From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #61 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, March 10 2000 Volume 09 : Number 061 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Under the flag of Spain [Capuchin ] Mossy Liquor CD-R? [Mitch Cullin ] Re: "Louise, is the Reverend hard to please?" "You're telling me!" ["Stew] Re: FW: pet sounds ["Stewart C. Russell" ] off topic: TISM [dmw ] show ID? [Aaron Mandel ] Point it at Bram [Jonathan Moren ] Re: Point it at Bram [Vivien Lyon ] From the Onion's Poison Prevention Tips... [Michael Wolfe ] Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire? [DougMash@aol.com] cute :) [Eb ] Re: Point it at Bram [MARKEEFE@aol.com] The Kindness of Dreamworks [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: The Kindness of Dreamworks [Eb ] Re: eb all over the world [Tom Clark ] the meaning of PAF [hal brandt ] RE: cute :) [tanter ] Re: cute :) [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: eb all over the world [Capuchin ] I often dreams of trains [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] apples/party/ no rh whatsoever [jhaynes@lclark.edu] Re: "Louise, is the Reverend hard to please?" "You're telling me!" [Micha] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:41:17 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Under the flag of Spain On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, James Dignan wrote: > James (who has also been known to write cranky letters to editors from time > to time...) That's not much of a range of magazines. J. Hoping to be a stronger one-percenter, someday. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:03:31 -0800 (PST) From: Mitch Cullin Subject: Mossy Liquor CD-R? Hi, I was just wondering if anyone had the Mossy Liquor material available on a CD-R? I've been hoping to get the material on disc, as well as a good quality sounding CD-R of Robyn performing the Dylan set he did a couple of years back. If anyone can help me with this, I would be grateful. Don't have much to trade, but I'm sure we can work something out. Please email me privately: fpunk@yahoo.com Thanks, Mitch __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 10:24:41 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: "Louise, is the Reverend hard to please?" "You're telling me!" Eb wrote: > > Dumb question, which never seems to get answered: Can one just rent a > *videocassette* of the damn thing? Likewise. I guess there'll never be a PAL video version, and I bet the DVD is a North-American zone only. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 10:32:48 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: FW: pet sounds Eb wrote: > > PS I like the new Eels album quite a bit...the best release I've > heard from this young year, so far. It has the best ear-worm ever, "I like birds": If you're small, and on a search I've got a feeder for you to perch on That's been echoing in my cranium for a whole week now, and advanced "mnah mnah" therapy ain't shifting it. But I *still* like it... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:25:38 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: off topic: TISM any of you bright folks heard them? i got into a discussion with someone who submitted to my hidden tracks database, he makes them sound like an unholy meld of they might be giants, the residents, and something pretty scatological. butthole surfers, mayhap. anyone care to issue recommendations/advisories? they have the same distributor as the new shriekback, so i'm contemplating a double order... - -- d. - - next feckless whinging: 9march, 25march, 18apr. e-for details. - - 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, 9 Mar 2000 11:28:09 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: show ID? robynbase doesn't seem to have this one... i *think* i got it from someone on the list in mp3 form, but if i'd labelled the CD, i wouldn't be asking this question, would i? there are some weird jumps, so i may be missing tracks. before "Ted, Woody & Junior" robyn says something about time being helical and that in 1991 these three guys are all writhing in jelly or something. he's playing with the Egyptians. setlist: sometimes i wish i was a pretty girl the cars she used to drive acid bird somewhere apart ted, woody and junior airscape wax doll sleeping with your devil mask globe of frogs superman - -- encore: oceanside lightbulb another bubble ride ruling class a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 19:20:39 +0100 From: Jonathan Moren Subject: Point it at Bram ...and so at last, ASFB reached Sweden today. I guess a few stray thoughts on the album might be as good a way as any to introduce myself to the co-fegs