From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #188 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, May 23 1999 Volume 08 : Number 188 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: best pro-Phantom Menace subject line on Usenet ["Capitalism Blows" ] Star Wars, no Robyn [Miles Goosens ] a good book and a request [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: best pro-Phantom Menace subject line on Usenet ["D B" ] Re: Fegs say the darndest things [S Dwarf ] Re: fifty-one fegs on the northern line.... ["Russ Reynolds" ] Not so quick movie review [Natalie Jacobs ] Robyn question (fwd) [Bayard ] A note from the quail-bird [The Great Quail ] birthday article [four episode lesbian ] Re: Robyn question (fwd) [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 12:47:14 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: best pro-Phantom Menace subject line on Usenet i sat around after work last night reading the ava for an hour, then drove down to the cinerama only to find that the 1:00 am showing had sold out. i'd expected it to be relatively full, but not sold out. er, so Episode I *doesn't* take place "a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away"? _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 17:11:21 -0600 From: amadain Subject: barBQ For some reason or other, probably because it's nice out, Doug and I have decided to grill things in the outdoors and invite people to do this with us. Any interested fegs who can make it, please drop me a line in the next couple hours or so for phone number/directions. We're thinking of starting around 6:30. We are located in the Logan Square neighborhood, which is pretty easy to get to from most directions, anyhow, about five blocks from the Logan Square stop on the blue line. And now, back to your regularly scheduled feglist. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 18:00:13 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Star Wars, no Robyn The Nashville TENNESSEAN, our daily paper, let several self-avowed STAR WARS fans review the new film. Three loved it, one hated it. I haven't yet seen THE PHANTOM MENACE myself, though the chances of me enjoying a Lucas or SpielBorg film (last unreserved rave for either: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK) are fairly small. My favorite part of the TENNESSEAN fan reviews came from a Michael Deering of Calvert City, KY, who finds the characters intriguing and well-developed: "I have heard critics complain that the film's characters... are cardboard characters. It's funny, but I remember reviews of the original STAR WARS to have the same claim." Wha, you mean that they weren't? :-) harlan says "western in space," Miles ====================================================== Miles Goosens R. Stevie Moore website http://www.rsteviemoore.com My personal website http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles "JAWS was never my scene, and I don't like STAR WARS." - Queen, "Bicycle Race" ====================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 20:25:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: a good book and a request a) the good book I was at my parents' house to return a video tape. My mom is an artist and always has art books scattered around. I saw one that had a beautiful multi-colored collage sort of thing on the cover and then noticed the artist's name. "Peter Greenaway!" I cried. (Although I don't like his films, I do find them visually stunning, and I love what I've seen of his artwork.) "I was hoping you wouldn't look at that," my mom sighed in despair. "Why not?" I asked, grabbing it. "Because there's a lot of naked people in it," my mom replied, attempting to preserve my girlish virtue. But I was not to be dissuaded. The book is called "100 Allegories to Represent the World," and features a series of allegorical figures like Night, The Suicide, Prometheus, and so forth, all tarted up with collage and Photoshop. Absolutely gorgeous stuff. Any Greenaway fan, and anyone who likes intricate, fascinating art, should snatch this up. Oh yeah, and there's lots of naked people. :) b) the request A guy at my favorite record shop has offered me an autographed Robyn LP if I can track down for him a double CD single called "Joke," by Eddi Reader. I feel that this is probably a hopeless task, since if a record shop employee can't find it, then how could I? All I know about it is that it came out in 1994 on the Blanco Y Negro label, in the UK. If anyone knows where I can find it, please let me know. Thanks. n. np: Scott Appel, "Nine of Swords" - this guy has made a profession out of performing unreleased Nick Drake material. He's a fine guitarist, but his voice doesn't cut it, unfortunately... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 17:37:19 PDT From: "D B" Subject: Re: best pro-Phantom Menace subject line on Usenet >From: "Capitalism Blows" >Reply-To: "Capitalism Blows" >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: best pro-Phantom Menace subject line on Usenet >Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 12:47:14 PDT > > > >i sat around after work last night reading the ava for an hour, then drove down to the cinerama only to find that the 1:00 am showing had sold out. i'd expected it to be relatively full, but not sold out. > > > > >er, so Episode I *doesn't* take place "a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away"? If he keeps his eyes open, Lucas will be able to pick up a thing or two when he sees "Eyes Wide Shut" in July.... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 17:48:02 -0700 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Fegs say the darndest things Haven't seen it, don't plan too, either. Glad to know there are others. I can't stand Lucas or Spielberg (American Grafitti and Empire of the Sun excluded) so I won't subject myself to this hyped film. >Bayard assures me that I'll just love Quail and lj. So >I guess I'll be really tired after they leave. I wonder if >they're bringing that Allen (who the hell is Allen) guy too. Yep, you'll love lj and TGQ! And I damn well hope they plan some beer drinking East-Baying fun. E-mail me off list you guys and lets make plans to get together while you are here. Othe Ebay/City/Nbay/Sbay fegs - lets plan yet another fegfest when they get here! Or is it happenning at your place again Sharkboy??? And Bayard, even though you were sitting half way across the room and none of us could hear the other side of the table, you sure seem like a nice guy to me! Hey, ALL the fegs I've met are damn nice. That was a table of Nice People at Jupiter. Am curious how you liked Storefront however. I'm planning, still, on the cross country travel in August so fegs in LA, Ariz, NM, Colo, and the states in a bee line from Colo to Philadelphia, let me know where you are and if you are around for August tipplings. Be Seeing You, - - carrie "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com carrieg@blueplanetsoftware.