From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #146 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 21 1999 Volume 08 : Number 146 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: rhinoar, Jeme, Eddie [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] meeping [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] RE: Fucking Top X Lists [S Dwarf ] Re: rhinoar, Jeme, Eddie ["Chris!" ] Jacob Lurch [Joel Mullins ] Re: ?% Robyn [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer ] RE: Fucking Top X Lists [fred is ted ] Fluff eBunny [VIV LYON ] RE: Jacob Lurch ["Thomas, Ferris" ] Top X lists, el proximo ultimo [VIV LYON ] Re: Fluff eBunny [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Dream [Joel Mullins ] Re: Top X lists, el proximo ultimo [Joel Mullins ] Toolist revelation pending a question [The Great Quail ] Wire and Revenge of the Nerds [Capuchin ] Re: Toolist revelation pending a question [Eric Loehr ] Re: Dream [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Fluff eBunny [Capuchin ] Re: Wire and Revenge of the Nerds [Aaron Mandel ] Most of you wish my new job kept me more occupied [VIV LYON ] Syd Barrett [Griffith Davies ] Re: Syd Barrett [Capuchin ] Re: Me, Bare Naked. [overbury@cn.ca] Re: Syd Barrett [Terrence M Marks ] Re: Dream, etc., etc. ["JH3" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 21:32:58 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: rhinoar, Jeme, Eddie >p.s. anybody else think jeme looks like he should be a member of barenaked >ladies? They need a good trumpet player. Has anyone seen BL and Jeme in the same place? Thought not. Actually, there is a character from "The Tick" comic books called Chainsaw Vigilante who has hair exactly like Jeme's. I wonder if Jeme inspired him. I'm sure he inspires us all. I'm working on making a long arm of hair for the top of my head to be more like him. Speaking of Jeme and music, he introduced me to Brian Dewan, whose zithering is quite extraordinary. I was plowing through the ultimate band list when I found some of his credits. I was quite surprised at the bands he's done side work for and the album art for which he's been credited. Some of you might really consider giving him a listen. His credits range from David Byrne to They Might Be Giants to Neutral Milk Hotel. His stuff is kind of edgy with some anglo folk roots. paranoid ramblings, ala Dale "don't feed the beast" Gribble: I can't prove it yet, but I think Eddie is not the workers-of-the- world-unite guy that we thought he was. I think he has something worked out with the Harry Fox Agency that gives him money every time somebody types anything from the root of "fuck" on the internet. Eddie is actually a megalomothrazillionaire. Did anybody even question the fact that he's up in Redmond? Is he really Bill Gates in a slightly modified conehead mask? Hope we all survive. Happies, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:59:56 +1200 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: meeping >It's that time of the year again....the air warms up a bit and the heat goes >on at feg central! Do you guys notice how this is getting to be a yearly >thing, with some kind of argument springing up in spring/summer? It's got to >be a combination of heat and Robyn's complete lack of doing anything >interesting this time of year!! you could be right about this seasonal thing. I always note this list heats up in Autumn, too! >Operating on the premise, "If you can't do it in 40 minutes, it isn't >worth doing," [...] sex isn't worth doing??? ;) James (watching the leaves fall) James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:02:05 -0700 (PDT) From: S Dwarf Subject: RE: Fucking Top X Lists tanter wrote: > It's that time of the year again....the air warms up > a bit and the heat goes > on at feg central! Do you guys notice how this is > getting to be a yearly > thing, with some kind of argument springing up in > spring/summer? It's got to > be a combination of heat and Robyn's complete lack > of doing anything > interesting this time of year!! i thought it was cuz Brian Wilson sucks ;) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:26:21 -0700 From: "Chris!" Subject: Re: rhinoar, Jeme, Eddie > I can't prove it yet, but I think Eddie is not the workers-of-the- > world-unite guy that we thought he was. My fawking arse he ain't. Mr. Capitalism Blows had me holed up in his Florida condo for three weeks over the winter. He kept telling me how all I had to do was "find my ad," place it in newspapers all over the country, and I would be pulling in 6,000 dollars per week. Just like he was. He even claimed that there would come a time when I would be losing money by going in to my regular job. True to the TV infomercial form, you would ask him the simplest question and he would go of on a blitzkrieg of responses such