From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #432 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, November 19 1999 Volume 08 : Number 432 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: L.A. [Vivien Lyon ] Veggie-fegs... [LDudich@ase.org] Re: L.A. [Tom Clark ] Departure Vivid Scene [Tom Clark ] eb sans the world ["Anal Oil Leakage" ] aaaahhhh - why did I look at feg-dig #431 ["randi..aka..twofangs" ] Re: eb sans the world [Capuchin ] new song lyrics [hal brandt ] son of new song lyrics [hal brandt ] stoned? [hal brandt ] another lost one [hal brandt ] Re: stoned? [John Barrington Jones ] [0% RH] lynch alert! [hal brandt ] Something to do on Thanksgiving (NR) [steve ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #431 [James Dignan ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #431 [James Dignan ] Paging Trapper Quail... [Michael Wolfe ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #429 [ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:32:58 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: L.A. - --- Eb wrote: > I would advise you to be wary of speaking on behalf of others, when it > comes to money matters -- especially since Jeme and Viv aren't exactly > my > biggest fans. That is just not true. In fact, we were both considering stalking you until just recently. However, we decided to stalk someone else instead. It would be impolitic to reveal this lucky person's identity, though. Very nice offer, though...thanks. Anyway, I think *time* > is a > bigger issue than money, here. Can you folks keep Robyn captive > backstage, > until I get there? Perhaps Viv could temporarily hypnotize him with her > legendary, Shawn-tested bosom? ;) I don't know how to reply in a jocular manner to this without seeming to endorse your remark. Vivien ps- Eb, we actually want to meet you. We aren't going to stone you for not liking Robyn as much as we do. Well, we'll just throw a couple small rocks and call it quits. Then we can all have a good laugh, and drink an aperitif and conspire against the Great Quail. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:40:53 -0500 From: LDudich@ase.org Subject: Veggie-fegs... [Luther Dudich] Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 14:56:01 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: home again, home again, jiggity-jig On 11/16/99 7:32 PM, Fpaux@aol.com wrote: > I'm not saying that this applies to everyone who is a vegetarian. I was >actually surprised at how many Chicago Fegs are veggies and the variety of >reasons behind it. I would like to know about other Fegs too. - - -tc Me too... Of course, It shouldn't be surprising... According to interviews, Uncle Bobby himself is a non-carnivore, too... -luther Luther W. Dudich Alliance to Save Energy 1200 18th St., NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20036 202/530-2243 202/331-9588 (fax) ldudich@ase.org www.ase.org "Docile as the cattle we await our destiny" -robyn hitchcock "I will spend this life taking my armor off" btm... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:50:57 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: L.A. On 11/17/99 10:25 PM, Aaron Lowe wrote: >There are songs that just Robyn and Kimberley do together (IODOT, Kingdom >of Love), and songs they do altogether with the guys from Tim Keegan's >band. The drummer, Lindsay, is really quite good, as well as a lot of fun >to watch. The bassist, Jake, is competent, if unexciting. And Tim Keegan >remains onstage for all of the full-band stuff, as well. I really enjoyed watching Jake play. He stands there with a grin on his face like he's thinking "this is so cool!" He and I caught eyes a few times during the set and it seemed to me like he was really grooving off of the audience's feedback. Like I mentioned yesterday, while Robyn and Kim are jamming during the end of "Antwoman", Jake and Lindsay are holding down a wicked groove. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:37:20 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Departure Vivid Scene I tried explaining to the fegs in Seattle how I thought Departure Lounge sounded like a more "organic" version of Ultra Vivid Scene, but I just got a bunch of glazed-over stares in return. I'm sure somebody else out there remembers them and can verify my comparison, right? "Joy: 1967-1990" is one of my all time favorite discs. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:16:23 PST From: "Anal Oil Leakage" Subject: eb sans the world 11/17/99, Aladdin Theater, Robyntown USA Mexican God The Devil's Coachman Wax Doll Insect Mother DeChirico Street I Saw Nick Drake Cheese Alarm No, I Don't Remember Guildford Sinister But She Was Happy Madonna Of The Wasps Queen Of Eyes America Antwoman Sleeping With Your Devil Mask Oceanside Kingdom Of Love You And Oblivion The Philosophers Stone Birds In Perspex Adoration Of The City Beautiful Queen Gene Hackman Elizabeth Jade Viva Sea-Tac the tour is closing up with a BANG! meanwhile, an alert surfer recently posted the following most excellent url to the dan bern list. . ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:06:06 -0500 From: "randi..aka..twofangs" Subject: aaaahhhh - why did I look at feg-dig #431 Aaron wrote about Robyn's gig in L.A. >You really shouldn't miss this show, you know. > The fact that some of us are coming from > across the country for one more opportunity > to see Robyn, Tim, Kimberley > You'll be sorry that you missed it Oh G-d Aaron - this is almost worse than surgery AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I so wanted to see Kimberley ... Is it the last time he'll gig with Robyn? Is that what you are saying Aaron! Eb, for the love of G-d, go to the show and make copious notes - maybe tape it :-} Okay - settling down now. Back to reading, but I'll be back, fading back into yesterday until the next digest comes, Randi *what scares you most will set you free have I missed Kimberley forever - really!* ~ R Hitchcock & R. Spiegel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:10:04 -0500 From: "randi..aka..twofangs" Subject: ah! jeme - after your post I quit Jeme wrote: > You cannot miss this show. > Kimberley and Robyn. > Tons of Soft Boys material done the way it > was intended. {kill me now says randi!} > Also, some really great renditions of later > Egyptians as well as a couple of Eye > tracks at least. Eb - for the love of G-d ... fading back into yesterday so I can cry and feel bad, Rand *if what scares you most will set you free why do I feel like someone tortured me?* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:35:52 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Departure Vivid Scene Tom Clark wrote: > I tried explaining to the fegs in Seattle how I thought > Departure Lounge sounded like a more "organic" version of > Ultra Vivid Scene, but I just got a bunch of glazed-over > stares in return. I'm sure somebody else out there remembers > them and can verify my comparison, right? i remember them. saw them open for Ian McCulloch at the Warfield in 1990. as for the comparison, i won't know until friday night > "Joy: 1967-1990" is one of my all time favorite discs. and "Special One" is easily one of the best unappreciated singles of the 80's, right down to Kim Deal's guest vocal on the coda... ===== "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:28:08 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: eb sans the world On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Anal Oil Leakage wrote: > 11/17/99, Aladdin Theater, Robyntown USA > You And Oblivion Now this is odd. Didn't Robyn say that this song was about the same person as Sally Was A Legend? And yet he said last night that the internal references are to his father and Kimberley's mother. So wouldn't that mean the song is about Kimberley (my pa, your ma... you and oblivion)? Weird. > The Philosophers Stone So eddie shouts out "Philosopher's Stone!" while Kim and Robyn are tuning their guitars and twiddling their pedals and things. I always figure that if the guy's tuning his guitar, he already knows what he's gonna play, so just butt out. But after eddie yelled that from the front row, Kim leans over to Robyn and says (and this is all off mic, but I was standing right next to them) "How does he know that one?" Robyn says, "He's been following us around." Then he stops and thinks, as if it just occured to him, "Or maybe we're following him around, I don't know. Yeah, let's do that one." and put on his acoustic and they rip it out. Note: Sometimes he says "The philosopher's stone" and sometimes, very clearly, "The philosopher's stoned". It is a quite good song. > Gene Hackman > Elizabeth Jade > Viva Sea-Tac This is the second encore that many people missed. Lame asses. > the tour is closing up with a BANG! These shows really are fantastic. My favorite bit last night was when the full band was out and during Robyn's change from acoustic to electric, someone shouted, "Glass Hotel!" and Robyn replied: That's not very likely at all at this point. I mean, seeing as how I haven't played with a whole band in Portland in years and have toured solo acoustic quite a bit playing Glass Hotel just about every night in the interim, and seeing as how we're all here and on stage and electrified and everything, I don't think it's very likely that I'll play that one. That was awesome. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:35:48 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: new song lyrics Here are the lyrics to one of Robyn's new songs (to be included on "A Star For Bram"). Thanks go to Eddie for documenting this tour and generously loaning me some tapes. Eddie, you're a genuine nice guy and Carey and I both really enjoyed spending time with you in Denver...thanks for stopping by and hanging out. (It was also nice to have met Tom Clark, Paul & the 2 Chad's, and fellow Cerebus Fan John Jenks at the gig!) Anyway, on to those lyrics: THE PHILOSOPHERS STONE I can't keep pace with you Give you something wild I can change my face with you Turn you into something Action comes to him who waits If he's not gone cold I can turn you into lead I can turn you into gold Read the small print The Philosophers Stone But I'm grateful The Philosophers Stone But I'm grateful In the coffin of guitars There her music lies Foliage and solos Coming from her eyes This is England The Philosophers Stone But I'm grateful The Philosophers Stone But I'm grateful {instrumental break} Nazi in a wheelchair And a cardigan And a V-neck sweater He's a sad old Nazi Man He's so friendly The Philosophers Stone But I'm grateful The Philosophers Stone But I'm grateful Bury me in cellophane Underneath a vault I can climb back out again But it's not my fault I can climb back out again What can you do? The Philosophers Stone But I'm grateful The Philosophers Stone But I'm grateful The Philosophers Stone Bop-shoo-wop Ba-dop Bop-shoo-wop! © Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:36:55 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: son of new song lyrics Lyrics to a "mean, but funny" blues tune that Robyn's been playing of late (this will also be included on "A Star For Bram"): I WISH I LIKED YOU I wish I liked you Enough to be your friend I wish I liked you Enough to be your friend I think of you and shudder When we meet I just pretend You'd be a lovely person If you were someone else You'd be a lovely person If you were someone else You're uncomfortable to be with You don't even like yourself You want to be offended You're arrogant and vain The only thing that cheers you up Is someone else's pain And you moralize Yeah, you moralize You make me feel guilty As if I owed you one I'm always trying to appease you As if I owed you one I'm gonna have to work on that I owe you nothing Nothing at all! Nothing! Nothing at all! 'Cause if you've done me any favours They were double-edged and cold If you've done me any favours They were double-edged and cold You didn't do 'em out of love You just wanted to get some kind of hold Your eyes glaze over Everytime somebody else speaks Your eyes glaze over Everytime somebody that's not you speaks Outside, something howls Upstairs, something shrieks I got your number But I never call you back (or hadn't you noticed?) I got your number But I've never called you back You've got some thick-skinned friends Maybe they can call you back I wish I liked you Enough to be your friend I wish you liked me Enough to be your friend I think of you and shudder I hope we never meet again! © Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:49:22 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: stoned? Capuchin wrote: > > You And Oblivion > > Now this is odd. Didn't Robyn say that this song was about the same > person as Sally Was A Legend? And yet he said last night that the > internal references are to his father and Kimberley's mother. So > wouldn't that mean the song is about Kimberley (my pa, your ma... you > and oblivion)? Weird. Indeed! > > > The Philosophers Stone > > So eddie shouts out "Philosopher's Stone!" while Kim and Robyn are > tuning their guitars and twiddling their pedals and things. > Kim leans over to Robyn and says (and this is all off mic, > but I was standing right next to them) "How does he know that one?" > Robyn says, "He's been following us around." Then he stops and thinks, > as if it just occured to him, "Or maybe we're following him around, I > don't know. Yeah, let's do that one." and put on his acoustic and they > rip it out. That's great. I hope that's somehow been captured on Eddie's tape. > > Note: Sometimes he says "The philosopher's stone" and sometimes, very > clearly, "The philosopher's stoned". It is a quite good song. When I was transcribing the lyrics, I heard 'stoned' a couple of times as well, but I just went with the title from the "Bram" track listing handout. Which is it? Let's hope for a lyric sheet with "Bram" (out 31 Jan!). I wonder what the fate will be of another recent song. Remember "Your Sign Language"? It won't be on "Bram". Kudos to the tapers who preserve these gems! /hal - -- "Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity" - -David