From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #25 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, January 27 1999 Volume 08 : Number 025 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: hotmail.com ["Capitalism Blows" ] Romantics stay up late [LORDK@library.phila.gov] "no, i *do* mind. the dude minds." ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: "no, i *do* mind. the dude minds." [Joel Mullins ] Kiltage [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] RE: solidarity & the kingdom ["Matt Browne" ] Ghost Ship ["Ghost Surfer" ] only the stones... ["Ghost Surfer" ] Evidence of the existence of God (no Robyn) [S Dwarf ] Re: another poll [Michael R Godwin ] Feg-dream #1674 [Natalie Jacobs ] Painful lyrics ["manitas de platano" ] Re: "no, i *do* mind. the dude minds." [lj lindhurst ] Ed, Doc -- (sorry fegs, it's a personal note) Sufism content ["manitas ] Captain Sensible question ["Partridge, John" ] Re: Evidence of the existence of God (no Robyn) [Bayard ] Re: Feg-dream #1674 [Capuchin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:58:31 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: hotmail.com uh, hotmail is owned by microsatan. and it frequently doesn't work properly. you're right, marcy: this just does not "compute!" call out the national guard, i say! saw a very funny joke yesterday, by the way. it's probably a way old joke, and i'm just really behind the curve as usual, but, what the hell: god gets together the three most important people in the world: bill clinton, boris yeltsin, and bill gates. he tells them to inform their people that he's going to end the world. so, yeltsin goes back to russia, goes on tv and says, "i've got two pieces of bad news: one, there is a god. and two, he's going to end the world." clinton goes on tv and says, "i've got one piece of good news, and one piece of bad news. the good news is, there is a god. the bad news is, he's going to end the world." gates gathers all his employees up, "i've got two pieces of good news. one, i'm one of the three most important people in the world. and two, we don't have to worry about that 'Y2K' problem any more." Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:37:19 -0500 From: tanter Subject: hotmail.com To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Reply-To: tanter Is anybody having trouble with Hotmail? I'm trying to email Eddie and my server is saying his address isn't acceptable. I had the same problem with my sister-in-law's Hotmail address last week. Anyone know what's up? Marcy ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:56:41 -0500 From: LORDK@library.phila.gov Subject: Romantics stay up late Being part celtic( on my Moms side-Welsh) and prone to bouts of misty Romanticism, I both cape and kilt regularly. Present cape is blackwatch, present kilt is this wild deep heather purple and greyed-out sage green, with some slate blue thrown in. Since I got it at a thrift store who knows what "clan" might claim it-but Ive been known to wear it with magenta boots. Wouldnt Robyn look loverly caped and kilted. He has the hight and the legs. Also saw shakespeare in love, and since Paltrow and I were indoctrinated at the same institution--I must say--she did a great job. The whole cast did. My idea of a great flick--especially that long closing shot--brave new world, to have such people in it. a miracle movie. UTM K ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:35:25 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: "no, i *do* mind. the dude minds." funny you should say this, because i've been trying to think of movies that have a perfect final shot. can't really come up with many. lots of movies have great last scenes. well, maybe not lots, but more than a few, anyways. that dissolve from winter into spring near the end of My Life As A Dog is about the most beautiful thing i've ever seen on film. and Dr. Strangelove has a wonderfully wicked ending. and so on. (hey. just thought of something, here. hal brandt, master of the rarest movies and videos on planet earth: do you have in your collection a copy of Dr. Strangelove with the mythical pie fight ending?) so the only two flicks i can think of with *absolutely perfect* final shots are Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski. must be a few more. but, like i say, i've been thinking about it all week now... what exactly does "under the mercy" mean? don't get me wrong. it's cool. i like it. i'm often given to uttering it at stoplights, like a mantra: "under the mercy, under the mercy, under the mercy, under the mercy" until the light turns green. but even so, i don't really know what it's supposed to mean. http://leb.net/iac/ "As we often see in US foreign policy, other nations' attempts to defend themselves from US attacks are defined as aggression." --Jake Sexton ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:43:52 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: just thought i'd try this . it's nothing all that spectacular or whatever. but still kind of neat. bayard.com does not exist. nor does bayard.edu. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:26:49 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: "no, i *do* mind. the dude minds." Capitalism Blows wrote: > > world, to have such people in it. a miracle movie.> > > funny you should say this, because i've been trying to think of movies > that have a perfect final shot. Has anyone seen Henry Fool? It has a perfect final shot. The movie gets a little slow in parts, but the final shot just leaves you feeling so good. I think the music has a lot to do with it. By the way, Hal Hartley wrote, directed, produced, and wrote and performed the score. If you haven't seen it, go rent it now. It's pretty damn cool. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:43:17 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Kiltage Another thing Ambrose Bierce said: Kilt: something worn by Scottish persons in America and Americans in Scottland. I'm probably only slightly making mangluage here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I do not own a cape. Could not, would not wear a drape. Would not, should not in a boat. Would not, could not with a goat. Not even if I lost a few, and broke my tiny head in two. In a cape I'd surely wilt. But 'twould be worse to wear the kilt. This is not to suggest: that others here don't look the best when wearing velvets, plaids, and wool- but me, I'd simply look a fool. Please try not to have a cow, Mark's just getting random now. This was not meant to cause such freakage, it is only sharkboy's mental leakage. I really tried not to offend. Bayard, please kick not my ass again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bayard is definitely the nicest guy in the world, the mere thought of him threatening to kick Eddie's ass would have made milk squirt out my nose had I been drinking it. Of course, I have better sense now than to drink anything while reading fegmail. I'm surprised y'all and youse alls let that one slide. Skiing was absofantuckingwhackofragicallifrackingtastick. I've noticed that work isn't. Happies, and hope Eddie doesn't get nightmares from Bully Bayo's threats, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 06:46:26 +0000 From: "Matt Browne" Subject: RE: solidarity & the kingdom On 25/01/99, at 14:49, Partridge, John wrote: >FWIW, here's what my ear tells me on two of those lines: > >Beads and fish changed hands and children stayed up late! Hmmm... I always thought it was: Pieces of fish changed hands and children stayed up late! Maybe I'm just being too sensible. I wanna go to bed! - -- Matt Browne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 06:00:45 PST From: "Ghost Surfer" Subject: Ghost Ship Re: Ghost Ship (alternate version) >it's not clear to me whether that wobble is simply a wobble, or if the >song is truncated. the way he says "all right" at the end leads me to >believe either that someone had requested it, or that it was cut in a >studio. i'm leaning towards the latter, as there is no audience noise >whatever, and because it kind of sounds like it's been recorded from >some really scratchy vinyl. >i don't see the song listed anywhere on john p.'s disco., though. >somebody shed some light, won't you? That'll be from the "gotta let this hen out" video then. The song is split up and interspersed (can't be bothered to use spellcheck) over various parts of the vid. It ends with RH sighing and putting his guitar down and wandering off. I guess someone has stuck the pieces together. I suppose we'll have the release of RH talking to the old women on the bench as a bootleg single next! - ----------------************************************************------------ "There are times when i can't think about the future, when all my days seem so dark and life seems cruel" - Mojave 3 & "Make a moment last forever, gaze across the ocean to the sun" - Unknown !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:55:16 PST From: "Ghost Surfer" Subject: only the stones... >incidentally, the record and the lyrics page both have the taxidermist, >"lookin' for a fight," but i think "grinnin' with delight" is a much >better line. "lookin' for a fight" is the original line, but RH tends to sing "grinnin'.." now. Quite a few lyrics have been changed over the years. Off the top of my head i can't remember any, oh yes, the "missing" verse of QOE tends to change. As i'm a digester this message will get to you in about three days time. Thank you One more thing. It is "beads". - ----------------************************************************------------ "There are times when i can't think about the future, when all my days seem so dark and life seems cruel" - Mojave 3 & "Make a moment last forever, gaze across the ocean to the sun" - Unknown !