From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #331 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, August 30 1999 Volume 08 : Number 331 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #330 [Johnathan Vail ] Never mind the bollocks [Natalie Jacobs ] the prince of doom [David Dudich ] FW: The inevitable Oasis news ["JH3" ] Re: King Elvis [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: nother question (5% RH!!!) [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer <] make me normal ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #330 [Doc ] Joyce [normal@grove.ufl.edu] Re: Nothing compares 2 the Minders (0% Rob Smith content) ["Jason R. Thor] Re: Joyce [The Great Quail ] Re: Joyce [Terrence M Marks ] re: dinosaur whatever ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Re: make me normal [Eb ] hotmail security breach ["victorian squid" ] not BayardLit... BayardCom! [Bayard ] RE: not BayardLit... BayardCom! ["Chaney, Dolph L" ] Re: make me normal [normal@grove.ufl.edu] Re: Smile [dmw ] Re: Smile [Terrence M Marks ] eb's role model? ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: Smile [Aaron Mandel ] Re: Covers ["Richard Zeszotarski" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 16:58:48 -0400 From: Johnathan Vail Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #330 Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:30:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: dinosaur whatever On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Andrew D. Simchik wrote: > >All this talk of covers that are better than the originals... > >Anything that Dinosaur Jr. have covered. > > I clearly don't "get" Dinosaur Jr. because I hated their > "Just Like Heaven." Before you give up on Dinosaur Jr., try their 1987 album _You're Living All Over Me_. Assuming, of course, you can find it; I don't think I've ever seen a copy on CD. All the dino Jr stuff is on CD. I have that one and the other one, "bug"? I say it that way because after Lou Barlow left Dino Jr the band got pretty bland although the David Bowie covers around the time of Green Mind were pretty good. Lou leaving of course to go on to his solo stuff and Sentridoh and Sebaoh and more recently touring and playing a set with Robyn himself... jv ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 19:24:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Never mind the bollocks >AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! People, we have got to draw the line >somewhere! Let's talk about placenta recipes. Anything to change the >subject. Woj, isn't there some kind of rule?? There really should be!! The testicular injury story isn't NEARLY as bad as the story Eb posted a while back about Alice from Chumbawamba's horrific eye injury (which I won't describe again because I just ate dinner). On the other hand, I don't own testicles, and I do have two eyes, which have suffered many injuries. one long pair of n. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:47:52 -0400 From: David Dudich Subject: the prince of doom fEverything I have heard says it is at least as good as 1991's "rumour and sigh" (this was the one with "that acoustic motorcycle song your local AAA format radio station (that's the one that still plays Uncle Bobby's records) plays all the time '1952 Vincent Black Lightning'). Yes, I am part of the RT faithful, but I haven't got it yet. Still had a hard time pulling this purple CD with a gold star out of my player at work.....:) -luther > Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:11:07 EDT > From: MARKEEFE@aol.com > Subject: Re: PS > > In a message dated 8/27/99 2:36:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > capuchin@teleport.com writes: > > << > A new Richard Thompson album came out this week, right? Mock Tudor? > > Why aren't all the RT fanatics commenting? > > Um... cause there aren't any? >> > > Oh, there are, too. I'm not a fanatic, but definitely a fan. Yes, > that's the correct title, btw. It's quite good, although it hasn't really > roped me in. For all you anti-Froomers out there, he didn't produce it. The > resulting sound is more straightforward (as you might imagine), a la "Daring > Adventures." In fact, I'd say it's about on par with that album, which > means, for me, fair to middlin'. I claim to not care for Mitchell Froom's > production style; on the other hand, I think I like all of RT's other 90's > albums more than "Mock Tudor." I'm slightly disappointed, but I only because > I had *really* high expectations . . . for no particular reason, either. > And, heck, someone else I was just talking to the other day thinks it's > fantastic. So, give it a go! > > - -------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 23:31:52 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: FW: The inevitable Oasis news >OASIS DOWNSIZING TREND CONTINUES >LONDON, 29 August 1999 > >Close on the heels of departing guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs and >bassist Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan, Oasis drummer Alan White announced >his own resignation from the band today during a press conference >held at the offices of the band's label, Creation Records. This was >followed only minutes later by the nearly simultaneous resignations >of lead singer Liam Gallagher and songwriter/guitarist Noel Gallagher. >All three band members vowed to start work on solo projects within >the next few months, and to file multi-million-pound lawsuits against >the other former band members within the next fifteen minutes. > >"Fook this shite," Liam Gallagher said, adding, "I