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 18:09:47 -0700 (PDT) From: S Dwarf Subject: Re: Fegs say the darndest things Ethyl Ketone wrote: > Hey, ALL the fegs I've met are damn nice. > That was a table of Nice > People at Jupiter. Am curious how you liked > Storefront however. i liked it, but i liked it the first time too. it is what it is y'know: a concert film. granted, i didn't see that tour, so maybe it didn't seem as redundant to me as it might have to someone who had. there is only so much you can do with a concert film; you can either just shoot the show[s], and then edit it together, or you can wander off into backstage documentary footage type stuff, but then you very easily run the risk of making _rattle & hum,_ which only works out for larry mullen jr. and since _spiceworld_ failed to kick start a new age of jukebox musicals, we aren't going to get robyn as inspector hitchcock, the guitar playing detective in _Where are the Prawns?_ (also starring andre braugher as reg, courtney love as brenda, yoda as happy the golden prince, and special guest larry flynt as mucky). so that leaves making a simple, barebones concert film. i think it might have worked better to have just used a more conventional venue, since the passers-by didn't really add anything, and some shots of the audience would've have enhanced the atmosphere (rather than just hearing applause & laughter), so in terms of just pure filmmaking, i think it DID leave a bit to be desired, but for a documentary i also don't think that is anywhere near as important as for a feature. for a documentary what's most important (in my bloated opinion) is choosing an interesting subject and then getting the hell out of the way, which demme for the most part did. better to do too little filmmaking than too much. _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 21:15:53 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: fifty-one fegs on the northern line.... Bayard reports: >Tear down 3com park, though, it's colder than Canada in >there. heh heh heh...you were warned, fella. But nobody believes it till one of their own testicles freezes off and shatters on the cold cement floor. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 00:40:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: fifty-one fegs on the northern line.... > heh heh heh...you were warned, fella. But nobody believes it till one of > their own testicles freezes off and shatters on the cold cement floor. not to worry, i had a ball. and oh, those garlic fries!!! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 10:19:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Not so quick movie review I was forced to wait in line for a 12:15am showing of that Lucas flick everyone's talking about. (Note to self: do not go to see popular movie on Saturday night.) It was about what I expected - gorgeous visuals, kinda dumb in the story department, but all in all it was great to just turn off my brain and be five years old again. There was so much to look at, and so much that I missed, that I'll probably end up seeing it again just so I can take it all in. Cool stuff - the CGI characters (very expressive and imaginatively conceived, with great voices), the extraordinarily bad-ass martial arts guy who played Darth Maul (incredibly quick on his feet), the glorious cityscapes, the way all the CGI robots and things were sort of battle-scarred with paint chipping off, and of course the Queen's eye-popping costumes. And all the cool actors like Sam Jackson and Ewan (swoon) McGregor, who didn't get to do much but were nice to see anyway. Lame stuff - plot holes you could drive a truck through, loose ends dangling everywhere, silly dialogue, the occasional continuity glitch (out of place in a carefully-made movie like this), that goddamn kid that I wanted to smack (he's just a bad actor, I'm afraid - not as bad as I expected but still pretty weak), and a plot that pretty much duplicated every other Star Wars movie, so there wasn't much tension. Oh well. A final note - don't see Star Wars with a real SW fanatic - the whole way home my friend kept analyzing all the plot holes in massive detail, while I desperately tried to change the subject by saying things like "Weren't the special effects cool?" and finally resorted to "It's just a movie! It's just a movie!" But it was hopeless... n. p.s. I dreamed about Elvis Costello *and* Tori Amos last night! I sense woj's mind control taking effect... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 11:06:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Robyn question (fwd) Anyone recognise this song? - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 23 May 99 00:16:24 MDT From: luxa@usa.net To: walden@eclipse.net Subject: Robyn question I am trying to find the song title (and album it appears on) played by Robyn Hitchcock. Perhaps you may know? This song also appeared in the movie "The Jerk" possibly written as an original score for the same. The chorus is: I know I know..You Belong to somebody new But tonight you belong to me Although Although We're Apart You're a part of my heart And Tonight You belong to Me.... On the tape it is a duet. Any info???? Appreciated. Thanks ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 99 14:18:11 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: A note from the quail-bird Fegs, I am announcing this on the List because you are my friends, and I want to share some *very* good news. The reason that I've not had a lot of time to post lately is the same reason that I just quit my job as Madison Avenue