From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #77 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 27 2000 Volume 09 : Number 077 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Crooks and murderers (0% RH) [Eric Loehr ] Re: RIP [hal brandt ] Re: Crooks and murderers (0% RH) ["JH3" ] Re: Crooks and murderers (0% RH) [ultraconformist ] worst part of the Oscars [Eb ] Re: select robyn quote of the day [hal brandt ] Re: worst part of the Oscars [hal brandt ] answers...& could someone please explain ["randi..aka..twofangs" ] Re: Crooks and murderers (0% RH) [Jonathan Moren ] My EbBay items I'm tracking.... [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: My EbBay items I'm tracking.... [Eb ] Re: worst part of the Oscars [Capuchin ] dat-heads [Capuchin ] Re: worst part of the Oscars [Glen Uber ] Re: worst part of the Oscars [Eb ] I can't remember which of you were DP fans... [Eb ] robyn news [fartachu ] film rec [tanter ] rew review ["CORNHOLE ARMAGEDDON" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:14:56 -0500 From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: Crooks and murderers (0% RH) At 02:31 PM 3/27/00 +0100, Michael R Godwin wrote: > >I was astounded to discover that the participants on another list had >never heard of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. I thought I'd better check that >fegs are better informed. Not to mention Ronnie Biggs, The Kray Twins, >Ruth Ellis, Jack The Hat McVitie etc. > >Doesn't the UK underworld resonate any more? > I've never heard of Ian Brady, Myra Hindley, or Ruth Ellis, Jack The Hat McVitie etc., although I've never claimed to be particularly well-informed. I have heard of Ronnie Biggs and the Kray Twins, but(t hey, Eddie, I said butt!) I'm afraid I know much more about the Piranha Brothers. Eric Dinsdale? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:24:59 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: RIP Michael R Godwin wrote: > > Ian Dury, 57. Ian Dury's "New Boots and Panties!" on STIFF Records ("If It Ain't STIFF, It Ain't Worth A Fuck") was a breath of fresh air in the Styx and Starship-laden seventies when I first discovered it. It's a classic in my collection, anyway. "Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll", "Wake Up And Make Love", "Sweet Gene Vincent"...I used to play my drumset along with those songs over and over again. RIP, Ian Dury. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:30:58 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Crooks and murderers (0% RH) >I was astounded to discover that the participants on another >list had never heard of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. I thought >I'd better check that fegs are better informed. Surely anyone who's heard the Smiths' "Suffer Little Children" would know who those two were. It must have been one of those "Anti-Morrissey" lists that you hear about sometimes. (Not many of them around anymore!) >Not to mention Ronnie Biggs, The Kray Twins, Ruth Ellis, >Jack The Hat McVitie etc. I've heard of Jack the Hat, but admittedly I don't know the backstory on him, other than that he was murdered by a guy hired by Ronnie & Reggie K. Presumably there was no major motion picture starring John Hurt and/or Miranda Richardson? Pity... >Doesn't the UK underworld resonate any more? Dammit, there's that word again! John "50% less nasal-sounding than last year" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:30:42 -0600 From: ultraconformist Subject: Re: Crooks and murderers (0% RH) >I was astounded to discover that the participants on another list had >never heard of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. I thought I'd better check that >fegs are better informed. Not to mention Ronnie Biggs, The Kray Twins, >Ruth Ellis, Jack The Hat McVitie etc. I know all of these pretty well except Jack the Hat, whom I have never heard of. It should be noted that I'm both an Anglophile and a crime buff. >Doesn't the UK underworld resonate any more? That might be the key there. Is the list you were referring to heavily populated by Americans? I tend to doubt Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were names that ever DID resonate strongly in the United States. Not to be a jerk, but it's not as tho we haven't our own criminals :). I would tend to think that unless they have an unusual interest in contemporary English history or true crime stories, people aren't as concerned with English ones. You might also run across people who don't have either interest to any great degree, but who've seen "The Krays" or "Dance With A Stranger". Aside from that, these names aren't going to mean anything to the vast majority of Americanos. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:30:09 +1200 (NZST) From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz Subject: Re: RIP >Ian Dury, 57. damn. Little known Ian Dury fact - there was, for a while, a real rarity - an enjoyable TV advertisement - here in NZ (for NZ beef, IIRC) which featured the song "There ain't half been some clever bastards" James (busy checking the punctiation of that last sentence) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:00:25 PST From: "CORNHOLE ARMAGEDDON" Subject: select robyn quote of the day "Only The Stones Remain" is about a bunch of druids who organize a festival in a ring of standing stones. Some people believe that the standing stones have electromagnetic properties that actually alter people's force fields when they go in there. And some people believe they were erected so that when a nuclear bomb boes off, they will actually be a safe place to stand. And, the druids are just having a...they have a sacrifice, and things like that. They sacrifice rams. They have straight-forward sex. People menstruate over the stones. People ejac-- is this for radio? All right, yeah. People ejaculate over the stones. Sperm and jism, and all the rest of it. And a fine time is had by all, you know? It's young people with a high...high sperm count. And blood temperature, and things like that. And the druids go off in a time capsule, and the young soldiers and maidens and sausage dogs that have been involved in the party all wither and die. And the druids go into the far future and start a rock band, and go back to the place where they held this wild party years and years before. And...but they've got time-lag, because they've shot through 3,000 years in about a half-hour, and therefore they haven't spiritually caught up with themselves. You know, they're physically far ahead in time, but their souls are way back. And they become incredibly sad at the sight of all this, and the fact that, sort of, bacchanalia they've summoned up...just seems wasteful to them. And they become very, very wise. And they go back to their own time again, and resolve never to use a time machine again, and to work only towards peace and greater understanding. And naturally nothing more is heard from them. --April, 1986 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:18:09 -0800 From: Eb Subject: worst part of the Oscars *Ray Charles*. Whew...pretty gruesome. Someone needs to gently tell him that it's time to rest on his laurels. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:32:32 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: select robyn quote of the day CORNHOLE ARMAGEDDON wrote (quoting RobynH): > > "Only The Stones Remain" is about a bunch of druids, etc..." > --April, 1986 Great one, Eddie. "Only The Stones" is in my RH Top Ten Songs. Keep those daily quotes comin' (or, at least weekly!) - -hal ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:41:46 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: worst part of the Oscars Elvis (circa 1978) Costello-ish "Eb" opined: > *Ray Charles*. Whew...pretty gruesome. Yes, but John Sebastian on The Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony takes the prize in that category. Was there a "best" part of this year's Oscars™?! *hal* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:41:10 -0500 From: "randi..aka..twofangs" Subject: answers...& could someone please explain A few comments .... 1. The feg-gentleman I referred to *is* a gentleman, I know it, though I'll realize it more completely when I meet him :-} 2. Yes, Michael Penn was there supporting wife Aimee - last guy stage left / or if you were watching tv instead of 'attending' the Oscars 8-} ... MP was the last guy to the right ... trust me - I'd know that man's voice & harmonies & guitar skills anywhere Aimee used to play bass - in 'Til Tuesday - but since _they_ split - - & probably before I suspect - Aimee's been playing guitar. And since her and her hubby have been playing shows *together* - they've become a two guitar family. But ... Michael did play bass at the Oscars Astute observation mr. glenster ;-} And yeah - the mix was crap ... {- I don't know about Aimee's voice coming from Santa Monica - though I can extrapolate on that geographical reference, ;-} I'll get my atlas when I'm done typing - } ... but since becoming an avid Aimee Mann fan - I know whoever was at the mixing board at the Oscars likes PhilgrrrCollins better. Btw - Anyone with any old 'til Tuesday music let me know privately ... I'm willing to trade trade trade! 