From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #171 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, May 7 1999 Volume 08 : Number 171 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RIP: Johnny Morris [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer ] Re: six degrees of LJ and AJ Foyt [Michael R Godwin ] Re: bull & gate date [dlang ] Re: Yet another worst of top ten list (+Beefheart PS) [Michael R Godwin <] Re: simpsons>hitchcock ["Russ Reynolds" ] Re: Nashville vs. Dome [no Robyn] ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] in the yard by the bay... [Bayard ] Weighing Ankara [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] old instruments, old songs, old poets ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Tim Keegan & "the departure lounge" [Carole Reichstein ] press release stuff [E6] [Eb ] RE: Tim Keegan & "the departure lounge" [Chris Franz ] Re: La Famille Simpson, etc les six degres [Aaron Mandel ] Re: well, D# just doesn't post anymore, darn it! [Chris Gillis Subject: RIP: Johnny Morris From the BBC: TV naturalist Johnny Morris dies Johnny Morris, who brought nature to two generations of children with the BBC show Animal Magic, has died aged 82. And I actually thought it was the animals talking... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 01:59:21 PDT From: "Ghost Surfer" Subject: simpsons link >Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 17:28:41 -0400 >From: lj lindhurst >Subject: six degrees of ME annoying YOU! > >>Isn't it faster to do Sakamoto>Thomas Dolby>Hitchcock? Dolby >>makes an appearance on Sakamoto's Illustrated Musical >>Encyclopedia >>-- shares the writing credits on Field Work I believe. > >Yes, but who can do Simpsons>Robyn Hitchcock? Easy... Yo La Tengo did the Simpsons theme and Ira from the band once did the sound for RH (may have been SB's) at a NY/NJ show. Also the SB's were quoted as one of the influences of the band in an ad Ira placed for new members (it's in one of the booklets for a YLT re-issue cd). - ----------------************************************************------------ "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, 7 May 1999 11:28:25 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: six degrees of LJ and AJ Foyt > On Thu, 6 May 1999, Eb wrote: > > >> Yes, but who can do Simpsons>Robyn Hitchcock? Matt Groening, creator of 'The Simpsons' appeared last year on a BBC documentary about Captain Beefheart. Jeff Moris Tepper, formerly of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, plays on Moss Elixir (briefly) and on Mossy Liquor (more extensively), both of which are albums by Robyn Hitchcock. (Crib to reel thorts: I hope no-one notices that appearing in a documentary about someone doesn't constitute a true musical connection). - - Mike Godwin PS Is the Nuggets CD built around the same tracks that were on the old Nuggets double LP (sleeve notes by Lenny Kaye IIRC)? Best tracks were by the Electric Prunes, the Standells and the 13th Floor Elevators (and 'Moulty' was good if you like that kind of thing). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 21:37:38 +0930 From: dlang Subject: Re: bull & gate date ghost surfer wrote >OK, this is it, the date of the LAST Egyptians 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) the guy who taped it says its the 8th, any particular reason why you think its the ninth ? feg xxxxxxxxx. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 12:23:34 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Yet another worst of top ten list (+Beefheart PS) Long-forgotten DJ Cheggers recently produced a TV selection of worst UK No 1 hits (I was reminded of this by the recent mention of the Smurfs): 10 There's no-one quite like Grandma - St Winifred's School Choir 9 Shaddapa you face - Joe Dolce 8 Orville's Song - Keith Harris and Orville 7 Seven Tears - Goombay Dance Band 6 Save your love - Renee and Renato 5 Grandad - Clive Dunn 4 Brand new combine harvester - The Wurzels 3 The Smurf Song - Father Abraham and the Smurfs 2 Long Haired Lover from Liverpool - Little Jimmy Osmond 1 Agadoo - Black Lace Quite an interesting prog - it featured interviews with 2 of the St Winifred's girls, now both housewives; with Joe Dolce, who has just released "Shadapa you face '98" ; with Orville, of course; and with Herbie Flowers, who had hoped to be remembered by posterity as the bassist on 'Walk on the wild side' but is in fact famous as the writer of 'Grandad'. The highlights were the revelations about the big split between Father Abraham and the Smurfs, and the interview with Renee, who had tried to conceal her role in Renee and Renato, so that the video features Renato with a completely different girl. Her true identity was revealed