From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #1 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, January 1 2001 Volume 10 : Number 001 Today's Subjects: ----------------- k's cd-r questions [recount dracula ] Re: Raise your Cap, guvn'r/Chix Fix [recount dracula ] Re: Power of Love Photos [recount dracula ] Re: blah blah blah [Eb ] Peter Blegvad Mailing List [recount dracula ] Re: Baby Pool: "We Have A Winner!" [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: blah blah blah [Jeff Dwarf ] the colour and the shape [Asshole Motherfucker ] total silence [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:51:24 -0500 From: recount dracula Subject: k's cd-r questions when we last left our heroes, Irish Airman exclaimed: >I think Real JukeBox is what we'll use to >organise it and then EasyCreator for making the CDs---tips anyone? for most people, easy cd creator is sufficient in terms of capability -- it's relatively easy to use, works well with nearly all cd burners, and has enough features (disk-at-once, 80 minute cd-r, etc.) for most basic cd burning applications. the other burning programs (for windows anyways) that are often touted as superior to ecdc are nero < http://www.nero.de > and cdrwin . i've used the latter and it has more features than anyone would need -- but if you are looking to do andvanced stuff (overburning, pre-gaps, etc.), cdrwin is what i would recommend and it's relatively inexpensive too, as i recall. as for organizing and listening to mp3s, i'm low-fi as all the jukebox programs i've looked at pretty much suck wind on this pc of mine. i just toss the mp3s in directories sorted by artist and album (or date in the case of live recordings), select stuff using the windows explorer and play'em in winamp from there. >If ones going to burn CDs-does it matter very much what, brand, price, >etc,they are? there's all kinds of advocacy about this, as aaron aluded to. the brands which are generally considered "the best" are mitsui, onkyo, sony and tdk. those which tend to be less favored include imation, verbatim, and many of the cheap unbranded blanks you can find at places like compusa and such. what it really boils down to are (a) does the brand work with your burner and (b) does the brand have a known history of rot. personally, i've had good luck with sony and tdk but also use some unbranded discs as well with perfectly fine results with my hp 8200i burner. i generally don't use the unbranded blanks for trades since most folks seem to be less trustful with them than i am. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:58:20 -0500 From: recount dracula Subject: Re: Raise your Cap, guvn'r/Chix Fix when we last left our heroes, Irish Airman exclaimed: >Im putting together a hitlist Ive labelled Chix Fix. Basically its females >with attitude kicking out the rock n roll jams. Ive got Pretenders(lets not >go there again;-o) and Garbage and Divynals and Patty Smith and Sam >Phillips and olden days Linda Ronstadht. Im trying not to go too folky. Any >suggestions? hoo boy. this should be an easy question for me, but my mind is stuttering. some less well-known ideas: tribe, sybal vane >Also cant find--was it Voices of the Beehive? voice of the beehive. their first album, _let it bee_, certainly qualifies. their latter work, less so: _honey lingers_ is more sugary and the third record is so horrible that i've obliterated its name from my memory. >Also, aside from obvious suspects like REM, are there any neato covers of >RH's stuff out there? glass flesh? ;) woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:08:07 -0500 From: recount dracula Subject: Re: Power of Love Photos when we last left our heroes, brian nupp exclaimed: >Check out these slick "wedding" photos from the sleeve of Captain Sensible's >2nd album from 1983. Great record, by the way. I listened to it twice last >night. The last song has a beat that's just waiting to get sampled. I'll >have to post some of the lyrics RH wrote later. He mentions "Syd" in a song >called "secrets." >[demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/pjpeg which had a name of group.JPG] i forget: did i mention that we installed demime on smoe.org to ensure that html-formatted mail and binary attachments don't make it to the mailing lists? ;) but seriously, if you have binary files to share -- images, mp3s, whatever - -- please don't send them to the list. if you have no place to put them on the web yourself, ask someone on the list -- there are many folks who have sites with this sort of thing (i.e., thanks bayard!) and, one way or another, i'm collecting all this stuff and will eventually put it in the archives on fegmania.org. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:22:21 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: blah blah blah >WORST ALBUM I BOTHERED TO KEEP: >The Smashing Pumpkins: Machina/The Machines of God Heh heh...now there's a category which tears at my conscience. ;) My "guilt list" would go something like: 1. Photek/Solaris 2. Claudine Longet/The Very Best of Claudine Longet 3. Elastica/The Menace 4. Dinosaur Jr./In Session 5. The Loud Family/Attractive Nuisance Honorable mention (non-2000 releases grabbed during 2000): Sinead O'Connor/Universal Mother, Lakuna/Castle of Crime, Various Artists/The Simpsons: The Yellow Album I'm going to the New Year's party at the Viper Room, tonight...and *the Romantics* are playing! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:37:51 -0500 From: recount dracula Subject: Peter Blegvad Mailing List some of you may be interested in this... woj - ----- Forwarded message from John Relph ----- To: jangly@egroups.com From: John Relph Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:06:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Jangly] Peter Blegvad Folks, I thought I should take the time to mention that there is now a list for aficionados of Peter Blegvad. To join, surf to http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/PeterBlegvad Thanks. -- John - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 14:12:39 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: Baby Pool: "We Have A Winner!" >>I've never even met anyone born on Christmas day. It's cool, but I guess >>you'll have to give her her birthday presents on the 24th... > >Lots of folk born on or near 12/25 have half-birthdays in June. Prevents >the "here's your birthday and Xmas gift" situation. here in the deep south, we do it the other way round - there are a small number of people (including at least one person I know born on 25/12) who celebrate a "midyear Christmas" on June 25th - it feels more seasonal, too, with it being midwinter then. happy new year (and REAL new millennium!), y'all! James PS - congrats Peter! np - Portsmouth Sinfonia - Also Sprach Zarathustra ;) 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: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 22:55:16 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: blah blah blah Eb wrote: > >WORST ALBUM I BOTHERED TO KEEP: > >The Smashing Pumpkins: Machina/The Machines of God > > Heh heh...now there's a category which tears at my conscience. ;) > > My "guilt list" would go something like: > > 3. Elastica/The Menace see, while i wouldn't call it great album by any means, i don't think the Elastica album was that bad. there isn't really any musical evolution from the first one, which is disappointing, but that considering the problems they had even getting it together, i'm willing to give a little more slack in that regard than i would have if this had come out in 96 or 97. of course, it could just means they're gonna be the new ramones. > 4. Dinosaur Jr./In Session > 5. The Loud Family/Attractive Nuisance > > Honorable mention (non-2000 releases grabbed during 2000): Sinead > O'Connor/Universal Mother, Lakuna/Castle of Crime, Various > Artists/The Simpsons: The Yellow Album > > I'm going to the New Year's party at the Viper Room, tonight...and > *the Romantics* are playing! happy new 1985!! ===== "On and on is all we are." -- kurdt Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 01:28:24 -0800 From: Asshole Motherfucker Subject: the colour and the shape i've never fully understood how "e-mail time" works. but, according to the following, i do believe james successfully completed the first post of the new millennium. a sticker operation, though, may be in determining who successfully completed the last post of the old millennium -- woj or jeff? recount dracula Peter Blegvad Mailing List 12/31/2000 2 KB grutness@surf4nix....Re: Baby Pool: "We Have ...1/1/2001 3 KB Jeff Dwarf Re: blah blah blah 12/31/2000 3 KB ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 14:10:44 -0700 From: Eb Subject: total silence Whew! Are your hangovers *that* bad? ;) I don't have much interesting to say about my night. The Romantics weren't so bad, the crowd was fun and (OBstarfucking) Quentin Tarantino was there for a half-hour or so.... Didn't get drunk, didn't kiss any Sunset Strip floozies. And I wore some nicer shoes which I don't often wear, and ended up with *horrible* blisters. I must appear "responsible" rather than "eligible" -- a group of gorgeous women handed me a camera and asked me to take their picture, and later, another asked me directions to Mann's Chinese Theater. What am I, an *usher*? ;) Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #1 ******************************