From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #236 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 6 1999 Volume 08 : Number 236 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS? [Joel Mullins ] Smith, Basingstoke, toast [Michael R Godwin ] Re: jewels, etc. ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: jewels, etc. ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: "Quailtilius Varos, where are my beagles!?!" [fred is ted ] Re: If it's not too late [Capitalism Blows ] Fw: TALKING DOG [Capitalism Blows ] Music! Robyn! Fun with Lists! Lotsa PPPPS's! [The Great Quail ] VA with NMH [Joel Mullins ] Re: Music! Robyn! Fun with Lists! Lotsa PPPPS's! [Joel Mullins ] acronyms [Joel Mullins ] 69 [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Plant rock [Joel Mullins ] Re: Fw: TALKING DOG [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: the devil and other quail relatives [ultraconformist@mail.weboffices.] Sonic Youth news [ultraconformist@mail.weboffices.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:14:15 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS? tanter wrote: > > >From the Stubbs BBQ site (Austin, TX): > > August 7 > Flaming Lips w/Sebadoh > > August 13 > And Robyn Hitchcock Ween This is a mistake. I called Stubb's and they confirmed that Robyn is NOT playing on the 13th. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:30:18 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Smith, Basingstoke, toast OK, tell me about Harry Smith. Apparently one of the recent Nick Cave-produced concerts was dedicated to his work and I've never even heard of him. The McGarrigle sisters performed a Fugs song (apparently he produced the Fugs); and Nick Cave himself performed 'John the Revelator' which I've only ever heard by the great Eddie Son House Jr. Possibly Smith also produced that 60s Son House LP, the one with 'Empire State Express' on it. In return, I'll tell you about the late Paul Jennings. He was a columnist on the Observer in the 50s and 60s, and I was reading one of his pieces, 'Dieselization', republished in 'The Jenguin Pennings' (1963 - though it must originally date from 1955, the year of the British Railways Modernisation Plan). In it, he advocates the setting up by British Railways of a Romance Department: "It will employ poets (The train on platform seven will take us all to heaven. Basingstoke beckons you. Yea, holy Salisbury, and on to the dark-wombed sea)". I was struck by the juxtaposition of heaven and Basingstoke, and I wondered whether this article influenced the line "I dream of eternity or Basingstoke or Reading". Coincidence? I think not. Another, longer article, "Report on resistentialism", which dates I believe from the late 40s, goes into a more sustained flight on the great toast theme than I have seen before: "A convenient point of departure is provided by the famous Clark-Trimble experiments of 1935. Clark-Trimble was not primarily a physicist, and his great discovery of the Graduated Hostility of Things was made almost accidentally. During some reasearch into the relation between periods of the day and human bad temper, Clark-Trimble, a leading Cambridge psychologist, came to the conclusion that low human dynamics in the early morning could not sufficiently explain the apparent hostility of Things at the breakfast table - the way the honey gets between the fingers, the unfoldability of newspapers, etc. In the experiments which finally confirmed him in this view, and which he demonstrated before the Royal Society in London, Clark-Trimble arranged four hundred pieces of carpet in ascending degrees of quality, from coarse matting to priceless Chinese silk. Pieces of toast and marmalade, graded, weighed and measured, were then dropped on to each piece of carpet, and the marmalade-downwards incidence was statistically analysed. The toast fell right-side-up every time on the cheap carpet, except when the cheap carpet was screened from the rest (in which case the toast didn't know that Clark-Trimble had other and better carpets), and it fell marmalade-downwards every time on the Chinese silk. Most remarkable of all, the marmalade-downwards incidence for the intermediate grades was found to vary _exactly_ with the grade of carpet. The success of theses experiments naturally switched Clark-Trimble's attention to further research on _resistentia_, a fact which was directly responsible for the tragic and sudden end to his career when he trod on a garden rake at the Cambridge School of Agronomy". - - Mike Godwin PS I just remembered a good story about a Saxon king who cut off his opponent's head and had the skull made into a cup. When the opponent's daughter came to dinner, he suggested that she should drink out of the skull "as I know you'd enjoy a drink with your father". T A Shippey describes this as 'a truly Orcish pleasantry'. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:02:01 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: jewels, etc. At 01:58 PM 7/5/99 -0400, four episode lesbian wrote: >>the South Park movie is fuckin' AWESOME! > >yeah...saw it yesterday. for the most part, i chuckled quietly throughout >(there i go being too hip for my own good again) but (literally) fell out >of my seat in tears when cartman discovered his secret powers. Oh my fuckin' god! I saw such this movie yesterday and almost died. I can't remember ever laughing so hard at a movie. I couldn't even SEE most of the Terrance and Phillip movie, as tears were just pouring out of my eyes. >>golly, it made my heart so warm to see >>all these 10-12 year old kids there with their mothers! ha! ha! i didn't >>notice anybody getting up and leaving, though. > >two older teenagers walked in right before it started and sat down next to >us with a little girl who probably wasn't more than six years old. >babysitting, we guessed. they got up and left after saddam hussein pulled >out the second dildo. One party sitting right in front of me left about halfway through the flick, but I think it might have been because the baby they had brought with them was getting antsy. One lady waited until the rest of the party was almost out the door before getting up and leaving, so I could tell she didn't really *want* to bail. And, the one guy sitting right in front me was laughing pretty damn loud (louder than I was even) through most of it, so I doubt he was offended. >>the only kind of bogus thing was that they put a *lot* of songs in there, > >well, i liked the songs and will pony up my ill-gotten profits to buy the >soundtrack. I thought most of the songs worked pretty well, if just in spoofing the whole Disney "animated musical" formula. They weren't great songs musically, but the lyrics were on par with the rest of the script. And, I'm still humming "Uncle Fucker." I'd also agree that South Park is extremely "political and stuff." It's probably the most political of all the movies I've seen this year - well, at least in terms of being "in line" with my own political leanings. As long as I'm talking about film, I also caught "Big Daddy" this weekend. Nothing special. Inexcusably corny in places. There were at least a couple of pretty funny parts, though. The kid is cute, actually, without being over the top - which is pretty rare for Hollywood. But, I seriously doubt I'd recommend it to anyone. If you see it, wait for the video. As far as SNL alums go, I still think Adam Sandler is about 100 times funnier than that boring sod Mike Myers, although that's not saying much. I didn't hear any new Rufus songs, but the Garbage tune (yay!) and Sheryl Crow's cover of "Sweet Child Of Mine" (yikes!) were quite prominent. As an added bonus, a number of audience members made it quite clear that they were uncomfortable with two guys kissing and being in love. I haven't heard that kind of very vocal homophobic bigotry in awhile. Ugh. - --Jason ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:29:06 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: jewels, etc. At 01:58 PM 7/5/99 -0400, four episode lesbian wrote: >>the South Park movie is fuckin' AWESOME! > >yeah...saw it yesterday. for the most part, i chuckled quietly throughout >(there i go being too hip for my own good again) but (literally) fell out >of my seat in tears when cartman discovered his secret powers. Oh my fuckin' god! I saw such this movie yesterday and almost died. I can't remember ever laughing so hard at a movie. I couldn't even SEE most of the Terrance and Phillip movie, as tears were just pouring out of my eyes. >>golly, it made my heart so warm to see >>all these 10-12 year old kids there with their mothers! ha! ha! i didn't >>notice anybody getting up and leaving, though. > >two older teenagers walked in right before it started and sat down next to >us with a little girl who probably wasn't more than six years old. >babysitting, we guessed. they got up and left after saddam hussein pulled >out the second dildo. One party sitting right in front of me left about halfway through the flick, but I think it might have been because the baby they had brought with them was getting antsy. One lady waited until the rest of the party was almost out the door before getting up and leaving, so I could tell she didn't really *want* to bail. And, the one guy sitting right in front me was laughing pretty damn loud (louder than I was even) through most of it, so I doubt he was offended. >>the only kind of bogus thing was that they put a *lot* of songs in there, > >well, i liked the songs and will pony up my ill-gotten profits to buy the >soundtrack. I thought most of the songs worked pretty well, if just in spoofing the whole Disney "animated musical" formula. They weren't great songs musically, but the lyrics were on par with the rest of the script. And, I'm still humming "Uncle Fucker." I'd also