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fegmaniax-digest        Thursday, July 29 1999        Volume 08 : Number 277



                               Today's Subjects:
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  digest only version?                              ["Ron C." <rwc@cnct.com>]
  Re: woodstock                   ["Russ Reynolds" <rcreation@earthlink.net>]
  Re: Which one's Pink?                    [Capuchin <capuchin@teleport.com>]
  Re: Thank you, Livia                        ["D B" <barkalone@hotmail.com>]
  Re: Woodstock                               ["D B" <barkalone@hotmail.com>]
  Re: Woodstock memories                      ["D B" <barkalone@hotmail.com>]
  Re: Woodstock memories                      ["D B" <barkalone@hotmail.com>]
  and another thing                         [lj lindhurst <ljl@w-rabbit.com>]
  Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #274  [James Dignan <digja611@student.otago.ac.nz>]
  Re: Woodcock                        ["Dr.Sticky" <drsticky@buckeyeweb.com>]
  thought this was funny                    [lj lindhurst <ljl@w-rabbit.com>]
  hip online review                     [four episode lesbian <woj@smoe.org>]
  Sonic Boom                      ["Russ Reynolds" <rcreation@earthlink.net>]
  The Headphone show              ["Russ Reynolds" <rcreation@earthlink.net>]
  Re: thought this was funny        [Terrence M Marks <normal@grove.ufl.edu>]
  Re: Musicians against Lung Regeneration tour  [delia winthorpe <telefiend@]
  eb all over the world              ["Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>]
  MABD - Unplugged!!!                         [Chris Franz <cfranz@cwix.com>]
  Reading, writing and......       ["Tony Blackman" <Tony.Blackman@sita.int>]
  Billy Bragg / Robyn / homeschoolin' / smokin'   [Christopher Gross <chrisg]
  Re: Musicians against Lung Regeneration tour  [Ken Ostrander <kenster@MIT.]
  RE: Reading, writing and......  ["Thomas, Ferris" <Ferris_Thomas@mcgraw-hi]
  Re: hip online review            ["Jason R. Thornton" <jthornton@ucsd.edu>]
  Fegs, I once again need your help...  [Natalie Jacobs <gnat@cyberspace.org]
  Re: Fegs, I once again need your help...  [Aaron Mandel <aaron@eecs.harvar]

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:58:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ron C." <rwc@cnct.com>
Subject: digest only version?

Is there a digest only version of this list??

thanks,

rwc

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:49:35 -0700
From: "Russ Reynolds" <rcreation@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: woodstock

>In retrospect it wouldn't bother me greatly if this were the end of the
>Woodstock tradition.

Will someone please tell me why, after 25 years it suddenly needed to be a
tradition?  Let me answer my own question. Greed.  Woodstock 94 was 10%
nostalgia and 90% greed.  This year's was 99% greed and 1% idiocy.  What was
the fucking point???

- -rUss, who paid $5 for cotton candy at a ballgame today but didn't feel
compelled to burn down the stadium.

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:15:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Capuchin <capuchin@teleport.com>
Subject: Re: Which one's Pink?

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Ken Ostrander wrote:
> i thought of this last night.  has anyone seen the <underline>sex in the
> city</underline> where kim cattrail gets hers shaved by her personal
> trainer in the shape of a thunderbolt?

I did see that one... and I thought it was kind of stupid...

Until the end when it's revealed that all the women at her club have
thunderbolts between their hips.

Funny.
J.
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:31:51 PDT
From: "D B" <barkalone@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Thank you, Livia

>Livia, before you arrived here on fegmaniax, most of my posts seemed,
>well, obscure and without center or direction. (This is not to say that
>my posts have suddenly been grokked, or readable by even the most
>unabridged spell-checker.) Many clever, smart, fun people who have
>impeccable taste would avoid reading my occluded prose, casting it into
>the "read later" pile and then into the trash after giving up on the
>kind of emotional committment required to ocularly ingest such
>byzantine literary alphabet soup. I received mail from people who said
>they could only understand my messages after receiving self-inflicted
>massive head injuries. Unfortunately, this is not a sure-fire way to
>gain the "knowledge" present in said posts, and would seem to be
>inadvisable due to the weighing of gains versus losses analysis.