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 23:14:06 -0800 (PST) From: S Dwarf Subject: Evidence of the existence of God (no Robyn) Mariah Carey didn't get the role of Natasha Fatale in the movie version of Bullwinkle. not that it won't suck anyways...... _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:52:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: hoots! >>>>> "Michael" == Michael R Godwin writes: Michael> 'The kilt' surely. My understanding is that this is a Michael> word which has no plural: It's a Gaelic thing, the way plurals are dealt with. If there's 'the' before it, it never takes an -s, even in plural. Without the 'the', 'kilts' is perfectly acceptable. Michael> 'He/she/it is wearing the kilt' No, she isn't. Kilts are a guy thing. My dad used to be in the Scottish clothing business, and that's the way it is. Stewart (who has managed to get some people to see SH, even when he was elsewhere watching Ivor Cutler.) - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:00:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: aye, kilt >>>>> "Viv" == VIV LYON writes: Viv> Haggis and bagpipes? Sheep? Viv> These things don't resonate with me, I'm afraid. Me neither. Veggie haggis is bearable, just. Bagpipes are a north-western, Gaelic thing. Sheep ('woolly maggots') were pretty much introduced after The Clearances. Stewart - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:07:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: aye, kilt >>>>> "Bayard" == Bayard writes: Bayard> the tartan of your clan. (right?) Of which there can be several. And many (like the Russell clan, to which I nominally belong, but again, that's not the Lowland experience) share tartans. Oh go on, find your tartan at: http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/tfinder.htp And yes, the Wombles have a tartan. Don't ask... Stewart - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:08:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: Marys >>>>> "Michael" == Michael R Godwin writes: Michael> The number of Marys is being cut down because the singer Michael> is Mary QOS and she's going to be beheaded that Michael> day. Presumably the Marys Carmichael etc are her chums, Michael> but I don't know. Any ideas? They were her ladies-in-waiting. Stewart (in informative mode today, after our mail system died yesterday.) - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 03:21:06 -0800 From: Eb Subject: another poll Hey Fgz, I discovered tonight that the Launch music site (http://www.launch.com) has a large page devoted to artist/critic "Top 10 of 1998" lists. If you're interested, here was the critics' top 15 consensus (I didn't bother typing the album titles). Elliott Smith again! 1. Elliott Smith 2. Beck 3. Massive Attack 4. Monster Magnet 5. Liz Phair 6. Air 7. Bob Dylan 8. REM 9. Lucinda Williams 10. Billy Bragg & Wilco 11. Hole 12. Belle & Sebastian 13. Jeff Buckley 14. Morcheeba 15. Placebo Five from my own top 15, not including the live Dylan album, which would be #1 on my list except that I think it's ineligible. Hm. There was also a "public" best-of poll, which managed to net a top five as follows: 1. N'Sync/N'Sync 2. Smashing Pumpkins/Adore 3. N'Sync/Home for Christmas 4. Jewel/Spirit 5. The Offspring/Americana. MERCY! Who says the customer is always right? ;) If you're curious, the page is located at http://www.launch.com/Features/f_content.asp?contentId=716&mark=true&Id=11&mode= &contentType=INTV& (kind of a long download, oh well). There WAS one ranking of Storefront Hitchcock...by the Young Fresh Fellows' Scott McCaughey. Figgers. I think he had it at #7 or #8. All in all, I think the AllStar top 15 was a lot stronger list. Monster Magnet, Placebo and Morcheeba are pretty dicey inclusions, if you ask me, and no way Beck should be as high as #2. Eb np: Jason Falkner/Can You Still Feel?, The Hope Blister/...smile's OK ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:54:34 +0000 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: another poll On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Eb wrote: > Five from my own top 15, not including the live Dylan album, which would be > #1 on my list except that I think it's ineligible. On what grounds? It's a brand new release - I called in at the shops four times before it was released to try and get a copy (something I haven't done since the second Traffic LP). No record is released the moment it's finished - there was just a bit more shilly-shallying than usual before it came out (waiting for the end of the Vietnam war, waiting for CDs to be invented and suchlike). (: - - Mike Godwin PS Incidentally, there has been no sign whatsoever of the Live Egyptians CD in Bath - I check all the local shops regularly ... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:24:22 -0500 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Feg-dream #1674 I need to write this down before I forget it... I dreamed that I had paid for Mark Gloster's records but hadn't received it yet, so we met up in a parking lot so he could give me a copy. Mark was chubby and sloppy-looking and had curly "hockey hair" (short in the front, long in the back) and drove a grubby white van. He gave me the CD (which looked oddly like Ani DiFranco's "Little Plastic Castles" or whatever it's called) and I made a joke about how he should put out a big double-CD concept album. He looked very concerned and told me not to tell anyone my joke. I guess he thought someone might think it was actually for real. I'm sorry, Mark. I realize now that concept albums are not a laughing matter. n. np: the receptionist's Shania Twain album. Help me. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:19:46 +0000 From: "manitas de platano" Subject: Painful lyrics Yeah, I'm a little slow. This hit me on the way to work, and it's the only example that isn't from rawk (IIRC): "From the roaring traffic's boom/to the silence of my lonely room" Jeez! So what's wrong with "vroom"? Carrie: Got any medieval klunkers? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:52:07 -0500 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: "no, i *do* mind. the dude minds." eddie writes: >what exactly does "under the mercy" mean? don't get me wrong. it's >cool. i like it. i'm often given to uttering it at stoplights, like a >mantra: "under the mercy, under the mercy, under the mercy, under the >mercy" until the light turns green. but even so, i don't really know >what it's supposed to mean. No, that's "under the marcy, under the marcy"!!! hey look-- I came out of obscurity to say something nonsensical... sincerely, Msr. Eb-Told-Me-To-Stop-Being-Stinky-And-French, so...."the dude abides" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:58:41 +0000 From: "manitas de platano" Subject: Ed, Doc -- (sorry fegs, it's a personal note) Sufism content I found the book in the pile of mushroom identification references I had planned to bring on vacation. It's "The Sufis", by Nawab-Zada Sayed Idries Shah el-Hashimi, the Grand Sheikh of the Sufis and the eldest son of the Nawab of Sardana. The cover just says it's by "Idries Shah". Since I just found it yesterday, I've yet to read it, but it looks like it'll be good. ISBN: 0-385-07966-4 "To be 'in the world, but not of it' free from ambition, greed, intellectual pride, blind obedience to custom, or awe of persons higher in rank: that is the Sufi's ideal. " - - spiritual (in an earthbound way) guy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:37:59 -0800 From: "Partridge, John" Subject: Captain Sensible question Has anyone heard about a Captain Sensible box set? I was digging through GEMM and saw a couple of listings for it. It's a crime none of his A&M stuff is available on CD. Maybe y'all know about this website already but I just came across it recently and got a good laugh out of it in an etews kind of way. Here's the lead story from www.theonion.com: "Aztec Extremists Cut Out Visiting Pope's Heart MEXICO CITY--Exacting retribution for Catholic explorer Hernando Cortez's destruction of their civilization, Aztec extremists cut out visiting Pope John Paul II's heart in a ritual ceremony Monday." np - Paris Ave./dB's (and it's surprisingly good) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:48:33 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Evidence of the existence of God (no Robyn) On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, S Dwarf wrote: > Mariah Carey didn't get the role of Natasha Fatale in the movie > version of Bullwinkle. not that it won't suck anyways...... whatever happened to that Speed Racer movie starring Charlie Sheen? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:17:27 -0500 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: RE: Captain Sensible question a sensible question indeed. (ba-dump-ching) yes, there is a box. info from http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/6589/discoalbum.htm -- The Captain's Box Humbug Bah 32 1996 Limited Edition Box Set of 1000 Contains: A slice of...Captain Sensible and Meathead also contains a Cut out and dress up Captain Sensible doll. Dolph now reading: John Ashbery, Three Poems now playing: A&M casualty Squeeze, Frank. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:23:44 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: My work has been called extremely vaginal. eddie, the Internet Movie Database ( for those of you VERY new to this world) has absolutely no quotes from The Big Lebowski. Perhaps you should fix this. On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Capitalism Blows wrote: > world, to have such people in it. a miracle movie.> Shakespeare In Love? Am I mistaken or is eddie quoting someone who called Shakespeare in Love "a miracle movie"? Ugh. I mean, it was alright... certainly a cut above standard mallplex fare, but it wasn't great... it wasn't even Really Good. Sure the queen's bit was Really Good... and my friend Tom liked to see Gwyneth Paltrow topless... but it suffered on several counts. Me, I like Tom Stoppard. He's Great. But I found the writing a bit dumbed down and dull in many places. Ben Affleck was a highlight. The bits with Shakespeare as a kind of hack writer were good. But it suffered from the same thing for which one reviewer said Young Einstein suffered: It's written like a bad high school history assignment. All those people spouting lines of Shakespeare before he gets a chance to write them... all those names popping up... ("The Rose by any other name would smell as foul"? ugh). It was kind of cute, but it did wear on, didn't it? And personally, I find it offensive that some people would see the comedy and Romeo & Juliet and not understand that the whole thing is a comedy and Romeo & Juliet are to be amusing, stupid children and not the greatest, most tragic lovers of all time. But I'll take that argument up with anyone at anytime in the future. Anyway, giving a grown-up Shakespeare those same qualities is kind of insulting... for both the long-dead and the viewers who wish they were. I enjoyed the movie. Don't get me wrong. It's a reasonable way to spend the time it takes to watch. But it's nothing but disappointing when a film like this gets rewarded so heavily. Even more disappointing when schlock like Saving Private Ryan is rewarded... at least that doesn't pretend to be something else. Speaking of Saving Private Ryan, don't you think that movie would have been ten times more effective and a thousand times less insulting if it'd ended after the taking of Omaha Beach? Oh, and Shakespeare In Love... didn't it end with a shot of a field of grass leading up to a forest wall? That was a little incongruous to me. Which brings us to our next topic. > funny you should say this, because i've been trying to think of movies > that have a perfect final shot. > can't really come up with many. [flickity] > so the only two flicks i can think of with *absolutely perfect* final > shots are Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski. must be a few more. but, > like i say, i've been thinking about it all week now... Miller's Crossing, eddie... Miller's Crossing! Other than that, well, I watched the last sequence of Raising Arizona last night and that's damned good, too. But Coens aside, there aren't too many others that jump out at me. I can't even REMEMBER the last scene in some movies. The final shot in Antz was amazing, but not quite what I'd call perfect with respect to the film and all. Not to insult you folks by going form Good Movie talk to eh movie talk, I have a few words to say about The Postman. The Postman was on HBO last night. If I recall, this film opened the same day as Titanic (Christmas Day 1997) and left theaters somewhere between the goose and pie that evening. Yet Titanic went on to play forEVER, make about a billion dollars worldwide and sell more videos than there are VCRs in this country. This, to me, makes no sense. I watched The Postman. Sure it had some sappy shit. Sure it had a kind of simplistic and predictable plot. But why the hell did it just disappear? I mean, it was pretty good. It was kind of smart and interesting. It has an IMPORTANT THEME (that communication is what holds society together... that free and expansive communication networks end tyrrany and promote peace) that is relevant to our time. So why did this fail and shitty stupid sappy predictable boring old Titanic live forever and The Postman die? I think I have two answers: The Future and Kevin Costner. J. Average Bonehead would rather watch something about the past than a theoretical future. Kevin Costner has the whole of Hollywood against him. Now, I'm no big Costner fan. I thought Dances With Wolves was three of the worst hours I've spent in my life (and the endless "indian name" nicknaming going on for the next eighteen months just about caused me to truly snap). But Waterworld and The Postman were both good. I know I'm going to take shit for this... I just know it. But Waterworld was supposed to be dreck. It was silly and ludicrous and campy. That was intentional. The