From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #5 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, January 7 2000 Volume 09 : Number 005 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: jag my memory ["JH3" ] a newsgroup review of a recent Yo La Tengo show, plus... [Eb ] Re: Steven Wright [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: Steven Wright [tanter ] wright ["Paul Christian Glenn" ] steven wright and one LP wonders (slight return) ["jbranscombe@compuserve] Re: Steven Wright [hal brandt ] Re: Pitchfork's top 100 [Charles Gillett ] Kelly Hogan in the UK ["Ghost Surfer" ] reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] hey... [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: hey... ["bret" ] Re: Kelly Hogan in the UK [dmw ] Re: reap [Jon Fetter ] Re: hey... [Natalie Jacobs ] Top disposals [Michael R Godwin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:40:05 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: jag my memory >What were the top reissues of 1999? I need to recall, for another poll. Yow, how could I forget? Nick Lowe's "The Doings" career retrospective box set came out last year! My wife would've killed me if I'd forgotten that one... Also, I believe most of the Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry albums were reissued last year, and most of King Crimson's and the Clash's back catalog was remastered/resissued as well, if I'm not mistaken. And the Rolling Stones, too, if you want to count them... All in those "miniaturized LP sleeves" that seem to be the latest trend in back- catalog repackaging. John H. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:07:58 -0800 From: Eb Subject: a newsgroup review of a recent Yo La Tengo show, plus... I didn't see the exact date or location of this show, but the post was dated January 5th and apologized for being "a couple of days late." [clipped fragment from the review] They [YLT] also did a few covers (surprise!), including the Soft Boys "I Wanna Destroy You" and "Queen of Eyes" (which -did- surprise me). Really good. Also, they did T. Rex, the Kinks "King Kong" and "See My Friends," Cat Stevens "There Goes My Baby" which Ira introduced by mentioning -Rushmore- (which is funny, because when I first saw that movie and heard it, I thought, "It's the Yo La Tengo song!). They also played that NRBQ song about slapping your hands (can't remember the name). - ------ Capuchin: >That night (morning?) as we were getting ready for bed, Viv noted that >it was, in her memory, the first truly global event. Di's funeral came pretty close, and...um...have you guys ever seen this thing called the Olympics? - ------ In other news, an amazing bulletin which someone mailed me: Our good friend Will Shatner is staring in a series of tv commercial that are a takeoff on the Storytellers VHI show. The band backing Will includes Mary Timony and Carrie Brownstein from Sleater Kinney. They do covers of the following songs, but our friends didn't actually play on them (LA studio folks) they hired them to "perform" them in the commercials. Each commercial features one of the following gems: Age of Aquarius Convoy We Gotta Get Out of This Place Free Bird Two Tickets to Paradise I Want You to Want me Also filmed were a few songless ones that are more like spoken thoughts. They won't air until the songs are played out. Oh yeah, the spot was directed by Phil Morrison - who picked the "band." I believe the spots will rotate over the next 6 months. Right now the spots are running a lot on the networks, CNN, A&E, CNBC, Sci Fi, USA, Travel, TBS. Eb, who still has a "Convoy" 45 somewhere ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:34:05 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #4 In a message dated 1/6/00 3:32:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org writes: << ed some info: overheard snippets on the radio of a stand-up comic called Steven Wright. Very deadpan (imagine a stand-up Leonard Cohen), very funny. Anyone able to tell me anything about him? >> I saw him in concert in 1985 opening for Kid Creole and the Coconuts. Weird show. Wright did an impression of a bowling ball by dragging his mike around his stool, dropping it off the edge and muttering "Gutter." He's been in a few movies. I liked him in Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon as a mounty (no, that's not M. Moore the head of the WTO). He's very funny at first, but does wear off. dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:57:38 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Steven Wright In a message dated 1/6/00 1:37:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, DDerosa5@aol.com writes: << << ed some info: overheard snippets on the radio of a stand-up comic called Steven Wright. Very deadpan (imagine a stand-up Leonard Cohen), very funny. Anyone able to tell me anything about him? >> >> I may still have a tape of one of his albums somewhere. Something in the title about a pony, I think. Really funny! I would play it on the way to grad school on the mornings when I needed it most :-) He was a semi-regular on the TV show "Mad About You" for quite some time, playing someone who worked with Paul at his studio. But, yeah, dead-pan little observations are pretty much his schtick. It's kind of the rhythm and momentum of one of his shows that's realy funny ("He just keeps on comin' with these things, doesn't he?!?"), although some isolated jokes are damn hilarious. "I bought some batteries the other day. They weren't included." Stuff like that. In and of itself, it merits a light chuckle; but, after a half-dozen of those suckers, I'm usually crackin' up! - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 17:40:22 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: s. wright actually, i'm fond lately of shannon wright's album _flight safety_, but as far as the comic goes, my pick for the quintessential s. wright moment was when he mumbled "one night i put instant coffee in the microwave...and i almost went back in time." so at risk of starting the first annoying thread of the year, is emo phillips the "feggiest" comic of alltime, or what? - -- d. np gbv _mag earwhig!