From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #397 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, October 25 1999 Volume 08 : Number 397 Today's Subjects: ----------------- by the way ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: austin, 10/23/99 ["bret" ] Re: RIP [hal brandt ] Re: Update on the November tour [hal brandt ] Re: RIP [Eb ] american booty (0% on-topic) ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: Go west, young woman [puppycakes ] Indie Icons [steve ] Re: Il verdetto (the verdict) de gioielli per il sophia ["Livia" ] Re: Starfuckers, Inc. [Vivien Lyon ] Re: Go west, young woman [Eb ] Re: Jansch-o-rama ["matt sewell" ] Re: Hitchcock/Pentangle ["matt sewell" ] Cambridge, Portland Arms, 27/9/99 ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Re: (0% even off-topic) [Michael R Godwin ] Re: (0% even off-topic) ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Eco & the Bunnywoman [Bayard ] Re: Eco & the Bunnywoman ["JH3" ] Astronomical Coitus [Michael Wolfe ] My Report. (0% Umberto Eco content) [lj lindhurst ] Re: Astronomical Coitus ["JH3" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:18:53 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: by the way just when you think the pac-10 can't get any wackier, yesterday happens! sorry i missed out on that. here in austin, they toilet-papered much of guadelupe avenue after the 'horns beat nebraska. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 16:37:54 -0500 From: "bret" Subject: Re: austin, 10/23/99 Damn fine show...... pulled some jems out of the hat.......... - -b ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 16:00:07 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: RIP Eb wrote: > > Howard Stern's marriage? Wow! Regular listeners have been speculating about Howie's move to a posh Manhatten apt. recently and his spending a lot more time there and in LA. Add that to his psychiatric visits and rants about his uncaring family, and the split begins to appear as being inevitable for some time. If the show isn't in "Best Of" all next week, Monday's show should be the highest rated ever. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 16:03:14 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: Update on the November tour > More on the upcoming US tour, from Tim Keegan's publicity machine. > > Sat 13 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater The Denver gig has been moved to a smaller venue: The Soiled Dove. http://www.soileddove.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:04 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: RIP Hal: >Regular listeners have been speculating about Howie's move to a posh >Manhatten apt. recently and his spending a lot more time there and in >LA. Add that to his psychiatric visits and rants about his uncaring >family, and the split begins to appear as being inevitable for some >time. You left out the fact that his wife (once a frequent phone target) hasn't spoken on the air in *months*. That was the biggest tipoff. >If the show isn't in "Best Of" all next week, Monday's show should >be the highest rated ever. Could be, could be. Though, of course, the radio biz doesn't focus on "overnights" in the way television does. On the other hand, I have a feeling that we may get a week of Best Ofs, while Stern gathers his thoughts, fields interview requests, deliberates about how to spin this situation on the air, etc. But certainly, his next live show will be a major event for any regular HS listener. Current pet peeve: "[occupation] extraordinaire." Eb (five hours 'til Brian Wilson!) np: Seefeel/Succour ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 19:09:08 -0400 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: american booty (0% on-topic) I finally saw the film (Friday night) and I'm still thinking about it. In a nutshell, I thought it was many things -- including thought-provoking, entertaining, stylish, energetic, and imbued with worthwhile content -- but it was not remotely perfect. The film seemed confused without really knowing it. Thora Birch's character was the weakest link for me. It's already been noted that goth cheerleaders are hard to come by, but worse, she was from the Eb school of goth. The makeup was vaguely correct but the outfits were jarringly wrong. Her emotions never seemed honest or plausible, which was partly the scriptwriter's fault and partly the actor's. On paper her conflicts seemed reasonable, but they weren't dramatized in a way I found believable. But I got the feeling that somebody thought they were, that somebody thought this girl would wear that weird red and blue getup she had on near the beginning of the film, and I want whatever they were smoking. Mena Su(r)vari could