From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #408 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, November 1 1999 Volume 08 : Number 408 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Boy, am I mad!!! [Dede Davis ] Boy, am I mad!!! [Dede Davis ] That settles it! [Capuchin ] mr .bungle [Minky Sponge ] Mr. Rock and Roll [Miles Goosens ] Dios, Muerte, Borracho! [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: SIWIWAPG on IODOT [Joel Mullins ] Re: Blair which project?? [Chris ] RE: Blair which project?? [tanter ] live review on the flyin shoes ["matt sewell" ] Cambridge tape, rumours [toby ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #407 [Doc ] Re: Blair which project?? [dmw ] English fegs - oxford plug... ["matt sewell" ] Re: Blair which project?? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Kimberley: new album? [Ken Ostrander ] Ringy-dingy-wingy-thingy ["JH3" ] me, flocking like cattle [Aaron Mandel ] More Robyn in Austin (fwd) [John Barrington Jones ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:10:04 -0800 (PST) From: Dede Davis Subject: Boy, am I mad!!! O.K., I'm lurker extraordinaire, but the more posts I read about other shows, the madder I get! We poor unfortuates who saw the Cat's Cradle show got shafted; Robyn obviously had to play a truncated set because of fucking Olivia fucking Tremor Control's extreme slackness!!!! Did *we* get "When I Was Dead"? NOOOOO! Did we get "Speed of Things"? NOOOOO! ===== Dede "...I asked Mike Watt if he ever got bored with playing rock and roll. I mean, there are only so many chords to choose from. His answer[...] 'The English language has only 26 letters, but look at all the great books that have been written with it.' "--Chris Murtland __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:09:40 -0800 (PST) From: Dede Davis Subject: Boy, am I mad!!! O.K., I'm lurker extraordinaire, but the more posts I read about other shows, the madder I get! We poor unfortuates who saw the Cat's Cradle show got shafted; Robyn obviously had to play a truncated set because of fucking Olivia fucking Tremor fucking Control's extreme fucking slackness!!!! Did *we* get "When I Was Dead"? NOOOOO! Did we get "Speed of Things"? NOOOOO! "Chinese Bones"? "No, I Don't Remember Guildford"? "Sleeping with Your Devil Mask"? NO and NO and NO! So everyone else who's seeing all these terrific FULL-LENGTH sets, count yourselves lucky. Just had to get that off my chest. ===== Dede "...I asked Mike Watt if he ever got bored with playing rock and roll. I mean, there are only so many chords to choose from. His answer[...] 'The English language has only 26 letters, but look at all the great books that have been written with it.' "--Chris Murtland __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 11:13:51 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: That settles it! Viv and I have to go to the Seattle show, Portland show, and GMAH show. SO... working out a plan. We need a crash spot in the bay area. And maybe a ride to P-town from Seattle after the show on Wednesday. It'll go a little something like this: Train/drive to Seattle after work. Watch show. Come immediately back to Portland for work in the morning. Work Watch show sleep Work. Fly to SF. Watch show. sleep. Enjoy SF. Fly home before Monday morning. OK? Any help appreciated. I'll be airline hunting this week. Je. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 11:24:38 -0800 (PST) From: Minky Sponge Subject: mr .bungle greetings fellow fegs, i caught the cincinnati mr. bungle show, and i must say i walked away both extremley pleased and disoriented. they played a great mix of new and old bungle stuff. patton showed off his great diversity singing not only bungle tunes, but also a cole porter cover and some lauryn hill song. his voice and sound effects are something to watch. the band was just as good; it was mainly a 6 piece, but every now and then another guy would join in. no costumes this time, but they sported plenty of hawaiian attire. basically the whole point of this blabber is to motivate you all to go see mr. bungle. i would definitley place mr. bungle in that same class of bands (see man or astro-man, ween, etc.) where you may not enjoy the music so much, but you will love the live experience. tada, dave ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 13:43:39 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Mr. Rock and Roll So given that it's the title of tonight's massively-promoted NBC TV movie about Alan Freed how many other people have spent the week with "I'll be like a statue, serious and numb" (especially since Judd Nelson - ?!? - is the "star") stuck in their heads? are you receiving me, Miles ====================================================== Miles Goosens UNlimited edition R. Stevie Moore CDs now available! http://www.rsteviemoore.com My personal website http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles "If a million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing." -- Anatole France ====================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 17:46:24 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Dios, Muerte, Borracho! > My inclination is to go for "Armed Forces" (based on > reviews and the few hits that I recognize). Whaddya think? "Armed Forces" is one of my favorite albums of all time. Buy, buy, buy. (The extra tracks on the Ryko re-release are also fantastic. Bless Ryko's furry little heart.) > Those of you in the north, happy Samhain! (you should be playing XTC > - Sacrificial Bonfire). I did not play it. My show today consisted of three hours of songs about death - ranging from Appalachian murder ballads to OTC's "California Demise." Of course, I played plenty of Robyn songs, including "The Yip Song" and "Lady Waters and the Hooded One." The XTC songs I played were "Dying" and "In Loving Memory of a Name." Good, clean, morbid fun. n. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:26:44 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: SIWIWAPG on IODOT Knaurr wrote: > James Dignan'd : > > >You try to seduce someone's ears > >with one of his albums, that is mainly folky, and you get Sometimnes I was > >a Pretty Girl right at the beginning of it! Anyone else ever notice that > >this song sounds a little out of place on IODOT, and it would have been > >better suited to one of the other albums? > So I would > agree with you, that it does seem a little out of place on IODOT...for that > reason, if for no other. No way! It's perfect the way it is. Just because it's fast doesn't mean it's completely non-folky. It's acoustic and it has weird piano, which makes it fit perfectly to me. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:47:41 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Subject: Re: Blair which project?? On Sat, 30 Oct 1999 "Brett Cooper" : >I thought the movie was nothing short of brilliant. Seems to me that those who >aren't too impressed with it I think might have missed the point of the film. That's a bit condescending. I didn't like it, so that means I missed the point?! Obviously the woman who thought it should look more professional didn't have a clue. But don't assume that people who don't agree that it's brilliant, missed the point of the film. I like that the film was made by the cast running the cameras, that they were alone in the woods for a number of days, that they had no real script, and I also like the concept for the film. However, it just didn't live up to the pre-release hype. The hype/ads got it tons of attention, but it's not the great film it was purported to be. One problem with it was that it was hyped as the scariest movie since the Exorcist. But the movie wasn't scary. Four of us saw it and kept waiting to be scared. We never were. When the movie ended, we all looked at each other, and disappointedly said "oh". They used the old "your imagination makes what you dont' see, scarier than what we could dream up" strategy, which was cool. But they still couldn't build the tension to get to the point of being scary. When I see a movie that's supposed to be scary, I want to be scared. I was more scared when I got home, discovered I'd forgotten to turn on the outside light, and heard the sounds of cracking sticks in the wooded vacant lot next door. >Also, now that one person might have gotten sea sick from the shaky camera, >everyone seems to be hopping on the "I got sick while watching it" >bandwagon. Please, people. Now, now... you're jumping to conclusions based on those people who always have to "one-up" everybody else. As a person who is prone to motion sickness, and can't get on rides, merry-go-rounds, or even swings without getting nauseous, I found the Blair Witch to be quite sickening. I had to spend alot of time looking down at the floor, while periodically checking the screen to see what was going on. However, none of my friends had any problem watching it. After the movie, I got a ride home from a friend who drives by repeatedly stepping on the gas, and then the brake - that too was sickening. Anyone who regularly gets motion sickness will have problems watching this film. As an aside, does anyone know a way to combat motion sickness? I'm tired of not being able to go on rides, swings, etc. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:22:37 -0600 From: tanter Subject: RE: Blair which project?? >===== Original Message From Chris ===== >On Sat, 30 Oct 1999 "Brett Cooper" : >>I thought the movie was nothing short of brilliant. What was so brilliant about it? It's an interesting idea but not totally original--Mike Leigh doesn't script his films--and the characters don't develop enough to make you care about them when they're killed. Josh and Heather were supposed to be friends but I didn't sense a iota of anything between them, they didn't seem to know each other at all. I would have liked them to at least have demonstrated some emotion towards each other. Not to have them be romantic or anything, but just enough to make the tension seem real later. I didn't care about these people so I didn't care that they were lost so I didn't get into the film at all. I get the point of it--who wouldn't after all the hype?--but it just didn't grab me. I wasn't very entertained and I didn't care when it ended. Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 11:07:28 GMT From: "matt sewell" Subject: live review on the flyin shoes http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/users/sdb/flyinshoes/hitchcock.htm Hello Some of you may be interested by this review of the Oxford gig 29/9... cheers Matt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:57:13 +0000 (GMT) From: toby Subject: Cambridge tape, rumours Finally got a copy of the Cambridge gig from last month; it's missing the encore, and it's a somewhat rough mono recording, but it's quite a good gig (and includes "I wish I liked you"). I know a couple of people were interested in copies, so email me again if you want a swap. Apparently Robyn is taking Jan/Feb off to finish off the novel. toby ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 07:09:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doc Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #407 >> Eb wrote... >>...because as you know, I wasn't especially pleased with JfS. >>As we're constantly being reminded. >Uhh...you may be the only one here who thinks I "constantly" post about >Robyn Hitchcock. When you have something negative to add, sure. - -Doc __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 10:21:27 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: Blair which project?? On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Chris wrote: > scary. When I see a movie that's supposed to be scary, I want to be scared. > I was more scared when I got home, discovered I'd forgotten to turn on the > outside light, and heard the sounds of cracking sticks in the wooded vacant > lot next door. that's actually what i think is scariest about a movie: when it changes the way you experience the real world for a while afterward. i will never forget how sinister the sound of tires on wet pavement sounded driving home after i saw _eraserhead_. > watching this film. As an aside, does anyone know a way to combat motion > sickness? I'm tired of not being able to go on rides, swings, etc. steven pinker's fascinating and infuriating book _how the mind works_ advanced a hypothesis that i've found very helpful. it may be partly a placebo effect, but i can now read on trains, planes and even sometimes in cars, which has significantly improved my quality of life, since i generally spend a couple of hours a day on trains. it goes like this: a) nausea is the body's response to poison. the purpose of vomiting is to expel somthing you've ingested which turns out to be harmful. b) a frequent symptom of poison is a lack of synchronization between the motion signals from the semicircular canals and the visual field (think of the "spins" of being very drunk, or the dizziness associated with any number of things) c) for almost all of our evolutionary history, being poisoned was by far the most likely scenario to explain such a scenario. hence, it is likely to trigger the "i've been poisoned" approach and make you nauseated. i like this, because it explains, among other things, why it's easier to get sick in the *back* of a car than the front -- the visual field is telling you nothing is moving because you're staring at the back of the seat in front of you. to read on trains now, i am careful to restore the synchronization between the visual and motion when the train is stopping or starting -- i look out the window when i can, or close my eyes and concentrate on the motion. i also try to eat a little something before i get on the train; for some reason it doesn't work if i'm really hungry. i've also found that once nausea sets in, i can't get rid of it. the rest of the trip is just miserable. unfortunately, as far as blair witch goes, the solution is what you did watching the film -- look down, or just close your eyes for a while. and yeesh, yeah, those speed-up-and-slow-down drivers are murder. i've never found a way to deal with that without becoming ill. basically, i avoid cars as much as possible. - -- d. n.p. those bastard souls _debt & departure_ - - 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: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 15:35:28 GMT From: "matt sewell" Subject: English fegs - oxford plug... Many apologies for this, but... Any fegs living in Oxford, or nearby (or anywhere for that matter) I play every monday at the Elm Tree on the Cowley road (I always do a RH cover) If this isn't enough to get you down (!), it's an open mic night so if you feel your creativity needs an outlet that involves the best guinness in town for £1.30 (yes! £1.30!), then come on down... Cheers Matt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 15:51:04 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Blair which project?? dmw wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Chris wrote: > > > watching this film. As an aside, does anyone know a way to combat motion > > sickness? I'm tired of not being able to go on rides, swings, etc. > . . . > c) for almost all of our evolutionary history, being poisoned was by far > the most likely scenario to explain such a scenario. hence, it is likely > to trigger the "i've been poisoned" approach and make you nauseated. I had always thought that most car sickness was from low-frequency noise emanating from the tyres, transmission and suspension. It interacts with your diaphragm, interrupting normal breathing, and affecting oxygen uptake in the brain. Like all difficult-to-prove pseudosciences, low-frequency noise is incredibly difficult to measure. I used to try, but they don't make sound level meters that pick it up very well. [comment: never try to record music through a sound level meter. While they have very high specification microphones, their frequency response is totally flat, and the results are very disappointing.] Oh, if you're gonna puke, puke early. No point in holding it in and feeling dreadful the rest of the journey. That advice came to me from the skipper of the Fair Isle to Shetland boat, which is an quite experience in regurgitation. Stewart Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:22:23 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Wow. I mean . . . wow. No: Wheeee! LJ and I saw Robyn and the Rock Armada at the Philly show. It was great; Dave already posted many of the relevant details. (By the way, Dave, how many Tories do *I* get?!?) But let me merely give my nine-word review: Fucking Kimberly Rew. *Fucking* Kimberly Rew. Kimberly fuckin' REW!!!!! Of course, actually meeting Eddie for the first time has in no way effected my syntax. Um . . . can I stick to nine words? Maybe. Nah, fuckit. How then can I tell tales of Kimberly, how this . . . this living *muppet* attacked his instrument with an amazing precision, pulling out sounds and effects and ornamentations at the most delightful places and in the most tasteful way; how he could make his guitar ring like a bell, cycle weirdly like a sick calliope, or tear into the body of a solo like a mad sharkbot? Sometime even he looked surprised at what he was doing; at time he even shot Robyn a cheerfully mischievous look, as if Robyn would suddenly stop the show and order Kimberly to drive a stake through the heart of his possessed Gibson. Yes, I would have loved to see him really cut loose and kill every living thing in a three mile radius with a neverending solo; but then again part of the Wonder that was Rew was that he had his guitar under control at all times, as if Adrian Belew had sent his ax to Guitar Obedience School. Oh, and the work between Robyn and Kimberly . . . What joy, to hear Robyn's spidery, psychedelic sojourns underpinned by and interlocked with Rew's intense rhythms. As several Fegs have said, I could only rue the fact I have never seen the Soft Boys. In fact, after the show I walked up to Kimberly just to thank the man for playing guitar like that. It was truly an unabashed and totally open fanboy Gush. I was not a big fan of Departure Lounge's music, but they were pretty effective as a back-up band. The Drummer -- Linsay? -- was good. The bassist, too, was good, but he was no Andy Metcalfe, and my ears longed to hear him again, all tight and bubbly. My dream Robyn Armada? Robyn, Tim, Deni, Andy, Rew, and Morris. That would be a show. . . . sigh. Great, great show -- and lucky me, I get to see it again at the Bowery Ballroom tonight! See some of you there. . . . Breaking Fegs out of Asylums since 1996, - --The "I wish I was a pretty girl" Quail PS: Yes, I was aware of the pun in Paragraph Six. Thank you. PPS: Thanks again to Ethyl Keytone for her hospitality. PPPS: The universe did not, in fact, explode when Chris Gross and Eddie Tews shook hands. +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ 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: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 11:41:55 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Kimberley: new album? has anyone heard anything about a new kimberley solo album called 'alice klaar'? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:05:58 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Ringy-dingy-wingy-thingy Hey folks, it looks like I might actually make it to the Chicago gig next week, if it isn't sold out by the end of this week. But I'll be lucky if I get there in time for the show... Meanwhile, these are all responses to stuff from *last* week: >http://www.nme.com/newsdesk/19991028162439.html >Just about the funniest fucking thing ever. >When is the recording industry going to stop fighting their >destruction? Actually, they may have a point. Last time I downloaded an MP3, I had to watch one of those Microsoft "flying folder" animations. Talk about disgusting! >Robyn had a ring on the third finger--of his right hand. I only >bring this up because we were hearing about his marriage and >all. So when I noticed it, it seemed odd. Some guitar players move their rings (engagement, wedding, etc.) to their right hands when they play because wearing 'em on the left hand interferes with those dazzling fretboard runs. Unless they play left-handed, in which case they presumably wouldn't have to. You'd think they could just put them in their pockets, but pockets can be picked, whereas fingers can't. Pockets can also have holes, which I suppose is true of fingers as well, but most people with holes in their fingers are in too much pain to play the guitar. And you know how those clubs are when it comes to pickpockets and thieves in general. I once lost a little Casio keyboard when we opened for Pete Shelley at the 9:30 Club. I still suspect Pete was the guy who stole it... I was going to ask him about it, but, well, you know... he's kind of short. >Well, I think the time has come for me to make one more step >away from being a "greatest hits is enough" Elvis Costello fan. >My inclination is to go for "Armed Forces" (based on reviews >and the few hits that I recognize). Whaddya think? Yes! Uh, wait.... NO! NOT THAT! Oh well, I guess if you want to... STOP! DON'T DO IT! I mean, maybe it just doesn't matter. I guess I'm just taking the whole thing a bit too seriously. So, yes, by all means, whatever... NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT! >Eb, who has about two weeks left to pick his top 20 albums >of the DECADE...ugh (and yes, Brutal Youth is a contender... >not to mention Eye) This is just a crazy, off-the-wall suggestion, but why not *really* surprise them and refuse to pick any albums whatsoever? Picking those things is just what they're *expecting* you to do! You'll never be truly free until you pull yourself out from beneath the weight of other peoples' expectations! Other things