From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #241 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, August 28 2000 Volume 09 : Number 241 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [ebmaniax-l] Sugar Sugar [Eb ] Lee Valley Cruise photos [Carole Reichstein ] for tracy ["Consumer 666" ] Pictures vaguely connected with Robyn Hitchcock ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Disturbing things from eBay's underbelly. ["Thomas, Ferris" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:24:53 -0700 From: Eb Subject: [ebmaniax-l] Sugar Sugar Quick, unkempt ramblings about last night's Spaceland show. The first band was kinda interesting...the Les Payne Project. I'd never heard of them. Only two musicians -- one guy sang and played guitar, the other drummed and played organ...often simultaneously! He had an old Wurlitzer organ rigged on the top of his bass drum, so often he'd play a simple riff with his right hand while hitting a snare/cymbal with his left. Wacky. Other times, he was just a straight drummer. They played these terribly intricate, nervous New Wave tunes which were much more about quirky rhythms than melodies. I dunno...I got a kick out of them, though maybe they'd drive me nuts on record. Oh, and they were both dressed in flaming-red retro. Heh. Sparks is playing a couple of shows in the area, around now -- this group might've made an ideal opening act. The second band was Nothing Painted Blue, who was as agonizing as ever. More badly paced, eggheaded, whiny little pop songs with a million chords and zero hooks, which inexplicably get worshipped by a certain teensy, indie-snob clique who reveres anything which comes from the "Inland Empire" (ie, Pomona, Riverside, Claremont and various other areas east or northeast of here). Typical Franklin Bruno: He arrived wearing a *suit*, because he had just come from an anniversary party for his "godparents," and he managed to work the word "non-Euclidean" into his stage patter three times. Of course, as usual, the tunnelvisioned Inland Empire folks all left before the headliner went onstage. Maybe there was a Refrigerator tape-swapping party in the parking lot. "Every show's totally different!" or so I've been told.... I don't have an awful lot to say about the Sugarplastic, except that I think they write distinctive, unusual, catchy songs which deserve far more attention than the group receives. I believe this was the first time I've seen the Sugarplastic with their new drummer. He does a lot for them -- he's amusingly mild-mannered for a drummer, but he really hits the drums *hard* and gives a band a new, extra punch. This was the best Sugarplastic show I've seen. They sound better live than on record -- it's too bad the new album's thin, overly fussy mix doesn't capture their onstage edge. The Sugarplastic is far too good to be self-releasing albums -- I've been tentatively trying to hook up Ben and Kiara with a certain label which (to me) seems ideal for them. If anything happens to come of this, I'll give more details. While at the club, I was dismayed to discover that Rhino Records held one of their major parking-lot sales, earlier in the day. Damn! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:24:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Lee Valley Cruise photos Great photos! Did anyone from this list go? A few things to note: I don't think I've ever seen Robyn in white pants before (though he looked just fine in them), and someone needs to feed Tim Keegan. (Randi! It's so good to see you post! Welcome back to the list, my dear.) xxx Carole ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:34:02 -0400 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: Re: this monkey is trouble. Date sent: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00:29:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard To: Capuchin Copies to: Nerdy Groovers Subject: this monkey is trouble. Send reply to: Bayard > http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000825/an_monkeys.html Damn! There goes another truism. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:45:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: this monkey is trouble. > http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000825/an_monkeys.html So that explains it. I thought it might be some sort of test, but it also kind of seemed like a sick mind-game. I'm glad to know the truth. Vivien __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:15:54 PDT From: "Consumer 666" Subject: for tracy . _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:39:21 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Pictures vaguely connected with Robyn Hitchcock My motley collection of pictures from Lee Valley and Edinburgh: http://homepages.enterprise.net/scruss/rh_temp/ plus it includes a dreadful Eb-related 'joke'. I've had reports that the FegCaps font doesn't render proper under IE5. To which I say, "here's a nickel, kid. get yourself a better computer." Got another couple of pictures to add tonight. All three Edinburgh shows "rocked", btw. Shame it's such a cold smelly shite of a city. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:16:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Pictures vaguely connected with Robyn Hitchcock On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > My motley collection of pictures from Lee Valley and Edinburgh: > > http://homepages.enterprise.net/scruss/rh_temp/ > > I've had reports that the FegCaps font doesn't render proper under IE5. Strangely, it works fine from here at work, but the numbers did not work from home. Perhaps fontmaster JH3 has the answer. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:36:58 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Pictures, vaguely connected >>I've had reports that the FegCaps font doesn't render proper under IE5. >Strangely, it works fine from here at work, but the numbers did not work >from home. Perhaps fontmaster JH3 has the answer. Maybe it has something to do with style-sheets? I think I read somewhere that IE5 (in typical Microsoft fashion) ignores some standard style-sheet features, so if you've got

set up in the style-sheet as a normal weight (FegCaps only comes in one weight) and the browser is set to always have

in boldface, the browser settings take precedence, and it ends up looking all nasty. Maybe it does the same with Unix->Windows character set translations? (The version of the font that Stewart's using is one that he kindly converted himself for himself and other Unix folks, because I couldn't get off my lazy ass. I imagine most Windows users have the TrueType version.) I'm just guessing, of course... I'd really need more details, like what the offending results actually look like. (I'm still using IE4, myself.) But you could always run a test where the font was explicitly set in HTML code, and if it looks better that way, then there you are. And feel free to buzz me privately about these sorts of things, not that web pages are my forte or anything. And I haven't been so good about replying to e-mails lately. Too many personal problems! Fontbastard JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:55:54 -0400 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: Disturbing things from eBay's underbelly. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=416410821 ______________________________________ Ferris Scott Thomas programmer McGraw-Hill Education 860.409.2612 ferris_thomas@mcgraw-hill.com (email) I have all the self-loathing of a wolf in sheep's clothing in this carnival of carnivores, heaven help me. - Billy Bragg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:32:41 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Disturbing things from eBay's underbelly. >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=416410821 I'm glad I saw that in the morning, rather than right before I went to sleep. Eeeeek! Did folks hear that story about how *six* different people tried to auction off their (presumably, Presidential?) *vote* on Ebay? And that one person received an alleged bid of $10,000?? Speaking of rising stars, I heard today that Amy Correia will embark on a lengthy tour, opening for Emmylou Harris. That'll move some units, yup.... Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #241 *******************************