agree that South Park is extremely "political and stuff." It's probably the most political of all the movies I've seen this year - well, at least in terms of being "in line" with my own political leanings. As long as I'm talking about film, I also caught "Big Daddy" this weekend. Nothing special. Inexcusably corny in places. There were at least a couple of pretty funny parts, though. The kid is cute, actually, without being over the top - which is pretty rare for Hollywood. But, I seriously doubt I'd recommend it to anyone. If you see it, wait for the video. As far as SNL alums go, I still think Adam Sandler is about 100 times funnier than that boring sod Mike Myers, although that's not saying much. I didn't hear any new Rufus songs, but the Garbage tune (yay!) and Sheryl Crow's cover of "Sweet Child Of Mine" (yikes!) were quite prominent. As an added bonus, a number of audience members made it quite clear that they were uncomfortable with two guys kissing and being in love. I haven't heard that kind of very vocal homophobic bigotry in awhile. Ugh. - --Jason ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:37:34 -0700 (PDT) From: fred is ted Subject: Re: "Quailtilius Varos, where are my beagles!?!" Hey evrbody! > PS: Um . . . the subject line, right? Brian Blessed > as Octavian Augustus in > "I, Claudius." One of my favorite movie-lines. . . That's what happens when you dip your beak too far into the Teutoborg (Forest). Lots of goodies in "I, Claude Cat." My fave is when the poisoned Claudius utters "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out." Jacoby gave it a wonderfully woody resonance. Wooody. Wooooody. > but, er, I'm not sure I > remembered it right. That's entirely Mark's fault . > . . my brain has not > functioned propery after seeing his video for > "Dinsosaur." And I can't > sleep right, either. Rubber masks are scary. Not to mention devil masks. Just try sleeping with one of those! Hey Susan, I sympathize with your plight. A Cheap Trick jag can get heavy. Ted "Yeah, we get high on music" Kim Deal _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:44:40 PDT From: Capitalism Blows Subject: Re: (no subject) "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible." --Company spokesman Phill Angell _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:48:24 PDT From: Capitalism Blows Subject: Re: If it's not too late also, couldja ask him whatever became of the spoken-word album? and why Surfer Ghost has never gotten a proper release? (well, that's not to imply the NetSurfer Ghost is *improper*. but you know what i mean.) oh, and once upon a time i queried mrs. wafflehead about possibly printing up a coffeetable book with all of robyn's lyrics, painting, drawings, cartoons, stories, etc. she responded that that indeed had crossed robyn's mind! wonder if it's still under consideration? From: "Russ Reynolds" Reply-To: "Russ Reynolds" To: ljlyon@uic.edu CC: fegmaniax Subject: If it's not too late Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 06:00:51 -0700 Been out of town for a few days and am catching up now. I forget when Viv is supposed to interview RH but here's a question for: A few years ago--about the time of Y&O I believe--reports circulated that Robyn had found a body on a beach. Details were pretty much limited to these facts: Robyn found a body on a beach. I'd like to know the circumstances. Was he alone? And how was he affected by this? Seems like a pretty big deal yet not much was ever made of it. Considering Robyn's fascination with (a) death, and (b) beaches it seems like we could have heard a lot more. This would be a good one to probe. _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:55:27 PDT From: Capitalism Blows Subject: Fw: TALKING DOG somebody just forwarded this to me. also, i recall a girl that i worked with at the country club was really into a song called The Dogs Are Talking. i don't remember who'd done it. i think she even played it for me once, but i wasn't overly impressed. and danny b. has a song called Opposable thumb, in which he tells of his dog, gidget, having developed one. and she now does all manner of groovy shit, including throwing out the first ceremonial pitch at dodger stadium. cool song. by the way, is a lyric sheet included with JEWELS FOR SOPHIA? if so, on Elizabeth Jade, is it - --"you will find yourself in heaven" or "you will find yourself unleavened"? - --"prewar lemonade" or "pre-war lemonade"? - --"before i find myself a pauper" or "before i find myself a pauper"? and on Viva Sea-Tac, is it - --"before, in the rain" or "before him, the rain"? incidentally, this was the fifth forwarding of this thing. and, just because i love y'all, i personally went through and took out the ">>>>>" in front of each line, and completely reformatted. and yes, i'm well aware that this joke's as old as the hills. TALKING DOG A salesman dropped in to see a business customer. Not a