From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #273 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, October 5 2000 Volume 09 : Number 273 Today's Subjects: ----------------- final limping games thingy, NZ content may offend. [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: Chapman ["Russ Reynolds" ] Re: Free as a bird ["Russ Reynolds" ] Re: Chapman [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Chapman [Jeff Dwarf ] reap.. [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: quote of the day [y ffab =?iso-8859-1?Q?ff=F4r=5D?= ["Stewart C. Russ] La Belle Chanteuse [Gene Hopstetter ] Murmurs Of Irma? [Gene Hopstetter ] Jerry Sadowitz show [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] [bocce ball ] Re: Jerry Sadowitz show [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] ["Andrew D. Simch] Re: Jerry Sadowitz show [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] ["matt sewell" ] RE: La Belle Chanteuse ["Thomas, Ferris" ] Re: La Belle Chanteuse [Eb ] Re: darby lot ["Randy R." ] Ram's Head uh-oh [Bayard ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:06:43 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: final limping games thingy, NZ content may offend. >Jeme was right about my proportional size co-efficient. I was referring to >music. Since then I've thought that Jamaica and Cuba (the country whose >name must not be...) would also be up there amongst the frontrunners with >Scotland and Wales tagging along in the breakaway group...(That's enough >sporting metaphors. Ed.) ah, roight. In that case, I accept the award on the country's behalf. Unfortunately the rest of NZ couldn't be here tonight, they've got a hangover. Canada doesn't do too badly in the music stakes, mind, alongside Ireland, Jamaica, Scotland, and... erm... I suppose Iceland has to rank on a populational basis through their one gold... >I seem to recall that Midnight Oil's bassist, Bones Hillman, >is from NZ. shit, isd that where he is these days? Yup - he is indeed, former member of Suburban Reptiles and Coconut Rough. A final thought on the Olympics - the perfect song for the ceremony, lyrically, is a lovely gentle track by Martin Newell: "You would live so fast, till your time was past, Lonely runner with a look so fine, You could turn dark time into colour. And a garland just for a day, till the cheers had faded away To the opium whirl of the green-gold girl of the summer..." Suppose the IOC wouldn't have liked the drug connotation, though. James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= - -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- You talk to me as if from a distance - -.-=-.- And I reply with impressions chosen from another time =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 20:54:02 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: Chapman Dwarf: > true. i thought *'s claim that lennon would want him paroled > was the epitomy of hubris though, and it is nice to see load fail. you > just want to go, "Gee sucks for you that Lennon wasn't around to > testify at your hearing, you narcistic fucker." Didn't Sirhan Sirhan say the same thing about RFK at one point? I swear I remember a Paula Poudstone joke about this. "What rotten luck. The ONE GUY who could have helped him go free--and he killed him!" - -rUss Giants 5 Mets 1. One down, ten to go. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 21:31:57 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: Free as a bird > "I didn't think it sounded like The Beatles. Mainly because I think the > drums didn't sound like Ringo -- that, sort of, thudding sound that he had. > That didn't seem to be there. Also, what really bugs me is that John Lennon > really sounds dead. You've got a really well recorded Paul and George and > then you've got this rather ghostly, flanged...I mean it was just a mono > cassette or something. I think they should have done it as a, kind of, > exorcism for themselves, that was probably a good thing. And they should > have just bootlegged it. Of course, they had to make it this, sort of, > spearhead of the campaign. You know, they had to sell the first anthology > through that. It was really sad because it wasn't even relevant to that > collection of Beatles songs.... Yeah, I mean, they're entitled to do it. > They're The Beatles and everyone else isn't." yeah, but what did he have to say about "real love"? I thought that one was actually pretty good. I was listening to the demo of that song on the Lennon anthology yesterday and it sounds to me like his piano needed tuning. The same can be said for the piano on "Grow Old Along With Me" from the "Milk & Honey" album. Hard to belive that John Lennon would have a piano in his Dakota apartment that was out of tune, but then he also had a wife who was out of tune and that didn't seem to bother him much either. By the way, there was an hilarious exerpt from the new Beatles Anthology book in today's SF Chronicle detailing the Fabs' first LSD experience. You'll find it in the datebook section at sfgate.com. - -rUss did I mention the Giants lead the Mets one game to none? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 05:33:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Chapman Russ Reynolds wrote: >Jeff Dwarf: >> true. i thought *'s claim that lennon would want him >> paroled was the epitomy of hubris though, and it is nice to see load >> fail. you just want to go, "Gee sucks for you that Lennon wasn't >> around to testify at your hearing, you narcistic fucker." > > Didn't Sirhan Sirhan say the same thing about RFK at one point? I > swear I remember a Paula Poudstone joke about this. "What rotten > luck. The ONE GUY who could have helped him go free--and he killed > him!" now that you mention it, she did. so not chapman's not only a murderer, he's a plagiarist.... > Giants 5 Mets 1. One down, ten to go. ===== "[I]t's important for the maintenance of consensus that some people keep on being scared of what might happen and probably won't; otherwise, they would not be such easy prey for what can happen and actually has. There is even a name for this tactic -- it's called 'triangulation' -- and eight years of it have been much more than enough." -- Christopher Hichens in Mother Jones, Sep/Oct 2000 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 05:41:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Chapman Jeff Dwarf wrote: [deletia about chapman and sirhan having same excuse for parole] > now that you mention it, she did. so not chapman's not only a > murderer, he's a plagiarist.... [about me nicking paula poundstone's joke about sirhan and reapplying it to chapman] whereas I was merely doing that George Harrison "My Sweet Lord" thing; the unconsious rewrite..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 05:53:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: reap.. http://mtv.com/news/headlines/001004/story4.html UPDATE: The Cars' Benjamin Orr Dead At 53 Benjamin Orr, singer and bassist with new wave hitmakers the Cars, succumbed to cancer at his home in Atlanta on Tuesday night. He was 53. As previously reported by MTV News, Orr, born Benjamin Orzechowski on September 8, 1947, had been hospitalized last May with what turned out to be inoperable pancreatic cancer (see "The Cars' Benjamin Orr Hospitalized"). According to former Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes, Orr was surrounded by his friends when he passed away just before midnight (ET). Orr co-founded the Cars with Ric Ocasek in Boston in 1976 and sang lead on many of the band's most recognizable songs, including "Drive" and "Just What I Needed." The Cars disbanded in 1988. Orr also released a solo album in 1986 called "The Lace." A management spokesperson for Ocasek spoke on behalf of the singer-guitarist, telling MTV News, "He's very devastated by the loss of a close friend." The singer had been playing with his new band, Big People, right up until late September, including a final show in Alaska on September 27. His Big People bandmates, Jeff Carlisi (formerly of .38 Special), Derek St. Holmes (Ted Nugent), and Rob Wilson, along with Orr's manager, Billy Johnson, and Orr's fiancee, Julie Snider, were with him in Atlanta when he died. "Ben kept rocking," bandmate Carlisi told MTV News. "From the time he was diagnosed, he told us he wanted to keep playing until the end. He said, 'If I fall down one day and can't get up, you'll know its over." The group will now turn a planned March of Dimes benefit concert scheduled for this Friday at the Tabernacle in Atlanta into a memorial performance. According to Orr's manager, another event is being planned to take place in Orr's hometown of Cleveland. Orr had reunited with his former Cars bandmates -- Ocasek, Hawkes, Elliot Easton and David Robinson -- this past summer for an interview to be included on a new DVD documentary, "The Cars Live," scheduled for release through Rhino Home Video on November 1. Rhino will now be donating a portion of the profits to the National Pancreas Foundation. Tributes to Benjamin Orr and cards to friends and family will be accepted by Crossover Entertainment Group, 2020 Howell Mill Road, Suite C, Atlanta, GA, 30318. Donations to the Benjamin Orr Memorial Fund can be sent to at Box 600590, Newtonville, MA, 02460. - -- Sorelle Saidman, with additional reporting by Kara Manning __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 14:46:55 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: quote of the day [y ffab =?iso-8859-1?Q?ff=F4r=5D?= Souped Up For Ja wrote: > > robyn h. on Free As A Bird: > > "I didn't think it sounded like The Beatles. tho' I'm not really known for my Beatles fandom, I did get sent some sketchy info about a Welsh-languge Beatles cover band from the late '70s. Known as "y ffab ffôr", their songs included "Mae Hi'n Dy Garu Di, Ydi, Ydi, Ydi" and "Noson Diwrnod Caled". I think they came from the Pontypool area. Thought you might be interested... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:28:40 -0500 From: Gene Hopstetter Subject: La Belle Chanteuse I just stumbled upon and downloaded a bunch of MP3s in Usenet by a woman named Claudine Longet. Wow. Wow. Wow. It made me all giddy like a schoolboy with a crush. So come on, give me all the info about her you've got. URLs, history, biography, I want it all. And I'm sure you know who you are, you Longet fans out there. Email me offlist, so as not to offend Those Who Have Not Yet Discovered Claudine And May Smirk At Our Good Fortune And Revelry. (Geez, that sounds like a J.S. Bach chorale. Did Bach write operas about Claudine?) Must buy Longet CDs and give them out as holiday gifts. Tee hee. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:35:28 -0500 From: Gene Hopstetter Subject: Murmurs Of Irma? While wasting time shopping for records on Delerium's Psychedelic Web of Sound (), I stumbled upon a band called Murmurs Of Irma, while actually searching for stuff by the band Tintern Abbey. Here's what the Delerium catalog sez: "Murmurs Of Irma - Coloured Ice/Magic Shop/Vacuum Cleaner/Cloudwatch. 7", GBP3.00. Excellent new UK '60s styled psych band a la Dukes Of Stratosphear / Tyrnaround etc. Four track EP of top quality Chocolate Soup psych with backwards guitars, melodic vocals, great songs and even a cover vesion of a Tintern Abbey classic..." So they had the cajones to cover Tintern Abbey's coveted "Vacuum Cleaner" which is why I'm intrigued. Anybody know of this band? They've got a web site: . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:18:25 -0400 From: bocce ball Subject: Jerry Sadowitz show [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] tidbit about the jerry sandowitz taping from the yahoo club.... >Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 03:58:28 -0400 (EDT) >From: robsinden >Reply-To: clubs-mail@yahoo-inc.com >Subject: Jerry Sadowitz show [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] > >Well, I went to see the recording of the "Jerry Atrick Show" in Wembley last >night. Robyn appeared in a skit with Jerry Sadowitz about a joke shop, and >then played "The Yip Song". > >The series is due to air on Channel 5 from 12th November. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:30:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence Marks Subject: Re: Murmurs Of Irma? On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Gene Hopstetter wrote: > So they had the cajones to cover Tintern Abbey's coveted "Vacuum Cleaner" > which is why I'm intrigued. Anybody know of this band? They've got a web 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: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:39:59 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: Jerry Sadowitz show [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] Isn't the Yip Song fairly serious (despite the chorus)? Why does it seem to get trotted out as a joke song? Drew >tidbit about the jerry sandowitz taping from the yahoo club.... > >>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 03:58:28 -0400 (EDT) >>From: robsinden >>Reply-To: clubs-mail@yahoo-inc.com >>Subject: Jerry Sadowitz show [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] >> >>Well, I went to see the recording of the "Jerry Atrick Show" in Wembley last >>night. Robyn appeared in a skit with Jerry Sadowitz about a joke shop, and >>then played "The Yip Song". >> >>The series is due to air on Channel 5 from 12th November. - -- - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen.com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 17:15:44 BST From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Jerry Sadowitz show [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] I was at the taping... the Yip Song wasn't directly related to the joke shop skit (which wasn't really that inspired - Hitchcock looked rather uncomfortable whilst being out from behind his guitar), so the song wasn't trotted out as a joke song. However, it's interesting you should mention this, as a girl in the audience laughed all the way through it, especially at the mention of septecaemia... hmmm.... Matt >From: "Andrew D. Simchik" >Reply-To: "Andrew D. Simchik" >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Jerry Sadowitz show [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] >Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:39:59 -0700 > >Isn't the Yip Song fairly serious (despite the chorus)? Why does >it seem to get trotted out as a joke song? > >Drew > >>tidbit about the jerry sandowitz taping from the yahoo club.... >> >>>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 03:58:28 -0400 (EDT) >>>From: robsinden >>>Reply-To: clubs-mail@yahoo-inc.com >>>Subject: Jerry Sadowitz show [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] >>> >>>Well, I went to see the recording of the "Jerry Atrick Show" in Wembley >>>last >>>night. Robyn appeared in a skit with Jerry Sadowitz about a joke shop, >>>and >>>then played "The Yip Song". >>> >>>The series is due to air on Channel 5 from 12th November. > >-- >-- >Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen.com >http://www.stormgreen.com/ _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:59:40 -0400 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: RE: La Belle Chanteuse http://users.deltanet.com/~gondola/longet/ http://claudine.longet.free.fr/ http://www.fansites.com/claudine_longet.html http://www.swinginchicks.com/claudine_longet.htm http://www.multimania.com/claudinelonget/disques.html http://www.checkout.com/store/music/artist/releases/0,7923,420260,00.html