From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #176 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, May 12 1999 Volume 08 : Number 176 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: elvis ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: Cosmik Debris ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: Lynch/Shel/Fabs ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: Sex [dmw ] Re: sex and death [amadain ] two more! ["Capitalism Blows" ] Elf Power/Songwriter Credits [Mike Runion ] re: Dirk Bogarde, RIP [DDerosa5@aol.com] floaty [Vivien Lyon ] re: Dirk Bogarde, RIP [Aaron Mandel ] hurry on down [Eb ] Re: couldn't be more off-topic [S Dwarf ] re: Dirk Bogarde, RIP [amadain ] RE: Tuesday [S Dwarf ] RE: Tuesday [Bayard ] RE: Tuesday [Glen Uber ] Re: two more! [Capuchin ] RE: Tuesday [Tom Clark ] Lost Hitchcock ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: elvis [Growadog@aol.com] event horizon ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] for absent friends [Eb ] Re: Plato, Silverstein -- now Copp: 0% Robyn [shmac@ix.netcom.com] Re: Dirk Bogarde, RIP [Joel Mullins ] re: Dirk Bogarde, RIP [Michael R Godwin ] re: Dirk Bogarde, RIP [amadain ] izzy ["Capitalism Blows" ] Happy Highway Mummy [Joel Mullins ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:32:12 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: elvis i try never to use the words "nixon" and "better" in the same sentence. an awful miscaerriage of justice, methinks. however, if forced to choose between nixon and clinton, i'd take nixon in a *heartbeat*. believe me, that's really saying something. i used to try to take the piss out of nixon in every essay i wrote, whether he was germane or not. http://leb.net/iac/ "...the people who in most places in the world provide opposition leadership are, here in America, holed up in academic sinecures arguing about the ethics of lunch and whether or not to hire an immigrant maid. The two-party dictatorship is literally destroying the country and Clinton is the worst president we've ever had -- much worse than Nixon and Reagan combined on everything from the environment to social and economic policy, and where's the left? Sitting by the phone hoping to get on one of those Dead White Man TV talk panels....frankly, these days every time I even see a copy of The Nation, In These Times, or, worst of all, Mother Jones, I feel like punching the first pony tailed, nasal whinnying, Virtual Asseted, public-radioed, candy-assed, so-called leftist who comes through my door. Unfortunately, they come through my door all the time and I'm too old and physically decrepit to carry out a decent physical assault. It's all very frustrating." --Bruce Anderson, Anderson Valley Advertiser _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:49:12 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: Cosmik Debris actually, the world bank/imf implement *de*flationary economic policies in the third world. for what it's worth. _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:51:58 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: Lynch/Shel/Fabs what he said! although, did you notice that they spell it "Listening To The Higson's"? arrrgh! also, i don't see robyn credited anywhere on the disc itself, nor on the sleeve. _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:55:59 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: Sex On Tue, 11 May 1999, Angel Jones wrote: > Now that I've so crudely got yer attention... > > Tomorrow, May 12th, is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. Fibromyalgia (FMS) is a > chronic, painful, often debilitating illness that affects around several is this what we used to call Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? or is this something else? - -- d. n.p. old 97's _fight songs_ (whoohoo!) - - "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: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:26:48 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: sex and death >Susan writes, > >>You feel that Dirk Bogarde is a loser? You feel that he and Oliver Platt >>are on the same level with the likes of Dana Plato? > >Oh, no, please say you meant Oliver Reed! I would hate to see one of my >favorite young actors shuffle off the ol' mortal coil. . . . too much No, he didn't shuffle of the ol' mortal coil. I shuffled off the ol' mortal brain for a sec. Sorry about that. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:25:54 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: two more! saw Brazil last night, and Jesus Of Montreal is playing here on june the second. which means, including the aformentioned three, that five of my ten all-time fave movies will have played here --all with brand new prints-- in about a month and a half! never seen anything like it! by the way, can't remember where it was linked from, but i once came across a site listing john sayles' favorite politcal movies of the last 25 years, and he had Brazil at #1. michael w., you gave Caddyshack a D grade???? what in god's name???? _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:17:37 -0400 From: Mike Runion Subject: Elf Power/Songwriter Credits Capitalism Blows wrote: > > > > what he said! although, did you notice that they spell it "Listening To The > Higson's"? arrrgh! also, i don't see robyn credited anywhere on the disc > itself, nor on the sleeve. Yeah, I wondered about that myself. Looks like you have to check the website to get the lowdown on songwriter credits, etc. What's up, legally speaking, with that...anyone know? I've actually noticed a lack of noting a cover as a cover, crediting the songwriter, on several releases over the years. Hmmm. By the way, this Come On disc ain't too bad...I mean, the Marc Bolan cover is really fun. I'll reiterate again how much *When The Red King Comes* has grown on me of late. Splendid album, I think. All you NMH'ers and OTC'ers who don't have this one should pick it up...pronto. Mike n.p. