, he's not on the official list at www.sxsw.org, but then neither is Fripp. The list of bands there is very disappointing -- nobody I would go out of my way to see, though the Hi-Fives and Freakwater are kind of nice. There's usually an influx of "unofficial" bands playing around Austin during the festival, though, so maybe we'll get an underground genius or two, preferrably one who's six feet tall and made entirely of dead sea creatures. - - David Librik ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #22 ******************************