From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #46 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, February 23 2000 Volume 09 : Number 046 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: hey you comic-book disciples... ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: hey you comic-book disciples... ["JH3" ] hey you phrase origin disciples ["The Rooneys" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #45 [James Dignan ] Re: can you spell "retribution"? [GSS ] Far-flung Robyn content [shmac@ix.netcom.com (Scott Hunter McCleary)] Ebs all over the world [Eb ] MOre far-flung Robyn content [mrrunion@palmnet.net] MOre far-flung Robyn content [mrrunion@palmnet.net] Quotable Fegs/Synchronicity [Glen Uber ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #45 [DDerosa5@aol.com] Largo 19 Feb 2000? [Griffith Davies ] Re: More far-flung Robyn content [Vivien Lyon ] An emotional appeal [Vivien Lyon ] Deserts and Floor wax [Ethyl Ketone ] Re: Eb5 all over the world ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Eb5 all over the world [Vivien Lyon ] Fire at Keaton's Bar and Grill [lj lindhurst ] Neutral Milk Hotel (it's been awhile) ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: More far-flung Robyn content [Eb ] Poor Robyn... [Joanne Brown ] Re: Poor Robyn....(Lucky?) ["brian nupp" ] Re: Neutral Milk Hotel (it's been awhile) [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: More far-flung Robyn travel ["chris franz" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:28:56 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: hey you comic-book disciples... At 06:07 PM 2/22/00 -0500, MARKEEFE@aol.com wrote: > Yeah, it should definitely be deserted island. I agree thta the >terrain isn't so important. I may have found the source of all the confusion, little buddy: "The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle, with Gilligan, the Skipper too, the Millionaire, and his Wife, the Movie Star, the Professor and Mary Ann, here on Gilligan's Isle." - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:37:48 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: hey you comic-book disciples... On 2/22/2000 3:28 PM, Jason R. Thornton wrote: >> Yeah, it should definitely be deserted island. I agree thta the >>terrain isn't so important. > >I may have found the source of all the confusion, little buddy: > > "The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle, > with Gilligan, the Skipper too, > the Millionaire, and his Wife, > the Movie Star, the Professor and Mary Ann, > here on Gilligan's Isle." Damn that Sherwood Schwartz!!! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:44:51 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: hey you comic-book disciples... >>And I don't buy the "alternate past participle" explanation... Why not? It's like saying, "If you breech our tribal laws, your life shall be forfeit." You *could* insist that they say "forfeited," but why not let people use their idiomatic phrases if they want to? How much can it really hurt? Besides, Katherine Rossner is a professional; she knows what she's talking about. (Ain't that right, Katherine?) >I think the five albums I'd most want to be stuck >with on a deserted island would be much different from what I >consider my five favorite albums in my collection. Those five >favorites are at least slightly based on the fact that I can choose >to listen to something else anytime I want... That's absolutely true! I would think you'd want to pick the five albums you'd most want to hear for the effect obtained as the batteries on your personal CD player slowly wore out, and you realized that you had forgotten to put new batteries in your nifty two-way emergency radio which *might* have saved your life *if* you hadn't been such a culture-slave as to think that listening to some stupid CD is more important than avoiding a painful death by starvation. (And I *do* hope you remembered to pack that player in a water-tight plastic bag, as you would with a baaaasssssss...) John "H" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:22:24 -0700 From: "The Rooneys" Subject: hey you phrase origin disciples While we're not on the subject of SfB, does anyone know whencefrom "That idea is so crazy it just might work" originated? It's all over the street of Sesame, but it sure sounds GrouchoMarxian, or Stoogian or Gosciniany & Uderzoian (sp?). - - a dad ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:19:51 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #45 >Someone on Usenet claims that Stan Lee coined the phrase "'Nuff said." True? pretty sure it's been used in the UK since at least Victorian times. Could be wrong though. I'll try to remember to look it up in the Oxford slang dictionary when I get home. >Personally, I think we should ban desert islands themselves. I mean, what's >the f$@%#$ing point? All they do is provide people lost at sea with a false >hope of somehow being miraculously recovered by some passing ship, when >everyone knows that most sailors don't give a hooey about shipwreck >survivors in the first place. talking of which, the Prime Minister of Tuvalu's in NZ at the moment, looking for help. Seems that with global warming, the country's land area may well cease to exist within the next 20 years or so... >>They're both deserts *and* deserted! > >They're a dessert topping *and* a floor wax! but not floor polish. As far as I know, there are no Polish desert islands (except possibly off the coast near Gdansk). James (guess which XTC song I'm thinking of now...) nf- Spain. Yellow, with two thin horizontal strips of red at top and bottom. 