From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #436 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, November 22 1999 Volume 08 : Number 436 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Poké-Robyn? ["matt sewell" ] Re: News from up North ! [overbury@cn.ca] fegfilmwatch: sleepy hollow and dogma (long, 0% Robyn content) ["Andrew D] Show Tonight(?) & KCRW today [Griffith Davies ] eblab [dmw ] Re: Show Tonight(?) & KCRW today [John Barrington Jones ] Re: kcrw! [hal brandt ] Re: kcrw! ["JH3" ] Re: sleepy hollow [Eb ] Re: kcrw! and rlr! [Christopher Gross ] Re: kcrw! and rlr! ["JH3" ] Aluminum starfucking [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: kcrw! and rlr! [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Denver Feg Pics [Tom Clark ] RH article in San Jose Mercury News [Tom Clark ] Re: Poké-Robyn? ["Richard Zeszotarski" ] Raining Otago Coast [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] disturbing personal news [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Re: Vegetarian Fegs ["matt sewell" ] Re: Err. That should have read "Poke-Robyn" [Ethyl Ketone ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 12:46:53 GMT From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Poké-Robyn? >I was asking my six-year-old to explain one of them to me the other day. >"What >exactly is a Togepi?", I asked. "Oh", she says, "It's a walking egg with >arms >and legs". - Spooky. Do any UK fegs remember a cartoon on TV called Ludwig? It used to be on in the seventies, round about the same time as the Wombles (ie. not long before "Nationwide". Perhaps Ludwig (who I guess came originally from Czechoslovakia or Germany and was similarly a walking egg with arms and legs and a whole load of other gadgetry) forms the inspiration for Togepi? Matt "barely relevant" Sewell ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:03:51 -0500 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: Re: News from up North ! > Hey fellow Fegmaniax, > > I'm new here and I'm tired of being invisible...so I thought I'd > introduce myself. I'm a 25-year-old music freak from cold Canada. Current Montreal feg count: 2!!! Yeah! - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 06:49:18 -0800 (PST) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: fegfilmwatch: sleepy hollow and dogma (long, 0% Robyn content) Oh dear. I was all ready for Sleepy Hollow to be my favorite Hollywood movie of the year. My disappointment wasn't quite bitter but it was disappointment nonetheless. The film looks FANTASTIC. Costumes, cinematography, and set design produced a terrific Nightmare-Before-Christmas-ized postRevolutionary New York farm town. This could have been an incredibly spooky setting, a sort of claustrophobic Salem, if the story had been up to it. There's a scene with a makeshift watchtower that points to what could have been. And there are some great scenes in it, most of which I shouldn't mention for the sake of those who haven't seen the film. Johnny Depp continues to impress, and his Ichabod Crane is easily my new favorite action hero -- squeamish, bumbling, but always (okay, usually) dignified and daring. Apart from look, feel, and Depp, however, the film is ailing. Most of the supporting cast -- including, amazingly, Christina Ricci (who's not really much of an actress when you get right down to it, but somehow usually pulls off her roles better than this) and Miranda Richardson (who is often excellent and almost as often inexplicably horrible) -- are at best watchable. Jeffrey Jones is invisible. Christopher Walken is good but really only growls and mugs. The gore is stupid (and the blood the phoniest I've ever seen on screen), the plot is tissue-thin, the logic is iffy, and the ending is awful. Every bit of the story felt predictable or familiar. Kudos to Tim Burton for taking a mediocre screenplay and making it into a movie I didn't mind paying $7 to see. Raspberries to Tim Burton for poorly directing a talented cast. Sigh. In other news: Dogma is flawed in the usual Kevin Smith ways and more, but it's a seriously fun movie and a delight to watch. Most of what I've read so far from critics about the movie is true, both good and bad, but I liked it anyway. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck sound like they're in a high school play (then again, Matt Damon usually does anyway, but at least he's pretty). Linda Fiorentino and Alan Rickman aren't directed well (most of the cast isn't) but they're wonderful when they get it right (most of the time). Jason Lee is fabulous as always. Jay and Silent Bob are a love-them-or-hate-them duo and I love them. Salma Hayek is unusually delightful. Chris Rock is underused. What else? I'm still making up my mind about "God" (if you don't know who plays her, I won't spoil it), but I thought it was a nice touch. Complaints about the film's preachiness are unfounded, in my opinion. I recommend the film to anyone who can deal with gore; patchy acting; wordy, sometimes sophomoric scripts; and mild religious criticism. Despite these things, Smith's energy and enthusiasm carry the day again. Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 08:58:32 -0800 (PST) From: Griffith Davies Subject: Show Tonight(?) & KCRW today I'm on the digest, and I hadn't seen this mentioned yet... I heard on KCRW that Robyn is performing tonight (11/22) at The Mint (323-954-9630, 6010 W. Pico Boulevard). I called the number, but their events calendar has not been updated.... Also, Robyn (and, hopefully, crew) will be on KCRW this morning at 11:15 am (PST). Y'all can check it out over the 'net at www.kcrw.org to listen to it live. I'm not sure if the webcam is working. I'm doing a mono recording of it (my receiver puts a ton of hiss on the reception of KCRW). griffith ps - Saturday's show was pretty amazing. ===== - --------------------------------------------------------- Griffith Davies hbrtv219@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 12:19:26 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: eblab kudos to the ebster for describing stereolab's set so well that he help me better understand my own appreciation of the band, both live and on record. particularly spot-on about tim gane, rocking gently to and fro in his blissful little universe. that's why he's one of the procrits for whom i have the most respect, these days. i've never seen the 'lab when i was sober, but i look forward to the opportunity. - -- d., still pissed at missing a week of undoubtedly keen shows due to this stupid flu. - - 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, 22 Nov 1999 09:25:59 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: Show Tonight(?) & KCRW today from what I hear, the whole crew will be on the KCRW program, and it will be a longer set (as opposed to the recent shorter one). Don't miss it!! =jbj= On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Griffith Davies wrote: > I'm on the digest, and I hadn't seen this mentioned > yet... > > I heard on KCRW that Robyn is performing tonight > (11/22) at The Mint (323-954-9630, 6010 W. Pico > Boulevard). I called the number, but their events > calendar has not been updated.... > > Also, Robyn (and, hopefully, crew) will be on KCRW > this morning at 11:15 am (PST). Y'all can check it > out over the 'net at www.kcrw.org to listen to it > live. I'm not sure if the webcam is working. I'm > doing a mono recording of it (my receiver puts a ton > of hiss on the reception of KCRW). > > griffith > > ps - Saturday's show was pretty amazing. > > > ===== > --------------------------------------------------------- > Griffith Davies > hbrtv219@yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:48:20 -0800 From: Nick Winkworth Subject: Err. That should have read "Poke-Robyn" Yikes!! Sorry about the: > Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pok=E9=2DRobyn=3F?= I try to put the official acute accent on the "e" and see what happens... I blame Ninteno's lawyers. ~N Off to dig out my Stereolab CDs for the car... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:35:33 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: kcrw! woo hoo! madonner of the wasps! live! i love the internet... =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:19:00 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: kcrw! =jbj= wrote: > > woo hoo! madonner of the wasps! live! > > i love the internet... "Guildford" sounded great, too! And "Antwoman". Too bad they were rushed for time so there weren't many "verbals", but the "guerilla band takes over a radio station" effect was perfect. Robyn really sounded pleased with the tour, and hinted that he'd be back in February. thanks, griffith, for the heads up! /hal (hoping Eddie makes the show at The Mint tonight) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:07:09 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: kcrw! >woo hoo! madonner of the wasps! live! >i love the internet... I dunno, the jury's still out as far as I'm concerned. (On the internet, that is, not MotW live...) I missed the first 20 minutes, but I got the impression there were no new tunes or improvisations, right? Even so, I hope somebody in L.A. got a decent tape of