From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #396 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, October 24 1999 Volume 08 : Number 396 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Ursula! [Joel Mullins ] Update on the November tour ["chris franz" ] RIP [Eb ] Hitchcock/Pentangle [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #394 [James Dignan ] Starfuckers, Inc. [The Great Quail ] Arab Strap [Terrence M Marks ] I'm not going to post this to the E6 list for fear of dismemberment [Nata] Philly Phegstivities [Ethyl Ketone ] austin, 10/23/99 ["Capitalism Blows" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 13:53:26 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Ursula! dmw wrote: > i've only read _still life with woodpecker_ so far, but liked it a lot. > > didn't start smoking camels, though. That's a good one. But you really need to read Skinny Legs and All. It's really kick ass! Joel, who's now pretty hungover. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 13:22:42 PDT From: "chris franz" Subject: Update on the November tour More on the upcoming US tour, from Tim Keegan's publicity machine. Looks like that Largo show on the 23rd will just be Tim, apparently without Robyn. >From: departurelounge@meekgiant.com >To: Recipient List Suppressed:; >Subject: Update >Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 18:40:31 +0100 > >We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of the first Departure >Lounge US full-length record. 'Out Of There' will be the American cousin >of the UK debut 'Out Of Here' and will be released on Flydaddy records >in February. More details soon. > > FINALISED DATES: > > DEPARTURE LOUNGE (with Tim Keegan) > supporting Robyn Hitchcock > > October > Sat 23 Austin, TX Cactus Cafe > Sun 24 Austin, TX Cactus Cafe > Mon 25 Atlanta, GA > Tue 26 Carrboro, NC Art Center > Wed 27 Baltimore, MD Fletchers > *Fri 29 Philadelphia, PA The Upstage (change of venue, 22 South 3rd St) > Sat 30 Boston, MA Paradise > November > Mon 01 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom > Tue 02 Hoboken, NJ Maxwells > Fri 05 Pittsburgh, PA Rosebud > Sat 06 Ferndale, MI Magic Bag > Sun 07 Cincinnati, OH Top Cats > Wed 10 Chicago, IL Metro > Thu 11 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue > Sat 13 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater > Tue 16 Seattle, WA Crocodile > Wed 17 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater > Fri 19 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall > Sat 20 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour > > * PLUS Tue 23 Los Angeles, CA Largo (HEADLINE) > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 14:09:27 -0800 From: Eb Subject: RIP Howard Stern's marriage? Wow! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:18:28 +1300 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Hitchcock/Pentangle As further possible evidence of Robyn's Pentangle/Renbourn/Jansch influence, I suggest you listen to Pentangle's song "Rain and snow", then follow it up by listening to RH's "The bones in the ground". 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: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:38:11 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #394 >I am shamed. Revoke my geek license. I should have >said that she (being Ursula Le Guin, who for all >intents and purposes lives right down the street from >here) wrote about the ansible in the intro to 'The >Left Hand of Darkness,' not 'The Lathe of Heaven.' But >in defense of my gaff, I should point out the >remarkable isomorphism between the two titles: Both >are The L... of ........., the second part of which >structure is a sort of ineffable concept, and the >first of part of which structure both words could be >construed as 'crafty' (a lathe something one crafts >with, a left hand being somewhat 'sinister')......(she >trails off lamely)....uh... np - The Bats - "The law of things"? James ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 17:53:36 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Starfuckers, Inc. Sigh. OK, you are my friends, and that's the only way I can rationalize telling you this. Last night I . . . well, please, let me brag. Let me tell you this. Call it starfucking, whatever, I can live with that. I had to be very composed and professional during the event, so now I just want to throw caution to the wind and mindlessly gush a bit. Last night I went to a party given after a "Celebrate Italo Calvino" event, and I actually talked to a few interesting people, that is after I locked myself in the bathroom with three glasses of fortifying champagne, staring at my business card and repeating the words, "I