3. I'm terrified to ask this question but what is all the pondering of ed's ass and why {no offence to anyone's ass intended ;-} And thanks to sharkboy, katherine, mary, woj, eb, glen, and 'trent' for getting their hi's in so quickly. You all make my day, I feel like I'm coming home ... Thank you. Rand *like peter pan or superman you will come to save me* ~ Aimee Mann ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 19:13:00 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: The Best Ten Parts of the Oscars /hal /asks /, >Was there a "best" part of this year's Oscars™?! Oh, yes, there were many "best" parts! I count at least a dozen, which I shall enumerate in my best Eddie style: 1. After Warren "I can't believe they included 'Ishtar' in with my clips" Beatty rambled on incoherently for seventy hours, as the camera followed him offstage before the commercial break, the baffled look Mel Gibson traded with Jack Nicholson, as if to say, "What the FUCK?", and the knowing, sympathetic look Jack gave him back, as if to say, "Yeah, he was more fun when he was liquored to the gills and boinking anything that moved, wasn't he?" 2. Watching Fiona Apple look as bored as the rest of us were. (I think she might have been playing with herself, though.) 3. The look on Denzel Washington's face when the Oscar went to Kevin Spacey, a look that clearly said "Fucking white racist fucking assholes, goddamn, ...!!!!...FUCK!!!" 4. When Eb leapt up on stage with "SOY BOMB" painted on his ass. (Hereinafter, "'Baked Potato suffused with a boiling demi-glaze.") 5. John Corigliano's snide "I come from the world of classical music," speech, all of which REALLY meant "You are all a bunch of wankers and Hans Zimmer can KISS MY TALENTED BUTT." 6. When Danny Elfman lost the "Best Score by Danny Elfman" category, again*. 7. When Warren Beatty's head exploded and all the aliens can slithering out. (Or did I just imagine that one?) 8. Watching Billy Crystal become more like Jackie Mason right before one's very eyes. 9. Keanu Reeves's mimicking the taking of the red and blue pills, which only further demonstrates that he has never showed up for an awards ceremony in a sober state. 10. The winner of that Isreali documentary who harangued the audience in an increasingly strident German tone that surely brought a nervous sweat to whatever unfortunate bastard was assigned the task of dragging him off if he went on to long. 11. That wheelchair guy from "King Gimp," who really was the happiest recipient of an Oscar I think I have ever seen, unless of course he was just happy that Daniel Day Lewis didn't win the Oscar for playing him. 12. Salma Hayek's Baked Potato suffused with a boiling demi-glaze. - --The Great "Kubrick hates you all, you smug glittery ungrateful bastards" Quail *Thanks to Feg Mark Gloster for making me first aware of this category ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 02:24:25 +0200 From: Jonathan Moren Subject: Re: Crooks and murderers (0% RH) At 12:30 2000-03-27 -0600, you wrote: >>I was astounded to discover that the participants on another >>list had never heard of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. I thought >>I'd better check that fegs are better informed. > >Surely anyone who's heard the Smiths' "Suffer Little Children" >would know who those two were. As well as this one tune: "God save Myra Hindley, God save Ian Brady.." (which is sung by Ronnie Biggs!) >>Doesn't the UK underworld resonate any more? Well, it seems mr. Biggs isn't getting much airplay these days..not to speak of the Kray twins.. jm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:31:16 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: worst part of the Oscars /hal: >Elvis (circa 1978) Costello-ish "Eb" opined: [inevitable, hypocritical petulance ignored] >Yes, but John Sebastian on The Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame induction >ceremony takes the prize in that category. True, that was even worse. But the stakes are a lot higher at the Oscars. >Was there a "best" part of this year's Oscars?! Umm.... John Irving winning an Oscar. Pedro Almodovar winning an Oscar. Crowd shots of the having-the-time-of-his-life junkman who found the stolen Oscars. The South Park dudes' dresses. (Did they actually get into the auditorium? I heard they were blocked from entering.) The "I see white people" joke. That's about it. Quail: >3. The look on Denzel Washington's face when the Oscar went to Kevin >Spacey, a look that clearly said "Fucking white racist fucking >assholes, goddamn, ...!!!!...FUCK!!!" Wow...I missed that one. :) >10. The winner of that Isreali documentary who harangued the audience >in an increasingly strident German tone that surely brought a nervous >sweat to whatever unfortunate bastard was assigned the task of >dragging him off if he went on to long. Yeah...that was a weird speech. He should've been talking about the film's subject matter, not belligerently campaigning for a distributor. And you know, I really didn't have a problem with Beatty's speech. I find him fascinating. I always get the feeling like he's "playing" his audience, putting on sort of a stumbling stammer because it makes his opponent underestimate him. It's an intriguing manuever. Worked beautifully on Howard Stern, awhile back...rarely have I heard Stern so outmatched. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:52:55 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: My EbBay items I'm tracking.... Item #7734 GENUINE DEFINITE ARTICLE EB YELLOW-STRIPED SHIRT- COLLECTORS' ITEM Unsigned, has light ketchup and armpit stains from the LORD GOD, KING BUFU of critical music ephemera. Buyer pays shipping. Current bid: $31.01 high bidder: etews ____________________________________________________________________ Item #7981 COLLECTORS' ITEM: BLURRED SMUDGY PHOTOGRAPH OF EB'S ASS Signed promotional 8X10 b/w glossy photo of Eb's ass. This is the one "so fine you want to wear it for a hat." This may be the same one used for his byline with Gangsta Rappah Magazine. Buyer pays shipping. Current bid: $127.50 high bidder: capblowz ____________________________________________________________________ Item #8122 GREAT CORRESPONDENCES: "THE EB/LANG LISTSERVE BANDWIDTH BRAINFRY BANDSAW- PARTS 1-ZILLION-AND-1" Carefully printed sheets of the stimulating discussions between the great orators of our time.Buyer pays shipping. Current bid: $41.00 high bidder: etews ____________________________________________________________________ Item #8123 GREAT CORRESPONDENCES: "THE EB/HAL LISTSERVE BANDWIDTH BRAINFRY BANDSAW- PARTS 1-101" Carefully printed sheets of the stimulating discussions between the great oratorical minds of our time. Buyer pays shipping. Current bid: $26.00 high bidder: capblowz ____________________________________________________________________ Item #8256 THE 50 THINGS I LIKE ABOUT THE GREAT QUAIL Unfinished: No, unstarted, manuscript by Eb. About the things remembered and relished about the hmuh'd one. Buyer pays shipping. Current bid: $2.99 high bidder: sharkboy5000 ____________________________________________________________________ Item #8281 COLLECTORS' EDITION GONDOLA Nice. Really nice. Scale model. Over 9 feet long. Sinks in water. Causes Macs to crash. Buyer pays shipping. Current bid: $500.00 high bidder: etews ____________________________________________________________________ Item #8331 EB'S BAKED POTATO A'LA BOILING DEMIGLAZE Smells funky. It's an isotope, so it should stay hot. Buyer pays shipping. Current bid: $5.00 high bidder: capblowz ____________________________________________________________________ Somebody has posted in the "wanted" section that they would like to purchase "anything pertaining to or about Eb's ass." It's that etews guy, whoever he might be. He must be a real strange-o. Clearly he has lots of money to buy this stuff with. I mean, he's the only bidder on most of the items at EbBay. I think he's bidding against himself from two different accounts... I have tastefully left some of the personable (unmentionable) items unmentioned. I thought y'all would want to push the prices up on this stuff 'cause I think Eb's the one selling most of this stuff and he clearly needs the money. Your public savant, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:12:14 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: My EbBay items I'm tracking.... >Item #7734 GENUINE DEFINITE ARTICLE EB YELLOW-STRIPED SHIRT- > >Unsigned, has light ketchup and armpit stains from the LORD GOD, >KING BUFU of critical music ephemera. Buyer pays shipping. I would *never* auction this shirt -- undoubtedly, this is a forgery. >Item #8256 THE 50 THINGS I LIKE ABOUT THE GREAT QUAIL > >Unfinished: No, unstarted, manuscript by Eb. About the >things remembered and relished about the hmuh'd one. Oh jeez, thanks for reminding me. I'm way past deadline on that one. :/ >I have tastefully left some of the personable >(unmentionable) items unmentioned. Why so squeamish? After all, the brown mucus will probably draw the biggest price of all. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:14:10 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: worst part of the Oscars On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Eb wrote: > But the stakes are a lot higher at the Oscars. There are no "stakes" at the Oscars. It's a bunch of entertainment inudstry masturbating. Wow, we're great. Wow, we have big impact. Wow, we do a good job. Wow, people want to fuck us and our dresses. Perhaps an Oscar means you get a job offer you wouldn't have gotten otherwise, but there are really two kinds of Oscar nominees: Those who are already fabulously wealthy and well-known and will continue to be wealthy regardless of future job offers and those who are not well-known but the nomination alone will give them heaps of job offers they wouldn't have gotten before. > >Was there a "best" part of this year's Oscars?! > Umm.... > John Irving winning an Oscar. > Pedro Almodovar winning an Oscar. This reminds me. I watched about twelve minutes of the Oscars all tolled throughout the night (Viv's out of town and I'm bored silly... but don't worry, I've got projects lined up all week