From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #149 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, April 23 1999 Volume 08 : Number 149 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: top albums poll [amadain ] flies on the windscreen [S Dwarf ] Re: Rumours of NMH's demise... [Terrence M Marks ] Re: Kilby, Lists [S Dwarf ] Re: Rumours of NMH's demise... ["Jason R. Thornton" ] A Top ? List [Ben ] Jewels on Ice [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: A Top ? List ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: A Top ? List [Chris Gillis ] Re: Rumours of NMH's demise... [MARKEEFE@aol.com] [none] [Bayard ] Re: A Top ? List [Ben ] Re: A Top ? List [Terrence M Marks ] Re: A Top ? List [Terrence M Marks ] Re: your mail [Ross Overbury ] every bloody thing ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] infernal gadget ahoy! [Aaron Mandel ] Re: every bloody thing [tclark@apple.com] Re: Rumours of NMH's demise... [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer <] OTC [Eb ] every bloody thing ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Bye for now [Gary Sedgwick ] More rumours (with added NMH) ["Ghost Surfer" ] Re: your mail [overbury@cn.ca] Re: flies on the windscreen [Michael R Godwin ] Re: every bloody thing [lj lindhurst ] Re: Books [Michael R Godwin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:22:22 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: top albums poll > Well, sounds cool to me. We'll have to figure out some good way to do >that. Maybe whoever voted for an album could submit a 30 word review of the >album and then all of thse could be linked form the list (possible? yes?). Um, how do we determine this? What I mean is....."Revolver" always ends up on my top tens, but what the hell can I say about "Revolver" that hasn't been said already? Is there really anyone here who's never heard it, who needs to see some sort of description? Wouldn't it be kind of -redundant- to have everyone write comments about albums like "Revolver"? I guess what I'm saying is- maybe the annotations should be optional for some "canonical" sorts of records. Perhaps for RH and Soft Boys records as well. Or is this a non-RH poll? Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:04:55 -0700 (PDT) From: S Dwarf Subject: flies on the windscreen Eb wrote: > So I hear that professional wrestler Ravishing Rick > Rude died of a heart attack. Boy...first Jimmy > Durante, now this. > > Washboard tummies = death. Remember that, > kiddies.... also in newswonk, i can't remember her name, but the voice of Wilma Flintstone passed last week. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:41:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Rumours of NMH's demise... On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > musical saw moment, from Julian Koster. The only thing that made the first > three or four songs even somewhat worthwhile were the very occasional > colorizations from horns and various odd instruments. But, these were few Was Static there? (no good shows in Gainesville lately, apart from the Pawn Rook Four's CD release party, which was really cool and really local. They're touring all along the East Coast this summer, You guys ought to check them out.) Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:50:42 -0700 (PDT) From: S Dwarf Subject: Re: Kilby, Lists Terrence M Marks wrote: > The Onion had a really cool article "Craig Kilborn, > John Henson meet in first annual Smug Bastard > Conference", which they failed to archive. It > was, scarily enough, spot on. greg kinnear still squashes both of them in achievements in overall smugness (and that's not even getting into robert novak, morton kondracke, etc). _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:49:59 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Rumours of NMH's demise... At 05:41 PM 4/22/99 -0400, Terrence M Marks wrote: >On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > >> musical saw moment, from Julian Koster. The only thing that made the first >> three or four songs even somewhat worthwhile were the very occasional >> colorizations from horns and various odd instruments. But, these were few > >Was Static there? Is Static the alien lifeform come to Earth in the guise of a television set? If so, then yes. He sang the first song. While on the Elephant 6 tip, Beulah, Of Montreal, Ladybug Transistor, and some guy named Marc Growden (on whom I couldn't find any information online) play down here next week. - --JT ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:54:58 -0400 From: Ben Subject: A Top ? List This is from the RT list. (Apparantly this magazine is *printed* and people *pay money for it*... personally I don't understand it... ;) ) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Hi - Entertainment Weekly is frothing up an issue devoted to the Greatest Pop Music Ever. It's probably declasse for someone of RT's stature for us to be concerned about his landing in the ballot box in this vox populi... and yet, if you ever had the teenaged thrill of calling a local radio station in the '60's and voted for "Day Tripper" over "Daydream Believer..." you might not be able to resist participating in: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY.......... Greatest Pop Music Poll Post your nominations for the all-time greatest pop music (including such categories as: Best Classic Album, Most Underrated Artist, Most Overrated Artist, and Best One-Hit Wonder) http://cgi.pathfinder.com/r0/ew/AOL/in?