Somebody has been watching a few too many Tom Hanks' movies a tu fou many 
times, me dost t'ink.




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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:37:28 PDT
From: "D B" <barkalone@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Woodstock

>
><I mean, it wasn't like they were smashing up Farmer Joe's farm, they were
>smashing up the Big Corporate Cocksuckers' trucks full of overpriced crap
>which had been shoved down their throats for the last four days!>
>
>this has got to be the funniest sentence in the history of the fegmaniax
>computer network!
>

what's funnier still is that you think it might be *that* funny
>
>
>
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:40:07 PDT
From: "D B" <barkalone@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Woodstock memories

This was back in 85, I guess, and I got arrested
>with some original Woodstock types, mellow and cool if also ridiculous
>(including one granny who told me "I never feel as alive as when I'm being
>arrested for something I believe in")

I vote the above for one of the top-five funniest lines....


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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:40:09 PDT
From: "D B" <barkalone@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Woodstock memories

This was back in 85, I guess, and I got arrested
>with some original Woodstock types, mellow and cool if also ridiculous
>(including one granny who told me "I never feel as alive as when I'm being
>arrested for something I believe in")

I vote the above for one of the top-five funniest lines....


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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:49:42 -0400
From: lj lindhurst <ljl@w-rabbit.com>
Subject: and another thing

http://www.dkat.com/sam/board.html

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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 14:27:56 +1200
From: James Dignan <digja611@student.otago.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #274

>image of them in the garage out of my head now.  what is the triangle?  love?
> pink?  bermuda? >>

erm, as in the Greek letter Delta, I believe, or to quote Laughing Lenny:

"I knelt there at the delta, at the alpha and the omega"

James

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 ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street               And I reply. . . . . . . . . .
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 steam megaphone (03) 455-7807               (Brian Eno - "By this River")

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:26:41 -0400
From: "Dr.Sticky" <drsticky@buckeyeweb.com>
Subject: Re: Woodcock

This was posted elsewhere. And it just cracks me up to no end...

This from woodstock, via www.salon.com..."On the pavement outside the
rave stage and the movie building, a dozen kids have overturned metal
garbage cans. They beat on them with sticks with a pulsing, arrhythmic
clang. One guy is clearly motivated by the drang. He's shirtless, and
has a braided leather belt cinched around his neck. His black hair mats
to his forehead and blood, sweat and filth smear across his torso.
Beltless, his shorts are falling down, exposing at least four  inches of
vertical crack. He circles around the drummers and picks up a garbage
can and slams it into the pavement, baring his teeth and grinning like
an overgrown toddler enamoured with a rubber ball that won't bounce. He
continues this for 15 minutes straight, chasing his lump of tightening
steel around the circle. A crowd gathers to watch his feat of stupidity.
At least they're using the garbage cans for something, I think."

>>This would be a good time to resurrect the nice big argument that that

bleedin-heart-tree-huggin-gee-I-miss-Jerry-hippie TGQ and I had about
the
riots at Woodstock.  I thought it was HILARIOUS, frankly speaking.
"Summer
of love" my ass!  It's nothing but a Nike commercial now (and a Sony
commercial, and an AT&T commercial, and oh for christ's sake did you
remember to call 1-800-FUCKING-COLLECT??)<<

I hate hippie-shit! If it wasn't a big commercial, it would have been
held in someone's back yard. With an attendance of roughly 3. What the
fuck do these kids expect? Did they really think they were doing some
kind of counter-culture thing? If they really want to push some sort of
boundaries and break from the mainstream, become a Physicist. Those boys
have the shit goin' on!

