From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #130 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 8 1999 Volume 08 : Number 130 Today's Subjects: ----------------- after reading chris's non-groos post [DDerosa5@aol.com] 100% Eb-content [Aaron Mandel ] mail-issue [DDerosa5@aol.com] just a stray "me too"... ["Russ Reynolds" ] Re: just a stray "me too"... (Richard Lloyd) [steve ] Re: 12 [Eb ] Re: 12 [Ben ] For one day only ["Ghost Surfer" ] Re: Television [Michael R Godwin ] April is the cruelest month [Natalie Jacobs ] re: kim rew, politicz [Michael Wolfe ] The Museum Of Robyn Hitchcock (Rip-off in UK) [Nigel.Jarman@frco.com] Kim dream [Joel Mullins ] Futurama, and that damn turtle thing? [The Great Quail ] Re; Futurama ["Paul Christian Glenn" ] working titles ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: working titles [Aaron Mandel ] A Slipping Down Life [Griffith Davies ] Re: Kim dream [lj lindhurst ] Re: CDs/too long [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Crablings question [Bayard ] Re: Subject: Re: Saturday's Largo show ["Marc Holden" ] Re: more bitching about Sleater-Kinney [cinders blue ] Re: RH compilation for non-fegs [cinders blue ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 01:50:44 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: after reading chris's non-groos post I'm hungry. Let's eat Quail! mmmmmmm, good? good enough. dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 01:55:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: 100% Eb-content On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Eb wrote: > To me, individual Apples songs sound really pleasing and tuneful, but > when you put them together into a full album, they all sound exactly > alike and bleed into each other. oddly, the NMH single that's going for such sick amounts of money sounds a lot more like the Apples than like modern NMH. i finally heard the Ladybug Transistor album, and wasn't bowled over on first listen, but it has grown on me, as has the delicious (and still not out in stores?) Beulah album. Elf Power: well, they aren't especially talented, but i prefer their ineptitude to Schneider's "skill". i like the nearly-title track "We Dream In Sound" a lot; haven't listened to the rest of it much. Tom Waits: those ballads drag the album way, way down. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 02:02:59 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: mail-issue Etews and Jbranscome argued over: >joining a militia in the hills couldn't we form our own militia? even the republicans could join, we could put them in charge of printing the new money (same as the old money, but prettier). If Mike Moore can do it, why can't we? Fegtopia in Oz seemed, well, Utopian, but a militia is do-able. And we could even get Alex Cockburn to defend us in the national press. No guns necessary, just a better worldview! I've always held that the US was too big, time to break it up like Gorbachev did the CCCP. the Key is to find an island (or highway median) big enough for farming, a coupla outhouses, and a mess hall big enought that Robyn could play it. You could all have ranks (I'll stay private, I'm new.) Higher-archys! Thoth insignias on every shoulder! "When I hear the word "security", I reach for my headphones"! And Eddie as our (sub)Commandante!! golly, I must've had a lot of margarits tonight.... dave ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 23:11:37 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: just a stray "me too"... Me Too. - -rUss (that applies to everything said in the last digest that I agree with, but mainly to liking Richard Lloyd's guitar work better than Tom Verlain's. His solos were meatier, yet smoother and more melodic. Beautiful playing. I really need to acquire more of his work, and will gladly take suggestions on where to start. I think Marquee Moon is the only thing I actually own which features his playing and I've forgotten what other things drew my attention to him "back in the day." I do remember liking his solo stuff a lot, though I can't remember what his voice sounds like.) (pretty long parenthetical up there, eh?) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 01:46:10 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: just a stray "me too"... (Richard Lloyd) Russ Reynolds: >(that applies to everything said in the last digest that I agree with, but >mainly to liking Richard Lloyd's guitar work better than Tom Verlain's. His >solos were meatier, yet smoother and more melodic. Beautiful playing. I >really need to acquire more of his work, and will gladly take suggestions on >where to start. I think Marquee Moon is the only thing I actually own which >features his playing and I've forgotten what other things drew my attention >to him "back in the day." I do remember liking his solo stuff a lot, though >I can't remember what his voice sounds like.) Mr. Lloyd adds some guitar bite to maybe a third of the