From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #39 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, February 16 2000 Volume 09 : Number 039 Today's Subjects: ----------------- eb all over the world ["Faecal Emergency" ] Re: A weekend of loss ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Ay, feggs! [Michael R Godwin ] Bramish comments [Ethyl Ketone ] eddie all over the oscars ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: eddie all over the oscars [Eb ] eddie's fetish all over the world [Eb ] A Bra For Stam ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Re: Homicide [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: eddie all over the oscars [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Homicide [Tom Clark ] Re: Homicide [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: eddie all over the oscars [MARKEEFE@aol.com] My Only Friend, The Rain [Glen Uber ] the "killer app" of the rodent was "gerbiling" ["Faecal Emergency" ] Tight sphincters. ["Dr.Sticky" ] Cure this. ["Dr.Sticky" ] Pazz & Jop poll, out now [Eb ] that Neutral Milk Hotel website again... ["Stewart C. Russell" Subject: eb all over the world there was actually a large-ish front-page photo in the sunday seattle times (with accompanying story on page 2), which shocked the holy bejeezuz out of me. even more surprising: the story lamented that the region had previously sustained massive environmental catastrophe from nato's bombing of oil refineries. now of course, it didn't go on to say that it's standard practice to use cyanide in mining operations. and that wherever mining operations choose to set up camp, woe and misery inevitably follow. and that rat bastard capitalism is, as always, to blame. but still.... KEN "Tie me up! Tie me down!" THE KENSTER ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:20:35 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: A weekend of loss Jon Fetter wrote: > > Don't forget the Tisa River in Yugoslavia, the story of which seems > to have been heroically ignored by the media here. And the Australian gold mining company from whose mine in Romania it escaped are claiming it has nothing to do with them... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:18:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Ay, feggs! > Ye olde Mike G expostulated > PPS Anyone compiling a quiz like that should really learn to spell > 'weird' On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 coco95@senet.com.au wrote: > Yes, bud yi ocurrs rto me that perhaps he mispelt it throughoout the > posst becorse he wanted to apeear be wierder thaan theee. > yesss ? > feggxxxx Interesting spelling of "feg" as well. I see you spell your name in the Robert Louis Stevenson style: "Ay, ay!" says Andie, "Tam'll can deal with them the best. And troth! the mair I think of it, the less I see we would be required. The place - ay, feggs! they had forgot the place. Eh, Shaws, ye're a lang-heided chield when ye like! Forby that I'm awing ye my life," he added, with more solemnity, and offered me his hand upon the bargain. Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona, from ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext96/ctrna10.txt - - Mike Godwin PS to Stewart: What is Andie on about, anyway? Do Collins do a Lallans dicker? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:23:26 -0500 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Bramish comments Got ASFB yesterrday and have been listening pretty steady. Not crazy about all of it (Daisy Bomb is my least fave) but overall it's a fun mix of outtakes. Nice to have Nick Drake and Adoration of the City in studio sessions. Like the Philosophers Stone. Really hate this version of 1974 however. Be Seeing You, - - c "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** C. J. Galbraith Ketone Press meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:41:47 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: eddie all over the oscars Sorry Eddie, "South Park" only got one Oscar nomination, and that was for the song "Blame Canada." "Uncle Fucka" got snubbed! "The Sixth Sense"? What the fuck? http://oscar.com/nominees/nom_index.html - --Jason "I sleep 20 hours a day, just like Hua Mei" The Jasonster "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:36:28 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: eddie all over the oscars >Sorry Eddie, "South Park" only got one Oscar nomination, and that was for >the song "Blame Canada." "Uncle Fucka" got snubbed! > >"The Sixth Sense"? What the fuck? Lots of dark horses and weakly grossing films this year, once you get past "American Beauty." It's going to be an interesting race. Yeah, all the "Sixth Sense" noms surprised me, too. Ditto on "The Cider House Rules" and "The Insider." And Sean Penn gets nominated for Actor, over Carrey and Hanks? Even when the convict from "The Green Mile" *was* nominated? Huh. Not a single A-list name in the Director category, either. Interesting. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:41:31 -0800 From: Eb Subject: eddie's fetish all over the world Something just occured to me: Think about what a headache the Oscar-broadcast producers will have, deciding on a way to stage "Blame Canada" which doesn't offend their international audience. Hee hee. Maybe they'll have a well-known Canadian comedian sing it (Martin Short?) in a really broad, farcical way, so it only seems like a native harmlessly poking fun at himself? Wait, wait...new thought! How about well-known Canadian self-parody *William Shatner* singing it? Hell, that would *work*! (I have a feeling that the SP zealots will be really ticked off at the performance's tone, regardless.) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:21:04 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: A Bra For Stam Aaargh! No! Daisy Bomb's the best track. Those waltz-time weirdnesses just slay me. Agree with Ethyl on 1974 though. In the old days of double albums this would have made a damn good one with JfS. Actually in terms of length might even be a triple : ) jmbc. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:31:01 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Homicide tanter wrote: > Did you guys watch the movie tonite? It was as wonderful as the > series but oh so sad at the end. It's rare I care so much about a tv > show but this one was just so great. I miss it--the writing is fab, > the acting is fab....there's little on these days that's as good, > IMHO. though Giancarlo Esposito's scenery chewing was a bit much (thankfully in most of it Reed Diamond was following him around eating making the scene more bearable). my only real criticism of the the movie (beyond that) was that there wasn't enough of Melissa Leo, whose firing/release of was easily the worst mistake the producers ever made; even worse than hiring Jon Seda (was actually not bad in the movie) or underusing Toni Lewis. and the scene where the ME's are looking over Gee just out of surgery was priceless. and damn, if they didn't just rip everyone's guts out by jerking Gee away like that at the end, even if you could sorta see it coming. but i'm still pissed that the local fox affilliate cut out maude flanders funeral for eas announcement, which they could have easily scrolled across the bottom or top of the screen as the scene played, and then do a newsbreak during the commercials. ===== "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: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:35:43 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: eddie all over the oscars "Jason R. Thornton" wrote: > > Sorry Eddie, "South Park" only got one Oscar nomination, and that was > for the song "Blame Canada." "Uncle Fucka" got snubbed! the film's producers choose what song is submitted for nomination. it was stone & parker who picked "Blame Canada." > "The Sixth Sense"? What the fuck? my big question with that was, how exactly is Haley Joel Osment a SUPPORTING actor in that movie; he's in 90+% of the film, and the plot revolves around him. and you ever get the feeling that (and i say this without having seen "the hurricane," and i'm sure that denzel is good in it) a lot of academy voters would nominate Denzel Washington every year, even if all he made were Police Academy and Ernest movies, just because they don't want to risk being criticized for not having any black nominees. > http://oscar.com/nominees/nom_index.html ===== "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: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:42:47 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Homicide On 2/15/2000 2:31 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: >but i'm still pissed that the local fox affilliate cut out maude >flanders funeral for eas announcement, which they could have easily >scrolled across the bottom or top of the screen as the scene played, >and then do a newsbreak during the commercials. No shit! And it just went on soooooo long. My wife and I just started yelling at the TV: "Alright Already!! I'll stay out of fucking Sonoma when it rains!!!!" (We're a little high strung...) - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:51:02 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Homicide - --- Tom Clark wrote: > On 2/15/2000 2:31 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > >but i'm still pissed that the local fox affilliate cut out maude > >flanders