that! RealAudio is nice, but the sound is pretty bad even at high transfer rates, and you can never get a stable connection anyway. And who else heard the KUSF Guest DJ spot yesterday? I lost the last 20 minutes of that, but I was impressed by Robyn's choice of so much punk/proto-punk material. I was expecting Capt. Beefheart, of course, but not necessarily the Damned or Spacemen 3, or even Iggy & the Stooges... And finally: I saw Sleepy Hollow the other night, and Drew is right, it's a great film visually, but the story and the acting are quite lacking. Frankly, Tim Burton has never been all that good with female leads in general, has he? Only very rarely does he seem to imbue them with much complexity, or even personality. Then again, that can be said of at least 90% of the directors in Hollywood, I suppose. I still liked the movie, but then again, I hadn't set foot in a movie theater in over 3 months, so I probably would have liked almost anything. (Also, I think the relative phoniness of the gore was deliberate - realistic beheadings can be awfully disturbing, and there's the premium-cable market to consider...) JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:32:52 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: sleepy hollow Drew: >The film looks FANTASTIC. > >And there are some great scenes in it > >the plot is tissue-thin, the logic is iffy, and the ending is awful. >Every bit of the story felt predictable or familiar. >Raspberries to Tim Burton for >poorly directing a talented cast. Save these lines, and you can just post them again when the next Tim Burton film comes out. , Eb now ehhing: "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics." (OK, "Chef Aid" and the soundtrack album had a few entertaining/funny moments, but this one just s-u-c-k-s. Which reminds me: I forgot to ask Eddie on Saturday if he had heard about MK Bergman....) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:05:58 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: kcrw! and rlr! On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, JH3 wrote: > And who else heard the KUSF Guest DJ spot yesterday? I lost the > last 20 minutes of that, but I was impressed by Robyn's choice of > so much punk/proto-punk material. I was expecting Capt. Beefheart, > of course, but not necessarily the Damned or Spacemen 3, or > even Iggy & the Stooges... Neat! Is there a web page with his set list? Or could you post it, perchance? Speaking of movies, has anyone out there seen Run Lola Run? It's been out in the US for months now, but I don't seem to recall any movie-happy Fegs talking about it. Truth, or symptom of premature senility? Anyway, it was not unlike Drew and JH3's description of Sleepy Hollow: a great visual spectacle, but somewhat lacking in characterization. In Run Lola Run this was probably inevitable given the story structure, and I didn't consider it a flaw. The visuals are all about frantic motion and a very attractive main character; the story is all about contingence and the enormous effects that even your smallest decision can have. If you really wanted to stretch, you could even call it a movie about chaos theory. I'd recommend it to anyone who isn't turned off by the phrase "driving techno soundtrack." - --Chris, killing time until tech support fixes my printer ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 16:17:54 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: kcrw! and rlr! >> And who else heard the KUSF Guest DJ spot yesterday? I lost the >> last 20 minutes of that, but I was impressed by Robyn's choice of >> so much punk/proto-punk material... >Neat! Is there a web page with his set list? Or could you post it, >perchance? Actually, I did try to keep track of the setlist, so, before the RealAudio feed died on me I got this: Television: See No Evil Captain Beefheart: Low Yo Yo Stuff Damned: New Rose Iggy & the Stooges: Search & Destroy Country Joe & the Fish: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine Julian Cope: Charlotte Anne Spacemen 3: Losing Touch With My Mind So maybe there wasn't *that* much punk stuff after all. They also talked about religion and the afterlife for a bit. Standard stuff, really, as Dr. Evil would say... JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:23:07 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Aluminum starfucking >Further parenthetical note: Natalie's two tinfoil Thoths were onstage on >a righthand monitor speaker, the whole night! They did go belly-up partway >through Stereolab's set, however, because Laetitia was using the same >space to stash her water bottle and