songs on Matthew Sweet's GIRLFRIEND, ALTERED BEAST, and 100% FUN albums. Most of the other songs feature Robert Quine. - - Steve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 00:39:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: 12 Eddie: >some bitch here in the library, looking through the stacks behind me, >just said, without even looking at me, "i don't know what you're >typing, but you're sure typing fast." [it's true that i'm a fast >typer.] Sure, sure, tough guy...now, how fast are you if you use the SHIFT KEY? ;P And nice call, letting a pickup line from some hot 'n' juicy library babe (hey...you KNOW what they say about librarians...) float away into the ether, unanswered. Ben: >And now for all the proggies on the list, how many albums in your collection >contain 4 or less tracks? Count tracks per disc in the inevitable event of >multi-disc albums. ;) Um...how about TWO or less tracks per disc? Way too many albums with four or less. I know I have: Yes/Tales from Topographic Oceans David Sylvian & Holger Czukay/Plight & Premonition Ornette Coleman/Free Jazz Charles Wuorinen/Time's Encomium Miles Davis/Pangaea, Agharta, A Tribute to Jack Johnson, In a Silent Way Jethro Tull/Thick as a Brick, A Passion Play Mike Oldfield/Tubular Bells Lou Reed/Metal Machine Music Frank Zappa/Lumpy Gravy Morton Subotnick/Sidewinder Diamanda Galas/The Divine Punishment, The Litanies of Satan Bruce Gilbert/Insiding, In Esse Fripp & Eno/No Pussyfooting Brian Eno/Neroli, Thursday Afternoon I *think* those all satisfy the requirement, though unfortunately, only a few of them are strictly "prog." ;) Happy bday Mr. Quail, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 03:57:57 -0400 From: Ben Subject: Re: 12 Eb wrote: > Um...how about TWO or less tracks per disc? Way too many albums with four > or less. > > I know I have: > > Miles Davis/Pangaea, Agharta, A Tribute to Jack Johnson, In a Silent Way Actually, Agharta has one disc with 3 tracks. ;) As for mine: Miles: In A Silent Way, At Fillmore (though the new version breaks up each track into smaller divisions), Jack Johnson, Pangaea Charles Mingus: Paris 1964 Volume 2 Sonny Rollins: East Broadway Rundown Pharoh Sanders: Karma Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans I'm proud to only have one prog album with 2 tracks per disc, but ashamed to own "Tales From Topographic Oceans"... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 01:47:48 PDT From: "Ghost Surfer" Subject: For one day only Crawl across towards your window I'm calling softly from the street Always a lonely widow Half awake and sleeping on my feet I'm of age but have no children No quarter phone booth calls to home Just late with television Inside my bedroom all alone There is no use in waiting Offer up your steps so I can climb Show me all your figure paintings Etched in the middle of the night Let me stretch upon your carpet Let me hear the rain tap on your street Knowing I am safe on the inside Blankets wrapped and drifting off to sleep ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:27:54 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Television On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Charles Gillett wrote: > I like the bit about Tom Verlaine being responsible for CBGB becoming > what it is, whether it's true or not. I recently saw an article (possibly the same one?) which claimed that Television at CBGB's was the origin of the whole New Wave. Certainly the NME went completely ecstatic about Television in the late 70s. I saw them a couple of times: the first time they were supported by The Only Ones (who were a much better band but didn't have the same corporate muscle behind them); the second time they were supported by Blondie, who came over as a fairly inane outfit fronted by a girl who kept striking kung fu poses. Later, Blondie went on to make a load of hit singles, but Television seemed to fade away. Richard Hell had left them before they ever reached the UK, so perhaps he was the vital ingredient - I once saw the Voidoids supporting Costello and they were pretty good in a sub-Ramones kind of way - they reminded me of the Tots when they used to back Lou: plenty of attitude, but somehow cheap. I think that 'See no evil' is Television's best track. 'Ain't that nothing' is fairly good, but you should also seek out the live version by the Rain Parade, which wipes out the Television rendition IMO. - - Mike Godwin n.p. 