From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #378 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, October 7 1999 Volume 08 : Number 378 Today's Subjects: ----------------- newsblurb [Eb ] Re: newsblurb [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Hank! [steve ] Re: the arse protest wasn't enough... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Safe VM ["Tony Blackman" ] Brever ["The Rooneys" ] RE: Halloween troubles ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Brever ["JH3" ] he's baaack.... [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] ES online [Joel Mullins ] SAVE GLR NOW!!!!!!!!! ["Ghost Surfer" ] Re: Brever [Capuchin ] Fegmania.com [Capuchin ] Re: Halloween troubles [Capuchin ] reese [Ken Ostrander ] Re: Fegmania.com [Tom Clark ] Re: Fegmania.com [lj lindhurst ] Re: Halloween troubles [Paul Christian Glenn ] Re: Brever [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Fegmania.com, squirrels ["JH3" ] Re: MTV/VH1/GYM [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: VERB ["JH3" ] Re: VERB [Eb ] Re: MTV/VH1/GYM [lj lindhurst ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:23:50 -0800 From: Eb Subject: newsblurb SoundScan has announced that The Fragile will plummet from #1 to #16 in the Billboard 200 this week - the worst week-to-week fall from any chart-topper since Elvis' Christmas Album skidded from #1 to completely off the then 25 position chart in early 1958. The Fragile is only fifth album to be on top of the Billboard chart one week - - and off the top 10 the next week - since the rock era began. The others (beside Elvis) are The Beach Boys' Endless Summer (1-13 in 1974), Alice In Chains' 95 self-titled album (1-12) and the soundtrack to Howard Stern's movie Private Parts (1-11 in 97). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 21:50:12 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: newsblurb In a message dated 10/6/99 6:28:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time, gondola@deltanet.com writes: << SoundScan has announced that The Fragile will plummet from #1 to #16 in the Billboard 200 this week - the worst week-to-week fall from any chart-topper since Elvis' Christmas Album skidded from #1 to completely off the then 25 position chart in early 1958 >> Weird. Sales for me were totally dead the first week it came out, but since then have been pretty good. I think most of my customers rely on good press and word of mouth, though. Hence, the delay. But I guess that, as a national trend, it makes sense. All the heardcore fans immediately shelled out the $20-something the first week, but most people are more cautious and are more willing to gamble on something in the $12-17, as a rule. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:09:36 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Hank! lj lindhurst: >Well, we are right now listening to Hank Williams III's debut album, >_Risin' Outlaw_, and boy is it a lot of fun! Perhaps this proves that genius does, in fact, skip a generation. - - Steve ____________________ ...Apple is the tail that wags the Wintel dog. - Herb Bethoney, PC Week ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 08:42:28 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: the arse protest wasn't enough... "Jason R. Thornton" wrote: > > One more week until that double Cocteau Twins album of BBC sessions comes out. > Woohoo! This is probably the only time that a UK Feg will ever get to say this: Oh, it came out here aaaaages ago... ;-) - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 09:49:11 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: www.fegmania.com Aaron Lowe wrote: > > Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: O'Connor, Bryan D > Anyone know him? Well, it's probably not NASA Colonel Bryan D. O'Connor of Twentynine Palms, CA, unless he's done some strange drugs since his Space Shuttle days. We'd be able to hear the applause from here. - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:23:04 +0000 From: "Tony Blackman" Subject: Safe VM James said... <> That reminds of a magnificent piece of "performance art" I saw once. Cathal Coughlan (of The Fatima Mansions) on a support slot for U2 in an arena in Italy simulated the insertion of a bottle of bubble bath (!) in the shape of the Virgin Mary into his back passage in front of 12,000 people. I'm not sure that this feat got the reaction he wanted as I don't think the Italian crowd could understand a ranting Irishman too well. Still, it made me laugh. Tony. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 23:29:00 -0600 From: "The Rooneys" Subject: Brever Did I hear correctly that RH will be on HBO's "reverb" next Tuesday night?!? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 07:48:22 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Halloween troubles If you like Reese, check out her first movie, THE MAN IN THE MOON. Tess harper and Sam Waterson also give great performances. It's a great coming of age flick. Michael - -----Original Message----- From: Tom Clark [mailto:tclark@apple.