From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #194 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, July 16 2000 Volume 09 : Number 194 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Calling all WEBMASTERS! [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] [theodius65 ] Has anyone heard from Randi? Bay area Fegs, please read! ["carole reichst] Re: Wire question [Terrence Marks ] and now, we're talking about... [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz] Re: Wire question [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Wire question [Jeff Dwarf ] shopping spree!!! [Eleanore Adams ] Re: shopping spree!!! [Chris Gillis ] chills [Eb ] Re: shopping spree!!! [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:03:49 -0400 From: theodius65 (by way of nyquilthotep ) Subject: Calling all WEBMASTERS! [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] Anyone interested in joining the new webring titled "A GLobe of Frogs".....a ring that honors the work of Robyn, then please go here: http://edit.webring.org/cgi-bin/membercgi?ring=elementoflight;addform hi Mapslegend....and thanks. theo. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:02:14 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: Wire question >> "Map Ref. 41°N 93°W"? Ages ago I attempted to pinpoint that longitute and >> lattitude and it turned out to be someplace just outside of (I believe) De >> Moines, Iowa. I found that puzzling and went on to something >> else. Now I'm >> back at it. Is there a significance to this location? > > I've wondered the same thing since, well, since 154 came out in '79. That's > a hell of song, isn't it? Yes it is. I'm surprised nobody has ever recorded a cover version. At least I don't see any listed in the All Music Guide. Surely someone somewhere must have asked them thie above question at some point in time. Or are they, like RH, noted for giving vague answers to direct questions related to song meanings? I wondered if maybe Buddy Holly's plane went down near Des Moines but a check of the map shows Clear Lake is far north of there, and I recall that 41°N 93°W was almost the same latitude as Des Moines, maybe just a few miles west. (Seems unlikely that Wire would have referenced Buddy Holly anyway). - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:18:32 PDT From: "carole reichstein" Subject: Has anyone heard from Randi? Bay area Fegs, please read! Has anyone heard from Randi recently? My sister Karen and my boyfriend have been trying to get hold of Randi for close to a week now, but all they get at Nick Winkworth's place is a busy signal. I've e-mailed her a few times, but no response. Oh heavens, I'm starting to worry. First, does anyone have Nick WInkworth's address in Menlo Park? Karen would like to check up on her. Could someone please post it to Karen (I'm cc'ing this to her)? And does someone have his number? Maybe Karen has it written down wrong. I just called Tim in Toroto and left a message. Who knows, maybe she's going through a cocooning period, or maybe she's hanging out in Palo Alto a lot, but at any rate, I'm starting to worrry. If anyone has heard from her recently, please let me and my sister know. Thanks guys! Carole ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:49:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence Marks Subject: Re: Wire question On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Russ Reynolds wrote: > I know there are some Wire fans on the list. Anyone know the story behind > "Map Ref. 41°N 93°W"? Ages ago I attempted to pinpoint that longitute and > lattitude and it turned out to be someplace just outside of (I believe) De > Moines, Iowa. I found that puzzling and went on to something else. Now I'm > back at it. Is there a significance to this location? It isn't the geographic center of anything like the US, continental US, or North America, is it? I recall that being around there. Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com HCF (another comic strip) http://www.mpog.com/hcf normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 10:15:37 +1200 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz Subject: and now, we're talking about... >Hey....my Scottish relatives were poachers. Buckalew (Buchleuch in its >native, I think?) means "Vally of the Deer" in Scottish supposedly. Buccleugh, probably. There is a Buccleugh Street here in Dunedin (which was originally settled by the Scottish Presbyterian church, hence all the Scottish place-names. My ancests have only been Scots since the time of the potato famine. Before that they were Irish. As to my mother's family, well, research continues (we only found out her birth surname last year), but West Country English/Welsh seems most likely. No sheepsha... erm... rustlers. They were sent to Australia, not NZ (which was never a penal colony). 