knocked them over. That is just SO cool! But I'm kind of jealous of my Thoths, because they got to see Stereolab and I didn't. I found out after the fact that the 'Lab were playing in Detroit the same day that I was seeing OTC in Chicago. I *knew* I should have planted tiny surveillance cameras in the Thoths' heads... What an honor for the Thoth, to be knocked over by the Ice Princess Laetitia herself! And I bet the Thoths get to hang out with OTC and get drunk with them and talk about eschatology with them and stuff. Thoths have all the fun. Damn Thoths. n. (and I bet the Thoths get to see Will Hart's underwear, too) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 14:37:31 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: kcrw! and rlr! JH3 or 4 quertied: >Actually, I did try to keep track of the setlist, so, before the RealAudio >feed died on me I got this: >Television: See No Evil >Captain Beefheart: Low Yo Yo Stuff >Damned: New Rose >Iggy & the Stooges: Search & Destroy >Country Joe & the Fish: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine >Julian Cope: Charlotte Anne >Spacemen 3: Losing Touch With My Mind I caught the last very few moments of the show. He played "Heaven" by Talking Heads. After he finished, the DJ played Robyn's version on 12" red vinyl of "Ghost in You," which was very nice. Robyn mostly conducted the interview and he really was at home playing records, and by records, I mean records. You know, those unweildy rubbery, plastic things that go around while a sharp cutting device attempts to slice through or shear off everything it is able. He made fun of CD's and said after Y2K, we'll be very sorry we sold our vinyl. >So maybe there wasn't *that* much punk stuff after all. They also >talked about religion and the afterlife for a bit. Standard stuff, really, >as Dr. Evil would say... Yep. That punky reggae party wasn't very punky to begin with. Oh. And there wasn't any reggae. Happies, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:30:11 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Denver Feg Pics Ready for Nick to download: http://home.pacbell.net/tomnco/denver_fegs/ Check out the guy behind Kimberly flipping us off! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 16:18:57 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: RH article in San Jose Mercury News MUSIC DETAIL His U.S. tour is home away from U.K. home By Jon Matsumoto San Jose Mercury News Published: Thursday, November 18, 1999 `WE'RE IN Chicago right now. We're performing right outside Wrigley Field, home of the Cubs,'' says Englishman Robyn Hitchcock by phone. No, the veteran singer-songwriter isn't that rare Brit who actually appreciates America's national pastime. Actually Hitchcock isn't a fan of the Cubs nor remotely interested in the baseball. However, the cult artist is familiar with America's cities, having toured this country innumerable times since emerging as a solo artist in the early '80s. It's in the United States, not Britain, where the 46-year-old Hitchcock has won his largest and most enthusiastic support base. Though he still lives in England, he actually spends most of his working time in the States. At first glance, Hitchcock may appear too eccentric and lyrically offbeat for English sensibilities. In the past, his songs have referred to such bizarre notions as mutant reptiles, oozing insects and light-bulb heads. One of his most critically acclaimed albums was titled ``Globe of Frogs.'' But when asked to compare reserved Britons with the more expressive Americans, Hitchcock gives a surprising assessment. ``I think Americans are superficially more open than British people but probably fundamentally more closed,'' he says. ``Perhaps more alone. You can get to know people a certain amount here quite quickly, much faster than you can in Britain. But then they sort of close off.'' Hitchcock is a keen observer. In the press notes accompanying his newest album, ``Jewels for Sophia,'' he speaks of a world being destroyed by ``corporate greed, machismo and fundamentalist ideology.'' With the new song ``The Cheese Alarm,'' he manages to merge his concerns about world hunger (``Half the world starving and half the world bloats'') with wacked-out lyrics about overindulging on various cheeses from Gruyčre to Roquefort. But mostly, Hitchcock's lyrics tend to be more surreal than political. He says this is not necessarily by choice. ``You can't control your own muse,'' he says. ``It takes you where it wants to take you. In my case, it's my unconscious trying to get in touch with me, like the beep of call-waiting. I'd love to (write more politically and socially relevant songs), but I'm not sure if it's going to be given to me to write those kinds of songs. I don't know if I have any control over that. I think you kind of write what you're given.'' ``Jewels for Sophia'' is one of the warmest albums in the Hitchcock discography. Tracks such as ``I Feel Beautiful'' are tender love songs inspired by his relationship with girlfriend Michele Noach, who created the artwork that adorns the album's cover. ``I'm in a good state with the people I'm with, especially Michele,'' says Hitchcock, who plans to finish writing his first novel next year. ``So that's all really great. I don't think I've appreciated things (earlier) in my life as much as I have in my 40s. ``But I'm not necessarily more optimistic (about the rest of the world). If civilization survives this next century without wrecking the planet, it will be an amazing miracle. Everything else can live according to its needs (except humans).'' ``Jewels for Sophia,'' though it contains numerous acoustic cuts, also rocks harder than any of Hitchcock's recent work. When he turned 40, he chucked his band and returned to his more folk-oriented roots. He still feels that electric rock is better suited to those under 40 and suggests that the current album, which was recorded in Seattle, Los Angeles and London with musicians such as R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, may represent more of a sidestep than a long-term shift in direction. His American tour should be of particular interest to those with an awareness of Hitchcock's early history in the '70s-era band the Soft Boys. Kimberly Rew, a member of that artistically influential but commercially underappreciated outfit, is on the tour. ``Jewels for Sophia,'' on which Rew performs on two tracks, and these latest live shows mark the first time the two have collaborated since the Soft Boys broke up in 1980. Hitchcock's shows feature a healthy serving of songs from ``Jewels for Sophia,'' as well as material from an upcoming album of outtakes from the ``Sophia'' recording sessions. This tour also serves as a career retrospective highlighting both the acoustic and electric sides of his career. Time and experience have made the stage a more comfortable place for Hitchcock. He says he's less prone today to the type of performance jitters that plagued him earlier. Nevertheless, leave it to Hitchcock to equate standing at center stage to a macabre public execution. ``In the studio, if you had kidney failure or a heart attack, nobody would see it. But on stage, it would be in front of hundreds of people,'' he says. ``There's a great vulnerability that comes with being on stage. (It's kind of like) those days when, if someone was being burned alive or being hanged, they always had a mounted platform. There's nothing like (performing live), really.'' ABOUT THE BAND Robyn Hitchcock * Music Type: Rock EVENT TIMES - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Great American Music Hall 859 O'Farrell St. San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 885-0750 Concert Times 11/19 9 p.m. Ticket Prices $19   TOP OF PAGE ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:18:51 EST From: "Richard Zeszotarski" Subject: Re: Poké-Robyn? "Ludwig" didn't just air in the UK. I remember seeing it as a youngster as a feature on "Captain Kangaroo." >From: "matt sewell" >Reply-To: "matt sewell" >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Poké-Robyn? >Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 12:46:53 GMT > >>I was asking my six-year-old to explain one of them to me the other day. >>"What >>exactly is a Togepi?", I asked. "Oh", she says, "It's a walking egg with >>arms >>and legs". - Spooky. > >Do any UK fegs remember a cartoon on TV called Ludwig? >It used to be on in the seventies, round about the same time as the Wombles >(ie. not long before "Nationwide". >Perhaps Ludwig (who I guess came originally from Czechoslovakia or Germany >and was similarly a walking egg with arms and legs and a whole load of >other >gadgetry) forms the inspiration for Togepi? > >Matt "barely relevant" Sewell > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:29:01 +0100 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Raining Otago Coast That nice Mr Catron enquired about my status re: water. Yes, I am above flood-level, but only by a handful of miles. We had some pretty heavy rain in Dunedin last week, but the real damage was done 100 miles inland from here around the resort towns of Queenstown and Wanaka. That area, normally very dry, received itts annual 10 inches of rain in 48 hours. The lake that Queenstown stands on the shore of, Wakatipu, reached its highest level in 120 years. Things are slowly returning to normal there, but downstream from Wakatipu, in the low-lying areas arlong the valley of the Clutha river, there is still a lot of flooding. The Clutha's mouth is just 50 miles south of here, but Dunedin didn't get anything more than a bit of surface water on one or two streets. My fault, I'm afraid - I'd arranged a barbecue for last weekend. 