'Butchie's tune' by the Lovin' Spoonful ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 08:40:32 -0400 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: April is the cruelest month > (alfalfa is >ideal in summer, but the softest, hairiest centipedes must be stored for >winter) Do they serve centipedes at Taco Bell? Happy Birthday, O Quail! In your honor, one of the stupid crappy "alternative" radio stations here played a Rufus Wainwright song!!! I nearly had a cerebral hemorrhage! But then I remembered that this is the Quail's world, and we're all living in it. Re. Sleater-Kinney >I don't >really care if they saved anything or if they're a rah-rah-riot guhrl band or >a pop band; they've just got it goin' on, that's all. As Eb would say - "Ehhh." (tm) >huh? because i don't accept a republican-in-(very thinly veiled) >sheep's-clothing as one of "my own", that means i'm joining the >militia in the hills? i don't get it. C'mon, Eddie, we can both join the Michigan Militia! The infamous "Mark from Michigan" works as a janitor in a dorm about half a mile from where I am now. We'll have fun! I heard they listen to Robyn all day long! :) A two-party system is like having to choose between pancakes or waffles. Everyone tells you how different they are, but they're really just the same batter in different molds. I don't want pancakes *or* waffles. I want jambalaya. n. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 15:51:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: re: kim rew, politicz capitalism blows: >furthermore, find one democrat who calls him or herself a >socialist. even fucking poseur piece of shit bernie sanders, >who *calls* himself a socialist is a clintonoid backstabber. no >capitalist politician is one of *my* own. Kind-of-sort-of related (well, ok. Not really related, it just reminded me): The Oregon Symphony has a series of concerts called "Nerve Endings" which explore the historical context of the piece and its composer. Generally, they do this with multimedia presentations woven into the performance and with dramatic vignettes enacted in front of the orchestra. The music is generally well done and the programs thoughtfully put together, but the historical stuff (particularly the vignettes) is hit and miss. Last year they had a dynamite concert devoted to Shostakovich and Stalin, looking in particular at Shostakovich's 5th symphony. But then earlier this year, the concert devoted to Berlioz was laughable. Well, on Tuesday night, they had a concert devoted to Aaron Copland, and in particular they looked at Copland's experience in being called in front of Joe McCarthy and HUAC. It was quite well done, one of the more seemlessly put together shows of the series. In the lobby there was a presentation on Copland's music and on the blacklist, the latter including several other people's experiences with HUAC. One, whose name escapes me, when asked if he was a member of the communist party, responded that he was not because he was to its left. He got blacklisted (of course) but went on to become a stockbroker and made a killing on Wall Street. I burst out laughing after reading that, and got a lot of funny looks from the people around me. (This is the bit that Eddie's diatribe reminded me of.) Further irony: As enacted by the players in the vignette, Copland's testimony amounted to a protestation that he was an artist, not a political figure, and that true art was apolitical. Personally, I find that notion a little distasteful, but regardless of whether or not I agree with the message, I thought it was funny to hear it coming from a concert that was so overtly making an effort to combine the two. Oh, by the way Eddie, can you send me subscription information for the Anderson Valley Advertiser? - -Michael Wolfe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:36:07 -0500 From: Nigel.Jarman@frco.com Subject: The Museum Of Robyn Hitchcock (Rip-off in UK) I have just looked at the gift shop page. http://www.robynhitchcock.com/ukorders.htm They are selling the Storefront Hitchcock LP for 24.95 UKP. That is the same as asking most of you to pay $40.13 for it, but on the US orders page it is only $24. This is completely unfair. How can they justify a 67% mark-up? I can't believe that a copy is being dispatched especially from the US just for me. They must have a huge stack of them at The Museum Of Robyn Hitchcock, P.O.Box 14864, London W4-2GD, UK I'm only on the announce list so I'll probably never get to read a reply to this (unless woj copies it to the announce list for me) I just wanted to sound off, in case the people who are running the fan club are reading this. Cheers, Nigel Jarman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:36:13 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Kim dream I think Kimberley Rew was in my dream last night. I really can't remember much, but I'm pretty sure he was either in my dream, or I had a conversation about him in my dream, or that cute girl that fell in love with me was his little sister or something like that. Anyway. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 99 12:51:25 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Futurama, and that damn turtle thing? >Futurama: very good animation, GREAT voices, cool theme-song. >shitty show. man, compare the first three episodes of this crap with >the first three episodes of The Simpsons. At the risk of disagreeing with Mr. Ed again, I have to chime in my very positive recations to "Futurama." I think it is very true to Matt Groening's vision, and it really makes me laugh for reasons I can't quite explain. A drunken robot babbling about hookers . . . the gophers on the moon . . . and that cthulhoid Doctor! The lobster-red Jewish Mind Flayer! He's my favorite character. "Open your mouth, I want to see your brain. No, your other mouth." Heh. I can't even see him on the screen without ecracking up. And his voice, that mixture of Yiddish schmaltz with the occasional burst of incomprehensible squeegling! (Which, my the way, is exactly how I picture Mark Gloster sounding in person.) As LJ says, "It's wacky!" > King Of The Hill is fast >becoming unwatchable, too. Huh? Oh . . . oh . . . Eddie, can we disagree this much on things? I . . . I love you man. I remember when we first met. Of all the gin-soaked nests in Fegdom, you had to walk into mine. You said, "Here's looking at you, quail." Oh . . . And now you have lost faith in Bobby Hill. Please tell me that we'll always have Arrakis. . . . *** Oh, yeah, speaking of new shows -- did anybody watch it? You know . . . it. The thing after South Park. The woman with the turtle. And the teeth. Please tell me someone else saw it, and I didn't fall asleep and have some sort of strange hallucinatory episode brought on by LJ's birthday tacos and champagne! I keep trying to remember it, to piece together a linear sequence, to sift the shattered remains of my sanity for some sort of *reason,* but no avail . . . just the turtle . . . and the ashes . . . and the glint. . . - --Quail PS: Thanks for all the birthday wishes; even though Jon Fetter failed to mention that the "comet" was really a Russian research sattelite named "Kuailnik" that was seditiously broadcasting gallinaceous recipes to Latin America. The "white powder" was actually the charred remains of Spotsky, the dog sent up with the satellite who leapt to his death after realizing no one would remember him as well as Laika. np: Metal Machine Mariah Music +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven." --Psalms 105:40 (Also see Exodus 16:13 and Numbers 11:31-34 for more starry wisdom) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:59:47 -0500 From: "Paul Christian Glenn" Subject: Re; Futurama >>Futurama: very good animation, GREAT voices, cool theme-song. >>shitty show. I thought the first episode was thigh-slapping-hilarious (that image of Leonard Nimoy's head straining for fish food still makes me grin), but I have been a tad underwhelmed by the last two episodes. I think the problem is that we just don't know the characters well enough yet. Every good show pretty much sucks it's first season (yes, even The Simpsons, IMO). I say give it some time to gow into the hype. Paul Christian Glenn | "Besides being complicated, trance@radiks.net | reality, in my experience, is http://x-real.firinn.org | usually odd." - C.S. Lewis Now Reading: "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 10:16:49 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: working titles RESPECT was originally to be called RED LEMONS. so said robyn h. on 3/22/93. i do like bender. and there are *some* laughs. but they're very few and very far between, near as i can tell. bobby hill still rules. he's about the only reason i'll keep watching the show. South Park, on the other hand, hit the ground running, i thought, with its new season. as funny as ever, and as political too. i swear i'm going to write an article about the politics of South Park for ets! one of these days. http://leb.net/iac/ "...the people who in most places in the world provide opposition leadership are, here in America, holed up in academic sinecures arguing about the ethics of lunch and whether or not to hire an immigrant maid. The two-party dictatorship is literally destroying the country and Clinton is the worst president we've ever had -- much worse than Nixon and Reagan combined on everything from the environment to social and economic policy, and where's the left? Sitting by the phone hoping to get on one of those Dead White Man TV talk panels....frankly, these days every time I even see a copy of The Nation, In These Times, or, worst of all, Mother Jones, I feel like punching the first pony tailed, nasal whinnying, Virtual Asseted, public-radioed, candy-assed, so-called leftist who comes through my door. Unfortunately, they come through my door all the time and I'm too old and physically decrepit to carry out a decent physical assault. It's all very frustrating." --Bruce Anderson, Anderson Valley Advertiser _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:29:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: working titles On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Capitalism Blows wrote: > i do like bender. and there are *some* laughs. but they're very few > and very far between, near as i can tell. i thought the first two episodes were sunk by the plot exposition (isn't that one of the Simpsons's biggest lessons, that you can skip most of the details of crappy cliched sitcom plots that everyone knows the outcome of anyway, and use the space for more jokes?) but the tuesday episode was finally getting up to speed. > South Park, on the other hand, hit the ground running, i thought, with > its new season. as funny as ever, and as political too. you mean the "Get Gay With Kids" episode last night? i thought the political content was totally obvious, mostly being "un-PC" just for the sake of it. cartman was the only good thing about it, as he often is in bad episodes. if they can't keep making me laugh and say "what the fuck? i can't believe this is happening!" at the same time, i'd just as soon they gave up. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:12:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Griffith Davies Subject: A Slipping Down Life "A Slipping Down Life" will be playing in Los Angeles this month as part of the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (www.laiff.com). I did not see "Storefront" listed anywhere. "A Slipping Down Life" will be showing at 9:00 pm on Sunday 18 April at DGA Theatre 1 (which I believe is at the Directors Guild of America, 7920 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90046, www.dga.org). you've been warned griffith _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:24:55 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: Kim dream >I think Kimberley Rew was in my dream last night. I really can't >remember much, but I'm pretty sure he was either in my dream, or I had a >conversation about him in my dream, or that cute girl that fell in love >with me was his little sister or something like that. I had a dream that I was miniature, like a miniature horse or something. I wasn't a midget, I was just a reduced size. Anyhow, I was at a really fancy restaurant. Everything was white. The table was white, the dishes, the chairs, the napkins, everything. And I was dressed all in white. The only thing they served me was one strawberry. I climbed on the table, laid down with my head on the napkin, and went to sleep with my strawberry. the end. l =============================== LJ Lindhurst White Rabbit Graphic Design http://www.w-rabbit.com =============================== "If I find a coin on the ground I PICK UP Regardless of its later Dispositions." --Yukio Murakami ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:59:50 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: CDs/too long In a message dated 99-04-07 23:09:09 EDT, First I wrote: << > I think that they should try > harder with reissues and go the extra mile to putting out 2-CD sets, the > first of which has a remastered version of the original album and the second > of which has as much other stuff from that period as they can find -- non-LP > studio tracks, demo versions, BBC versions, etc. [snip] > The fans would be happy and the record label > would've probably made more money (I'm assuming here that they could charge > nearly twice as much for a 2-CD package that costs them maybe 20 cents more > to make than the 1-CD version did). Then Ross said: << I can't get enthusiastic about having to pay twice as much so you don't have to hit the track select key. You must *really* hate having to do that! >> And then Terry said: << Y'know, given the choice between programming a CD-player and paying an extra $10 per CD, I'm going to program. >> To which I know say: I think you guys are missing the point. I'm talking about the difference between the standard reissue that tags on a couple of extra tracks and the idea of a 2-CD set that has maybe 14-20 extra tracks! I wasn't intending to say that a 2-CD set would be better *just* because the listener would then not have to either program out the bonus tracks or run to hit STOP at the conslusion of the original album tracks. No, I'm saying that, if they're going to tempt us into buying a reissue in the first place (often as an "upgrade" from previously purchased vinyl and first-issue CD versions), then they oughtta really do it right. And maybe they wouldn't have to charge $29.99; maybe they could charge something more like $21.99 for the 2-CD set. That wouldn't be unheard of for such a thing. Heck, the Marillion 2-CD sets I was mentioning are only (only?) around $27.99 and they're inports! That's what I was trying to get across. I'm tellin' ya, you'd like it a lot. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 17:31:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Crablings question > a question for the anorak brigade... on the Unhatched Crablings version of > (Gram Parsons'?) Sin City, who does the duet vocals with Robyn? Andrew Frank Metcalfe, who also plays (upright?) bass on (i think) both sets that night. =b np: Elf Power, _come on_ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:12:13 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Saturday's Largo show Yeah, the Largo shows are great--I think I've been about six times = now--may not sound like much, but I have to come in from Phoenix to = catch them. Don't try to go without a reservation unless you can get = there early (before 6:30 pm), I think they've turned people away every = time (small place). Lots of weird covers or improv stuff each time--I = prefer the covers, but last Friday's improvs were great. Robyn seems to = have a lot of fun there and usually hangs around afterward to talk and = sign things--except last time, someone in the crowd was bothering Robyn = between his solo set and the stuff he did later (according to the = bartender). Right after Robyn's opening set Friday, I saw him standing = back at the bar, signing things, but I couldn't tell who he was signing = them for. There is a total psycho who comes to all the shows with bags = of stuff to sign (I've seen him get 30+ things signed at a single time). = He basically tries to get Robyn to sign everything including blank = sleeves from singles then comes back the next show with a new batch of = the same items. He has even tried to get Robyn to sign the front and = back of items, begs for doodles with the signatures, etc. Well, this guy = was first in line Friday night (with his bag o'stuff) but for some = reason he wasn't there at the end of the night or for Saturday's shows. = Something strange happened, but I can only guess what it was exactly. = Hope that guy didn't screw it up for everyone. Anyway, I think Eb mentioned a possible show there on the 30th this = month--he's in LA to do the final stuff on Jewels For Sophia, so that = would make sense. I'll have to pass on that one--blew my budget for the = month already. If you go, let me know how it was, Marc n.p.--alex chilton--like flies on sherbet; david bowie--station to = station; kraftwerk--ralf & florian; robyn hitchcock--black snake diamond = role; residents--roosevelt (disc 4 of the huddled masses box)-----in = randomonium ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:38:15 -0400 From: cinders blue Subject: Re: a bitchy cranky post about Sleater-Kinney MC 900 Ft Natalie Jacobs rapped: >I must be the only person on the face of the planet who doesn't think that >Sleater-Kinney are the saviors of guitar pop. being the antiwoj (tm), gnat was destined to have this opinion. unless, of course, she's just ashamed to admit liking a band i like (barring xtc, whom no one is allowed to dislike by listowner decree). +w n.p. hedningarna -- karelia visa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:41:48 -0400 From: J Branscombe Subject: politicz Eddie says, in reply to my wishy-washy, liberal ejaculation...." Reagan? Nixon? COME ON..." >Why so hung up on labels? I didn't know that the two old, fascist arseholes had trademarked their names. In the next breath Eddie says,' Clinton is a republican'. *That's* a LABEL, Bub. I'm not American, thank merry fuck, but none of you saw CLINTON-REPUBLICAN on your ballot papers. I don't like Bill, but I think you know enough American history (I'm honestly not meaning to patronise you here) to know why people don't call themselves socialists in the USA. I'm sure you were on your feet cheering Elia Kazan on Oscar night. I genuinely don't know one element of policy where Clinton has initiated a more right-wing policy than any of his presidential predecessors. I've eavesdropped for almost a year on the list and you've always been very good on American foreign policy. In the past, and in reply to comments I've made already you seem a little shakier on internal matters. Give me a good talking to. jmbc I ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 21:39:50 -0400 From: cinders blue Subject: Re: more bitching about Sleater-Kinney MC 900 Ft Tom Clark rapped: >-tc, who prefers Lloyd to Verlaine, btw. i remembering thinking when richard lloyd's _real time_ came out that it was the best live record ever recorded. in retrospect, it isn't, but it is a great record. +w n.p. garmarna -- vengeance (working through the northside orher) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 22:46:42 -0400 From: cinders blue Subject: Re: RH compilation for non-fegs MC 900 Ft Ethyl Ketone rapped: >Rather than suggest a cd since I know almost all of RHs records have one or >two songs that just don't work, especially for a first time listener (you >all know what I mean), I made a compilation tape. I am interested if anyone >else has made a tape for someone and what the combo of songs was on their >compilation. i've made a number of robyn tapes for friends (though it's been a while since i've done so). usually, these tapes were chronological, taking three or so songs from each album, starting with _black snake diamond role_. i don't think that tactic would work too well now since there are more albums now than the last time i made of these tapes, but it seemed to give a good perspective of robyn's musical trajectory. woj ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #130 *******************************