in the News of the World (or some such rag) and she was compelled to appear on Top of the Pops against her better judgement! [I have just noticed how many of these were non-English-speaking artistes: Joe Dolce is Australian-Italian, the Goombay Dance Band are German-Jamaican, Renato is of Italian origin, the Wurzels are from Somerset and the Smurfs are Dutch] Worse than any of the records was the appearance of Cheggers, who has turned from an bumptious fresh-faced teenage presenter into a bitter 40ish cynic. And where was the Birdie Song? - - Mike Godwin PS section: On Thu, 6 May 1999, Griffith Davies wrote: > ps - just picked up "Trout Mask Replica" I'll have to > let that one digest for a while. Start with 'Ella Guru' and 'Steal softly thru sunshine, steal softly thru snow'. Then move on to 'My human gets me blues', 'Moonlight on Vermont' and 'Wild Life'. Next: 'China Pig' and the unaccompanied numbers, plus maybe 'Ant man bee' and 'Sugar and spikes'. Leave 'Pachuco cadaver' and 'When Big Joan sets up' till last. Try not to think about 'The Blimp' and 'Pena' at all until you realise that they are an integral part of the Dada-Ornette Coleman-Chester Burnett-rhythm experience that is Trout Mask Replica (or possibly Carp Mask Original). Oh, and remember that John French transcribed Don's piano clatterings into arrangements for all the other musicians to play, played all the complex drum parts, and doesn't get a single credit on the album. "My mind cracked like custard, ran red until it sealed Then turned to blood and rolled like a wheel, well, well" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 07:40:18 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: simpsons>hitchcock >> >>The question isn't how, but how many ways. >>Peter Frampton (the "Hullabalooza" episode)->Harry Nilsson ("Son of >>Schmillson")->Ringo Starr ("Pussy Cats")->Paul McCartney->Costello, >>Squeeze, Hitchcock. > >Well, you made an obvious slip here: McCartney himself was on The Simpsons. >So just cut the Frampton/Nilsson/Starr links. Of course, that way, you >wouldn't have a chance to namedrop Harry Nilsson...again. ...not to mention the fact that Frampton Played on Ringo's Rotogravure, so even if you don't count McCartney's voice work you still don't need to go through Harry Nilsson (enjoyed the nearly complete name drop post, though!). And that gets it down to six. Were the B-52's ever on? They would be a 3-step move, with Sara Lee getting trod on in the process. How about this: Homer>Tim Keegan>Robyn Hitchcock ;) - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 11:45:55 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: Nashville vs. Dome [no Robyn] >From: Miles Goosens >Subject: Nashville vs. Dome [no Robyn] >I wouldn't recommend them [Dome albums] to the non-Wire fan... Could you rattle off the names of those four albums for me, and who released them, perhaps? Or point me at a discography? I'd like more info. I am a big fan of "whathaheck wuzzat?" music, and would like to get my hands on those albums. Do you (or does anybody else, for that matter) remember an album by an outfit called Ear Trumpet? It contained a song called "The Smell You Get From Old Books" and I've been looking for a copy of it for ages. Wasn't there a member of Wire involved with that record? NP: The Conet Project / Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations, Disc 4. Yikes, creepiest things I've ever heard. _________________________________________________________ Gene Hopsetter, Jr. Phone: 210.805.8607 Atension,Inc. Fax: 210.805.8517 112 E. Pecan, Suite 750 San Antonio, TX 78205 - --------------------------------------------------------- empowered.internet.solutions _________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 10:16:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Griffith Davies Subject: Yahoo Chat - Where the hell is it? When is Yahoo going to post the transcript from Robyn's chat event? Didn't this thing happen last year? They've already posted transcripts for freakin' Hanson from this year. I've emailed them, and every reply says that it will be soon. Hell, they probably lost it or don't care. griffith ps - in a shitty mood (lack of sleep and too much other crap) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:24:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: in the yard by the bay... Hey west coast fiends! i'm gonna be arriving in san francisco tuesday morning (9:10). what's the plan? who is going to storefront in berserkeley? when is bay area feglunch? what kinds of trouble can we get into? this is gonna be fun... so are you all going to be working during the week? sheesh, you californians are so uptight! (; i'm looking forward to seeing the film again. i hardly remember it