From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #167 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, May 5 1999 Volume 08 : Number 167 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: are you a hophop fan? [Ben ] Re: are you a hophop fan? [Christopher Gross ] acid bird dreams [Natalie Jacobs ] A Day in the Life? ["Ron C." ] dead things...no wives, no politicz, no robyn. ["jbranscombe@compuserve.c] simpsons [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] California fegs, hey hey hey [lj lindhurst ] Fwd: Skip Spence Tribute ["Chris!" ] Shawm Wallace? [shmac@ix.netcom.com] Re: simpsons [Ben ] Re: Name that instrument! [Ross Overbury ] shawms & " ' " [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Re: acid bird dreams [Ross Overbury ] BayArea Fegs, hey hey hey ["Chris!" ] A musical discovery (fwd) [Ross Overbury ] Re: Name that instrument! [Terrence M Marks ] Re: are you a hophop fan? ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: are you a hophop fan? [Joel Mullins ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V8 #165 [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer ] Re: acid bird dreams [Michael R Godwin ] Re: are you a hophop fan? [Michael R Godwin ] Re: simpsons sucking [dlang ] THE very end of it ["Ghost Surfer" ] biffo and fetish in the 25th century [dlang ] Re: California fegs, hey hey hey [dmw ] Re: CD recorders (no Robyn) [Aaron Mandel ] "I dreeeeeeaaamm of Bayard with the light bro-own hair..." [lj lindhurst ] Re: acid bird dreams [Capuchin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 18:14:11 -0400 From: Ben Subject: Re: are you a hophop fan? I was wondering if anybody had comments on the new Voltron and/or Transformers Beast Wars series. Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 19:29:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: are you a hophop fan? On Tue, 4 May 1999, Eb wrote: > I thought the entire Loch Ness Monster plot was *horrendous*. That monster > belonged on The Flintstones, not The Simpsons. I also thought that the > earlier blood-spurting-from-the-forehead gags were totally at odds with the > tone of the show. While I liked Nessie, I agree with you about the forehead-spurting-blood gag: it was not only at odds with the tone of the show, it wasn't very funny in its own right. > This season, there has been a disastrous pattern of plunging Homer into an > entirely different life for a half-hour, despite its complete unlikelihood. > Then at the end of the episode, he's back in Springfield again, with the > sojourn forgotten forever. I don't think this is an inherently bad formula (though admittedly it has led to some weak episodes). If I wanted to be pretentious, I might even say that this sort of episode is a meta-joke on the whole sitcom genre, since so many sitcoms have treated each episode as its own little universe and refuse to show any progress from one episode to the next. (Remember the one where Homer and Flanders became buddies, which really disturbed Bart until Lisa pointed out that in a week everything would be back to the way it was?) On a less pretentious level, I'd hate to dismiss the whole Homer-gets-a-new-career-for-one-episode formula because it has given us some great episodes: for example, Homer Becomes Burns' Campaign Manager, Homer Becomes a Country Singer's Manager, and of course, Homer Becomes an Astronaut. Hail Ants! - --Chris (who is about to disappear for the rest of the week) ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 19:35:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: acid bird dreams James, the bird in my dream was definitely not a European robin. It had a brown streaky back, a white throat with a black stripe on it, and a rose-colored (i.e. dark pink) patch on its chest. It was about the size of a sparrow. God knows how I remember details like this. Anyone who can identify this bird will receive a copy of my dream journal from 1992-93, if I can remember where it is. Those of you with excessive time on your hands (and I know you do) might want to look at my website, which now features a page of my reviews (Spleens a Go-Go) and a page of very cool XTC interviews and articles from 1984-92. Spleens a Go-Go can be reached through the main site, , and the XTC interviews are at . Thank you for your time. n. np: Elf Power, "A Dream in Sound" - good if somewhat undistinguished. They sort of sound like a much less interesting Olivia Tremor Control. But they do have a song called "The Bird With the Candy Bar Head," which is cool. now reading: "The Battle of Brazil," in which Terry Gilliam kicks ass and takes names! (The tale of the aborted guerilla screening at USC is one of the funniest things I've read in ages - "It's not a film, it's an *audio-visual aid.*") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 13:12:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron C." Subject: A Day in the Life? I've heard of R.H. covering a Day In The Life but haven't heard it--does anybody have it in real audio, mp3 (or some other audio format)? Would they be kind enough to put it on a web site? THANKS! rwc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 19:58:28 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: dead things...no wives, no politicz, no robyn. >Celeb clog-popping: Sir Alf Ramsey I attended Coventry City v Wimbledon at the weekend (Association Football). The minute's silence before the match, in memory of Sir Alf, was the most silent silence I've ever not heard. >Crazy Horses Virgin advert. Sorry Mike G. Have to disagree. Brilliant song. BUT the lyrics are about the pollution caused by the internal combustion engine. The guy in the shot is joyfully riding a motorbike across pastures green...What?!!? Ad execs missing the point huge time I venture... >Oliver Reed V.good in Women In Love. A lost talent in a lot of ways. But for me the wonderful thing is that you can say that Ollie Reed died in the pub. Because the pub in which Ollie Reed died was actually called The Pub...It's the way he'd have wanted it, if one ever 'wants' death. Over-weight, Substance Abuser Elvis Just Like Ollie. jmbc. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 00:49:44 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: simpsons On Tue, 4 May 1999 18:08:27 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 09:42:32 EDT >From: JudeHayden@aol.com >Subject: sucking Simpsons > >Eb said- >"...My GOD, The Simpsons sucked last night. That was one for the record >books." > >Phew- I'm glad I'm not alone in that thought... I was worried that I >must've not been paying enough attention and missed something- anything- >funny. Yuck. What was it? I missed it.... Was it as bad as the "spinoffs" episode? -luther ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 22:16:47 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: California fegs, hey hey hey Here's our itinerary for our trip to CA!! wheeeee!!!!! I'm bringin' the cheesy poofs!!! (no that's not my pet name for TGQ) > >TRAVEL BOOKING CONFIRMATION >******************************************* >TRAVEL ITINERARY >AIR> Jun 23 CO# 1929 LGA --> IAH 17:59 20:40 >AIR> Jun 23 CO# 1001 IAH --> SFO 21:41 23:46 >AIR> Jun 30 CO # 719 SFO --> IAH 12:10 18:07 >AIR> Jun 30 CO# 1972 IAH --> LGA 18:52 23:18 >******************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 19:21:30 -0700 From: "Chris!" Subject: Fwd: Skip Spence Tribute This came across from another list. I cannot claim its authenticity, but it may help some sleep better. It looks quite good, if this turns out to be a final list.... .chris > > Here's what the track list should be for "More Oar" when Reprise finally > decides to release it. > > 1. Robert Plant/Little Hands > 2. Mark Lanegan/Cripple Creek > 3. Alejandro Escovedo/Diana > 4. Ron Nagle & Scott Matthews/Margaret tiger Rug > 5. Jay (Son Volt)& The Sir Omaho Quintet/Weighted Down > 6. Mudhoney/War In Peace > 7. Robyn Hitchcock/Broken Heart > 8. (Can't read the fax) Somebody West/All Come to Meet Her > 9. Tom Waits/Books Of Moses > 10. Greg Dulli/Dixie Peach Promenade > 11. The Ophelias/Lawrence of Euphoria > 12. Flying Saucer Attack/Gray-Afro > 13. Alastair Galbraith/This Time Has Come > 14. Engine 54/It's The Best Thing For You > 15. Outrageous Cherry/Keep Everything Under Your Hat > 16. Beck/Halo Of Gold > 17. The Minus Five (Scott McCouaghey and Peter Buck)/Doodle > > This is from a fax with very poor resolution, so my apologies for any > unintended factual/spelling errors. > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 22:37:13 -0400 From: shmac@ix.netcom.com Subject: Shawm Wallace? I know what a shawm is, I was just phrasing the answer in the form of a question. I KNEW I should have put a ", Alex" after that. ;-) You forgot my other favorite ancient instrument -- the rebec, a violiny kind of contraption with the sound holes in the wrong places and a rounded back. ========= SH McCleary Prodigal Dog Communications 3052 S. Buchanan St., #A1 Arlington, VA 22206 shmac@prodigaldog.com www.prodigaldog.com www.mp3.com/nairobi3/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 22:40:09 -0400 From: Ben Subject: Re: simpsons "David W. Dudich" wrote: > On Tue, 4 May 1999 18:08:27 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > > >Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 09:42:32 EDT > >From: JudeHayden@aol.com > >Subject: sucking Simpsons > > > >Eb said- > >"...My GOD, The Simpsons sucked last night. That was one for