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 6:10 PM To: Eb; Punky Reggae Party Subject: Re: Halloween troubles On 10/6/99 2:50 PM, Eb wrote: >Eb, who finally saw Pleasantville the other day and really liked it a lot Reese Witherspoon rules. See "Freeway". - -tc (and "Cruel Intentions" too) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 07:54:48 -0500 From: "Lyall, Jay PJ SSI" Subject: Austin Shoes Hi Everybody I'll be making the wholly trek to the at least one of the Austin shows...what are ticket prices looking like? ...also keep me in the loop for pre-show festivities... Cheers Jay - ----------------------------------------------------------- Jay Lyall Emerging Technologies Shell Services International 713.245.4921 fax: 713.245.3118 Shell Information Center 1500 Old Spanish Trail 10P21G Houston, Texas 77054 "Can I get fries with that?" - Albert Einstein - ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:36:09 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Brever >Did I hear correctly that RH will be on HBO's "reverb" >next Tuesday night?!? Whoa! Apparently this is true! http://www.hbo.com/reverb/ Tues. Oct. 12, 11:30 pm EST, with Beck and Sebadoh! Finally, the $11.99 a month seems justified after all! John H. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 08:52:48 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: he's baaack.... Hi kids. Having braved work-related physical exhaustion, taking almost a month away from work, recording the last of my associated Glass Fleshisms, visiting feggy persons in Portland and gawking at the Oregon coast, and coming home to finish off the recordings, I have now resumed my place in the office. I feel a little bit like a comic book antihero. Part shark, part boy, part last week's beefaghetti. I dunno. Maybe a freak nuclear and/or meat grinder and/or toaster accident caused these things to congeal and in turn, begin to process words with the blistering power of hundreds of monkeys, or other bands that Terry likes, armed with selectrics and fed caffein and scones and occasional voltage whaps from the shiny cattle prod of capitalism. The trip (not a real travelogue, more of a readers digest travel-log [big words and possible significant content omitted]): We made it up to see Michael Wolfe and the gang after a couple of days of driving and sightseeing. It was surprisingly warm up there. Possibly nineties in late September. The sushi place was closed, as they were busy being very disrespectful to dirt, but we managed to collide with Jeme and Viv. We went to another sushi place and forced Viv to chug vats of really bad saki. Later we went to a wacky coffeehouse to chat over the tones of a strange little music combo. Carole was busy having a bidet party with her sister, so we saw her later during the trip. The people: Michael Wolfe: an incredibly nice guy. Eager to please, lots of energy. Kinda tall. If it hadn't been for him, I would have been the center on the basketball team. As it was, I guess I would've been the power forward. Jeme: contrary to popular opinion, Jeme doesn't seem that crabby in person. He and Viv like to kind of chew on each other some, but I don't think that's a lewd sort of thing. Viv: this was my first meeting with her. She seems uniquely suited to Jeme, in that she also does happen to have an opinion on most things. She was sweet to us and let us see her la cage au thoths. Carole R.: I'm glad we were able to see her again. Sounds like she's been having more fun lately, but unfortunately away from the list most of the time. Nobody tells stories like she does (of course, I haven't really heard Karen do that.) Jeme's cat: really a great, sweet, fun cat. Don't believe the slagging reports. It seems by the second time I see most of the fegs, and their cats, I've met before that we have a longtime history. Maybe it is that mostly we have chatted for years, so there is a lot of context. It is really amazing how great everybody seems. I still have never met a feg I didn't like. At this time, most of what we did was kind of a blur. It rained on us some at the rose garden and the Japanese garden. We went to a pub/restaurant and Jeme managed to talk the unenthusiastic barkeep into lighting a fire for us in the fireplace. We visited Carole at the bookstore. We also saw her at dinner and caused her to be terribly late to a date by having lots of fun trading stories and stuff. We missed the feg contingents that were in the state of Washington during our stay. We had great hosts and great fun. Thanks! Oh. I also was able to talk to (g)Nat via el telefono. That was cool too. Placentas and Rubber Sharks were discussed. The rest of our trip was mostly looking at the Oregon coast. Mostly the northern half. The Oregon