whore here at Fashion Planet. Next Thursday, LJ and I are flying out to London for a week of fun -- drinking, carousing with the Beefeaters, pojking fun at the Queen, Godwin-baiting, and of course, asking what the Brits do on the Fourth of July. But after we come back, I will have a contract waiting for me to sign, and after that formality is taken care of, I will have a new job. To make a long story short, maintaining my Libyrinth Web site -- the site I run on postmodern literature -- will now be my *real* job. I have been approached by a team of literate-minded Net investors, and I have secured a serious two-year committment and investment. The intention is simple -- to turn the Libyrinth into the Web's premiere site for modern literature and compositional music. This may involve some commercialization -- partnerships with publishers, universities, booksellers, and the like. I have been assured, however, that the project and the vision are still mine, and the investors want the site to continue along the same lines I have been developing it these last five years. This first year I will work from home, building site infrastructure as my business partners line up more investors and establish contacts. The second year, the Libyrinth will be seriously incorporated, and I may move into a small office and hire a staff. Needless to say, this has been tremendously exciting for both myself and LJ, and I am still feeling a bit overwhelmed -- my dreams have just come true. (Well, except for the one about the penguins and a bathtub full of aspic.) I am sure there are going to be some rough spots and weirdnesses, but I am just so damn happy, and I wanted to share this with my friends. You guys are the greatest, and being on this List has lead to some of the best things of my life (Meeting LJ; life-affirming support from friends when I am feeling down; and lots of great squid porno.) Thanks, yaaaay, love on ya, blessed be, woo-hoo, - --Quailie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth: http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth "Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick as flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of whirlworlds. Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde . . . (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curious of signs (please stoop) in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world? . . . Speak to us of Emailia!" --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 14:36:07 -0400 From: four episode lesbian Subject: birthday article i don't remember this article being posted. apologies if it was. comes from the sonicnet website, where it was posted on 3 march. Robyn Hitchcock Frank Tortorici: British folk singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock had a busy year in 1998. In addition to promoting the Jonathan Demme-directed film, "Storefront Hitchcock," he began recording a new LP with the help of R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck. Hitchcock also found time to participate in a tribute concert, at a Brooklyn, N.Y., church, to the late Fairport Convention singer Sandy Denny, along with such artists as R.E.M.'s Mike Mills and Peter Holsapple. Hitchcock was born 46 years ago today in London. He attended art school, but dropped out and moved to Cambridge in 1974. There, he began performing quirky folk songs and played in many bands before forming the Soft Boys, a bizarre progressive rock band with such songs as "(I Want to Be an) Anglepoise Lamp," in 1976. The group issued such cult LPs as Underwater Moonlight (1980) and Two Halves for the Price of One in 1981, the same year it disbanded. Black Snake Diamond Role (1981) was Hitchcock's first solo LP. After issuing Groovy Decay the following year, Hitchcock took a performing hiatus and wrote songs for the Damned's Captain Sensible. On I Often Dream of This (1984), Hitchcock focused on sensitive, acoustic songs such as "Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl" and "Cathedral." Also in 1984, Hitchcock formed the Egyptians with members of the Soft Boys (bassist Andy Metcalfe and drummer Morris Windsor), as well as other musicians. The Egyptians achieved a cult success, not unlike the solo Hitchcock. Buck helped the band secure a deal with A&M Records and the Egyptians scored such college-radio hits as "Balloon Man" and "So You Think You're In Love." Egyptians' LPs include 1985's Fegmania!, 1988's Globe of Frogs and 1991's Perspex Island. Hitchcock's most recent CD is 1996's Moss Elixir, featuring such tracks as "Devil's Radio" and "Sinister But She Was Happy." Uncorrected Personality Traits (1997) was a retrospective, while last year saw the release of the soundtrack to "Storefront Hitchcock," the Demme-directed documentary about the singer that included such tracks as "Beautiful Queen" (RealAudio excerpt). Hitchcock's next album, Jewels for Sophia, is due this year and will include Buck. "We've played with each other for 13 years," Hitchcock said of Buck last year. Hitchcock is also writing a novel, "The Ballad of Jacob Lurch." "It has elements of things that will be familiar to people who have heard my songs," Hitchcock said of the book. Other birthdays: Willie Chambers (Chambers Brothers), 61; Mike Pender (Searchers), 57; Jance Garfat (Dr. Hook), 55; Chris Hughes (Adam & the Ants), 45; and Tone-Loc, 33. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 12:56:20 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Robyn question (fwd) Bayard: >Anyone recognise this song? > >I am trying to find the song title (and album it appears >on) played by Robyn Hitchcock. Perhaps you may know? >This song also appeared in the movie "The Jerk" possibly >written as an original score for the same. > >The chorus is: > >I know I know..You Belong to somebody new >But tonight you belong to me >Although Although We're Apart >You're a part of my heart >And Tonight You belong to Me.... NOT original to the film. The song is "Tonight You Belong To Me," a guileless '50s hit by Patience & Prudence, two young girls who quickly vanished off the planet. My father has the single, somewhere.... I'm not aware of this song having any connection to Robyn Hitchcock. Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #188 *******************************