> I mean, who hasn't wanted to fucking RIOT when you're stuck at a show
and
have to pay $4 for a Coke and $6 for a hot dog  And hey, if you stand in

this line for 2.5 hours, we'll let you play 15 free minutes of
Playstation!
It was almost like, well, you have no respect for US, why should we have

respect for any of your greedy consumerist CRAP?<

 I recently paid $5 for a tequila and grapefruit at a Roger Waters show.
50 cents worth of liquor. Don't feel bad for me though. At least I was
nicely lubed before the penetration began..... I cannot support such
behaviour as riots. At least in this situation. But in the end, these
morons lose. They'll be off and buying those cool Playstation games they
played at their shitty gathering. And do we really believe they'll stop
drinking soda pops? I highly doubt it. Personally, as a businessman and
future owner of my own engineering firm(I can dream can't I?) I'm in
support of business. Don't blame big business because people allow
themselves to be manipulated and are unwilling to make their own
purchasing decisions.


>lj, off to attack some ATM machines<

Are you making sure the machines are not of your bank. I'd hate to see
you stuck somewhere without any cash on you and your only salvation is a
broken down ATM..

>First let me start by getting a big AMEN for Brother Quail.<

AMEN.

>Shine on Sophia!<

I wholeheartedly concur with this statement.


Dr. Sticky

ps. I absolutely love the artwork on JFS. I shall wear that pin proudly
as I walk through the office. At least till my evil boss asks in his
delightful tone "what the hell is that? Take it off!"

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:48:26 -0400
From: lj lindhurst <ljl@w-rabbit.com>
Subject: thought this was funny

<fontfamily><param>Times</param>So I'm looking at this message board
about "homeschooling" (don't ask why), and I saw this post:


I would like some imformation on Homeschooling children, I have a four
year old and I am REALLY considering this option! PLEASE DO NOT say
that socialism is the biggest reason not to do it, I am getting so
tired of hearing that and there are soooooo many other ways to get
children involved "socially"!!!!! And at least it will be out of the
school system where the "socialist" things are drinking, drugs, peer
pressure, early sex, competition and so on! Sorry, don't mean to
ramble, just everyone I talk to, says the exact same thing, " she'll
never develop good social skills!" 












</fontfamily>

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White Rabbit Graphic Design

http://www.w-rabbit.com

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"who do you what do you why do you do?"

		--Elvis Costello

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:22:47 -0400
From: four episode lesbian <woj@smoe.org>
Subject: hip online review

<http://www.hiponline.com/artist/music/h/hitchcock_robyn/jewels_for_sophia.h
tml>

Robyn Hitchcock
Jewels For Sophia
Warner Bros.
Rating: 7/10

Does the world have room for another cult hero? If Robyn Hitchcock is added
to that list, the answer is a simple yes. Even though the gap between
Hitchcock's fling with the Soft Boys and his solo days seems to be getting
wider, he still has it. Jewels For Sophia is full of peculiarities that
will tickle you silly. 

The first track, "The Cheese Alarm", causes a scrunching up of the face as
Hitchcock runs down a list of cheeses that "happened to me." Then we have
"Viva! Sea-Tac", an uncanny tribute to Seattle that starts with "People
flocked like cattle to Seattle after Kurt Cobain/ and before him the rain."
And "I Feel Beautiful" is a favorite of mine. It strikes me as soulful yet
quirky, and isn't that what Hitchcock is all about? How is this for a line:
"I water the tomatoes and think of you/ no one's watered me the way you do." 

"NASA Clapping" speeds it back up. A few slow tracks laid the red carpet
for this one, but it is upstaged by the ageless "Sally Was ALegend". 

The album is fantastic. Enough said. And with assistance from such talented
artists as R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Grant Lee Phillips, and Kimberley Rew, you
know the musicianship is way above par. I wouldn't recommend this for the
bubble gum crowd; this album is way too heady for that. However, if you are
looking for something that will keep your interest and keep you guessing,
this is the disc you've been looking for.  

PS. Don't miss the hidden track about Gene Hackman. Classic.

+ cc

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:26:39 -0700
From: "Russ Reynolds" <rcreation@earthlink.net>
Subject: Sonic Boom

>About the Sonic Boom guy: not only did I never see him smile,

Thank God he wasn't wearing Hank Hill's pants or he'da been smiling at us
all night.