coast is mostly wild and unspoiled. It would be a good thing to see soon if you haven't. I have a feeling it won't stay that way forever. Other news: Well, the recording is done, the ditties are mostly mixed for the new entries for GF. I think I'm all done with David Anderson's version of "Birdshead," but I still have an eensy-beensy bit of mixing to do on "Raymond Chandler AM/PM". Bayard, Ross, and all the GF gang are to thank for their patience. When I finish, I expect that I will be ripping apart my music room and completely redoing it before starting on my next couple of projects. Thanks go to the people that helped me with the recording, kind of a de facto Big Rubber Shark Auxilliary: Nick Winkworth, Michael Wolfe, Phil Speer, and bluesman Tourettic Tater Taft. There were some threads that went by during my absence to which I would love to respond, even though I'm already terribly late. I'm mostly caught up, tho, readingwise. And, no, that wasn't me in the condom, the formaldejekylorhyde, but I seem to be mired in elephant crap as I type. Thanks for the notes and cards Becca, Randi, and Bayardo. I really will write back. Happies, er, Best, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 11:52:16 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: ES online *** Elliot Smith to do studio work online (Launch) - The final touches are still being worked out, but Elliott Smith has arranged for fans to watch him work on the follow-up to "XO" on the Internet. Fans can log onto Smith's Web site at www.dreamworksrecords.com/elliottsmith, which will feed streaming video and images of him at work in the studio. Smith has been hard at work at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, Calif. and Abbey Road Studios in London. Since September, he's been in Hollywood finishing up tracking the album with producers Tom Rothrock and Rob Schapf. Smith must have gotten bitten by the specter of the Beatles, since he's recorded a simple, almost a cappella version of the John Lennon/Paul McCartney tune "Because," from the Beatles' "Abbey Road" album. It appears on the soundtrack for "American Beauty," which was released Tuesday. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 10:26:24 PDT From: "Ghost Surfer" Subject: SAVE GLR NOW!!!!!!!!! Robyn attended a meeting the other day to support GLR. It's reported in qonline.co.uk and there's also a poll. PLEASE go to the poll and click on the "it's an appalling idea". Robyn is totally behind this campaign and you can help. Also go to the http://listen.to/glr and find else what else you can do. Otherwise it's the devils radio for us. - ----------------************************************************------------ "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: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:47:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Brever On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, JH3 wrote: > >Did I hear correctly that RH will be on HBO's "reverb" > >next Tuesday night?!? > Whoa! Apparently this is true! > http://www.hbo.com/reverb/ > Tues. Oct. 12, 11:30 pm EST, with Beck and Sebadoh! > Finally, the $11.99 a month seems justified after all! Tue, Oct 12 2:30am HBO West REVERB 30: BECK, RH, Sebadoh TV14 52m Musical Thu, Oct 1 11:00pm Fri, Oct 15 7:00pm Fri, Oct 15 4:00am Sat, Oct 16 3:00pm Sun, Oct 17 2:40am Mon, Oct 18 2:00am For west coast folks. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:00:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Fegmania.com On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Anal Oil Leakage wrote: > http://www.fegmania.net). Anyone know who this is? Is this a quote from > something, or someone's own "poetic manifesto"?> > > that is just flat-out fucking *weird*! i can't believe nobody ever thought > to look that up before. here i am looking up , > or what have you, when the real goods are at fegmania.com. Yes, it belongs to someone registered as Bryan D. O'Connor. I have no idea if it's the astronaut. Yes, this person seems to be hosting the thing from a home box with a cable routermodemthingie. He's running Apache web server on FreeBSD. So he's cool in my book. Here are the domains this feller owns: Bryan D. O'Connor (BARMETTA-DOM) BARMETTA.COM BRYANDOCONNOR.COM BRYANDOCONNOR.NET BRYANDOCONNOR.ORG BRYANOCONNOR.COM BRYANOCONNOR.NET BRYANOCONNOR.ORG FEGMANIA.COM FEGMANIA.NET KARATEMONKEYDEATHCAR.COM KARATEMONKEYDEATHCAR.NET KARATEMONKEYDEATHCAR.ORG LITTLE-DUDE.COM LITTLE-DUDE.NET LITTLE-DUDE.ORG MONKEYDEATHCAR.COM MONKEYDEATHCAR.NET MONKEYDEATHCAR.ORG SKMDC.COM SKMDC.NET SKMDC.ORG This is a fellow with too much money to burn. Pretty much all of these domains were registered on 17 September of this year. Here's his address and telephone number: Bryan O'Connor 1 Barmetta Way Atherton, CA 94027 1 650 326 2478 The "poetic manifesto" is from the only episode of NewsRadio I've seen twice. The fat rich guy