_ - - 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: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:04:34 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Steven Wright MARKEEFE@aol.com wrote: >I may still have a tape of one of his albums somewhere. >Something in the title about a pony, I think. I Have a Pony. cuz he's allowed pets in his building, and that's what he has. used to have an east german shephard named stay. very disciplined. he'd say c'mere, stay to the dog, and make it go nuts. but mostly now, the dog ignores him and keep typing. I named the crappy ass column i wrote for my hs newspaper my senior year after a line on that album (he has a _microwave fireplace_, so he can sit in front of the fire for an evening in 15 minutes). clever observations make much funnier just by his deadpanest of deadpan deliveries. he bought some powdered water, but he didn't know what to add. Really funny! I would play > it on the way > to grad school on the mornings when I needed it most :-) He > was a > semi-regular on the TV show "Mad About You" for quite some > time, playing > someone who worked with Paul at his studio. But, yeah, > dead-pan little > observations are pretty much his schtick. It's kind of the > rhythm and > momentum of one of his shows that's realy funny ("He just > keeps on comin' > with these things, doesn't he?!?"), although some isolated > jokes are damn > hilarious. > "I bought some batteries the other day. They weren't > included." Stuff > like that. In and of itself, it merits a light chuckle; but, > after a > half-dozen of those suckers, I'm usually crackin' up! > > ------Michael K. > ===== "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 18:07:03 -0600 From: tanter Subject: RE: Steven Wright "A friend sent me a postcard of the planet Earth. He wrote 'wish you were here.'" Steven Wright Marcy L. Tanter Assistant Professor of English Tarleton State University Stephenville, TX 76401 254-968-9892 (9039 to leave a message) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 18:00:10 -0600 From: "Paul Christian Glenn" Subject: wright IIRC, Wright also won an Academy award for a short film which he wrote and/or directed a few years back. He recently did another one, too, although I haven't seen either one. FWIW. Paul Christian Glenn pcg@mailandnews.com Eon Chamber http://eonchamber.virtualave.net Christian Realists http://x-real.firinn.org Currently reading: "The God We Never Knew" by Marcus J. Borg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 19:18:22 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: steven wright and one LP wonders (slight return) I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Wrighty's appearance as the DJ introducing the various sound-track items in Reservoir Dogs...all together now - "The Bohemiath." On one LP-sters, I've just remembered Gretschen Hofner, a very kitsch but intellectual *and* rocking outfit (sample titles, A Judy Garland Life and Betty Page Is Back). A bit like Tav Falco's Panther Burns but with a little more knowingness. Their only album, Maria Callous, might appeal to the Momus fans out there... Sleep well jmbc. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 17:25:35 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: Steven Wright I once met Steven Wright at the Salvador Dali Museum in Fla. A surreal experience, indeed! /hal ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:38:59 -0600 (CST) From: Charles Gillett Subject: Re: Pitchfork's top 100 On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:00:58 -0800, Eb wrote: > As for the albums I'm lame for not having heard: > ... > Magnetic Fields: The Charm of the Highway Strip This is the album I've listened to the most since I started keeping track--I have a list on my wall and I put a hash mark by the title after each listen. The idea popped into my head one evening and I've just kept doing it, even though it seems pretty useless (except when I'm organizing a sort of listening schedule after I've purchased some insane number of CDs, which I've done far too often lately). Anyway, I've been doing this for a few months short of two years, and in that time I've listened to _The Charm of the Highway Strip_ 23 times. Once a month on average, which doesn't sound that impressive, but it's a fair jump ahead of the next in line (Palace, _Viva Last Blues_, 17) and almost triple the count for the second most-listened-to Magnetic Fields disc (69 Love Songs vol. 1, 8). Of course, I could listen to it five times every day for the rest of my life and it wouldn't matter to anyone else (assuming I lived alone), especially if s/he is not given to liking the Magnetic Fields in the first place. > Amon Tobin: two different albums [jeez, I haven't even heard of > this guy!] I have _Permutation_, and it's okay. I like it more than Squarepusher's _Music Is Rotted One Note_, which it resembles in some ways. It has some of that fusion sound, which I find very dull and forgettable. I much prefer _Adventures In Foam_, which he made under the name Cujo. It's one of the only electronic/ sample-based albums I have that actually feels like an *album*. I like Autechre, for example, but I usually feel like I can just drop the laser anywhere on the disc and be satisfied. When I listen to _Adventures In Foam_, I listen to it all the way through. A nice touch is that some songs (perhaps all, I can't tell for sure) each are derived from one source--"Paris, Streatham" is all samples from Ry Cooder's _Paris, Texas_ soundtrack, and "Cruzer" is all samples from John Zorn's "Spillane." I have 17 albums from Pitchfork's 100, and I've heard 9 others. Whoo. Hoo. Is the Music Tapes album bad in such a way that someone who likes bad music might like it, or is it just plain bad? It does seem highly unpopular. - -- Charles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 01:51:07 PST From: "Ghost Surfer" Subject: Kelly Hogan in the UK The wonderful Kelly Hogan will be touring the UK as part of a bloodshot tour in February. Haven't got full dates yet, but watch the press for details if i can't get them soon. Think the London date is Feb 8th. - ----------------************************************************------------ "There are times when i can't think about the future, when all my days seem so dark and life seems cruel" - Mojave 3 & "Make a moment last forever, gaze across the ocean to the sun" - Unknown !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 12:03:49 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap Patrick O'Brian, the famed nautical writer. Just as one of my colleagues (a former editor of his) was arranging to visit him this summer, too, Obit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/obituaries/newsid_429000/429210.stm Oh well. We're all doomed, etc. To cheer you all up: - - find out your WuName: http://www.recordstore.com/cgi-bin/wuname/wuname.pl - - does this remind you of a large corporation's logo? http://homepages.enterprise.net/scruss/Images/fnord.png (it's supposed to, but I can't draw for toffee) Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 10:25:16 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: hey... I'll be on the radio tonight from 10-12. www.wcbn.org It was gonna be my last show, but I decided to sign up to do radio again this semester. I'll probably get another 6-9am show... *sigh* Anyway, tune in, and I promise you will be delighted and intimidated. n. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 09:19:57 -0600 From: "bret" Subject: Re: hey... > > I'll be on the radio tonight from 10-12. www.wcbn.org > > It was gonna be my last show, but I decided to sign up to do radio again > this semester. I'll probably get another 6-9am show... *sigh* > > Anyway, tune in, and I promise you will be delighted and intimidated. heh...... Ann Arbor eh? You guys play some Wally Pleasant up there? __________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:10:26 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: Kelly Hogan in the UK On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Ghost Surfer wrote: > The wonderful Kelly Hogan will be touring the UK as part of a bloodshot tour > in February. Haven't got full dates yet, but watch the press for details if > i can't get them soon. Think the London date is Feb 8th. "does this mean the wonderful kelly hogan has new product to flog," he asks eagerly? - - 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: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:31:13 -0500 From: Jon Fetter Subject: Re: reap >Patrick O'Brian, the famed nautical writer. Just as one of my colleagues >(a former editor of his) was arranging to visit him this summer, too, And just last night I was damning him for chronic general pronoun reference. >Obit: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/obituaries/newsid_429000/429210.stm > >Oh well. We're all doomed, etc. As is the unfinished Book 21, apparently. Jon - ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Wales, let's go out and count some quails." --TGQ, "The Celtic Quails of Cornwall" (Re-mix by Trevor Horn) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:39:56 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Re: hey... > heh...... Ann Arbor eh? You guys play some Wally Pleasant up there? I do. I don't know if anyone else does. I'm particularly fond of "Hippie's Lament" and "The Day Ted Nugent Shot All the Animals." n. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:07:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Top disposals Hi! I'm back after an extremely morose Christmas break. Just saw this report from the Melody Maker of the CDs which turned up most frequently in UK secondhand bins during '99: 1 Be Here Now - Oasis; 2 K - Kula Shaker; 3 Spiders - Space; 4 Post Orgasmic Chill - Skunk Anansie; 5 Believe - Cher; 6 Magic Treehouse - Ooberman; 7 Urban Hymns - The Verve; 8 Villa Elaine - Remy Zero; 9 The Masterplan - Oasis; 10 Rides - Reef. Definite hint here that people are losing interest in Oasis. It'll be interesting to see whether the new album sells. - - "Morose" Mike Godwin PS And if I never hear that Cher 'mwbelieve' noise again it'll be too soon. PPS Same goes for the Verve sampling Andrew Loog Oldham. PPPS Bah! Humbug! ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #5 *****************************