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, 22 Feb 2000 19:37:34 -0500 (CDT) From: GSS Subject: Re: can you spell "retribution"? On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, someone wrote: > http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=176430355/pagename=/RP/ALLSTAR/article. > html/fid=191791 > > Pathetic/sad/frustrating/angering. How much longer can he stay breathing, > unless someone does something drastic? Oh man, I think that is a bit much. Sure the guy's a friggin poof, but it is his problem. Here and then gone. That is just the way it is, but then maybe he'll surprise us. GrEG ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:16:34 -0500 From: shmac@ix.netcom.com (Scott Hunter McCleary) Subject: Far-flung Robyn content Robyn and "Statue with a Walkman" gets a mention on this site devoted to headphones: http://www.headwize.com/articles/rhitch1_ess.htm WhoIs reveals that headwize.com is one Chu Moy in (God save) San Francisco. Anybody we know? ========= SH McCleary Prodigal Dog Communications Alexandria, VA 22312 shmac@prodigaldog.com www.prodigaldog.com www.1480kHz.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 02:26:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Ebs all over the world http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/1125/Tv_and_Movies/Tom_Lester.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 05:14:37 -0800 From: mrrunion@palmnet.net Subject: MOre far-flung Robyn content Hey all, Robyn also makes an incredibly brief and nearly hidden appearance in the latest issue of Spin...buried towards the back in some half page ad section...apparently some company did something or other at one of his recent shows or something (don't have the magazine with me), but there is a small live snapshot of our man playing guitar. Also, our semi-local free magazine Ink 19 had a rather nice interview with Robyn in last month's edition. Average JfS-era press photo, and nothing particularly revelatory in the interview, but not bad. Ink 19 is available through most of the southeast I believe. I snagged 2 extra copies if anyone's interested...first 2 to reply get 'em. Back to it, Mike (still waiting to hear about that Circuit thing!) >Robyn and "Statue with a Walkman" gets a mention on this >site devoted to headphones: > >http://www.headwize.com/articles/rhitch1_ess.htm - ----- Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 05:17:18 -0800 From: mrrunion@palmnet.net Subject: MOre far-flung Robyn content Hey all, Robyn also makes an incredibly brief and nearly hidden appearance in the latest issue of Spin...buried towards the back in some half page ad section...apparently some company did something or other at one of his recent shows or something (don't have the magazine with me), but there is a small live snapshot of our man playing guitar. Also, our semi-local free magazine Ink 19 had a rather nice interview with Robyn in last month's edition. Average JfS-era press photo, and nothing particularly revelatory in the interview, but not bad. Ink 19 is available through most of the southeast I believe. I snagged 2 extra copies if anyone's interested...first 2 to reply get 'em. Back to it, Mike (still waiting to hear about that Circuit thing!) >Robyn and "Statue with a Walkman" gets a mention on this >site devoted to headphones: > >http://www.headwize.com/articles/rhitch1_ess.htm - ----- Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:30:36 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Quotable Fegs/Synchronicity The following appeared in the "Quotable" section of Tuesday's Santa Rosa Press Democrat sports page. Considering all the talk of desert isles, the coincidence is eerie: Russ Reynolds, production director of KFOX-FM in San Jose: "I'd like to see Bob Denver buy the New York Islanders, so we could call them Gilligan's Islanders." Too weird, if ya ask me! Russ: Was this part of a longer piece, or was it one of your famous off-the-cuff remarks? - -- 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: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:48:11 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #45 In a message dated 2/22/00 6:13:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org writes: << there's a cool picture of mr. d. derosa on page 25 of the jan./feb. 2000 ish of Multinational Monitor. that is all. >> oh pshaw... that's what happens when you send your subscription check to an associate editor. (besides, without it in color, you can't tell that my Mad Scientist wig is purple... as seen on the CNN website.) Gosh, though, if I'm a fegcelebrity, does it mean my girlfriend is starfucking?* What a turn-on. dave *amongst the sad, utopian readers of the Monitor and other Naderesque publications ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:02:43 -0800 (PST) From: Griffith Davies Subject: Largo 19 Feb 2000? Any details for this show? I saw that Peter had posted info from the first set. Yet another show I missed, and I'll miss the next one (02/26) as well. :( griffith np - nothing ===== - --------------------------------------------------------- Griffith Davies hbrtv219@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:07:11 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: More far-flung Robyn content - --- mrrunion@palmnet.net wrote: > Robyn also makes an incredibly brief and nearly hidden > appearance > in the latest issue of Spin...buried towards the back in some > half page ad section...apparently some company did something > or other at one of his recent shows or something (don't have > the magazine with me), but there is a small live snapshot of > our man playing guitar. In Los Angeles, Robyn did a pre-show private performance for insiders and Hollywood fuck-heads sponsored by Spin