From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #68 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, March 18 2000 Volume 09 : Number 068 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: SXSW...GWTW? [tanter ] Beth Custer, anyone? ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Re: Beth Custer, anyone? ["matt sewell" ] ADMIN: smoe.org scheduled power outage [fartachu ] SxSW (No RH) [Dede Davis ] Re: the Underneath [Vivien Lyon ] Re: barmy bram [Eb ] eb all over the world ["CORNHOLE ARMAGEDDON" ] Re: barmy bram [Eric Loehr ] Re: the Underneath [Christopher Gross ] Re: starf*cking [Glen Uber ] Re: the Underneath [Capuchin ] vermont all over the world [Eb ] Re: vermont all over the world [Miles Goosens ] Re: vermont all over the world [Aaron Mandel ] vermont all over the world [Eb ] Re: Sally Was a Bunnyman [Capuchin ] Re: vermont all over the world ["Joel Mullins" ] Re: vermont all over the world [Jeff Dwarf ] Song info/Donovan [Terrence Marks ] Lyrics site. [Capuchin ] re:new rew where? ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:35:31 -0600 From: tanter Subject: RE: SXSW...GWTW? >===== Original Message From Eb ===== >I was just watching the news, and was told Austin had a tornado scare?? > funnel clouds, a possible touch-down. nothing serious. Marcy L. Tanter Assistant Professor of English Tarleton State University Stephenville, TX 76401 254-968-9892 (9039 to leave a message) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:14:10 -0600 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Beth Custer, anyone? I just downloaded a very tasty song called "Rich Blanket of Love" by Beth Custer, from her new album "In The Broken Fields Where I Lay" from . I'm quite intrigued by the cut, and am wondering if anyone has bought this album or knows anything about her. We've had a spell of chilly, rainy weather here in San Antonio, and it's prompted me to dust off all my My Bloody Valentine CDs. Damn you, Kevin Shields, for not making any more records. I swear. Put down the fookin' bong and release something, will ya? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:44:49 GMT From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Beth Custer, anyone? >We've had a spell of chilly, rainy weather here in San Antonio, and >it's prompted me to dust off all my My Bloody Valentine CDs. Damn >you, Kevin Shields, for not making any more records. I swear. Put >down the fookin' bong and release something, will ya? Always good to be reminded of MBV - reminds me of my indie kid days... terrible live band though... Anyway, getting to the point, Kev Shields has actually been out of his bedroom and into the bedrooms of Primal Scream to appear on their latest, XTRMNTR. Speaking of which, frankly I'm not 100% convinced by the claims that it's the new Screamadelica... cheers Matt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:50:36 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: ADMIN: smoe.org scheduled power outage smoe.org will be down starting on saturday morning. do not adjust your set. do not be alarmed. woj >Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:31:32 -0500 >From: Jeff Wasilko >To: guests@smoe.org >Subject: ADMIN: scheduled power outage > >The location where smoe.org is housed will be without power for >10 hours Saturday morning (starting at 6AM or so). > >jeff ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:17:15 -0800 (PST) From: Dede Davis Subject: SxSW (No RH) Did anyone go to SxSW? Did you see the Mayflies USA play? What ya think? ===== Dede "After all is said and done; I gotta move while it's still fun; Gonna walk before they make me run."--Keith Richards __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:21:02 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: the Underneath - --- James Dignan wrote: > the chalkhillian in me has to ask whether or not they are > particularly ugly. Man, that's a good song, probably my favorite on the album with the possible exception of The Dissappointed. I especially like the way it starts. > Happy St Patrick's to y'all! I can never resist wearing all green on this day (I do mean _all_ green). Damn! I had greener underwear I could have worn... speaking of ugly underneath. > James (two centuries back, my surname would have been > O'Duibhgeannain...) Wouldn't that have been Ui'Duibhgeannain? Vuibhveain Ni Lyonn ps- go to http://www.mpx.com.au/~hugho/webdoc46.htm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:08:28 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: barmy bram Gene: >Damn >you, Kevin Shields, for not making any more records. I swear. Put >down the fookin' bong and release something, will ya? Oh, if only it was just a bong that was his problem.... Mike: >And on the subject of aSfB, I like it because it hardly has any of those >fantastically irritating bass and percussion noises which infect JfS. Am I >the only feg who is driven barmy by these irritating thwacks and gurgles? Oops...I guess that's one thumbs-down vote for Jon Brion. Which brings up a good question -- so Brion isn't involved at all with Bram? And is that album a limited edition, or can I procrastinate on buying one for awhile? Eb now playing: Dinosaur Jr./In Session ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:24:10 PST From: "CORNHOLE ARMAGEDDON" Subject: eb all over the world going on three-and-a-half years on this list, and still nobody recognises my sense of humour (nor, it would seem, would appreciate it if they did). . i'll just go over here and play with my anatomically correct meat puppets figurines some more. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:30:56 -0500 From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: barmy bram At 10:08 AM 3/17/00 -0800, Eb wrote: >Mike: >>And on the subject of aSfB, I like it because it hardly has any of those >>fantastically irritating bass and percussion noises which infect JfS. Am I >>the only feg who is driven barmy by these irritating thwacks and gurgles? > >Oops...I guess that's one thumbs-down vote for Jon Brion. Which brings up a >good question -- so Brion isn't involved at all with Bram? And is that >album a limited edition, or can I procrastinate on buying one for awhile? > I don't have Bram in front of me to check the exact amount, but Jon Brion is on about half of Bram, maybe even more than JfS. Don't know about how limited it is... Eric ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:43:24 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: the Underneath On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Vivien Lyon wrote: > > Happy St Patrick's to y'all! > > I can never resist wearing all green on this day (I do mean > _all_ green). Damn! I had greener underwear I could have worn... > speaking of ugly underneath. I'm wearing the perfect St. Patrick's Day garb: my Moss Elixir t-shirt. It's not only green, it features an *orange* duck! Just like the Irish flag! (The color, not the actual duck.) And, um, the tag is white like the white band on the flag. Robyn must have had St. Patrick's Day in mind when he came out with this shirt. - --Chris "half Irish, despite the German surname" Gross PS: Happy William Gibson's birthday, everyone! np: The Pogues, Rum Sodomy & the Lash ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:11:43 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: starf*cking On 16.03.00 18:09, Eb wrote: > What's more, I happened to see a snatch of "EdTV" Elizabeth Hurley was there? Or was it that Dharma chick? Slainte! Glen "It's St. Patty's Day. What do you expect?" the Glenster ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:49:48 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: the Underneath On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Vivien Lyon wrote: > > I can never resist wearing all green on this day (I do mean > > _all_ green). Damn! I had greener underwear I could have worn... > > speaking of ugly underneath. > I'm wearing the perfect St. Patrick's Day garb: my Moss Elixir t-shirt. > It's not only green, it features an *orange* duck! Just like the Irish > flag! (The color, not the actual duck.) And, um, the tag is white like > the white band on the flag. Robyn must have had St. Patrick's Day in mind > when he came out with this shirt. I'm also wearing my Moss Elixir T. I wonder how many folks donned it this morning. But I've also got a forest green overshirt, green underpants, sage colored socks (the best I could do) and mottled green Doc Martins left by wandering vagrants in Viv's old apartment. I'd've worn my green pants, but in their current state, folks would be getting a much better view of the green underpants instead. I forgot to put on the greenish braces found on Susan Dodge's back stair, so I'm wearing black ones. > PS: Happy William Gibson's birthday, everyone! If that guy attempts to write another episode of The X-Files, I'm firebombing all of Canada. "No idea how irish" J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:58:32 -0800 From: Eb Subject: vermont all over the world You know, it didn't even occur to me until recently that seeing Gorky's Zygotic Mynci tonight is geographically appropriate for Paddyday. Jeez, I may actually have to worry about wearing green this year! Otherwise...has anyone bought anything new besides A Star for Bram?? Beyond a few passing mentions of The The, it seems like practically none of 2000's releases have been discussed yet. Personally, I've heard three 2000 albums which gave me a tingle: the Eels, Lambchop and Third Eye Foundation discs. The Muffs and Who compilations grabbed me too, but those don't quite count. I haven't given good listens to Oasis or Patti Smith yet.... Eb, chomping at the bit to see those goofy Welshmen onstage...about eight hours to go, and counting? now ehhing: Shannon Wright (sooo close to good, but...) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:06:55 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: vermont all over the world At 01:58 PM 03/17/2000 -0800, Eb wrote: >You know, it didn't even occur to me until recently that seeing Gorky's >Zygotic Mynci tonight is geographically appropriate for Paddyday. St. Patrick is also the patron saint of *Wales*? Huh? >Otherwise...has anyone bought anything new besides A Star for Bram?? Beyond >a few passing mentions of The The, it seems like practically none of 2000's >releases have been discussed yet. Personally, I've heard three 2000 albums >which gave me a tingle: the Eels, Lambchop and Third Eye Foundation discs. I don't have the Eels yet, but there's a ton of triple-nought stuff starting to dominate my listening this year: the aforementioned Lambchop, Josh Rouse, Loud Family, Yo La Tengo, Tommy Womack, Phil Lee... I guess I can't count James' MILLIONAIRES, which I finally bought in London last month (no U.S. release yet, but out since Fall '99 in Europe), but it's new to me and getting just about as much play as the others. later, Miles, proud to note that four of the seven artists he mentioned are local acts ====================================================== Miles Goosens UNlimited edition R. Stevie Moore CDs now available! http://www.rsteviemoore.com My personal website http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles "If a million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing." -- Anatole France ====================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:19:10 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: vermont all over the world >At 01:58 PM 03/17/2000 -0800, Eb wrote: > >You know, it didn't even occur to me until recently that seeing Gorky's > >Zygotic Mynci tonight is geographically appropriate for Paddyday. > >St. Patrick is also the patron saint of *Wales*? Huh? Oh come on...Wales is very close to Ireland. Close enough that there will be a certain "festivity" in the air tonight. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:24:16 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: vermont all over the world On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Eb wrote: > Otherwise...has anyone bought anything new besides A Star for Bram?? > Beyond a few passing mentions of The The, it seems like practically > none of 2000's releases have been discussed yet. the first ten weeks of 2000 have already been a lot better for me, in terms of anticipated new records, than all of 1999. the following have all exceeded my high expectations for them: Blue Aeroplanes CAVALIERS Aimee Mann BACHELOR #2 Robyn Hitchcock A STAR FOR BRAM Shriekback NAKED APES AND POND LIFE Loud Family ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE Steinbecks RECORDED MUSIC SALON Destroyer THIEF The Need IS DEAD with the caveats that Shriekback was half ambient, as i'd been warned, and the Blue Aeroplanes record is somewhat inexplicably spread across two disks with a bunch of indifferent bonus tracks in the *middle*... but the 40 minutes of material that was originally billed as constituting the record is great. and am anticipating 3/21 Vehicle Flips 3/27 Bright Eyes (i'm waiting for some of the people who love Neutral Milk Hotel to pick up on this band) 4/10 Mark Robinson (his solo albums have not been so good, but the late Flin Flon were fantastic) 4/25 Franklin Bruno (Eb hates him and everything he stands for. it is to laugh!) it's also about time for new albums by Bevis Frond and The Fall, but those are not things i get excited about until after i've heard them. i still don't get the Eels. aaron ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:46:26 -0800 From: Eb Subject: vermont all over the world Aaron wrote: >Steinbecks RECORDED MUSIC SALON >Destroyer THIEF >Vehicle Flips >Bright Eyes Elucidate further. I don't know these groups. >4/25 Franklin Bruno (Eb hates him and everything he stands for. it is to >laugh!) He was at the Yo La Tengo show, in the crowd. ;) By the way, I don't hate *him*...just his music and his "milieu." Heh. Actually, his music reviews are quite well-written.... Damn it -- I just got a call, offering me for a ticket for tonight's Richard Thompson show. I had to say no, because GZM takes precedence. Ouch. What a tough choice. :( I was told he'll be back in September.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:55:03 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Sally Was a Bunnyman On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Michael R Godwin wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Capuchin wrote: > > The chorus melody is way too much like Dancin' In The Dark for me. > > I can't even listen to it anymore. > Right - except that it's not just "way too much like" it's "the same as". Are you sure? I mean, I am positive it's the same sort of... err... cadence (I have no idea what word describes this) and sounds just like the same key. But are all the notes the same? I can point to Norway (Can't start a fire) I can point to Norway with my first (Can't start a fire without a spark) Sally was a legend (This gun's for hire) That's the only part that REALLY matches, in my ear. As sure as there are veins beneath her wrists (Even though we're just dancing in the dark) That has less similarity to me. Oh, and I'm probably way off on the Broooce lyrics. I have no idea what he says. Has anyone both of these recordings, a good ear and some time? > And on the subject of aSfB, I like it because it hardly has any of those > fantastically irritating bass and percussion noises which infect JfS. Am I > the only feg who is driven barmy by these irritating thwacks and gurgles? Yes. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:53:51 -0800 From: "Joel Mullins" Subject: Re: vermont all over the world >3/27 Bright Eyes (i'm waiting for some of the people who love Neutral Milk >Hotel to pick up on this band) I've heard good things about them. They're playing here in Austin on Saturday night. I may try and make the show, but SXSW is such overpriced bullshit that I'll probably skip the whole scene. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:12:04 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: vermont all over the world Eb wrote: > Otherwise...has anyone bought anything new besides A Star for Bram?? > Beyond a few passing mentions of The The, it seems like practically > none of 2000's releases have been discussed yet. Personally, I've > heard three 2000 albums which gave me a tingle: the Eels, Lambchop > and Third Eye Foundation discs. The Muffs and Who compilations > grabbed me too, but those don't quite count. I haven't given good > listens to Oasis or Patti Smith yet.... i seem to recall a bit of discussion about a month ago about the new cure album. :) i dunno, of the four 2K releases i have so far, i really like the eels album (which someone told me was recorded at the same time as _electro-shock blues_. anyone else heard that), the cure and the the albums were both solid though not spectacular (though much better than either _wild mood swings_ or _hanky panky_). and the pumpkins albums is really disappointing. just a good time to catch up on older stuff. and if you dig Lard, "70's Rock Must Die" is hysterical. np*: Neil Young _Zuma_; Roxy Music _Siren (reissue)_; eels _daisies of the galaxy_; Lard "The Power of Lard"; Roxy Music _For Your Pleasure (reissue)_ *but not shuffling. ===== "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: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:28:18 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence Marks Subject: Song info/Donovan I picked up a copy of one of Martin Denny's moog albums recently. (I'm interested in getting more moog albums and would appreciate any help) I was impressed, but I'm wondering where I could find more information about the songs "Love me Tonight" and "Let Go (Canto de Ossanha)". I also got a copy of HMS Donovan. I was very impressed by less child-oriented stuff. Is there anyone else who does stuff like Lord of the Reedy River or Queen Mab? Closest I can think of is really early Tyranosaurus Rex. Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:11:50 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Lyrics site. Um... I'm not sure if it's fegs accessing the lyrics site or others, but I had made a change to my pages at least a week ago and it broke one of my CGIs... nobody told me. It sat broken until I was just randomly browsing my logs tonight and found the error. In the future, mailing me or fegmaniax@bitmine.net should speed up fixing trouble on the site. It should be all better now. And I've added a note to the bottom of every page to remind people to let me know when there's a problem. Oh, Glen? Aaron "The Viper" Lowe? Get in touch with me ASAP. Thanks. Does somebody here work at Oracle? J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 05:28:57 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: re:new rew where? Russ asked about the location at which the booklet photo was taken for Kimberley Rew's new CD. It was at The Boatrace pub in Cambridge (hence The B...on the snap, the rest being obscured). He was playing with The Lonely, a local band with whom he has played and recorded over the years. Their album Rarer Gifts is good. I saw them recently in another Cambridge pub, and had the treat of seeing Kim play some slide blues, and actually let rip in Ye Olde Soft Boys style-ee. The Lonely's main man has been around the Cambridge scene for yonks, and says that he has some very interesting early live Soft Boys tapes. He's promised to do me a few copies. These include the gig where Alan 'Wang Bo Trotter' Davies played the first set and Kim the second! I think Kim's new album, Tunnel Into Summer, is very fine. It's out on Gadfly records in the US, but I don't think it's released here yet, and will only be available on import anyway. A pretty manky state of affairs if you ask me. I actually had an earlier version of the album which was better IMHO as it had a couple of much more guitar heavy songs on it, but there again he has also dropped a couple of naff efforts from the final listing as well. jmbc n.p. Patti Smith Gung Ho. It's Ok. Not a patch on Gone Again. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 11:16:19 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: re:new rew where? when we last left our heroes, jbranscombe@compuserve.com exclaimed: >I think Kim's new album, Tunnel Into Summer, is very fine. It's out on >Gadfly records in the US, but I don't think it's released here yet, and >will only be available on import anyway. the word from kim (or at least his web person) is that UK distribution is being worked. but you seem to be saying that you know that already. would it still be only an "import anyway" if european distribution was handled as a whole? >A pretty manky state of affairs if you ask me. well, this is the music industry we're talking about. woj ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #68 ******************************