am an serious Web-based editor, not just a drooling fanboy" fifty times. Only then could I emerge under the realization that for once I was *not* crashing a party. Well, to the point: I met Carlos Fuentes, Umberto Eco, and Salman Rushdie. And Eco knew who I was, remembered our email correspondence from 1997, was very pleasant, and enthusiastically talked to me quite a while about the Libyrinth. Fuentes was a very nice fellow, and we chatted about Borges and Garcia Marquez. He introduced me to his wife, and then suggested we meet sometime and discuss a future site. And Rushdie? Well, being beleaguered by more people than the others, he didn't talk very long, but I did spy him disappearing down an elevator with two stunning model-types on his arms. (Having a fatwa pronounced against you does have a few advantages, apparently.) I also had a lovely conversation with Giovanna Calvino, Italo's daughter and the organizer of the event. Oh, I also met that weird little actor who played the short, sputtering "intellectual" guy in "The Princess Bride." Apparently he's a friend of Giovanna Calvino. He looks just as funny in person. I didn't see Lou Reed, though. Fucking been in this fucking City for a year and a half, and no fucking Lou Reed sightings. - --Quail, who is still dazed. . . . +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 00:05:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Arab Strap Is "Mad for Sadness" by Arab Strap worth picking up? np - Jean-Luc Poity, "Aurora" Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:30:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: I'm not going to post this to the E6 list for fear of dismemberment I've recovered from this week's radio show. Sometimes I play stuff on my show to see if they still suck, and usually they do. This week I ended up doing a "Julian Koster has no songwriting talent and is moreover associated with other bands that suck" set. I played Masters of the Hemisphere (blah indie-rock), Of Montreal (yuck!), Koster's old band Chocolate U.S.A. (the liner notes were hilarious; the song? can't remember it), and a Music Tapes song called "Song for the Death of Parents" which I dedicated to my mom (ha ha! just kidding, Mom!), which, unlike most other Music Tapes songs, didn't make me want to smash the stereo, but still wasn't very good. Then, just to remind myself that Koster is also associated with *good* bands, I played "I Have Been Floated" by Olivia Tremor Control. What makes the Music Tapes even more annoying, by the way, is that Koster *doesn't* naturally have that whiny cracked sort of voice; he can sing normally if he wants to. Feh. I think playing all this stuff is my subconscious revenge on the city of Ann Arbor. Next time I'm playing an entire Of Montreal album while I hide in the bathroom and eat animal crackers. Ha! Take that, you Midwestern college town, you! n., clearly still punch-drunk ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:54:08 -0400 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Philly Phegstivities Hey all, Anyone coming to Philly or already living here who want to meet before the gig this coming Friday? I offer my little South Philly pad to start the evening. We can walk to the club from here - about 20 minute walk - or meet at an eating establishment if'n any of the local fegs can supply info on a place. E-mail me off list for address and directions to my place. I live across the street from a municipal parking lot so it's a good place to leave yer cars for the night as well. Be Seeing You, - - carrie "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:14:23 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: austin, 10/23/99 soundcheck consisted of the following, and more: Jewels For Sophia, Cheese Alarm, Beautiful Queen, A Globe Of Frogs, Birds In Perspex, Airscape, Queen Of Eyes, Sleeping With Your Devil Mask, Madonna Of The Wasps EARLY SET Mexican God Ghost Ship You've Got A Sweet Mouth On You, Baby [enter tim] Queen Elvis [enter jake] I Saw Nick Drake [enter kimberley and lindsay] Jewels For Sophia Cheese Alarm Queen Of Eyes Birds In Perspex Sleeping With Your Devil Mask Madonna Of The Wasps Beautiful Queen [solo] Airscape [enter kimberley] Kingdom Of Love [enter band] Sally Was A Legend LATE SET Gene Hackman Wax Doll Clean Steve [enter tim] I Feel Beautiful DeChirico Street [enter band] Jewels For Sophia Cheese Alarm Madonna Of The Wasps Queen Of Eyes Sleeping With Your Devil Mask Sally Was A Legend Beautiful Queen [solo] She Doesn't Exist [enter kimberley] I Often Dream Of Trains Insanely Jealous [enter band] Viva Sea-Tac these shows fucking ROCKED! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #396 *******************************