From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #209 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, June 17 1999 Volume 08 : Number 209 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: help for tape project [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer ] Re: Robyn on radio ["Russ Reynolds" ] Re: help for tape project ["Russ Reynolds" ] Re: help for tape project [Vivien Lyon ] NYT [Vivien Lyon ] Re: help for tape project [Michael R Godwin ] NYT again [Vivien Lyon ] Cyclists Who Hate Cars And the Drivers Who Honk At Them (by Susan Forward and Joan Torres) [Christopher Gross ] Re: NYT again [Capitalism Blows ] FW: Cyclists Who Hate Cars And the Drivers Who Honk At Them (by S usan Forward and Joan Torres) [Chris ] Re: NYT again [Capuchin ] Pez Theater and Powers was Re: NYT again [amadain ] Re: TMBG/Elektra [Eb ] Largo 06/18 [Griffith Davies ] Re: bike songs [DDerosa5@aol.com] Re: bike songs [Bayard ] Re: Pez Theater and Powers was Re: NYT again [Joel Mullins ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #208 [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:47:49 +0100 (BST) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: help for tape project There's always "Bicycle Rider" by The Beach Boys; use cddb.com for more inspiration. - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 08:52:53 -0400 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: RE: help for tape project You can't leave out "The Acoustic Motorbike" by Luka Bloom -- inspiring for the cyclist. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:07:36 EDT From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: help for tape project DDerosa5@aol.com exclaimed: >I want to compile a tape of songs about bikes--preferably with "bike", >"bicycle" or "cyclist" in the title, but if it's prominently in the song, >good enough. I would suggest Bruce Cockburn's 'The Bicycle Trip', but just to take all the fun out of it, you know you can go to cdnow.com and do a search on all songs featuring 'bicycle' in the title. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:16:42 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Motor boys motor Thanks to all who provided info on 'Now how much would you pay for this' and 'Motor boys motor' - especially Chris Franz. Is there anything that the collective fegtrivia brain doesn't know? On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Chris Franz wrote: > ... did you notice that Lightbulb Head on > Fegmania! featured John Kingham and not the Egyptians?) Certainly did. I assume that the track was recorded before the Egyptians' lineup was finalised. - - Mike Godwin PS I agree with Stewart that 'judgment' is the preferred UK spelling, and I agree with Susan that 'judgement' makes more sense. And of course I agree with everything that James says, particularly about flags of all nations ... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 06:46:31 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: Robyn on radio >Heard this "strawberry" set on the radio last Sunday >night: > >1. THE BEATLES - STRAWBERRY FIELDS TAKE 7 - ANTHOLOGY >2. APPLES IN STEREO - STRAWBERRYFIRE - HER WALLPAPER >REVERIE >3. ROBYN HITCHCOCK - STRAWBERRY MIND - FEGMAINIA >4. SAM PHILIPS - STRAWBERRY ROAD - ZERO ZERO ZERO What? No "Christine" by Souixsie & the B's? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 06:56:38 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: help for tape project From: DDerosa5@aol.com >As y'all have some of the best music taste of any list I'm on, I wanted to >ask for some help. I participate in Critical Mass, a spontaneous bicycle >parade every month. We take over the streets and see what drivers and the >cops do (I just got out of a ticket yesterday in circuit court...) >I am planning on riding in the future with a boombox on my bike to provide a >soudntrack of sorts. I want to compile a tape of songs about >bikes--preferably with "bike", "bicycle" or "cyclist" in the title, but if >it's prominently in the song, good enough. If any of the terms are really >about motorcycles, it don't count--unless you can make a good case for it, >that is. > >It's a short list so far: >"Bike" by PF, o' course >"Bicycle Race" by Queen >"Bike Ride to the Moon" by the Dukes >"Rebecca Wants her Bike Back" by the Jazz Butcher >and any good modern version of "Bicycle Built for Two"-- know one? > >I haven't even come up with a Robyn song yet myself--but haven't tried too >hard, since I thought it'd be the first thing youse come up with. "cycling madly through honington clyst" is probably the only RH bike reference...not exactly featured prominently in "Goodnight I Say" I think Neil did a tune called "My White Bicycle" on "Neil's Heavy Concept Album" Then there's the song about roller skating (by Melanie?) which begins "I rode my bicycle past your window last night..." I think it's repeated at least once more in the song. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 07:04:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: help for tape project re: how people in cars react to bikes en masse, Christopher Gross wrote: > My guess is, they become so irritated that they > develop a lifelong bias > against bicyclists, environmentalists, and people > who exercise. Actually, no. Most of them wave and smile. It's more like a parade than a protest. And it raises consciousness about the presence of bikes on the road. The ones who react poorly are the cops, and they only do so in rich neighborhoods. Vivien _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 08:04:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: NYT Hey, everybody- The New York Times Arts section is pretty rich today. There's a good interview with OTC, an article on TMBG, and a great review of the play my ex-roommate's in. I suggest you take a look. Vivien _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:03:06 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: help for tape project On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Russ Reynolds wrote: > I think Neil did a tune called "My White Bicycle" on "Neil's Heavy Concept > Album" Yes, this is the same song that was originally done by Tomorrow on their eponymous album. The title refers to the free bikes, painted white, which the Dutch anarchists tried to provide for everybody in Amsterdam. From memory, it's written by Hopkins and Burgess, Hopkins being Keith West of Tomorrow and 'Excerpt from a Teenage Opera' fame. I think there's also a version by Nazareth. A pal of mine insists on singing 'My wife's bisexual' instead of the correct title... > Then there's the song about roller skating (by Melanie?) which begins "I > rode my bicycle past your window last night..." I think it's repeated at > least once more in the song. It's 'Brand New Key'. The otiose information about this one is that the Wurzels rewrote it as 'Brand New Combine Harvester' and had a huge UK hit... - - Mike Godwin PS Don't forget 'Daisy Daisy give me your answer do'. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:06:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: NYT again All those things I mentioned before (otc, tmbg, etc.) can be read on their website, www.nytimes.com vivi _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:16:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Cyclists Who Hate Cars And the Drivers Who Honk At Them (by Susan Forward and Joan Torres) On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Vivien Lyon wrote: > > My guess is, they become so irritated that they > > develop a lifelong bias > > against bicyclists, environmentalists, and people > > who exercise. > > Actually, no. Most of them wave and smile. It's more > like a parade than a protest. Well that sounds cool. However, it doesn't sound like "taking over the streets," as the original poster said. Anyway, I was under the (vague) impression that Critical Mass doesn't just parade, they deliberately slow or obstruct automotive traffic. I may well be wrong, but IF this is what they do, then I think it would definitely be counterproductive. I actually saw a group of people doing this a few years ago, though I don't know if they considered themselves part of Critical Mass. It was in DC, on Pennsylvania Ave. NW heading from Georgetown toward Washington Circle -- a very busy road on any day of the week. A group of 15 or 20 bicyclists spread out across the entire eastbound side of the road and cycled slooowly along, letting traffic pile up behind them. A few of them called out slogans to the effect of "get out of your cars!". I seem to recall more honks than smiles from the trailing motorists; and while some waved, their waves generally featured one finger held erect. The local popularity of bicyclists suffered a slight but definite setback that day. - --Chris (who just finished helping a patron looking for an article about the top 50 companies in "Silicone Valley.") ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:44:29 +0000 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Cyclists Who Hate Cars And the Drivers Who Honk At Them (by Susan Forward and Joan Torres) Over the past year or two Critical Mass has slowed down a bit. Last year hundreds would take to the streets on their bikes on the last friday of the month. Many were good hearted cyclists, but many were beligerant, damaging cars and jumong in front of commuters, blocking freeway entrances. Of coarse the road rage went both ways, at least once a car ignorged the beligerant biker and ran over him. i know (as a commuter) on fridays me and my husband would either take the day off or leave work at lunch time. We both take BART, but we don't like confrontation - too unpredicable. Like I said it has calmed down a bit, and the last friday of the month is pretty much just another friday. eleanore Christopher Gross wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Vivien Lyon wrote: > > > > My guess is, they become so irritated that they > > > develop a lifelong bias > > > against bicyclists, environmentalists, and people > > > who exercise. > > > > Actually, no. Most of them wave and smile. It's more > > like a parade than a protest. > > Well that sounds cool. However, it doesn't sound like "taking over the > streets," as the original poster said. Anyway, I was under the (vague) > impression that Critical Mass doesn't just parade, they deliberately slow > or obstruct automotive traffic. I may well be wrong, but IF this is what > they do, then I think it would definitely be counterproductive. > > I actually saw a group of people doing this a few years ago, though I > don't know if they considered themselves part of Critical Mass. It was in > DC, on Pennsylvania Ave. NW heading from Georgetown toward Washington > Circle -- a very busy road on any day of the week. A group of 15 or 20 > bicyclists spread out across the entire eastbound side of the road and > cycled slooowly along, letting traffic pile up behind them. A few of them > called out slogans to the effect of "get out of your cars!". I seem to > recall more honks than smiles from the trailing motorists; and while some > waved, their waves generally featured one finger held erect. The local > popularity of bicyclists suffered a slight but definite setback that day. > > --Chris > (who just finished helping a patron looking for an article about the top > 50 companies in "Silicone Valley.") > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. > chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:53:53 PDT From: Capitalism Blows Subject: Re: Cyclists Who Hate Cars And the Drivers Who Honk At Them (by Susan Forward and Joan Torres) this is the one that got nixed due to visa problems. i suppose it could be on again. by the way, we never did get a setlist for the 6/4 adventure. i think it varies quite a bit from city to city; and indeed, from month to month. it's a dilemma. you don't, generally speaking, want to piss off the people you're trying to reach. but on the other hand, if you feel like you're not going to reach them otherwise, one could argue for taking the risk. we were talking about trying to shut down a bridge during an anti-war protest earlier this month. some people argued exactly that: it would just enrage people. but even if it had, it might also have caused them to think about not only the issue itself, but why so many people would feel passionately enough about it to pursue a course of action that they must know would upset a lot of folks. _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:58:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: A sordid stuffing, with quail sauce On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Christopher Gross wrote this: > > the best character, martin silenus, reminds me of capuchin. > > A cheap trick to get Capuchin to read it! You know, as it becomes clear that the number of people on the list who have read the books is larger than i thought all the time, and apparently growing, and no-one is rising to my defense, I begin to wonder if I may have been mistaken. Now, it's true, Silenus is a tormented soul, and incredibly old, and a satyr type, where as the "real life" capuchin is joyful and young and peachy. so i guess i must have been thinking of the "virtual" capuchin. Or, Capuchin as Opposed to Jeme. Many of your weirdos lead double lives, come to think of it. So I guess bear that in mind when you read them, and I hope you won't think i'm insulting capuchin with this thought. But this IS a good trick to get you all to read it, isn't it? Which reminds me, I need to read that book everyone was talking about, the one about the guy who obsesses over ranking things, you know, I think he was called "the honeybee". and he also wrote: > > The real highlight of this album is the song "Shame" which is RN at his > > swaggering best-- lampooning rich, powerful, and oversexed pathetic old > > men: > > Cool! A song about me! you're not old!!! ps. obrob - only a bit over a month to _JfS_! woo hooooo! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:14:53 PDT From: Capitalism Blows Subject: Re: NYT again <"Long Tall Weekend," the Giants' forthcoming album and the first to be available only on MP3, the digital audio compression format.> um, are they gonna charge for that? they can't, can they? would they just say, "suggested donation: $5" or some such like? and aren't they kind of cutting out a large segment of their potential audience? what is the percentage of people online? granted, the percentage from the giants' demographic is going to be higher than the population as a whole, but still. and what does their rekkid company think about this? oh, never mind. i see that they've been dropped. i like it. say, does anybody know if DAYS WITH FROG AND TOAD is out on cd yet? you know, i don't believe i've ever seen a giants video. the closest i've come is, one time on Liquid TV, somebody had created a...what was that thing called, where they did stick figure animation on 3X5 cards? was it called "stick figure theatre"? anyways, somebody had made a cool little animation of part of Istanbul (Not Constantinople). From: Vivien Lyon Reply-To: Vivien Lyon To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: NYT again Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:06:34 -0700 (PDT) All those things I mentioned before (otc, tmbg, etc.) can be read on their website, www.nytimes.com vivi _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:22:34 -0700 From: Chris Franz Subject: FW: Cyclists Who Hate Cars And the Drivers Who Honk At Them (by S usan Forward and Joan Torres) Griffith: > performing at Largo this friday (18 June). I'll do some snoopin' and get > back to you....> Eddie: > this is the one that got nixed due to visa problems. i suppose it could be > on again. > by the way, we never did get a setlist for the 6/4 adventure. I called Largo, and their answering machine says some other band will play this Saturday. By the way, apparently Robyn was advised not to play while that visa stuff was pending, so my understanding is that even though he was at Largo on 6/4, there wasn't much of anything noteworthy. - - Chris ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:09:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: NYT again On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Capitalism Blows wrote: > <"Long Tall Weekend," the Giants' forthcoming album and the first to be > available only on MP3, the digital audio compression format.