From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #378 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, December 24 2000 Volume 09 : Number 378 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Setlist, Stockholm December 22nd [Jonathan Moren ] Re: Setlist, Stockholm December 22nd ["Mike Hooker" ] RE: Another Robyn Resource ["Brian Huddell" ] wishing you all... [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: wishing you all... [Terrence Marks ] RE: wishing you all... ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: wishing you all... [grutness@surf4nix.com] Happy happy joy joy.... [Bayard ] Speaking of downloads [steve ] Re: Happy happy joy joy.... [Eb ] Bike Love and what to name her? Him? [Carole Reichstein ] Tom Waits - VCR alert [hbrandt ] wait...more Waits [hbrandt ] Re: wishing you all a merry semantics of islamic holidays [Jeff Dwarf Subject: Setlist, Stockholm December 22nd ..and I have just returned from the first RH gig of my life! Here's a setlist and some comments for you: Location: Stampen (a "jazz pub" in the Old Town of Stockholm) Audience: 250 - 300 (?) Setlist: (acoustic guitar:) 1. Mexican God 2. Me and Mr Kennedy (the lyrics slightly rearranged compared to the version posted earlier on the list. It here began with "Coming into Harrisburg". "Coming into Paradise" came later (naturally), perhaps as the third verse. And this time Sebadoh were mentioned in the lyrics, though I can't remember the exact wording.) Not a very good song, however. 3. Chinese bones 4. My wife and my dead wife (RH: "This song I wrote for Frank Sinatra, for his Duets album." Lyrics changed to: "Frankie, she says..") 5. Queen Elvis (Harmonica on. "It could break your sister's heart" changed to: "It's already broken your father's heart". After the song someone in the audience shouted "What was that song about?", whereupon Robyn answered: "About the way it takes a million nobodies to make one somebody.") 6. Beautiful girl ("We're going through a hole in the air/ We're going through a hole in the air/ Well, I hope they serve us some prawns up there") 7. Glass hotel 8. The yip song ("This is a Christmas song about death from cancer") (change to electric guitar: "This is the second half of the show, this is with the band") 9. Autumn is your last chance 10. I often dream of trains 11. I am not me (Lyrics changed to: "You say: Don't turn your back" and "You say: That's your excuse." 12. Queen of eyes 13. Madonna of the wasps 14. You and oblivion ("This is about an old friend of mine who went mad, while I stayed sane." A very passionate performance of this one, which surprised me. For the first time I didn't find it dull and monotonous.) 15. Airscape ("This is for Michele". Echoing the old "This is for Cynthia"...) 16. Freeze Encore: (acoustic guitar:) 17. Uncorrected personality traits (country version, with community singing) 18. A song I couldn't identify, beginning with the line "You can set your watch by me, I'm a regular guy". A recurring line (with variations) was "in the pulse of my heart, I'm coming to you" (and the like). Anyone know it? Quite a nice tune it was. 19. Clean Steve (on request from the audience, actually) ("This one is great if you've heard it before, otherwise it goes on a bit". A fierce harmonica solo and lots of changes in the lyrics: "The father of my boy/ He tore apart a stethoscope/ although it was my pride and joy", "but he wasn't really home/ Instead I talked to his wife Claire/ upon the telephone" etc.) 20. No, I don't remember Guildford ("This is about someone from Guildford in denial. And Denial's pretty close to Guildford.") (change to electric guitar:) 21. Sally was a legend ("This is for Sally and Lawrence who have come all the way here from somewhere else") 22. Kingdom of love 23. Insanely jealous All in all, a very nice concert. But he had a bleedin' grand piano standing beside him all evening and didn't bother to touch it. Grrrr. (which is Swedish for *growl*). Sadly, I won't be able to see him in Gothenburg on the 25th and 26th (Christmas celebration in Sweden is mainly on Dec. 24th, so a gig on Christmas day isn't as strange as it might seem to some of you folks.). On the other hand, he said he hoped the Soft Boys could make it over here some time in the summer! En frvjdefull jul till eder alla! J.M. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 21:05:02 -0500 From: "Mike Hooker" Subject: Re: Another Robyn Resource hi, am i dense? i'm at a loss navigating the site mentioned below. any help? thanks, mike see my music trading page: http://pages.zdnet.com/mikehooker/hookstradingpage NEW E MAIL ADDRESS AGAIN!!!!!!! MHOOKER@OPTONLINE.NET FORGET ALL OTHER OLD ADDRESSES. - ----- Original Message ----- From: dr john halewood (by way of recount dracula ) To: Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 6:03 PM Subject: Another Robyn Resource > ahem, > after finding a couple of Gb worth of free space on a machine that > doesn't do a great deal, I've put a small but quite well formed collection > of RH stuff onto the following site: stats.unidec.co.uk. Username is feggy, > password TrainDream (or, if you prefer > ftp://feggy:TrainDream@stats.unidec.co.uk). Feel free to peruse, browse, and > (if you've got time/bandwidth/whatever) contribute. At the moment it's up > 24x7, but if there's a significant impact on our connection (its only 2Mb;-) > I might have to restrict it to outside (UK) office hours. > > cheers > john ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 21:51:53 -0500 From: "Mike Hooker" Subject: Re: Setlist, Stockholm December 22nd hi, is there a tape of this???? it sounds fantastic!! mike see my music trading page: http://pages.zdnet.com/mikehooker/hookstradingpage NEW E MAIL ADDRESS AGAIN!!!!!!! MHOOKER@OPTONLINE.NET FORGET ALL OTHER OLD ADDRESSES. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan Moren (by way of recount dracula ) To: Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 9:17 PM Subject: Setlist, Stockholm December 22nd > ..and I have just returned from the first RH gig of my life! Here's a > setlist and some comments for you: > > Location: Stampen (a "jazz pub" in the Old Town of Stockholm) > Audience: 250 - 300 (?) > > Setlist: > (acoustic guitar:) > 1. Mexican God > 2. Me and Mr Kennedy (the lyrics slightly rearranged compared to the > version posted earlier on the list. It here began with "Coming into > Harrisburg". "Coming into Paradise" came later (naturally), perhaps as the > third verse. And this time Sebadoh were mentioned in the lyrics, though I > can't remember the exact wording.) Not a very good song, however. > 3. Chinese bones > 4. My wife and my dead wife (RH: "This song I wrote for Frank Sinatra, for > his Duets album." Lyrics changed to: "Frankie, she says..") > 5. Queen Elvis (Harmonica on. "It could break your sister's heart" changed > to: "It's already broken your father's heart". After the song someone in > the audience shouted "What was that song about?", whereupon Robyn answered: > "About the way it takes a million nobodies to make one somebody.") > 6. Beautiful girl ("We're going through a hole in the air/ We're going > through a hole in the air/ Well, I hope they serve us some prawns up there") > 7. Glass hotel > 8. The yip song ("This is a Christmas song about death from cancer") > (change to electric guitar: "This is the second half of the show, this is > with the band") > 9. Autumn is your last chance > 10. I often dream of trains > 11. I am not me (Lyrics changed to: "You say: Don't turn your back" and > "You say: That's your excuse." > 12. Queen of eyes > 13. Madonna of the wasps > 14. You and oblivion ("This is about an old friend of mine who went mad, > while I stayed sane." A very passionate performance of this one, which > surprised me. For the first time I didn't find it dull and monotonous.) > 15. Airscape ("This is for Michele". Echoing the old "This is for Cynthia"...) > 16. Freeze > > Encore: > (acoustic guitar:) > 17. Uncorrected personality traits (country version, with community singing) > 18. A song I couldn't identify, beginning with the line "You can set your > watch by me, I'm a regular guy". A recurring line (with variations) was "in > the pulse of my heart, I'm coming to you" (and the like). Anyone know it? > Quite a nice tune it was. > 19. Clean Steve (on request from the audience, actually) ("This one is > great if you've heard it before, otherwise it goes on a bit". A fierce > harmonica solo and lots of changes in the lyrics: "The father of my boy/ He > tore apart a stethoscope/ although it was my pride and joy", "but he wasn't > really home/ Instead I talked to his wife Claire/ upon the telephone" etc.) > 20. No, I don't remember Guildford ("This is about someone from Guildford > in denial. And Denial's pretty close to Guildford.") > (change to electric guitar:) > 21. Sally was a legend ("This is for Sally and Lawrence who have come all > the way here from somewhere else") > 22. Kingdom of love > 23. Insanely jealous > > All in all, a very nice concert. But he had a bleedin' grand piano standing > beside him all evening and didn't bother to touch it. Grrrr. (which is > Swedish for *growl*). Sadly, I won't be able to see him in Gothenburg on > the 25th and 26th (Christmas celebration in Sweden is mainly on Dec. 24th, > so a gig on Christmas day isn't as strange as it might seem to some of you > folks.). On the other hand, he said he hoped the Soft Boys could make it > over here some time in the summer! > > En frvjdefull jul till eder alla! > > J.M. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 22:00:33 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Another Robyn Resource > am i dense? i'm at a loss navigating the site mentioned below. any > help? for some reason, in my Unix ftp client "ls" displayed only the README file, but "ls -a" worked fine. is that the same problem you were having? > NEW E MAIL ADDRESS AGAIN!!!!!!! MHOOKER@OPTONLINE.NET FORGET ALL OTHER > OLD ADDRESSES. no need to shout, there. it'll be all right. a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 22:19:45 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Another Robyn Resource > > am i dense? i'm at a loss navigating the site mentioned below. any > > help? > > for some reason, in my Unix ftp client "ls" displayed only the README > file, but "ls -a" worked fine. is that the same problem you were having? It's working fine with WS_FTP. Just snagged a great rip of Rout Of The Clones (finally I can retire my tape!). Thanks john! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:28:19 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: wishing you all... ...a great Christmas, New Year, Yule, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Saturnalia, Midsummer, Kwanzaa, the King of Nepal's birthday, or whatever it is you are celebrating at this time of year. This wish goes out to all fegs, and especially those I've kept in contact with off-list in some variety over the year - Quail, Marcy, Randi, Mike, Mark, Eb... oh, you know who you are. 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: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 01:32:28 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence Marks Subject: Re: wishing you all... On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > ...a great Christmas, New Year, Yule, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Saturnalia, > Midsummer, Kwanzaa, the King of Nepal's birthday, or whatever it is you are > celebrating at this time of year. Are you really supposed to have a "great" Ramadan? I mean, it's a time of fasting, penitence and reflection, right? 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: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 01:11:35 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: wishing you all... James Dignan: > ...a great Christmas, New Year, Yule, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Saturnalia, > Midsummer, Kwanzaa, the King of Nepal's birthday, or whatever it > is you are > celebrating at this time of year. I was planning to do one of these but there's no way I could do it any better than James did. Thanks to James for being one of the most consistently affable voices on the list, without, I imagine, even trying. Kudos also go to James for the most durable sig of all time time time ... Fegmaniax, you're a cranky bunch sometimes, but I don't like to think about life without you. If you've anything to celebrate this December I hope you celebrate it well. - -Brian Huddell ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 22:56:42 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: wishing you all... >On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > >> ...a great Christmas, New Year, Yule, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Saturnalia, >> Midsummer, Kwanzaa, the King of Nepal's birthday, or whatever it is you are >> celebrating at this time of year. > >Are you really supposed to have a "great" Ramadan? I mean, it's a time of >fasting, penitence and reflection, right? good point, but I felt that I needed to put something muslim into the list, and that's the only thing I know of at this time of year. And we talk about having a great Easter, which (with lent) is the nearest the Christian church gets to Ramadan. Have a good whatever anyway, 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: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 12:35:53 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Happy happy joy joy.... Good list, James! I was going to post that, too, the only ones I was thinking off that you left off were Winter Solstice and Festivus. (Note: there is now a Festivus ice cream, i think from ben & jerry's. it's pretty good!) Here is a little Christmas Present for all the little fegs... I made good on my promise to hunt down the songs you all told me about, and I found all of them and more! Here are some of the ones I thought to be the most "feggy". http://www.bitmine.net/~bayard/christmas/ These will only be available til 2001 rolls around, and remember to buy the CD's if you like any of these songs. Is Yule the same as Solstice? One is celebrated by Pagans, the other by Druids, right?... Do Wicca or Satanism have any winter festivals? ANYWAY, I'm sending out warm wishes to all of you, whatever your beliefs, and specially warm thoughts for the list Scrooge (Dave the Blatzman Santos) and Grinch (Eb) and the littlest Angel (Randi). I love all y'all. See you in 2001, when technology will become even more indistinguisable from magic.... =b ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 12:59:33 -0600 From: steve Subject: Speaking of downloads http://www.sheeba.ca/mediaMUSIC/OTHERJANE/SiberryRarityIPADDLE.mp3 Gotta get the 1800k one pretty quick. I think that it will especially be appreciated by Eb. - - Steve __________ I'd sit down and meditate but my ass is on fire. - Bill Nelson ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 12:16:24 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Happy happy joy joy.... >ANYWAY, I'm sending out warm wishes to all of you, whatever your beliefs, >and specially warm thoughts for the list Scrooge (Dave the Blatzman >Santos) and Grinch (Eb) and the littlest Angel (Randi). I prefer to think of