From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #379 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, October 8 1999 Volume 08 : Number 379 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: he's baaack.... [Eb ] Re: VERB [Tom Clark ] Re: VERB [Eb ] Re: he's baaack.... [lj lindhurst ] artrant [dmw ] Re: Brever ["Ariel Green" ] Re: VERB [Capuchin ] Re: he's baaack.... [Capuchin ] debate fodder, from CDNow [Eb ] Re: the worst thing about Chris Gaines [Jeff Dwarf ] TFP; 10/31 [Katherine Rossner ] Denver in-store tape available for trade [hal brandt ] writing to robyn [Michael Brage ] Re: Famous Blue Raincoat [dmw ] austin shows [Livia Drusilla ] Paging Mr Sharkey, white courtesy phone please... [digja611@student.otago] Another stupid thread begins... [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dign] retaliating to the chronosynclastic infundubulum of digest-zeit [digja611] eb all over the world ["Capitalism Blows" ] from the sf comical... [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: SAVE GLR NOW!!!!!!!!! ["Sedgwick, Gary" ] Re: retaliating to the chronosynclastic infundubulum of digest-zeit [Mich] robyn and OTC in chapel hill, nc [jill@naxs.com (Jill Sunderlin)] Re: writing to robyn [mrrunion@palmnet.net] Re: tour info again [puppycakes ] Re: E6 all over the world ["Jason R. Thornton" ] ballbustin' ["Jason R. Thornton" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:20:26 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: he's baaack.... The Rubber Mark: >we managed >to collide with Jeme and Viv. We went to another sushi >place and forced Viv to chug vats of really bad saki. Oh, good...I'm relieved to hear this evidence of Viv's vitality. I was afraid that Jeme had her stashed in a closet somewhere. >I still have never met a feg I didn't like. Well, don't look at me...I'm no Feg. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:18:07 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: VERB On 10/7/99 2:12 PM, Eb wrote: >>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? It's public information. http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:22:16 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: VERB >It's public information. >http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois/ Yes, yes...if you sweat through the web research. I still think it's uncool to casually disseminate that info. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:33:14 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: he's baaack.... >The Rubber Mark: >>we managed >>to collide with Jeme and Viv. We went to another sushi >>place and forced Viv to chug vats of really bad saki. > >Oh, good...I'm relieved to hear this evidence of Viv's vitality. I was >afraid that Jeme had her stashed in a closet somewhere. > Yeah, where the HELL is Vivien these days? l * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LJ Lindhurst White Rabbit Graphic Design http://www.w-rabbit.com NYC ljl@w-rabbit.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 17:28:20 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: artrant the problem with popular press discussions of much modern art, especially conceptual and temporal art, is that the average layperson doesn't have the framework of cultural knowledge necessary to appreciate the art (or, arguably, determine its merit or lack thereof). i have a friend who works at the national gallery who has been very eye-opening. we once discussed a piece called "37 suitcases full of rotting cheese." (i may have the number slightly wrong, but i'm virtually certain it was a prime number between 25 and 50.) what is the medium? suitcase and cheese? no; the medium is time itself, and the "work" may be considered to include the eventual, inevitable, response to the suitcases and the cheese by the sanitation department, as well as all the gag-reflexes of everyone unfortunate enough to be in the room with the cheese. you may still think that this is bullshit, not art (my friend's conclusion, in this particular case) but i think it is important to understand that old aesthetic criteria ("it looks purty/it don't look purty") just don't apply to much modern art, which is often extremely self-referential: to the extent that it's "about" anything, it's often "about" the idea of "art" itself. i haven't seen ofelli's madonna in person, but for a conceptual artist to tackle a traditional subject like a madonna implies, i think, that the work is meta-art: it comments on the tradition of paintings of the virgin mary over the last many hundred years (and based on the thumbnail image i saw, it also seems to be drawing parallels between the madonna and multi-cultural fertility images much older). it's still a fair question, i suppose, to what degree public funding is appropriate for exhibits which the public may not "get," but i don't think ill-informed bashing of controversial art is a very supportable way to address those concerns. i think controversial and difficult art is inherently important and well worth supporting, personally, but i can understand divergent points of view. - -- d. getting incensed all over again by the "modern art is decadent art" article that appeared, what, 4, 5 years ago? in the wash post? ...can't even remember...but boy am i mad! robyn justification: i mentioned cheese. np snakefarm _songs from my funeral_ - - oh no, you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net - get yr pathos - - www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. = reviews - - www.fecklessbeast.com -- angst, guilt, fear, betrayal! = guitar pop ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 14:52:15 PDT From: "Ariel Green" Subject: Re: Brever Well, seeing as I'll be out voting against the lottery on Tuesday, (albeit not at 10:30pm my time), I'm going to miss this program. (Nevermind the fact that I don't even have cable!) If some kind-hearted Feg is taping this show (all of it), I'll gladly pay for an extra videotape & shipping to get a copy! Lemme know offlist, if you're planning or willing to do this. Thanks! Ariel >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. > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:20:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: VERB On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, JH3 wrote: > >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. I done did a typo. October 14, 11:00pm on HBO West. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:28:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: he's baaack.... On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, lj lindhurst wrote: > Eb sed: > >Oh, good...I'm relieved to hear this evidence of Viv's vitality. I was > >afraid that Jeme had her stashed in a closet somewhere. > Yeah, where the HELL is Vivien these days? I was going to make up something funny about her being stashed in a closet somewhere, then I realized that folks might actually be concerned... so I'll fill you kids in. Viv and I are moving into our lovely new apartment! In case you care to write: 2232 NW Everett #4 Portland, OR 97210 Right now, there are no working computers in the new apartment. That should change on Friday night or Saturday. (Right, Lobstie?) Even then, it might be a little shakey because I hate modems and always have (not as much as I hate printers... I will NEVER own a printer... but I still hate modems) and so I probably won't even bother plugging the thing in when we move. So I'm getting this fast nifty DSL router/bridge thingie from the good old Speakeasy folks up in Seattle. They offer me the sweetest deal you wever did hear. Anyway, that stuff gets hooked up on the eighteenth of this month. So I'm pretty happy. At that point, you'll probably hear from Viv daily. Our phone number is the same. Give us a call. I'd be happy to let Viv out of the closet if a feg's on the phone. (She saw more daylight when Mark was here than she's probably seen since August.) Thanks for listening. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:33:24 -0800 From: Eb Subject: debate fodder, from CDNow http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=725466875/pagename=/RP/GENRES/cms_genre s.html/fid=19372/rfname=Millennium:+All-Time+Top+10+List http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=725466875/pagename=/RP/GENRES/cms_genre s.html/fid=19316/rfname=Millennium:+Today's+Top+10+List (um...Tupac over Mozart, eh?) http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=725466875/pagename=/RP/GENRES/cms_genre s.html/fid=19315/rfname=Millennium:+Today's+Top+10+List Have fun. ;) Eb, who's not familiar with that Fall album at all...huh ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:45:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: the worst thing about Chris Gaines Eb wrote: > The IP address for the old official Cocteau Twins website now > houses a Chris Gaines page, instead. Oooooof. i just checked http://www.cocteautwins.com/ and it was fine. or was this just the capitol records page? Fotzepolitic: n. [German] Literally, cunt politics, as the word fotze is an obscene reference to female genitalia, and politic refers to the Greco-Latin word for artful shrewdness. 2. Using, exhibiting, or proceeding from policy; Judicious. 3. Crafty; cunning. ===== "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: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 20:52:30 -0400 From: Katherine Rossner Subject: TFP; 10/31 >From: "Jason R. Thornton" > >The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and ***PROPERTY***???? > >What the hell? > >Jason, who has quite an urge to type F U C K T H E P O P E again Hardly fair. TFP is a weird little cult that even the conservative Catholics I used to know repudiated; I remember reading an "expose" maybe eleven years ago, though I'm not sure whether the group has been officially condemned by the Church or just ignored. *** Anybody else going to see Robyn on Hallowe'en? I'm now living in Hartford, less than an hour (so I'm told) from Northampton. It will actually be my first time seeing Robyn, and I'd welcome companionship. Katherine - -- Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem, and yet they spake hem so. - Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 18:55:38 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Denver in-store tape available for trade For those who want it, I finally got a copy of the Denver in-store appearance at Twist & Shout. It also includes a backstage interview from the night before by the taper for his college radio station. Trade offers are welcome! /hal http://personal.milehigh.net/hbrandt/home.html > (4 Aug 99) Twist & Shout Records/Denver in-store setlist: > > -Mexican God > -You've Got A Sweet Mouth On You, Baby > -Ride > -Isolation (Lennon) (!) (<-1st time played) > -Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Dylan) (partial-"I can't remember all the > words, but it's a great song. They don't write songs like that > anymore!") > -Victorian Squid (<-my request! Preceeded by a statement about how > repressed/hypocritical the US is. "We need more sex and less violence!") > -Cynthia Mask > -I Got A Message For You ("This is the song that I was conceived to. My > mom and dad were playing it on the Victrola.") > -Viva! Sea-Tac > -Wax Doll ("I haven't played this in years. From an album of mine that > you can't get anywhere any longer. Perhaps that's a good thing...") > -Gene Hackman > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 21:19:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: debate fodder, from CDNow On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Eb wrote: > Eb, who's not familiar with that Fall album at all...huh well, it's between two of their best and most distinctive albums and is a fine slice itself, but if i were hunting it down i would go on and look for Palace Of Swords Reversed, a singles collection from the same time which has 2/3 of Slates and a bunch of other excellent songs. i think some of that has found its way onto reissues (they put "The Man Whose Head Expanded" and "Kicker Conspiracy" on Perverted By Language) but i don't know where else "How I Wrote Elastic Man" and "City Hobgoblins" have turned up. Palace Of Swords Reversed is what drove me to buy all the other records -- until then i thought i could do with the Beggars Banquet a-sides and whatever else was cheap at the used record shop. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 19:23:22 -0700 From: Michael Brage Subject: writing to robyn Fegs, How can one contact Robyn H.? I hope to encourage him to come to San Diego and sing. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 22:35:26 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: Famous Blue Raincoat On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Andrew D. Simchik wrote: > I really hate Tori's covers. I haven't heard a single > one I'd describe as better than "listenable." The other > cover that springs to mind when this "misreading" stuff > comes up is "Smells Like Teen Spirit." I figure she i have somewhat mixed feelings on ms. amos' oeuvre, but i thought she did truly wonderful things to the stones' "angie" and zep's "thank you" on the same e.p. as the nirvana cover. never cared much for the original of either. - -- d., ready to sign an endorsement deal with marshall amplification - - oh no, you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net - get yr pathos - - www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. = reviews - - www.fecklessbeast.com -- angst, guilt, fear, betrayal! = guitar pop ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 21:05:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Livia Drusilla Subject: austin shows hey, everybody i'm also planning to come down, and would very much welcome suggestions on transportation (plane? train? which is more direct/cheaper?) and lodging, preferably something inexpensive and fairly near the club. oh, and that should be "poopfucker" or "nosehead" as far as i'm concerned. though perhaps eb is special enough to merit some brand-new pejorative, and i'll do my best to go home and come up with one just for him. => lyv ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:11:47 +0100 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Paging Mr Sharkey, white courtesy phone please... One latex elasmobranch did state: >I still have never met a feg I didn't like. then again, you haven't met me yetm, and apparently, I'm like that damned Gloster person. James James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:24:08 +0100 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Another stupid thread begins... > 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! :-) Well this is a challenge that needs answering: I haven't done this, but I can imagine the following would work well: Underwater moonlight Rock'n'roll toilet Brenda's Iron Sledge Bass Somewhere Apart Strawberry mind Sally was a legend Oceanside Leppo & the Jooves adding Wafflehead would, of course, depend on the type of work-out you're having... James James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:25:07 +0100 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: retaliating to the chronosynclastic infundubulum of digest-zeit >the closest i can think of is "busting [one's] balls", and that is hardly >an expression i would mind never hearing again. or "yanking his chain". yeahj, but here is where idiom breaks down. To take the piss means to poke fun at ('to take the mickey' is the less scatological version). But to bust one's balls is means to work extremely hard at something. So if you're, say, busting your balls on your PhD, then you're not really taking the piss at all. "Yanking ta person's chain" is a very American term, however - the closest I've heard of outside the US is to "pull a person's leg". as for 'misreading a song' few can beat that epitome of all things dreadful, the BeeGees Sgt. Pepper, with such delights as the evilly dememnted version of "I want you (she'sso heavy)", which turned it from full on luyst to full on obsessive lechery. >Incidentally, "The Knack (And How To Get It)" is a goddamn great film. >Michael Crawford wasn't *always* so unbearable.... I was stunned recently to realise that it was him in "Hello Dolly" >>p.s. FUCK ticketmaster! fuck it right in the ass! > >I say we put Ticketmaster