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:42:28 -0700
From: "Russ Reynolds" <rcreation@earthlink.net>
Subject: The Headphone show

>Russ reported:  When we got to
>>the car we tuned the radio to the frequency the show was being broadcast on
>>and it sounded so much better...like actual music.
>
>Cool! This is what I was curious about--how far did the signal go? You 
>listened to it all the way home? It sounds like the FCC has stopped harassing 
>small enough microbroadcasters...now we just gotta make some room on crowded 
>wanvelengths like in Chicago...

We listened to it once around the block.  That's about as far as the signal
got.  Maybe a block.

- -rUss

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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:36:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Terrence M Marks <normal@grove.ufl.edu>
Subject: Re: thought this was funny

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, lj lindhurst wrote:

> And at least it will be out of the
> school system where the "socialist" things are drinking, drugs, peer
> pressure, early sex, competition and so on! 

And I thought socialism was about free health care and unemployment
benefits and all that.  I've obviously  been looking into the wrong
parties.

now playing: IWW (the naughty years)

Terrence Marks
Unlike Minerva (a comic strip)  http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal
normal@grove.ufl.edu

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:08:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: delia winthorpe <telefiend@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Musicians against Lung Regeneration tour

Carole notes regarding the Tim...

> Maybe he's
> having an identity crisis. He shouldn't! ;)

I've often thought of Tim as Robyn, Jr. or Robyn-lite.  Perhaps he has
contracted Robyn to be his mentor?  I could've sworn that I saw Tim
pre-gig in Seattle at the Alibi Room sporting a massive down jacket and
red ski cap with an ultra-fluff on top.  Oh, and BIG headphones.  And
that seems very unRobyn-like to myself.

All in all, I have no answers.

Anybody have a tape from the preVivaSeaTac era show at the HUB Ballroom
in 1992...was that the year?  You know, the show where the lights
almost caved in and somebody (perhaps a feg?) dressed up like death?  I
think I need a copy of this por favor.

Abrigado...d

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:21:35 PDT
From: "Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>
Subject: eb all over the world

hey, i forgot to tell about the coolest thing i saw all week end.  it was 
when the head iqu dude (i believe that wayne said he's called "qito") 
simultaneously played his guitar *and* played the theremin with the neck of 
his guitar.  too right!


everything i've seen lists shows in new york on august 17 and 18.  except 
one thing.  there's a postcard i picked up at the show on sunday which lists 
the tour steaming into new york on the 17th, 18th, *and* 19th.  (if anyone 
else got this, it's the one titled "Why MABD?...Why Now?"


<Looks like the dems want it this time.  Fucking party politics.
Republicans are evil and want SDI to stop commies.  Democrats are nice and 
want SDI to stop terrorists.

Bullshit.>

it's nothing to do with party politics, and everything to do with money 
politics.  when are y'all gonna realise that the only thing you can reliably 
expect to come from putting your support into the democrats is a knife in 
the back?


<http://www.dkat.com/sam/board.html>

well, i tried to post the message "sam can go fuck himself for all i care!", 
but it got printed as "sam can go f--- himself for all i care!"  oh, well.  
i did the best i could.


<Anybody have a tape from the preVivaSeaTac era show at the HUB Ballroom in 
1992...was that the year?  You know, the show where the lights almost caved 
in and somebody (perhaps a feg?) dressed up like death?  I think I need a 
copy of this por favor.>

while i'm sure there probably is a tape of this show in existence, i've 
never heard tell of it.  though there are enough tapes from that feb. '92 
floating around.  the hub ballroom has shitty acoustics anyway.
i don't remember the lights caving in.  i do remember that i kept yelling 
out for Give It To The Soft Boys, but they never played it.
don't remember anyone dressed up like death, neither.  though that asshole 
who always dresses up like the devil was there.  man, i'm glad that guy 
didn't show up this week end!






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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:35:17 -0700
From: Chris Franz <cfranz@cwix.com>
Subject: MABD - Unplugged!!!