from the last time. i think it's lj's fault! so Jeme has about a million linux books here by the computer, and across the top is a writer's reference by Hacker. how appropriate! jeme, you little hacker... =b ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 16:20:40 +1200 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Weighing Ankara >written by Edgar Allan Poe? And is this, then, the source of the word >"OnomatoPOEia"? And why am I asking these questions on the Robyn Hitchcock >list, >and not the Ottoman Empire list, or the Edgar Allan Poe list? *Is* there an >Ottoman Empire list, by the way? And who would subscribe to such a thing? immediately after reading this, the last message in digest 8/169, I turned to the day's Chalkhills. The first message had the subject line "Re: Turkish music redux". I'm beginning to think that space is not just curved, but stapled. James 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: Fri, 7 May 1999 15:02:27 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: old instruments, old songs, old poets Re: mediaeval instruments. Ranting Poet (tm) Attila the Stockbroker has a band called Barnstormer who combine punk with folk, and play an excellent assortment of crumhorn's etc. Attila is quite a collector apparently. My favourite though is the mandola he plays, which he calls, of course, Nelson...Boom! Boom! They have one excellent album out called The Siege Of Shoreham. Cap. Blows you'd love his poetry if you don't know it already. Give me a shout and I'll type some up if you're interested - He's yer bona-fide-grass-roots-rockin'- - -leftie-with-laughs. Re: Jeannie With The... There was a boss little garage combo in the sixties called The Jolly Green Giants who appeared in a episode of Batman in green suits and dyed green hair singing, yup, you guessed it - I Dream Of Jeannie With The Bright Green Hair. The band fell foul of the humourless capitalist wankers who manufacture the tinned sweet corn and had later to trade as The J.G. Giants. Re: Ozymandias. I don't know if anyone else has picked up on this, as I've been skimming rather of late. John H. It was written by atheist, proto-socialist Percy Shelley not natural conservative, anti-democrat Poe. Soon, very soon, I will treat you to my essay on the connections between Presley and Poe. E.A.P....R.I.P. The initials are only the beginning of it. John, I will also be engaging on the political Presley thang in the near future. I'm reading the second volume of Peter Guralnick's superb Elvis biography at the mo' - Boy, politics, you want politics...?! BTW there are two Simpsons episodes which I know of that pastiche Poe - An obvious Raven schtick and a more subtle Tell-Tale Heart spoof. Edvis Alron Poesley. jmbc. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 12:56:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Uber Subject: Can't Hardly Waits Three words: I'm there, dude! This is from SonicNet.com: NEWS FLASH: Tom Waits Returns To Road For Rare String Of Dates Gil Kaufman After more than a dozen years away from touring, gravel-voiced singer/songwriter Tom Waits will mark his return to the road with a series of California dates during the second week of June. Waits will take the stage June 9 and 10 at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, Calif., to be followed by shows June 12 to 14 at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, according to a press release from his publicity firm. Touring in support of his recently released 17th studio album, Mule Variations, the singer also will play nine dates in Europe in mid-July. Prior to the album's release, Waits jokingly explained why, short of a few one-off concerts, he's stayed off the road for more than a decade. "I break out. I don't know," Waits said. "It's a lot of headaches. It's a lot of variables and it's different every night. ... I lived out on the road, I liked it out there. I lived in a motel, it was fine. You've got to bring your own coffee, you've got to bring your own coffeepot." The acclaimed album, produced and co-written by Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, features 16 new songs, including the album's first single, the wistful ballad "Hold On" (RealAudio excerpt). Mule Variations debuted on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week at #30, the highest debut of Waits' nearly 30-year career. Waits is a critically acclaimed performer whose signature sound -- a mix of cocktail jazz, urban blues, confessional folk, Tin Pan Alley pop and avant-garde cabaret -- is marked by his unmistakable, often guttural, voice. Over time, his vocal style has evolved from the honeyed rasp heard on early albums, such as 1973's Closing Time, to the gut-busting growl that informs the experimental