From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #40 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 040 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Ay, feggs! ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Cure this. ["matt sewell" ] Re: Ay, feggs! ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Hold fast to the law! [Michael R Godwin ] Re: the "killer app" of the rodent was "gerbiling" [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Cure this. [The Great Quail ] A Scan of Bram [Capuchin ] Nominees [Michael Wolfe ] top robyn songs of the '90s ["Faecal Emergency" ] Re: top robyn songs of the '90s [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Fwd: Richard Thompson on The Open Road [Griffith Davies ] Re: Nominees [Eb ] Re: Cure this. [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Nominees [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Nominees [Eb ] Not to Bragg but... ["Thomas, Ferris" ] Re: Nominees [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Eye BALL ["brian nupp" ] Re: top robyn songs of the '90s [Capuchin ] Re: eddie all over the ghost ship ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: eddie all over the ghost ship [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Nominees (0% Buckwheat content) [Eb ] Re: Cure this. [Ken Ostrander ] Blood Flowers [John Barrington Jones ] Re: eddie all over the ghost ship ["Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Ay, feggs! Michael R Godwin wrote: > > PS to Stewart: What is Andie on about, anyway? Isn't it obvious? Or doesn't everyone speak like that? I know I do. I think that 'feggs' is probably a cleaned up version of 'feck' or 'fech' (cf. Yiddish 'feh!') which is just a quaint way of saying 'fuck'. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 09:25:43 GMT From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Cure this. Dr Sticky slurs: >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? It's Willhelm Reich - one of the only people lucky enough to have his books *burned* (yes, burned) by the US government. Apparently they thought his theories far too dangerous for public consumption (this I believe was post-first ammendment!)... I've not read any of his books but can wholeheartedly recommend "Willhelm Reich In Hell" a play by Robert Anton Wilson... Cheers Matt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 09:19:06 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Ay, feggs! > Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona, from > ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext96/ctrna10.txt I do wish Gutenberg would end their insistence on totally flat text. One could so so much more with something tagged. > PS to Stewart: What is Andie on about, anyway? I think that Andie is handing over the responsibility for an action to Tam, admitting that he and his cohorts would be in the way. He's also giving mock-grudging respect to Shaws. > Do Collins do a Lallans dicker? Collins Scots Gem. Rather basic, but quite well researched. There are more comprehensive ones, but some are ancient, and some get carried away too much with the Celtic nonsense. BTW, I know you might not have been too wild on the series, but we publish "The Art of Gormenghast". It's a remarkably good the-making-of, with some good biog on Mervyn Peake. Do you want me to look out for a copy in the staff shop? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:55:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Hold fast to the law! On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > BTW, I know you might not have been too wild on the series, but we > publish "The Art of Gormenghast". It's a remarkably good the-making-of, > with some good biog on Mervyn Peake. Do you want me to look out for a > copy in the staff shop? Sounds excellent! I only got round to watching the final episode a couple of days ago - I missed the transmission because some Hitchcock bloke was playing in Bristol that night. Overall, I enjoyed it more than I may have implied. John Sessions was better than I first thought - the IoS critic, who reviewed Gormenghast very favourably, said that Sessions's whole career had been building up to playing this part (he undercut this by saying "that may or may not be a compliment"). Neve Macintosh also improved as the series went on: but as they got through 3 Tituses in 17 years, I think they should have used a younger actress for episode one. Celia Imrie was fine - but what happened to the cats in the later episodes? And a handful of nuthatches, bullfinches and starlings could wouldn't have come amiss to give support to the white crow (who admittedly gave a very confident yet self-effacing performance in his first TV role). Warren Mitchell was good (though singled out in one review I saw as overplayed - but how can you overplay Barquentine?). Fiona Shaw was fabulous. Christopher Lee was good, if not quite skinny and angular enough. Ian Richardson was thoroughly believable - though the death owls were the one special effect which came over as rickety. In contrast, the burning of Barquentine was superbly done. Cora and Clarice were perfect. Richard Griffiths was OK and the duel with Flay was good without being outstanding. I didn't feel that the director was particularly comfortable with action scenes. Um. Jonathan Rhys Meyers. All in all, I felt that he was too likeable for the part. The dance with the twins' corpses, though loathesome, didn't have sufficient horror. The strutting before the dance was omitted, which I always felt