From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #148 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, June 9 2000 Volume 09 : Number 148 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The Naked Breakfast of Champions ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Spammer Revealed [Tom Clark ] Eaten by her own champion ["Asa Land" ] Re: The Naked Breakfast of Champions ["J. Brown" ] Re: My god, it's full of stars! [steve ] Re: Stuff and More.... [steve ] Re: Eaten by her own champion ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: Eaten by her own champion [steve ] Re: Spammer Revealed [overbury@cn.ca] Re: The Naked Breakfast of Ender ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: Stuff and More.... ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Enders Arse [BLATZMAN@aol.com] Re: Eaten by her own champion [ultraconformist ] eb all over the world ["The Kielbasa Kid" ] Re: american television shall crush your ten percent [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Glam name generator ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Being John Typovich [was Re: Malcovich Malcovich Malcovich] ["Stewart C. ] Re: Turk 195 [Eb ] Titanic/2001 [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz] The Eternal Breakfast [The Great Quail ] Re: The Eternal Breakfast [steve ] NYC dates [Tony.Blackman@sita.int] Keanu the fearless vampire hunter [Natalie Jacobs Subject: Re: The Naked Breakfast of Champions - --- Michael Wolfe wrote: > "High Fidelity" -- Dude, someone just, like, photocopied Nick > Hornby's novel, ripped out a couple of pages to streamline it, > replaced all instances of "London" with "Chicago," and passed it > out to the cast. Not that you'll catch me complaining. I thought about bringing that one up. But I didn't enjoy the book or the movie as much as I wanted to, so I didn't think it qualified. I think I'm the only person in the universe who didn't love one or both. Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:54:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: Malcovich/bad joke - --- "Andrew D. Simchik" wrote: > > --- BLATZMAN@aol.com wrote: > > So Drew, films are not like jokes and it doesn't matter if you get it? > > That's correct. Amendment: films are not like jokes and the concept of "getting it" doesn't apply. Sorry to follow up my own post. I should start catching these things on the first go-round. Or better yet, shutting up. Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:10:29 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Spammer Revealed For all of you who would like to see spammers publicly gassed, check this out. An ISP owner investigates who is sending spam containing his return address and mail headers. He digs deep and comes up with some interesting findings! http://premier.cluelessfucks.com/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 21:51:00 EDT From: "Asa Land" Subject: Eaten by her own champion Interesting, a music listserve where everybody talks about movies. Actually, its good to see such induviduality. Again. Im glad to hear Reed was a disappointment so I'm not disapointed about not going. Bladerunner--better than the novella Clockwork Orange--better than the overated novel. Does anyone know if anyone has done a version of M/F or the Wanting Seed, both as flashy as CO(in my never humble, jumbled opinion)? Why Ive never seen a movie version of --any-- Moorcock, I cant figure out. Maybe he's never sold their last rites? Elric would be great, Cornelious would be fun and my smash fave, Dancers at the End of Time, would finially be wonderfull with computer graphics. Well--Im still waiting for a Moorcock revival. Lovecraft--now theres a commercial sucess waiting to happen. Get every adolescent who thinks smoking dope equels being a Chaos Mage and that spells boffo boxoffice. By the way, I used to be on this LS under my work name & address, which is no longer kosher. The moniker Im now using comes from a kid's book, which my husband and I have used as a stop word. Just out of never humble curiosity, does anyone remember who I used to be? (hint--Quail, will you marry me?) Ta-ta Asa Land ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 01:53:59 +0000 (GMT) From: "J. Brown" Subject: Re: The Naked Breakfast of Champions On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Michael Wolfe wrote: > "Kubrick" has a "c" in it, but definitely agreed that 2001 was a > fabulous adaptation of a fabulous book. But wasn't that the 2001 was not an adaptation. Kubrick and clarke colaborated on the story and the screenplay and while Kubrick sworked on the film clarke wrote the book. the book came out in i think 66 while the film was already in production. However the basic concepts for the story were taken from an earlier clarke work maybe Rendevous with Rama? Jason Wilson Brown - University of Washington - Seattle, WA USA BA History '99 - BA Canadian Studies '99 - MLIS Library Science '01 "I Don't Speak Fascist" -Grant Morrison ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:14:44 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: The Naked Breakfast of Ender >[Ender's Game Episode 1] >> Unfortunately, it looks like Jake "Anakin" Lloyd is the primary >> contender for the title role. Andrew D. Simchik: >FORGET IT! Mr. Lloyd has scored the lead in AI, so you don't have to worry. Orson Scott