soul was in the office except a big dog emptying wastebaskets. The salesman stared at the animal, wondering if his imagination could be playing tricks on him. The dog looked up and said, "Don't be surprised. This is just part of my job." "Incredible!" exclaimed the man. "I can't believe it! Does your boss know what a prize he has in you? An animal that can talk!" "No," pleaded the dog. "I would appreciate it if you didn't tell him either. If that man finds out I can talk, he'd make me answer the phone, too!" _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:13:24 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Music! Robyn! Fun with Lists! Lotsa PPPPS's! Just to add to the general fray: I LOVE "Jewels for Sophia." I think it's Robyn's best thing since "Globe of Frogs." I don't think there's a single weak song on it, and I love the slow songs as well as the rough ones. I plan to send one to everybody I know. (Using Eddie's charge card.) I may have to buy fifty copies of it myself and make a little Stonehenge out of the CD cases. In fact, this is the reason they are called "Jewel Boxes." How precognitive of the recording industry, don't you think? I may even name my first-born "JfS." Or at least "NASA Clapping." I give it an unqualified "Wheeeee!" So, my middle of the year list: 1. Jewels for Sophia 2. Apple Venus Vol. 1 3. Mule Variations 4. Back on Top (Van Morrison) 5. Bad Love (Rany Newman) *** Disclaimer ***: Haven't really listened to Pavement or OTC yet, though. . . . - --Quail said, "Yeah!" PS: Eno = Pit of Souls PPS: God help me I can't stop watching Amy Sedaris. PPPS: And while I'm thinking about that, does anyone else but me think "The Upright Citizen's Brigade" is the funniest fucking thing on TV? I think I almost choked to death laughing last night. Sigh . . . Smartie the Dolphin. Hee hee hee. . . . . +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven." --Psalms 105:40 (Also see Exodus 16:13 and Numbers 11:31-34 for more starry wisdom) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:02:25 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Snowcrashnomicon Age Dave writes, >By the way, without JfS to obsess on during this trip, I've instead read >Cryptonomicon, and was quite blown away. Neal Stephenson has already been >hailed as a Sterling or even Pynchon-- Well, I just finished "Snow Crash" and "The Diamond Age," and I do like Neal, but he's a faaaar cry from a Pynchon and a near cry from a Sterling. I mean, I really liked "Diamond Age" a lot -- I'd rank it 17 out of 20 Wintermutes -- but "Snow Crash," while reminiscent of "Vineland," was a bit too derivative of Gibson, Sterling and Walter Jon Williams to really merit the hype. (In my humble opinion.) I haven't read "Cryptonomicon" yet, but I plan to -- I like Neal enough to buy it in hardcover, which is a good sign. >but never mind the hi-falutin' >touchstones, this thing's so big, digressive, encyclopedic, and >public-pleasing (for those willing to grasp the math), he could be the next >James Clavell ! >(whom I never see on any libyrinth lists...) I do like Clavell -- I *loved* "Shogun" and "King Rat" -- but as large and encylopediac as his books are, his prose is fairly straight-forward and his narrative flow is still pretty linear. (But I am still kinda flattered to see "libyrinth" used as an adjective!) >Seriously, this is a big enjoyable book. I so enjoyed hearing about the >start-up of a high tech firm, based on electronic currency, that I breifly >turned into Jeme and felt like maybe there was a future. at least, one to >look forward to. Two other good books that also give the feel of a high-tech startup: Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs," which though a bit too precious at times, is still a great read, and: Kurt Anderson's "Turn of the Century." This recently-published book (Anderson was a founding editor of "Spy" Magazine) is my current read, and I am *really* enjoying it. Taking place in the year 2000, it's about a wired husband and wife climbing the ladder of power in the world of software and entertainment, and it really takes wicked look at Microsoft, Madison Avenue, and LA. Like Coupland, it tests my personal "hip tolerance" at times, but the portrayals of Seattle software geeks, Wall Street assholes, digerati in general, and Fox-media-type moguls is really kick-ass, and very funny. It is more serious than a parody, less venemous than satire, but not quite science fiction. Hard to describe. (Obviously.) La la la, off to light some of those spooky Spanish Santeria candles, - --Quail PS: "well, it tried to make an arrow turn into a floating funnel of fingers and hearts, but the skill (and blue polish) weren't up to it. but the purple pen can do the rest any old time, and it's certainly in the livia-cam archives." This may be my favorite new thing ever said on the List. I think Livia may actually be one of those AI-simulators, like "Lisa." You type in a question, and she generates a phrase that *just* about seems to answer you, but could just as well be a Japanese re-translation from a bootleg "Tank Girl" comic.