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fegmaniax-digest       Wednesday, April 19 2000       Volume 09 : Number 101



                               Today's Subjects:
                               -----------------
  Re: Nobody loves you...  ["Stewart C. Russell" <stewart@ref.collins.co.uk>]
  mmmmmmmm, trilobite                   [Jason Thornton <jthornton@ucsd.edu>]
  re:  Greatest Album Titles           [Griffith Davies <hbrtv219@yahoo.com>]
  re:  Greatest Album Titles           [Griffith Davies <hbrtv219@yahoo.com>]
  re:  Greatest Album Titles        ["elizabeth " <elizabeth@fringehead.com>]
  re:  Greatest Album Titles                            [dmw <dmw@radix.net>]
  button commercial          ["J. Katherine Rossner" <ookpik@mindspring.com>]
  Re: button commercial                                 [dmw <dmw@radix.net>]
  Re: Greatest Album Title Ever?                           [DougMash@aol.com]
  Re: Greatest Album Title Ever?                        [dmw <dmw@radix.net>]
  Re: Greatest Album Title Ever?          [Capuchin <capuchin@speakeasy.org>]
  Re: Greatest Album Titles  ["craig brown" <cbrown@satellitedub.freeserve.c]
  RE:Greatest Album Titles Ever?                 [Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com]
  RE:Greatest Album Titles Ever?                 [Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com]
  report from the "front lines" all over the world  ["Capitalism Blows" <ete]
  ain't no power like the power of the people 'cause the power of the people don't stop  [Ken Ostrander <ke]
  getting blowjobs from the press.  ["John Barrington Jones" <jbjones@Spirit]
  eb all over the world              ["Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>]
  stonestown all over the world      ["Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>]
  Re: getting blowjobs from the press.                     [MARKEEFE@aol.com]
  "Beautiful Girl" tab?                                    [MARKEEFE@aol.com]
  Re: HOL album titles / "Beautiful Girl" tab           [JH3 <jh3@winco.net>]
  for the Gorey people                       [jill@naxs.com (Jill Sunderlin)]
  Guitar...tab....                                    [Mark_Gloster@3com.com]
  Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #100                 [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz]
  quintessentail robyn voicings, them & thankee         [dmw <dmw@radix.net>]
  Gorey                                     [Vivien Lyon <vivlyon@yahoo.com>]

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:17:01 +0100
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <stewart@ref.collins.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Nobody loves you...

matt sewell wrote:
> 
> ...but Jesus and Robyn
> 
> http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://www.fegmania.org

"Satan Mayst Be Giants" must be the best random outpouring from here.

 Stewart

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:42:32 -0800
From: Jason Thornton <jthornton@ucsd.edu>
Subject: mmmmmmmm, trilobite

Looking for that perfect Easter/Passover/Kwanzaa recipe?

http://soar.berkeley.edu/recipes/weird/trilobite-creole1.rec



- --Jason "all praise Mahavartika!" Thornton




"Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples."
                      - Sherwood Anderson

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:04:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Griffith Davies <hbrtv219@yahoo.com>
Subject: re:  Greatest Album Titles

The only two I can think of are:

"White Light, White Heat, White Trash" from Social
Distortion

"Oedipus Shmedipus" By someone whose name escapes me.



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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:04:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Griffith Davies <hbrtv219@yahoo.com>
Subject: re:  Greatest Album Titles

The only two I can think of are:

"White Light, White Heat, White Trash" from Social
Distortion

"Oedipus Shmedipus" By someone whose name escapes me.

griffith



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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:12:06 -0400
From: "elizabeth " <elizabeth@fringehead.com>
Subject: re:  Greatest Album Titles

I came across a used album some years ago that I almost bought simply because it was titled "667: The Neighbor of the Beast." Can't remember who it was by...

- --
Elizabeth (formerly elizas33@aol.com)
************
listen to SmartToons Radio at
http://www.fringehead.com/smarttoons
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:30:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: dmw <dmw@radix.net>
Subject: re:  Greatest Album Titles

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, elizabeth  wrote:

> I came across a used album some years ago that I almost bought simply
> because it was titled "667: The Neighbor of the Beast." Can't remember
> who it was by... 

oh, that reminds me...  i bought an album called "cheeses of nazareth"
because i liked the title and the cover, which featured a cross made of
assorted cheeses.  i think the band was called "girlpope" and i was
annoyed when they turned out to be a boy band.  unmemorable, in any event.
but a great title.