Lynch ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 19:04:20 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: another lost one From the current batch..."FleshHead". Looks like the VH-1 Midnight Minute and (most likely) a forthcoming 'Unhatched Crablings' volume will be the only places to find that'n. Yum yum yum! /hal ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:05:41 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: stoned? > Kudos to the tapers who preserve > these gems! A big hearty amen to that, Hal! =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 19:14:45 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: [0% RH] lynch alert! From a Bravo press release: > > "Twin Peaks" Also Added to "TV Too Good for TV" Strand > > ``TV Too Good for TV'' currently showcases the classic 80s sci-fi > series, Max Headroom, and the perennial favorite, Brooklyn Bridge, on > Saturday afternoons. On February 4, 2000 at 8:00PM/ET, Bravo will also > begin encoring the original episodes of TWIN PEAKS, the landmark > television series created by David Lynch > starring Kyle McLachlan, Lara Flynn Boyle and Sherilyn Fenn, among many > surprise guest stars, including David Duchovny, Peggy Lipton and Chris > Isaak. Isaak only appears in FWWM, by the way. Bravo is now airing commercials, so these'll be shown with breaks unlike the last time they aired on Bravo. Hopefully, the exclusive-to-Bravo, directed by David Lynch "Log Lady Intros" will remain intact. Keeping things Lynchian, I highly recommend "The Straight Story". Brilliant, beautiful and human. Probably his best film, next to Blue Velvet. All without sex, violence, swearing, or rapid editing (see Scorsese's new one for those features!) Richard Farnsworth for Best Actor! /hal - -- "Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity" - -David Lynch ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:46:02 -0600 From: steve Subject: Something to do on Thanksgiving (NR) Princess Mononoke is getting a bit wider release: CITY DATE THEATER NEW YORK Nov 24 Cinema Arts- Huntington Nov 24 Malverne Nov 24 Clairidge-Montclair Nov 24 Showcase- Fairfield LOS ANGELES Nov 19 Colorado- Pasadena Nov 24 UA Westwood Nov 24 AMC Orange Nov 24 Edwards Ontario Nov 24 Edwards Long Beach Nov 24 Pacific Winnetka CHICAGO Nov 24 Old Orchard Nov 24 Yorktown Nov 24 Canterra Nov 24 South Barrington PHILADELPHIA Nov 24 Bala Nov 24 Neshaminy- Bensalem Nov 24 AMC Hamilton SF - OAKLAND - SAN JOSE Nov 24 Oaks- Berkeley Nov 24 Park-Menlo Park Nov 24 Sequoia-Marin Nov 24 AMC Saratoga Nov 24 Lighthouse Monterey Nov 24 Rio-Santa Cruz BOSTON Nov 24 Kendall Square- Cambridge Nov 24 Framingham WASHINGTON Nov 24 Potomac Yards DALLAS - FT WORTH Nov 24 Cinemark-l Pano DETROIT Nov 24 Michigan Theater- Ann Arbor HOUSTON Nov 24 Angelika Center CLEVELAND Nov 19 Centrum MIAMI-FT LAUD Nov 24 Paradise Park- Hollywood Nov 24 Mayfair- Coconut Grove Nov 24 Aventura TAMPA-ST PETE Nov 24 Hollywood- Sarasota Nov 24 Regency PITTSBURGH Nov 24 Manor SACRAMENTO - STOCKTON Nov 24 Olympus Point- Roseville BALTIMORE Nov 24 Towson DENVER Nov 24 AMC Westminster Nov 24 Flatirons-Boulder SAN DIEGO Nov 24 AMC La Jolla PORTLAND Nov 24 Broadway HARTFORD/NEW HAVEN Nov 24 Cinema City Nov 24 York Square ORLANDO-DAY BCH Nov 19 Enzian- Maitland INDIANAPOLIS Nov 24 Castleton PORTLAND Nov 24 Broadway MILWAUKEE Nov 24 Downer CINCINNATI Nov 24 Esquire Art KANSAS CITY Nov 24 Palace 14 CHARLOTTE Nov 24 Manor RALEIGH-DURHAM-C HILL Nov 24 Rialto-Raleigh NASHVILLE Nov 24 Green Hills SALT LAKE CITY Nov 24 Broadway Center COLUMBUS, OH Nov 24 Drexel GREEN-ASH-SPAR Nov 24 Fine Arts- Asheville NORFOLK-N NEWS Nov 24 Columbus Center- Virginia Beach SAN ANTONIO Nov 24 Crossroads BUFFALO Nov 24 Amherst #3 NEW ORLEANS Nov 24 Canal Place MEMPHIS Nov 24 Wolfchase PROVIDENCE Nov 24 Cable Car Cinema OKLAHOMA CITY Nov 24 Tinseltown LOUISVILLE Nov 24 Baxter Avenue ALBUQUERQUE Nov 24 Century Rio Nov 24 Grand Illusion- Santa Fe DAYTON Nov 19 Centerville ALBANY-SCHNECTADY Nov 24 Spectrum W PALM-FT PIERCE Nov 24 Carefree JACKSONVILLE Nov 24 Orange Park RICHMOND Nov 24 Willow Lawn KNOXVILLE Nov 24 Downtown West SYRACUSE Nov 24 Westcott Cinema AUSTIN Nov 24 Arbor ROCHESTER, NY Nov 24 Little 5 DES MOINES Nov 24 Varsity Theater OMAHA Nov 24 AMC Oakview TUCSON Nov 24 El Con, Foothills CEDAR RAPIDS Nov 24 Campus-Iowa City LAS VEGAS Nov 24 Orleans BATON ROUGE Nov 24 Tinseltown MADISON Nov 24 Orpheum GUAM Nov 24 Continental ANCHORAGE, AK Nov 24 Century 16 _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:28:49 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #431 >So, any weird, or even appropriate, items that might be marketed via a >Robyn song, or the man himself? I always