never saw a bloody >dime off this fookin' band. It was never anythin' but shite anyway. I'd >be better off on the fookin' dole or workin' at bloody Tesco's an' that." > >The remaining zero band members could not be reached for comment, >but Creation Records founder Alan McGee remained optimistic, saying >that Oasis was "merely going through a transitional phase" and that the >future of the band looked "more exciting than ever." However, he went >on to hint that the personnel changes might result in a "slight change >in musical direction" for the band's sound, towards a "somewhat more >subtle and minimalistic" instrumental approach. > >Underscoring McGee's positive outlook, band manager Marcus Russell >announced that not only would there be no cancellations of upcoming >tour dates, but the band actually intended to add several dates in the >UK and Europe for this fall. Calling the defections a "temporary setback," >Russell went on to announce a major tour of the United States and >Japan for Spring 2000, along with possible live appearances in >Australia and New Zealand. "Now that Liam and Noel are out of the >band, there should be no more trouble with airlines and hotels," he >told reporters. "This is the best thing that could have happened." > >When asked how the group would perform without any singers or >musicians, band biographer Paolo Hewitt pointed out that this had >"never been a problem before," and that the band were still in the >process of deciding between an approach involving cardboard cutouts >and pre-recorded tapes, or one which would employ human-like >robots or department-store dummies. "Whichever way they go, the >audiences won't be able to tell the difference," he stated confidently. > >Meanwhile, the two Gallagher brothers were quick to blame each >other for the recent upheavals within the group. "Liam's a fookin' >bastid," Noel Gallagher told reporters, adding, "he's joost a bloody >cook-sookin' shite-head if yer ask me." Liam hastened to deny his >brother's allegations, stating that Noel was "pansy-arse fook-head >who's joost jealous 'cos his cook's eight inch shoorter 'n' mine is, >what." The two brothers then engaged in an abusive shouting match >which soon degenerated into physical violence, after which both >were sent to a nearby hospital for treatment of multiple lacerations >and skull fractures, as well as rectal examinations and colonoscopies. > >Ex-drummer White remained philosophical about the situation, >responding to reporter's queries by simply repeating the words >"bloody shite" until finally escorted from the building by security >personnel. > > >(c)1999 International Fake News Service >Reproduced without permission ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 23:01:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: King Elvis Terrence M Marks wrote: > Buddy Holly is just a wispy, emasculated imitation of Elvis. christ, you make him sound like the monkees to elvis's beatles. === "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:30:12 +0100 (BST) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: nother question (5% RH!!!) >>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Mandel writes: Aaron> Flansburgh really knows how to work a crowd Does he shite. The only TMBG concert I've ever been to (and probably will ever get to) Flansburgh was getting all prissy over stage diving (yeah, I know, but events are rare in Liberty, MO) and threatened to stop the show twice. That's not working a crowd... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 06:17:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: make me normal > From: Alfred Masciocchi > Caroline I can't remember (or never knew) what this is. Can someone remind (or tell) me? > From: Natalie Jacobs > Back when I was a wee child (OK, in college) I listened > to Luna's cover of > Beat Happening's (?) "Indian Summer" many, many times and > thought it was > peachy. Delightful, in fact. I adore their "Season of the Witch." But -- recurring theme -- I still have never heard the original. > From: Eb > > Drew: > >I clearly don't "get" Dinosaur Jr. because I hated their > >"Just Like Heaven." > > Not TOO Cure-fixated, eh? I kinda think they're keen. > Judging a band by their cover > songs is a woeful > mistake. I didn't judge the band. [Bis's _Social Dancing_] > Coincidentally, I *just* got through listening to this > album for the first > time. I think it's just short of dreadful, and one of the > biggest > disappointments of the year. Oh, it is not "just short of dreadful." Honestly. _Intendo_ was just short of dreadful (but that was understandable). > "Sellout" is an overused > word and I always > avoid saying it, but in this case, you betcha. You need > look no further > than the artificially "slimmed" pictures of Manda Rin in > the artwork to > know what's going on here. Paging Paula Abdul.... I'll have to look again at the artwork to know what's going on here. (I always found the weight issue with Manda a little perplexing. She does have a baby face but is not remotely overweight.) > I thought the last album was a helluva lotta fun. This > one is a complete > snore. If you were hoping for more "Sweet Shop Avengers" I can see why you'd be disappointed. I was just hoping for more Bis and I got it. > altogether), but it's the > music where the album really falls flat. Overprocessed > vocals, > oversynthesized music, everything smoothed over with a > numbing New Wave > glaze... This is hardly surprising and probably just what they wanted, given their 80s fixation. I love that numbing New Wave glaze as much as they do. It's, um, a helluva