/ew/fab400/music100/index.html \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:04:14 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Jewels on Ice How fun! I was just checking the Ice Magazine site and found, at the end of the Rock Upcoming Releases section, a mention of "Jewels for Sophia" coming out in July. We already new this, but it was neat to see on an official-type site like Ice. http://www.icemagazine.com/html/body_new_pop___rock.html - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:10:25 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: A Top ? List At 05:54 PM 4/22/99 -0400, Ben wrote: >ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY.......... Greatest Pop Music Poll I just clicked over there to see what kinds of categories they had. Here are the results of the polling so far. Anyone care to provide annotations for each? ;) > Here's the most popular name in > each category: > > Best Solo Artist (Classic) > Elvis Presley > > Best Solo Artist (Modern) > Madonna > > Best Group (Classic) > Beatles > > Best Group (Modern) > U2 > > Most Overrated Artist or Group > Madonna > > Most Underrated Artist or Group > madonna > > Best Classic Album > Pet Sounds > > Best Modern Album > ray of light > > Best Song (Classic) > Good Vibrations > > Best Song (Modern) > vogue > > Best Music Video > ray of light > > Best One-Hit Wonder > Vanilla Ice - --JT ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:35:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Gillis Subject: Re: A Top ? List > > > > Best Solo Artist (Modern) > > Madonna > > > > Most Overrated Artist or Group > > Madonna > > > > Most Underrated Artist or Group > > madonna > > > > Best Modern Album > > ray of light > > > > Best Song (Modern) > > vogue > > > > Best Music Video > > ray of light > > > > Best One-Hit Wonder > > Vanilla Ice Looks list the Madonna list already voted. .chris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:48:08 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Rumours of NMH's demise... In a message dated 99-04-22 17:51:56 EDT, you write: << While on the Elephant 6 tip, Beulah, Of Montreal, Ladybug Transistor, and some guy named Marc Growden (on whom I couldn't find any information online) play down here next week. >> And at least the first 3/4 of that show will be here in Portland on Monday, May 3rd, at EJs. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:50:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: [none] what's the instrument that makes the "spooky whistle" sound in "the devils coachman"? (or is "spooky whistle" the technical term for it?) the sound occurs at about :38 and 1:22 and 2:09 in the song. also, why no apostrophe in "Devils"? IIRC a devil's coachman is some kind of beetle ... but a search on excite only shows people's tape lists and suggests: choose one of the following words to add to your search : eddington peeped baseballserver earnestness ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:59:11 -0400 From: Ben Subject: Re: A Top ? List Chris Gillis wrote: > > > > > > Best Solo Artist (Modern) > > > Madonna > > > > > > Most Overrated Artist or Group > > > Madonna > > > > > > Most Underrated Artist or Group > > > madonna > > > > > > Best Modern Album > > > ray of light > > > > > > Best Song (Modern) > > > vogue > > > > > > Best Music Video > > > ray of light > > > > > > Best One-Hit Wonder > > > Vanilla Ice > > Looks list the Madonna list already voted. > > .chris I just checked again: Most Underrated Artist or Group: Neutral Milk Hotel Best Modern Album: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Best Song (Modern): "The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 and 3" Looks like the Fegmaniax list already voted. ;) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:21:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: A Top ? List If we were feeling malicious we'd all vote for some really obscure album for 'best', so when they printed it, they'd have to say "And the best album, according to our poll, is 'Monday's Lunch'. We don't have the slightest idea who it's by". Anyone else want to help Mark out? Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:42:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: A Top ? List On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Terrence M Marks wrote: > If we were feeling malicious we'd all vote for some really obscure album > for 'best', so when they printed it, they'd have to say "And the best > album, according to our poll, is 'Monday's Lunch'. We don't have the > slightest idea who it's by". > > Anyone else want to help Mark out? If you're going to do that, may as well vote for "Beeside" for best classic song, too. (Tintern Abbey deserves it, anyhow) Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:36:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: your mail On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Bayard wrote: > what's the instrument that makes the "spooky whistle" sound in "the > devils coachman"? (or is "spooky whistle" the technical term for it?) I forget the name, but it's a flexible piece of metal with two clappers on the end of it. You wobble it back and forth in your hand. IIRC, the harder you do it, the higher the pitch. I've actually wobbled one of those thingies, but that was back in my other life, before I became a computer nerd. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:38:41 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: every bloody thing I've just come back from seeing the absolutely wonderful live (and not too damn bad on record) John Spencer Blues Explosion and the overrated but interesting Sleater Kinney. In the case of S-K, I may have my cynical hat on, but they strike me as an indie Bangles/Go-Gos (and I liked The Bangles and The Go-Gos...). I saw another three girl band called Tiny Too a couple of nights ago at the good ol' Bull and Gate in Islington and they were far more quirky, charismatic and musically inventive. I think they have an album out on Fierce Panda records in the next couple of months, I'll keep you posted. I've seen quite a few female-heavy bands recently, and though I've kept out of the blokes/birds thing so far, can I just mention something an ex-girlfriend/axe-woman observed and I agree with: guitar playing has a lot more to do with female masturbatory techniques than male. Another thread that I've avoided dipping into concerns polls, lists etc. I have tested the temperature, however, and decided that people seem in favour of non-hierarchical obscurities. Here then, in no particular order, are... My top ten bands/artists almost no one will have heard of: George 'Bongo Joe' Coleman. - Plays a customised oil drum (not a Caribbean steel drum) whistles, and sings surreal socio-political ditties. One album on Arhoolie. Brilliant. The Tiger Lillies- Brecht and Weill style, accordion-led, mutant cabaret band. Numerous releases on their own Misery Guts label. John Fahey - Strange folk-blues-raga-guitarist who has been recording for decades. Has some of the best titles ever. His debut in the late 50s was called The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death, and on a recent album a track was entitled On The Death And Disembowlment Of The New Age. Living In Texas - Weird, intelligent, tuneful British pomp-rock-trash band of the mid-80s. Out of their time or what. The Dentists - Favourites of John Hegley (comedian/poet, one of Robyn's best mates). They are jangly, British, early 80s. The Nihilist Spasm Band - Have been playing the same Monday night gig in London, Ontario for over thirty years. Woody Allen eat you heart out. But get this, they've been improvising on homemade instruments for the entire duration, not a poncey clarinet. Thurston Moore is a big fan. Deaf School - British proto-punk art-rock. The Flaming Stars - Trashy bar-room rockers out of Gallon Drunk and The Stingrays. Several CDs on Vinyl Japan. Doctor Ross The Harmonica Boss - Eccentric one man blues band. Almost certainly dead I'm afraid. Furious Pig - Shouty, punk a cappella band. Ten (or some other number) bands or artists I've never seen mentioned here (a part from by me) that I think are good... The Butthole Surfers The Screaming Blue Messiahs The Monochrome Set Bongwater Furniture The Holy Modal Rounders The Fugs (all right the last two count as one) Pere Ubu The Roches Link Wray The Raincoats (Sleater-Kinney's grandmothers, and boy can they suck eggs) The Red Krayola Kevin Coyne. I'm getting a bit tired so forgive lack of annotation in the previous category and a rather limited live performance nomination. Anyway, I've seen this band at least a dozen times in the last twenty years and they have never been anything less than fantastic... Ladeeezzz and Gennermennnn...The kings and queens of scuzz, all the way from the ancient kingdom of Kizmiaz... THE CRAMPS!!! Finally, at the risk of appearing controversial, can I also nominate myself as the only person on the list who has very little time for NMH, Elliott Smith and Rufus Wainwright... Bayard On the playwrighting thing it has occurred to me that Pere Ubu were named after Jarry's cycle of Ubu plays, though I doubt that Nick Cave's Birthday Party has anything to do with Harold Pinter. Tomorrow night I'm going to see a new play about Rudolf Hess and his jailor (no Spandau Ballet jokes please) and Scotty Moore on Saturday. I think I've told you that before... King Elvis. jmbc. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:43:11 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: every bloody thing jbranscombe@compuserve.com wrote: > I've seen quite a few female-heavy bands recently, and though I've kept out > of the blokes/birds thing so far, can I just mention something an > ex-girlfriend/axe-woman observed and I agree with: guitar playing has a lot > more to do with female masturbatory techniques than male. You obviously haven't seen me masturbate, have you? Joel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:28:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: infernal gadget ahoy! i have whipped up a thing for feg album lists, and while it is currently rather crude, i believe that (a) it works and (b) more time spent on it right now wouldn't be much fun for me. so draw up a list of your 20 favorite albums (or fewer) and visit www.eecs.harvard.edu/~aaron/poll/feg/best-albums.pl to avoid splitting votes between "Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians" and "Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians" (for one example), there's a list of whatever has already gotten some votes before you get to the manual list-making part. please have your own list in existence before you go so that you aren't swayed by the tastes of other fegs, who after all are ignorant swine compared to yourself. i've seeded it with a few things just for kicks. the lists or parts of them might be posted on the web, so if you don't want your name to be used, leave that space blank. please give an email address no matter what; those will only be used for me to contact you if your list was eaten or if you volunteer to write something. questions or comments, email me, not the list. have fun. aaron ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:32:43 -0800 From: tclark@apple.com Subject: Re: every bloody thing > From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" > > Finally, at the risk of appearing controversial, can I also nominate myself > as the only person on the list who has very little time for NMH, Elliott > Smith and Rufus Wainwright... > no, you cannot. I'm in that club too. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:16:33 +0100 (BST) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: Rumours of NMH's demise... >>>>> "Jason" == Jason R Thornton writes: Jason> I'm not sure what The Music Tapes sound like on record. If Jason> it's a lot of solo banjo stuff like the performance last Jason> night, I'll probably skip the album when it comes out. I have the single "The Television Tells Us / Reindeer Song" (can't remember the exact title of the second side) plus an mp3 of "Please Mr Flight Controller" from an E6 website. I think they're great. Yeah, banjo might not do much for you, but when it's bowed to make jet-taking-off noises, it beats a slap in the face with a wet halibut any day. I'm straining not to use the 'q' word, nor compare them to TMBG, nor even describe them as 's*mm*ry p*p'; they do have a few 'bababa's... I don't know about you, but I found 'OTC vs Black Swan' a bit too "eh?" for frequent listening. YMMV. - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 01:41:45 -0800 From: Eb Subject: OTC Just got back from OTC and the Music Tapes, who performed at the Troubadour tonight. I was kinda disappointed with the Music Tapes. I saw the Tapes once before (I think the bill was Brainiac, Neutral Milk Hotel and them? wow!) and really got a kick of 'em. This time, I wasn't so enthralled. The lumbering, willfully clunky rhythms grew tiresome, and Koster's whining, off-pitch voice didn't stretch very far, either. The album's out next month, on Merge - -- maybe the musicianship will be a little stronger on disc. The band's publicist (visiting from Nashville) told me that the Tapes album was actually mixed at Abbey Road Studios, purely for the "mystique." Heh. On the other hand, OTC rocked the joint. They've tightened up their act a LOT since I previously saw them two years ago. Predictably, the show heavily stressed the band's pop side, and that's fine with me. The weirder parts worked too, though -- a couple of droning vamps were full o' tension, and the band did a couple of really bizarre a capella songs (I think one was entirely improvised) which really made me flash on what it must've been like to see the Mothers of Invention in concert. The films behind the band were interesting (if inessential), Koster still plays a lovely saw and the group's vocal harmonies were among the best I've heard in a live context (Jellyfish also comes to mind). Great stuff -- perhaps the best show I've seen this year, so far. And I even succumbed to weenieness, and bought an E6 t-shirt. Woo! Saw something exciting in L.A. Weekly, too. One of the top artists on my gee-I'd-love-to-see-'em-live-but-as-IF-they'll-ever-tour list is coming to town: Tom Zé! He's playing May 27th, at the Conga Room (the only other time I've been to this venue was for Rufus Wainwright, several months ago). That's plenty thrilling enough, but there's also an interesting post-modern twist on the evening -- the backing band is *Tortoise*. Huh! Now, I admit that I am woefully underexposed to Tortoise, and hence don't even know whether I like the band or not. But regardless, it should be really intriguing seeing two musical generations pitted against each other like that. Anyway, heck, I do like McEntire's work as a producer and Stereolab collaborator. So, now that the big Beulah/Of Montreal/Ladybug Transistor extravaganza is nearly here, I have a *new* concert to await with baited breath. And of course, tomorrow night is the Residents. Yum! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 06:20:40 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: every bloody thing Ross I'm afraid I live between Teddington and Twickenham of Trams fame, not London, Ontario. It seems amazing that The Nihilist Spasm Band have kept going in such a parochial setting, he opined patronisingly. I remember a thread about kazoos not so long ago. The Nihilist Spasm Band started out as a kazoo band and claim to be inventors of the Giant Electric Kazoo. Their web-site is at 3.sympatico.ca/pratten/NSB. Another obscure band I remembered in the night. Sons Of The Desert - Irish/European Gypsy folk blues. Very amusing songs. They had a mandolin player who, with the flick of an effects pedal could go from trad stuff to Hendrix impersonations, yes, on a mandolin... Yours On The Trams. jmbc. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:55:02 BST From: "matt sewell" Subject: re: >From: amadain >Reply-To: amadain >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: re: "enlightening" >Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:47:10 -0600 > >A couple days ago we were having dinner at this restaurant near my house. >This place hosts bands every so often, and on that particular evening they >were hosting "Arthur Lee and The Next Step". We couldn't stay so I did not >actually see them, although I did see that their equipment was already >there and it included a shitload of psychedelia-producing materials >(including a talk box and two wah wahs). I asked the waitress and she >didn't know anything about them- "must be a Deadhead band", she sez, >astutely noting the tie-dye cover on one of the amps. Blimey! It's been years since I heard anything about Arthur Lee (I'm assuming it's *the* Arthur Lee). Last thing I saw printed was a tour (of the UK) about 8 or 9 years ago including a gig in my home town of Oxford (another gig to add to the list of events I should have attended) I think he's got that Roky Erikson thing of every few years having to go to prison or hospital or something. What a shame you didn't see him play! It's weird 'cos I was only listening to Da Capo yesterday and wondering whatever happened to him! Cheers! Matt (fresh feg) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:38:23 +0100 From: Gary Sedgwick Subject: Bye for now Hi all, I've been a bit quiet recently due to the situation here at work; well, today is the day I am officially made redundant, so I'm going to have to unsub from fegmaniax for a while. I do have a hotmail account if anyone needs to contact me - garysedgwick@hotmail.com. I should be back in about a month (with a new job!). So see you all then, and don't go opening too many cans of bees in the meantime! Gary ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 05:55:41 PDT From: "Ghost Surfer" Subject: More rumours (with added NMH) The Terrastock festival in London looks like it's taking place the same weekend as the Reading festival (Late August weekend). I know which one i'd rather attend (can't stand books). It will also be more centrally located in London and be VERY convenient for day tickets or all weekend. Also, big rumour is that NMH will be playing it. RH is going on tour in the States with the Flaming Lips and Sebadoh as part of a "package". Don't know when though. "Jewels" looks likely for July. Anyone got any facts? - ----------------************************************************------------ "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: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:08:07 +0000 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: Re: your mail HappyGuy: > I belive it's called a FlexiTone, if it's the thing I believe you > to be describing. I just listened to DC this morning, but can't > think of the specific example. O darn. I'll have to listen again. That's just enough to jog my memory. Yes, I was thinking of a flexitone. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:12:13 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: flies on the windscreen On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, S Dwarf wrote: > also in newswonk, i can't remember her name, but the voice of Wilma > Flintstone passed last week. Jean Vander Pyl. There was a big obit. in yesterday's 'Independent'. - - Mike Godwin (back from heavy Old Masters break in Florence) PS Talented Jean also did the voice of Pebbles in the later episodes. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:44:13 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: every bloody thing jbranscombe: >I've seen quite a few female-heavy bands recently, and though I've kept out >of the blokes/birds thing so far, can I just mention something an >ex-girlfriend/axe-woman observed and I agree with: guitar playing has a lot >more to do with female masturbatory techniques than male. 1.) Yes, but once I get the guitar IN, I often have difficulty getting it OUT! And capos-! Oh-! (Girls, am I right?) 2.) I do not control what the great Quail wears on his feet. What kind of bitch do you think I am? (answer: a ROYAL bitch) 3.) I see that the Sweet Baby Fucking Jesus has let me down again. Sigh. I am now praying to The Bionic Woman, lj p.s., for anyone who is interested, I just added a whole new art section to my Web site! So get out your checkbooks and go to: http://www.w-rabbit.com After all, someone somewhere in Fegland must want to own a 5-ft tall painting of a chocolate bunny. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:03:59 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Books I just read a book which might be a contender for fegstatus. It was called 'Northern Lights' by Philip Pullman, and it's sort of teenage parallel universe Arctic wastes sword and sorcery stuff. In places he piles on too much action - battles between gypsies (sorry 'gyptians') Tartars, witches, mad scientists and panserbjornes (armoured bears, that is), not to mention a Harrison Ford style mercenary balloonist; but the central idea of a universe where everyone has a daemon companion (usually an animal of the opposite sex to themselves) is really well worked out. The obvious reference-points are Narnia, Jerry Cornelius and the Ice Schooner stuff by Moorcock, Alan Garner (the witches seem to be a dead ringer for the lios-alfar, arriving by air and shooting arrows at everybody) and to a lesser extent Fuchsia from Gormenghast; also Kingsley Amis's 'The Alteration'. And did I detect a tinge of Cruella de Ville in the evil Mrs Coulter? Another book it reminded me of, which is a dead cert fegbook, is 'Hawksmoor' by Peter Ackroyd, a time travel ghost story whodunnit set in London in the 20th and 17th centuries. I loved 'Hawksmoor' when I read it several years ago, and I have read a lot of other PA stuff since which just isn't as good - 'Chatterton' in particular fails to cut the mustard. Must read Hawksmoor again. BTW, while checking this out, I found an interesting bookstore at http://www.strangewords.com/weirdbooks/weirda.html - - Mike Godwin PS The two main Old Masters in Florence seem to be Anonimo Toscano and Ignoto Fiorentino ... ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #149 *******************************