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: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:48:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Wire question Russ Reynolds wrote: >>> "Map Ref. 41°N 93°W"? Ages ago I attempted to pinpoint that >>> longitute and lattitude and it turned out to be someplace just >>> outside of (I believe) De Moines, Iowa. I found that puzzling and >>> went on to something else. Now I'm back at it. Is there a >>> significance to this location? >> I've wondered the same thing since, well, since 154 came out in >> '79. That's a hell of song, isn't it? > Yes it is. I'm surprised nobody has ever recorded a cover version. > At least I don't see any listed in the All Music Guide. the ever dormant My Bloody Valentine dethawed from their hibernation just long enough to kuh-thunk out a version for the Wire tribute record _Whore_ back in 1996 CE. ===== "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: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:50:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Wire question Terrence Marks wrote: > It isn't the geographic center of anything like the US, continental > US, or North America, is it? I recall that being around there. well the geographic center of the US is in Kansas somewhere, and i think of the continent is in the dakotas.... ===== "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: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 23:24:23 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: shopping spree!!! Since I started back at school, I have been broke, and have not been able to purchase much. But yeaterday I got my summer loan, and today I went out and purchased: Pulp - differenct classes (since a few of you filled me in); Nick Drake - box set fruit tree; Billy Bragg & Wilco - mermaid ave I and II; Stereolab - first of the microbe hunters; and Travis - the man who. Now I know about all of these items except Travis. I hear it is good brit pop (and they are a one name band, which tends to be a little reliable for some reason) Do any of you have this CD????????Have not put it on yet....... For Bay area fegs - on 4th st in Berkeley there is a new music store called Hear, and they have a fabulous selection with listening stations. very personal staff, and have absolutely everything!!! (for the single men - the staff woman named Lilly is very cute and well versed in good music. I think she was flirting with my friend Jeff, but Jeff lives in Indianapolise) (I do not know the spelling of) eleanore ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 23:56:40 -0700 From: Chris Gillis Subject: Re: shopping spree!!! Eleanore Adams wrote: > > For Bay area fegs - on 4th st in Berkeley there is a new music store > called Hear, and they have a fabulous selection with listening stations. > very personal staff, and have absolutely everything!!! (for the single > men - the staff woman named Lilly is very cute and well versed in good > music. I think she was flirting with my friend Jeff, but Jeff lives in > Indianapolise) (I do not know the spelling of) There was one of these in Portland that had just opened when I left. I can say without reservation it is one of the most pretentious presentations of record stores I had been in. Also, the prices where very high, not an advantage in a town with a lot of record stores. But, on 4th street you can get away with more... Maybe the places have changes over the years, but the concept, being able to 'hear' anything (they mean anything) before you buy it is a bit coddling of customers. But, I guess if you are making a massive 16 dollar investment, you absolutely have to feel you are getting exactly what you want. You'd never want to carry that dissatisfaction of an uncertain purchase back to your Saab, would you? Of course, not to belittle the place too much, there was a very cute woman in the Portland store. Patterns... Kindly, .chris - -- chris@photogenica.net http://photogenica.net - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 10:52:23 -0700 From: Eb Subject: chills Another mailing list informed me that the Chills' Martin Phillipps is seriously ill with hepatitis C right now. :( Eb PS Nomination for the Surreal Posse? http://www.claudine.moreau.net/journal.htm (she was even named after Claudine Longet!). Incidentally, the new Longet compilation has sold a mighty *469 copies* in the States (a friend with SoundScan access tells me so). Heh heh. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 12:02:24 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: shopping spree!!! There is a Hear located at the most pretentious Stanford Shopping Center in the most pretentious Palo Alto, California, as well. They are expensive, but it's a good place to find, and listen to, good music (then go buy it online for less). They seem to employ knowledgeable people and they showcase an eclectic mix. It's also a good place to kill an hour or so while your wife is spending your retirement money at Bloomingdale's. - -tc, who actually hopes to be working in pretentious Palo Alto pretty soon. Wish me luck, fegs! > > >> >> For Bay area fegs - on 4th st in Berkeley there is a new music store >> called Hear, and they have a fabulous selection with listening stations. >> very personal staff, and have absolutely everything!!! (for the single >> men - the staff woman named Lilly is very cute and well versed in good >> music. I think she was flirting with my friend Jeff, but Jeff lives in >> Indianapolise) (I do not know the spelling of) > >There was one of these in Portland that had just opened when I left. I >can say without reservation it is one of the most pretentious >presentations of record stores I had been in. Also, the prices where >very high, not an advantage in a town with a lot of record stores. >But, on 4th street you can get away with more... Maybe the places have >changes over the years, but the concept, being able to 'hear' anything >(they mean anything) before you buy it is a bit coddling of customers. >But, I guess if you are making a massive 16 dollar investment, you >absolutely have to feel you are getting exactly what you want. You'd >never want to carry that dissatisfaction of an uncertain purchase back >to your Saab, would you? Of course, not to belittle the place too >much, there was a very cute woman in the Portland store. Patterns... > >Kindly, >.chris > > >-- >chris@photogenica.net >http://photogenica.net >-- ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #194 *******************************