From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #422 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, November 11 1999 Volume 08 : Number 422 Today's Subjects: ----------------- n.p. Long Fin Killie, _Valentino_ ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Bow Wow Wow Haus ["Jason R. Thornton" ] RE: irrelevant heading [overbury@cn.ca] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #419 [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] unhealthy threads ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] elvis ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] every bloody thing ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] re:ligion ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Quailday in Holebodia ["JH3" ] branscombespew? [Eric Loehr ] Everything's going black ..... [overbury@cn.ca] Re: branscombespew? [ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com] Re: Everything's going black ..... ["JH3" ] Confusion for Sophia [Joel Mullins ] Re: branscombespew? [Christopher Gross ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:22:25 -0800 (PST) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: n.p. Long Fin Killie, _Valentino_ One album that might have ended up on my top 10 list if I had the opportunity to hear enough albums to make such a list worth reading: Bows, _Blush_ (Too Pure). The lyrics aren't as good as Long Fin Killie's but the music is arguably better, trading anxiety for euphoria. It's one of the most beautiful (pop? post-rock?) albums I've ever heard, this year or any other. Much more interesting than Mogwai, much juicier than Massive Attack. > From: Adam.Leonard@icl.com > The Auteurs "How I Learned To Love The Bootboys" I'll see if I can track down this one first. Thanks! > From: "Brett Cooper" > I want it that way... I hate to say it, but I'm pretty sure this would work on me as a pick-up line. (Now you know. Pray you never have to use this information.) > From: Vivien Lyon [] > mayo-wells, and Mark Gloster. In fact, I think it was > Mark Gloster's first post in which he asserted that > 'Lucifer in Frognal' refers to Sting, which claim is > further bolstered by my discovery that Robyn thinks > Sting sees himself as an evil villain. Alas, I rashly [] I can't believe I'm saying this, but if a _Sandman_ movie ever got made, Sting might actually be a good casting choice for Neil Gaiman (+ various artists)'s Lucifer Morningstar. > From: Eb > > DAVID J AUCTIONS OFF HIS MUSIC COLLECTION TO FINANCE > NEW ALBUM I thought this was going to be about the "new" Bauhaus compilation (_Gotham_). Apart from the fact that the selection sucks yet again (of course it has the obvious tracks but it persists in dropping the wrong ones), how many fucking compilations of the same old singles do they expect to sell? > Bauhaus and Love & Rockets fans, get out your > checkbooks. Yeah, fat fucking chance! What is this with musician garage sales lately? > In a statement at his site explaining the idea, David J > says, "I have the songs, fourteen in all. I have the > players (you'd be surprised or maybe not! ), I even > have a title, Maladies, Ballads, and Bruises. What I do Bleah. I never could stand J's solo stuff. > From: Michael R Godwin [Flaming Lips performance] > The vocalist > was not singing > in tune or anything like it, He only barely manages it on the record! > From: hamish_simpson@agilent.com > Andy is good too. Some bassists I like are (in no > particular order) [] No Mick Karn? Too nauseating? Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:29:50 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Holiday in Quailbodia Woj sez: >the netherlands actually. we still chat from time to time. i ought to >declare her her birthday a list holiday since fegmaniax is all her fault. >if she hadn't nagged me, i would never have gotten around to starting the >list. Yes! I think that would be a fun thing to do -- that's what we need, List Holidays! So when is Susan-Evenday? We can all pat ourselves on the back, listen to Robyn bootlegs, and send Eb small presents like key-chains and rubber goldfish. I think we should also celebrate Robyn's birthday, Joel's Bar Mitzvah, and initiate a Randi Happythoughts Day, something like the Sabbath, but we can eat meat and not have to dress up, that is unless it's like lobsters and grapes that tell time. We can also have Quail Day, St. Quail's Eve, All Quails Day, Quailmas, Hmuhster, Thanksquailing, Canadian Thanksquailing, National New Zealand Quail Appreciation Month, Lophortyx Nacht, and for the English on the list, Whitquailsday, whatever that is. Why, this is a *great* idea! And by the way, happy Armed Quails' Day! - --The Great "Viv can't find my inaugural posting because I was always there, silent and dispersed, like nebulae, gods, and disease" Quail PS: The subject line is a Secret Punk Rock reference just for Eddie! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth: http://www.libyrinth.com Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world. --J.L. Borges ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:37:39 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Bow Wow Wow Haus At 08:22 AM 11/11/99 -0800, Andrew D. Simchik wrote: > I thought this was going to be about the "new" Bauhaus >compilation (_Gotham_). Apart from the fact that the >selection sucks yet again (of course it has the obvious >tracks but it persists in dropping the wrong ones), how >many fucking compilations of the same old singles do they >expect to sell? Actually, "Gotham" is a live album, recorded during their recent Resurrection tour. The tracklist is basically the setlist they used, although why they left off their cover of Iggy's "The Passenger," which they played at almost every date, is beyond me. I believe it is on the video, however. Grrrr. They got that Dead Can Dance cover on there twice, though, one live version and one studio. Sheesh. Dark entries, - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:33:29 -0500 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: RE: irrelevant heading > > Well, I'm not a huge Beatles fan either, but I do like pub rock and > > roll. What bass players do you recommend? If you're not talking strictly rock, I'll toss in Edgar Meyer. I heard Meyer play some bluegrass (and they might have played a bit of jazz too) on the radio years ago. It was impressive enough that I still remembered his name last spring, when I found a recording he did with Yo Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor -- a sort of bluegrass/classical fusion thang. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:39:36 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #419 >um... no, I've been on this list about four and a half years, and I've been >in NZ for the last 25 years. Not that I'm exactly 'on' a continent, in any >case. Is there another James Dignan out there??? (well, yes there is, but >on this list??? THAT would be a big quincydunce if you ask me!) James, you may be hopelessly confused (welcome to my world.) I really believe that you have been here a _lot_ longer than 4.5 years. Geez, I've been away from Apple for almost four. GF has been out for 3 years. I remember that you had once upon a time been the chief source of quality and quantity RH tabs. Because of severely altered brain function I could be mistaken here, but do try to check your memory circuses. Happies, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:30 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: unhealthy threads I asked GSS Why are you A Robyn Hitchcock fan? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:38 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: elvine politics and sphere Susan, Apologies. I mistook your tone as a result of ten pints of the magical falling down water. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:40 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: elvine politics and sphere Susan, Apologies. I mistook your tone as a result of ten pints of the magical falling down water. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:34 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: elvis Yes, I've read, Dead Elvis: one of my favourite books.>You of all people< Susan, you don't seem to have followed this letter through to Elvis's well documented, impromptu appearance at the Nixon White House ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:36 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: elvis Yes, I've read, Dead Elvis: one of my favourite books.>You of all people< Susan, you don't seem to have followed this letter through to Elvis's well documented, impromptu appearance at the Nixon White House ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:17 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: every bloody thing Ross I'm afraid I live between Teddington and Twickenham of Trams fame, not London, Ontario. It seems amazing that The Nihilist Spasm Band have kept going in such a parochial setting, he opined patronisingly. I remember a thread about kazoos not so long ago. The Nihilist Spasm Band started out as a kazoo band and claim to be inventors of the Giant Electric Kazoo. Their web-site is at 3.sympatico.ca/pratten/NSB ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:21 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: Paranoid McCarthyism is alive and well. Gregory, Gregory, Gregory... Where to begin. Re: Berie/Beria. You say you acknowledged the misspelling. Oh, well that's all right then. You consistently mouth off about socio-political issues and yet don't seem to have the reference tools to check the name of someone you consider one of the most evil men ever to walk the planet... Again... >I don't know the exact numbers but I think cops kill more than gun crazy >citizens. Be a dear (no pun intended) boy and find the figures before you make such dubious, tendentious assertions. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:23 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: Paranoid McCarthyism is alive and well. Gregory, Gregory, Gregory... Where to begin. Re: Berie/Beria. You say you acknowledged the misspelling. Oh, well that's all right then. You consistently mouth off about socio-political issues and yet don't seem to have the reference tools to check the name of someone you consider one of the most evil men ever to walk the planet... Again... >I don't know the exact numbers but I think cops kill more than gun crazy >citizens. Be a dear (no pun intended) boy and find the figures before you make such dubious, tendentious assertions. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:26 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: Paranoid McCarthyism is alive and well. Gregory, Gregory, Gregory... Where to begin. Re: Berie/Beria. You say you acknowledged the misspelling. Oh, well that's all right then. You consistently mouth off about socio-political issues and yet don't seem to have the reference tools to check the name of someone you consider one of the most evil men ever to walk the planet... Again... >I don't know the exact numbers but I think cops kill more than gun crazy >citizens. Be a dear (no pun intended) boy and find the figures before you make such dubious, tendentious assertions. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:32 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: naff AND unhealthy Creeping from my shore-line cave, a la One Eyed Jacks, I'd just like to add to Aaron's 'naff' definition. The primary usage, in my interpretation, is to describe people who think they understand fashion and taste but haven't quite got it right. To extend the above mentioned filmic metaphor, there are some 'baddies' who have recently poked their heads above various rocks, who will soon be targetted by my figurative fire-arms, including a recently arrived gun-slinger who takes the King's name in vain. Quiver Mr Hedges!... All right perhaps I'm not at all scarey. There are probably a thousand things that Greg SS. and I share in common, and the fact we could never pull a trigger in anger is only one of them. I believe what I believe I've said. It may be ill-expressed (and isn't language a fickle mistress) but back-tracking to save face. Nope. Sorry. Not in this case. The Brando Elvis Wanted To Be. jmbc. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:56 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: the hallucinogenic semites > Precisely, Russ, precisely. I was sure there were some folks awake out there... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:28 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: Paranoid McCarthyism is alive and well. Gregory, Gregory, Gregory... Where to begin. Re: Berie/Beria. You say you acknowledged the misspelling. Oh, well that's all right then. You consistently mouth off about socio-political issues and yet don't seem to have the reference tools to check the name of someone you consider one of the most evil men ever to walk the planet... Again... >I don't know the exact numbers but I think cops kill more than gun crazy >citizens. Be a dear (no pun intended) boy and find the figures before you make such dubious, tendentious assertions. But to get to the meat of the matter. You posts are riddled with staw men arguments of the worst stamp. >What is wrong with the enforcement of laws to protect us from the 'improper sort'? I've searched my contributions. I don't appear to have said we should stop enforcing laws. What a surprise. And even worse... >Should we get rid of the police and court system entirely? Eh?!!? Can't remember anyone advocating this one either. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:42 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: elvine politics and sphere Susan, Apologies. I mistook your tone as a result of ten pints of the magical falling down water. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:15 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: every bloody thing I've just come back from seeing the absolutely wonderful (live) John Spencer Blues Explosion and the overrated but interesting Sleater Kinney. In the case of S-K, I may have my cynical hat on, but they are an indie Bangles/Go-Gos, and I liked The Bangles and The Go-Gos...I saw another three girl band called Tiny Too a couple of nights before at the good ol' Bull and Gate in Islington who were far more quirky, charismatic and musically inventive. I think they have an album out on Fierce Panda records in the next couple of months, I'll keep you posted. I've seen quite a few female-heavy bands recently, and though I've kept out of the blokes/birds thing so far, can I just mention something an ex-girlfriend/axe-woman of my acquaintance observed and I agree with: guitar playing has a lot more to do with female masturbatory techniques than male. Another thread that I've avoided dipping into concerns polls, lists etc. Having tested the temperature and decided that people seem in favour of non-hierarchical obscurities here are in no particular order... My top ten bands/artists I don't think anyone will have heard of: George 'Bongo Joe' Coleman. - Plays a customised oil drum (not a Caribbean steel drum) whistles, and sings surreal socio-political ditties. One album on Arhoolie. Brilliant. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:58 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: we'll always have Paris Okay, okay. I've made a complete dick of myself. Of course he's done More Than This. To make things worse all the posts correcting me seemed to manifest themselves twice. Ouch ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:46:01 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: we'll always have Paris Okay, okay. I've made a complete dick of myself. Of course he's done More Than This a zillion times on all formats, but in my defence I've never seen him do it live in nigh on twenty viewings. To make things worse all the posts correcting me seemed to manifest themselves twice. Ouch. Anyway, here's the juice... 27/6/99. Hotel Du Nord, Quai de Jemmapes, Paris, France (tee hee) Gene Hackman Cheese Alarm Lysander I Something You Silver Dagger Madonna Of The Wasps Beautiful Girl Glass Hotel The Yip Song Autumn Is Your Last Chance Queen Of Eyes Kingdom Of Love I Feel Beautiful Only The Stones Remain Freeze (as encore with Blegvad and Syd Straw) Chinese Bones Sleeping With Your Devil's Mask (solo encore) The Speed Of Things Heliotrope 28/6/99 Same place in France Gene Hackman Cheese Alarm Serpent At The Gates Of Wisdom De Chirico St Silver Dagger Queen Elvis I'm Only You Glass Hotel I Am Not Me I Often Dream Of Trains You And Oblivion Airscape Freeze (avec Bleggers and Straw-woman) Chinese Bones Sleeping With Your Devil's Mask Sally Was A Legend (solo) More Than This (a song by top Brit combo Roxy Music...D'oh!) Peter Blegvad was also excellent accompanied on bass by John Greaves, as was Syd Straw . On the second night Robyn joined Bleg and Syd on harmonica during King Strut. To answer Bayard. I saw Straw and Blegvad with regular band John Greaves and Chris Cutler at the Woodcutter's Ball at the Embassy Rooms London, England. There were other contributions from Eddi Reader (who is bonkers) and Loudon Wainwright III (on Daughter). And from B.J.Cole on pedal steel, Peter's brother Kristoffer and a female duo called The Dear Janes. Dagmar Krause, Anthony Moore and Robyn were asked but couldn't make it. Initially the Paris gigs were going to separate solo affairs, but when the promoter talked to each of the main protagonists they expressed a strong interest in playing together. And so it came to pass... Loudon is playing there next month, as are Elliott Murphy and Crey Harris. It often also hosts comedy gigs. British stand-ups especially. The bloke who runs it is English. The booze is expensive but the atmoshere is pretty good. Finally, I tackled Robyn about the novel. He's got to do a second draft, and publication looks deeply unlikely this year. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:45:54 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: Jewels and some semi-precious stuff Woj is right. Robyn isn't playing Highbury Fields. Boy, did I get excited for a while. I might pop along to see the wonderful Mr Hegley though. Apparently Robyn was supposed to playing with Peter Blegvad in London the next night as well, but, yup, he's still Down Under. Also Michael is right about the British release date. There I was crowing about Britain getting the album a whole day before America and it turns out that it's coming out at least a month later here, and he probably won't be touring the UK until the autumn. I do believe he's playing Paris later this month, does anyone know more details about this? I'll try and find out more anyway. Just a quick comment about Eb's recent 'eehs'. I think David Thomas's new album is excellent: multi-layered, atmospheric and for a live recording superbly produced. It features performances from Jackie Leven, Linda Thompson and the criminally underrated Kidney Brothers. I agree about *London*Suede (it's so cute when you Yanks do that...) and Whistler. The latter supported London Robyn Hitchcock at his last ,er, London show, and came across as smug and rather dull ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:46:10 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: distinction I've tried to stay cool about this one, but Paul's admittedly qualified and self-confessedly anecdotal observation that atheists rather than religionists are generally the one's who haven't studied the faiths, seems (again from *my* necessarily subjective frame) so transparently untrue it's unbelieveable (now there's a good word) We nullifidians spend a lot of time trying to get to know our enemy (I speak rhetorically) Whereas most Christians I argue with don't know their own patch of ground let alone the bases other belief systems or the philosophical underpinnings of atheism. And as for your it's more difficult to believe line Paul, I'm afraid you've got me apostatizing on that one as well. There are good studies (John Schumacher's Wings Of Illusion is one) which postulate that humans are actually adapted by evolution to have a sense of the supernatural, the numinous, in order to protect them from the existential angst they come face to face with if they accept the fact that they are mortal. It's easier to disbelieve? Pull the other one Paul. You must have heard of Pascal's wager. What is Heaven/the after-life/Nirvana if it isn't a nice fat chiliastic carrot? And Hell, well, a nice weapon in the fight to maintain divisive social hierarchies throughout history. jmbc. Archhieropotentate Purgatorial in The Latter Day Church Of Nay-Sayers. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:46:13 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: re:ligion >It's always disappointing when your opponent abandons (his) argument> NO!, Pay attention, this is central to my argument.. I haven't *abandoned* anything. . Don't be so bloody patronising . I didn't talk about the hypnagogic previously but it seems appropriate to do so now that you are being so pompous. Experiences of God might, have you considered this, be to do with electro-chemical workings within the brain independent of some external governing force. At the centre of your faith is your *undeniable* experience of God. This is experience is emininently deniable. Within all your dismissive rhetoric about the atheistic modus operandi you do seem to understand that agnosticism is the only legitimate empirical way . I am very close to an atheistic position but I also understand that agnosticism is the only absolute philosophical position. Ultimately, though you allude to this, it isn't at the core your Weltanshauung. jmbc (' jesus still loves you', as I've too often been told as another *Christian * argument runs into the buffers) How do you know he exists? There is very little historical evidence by most proper criteria. Sorry, finally, I must tell you about a recent park experience I had. A bunch of types approached me while I'm reading. "We have some good news for you". "Mmhmmm". "Do you believe in love?" "Yes". Triumphant Christian "Well God is love!". Smug me - "Yes, but love isn't necessarily God..." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:55:01 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Quailday in Holebodia I'd just like to say that it was wonderful meeting all of you Chicago-based fegs (and Eddie) last night at the Metro gig. The show was so great, I forgot to keep track of the setlist! Btw, now that you all know what I look like, please remember that Fox's "America's Most Wanted" is really a worthless piece of drivel, and just not worth watching at all, even compared to the usual network-TV dreck. Eb writes: >>Eb is drawing up a Top 20 Albums of the Decade list. By >>definition, there is no purpose to such a list whatsoever. >Well, then please spare us your own views on music, in the >future. There's no real purpose to giving them, after all. You first! Uninterestingly, Eb's top ten list for the year has three of the albums that would probably be on mine, if I believed in such things. Of course, my top ten