From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #245 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, July 12 1999 Volume 08 : Number 245 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: 'Bots [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer ] people poll [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks [Joel Mullins ] Re: 100 'Best'Novels [Michael R Godwin ] Re: The Cars reissue ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Re: http://158.72.105.122/gh/ephemera/Default.htm [Tom Clark ] Re: Films and more films [Michael R Godwin ] White no sugar ["Ghost Surfer" ] Re: http://158.72.105.122/gh/ephemera/Default.htm [Ken Ostrander ] Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks [ultraconformist@mail.weboffices.com] ray [Joel Mullins ] Re: Films and more films [ultraconformist@mail.weboffices.com] Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks ["Capitalism Blows" ] song id ["John B. Jones" ] Re: Films and more films ["D B" ] Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks [Terrence M Marks ] Re: song id [Terrence M Marks ] Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks [Joel Mullins ] Re: song id [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] thanks for the song id! ["John B. Jones" ] Re: song id ["JH3" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 12:24:20 +0100 (BST) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: 'Bots >>>>> "MARKEEFE" == MARKEEFE writes: MARKEEFE> I can assure each and every one of MARKEEFE> you that he is, without any uncertainty, a bot. I guess you probably don't know this, but 'bot' is Scots Gaelic for 'penis'. The Tomy toy 'Omnibot' caused outrage in the conservative and (mostly) Gaelic-speaking Western Isles, for its name translates as 'all purpose penis'. Would I lie to you? Stewart (who'd just like to point out that Gaelic is spoken by a v small number of people here...) - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:24 +0100 From: "Sedgwick, Gary" Subject: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks >accompanied by an adult. If films exceed certain limits - for >instance if they show male genitalia - they get the dreaded NC17 >label which stands for "No Children 17 or under." Canada only has an I didn't realise this was such a big deal in the States. Just about all films with a significant sexual or violent content get an 18 certificate (NC17) here in the UK, but no-one worries much! Is the proportion of under 18 cinema goers a lot higher in the States? >$15 or $16 each!] After "Something Else," I'd go for "Face to Face" (1966) >if you want something more straightforwardly poppy or "Arthur" if you want >something a little more epic (well, by Kinks standards, anyway). Good use of >horns; nice balance of twee, VillageGreen-ish pop and some "heavier" rock Arthur [or "Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)" to give it its full title] is an excellent album with one of the Kinks most rocking singalongs - Victoria. >material. All the albums before "Face to Face" have a little too much >throw-away content on them for me to need to own them (although there are There are the reissues (Rhino IIRC?) of the early albums that also collect all of the single and EP sides of the period together - these are well worth getting. Some of the earlier songs - Dedicated Follower Of Fashion, Dead End Street, I'm Not Like Everybody Else, See My Friends, Tired Of Waiting For You, and of course You Really Got Me and All Day And All Of The Night, are essential. The albums from Face To Face through to Lola are definitely worth buying - - these form the 'classic' Kinks period albums. You do miss some of the singles tracks though, such as Autumn Almanac and Wonderboy. >some great tunes!), and they got a little too rockin' after "Arthur" for me, >although I do own and enjoy "Lola" quite a bit (well, and "Muswell Lola [or "Lola Part One: Powerman vs. The Moneygoround" to give it its full title!] is actually my favourite album. It just really works as a whole, and just about all of the songs are really strong. Bit more of that Dave Davies crunchy guitar too. >Hillbillies" is pretty cool, too). Oh, for the earlier stuff, you might look >into Rhino's "Greatest Hits" disc. Unfortunately it does *not* have "Nothing >in the World . . . ," but it does have most of their great material from '64 >to '66. The best 'greatest hits' type albums I have seen are called The Kinks Story - Part One and Part Two. The first covers up to Sunny Afternoon, the second starts off with Waterloo Sunset and covers up to Lola. The choice of songs is very good, with some of the classier singles and B-sides included (things like Plastic Man and Wonderboy), and the liner notes give you a good run down of the 60s Kinks story. The Kinks Kronikles