the record > >books." > > > >Phew- I'm glad I'm not alone in that thought... I was worried that I > >must've not been paying enough attention and missed something- anything- > >funny. Yuck. > > What was it? I missed it.... > Was it as bad as the "spinoffs" episode? > > -luther It was about Mr. Burns wanting to be popular with the town, so he captures the Loch Ness monster and brings it to Springfield. Total crap. Remember when you used to be able to suspend your disbelief during The Simpsons and be transported into their whimsical, yet frigteningly realistic distopia? Now the show is like a total goof. I hear they're even considering doing an animated version of The Simpsons to pander to a family audience. Sell outs. (6/20) Next week: Homesexuality on The New Adventures of Johnny Quest - An in depth exclusive interview with Race Bannon. Plus, Stephen Hawkings and Jenna Jameson in part 2 of their 3-part discussion on astrophysics. Get it all here: http://www.I-could-write-a-review-about-a-grain-of-salt.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 23:34:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Name that instrument! Hmmm. I just read the liner notes thoroughly for the first time ever. Terry the cartoonotron wins the mystery prize, having beat out James by about either 14 minutes or one day and 14 minutes. Bill Lyons sure plays the shawm like a middle eastern instrument! Now I'm got to rig a double reed mouthpiece on my alto recorder body to make a pseudo-shawm, and a trumpet mouthpiece, so it's a pseudo-serpent. > On Tue, 4 May 1999 overbury@cn.ca wrote: > > >Terry (and anyone else who suggested it was a shawm), > >can you quote a source? I downloaded a shawm sample, > >and it's close, but it didn't quite sound right. Close, > >though. > > The only source I've seen is in the Respect liner notes. > > Cheers! > -Glen- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 16:24:44 +1200 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: shawms & " ' " >Whatever it is, I'd've said it was the same thing that makes that noise on >'Baby you're a rich man' by the Beatles. nope, that was an oboe, played (ISTR) by one Mr Brian Jones. >My dad, the transplanted Kansan he is, uses three or for in a word quite >often: > >_G'onov'r'he'_ (Gon-O-vur-heah): a contraction of "get on over here" as an ex-Londoner, I can assure you that the words "glottal stop" have an apostrophe-d glottal stop - "glo'l stop" RIP - Godfrey Evans (who? say the yanks) James PS - hope the weather clears up in the midwest for yuzaw. 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: Wed, 5 May 1999 00:13:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: acid bird dreams On Tue, 4 May 1999, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > James, the bird in my dream was definitely not a European robin. It had a > brown streaky back, a white throat with a black stripe on it, and a > rose-colored (i.e. dark pink) patch on its chest. It was about the size > of a sparrow. God knows how I remember details like this. Anyone who can > identify this bird will receive a copy of my dream journal from 1992-93, > if I can remember where it is. Possible matches: American Woodcock - robin-sized, rose chest, streaky back throat grey, not white. The tail points upward sharply. Call: bzeep or pweet. White-winged Crossbill - sparrow-sized, rose chest, streaky back, throat rose. Call: chit. Pine Grossbeak - pinkish-red, robin-sized, rose head. Call: pew-pew-pew. Mark Gloster - ostrich-sized, pale rose chest, white throat. Call: bohica-hica-hicabo. Common Redpoll - sparrow-sized, rose chest, white throat, streaky back. Call: sueweee. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 21:32:59 -0700 From: "Chris!" Subject: BayArea Fegs, hey hey hey Hey- I forgot Chris' address, so I am sending this to the list. I was wondering what the status of the Film meet up in SF was. Also, a public plug for it would be good to give those who are on the edge reason to go and let those who are not to know what they are missing. We could consider this a practice run for notable easter Fegs in late June. For the whole of youse... I picked up two new old albums recently. One being Dusty Springfield's "Dusty in Memphis." The Rhino Deluxe reissue. Local independent radio DJs in SF have been falling over themselves to play tracks from it. In short this is brilliant. I urge those even the slightly inclined to buy it immediately. It blew me out of the water. The performance and arrangements are breathtaking at some points and never ceases to fascinate. Plus, the packaging is pretty good. Another, is Van Dyke Parks' "Song Cycle." If your not inclined towards Pet Sounds, don't even bother. It has that similar arrangement