as "my earning potential," "the ad that works for you," and "you could buy a condo like this a year for the next twenty." Responses like this would come forth even with questions such as "Could you pass the salt?" > Did anybody > even question the fact that he's up in Redmond? Not to mention all the gold jewelry he was sporting around the Tampa condo. He was a walking ad for "Pimp Digest." But, if you've got the right ad like Eddy does, you can't help it. .chris (wondering what the "right ad" is) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:43:29 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Jacob Lurch So, I was listening to Queen Elvis earlier today (for the first time in probably a year) and I noticed that Robyn mentions Jacob Lurch in Wax Doll. I can't possibly be the only person who has noticed this. However, I haven't seen anyone mention it. Does anyone know what Robyn's novel is about or who Jacob Lurch is or what the connection between the novel and Wax Doll is? Has this already been discussed in detail on the list? Was I sick that day? Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:41:50 +0100 (BST) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: ?% Robyn >>>>> "Bayard" == Bayard writes: Bayard> On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, fred is ted wrote: >> "It's the time of the season, for Eb and Flow." Bayard> if Eb doesn't marry a gal named Flo, I'll be disappointed. Bayard> (Terrence, I think we're entering some fertile comic strip Bayard> territory here.) ISTR a really bad comic strip called "Eb & Flo" in one of the UK newspapers. Must've been about 20 years ago. It sucked; dead badgers and 1" steel conduit were in the picture. Stewart - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 04:04:50 -0500 From: David Librik Subject: Re: Jacob Lurch >So, I was listening to Queen Elvis earlier today (for the first time in >probably a year) and I noticed that Robyn mentions Jacob Lurch in Wax >Doll. > Does anyone know what >Robyn's novel is about or who Jacob Lurch is or what the connection >between the novel and Wax Doll is? Except for Jacob Lurch And Mr. Moose and Dandy Mr. Moose and (D)andy = Morris and Andy Jacob Lurch = Robyn Thus _The Ballad of Jacob Lurch_ is Robyn's novel. - - David (no Hitchcockian nickname) Librik ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 04:20:34 -0700 (PDT) From: fred is ted Subject: RE: Fucking Top X Lists - --- tanter wrote: > In any event, remember how fegmaniax is all about > love, especially where Eb is > concerned--he's really just a big fluffy bunny..... > ;) And we're the only ones that can see him! Ted "Yeah, we get high on music" Kim Deal _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 07:04:45 -0700 (PDT) From: VIV LYON Subject: Fluff eBunny - --- tanter wrote: > In any event, remember how fegmaniax is all about > love, especially where Eb is > concerned--he's really just a big fluffy bunny..... Yeah, right. A big fluffy bunny that bit me. Vivien sounds like Eb could be a product of LJ's imagination. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:06:42 -0400 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: RE: Jacob Lurch > -----Original Message----- > From: David Librik > Mr. Moose and (D)andy = Morris and Andy > Jacob Lurch = Robyn > > Thus _The Ballad of Jacob Lurch_ is Robyn's novel. Brilliant deduction, sir... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 07:39:22 -0700 (PDT) From: VIV LYON Subject: Top X lists, el proximo ultimo I know I should just let it drop. I know this, and yet I can't abide by it. - --- Eb wrote: > Oh, good grief. So if I had posted, say, the Pazz & > Jop Best of 1998 poll > in NO ORDER, then you'd approve? Don't groan on my account. The only reason an non-ranked list like that would be an improvement is that it would render barren any potential 'Why is THAT album 47th? Shouldn't it be 49th?' discussions. > Repeatedly, you post these swoony sorts of comments, > like "Mon Dieu, Robyn > just AMAZES me. He's the best ever -- everything he > ever did was > brilliant!!" OK, fine, you're welcome to that view. > But you seem a little > unwilling to hear more measured opinions on the > subject. Well, Eb, since I've never expressed that particular hyperbolically swoony view, it's good to know it would be 'fine' with you if I ever chose to. And as far as more measured opinions- I'm all too eager to hear them. But a ranked list of someone's favorite albums isn't a measured opinion. It's uninformative, non-descriptive, and boring. Oh, and I'm sorry that I, a fan of Robyn Hitchcock's music, had the temerity to join a Robyn list and actually express enthusiasm for his music. Far be it from you to make the same gaff. > Well, perhaps you should allow for the possibility > that others might be > less obstinant in their tastes, and be more open to > musical tips. If other people think that they learn anything of value from ranked lists, then I would not want to deprive them of such a thing, worthless as I find it. I'm open to musical tips, by the way- I just don't take them from anonymous strangers, and I don't take them without an explanation. Vivien _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 07:50:28 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: Fluff eBunny >Viv toots: >--- tanter wrote: >> In any event, remember how fegmaniax is all about >> love, especially where Eb is >> concerned--he's really just a big fluffy bunny..... >Yeah, right. A big fluffy bunny that bit me. Repeatedly, yet you miraculously survive. He could just be playing with you, like a cat with a dragonfly. We neglected to mention that he's the bunny from _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. Is Brother Maynard around to fetch the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch? >Vivien >sounds like Eb could be a product of LJ's imagination. No more pizza and pythonian movies right before bedtime for lj, your imagination is just too vivid and dangerous. You probably saw _The Birds_ and that's how we got the Quail, great as he may say he is. Oh. And none of those awful newer Disney animated movies, neither. I'd hate to see what came out of them when they mixed with an _actual_ imagination. Happies, - -Markg, slightly concerned about the possibility that the fegpocalypse was unwittingly triggered by the bunny girl's late night ancovy raisin pizza and an Ed Wood movie marathon. I'll be hiding in my bunker, armed to the teeth. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:49:28 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Dream So, it wasn't a Robyn dream, but it was a FegDream. I was at a bar with some friends and for some reason, this bar had some sort of interactive Robyn monument. Also, to get back to the regular part of the bar, you had to crawl on your stomach through this tiny whole. Anyway, at one point, I looked over and saw 5 or 6 fegs. I recognized you guys from pictures I had seen. I don't remember who was there, but it seems like Mark Gloster and Karen and/or Carole may have been among the fegs who were present. Anyway, I recognized you guys and said hi, and then one feg (who looked like he should've been on the WB) pointed to some cute young blonde and said to me, "Go get her man." "You think I should fuck her?" I asked. "No," he replied. "You should sue her." The reason I should sue her had something to do with a bounced check and the fact that I didn't have enough money left for the interactive Robyn monument. Anyway, that's all I remember.... Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:09:22 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Top X lists, el proximo ultimo VIV LYON wrote: > Don't groan on my account. The only reason an non-ranked list like that > would be an improvement is that it would render barren any potential > 'Why is THAT album 47th? Shouldn't it be 49th?' discussions. I don't think it would spark those kinds of discussions. For example, Michael K. and I exchanged lists and he never said, "You put Rubber Soul 3 places lower than it should be." Instead, we just exchanged ideas about different albums. I had already planned on buying John Coltrane's Blue Train this weekend, but then I saw that Michael had a different Coltrane album in his top 25. So, I asked him about it and got descriptions of both albums. Now I can make a more educated decision about which album to get. I may still buy the one I had planned on buying, but the point is that I'm now more educated. Also, a list is a good way to see which fegs you want to trust on recommendations. You might look at my list, notice the John Denver album in the top 10, and decide to never listen to my recommendations. Or, you might see someone's list and realize that they're taste is much like your's. Basically, it's like this: Anytime I hear about a band, the first thing I do is mail you guys and get some feedback. I hate to buy something before I find out if it's any good. The problem is that most of the time, I get a bunch of replies saying "That band is fucking great!" and a bunch of replies saying "That band fucking sucks!" Who do I believe? > If other people think that they learn anything of value from ranked > lists, then I would not want to deprive them of such a thing, worthless > as I find it. I'm open to musical tips, by the way- I just don't take > them from anonymous strangers, and I don't take them without an > explanation. We're not strangers, and we intend to give explanations. All you have to do is ask. Also, you bring up a good point. We don't know each other as well as we know our local friends and family. I guess we are stangers in a way. That's why there's a need to make lists, whereas there isn't that need with people who see you and your CD collection every day. It's just a way to get to know each other better. I mean, how are you gonna know what to get me for my birthday if you don't get to know me a little better? Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 99 11:24:21 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Toolist revelation pending a question Baron Sharke du Rubbre writes, >We neglected to mention that he's the bunny from _Monty >Python and the Holy Grail_. Is Brother Maynard around >to fetch the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch? W-wait! I, unlike a few on this List, do not have MPatHG memorized. (But I do know the nifty Internet acronym for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so I can just type out MPatHG instead of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which takes up too much time.) (And I can still write my name in Elvish and Dwarven, so my distancing from Monty Python geeks is really just a clever ruse) Is "Brother Maynard" really named in the movie? I ask this because, as Eddie can vouch, at the end of Tool's one CD there is this whole lecture by "Reverend Maynard" about rabbits and stuff. . . . now, see, that's because the lead singer for Tool -- a strange guy who paints his face, dresses like Frank N. Furter and has odd ideas about sex, death, religion, LA, rabbits, and, well, everything -- is named Maynard James Keenan; but not really as his birth name was just James Keenan, he added the Maynard himself and I have always wondered why. (In as much as I spend time wondering about Tool.) So, er . . . there's not much of a point to this letter, except perhaps to annoy Eb. And to publicly wonder if Maynard stole his moniker from Monty Python. - --Quail +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ 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: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:34:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Wire and Revenge of the Nerds On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Joel Mullins wrote: > By the way, Miles, what's the significance of your email address? I > have a 7" of Luna doing a version of a song called Outdoor Miner, which > was written by Lewis/Newman. I don't know who those people are. There > seem to be a lot of Newmans. OK... so here's something that's always bugged me: Is there a relationship between Revenge of the Nerds (the film... probably the first) and the band Wire? On R.E.M.'s Document, they play a song called Strange. The credits list that it was written by Lewis/Gilbert/Newman/Gotobed (in some order). I later found out that this is a Wire song and this post from Joel implies that it was written by the same folks that wrote OTHER songs for Wire (whether or not they are actually members of the band is probably a trivial exercise in reference material usage, but I don't really care). In Revenge of the Nerds, Robert Caradine and Anthony Edwards portray intelligent, inexperienced, and somewhat socially ungraceful young gentlemen named Lewis Skolnik and Gilbert Lowe, respectively. As far as I recall, there are no characters in that film named Newman or Gotobed. Is this just an odd coincidence? It's really weird. Je. Oh... and Michelle Meyrink, who played Judy in Revenge of the Nerds (Lewis' girlfriend of the Omega Mu sorority), also played Jordan in Real Genius. Why isn't she a supermegastar today? My junior high crush on this girl has waned nil since 1985. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:46:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: Toolist revelation pending a question On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, The Great Quail wrote: > Is "Brother Maynard" really named in the movie? I ask this because, as > Eddie can vouch, at the end of Tool's one CD there is this whole lecture > by "Reverend Maynard" about rabbits and stuff. . . . now, see, that's > because the lead singer for Tool -- a strange guy who paints his face, > dresses like Frank N. Furter and has odd ideas about sex, death, > religion, LA, rabbits, and, well, everything -- is named Maynard James > Keenan; but not really as his birth name was just James Keenan, he added > the Maynard himself and I have always wondered why. (In as much as I > spend time wondering about Tool.) > I don't know nuthin about no Tool, but I can verify that Brother Maynard is not only named in the film, but actually appears and directs another Brother to recite from the Book of Armaments, chapter two, verses nine to twenty-one: BROTHER MAYNARD: Armaments, chapter two, verses nine to twenty-one. SECOND BROTHER: And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu-- MAYNARD: Skip a bit, Brother. SECOND BROTHER: And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.' MAYNARD: Amen. (courtesty of