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: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:37:57 +0100 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: disturbing personal news I have just had some disturbing personal news while researching my family tree. In 1919, my grandfather and grandmother married in Finmere, Buckinghamshire, England. Twenty-five year old Edinburgh-born James Patrick Dignan had just returned from serving with the 5th Lancers in France. His new bride was the 22-year-old Dubliner, Eleanor Gloster Mahon. Erm... does this suggest perhaps that me and Mark the shark... erm... I don't feel very well... 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: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:06:05 GMT From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Vegetarian Fegs Me too, though I have been known to consume certain sealife... (no, not whales...) > >Me too. > >You can add me to this list. > >Cheers! >-g- > >"I am against animal testing. The animals get really nervous and forget >the answers." --Fry and Laurie > >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ >Glen Uber >uberg@sonic.net >http://www.sonic.net/~uberg > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:14:49 -0500 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: Err. That should have read "Poke-Robyn" At 9:48 AM -0800 11/22/99, Nick Winkworth wrote: >I blame Ninteno's lawyers. Now, now, now Unca Nick, I almost went to work for those guys - until I realized: 1) I'd have to live in Seattle (sorry, but to a native californian that is death [the seattlites would kill me for "californicating" their state] - but now I live in Philadelphia so go figure...) 2) I'd have to design more console games 3) mario now it's 4) pokemon... Be seeing you, - - c "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:20:26 PST From: "Anal Oil Leakage" Subject: cunt rock made it from redding to seattle in 8 1/2 hours. believe you me, that's flyin'! just get out your atlas if you can't believe me. i even had to pass using the right shoulder on several occasions, so reluctant was i to ease off the throttle. so sorry if these have been posted already: 11/19/99, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco Mexican God The Devil's Coachman Aquarium Beautiful Girl Queen Elvis Alright, Yeah Cheese Alarm Jewels For Sophia No, I Don't Remember Guildford Madonna Of The Wasps Queen Of Eyes America Antwoman Sleeping With Your Devil Mask Oceanside You And Oblivion The Philosophers Stone I Feel Beautiful Sinister But She Was Happy Bip Bop (Dog & Onion) Heaven Elizabeth Jade Viva Sea-Tac 11/20/99, The Troubadour, Los Angeles Nietzsche's Way The Devil's Coachman Passing Souls Lysander Heaven Alright, Yeah Cheese Alarm Jewels For Sophia Madonna Of The Wasps Queen Of Eyes Antwoman America Sleeping With Your Devil Mask Oceanside I Often Dream Of Trains Insanely Jealous I Feel Beautiful Birds In Perspex Beautiful Queen Take This In Remembrance No, I Don't Remember Guildford Elizabeth Jade additionally, as eb mentioned, robyn played a private pre-gig gig (something to do with Spin magazine). pete palmer somehow wormed his way in, and taped it. so perhaps he can enlighten us with a setlist. from our vantage point - -- astride the coolest doorman in history -- we could hear briefy whenenver the door to the inner sanctum was cleaved open: Viva Sea-Tac, Sally Was A Legend... and now i'm drawing a blank. nothing too out of the usual, though. also, robyn's playing tonight at the mint. marc holden's gonna be there, with my taping rig. yay marc! at the end of the l.a. gig, robyn put it to the band whether they'd rather play Guildford or Elizabeth Jade. tim wanted the former, kim the latter. so robyn said (not into the mic, but it was still audible nearer the stage), "okay, let's play them both and then split." got a nice belly-laugh out of that. i can buy the third one (and, you might recall, that's initially what i'd assumed the name of the song was). but i also think the philosophers stone, without the apostrophe (as in: "you can go to the stoning *any time*." "oh, come