So, at about 8PM at the Fillmore, the strange guy from Iqu is doing his
DJ thing, when suddenly.. BLAP!

<total silence>

<complete darkness>

then the emergency lighting came on.  Soon thereafter, the building
manager at the Fillmore announced that the whole block, at least, was
without power.  They'd be calling PG&E, but until then, just sit tight. 

Soon the folks from Sebadoh came out with an acoustic guitar and a
bullhorn, and goofed off for a few songs.  They played Foreigner's "Cold
As Ice" with such (mock) dead seriousness and urgency that the crowd was
in stitches.

Wayne gave an update about the power situation, and said that until
something was resolved, they'd just do acoustic improvs into a
megaphone.  The crowd roared its appoval.

Sonic Boom wandered onstage and hunkered down over an acoustic guitar,
Neil-Young-style.  He then sang "Transparent Radiation" into the
megaphone someone held in front of him.  Awesome.

Wayne and some other Flaming Lip appeared with some sort of synthesizer
which needed no outlet.  A megaphone held up to it allowed the Lip whose
name I don't know to do something fun, albeit hard to describe.  Wayne
and he were about to launch into "Waterbug" when the lights finally came
back on.  The crowd convinced them to play it anyway.  Someone with a
flashlight held it up to Wayne's bullhorn, making patterns on the screen
behind them, a la Stop Making Sense.  They were doing everything
possible to make it fun for everybody in the dark.

I could have left at this point and been happy.

Anyway, Wayne announced that everybody would still do their sets, but
they would be a bit abbreviated to get everyone in.  Last night, Wayne
narrated the whole thing, talking a bit between each set.  Not tonight. 
The bands started as soon as their equipment was ready.  Iqu didn't even
have their lab coats on.

I really dug Iqu (which apparently is not an acronym) a lot, enough to
buy their CD.  I don't think I'd recommend the disc, but it's definitely
worth showing early up to catch the first MABD band.  Today they skipped
the long, incongruous warmup noises and launched straight into their
more rocking stuff.  Nobody knew who they were before they played, and
they won over the house.  Enough said.

Then Sonic Boom did his thing.  That man is going to wreck his back on
this tour.

Then Robyn.  Now, I know he's been doing shorter than average sets on
this tour.  And tonight was to be shorter still.  But FIVE songs?!

The weird thing is that even though it was an obscenely short set, I
found it hard to feel really cheated.  It was that good.

Okay.  The facts.
shirt: Black, with white polka dots.
trousers: purple.
   Gene Hackman
   My Wife And My Dead Wife.
enter Tim.  "Tim bought that shirt in Santa Monica.  All by himself."
"This is what we were going to play yesterday, but I broke a string."
   DeChirico St.
Robyn dons an electric guitar
   Beautiful Queen
away goes Tim
   Insanely Jealous

At other points on this tour, some have said that it wasn't really
Robyn's crowd, and he lost the audience early on sometimes.  Not here. 
Everyone went nuts when Robyn started with the "My wife lies..." line. 
DeChirico, though not one of my favorite songs, was the best I've ever
heard it.  BQ is great in this arrangement.  And what can I say about
IJ.  Robyn just shredded in the solo, and played with an energy that was
just gripping.

Anyway, I was pretty tired, and not willing to sit through Sebadoh again
to catch the Lips, so I left.

Now, I heard (as in Robyn told someone who told me) that RH would indeed
like to tour with a band this fall, and his ideal lineup would be the
Largo gang.  However, Jon Brion won't tour.  Grant Lee Phillips likely
would be available (as apparently Grant Lee Buffalo is no more), but the
other name that has been mentioned is... Kimberley Rew!  Put Robyn,
Kimberley, and Grant together with any competent drummer and you'd have
one hell of a band.

G'night folks.
- - Chris

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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:16:18 +0000
From: "Tony Blackman" <Tony.Blackman@sita.int>
Subject: Reading, writing and......