and the Pope into a pit, and let them fight it >out to the death. > >I'd probably root for the Pope. you've no idea how fuinny this is considering previous arguments unless you realise that in NZ slang 'root' and 'fuck' are synonyms. >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??? you sure?I thought it was Carl Palmer... James (wondering why he's bothering, and stioll wondering if 'piss-take' developed jokingly from the word 'pastiche') PS - ever try typing synonym? It's a weirdie! James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 23:42:48 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: eb all over the world whoa! jason informs me that the olivia tremor control are opening for robyn on the 26th! how fucking cool is that? by the way, is the e6 arkestra accompanying this minders/elf power tour, anybody know? or are these two not quite high enough in the e6 pecking order to merit such? and just how does the e6 pecking order break down? i'd guess neutral milk hotel and olivia tremor control at #'s 1 and 2. but after that? BULLSHIT! jeme's cat is a fucking demon from the fiery depths of hell. believe it, or be sorry. you'd better fuckin' believe it! one of the myriad reasons i'm really jacked about this tour is that it's in the autumn. not only my favorite season, by far; but also the (general) time and place of robyn's greatest live stand: 10/02/90 RH SUNY, Binghamton 10/03/90 RH Tramps, New York 10/04/90 RH Tramps, New York 10/06/90 RH Bowdoin College, Bowdoin 10/07/90 RH Raoul's, Portland (cancelled) 10/07/90 RH Toad's Place, New Haven 10/09/90 RH Nightstage, Cambridge 10/10/90 RH Suffolk Club, Toronto 10/11/90 RH Iron Horse, Northampton 10/13/90 RH The Haunt, Ithaca 10/14/90 RH Nietzsche's, Buffalo 10/16/90 RH Supper Club, Toronto 10/18/90 RH Blind Pig, Ann Arbor 10/19/90 RH Jake's, Bloomington 10/20/90 RH Bogart's, Cincinnati i don't have them all on tape. but i've got most of them, and they are DYNAMITE, not least because they're so evocative of the season. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 00:28:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: from the sf comical... from the Top of the Sixth Sports Column: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/10/07/SP76917.DTL TAKES A LICKING, KEEPS ON TICKING: From Russ Reynolds of KFOX-FM: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "You know that episode of the Simpsons where Homer becomes a boxer because he can take a million blows to the head and still survive? Two words: Don Zimmer." ===== "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: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:55:17 +0100 From: "Sedgwick, Gary" Subject: Re: SAVE GLR NOW!!!!!!!!! I'd like to reiterate this. Even if you're not in London, please go to the on-line petition; for those of you in the States, GLR is the last decent pop/rock station in London - it would be comparable to losing one of your local radio stations and being left with MTV-like commercial stations that only play commercial chart crap. I'm sure a lot of you will also have the odd GLR interview / performance on compilation trades. To emphasize the point, an artist like Robyn would only get very minor coverage on any other London station (XFM maybe), whereas he gets interviews and fairly regular air play on GLR. I'm glad he attended the meeting. So, go sign that petition now! Gary >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. ____________________________________________________ Gary Sedgwick MKIRisk Midas-Kapiti International 1 St. George's Road Tel: +44 (208) 879 1188 Wimbledon Fax: +44 (208) 944 7963 London Direct: +44 (208) 486 1662 SW19 4DR Email: sedgwicg@midas-kapiti.com UK ____________________________________________________ (The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the view and opinions of Midas-Kapiti International Ltd. This message and/or any attached documents may contain Privileged and Confidential Information and should only be read by those persons to whom this message is addressed.) .:. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:57:45 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: retaliating to the chronosynclastic infundubulum of digest-zeit > >Incidentally, "The Knack (And How To Get It)" is a goddamn great film. > >Michael Crawford wasn't *always* so unbearable.... If you like those swinging London films, the definitive one (not the best, but the typicalest) is 'Smashing Time'. I always assumed that 'I don't want to go to Chelsea' was written about that film. Can anyone confirm? On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, James Dignan wrote: > I was stunned recently to realise that it was him in "Hello Dolly" He's had a very varied career. I remember him doing those 'Byron' monologues on 'Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life'. Not to mention that sitcom where he was always shouting 'Betty!'