on, brian!"), is a beautiful alternative; and i hope that's the winner of the big first prize. though, admittedly, it does sound a whole lot like he's singing "stoned". thanks for the transcriptions, hal! very nicely done (though i wouldn't capitalise "stone"). agreed. but i'll tell y'all one of my current pet peeves. in an ad, or on a restaurant's sign, when they'll cartoonically depict the restaurant's specialty. for example, a chicken rotisserie restaurant will have a pic of some chickens happily cavorting (blissfully unawares, it is to be presumed, of their imminent demise). or a seafood restaurant will have a picture of a lobster being held over a vat of boiling water, with an horrified look on its face. whatever. this just seems sadistic to the extreme. and i don't know whether it's a new trend/fad, or something i've just recently taken notice of. but i've been seeing it everywhere of late, and find it really quite sickening. as only he can: "the amp's packed it up." robyn had a spankin'-new amp in l.a.. well, that's the whole thing. the amp blew out, *and* he fucked up his acoustic. so they were short not one, but *two* guitars. and tim's got level controls right on his acoustic, with which he's always fiddling between songs. robyn used tim's acoustic (can't recall what had impelled him to do so) a few weeks ago. he couldn't figure it out, so tim showed him the level controls on top. but when he went to use tim's acoustic this time, tim wasn't on stage, and he'd forgotten how to use tim's guitar, so had the same problem all over again. it was all quite amusing, but incited the glorious improv which was probably the highlight of the entire tour. (okay, after tim dessicating robyn's electric during his Elizabeth Jade solo in atlanta. after that, he played robyn's electric every time they did Elizabeth Jade, but never lit into it with the same gusto as in atlanta. (where, you'll recall, he'd been playing electric only because it couldn't be played sitting down due to a bad connection, and robyn was in sit-down mode 'cause of his bad back. in other words, the two highlights of the tour would not have happened were it not for equipment failures. weird.)) well factually, most of those pix were from the MALR and bumbershoot gigs. the few that were from this current tour were actually taken by ms. l.j. lindhurst, and comprised the most-welcome component of the mountain of mail which greeted my brief return home last week. thanks, l.j.!! (but why was the pix of chris g. and myself hugging one another splotched with blood? everyone kept asking *me* that, and the only thing i could posit was that it was another of l.j.'s sinister pranks.) well, he *did* clap into his mic. but you're right, the claps were nearly inaudible. though someone (michael w.?) was telling me how much they'd dug 'em. to the contrary! okay, there were a few problems; mostly having to do with having to sit at two separate tables, being served beverages one at a time, not having our order taken for a good forty-five minutes -- and the food brought until a good half-hour after that, & cetera. (gotta admit, though, i just had to watch on in utter disbelief as, every few minutes or so, a kitchen staffer would haul a bus tub mounded over with dishes back to the kitchen -- at three in the fuckin' morning! l.a. is just *so* writ large, it's mind-boggling.) and with most of us about to drop dead from sleepiness (though eb seemed positively *wired*). but, hell, we got to watch capuch'n consume an entire carafe of water *and* an entire carafe of orange juice! and we got to bask in eb's aura. it was *tons* of fun making your acquaintence, eb!! my two favorite ebmoments were, first, when...um, i think i'd asked him if he'd ever had the pleasure of interviewing vanilla ice, or something. can't really remember. but somehow, we'd elicited the comment that eb doesn't like any west-coast hip-hop artists. i tried for an east coast act: the beastie boys. he don't like them, neither, come to find out. i asked if he'd never seen the video for Sabotage, 'cause it rules. he dismissed, "i'm not going to like some band's music just because they have a good video." which was not at all what i'd been driving at. but it was *too* beautiful all the same. second was when i asked if l.a. had corrupted him, and he sneered, "*you* corrupted me." haven't the foggiest just what that rejoinder was supposed to have meant, but i'll always cherish it. wow! the new layout looks *fabulous*, nick! KEN "Gospel signs for sale" THE KENSTER ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #436 *******************************