you could do include: Pick 20 albums that are all reissues of albums from past decades; pick nothing but Adam Sandler "comedy" albums (there are at least 20 of those, I should think); pick the same album 20 times; or pick several albums that you like, but write about them as if they're totally different albums, like you put the discs in the wrong jewel boxes and thought that the song titles and the running order of each one was... oh, forget it. >>RH: The myth is that equipment will write the songs for you. >>Ambient music is headless, if you will. It's low on personality. >>The importance of the songwriter is fading. >...Huh. So, is he saying that this *is* a myth and that the >importance of the songwriter actually *isn't* fading? Or has >he bought into this myth? I think what he's saying is that a lot of people invest in fancy computer-based recording gear and find that it becomes a lot easier to let the computer do as much of the work as possible. That basically means a lot of repetition, caused by cutting and pasting passages in a sequencer program - it's just so easy to do, it's very difficult to discipline yourself not to do it, just like it's hard for us to go back to manual typewriters after we've gotten used to word processors. And yet if we went back to typewriters, we'd probably be a lot more careful about *what* we wrote, and not just about how accurate our typing was. For example, I would never have written what you're reading right now. I doubt Robyn has ever used a sequencer program himself, but he's astute enough to see what's going on; music composition is going the way of everything else, whereby the desire for reduced effort always takes precedence over the desire for quality results. But I shouldn't talk, I'm as guilty as anyone. But you wouldn't know that unless you'd read this far, etc. etc. John "a star for Bram *who*?" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:44:38 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: me, flocking like cattle i am going to be in seattle from Nov. 3-14. a week of that is for a conference, but i plan to have some free time. if you're in the area and want to hang out, mail me and tell me how to get in touch with you. suggestions for cool places to visit would also be welcome. a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 09:49:25 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: More Robyn in Austin (fwd) did this end up taking place?? did anybody happen to tape it? i'd love to do a trade for it if someone did. thanks, =jbj= - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 20:05:46 -0500 From: Kevin Welton To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: More Robyn in Austin I just got this reply, and thought I would pass it along since nobody else seems to have mentioned it. K. .oOo. KGSR will have Robyn Hitchcock on the air Friday 10/22 at 3:30 for a couple of live songs & chat. He plays the next 2 nights at the Cactus Cafe. Haven't heard about any instores (yet). Sincerely, Jody Denberg KGSR Program Director - -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Welton To: jdenberg@kgsr.com Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 4:56 PM Subject: Robyn Hitchcock in Austin >I heard on your station last night that you will be interviewing Robyn >Hitchcock when he comes to town at the end of the month. Could you >tell me when this will be please? > >Do you also happen to know whether he will be making any instore >appearances, e.g. at Waterloo Records? > >Many thanks, > >K. > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:56:39 -0600 From: Kevin.Welton@arm.com (Kevin Welton) Subject: Re: More Robyn in Austin (fwd) At some time, John Barrington Jones wrote: > did [Robyn on KGSR] end up taking place?? did anybody happen to tape > it? i'd love to do a trade for it if someone did. Yes, it did. Yes, I got a tape of it. Apologies to all - I intended to get back to those who have already asked for a tape, but [insert pathetic excuse here], and so haven't got round to it yet. > thanks, > > =jbj= K. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:09:22 -0800 From: Eb Subject: damn radiator leaks Doc: >>Uhh...you may be the only one here who thinks I "constantly" post >>about Robyn Hitchcock. >When you have something negative to add, sure. Sorry. Shoulda caught me in 1988 or so. But my above retort still stands. JH3: >This is just a crazy, off-the-wall suggestion, but why not *really* >surprise them and refuse to pick any albums whatsoever? Picking >those things is just what they're *expecting* you to do! You'll >never be truly free until you pull yourself out from beneath the >weight of other peoples' expectations! Other things you could do >include: Pick 20 albums that are all reissues of albums from past >decades; pick nothing but Adam Sandler "comedy" albums (there >are at least 20 of those, I should think); pick the same album 20 >times; or pick several albums that you like, but write about them >as if they're totally different albums, like you put the discs in the >wrong jewel boxes and thought that the song titles and the >running order of each one was... oh, forget it. Wacky. Eb, starting to sift through a whittled-down list of 44 albums which includes both Respect and Eye np: ToRi AmoS/To VeNus anD baCK (the first disc was pretty disappointing, except for three or four tracks...musically, she's slacking big-time) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #408 *******************************