Ferris did:

> Just quickly looking at the website (http://www.meanfiddler.com/) for
this
> year's fest it blows any thing American out of the water.  The
Charlatans,
> Chemical Brothers, Echo and the Bunnymen, Space, Gene, Apollo 440, Blur,
> Catatonia, Pavement, Beth Orton, Sebadoh, Sleater Kinney, Red Hot Chili
> Peppers, Offspring, Terrorvision, Sick of It all, Orgy, Cinerama,
Elastica,
> Jon Spencer BE, Stereolab, the Fall, Guided By Voices, Bis, Luscious
> Jackson, Arab Strap.
>
> Oh, I should just chuck it in and move over.

But Reading... most years the place is a huge dustbowl, the second stage is
always too small and just a sweatbox and the campsite stinks beyond belief.
Perhaps I'm just getting too old, but I've given up going to big festivals
and enduring dreadful conditions, not being able to see anything from where
you're standing, deadful sound etc.. Give me the comfort of my own house, a
fridge full of beer I like, almost non-stop stereo coverage via satellite
TV uplinks (if the BBC are covering the festival in question like they do
Glastonbury), spotless toilets, a lack of crime and threatening situations
and I'm much happier.

Then again, if I was single and was in the market again for another
pierced nose, orange-haired crazy young woman I'd be there like I used to
be, no question at all.

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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:27:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christopher Gross <chrisg@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
Subject: Billy Bragg / Robyn / homeschoolin' / smokin' 

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Andrew D. Simchik wrote:

> Oh, that didn't bother me in the slightest, but then I think all national
> sports everywhere deserve to be mocked, and most particularly ours.

Oh, sure.  I was only jokingly annoyed, not seriously annoyed.  But
insofar as I was annoyed at all, it wasn't because I give two shits about
sports, it was because it offended my vague belief that guests shouldn't
insult their hosts.  Since I had to agree that American football is dumb
(slightly dumber than other pro sports) and DC United is hardly an
original name, I couldn't get *too* annoyed.

I'm afraid I don't remember that moment in "You and Oblivion."  Actually
the thing I remember best was one of his monologues, when he talked about
being in a coffee shop in Georgetown when a huge bird swooped out of the
wall at him....  Bayard, do you have a copy of this show?

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, lj lindhurst wrote:

> So I'm looking at this message board
> about "homeschooling" (don't ask why), and I saw this post:
>
> I would like some imformation on Homeschooling children, I have a four
> year old and I am REALLY considering this option! PLEASE DO NOT say
> that socialism is the biggest reason not to do it, I am getting so
> tired of hearing that and there are soooooo many other ways to get
> children involved "socially"!!!!! And at least it will be out of the
> school system where the "socialist" things are drinking, drugs, peer
> pressure, early sex, competition and so on! Sorry, don't mean to
> ramble, just everyone I talk to, says the exact same thing, " she'll
> never develop good social skills!"

Or a good vocabulary, if the writer is the one who will be teaching
her....  This reminds of something I once read about the Civil Rights
movement.  They quoted some right-wing white racist who tried to denounce
desegregation as a socialist policy but actually called it a
"sociological" policy.

Speaking of smoking at shows, the best onstage smoker I ever saw was
surely Larissa Strickland of the Laughing Hyenas.  She had to keep both
hands constantly on her guitar, but couldn't stand to go a whole song
without a smoke, so she would light a cigarette between songs and then
hold it clenched between her lips throughout a song, dragging deeply on it
and exhaling out of the corner of her mouth.  Now that's dedication!  
Meanwhile the lead shrieker, John Brannon, wearing the first White
Panthers t-shirt I ever saw in person, would spit across the stage
whenever he had a spare moment. (Fortunately he managed to get his
expectorate, which I suspect contained fragments of esophagal tissue, all
the way across the stage and into a wall without hitting anyone.)  They
were on a triple bill with Rodan and Come.  That was a fun show.