and Slates (a men's clothing brand). It was nauseating, and we had to wait in line outside while this corporate blowjob was taking place. Afterwards, as all the creeps spilled out into the night, a Brad Pitt clone noticed us, Robyn's fans, lined up down the block and sneered derisively to his companion, "These people have been here the _whole time_!" Presumably he was having difficulty excusing our outrageous lameness in actually waiting in line to see a show. I told him "Yes, we're a bunch of pathetic losers." This was only the beginning of my introduction to the subhuman monstrosities that populate LA. But I won't go into that lest I begin slavering and foaming at the mouth (again). On to better things. Mike Godwin had a starring role in my dream last night. Jeme and I were getting the tour of his laboratory, where he was predominantly occupied in remixing his favorite albums. Later in the dream, I was reading some awful womens' magazine (like Cosmo or Glamour) and Tim Keegan had written in to an advice column asking how to deal with his bandmate Jake, who was acting like a real asshole and starting fights and so on. I was incensed at Mr Keegan for choosing such a ridiculuous forum for airing his greivances. Later still, we saw Departure Lounge rehearsing their 'new sound'....which sounded a lot like Anthrax. Vivien __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:16:16 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: An emotional appeal - --- Vivien Lyon wrote: > In Los Angeles, Robyn did a pre-show private performance for > insiders and Hollywood fuck-heads sponsored by Spin and Slates > (a men's clothing brand). It was nauseating, and we had to > wait > in line outside while this corporate blowjob was taking place. > Afterwards, as all the creeps spilled out into the night, a > Brad > Pitt clone noticed us, Robyn's fans, lined up down the block > and > sneered derisively to his companion, "These people have been > here the _whole time_!" Presumably he was having difficulty > excusing our outrageous lameness in actually waiting in line > to > see a show. I told him "Yes, we're a bunch of pathetic > losers." Man, do I sound bitter. I just want to clarify, though, that I'm not bitter. I'm righteously indignant. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:43:01 -0500 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Deserts and Floor wax At 2:19 PM +1300 2/23/00, James Dignan wrote: >but not floor polish. As far as I know, there are no Polish desert islands >(except possibly off the coast near Gdansk). I once took a ferry to the tip of a little spit of land off Gdansk. It's a small village and Baltic beach called Hel. So you could say I've been to Hel and back... - - c "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** C. J. Galbraith Ketone Press meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:58:47 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Eb5 all over the world This website was actually advertised in the San Diego Union-Tribune today. *shiver* http://www.eb5.com/ - --subJason Thorntonstrosity "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:09:44 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: Eb5 all over the world > http://www.eb5.com/ Speaking of _blank_5, the Minus Five are playing at the Croc in Seattle on Friday night. Wonder if Robyn'll be joining them (seeing as how he's on the same side of the continent and all). I rather doubt it, as LA is bit of a hike from ye olde Northeweste. But you never know. Vivien __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:09:09 -0500 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Fire at Keaton's Bar and Grill East Coast fegs might be pleased to note the May 5 and 6 shows of "Fire at Keaton's Bar and Grill" starring Elvis Costello, Deborah Harry (pales in comparison), and Richard Butler (TGQ is all psyched about seeing Deborah Harry, but man what could be cooler than seeing Richard Butler AND Elvis???) Oh, and the Jazz Passengers are with them. It's some kind of musical opera-? (anyone? anyone?) We'll be at Friday's show, and it's at St. Ann's, which is right in our neighborhood if anyone wants to play "See Elvis Walking Down My Street" beforehand (I have this sick fantasy where he buys me a Guinness at the local Irish pub and tells me that I'm the only person who really understands him)(and Norman Mailer is there). ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LJ Lindhurst White Rabbit Graphic Design NYC ljl@w-rabbit.com http://www.w-rabbit.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "who do you what do you why do you do?" --Elvis Costello ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:48:08 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Neutral Milk Hotel (it's been awhile) This was just posted on the Elephant 6 list, cut-and-pasted from the official NMH website: "There are currently plans to release a two-volume set of early Neutral Milk Hotel, featuring music from the early, self-released cassettes, live performances, and unreleased recordings. The band wants to do this as a result of the excessive prices at which bootlegs are currently selling online and elsewhere. They will be available from Orange Twin. No date has been decided upon for released. It could be awhile in the future. Jeff has been working on a collection of short stories. He also just joined the circus and wants to make a movie about snails." http://www.cnd.gatech.edu/neutral/newsintro.html - --Jason "A three hour tour, a three hour tour..." Thornton "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:50:59 -0800 From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: Fire at Keaton's Bar and Grill At 04:09 PM 