- -- d.

- - 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

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:05:20 -0400
From: "J. Katherine Rossner" <ookpik@mindspring.com>
Subject: button commercial

At 12:12 PM 4/18/00 -0400, elizabeth wrote:
>I came across a used album some years ago that I almost bought simply 
>because it was titled "667: The Neighbor of the Beast." Can't remember who 
>it was by...

Have I recommended Nancy Lebovitz's buttons to the list?  That's one of 
them...of a whole series of "Beast" buttons, among other things, my 
favorite in that group being "333: Eric the Half a Beast"  nancy@netaxs.net 
for a catalogue.

Katherine
- --
Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho
That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so.
	- Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde"

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:22:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: dmw <dmw@radix.net>
Subject: Re: button commercial

i don't suppose there's a "feckless" ??

(we prefer prime numbers)

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, J. Katherine Rossner wrote:

> At 12:12 PM 4/18/00 -0400, elizabeth wrote:
> >I came across a used album some years ago that I almost bought simply 
> >because it was titled "667: The Neighbor of the Beast." Can't remember who 
> >it was by...
> 
> Have I recommended Nancy Lebovitz's buttons to the list?  That's one of 
> them...of a whole series of "Beast" buttons, among other things, my 
> favorite in that group being "333: Eric the Half a Beast"  nancy@netaxs.net 
> for a catalogue.
> 
> Katherine
> --
> Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
> Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho
> That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge
> Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so.
> 	- Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde"
> 

- - 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

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:29:02 EDT
From: DougMash@aol.com
Subject: Re: Greatest Album Title Ever?

I always wanted to start a punk band and call it the "Kidney Stones." 

Our first album would be titled "You're In For a Big Surprise"

Say the "You're in" part a few times quickly & think of kidney stones to get 
the joke.

Just my $0.02 (why isn't there a "cents" symbol on the keyboard?  It has to 
be more useful than | ^ or ~ !!!
Doug M.

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:38:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: dmw <dmw@radix.net>
Subject: Re: Greatest Album Title Ever?

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 DougMash@aol.com wrote:

> Just my $0.02 (why isn't there a "cents" symbol on the keyboard?  It has to 
> be more useful than | ^ or ~ !!!
> Doug M.

...not a perl-slinger by trade, i see...

- -- doug m-w

- - 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

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:48:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Capuchin <capuchin@speakeasy.org>
Subject: Re: Greatest Album Title Ever?

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 DougMash@aol.com wrote:
> Just my $0.02 (why isn't there a "cents" symbol on the keyboard?  It has to 
> be more useful than | ^ or ~ !!!

Gah!  I type | about as much as I type e.

Just today, I typed:
grep '^<!--' ~eddie/public_html/* | less

And that was before breakfast.
J.
- -- 
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 19:22:31 -0700
From: "craig brown" <cbrown@satellitedub.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Greatest Album Titles

ok - how about the incredible string band with "the 5000 spirits or the
layers of the onion"

see you later - Craig
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From: Griffith Davies <hbrtv219@yahoo.com>
To: free cheese <fegmaniax@smoe.org>
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:06 AM
Subject: re: Greatest Album Titles


>The only two I can think of are:
>
>"White Light, White Heat, White Trash" from Social
>Distortion
>
>"Oedipus Shmedipus" By someone whose name escapes me.
>
>
>
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>hbrtv219@yahoo.com
>
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>

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Date: 18 Apr 2000 16:19:49 -0400
From: Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com
Subject: RE:Greatest Album Titles Ever?

Hairway to Steven- The Butthole Surfers
Lead Us Not Into Penn Station- Block

Jeffro

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Date: 18 Apr 2000 16:35:56 -0400
From: Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com
Subject: RE:Greatest Album Titles Ever?