http://www.stone-dead.asn.au/mainpage.htm) Eric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:49:14 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Dream In a message dated 4/21/99 7:00:23 AM, skmull@swbell.net writes: << and then one feg (who looked like he should've been on the WB) >> That was probably me. Everyone's always telling me I look like a combination of Dawson and that frog with the top hat. - -----Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:08:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Fluff eBunny On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 Mark_Gloster@3com.com wrote: > >Viv toots: Yeah? Weird. I consider it more of a stoccato yap. > >Yeah, right. A big fluffy bunny that bit me. > Repeatedly, yet you miraculously survive. He could > just be playing with you, like a cat with a dragonfly. When I read this, it came out like a verse to It Sounds Great When You're Dead: Repeatedly, yet you mir- Aculously survive He could just be playing like A cat with dragonfly Bay----beeeee.... etc. I sometimes do that. I can't help it. And whenever I write a song, the words can almost always be sung to the melody of a song I know. > >Vivien > >sounds like Eb could be a product of LJ's imagination. > No more pizza and pythonian movies right before > bedtime for lj, your imagination is just too vivid and > dangerous. You probably saw _The Birds_ and that's how > we got the Quail, great as he may say he is. Oh. And > none of those awful newer Disney animated movies, > neither. I'd hate to see what came out of them when > they mixed with an _actual_ imagination. LJ? Can we order custom fegs from your imagination? I've got some ideas... > -Markg, > slightly concerned about the possibility that the > fegpocalypse was unwittingly triggered by the bunny > girl's late night ancovy raisin pizza and an Ed Wood > movie marathon. I'll be hiding in my bunker, armed > to the teeth. You'll only be doing that because LJ watched Harry's War and The Lost Boys in her Edward Herman Festival last night. J. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:12:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Wire and Revenge of the Nerds On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Capuchin wrote: > (whether or not they are actually members of the band is probably a > trivial exercise in reference material usage, but I don't really care). wow, first viv's post about how stupid you'd have to be to think that someone might take music recommendations from people other than blood relatives, and now this. it's just totally different from how i live. when other people talk about music they like, i want to know more about it. when unfamiliar names appear as the writers of a song, i want to know who it is that this band likes enough to cover. is this the music they grew up on? a bunch of their friends? a completely obscure band that they mistakenly believe is canonical? et cetera. > gentlemen named Lewis Skolnik and Gilbert Lowe, respectively. As far > as I recall, there are no characters in that film named Newman or > Gotobed. what about Colin or Robert (the first names of the other two band members)? hm... according to IMDB most of the other characters don't even have first names. aaron ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:39:27 -0700 (PDT) From: VIV LYON Subject: Most of you wish my new job kept me more occupied - --- Aaron Mandel wrote: > wow, first viv's post about how stupid you'd have to > be to think that > someone might take music recommendations from people > other than blood > relatives, and now this. I just want to make it absolutely clear that the first requirement for people from whom I accept music recommendations is that they not be blood relatives. My sister recently berated me for being an elitist because I didn't like Michael Bolton or Celine Dion. She seemed to feel vindicated in this view when she asked me who I did like, and I said Robyn Hitchcock. She said smugly, "Never heard of her." So, on a dream note, I had a dream last night about Doug Mayo-Wells. He was busking in the subway, playing the saxophone. He was quite good, but his 'presentation' was odd. He'd keep moving around, never wanting to stand in front of people. He always arranged it so that he was standing behind clusters of people. When I caught him behind me, I gave him a dollar. Vivien Don't spend it all in one place, Doug. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:10:49 -0800 From: tclark@apple.com Subject: Re: rhinoar > From: "cinders blue" > > p.s. anybody else think jeme looks like he should be a member of barenaked > ladies? Oh man, what a dis! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:27:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Me, Bare Naked. On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 tclark@apple.com wrote: > > From: "cinders blue" > > p.s. anybody else think jeme looks like he should be a member of > > barenaked ladies? > Oh man, what a dis! You ain't fucking kidding. And I'm just sitting here, reeling, wondering how I can take a line like that from someone who looks like they're standing in line at a Def Leppard concert circa 1989. No Canadian, J. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:33:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Griffith Davies Subject: Syd Barrett Fegs, Does anyone know where I can locate the Syd Barrett CD's (Barrett, Mad Cap Laughs, Opel)with the bonus tracks from someplace other than CDnow? Thanks griffith np - Bevis Frond "North Circular" disc 2 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:57:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Syd Barrett On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Griffith Davies wrote: > Does anyone know where I can locate the Syd Barrett > CD's (Barrett, Mad Cap Laughs, Opel)with the bonus > tracks from someplace other than CDnow? Nope. So why am I sending this to the list? I don't know. But my Madcap Laughs CD is missing (first the box for the set, now the first and best disc). Did I loan it to someone? Oh, hell. Shaping up to be one doozy of a day, J. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:00:31 +0000 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: Re: Me, Bare Naked. > No Canadian, > J. I got really mad about that, but while composing a snappy retort, I realised all Canadians really do look like we're in the Barenaked Ladies. Sigh. - -- Popsicle Pete ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:20:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Syd Barrett On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Capuchin wrote: > I don't know. But my Madcap Laughs CD is missing (first the box for the > set, now the first and best disc). > > Did I loan it to someone? > Oh, hell. > > Shaping up to be one doozy of a day, Odd. Mine is gone too, and I can't think of anyone who'd want to borrow it. When I told my friend who's just as into Syd Barrett as I am, it turns out he lost his too. I think that all of our CDs just evaporated because they used low-grade aluminum and plastic on The Madcap Laughs. Now I suppose we'll have to get new ones. (And my comic strip STILL has the name it did before the contest.) Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:50:53 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Dream, etc., etc. Joel M. writes: >Anyway, I recognized you guys and said hi, and then one >feg (who looked like he should've been on the WB) pointed to some cute >young blonde and said to me, "Go get her man." >"You think I should fuck her?" I asked. >"No," he replied. "You should sue her." He wanted you to get her man by suing her? Would the man be part of the legal settlement, then? Actually, I suspect that was me - I'm always suing women just prior to seducing them. It's a "courtship ritual" - very common among DC-area natives. (It just saves time if you get the lawyers involved early on in the relationship.) What's more, I've always looked like I could use a few weeks of Water Blotation therapy. And later: >Basically, it's like this: Anytime I hear about a band, the first thing >I do is mail you guys and get some feedback. So *that's* why Joel is outposting everyone else these days! I'm sure we're all flattered, but I should probably point out that this list is probably not the be-all-&-end-all of musical knowledge. My favorite new band of the last 2-3 years is Splitsville, and although it *was* a fellow feg who turned me on to them, until just now I don't think anyone's ever mentioned them around here, including on a top-whatever list. (Am I wrong?) >I hate to buy something before I find out if it's any good. The >problem is that most of the time, I get a bunch of replies saying >"That band is fucking great!" and a bunch of replies saying >"That band fucking sucks!" Who do I believe? Me? Seriously, though, that's what RealAudio is for (among other things). I know you usually just get a little snippet at most bands' & retailers' sites, but that's usually enough to at least tell you if you *won't* like it. And ever since I bought the NMH album, I refuse to believe anything but my own ears. An added side-benefit is that I've been buying fewer CD's. I've saved so much money I was able to switch to a part-time schedule at work, and now I can devote more time to vastly more important things, like bulding a system to sort all Robyn Hitchcock gigs by venue name! Wheee! And finally, Terry Marks writes: >And my comic strip STILL has the name it did before the contest. So why not call it "Unlike 'Unlike Minerva'"? That way people wouldn't get confused. John H. Hedges III, Inc. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #146 *******************************