so I don't have to watch any more television) and part of what I saw was the award presentation for Best Live Action Short Subject. Two questions immediately raised themselves. The first is rather trivial, but also dumb. Why are there separate awards for short live-action flicks and short animated flicks, but not seaparate awards for live-action features and animated features? It seems that the requirements and skills involved in making these two kinds of features differ enough to make them almost incomparable. (This is excepting that animation which is purposely intended to mimick live action and is only incidentally animated, e.g. King of the Hill. Sometimes this bothers me and sometimes it doesn't. What DOES bother me, however, is when drawn animated flicks [as opposed to stop-motion, say] use live-action gimicks like changing focus on objects for emphasis when not showing a particular character's actual visual perspective. I don't want to get into that right here.) The second arose from my observation that the live action shorts were all innovative, interesting, and artistic, whereas the live action features were mainstream mass-consumed garbage. They added to the wealth of storytelling fiction we have, but really nothing at all to the medium. So give them a writing award, maybe, for coming up with a good story and possibly a direction award for illustrating the story properly, but as a total execution and addition to the library of film, most of them are just Tom Clancy novels. > Crowd shots of the having-the-time-of-his-life junkman who found the stolen > Oscars. Whatever. Nobody outside of the entertainment industry (or LA, which is just full of people thinking they're in the entertainment industry out of some mistaken belief that it has more validity than any other random industry, like, say food service). > The South Park dudes' dresses. (Did they actually get into the auditorium? > I heard they were blocked from entering.) That's pathetic. They were invited. They were nominated. Fuck AMPAS. But, of course, more importantly, fuck the MPAA. > The "I see white people" joke. That sounds funny. I really enjoyed The Sixth Sense. > And you know, I really didn't have a problem with Beatty's speech. I find > him fascinating. I always get the feeling like he's "playing" his audience, > putting on sort of a stumbling stammer because it makes his opponent > underestimate him. It's an intriguing manuever. Worked beautifully on > Howard Stern, awhile back...rarely have I heard Stern so outmatched. ;) Which is why he made a realistic politician in Bulworth. Beatty is good at saying a whole lot of nothing. That's pretty much what actors do when someone's not handing them a script. That is all. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:21:05 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: dat-heads Could someone currently on the dat-heads list email me. Thanks. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:41:21 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: worst part of the Oscars On 27.03.00 15:18, Eb wrote: > *Ray Charles*. Whew...pretty gruesome. Someone needs to gently tell him > that it's time to rest on his laurels. I knew almost everyone during that oscar medley thinggie, but couldn't seem to pinpoint who the heavy black woman was. I thought it was Queen Latifah but my sweety seemed to think otherwise. Anyone? - -- Cheers! - -g- If you lend $20 to someone and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:59:25 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: worst part of the Oscars Jeme anti-Hollywooded, again: >There are no "stakes" at the Oscars. It's a bunch of entertainment >inudstry masturbating. Wow, we're great. Wow, we have big impact. >Wow, we do a good job. Wow, people want to fuck us and our dresses. > >Perhaps an Oscar means you get a job offer you wouldn't have gotten >otherwise, but there are really two kinds of Oscar nominees: >Those who are already fabulously wealthy and well-known and will >continue to be wealthy regardless of future job offers and those who are >not well-known but the nomination alone will give them heaps of job >offers they wouldn't have gotten before. >Whatever. Nobody outside of the entertainment industry (or LA, which is >just full of people thinking they're in the entertainment industry out >of some mistaken belief that it has more validity than any other random >industry, like, say food service). Uhh...is this last sentence missing a clause? >Which is why he made a realistic politician in Bulworth. Beatty is good >at saying a whole lot of nothing. That's pretty much what actors do >when someone's not handing them a script. Whew. Are you sure that *I'm* the "angry" one on the list, /hal? Judging from the posts of the last hour or so, I'd say I'm in third or fourth place, at best. Eb (who would want to fuck a dress?) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:03:08 -0800 From: Eb Subject: I can't remember which of you were DP fans... >From: "Russ@Innerstate" >Subject: Sam Coomes & Donner Party 2CD >Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:53:08 -0800 > >Before Quasi and his collaborations with Elliot Smith, Sam Coomes was the >guiding light of San Francisco's Donner Party. The 2CD set Donner Party - >The Complete Recordings 1987-1989 features the trio's two self-titled >albums, the unreleased third LP, and a bunch o' live tracks-- 53 songs >total, over two hours of music, none of which has ever before appeared on >CD. > >Innerstate Records has just released this set... [clip] > >Donner Party, whose music veered from primitive folk-rock to noisy indie >pop included drummer/vocalist Melanie Clarin, best known for her extensive >work with Barbara Manning & The SF Seals, the Cat Heads, and other Bay >Area legends. Rounding out this alt-rock pop power trio was bassist >Reinhold Johnson. > >Donner Party - The Complete Recordings 1987-1989 contains tons of photos, >a long-winded essay by frontman Sam Coomes, old gig posters- basically >everything Donner Party you would ever need or want is inside of this >definitive mini-box set collection. > >Btw, for those of you in the Bay Area (or have a private Lear Jet) Donner >Party is playing a one-off reunion show at Slim's in San Francisco on >April 16. > >Russ >www.innerstate.com >phone: 510-548-0884 >fax: 510-548-0885 POB 411241 San Francisco, CA 94141-1241 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:03:31 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: robyn news update from the auditorium : >ROBYN HITCHCOCK TOUR DATES > > >Touring will be minimal this year as Robyn is currently revising his novel, >provisionally titled The Unbaby. > >Robyn will be making the following guest appearances: > > April 24: with comedian Rich Hall at the Comedy Store in London > >The following three dates he'll be playing with Yo La Tengo (that is to say, >as guitarist in their band!): > > May 6: Brighton (check local listings for venue) > May 8: London (check local listings for venue) > May 13: Glasgow (check local listings for venue) > >U.S. Solo Shows > > Jun 16: The Bottom Line, New York City (two shows) also, buried down deeper on the page... >Robyn also contributes guitar and background vocals to the song >"Straight From the Heart" on the new album by Sid Griffin's band, >Western Electric. This is also newly released on Gadfly >Records.http://www.gadflyrecords.com and... >Robyn does a spoken monologue on the song "Your Day Will Come" >on the forthcoming release by The Minus Five, Let The War Against >Music Begin, on Hollywood Records. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:13:03 -0600 From: tanter Subject: film rec Just saw "The Nephew". It's a really, really, really good movie--rent it! Marcy L. Tanter Assistant Professor of English Tarleton State University Stephenville, TX 76401 254-968-9892 (9039 to leave a message) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 20:17:58 PST From: "CORNHOLE ARMAGEDDON" Subject: rew review (by mark jenkins) "Simple pleasures are the best," announces the opening song on Kimberley Rew's "Tunnel Into Summer" (Gadfly), an adage upheld by both the album and the singer-songwriter's career. Rew was once Robyn Hitchcock's foil in the Soft Boys, Britain's premier late-'70s neo-psychedelicists, but he's best known for two songs he wrote after he and Hitchcock parted: "Going Down to Liverpool," which was covered by the Bangles, and "Walking on Sunshine," a 1985 hit for Rew's own Katrina and the Waves that lives on in antihistamine ads. Hitchcock and some other old friends, including fellow Softie Andy Metcalfe and Squeeze's Glenn Tilbrook, join Rew for this album, but it's no grand super-session. These 13 tracks were recorded with a simple guitar-bass-drums lineup, supplemented by occasional keyboards played by Rew or Metcalfe, who also produced most of the album. Rew pulls a few stylistic pranks: "The Radio Played Good Vibrations" turns out to be a country tune with no resemblance to the Beach Boys' song. Mostly, though, "Tunnel Into Summer" is folk-rock that draws on such unsurprising models as Bob Dylan ("Heart of the Sun") and Hitchcock himself (the title track, among others). As the catchy "Tart With a Heart" demonstrates, Rew is a dependable melodist but an indifferent lyricist. "Tunnel Into Summer" is a welcome comeback for the long-underemployed singer-songwriter, but it doesn't alter the fact that Rew has done his best work as a member of someone else's band. (To hear a free Sound Bite from this album, call Post-Haste at 202-334-9000 and press 8183.) ...i more less agree: the lyrics are lousy, the tunes are good. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #77 ******************************