style, due in no small order to the fact that Parks was heavily involved with B. Wilson throughout his career. Again the arrangements are wonderful. I would not think that anyone could sing about the California Ideal and have it come out so good. But, this is something that Parks doe pretty well. He also did a recent NPR "Anthem" show that is on the NPR site to some extent, worth a listen to find out what he is about. .chris ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 00:22:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Ross Overbury Subject: A musical discovery (fwd) This didn't seem to make it to the list last night. - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 22:55:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Ross Overbury Subject: A musical discovery I'm going to keep this up until I don't feel like I'm all by myself, folks. Here's an artist I discovered this year, thanks to another feg, that I think many of you would like: Ellis Paul. Folk singer-songwriter with a rather idiosyncratic voice and strong material. Check him out if you get the chance. I'll make sure at least one of you do. (Two if you count the live cut that J-Kat hasn't heard yet, but since she got me started on Ellis I guess it doesn't.) I've got Ellis Paul's "Stories". Katherine also played another one for me with a song about how he's spent his whole life on a plane, which struck me as more the type of writing Robyn would enjoy than some facsimile of Robyn's writing. I think Robyn and Ellis would have made a more natural double bill than oh, Robyn and Billy Bragg, for instance. Not that that was a particluarly awkward match. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 01:01:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Name that instrument! On Tue, 4 May 1999 overbury@cn.ca wrote: > > Terry (and anyone else who suggested it was a shawm), > can you quote a source? I downloaded a shawm sample, > and it's close, but it didn't quite sound right. Close, > though. I believe it's either the liner notes or mentioned on Spectre. Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 22:36:45 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: are you a hophop fan? well, i have to say, that was surely the funniest episode this year, and one of the funnier ones ever. it's on both GIVE IT TO THE THOTH BOYS and LIVE DEATH, for god's sake! they were dancin' up a storm here in seattle. lord knows i wanted to, but i was taping, so tried to keep the motion down to a minimum. they did this thing here, which i've been wondering if they do everywhere. at the end of one particular song toward the end of the show, everybody grabbed something to bang on, and started banging on it. a few had drums. julian had a big metal box. others had other things. well, they all --save the actual drummer, who was playing guitar on that one song, and who stayed behind to wig out on that guitar-- paraded through the audience banging on their bangables. then instead of returning directly to the stage, they went backstage for a while --the drummer still wigging out on guitar. he was on his knees, actually. after some moments, they all came back out, still banging, then proceeded to launch into what i guessed was the encore. even though technically, the music had never come to a complete stop. _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 02:46:13 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: are you a hophop fan? Eb wrote: > As for the record book, I don't remember many details about the episode > anymore, but I remember one in which it was revealed that Principal Skinner > was an entirely different person, just posing as Principal Skinner. That > one absolutely infuriated me, for reasons similar to the above. (Again, > trashing the "reality" of the show.) That might get the #1 slot in my > "record book." I also remember really despising the one in which Marge > bought into a chain of pretzel carts. I'm just wondering. Am I the only person on the list who doesn't have any use for the Simpsons? I mean, the show definitely has its moments. I've seen some episodes I really liked. But I don't think the show is *that* great. In fact, it bothers me sometimes for some reason, so I only watch it maybe 2 or 3 times a year. I guess I'm just being unFEGlike again. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 09:53:48 +0100 (BST) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V8 #165 >>>>> "Michael" == Michael R Godwin writes: Michael> On Tue, 4 May 1999 shmac@ix.netcom.com wrote: >> What is a shawm? Michael> It's an early trumpet. No it isn't. It's a two reeded instrument, a bit like an oboe, but with the reeds concealed in the mouthpiece. It's similar to a krummhorn, but not curved, but definitely conical. The Olivia Tremor Control have a Tibetan copper shawm... All the above leads me to a Steven Wright-esque thought: I went to an early music concert last night, but it was over by the time I got there. - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 10:54:31 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V8 #165 On Tue, 4 May 1999 shmac@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >> What is a shawm? > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael R Godwin writes: > Michael> It's an early trumpet. > On Wed, 5 May 1999, Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer wrote: > No it isn't. It's a two reeded instrument, a bit like an oboe, but > with the reeds concealed in the mouthpiece. It's similar to a > krummhorn, but not curved, but definitely conical. Correct. I found the following at: http://www.diabolus-in-musica.freeserve.co.uk/guide/shawm.htm "the shawm was standard equipment for the town bands, or waits. These were originally night-watchmen, paid to keep watch on the walls at night, and equipped with shawms (cheaper than trumpets) to warn of danger, sound the all-clear, and so on". I think my source must have been a literary footnote (to Shakespeare? the Bible?) by a non-musician which was based on this function rather than on musical family. > I went to an early music concert last night, but it was > over by the time I got there. I went to a concert of Chinese music, but an hour after it had finished, I was ready for another one... - - Michael Godwin PS 'Crumhorn' ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 11:07:15 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: acid bird dreams I think it might have been the clockwork American robin from 'Blue Velvet'. I was talking to an azure-winged magpie on Monday, and it definitely wasn't him. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 11:58:00 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: are you a hophop fan? On Tue, 4 May 1999, Eb wrote: > This season, there has been a disastrous pattern of plunging Homer into an > entirely different life for a half-hour, despite its complete unlikelihood. I am reminded of how cheesed off I became when Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera ran out of ideas and started to put nursery rhyme characters in each episode, sort of 'Hokey and Ding-a-ling meet Goldilocks' etc. Or was it Snagglepuss? ("Heavens, it's the major - I must fly!") Trivialler and trivialler - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 22:52:19 +0930 From: dlang Subject: Re: simpsons sucking Eb quoth thus >This season, there has been a disastrous pattern of plunging Homer into an >entirely different life for a half-hour, despite its complete unlikelihood. >Then at the end of the episode, he's back in Springfield again, with the >sojourn forgotten forever. This week, he's a bodyguard. This week, he's in >the Navy. Etc. Etc. A new job every week. I really object to the episodes >which violate the established setting of the show, and just treat the >characters like floating punchlines which can be transported to any >environment for some quick laughs. and then observed >but I remember one in which it was revealed that Principal Skinner >was an entirely different person, just posing as Principal Skinner. That >one absolutely infuriated me, for reasons similar to the above. (Again, >trashing the "reality" of the show.) I liked that one,it didn't feel wrong to me , what I don't like is when they become sentimental,which is a trait all too common in US shows and one which I despise. I haven't been watching the Simpsons much recently, so EFE may be right about the calibre of the recent shows, but this is a cartoon, anything can happen and lack of beleivability is not a problem - at least not one for me anyway. The early Hancock radio shows are my favorites precisely because Hancock's character veered wildly from extreme gulibility to cynical worldliness , the setting remained the same ,but the situations varied hugely and were all the funnier for it.It wasn't believable at all , but it was classic comedy of the highest order. Likewise, I think a few of the better Simpsons occur outside the Springfield setting - the one where they go to work for the guy who threatens the world with a death ray for instance , thats a corker. Lets not forget that the Simpsons has been running for a long time,they've probably got to scraping the barrel time as regards ideas and situations ,but for all that , few shows have been as consistantly good as this one , or have exposed our foibles and failings in such a powerful way. feg xxxxxxxx. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 05:26:10 PDT From: "Ghost Surfer" Subject: THE very end of it OK, this is it, the date of the LAST Egyptianns gig was 9th March 1994 (9-3-94. I'm English, the band are too and the gig was there, so it's written like that) at the Bull & Gate, kentish Town, London. It took place in the bar area due to the blown PA system (as described in an earlier post) - ----------------************************************************------------ "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: Wed, 05 May 1999 23:14:38 +0930 From: dlang Subject: biffo and fetish in the 25th century sorry to blow my own trumpet, but if I don't do it , no one else will. I just posted the last of my cartoons, "Fetish ,- Lord of the Galaxy" if anyone wants to visit go to http://users.senet.com.au/~tortoise/index.html and follow the doglist link. also,for all the old hippies like Godwin on the list- was anyone at the windsor free festival in 73 ?, I need more memories to go with the archival stuff I am compiling for the net. feg xxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 09:38:37 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: California fegs, hey hey hey On Tue, 4 May 1999, lj lindhurst wrote: dang! i got all excited, and then i realized that them new yawkers' trip is 29 days *after* mine. dang! i too, descend upon california. i'm arriving 24may 11pm sf time (ugh) and departing 31may 6:30pm sftime ugh ugh red eye ugh i'll be presenting at a conference on the 27th, and will probably have to do lots of schmoozing 25-27 into the early evening. (and desperate for schmooze-free activities thereafter!) y'all ca fegs drop me a line if you'd like to hook up... - -- d. p.s. apparently the new york times article for which i was interviewed was just reprinted in some bay area paper. i'm unclear on the details. n.p. ladybug transistor (pleasant, but awfully slight, no?) - - "seventeen!" cried the humbug, always first with the wrong answer. - - oh no!! you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net dmw@mwmw.com - - get yr pathos:www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 10:48:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: CD recorders (no Robyn) On Sun, 2 May 1999, Ben wrote: > Does anyone have reccomendations on CD recorders, brands/makes/good > deals, etc.? Thanks! as far as i know, the two most important things are (1) SCSI, which makes the writing much more reliable, and (2) getting a drive that writes both track-at-once and disk-at-once. in my haste to get a bargain, i ended up with one that only does track-at-once, and now there are always these irritating extra 2-second gaps between tracks. aaron ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 11:16:44 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: "I dreeeeeeaaamm of Bayard with the light bro-own hair..." Been meaning to post this for a day or two now... The other night I dreamed that I was Bayard's new roommate. (No, this does not mean I dreamed I was "Mr. Big") We lived in a tiny apartment that looked like some kind of sitcom set, and there were a lot of slacker-lookin guys hanging out on a ratty sofa watching MTV and eating things out of cans. Our apartment had a problem though-- invisible birds. They would constantly fly in and get caught the curtains, or fly around in a panic near the ceiling. You could hear them, chirpin and flying, but you couldn't see them. Bayard was being MEAN! He kept chasing after them, trying to kill them with a fly-swatter. I said, "No no, don't kill them! Why don't you use your fly swatter to swoosh them out the window?" But Bayard had had enough of the Invisible Bird Infestation, and he cruelly kept swatting at them! What does it mean???? lj Yesterday's notable quote from The Great Quail: "I am not a big fan of Chef Boyardee products." p.s., does anyone know the rest of the lyrics to "I Dream of Genie With the Light Brown Hair"? Does anyone know who originally sang this song, or is this some wierdo crap my mom made up? (likely answer) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 08:22:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: acid bird dreams On Wed, 5 May 1999, Ross Overbury wrote: > Mark Gloster - ostrich-sized, pale rose chest, white throat. > Call: bohica-hica-hicabo. I'd just like to say that I've owned my copy of Monday's Lunch for over a year now and I put it in my cd player... oh, about every hundred changes or so. It's been in my CD player for the past two weeks solid. Every morning, my stereo clicks on at 5:56 and plays Severe Tire Damage at near top volume until I can rush across the room and shut it off. My neighbors haven't killed me yet and I haven't been late to work. Je. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #167 *******************************