The list goes on and on. (Gleaned from http://www.google.com Being a male chauvinist pig, I'll say she's not a bad looking girl, at least...haven't heard the music, though. - -----Original Message----- From: Gene Hopstetter [mailto:Gene.Hopstetter@raremedium.com] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 10:29 AM To: 'fegmaniax@smoe.org' Subject: La Belle Chanteuse I just stumbled upon and downloaded a bunch of MP3s in Usenet by a woman named Claudine Longet. Wow. Wow. Wow. It made me all giddy like a schoolboy with a crush. So come on, give me all the info about her you've got. URLs, history, biography, I want it all. And I'm sure you know who you are, you Longet fans out there. Email me offlist, so as not to offend Those Who Have Not Yet Discovered Claudine And May Smirk At Our Good Fortune And Revelry. (Geez, that sounds like a J.S. Bach chorale. Did Bach write operas about Claudine?) Must buy Longet CDs and give them out as holiday gifts. Tee hee. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:03:05 -0400 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: RE: La Belle Chanteuse Interesting... TWENTY YEARS AGO on Thursday (March 21), Sabich was shot and killed in the bathroom of his Aspen, Colo., home. His live-in girlfriend, singer-actress Claudine Longet, was convicted of criminally negligent homicide, a misdemeanor. Longet -- a former Las Vegas showgirl and ex-wife of singer Andy Williams -- spent 30 days in jail. She still lives in Aspen, where she is married to her former defense attorney. The trial preceded O.J. Simpson's by nearly two decades, but those who lived through it in Aspen see many parallels. Both were media spectacles, and both offered an eager public glimpses into lifestyles of the rich and famous. Simpson and Longet hired high-powered defense teams -- and got off easy, in the minds of many. - -----Original Message----- From: Thomas, Ferris Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 2:06 PM To: 'Gene Hopstetter' Cc: the oracle (E-mail) Subject: RE: La Belle Chanteuse http://users.deltanet.com/~gondola/longet/ http://claudine.longet.free.fr/ http://www.fansites.com/claudine_longet.html http://www.swinginchicks.com/claudine_longet.htm http://www.multimania.com/claudinelonget/disques.html http://www.checkout.com/store/music/artist/releases/0,7923,420260,00.html The list goes on and on. (Gleaned from http://www.google.com Being a male chauvinist pig, I'll say she's not a bad looking girl, at least...haven't heard the music, though. - -----Original Message----- From: Gene Hopstetter [mailto:Gene.Hopstetter@raremedium.com] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 10:29 AM To: 'fegmaniax@smoe.org' Subject: La Belle Chanteuse I just stumbled upon and downloaded a bunch of MP3s in Usenet by a woman named Claudine Longet. Wow. Wow. Wow. It made me all giddy like a schoolboy with a crush. So come on, give me all the info about her you've got. URLs, history, biography, I want it all. And I'm sure you know who you are, you Longet fans out there. Email me offlist, so as not to offend Those Who Have Not Yet Discovered Claudine And May Smirk At Our Good Fortune And Revelry. (Geez, that sounds like a J.S. Bach chorale. Did Bach write operas about Claudine?) Must buy Longet CDs and give them out as holiday gifts. Tee hee. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:36:06 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: La Belle Chanteuse On Gene-oo wrote: >I just stumbled upon and downloaded a bunch of MP3s in Usenet by a woman >named Claudine Longet. > >Wow. Wow. Wow. It made me all giddy like a schoolboy with a crush. > >So come on, give me all the info about her you've got. URLs, history, >biography, I want it all. What, is this thread a late birthday present? ;) Ferris did a fine job of ferreting out the essential links, but I'll add three more: http://www.thebranflakes.com/mofo/claudine/main.html http://www3.nando.net/newsroom/sports/PressBox/mar96/0323other.html http://www.geocities.com/pswayne/ppage/claudine.htm Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 15:02:15 -0700 From: "Randy R." Subject: Re: darby lot From: GSS > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, jbranscombe@compuserve.com wrote: > > GSS wrote > > > > > but I'm a Rush fan.< > > > > Limbaugh, was that? > > No, but that was the nicest thing you have ever said to me. Hey, be nice to my boys! Rush news-The next release isn't due until this time, next year Obscure Rush Trivia- The opening punches to "YYZ" are morse code, to, ummm YYZ. It's the code pilots use to fly into Toronto. hmm, that doesn't seem so interesting anymore. Vince, Your Favorite Headache ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 23:38:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Ram's Head uh-oh Carissa informs me the Ram's head show scheduled for the 20th has just been cancelled... it's still listed on their web site, but i fear her information is newer. I hope to still catch the Monday the 16th show at Iota... who else is going to this one? Bummer, the last RH gig there was just great. =b ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #273 *******************************