- --Chris

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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:24:08 -0400
From: Ken Ostrander <kenster@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Musicians against Lung Regeneration tour

>And as for what Mike Godwin said about Tim Keegan "sacrificing" his career
>to play with Robyn: very interesting commentary. I don't really see it as
>shunting aside his own career to play with Robyn--he probably just likes
>to! But yes, I do know what you mean. Why don't Homer--er, "The Departure
>Lounge"--play the West coast? Or anywhere in the US, for that matter? Or
>even just Tim? He has a small wealth of material to play..he's certainly
>talented and I don't see why he couldn't tour on his own. Maybe he's
>having an identity crisis. He shouldn't! ;)

well, actually departure lounge did a small tour with robert forster & grant mclellan.  i saw them here in boston last month and they played a great acoustic set.  after the show we asked why the name change and tim gave us a wry "no comment".  it kinda makes me wonder if they were sued by the producers of the simpsons?  well, not really.  anyway, the stuff from the new album sounds pretty good.  as far as sacrificing his career on the alter of fegmania goes, i would think that playing with robyn has garnished him some new fans.

ken "grow your own" the kenster

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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:34:00 -0400
From: "Thomas, Ferris" <Ferris_Thomas@mcgraw-hill.com>
Subject: RE: Reading, writing and......

At another moment in time Tony intonated:
> if I was single and was in the market again for another
> pierced nose, orange-haired crazy young woman I'd be there 
> like I used to

It all seemed so innocent until I realized the above read "...another..."

But yes, Reading was a dustbowl the year I went (and dang cold at night...),
but it can't help but beat out a weekend spent on tarmac in the broiling
sun.

I'm getting crotchety as well, much rather prefering to go to small clubs to
see the odd band than to an outdoor venue.  Maybe I'm just not as much of a
people person as I had been in my not so distant youth.

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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:20:22 -0700
From: "Jason R. Thornton" <jthornton@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: hip online review

At 11:22 PM 7/28/99 -0400, four episode lesbian quoted someone else's review:

>Does the world have room for another cult hero? If Robyn Hitchcock is added
>to that list, the answer is a simple yes. 

"*ADDED* to that list?"  Seems like he's been on THAT list for over 20
years... 

- --Jason

Woodstock says, "||||||||||."

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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:04:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Natalie Jacobs <gnat@cyberspace.org>
Subject: Fegs, I once again need your help...

My radio show next week is falling on the pagan holiday of Lughnasa
(August 1), and I wanted to play songs to celebrate the occasion.
Lughnasa honors the Irish god of craft and skill, Lugh (pronounced "Lou"),
who was also the god of fire and light.  Lughnasa is the feast of the
first harvest and is generally associated with corn and wheat (and
therefore bread and alcohol).

So what music would be appropriate for my show?  Since Lughnasa is an
Irish holiday, I'd play Irish traditional music, the Pogues, and Van
Morrison.  For the corn theme, I'd play that bit from Firesign Theater
("Corn?  Now we can make tortillas!").  But what else?  I was thinking
"Harvest Festival," but it's a little too early in the year for that.
Songs about fire?  Songs about beer?  (There'd be plenty of those...)

Unfortunately (as I recently complained to the Quail), much
neo-pagan music is pretty awful, so I'm leaving that out of my
considerations.  Any other suggestions would be welcome.  Thanks.

n.

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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:16:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Aaron Mandel <aaron@eecs.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: Fegs, I once again need your help...

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Natalie Jacobs wrote:

> My radio show next week is falling on the pagan holiday of Lughnasa
> (August 1), and I wanted to play songs to celebrate the occasion.
> Lughnasa honors the Irish god of craft and skill, Lugh (pronounced "Lou"),
> who was also the god of fire and light.  Lughnasa is the feast of the
> first harvest and is generally associated with corn and wheat (and
> therefore bread and alcohol).
> 
> So what music would be appropriate for my show?

robyn hitchcock - sweet ghost of light
mountain goats - fresh berries for you
                 seed song
                 yam, the king of crops
boyracer - skill
lucksmiths - beer nut
too much joy - king of beers
braid - fire makes the grass grow
sleater-kinney - big big lights

a

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