From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #150 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, April 24 1999 Volume 08 : Number 150 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: flies on the windscreen [hal brandt ] Re: collage is the greatest of all the arts [Ethyl Ketone ] Beatles 1, ABBA 2... [Marcy Tanter ] Re: every bloody thing ["manitas de platano" ] Re: OTC [Eric Loehr ] fegbooks update ["she.rex" ] Re: Kilby [Aaron Mandel ] Re: Kilby [cinders blue ] Re: Kilby ["Paul Christian Glenn" ] showgoing advice [DDerosa5@aol.com] Re: Rumours of NMH's demise... ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Kilby [John Barrington Jones ] Re: every bloody thing ["JH3" ] Re: every bloody thing [Aaron Mandel ] Re: every bloody thing (Fahey) [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: every bloody thing [Christopher Gross ] Re: every bloody thing ["JH3" ] Re: Kilby [Capuchin ] Re: Kilby ["Paul Christian Glenn" ] Re: Kilby [Joel Mullins ] Re: Kilby [Capuchin ] heavy traffic on Friday? huh! [Eb ] Re: Kilby [Joel Mullins ] Re: heavy traffic on Friday? huh! [Joel Mullins ] Re: Kilby, Lists [fred is ted ] "They have Nick Cave dolls? I WANT one!!" [Natalie Jacobs ] an idea.... [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: Books [David Librik ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:44:46 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: flies on the windscreen > also in newswonk, i can't remember her name, but the voice of Wilma > Flintstone passed last week. Not to mention, Senor Wences (age 103!). S'alright? S'alright! /hal (living in Littleton, Co - creepiest place on Earth right now) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:57:28 -0700 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: collage is the greatest of all the arts At 2.17 PM -0700 4/21/99, Capitalism Blows wrote: >np, u. utah phillips, I'VE GOT TO KNOW (the best anti-war album i >know of). You got to start listening to Phil Ochs for a heavy dose of anti-war. Try "I Ain't Marching Anymore". And don't miss his great song "Cops of the World". Phil was the king of anti-war folksingers. My 2 cents. - - carrie "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:56:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: collage is the greatest of all the arts On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Ethyl Ketone wrote: > At 2.17 PM -0700 4/21/99, Capitalism Blows wrote: > >np, u. utah phillips, I'VE GOT TO KNOW (the best anti-war album i > >know of). > > You got to start listening to Phil Ochs for a heavy dose of anti-war. > Try "I Ain't Marching Anymore". And don't miss his great song "Cops of the > World". > Phil was the king of anti-war folksingers. "The Unheard songs" features a live Ochs track in MP3 this week. There's Robyn content too, courtesy of our very own Lobsterman. http://hillstrom.iww.org/~fanshaw/sotw.html or at the bottom of the "Other Links" page at http://travel.to/glasshotel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:31:11 -0600 From: Marcy Tanter Subject: Beatles 1, ABBA 2... Beatles still considered the best after all these years, according to British poll Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Reuters News Service LONDON (April 21, 1999 6:19 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - The Beatles are the clear winners in an opinion poll to pick the pop performers with the best lyrics over the last 40 years, the Evening Standard newspaper reported Wednesday. Thirty-one percent of those who took part in the NOP poll voted for the Beatles, while second-place Abba took 17 percent. Dr. Marcy Tanter Assistant Professor of English Tarleton State University Stephenville, TX 76401 254-968-9039 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:34:05 +0000 From: "manitas de platano" Subject: Re: every bloody thing Left hand, male technique. Right hand, female technique. Especially if you're playing slide guitar! A-pickin' and a-grinnin, Banana mitts ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:48:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: OTC On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Eb wrote: > 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. Does this mean you'll be having sushi for dinner before the show? ;-} Eric ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:09:58 From: "she.rex" Subject: fegbooks update Hi all! The fegbooks page has been updated, finally, with some new links, too. Check it out: http://members.xoom.com/SheRex/fegbooks.htm She.Rex - ---------------- I Do the Rock by Tim Curry (annotated by Linda Fletcher) The Rock-Idols Verse John and Yoko, farming beef Raising protein quota Sometimes they make love and art Inside the Dakota Rodney's feeling sexy Mick is really frightfully bold Me I do the only thing that stops me growing old I do the Rock I do the Rock Rock When I can get it - very stimulating! - --John Lennon and wife Yoko, who lived in the - --famous Dakota apartment building in NYC - --Rod Stewart 'Do You Think I'm Sexy?' - --Mick Jagger. - --(He left out this verse after John's death) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:14:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Kilby On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, JH3 wrote: > OUCH! I probably agree with you 99% of the time, Aaron, but here you > are just *dead wrong!