clamor of more recent work, including 1992's Grammy-winning Bone Machine. The singer had all those various porkpie hats on during a rare appearance in March at the intimate Paramount Theater for the annual South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. Taking the stage after midnight, Waits waltzed to the microphone in a dark blue denim jacket and pants, white shirt and beat-up fedora as if he'd never left the stage. Accompanied by a four-piece band that included Beck guitarist Smokey Hormel, Waits charmed the rapt audience with such chestnuts as the clattering "16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six" (RealAudio excerpt) (from 1983's Swordfishtrombones) and the tender ballad "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" (from 1974's The Heart of Saturday Night). Prior to the album's release, Waits treated the Austin audience to a foot-stomping, shouted blues version of "Filipino Box Spring Hog," one of several songs on the album Waits said was inspired by his love for such blues legends as Leadbelly and Howlin' Wolf. The singer made reference to his paucity of live appearances when a fan shouted "Where you been, Tom?" Waits touched on smoky jazz, window-rattling falsetto singing ("Temptation"), gospel-like blues ("Jesus Gonna Be Here") and piano-bar balladry ("Innocent When You Dream"), and commanded three standing ovations from the normally blase SXSW horde, which included such peers as singer/songwriters Lucinda Williams and Austin's Alejandro Escovedo. Among the other fans in a line snaking around the block before the show was Mark Linkous, frontman of the experimental Virginia rock band Sparklehorse, who was second in the queue to enter the venue. "I'm a huge fan of Tom," Linkous said. "I'm really looking forward to this. He's so important to me. [Waits' albums] just sounded so interesting, just so unconventional and imaginative and impressionistic." Cheers! - -Glen- "There are two ways to get enough. One is to accumulate more. The other is to desire less." --G.K. Chesterton Glen Uber | uberg@sonic.net | http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 12:56:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Tim Keegan & "the departure lounge" I'm echoing Chris Franz's sentiment about the continual name changes for Tim Keegan's band. Now, I guess "departure lounge" makes a bit more sense than "Homer lounge," but why put "lounge" in there at all?? Is the passe "cocktail nation" craze really big in London right now or something? Sheesh, I hope not. Who does the band's marketing, anyway? Tim? The band? Their label? I forget who put out their latest CD. It just seems that they're trying too hard. There's nothing wrong with a simple, honest name. End of griping. And let's all hope Tim Keegan comes to the West coast so my sister won't have a nervous breakdown. ;) Carole ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 13:09:47 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: six degrees of LJ and AJ Foyt MGodwin: >> On Thu, 6 May 1999, Eb wrote: >> > >> Yes, but who can do Simpsons>Robyn Hitchcock? Please, please, please don't ever erroneously credit me with starting one of those wanky six-degrees threads. Ugh. >PS Is the Nuggets CD built around the same tracks that were on the old >Nuggets double LP (sleeve notes by Lenny Kaye IIRC)? It's four discs. The first disc is the original Nuggets compilation. The other three, well, aren't. The booklet includes Kaye's original liner notes, plus a few new essays. I've only played two of the discs, so far. After all, they're all like 75 minutes long. One new discovery for me is the group Sagittarius. Anyone have the full album by these guys? It's sort of a way-artsy Beach Boys spinoff, with Gary Usher, Bruce Johnston and Glen Campbell. The track doesn't fit the Nuggets concept at ALL, in my opinion, but it's really interesting nevertheless. Eb PS "Shaddup You Face '98"? Scaaaary. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 13:34:22 -0800 From: Eb Subject: press release stuff [E6] NPR's ANTHEM will be featuring an exclusive live performance from the OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL on this weekend's show. The program is broadcast at various times on various stations across the country. For details on when and where you'll be able to hear this transmission, take a look at http://www.npr.org/programs/anthem/stations.html >OF MONTREAL tour dates >may >07 ft collins co @ starlight w/ladybug transistor, apples in stereo >08 denver co @ 15th street tavern >10 omaha ne @ cog factory >11 iowa city ia @ gabe's oasis w/ladybug transistor >12 minneapolis mn 6pm @ foxfire cafe w/of montreal >AND AGAIN 11pm @ 7th st entry w/ladybug transistor >13 chicago il @ schuba's