have stolen the show but didn't really know how to. She played the character with too many extremes, which helped the movie but hindered her own plausibility. But she did all right. The rest of the cast were excellent, and saved what could have been a mess of a movie. Particularly I thought the boyfriend showed admirable subtlety, and Annette Bening gave a character that should have been written much better some extraordinary moments. The scene where she spends the day failing to sell the house and then breaks down in tears of pure shame and frustration was, in my opinion, the most authentic and on-target moment of the film. Without this scene she's an almost incomprehensible psychotic. With it she's a human. Of course Spacey was preternaturally watchable as always. And what a treat -- Scott Bakula! The real problem was that the film didn't really seem to earn all of its moments -- it only scored with about half of them. The other half seemed implausible, cliched, or inexplicable, and I found myself wincing about as often as not. Maybe I was wrong to expect more verisimilitude, but what was there in its place? The "finding beauty in every moment" theme seemed undermined by the entire film -- I can't recall a single scene that dramatized it sincerely. In the others it was the beauty of an underage object of desire (a way out of a humiliating, stifled existence? how?), or it was filtered through a camera and kept at a sterilizing artistic distance. The plastic bag floating in the breeze motif undermined itself, too -- is this the most beautiful thing one could ever see? This empty plastic discard with no agency of its own? Was this the point of the film? That there's no way out -- you accept suffocation or reject it in equally doomed and empty ways? Certainly there was as much wrong with Spacey's character's "reanimation" as there was right with it. This reading of the film makes it more interesting, but also almost unbearably bleak. Don't get me wrong. Either way, the film is a knockout and well worth seeing -- more interesting than anything else I've seen this year. It's just that, like Sixth Sense, it seemed as hollow and facile as it was well-made and emotional. Those of you who loved it -- did you get the same feeling from it? Or am I wrong to read it as anything other than a movie about how cool it is to, just for a little while, yell at your bitch wife and hang out drinking beer in the living room for a change? Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, wyrd@rochester.rr.com http://home.rochester.rr.com/wyrd/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 20:39:03 -0400 From: puppycakes Subject: Re: Go west, young woman when we last left our heroes, lj lindhurst exclaimed: >All this makes me wonder: Is anyone out there archiving all the >different fegs' travelogues/accounts of meeting each other/ drunken >parties/ concert reviews/ etc. ? It also might encourage more people >to write reviews and travelogues, which are certainly some of the >highlights of FegHistory. well, they're all being automagically archived in the mailing list archives. when i remember to, i also save travelogues in a separate file in case i (or someone else) ever decides to do something with them. not sure if they belong on a public website though, unless the participating parties don't take exception to their antics being easily accessible by everyone. in other threads, that toshi okida fellow that Eb mentioned is a known kook on love-hounds/rec.music.gaffa. he likes to charge ridiculously high prices for KaTe bush collectibles and doesn't take kindly to people taking him to task for doing so (hence his tirade against jadebridge). and since the quail was whining about not spotting lou reed anywhere, here's a vicarious sighting (and a good story to boot). meredith and some friends went to see victoria williams at town hall (for some reason, i wasn't able to go). during one of her songs, lou came up and played guitar. afterwards while walking down 42st away from the hall, one of our friends, who's a big laurie anderson fan, was perplexed about who this lou reed fellow was and why everyone in the audience was so impressed by him. she patiently listened to the explanations offered and shrugged them off until someone said that lou was married to laurie anderson to which she loudly exclaimed, "ah! so he does matter!" lou, of course, was walking down the street just ahead of them and, allegedly, appeared amused by the conversation although he didn't say anything. blew a wad at newbury comics in cambridge yesterday. fie on JH3 for neglecting to mention that the invicible record was out! woo hoo! woj n.p. muzikas -- the bartok album ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 21:58:07 -0500 From: steve