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "With the quail you had to stay on the move... Quail was king. Only the quail exploded upward into the sky and made your heart bang away so madly in your ribcage." --Tom Wolfe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 16:18:45 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: VA with NMH - - Various Artists - Oh, Merge! (10th anniversary collection w/Neutral Milk Hotel, East River Pipe, Rocket from the Crypt, et al.) (Merge) This was just released today. Anybody know anything about it? Joel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 17:28:46 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Music! Robyn! Fun with Lists! Lotsa PPPPS's! The Great Quail wrote: > > Just to add to the general fray: > > I LOVE "Jewels for Sophia." I think it's Robyn's best thing since "Globe of > Frogs." I don't think there's a single weak song on it Man, you guys are making me fucking crazy!! - --Joel, who's counting the days. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 17:40:51 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: More OAR The credits on Robyn's track on the Skip Spence tribute (out today) should have read "Poorly produced by..." It sounds thin and tinny with a distorted ringing to me. Anyone else who bothered to buy this less than satisfied? It's a sloppy performance as well. It sounds like he was in a hurry and didn't bother to do a second take. For completists (aka weenies) only. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 17:36:14 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: acronyms 1. I've been wondering why we're referring to Jewels for Sophia as JfS. I'm assuming that it's because "for" is a minor word that doesn't need to be capitalized. But if that is the case, then why do we say IODOT? Shouldn't it be IODoT? Not that it matters much, but this has been on my mind lately. 2. And what do we do with Invisible Hits, Invisible Hitchcock, and Invisible History? They'd all be IH. Man, this is a really idiotic post... Joel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 19:13:40 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: 69 So, for about a year now, I've been hearing about this forthcoming Magnetic Fields album, "69 Love Songs." I always pictured a collection of one minute long quick little love ditties. Well, you Magnetic Fields fans out there will be pleased and/or appalled to know that it's actually going to be 3 CDs! I guess they'll be sold separately or as a 3-CD set. Sounds pretty neat. My favorite Steven Merritt project is the Sixths, but I'll be curious to hear what's in this book full o' love songs he's got cooked up. - ------Michael K., np "JfS" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 17:47:17 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Plant rock Well, I just started a class on social deviance. Yesterday, I was thumbing through the book and I found this pretty cool paragraph about some research that's been done on the effects of rock music. This lady in Denver "systematically exposed plants to rock music and found, in three separate experiments, that exposure to acid rock and Led Zeppelin caused a variety of plants to be stunted, damaged, or dead within a month." And I thought I just wasn't watering them enough... Joel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:06:34 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: Fw: TALKING DOG Cappy Talisman Blew: >and danny b. has a song called Opposable thumb, in which he tells of his >dog, gidget, having developed one. and she now does all manner of groovy >shit, including throwing out the first ceremonial pitch at dodger stadium. >cool song. "If you're proud of your dog Because he chases sticks (Dan spits this scorningly and laughingly) Gidget grabs the sticks and plays the drums..." The way Dan Bern sings that one just crax me up. I don't remember for sure that Gidget is credited for talking in the song, tho. He and Robyn seem to be borrowing many of my good ideas for material these days. This is not to say that they are aware of my existence or that of my material-> it could be just a metaphysical confluence of the effluvial everything that just couldn't wait for me to express it. I was writing a similar song about Dusty, the amazing tigermonkey and also one about living on the Moon. I have at least temporarily abandoned the Dusty one. "Sitting in a Little Grass Hut on the Shiny Side of the Moon" is one of the better things I've written, whether NASA has the clap or not. Happies, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:21:10 -0600 From: ultraconformist@mail.weboffices.com Subject: Re: the devil and other quail relatives >> Dear me, how violent. If