on the list. (Greetings, by the way.) I'm not sure I like the direction this is taking. If JFS and ASFB were handed to me out of the blue and I were told to guess which one is the outtake album, Dubwoman is the only track that might push me towards a correct answer. And still I would be far from convinced that I was right. That is not only saying that many of the songs on ASFB are wonderful, but also that many of the songs on JFS are, to my mind, rather light-weight and mediocre. It seems, instead of making one great album and one obscure outtake album, Robyn has preferred to make two so-so albums, which is a shame in a way, since so many lovely songs (Nietzche, Green boy, Jesus and me, Daisy bomb, Used to love you) won't reach outside the circle of fegmaniacs who bother to get the album, while on the other hand people who get JFS from amazon.com will be tortured with stuff like "Elisabeth Jade" and "Dark princess" that will hardly convert anyone to fegdom. I sort of wish Robyn would revert to making outtake albums proper, and making his official albums as good as they can get. He'll sell just as many outtake albums to us nutcases anyway, I guess, but he might convince a few newbies on the way. Glad to hear some double bass and piano again. Don't understand why the double bass was ousted from JFS, I think it fits his songs perfectly well. But I'm still waiting for the Big RH Piano Album, since most of my all-time favourite songs feature prominent piano parts (Flavour of night, Satellite, Executioner, Mr. Tongs, Cathedral..) or should-have-been-piano parts (Messages of dark..). Preferably as a duo album with Chris Cox! I do agree with the feg calling "I wish I liked you" one of R's worst songs ever. I'm surprised it made its way to the recording studio. And of course Dubwoman was quite pointless; was it really Robyn's idea to include anything like that? (He has been talked into doing Strange Things by producers before, as we all know..) Well, that's it for now. Peace! jm "I have always felt that fishes have been somewhat shamefully neglected in music, whereas many less worthy creatures are copiously represented." - Alan Rawsthorne. - -Några fler nordbor på den här listan? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:54:56 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: Point it at Bram - --- Jonathan Moren wrote: Welcome to the list, oh Jonathan Moren, with whom I agree on so many points. >It seems, instead of making one great album and one > obscure > outtake album, Robyn has preferred to make two so-so albums, You said it. I think he could have made one kick-ass album with this material, but instead I get two albums in which I have to skip a lot of songs, which makes me both sad and angry. I hate to skip around an album. It suggests two things to me: the artist didn't know what he or she wanted to say and so the album does form not a coherent whole, or that the artist is going in a direction that will lead him or her farther and farther away from me and my appreciation of them. Obviously the second is what I fear most (not most in the world, just most in this situation). It's been said before, I think, that Mr. Hitchcock doesn't recognize his best songs for what they are. I honestly don't think Robyn knows what's best for his musical career. He shunts so many good songs aside for lesser songs, and it seems to be happening more frequently and egregiously. Of course, this is coming from someone who adores Y&O and Invisible Hitchcock.... > But I'm still waiting for the Big RH Piano Album, since most > of my all-time > favourite songs feature prominent piano parts (Flavour of > night, Satellite, > Executioner, Mr. Tongs, Cathedral..) or should-have-been-piano > parts > (Messages of dark..). See? He doesn't even know that some of the best moments of his career have been made possible by the piano. Goddamn! It burns me up! At Bumbershoot, there was a piano on the stage just before Robyn's set, and we tried (oh! how we tried) to get the stagehands not to remove it, but to no avail. I've never seen him play the piano, but I will. Oh yes, I will. As God is my witness. Vivien __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 18:19:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: From the Onion's Poison Prevention Tips... Many substances, once fatal if ingested, now have effective antidotes. Treat yourself to a refreshing, ice-cold glass of methyl ethyl ketone today. -Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:09:57 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Are you aware of your brain? I just wanted to make sure everyone knows that this week is Brain Awareness Week. That is all. Vivien __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:59:36 