* i know you're trying to disagree with me, but i'm too flattered about you usually agreeing with me to notice. > The guy is simply not funny AT ALL. Kilborn, on the other hand, was > (and is) fantastic. It's like he was born to be in front of a camera, > and it doesn't hurt that he has the best hair on television. it's true, the camera really lit him up. but i just couldn't take the insistent condescension toward anyone who didn't share the staff's grim worldview. so to say that i prefer stewart is a little misleading; with kilbourn on, i'd be more likely to watch but i winced through much of it. with stewart, i don't mind (and don't care) if it's on, and sometimes i get a few laughs out of it. a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:15:35 -0400 From: cinders blue Subject: Re: Kilby MC 900 Ft Paul Christian Glenn rapped: >I haven't given it a shot. Kilborn didn't impress me much on "The Daily Show" - >he's just a little too smarmy. I always feel like slapping that little smirk off >his face... kilborn's not smarmy. he's snarky. i like snarky. haven't watched the late late show. way past my bedtime. +w ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:36:46 -0500 From: "Paul Christian Glenn" Subject: Re: Kilby Also have to point out that, despite the beating he's been taking here, Jon Stewart is *the* man. I didn't go to college with the guy , but I've liked him ever since "Short Attention Span Theatre" - many, many moons ago (back when Comedy Central was really good). I liked him on his various talk shows since then, and was bummed when he didn't get the Late Show spot, and was happy when I heard that he was getting "The Daily Show". Kilborn was the only thing that annoyed me about TDS - otherwise it's a riot. Unfortunately, I no longer have cable, and haven't been able to revel in Stewart's more moderate smarminess (and/or snarkiness), so I can't give an opinion on how he's doing. I *do* find it unfortunate that he felt the need to star in that atrocious-looking "teachers are killing the kids" movie recently, though. That's all for now. :) 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 Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:44:33 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: showgoing advice so I see in the paper that the Ladybug Transistor and Of Montreal are playing a show together here in Chicago next month. I've heard a little of the LT album, a bit twee but quite pretty. Who can tell me if I should spend the money and lung capacity to go? I know I've seen opinions bandied about on Of Montreal (three prepositions in a row!), but don't remember if folks talked reviewed them live. Help? dave ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:05:48 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Rumours of NMH's demise... At 09:16 AM 4/23/99 +0100, Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer wrote: >>>>>> "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. Admittedly, I'd still be interested in hearing The Music Tapes on record. I thought they were far from great live, true. But, I suspect that the arrangements might be more intricate, more fully thought-out, on the studio versions. I also suspect that there might actually *BE* band arrangements on the album, and opposed to the solo Julian Koster show that made up the first half of the live set. >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'd have liked to have seen Koster do anything interesting on his beat-up ol' banjo besides his chunky strumming. I do like banjo in various settings. Bela Fleck's guest work on the most recent Dave Matthews Band album, fer instance, comes to mind. Although, I saw Bela Fleck live once - mainly to finally check out Victor Wooten's bass playing - BIG Yawn. It's not the fact Koster played banjo I had a problem with, it was the way he played it. And the lack of anything else going on... >I'm straining not to use the 'q' word... Heh heh. If the shoe fits, chuck it at the nearest policeman. I think that with a lot of these E6 guys, the "q" word is dead-on. We're talking about "quail-licious," right? >I don't know about you, but I found 'OTC vs Black Swan' a bit too >"eh?" for frequent listening. YMMV. I unwrapped it yesterday, but the CD has yet to make it into the CD player yet. Mileage currently unknown. - --Jason ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:44:41 -0700 (PDT) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: Kilby Paul wrote: > Also have to point out that, despite the beating he's been taking here, Jon > Stewart is *the* man. I didn't go to college with the guy , but I've liked him > ever since "Short Attention Span Theatre" - many, many moons ago (back when Comedy > Central was really good). I liked him on his various talk shows since then, and Hey, while we're on the subject, whatever happened to Short Attention Span Theatre?? That was the best thing I've ever seen on Comedy Central. Great stuff. - -jbj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:43:27 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: every bloody thing J. Branscombe: >>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... TC: >no, you cannot. I'm in that club too. Hey, does this mean I can finally start printing membership cards now? (Actually, I don't think Rufus is so bad, but that video he did with all those women committing suicide was just GAWDAWFUL! What were these people thinking? UnbeLIEVable!) And right now I'm listening to the new David Sylvian album, "Dead Bees on a Cake"... his best effort in years, but that's not saying all *that* much, is it? The best I can say for it is that it's lovely background music, except that all the automobile noises keep making me have