Plants & Birds & Rocks & Things-The Loud Family

Lumpy Gravy-FZ

Chicago II-XXXVII or whatever (yeeahh...riiight)

Smell The Glove-Spinal Tap

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:43:20 PDT
From: "Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>
Subject: report from the "front lines" all over the world

so it was the usual tax-day gig: handing out the war resisters league's 
pie-chart demonstrating that 50 cents of each tax dollar is allocated to the 
military. did it both during the noon hour, and then during the late-night 
rush (and yes, there were *lots* of people pulling in after midnight, 
desperately trying to get their damned returns in on time).
the post office had it set up really nicely this year, so that it was 
ever-so-easy to get flyers into the heads of most everybody.  (it was surely 
unintentional -- they've always been real bastards toward us.)
as usual, the reactions were quite varied, and often rather entertaining.  
here were a few of my personal favorites:

- --"fuck off."  (a timeless classic, to be sure.  but he had real venom in 
his voice.)
- --"why don't you get a life?"  (to which i responded, "all the best to your 
wife and my kids" as he drove off.  juvenile, yes.  but i couldn't resist.)
- --"if it weren't for the military, we'd all be speaking either german or 
russian right now.  and if you were handing these out in russia, you'd have 
been shot."  (i realised later i should've saluted him.  oh, well.)
- --"you're not, i take it, employed by the postal department?"  (spoken 
*very* dismissively.  not quite sure what her point was, though.)
- --"i'm *already* republican."


other observations:
- --i was struck this year by the number of people that brought their dogs 
along in the car.  i'm talking *at least* 20%!
- --i generally said something along the lines of "this is how we'll be 
spending it this year" as i handed people the flyer.  but for the last 
fifteen or twenty minutes, i couldn't help myself, and instead told them: 
"the irs would like to wish you a happy easter."  (or: "happy easter from 
the irs!")  the reactions to *this* were not only better than the "here's 
how we're spending it" line, but were nothing less than *priceless*.
- --two people (that i saw) brought their returns in in taxis.  the second 
one, apparently the driver hadn't stopped long enough his patron to get his 
envelope to the postal authorities.  so, i gave the driver a flyer, but then 
he had to stop and let the guy out, so he could go pay.  then on his way 
back, he asked me, "so what's this all about?"  i said, "well, i already 
gave one to the driver", to which he rolled his eyes and spat out, "oh, the 
*driver*!"



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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:14:46 -0400
From: Ken Ostrander <kenster@MIT.EDU>
Subject: ain't no power like the power of the people 'cause the power of the people don't stop

i've had a whirlwind couple of weeks.  lots of concerts and drinking; but i was part of the tens of thousands of people that converged on the nation's capital sunday to protest the world bank and the international monetary fund.  our bus dropped us off at farragut square a little after four am.  around six the direct action folks started blocking traffic into the quartened off area around the world bank and i.m.f. buildings.  it was very exciting and i gave some tactical advice to some guy with a bullhorn who just didn't have a clue about how to organize people.  i even got interviewed by some local news folks.  i left when the armored vehicles arrived for the safer area near the washington monument with my charges.  i was elected bus captain and had responsiblity for fourty-five other people; so i couldn't do anything that would get me arrested.  by ten i had heard about several instances of violence; but didn't see any first hand.  the sun finally came out when they started the program from the stage that had been set up on the ellipse in front of the white house.  it turned out to be a glorious day.  tens of thousands of people turned out for the rally and the legal march that followed.  there was such a great feeling of comaradery throughout the day.  so many different people can definitely find common ground in a distrust/disgust of the increasing influence of corporate power.  we left sunday night around eight and with a few stops made it back to boston in less than nine hours.  on the way back at one of those roadside multiplexes i watched how cnn kept us up to date on the nuances of the damned elian situation; but gave no mention of the protest.  i guess i shouldn't be suprised.  

i saw a spectacular live kids in the hall last friday and a really cool reunion tour for the jazz butcher conspiracy on thursday.  catherine wheel was underwhelming.  

some great album titles:

flesh eaters - a minute to pray, a second to die
sebadoh - smash your head on the punk rock
sonic youth - experimental jet set trash and no star
public enemy - it takes a nation of millions to hold us back
ministry - the mind is a terrible thing to taste
yo la tengo - and then nothing turned itself inside out
billy bragg - talking with the taxman about poetry
pogues - rum, sodomy, and the lash
stereolab - transient random noise bursts with announcements
pavement - slanted and enchanted
u2 - achtung baby
frank zappa - we're only in it for the money
big black - songs about fucking
dead milkmen - beelzebubba


ken  "spank the bank"  the kenster

np.  metal box 	public image limited

nr.  waiting for fidel  	by  christopher hunt

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Date: 18 Apr 2000 15:06:53 -0700
From: "John Barrington Jones" <jbjones@SpiritOne.com>
Subject: getting blowjobs from the press.