EST From: DougMash@aol.com Subject: Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire? Had an interesting dream last night....Robyn on the Letterman show singing a song called "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?" Usually don't dream up pop songs for my favorite artists (usually dream of trains), but this dream got me thinking. I guess it was the combo of watching bits of the "Storefront Hitchcock" DVD last night, and listening to "Viva Sea Tac" earlier in the day and thinking..."that's what Robyn needs a good updeat novelty hit that would get radio play beyond the Seattle area!" The song was a rollicking tune (almost "Balloon Man-esque") with Robyn intoning the title in a heavy English/very ironic tone..."Who wants to marry...marry a millionaire?" Then something like "before you say I do...take a good look inside of you" then going off on the typical Robyn rant of hummus, prawns, etc. A weird note, it was "Jewels for Sophia" Letterman was holding up in the intro, maybe a re-pressing ala XTC's Skylarking with "Dear God" on it. Anyway, maybe it was the Chinese food I ate creating havoc in my subconscious, but if anyone has an "in" with Robyn, give him the title & tell him to run with it! Maybe it's a sign! Funny, a lot of die hards probably don't want Robyn to have a "novelty hit," but back in 1986 I was an intern at WLIR-FM on Long Island, New York & got "Tell Me About Your Drugs" added to the "imports/oddities" Sunday night show. The damn thing was a minor hit on the station, narrowly losing out in the "Screamer (best new song) of the week" call-in poll, and actually getting more airplay than "If You Were a Priest!" Anything to get Robyn on the radio would be fine with me. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 13:42:00 -0800 From: Eb Subject: cute :) From NY Daily News By BILL HUTCHINSON Daily News Staff Writer Former Beatle Paul McCartney can still "Twist and Shout." The 57-year- old rocker was spotted in the wee hours Tuesday dancing on the bar at Hogs & Heifers in the Meatpacking District. Sir Paul McCartney may be too old to rock 'n' roll, but he's not too old to shake his groove thing. Decked out in the tux he wore earlier to a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shindig at the Waldorf-Astoria, McCartney walked into the rough-and-tumble tavern about 1 a.m. looking for a party. He was accompanied by a woman believed to be his stepdaughter, Heather McCartney, 36, and an English gentleman in a polka-dotted ascot. But it took a little prodding from sassy barmaid Michele Gascoigne to get Sir Paul to shake his groove thing. "I said, 'Mr. McCartney, we have a tradition here that only women can dance on the bar,'" said the 28-year-old Gascoigne, who was wearing her leather electric-blue laceup halter top. "I said, 'But we're willing to break that tradition -- for one knight.'" McCartney -- who ordered a Johnnie Walker Black with a Coke back and a glass of ice on the side -- laughed but declined the offer. The tough-talkin' Long Beach, L.I., barkeep wasn't taking no for an answer. She climbed up on the bar with her megaphone, pushed back her cowboy hat, hung a thumb on her silver Smith & Wesson belt buckle and had the jukebox silenced. "I said, 'Everybody shut up.' Then I said, 'Wait a second, Mr. McCartney. With all due respect, sir, you mean to tell me you can get up on stage in front of 65,000 people at Shea Stadium, but you're afraid to get up here with little ol' me?'" As a chorus of "Oooohs" whispered through the crowd of about a hundred, a shocked McCartney's jaw dropped. He said, "That's it, girl," shed his jacket and jumped up on the well-worn bar as the jukebox started to bop with Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin'." McCartney started doing the twist as Gascoigne broke into a two-step. McCartney grabbed the megaphone and joined Jerry Lee for a few lines. The rock great even did a saucy striptease, playfully taking his suspenders off his shoulders. "He knows how to shake. He had his arm around me. He was just a regular guy. He was so cool," gushed Gascoigne, who added, "Paul has always been my favorite Beatle." After the dance, McCartney affectionately called Gascoigne a "cheeky little devil," and shuffled off to the back of the bar to shoot some pool with the regulars. It was a big night out for McCartney, who shied away from the limelight for months after the 1998 death of his wife, Linda McCartney. The ex- Beatle recently said he didn't expect to live more than a few months after his wife succumbed to cancer. Gascoigne said such celebrities as Tyra Banks and Julia Roberts have strutted their stuff at the honky-tonk. Some stars, such as Drew Barrymore, have even tossed their bras up over the bar — a Hogs & Heifers tradition. "But Paul McCartney is not just a celebrity, he's a legend," said the star-struck Gascoigne. "I mean, when I was a little girl, I had two posters on my bedroom wall. One was of a lion, because I'm a Leo. The other was of the Beatles." McCartney spokesman Bill Porcelli said he had been partying with the ex- Beatle earlier that night but pooped out before the music superstar made it to Hogs & Heifers. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 16:47:18 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Point it at Bram In a message dated 3/9/00 10:56:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, vivlyon@yahoo.com writes: << >It seems, instead of making one great album and one > obscure > outtake album, Robyn has preferred to make two so-so albums, You said it. I think he could have made one kick-ass album with this material, but instead I get two albums in which I have to skip a lot of songs >> Hmm. Well, if for no other reason than it seems like Jonathan and Viv are making these statements as if they're points of fact, I just have to chime in here and say: (1) I doubt Robyn "preferred" to make "two so-so albums"; (2) Jewels for Sophia" is one of my top 5 favorite Robyn albums, so I can't at all agree that it's so-so -- in fact, I think it *is* one kick-ass album!; (3) while I like "Bram" and think that, for a collection of outtakes, it's very good, I can only think of a couple of tracks that I would maybe substitute between "Sophia" and "Bram." And I wouldn't dare say that these tracks *should* have been on one album instead of the other, just that I happen to prefer them (most notably, I like "I Saw Nick Drake" a ton and have always felt pretty ambivalent about "Sally Was a Legend" . . . but others will disagree, I'm sure :-)). This is all just to say that you can't please all of your fans all of the time, and I'm sure Robyn didn't intentionally disperse the songs between "Sophia" and "Bram" just so he could sell twice as many mediocre discs. IMO, the masses are getting the better of the two, but anyone who goes out of their way to get "Bram" will be in for some good extra treats. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:07:20 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: The Kindness of Dreamworks There are a couple of very good somber pop albums on the horizon. I'm currently giving my second listen to the new Eels (out Tues. 3/14 in the U.S.) that all the across-the-pond Fegs have been talking about. I can already tell I'm gonna like it a lot. Their 1998 "Electro-Shock Blues" album was one of my top 5 faves for that year. As all the (favorable) press has been saying, this new one isn't nearly as heavy as its death-and-gloom-laden predecessor, but it's still got the wonderful bittersweetness of many of the best tracks from the last one. But, instead of a handful of really dark tracks, it's got a handful of silly-pop tracks. Good stuff! I also got a very advanced copy of the forthcoming Elliott Smith album a couple of weeks ago. I don't think I mentioned this already on the list. Sorry if I have. Anyway, it's another damn fine album from Elliott. The sound isn't remarkably different from "XO," but it's maybe just a wee bit, oh, I don't know, jauntier in places? There seems to be a little more contrast between the more uptempo rock/pop numbers and the slow folksy brooding tunes that before, which is kinda nice -- less homogenized, ya know. Hey, does anyone remember Sam Phillips' "Indescribable Wow" album? I just got a used CD of this a couple of weeks ago, having once owned it on tape long ago. Anyway, several of the songs on this Eels disc remind me of that album, especially the song "Holding Onto the Earth." Just a rambling observation there, thinking out loud and all that. Don't mind me. Okay, I'm done promoting Dreamworks future releases now. Hasta los Fegos! - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:44:09 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: The Kindness of Dreamworks >this new one isn't nearly as heavy as its death-and-gloom-laden >predecessor, but it's still got the wonderful bittersweetness of many of the >best tracks from the last one. But, instead of a handful of really dark >tracks, it's got a handful of silly-pop tracks. Good stuff! A couple of the "silly" tracks -- "I Like Birds" and "Tiger in My Tank" -- are probably my least favorites on the album. However, about half the tracks are quite good, and that's a pretty fair percentage. I think "The Sound of Fear" is my current fave. I love that little oboe-esque pulse in the chorus. :) >I also got a very advanced copy of the forthcoming Elliott Smith album >a