funeral for eas announcement, which they could have easily > >scrolled across the bottom or top of the screen as the scene played, > >and then do a newsbreak during the commercials. > > No shit! And it just went on soooooo long. My wife and I just > started yelling at the TV: "Alright Already!! I'll stay out of > fucking Sonoma when it rains!!!!" (We're a little high strung...) and besides, who after living here in the bay area more than a week does know that after three or more days of rain of any sort that you have to stay away from the Rushin' Russian River. i mean christ, i'm in fookin' fremont, have never even been to sonoma and knew that when i was 4. and i jumped around quickly; 4, 5, & 7 did not have there program interrupted. someone was asleep at the wheel at channel 2 (since after a set amoung of time after the warning is sent out, it is automatically transmitted from any station that hasn't acknowledged the message, assuming it works anything like EAS on radio, which i'm sure it does). and it was the second interruption in about half and hour, as their was a shorter interruption during KOTH. ===== "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: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:28:03 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: eddie all over the oscars In a message dated 2/15/00 2:38:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, munki1972@yahoo.com writes: << > "The Sixth Sense"? What the fuck? my big question with that was, how exactly is Haley Joel Osment a SUPPORTING actor in that movie; he's in 90+% of the film, and the plot revolves around him. >> I think it might have something to do with the "ensemble cast" theory, or that Willis' character is just as important, or something like that. Or it might simply relate back to the credits for the film and who was originally billed as "starring in" the movie, as opposed to "also featuring" or whatever. Or maybe the Oscar committe just thought it'd be cute to have a kid up for an Oscar he could have a good shot at winning. - ------Michael K., who liked "Sixth Sense" much more than "American Beauty," but I need to see "Cider House" before I decide which picture I'll be rooting for. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:45:06 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: My Only Friend, The Rain On 15.02.00 14:51, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > and besides, who after living here in the bay area more than a week > does know that after three or more days of rain of any sort that you > have to stay away from the Rushin' Russian River. i mean christ, i'm in > fookin' fremont, have never even been to sonoma and knew that when i > was 4. and i jumped around quickly; 4, 5, & 7 did not have there > program interrupted. someone was asleep at the wheel at channel 2 I was pissed at the interruption, too. I live in Sonoma County right next to Santa Rosa Creek (which nearly floods every year) and the Emergency Alert wasn't even relevant to me! Jeff's right: If you live in this area any amount of time, you know it floods around here. What pisses me off is that the flood warnings begin when the river is at about 17 feet. The freakin' flood level is 34 feet! Interrupt me to tell me that houses are floating down the Russian River toward Jenner and people are kayaking to work and then maybe I'll a bit more forgiving. Until then, leave the fookin Simpsons alone! - -- Cheers! - -g- "I have two very rare photographs: one is a picture of Houdini locking his keys in his car; the other is a rare photograph of Norman Rockwell beating up a child. '' --Steven Wright +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:33:05 PST From: "Faecal Emergency" Subject: the "killer app" of the rodent was "gerbiling" 1/16/00 Storyville, Arezzo Surgery Lysander One Long Pair Of Eyes Queen Elvis Viva Sea-Tac Heaven My Wife And My Dead Wife My Favourite Buildings I Am Not Me Raymond Chandler Evening Sally Was A Legend I Feel Beautiful You And Oblivion Kingdom Of Love Freeze Only The Stones Remain I Often Dream Of Trains The Speed Of Things Listening To The Higsons 1/21/00 Circolo Renfe, Ferrara Mexican God Lysander Cheese Alarm Raining Twilight Coast Madonna Of The Wasps I'm Only You Beautiful Girl Sleeping With Your Devil Mask I Am Not Me Autumn Is Your Last Chance Unsettled Queen Of Eyes Sally Was A Legend Kingdom Of Love I Feel Beautiful Freeze My Wife And My Dead Wife I Often Dream Of Trains Only The Stones Remain Insanely Jealous sounded to me like he rather phoned them in, alas. listless, in other words. some highlights: My Favourite Buildings (natch), Freeze (both times), Sleeping With Your Devil Mask (has he ever done it solo acoustic