From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #186 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 11 2000 Volume 09 : Number 186 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Faith & Courage Covers ["Sumiko Keay" ] Re: I guess it's going to be Roger now.... [Stephen Buckalew ] yoo-foes ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Re:Yoo-foes [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz] Re:Alpha Centauri [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz] yoo-foes ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Save Me From Happiness [mrrunion@palmnet.net] yoo-foes ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Re: "weekend hunting trip" ["Randy R." ] "Alien" soundtrack ["Russ Reynolds" ] "I used to Love You" ["Russ Reynolds" ] live at the cambridge folk festival [johann johann ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #185 [DDerosa5@aol.com] Re: Holy shit! Quail, check this out! ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: "Alien" soundtrack ["(The Arch-Villain) West" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #185 [dmw ] Hunting (Tree hugging hippie crap content 100%) [Glen Uber ] Re: Hunting (Tree hugging hippie crap content 100%) [The Great Quail ] Eb N The Hood ["The Kielbasa Kid" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:50:46 -0500 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Faith & Courage Covers Sometime in the last week or so there was a brief discussion of the cover songs on the new Sinead O'Connor cd. I think that the 'Hold Back the Night' song was written by the Robert Hodgens who used to be in the Bluebells but am wondering if anyone out there can confirm this. Sumiko Keay DeKalb, Illinois ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:52:26 -0400 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: I guess it's going to be Roger now.... If something is explicitly compared to something (using the word "Like" or "As"), then it is a simile. I considered "liquid voice" to be a metaphor, because voices are not usually identified with being watery, and the comparison or association is not explicit. "A purple finch unfurled his song.....it's last sure note streamed into the sun-bloom." (Sally Carrighar) The above is from Ebbit and Ebbit's "Index to English", given as examples of metaphors. The example illustrating that flags or sails normally unfurl, not songs, and notes aren't normally considered to stream like water. I'm not sure about metaphors where adjectives are concerned though. S.B. At 04:20 PM 7/10/00 EDT, you wrote: > >In a message dated 7/10/00 10:07:56 AM, sbuckalew@minitab.com writes: > ><< BTW, I really dig the metaphor "your liquid voice" in that song. (it is a >metaphor right?) >> > > I think that "liquid" would just be an adjective, but I could be wrong. >In order to be a metaphor, wouldn't the description have to be set up in such >a way that the voice is described as actually *being* liquid? Like (in the >simplest possible example): "Your voice is liquid." And, if it were a >simile, it would be: "Your voice is like liquid." As it stands, it merely >states something to the effect of: "Your voice has the quality of a liquid." >So, it could maybe be an implied simile. Anyone have some sort of a rulebook >handy? :-) > >-----Michael K. > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:11:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Eclipse Subject: Re: check out this mention of Uncle Bobby...and the cones! heh, that would be me. i'm an (ir)regular contributor to memepool, and with a mention of cones a few days before in another contributor's article, i just couldn't resist. :) if y'all have some keen URL you'd like me to post, lemme know. i'm always looking for something new to put up there. only catch is that it has to not already have been listed there (memepool). np: Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks - - Eclipse On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 LDudich@ase.org wrote: > http://www.memepool.com/ > > And in other cone-related news, Robyn Hitchcock > is known amongst fegmaniax > for his collectible cone art > . to Music by > eclipse ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:19:43 EDT From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Ed Haynes news (%0 RH) The 1998 compilation double CD "San Francisco Song Cycle Vol. 1" contains a new Ed Haynes song, a track ("Evel Knievel") from Ed's second release that I can't find anywhere. The accompanying booklet says "A new record, Poolside Phone, has just been completed. HaynesEd@aol.com. P.O. Box #420242 SF, CA 94142". (I wrote to HaynesEd@aol.com. Being on AOL myself, I can tell that my e-mail was read, but it was not responded to. Should I write to this address in hopes of being ignored by snail mail? Don't I deserve at least a form e-mail that says, "Sorry, dude, my cat et all them CDs"?) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:29:42 -0700 From: Eb Subject: re: "weekend hunting trip" Gosh...I knew that Rush fans were zealous about defending their heroes, but I never had one of them yearn to *shoot* me before. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:36:10 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: yoo-foes All right, I'll cut the sarcasm. Do you think that what you saw was evidence of a civilization from a planet other than our own? jmbc PS Worried that "knee jerk scepticism" i.e. that it is highly unlikely that advanced alien beings are regularly buzzing us is seen as stupid as thinking that extraterrestial vehicles are common visitors. How many astronomers are there in the world? What kind of amount of money would it take to buy them all off? Vince, I don't believe you've even begun to look at sceptic literature... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:43:14 +1200 (NZST) From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz Subject: Re:Yoo-foes > >The UFO kept up its normal behaviour< > > I especially liked the above phrase. > Beer, fireworks, clear sky, stars, wobbly camcorder. I don't think Mulder > would get out of bed for this one. although the above is certainly alikelihood, it's unusual on these pages to poopooh anyone's beliefs out of hand. Sure political views get questioned, as that is one area where quite clearly opposing views are important and necessary (a major aim of politics, it seems to me, is to convince a majority to support your, or your party's, view). But in a matter of personal belief and faith like this, we're veering more towards the area of a religious view than a political one. Sure, you may not believe in UFOs, but some people do, and we have little evidence one way or the other. Most reputable skeptics organisations are at pains to point out that they have found no evidence to support such phenomena, that is not to say that such things do not exist, only that all known reports of them are explainable. Anyone who knows anything about inductive logic should understand this stance. If someone who has spent many hours in the wilds and who has a good working knowledge of atmospheric phenomena and astronomy reports seeing something strange, then we should keep an open mind as to what it may have been. It's highly likely it was something explainable, but - by definition - if it was an object that was in the air and cqnnot be identified, then it was a UFO, at lkeast until such time as it is identified.Note that this is not the same as saying it was an alien spacecraft, giant floating hubcap, or robotic gannet. As someone who has, as part of his studies, spent great periods of time staring up into the sky and instructing others to do likewise, I know full well how many weird and wonderful objects can be seen following unerringly normal paths through the sky. I also know of a few atmospheric phenomena that travel on far more erratic paths. Consider how long it took the scientific community to get a handle on ball lightning. Who's to say what else remains undiscovered in this field? Basically, Vince is entitled to believe what he wants to believe. Whether we believe him or not is our business. Sure, saying 'well, I don't believe in them' is okay, but making fun of what he had to say is a bit much. 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: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:44:46 +1200 (NZST) From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz Subject: Re:Alpha Centauri a coturnix did state: >Tangerine Dream's "Alpha Centauri" on CD. (Many of its tracks are on >the recent Cleopatra set, but damn, I want the whole original!) weren't all of TD's early works reissued in remastered form a couple of years back? I'm sure I've seen this and Zeit on CD. I'll have a look locally... 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: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:13:33 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: yoo-foes Vince, Do you know Philip Klass for a start? jmbc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:01:04 -0700 From: mrrunion@palmnet.net Subject: Save Me From Happiness Hey all, I'm back from a short 2 week vacation to the Ozarks of Misery and New Orleans (fun town!). I've been unsubscribed so I wouldn't have too much to go through once I got back (don't tell me what happened!) Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has heard the American release of the Departure Lounge CD? (The one with the horrible washed-out orange/yellow cover...the original British cooool-blue/black cover was much better) I see the track listing is a bit different, with intro and outro bits, and two or three different songs. Speaking of Tim, I snagged a copy of the last Tim Keegan & Homer Lounge album/e.p. (Long Distance Information, I think the name was) which, while quite good, bummed me a bit as 4 or 5 of the 8 tracks are the exact same tracks that appear on the British Departure Lounge CD. I realize that maybe since Blue Rose records died an untimely death, maybe this was a way to save those songs from extinction, but you know, c'mon... Other than that, hello... Mike p.s. Thanks for the recent cone submissions. I promise I'll try and get those up in the Cone Museum one of these days (like, before the end of summer). Keep your fingers crossed. - ----- Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:13:33 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: yoo-foes Vince, Do you know Philip Klass for a start? jmbc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:55:59 -0700 From: "Randy R." Subject: Re: "weekend hunting trip" Eb exclaims- > Gosh...I knew that Rush fans were zealous about defending their heroes, but > I never had one of them yearn to *shoot* me before. Like my momma used to say about a sick dog, "a trip to the vet costests 50 bucks, and a .22 bullet costests 5 cents". Seriously though, Eb and I, sneaking through the wilderness, keeping downwind while tracking a 6 point buck. It takes us all morning and the buck is heading for the stream. Drama baby, drama. The wind shifts and we finally get our chance. We circle around to get a head shot, and,--------- Eb gets stung by a bee and squeels "ow". The moment is lost. I'm telling you folks, even if Bigfoot carjacks me on my next camping trip, messes with my pre-set radio stations, and wails "weeeeee are the preeests, of the temples of seeeeeeyrinx" while holding me hostage you people will never hear of it. sheesh. Vince (next week, the Oregon Coast) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:04:33 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: "Alien" soundtrack > Jerry Goldsmith's "Alien" Soundtrack. (I don't think this has been > released on CD. Why? WHY???? I'm pretty sure we have this at the radio station. I'll check tomorrow. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:10:12 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: "I used to Love You" Uber: >>"I Used To Love You" - It's a perfect mixture of anger, >>regret and acceptance of the choices one has made. I still don't know if >>it's from Robyn's point of view, or if he's singing from the point of view >>of a ex-lover, or a child singing to his parent or a father singing to his >>son (Raymond from beyond the grave?). Each time I hear it, I try to listen >>from a different point of view. Quail: > I firmly believe it is about Syd Barrett -- I think there are plenty > of lyrics that support this, but I don't have the energy to type them > out, and I leave this as an exercise for the student. (As my physics > text would always say.) I'm in agreement with Quail on this. I won't type the lyrics either, though. Look at your Star for Bram lyrics sheet, the proof is all there. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:06:58 -0400 From: johann johann Subject: live at the cambridge folk festival thanks to john b. jones for pointing out to me that he saw "Robin Hitchcock Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival (Fuel 2000)" in the upcoming july releases listed in ice magazine (it's down there in the july 25th section): a little bit of searching turned up the fuel 2000 record label which, among other things (attn quail: jethro tull), appears to specialize in licensing various bbc recordings in the states. so, although it is not listed at their website yet, i suspect they may be releasing a US-domestic issue of the egyptians 1992 cambridge folk festival appearance towards the end of this month. i've no idea if this would be identical to the UK-domestic release on strange fruit or not, but i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be. woj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 01:18:12 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #185 some damn feg say: > Would anyone else be interested in doing a > Glass Flesh 2 release party/ concert? > (Specifically in the Baltimore / Washington area?) > I asked Bayard about it, and seemed to like the idea. > well, if it happens late enough in the year, I'll be living in WDC, and thus would at least like to attend. I don't know that I'd perform, unless I could do a cover of one of Robyn's rants. Which would be fun--Memorizing the one about carbonated beef from Storefront would be so cool, with the pauses and inflections, that it might even trump the inherent geeki/creepiness of the project. Uh, is anyone gonna be covering NASA Clapping? dave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:25:36 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Holy shit! Quail, check this out! Natalie Jacobs wrote: > > Lovecraft meets Pez: > > http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9938/archive/arch51.html > > The world needs to know about this... Hmm, that fits in with Pez being the most secretive candy company in the world. Forget Mars's paranoia; there's nothing to know about the folks from Orange, CT. Their factory is suspiciously small; maybe they do things in other dimensions? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:40:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Holy shit! Quail, check this out! i liked the link from that site better...then again, i still don't know what the fuck a cthulhu is http://prime-fe2.lvcm.com/mikej/jesusdance.html - --- Natalie Jacobs wrote: > Lovecraft meets Pez: > > http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9938/archive/arch51.html > > The world needs to know about this... > > n. ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 01:10:04 -0700 From: "(The Arch-Villain) West" Subject: Re: "Alien" soundtrack Russ Reynolds wrote: > > Jerry Goldsmith's "Alien" Soundtrack. (I don't think this has been > > released on CD. Why? WHY???? "Alien" was released as Silva Screen FILMCD003; I suspect that is is out of print now, but I can assure you that it did exist. I'm looking at mine right now. And now I'm back typing. Perhaps you should start looking in used bins or eBay. Or how about this: if you have a DVD player, go out and get yerself a copy of "Alien" the movie. Apart from many other spiffnificent extras, you get the Original Score on a separate audio track, in addition to the Score They Actually Used on another track. I'll always remember when my brother and I bought the soundtrack (on vinyl) and raced home to listen to it, at which point we had the following two thoughts: 1) Hey! This isn't the music we heard in the movie! 2) Hey! This music is way better! Why didn't they use it? Goldsmith's original score for "Alien" is, IMHO, right up there with Bernard Herrmann's "Psycho" and Goldsmith's own "Poltergeist" as among the greatest horror scores ever written, and also qualifies, with Alex North's "2001", as one of the best film scores you've never heard. I'd still like to hear Randy Newman's unused score for "Air Force One". And Pink Floyd's unused score for "The Wizard Of Oz". Somethingly, West. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:06:46 BST From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: I guess it's going to be Roger now.... The latest thing: >If something is explicitly compared to something (using the word "Like" or >"As"), then it is a simile. I considered "liquid voice" to be a metaphor, >because voices are not usually identified with being watery, and the >comparison or association is not explicit. > >"A purple finch unfurled his song.....it's last sure note streamed into the >sun-bloom." (Sally Carrighar) > >The above is from Ebbit and Ebbit's "Index to English", given as examples >of metaphors. The example illustrating that flags or sails normally unfurl, >not songs, and notes aren't normally considered to stream like water. > >I'm not sure about metaphors where adjectives are concerned though. > And more of the same: > > I think that "liquid" would just be an adjective, but I could be >wrong. > >In order to be a metaphor, wouldn't the description have to be set up in >such > >a way that the voice is described as actually *being* liquid? Like (in >the > >simplest possible example): "Your voice is liquid." And, if it were a > >simile, it would be: "Your voice is like liquid." As it stands, it >merely > >states something to the effect of: "Your voice has the quality of a >liquid." > >So, it could maybe be an implied simile. Anyone have some sort of a >rulebook > >handy? :-) Put your text books away and go out and play - it's a lovely day, and there's no point being cooped up indoors studying for the Fegmaniax language test... ;-) (with apologies to m'learned colleagues!) Matt ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:34:21 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: live at the cambridge folk festival On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, johann johann wrote: > yet, i suspect they may be releasing a US-domestic issue of the > egyptians 1992 cambridge folk festival appearance towards the end of > this month. i've no idea if this would be identical to the > UK-domestic release on strange fruit or not, but i don't see any > reason why it wouldn't be. One good reason why it _should_ be different is that the track listing on the UK CD is in the wrong order. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:29:36 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Holy shit! Quail, check this out! On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > i liked the link from that site better...then again, i still don't know > what the fuck a cthulhu is It isn't "a" Cthulhu, it's a he, or possibly an it - he's a sea-god cum giant squid cum Max Ernst's 'Temptation of St Anthony' critter in the stories of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. See http://www.bath.ac.uk/~hssmrg/CTHULHU.GIF for an artist's interpretation. If confronted by same, the best thing to do is send for Ned Land (played by Kirk Douglas) before it's too late! - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 06:50:28 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Yellow Sub Calendar I just noticed that the July page of my Yellow Submarine calendar has a man with a light bulb head at the bottom. I don't remember this guy from the movie. Perhaps he was just an extra. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:40:31 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #185 On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 DDerosa5@aol.com wrote: > some damn feg say: > > > Would anyone else be interested in doing a > > Glass Flesh 2 release party/ concert? > > (Specifically in the Baltimore / Washington area?) > > I asked Bayard about it, and seemed to like the idea. > > > well, if it happens late enough in the year, I'll be living in WDC, and thus > would at least like to attend. I don't know that I'd perform, unless I could > do a cover of one of Robyn's rants. Which would be fun--Memorizing the one > about carbonated beef from Storefront would be so cool, with the pauses and > inflections, that it might even trump the inherent geeki/creepiness of the > project. Uh, is anyone gonna be covering NASA Clapping? i've yet to record a fegtune (though i think the band would like to, after we finish the album we're in the middle of making) but i'd be delighted to come maul a song or two, with or without my feckless cohorts. - -- 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 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:31:10 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Hunting (Tree hugging hippie crap content 100%) On 10.07.2000 19:55, Randy R. wrote: > Like my momma used to say about a sick dog, "a trip to the vet costests 50 > bucks, and a .22 bullet costests 5 cents". Typical hunter mentality! An animal is nothing more than a disposable commodity to you, eh? Let's just take all the sick children in the world and shoot them too. It's cheaper than keeping them in hospitals, cancer wards, chemotherapy units and nursing homes, isn't it? We'd save everyone a lot of money. > Seriously though, Eb and I, sneaking through the wilderness, keeping > downwind while tracking a 6 point buck. It takes us all morning and the > buck is heading for the stream. Drama baby, drama. The wind shifts and we > finally get our chance. We circle around to get a head shot, and,--------- ...the buck pulls out his shotgun he's been concealing and puts a cap in your ass before you can turn to run. It would be sweet justice! > Eb gets stung by a bee and squeels "ow". The moment is lost. At least the bee won't get a bullet in the brain! - -- Cheers! - -g- "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) "Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality." - His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet (1935-) "Hunters always say that the reason they hunt is that there are too many animals and they are trying to 'thin the herd'. Using that logic, can't we conceivably get rid of the elitist assholes that seem to be overrunning the planet? Just thinning the herd, you know!" - Glen Uber +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:50:56 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Soundtracks/unused music On 11.07.2000 01:10, (The Arch-Villain) West wrote: > I'd still like to hear > Randy Newman's unused score for "Air Force One". And Pink Floyd's unused > score for "The Wizard Of Oz". I remember hearing once that Andy Partridge had originally been commissioned to do the score for "James and the Giant Peach." If that's true, I'd love to hear what he had in mind for that. On a similar note (pun intended), which movies would have benefitted from different music? Or which albums would have made great soundtracks to films that were never made? My number one choice for the latter would have to be Godley and Creme's _Consequences_. I'm eager to see what the rest of you think. - -- Cheers! - -g- "I have two very rare photographs: one is a picture of Houdini locking his keys in his car; the other is a rare photograph of Norman Rockwell beating up a child. '' --Steven Wright +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:00:45 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Hunting (Tree hugging hippie crap content 100%) Vince draws this heat: >Typical hunter mentality! An animal is nothing more than a disposable >commodity to you, eh? Hey, I don't want to be a List Nanny here, but is there something wrong with Vince that I don't know about? First he sees a UFO, and