. - - Mike Godwin n.p. Brenda Lee 'As Usual' ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:51:38 -0400 From: jill@naxs.com (Jill Sunderlin) Subject: robyn and OTC in chapel hill, nc was announced yesterday: Robyn Hitchcock Olivia Tremor Control Cat's Cradle Oct. 26th (Tickets on sale soon) jill, brad, and zoe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:11 +0000 From: mrrunion@palmnet.net Subject: Re: writing to robyn >How can one contact Robyn H.? I hope to encourage him to come to San Diego >and sing. Here's what I think. All of us in this vast feg collective need to make it our mission on this tour of seeing that Robyn contacts Randi. I'm seeing like big signs saying "Call Randi...1-800-...", or little slips of paper passed to him at nearly every gig, or the like. If any of us happen to bump into him in passing, maybe we could pass along the news/request as well. Just an idea, huh? >OTC & Robyn Slick! Now I have to take this trip... >NIN I have to weigh in with the disappointed crowd. Either The Fragile is just blah or else I'm getting old and have moved on from this stuff, but I've played the whole thing 4 or 5 times and it just turns into a blur, never even sure which track I'm on. It's just boring. I would have preferred he stray farther down the admittedly weaker "Perfect Drug" path as opposed to this bland rehash. Who out there thinks Trent needs to do an acoustic album? Didn't someone mention a cowboy shirt? And this coming from a one-time true fan, holder of all 14 Halo's... Back to it, Mike (currently loving Billy's Reaching To The Converted collection) Runion ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 11:11:15 -0400 From: puppycakes Subject: Re: tour info again when we last left our heroes, hal brandt exclaimed: >Of course...the real home for all the RobynH news you crave is: > >http://www.fegmania.org/ > >Thanks, woj! you're welcome. i just wish that i had more time to work on the site. anybody want to pay me so i don't have to do other work? perhaps the quail could convince his benefactors that robyn hitchcock is a literary genius of the 20th century and we could make fegmania a surreptitious segment of the libyrinth? woj n.p. the minders -- hooray for tuesday ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 08:36:32 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: E6 all over the world At 11:42 PM 10/7/99 PDT, Capitalism Blows wrote: > >whoa! jason informs me that the olivia tremor control are opening for robyn >on the 26th! how fucking cool is that? You're right. It was incredibly fucking cool of Jason to do that. ;-) >by the way, is the e6 arkestra accompanying this minders/elf power tour, >anybody know? or are these two not quite high enough in the e6 pecking >order to merit such? I dunno, but I am planning on seeing Elf Power Tuesday at the Che Cafe here on campus, and then possibly catching the Elf Power/Minders show on Wednesday in Long Beach. I could let you know of any arkestral accompaniment after that. >and just how does the e6 pecking order break down? >i'd guess neutral milk hotel and olivia tremor control at #'s 1 and 2. but >after that? I would probably place The Apples (in Stereo) within the Top 3, along with OTC and NMH, in the the great Oliphant 6 pecking order. The Apples are quite obviously a top dog... Rob Schneider seems to have his hand in almost everything. - --Jason "it's a collective, not a toy" Thornton PS: Eddie, you'd like the Che Cafe. Check it out at: www.checafe.com. The "com" stands for "communist." "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 09:11:15 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: ballbustin' At 05:25 PM 10/8/99 +0100, James Dignan wrote: >yeahj, but here is where idiom breaks down. To take the piss means to poke >fun at ('to take the mickey' is the less scatological version). But to bust >one's balls is means to work extremely hard at something. Actually... if you're busting your OWN balls, then you're working very hard at something. For example: "I've been busting my balls to complete my dissertation by the end of the month." Or, if someone, perhaps your "so-called superior," has given you an unfair amount of work to do, he or she could be busting your balls. "Mr. Thorboyanker has been busting my balls all week. I had to push the big red button three times each freakin' day." If SOMEONE ELSE is busting YOUR balls, then that person is basically giving you a hard time, or getting on your case, about something. For example, "Dr. Snagglesnorken has really been busting my balls lately because I haven't completed my research yet. He has threatened to give me an F." Me busting your balls could also mean that I'm poking fun at you, or having a laugh at your expense, or taking the mickey pisschrist, or whatever. Basically giving you a hard time, but in joking manner. For example, I could say "Oooops, James, I just deleted your dissertation... ha ha! Psych! I'm just busting your balls. I only moved it to another directory." You could stick the phrase "giving you a hard time" in there instead... Oh, if your loan-shark threatens to bust your balls with a hammer, you might think about taking him literally. In mixed company, you might want to replace "balls" with "chops." "Busting a person's chops" is pretty much equivalent to "busting his or her balls." Except in the loan-shark scenario. >>>p.s. FUCK ticketmaster! fuck it right in the ass! >> >>I say we put Ticketmaster and the Pope into a pit, and let them fight it >>out to the death. >> >>I'd probably root for the Pope. > >you've no idea how fuinny this is considering previous arguments unless you >realise that in NZ slang 'root' and 'fuck' are synonyms. Well, if I root for the Pope, does that mean I can't wear a condom? >PS - ever try typing synonym? It's a weirdie! I keep getting "cinnamon." Root! - --Jason "it's a baby panda, not an internet radio station" Thornton "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #379 *******************************