Subject: Indie Icons http://www.ne.jp/asahi/junkmail/nightstop/Icon_rock_e.htm - - Steve _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 05:58:44 -0700 From: "Livia" Subject: Re: Il verdetto (the verdict) de gioielli per il sophia i thought aaron said dancing with myself, and fervently agreed. oops. so who did DitD, and what does it sound like? (right fist pointing to nothing but some ceramic frogs at the moment) hmm, or maybe "dancing with tears in my eyes" by ultravox, which has a slightly happier ending than the title might imply. - ---------- > From: Aaron Mandel > To: michelle wiener > Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Il verdetto (the verdict) de gioielli per il sophia > Date: Monday, July 26, 1999 12:02 PM > > On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, michelle wiener wrote: > > > and chris f asked if "sally" reminded anyone else of "dancing in the > > dark." YES!!!! it's that "i can point to norway/i can point to norway > > with my fist" part that did it for me. > > waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa yes! i was > also going crazy trying to pin this down. didn't help that i kept thinking > it was a song off Eye. thank you. > > it's funny; looking back at Moss Elixir, i'd forgotten how many of those > songs i loved. i just didn't like listening to the album much. JfS is the > opposite. > > a > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 21:51:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Livia Drusilla Subject: Ursula I've just finished (well, the main storyline, anyway) Always Coming Home, and am most of the way through The Beginning Place, pausing just before whatever's going to happen up at that rock. => Lyv, whose ideal world is a lot like The Dispossessed. ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 22:49:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: Starfuckers, Inc. - --- The Great Quail wrote: > 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. That's Wallace Shawn, playwright and goofus extraordinaire! I met him too, about two years ago. I had few walk-ons in some play, and spent the rest of the three hours in the greenroom. His play Designated Mourner (which is excellent and which my friends and I staged in our living room this summer) was playing in the studio space upstairs. So one night he was mousing about in the greenroom and it was all I could do not to beam at him, because he's so little and cute and funny-looking. And a talented playwright, let's not forget. I wasn't entirely successful in my efforts not to smile and giggle (imagining myself congratulating him on his work in 'Mom and Dad Save the World' or 'Clueless'), and he caught me doing this once or twice, to my vast chagrin. The next night, he was there again, and sitting on the greenroom coffee-table, where my book was laying. In order to get it I had to lean down next to him and practically shove my bosom in his face. So I found myself looking down at him and to cover my embarrassment I said "Hi, Mr.Shawn. My name is Vivien. I've been wanting to meet you for some time." And he said, "Likewise." Vivien My story about F. Murray Abram is better ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 00:31:38 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Go west, young woman WoJ: >in other threads, that toshi okida fellow that Eb mentioned is a known kook >on love-hounds/rec.music.gaffa. he likes to charge ridiculously high prices >for KaTe bush collectibles and doesn't take kindly to people taking him to >task for doing so (hence his tirade against jadebridge). noT quiTe rIghT, WoJ. toSHI iS mAd At JaDe beCauSe twO yeaRs aGo, hE soLd JaDe a raRe KaTe SiNglE for $150. JaDe wasN'T saTisFieD wiTh thE singLe's quAliTy, So ShE maIleD iT bAcK aNd ToShi ReFundeD heR moNey. ThE proBleM iS tHaT -- AcCoRdInG tO ToShI -- hE NeVeR goT thE sinGlE bAcK. JaDe saYs iT mUsT'vE beEn LoSt iN tHe maIl, ToSHI iNsisTs thAt JaDe kePt iT aNd iS "dEceIviNg tO hIm" [sIc]. AnD beInG a coMpleTe fRuiTcaKe, toSHI iS sTill peRseCutInG JaDe fOr ThIs MisHaP, twO yeArs LaTer. AlSo, ToSHI chArgEs riDiCuLouSly HiGh prIceS foR *evErYthInG*, NoT juSt KaTe proDuCt. hE inSisTs thAt He onLy seLls tO "seRioUs" coLleCtors, whiCh iN hIs TeRmiNoLoGy mEanS "sUcKeRs whO wilL paY maNy tiMes wHat aN itEm iS WoRth." MoRe PreCioUs tHaN tHoU, eB ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 08:53:29 BST From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Jansch-o-rama doh! >From: corin lang >Reply-To: corin lang >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Jansch-o-rama >Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:25:21 +0930 > > >He played Oxford the other day (Bert not Robyn), but having heard that >he's > >no longer able to play anywhere