story was full of holes and ridiculous ideas... well, while that wasn't intentional, I don't think it's the sort of film that's expected to promote that kind of inspection. But this film was called Kevin's Gate before it was even released (referring to Heaven's Gate... not the cult, but the all-time biggest loss by a film studio... massively expensive film that didn't ever get released to theaters and is very hard to find on video)! WaterWorld was declared a flop before it openned. The Postman had the same sort of anti-hype. Why did Godzilla turn a profit and not this? So did anyone else see The Postman and enjoy it? Did anyone hate it? I have to admit that I was only half-watching while doing other things, so maybe the pacing was terrible and maybe there were inconsistencies. But I didn't see anything like that. I saw a reasonably intelligent film (the militant army with its eight laws was kind of silly... and the climactic wrestling match was just weird... but more sensible and responsible than a fucking gunbattle, which is what I expected up until that white flag came out and it all became clear and obvious to me). I'm rambling. Oh yeah, Nathan says I should read the novel... he says it's really good. I just might do that. Words to your mother. President Richard Starkey. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:26:54 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: another poll On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Eb wrote: > Hey Fgz, > I discovered tonight that the Launch music site (http://www.launch.com) has > a large page devoted to artist/critic "Top 10 of 1998" lists. If you're > interested, here was the critics' top 15 consensus (I didn't bother typing > the album titles). Elliott Smith again! > There WAS one > ranking of Storefront Hitchcock...by the Young Fresh Fellows' Scott > McCaughey. Figgers. I think he had it at #7 or #8. Oh yeah... I was at a terrible big bookstore (Barnes & Noble maybe?) and couldn't stand browsing at such a monstrosity, so I hit the newstand. Interested in the wide format televisions on the cover, I picked up a copy of Stereo Review's Sound & Vision magazine. I happened upon their album review section. In a small yellow box on the bottom left of a mostly uninteresting page was their "Top Ten of 1998". I don't remember much of the list, except that Liz Phair ranked rather highly, there was no Elliot Smith and Storefront Hitchcock was number eight. The end. Je. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:36:03 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Feg-dream #1674 On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Gnatalie Jacobs dreamed: > Mark was > chubby and sloppy-looking and had curly "hockey hair" (short in the front, > long in the back) and drove a grubby white van. Perfect so far. > He gave me the CD (which > looked oddly like Ani DiFranco's "Little Plastic Castles" or whatever it's > called) Wow... good guess! > and I made a joke about how he should put out a big double-CD > concept album. He looked very concerned and told me not to tell anyone my > joke. I guess he thought someone might think it was actually for real. You mean to say he didn't tell you about the project BEFORE the dream? Did that not go to the list? Hmmm... must have been personal mail. > I'm sorry, Mark. I realize now that concept albums are not a laughing matter. I think it's brilliant, Mark. And the idea of putting out thirty-five CDs of two songs apiece so that any combination placed in a three, five, or six disc changer will play a coherent set of tunes with a common theme (but disparate from the theme of any other combination) is positively amazing. I can't wait to get my copy. > np: the receptionist's Shania Twain album. Help me. Have I ever told you about Kevin, the coworker that cannot shut up? He talks to himself all day long... he talks to his monitor, to his configuration files, to the news server, even to particular commands. He calls out the steps of every menial task, but never the goal... so we all have to listen to him go on and on and on. "OK... grep for jaykeen in etsee password... right... that's all good... now vee eye pee double you... ok... shit... colon cue... en ess lookup... server en ess one dot eli dot net... ok... ell ess dash dee verbose dot org... ha!" Stuff like that. And we wonder what he's doing because his actions appear unrelated... so we try to give him advice on how to be more efficient... personally, I think he'd be better off if he just didn't shout out all of his work. And HE is the one worried about network security. I'm just glad he doesn't shout out his username and password as he types them in, too. I forget my point. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #25 ******************************