w/ladybug transistor >15 new york ny @ knitting factory w/ladybug transistor, home >16 cambridge ma @ middle east >17 hoboken nj @ maxwell's (tentative) >18 philadelphia pa @ khyber pass (tentative) >19 baltimore md @ ottobar 9tentative) >20 washington dc @ black cat >21 chapel hill @ tba >22 columbia sc @ new brookland tavern ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 13:59:32 -0700 From: Chris Franz Subject: RE: Tim Keegan & "the departure lounge" sez Carole: > I'm echoing Chris Franz's sentiment... Whoa! No you're not! That was .chris! > about the continual name changes for > Tim Keegan's band. ... > It just seems that > they're trying too hard. There's nothing wrong with a simple, honest > name. End of griping. I've got to agree, however. Constant shuffling of the band's name does little other than alienate their fan base. And the lounge motif is pretty insipid. I understand Tim wanting it to be "Tim Keegan and ," but pick something and stick with it, fer crying out loud! > And let's all hope Tim Keegan comes to the West coast so my sister won't > have a nervous breakdown. ;) No kidding! She'll be pouting and banging her fists for weeks after this latest bit of news! ObTomWaits: Mule Variations was mentioned last night by, of all people, Salman Rushdie. He was speaking of being subjected to Pat Boone as a kid, and the only song he remembered was entitled something like "Pots of Gold in the Sky" (?), which Pat sang to his mule. He then mentioned Tom Waits' latest, on which "he sings quite brilliantly about mules. It just goes to show you there are no boring subjects." - - Chris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 16:55:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: La Famille Simpson, etc les six degres On Thu, 6 May 1999, Eb wrote: > PS Post what you think about the Dome albums, if you own 'em. the Wire-related Dome? doesn't strike me as very Ebby... Dome 1 and 4 are the ones i'd recommend were they sold separately, but on the last set of reissues they came with 2 and 3, respectively. Dome 1, like Colin Newman's first solo album, sounds a lot like parts of Document & Eyewitness cleaned up and rethought. Dome 2 is more conceptual and while i suspect listening to it loud on good speakers would be interesting, i've never gotten around to it. Dome 3 is a bit dull in the way that Gilbert's soundtracks for dance were, and Dome 4 (Will You Speak This Word?) is very creepy but more direct. a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:12:36 -0800 From: Eb Subject: well, D# just doesn't post anymore, darn it! From: crary@my-dejanews.com Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles Subject: www.inergy.com/crary Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 20:20:02 GMT Flinch. Another futile attempt to put my website : www.inergy.com/crary into perspective for those who are disengaged from the ideas presented. My father was an educator at Columbia, and the author of America's Stake in Human Rights. For whatever reason I was molested and tortured as a child by persons who went on to kill John Lennon, the reasons were the same. This simple fact is by no means intended to equate me with Mr. Lennon. Many unknown persons suffered or died during the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war resistance. Nor is this to attribute specific blame to anyone. It is, as the evidence shows, quite simply true. Segregationists are very malignant people. The success of the crime, it seems to me, is not in the death of Lennon alone, or the destruction of my well-being and future. It is in turning the situation around in such a way that innocent people, myself included, are blamed and suffer. I've heard this happens to rape victims, and empathize. The idea that Yoko and Sean Lennon, Robert Fripp and Peter Gabriel, the latter of whom I know personally, (Julian Lennon, with whom I have had contact once removed I do not believe holds me responsible, being apparently a less checkered individual) would hold me responsible and take illegal and cruel actions to suppress and punish me personally, while wrongheaded and vigilante, has about it at least the minimal benefit of being understandable as a caprice of human nature. Lennon was terrific, I am a self-described mediocrity. Lennon was handsome and fair, I am vulgar to behold. All of this makes the idea that I was somehow welded into his assassination by a broad analog crime of bizarre nature as unsightly and ridiculous to me as to any more narrow observor. It is however, the fact that in order to secure vengeance against an innocent party that the Beatles, the Beatlemaniacs, the CIA, Real Worlds, of whoever the heck it is doing it, would actively aid, advance, help and enrich the persons who actually