> > um, are they gonna charge for that? they can't, can they? would they just > say, "suggested donation: $5" or some such like? It's out at emusic.com or whatever GoodNoise is now calling itself. And yeah, you pay with a credit card and they give you an access code or something. I expect to see it up on our news server within days for free. Digital distrubution means free datagoods. They're going to have to realize that. I'm sure TMBG does. I mean, they can survive just fine on their concert draw and merchandise sales and such. > and aren't they kind of cutting out a large segment of their potential > audience? what is the percentage of people online? granted, the > percentage from the giants' demographic is going to be higher than the > population as a whole, but still. Yes. But again, I think TMBG knows their demographic. Also, I doubt this is their long term solution to not having a record company... unless they're done with the idea of selling albums. > and what does their rekkid company think about this? oh, never mind. i > see that they've been dropped. Which was silly, if you ask me. I imagine their albums were still selling well enough. They were never a big single type band (except for the odd novelty hit). > year> I'm pretty excited about this. Upset it's not on Kid Rhino, though. > > you know, i don't believe i've ever seen a giants video. I have their first compilation on video... but it only contains three videos from each of their first two albums (and the videos on the tape are in reverse chronological order, which I think is cool). There are MANY videos since then, but I don't know that they've released another compilation. I've seen Istanbul, Birdhouse, The Guitar, Statue Got Me High, Snail Shell and maybe one or two others. > the closest i've come is, one time on Liquid TV, somebody had created > a...what was that thing called, where they did stick figure animation > on 3X5 cards? was it called "stick figure theatre"? anyways, > somebody had made a cool little animation of part of Istanbul (Not > Constantinople). I LOVED stick figure theater. Henry V was incredible. J. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:31:51 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Pez Theater and Powers was Re: NYT again >I LOVED stick figure theater. Henry V was incredible. >J. Next time you're in Chicago, see if you can catch a cable access comedy show called "We're Geniuses in France". They do a very funny ongoing "Pez People Theater" sketch. Of course, not everything on that show is funny. But "Pez People Theater" very often is. Speaking of "not everything is funny", I saw "Austin Powers" last night, and most all of it IS funny. The only things I didn't find funny were any and all of the jokes related to Fat Bastard. Was it Joel who thought the un-funniest parts were the ones with Mini-Me? I thought Mini-Me was pretty hilarious, especially the duet on "What If God Was One Of Us". Just goes to show we all laugh at different things. I think reviewers who were criticizing the "over the top" nature of it were kinda missing the point. I mean, this style of humor is -based- on going waaaay overboard, especially with groaner puns. If that's not your thing, cool, but it's not a flaw and it isn't about lack of invention, per se. It's a style (a very 60s style, not coincidentally at all :)). If you really don't like it, I warn you that you should stay away from the Firesign Theater as well. Basically there are two kinds of people: those who think greeting a man in a fez with "I don't know the name, but the fez is familiar" is howlingly funny, and those who do not. If you are in the latter camp, you probably won't like "Austin Powers" much. There is one really odd thing about this movie that I wonder if anyone else experienced. Namely, it's CATCHY. I mean, it's catchy the way a song is catchy. I don't just mean people coming out of the theater saying "Shagadelic!". During the movie ITSELF people were repeating along with it. They were making the quote sign and saying "laser". They were saying "You complete me" right after Doctor Evil said it and doing the hand gesture. These things seemed to catch in people's heads like a catchy riff. They couldn't help it. I've seen quotable movies by the hundreds, I've seen people imitate stuff from movies of course, but I've never seen anything like this before. It was a whole nother level. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:54:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: NYT again On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Capuchin wrote: > It's out at emusic.com or whatever GoodNoise is now calling itself. "out" as in "released", or "out at" like "over at"? i can't find it. and i wonder how much of it i already have, and whether these tracks will be cleaned up or re-recorded from their fuzzy dial-a-song versions. hey, i see the first Sugarplastic record is now there, allowing you to pay for "Sun Goes Cold" and skip the rest of the album. as i sort of wish i had done. > I have their first compilation on video... but it only contains three > videos from each of their first two albums (and the videos on the tape are > in reverse chronological order, which I think is cool). they kept the anti-chronological order for the 12-track video compilation that just came out. i bought it and... they're better in small doses. the consistent visual style is boring after a while. if you're as much of a fan as i am, though, the few great videos plus the John Linnell Fashion Retrospective aspect is reason enough to get it. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:00:18 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: TMBG/Elektra Capuchin: >> and what does their rekkid company think about this? oh, never mind. i >> see that they've been dropped. > >Which was silly, if you ask me. I imagine their albums were still selling >well enough. They were never a big single type band (except for the odd >novelty hit). Well, Elektra also dropped the Afghan Whigs, Frank Black, Luna and Moby, all of whom were probably "selling well enough." I guess the question is, can the band sell MORE in the future? Probably, Elektra (justifiably) decided that all these artists had risen as far as they could go, and thus shifted their attentions to other "growth industries." I wonder if poor Jason Falkner will be able to hang around for another album. And Ween is about to put out a double-CD live album -- a final contract completer, before they get dumped as well? Eb, who will be pretty f*cking pissed if Elektra ever drops Stereolab PS I don't know why I haven't posted comments about the Tom Waits show, but I just haven't. Blah. It was a weird combination of a fantastic show and a crummy social experience, and my attitude toward the night feels very unsettled. But here, have some celebrities in the house: Peter Bonerz, Ben Lee & Claire Danes (cuddly-wuddly), Harry Dean Stanton, Chuck E. Weiss, Danny Elfman, John Doe, Bob Saget, Tommy Stinson. And I wasn't even trying that hard to spot 'em. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:27:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Griffith Davies Subject: Largo 06/18 I can't confirm that Robyn will be at Largo this Friday. Apparently, he was there on Monday for the weekly "Largo Comedy Night". Jon Brion is taping his new show for VH1 this week, perhaps that is one of the reasons Robyn is in town. BTW - Largo is sold out for dinner reservations for Friday :( griffith (who now realizes that this is a totally pointles post, but is sending it anyway) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:31:14 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Re: bike songs In a message dated 6/16/99 12:05:54 PM Central Daylight Time, RReynolds@ksjo.com writes: << http://www.lyrics.ch/search/fulltext.htm >> wow, that's a cool timewaster... I found like eight songs with bike in the title, mostly obscure (though I actually ave Shonen Knife's "cycling is Fun" and forgot about it.) but I'm more intrigued by the hundred or so songs that mention bikes, by beck, bragg, bern, clash, dylan, marillion, negativland, nirvana, pogues, squeeze, throwing muses, westerberg, elvis c, pixies, REM, sugarcubes. I have a lot of these albums, and never wouldn've come up with them; now I gotta go see how obscure the mentions are. by the way, robyn came up on the spoken word intro. for "a bicycle", but nothing came for "cycling madly"...? dave. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:51:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: bike songs On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 DDerosa5@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 6/16/99 12:05:54 PM Central Daylight Time, > RReynolds@ksjo.com writes: > > << http://www.lyrics.ch/search/fulltext.htm >> it used to be better, you used to be actually able to READ the lyrics! :( > by the way, robyn came up on the spoken word intro. for "a bicycle", but > nothing came for "cycling madly"...? their database is missing "goodnight i say" (obviously.) there's always http://cgi.teleport.com/~capuchin/fegmaniax/search.cgi ...or.... http://158.72.105.122/gh/base/default.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:55:52 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Pez Theater and Powers was Re: NYT again amadain wrote: > Was it Joel who thought the un-funniest parts were the ones with Mini-Me? I > thought Mini-Me was pretty hilarious, especially the duet on "What If God > Was One Of Us". Just goes to show we all laugh at different things. That definitely wasn't me. I don't think I've even posted anything about Austin Powers. Anyway, Mini-Me was my favorite character in the film. He was hilarious. Especially the little dance he did with Dr. Evil. I agree that most of the Fat Bastard jokes were pretty dumb, but I did like his desire to eat Mini-Me. When he said "get it my stomach," I just about busted. Overall, I thought the movie was great. However, I was a little disappointed in Heather Graham. I think she's a pretty good actress, but she didn't do much for this movie except look sexy. I think they could have made her character a lot more interesting. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:50:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: foiled again >I'm curious -- how do you get tinfoil Thoths (and Cthulhus) to stand up >properly under high Lusan gravity? You don't use steel foil, do you? Reynolds Extra Strength. Works like a charm. n., who can reach a ninth on the piano with great difficulty ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:19:31 +1200 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #208 >It's a short list so far: >"Bike" by PF, o' course >"Bicycle Race" by Queen >"Bike Ride to the Moon" by the Dukes >"Rebecca Wants her Bike Back" by the Jazz Butcher >and any good modern version of "Bicycle Built for Two"-- know one? yeh, HALs, from "2001 a space odyssey" ;) well, there's "White Bicycle" a hippy song from about 1968 by someone like Tomorrow, IIRC, and "The pushbike song", a horrible early 70's number which, again IMMSMC is by someone like Mungo Jerry. A not to be missed classic is of course the Dukes of Stratosphear with "Bike ride to the Moon" James ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #209 *******************************