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (God, how I absolutely adore this damn album!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:41:49 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: re: Dirk Bogarde, RIP no, susan, I wasn't classifying him as a loser. Actually, all I meant was that most of the other recent passees didn't have much effect on me, but Shel did. And I didn't even know he'd written songs for Dr. Hook! but I certainly believe (based on your fandom) that dirk could act rings around dana. dave np: the new Old 97s album, and I'm not very excited. not as good as the others, songwriting is much more obvious, and the drummer almost sleeps through the album. Having read Eb's interview with Rhett and Robyn, I was kinda hoping that this would really launch them. Mind you, it don't suck, but it sure don't stand out. (kinda like Dirk Bogarde for me). one highpoint: the song Jon Brion plays on is one of the better songs on the album, so that's good... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:17:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: floaty Everyone needs to go to www.floaty.com You won't believe some of the floaty pens they have. Vivien _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:32:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: re: Dirk Bogarde, RIP On Tue, 11 May 1999 DDerosa5@aol.com wrote: > songwriting is much more obvious meaning that it's derivative and making the obvious choices, or that it doesn't seem as effortless as it did before? a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:33:01 -0800 From: Eb Subject: hurry on down > From: "PM" <1999@prodigy.net> > Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative > Subject: Robyn Hitchcock words & music Spectre Promo, eBay link > Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 07:09:06 -0400 > > Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians "Spectre" "Robyn Hitchcock explains the > songs on Respect" 1993 A&M Records Promotional release (31454 8031 2)This CD > is as close to mint as you could hope for. Robyn talks prior to each song > about what the song is about, some interesting stories told. If you look at > the image you'll see 2 time lengths, the first is Robyn's words then the > song. The CD also features an edit to "When I was Dead" and "Driving Aloud" > The text "For Promotional Use Only - Not For Sale" is marked on the CD and > the back cover. A must have for the true fan. For more info and to see > images, click here: > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=102602869 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:36:49 -0700 (PDT) From: S Dwarf Subject: Re: couldn't be more off-topic - --- David Librik wrote: > TANAKA Tomoyuki who has never been seen in the same room with D#. sorry, but the two other people who got it know what i mean... _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:10:47 -0600 From: amadain Subject: re: Dirk Bogarde, RIP >no, susan, I wasn't classifying him as a loser. Actually, all I meant was >that most of the other recent passees didn't have much effect on me, but Shel >did. Well, perhaps it might have been better to use neutral language of that sort rather than words like "crap". That was kinda what set me off. I know not every famous person's passing is going to have the same impact on every single person around. A lot of the passings mentioned around here don't mean that much to me, but I know they might to somebody else, so I would probably never phrase the same sentiment -quite- the way you did :). I still kinda find it hard to believe that Dana Plato's passing -meant- something tremendous to lots of people tho, other than as an addition to celebrity death tolls. >believe (based on your fandom) that dirk could act rings around dana. Thanks for the show of faith as regards taste! :) Dirk B. is pretty well known to fans of the "Carry On" series, who remember him as Simon Sparrow, a role so popular he was voted Britain's top box-office star in 1955 and 1957-9. He successfully transitioned from matinee idol to a really intense and gifted actor's actor, working with some of the leading directors of the 60s and 70s, including Alan Resnais ("Providence"), Rainer Werner Fassbinder ("Despair"), Lucino Visconti ("Death in Venice"), John Schlesinger ("Darling"), and Bertrand Tavernier (1990's "Daddy Nostalgia", for which he briefly came out of retirement). He is not nearly as famous as Shel S., true, but to a lot of film buffs, it's something of a milestone passing. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:47:16 -0700 (PDT) From: S Dwarf Subject: RE: Tuesday - --- Glen Uber wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Ethyl Ketone wrote: > > >I'll probably recognize a few of you but > >you can't miss me - usually dress all in black > (with occasional forays into > >red or green but rare). 7:30ish, right? Jupiter is > a great spot even if it > >does get a bit crowded. > > More than likely, I'll be the first one to arrive. > I'm planning to leave > Mill Valley at around 5:15 or so which means I > should be in Berkinstockley > at about 6:00. > > I'm a medium build guy with a bushy red goatee. Oh > yeah...I'm wearing my > black Frank Zappa shirt today. i'm planning on getting there 7-7:30ish. 6'4" white guy, blondish, glasses, could afford to miss a few meals; i think i'm gonna wear my black/neon green PiL hat, but only if i can find it. i may be holding a modlang bag...... > 'Course, you could always check out > www.sonic.net/~uberg/images/glen.jpg > or www.sonic.net/~uberg/images/glen_and_carol.jpg > > 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 > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:56:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: RE: Tuesday is there a reservation, and if so is it under "Mr Feg", "SharkBoy", or another name entireley? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:00:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Uber Subject: RE: Tuesday On Tue, 11 May 1999, Bayard wrote: >is there a reservation, and if so is it under "Mr Feg", "SharkBoy", or >another name entireley? No reservations are required. No jacket, no tie, either. No shirt, no shoes, no service. No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs... Sorry, no dogs, no fags, no shriners and no amputees... ;-) 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: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:09:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: two more! On Tue, 11 May 1999, Capitalism Blows wrote: > michael w., you gave Caddyshack a D grade???? what in god's name???? I couldn't believe it either! Bayard and Michael and I saw Caddyshack at the lovely Mission Theater and he just talked about how AWFUL it was after the film. It was fucking hilarious. It's great and sometimes really good. A D, though. A D! I am shocked. Caddyshack is fucking hilarious. J. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:22:40 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: RE: Tuesday On 5/11/99 3:00 PM, Glen Uber wrote: >No reservations are required. No jacket, no tie, either. No shirt, no >shoes, no service. > >No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs... > >Sorry, no dogs, no fags, no shriners and no amputees... ;-) And no Christians either! Repo man's always intense, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:01:00 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Lost Hitchcock Well, while up in the Bay Area this past weekend, I was able to catch the film "Storefront Hitchcock" at long last. I liked it in the sense that it was a series of visual images of Robyn Hitchcock playing live. Other than that, I wasn't terribly impressed. For the most part, it wasn't much different from just about any concert video I've seen released by other artists. Throwing a bignamehollywooddirector into the mix and showing it in an arthousemovietheatre didn't make any more theatrical in the least. Even just rating "Storefront Hitchcock" among concert videos/films, as opposed to other sorts of motion pictures, this flick was on the far "un-" side of the "eventful" scale. The storefront window that dominated the background during some songs was like a boring film placed inside a boring film. Rather than getting to see the "studio" audience's reactions to the performer, you get the occasional "outsider" reaction, which, for the most part was predictable initial perplexity and then dismissal. At a couple of points, the people looking in were rather distracting. I think I would have rather have seen the predictable looks of adoration and genuine interest from the fans in the room as opposed to the repetitive "man on the street glancing in at an uncommon event" shots. In fact, I think it would have been a much better film if some sort of snapshot of Robyn's relationship with his audience (either through audience shots, or interviews) and of the entire artistic process (backstage footage, discussions with Robyn on songwriting and performing) were included, some sort of exploration and explanation of the whole Robyn experience. As it was, the film just started and ended in a vacuum. I guess I'm saying I would have preferred more of a documentary, or at least a wee bit of documentary footage. Perhaps I was too familiar with the material, the live performances and Robyn-speeches already heard numerous times on CD and LP, to really get excited while watching. I was seriously disengaged from the movie for most of the time. I would have liked to have seen the film before purchasing the albums, mainly to have that element of surprise. I did have to fight off the urge to applaud after each song, so I suppose Demme succeeded in making me feel like I "was there." Either