committed the crime in order to have their little whipping boy flayed that I find an insurmountable emotional obstacle. Certainly it will be centuries before this post will be recognized and understood for the truth it holds. Ayn Rand wrote, or quoted, "if I had to write for my own times, I might as well break my pen". Maybe 100 years from now some other musical miracle may take place to render a less subservient and hostile electorate, who might then scrutinize now only my website, but the writings of my father, and blink their eyes a little at the unbearable death of John Lennon, in order to sense the potentially enlightening truth that Lennon died young, but shining, in the company of King, Kennedy, Schwerner and Goodman. You do not need to stack the deck in order to force me to conceed that my place is not among those names. I never thought it was. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 17:18:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Gillis Subject: Re: well, D# just doesn't post anymore, darn it! For D#, I only have two words: Semi-colon. Really, if your going to be pedantic about your own mental state, at least be articulate about it, and get the grammar straight. .chris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 17:23:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: well, D# just doesn't post anymore, darn it! What I want to know is, how does Carl Palmer fit into this crary thing? (It's obvious by her absence that he finally got to D#) Eric On Fri, 7 May 1999, Eb wrote: > From: crary@my-dejanews.com > Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles > Subject: www.inergy.com/crary > Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 20:20:02 GMT > > Flinch. Another futile attempt to put my website : > www.inergy.com/crary into perspective for those who are disengaged from > the ideas presented. > > My father was an educator at Columbia, and the author of America's > Stake in Human Rights. For whatever reason I was molested and tortured > as a child by persons who went on to kill John Lennon, the reasons were > the same. This simple fact is by no means intended to equate me with > Mr. Lennon. Many unknown persons suffered or died during the Civil > Rights Movement and anti-war resistance. Nor is this to attribute > specific blame to anyone. It is, as the evidence shows, quite simply > true. Segregationists are very malignant people. > > The success of the crime, it seems to me, is not in the death of > Lennon alone, or the destruction of my well-being and future. It is in > turning the situation around in such a way that innocent people, myself > included, are blamed and suffer. I've heard this happens to rape > victims, and empathize. > > The idea that Yoko and Sean Lennon, Robert Fripp and Peter Gabriel, > the latter of whom I know personally, (Julian Lennon, with whom I have > had contact once removed I do not believe holds me responsible, being > apparently a less checkered individual) would hold me responsible and > take illegal and cruel actions to suppress and punish me personally, > while wrongheaded and vigilante, has about it at least the minimal > benefit of being understandable as a caprice of human nature. Lennon > was terrific, I am a self-described mediocrity. Lennon was handsome and > fair, I am vulgar to behold. All of this makes the idea that I was > somehow welded into his assassination by a broad analog crime of bizarre > nature as unsightly and ridiculous to me as to any more narrow observor. > > It is however, the fact that in order to secure vengeance against > an innocent party that the Beatles, the Beatlemaniacs, the CIA, Real > Worlds, of whoever the heck it is doing it, would actively aid, advance, > help and enrich the persons who actually committed the crime in order to > have their little whipping boy flayed that I find an insurmountable > emotional obstacle. > > Certainly it will be centuries before this post will be recognized > and understood for the truth it holds. Ayn Rand wrote, or quoted, "if I > had to write for my own times, I might as well break my pen". Maybe 100 > years from now some other musical miracle may take place to render a > less subservient and hostile electorate, who might then scrutinize now > only my website, but the writings of my father, and blink their eyes a > little at the unbearable death of John Lennon, in order to sense the > potentially enlightening truth that Lennon died young, but shining, in > the company of King, Kennedy, Schwerner and Goodman. > > You do not need to stack the deck in order to force me to conceed > that my place is not among those names. I never thought it was. > > > ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #171 *******************************