was the foulest part of the whole work, showing the character slowly breaking out of his controlled persona into madness. And since they made a point of quoting Fuchsia's 'White and red' poem, why was the burnt part of his face pale and not scarlet? Did they misinterpret it to mean that the red part was the unburnt flesh? And what was the point of that trashy 'Phantom of the Opera' mask? Everyone agrees that the sets were impressive, though there were one or two scenes where they were matted into the background and looked unreal, like an old-time glass shot from King Kong. The flood was good, the classroom sliding game was well done, but the tunnels out of the castle were a bit Blake's 7. Oh, and Stephen Fry was far too young for Bellgrove, who is supposed to turn 70 during the span of 17 years. But overall, I was amazed that the project even got off the ground, and I liked it. As for the meaning of the thing - I think it is probably a sort of Gurdjieffian parable. People structure their lives according to rigid ritual patterns which enable them to function automatically. They really ought to question things and act independently: but when they do, they often leave it too late, and the results can be unpredictable and even catastrophic. So maybe it would have been better to remain sleepwalking. I'm sure other readers can come up with richer interpretations. - - Mike Godwin PS One of the student welfare team here is called Fiona Shaw. I keep having visions of a timid student going in for advice and being confronted with this monumental figure shouting "My skin is flawless! And isn't my neck perfect?" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:07:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: the "killer app" of the rodent was "gerbiling" On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Faecal Emergency wrote: > Sleeping With Your Devil Mask (has he ever done it solo acoustic before?), Yes, a few days before the 1987 Glastonbury Festival he played it during an acoustic set at a rather cheesy club in the Hotwells area of Bristol - I'm not sure if this performance is in the gig anthology, though. Chris Cox joined in on double bass during some numbers, but I think Robyn played SWYDM solo. And I have an even vaguer recollection that John Hegley was the support act. - - Mike "rotting brain" Godwin PS Glad to see OTSR back in the set. I was going to shout for it at the Fleece but I thought he'd given up playing it. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 06:56:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doc Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #39 I got a nice CD in the mail the other day-- the Jazz Butcher's "Glorious And Idiotic". A live CD from a set done in Hamburg Germany last year. (Woj, you really need to get this...) That's all. - -Doc, who couldn't give a fuck about the Oscars, or any other bonehead ranking schemes ===== "I have been a member of the Committe of the MCC and of a Conservative cabinet, and by comparason with the cricketers, the Torries seem like a bunch of Commies." -Viscount Mockton __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:40:23 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Cure this. Herr Doktor Sticky writes, >Any how. While I'm actually drunk enought o post on this list, has >anyone heard the Cure's lates? I just bought it yesterday, and here it is, in my trembling fingers. I merely await the PERFECT TIME to play it -- I just can't throw on the new Cure album at random, you know! Oh, and the song lengths -- three tracks check in at about 7 minutes, and one is over 11 minutes! Woo-hoo! (LJ's didn't seem quite as psyched.) >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? Wilhelm Reich. A very interesting cat, Mr. R, who had a lot of good ideas and then slowly went . . . . well, if not quite "bonkers," at least cheerfully eccentric. But hey, any fellow who believes that you have to have constant orgasms to stay mentally and physically healthy is ok in my book. Hawkwind, by the way, have a Reich-oriented song, "Orgone Accumulator." God, I love making Hawkwind references. - --Sonic Assassinquail +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven." --Psalms 105:40 (Also see Exodus 16:13 and Numbers 11:31-34 for more starry wisdom) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:28:02 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: A Scan of Bram Hi. I got the A Star For Bram lyrics up (thanks to Viv for big help), but I need a better scan of the cover than the one I pulled off of The Museum. High color, lossless compressed image would be best (like a png, if you can). jpeg at lowest compression is second choice. Gotta be bigger than 200x200 pixels. aTdHvAaNnKcSe How annoying is that? J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:13:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: Nominees >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. This was a fairly ignorant remark. If you cared to look back at the actual record of nominations that the academy has made, you would realize that they have absolutely no fear whatsoever of not having any black nominees. The last black winner was Cuba Gooding Jr in 1996, for supporting actor. He and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (supporting actress) were the most recent black nominees, until Denzel this year. None in 1997, none in 1998. That makes 3 nominations out of a possible 80 for acting roles. Before Denzel this year, the last black actor nominated for a leading performance was