that, or it was just a slobbering-doggie reaction to the sounds of other people clapping. One thing I really liked about the film though was Demme's focus on the craft of music-making. Throughout "Storefront," there were long, close shots of Robyn playing, an intentional examination of the relationship between artist and instrument. And, of course, it was a pleasure meeting my first three fellow Fegs, Chris and Chris and Carrie. I suppose now I have to find an appropriate post to go notch. The Fegtastic Four dragged two non-Fegs along to the movie: one of Chris's roommates and my college buddy Andrew. I know Andrew was almost completely unfamiliar with Hitchcock, although he recognized "Balloon Man" and another song at Chris's place earlier in the evening. After the film, Chris's roommate admitted that he didn't see what all the fuss over Robyn was about. Andrew liked the movie well enough (he's actually kind of a big Demme fan), but isn't going to rush out and buy any Robyn Hitchcock CD's. Andrew especially enjoyed the monologues more than the songs - his favorite being the "two minotaurs" story. Andrew's comment: "Robyn Hitchcock should REALLY go on VH-1 Storytellers." Ha! Both non-Fegs, I believe, hated the "The Yip! Song" with a passion. I hope all the Fegs whom I didn't have a chance to meet this weekend have a great time tonight at the Berkeley showing. Cheers! - --The Thang PS: On a Southern California note, I just found out that Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney, the Apples in Stereo and about 20 other bands are playing in Irvine on the 4th of July. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:58:47 EDT From: Growadog@aol.com Subject: Re: elvis Here's a few fun Elvis factoids: Elvis liked to fill his swimming pool with lightbulbs and shoot them. Elvis would shoot his TV screen whenever Robert Goulet would come on. Elvis didn't likt performing oral sex on women. Elvis like to climax in a woman's hair (on her head). Elvis liked to use baby talk: he called feet "sooties" and ice cream "iddy-tream". Members of Elvis' Memphis Mafia would fill his pills with sugar, in an attempt to get him unaddicted. Elvis would carve bit of flesh out of his feet, saying "I oughta get some good stuff for this". Elvis' case of drugs he could carry with him was referred to as his "kit". ....Once, the guy whose job it was to get Elvis hamurgers, Hamburger James, stole Elvis' kit. When Elvis found out, he was furious and tracked Hamburger James down at the airport. HJ's plane was pulling out, and Elvis exlaimed "Stop that plane, I'm an FBI agent". So they stopped, and Elvis caught HJ. Elvis raised a table, as if to smash HJ with it, but then he set it down and hugged him. At the time of his death, Elvis' colon weighed around 30lbs. Doctors had to smash out Elvis' teeth in order to force a breathing tube down his throat. A young Elvis once saw his aunt dancing on a table, an exclaimed "Oh my peter!". - -Ben, who finally has something to write after his name, that being that I am using a different email address, so don't go thinking somone new has joined this miserable list! ;) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:53:30 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: event horizon Quail, I think you've got this very badly wrong. Basically Event Horizon says that if you meddle with the 'laws of nature' (in this case the speed of light) you actually get catapulted into a fairly pathetically drawn version of mediaeval hell. Metaphorically it's saying, gosh atom bombs and other bad things are generally the result of science therefore we'd better not do it at all. Specifically we've got the same old Thing/Alien routine. But here it is very explicitly the individual scientist's fault, rather than, as per normal, the scientist at the behest of the Military-Indusrial complex . The goodies are the same-old, same-old bunch of blue collar buggers that usually people these kind of missions. One musn't be too clever. Basically you are operating a complex and massive space ship in the late 21st century but must still be able to tell the gawky, weird 'Scientist' on board to talk in 'layman's terms' when he says complex things like 'black hole' and 'speed of light'. Yeah, like really fucking complicated. One doesn't need to understand things like this when one is flying a space-ship about a century into the future after all. To my my mind this kind of Ludditism has nothing to do with Lovecraft, and a lot to do the pathetic, simplistic and damaging way that science functions in Crichton's Weltanschauung.. Space Elvis. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:18:07 -0800 From: Eb Subject: for absent friends Any more news about Randi? I emailed her several days ago at the much-exalted new address, and didn't hear diddley in reply. Bored-with-Elvis-shtick Rufus. Eb http://www.winternet.com/~abeger/squirrel/sqlinks.