has also been mentioned, which is itself pretty good, although it doesn't have so many 'hits' as room had to be made for some 'obscurities'. After Lola came Percy, which is a bit more acoustic / romantic. I do like this album, although half the songs are throwaway instrumentals - I really can't stand the version of Lola. Post 1970 Kinks doesn't get mentioned a lot, but two great songs are on "Everybody's In Showbiz" - these being Celluloid Heroes and Sitting In My Hotel Room. Unfortunately, the rest of the album is a bit shoddy. Hope this helps! Gary ____________________________________________________ Gary Sedgwick MKIRisk Midas-Kapiti International 1 St. George's Road Tel: +44 (208) 879 1188 Wimbledon Fax: +44 (208) 944 7963 London Direct: +44 (208) 486 1662 SW19 4DR Email: sedgwicg@midas-kapiti.com UK ____________________________________________________ (The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the view and opinions of Midas-Kapiti International Ltd. This message and/or any attached documents may contain Privileged and Confidential Information and should only be read by those persons to whom this message is addressed.) .:. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:34:32 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: people poll On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 07:21:54 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >Definitely. An internet-based "best of" poll is, almost by definition, >rigged. cf. John Flansburgh and Ravishing Rick Flair winning People's >Most Beautiful People poll and several other examples I can't think of >presently. Flair won it? "WOOOOO!" :) but seriously, better an over the hill wrestler than adolf hitler. What the hell do these polls mean anyway? "most beautiful people"? ha! -luther ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 06:38:23 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks Sedgwick, Gary wrote: > I didn't realise this was such a big deal in the States. Just about all > films with a significant sexual or violent content get an 18 certificate > (NC17) here in the UK, but no-one worries much! Is the proportion of > under 18 cinema goers a lot higher in the States? I would say that a large percentage of movie goers in the states are under 18. I'm guessing the studios don't like releasing NC-17 movies because it might be harder for little kids to sneak into than an R-rated movie. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:08:45 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: 100 'Best'Novels On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Livia wrote: > 43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) > Anthony Powell > > cool. though it should have been in the top 10. Absolutely. I've read it twice. The TV series completely failed to do it justice, although the actors playing Charles Stringham and Widmerpool were good. The wartime "autumn" books are better than Waugh's dreary Crouchback novles. > what, no kingsley? henry green made it in, > and the pretentious old bag iris murdoch, and > even booth tarkington (who i do quite like), and > waugh, forster, naipaul etc TWICE, but no kingsley > amis, margaret drabble, elisabeth jabe howard, etc? What you have to realise is that this list was compiled by modernists, who hate Amis like poison because he can actually write dialogue and plots. Fortunately the modernist age passed away 20 years ago, which is one fo the reasons that this list looks so strange. And there does seem to be an indigestible weight of unreadable American novelists included (I wasn't going to mention any names for fear of treading on someone's toes, but Theodore Dreiser? Do me a favour!). My view is that not only should you include Kingsley Amis, you should also have 'The History Man' by Malcolm Bradbury, 'Changing Places' and 'Small World' by David Lodge, and 'Coming From Behind' by Howard Jacobson (totally brilliant, I just re-read it). And that's before getting on to the non-mainstream stuff like Michael Moorcock's 'The laughter of Carthage'. Where the hell is B S Johnson, the greatest writer of the 20th Century apart from Flann O'Brien Amazingly, Flann O'Brien isn't there either. Where is Robert Nye? Patrick O'Brian? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? they don't even appear to include H G Wells or E F Benson. And of course the biggest omission of all is the winner of the Radio 4 listeners poll, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. And not to put too fine a point on it, this is a really sexist list. No Barbara Pym, no Barbara Comyns, no Angela Carter, but stacks of second rate male authors. > i think i'll go throw up now or something. Move over and make room for me too... - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:48:23 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: The Cars reissue >From: "Capitalism Blows" > >speaking of reissues, anybody heard this new souped-up printing of THE CARS? > um, it's on rhino, right? Yup, the The Cars Deluxe Edition double-cd set is on Rhino. One heckuva good job -- nice liner notes and the bonus disk contains alternate versions of the entire album, in addition to some songs which had been previously unreleased. Granted, the Elektra reissue of the CD is also good. They did a top-notch job of remastering the recording. I bought the Rhino reissue b/c of the extra disc, but it was worth it (well, the Rhino set was cheap enough, at ~$14, to justify the purchase). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 08:05:49 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: http://158.72.105.122/gh/ephemera/Default.htm The Weetabix box was my idea. I picked it up at a fuckwad little supermarket in Harrisburg, PA. on the way to Quail's FegFest. Why Weetabix? You can't call yourself a feg if you don't know. Why Eddie? Because Eddie RULES! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 12:02:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Sedgwick, Gary wrote: > I didn't realise this was such a big deal in the States. Just about all > films with a significant sexual or violent content get an 18 certificate > (NC17) here in the UK, but no-one worries much! Is the proportion of > under 18 cinema goers a lot higher in the States? In the US, there are very, very few NC17 films released in regular theatres. The rating still carries most of the same general connotations as 'X' does in most circles. Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:10:30 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Films and more films > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Sedgwick, Gary wrote: > > I didn't realise this was such a big deal in the States. Just about all > > films with a significant sexual or violent content get an 18 certificate > > (NC17) here in the UK, but no-one worries much! Is the proportion of > > under 18 cinema goers a lot higher in the States? On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Terrence M Marks wrote: > In the US, there are very, very few NC17 films released in regular > theatres. The rating still carries most of the same general connotations > as 'X' does in most circles. I agree with Gary that this seems bizarre. Most horror films get an X over here, as do films with extensive nudity, but I think they often get _wider_ release precisely because people think they must be fairly scary / steamy to get an X in the first place. I remember when I was about 10 being really annoyed that I wasn't allowed to see any of those Harryhausen films like 'Beast from 20,000 fathoms' - they were all X-rated. BTW, there are results of a big 60,000-vote UK film poll in today's paper: The top 10 are: Star wars Titanic GWTW Casablanca It's a wonderful life The godfather The sound of music Bladerunner Schindler's list The full monty The report states that the top 100 does not include any Woody Allen, any Ealing comedy, any Chaplin and only one European film (Cinema Paradiso). Weird! Why would anyone rank 'Wonderful life' above 'Mr Smith Goes to Washington', which doesn't even appear? Or 'Cinema Paradiso' above 'Il Postino' come to that? - - Mike Godwin PS Actually, I know the answer to Q1 - it's because there are loads of references to IAWL in Red Dwarf ... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 10:11:51 PDT From: "Ghost Surfer" Subject: White no sugar >Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:17:30 +0100 >From: "Sedgwick, Gary" >Subject: White with no sugar > >There was a song around a few weeks ago which was getting loads >of play >on GLR, and I think it was called "White With No Sugar".  Anyway, >most >of the lyrical content was about surfing and relationships made over >the >web (there were also some funny anagram bits: "She told me >bedroom is >just an anagram of boredom").  Can't remember the name of the >band >now... anybody else heard this one? The band is The Clint Boon Experience. Clint used to be in The Inspiral Carpets, but is now doing his own thing. Hope that helps.----------------************************************************------------ "There are times when i can't think about the future, when all my days seem so dark and life seems cruel" - Mojave 3 & "Make a moment last forever, gaze across the ocean to the sun" - Unknown !