he gets flak for it, as if he's a a bit dim -- when in fact he opened that letter with a certain amount of self-doubt and wry humor. Then he gets (justifiably) defensive, and goes on to make a purposely callous comment about shooting a sick dog, and gets chided. Additionally, he gets a blast from the Shotgun of Morality for just being a hunter. I mean, I may not agree with his Eb-related comments, but I feel Vince is getting a rough ride that he does not deserve. (That is, unless I missed a spectacular post from Vince wherein he admits to clubbing baby harp seals and selling their bloodied pelts on eBay.) My only complaint at all about my beloved Feg List is that its natural skepticism can sometimes sour into rank cynicism; and for an all-inclusive house, its rather pronounced Left leanings occasionally tend to cause a few roof shingles to slip off and bonk the heads of Fegs such as Gregory Stuart Shell, BLATZMAN, and now Vince.... This is not to say that I am not all for constructive argument -- Hell, I love to read Eddie and Chris Gross carry on a debate -- nor is it to say I agree with all the opinions of the aforementioned right-of-center Fegs. In fact, I hesitate to post this, because the Feg that sent the animal rights post is a friend, and I don't want to single him out; he's got a right to his opinions, too. But occasionally I think we could be a bit more friendly with our opposing opinions, if not more tolerant.... - --Nanny Quail - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." --Vice President Dan Quayle ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:07:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Soundtracks/unused music On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Glen Uber wrote: > I remember hearing once that Andy Partridge had originally been > commissioned to do the score for "James and the Giant Peach." If > that's true, I'd love to hear what he had in mind for that. i don't know about a score; i've heard four of the songs (maybe that's all there were) that he wrote for them. then they told him it was going to be 'work for hire' and he said he didn't want anything to do with it. at least, that's the story i heard. Steve Schiavo is probably composing a clearer explanation even as we speak. aaron ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:16:17 PDT From: "The Kielbasa Kid" Subject: Eb N The Hood remember that catalog that used to come out, "dak"? it was always filled up with "cutting edge" stuff, mostly electronical in nature (though i do remember that they had a tent that you just threw up into the air, and it "sprung" into shape, landing as a fully "pitched" (though it was factually a dome, if i remember correctly) tent). i bought my first cd player from them. anyhow, they always used to have this hand-held photocopier in there. i guess it was about 4 inches wide, and you'd just swipe down the paper you wanted to duplicate, and it would spit out a copy onto its "on-site" paper roll. i'd like to get one of those. anybody know where i can find one, if they're still made? (the "dak" company is long since out of business.) ALTERNATIVELY is it possible to take a picture of some text with a digital camera, load it into your computer, and OCR it? my thoughts on The Perfect Storm are very much along the same lines as mr. woj's. however, i feel he neglected to mention the movie's greatest failing: i can't think of another movie where the score almost completely ruins what would otherwise have been a very good picture. i'd like to see it again, even, but can't bear the thought of having to listen to that godawful music. hopefully the dvd will have an option of watching the movie with the score track "isolated" right into oblivion. also, they really didn't do a good job of explaining the meteorology. whatever you may think of Titanic, you've gotta admit they did a bang-up job demonstrating the physics of the affair. (no, i *don't* mean the dicaprio/winslet affair, you fucking heathens!) damn, i wished i could've been some sort of "consultant" on the movie. (i wish that about a lot of movies i like, actually. this line of dialogue isn't quite right: they should rather say thus and so; etc.) < URL:http://www.thesunlink.com/news/2000/july/070574167.html >. (except that, aren't most e-mail "clients" structured so that "clicking" on a so-called "hyperlink" will result in the program "launching" the system's "default" browser and opening the relevant "world wide web" site? in other words, isn't it impossible to "double-click" on a so-called "hyperlink"?) aside to susan: received the tapes back yesterday, labelled "unclaimed". please suggest a "next step". aside to the tomster: received the Gates Of Eden Box yesterday. thanks, bubba! KEN "All Stones Must Pass" THE KENSTER ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #186 *******************************