writes a book that sells terribly... but does amazingly in Japan. So he goes to Japan to do a reading and that bit is the english translation of the japanese translation of his book. It was very odd. This Bryan D. O'Connor fellow isn't very original (yet he grabs all the top levels for every variation of every domain name he wants... so he's terribly afraid of being copied). Yuck. > it looks like jeme's work to me. not only for the innumerable monkey/donkey > references, but also 'cause he's the kind of fellow who would have been > thinking far enough in advance to register such a domain name. MOREOVER, > he's got just a sick enough sense of humour to "preview" the site with a > "poetic manifesto" of this nature. of course he'll deny it. which just > means that it's true. Man, that's not me. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:02:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Halloween troubles On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Tom Clark wrote: > On 10/6/99 2:50 PM, Eb wrote: > >Eb, who finally saw Pleasantville the other day and really liked it a lot > Reese Witherspoon rules. See "Freeway". > -tc (and "Cruel Intentions" too) I'm sorry to say I rather enjoyed Pleasantville, too. But the first few shots of Reese Witherspoon in Twilight are really the to-see moments. Actually, I LOVED Election. Very well done. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 14:12:58 -0400 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: reese i still say 'election' is the bomb. reese puts on a powerhouse performance as the pepster you love to hate. too real. one of the best movies i've seen this year. up there with 'rushmore' and 'lock, stock, and two smoking barrels'. of course, i haven't been to the movies in quite a while. ken "with friends like you who needs friends?" the kenster >If you like Reese, check out her first movie, THE MAN IN THE MOON. Tess >harper and Sam Waterson also give great performances. It's a great coming >of age flick. > >>Eb, who finally saw Pleasantville the other day and really liked it a lot > >Reese Witherspoon rules. See "Freeway". > >-tc (and "Cruel Intentions" too) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:25:56 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Fegmania.com On 10/7/99 11:00 AM, Capuchin wrote: > >Pretty much all of these domains were registered on 17 September of this >year. > >Here's his address and telephone number: > Bryan O'Connor > 1 Barmetta Way > Atherton, CA 94027 > 1 650 326 2478 > >This is a fellow with too much money to burn. Considering he lives in Atherton, that's a pretty good possibility. Bryan - if you're lurking, please let us in on your plans for fegmania.com! - -tc, wondering if Bryan just saw my license plate driving up I-280 and thought it was a cool word... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:41:10 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: Fegmania.com Come on now...you guys aren't THAT gullible, are you? We all REALLY know who this "Bryan O'Connor" is!! Can anyone say 'Helen Percival'? hmm??? >On 10/7/99 11:00 AM, Capuchin wrote: > >> >>Pretty much all of these domains were registered on 17 September of this >>year. >> >>Here's his address and telephone number: >> Bryan O'Connor >> 1 Barmetta Way >> Atherton, CA 94027 >> 1 650 326 2478 >> >>This is a fellow with too much money to burn. > >Considering he lives in Atherton, that's a pretty good possibility. > >Bryan - if you're lurking, please let us in on your plans for >fegmania.com! > >-tc, wondering if Bryan just saw my license plate driving up I-280 and >thought it was a cool word... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LJ Lindhurst White Rabbit Graphic Design NYC ljl@w-rabbit.com http://www.w-rabbit.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "who do you what do you why do you do?" --Elvis Costello ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:44:16 -0600 From: Paul Christian Glenn Subject: Re: Halloween troubles At 10/7/99 11:02:00 AM, you wrote: >> >Eb, who finally saw Pleasantville the other day and really liked it a lot >I'm sorry to say I rather enjoyed Pleasantville, too. Just to be an opposing voice , I thought "Pleasantville" sucked wanker. It took itself just a *tad* too seriously, IMO. Heavily melodramatic (those gawd-awful slo-motion scenes of destruction, complete with give-ya-chills music - ugh!), pretentious and painfully superficial. The questions it raised and the issues it addressed were good ones, but the films turns on itself without ever addressing the *truly* interesting questions. At first, we get to experience "unpleasantville", then the kids go to Pleasantville and proceed to wreak havoc with the townspeople's rigid close-mindedness (somehow linked with morality - how original). But instead of exploring how to be open-minded without being engulfed by the problems which ensue, we're left with - not even nihilism - but a wink and a "Gosh, I guess we weren't so bad off after all". Ohh-kay. Thanks for sharing. Now, I like a neat-o superficial flick as much as the next guy, but there's nothing more exasperating than a movie that posits itself as a deeply philosophical exploration of ideas and then deftly side-steps the key elements of the issue it's addressing. Then again, maybe I just need to relax. :P - - Paul "I have no cool nickname" Glenn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:02:06 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Brever In a message dated 10/7/99 10:51:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, capuchin@speakeasy.org writes: << Tue, Oct 12 2:30am HBO West REVERB 30: BECK, RH, Sebadoh TV14 52m Musical Thu, Oct 1 11:00pm Fri, Oct 15 7:00pm Fri, Oct 15 4:00am Sat, Oct 16 3:00pm Sun, Oct 17 2:40am Mon, Oct 18 2:00am For west coast folks. >> Okay, does anyone have any idea what this show is like? Has it already happened? On Oct. 1st? Did anyone see it? And why would something that's on at 11:30 on the East Coast be on three hours *later* on the west coast?! Wouldn't it be on at 8:30 here? I just wanna get this all straight before I start in on prgramming the VCR and all that. Thanks. - -------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:01:56 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Fegmania.com, squirrels >Yes, it belongs to someone registered as Bryan D. >O'Connor. I have no idea if it's the astronaut. Well, apparently he's not who you think he is: http://www.barmetta.com/bryan/ It's always bothersome when people grab domain names with no intention of using them for anything, not even for "vanity" sites or e-mail... It happened to me: Some dude in Minneapolis grabbed "jh3.com" two years ago, just as I was getting ready to do it, but has never used it for anything whatsoever. Admittedly the guy has the correct initials in his name, but still. End griping. Terry M. writes: Link of the day: http://www.usda.gov/rus/educate/ruskids.htm What hypocrites! Who do these squirrels think they are, ferchrissakes? When I think of all the times they've gotten up into the power lines around here, electrocuting themselves and blowing our transformers in the process, seeing something like this... it's like they're laughing at us! John "won't take animals' advice" Hedges (dot whatever) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:14:33 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: MTV/VH1/GYM In a message dated 10/7/99 9:43:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, jthornton@ucsd.edu writes: << I'm always thinking, "no, there's no way Mariah Carey can get any sluttier." But, each new video, each new bit of album/single art, challenges my assumptions every time. >> They play her new video on *both* MTV and VH1 at the gym where I work out. I listen to other stuff on my discman, but it's often hard to keep one's eyes from getting glued to those video-type-things. Pretty terrible stuff. Other videos in heavy rotation on *both* MTV and VH1 in the a.m.: Jennifer Lopez (two different ones), Smash Mouth, some Latin guy in a zoot suit, and, nearly constantly this whole summer, some Madonna song that was apparently in the Austin Powes II soundtrack (due to obvious tie-ins between video and film clips). Hey, anybody ever put together a Robyn workout mix? If so, what's on it? I might have to give it a try! Mostly Egyptians stuff, I'd guess. And Soft Boys. Oh, and from "Black Snake" . . . and maybe one or two things from "Jewels." Heck, plenty of stuff to choose from, I reckon! :-) - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:33:50 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: VERB >Okay, does anyone have any idea what this show is like? It's mostly live footage, constantly intercutting between film and videotape to produce a somewhat artsy but usually just jarring (and occasionally annoying) effect. Good sound, though! The interview segments (if any) usually only last for a minute or so, max. >Has it already happened? On Oct. 1st? Did anyone see it? Naaaw, that was a Friday, so I probably would've noticed. Jeme must've just done a typo there. >And why would something that's on at 11:30 on the East >Coast be on three hours *later* on the west coast?! Because it's HBO East and HBO West - separate feeds, in case you pick it up via satellite or have an unusually generous cable company. (Jeme posted the times for HBO West.) >Wouldn't it be on at 8:30 here? Yes, if you get HBO East, and assuming "here" means PST. Some fegs live in Europe, y'know... I was pretty impressed by some of the other people they're having on later this fall: Brian Wilson, Flaming Lips and Wilco all on one show (Nov. 9), Fountains of Wayne on Nov. 16, and Pavement on Nov. 30. This is for a show that I've only bothered to watch once in the last 3 years (Ben Folds Five was on). They must have