Neil Young:

Why does Rolling Stone praise everything this guy does?? The new 
album gets 4 and 1/2 stars from the mag that rarely gives anything 
more than 3 and 1/2 at best.

Sleeps With Angels got 5 stars, and on that recommendation alone I 
bought it (cuz like I said, they never give anything more than 3 and 
1/2 stars. I wrote it in the preceding paragraph. Go check.) It was 
good. Hell, it was great. But I haven't listened to it in years, so 
it couldn't have been the FIVE STARS kind of great.

I'm done ranting. I'm gonna go read WHY Neil's new album is gonna 
change the face of rock and roll.

Love on ya Eddie,

=jbj=

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:39:13 PDT
From: "Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>
Subject: eb all over the world

<on the way back at one of those roadside multiplexes i watched how cnn kept 
us up to date on the nuances of the damned elian situation; but gave no 
mention of the protest.  i guess i shouldn't be suprised.>

i thought c-span's coverage was very good.  for what it's worth.







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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:41:12 PDT
From: "Capitalism Blows" <etews@hotmail.com>
Subject: stonestown all over the world

<URL:http://www.rsconst.com/projects/KeyProjects/stones.htm>.





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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 19:25:05 EDT
From: MARKEEFE@aol.com
Subject: Re: getting blowjobs from the press.

In a message dated 4/18/00 3:08:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jbjones@SpiritOne.com writes:

<< Neil Young:
 
 Why does Rolling Stone praise everything this guy does?? The new 
 album gets 4 and 1/2 stars from the mag that rarely gives anything 
 more than 3 and 1/2 at best. >>

      That's an outrage!!  It's definitely no more than a 4 star album!!
      Seriously, it's pretty nice.  I like Neil Young just fine, but wouldn't 
rank myself anywhere near being a fan.  But the new one is quite pretty and 
laid-back and acousticy and seems very real and heartfelt.  eez good stuff.

- ------Michael K.

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 19:28:49 EDT
From: MARKEEFE@aol.com
Subject: "Beautiful Girl" tab?

     Anyone got it?  Or even just the basic chords?  I *think* I know what 
they are, but it'd be good to be sure.  Well, and there's some part I'm 
definitely not clear on.
     I believe I'm getting close to figuring out the fingering that Robyn 
uses (I know roughly where on the neck of the guitar he plays the song, from 
having seen him play it live so many times), but it'd be nice to compare it 
to someone's tabbin's.  Any help?  Thanks! :-)

- ------Michael K.

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:57:16 -0500
From: JH3 <jh3@winco.net>
Subject: Re: HOL album titles / "Beautiful Girl" tab

Jeff D:
>but was it clever of the house of love to have 5?

>of course, over here in amuricka, they both only had three.

You're saying that "Babe Rainbow" and "Audience of the Mind"
were both eponymously titled in the UK? Hmm, I honestly did
not know that.

Michael K:
>Anyone got it?  Or even just the basic chords?...<snip>...
>I believe I'm getting close to figuring out the fingering that
>Robyn uses (I know roughly where on the neck of the guitar
>he plays the song, from having seen him play it live so many
>times)...

"Beautiful Girl" is just E-A-B, isn't it? Except for one bit where
he goes from A to A-minor... I know he plays the E as 079900,
and IIRC he often plays the A and B as XX7650 and XX9870
in that one... But this is strictly from memory, of course.

JH3

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:28:57 -0400
From: jill@naxs.com (Jill Sunderlin)
Subject: for the Gorey people

We received this email today from our friend Jenny.  I'm sending part of it
on to the list because I know that some of you had a great appreciation for
Edward Gorey's work, and were touched by the news of his death -- and Jenny
is one of those people who believes in wide circles of caring and love and
so won't mind me passing this on.  I was just very glad to hear that it was
all rather quick -- especially since we'd known he'd had diabetes for
years.

