From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #274 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, July 28 1999 Volume 08 : Number 274 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: This time, the art. More quails for Sophia! [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Easy Listening to Boyd Rice ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Yea! RH content hidden (Y'know, RH is just RUSH with us missing...) [DDer] forgot something. [DDerosa5@aol.com] Robyn Desktop BMP [Tom Clark ] jewels for what's her name [Ken Ostrander ] Re: cheesy Simpsons [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Viva! Sea-Sick. [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Robyn Prolific?! (was: eb all over the world) [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: eb all over the world ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: jewels for what's her name [MARKEEFE@aol.com] SF in-store [Chris Franz ] Re: Robyn Prolific?! (was: eb all over the world) [Capuchin ] J4S [Mark ] MABD Preview and Interview [Jason Sherett ] [susan331@earthlink.net: Robyn story #2] [woj sven-woj ] me ["Livia" ] Re: Which one's Pink? [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Which one's Pink? ["Livia" ] Re: Viva! Sea-Sick. ["Livia" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:05:31 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: This time, the art. More quails for Sophia! In a message dated 7/26/99 7:57:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, quail@panix.com writes: << Hmmm . . . again, I feel like one of the lone gunmen, but I *love* the art in JfS. >> Maybe I'm just another one of those holed-up-in-a-trailer geeks, too, then. Cuz I also *love* the artwork. I was figuring I might wait a while to get the CD for the shelves at home, contenting myself with the purple-paddle-promo. But then Jeme opened up the CD he bought, and it was all over for me. I *had* to have my own copy. Lyrics, musician credits, and GREAT art with GREAT pictures!! Woo-hoo!! - ------Michael K., "JfS" addict ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:22:52 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Easy Listening to Boyd Rice > >Seriously, who is Boyd Rice? He sounds interesting indeed. . . . > [snip] >The Ultimate Band List has him filed under Easy Listening, which I think is >extremely hilarious. Come on people, have you actually heard these records? >"Easy Listening for Iron Youth" is not exactly -easy listening- (except >perhaps for people who find "Metal Machine Music" to be "too mellow"). Well, Boyd Rice released another album he did with Frank Tovey entitled "Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing" (file under: Europeans banging on things during the 80s) which may explain that gaffe. It's a great album for ending parties. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:59:26 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Yea! RH content hidden (Y'know, RH is just RUSH with us missing...) and Yippie! Livia (sorry, Live*eh*ahhhhhhh) is back! welcome back! As someone who only gets the digest Feg form, rather than each little email, sometimes I am saddened to reach my lunch break or just a dull phone call and call up my browser only to find that the digest hasn't arrived yet, cause you all are too slow to post with your little lives getting in the way. But now, with the triumphant return of Livia, I will get digests a coupla times per day. Oh happy medium... free from the hundred color coded gates, let loose upon the 82 monochrome keys (well and my computer has a green clitoris too, but if I reveal too much personally, it will start to censor my mail) (let's just say she loves it when I type without looking and have to go back to correct myriad mistakes, talk about yer cybersex...) and then i ******** ** ***** ***** ***** ********* *** ****** ******* **** * *** ***** * stop that, OK wait, let me go back and find a typo, oops, can't reach it, whoa way too far, cursor trails, cursing tails, ahhhhhh, where was I? Oh yeah, Livia's back. get a good divorce lawyer, or The Man will get your Robyn records. then you'll have to spend the rest of the day at 11:44 on eBay trying to sell your poetry for a limited edition lime green T-shirt of Aragorn dressed as Wallace Shawn. Whose dad ran the New Yorker, but not the whole state. She's got a reply key and she's not afraid to use it, people, so back up and hand over all the lupins you've got. I happen to know that this is the Bright Fresh Flower express, and that you take all major credit cards. the surreal posse will rise again, like that creepy Unforgiven movie, and take away my poetic license, so I must away to the Solace of Ultimate Fortitude. It's in a corn flakes box, don't cha know. mmmmm, kryptocrunchy... tell us about your new movie, Sir O'Livia. dave who looks to be done with work for the day. anybody got the want ads with 'em. I'm gonna look for a new job in the Missed Connections section. they're all about me.