Card, btw, is an asshole. - - Steve __________ Iąd sit down and meditate but my ass is on fire. - Bill Nelson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:14:49 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: My god, it's full of stars! >> Kubrik's "2001" -- No director could have better brought off the >> alien confusion of Bowman's inexplicable and transcendent voyage. Sebastian Hagedorn: >If I'm not entirely mistaken (could be, of course) Arthur C. Clarke wrote >the novel *after* the movie. Correct, the film was based on a short story. - - Steve __________ Iąd sit down and meditate but my ass is on fire. - Bill Nelson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:14:53 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Stuff and More.... Andrew D. Simchik: >I just watched Being John Malkovich again the other night and it >was just as terrific as the first time round. I hated every character in the film, with the exception of Malkovich , which I suppose might be part of the point. Someone on another list commented that he went away from the film thinking that it had been made by very clever people. - - Steve __________ Iąd sit down and meditate but my ass is on fire. - Bill Nelson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 19:18:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: Eaten by her own champion - --- Asa Land wrote: > Why Ive never seen a movie version of --any-- Moorcock, I cant figure > out. I have an answer, but I'm afraid it would land me in the Quail's killfile (quailfile?). Actually, come to think of it, film might elide the main reason I don't like Moorcock. Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:22:04 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Eaten by her own champion Asa Land: >Why Ive never seen a movie version of --any-- Moorcock, I cant figure out. There is one, at least - a rather low budget affair called "The Last Days Of Man On Earth." I believe Jerry C. was the main character. It's rather a hoot. It would make a perfect double bill with Buckaroo Banzai, if that gives you an idea. We have the best brains in Europe working for us - Steve __________ Iąd sit down and meditate but my ass is on fire. - Bill Nelson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 22:30:01 -0400 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: Re: Spammer Revealed > For all of you who would like to see spammers publicly gassed, check this > out. I'm just starting to read it, so no reaction yet except this: Isn't it ironic that the site mirror tries to send me cookies that will be sent to any server in the domain 'advertising.com'? - -- Alanis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 19:42:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: The Naked Breakfast of Ender - --- steve wrote: > > >[Ender's Game Episode 1] > >> Unfortunately, it looks like Jake "Anakin" Lloyd is the primary > >> contender for the title role. > > Andrew D. Simchik: > >FORGET IT! > > Mr. Lloyd has scored the lead in AI, so you don't have to worry. AI. Why am I blanking here? Amnesty International (the Movie)? Actor's Incompetent? Apologies: Immature? > Orson Scott Card, btw, is an asshole. So I've always heard. I never managed to read past the first few pages of _Speaker for the Dead_, either, though I loved _Ender's Game_. I did read _Songmaster_, which I thought very odd in light of what I'd heard about Card the man. Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:02:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: moo-vie factoids On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Michael Wolfe wrote: > I liked "LA Confidential," and am a big fan of noir in general, > but haven't gotten around to reading James Ellroy's novel. I'm > told it's a good book, but, again, required quite a few ellisions > to get it up onto the screen. Indeed it did! Fully-packed though the movie was, it elided about two-thirds of the book. On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, J. Brown wrote: > 2001 was not an adaptation. Kubrick and clarke colaborated on the story > and the screenplay and while Kubrick sworked on the film clarke wrote the > book. the book came out in i think 66 while the film was already in > production. However the basic concepts for the story were taken from an > earlier clarke work maybe Rendevous with Rama? That's correct, except that the concept was taken from a short story (was it called "The Watchers"? Something like that. Hmm, guess I'm not omniscient after all). RwR was a later, unrelated novel. Yesterday we were talking about The Thin Red Line, and today we're talking about film adaptations of novels, but so far I haven't seen anyone link the two. I haven't read the book TTRL yet, but it's frequently mentioned as one of the best American war novels. Has anyone out there both seen the movie and read the book? That reminds me of Gettysburg, a rather disappointing movie adaptation of The Killer Angels, a great war novel. Perfect for the kind of Civil War buff who cares more about getting the color of AP Hill's shirt right than about good acting or filmography. 