couple of weeks ago. Wow, lucky you! Maybe I'll dig for one, myself. >Hey, does anyone remember Sam Phillips' "Indescribable Wow" album? Loooooved that album. Too bad she never did another one as good. Does she have a new record deal yet? EB "Machina: The Machines of God is a major disappointment" the EBSTER now ehhing: Spring Heel Jack ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:44:16 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: eb all over the world On 3/8/2000 6:44 PM, FukStik 2000 wrote: >can i say that i don't really follow the logic of Lady Waters And The Hooded >One? By that I suppose you mean that even though he "must take everything", he still left her there with nothing "but her life"? I know this is kind of anal, but perhaps he perished after taking the plague from her? - -Tom "woke up this morning, got myself a gun" The Tomster ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:50:04 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: the meaning of PAF The official word from Robyn, through Museum Curator David Greenberger: > Hal, > > As far as PAF goes, he's forgotten > exactly what its source is, but liked the sound of it and thinks it came > from a French comic book and was indeed some sort of sound effect like BAM > or POW. > > Best wishes, > > David ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:30:18 -0600 From: tanter Subject: RE: cute :) > >He was accompanied by a woman believed to be his stepdaughter, Heather >McCartney, 36, and an English gentleman in a polka-dotted ascot. I don't think I've ever seen Heather referred to this way--since he adopted her, she's his daughter, right? Marcy L. Tanter Assistant Professor of English Tarleton State University Stephenville, TX 76401 254-968-9892 (9039 to leave a message) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:32:10 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: cute :) as someone who has seen a parent have to survive the way-too-young-50's-ish death of the other, it's very good to see that paul is moving forward. it's has to be, among other things and if nothing else, a tremendous relief to his kids. Eb wrote: > From NY Daily News > > By BILL HUTCHINSON > Daily News Staff Writer > > Former Beatle Paul McCartney can still "Twist and Shout." The > 57-year-old rocker was spotted in the wee hours Tuesday dancing on > the bar at Hogs & Heifers in the Meatpacking District. what's a militant veggie doing in the meatpacking district though? > Sir Paul McCartney may be too old to rock 'n' roll, but he's not too > old to shake his groove thing. Decked out in the tux he wore > earlier to a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shindig at the Waldorf- > Astoria, McCartney walked into the rough-and-tumble tavern about 1 > a.m. looking for a party. > > He was accompanied by a woman believed to be his stepdaughter, > Heather McCartney, 36, and an English gentleman in a polka-dotted > ascot. > > But it took a little prodding from sassy barmaid Michele Gascoigne to > get Sir Paul to shake his groove thing. > > "I said, 'Mr. McCartney, we have a tradition here that only women can > dance on the bar,'" said the 28-year-old Gascoigne, who was wearing > her leather electric-blue laceup halter top. > > "I said, 'But we're willing to break that tradition -- for one > knight.'" > > McCartney -- who ordered a Johnnie Walker Black with a Coke back and > a glass of ice on the side -- laughed but declined the offer. > > The tough-talkin' Long Beach, L.I., barkeep wasn't taking no for an > answer. She climbed up on the bar with her megaphone, pushed back her > cowboy hat, hung a thumb on her silver Smith & Wesson belt buckle and > had the jukebox silenced. > > "I said, 'Everybody shut up.' Then I said, 'Wait a second, Mr. > McCartney. With all due respect, sir, you mean to tell me you can get > up on stage in front of 65,000 people at Shea Stadium, but you're > afraid to get up here with little ol' me?'" > > As a chorus of "Oooohs" whispered through the crowd of about a > hundred, a shocked McCartney's jaw dropped. He said, "That's it, > girl," shed his jacket and jumped up on the well-worn bar as the > jukebox started to bop with Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin'." > > McCartney started doing the twist as Gascoigne broke into a two-step. > McCartney grabbed the megaphone and joined Jerry Lee for a few lines. > > The rock great even did a saucy striptease, playfully taking his > suspenders off his shoulders. > > "He knows how to shake. He had his arm around me. He was just a > regular guy. He was so cool," gushed Gascoigne, who added, "Paul has > always been my favorite Beatle." > > After the dance, McCartney affectionately called Gascoigne a "cheeky > little devil," and shuffled off to the back of the bar to shoot some > pool with the regulars. > > It was a big night out for McCartney, who shied away from the > limelight for months after the 1998 death of his wife, Linda > McCartney. The ex-Beatle recently said he didn't expect to live more > than a few months after his wife succumbed to cancer. > > Gascoigne said such celebrities as Tyra Banks and Julia Roberts have > strutted their stuff at the honky-tonk. Some stars, such as Drew > Barrymore, have even tossed their bras up over the bar — a Hogs & > Heifers tradition. > > "But Paul McCartney is not just a celebrity, he's a legend," said the > star-struck Gascoigne. "I mean, when I was a little girl, I had two > posters on my bedroom wall. One was of a lion, because I'm a Leo. The > other was of the Beatles." > > McCartney spokesman Bill Porcelli said he had been partying with the > ex-Beatle earlier that night but pooped out before the music superstar > made it to Hogs & Heifers. ===== "Pat Robertson believes in freedom of religion about as much as Bill Clinton believes in being sexual fidelity." -- overheard while eating "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:37:46 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: eb all over the world On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Tom Clark wrote: > On 3/8/2000 6:44 PM, FukStik 2000 wrote: > >can i say that i don't really follow the logic of Lady Waters And > >The Hooded One? > By that I suppose you mean that even though he "must take everything", he > still left her there with nothing "but her life"? Actually, my confusion always came a step or two sooner. Dancing with death is not the same as dying, so I'm ok with the idea that she doesn't die just by accepting the dance. I see it like this: Death wants a dance from Girlie. Girlie doesn't want to dance with oogy old Death. Girlie tries to cop out and "err... get my tiara", you know. Death says "OK, go get the crownything, but it'll cost ya... so if you were thinking of running off, I just raised the stakes if I ever track you down again. So if you leave, I'm taking all that you've got and you have to taste my stinky, foetid breath." Girlie thinks "aha! I can get him to take this durned plague from me!" and goes out for the tiara. Girlie comes back and dances with Death (which she's already been doing with all those boils all over her bad self) and LITERALLY tastes the breath of Death, which is stinky and all, but not nearly as bad as dying of the plague. Death digs the dance and keeps his word, taking everything she has, including the plague. Girlie made out very well. While she has none of her fancy frilly things, she no longer has no plague neither. So she's naked and healthy and alive. So if there's some idiom that says 'Taste the breath of death' that means something other than literally dying (something more akin to dancing with death), then I'm fine with the logic. Otherwise, I have to settle for that odd explanation above. That is all. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:43:51 +0100 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: I often dreams of trains >didja see where tipper gore promised some college crowd that if her husband >were to get elected he'd "make the trains run on time"? makes me think >we're living in a post-satire age. hmm... anyone ever seen Gore and Mussolini in the same room together? James nf - Jamaica. A yellow saltire with dark green in the triangles above and below, and black in the triangles at hoist and fly. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 21:23:21 -0800 From: jhaynes@lclark.edu Subject: apples/party/ no rh whatsoever hi did anyone buy the new apples ep? i was just wondering if it's worth dishing out the dollars for 6 songs. actually, i'm sure i will buy it (indie rock record dork), but i just want to know if it's good. also, any portland fegs (and their friends) are invited to a party i'm hosting on this saturday, the 11th, at milkbar (612 NW Davis). It's gonna be a sixties soul/ pop/ psych freak out! be prepared to dance, and please bring everyone you know! starts at 10pm. okay, done plugging jeannine ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:40:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: "Louise, is the Reverend hard to please?" "You're telling me!" On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > I guess there'll never be a PAL video version, and I bet the > DVD is a North-American zone only. A bloke I know has got a switchable DVD machine which can play disks from all zones. I don't know how common (or legal) this is. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #61 ******************************