to get up and look out the window (I live in the country on a dead-end road, you see.) P.C. Glenn: >Also have to point out that, despite the beating he's been taking >here, Jon Stewart is *the* man. I didn't go to college with the >guy , but I've liked him ever since "Short Attention Span Theatre"... I was the only one really bashing him, wasn't I? And I did admit I was biased; I'm sure he's just as embarrassed about his collegiate past as I am. I think his problem on the Daily Show is that he can't use profanity as liberally as he normally would, and it's cramping his style. Also, he's better at wisecracks and off-the-cuff stuff than he is at reading lines off a teleprompter. He'll improve, I suppose... I can't comment on the movies he's done; I've never seen one. Anyway... Here's my list of artists that maybe not everyone on this list has heard of, though probably at least 50% have, and whom I think for some weird reason that Robyn Hitchcock fans might like, though they probably won't... and it's TOTALLY UNRANKED: The Auteurs: Sneery/raspy/raunchy yet highly melodic British pop, sort of like Suede but nastier and less Bowiesque. Splitsville: Fantastic American guitar-pop, slightly punkish but clearly Beatles/Beach Boys influenced; imagine if Crowded House were actually four Yanks with distortion pedals and a willingness to use them. The Wannadies: Similar to Splitsville but not as awesome. For Against: "Post-punk" 3-piece from Nebraska - less bombastic/ atmospheric and more melodic than their British counterparts. Half-String: Another "post-punk" (sorry, gotta put that term in quotes for some reason) band, from Phoenix, Arizona. Less bombastic, more melodic, and just as atmospheric. Brian Stevens: Actually you've all heard of this guy; he was in the Cavedogs but I personally like his solo stuff better. Basic Beatlesque guitar-pop. Lilys: Often dismissed as an obvious Kinks ripoff, but I like them anyway. (Not the same as the DC-based shoegazer Lilys, but I sort of liked them too...) Penelope Houston: Former Avengers (SF-area '80's punk band) lead singer who released a fine album called "Cut You" in '96 and has just released an almost-as-fine album called "Tongue" - for people who like female singers with both emotion and brains, but aren't really into Liz Fraser or the Lilith Fair scene. (Sorry if that sounds sexist...) And I also finally got a copy of Swervedriver's 1995 album, "Ejector Seat Reservation" - it's a *crime* that this was never released in the US. And hey, it's not too late... John "my last word on the subject, until next time" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:48:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: every bloody thing On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, JH3 wrote: > Lilys: Often dismissed as an obvious Kinks ripoff, but I like them > anyway. (Not the same as the DC-based shoegazer Lilys, but I > sort of liked them too...) how sure are you about that? a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:47:59 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: every bloody thing (Fahey) In a message dated 99-04-22 22:41:29 EDT, you write: << 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. >> John Fahey is one of my favorite artists, and the album you mentioned ("tToBJD") was just earlier today voted onto my All-Time Top 20 FegAlbumList (um, by myself). And, because I'm a stickler for details, I should mention that that album was actually released in 1965; you might've been thinking of just plain ol' "Blind Joe Death" (the not-yet-transfigured, I guess), which came out in 1959 on John's own Takoma label. The version one can now find on CD is called "The Legend of Blind Joe Death" and this features two different early 60's re-recordings of the whole album, plus maybe one or two songs from the original 1959 edition. This is great stuff! A little more traditionally folk-bluesy than his only slightly later albums, which started to incorporate aspects of Indian raga, classical (one piece on "America" is Dvorak), and whatever else. Fantasy is gradually re-releasing a lot of his older (60's) material. Check 'im out! - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:56:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: every bloody thing On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, lj lindhurst wrote: > 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. I thought MOMA had dibs on that one. Or am I thinking of "Evil Child"? - --Chris np: noisy coworkers. It must be really good, because I find myself listening to it more and more. ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:03:58 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: every bloody thing >> Lilys: Often dismissed as an obvious Kinks ripoff, but I like them >> anyway. (Not the same as the DC-based shoegazer Lilys, but I >> sort of liked them too...) >how sure are you about that? Not at all sure, apparently! I guess they changed so drastically between the late 80's and the 90's that I just assumed it was a completely different band. And I don't actually own the earlier stuff, so I couldn't check the lineups... Mea culpa! John H. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:15:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Kilby On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, John Barrington Jones wrote: > Hey, while we're on the subject, whatever happened to Short Attention Span > Theatre?? That was the best thing I've ever seen on Comedy Central. Great > stuff. Hey, Short Attention Span Theater! I remember that... that was great... it was on right before MST3K when I was in high school. Oh, man... My high school was so fucked up. There was this guy and he threw a desk at a teacher and it shattered the blackboard. I didn't know blackboards could shatter? What are they made of, anyway? It was actually green, though. Why don't we call them greenboards? I like the new twenty dollar bills. I think they're great. So yeah. J. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:16:16 -0500 From: "Paul Christian Glenn" Subject: Re: Kilby >Hey, while we're on the subject, whatever happened to Short Attention Span >Theatre?? That was the best thing I've ever seen on Comedy Central. Nah, the best thing ever to hit Comedy Central was the original MST3K (with Joel Hodgeson). That show was, IMO, the 2nd best television show in history (first place going to, of course, "The Wonder Years"). The first time I ever stumbled across Comedy Central was in the middle of a "Turkey Day Marathon" - something like 24 hours of MST3K. My brother and I laughed so hard I practically pissed the couch. Them were the days. 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 Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:45:55 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Kilby Paul Christian Glenn wrote: > Nah, the best thing ever to hit Comedy Central was the original MST3K (with Joel > Hodgeson). That show was, IMO, the 2nd best television show in history (first > place going to, of course, "The Wonder Years"). The first time I ever stumbled > across Comedy Central was in the middle of a "Turkey Day Marathon" - something > like 24 hours of MST3K. My brother and I laughed so hard I practically pissed the > couch. Them were the days. Yeah, the show's not as good anymore. I'll never forget the first time I saw MST3K. They were watching some cheesy movie with Kathy Ireland and we all sat around taking bong hits and laughing our asses off. It was great! Joel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:17:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Kilby On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Joel Mullins wrote: > Yeah, the show's not as good anymore. I'll never forget the first time > I saw MST3K. They were watching some cheesy movie with Kathy Ireland > and we all sat around taking bong hits and laughing our asses off. It > was great! If this had come from anyone else, I would have thought it was a joke. Creeped. J. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:29:41 -0800 From: Eb Subject: heavy traffic on Friday? huh! DDerosa: >so I see in the paper that the Ladybug Transistor and Of Montreal are playing >a show together here in Chicago next month. I've heard a little of the LT >album, a bit twee but quite pretty. Who can tell me if I should spend the >money and lung capacity to go? I know I've seen opinions bandied about on Of >Montreal (three prepositions in a row!), but don't remember if folks talked >reviewed them live. Help? Well, there aren't too many here who have seen the band live, but LJ gave Of Montreal a big thumbs-down, because they were too homely to get her womanly jooces flowin'. (She much prefers the Tony Danza-esque charms of Greg Dulli. ;)) JH3: >(Actually, I don't think Rufus is so bad, but that video he did with >all those women committing suicide was just GAWDAWFUL!) I totally agree, despite my obvious pro-Rufus bias. That video looks like it was made in 1982, back when pop stars were trying more often to "act" in their videos (and failing miserably). Yep, it really sucks. It should've been something more classy and natural, like Rufus singing to the sky amidst pretty mountain scenery or something. Hey, have you folks seen that television ad for Banana Republic/Chinos? Who's singing that song? I like it! It kinda sounds like Luna doing Brazilian pop...it *isn't* Luna, is it? Boy, the new Poi Dog Pondering disc is terrible. Oooooof. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:14:40 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Kilby Capuchin wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Joel Mullins wrote: > > Yeah, the show's not as good anymore. I'll never forget the first time > > I saw MST3K. They were watching some cheesy movie with Kathy Ireland > > and we all sat around taking bong hits and laughing our asses off. It > > was great! > > If this had come from anyone else, I would have thought it was a joke. What's that supposed to mean? Joel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:17:42 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: heavy traffic on Friday? huh! Eb wrote: > Hey, have you folks seen that television ad for Banana Republic/Chinos? > Who's singing that song? I like it! It kinda sounds like Luna doing > Brazilian pop...it *isn't* Luna, is it? I've seen the commercial, but don't remember the song. If it *was* Luna, I think I would've noticed, so I'm gonna guess that it is *not* Luna. But who knows? I was wrong about something once back in '91 and I'm sure it couldn't happen again. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:23:27 -0700 (PDT) From: fred is ted Subject: Re: Kilby, Lists - --- Mark_Gloster@3com.com wrote: > > > Kilborn used to be our sports guy on the central > coast (Monterey, Salinas, Santa> Cruz.) It seemed like it killed him to avoid saying> the clever things that came> up in his head. When they slipped out, it was a > riot. I think he's tremendously> gifted and talented. It's pretty hard to be funny> every day without leaning on> some kind of schtick, tho. I thought Kilborn was a panic on The Daily Show. Very funny persona and a quit wit. The show has excellent writers, even if they basically are copying Howard Stern's approach. John Stewart got off to a bad start, barely able to read the teleprompter or express his thoughts. He's doing better now, but Craiggers still gets my vote. Stewart is a yop-notch stand-up, and this comes through in the interviews. Haven't seen Kilborn's new show. > Top 40 lists: > I think I'd like it, too, if the lists were made to > allow a comments box for> each of the entries that could be perused by those> of us whose interest becomes > piqued, peeked, peaked, poked, creaked, creeped, or > croaked by the choices of> other fegs. I have a great deal more interest in> what fegs think is great (and > maybe why) than the sad zillions who remain> feglistless. I'll even participate,> if only to provide y'all with ammunition for future> sharkboy taste ridicule. Couldn't we have two seperate feg music lists? The first would be like She.Rex's neato list, which presents the broad gamut of feg faves w/annotation, and the second list would collate the faves with no annotation. A good argument for not having cable: The Hootie and the Blowfish Celebrity Pro-Am golf tournament was on ESPN yesterday. Ted "Yeah, we get high on music" Kim Deal _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:28:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: "They have Nick Cave dolls? I WANT one!!" Re. Mr. jmbc's list of bands that don't get mentioned here very often... The Fugs, while I have never actually heard them, have an album which is on my Top 3 List (argh!) of greatest titles of all time - "It Crawled into My Hand, Honest." (The other titles are "Gotta Let This Hen Out!" and "Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash.") Bongwater are terrific: "There's a king-size mattress in the middle of the room, where me and the big fat lead singer from Canned Heat are finishing up an afternoon of incredibly hot sex. Boy, does he have a big one." - --- Mr. Godwin recommended Peter Ackroyd's "Hawksmoor." Much as it pains me to say this, I tried re-reading it recently and actually found it... too weird. I didn't get it. Marvellously written, however, and with an excellent foreboding, ominous quality to it. Except that I never figured out what was being forboded. Maybe my brain is calcifying. - --- Re. the wondrous and charming Olivia Tremor Control, a lengthy review can be found at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gnat/otc.html, if you are so inclined. To the others who saw them: did they do that little thing before some of the songs where they waved to each other and sang out, "All set!" in unison? I thought that was cute. n. np: new Man... or Astroman? - has an "automated liner notes track" with a computer voice reading off the credits. One of my friends gets thanked! (she works for Touch & Go) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 18:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: S Dwarf Subject: Re: Kilby John Barrington Jones wrote: > Hey, while we're on the subject, whatever happened > to Short Attention Span Theatre?? That was the best > thing I've ever seen on Comedy Central. Great stuff. Marc Maron happenned to it? no, it seems like they wanted to go to more "coherent" programming, and so they didn't feel the need to have a show based on showing bits and pieces of things. too bad. a forum like SAST might make Bob & Margaret or Strangers with Candy or some of the other crap they have now semi-watchable. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 21:32:16 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: an idea.... New ABC sitcoms, a new bands, or Terry! new names for your strip: Too Weird for Natalie Depends on Bob Dole Jellyfish on Viagra (I'm going to possibly stick this one in a song) Lj's Sticky Guitar (I'm going to inspect my guitars very carefully after she visits) Craig Snarky and the Talk Show Hosts Johnny Smuggness Qiller Quails from Outer Space Who the Hell is Allen? Happies, - -Markg, recovering from the tragic loss of billions of cubic feet of intellectual gas. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 03:29:12 -0500 From: David Librik Subject: Re: Books Michael R Godwin writes: >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. Absolutely one of the best of that peculiar kind of "children's fantasy" as appealing to imaginative adults as to children. Pullman engages in a staggeringly unique creation, an alternate version of our own world painted in strangely reflective colors. Unlike Narnia, but like Gormenghast, the author takes his world very seriously -- this was always the key to my own enjoyment of fantasy as a child. His unreal world is as big, spectacular, and cruel as our own, not a safe miniature land. Very much the sort of book Robyn Hitchcock would enjoy, if the other titles I've seen him recommend are any indication of his tastes. It's published in the US as "The Golden Compass," by the way, and has a sequel, "The Subtle Knife." The second book builds to a tremendous and breathtakingly audacious set of revelations -- if he can pull off in the unpublished third book what he's been hinting at in the second, this will be one of the classics of fantastic literature. If he can't, expect outraged cries of blasphemy from many quarters, 'cause Pullman is uncompromisingly taking on -- and reinterpreting -- the biggest themes of all. - - David Librik ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #150 *******************************