From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #92 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, April 11 2000 Volume 09 : Number 092 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: various things [Eb ] monterey aquarium [shmac@ix.netcom.com (Scott Hunter McCleary)] Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #91 [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz] The Robyn Hitchcock Ticket Stub Gallery ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Liquid music. [Capuchin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 15:43:03 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: various things >"wasp star" promises to be an even more radical step forward still. Guess again.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 22:56:31 -0400 From: shmac@ix.netcom.com (Scott Hunter McCleary) Subject: monterey aquarium Yes Yes Yes -- get Randi there. The Cetacean Instit... I mean the Monterey Aquarium is great! On a par with Baltimore even. I've been there three times and I live 3,000 miles away. Where else will you get to pet a ray? Toronto? I think not! Of course, we'll have to take her to the one in Baltimore when she does the otherly coastal trip. Gee, why do we keep gravitating back to fish? ========= SH McCleary Prodigal Dog Communications PO Box 6163 Arlington, VA 22206 shmac@prodigaldog.com www.prodigaldog.com www.1480kHz.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:16:22 +1200 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #91 >Oh, and Chris, thanks for that wondrous and enlightening post on the >origins of Quail day. I, of course, celebrated by constructing a erm, Chris... could you send me a copy of it again, if you still have it? This should have gone in the 'keeper' file, but didn't... >New Zoo Review Dammit Dave! Don't ya know that down here in this part of the world, our brains are specially programmed to seek out subject lines with a capital N and a capital Z? I scrolled straight to this, only to discovber it was about animal parks in California! James (now flying, Philippines! Blue over red, with a white triangle at the hoist featuring three gold stars surrounding a rayed sun) 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: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 08:24:40 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: The Robyn Hitchcock Ticket Stub Gallery After taking about as much of Bayard's chivvying¹ as I could, and being in a weakened state after losing blood and skin in a high speed recumbent bicycle tyre blowout incident, I had no option but to produce - -- at last -- The Robyn Hitchcock Ticket Stub Gallery: http://homepages.enterprise.net/scruss/fegtickets.html Please feel free to submit some more. Instructions are at the bottom of the web page. Stewart ¹: "Stewart, care for some more chivvying?" "No thanks, Bayard old chum, I'm stuffed!" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:09:32 EDT From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: satan pukes on the would-be sorority girls Everyones entitled to their own opinion. Wow, You really feel strongly about not liking the last 2 albums. I didn't like Moss the 1st time I heard it and put it down for quite a while, But I was getting into a bunch of disco, soul, and techno at the time. After a couple year though...Man! I really appreicate the spontanaety of both jewels and moss (especially moss). I really agree that Respect has a lot of maturity behind it. Maybe someday you'll like them, maybe not. I wish I could enjoy a lot of things don't now. The More I can enjoy, the happier I can be. Right? >From: BLATZMAN@aol.com >Reply-To: BLATZMAN@aol.com >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: satan pukes on the would-be sorority girls >Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 12:08:19 EDT > >After my delicate sensibilities were damaged by the advertising bashing, I >have come to understand the nature of this list better, and will try not to >be so fragile. I just know that advertising is a necessary part of our >great >economy, and I am proud of my work. > >But then, I realized that the true main reason I stopped participating in >this list is that I think the last 2 studio albums have been total crap. >Jewels, for me, is really a lab-made stone that still needs polishing. >YUCK!!! It really needs focus. The Cheese Alram might have been good, but >it's a whole minute before you get to the real song and that minute is a >waste of my time. And Nasa Clapping sounds like a bad attempt to sound >"hip". If we were still in the mid nineties, I mean. > >And Moss... What up with that? Half the versions on the LP are better than >the CD! It actually could have been a better release if it was shorter, >and half the songs were swapped out. (I'll take quality over quantity >anyday) > >I guess I feel that Robyn needs a band. He needs the unity and guidance of >a >band and a strong producer. I don't buy in to the garbage of "this is >Robyn, >this is what he intended for us to hear" I don't think an artist is the >best >judge of things. Skylarking is still my favorite XTC album, and I really >think I have Todd Rundgren to thank for that. And I really don't care if >Andy's delicate sensibilities were hurt in the making of what is a truly >incredible album. > >And this new album has a really wierd sensibility to it. On Respect, there >was a maturity that seemed to flow effortlessly. On Jewels, it seems to me >that Robyn is TRYING to sound clever rather that actually being clever. I >don't hear heartache, I don't hear joy, I hear a flat wall of noise. He >should have pulled a Cheryl Crow and scrapped the entire album, and gone >back >to the drawing board. I wouldn't mind hearing Jewels in 20 years as an >example of an artist who realized he could do better, and insisted on >trying. > >get a band! > >Dave ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:12:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Happy holidays! Xolitlacococamehaliqueh. (Or, in English: I was off-line all weekend, hence the late reply.) On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Michael R Godwin wrote: > Interesting. Would you suppose that the well-known quotation "I adore > quail" (J Wellington Wimpey) is a free-form translation of the Nahua > "Chocolatl Tlaloc Xquailotl"? Perhaps, but more likely it's just a reference to it. Literally "Chocolatl Tlaloc Xquailotl" means "I adore the way chocolate complements the roast quail," and with a literal translation like that, I can't imagine anyone preferring a free-form rendering. > The frequent scenes in which JWW is shown catching a hamburger thrown from > some distance suggest that he was familiar with the sacred ritual aspects > of the game of pelota. I wonder whether the entire King Features strip > cartoon sequence should be interpreted as a pastiche of volume 2 of the > Codex Ixtlilxochitl of 1582? Sounds plausible. For those who aren't familiar with this work, volume 2 records many old Aztec legends (or *are* they legends?), including "How the Quails Stole the Secret of the Wheel From Us," "The Prudent Quail, the Foolish Quail, and the Giant Spider that Devoured Them Both," and "I Would Gladly Pay You Tuesday for a Quitzilipochtli [Quail Taco] Today." - --Squidilipochtli ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:05:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Liquid music. While I think Michael Keefe's envisioned world of injectable music is a far-off fantasy, you might be interested to note that there are drinkable minidisc players on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=298234156 bottoms up! J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #92 ******************************