Morgan Freeman in 1994 (a five year gap.) The last black actress nominated for a leading performance was Angela Bassett in 1993 (a six year gap, and counting.) I don't know how far back I'd have to go to find a winner. The last African American nominated for best director was John Singleton, in 1991. The academy thought Martin Brest's "Scent of a Woman" more deserving of recognition than Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" in 1992, for instance. And Peter Weir's "Dead Poet's Society" (which was nominated) was somehow a more impressive directorial accomplishment than Lee's "Do the Right Thing" in 1989 (which was not.) Hmm. Again, I don't know how far back I would have to go to find a winner. Yeah, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is handing out undeserved nominations to African Americans left and right. For all the feel-good, happy-ending, Guess-Who's-Coming-to- Dinner pabulum that Hollywood churns out, it's got a ways to go. - -Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:36:28 PST From: "Faecal Emergency" Subject: top robyn songs of the '90s well, it's been nearly three years since i last conducted a poll of the fegs, so i figure it's about time for another one. (anyways, we need something to fill the void thoughtlessly left by eb and his vow not to post any more poll results.) so, just type in your ten favourite robyn songs of the '90s, send them to me, and i'll tot them up and then publicise them. deadline is february 29th. so there. eligibility: how about, any song released in the '90s (including those on A STAR FOR BRAM), and any unreleased song first played in the '90s? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:45:59 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: top robyn songs of the '90s In a message dated 2/16/00 11:39:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, etews@hotmail.com writes: << it's been nearly three years since i last conducted a poll of the fegs, so i figure it's about time for another one. (anyways, we need something to fill the void thoughtlessly left by eb and his vow not to post any more poll results.) so, just type in your ten favourite robyn songs of the '90s, send them to me, and i'll tot them up and then publicise them. deadline is february 29th. so there. >> Should we try to put these in some sort of order? I mean, should our votes be weighted? Or should we just send in our ten favorite in any order? - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:51:12 -0800 (PST) From: Griffith Davies Subject: Fwd: Richard Thompson on The Open Road Fegs, This might be of interest to some of you on the list: > Tune in to The Open Road on KCRW with Gary Calamar > this Sunday 2/20 at 10 > pm for a live performance from folk hero Richard > Thompson. > > The legendary singer, songwriter, guitarist will be > playing songs and > talking with Gary about his latest album "Mock > Tudor". > > (((The Open Road))) > Sunday 9-Midnight PST > > http://www.kcrw.org griffith np - "Happy Birthday" - Pete Townshend (from 'Avatar' boxed set), which is a little of a letdown since I already own Ryko's re-issue of Townshend's "Who Came First". ===== - --------------------------------------------------------- Griffith Davies hbrtv219@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:07:57 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Cure this. On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, The Great Quail wrote: > >Any how. While I'm actually drunk enought o post on this list, has > >anyone heard the Cure's lates? > > I just bought it yesterday, and here it is, in my trembling fingers. > I merely await the PERFECT TIME to play it -- I just can't throw on > the new Cure album at random, you know! Oh, and the song lengths -- > three tracks check in at about 7 minutes, and one is over 11 minutes! I haven't heard it yet; but according to the only review I've read, the new Cure album is more in the gloomy, atmospheric style of Disintegration than the poppy style of Wish or Wild Mood Swings. I'm really looking forward to it. Still uncured, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:26:12 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Nominees >The last black actress nominated for a >leading performance was Angela Bassett in 1993 (a six year gap, >and counting.) I don't know how far back I'd have to go to find >a winner. Whoopie in "Ghost"? Eb np: Third Eye Foundation/Little Lost Soul ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:55:07 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Cure this. In a message dated 2/16/00 12:02:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, chrisg@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu writes: << > >Any how. While I'm actually drunk enought o post on this list, has > >anyone heard the Cure's lates? > > I just bought it yesterday, and here it is, in my trembling fingers. > I merely await the PERFECT TIME to play it -- I just can't throw on > the new Cure album at random, you know! Oh, and the song lengths -- > three tracks check in at about 7 minutes, and one is over 11 minutes! I haven't heard it yet; but according to the only review I've read, the new Cure album is more in the gloomy, atmospheric style of Disintegration than the poppy style of Wish or Wild Mood Swings. I'm really looking forward to it. >> I gave it two listens yesterday and liked it a lot. The advanced word about it being "Disintegration"-y is definitely right. There's a little more emphasis on acoustic guitar and piano, whihc blends in nicely with the phased out and swirling electric guitars and the heavily loping rhythm section. I'll need to give it many more listens before I'll know how much I like the songs, but the general sound is great and will make those many listens a (gloomy) pleasure :-) - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:56:36 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Nominees In a message dated 2/16/00 1:29:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, gondola@deltanet.com writes: << >The last black actress nominated for a >leading performance was Angela Bassett in 1993 (a six year gap, >and counting.) I don't know how far back I'd have to go to find >a winner. Whoopie in "Ghost"? >> She won as a supporting actress for that role. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:12:32 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Nominees > Whoopie in "Ghost"? >> > > She won as a supporting actress for that role. I knew that...but it's still relevant to the discussion. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:19:51 -0500 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: Not to Bragg but... Any NY area fegs who're interested: Billy Bragg is playing the Symphony Space (on Broadway @ 95th) on Thursday, March 9. It's all of 800 seats. ______________________________________ Ferris Scott Thomas programmer McGraw-Hill Technology Division Farmington, CT 06032 860.409.2612 869.677.5405 (fax) mailto:ferris_thomas@mcgraw-hill.com (work) mailto:ferris@snet.net (home) Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:24:24 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Nominees In a message dated 2/16/00 2:13:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, gondola@deltanet.com writes: << > Whoopie in "Ghost"? >> > > She won as a supporting actress for that role. I knew that...but it's still relevant to the discussion. >> Oh, okay. In your post, you wrote 'Whoopie in "Ghost?"' right after a line that said that . . . someone (Angela Bassett?) was the last black woman to win an Oscar in a lead role, which made me think you meant something like, "Are you sure you aren't forgetting that Whoopie won a lead actress Oscar for her role in "Ghost"?" rather than just mentioning another black perosn who's won an Oscar in recent times. Anyway . . . - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:30:45 EST From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Eye BALL Apparently, RHE also performed Raining Twilight Coast a few times. >From: Glen Uber >To: brian nupp , fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Eye BALL >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:23:18 -0800 > >On 11.02.00 06:23, brian nupp wrote: > > > Does anyone know what Eye songs RH and the > > Egyptians have done? Glass hotel, Satalite, and Clean Steve. That's all >I > > can think of. Any Help? > >They did "Queen Elvis" at the April 28, 1993 Warfield show in San Francisco >("The greatest show of all time" --Mark Gloster). They also did "Flesh >Cartoons" the following day at an in-store at Rough Trade Records in SF. >Off >the top of me noggin, I can't think of any others, however. > >-- > >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 > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:31:48 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: top robyn songs of the '90s On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Faecal Emergency wrote: > eligibility: how about, any song released in the '90s (including those on A > STAR FOR BRAM), and any unreleased song first played in the '90s? How about: Any song FIRST released in the '90s (including those on A STAR FOR BRAM) and any unreleased song first played in the '90s? The difference here being that many great old songs were rereleased in the '90s, which, to my way of thinking, means they were released in the '90s. Issued, anyway... and these new versions got their first airing in the decade ending this year. But they shouldn't count because the SONG was already available. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 09:49:45 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: eddie all over the ghost ship >------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. Really? I *still* haven't seen "American Beauty" yet, so I can't really compare - but I can easily think of a dozen (or even two dozen) films I saw last year that were leagues better than that incredibly predictable, dull, shallow piece of Hollywood fluff "The Sixth Sense." And a couple of them, like the "Matrix" or "The Phantom Menace," I didn't really *like* much. But at least they had lots of neat special effects to distract from the lack of a decent plot. "South Park," although it probably wouldn't make my Top 5 list (if I were to make one), as the funniest movie of the year is easily a much better flick. Beyond a couple of great "goosebump" moments, the "Sixth Sense" was utterly substanceless and obvious, giving everything away in the first two or three minutes. That said, Haley Joel Osment, a typical gimmicky Oscar choice, while no where near giving an award-winning performance, is a thousandfold better actor than Jake Lloyd and should have gotten the Anakin role. - --Jason "so, no one is going to Largo?!?!!" The Jasonster "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:02:02 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: Nominees < >The last black actress nominated for a > >leading performance was Angela Bassett in 1993 (a six year gap, > >and counting.) I don't know how far back I'd