hired somebody with some taste! Please note that I am not employed by HBO or by their marketing/advertising agency. John "but I AM hoping for a free month" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:12:34 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: VERB >Here's his address and telephone number: > Bryan O'Connor > 1 Barmetta Way > Atherton, CA 94027 > 1 650 326 2478 Hey now, that's kinda malicious to post, ain't it? JH3: >I was pretty impressed by some of the other people they're >having on later this fall: Brian Wilson, Flaming Lips and Wilco >all on one show (Nov. 9), Fountains of Wayne on Nov. 16, I was at the Fountains of Wayne show which was filmed. Tune in, and maybe you can catch a precious glimpse of Ebby on the dance floor. I'm not a Fountains of Wayne fan, but I went because Owsley opened. I believe Owsley was filmed for Reverb too? That's what we were told, at least. Actually, come to think of it, I don't think I'll be visible if Owsley isn't featured. I spent very little time near the stage, during FoW's set. I was mostly content to watch from afar. >and Pavement on Nov. 30. This is for a show that I've only >bothered to watch once in the last 3 years (Ben Folds Five >was on). They must have hired somebody with some taste! Actually, I *know* who they hired. Known for her years, if only in a casual way. Her name is Liz...she formerly worked for Texas Hotel Records, Restless Records and the local indie-rock watering hole, Spaceland. Nice woman. And definitely knows her stuff. Eb, who doesn't expect to start any tangential film threads with this signoff, but you never know ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:20:36 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: MTV/VH1/GYM >In a message dated 10/7/99 9:43:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, >jthornton@ucsd.edu writes: > They play her new video on *both* MTV and VH1 at the gym where I work >out. I listen to other stuff on my discman, but it's often hard to keep >one's eyes from getting glued to those video-type-things. Pretty terrible >stuff. > Other videos in heavy rotation on *both* MTV and VH1 in the a.m.: >Jennifer Lopez (two different ones), Smash Mouth, some Latin guy in a zoot >suit, and, nearly constantly this whole summer, some Madonna song that was >apparently in the Austin Powes II soundtrack (due to obvious tie-ins between >video and film clips). You are SO fucking RIGHT!!! That nails it right on the head... It sounds like you work out at MY gym! (tell me, do those big Italian guys in the weight-lifting room intimidate you, too?) They have three video monitors at my gym, and the unspoken rule seems to be: VH1 and MTV must be on two of the monitors at all times, and the third monitor must have either "The Golden Girls" or "Designing Women." And let me tell you, MTV makes "The Golden Girls" look like "Meet the Press". > Hey, anybody ever put together a Robyn workout mix? If so, what's on >it? I might have to give it a try! Mostly Egyptians stuff, I'd guess. And >Soft Boys. Oh, and from "Black Snake" . . . and maybe one or two things from >"Jewels." Heck, plenty of stuff to choose from, I reckon! :-) Believe it or not, I've tried! If you ask me, the best Robyn music to work out to is actually Soft Boys stuff; "Leppo and the Jooves" is the first song that comes to mind. I've made about a bzillion workout tapes, and here are some of my favorites (keep in mind this is WORKOUT music, so you are not looking for sophistication here, just a good steady beat, not too fast, not too slow, not too long, and somewhat inspiring lyrics): #1: Bruce Springsteen's *Lucky Town* and *Human Touch*-- the Boss is the BEST workout partner! (I picture Bruce there, lifting some weights, going, "El, I'm tired- how would YOU like to be the boss for a while?") #2: The Candy Butchers' "Live at LaBonBonniere": I know I'm the only one whose probably heard this record, but it is the most peppy workout tape in the world, and I don't even have to edit out any of the songs! #3: Melissa Etheridge! YEAH!! Wooh! (I don't picture her until I'm in the locker room though, heh heh) #4: The Afghan Whigs...once again, this one's probably in the Me Only Department, but Greg Greg Greg...make me sweat baby! (and then it's off to the showers with Melissa!) #5: XTC! Especially the peppy stuff on "Oranges and Lemons" and "Nonesuch". #6: Marshall Crenshaw #7: Pearl Jam ...oh god, I didn't know that writing a list of workout music favorites would be so revealing and so ultimately embarrassing...oh, shut up, Eb... Your Friend, Buttmaster 2000 ******************************** LJ Lindhurst White Rabbit Graphic Design http://www.w-rabbit.com NYC ljl@w-rabbit.com ******************************** "If I find a coin on the ground I PICK UP Regardless of its later Dispositions." --Yukio Murakami ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #378 *******************************