list would only have about five albums on it. Drew writes: >>The Auteurs "How I Learned To Love The Bootboys" >I'll see if I can track down this one first. Thanks! Drew is going to think that I'm trying to exert some sort of weird control thing over his CD-buying habits, but I feel like I have to chime in here to say that IMO "Now I'm a Cowboy" is their best album, by far, and what's more you can probably find it in a used bin somewhere. Whereas "Bootboys" is only available as a pricey new import, and to me at least, it's Luke's least awesome effort yet (though it's still fairly awesome; I just think the production is terrible). After "Now I'm a Cowboy" I'd pick up "New Wave" and "After Murder Park," in that order. Of course, as always these purchases should not be made in lieu of essential expenditures on food, clothing, and shelter. John "always looking out for your well-being" Hedges PS. Sorry, I guess this had nothing to do with Quail-related holidays after all. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:39:19 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: branscombespew? Did everyone else just receive all of these messages (some duplicates/triplicates, some just one line answering messages that I haven't seen yet) all at once, just sort of spewed into your inbox? Or am I in another "I have seen the future and it is now" e-mail anomaly? Eric "I won't know what my top ten list for the year is until I've listened to all of the stuff I got this year, in another five years or so" 1387 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (1,738) unhealthy threads 1388 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (1,786) the hallucinogenic semites 1389 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (1,802) elvine politics and sphere 1390 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (1,802) elvine politics and sphere 1391 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (1,889) elvis 1392 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (1,802) elvine politics and sphere 1393 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (1,879) we'll always have Paris 1394 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (2,116) every bloody thing 1395 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (1,889) elvis 1396 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (2,271) Paranoid McCarthyism is alive 1397 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (2,271) Paranoid McCarthyism is alive 1398 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (2,630) naff AND unhealthy 1399 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (2,722) Paranoid McCarthyism is alive 1400 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (2,856) Jewels and some semi-precious 1401 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (2,271) Paranoid McCarthyism is alive 1402 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (3,026) every bloody thing 1403 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (3,070) distinction 1404 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (3,143) re:ligion 1405 Nov 11 jbranscombe@compus (4,074) we'll always have Paris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:49:59 -0500 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: Everything's going black ..... I'm seeing J Branscombe's life flashing before my eyes! Goodbye, everyone.... - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:07:47 -0600 From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com Subject: Re: branscombespew? >Did everyone else just receive all of these messages (some >duplicates/triplicates, some just one line answering messages that I >haven't seen yet) all at once, just sort of spewed into your inbox? > >Or am I in another "I have seen the future and it is now" e-mail anomaly? Actually, I've seen the future and it is the past. These are all fragments from emails sent by branscombe back when he first got on the list and was debating GSS. Something's quite wrong here. I thought at first perhaps someone was spoofing him, but the headers are the same as they've always been on his posts. If someone IS spoofing him, they're -very- good at faking stuff up. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:01:51 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Everything's going black ..... >I'm seeing J Branscombe's life flashing >before my eyes! Goodbye, everyone.... Come to think of it, we never *did* figure out whether or not Gregory Shell has access to an accurate biographical dictionary, did we? Or, for that matter, what really happened to the Nihilist Spasm Band... JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:59:27 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Confusion for Sophia Well, the more I listen to JfS, the more confused I get. Sometimes, I listen to it and feel pretty disappointed. Other times, like right now, I listen and think, "this is kick ass!" Has anyone else's enjoyment of this album been as weird as mine? Joel np. JfS ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:17:13 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: branscombespew? On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Eric Loehr wrote: > Did everyone else just receive all of these messages (some > duplicates/triplicates, some just one line answering messages that I > haven't seen yet) all at once, just sort of spewed into your inbox? I did. I suspect jmbc somehow accidentally sent all of his old suspended or cancelled messages. Some of them seem to refer to jmbc's big fight with GSS (aka Battle of the Initials), which happened something like six months ago. I blame it all on this newfangled fad for GUI email clients. - --Chris np: grumbling tummy ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #422 *******************************