have to go to find > >a winner. i did some checking. not too far back, 'cause i'm not sure who's black. not too sure about rosie perez; but what the heck. winners get a nifty * nominations for best actor: denzel washington 2000 laurence fishburne 1994 denzel washington 1993 morgan freeman 1990 james earl jones 1972 sidney poitier 1964* sidney poitier 1960 nominations for best actress: angela bassett 1994 woopie goldberg 1986 best supporting actor: michael clarke duncan 2000 samuel l jackson 1995 denzel washington 1990* denzel washington 1988 morgan freeman 1988 louis gossett jr. 1983* best supporting actress: marianne jean-baptiste 1997 rosie perez 1994 woopie goldberg 1990* oprah winfrey 1986 alfre woodard 1984 ken "fact checkin' cuz" the kenster np fear of a black planet by that god damn public enema ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:10:00 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: eddie all over the ghost ship In a message dated 2/16/00 2:46:12 PM Pacific Standard Time, jthornton@ucsd.edu writes: << >------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. Really? I *still* haven't seen "American Beauty" yet, so I can't really compare - but I can easily think of a dozen (or even two dozen) films I saw last year that were leagues better than that incredibly predictable, dull, shallow piece of Hollywood fluff "The Sixth Sense." >> Hm. Well, yeah, I really liked it. In fact, of the movies I saw last year, I'd put it 2nd only to "Fight Club" on my list of favorites (but there are tons of '99 films I missed). I know that most people *didn't* predict anything about "Sixth Sense," so you should just count yourself one insightful felluh (although this apparently ruined your potential for enjoying the film). I guess it wasn't long on plot, but I thought it made up for it with character development and mood and a subject matter that I found interesting. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:20:03 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Nominees (0% Buckwheat content) >i did some checking. not too far back, 'cause i'm not sure who's black. Well, of course, there's Butterfly McQueen for "Gone With the Wind." And I'm pretty sure Diana Ross was nominated for Best Actress for "Lady Sings the Blues," back in 1972-ish. There's got to be several others.... Did Howard E. Rollins win Supporting Actor for "Ragtime," or was he just nominated? And how about the old sergeant in "A Soldier's Story"? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:01:50 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: 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. bloodflowers has got some really juicy guitar bits. mostly slow grooves like on disintegration ; but there aren't any rockers like 'fascination street'. >>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? > >It's Willhelm Reich - one of the only people lucky enough to have his books >*burned* (yes, burned) by the US government. Apparently they thought his >theories far too dangerous for public consumption (this I believe was >post-first ammendment!)... >I've not read any of his books but can wholeheartedly recommend "Willhelm >Reich In Hell" a play by Robert Anton Wilson... haven't read any of that; but it reminds me of the liner notes from the soft bulletin for 'where is the light?': "An untested hypothesis suggesting that the chemical [in our brains] by which we are able to experience the sensation of being in love is the same chemical that caused the "Big Bang" that was the birth of the accelerating universe" ken "that boy's cheese has slid off his cracker!" the kenster ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:27:16 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Blood Flowers I read some Elektra press release today stating that The Cure's "Bloodflowers" was the final release of the Trilogy. I had no idea there was a trilogy, but evidently Pornography -- Disintegration -- Bloodflowers according to Robert himself, is the trilogy. Ahem! How can this be? Pornography is incredibly dark and uncommercial. Disintegration, by contrast, has hit singles written all over it (Love Song, Pictures of You). There is some great brooding stuff in between (Prayers For Rain, Same Deep Water), but I couldn't compare it to Pornography at all. I haven't heard Bloodflowers, but I'm assuming its a sequel to "Disintegration" (i've already read that one of the songs sounds exactly like Pictures Of You), and has NOTHING to do with PORNOGRAPHY. No trilogy, Bobby. =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:48:57 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: eddie all over the ghost ship At 06:10 PM 2/16/00 -0500, MARKEEFE@aol.com wrote: >In fact, of the movies I saw last >year, I'd put it 2nd only to "Fight Club" on my list of favorites "Fight Club" was a lot better than I thought it would be. And, it surprised the hell out of me a couple of times. > I guess it wasn't long on plot, but I thought it made up >for it with character development and mood and a subject matter that I found >interesting. I will admit that the film-makers did succeed at setting a certain "creepy" mood - the sort of dark atmosphere that's been completely lacking in a lot of the pseudo-horror adventure flicks, like "The Haunting," and comic slasher films that have come out the past few years. It was, quite literally, spooky in parts. - --Jason "my etheric body kicked my astral body's butt" Thorntonster "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #40 ******************************