From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #43 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, February 19 2000 Volume 09 : Number 043 Today's Subjects: ----------------- thanks to all your lists... [DDerosa5@aol.com] Re: thanks to all your lists... [Aaron Mandel ] the new Yo La Tengo may be dull... [Eb ] Yet another silly idea... ["Ferris Thomas" ] Re: Cosmicomical Quailvinos [Ethyl Ketone ] One more post - Re: Oscar rant [Ethyl Ketone ] Re: wilhelm grebo [fartachu ] Re: wilhelm grebo [Eb ] Re: wilhelm grebo [fartachu ] Did you fanatics know... [Eb ] Philosopher's Stone ["Marc Holden" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:22:44 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: thanks to all your lists... I just got a check, had some money!, and went used CD shopping. I decided to buy only things I'd read good things about onlist, so I got Fluid Ounces, Quasi, Loud Family, Grifters, Elf Power, and the Geraldine Fibbers (who I had seen once briefly at Loolapaloozer).Plus the new single by one of my fave bands, Yo La Tengo, who Viv always thought was boring.. and this time, presciently, she was right. Ironically, it was the record I bought that I liked least. Fl. Oz are I think my fave--a tad too precious, like Eb himself, but ingenious and earwormy alright. The Elf Power record is only OK, but the cover of Listening to the Higsons is damn fine! Scott Miller remains too smart for his own good, and Sam Coomes too whiny, but both records remind me why I started giving a shit about music. I think I'll be on an even keel until my SfB arrives. dave by the way, I was looking through vinyl bins looking for Cat Heads, Game Theory, and another old favorite, Glass Eye, and instead found an RH EP of Brenda's Iron Sledge with all four parts of Pit of Souls on the B-side, and BIS is illustrated on the cover. Don't remember what they were asking, but I think it was under 10 bucks. I don't want it: Anyone interested? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:06:06 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: thanks to all your lists... On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 DDerosa5@aol.com wrote: > Plus the new single by one of my fave bands, Yo La Tengo, who Viv > always thought was boring.. and this time, presciently, she was right. the new album as a whole is amazingly boring. two of the songs were pretty (one of which was a cover), but i don't think i even decided it was worth playing one of them on the radio. > Scott Miller remains too smart for his own good, this criticism has always struck me as either invidious or confused, but i like smart people. or perhaps am too sensitive about what's meant as a (left-handed) compliment. perhaps i'm not clear on how being smart keeps you from doing anything else related to music... > by the way, I was looking through vinyl bins looking for Cat Heads, Game > Theory, and another old favorite, Glass Eye www.lpnow.com has some prime meat from the first two. when i ordered they also claimed to have two (both?) Glass Eye records, but they were out of stock then, and not in the catalog now. a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:21:19 -0800 From: Eb Subject: the new Yo La Tengo may be dull... ...but this Who/BBC Sessions compilation is seriously yummy. Check it out nowwww.... Listening to Moon's drumming on "Happy Jack," I want to pull an Eric Clapton and say "God...I see God!" With all due preciousness, Eb np: http://users.deltanet.com/~gondola/np.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:45:29 EST From: "Ferris Thomas" Subject: Yet another silly idea... Good morning, all... Bayard knows of what I'm going to pratter on about, but for the rest of you, here goes: I had an idea a while back that, while industrious, proved a bit daunting. Being a bit of a trainspotter I wanted to try to amass a live version of every danged song RH has performed, released or not. Robynbase has something along the lines of 500 entries in it, though, and some are pretty arcane. Anyhow, Bayard had suggested trying to come up with live versions of albums instead. Being a much more attainable goal, I'm thinking of going for it, starting with JFS and working backwards. After stroking Robynbase yesterday I came up with (and then parsed) a list of all performances of JFS tunes. While I have a lot of the recent gigs, I wanted to post it to the list and let people vote for their favorite versions of songs. If I have that particular version then that will be the one I use. I'm also tempted to add a few Rhino-esque bonus tracks--things that were favorites played on the tour supporting the individual records. Feel free to let me know any favs there as well. Rather than post the concert dates to the list I've put them on my site at (http://www.ochremedia.com/robynDates.htm). Anyone who wants to chime in, feel free, even if it's just to berate me and my kin. I can be reached at: mailto:ferris@snet.net. Also, if someone comes up with a good argument as to why to use a certain version of a song ("but the intro to this one is truly bizarre") and they can point me to the original tape/md/DAT (I've now got access to a DAT through work) recording of it then that would be fantastic. I have a lot of shows (and several original recordings) but when it starts going backwards to albums like Eye and EOL it will be a real challenge (I think) to get good low-generation source tapes. Bayard (if you read this far) : is there a way to script URL queries to Robynbase easily? Write me off list if you need a better explanation of just what I mean. All the best! - -ferris. (trapped in a winter wonderland) np: Billy Bragg "Life's A Riot/Between the Wars" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 20:26:52 -0500 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: Cosmicomical Quailvinos And where, oh great hmuh, are the methyl esters????? At 12:55 PM -0500 2/17/00, The Great Quail wrote: >"Boy Cosmologist" writes: > >>Depends on your perspective. To those of us who look back fondly on the >>first few seconds, the early universe had only elementary particles, and >>hydrogen is a raw arriviste. > >Some of us -- old Grtqwl remarked -- recall the universe long before >you quarkboys got involved. Pissed about Hydrogen, eh? Jeeeeezus. >Move aside, newbie. "First few seconds" . . . oh, my tittering and >sniggering are reaching new levels of mania. God, next you >wannabes'll be lamenting the formation of the electron, or worse, >trying to horn in on the neutrino. "Ooh, ooh, I was there, when the >neutrinos began uncluttering up the universe!" Bah! > >Honestly speaking, the whole neighborhood went to hell the second >that the second was introduced. Ah, to be back in those first few >picoseconds. . . . well, we didn't call them picoseconds, of course, >because none of us knew there would ever really be over a trillion of >them. Yes, I suppose some of us were a bit naive -- Mr(k)glst^r and >Wj'svn'wj used to accuse me of that all the time -- but those first >units of time were called "hmuhs," of course, not that that has >anything to do with the crazy conspiracy theories of Dr. DLng, who >may be safely ignored. And I don't want to hear any of you take me to >task for using time as a reference! I was one of the First, you know, >so pay no heed to this recidivist "Pre-Time" lobby, with their, "Oho, >time, eh, we'll *I* was there long before time itself --" Rubbish! We >stamped them out aeons ago, thanks to the proofs of Mrs. G(n)t. >Someday you just try to define sentience without a temporal frame! > >So we'll have no more of your unearned, J(nn)y-come-lately nostalgia, >Mr. Sqdfkr! Or I may just turn you over to the untender mercies of >Mr. Eb "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** C. J. Galbraith Ketone Press meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 20:40:28 -0500 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: One more post - Re: Oscar rant At 9:49 AM -0500 2/17/00, The Great Quail wrote: > Or Lawrence Fishburne? Who desreved an Oscar for Othello. Period. >PPPS: My favorite movie this year so far has been "Any Given Sunday." My favorite film of the year so far? Titus. No question. I did not see the stage version of Lion King or any other of Julie Taymors sets (and no, I don't watch the Superbowl) but this film... Remarkable. Made me want to go out and make a film. And Mr. Hopkins.... (as one of my friends says: "I'd pay good money to watch Anthony Hopkins read the phone book"). Can't rave enough. Be Seeing You, - - carrie - who is excited about the new Anginieska Holland film opening today - "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** C. J. Galbraith Ketone Press meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 20:46:18 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: Re: wilhelm grebo >>also, isn't kate bushes' _cloudbursting_ about reich? >Cloudbursting, eh? Woj -- ? more about reich's son peter than wilhelm himself. "cloudbursting" was inspired by peter reich's book, _book of dreams_, which is his recollections of his youth, growing up with dad before the feds came to take him away. woj n.p. wpkn ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 18:11:23 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: wilhelm grebo >>>also, isn't kate bushes' _cloudbursting_ about reich? > >>Cloudbursting, eh? Woj -- ? > >more about reich's son peter than wilhelm himself. "cloudbursting" was >inspired by peter reich's book, _book of dreams_ Oh my, my, my...even a dEvOUt KaTe fAn like *Woj* gets it wrong? It's "CloudBUSTING," not -bursting. Eb, not at all sure "Bushes'" is the proper possessive of "Bush" either ;) Now ehhing: Six by Seven ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 21:24:41 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: Re: wilhelm grebo when we last left our heroes, Eb exclaimed: >Oh my, my, my...even a dEvOUt KaTe fAn like *Woj* gets it wrong? > >It's "CloudBUSTING," not -bursting. gimme a break -- i just drank three quarts of dark mountain kolsch! %) woj p.s. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:30:12 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Did you fanatics know... ...that you can have a "------@hitchcock.com" email address for just 10 bucks a year? What's more, that "robyn@hitchcock.com" is still available? ;) http://www.hitchcock.com/ Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:03:56 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Philosopher's Stone I was just reading "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by H.P. Lovecraft, when I came across a passage stating that Joseph, who was presumed to be an alchemist, "...would not be long in finding the Philosopher's Stone." I thought it was just some other odd phrase that Robyn came up with (like "railway shoes", etc.), but sure enough it refers to: "an imaginary substance or preparation believed capable of transmuting baser metals into gold or silver and of prolonging life". I didn't know that. Leave it to Lovecraft to clear that one up for me. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!! Later, Marc np--Capt. Beefheart & his Magic Band--Trout Mask Replica (I think this one's finally starting to click, or the drugs are finally kicking in, har har har) "I wish there was a disease where you're afraid of clouds, because I think I could cure it. First, you sit the patient down and have a long personal talk. After that, I'm not sure, but maybe you could throw some water in his face or something." ---Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #43 ******************************