lotta fun. > There's not a > single song here which I consider memorable. That's funny. I can't get "Make Me Normal," "Eurodisco," or "Action and Drama" out of my head. There are several other songs which are less memorable but just as pleasurable. And, just as on _New Transistor Heroes_, there are a few irritating duds. > Sum it up this way: On the infamous Ebscale(tm), I'd give > this album > *three* points lower than the previous one. That sharp a > dropoff is very > uncommon with me. I'll give you that it's not exciting in anything like the same way _NTH_ was. I'm still pretty happy with it. > Two short, more general comments: 1. Got a copy of the > new High Llamas > album yesterday (title: Snowbug). Can't wait to hear it, > but I probably > won't have time to play it for a couple of weeks. Let me guess: you preferred _Cold and Bouncy_ to _Hawaii_? :) > Eb, feeling awash this year in mediocre albums by bands > he once really > liked (Sebadoh, Blur, Poi Dog Pondering, Frank Black, Ben > Folds Five, the > Muffs, 10000 Maniacs, Ween, Kristin Hersh, They Might Be > Giants, Guided By > Voices...) About the rest of these I certainly agree with you. Drew === Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 06:52:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doc Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #330 Gnat said... >Back when I was a wee child (OK, in college) I listened to Luna's cover >of Beat Happening's (?) "Indian Summer" many, many times and thought it >was peachy. >Then a few days ago I heard the original for the first time on the >radio. I thought it sucked a rat's ass. The lovely, child-like tones of >DEEEEAAANN's Robin-the-frog voice, which suited the song so well, were >replaced by a dull, expressionless baritone. Wow, the cover is way >better! I thought. >But then I thought, Would I like the cover so much if I had heard the >original first? Maybe if I had heard the original first, I might curse >the voice of DEEEEAAANN and think that it ruined the song. But I did pick up the new Luna album last Thursday and I've listened to it a lot over the weekend and it's GREAT. I'm diggin' it. And in the covers department, the last tune on the album is a cover of Guns And Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine". Now, I'm one of the nine people on the planet what's never heard a G'n'R album, much less that song. But I gotta say I do like Luna's treatment. And it gives me even less reason to run out and buy a G'n'R album. >Sometimes it's hard to tell with these things. I guess I'd have to come down on the side of "Nope, I don't like it. Not one bit." Questions like that, it's best not to ask, cos you'll drive yourself crazy due to technological limitations, what with not having access to a time machine and a method to make your former self aware that they're not supposed to listen to the Luna cover and blah, blah, woof-woof... jmbc did post >Queen suck canine penises in Enfield. No offence to any Enfield fegs. Or any Enfield dogs. Eb reported ghoulishly: >JOHN DISCO INJURED IN GO-KART CRASH >Bis' John Disco suffered a horrific injury to his testicles last week [blah, blah, woof, woof] Eb, I only want to know about this sort of thing if Claudine Longet is involved. - -Doc, who's bummed about the JBC dropping their midwest tour dates n.p. The Orb, "Terrus Orbum" P.S. Anyone around here doing pay-per download of MP3 files? E-mail me privately, I'm curious about the legal side of it... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:05:40 -0400 (EDT) From: normal@grove.ufl.edu Subject: Joyce I heard this about Finnegan's Wake a while back. Could someone confirm? James Joyce wrote it out by hand. Before it could be published, it had to be typed up. He took it to a French company, who did it on the cheap. Unfortunately, in addition to Joyce's handwriting being rather dodgy, none of the employees of the company spoke any English. This is the origin of some of the odd spellings in Finnegan's Wake. Is this true, Quail? Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 08:40:45 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Nothing compares 2 the Minders (0% Rob Smith content) All of you Jeff Mangum stalkers may be interested in this post: >To all those concerned, >Elf Power played a brilliant sent to open for R.E.M. >earlier this evening. I would guess that they played >about 7-9 songs (drunk, lost count). Uh....Played >Jane and Old Tyme Waves amongst others. The sound >quality was superb for both bands. There were as many >as 12 E6-ers on stage at a time (including Jeff Mangum >and Scott Spillane). The reception was warm. Uh..The >R.E.M. set was energy filled with notables such as >Pilgrimage, Cuyahoga, Finest Worksong, and The One I >Love. Uh..Still kinda drunk. Maybe I'll write more >details if they come to me later. Hey Eb, did you get the Minders' "Hooray for Tuesday," or the new one? Any So. Cal. Fegs going to see Beulah and Superchunk up in LA on September 7? I hear some of the Apples (in Stereo) got married on Saturday. - --Jason "I've just used up my Elephant 6 allotment for the week" Thornton PS: As a result of seeing Love and Rockets and one of my girlfriend's favorite bands, Sugar Ray, within a weeks of each other, I ended up catching the opening band for both tours twice in a month: Orgy. Ugh. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:27:09 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Joyce Terrence asks, >I heard this about Finnegan's Wake a while back. Could someone confirm? >James Joyce wrote it out by hand. Before it could be published, it had to >be typed up. He took it to a French company, who did it on the cheap. >Unfortunately, in addition to Joyce's handwriting being rather dodgy, >none of the employees of the company spoke any English. This is the >origin of some of the odd spellings in Finnegan's Wake. Heh heh . . . you do realize that I can't answer this without a dozen links and a few plugs of my own, right? >Is this true, Quail? No, not really. First of all, there are many, many stories -- apocryphal and real -- about the trials and tribulations that Joyce had while printing *all* his works. Joyce finally used Sylvia Beach's "Shakespeare & Company" as a printing source, which was indeed in Paris, and the first imprint of "Ulysses" did indeed have numerous errors. But "Finnegans Wake" (no possessive apostrophe) was not published all as one book. It was originally called "Work in Progress," and it came out largely in installments in a literary magazine and as various chapbooks. It took Joyce nearly two decades to write the novel, and he was very very careful to mother over every little word, every punctuation. If you are unsure about why FW is such an odd work, see: http://www.libyrinth.com/joyce/joyce.works.canon.html Now, I'm not saying that some misspellings or typographical errors crept into the final work -- indeed, no one will ever be sure, and the exploration of Joyce's notebooks in regards to a "genetic study" of FW is something that is still going on today, but some very dedicated and crazy people, including Christopher Bjork & Jorn Barger - -- Bjork's page has a sample of Joyce's notebooks, with his atrocious writing intact: http://www.mailbag.com/users/bjork/b1494.htm Jorn Barger is one of the experts in the field of FW genetics. His page has a lot of details: http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/index.html But when it comes to it, the story you heard as above is essentially apocryphal, especially if used to highlight the "odd spellings" in a book with a million odd spellings, neologisms, puns, and portmanteau words. . . . Hope that helped! There is a good book on the subject called "Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation." (Which, may I add, LJ got me for a present!) It goes into the details of Joyce's relationship to Beach and Shakespeare & Company. You can check it out here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393302318/thelibyrinth/ La la la, waiting for someone to ask about Pynchon next. . . . - --Quail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth: http://www.libyrinth.com "Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick as flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of whirlworlds. Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde . . . (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curious of signs (please stoop) in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world? . . . Speak to us of Emailia!" --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:51:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Joyce On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, The Great Quail wrote: > La la la, waiting for someone to ask about Pynchon next. . . . I heard that Pynchon got "Valis" published by some French guys who didn't speak a word of English, so half of the misspellings in it really aren't his fault. Is that true? ;) Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:59:57 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: re: dinosaur whatever >Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 09:43:18 -0400 >From: "Andrew D. Simchik" >Subject: dinosaur whatever > >I clearly don't "get" Dinosaur Jr. because I hated their >"Just Like Heaven." I recall J. Mascis saying if you're going to cover a song, it may as well be easy to play. And that Cure song sure seems pretty simple to play, as does another one of Dinosaur, Jr.'s famous covers, "Show Me The Way." >Before you give up on Dinosaur Jr., try their 1987 album _You're Living >All Over Me_. Assuming, of course, you can find it; I don't think I've >ever seen a copy on CD. Yup, it's out on CD alright. That's my fave Dino, Jr. album, and I've got it on CD. But I bought it way back before SST deleted most of its CD catalog (bye bye Slovenly, Paper Bag, etc.). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:22:37 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: make me normal Drew: >> Two short, more general comments: 1. Got a copy of the >> new High Llamas >> album yesterday (title: Snowbug). > >Let me guess: you preferred _Cold and Bouncy_ to _Hawaii_? :) No, actually. What erroneous conclusions are you making about my tastes? Someone else: >Terrence M Marks wrote: >> Buddy Holly is just a wispy, emasculated imitation of Elvis. > >christ, you make him sound like the monkees to elvis's beatles. Terrence makes *everyone* sound like the Monkees. ;) Sometime in the Morning, Eb np: Unrest/Malcolm X Park reissue, an eclectic album which is kind of like Mark Robinson's attempt at a "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:29:54 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: hotmail security breach I just read that hotmail has been badly cracked. Regular Hotmail users might want to retrieve whatever mail they have and use other accounts until the problem gets fixed. The full story is at slashdot. http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=news It's the 9th story down. Love on ya, Susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:05:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: not BayardLit... BayardCom! You will find all you need to know about us at this web site, from hiring Bayard to drill a well for you, employment within Bayard, or using Bayard as a sound financial investment. http://www.bayard-drilling.com/home.