near as well these days, I didn't >bother. > >Oh you silly boy, you missed out I've seen Bert twice in the last year >or so - he was fucking brilliant on both occasions and the tapes prove >it ! Unless he's gone into a recent decline he is well worth going to >see live, no evidence of boozing. Both performances were transcendent. >dave > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:02:09 BST From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: 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". Thanks for that - what album is that found on? As a foetal folk follower (ha!) I'm always grateful for pointers like this - I've been holding out on buying a Pentangle LP for a while now - you're advice may spur me into consumer action! Cheers! Matt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:32:46 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: Cambridge, Portland Arms, 27/9/99 OK. At last. You'll never believe my excuse, but I'm in a play at the moment and I have been using the notebook I wrote the set-list in as a prop. At the end of every performance for the past three weeks I've forgotten to take it off-stage afterwards. Solo Mexican God I Something You Glass Hotel 1974 - "Everyone still had hair and dope, but secretly you wished you'd joined the army." I Wish I Liked You - "This is the first time I've ever sung this in England." I Saw Nick Drake - "I played this Nick Drake memorial gig recently, and it was like the opposite of an Elvis memorial, because everyone was desperately trying not to sound like Nick Drake." Cynthia Mask Surgery Beautiful Girl "One of the reasons they first hated me here was that I was crap. But luckily I fell in with some musically minded types...Please welcome Kimberley Rew." Madonna Of The Wasps Cheese Alarm Queen Of Eyes Birds In Perspex Devil Mask Sally Was A Legend You And Oblivion 1st Encore (with Kim) Insanely Jealous IODOT (then plus Terry Edwards and tambourinist called Leigh (?) who seemed to be Kim's amour) Beautiful Queen 2nd Encore (Solo) The Speed Of Things jmbc - P.S. Saw Kim being interviewed by 'The Biographer' P.P.S. Robyn made a quite brilliant remark about Cambridge Uni. , and how he supported it wholeheartedly because - "You can't mass-produce contorted elitism." Also some swipes at the internet and computer culture (he imagined Hitler's website, www@ahitler.com/nazi/germany.co-/ etc.) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:01:27 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: american booty (0% on-topic) Andrew D. Simchik wrote: > Those of > you who loved > it -- did you get the same feeling from it? Or am I wrong to read it as > anything other > than a movie about how cool it is to, just for a little while, yell at your > bitch wife and > hang out drinking beer in the living room for a change? I don't know. You make a lot of interesting comments. But I'd really have to see it again before I can say whether I agree with you or not. You're definitely right about Annette Benings character and that scene where she completely broke down after not selling the house. I really can't think of a single thing that I didn't like about the movie. But, a second viewing may show me some of the things that you're talking about. I'll go see it again when it hits the dollar theater (which is not even a dollar theater anymore -- they went up to $2). Anyone seen Bringing Out The Dead yet? I've heard it's Scorsese's worst film. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:02:34 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: (0% even off-topic) On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Joel Mullins wrote: > I'll go see it again when it hits the dollar theater (which is > not even a dollar theater anymore -- they went up to $2). Two dollars? That's one pound twenty-five, right? I don't think I know of a second-run cinema that costs less that about three pounds seventy-five (i.e. six dollars). Is this another example of UK consumers being ripped off? - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:11:48 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: (0% even off-topic) Michael R Godwin wrote: > > Two dollars? That's one pound twenty-five, right? I don't think I know > of a second-run cinema that costs less that about three pounds > seventy-five (i.e. six dollars). Is this another example of UK consumers > being ripped off? Yep. There was a $1.50 theater (90p at the time) we used to go to in Baltimore. The films it showed often hadn't hit the UK at the time, fkrz... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:01:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Eco & the Bunnywoman On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Jim DelRosso wrote: > Saw the Reverb, except for the fist ten minutes. Unless RH was on then > (which isn't likely), all they showed was him doing "Freeze" alone. Not a > bad performance, but a little disappointing for someone who sat through an > hour of Beck whining and some band whose name starts with "S" caterwaul. not only that, but they followed up the robyn clip with the text "robyn hitchcock began his musical career in 1976 as a member of london's soft boys". The ways in which this statement is misleading or just plain incorrect are left as an excercise for the reader. =b the quail met daisy fuentes? what th'.... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:44:59 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Eco & the Bunnywoman >not only that, but they followed up the robyn clip with the text >"robyn hitchcock began his musical career in 1976 as a member >of london's soft boys". >The ways in which this statement is misleading or just plain >incorrect are left as an excercise for the reader. Hey, at least they didn't say he was one of London's hard boys. Or teddy boys... Oh, and don't forget this gem from HBO's web site (already posted once by our own Marc Holden): >Be sure to pack a sweater as the former Soft Boys frontman >magically whisks us all away to the sprawling English countryside >with solo acoustic renditions of the songs that got him on our >premium cable televion network in the first place. That sentence makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, even if you *ignore* the fact that it's factually incorrect. I mean, if you're going to be "magically whisked," would you really have time to pack first? Would you even want to? And why a sweater, as opposed to, say, a nice leather motorcycle jacket? And what's so "sprawling" about the English countryside? Doesn't that imply that it's getting *bigger*? (Hurry, somebody tell the Welsh!) And why do publicists keep mentioning the Soft Boys after 18 years? I can see why *we* keep mentioning them, but *publicists*? The SB's never had any hit records, at least not in the US (and let's face it, "I Wanna Destroy You" didn't exactly burn up the UK charts either, IIRC). Btw, I know it's a bit late to be pointing this out, but did anybody else notice that Beck's keyboard player had long straight hair and was wearing a CAPE? And finally, woj chides me like so: >fie on JH3 for neglecting to mention that the invicible record >was out! woo hoo! Fie on me indeed - I haven't even heard it yet! I did finally order one, though; I guess I got tired of waiting for Eb's delayed-but-inevitable rave review... For those of you not in the know, Invincible is Mark "ex-Chameleons" Burgess's new band. (Or at least that's what they *want* you to think.) John "Viv is such a nice person" Hedges [Now, I could have said something like, "wow, somebody finally invented a record that couldn't be crushed by a vice! Those Elephant 6 guys will be really glad when they hear about this!" But you'll notice I didn't say that.] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:30:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: Astronomical Coitus >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. ??? You met Wallace Shawn? More to the point, you met Wallace Shawn, writer of "My Dinner With Andre" and "The Designated Mourner", noted character actor and 20+ year veteran of stage, screen, and VHF, and your only frame of reference for him is as "the short, sputtering 'intellectual' guy in 'The Princess Bride'?" I'm absolutely disgusted. Ok, sure. Salmon Rushdie, Umberto Eco, and so on. All in the same evening. You were dazed. I'm sure I'll be able to forgive you, someday. But still! Wally Shawn! New York, as they say, is wasted on the New Yorkers. >He looks just as funny in person. The best part of Woody Allen's "Manhattan" is when the Wood-ster refers to Shawn's character as "that little homonculus." - -Michael Wolfe, hoping to someday get invited to a cool Portland party with Ursula LeGuin and Chuck Palahniuk. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:04:33 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: My Report. (0% Umberto Eco content) A report from your roving New York reporter: So we saw EC and Steve Nieve last night at the Beacon Theatre, and we're going again tonight. I hope and pray that someone out there is bootin' these concerts because there is a definite sense of Once-In-A-Lifetime GREATNESS through the entire show. Our dear Mr. Costello is in fine voice these days, and we were treated to a great deal of new material. A couple of things: 1.) new songs: First of all, let me say that ALL of the new songs were great. Anyone who didn't like "Painted From Memory" will be pleased to know that this new material sounds a lot like Good Old Fashioned Elvis. He