though it sad that Michelin don't use "Balloon Man". James James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:39:27 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #431 > "the abandoned bran" - a presidential candidate (pretty much any one) oh dear. Is this one of those rare live only songs? The abandoned bran it swirls in clumps It spins around in little lumps And then dissolves for no-one wants granola Except for maybe giant clams Devouring bran with foreign jams They lurk in waters off Hispaniola..." James, who's obviously bored, bored, bored. James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:52:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: Paging Trapper Quail... ...did you still need a copy of the Departure Lounge cd? I picked up an extra copy at the Portland show last night. If someone else got one for you, no sweat, it'll make a great Christmas present for my cousin Adrienne. And how was the show, you well may ask? response: "Michael, how was the show?" As ask you may well! Robyn's show held with tradition on this tour, and wowed all in attendence. If the audience's fervor did not, as Eddie prognosticated, reach Beatlemania-esque heights, our own appreciation was every bit as heartfelt. But I have put the hoist in front of my petard, so to speak. The Departure Lounge were excellent, excellent to the extent that I bought two copies of their album, to make sure that no one who would otherwise suffer for want of one could, uh, get their hot little mits on a copy. Tim mentioned the last time he and Robyn played in Portland, two years earlier, and how someone had sent him a tape of his performance at that show. He said that the applause for that show had been louder than he had, and that listening to that tape always made him feel good. He then pointed to our very own John B. Jones (sitting right behind me and Eddie, both of us taping the current show) and thanked him. Viv, sitting on my right side, complained of being cold right into my microphone, so I threw my coat at her. Then Robyn came on, and did Mexican God, a diptych from Queen Elvis, and Insect Mother. He seemed happy, and at ease, and he took the opportunity of having the stage to himself to digress gloriously. He talked about how Pope Pious VI had ordered Las Vegas built by religious gangsters in 1147 (due to an (repeatedly mispronounced) enormous budgetry surplus), and how nuns and monks would have fun Fridays where they'd let a few monks into the convent and they'd all boogie. He carried on a conversation with an imaginary assistant director who'd interject periodically to correct his monologues. It was fun, and I laughed loud and long. But there was a point to it, too. There were 3 digital video cameras set up at various locations in the venue for the purpose of filming some kind of concert video, as Eddie reports. Then the band started to trickle in. Tim and Robyn riffed on chips and Shirley Bassey. The bassist, Jake, came in for I Saw Nick Drake. As their numbers swelled, Robyn's loquacity dimished - -- it seems a lesson well learned from his Egyptians days, when Morris and Andy never knew when to be ready for the next song. Shortly, Kimberley and Lindsey came on. I really like Lindsey's drum kit -- it's small-ish, but it's got lots of different pads and very little redundancy. Sometimes you see these kits that have a wall of snares, but don't do anything for you in terms of variety. He sometimes seemed to be playing 3 instruments at once, both from the sounds he was making, and just from looking at him. Anyway, there were Kimberley and Lindsey (neither one a woman, interestingly) taking the stage, and the mob of them proceeded to spin the Cheese Alarm to end all Cheese Alarms. Robyn's had something of a stock intro to this song, Eddie tells me, a tale of a mano-e-mano dairy dispute, a duel to the death over a pile of curd. Last night, Robyn put this ever intensifying tale over the instrumental intro to Cheese Alarm, and the effect was electrifying. Kim's guitar flourishes punctuated the escalating conflict perfectly, and both reached a crescendo at the same time. In one song, it turned my idea of Robyn -- formulated largely over 7 years of solo acoustic shows -- on its head, but in a good way. At this point, a couple of nice hippies (I talked to them after the show) were dancing on the side aisle, but that was about it. The Aladdin isn't a very dance friendly venue. There's this huge moat between the audience and the stage, and if you want to dance, you're as much on display as the performers, which can make one rather self conscious. Viv and Jeme were making motions of wanting to get up and move, but couldn't quite seem to overcome their inertia. Finally, in