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:22:49 -0400 From: shmac@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: Plato, Silverstein -- now Copp: 0% Robyn Add to the list Jim Copp -- a nightclub performer to turned to children's fair and produced some of the most brilliant audio of his day. He and his partner Ed Brown used three open-reel tape decks (and a hell of a lot of splicing) to tell stories populated by strange people and animals, many of whom had that same almost nasty edge that Gorey's characters possess. He was a weird amalgam of Mister Rogers and Peter Bergman. And I got a postcard announcing his death just yesterday. A lot of their material was recently rereleased on CD. The record company that did so has a site at http://members.aol.com/playhytone/. I picked up a couple of the disks this last year for my daughter and they've become favorite long car ride listening. Anyone from the list have his records as kids? ========= SH McCleary Prodigal Dog Communications Arlington, VA 22206 shmac@prodigaldog.com www.prodigaldog.com www.mp3.com/nairobi3/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:45:13 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Dirk Bogarde, RIP DDerosa5@aol.com wrote: > np: the new Old 97s album, and I'm not very excited. I sold mine back. I didn't like it at all. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:19:26 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: re: Dirk Bogarde, RIP On Tue, 11 May 1999, amadain wrote: > Dirk B. is pretty well known to fans of the "Carry On" series, who remember > him as Simon Sparrow, a role so popular he was voted Britain's top > box-office star in 1955 and 1957-9. Correction: Dirk Bogarde was never in a Carry On film - the first Carry On film is Carry On Sergeant (1958). You are thinking of 'Doctor in the House' where DB plays Simon Sparrow. He also plays SS in three follow-up films, 'Doctor at Sea', 'Doctor at Large' and 'Doctor in Distress'. Very popular series, but only faintly amusing in my recollection, and quite predictable. Nothing to do with the Carry On films at all, which vary from terrible ('Carry on at your convenience') to very funny ('Carry on screaming'). - - Mike "The Black Fingernail" Godwin PS In checking some facts in imdb, I noticed that my uncle, Frank Godwin, was a producer on one of DB's films ('Penny Princess' in 1952). Small world! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:23:47 -0600 From: amadain Subject: re: Dirk Bogarde, RIP >>him as Simon Sparrow, a role so popular he was voted Britain's top >>box-office star in 1955 and 1957-9. Yet another brainslip- I seem to be having those a lot these days. It WAS the "Doctor in The House" series. Glad you knew what I meant and thanks to Mike Godwin for the correction. >Let's also not forget that he was the good-looking dr after whom the nurses >swooned! How do you know the films? Have they been shown in the US? He was the good-looking doctor, but as I recall a bit shy and bumbling, not particularly suave. I rented "Doctor In The House" once and thought it was about a 5 on the humor scale- pleasant and occasionally funny. Don't know where I heard about them, exactly, picked it up somewhere from the ether. Actually, now that I think about it, I think it was that someone from a bbs I used to frequent recommended them to me when I said I was a big "Bedazzled" fan, along with "Carry On Doctor", which may be how I got confused :). The "Britain's top star" info I took from the New York Times obit. Seems rather odd that I would have stuck in "Carry On" for "Doctor" when I had the article sitting right in front of me! Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:28:27 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: izzy just heard that there's a documentary about i.f. stone. went to the imdb, and lo and behold, there it were: I.F. Stone's Weekly, USA, 1973, 62 minutes, dir. jerry buck jr. anybody seen it? "This is soul, man! Haven't you ever heard soul?" --mr. john barrington "lobsterman" jones _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:21:34 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Happy Highway Mummy HAPPINESS I saw this movie last night. Happiness my ass! Fucking sick is more like it. I thought it was supposed to be a comedy. And I guess it is if you think child molestation is funny. There are some humorous parts but for the most part, this movie is just plain sickening. LOST HIGHWAY Will someone please explain to me what the fuck happens in this movie? I watched again and I just can't figure out what the hell is going on. I'm sure some of you have a theory. I'd love to hear them. One question I have is concerning Patricia Arquette's two characters. Are they supposed to be the same person? If so, how is that possible if she was killed earlier in the movie? What's the chronology? I have a dozen questions. Basically, I'm lost. THE MUMMY The friend I went with to this movie loved it. However, I wasn't impressed. It was okay. But Brendan Fraser just didn't make a very good adventure hero in my opinion. And the movie was very predictable. I think they were just trying to make it like Indiana Jones, but without Harrison Ford, they were wasting their time. (by the way, a new Indiana Jones should be out in the summer of 2001 or 2002 or 2003 - i can't remember which). Anyway, The Mummy was fairly entertaining but it didn't for a minute get my mind off the fact that I wanted a cigarette. Rachel Wiesz is pretty cute though. Later Joel ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #176 *******************************