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:13:58 -0400 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: http://158.72.105.122/gh/ephemera/Default.htm >The Weetabix box was my idea. I picked it up at a fuckwad little >supermarket in Harrisburg, PA. on the way to Quail's FegFest. Why >Weetabix? You can't call yourself a feg if you don't know. Why Eddie? >Because Eddie RULES! as for myself, i've never eaten weetabix; but if i ever do, i know i'll be crooning. love you's guys! EDDIE "super colon blow" TEWS ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:34:48 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Re: this is dedicated... I will post publication and dedication info from Raymond Hitchcock books (including Venus 13) when I get home tonight. By the way, it's not a written inscription or anything, just dedicated to him (I think Percy was dedicated to Lol, if that's spelled right) But I'm writing cause I just got word from amazon.com that they have found a copy of There's a Girl in my Soup, so I should get that within the week, as long as I'm willing to give them $25--and, what the heck, this feels like collecting Richard Brautigan books after he croaked...but, still no hits on the Gilt-Edged Boy. these books available for quick loan for anyone who comes to town for the shows next week (they're very quick reads), or for sale for any of you Rayfegs... (I just wish I had a way to scan and upload the picture of Raymond that's on the flyleaf of his books--my god what majestic muttonchops! By the way the brief bio talks about him and his family living in a restored water mill--I've never seen that in writeups on Robyn's life.) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:24:40 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Wildman Fischer news! Grabbed this from : On August 2, 1999, Rhino Records will inaugurate its new Internet-only record label Rhino Handmade with a 2-CD set comprised of Wild Man Fischer's three LPs for the label along with 30-40 minutes of unreleased material. The compilation will be available through the Internet only, and will be a limited pressing of 1,000 copies, so be sure to keep an eye on the pertinent web sites for further information. Irwin Chusid is working on a book entitled "Songs In The Key Of Z: Outsider Music," which will include a chapter on Wild Man Fischer. I dunno about you, but I cannot wait for this Rhino Handmade thing. It's gonna be good, I'm sure. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:25:55 -0600 From: ultraconformist@mail.weboffices.com Subject: Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks >In the US, there are very, very few NC17 films released in regular >theatres. The rating still carries most of the same general connotations >as 'X' does in most circles. Terry has got it. Really this is not so much about under 18 moviegoers as it is about how many people would potentially see it. There are not many mainstream theatres who will book an NC-17, in fact, offhand I can't think of any NC-17 film that was booked into cineplexes. NC-17 was created, I think, as a different term to mean what X used to mean, since X basically had become something (notable exceptions like "Midnight Cowboy" aside) primarily associated with porn flicks, although it is worth noting that many people think of NC-17 as a way to say "arty porn flick". This means that they generally end up in "art theaters", and that means less audience for a couple reasons: there are less of those than there are cineplexes and there are lots and lots of place that don't have them at all, obviously, and also the film gets to be known as an "art film". This wouldn't deter the Kubrick fans any, but it would deter the people who wanted to see a sexy thriller starring Tom Cruise. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:19:45 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: ray Hey, I thought I'd head over to my local used bookstore and look for some Raymond Hitchcock. I know absolutely nothing about him, so what section should I look in? Fiction? Sci-Fi? Mystery? Other? Joel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:42:23 -0600 From: ultraconformist@mail.weboffices.com Subject: Re: Films and more films >I agree with Gary that this seems bizarre. Most horror films get an X over >here, as do films with extensive nudity, but I think they often get >_wider_ release precisely because people think they must be fairly scary / >steamy to get an X in the first place. Addendum: I don't know the UK system, but I -think- you may not have the intermediate step we have, R, which means no under 18s unaccompanied by an adult. Most horror films get that one, and I'd guess that most UK Xs are R-rated here. NC-17 means that it's too extreme to get an R, which gives it a connotation of being so extreme/evil/steamy/weird that it couldn't even make an R. Only art theaters will touch it because a) among other things it will be the kind of film that might get protested and b) mainstream plexes don't like them because parents can't bring children and they can't let any teenagers in, revenue is lost, blah blah blah.....art theaters cater mostly to adults anyway, so that doesn't bother them so much. It's not just nudity that gets you one, although usually that's the reason. One I can think of that got an NC-17 for violence was "Henry, Portrait of A Serial Killer", and I seem to recall "American History X" was at least threatened with it, although that might have gotten edited down to an R. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 06:52:28 -0700 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:24 Sedgwick, Gary wrote: >I didn't realise this was such a big deal in the States. Just about all >films with a significant sexual or violent content get an 18 certificate >(NC17) here in the UK, but no-one worries much! Is the proportion of >under 18 cinema goers a lot higher in the States? It's not just that NC-17 movies automatically lose out on a desirable demographic (you do have to be 18 to see one), it's that most US theatres will not show NC-17 movies, period end. The NC-17 rating was originally designed to provide an alternative between R (no children 17 and under unless accompanied by an adult) and X (no one under 18, but by the mid-'70s, synonomous with pornographic movies) for movies that had high sexual or violent content but were clearly not CHERRY VALLEY WET GIRLS either. Nevertheless, most US theatres treat NC-17 the same as they would the taboo X. In other words, an NC-17 means that your film won't get shown at all in most of the US, and this is the real reason that most filmmakers will try to compromise on cuts to avoid the NC-17 rating. Re: Kinks >The albums from Face To Face through to Lola are definitely worth buying >- these form the 'classic' Kinks period albums. I'd extend that to what may be my favorite Kinks album, 1971's MUSWELL HILLBILLIES. But yeah, you can't go wrong from 1966 (FACE TO FACE) through 1971. >Post 1970 Kinks doesn't get >mentioned a lot, but two great songs are on "Everybody's In Showbiz" - >these being Celluloid Heroes and Sitting In My Hotel Room. >Unfortunately, the rest of the album is a bit shoddy. The second album... er, half of the CD (flashing back to my vinyl collection!) is live material from the MUSWELL HILLBILLIES tour, with great versions of "Muswell Hillbilly," "Alcohol," and several other favorites. As for the studio half, I'd go further than Gary and say that "Celluloid Heroes" is the *only* worthwhile song. The only post-1971 Kinks album to which I'd give my wholehearted recommendation is 1981's GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT, a spiffy album from beginning ("Around the Dial") to end ("Better Things") and in between (the title track, "Art Lover," "A Little Bit of Abuse," "Predictable"). And the whole run from LOW BUDGET (1979) through U.K. JIVE (1989) is pretty darn good, with the exception of the truly unmemorable THINK VISUAL (1987), but including Ray's RETURN TO WATERLOO soundtrack, which *still* isn't on CD, meaning that my favorite post-1971 song ("Expectations") isn't either. I'm not arguing that these albums are up to 1966-1971 standards; I'm just saying that they shouldn't be overlooked. later, Miles - --- /===================================================================\ | Miles Goosens outdoorminer@mindspring.com | | http://www.rsteviemoore.com outdoorminer@zdnetmail.com | | http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer | | | | "Why everything has to get in the way all the time I don't know." | | -- Janet Ingraham Dwyer | \===================================================================/ Free web-based email, anytime, anywhere! ZDNet Mail - http://www.zdnetmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:43:06 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Films and more films Michael R Godwin wrote: > I agree with Gary that this seems bizarre. Most horror films get an X over > here, as do films with extensive nudity, but I think they often get > _wider_ release precisely because people think they must be fairly scary / > steamy to get an X in the first place. Well, it's just like the way alcohol is viewed over here. Most people like to have the occasional drink, but they still say that it's evil. "Just say no!" At least until you're an adult and then you can become a raging alcoholic. America is full of contradictions. And Christianity is probably the biggest one. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:51:04 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks lal. what's that short for, anyway? Henry & June may have been. can't remember for sure. Showgirls definitely was. i think at the time of Midnight Cowboy, the rating had not yet received this association, though it certainly long since had by the time the NC-17 was created (late-'80's, if i'm remembering correctly). in the commentary track of criterion's Man Who Fell To Earth, roeg says, basically, they were making a movie *for adults*, and considered an X appropriate for the subject matter. Blair Witch Project opens on the same day as Eyes Wide Shut, and i must confess i'm much more excited to see the former than the latter. _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jul 1999 12:02:14 -0700 From: "John B. Jones" Subject: song id who sings the "you put the lime in the coconut" song??? + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + John B. Jones jbjones@spiritone.com "When I was two, I saw white things hanging in the sky, like slow explosions. "What's that?" I asked. "Clouds," I was told. Instantly they became duller." -Robyn Hitchcock + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 12:00:42 PDT From: "D B" Subject: Re: Films and more films For those who care, the next "'Siskel' and Ebert" is totally devoted to EWS. And has anyone(!!!!!)out there read "Voss," by Nobel Prize recipient Patrick White? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:25:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Capitalism Blows wrote: > Henry & June may have been. can't remember for sure. Showgirls definitely > was. I thought they edited Showgirls down to an R. Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:26:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: song id On 12 Jul 1999, John B. Jones wrote: > who sings the "you put the lime in the coconut" song??? Harry Nilsson. That song is on Nilsson Schmilsson, his best album. His other best albums include Harry and A touch of Schmilsson in the Night, both of which are less rocking than NS, but, well, he's got a great voice. Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:26:23 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Kinky Kubrik & The Kinks Terrence M Marks wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Capitalism Blows wrote: > > > Henry & June may have been. can't remember for sure. Showgirls definitely > > was. > > I thought they edited Showgirls down to an R. I'm pretty sure the version I saw at the theater was NC-17. But I could be wrong. By the way, it was a pretty shitty movie. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 12:53:10 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: song id Some dead guy named Nils(some number of s's in the middle)son, who is dead but had s's in his name. His first name might be Harry. This ditty has since been redone with some level of popularity by at least one other person, but may sound good when you're dead. Homer Simpson has covered this tune, but I think he interpreted the lyrics a bit differently. I hope I've made your whole day with my vast library of information that is so seldom of consequence. - -Markg "John B. Jones" on 07/12/99 12:02:14 PM Please respond to "John B. Jones" Sent by: "John B. Jones" To: fegmaniax@smoe.org cc: (Mark Gloster/HQ/3Com) Subject: song id who sings the "you put the lime in the coconut" song??? + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + John B. Jones jbjones@spiritone.com "When I was two, I saw white things hanging in the sky, like slow explosions. "What's that?" I asked. "Clouds," I was told. Instantly they became duller." -Robyn Hitchcock + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jul 1999 13:09:56 -0700 From: "John B. Jones" Subject: thanks for the song id! you all have been helpful! thanks! =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:07:39 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: song id Terrence Schmerrence writes: >That song is on Nilsson Schmilsson, his best album. His >other best albums include Harry and A touch of Schmilsson >in the Night, both of which are less rocking than NS, but, >well, he's got a great voice. You'd pick those two over Son of Schmilsson? That was the one that had "Spaceman," "Joy" and "The Lottery Song" on it! I liked it better than Nilsson Schmilsson myself, though I can see why folks would disagree with that at least. But "Little Touch of Schmilsson" is just a bunch of covers from the swing era ("As Time Goes By," "You Made Me Love You," etc.) and largely dispensible, IMO. Harry is mostly (all?) covers as well, from the 60's, but I don't own that one. Sorry to interject on such a minor point, but Son of Schmilsson would be right up there (with Ram) on my all-time 70's fave LP's list if I had one, so I was a little taken aback, I guess. Btw: All you pretty XTC fans who can view AVI files really should download the *extremely impressive* AVI file at this web page here: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/4623/lemonade.htm Toodles, John H. Hedges ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #245 *******************************