The "cousins" she refers to, by the way, are the other two cousins -- the
ones that are portrayed in the books.  I had tea with one of those cousins
one afternoon in Barnstable.  She was the perfect example of a classic New
England/Cape Cod matron (if you know what I mean by that) -- I remember
that I kept thinking it was so very odd that she was Edward Gorey's cousin,
and that they spent so much time together. (especially when I wandered
around looking at the *very* traditional still life replications decorating
the house)

Anyway, here it is:

>I'm sorry to have to tell you that cousin Ted died Saturday of a heart
>attack. >My cousins are quite cut up - they'd been a trio for years - he
>was 75.  The
>good part is it was pretty quick (he didn't regain consciousness; someone
>was with him when it happened and called ambulance etc) and that he'd been
>able to continue doing all the things he liked and cared about up to the
>end.

in memory of a very wonderful writer and artist,

jill

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:49:00 -0700
From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com
Subject: Guitar...tab....

I ran across this site and quite liked it. I think that even
people who don't own guitars and the like can appreciate it.
I need to start saving my money for a Philson today. Maybe if
I sell all my underwater stock options to wealthy AND
gullible people....

http://www.mirrorimage.com/air/index.html

I think I agree with JH3 on the "BG" tab, but prefer to play
the E in open position, and inverting the A and the B by doing
577600 and 799800. This leaves the E down lower and allows the
"RobynHitchcockEChord" (079900) for his slower ditties (I
don't like leaning on one schtick tooooooo much.

But how would it sound on a Philson? I bet that would be
great.

Happies,
- -Markg

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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:06:41 +1200
From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz
Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #100

>>Edward Gorey, Artist and Author Who Turned the Macabre Into a Career, Dies
>>at 75

one thing I forgot to add tomy previous hasty :( , thanks to the original
message obliterating my thoughts momentarily... it was through this list,
or more specifically through former Feg Cheri Chenoweth, that I discovered
the weird and wondrous world of Edward Gorey. Thansk to the interest this
awakened I once spent several enjoyable hours building a Goreyism
randomiser - a hypercard stack to create Gorey story titles such as
[presses a button] "The uneasy piano" or [presses again] "The contemptible
sleeve".

Cheri was also kind enough to send me some Amphigoreys, those wonderful
books containing much of the Maestro's best work. I thank Cheri, but above
all I thank Edward Gorey - imaginer of the strange things you see
half-glimpsed in the corners of your dreams that make you realise that
you're not really awake, of the things other than ghosts that may haunt
houses, of a netherworld of decadent and seedy Edwardiana (in more ways
than one) that is always there to fascinate and intrigue.

James ("The sequinned armadillo"?)

 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")

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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:31:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: dmw <dmw@radix.net>
Subject: quintessentail robyn voicings, them & thankee

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, JH3 wrote:

> and IIRC he often plays the A and B as XX7650 and XX9870
> in that one... But this is strictly from memory, of course.

one thing i've noticed (aside: although i've been playing for years, i'm
only in the last year getting to the point where i can figure out much of
what other guitar players do) is that robyn loves to have an open string
droning along somewhere...seems like a fairly significant component of his
style. 

- -- d.

p.s. thanks to them feg folks who came out last night! y'all helped make
it a very special evening for us.  how're the tapes?  how was the sound in
the room, for that matter? -- i've heard conflicting reports.

- - 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

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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:46:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vivien Lyon <vivlyon@yahoo.com>
Subject: Gorey

- --- digja611@student.otago.ac.nz wrote:
> I discovered
> the weird and wondrous world of Edward Gorey. Thansk to the
> interest this
> awakened I once spent several enjoyable hours building a
> Goreyism
> randomiser - a hypercard stack to create Gorey story titles
> such as
> [presses a button] "The uneasy piano" or [presses again] "The
> contemptible
> sleeve".

I have in my office an entity called 'The Reluctant Stapler',
and have made and applied to it a sticker that bears the image
of that little dark bird-like guy with the scarf and tennis
shoes, who is holding a vibrating stapler in one hand, and a
sheaf of untidy papers in the other. 
 
On the day that Chris posted the article announcing Mr. Gorey's
death, I forwarded it to my friend Sarah, who introduced me to
his work. She wrote back to tell me that she's been compared to
an Edward Gorey character in both appearance and demeanor 7
times in the past few weeks, and twice that morning. 

Also- I got home from work that day, and Gnat handed me a
present, an Edward Gorey book. I said, "Oh, you read the post?"
And she said, no- she just bought it because she wanted to.
Strange. I think his spirit must have suffused the continent,
influencing people to see echoes of his characters and
encouraging them to enjoy his work. 

Vivien
once accused of swanning about like an Edward Gorey character

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