opened with one called "Alibi," which was very Brutal Youth-sounding. He also did some stuff he wrote with Steve Nieve, one of which was called "You Lie Sweetly" (I think), and another which was about women who were waiting for a delivery man ("this song takes place in the kitchen" is all I can recall). He also told us he was going to be in a movie where he played a duel role as a teacher and a public defender, and played a song that he wrote for that. (Sorry if I can't remember everything exactly, but I was constantly disturbed by Quail standing up and screaming "Alisssoooonnn!" throughout the show) 2.) Surprisingly, he played a lot of really old stuff, especially from the "Taking Liberties" and "Get Happy" days: "Temptation", "Motel Matches", "Talking in the Dark", just to name a few. Only gave us "Every Day I Write the Book" from "Punch the Clock", gave us nothing from "Brutal Youth". "Shallow Grave" was the only thing from "All this Useless Beauty". Did "After the Fall" and "Couldn't Call it Unexpected #2" from "Mighty Like a Rose". Other stuff, off the top of my head: "Chelsea", "Watching the Detectives", "Suit of Lights", "Indoor Fireworks", "Man out of Time", "Clubland"...um, sorry, wasn't taking notes! 3.) It was a really long show. He played five encores, and all in all, it was well over 2.5 hours long. 4.) "I Still Have that Other Girl" and "God Give me Strength" were the only ones from "Painted From Memory". I wonder if Steve Nieve feels funny doing the Burt Bacharach piano parts-? He certainly added his own special touches to them, that's for sure. 5.) Just Me Bitching Department: Geez, when did Elvis inherit the kids-at-home-with-a-sitter/mom-and-dad-are-reclaiming-their-crazy-rock &roll-youth audience? I could have sworn I was at some kind of lame Eric Clapton concert or something...and christ, what an easy bunch, always SOOOOO excited to hear fucking "Alison" or "Red Shoes"! If I never hear "Alison" again, it will be too soon! (I will surely be hearing it again tonight) 6.) Also, it would be nice to hear him do stuff that is more suited for the single guitar/piano/voice setup. More ambient stuff...I mean, sure, it's nice to hear "Chelsea", but it didn't really seem appropriate without the Attractions' driving rhythm section. Same thing with "Watching the Detectives" and "Clubland"-- they just didn't seem suited to such sparse arrangements. I would have much rather heard him do something along the lines of "Poisoned Rose" instead. Other stuff: We saw an off-Broadway musical production of "James Joyce's The Dead" on Friday starring Christopher Walken and Blair Brown. You have no idea what a travesty that was. This was without a doubt the worst thing I have seen in a long time. First of all, the mere IDEA of making "The Dead" into a musical starring Christopher Walken is so absurd from the get-go that I had to imagine they would do something at least halfway imaginative with it. Well, I should have gone with my first instinct on this one: It was AWFUL. And it wasn't even DELIGHTFULLY AWFUL, like "Showgirls" or something, it was JUST PLAIN AWFUL. They not only took great liberties with the story, but they completely turned it into some kind of schlocky Dickens-meets-Disney tale. And Christopher Walken? SINGING??? OH MY GOD. We were cringing. And that's it...I will report more dumb stuff as it happens to me. lj * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LJ Lindhurst White Rabbit Graphic Design http://www.w-rabbit.com NYC ljl@w-rabbit.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Every head is a head and there is no head which is not suitable for any creature." --Amos Tutuola ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:02:40 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Astronomical Coitus Michael Wolfe wrote: >You met Wallace Shawn? More to the point, you met Wallace Shawn, >writer of "My Dinner With Andre" and "The Designated Mourner", >noted character actor and 20+ year veteran of stage, screen, and >VHF, and your only frame of reference for him is as "the short, >sputtering 'intellectual' guy in 'The Princess Bride'?" I'm >absolutely disgusted. Hey, just be happy he didn't refer to him as "the Grand Nagus," or even "the guy who did the voice of the labrador retriever in 'All Dogs Go To Heaven II'". (In other words, if THAT digusts you, I hope you never meet my mother-in-law!) >Ok, sure. Salmon Rushdie, Umberto Eco, and so on. All in the >same evening. You were dazed. I'm sure I'll be able to forgive >you, someday. Yes, but will we ever forgive *you* for spelling Rushdie's first name the same as a common FISH? Oh, the humanity... John "seafood for thought" Hedges ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #397 *******************************