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:11:52 -0400 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: RE: not BayardLit... BayardCom! hey -- at least your CEO is James Brown! get up on the goodfoot, Dolph ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:14:09 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: not BayardLit... BayardCom! >You will find all you need to know about us at this web site, from hiring >Bayard to drill a well for you, employment within Bayard, or using Bayard >as a sound financial investment. > >http://www.bayard-drilling.com/home.htm Alright!!! I'd like some drilling, please!! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LJ Lindhurst White Rabbit Graphic Design http://www.w-rabbit.com NYC ljl@w-rabbit.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Well I'd love to stay and chat, but crack don't smoke itself." --Smokey, from "the PJ's" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:17:04 -0400 (EDT) From: normal@grove.ufl.edu Subject: Re: make me normal On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Eb wrote: > np: Unrest/Malcolm X Park reissue, an eclectic album which is kind of like > Mark Robinson's attempt at a "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd." I'll be sure to check it out, then. Incidentally, I picked up "Present" by the other day. It was a lot better than I expected. It's got some of Jones' best vocals and a good showing by Dolenz. Nesmith's work is all second-rate singing cowboy material, with the exception of "Listen to the Band". Still trying to figure out the common element shared by Argent, "Provocative Percussion" and Klaatu. Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:02:35 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: Smile On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, JH3 wrote: > Joel M. writes: > >By the way, how can I get Smile? I've never heard it but I'd really > > http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~annew/smile/index.htm has anyone else had trouble with these files having a weird, burbly, underwater high-pitched chittering? at first i thought it was a tremendously cool, if improbably high-tech sounding, effect, but on realizing all of the tracks sounded the same (i.e., unintelligible) the novelty palled swiftly. i'm guessing maybe it's some sort of geeky unix vs. dos carriage return line feed thing? the xing mp3 wouldn't even recognize them as valid files; winamp made the game attempt. so did this happen to anyone else? and if so, how'd ya fix it? i note in passing that mp3 files on servers with mime types set up to handle them download & play without incident on the same box. - -- d. n.p. not _smile_ - - "seventeen!" cried the humbug, always first with the wrong answer. - - oh no!! you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net dmw@mwmw.com - - get yr pathos:www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:22:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Smile On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, dmw wrote: > has anyone else had trouble with these files having a weird, burbly, > underwater high-pitched chittering? at first i thought it was a > tremendously cool, if improbably high-tech sounding, effect, but on > realizing all of the tracks sounded the same (i.e., unintelligible) the > novelty palled swiftly. i'm guessing maybe it's some sort of geeky unix > vs. dos carriage return line feed thing? the xing mp3 wouldn't even > recognize them as valid files; winamp made the game attempt. so did this > happen to anyone else? and if so, how'd ya fix it? i note in passing > that mp3 files on servers with mime types set up to handle them download & > play without incident on the same box. It needs to be either cooked or uncooked. I forget which. Check http://www.free-music.com/uncook95.htm for proper uncooking software (if you're using a Windows system.) Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:51:31 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: eb's role model? Subject: Ebert's turnaround From: Mark Bayer Anyone see Siskel and Ebert this weekend? It was a rerun of an earlier show about animation, but at the end Roger admitted that he may have gone a bit overboard in his negative review of SP:BLU, that he appreciated the satire in retrospect (especially of the "broken-down" MPAA movie ratings system) and concluded by saying that SP:BLU was a "very good" film. As they say,it takes a big man to admit he was wrong. and Roger proved he's big...in more ways than one! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:39:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Smile On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Terrence M Marks wrote: > It needs to be either cooked or uncooked. I forget which. Check > http://www.free-music.com/uncook95.htm for proper uncooking software > (if you're using a Windows system.) that page also has links to uncooking software for unix (uxcook). but doug, you're right about it being the server's fault for sending it as type text/html. a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:38:51 EDT From: "Richard Zeszotarski" Subject: Re: Covers I'm surprised that no one's mentioned Robyn's cover of the Psychedelic Furs' "The Ghost in You," which is much better than the original, IMHO, although I like the Furs just fine. -Rich Z. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #331 *******************************