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:01:08 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: forgot something. and, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! we'd sing, but you know, a bunch of musicians can't harmonize. besides, it's hard to type with one hand held over your ear. dave well, I bet Wayne can do it. with puppets. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:19:14 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Robyn Desktop BMP Just a note that Mac users using OS 8 or higher (except Eb) can also use Chris Donnell's "Storefront"-style bmp as a desktop picture. It looks great! find it at: http://158.72.105.122/gh/archive.htm - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:33:15 -0400 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: jewels for what's her name well, whoever the hell sophia is, she's got a big box of nifty trinkets. i'm still trying to figure out just how much i like this album. comparisons to moss seem appropriate. those two albums have a similar feel to me. just don't ask me to choose between them just yet. i think we've all given up on the idea of a hit single; but i can't help thinking we could squeeze one off of this. could this be robyn's sexiest album? so much eating and being eaten. consume -> consumation. oh whatever, you get it. and i don't care if uncle bobby didn't do the cover; it's pretty cool. count me among the infidels. mexican god: perfect opener. the understated do-wop resignation to pagan, lustful destruction sets the scene for what's to come. cheese alarm: the infectious rhythms make me hungry. then the guilt takes over. viva sea-tac: still haven't gotten sick of this one. the fact that a lot of people have makes me think it'd make a great single. i feel beautiful: makes me sigh. "not some poisoned soul that is alone and doomed"? tragic underpinings ring throughout. "i am in the paws of an enormous beast" doesn't bode well... you've got a sweet mouth on you, baby: continues the acoustic feel with more dark bittersweet libido. nasa clapping: how can anyone not like him? the space program becomes a metaphor for consumation. does this make you horny? sally was a legend: makes me think of another bubble when it starts. is this about suicide? antwoman: got sort of that beautiful queen / mystic trip sound. so sexy. double and triple entendres throughout. elizabeth jade: reminds me of some groovy zimmerman. can't get that image of them in the garage out of my head now. what is the triangle? love? pink? bermuda? no, i don't remember guilford: can't help thinking about the guilford pub explosion whenever i hear this one. has someone already mentioned this? dark princess: looking for love in all the wrong places? i love this song. more doomed passion. i'm starting to feel like cassandra. jewels for sophia: ooh! that guitar lick really hits home. lots of name dropping. this'd never make it on bbc radio. "lord fluff ginger silicone pusscat" says it all. hoot hoot: love that raw eye sound! i don't think i'm ready for mr. tongs. don't talk to me about gene hackman: still makes me laugh; but it wouldn't have been my choice for the secret track. we never get what we really want, do we? i guess that's why there's so much tape trading. i would've really dug superkeen. ken "you've got to find your way around me" the kenster ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:39:57 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: cheesy Simpsons In a message dated 7/26/99 5:57:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time, capuchin@teleport.com writes: << HOWEVER... I had no idea that there were Simpsons characters named Terwilliger, Lovejoy, Ankeny, or Van Houten. >> Sideshow Bob Terwilliger, Reverand Lovejoy, don't know the Ankeny one, and Millhouse (Milhouse?) Van Houten . . . but I don't know what/where Van Houten is here in Portland. A street? Where's it at? - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:49:50 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Viva! Sea-Sick. In a message dated 7/26/99 9:17:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, rooneya@pilot.msu.edu (Bill) writes: << On the first pass, it seems like the first RH album that doesn't EMOTE. I felt like a pleasant elder was reflecting about memories and people he knew, not like a professional story teller was sweeping me off into a world of sadness, passion, fear, pain, joy, death, hate, or etc., etc. >> Well, I feel like there are tons of *implied* emotions on this album. Or maybe the emotions are so densely packed together that they're hard to sort out. That's how it often is when reflecting on the past. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't feel at all like "JfS" is lacking in emotionality. Rather, I think a lot of the emotions are left open to the listener to interpret for him-/herself . . . which I like a lot. I also like music that's clearly intended to instantly get one into one certain emotional place in a really pure and cathartic way. But there's nothing wrong with the subtler approach, either. BTW, I think of the album as more of a train ride with lots of different and interesting stops, rather than a roller coaster. But I like the idea of "Queen Elvis" being a roller coaster. One of my favorite RH albums. And I can definitely see the metaphor. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:57:52 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Robyn Prolific?! (was: eb all over the world) In a message dated 7/27/99 1:21:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, etews@hotmail.com writes: << He's getting quite prolific, isn't he?> i was going to post about this last week, but forgot. two studio albums since february of '93 is "getting quite prolific"? but, you know, it may seem like it to casual observers, as, in that time, he's released KERSHAW and YOU AND OBLIVION, as well as the k single; and had a movie about him with an accompanying soundtrack; and, of course, the rhino reiussues. >> Yeah, a friend of mine is always saying how he "can't keep up with output anymore." At which point I look at him quizzically and try to explain the whole to him. How he's only slightly harder to keep up with than, say, Kate Bush or the The or Scott Walker. I wonder if a lot of casual Robyn fans have felt that way during the 90's -- overloaded and/or confused. What are these different albums and do I need to own them? Maybe there should be biug stickers on the covers that explain each one so those who are a little more faint of heart will know which ones to pick and choose. On the other hand, maybe these folks are all just a bunch of gutless turds and don't even deserve to listen to Robyn Hitchcock anymore! "College rock" wankers. I mean, really! ;-) - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:06:41 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: eb all over the world At 01:16 AM 7/27/99 PDT, Capitalism Blows wrote: >i notice that Blair Witch cracked the top twenty this last week end playing >on only 31 screens! apparently, last week it grossed more than its budget >by a comfortable margin, *on every screen*. *and*, its per-screen average >went *up* this week. I went to see The Blair Witch Project this weekend, but sadly it was sold out. Even the underground parking lot was full, which I've NEVER seen happen at this particular strip-mall. Landmark ran an ad in the San Diego Reader (2nd mention for the Reader today) this past Thursday THANKING patrons for making Blair Witch their "biggest hit ever" at the Hillcrest Theater. This was in addition to the regular "Now Playing - The Blair Witch Project" ad they ran. Instead of "Blair Witch," I saw "Eyes Wide Shut," which surprisingly really *IS* a masterpiece, and "Inspector Gadget," which not surprisingly really is one of the biggest pieces of crap I've ever had the misfortune of viewing. Matthew Broderick was able to pull off a couple of gags, though...and I'm being very literal when I use the word "couple." And, this may be the first movie that actually made me want to kill a car. Anyone else surprised by the House of Blues buying out Universal Concerts? Universal owns (owned) three venues here in San Diego. - --Jason "bugged by AMC's use of the word 'countdown' to mean 'a bunch of fucking commercials'" Thornton - --JT ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:27:00 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: jewels for what's her name In a message dated 7/27/99 3:37:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time, kenster@MIT.EDU writes: << elizabeth jade: reminds me of some groovy zimmerman. can't get that image of them in the garage out of my head now. what is the triangle? love? pink? bermuda? >> Yeah, I was wondering about this, too. This might be reaching, but, due to all the sexuality on the album, maybe it's Antwoman's cleavage! - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:06:14 -0700 From: Chris Franz Subject: SF in-store Just back from Robyn's in-store at Open Mind in the Haight. Excellent set. I didn't write down what was played, but from memory: Bass Chinese Bones Queen Elvis DeChirico St. Viva! Sea-Tac I Feel Beautiful Sally Was A Legend Jewels For Sophia Robyn looked a little tired and impatient, but was in fine form nonetheless. Included were a few nice little rambles, including a bit in the middle of Bass about how the song wasn't about a fish at all, but rather some sort of strange schoolmarm that couldn't breathe like normal people did. Or something. Also a nice bit about the whole solid objects subject matter of DeChirico Street. Bits of news: I asked Robyn about the 31st, and he mentioned the KCRW thing and that he and Tim would crash Grant Lee Phillips' set at Largo that night. But he wouldn't have his own show. Also, he indicated he'd have his own tour in the autumn, which he defined as November. Also an outtakes album (only available at shows and "the museum of me") should be out then, and I got the impression it would be on CD, not