25% overlong, too. - --Chris, thinking of a long list of movie adaptations but too tired to comment on them all, luckily for you ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 19:54:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: Stuff and More.... - --- steve wrote: > Andrew D. Simchik: > >I just watched Being John Malkovich again the other night and it > >was just as terrific as the first time round. > > I hated every character in the film, with the exception of Malkovich > , which I suppose might be part of the point. They were all very high on the selfish and dysfunctional scales, yes. Cusack's character was at least 90% on both. Keener was 95% selfish and 50% dysfunctional, with Diaz about 50% selfish and 75% dysfunctional (after Malkovich, I probably liked her the best). And so on. Since to my mind the film was exploring horrific, extreme selfishness as well as psychological manipulation and envy, this was pretty reasonable. I also thought that few of them were really evil or despicable people at heart -- I saw ordinary but very very desperate people in those characters. (Desperation...yes, that's the word. "Craig's Dance of Despair and Disillusionment.") So I don't think I would have liked them if I'd met them, but in psychological cross-section I really felt for them. Craig really crossed the line, though, in my mind. I know it goes without saying, but of course likable characters are not prerequisites for good film any more than thematic "punch lines," though I'd agree that they are sometimes prerequisites for enjoyable film. A shortage of likable leads was part of the reason I was lukewarm on _High Fidelity_. If it hadn't been for his sidekicks I probably would have hated it, and in an odd way I felt less sympathy for Rob than I did for Craig. In the book and in the movie he seems far too bright to be so dim, and yes I know people like that and they infuriate me too. > Someone on another list > commented that he went away from the film thinking that it had been made > by very clever people. Very clever, or very something. Words fail me. Or, I fail words. Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:14:53 EDT From: BLATZMAN@aol.com Subject: Enders Arse Now that I know that a film isn't the same as a joke, I think Halle Joel Osment would be a fine Ender(impossible though. He'll be too old by the time they get it together, if ever). Why would anyone think he'd be bad? Maybe I haven't seen enough of his work, but the 6th Sense worked cause that kid. Not too many child actors could pull that off. Think Jake Lloyd in the 6th Sense and you'd laugh! And Drew writes: "_Diva_ put me to sleep but I don't (entirely) blame the film for that. _Being John Malkovich_ didn't put me to sleep; does it follow that it's a good film?" Yes, that is exactly the conclusion I draw! Thank you for being so smart and pointing it out to everyone else. That shall be the new standard of excellence. No more thumbs up/thumbs down. Drew can go on TV and show a graphic of his eyelids, which would indicate how good a film is. He could have a special guest that he could bounce his wit off of. Here's a snippet! Welcome to Drew's "The Eyes Have It!" TuhDuh! "Let's talk about the film Diva! Tell us Drew, how good was it? "Well, I had my EYES WIDE SHUT!!! (insert canned laughter here) Then it's clear! The film sucked! So long boring critics, the new frontier has arrived! and the reviews are in: "A revelation"...."Gut Busting Laughter"....."Fascist ranting!!!" You decide Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 22:52:01 -0700 From: ultraconformist Subject: Re: Eaten by her own champion >my husband and I have used as a stop word. Just out of never humble >curiosity, does anyone remember who I used to be? >(hint--Quail, will you marry me?) I think I do. Actually I know I do. I'm not going to give anything away tho, I will let others have the fun of guessing. Love on ya, Susan glad to see you back! someone was just looking for you a couple days ago, can't recall who tho. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:57:06 EDT From: Robcow@aol.com Subject: Re: Storefront Hitchcock (or no longer obsessed but still a dedicated feg) Hello fegs, Well after receiving 3 digests in one evening (!) I decided that it was time to emerge from the shadows of lurkerdom and join the fray (and I promise some RH content!). But first of all, 2001: A Space Odyssey was based on a short story by Arthur C. Clarke titled "The Sentinel", the screenplay was written by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick and after the screenplay was completed (but before filming began) Clarke began work on the novel. During the filming, Kubrick decided to rewrite the screenplay a bit and edited out many scenes which is why the book and film have some differences. Having been a big fan of Arthur Clarke's I actually read the novel long before I saw the film and was always kind of glad that I did because it filled in a lot of the gaps for me. They're both wonderful however! Now for a word from our sponsor... In a message dated 6/4/00 6:25:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mholden666@earthlink.net muses: << I just noticed a release date of July 5th for Storefront Hitchcock on VHS. I can't wait to finally see it. Now I'll just have to hijack someone's TV and VCR for a while. Marc >> Hooray! I have a running joke with myself that being a longtime Hitchcock fan, my (feg)mania has often motivated me to advance myself technologically. One of the first CD's I owned (before I got a player) was "Element of Light", and it was the prospect of all those bonus tracks that