myself as the list's Heat Miser. http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/9051/ Eb np: Lou Reed/Metal Machine Music ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 13:35:37 -0800 (PST) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Bike Love and what to name her? Him? Thanks to everyone who've posted about their favorite bikes; I'm thoroughly enjoying this topic. But I didn't know that other folks *named* their bikes! Molly, Sherman, etc. My bike is sort of unisex. Even though it's technically a "girls" bike, it's called a "Huffy Sportsman" (in 1963, they didn't care about sexism in language). It looks just like the bike that Morrissey rode in a video for, I think, "Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before (my sister told me about it, I never saw it personally, but I believe it was a video for *some* song off of "Strangeways Here We Come"). It's a quintessentially English bike. So, what to name it? Even though I love Morrissey, I don't know if I want to name my bike after him. Brenda? Rowan? I don't know where to start. Suggestions welcome! Post away if you're not sick of bike talk yet. Carole ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:32:03 PST From: twofangs@sympatico.ca (xoxo . . . randi) Subject: An Express Seasons Greetings Card - from xoxo . . . randi Hello! xoxo . . . randi has just sent you a greeting card from Bluemountain.com. You can pick up your personal message here: http://www5.bluemountain.com/cards/boxe223559v6/8htitbeypsyi4u.html Your card will be available for the next 90 days This service is 100% FREE! :) Have a good day and have fun! ________________________________________________________________________ Accessing your card indicates agreement with Blue Mountain's Website Rules: http://www.bluemountain.com/home/WebsiteRules.html Send FREE Blue Mountain cards to friends and family (and attach gifts too!) http://www.bluemountain.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 11:57:41 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: double RIP Victor Borge and Jimmy Shand, both aged 91. 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: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 19:22:04 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: trainspotting On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, steve wrote: > Eb: > >I was watching "Gilmore Girls" last night (the only new show of the season > >besides "Ed" which attracts me at all), and during the final scene, the > >background music was XTC's "Thanks for Christmas"! Wow. :) > > I don't watch, but EW said the first episode featured Sam Phillips, and > Loud Family listers just pointed out that Big Star was also used last > night. Obviously, there's someone with good taste picking the music. almost *every* episode features sam phillips; she does the incidental music for the show. i find it a little distracting but basically pleasant. and yeah, the music is about the most interesting and least plastic of any show in recent memory. xtc has been featured multiple times. - -- d., a little scared of how much he and Eb have been agreeing lately. np a fun punk covers compilation thrown together by one of our artists - - 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: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:44:12 -0700 From: hbrandt Subject: Tom Waits - VCR alert A repeat performance of Tom Waits on Austin City Limits (from 1979) will be on PBS this weekend. Check your local listing. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:50:47 -0700 From: hbrandt Subject: wait...more Waits If you're a satellite subscriber, the Austin City Limits with Waits is TONIGHT (sat) at 11p EST. More Waits news here: http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/news/text/newsarticle.asp?afl=&NewsID=12165&ArtistID=2552 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:34:17 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: wishing you all a merry semantics of islamic holidays grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: >>On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: >>>...a great Christmas, New Year, Yule, Hanukkah, Ramadan, >>>Saturnalia, Midsummer, Kwanzaa, the King of Nepal's birthday, or >>>whatever it is you are celebrating at this time of year. >>Are you really supposed to have a "great" Ramadan? I mean, it's a >>time of fasting, penitence and reflection, right? > good point, but I felt that I needed to put something muslim into the > list, and that's the only thing I know of at this time of year. And > we talk about having a great Easter, which (with lent) is the nearest > the Christian church gets to Ramadan. well, you could have a great Ramadan if your reflection and fasting were particularly productive or meaningful in that particular year. you wouldn't really have a Merry Ramadan though. ===== "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalists, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." -- Oscar Wilde Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #378 *******************************