the middle of Sinister But Happy (for which, I might add, Kimberly's guitar filled in admirably for Deni's violin), I couldn't hold it in any longer, and I got up and started dancing. Robyn commented that we could feel free to vibrate internally or lurch on the outside. That opened the floodgates. Four or so more people came down, and two songs later Viv and Jeme exploded out of their seats to the opening notes of Queen of Eyes. There where a dozen and a half people up front by the end of it, which is pretty impressive for his following. Everyone seemed like a pretty good dancer, too. Viv even did her cute little Viva Sea-Tac dance, but her heart didn't seem to be in it. The rest of the concert maintained an impressive energy the rest of the way out, even in You & Oblivion where it manifested itself as concentrated intensity. In the first encore, Eddie requested Philosopher's Stone, which they obliged. That's a really good song, but they put way too much delay on the vox. Still, I think Star for Bram is going to be quite an album. But until then, I've got the soundboard recording I made of the show. It turned out fairly well, though the beginning of Devil Mask is cut off because I got a feed from the output of the recorder that they were using for the show, and the signal cuts off when they switch tapes. The vox are also mixed awfully high, too, but it's still pretty listenable. I'm most thankful to have gotten the feed because it freed me to devote my whole attention to the show, and to dance. After the show ended, I zipped out of there with all possible speed. My recorder was on a clear aisle that was a shortcut out, so I scooped that up and found the merchandise table. I got two departure lounge cds (ah! full circle!), and, what's this? Cones! Two noble cones, standing stately amid a sea of merchandise. I nabbed one. And Rare Jewels! The four song ep that includes Nick Drake and Jesus & Me. It even had a copy of the tour schedule pasted on the back. It was only 5 bucks, too! I asked for a handful of the stuff, without even thinking whether I had the finances to support my excess. 50 dollars. I had 2 twenties and 2 fives in my wallet. Hot damn! I noticed Tim standing nearby and got him to sign one of my Departure Lounge cds (his John Hancock looks like a spirograph drawing). Then Eddie and I drove Carole to the bus station so that she could make the trek to the Great American Music Hall, and Eddie crashed at my place. I was proud to be a host for the noble pilgrim. Here's the set list: Mexican God Devil's Coachman Wax Doll Insect Mother <+ Tim> DeChirico Street I Saw Nick Drake <+ Lindsey + Kimberley> Cheese Alarm I Don't Remember Guilford Sinister But She Was Happy Madonna of the Wasps Queen of Eyes America Antwoman Sleeping With Your Devil Mask Oceanside <1st encore - Robyn + Kimberley> Kingdom of Love You & Oblivion Philosopher's Stone Birds in Perspex Adoration of the City Beautiful Queen <2nd encore - Robyn> Gene Hackman Elizabeth Jade Viva Sea-Tac 24 songs, 118 minutes, 34 seconds. Wow. How long can he keep this up? - -Michael Wolfe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:07:12 -0600 From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #429 >Ian never got invited to parties, so he never learnt to dance." Perhaps Ian >and Graham are related. How frondy is Graham? Odd, but I was going through some saved mails, and I found this gem on the subject of Graham. I can't quite make out the context, but it seems that we were talking about.......commemorative Robyn stamps? - -------------------------------- From Mr. Mike Godwin: On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Truman Peyote wrote: > But I do have a fantastic collection of stamps (to win friends > and influence his uncle, of course) - including one that no one else > seems to have, namely a picture of Graham dancing with some see-through > things that appear to be crawling through the sea in the background. As > no one ever lets Graham dance, I assume that it is probably a fake. Once Graham begins to dance, it wakens unnamable Things from the depths of the abyss which lurk and watch by night until they get an opportunity suck the blood from some tasty morsel. I assume that's why no-one lets him dance. An alternative reading is that the see-through things are members of the Dance Police, recruited under the Criminal Justice Act to prevent unlicensed dancing. - ------------------------------- So perhaps it is just that Ian and Graham both have the power to wake the unnameable Things. Perhaps this is why Ian is doomed to live out his days as a state forest. Oh, it's definitely time for bed. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #432 *******************************