before?), Unsettled. told the Lysander story in english, italian, and *french* one of the times. can't remember which. KEN "Eb all over the world" THE KENSTER ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 00:01:35 -0500 From: Jeremy Mathews Subject: Storefront Hitchcock Aspect Ratio Sorry if I missed a post regarding this earlier, but I was wondering if Storefront Hitchcock was simply shot in 1.33:1, or if it is being butchered in pan and scan. reel.com says it is pan & scan, but they often report that for older films and other stuff shot in 1.33 originally. It doesn't seem logical, since Hitchcock and Demme fans, the only people who would buy it, would probably prefer the original. Has anyone seen it in the theater or in just happen to know? Thanks a lot, Jeremy Mathews ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 01:01:55 -0500 From: "Dr.Sticky" Subject: Tight sphincters. A quote that says it all. " Queenie: Sometimes people say to me, "You know, if you like Robyn Hitchcock, you'd love (INSERT NAME HERE)" and I tell them that it's not RH's style of music or anything but SPIRIT of him that I love. And I tell them that I'm sorry, but no one else will ever have the same soul, body and mind of RH, so there could never be a comparison. - - Tuesday, February 15, 2000 at 01:40:41 (PST) " ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 01:20:51 -0500 From: "Dr.Sticky" Subject: Cure this. Any how. While I'm actually drunk enought o post on this list, has anyone heard the Cure's lates? Bloodfkowers. I hear it's good. We'll see.Onto anither subjet. What tyhe hell is the guys name that that the energy created in an orgasm was the same type of energy that creates universees? Gots to go. Gonna pass out soon. Oh yeah, I lent out JFS to several people. By feedback standards, its a nice album. This either means two things; they didn't really listen to it. Or, it could've been a fine seller. My vite is for the latter. It, musucally, is Robyns most middle of the road album. I could imagine hearing it on a radio somehwrw. Really. Time to go. Bye. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:17:14 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Pazz & Jop poll, out now http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/99/ The final 1999 poll is published...the biggie. It actually has *fewer* participating writers than the Addicted to Noise poll (489 writers, as opposed to 602), but I like the results of this one better. I'm not going to post the standings (ehh, I've done that enough already...check the link yourself), but I'll just mention some specific reasons why I like the P&J rankings better. Albums which I find overrated, which thankfully dropped on the P&J poll: Wilco (#8, instead of #3), Nine Inch Nails (#14, instead of #7), Fountains of Wayne (#19, instead of #11), Built to Spill (#22, instead of #15), Guided By Voices (#48, instead of #19), Paul McCartney (#55, instead of #35), Ben Folds Five (#59, instead of #40), Gomez (#62, instead of #39), Santana (#40, instead of #24), Red Hot Chili Peppers (#43, instead of #18), Blur (#45, instead of #33) and Ben Harper (#86, instead of #41). Albums I like a lot, which ranked higher on the P&J poll: Randy Newman (#11, up from #16), Quasi (#59, didn't finish in ATN's top 100), Stereolab (#65, didn't finish in ATN's top 100) and Superchunk (#75, didn't finish in ATN's top 100). I really couldn't understand why Quasi and Stereolab didn't rank on the ATN poll.... Still, P&J disappointed me in a few other ways. The Beta Band album, which I thought was utter garbage, was out of ATN's top 100 but #81 on P&J. And then some favored albums of mine took a dive on P&J: Matthew Sweet (#34 on ATN, only #81 on P&J) "Return of the Grievous Angel" (#65 on ATN, only #86 on P&J), Jason Falkner (#61 on ATN, only #118 on P&J), Chris Cornell (#63 on ATN, only #102 on P&J), Olivia Tremor Control (#73 on ATN, only #109 on P&J) and especially Owsley (#97 on ATN, a dismal #357 on P&J). Note: The P&J poll also ranks singles and reissues, if you're curious. Anyway, this is my last poll posting, I promise. ;) Eb PS Jewels for Sophia is #69 on the P&J poll, as opposed to #54 on ATN. And Eddie, you'll be happy to know that the "South Park" soundtrack finished #84 on the P&J poll. ;) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 08:49:58 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: that Neutral Milk Hotel website again... it's back, by the looks of things: http://www.cnd.gatech.edu/neutral/ -- is the url different? My SfB should be in the post! It's snowing like a bastard here! Stewart "Julian played sock so you don't have to..." ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #39 ******************************