I actually had friends, this would be a terrible >> thought. > >metaphorically speaking, of course. just like wading through your >ventilator is actually a very sexy song, in its own little way. Just like I actually do have friends, but I didn't let that get in the way of a workable one-liner. >seriously: how did i imply threats against the list? in fact, there are >many things about this game that i still don't understand. i just >jumped in the middle and grabbed for my most-wanted prize. There was that post a couple days ago where Ross had said something about the posting frequency being cut in half, and you said something about wanting to cut out the other half of the frequency too. Maybe you were just being silly or perhaps it was just part of the game, and in any event the list'll survive a bit of chaotic surrealism any old how (this is not the Britney Spears list, after all), but I did read that as implying that your ultimate goal was to attempt to knock the list down with a tidal wave of discordiana and it left a bad taste in my mouth. >and i don't have any dislike for you, implied or otherwise. during >my previous sojourn on the list, the only person i really disliked >was kay. In retrospect this could be me being oversensitive, but I had read a nasty edge to some of the things you had written in response to my posts. >i would love a toe fruit salad. thank you. I'm very very glad you are willing to accept this token. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:27:36 -0600 From: ultraconformist@mail.weboffices.com Subject: Sonic Youth news I received this yesterday but was waiting to get confirmation that it was not a hoax before passing it on. Alas, it is not. Thought I'd get the word out here too for anyone who hasn't heard. Love on ya, Susan ><< > >>> URGENT/SY GEAR STOLEN! > > >>> > > >>> july 4 1999 LA/Orange County > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> Hello all, this is Lee from Sonic Youth > > >>> here, we have had a fucked up situation > > >>> come down on us over this last night-a > > >>> brand new Ryder truck parked at a Ramada > > >>> Inn in Orange County with ALL OF OUR GEAR > > >>> IN IT was STOLEN! All of our guitars, > > >>> tools, amplifiers, drums, synth- > > >>> EVERYTHING. We are fucked, both for the > > >>> show tonight at the "This Ain't No Picnic" > > >>> here in Orange Co., and for shows upcoming > > >>> this week in Austin and Santa Fe. Our > > >>> guitars are all mostly older and either > > >>> very modified and/or fucked up/beat up. > > >>> They are unmistakably ours, as are some of > > >>> the amps, including my own 60s Fender > > >>> Concert with the red/blue/yellow "Jasper > > >>> Johns-style" target on it. > > >>> > > >>> We are asking ANYONE with ANY INFORMATION > > >>> about this to get in touch with us as soon > > >>> as possible by calling our man Aaron > > >>> Blitzstein in New York City at > > >>> 212.343.2314, or via email to > > >>> "Mascaras66@aol.com". Call collect if you > > >>> want to. Please no pranks, all, this is > > >>> really serious-all the gear we've used to > > >>> write our last few LPs worth of stuff, > > >>> instruments used for songs old and new > > >>> which if truly lost will mean those songs > > >>> will be lost forever. > > >>> > > >>> Help us out if you can, there will be a > > >>> reward for any info, I'm sure. All our road > > >>> cases, etc, are fully marked up with our > > >>> name on them, the gtrs are so unusual that > > >>> they won't really be too hard to mistake. > > >>> ANY info at all will be appreciated. > > >>> > > >>> If the thieves themselves read this, I'm > > >>> sure we'd rather buy the stuff back from > > >>> you than lose it forever (you fukkerz). > > >>> > > >>> here are some descriptions of gear: > > >>> > > >>> drums: green satin flame 60s Gretch kit (w > > >>> "paisley" glow in dark kik head > > >>> > > >>> Fender ToneMaster head and 4x12 cabinet > > >>> > > >>> Fender blackface Concert (4x10) w "Target > > >>> design" spraypainted on front > > >>> > > >>> PeeVey RoadMaster Head > > >>> > > >>> Marshal 4x12 cab > > >>> > > >>> Mesa Boogie 400+ bass head/4x10 cab/18" cab > > >>> > > >>> Fender Bassman head (two!)/ 2x12 fender cab > > >>> > > >>> Fender presicion Bass > > >>> > > >>> Gibson Les Paul Jr w snoopy sticker > > >>> > > >>> Fender Jazzmasters and Jaguars-lots of > > >>> 'em, mostly modified to hell (orig > > >>> electronix pulled, diff p/u's etc) and > > >>> usually way beat up. > > >>> > > >>> Travis Beans--1 koa wood, one red beat to > > >>> shit > > >>> > > >>> White roadcase/briefcase full of gtr tools > > >>> > > >>> we will post more equip info later... > > >>> thanks in advance for any help... > > >>> > > >>> PLEASE PASS THIS LIST ON TO ANYONE WHO > > >>> MIGHT BE OF HELP! > > >>> > > >>> ---Lee/Sonic Youth > > >>> > > - > > > > > ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #236 *******************************