finally prompted me to purchase a player. The video for "Gotta Let This Hen Out" convinced me to break down and get a VCR (and it was the first one I watched on it!). And, more recently, discovering that I would have access to a whole slew of rare and unreleased material (at first via the Glass Hotel) I installed Winamp and began busily downloading MP3's. But I'd been balking at buying a DVD player because I rarely watch TV and have a perfectly good VCR. My procrastination has paid off (well, this time at least--I suppose I'll eventually have to get a DVD) and I'm actually going to be able to see Storefront Hitchcock! Very cool. (Hey Marc, thanks for the info...) I'm also happily anticipating the possibility of David Kilgour working with Robyn. There isn't another kiwi artist who I'd rather see do it. Back in the shadows again.. Cheers, Roberta ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:14:33 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: The Naked Breakfast of Ender Andrew D. Simchik: >> Mr. Lloyd has scored the lead in AI, so you don't have to worry. > >AI. Why am I blanking here? artificial intelligence Kubrick's next film, which Spielberg will be doing. But I told you wrong, it's the kid from The Sixth Sense that has the part, so you still have to be afraid. - - Steve __________ Iąd sit down and meditate but my ass is on fire. - Bill Nelson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:52:42 PDT From: "The Kielbasa Kid" Subject: eb all over the world dibs on the other two! oh. fuck. My Life As A Dog. is Baron Munchausen out on dvd yet? 'cause it barely has the laserdisc title, over Brazil (with The Man Who Fell To Earth running a very close third). ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 22:53:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: american television shall crush your ten percent - --- JH3 wrote: > >> ...what does steve young religious beliefs have to do with whether > >> or not he should be sitting by al michaels? > > >None whatsoever. I merely brought up this fact because this could > >weigh in as a big factor as to whether or not Young decides to play > >football, or pursue a career in broadcasting. Being a devout > Morman... > > Would it be impertinent of me to point out that if ol' Steve decides > to > give up his $7M/yr. contract with the 49'ers and take a $1M/yr. job > with ABC Sports instead, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day > Saints stands to lose $600,000 per year in tithes? well, the LSD church is gonna have 600K less to spend on fight gay marriage, etc. unless bill walsh was lying when he let the cat out of the bag. maybe donnie and marie's talk show will take in more money to make up for it. ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:54:56 PDT From: "The Kielbasa Kid" Subject: Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! first off: it's just Family Guy, not *The* Family Guy. second off (if i may be permitted to quote the movie Out Of Control): *eat* it, you stinkin' pig! ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:02:35 PDT From: "The Kielbasa Kid" Subject: randi's tickets i've got mill valley and l.a. (aka "the city of angels") covered. looks like the tomster has the others. so now we have to find somebody *else* to meet us outside the venues... ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 08:30:57 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Glam name generator The Great Quail wrote: > > Um, here's the scary bit -- I entered "The Great Quail," and got > "Multiplex Featherdangle." A fine old Scots name, indeed. Nova Tinseldangle ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 08:47:17 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Being John Typovich [was Re: Malcovich Malcovich Malcovich] BLATZMAN@aol.com wrote: > > Yes, I get the film and I still think it's STUPID ARTHOUSE FARE. It must be fun having that laugh track in your head. His name has a 'k' in it, btw. Rev. Stewart (the papers came in the mail yesterday...) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:51:41 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Turk 195 > > >first off: it's just Family Guy, not *The* Family Guy. second off (if i may >be permitted to quote the movie Out Of Control): *eat* it, you stinkin' pig! I stand corrected: I hate "Family Guy." In addition to it being deadly unfunny, crass, tacky and visually ugly (not to mention cancelled), the mother on the show eerily reminds me of someone I slept with. So, *that's* no good.... I just got back from Elliott Smith and the Minders. It was good stuff -- no real surprises, either negative or positive. Well, I guess there were two positive surprises for me: 1) Elliott's grooming himself a bit better -- his hair is still uncombed, but at least it's *clean* now (along with his shirt) 2) The final song was a boffo version of the Zombies' "Care for Cell 44." Seems like I read *somewhere* that Elliott was doing a Zombies cover on this tour...can't remember if it was here or not. Speaking of shirts, Elliott's galpal, the bassist of the Minders, wore his shirt (a Portland Trailblazers shirt, with "Smith" and the number eight on the back) during *her* set, and then when Elliott came out, he was wearing the same shirt. Awww. How high-school of them. (Actually, I guess his shirt *wasn't* clean, come to think of it -- it was covered