2/23/00 -0500, lj lindhurst wrote: >We'll be at Friday's show, and it's at St. Ann's, which is right in >our neighborhood if anyone wants to play "See Elvis Walking Down My >Street" beforehand (I have this sick fantasy where he buys me a >Guinness at the local Irish pub and tells me that I'm the only person >who really understands him)(and Norman Mailer is there). > > So why doesn't Elvis think that Norman undertands him? Eric "stupid quote temporarily out-of-order" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:04:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: More far-flung Robyn content >In Los Angeles, Robyn did a pre-show private performance for >insiders and Hollywood fuck-heads sponsored by Spin and Slates >(a men's clothing brand). It was nauseating, and we had to wait >in line outside while this corporate blowjob was taking place. >Afterwards, as all the creeps spilled out into the night, a Brad >Pitt clone noticed us, Robyn's fans, lined up down the block and >sneered derisively to his companion, "These people have been >here the _whole time_!" Presumably he was having difficulty >excusing our outrageous lameness in actually waiting in line to >see a show. I told him "Yes, we're a bunch of pathetic losers." >This was only the beginning of my introduction to the subhuman >monstrosities that populate LA. But I won't go into that lest I >begin slavering and foaming at the mouth (again). Gawwwwwd. Eb, experiencing an unwelcome flash of deja vu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:24:35 -0500 From: Joanne Brown Subject: Poor Robyn... Poor Robyn that he had to perform to such an audience - can you imagine? Slates? Men's clothing? uh boy..... >In Los Angeles, Robyn did a pre-show private performance for >insiders and Hollywood fuck-heads sponsored by Spin and Slates >(a men's clothing brand). It was nauseating, and we had to wait >in line outside while this corporate blowjob was taking place. >Afterwards, as all the creeps spilled out into the night, a Brad >Pitt clone noticed us, Robyn's fans, lined up down the block and >sneered derisively to his companion, "These people have been >here the _whole time_!" Presumably he was having difficulty >excusing our outrageous lameness in actually waiting in line to >see a show. I told him "Yes, we're a bunch of pathetic losers." >This was only the beginning of my introduction to the subhuman >monstrosities that populate LA. But I won't go into that lest I >begin slavering and foaming at the mouth (again). Gawwwwwd. Eb, experiencing an unwelcome flash of deja vu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:37:37 EST From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Poor Robyn....(Lucky?) I've got a pair of Slates. They are great slacks. Lucky Robyn probably got a few pairs for free. Brian >From: Joanne Brown >Reply-To: Joanne Brown >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Poor Robyn... >Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:24:35 -0500 > >Poor Robyn that he had to perform to such an audience - can you imagine? >Slates? Men's clothing? uh boy..... > > > > >In Los Angeles, Robyn did a pre-show private performance for > >insiders and Hollywood fuck-heads sponsored by Spin and Slates > >(a men's clothing brand). It was nauseating, and we had to wait > >in line outside while this corporate blowjob was taking place. > >Afterwards, as all the creeps spilled out into the night, a Brad > >Pitt clone noticed us, Robyn's fans, lined up down the block and > >sneered derisively to his companion, "These people have been > >here the _whole time_!" Presumably he was having difficulty > >excusing our outrageous lameness in actually waiting in line to > >see a show. I told him "Yes, we're a bunch of pathetic losers." > >This was only the beginning of my introduction to the subhuman > >monstrosities that populate LA. But I won't go into that lest I > >begin slavering and foaming at the mouth (again). > >Gawwwwwd. > >Eb, experiencing an unwelcome flash of deja vu > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:13:01 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Neutral Milk Hotel (it's been awhile) In a message dated 2/23/00 1:50:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, jthornton@ucsd.edu writes: << "There are currently plans to release a two-volume set of early Neutral Milk Hotel, featuring music from the early, self-released cassettes, live performances, and unreleased recordings. The band wants to do this as a result of the excessive prices at which bootlegs are currently selling online and elsewhere. They will be available from Orange Twin. No date has been decided upon for released. It could be awhile in the future. >> This stuff is pretty hit-or-miss. I had a coupl of tapes of it a little while back. Well, I either still have them or I traded them to Eddie. Can't remember now. Anyway, those of you hoping for something as good as "On Avery Island," don't get your hopes up too high (and forget about even comin' close "Aeroplane," man!). - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:34:21 PST From: "chris franz" Subject: Re: More far-flung Robyn travel Lyon roared: >This was only the beginning of my introduction to the subhuman >monstrosities that populate LA. Say, any of you monstrosities planning on making this Saturday's Largo show? It's looking more and more likely that I'll be able to head down this weekend, possibly catching the Friday show too (even if it's only Jon Brion). Peter, was there a second set last week? And did Robyn make a cameo appearance last Friday? "I'm going to file a battery charge!" - - Chris ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #46 ******************************