vinyl. How long has Tim's hair been that red? Anyway, a fun show. Met up briefly with Carrie, Dan Poppe, and John "discography" Relph. Gotta get ready for the Fillmore! More later. - - Chris http://reality.sgi.com/relph/music/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:18:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Robyn Prolific?! (was: eb all over the world) ed sed: > i was going to post about this last week, but forgot. two studio albums > since february of '93 is "getting quite prolific"? but, you know, it may > seem like it to casual observers, as, in that time, he's released KERSHAW > and YOU AND OBLIVION, as well as the k single; and had a movie about him > with an accompanying soundtrack; and, of course, the rhino reiussues. >> And Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival. Or did you mention that in your original post? Well, anyway... speaking of... Can someone give me the ACTUAL track list of this thing? In order? On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 MARKEEFE@aol.com wrote: > Maybe there should be biug stickers on the covers that explain each > one so those who are a little more faint of heart will know which ones > to pick and choose. You're the bigshot record store owner, you fix it. I say you put a detailed label on every release in your store. Jeme. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:27:20 -0600 From: ultraconformist@mail.weboffices.com Subject: Which one's Pink? kenster@MIT.EDU: >image of them in the garage out of my head now. what is the triangle? love? > pink? bermuda? >> Michael K.: > Yeah, I was wondering about this, too. This might be reaching, but, due >to all the sexuality on the album, maybe it's Antwoman's cleavage! You guys are teasing, right? I mean, this really isn't a case for Inspector Morse. Love on ya, Susan happy birthday Livia! 'Momus? That guy is sinister!' Marilyn Manson, as reported by Haig Bedrossian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:34:00 -0700 From: Chris Franz Subject: Re: Robyn Prolific?! (was: eb all over the world) Capuchin quoted MARKEEFE: > > Maybe there should be biug stickers on the covers Which reminds me of another thing Robyn said at the instore. There would be stickers, posters, t-shirts, and badges with the star picture on them, though the badges hadn't been made yet. He called it a triumph of commercialism (or something like that... it was really funny at the time), which only happened because he doesn't have a manager anymore. - - Chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:35:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Robyn Prolific?! (was: eb all over the world) On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Chris Franz wrote: > Which reminds me of another thing Robyn said at the instore. There > would be stickers, posters, t-shirts, and badges with the star picture > on them, though the badges hadn't been made yet. OK, I got two shirts and a billion stickers and one of those phoney album cover thingies. But posters? I want a poster! As for badges... we don't need no steenking badges. J. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:39:08 -0700 From: Chris Franz Subject: Re: Robyn Prolific?! (was: eb all over the world) > OK, I got two shirts and a billion stickers and one of those phoney album > cover thingies. But posters? > > I want a poster! Actually, I'm not totally sure about that one. Don't get too excited until I check the tape. I mentioned it because he seemed to make a point that badges were coming. - - Chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:38:35 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Robyn Prolific?! (was: eb all over the world) In a message dated 7/27/99 5:19:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, capuchin@teleport.com writes: << You're the bigshot record store owner, you fix it. I say you put a detailed label on every release in your store. >> Yeah, I *could* do that . . . but then how would I keep up with Fegmaniax?! - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:41:55 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Which one's Pink? In a message dated 7/27/99 5:27:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ultraconformist@mail.weboffices.com writes: << >image of them in the garage out of my head now. what is the triangle? love? > pink? bermuda? >> Michael K.: > Yeah, I was wondering about this, too. This might be reaching, but, due >to all the sexuality on the album, maybe it's Antwoman's cleavage! You guys are teasing, right? I mean, this really isn't a case for Inspector Morse. >> Well, I wasn't kidding. Please, Susan, let us know the answer!! :-) From your subject line, I'm taking it that you think it's a pink triangle? - -------Michael K. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:51:43 -0600 From: ultraconformist@mail.weboffices.com Subject: Re: Which one's Pink? > Well, I wasn't kidding. Please, Susan, let us know the answer!! :-) >From your subject line, I'm taking it that you think it's a pink triangle? It's a triangle somewhat south of cleavage ;). Love on ya, Susan 'Momus? That guy is sinister!' Marilyn Manson, as reported by Haig Bedrossian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:36:07 -0500 From: steve Subject: NASA passing (NR) The shuttle just passed by about 20 minutes ago - 40 miles up and 300 to the south. A little bright dot with a long trail. I think they were going 8000 mph at the time. Cool! - - Steve _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:46:14 -0400 From: Mark Subject: J4S Just great, that's all I can say.....I just lurk. Viva Sea-Tac is my personal favorite......Later all, Mark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:45:18 -0700 From: Jason Sherett Subject: MABD Preview and Interview Read a little bit about the MABD tour from Robyn and Steven Drodz. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/eguide/archive/1999/07/26/brain. dtl&type=music - -Jason (wondering who might show up to Open Mind Music this afternoon) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:00:15 -0400 From: woj sven-woj Subject: [susan331@earthlink.net: Robyn story #2] - ----- Forwarded message from Susan M Moll ----- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:37:41 -0800 From: Susan M Moll To: woj@smoe.org Hi Woj, Here, as promised, is the unedited version of my second RH story, which ran in the 7/22/99 edition of the Sacramento News & Review. Happy reading! Thanks so much... Susan ____ You’ve Got a Sweet Mouth On You, Baby: Robyn Hitchcock Mines Jewels for Sophia by Susan Moll Robyn Hitchcock is a storyteller like no other with an imagination like no other, his lyrics and narratives freakish and blisteringly funny, his wit ping-ponging between sly and annihilating. He crafts tales of old perverts and filthy birds and girls eaten by their own dinners surprisingly fueled by neither drug nor drink (he insists he never dabbled much in recreational narcotics). Shift the kaleidoscope and he’s exploding in a scathing rant (many fans prefer this dimension of Hitchcock to any other), although this area is one in which he’s mellowed a bit with age. Shift it again and he’s merrily yipping away before Jonathan Demme’s camera in the movie bearing his name. Roll him in the greenery, point him at the scenery, exploit him in the deanery -- he’s got a message for you. But what if there were no movie, no gleefully morbid paintings, drawings or writings with which to piece this creature together? What would one find if the music were the only means of piecing his puzzle together? You might conclude, for instance, that his eyes are dark, not light; that sport is a continual source of disinterest; that he admits to being something of a Luddite (he somehow manages to survive without a computer and call waiting); that despite the fact that much of the music he makes overflows with imagery, the emotion behind it is everything. “One feeling is worth a thousand images, especially in music,” muses the man with the lightbulb head and a heart full of leaves.“In literature perhaps that doesn’t matter, or in painting, because there’s room for a lot of visual elements. Although I’m good at putting pictures in songs, furnishing people with things to envisage, I don’t think that’s the ultimate goal in songwriting.” Hitchcock has just returned from a trip to Australia in promotion of _Storefront Hitchcock_. It didn’t exactly strike gold at the box office (then again, does any flick that doesn’t star Will Smith or Leonardo DiCraprio?), which Hitchcock blames on MGM’s inhalation of Orion. “That’s capitalism for you!” says the 46-year-old troubadour. “It’s an art-house movie, anyway, and art-house movies have to find what oxygen they can ‘round the edge of the tank.” He sighs. “I’m just hoping it’ll make its way around over the next five, ten years to various places where they sell coffee-- _real_ coffee-- and oatcakes. The kind of places they show films with subtitles and things.” On his 18th outing, _Jewels for Sophia_, which neared completion around the time the film debuted, Hitchcock plumbs the depths of the human heart without relying on saccharine, sickening $1.99-Hallmark-valentine cliches as reference points. It’s a love record as only he could write (you’re unlikely to find any mention whatsoever of cheese alarms or antwomen on Celine Dion’s next disc o’horrors). During its gestation it was in perpetual transit, shuttling between separate sessions with separate bands in London, LA and Seattle; Jon Brion, who “could get a tune out of a pop-up toaster,” spearheaded the LA sessions. After the simplicity of _Storefront_-- the soundtrack for which was entirely overdub-free-- Hitch itched to make something more eardrum-rattling. But following up the lush, engrossing _Moss Elixir_, which a bevy of crits and fans hailed as the pinnacle of his career, was no mean feat. “I thought that _Moss Elixir_ was pretty good, but you don’t want to keep making the same record, Part Three,” says he. “There isn’t some Zen way of preparing yourself where you lay all your instruments out on the floor and then meditate in front of a bowl of rhoad leaves in order to achieve a higher level or performance or something.” True-- but that might come in handy when Hitchcock’s stint on the aptly-titled Music Against Brain Degeneration tour begins. _Sophia_’s companion album of outtakes (a la _Moss Elixir_/_Mossy Liquor_) will be available come autumn. Hitchcock speculates that you’ll draw the tracks from its follow-ups from taps as you would pitchers of ale or beam them into in your frontal lobe, Scotty-style. “The global jukebox is almost upon us,” he says. It’s a mystic trip, indeed. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:18:09 -0700 From: "Livia" Subject: me rebooted and booting up my suitcases because i need to get the fuck out of this place! crap. the cats can stay with brent a bit longer, but can anyone down SF way offer me a place to stay? help! - ---------- > From: Livia > To: livia6999999@yahoo.com > Cc: me ; viv > Subject: wowowza > Date: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 3:19 PM > > just testing > > gotta reboot soon, because my memory is overloading fast ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 01:35:33 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Which one's Pink? In a message dated 7/27/99 8:03:31 PM, Susan writes: << It's a triangle somewhat south of cleavage ;). >> Yeah, thanks -- Michelle emailed me the same interpretation. I then slapped myself on the forehead and took a brief tour through the City of Shame . . . well, the City of Embarassment, at least. Re-read the lyrics later and am now inclined toward that interpretation m'self. Woo, Robyn! Steamin' up the joint there, pal! Now all we need to do is disect "I got Lucas fruits, zoons, Barney, Pat Pat Saturday"! :-) Um, that line's not related to one's naughty bits, too, is it? - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:01:36 -0700 From: "Livia" Subject: Re: Which one's Pink? pink is just 1 everyone knows about that so go to red and blue please - ---------- > From: MARKEEFE@aol.com > To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Which one's Pink? > Date: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 5:41 PM > > In a message dated 7/27/99 5:27:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > ultraconformist@mail.weboffices.com writes: > > << >image of them in the garage out of my head now. what is the triangle? > love? > > pink? bermuda? >> > > Michael K.: > > Yeah, I was wondering about this, too. This might be reaching, but, > due > >to all the sexuality on the album, maybe it's Antwoman's cleavage! > > You guys are teasing, right? I mean, this really isn't a case for Inspector > Morse. >> > > Well, I wasn't kidding. Please, Susan, let us know the answer!! :-) > >From your subject line, I'm taking it that you think it's a pink triangle? > > -------Michael K. > > ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:06:00 -0700 From: "Livia" Subject: Re: Viva! Sea-Sick. and all i have to say to that is: "BUT rest assured, that if any of us should find ourselves in hospital, in a coma, she will be there for us, stood at the side of the bed, singing an acapella version of Thunder In The Mountains to bring us back to consciousness. (With a camera crew, of course ;-) Oh no, I hope we haven't triggered off a wave of coma's now!" - ---------- > From: MARKEEFE@aol.com > To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Viva! Sea-Sick. > Date: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 3:49 PM > > In a message dated 7/26/99 9:17:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > rooneya@pilot.msu.edu (Bill) writes: > > << On the first pass, it seems like the first RH album that doesn't EMOTE. I > felt like a pleasant elder was reflecting about memories and people he knew, > not like a professional story teller was sweeping me off into a world of > sadness, passion, fear, pain, joy, death, hate, or etc., etc. >> > > Well, I feel like there are tons of *implied* emotions on this album. > Or maybe the emotions are so densely packed together that they're hard to > sort out. That's how it often is when reflecting on the past. I guess what > I'm trying to say is that I don't feel at all like "JfS" is lacking in > emotionality. Rather, I think a lot of the emotions are left open to the > listener to interpret for him-/herself . . . which I like a lot. I also like > music that's clearly intended to instantly get one into one certain emotional > place in a really pure and cathartic way. But there's nothing wrong with the > subtler approach, either. > BTW, I think of the album as more of a train ride with lots of different > and interesting stops, rather than a roller coaster. But I like the idea of > "Queen Elvis" being a roller coaster. One of my favorite RH albums. And I > can definitely see the metaphor. > > ------Michael K. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #274 *******************************