with girl cooties, already.) And you know how they say couples start to look like each other? Well, boy, has that bassist been "Elliott-ized." She looked/acted totally different from the last time I saw the Minders, about a year ago. Now she has Elliott's hair, Elliott's wardrobe, a different performance style.... Odd celebrity sighting of the night, about five people to the right of me: the guy who played Brian Krakow on "My So-Called Life." (Oh man, did I admire that show.) Eb, who finally saw "Being John Malkovich" about a week ago and enjoyed it, but not as much as he was led to believe he would (a bit too much of a fable for me...needed more resonance in reality) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 21:15:02 +1200 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz Subject: Titanic/2001 I wrote: >Oh,. and I can't believe the overlong movie thread has not yet mentioned >"Titanic". Did they have to run through every goddamn flooded corridor in >the whole fuzwangling ship fer crissakes? Of course, shortening the thing >probably wouldn't have helped any. before anyone else spots my accidental ambiguity (that's what comes of wearing a kilt), let me point out that, yes, if it was shorter it might have turned quickly enough to miss the iceberg entirely. Swap 'movie' for 'thing', please. Re my all time favourite movie (or one of the top 3, anyway), Clarke wrote the Novel of 2001 after, or at least contemporaneusly with the movie. The short story on which it was based ("The sentinel") was written some years earlier. Can anyone confirm for me (or categorically refute) that Dr Chandra's full surname in the novel (hjis full name is given as Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai) means "Fifth moon of Jupiter" in Hindi? James 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: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:26:36 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: The Eternal Breakfast >>my husband and I have used as a stop word. Just out of never humble >>curiosity, does anyone remember who I used to be? >>(hint--Quail, will you marry me?) Bayard? Bayard, why this elaborate game? I've already told you I just can't marry you! It would make Chris too jealous! Steve writes: >There is one, at least - a rather low budget affair called "The Last Days >Of Man On Earth." I believe Jerry C. was the main character. It's >rather a hoot. Yes! -- based on the first Jerry Cornelius story, "The Final Programme," starring Jon Finch as the Man, and just not very good, but still on the surreal side. A hoot, yes, the perfect word! Drew: Disliking Moorcock will not earn you a kill-file; only Bladerunner. Oh, yes, and any more confessions involving Hugh Grant. What's wrong with that Leo lad? He was so lovely in Titanic . . . *such* a dreamboat. . . . - --Qcuaciclccc PS: There those c's are! Gosh. I thought they were hiding in Malcovich, but then it's not like I was writing Stanley Kubrikk. The balance of letters in the universe must be been maintained! PPS: Speaking of Moorcock, wasn't "Qcuaciclccc" the Melinobonean God of Placing Squirrels in Your the Pants? Or the King of Fruitflies? Or, um, something? PPS: I do know who you are, Mystery Woman, by the way, and welcome back! - -- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:56:54 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: The Eternal Breakfast The Great Quail: >PPS: Speaking of Moorcock... My sometimes fellow Texan just turned in the first of three new Elric novels. - - Steve _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 15:02:06 +0000 From: Tony.Blackman@sita.int Subject: NYC dates Attn. NYC & close to NYC area folks, Do you know how the NY dates are selling? Do you think I'll be able to get in on the afternoon/night? We've got some flights to use or lose and a spare weekend next weekend so we're contemplating a NYC trip and I've just realised (as I am incredibly slow) that Robyn's NYC gigs are on that Friday. Also, who can point me in the direction of a good website that lists NYC gigs (so I can sell the idea to my long girlfriend who isn't quite as Robyn mad as I am) so we can find other good gigs on that weekend? My attempts to find a good one so far have been fruitless. Any UK fegs going to the Magnetic Fields gig at QEH? And who's going to Broxbourne? Thanks, Tony. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:17:27 -0700 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Keanu the fearless vampire hunter > Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula." Thank GOD he jettisoned some of > the stilted atmosphere of the book, and had the courage to graft on > elements of the Dracula myth post-Stoker. Good GOD. I missed this when it was posted earlier. Quail - it was Quail, right? - are you KIDDING?? That movie was freakin' HORRIBLE. Hoo-boy, talk about an incoherent, dim-witted mess. Before I saw it, I asked a friend, who had already seen the film, what he thought. He paused, then said uneasily, "Um...there was a lot of fluid." That about sums it up. Uh, moving on to more palatable subjects, apparently Terry Gilliam was going to direct a live-action "Watchman" movie, but the project fell through (not enough cash). I wonder what that would have been like? n. p.s. I still love you, Quail. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #148 *******************************