From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #19 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, January 22 2001 Volume 10 : Number 019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Dream SB setlists? [Aaron ] Re: Rosebud [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH [hbrandt ] Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH [Eb ] Re: Oh? Canada? (5% mouth harp) ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Queen Elizabeth's ferrous toboggan ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH ["Stewart C. Russell" ] The Viper Returns! [Capuchin ] Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH ["Sean Bartnik" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:03:52 -0600 From: Aaron Subject: Dream SB setlists? OK, so I just re-joined the list after nearly a year-long hiatus, so perhaps this has already been discussed, but if not... With the impending SB tour almost upon us, which SB songs -- "standards," or more rare tracks -- would everyone most like to hear them play? I'll shit my pants if they play "The Pigworker." Honestly I will. In a good way. * Aaron mailto:aaron@hollowstreets.net http://aaron.hollowstreets.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:32:52 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: Rosebud >For me, I'd have to guess it's either David Thomas, D. Boon or the brothers >in Screaming Trees. Runners-up: Greg Lake and Frank Black. Did I forget >someone? ;) anyone remember the ska band "Bad Manners"? 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: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:54:05 -0700 From: hbrandt Subject: Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH > http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm Goddammit. /hal, pissed a mile high ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:26:30 EST From: CPPetunia@aol.com Subject: Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH In a message dated 1/21/01 7:23:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, aaron@hollowstreets.net writes: > So I'm hoping to find someone willing to house me (and perhaps a couple of > other Illinoisians) on Friday night in or around Detroit.... > > > Where are you coming from? chic? and how many? and are you allergic to dogs, cats, or roommates? and will you be going to Minne? I may need a ride from chicago to minne. Could we trade lodging for lifting? Carissa ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 19:46:56 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH > http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm Woo-hoo! A Saturday night in SF! I just did a google search entering "April 7" and "Soft Boys"...found no club listing but by sheer coincidence it looks like "Rock & Roll Toilet" was on the play list at the Boom Boom Ballroom LAST April 7 when they did their "Spring Cleaning" show. Wherever it turns out to be, I'm there! - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:18:02 -0600 From: Aaron Subject: Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH At 07:54 PM 1/21/2001, you wrote: > > http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm > >Goddammit. > >/hal, pissed a mile high That's a pretty enigmatic post. What is it that you're pissed about? * Aaron mailto:aaron@hollowstreets.net http://aaron.hollowstreets.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:35:30 -0800 (PST) From: "J. Brown" Subject: Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Aaron wrote: > At 07:54 PM 1/21/2001, you wrote: > > > http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm > > > >Goddammit. > > > >/hal, pissed a mile high > > That's a pretty enigmatic post. What is it that you're pissed about? maybe the fact that there is no Denver show? Jason Wilson Brown - University of Washington - Seattle, WA "The whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poison oil." -Hunter S. Thompson ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:01:17 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Sex Beatles Okay, just saw this on e-Bay: > Sex Beatles - Well You Never/Fatal Fascination 45 from 1979 on Charly > Records CYS1061. Picture sleeve. Vg/VG. Robyn Hitchcock involved in this > one. I accept payment in US$ cash. I remember this single, played it a few times on my College Radio show way back when. This is the first I've heard of any Robyn Hitchcock involvement, though. Anybody know of any real connection? - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:09:13 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH > http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm Jeez...I had resolved not to bother with Hitchcock shows anymore, but now he managed to put a new twist on the proceedings. I guess I'm done in by my desire to see any act at least once if I own some of their records, and since "The Soft Boys" is technically a different entity from "Robyn Hitchcock".... (Hopefully, the set list will be exclusively Soft Boys songs, because I really don't think I can bear to hear "Queen Elvis" or "Cynthia Mask" again.) Eb PS A Golden Globe for Bawb...woo! And speaking of Bawb, dig this weirdness: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1404389922 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:56:12 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Oh? Canada? (5% mouth harp) Michael R Godwin wrote: > > Well, if you want to learn 'Oh Susanna' and 'Clementine', forget > everything that jmbc said about using an A harmonica when everyone else is > playing E don't worry, since harps are cheap, and I get get ones in the key I want when I need it. Trouble is, I have plenty other toys to play with right now; a Brompton L5 bike and an HP49G ueber-calculator... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:57:49 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: More Chimp stuff steve wrote: > > http://www.salon.com/people/satire/2001/01/19/curious_george/index.html I've always thought that Cornelius is a good name for a president. but that's got TMBG's "Planet of the Apes" symphony stuck in my head... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:00:02 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Queen Elizabeth's ferrous toboggan "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" wrote: > > Harp PS - I find it far easier to play blues riffs than tunes...but maybe > that's because I'm a blind, black sharecropper from Mississip'... No you're not -- I've met you. Unless you have very good makeup. (the metalinguistic bluesman) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:27:27 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Eb's latest offensive thread dmw wrote: > > what about that guy in neutral milk hotel? c'mon, he's just, well, portly. Doesn't compare to Van "No Photographs" Morrison. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:30:58 -0600 From: Gene Hopstetter Subject: Soft Boys at SXSW sucks > From: Aaron > Subject: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH > > http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm > OK, alright, I'm just gonna say this. I am deeply disappointed that the Soft Boys tour is gonna kick off at SXSW. This is for selfish reasons, of course -- if I didn't live in Texas, I certainly wouldn't want to go to the show in Austin. But it does annoy me. I live in San Antonio, and the Soft Boys will be playing a mere 70 miles away, but even though they'll be so close, and after dreaming of seeing them for so long, I don't think I'll be able to actually see them, or enjoy them if I do. Why? Well, my chances of getting into this show right off the street are next to zilch. Of course, I could plunk down, what, $100? for a SXSW pass, which may increase my chances of getting in, but sheesh, that's an awfully expensive show. How long was the line to get into the Robyn show at the last SXSW, does anybody remember? Or how easy was it to get into the screening of Storefront Hitchcock? I really doubt there's any other band I want to see at SXSW anyway, so I'm not too inclined to buy a pass. And I don't know if I'd even want to get in. I've been to one CMJ and one SXSW convention, and man can they be ugly. When I saw Calexico at the last SXSW I could barely hear the band because of the group of Beautiful Hollywood Media Males (you know, the kind of men who wear black nail polish) who insisted on gabbing on about how quaint Austin was. If anybody else who has more SXSW experience can correct me, please do. Really, I've only been to one SXSW, and if I'm wrong thinking it'll be impossible to get into this show, please let me know. I really don't want to have to fly somewhere to see the Soft Boys. But I will if I have to. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:34:08 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH Aaron wrote: > > http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm bah, and I'll be in Toronto the week after. Poo. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:39:47 -0700 From: hbrandt Subject: Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH > What is it that you're pissed about? > > maybe the fact that there is no Denver show? Bingo. More disappointed, really, than pissed. Couple it with the fact that I have a dial-up modem and also lack a CD burner and it looks like I'm not even going to get to *hear* any shows (I really hate to grovel and my analog trade list is virtually obsolete these days.) RH despises the altitude problems here, I guess. Denver is so isolated from other cities that traveling isn't an option for me. Fuck. /hal, who really was looking forward to this tour PS - OK, I'll grovel. Anybody willing to burn me shows as they are made available will get triple blank CD-R's in return. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:10:37 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: O Brother Where's my state? (GW to Jeb) I wanted to respond to the ecstato-view by K on OBWAT? I saw it last weekend in the only theatre it's playing in here in DC, and loved each scene in the movie, though not necessarily all of it together. Then, thinking back, I realized I felt much the same way about the Odyssey... The Sireens: fantastic (and gorsh didn't Emmylou Harris look sexy?) the Tommy Johnson scenes: good, though when then they show up in blackface he actor?/Character? looked a little embarrassed. babyface Nelson: didn't make a whit of sense, but sure fun (and who is that actor? he looks a bit like Jeme...) the Klan scene: having read about it I was sort of dreading it, but though again making no sense, it was a bit like watching the Wizard of Oz without all its baggage--more like watching "Birth of a Nation" with the MST3K crowd, and when the Klan rides to the rescue, everyone bursts out laughing (which is after all the proper response to such backward "supremacists") the blind radio guy from NewsRadio: bad TV-style acting, but the scene paid off in that last line about paying all of them, effectively foreshadowing Ulysses' career. Durning and dunces: great fun. the Reform candidate (and I couldn't help being reminded of Gore here--yes that's unfair, but it's just a personal feeling--sheesh) and "mini-Clean"--jeepers, shades of a story line! Goodman's salesman: as usual, jaunty overacting, then real menace (do I remember any other violence apart from Pete's interrogation? not right now...) no real comparison to the Cyclops story--but a good new myth, and I love to see Bible salesmen get it (except Billy Barty...) downsides: is there any reason Holly Hunter's character had to be so shrewish? just to keep Ulysses "long-suffering"? She was great in Raising Arizona, while this role just didn't work (and why didn't she have more suitors?) Her kids got all the good lines, and my wife Amy's been using the word(s) bona fide ever since. also, I don't know if the Muppet studio worked on it, but that cow on the roof was the worst special effect I've seen in a decade, after many very good ones in the movie. speical notes: at our screening, the projector light went off as the SBBoys were doing their song agin--I kinda wished the sound had gone off there and the picture on. It stayed that way for 4 minutes, and the crowd freaked...then it came back on (amazing me, I thought the bulb had blown) and we saw the end. (with people still calling "Rewind!": obviously never worked a projector) When we left the film, there was a crowd mobbing someone, and we realized Joe Lieberman (still Senator) had seen it with us, and he seemed very nice for the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, though he really does look like a rodeo clown without makeup. Lieberman, by the way, did not join us in the line of people demanding refunds. dave oh yeah, since my subject line was political, lemme just point out that despite the nasty weather, the inaugurauction was a lot of fun--by the time the parade reached our protest area in freedom plaza, they'd given up "parading" till they got within a security cordon, and whipped by going 30 mph. People still hit the limos with fruit and rocks, an entire bleacher gave them the finger, and people held up rude signs (mine said "Bush sucks" in 2 foot high letters, spelled out in Nader stickers amended to say 2004; Amy's simply said "Pigfucker") I dont' think the press coverage really did it justice...and I guess that's how much justice we can depend for the next coupla years until the Dems take back the house. Now, more than ever, let us all join in praying for Strom Thurmond's death... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:47:58 -0500 From: Brian Cully Subject: Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:23:17PM -0600, Aaron wrote: > So I'm hoping to find someone willing to house me (and perhaps a couple of > other Illinoisians) on Friday night in or around Detroit.... Woot. So who in the DC area is heading to see him on the 21st? Actually, I'm kinda bummed I'm missing him in Maxwell's. That place is nice and tiny. Makes for a good show. - -bjc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:42:59 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH Thank you for posted this! I'll be in Detroit and hopefully Chicago! Then Peru baby! Looks like this is going to work out for me. Sorry Hal! That sucks! I'll be sure to record any of the shows I attend, and would be happy to pass the recordings on to you. I wonder if they'll be sound board friendly? I'm staying sober this time! Nuppy >From: Aaron >Reply-To: Aaron >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH >Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:23:17 -0600 > >http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm > >So I'm hoping to find someone willing to house me (and perhaps a couple of >other Illinoisians) on Friday night in or around Detroit.... > > >* > >Aaron >mailto:aaron@hollowstreets.net >http://aaron.hollowstreets.net _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:26:21 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Soft Boys at SXSW sucks >I could barely hear the band because of the group of Beautiful >Hollywood Media Males (you know, the kind of men who wear black nail polish) >who insisted on gabbing on about how quaint Austin was. I definitely know what you mean about BHMM's...on the other hand, I can't recall ever seeing a (non-goth) dude wearing black nail polish. Hrm. Paging Elizabeth Taylor...your spaceship is ready.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:58:59 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: The Viper Returns! On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Aaron wrote: > Aaron > mailto:aaron@hollowstreets.net > http://aaron.hollowstreets.net Man, oh nam! It's Aaron "The Viper" Lowe! Does this mean the Globe of Fegs will finally get put back together? Send me your phone number, Aaron and I'll give you your password. Your login is, of course, viper. Tee hee. Man, we've missed you. Je. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:09:40 -0500 From: "Sean Bartnik" Subject: Re: Soft Boys tour dates up on Museum of RH > Woot. So who in the DC area is heading to see him on the 21st? I'm there! Oh, BTW, new to the list. Hi everybody... Sean Bartnik Alexandria, VA http://www.type2.com/~bartnik When someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:09:47 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: ...people would think that I was just good fun... Eb ponders, >OK, here's a lovably idiotic thread: Who's the fattest man you've ever seen >perform? Perform what? I mean, I *have* been to Amsterdam..... - --Quail PS: If you mean music, then Ben Heppner or John Popper, I didn't have the scales with me.... The fattest woman was Jane Eaglen, who takes up the top three fattest woman spots. - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth: http://www.TheModernWord.com A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships. --J.L. Borges ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:26:32 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: scads of chads and sons and dads ignoring fads >http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm > >So I'm hoping to find someone willing to house me (and perhaps a couple of >other Illinoisians) on Friday night in or around Detroit.... i'm thinking of going to one or both of the new york area shows and would be interested in trading lodging down there for space at my place in boston. hell, we could have a big pajama party! of course, the fact that it's a monday night will minimize that possiblity. >(Hopefully, the set list will be exclusively Soft Boys songs, because I >really don't think I can bear to hear "Queen Elvis" or "Cynthia Mask" >again.) "people get what they deserve" > Millions of music consumers can't be wrong. choking on this one. i'll throw in a corporate-media-music-mogal-industry-consumer-culture-conspiracy reference in case eb's still reading. >Where would Bowie be without Alice? where would mel be without flo? >Thatcher was known as the Iron Lady. > >I think the sledge imagery conjures up the inexorability of Britain's >downhill ride during Maggie's Malign Majesty superbly. well said. any significance to the name brenda? >lemme just point out that despite the nasty weather,the inaugurauction was a lot of fun agreed. i was a bit disappointed that there were so many different things going on at the same time; but in retrospect it seems like there were plenty of protesters all over the city. i spoke with one of those people selling bush memorablilia and he said that roughly half of the people he'd run into were there to oppose the inauguration. the huge demonstration at the steps of the supreme court was very well contained. i did get interviewed by a woman from the chicago tribune and found our group mentioned in an article: >JEERS AT `TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN CHAD' >Article URL: >http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,2669,SAV-0101210456,F F.html > >Meanwhile, a group of Green Party voters from Boston taunted the >well-dressed Republicans walking to the Capitol for the swearing-in. > >"Why were you afraid to count all the votes? Why do you always wear >those ugly fur coats? Shame on you, shame on you," the group chanted >over and over. today in history: January 22nd 1895: "National Association of Manufacturers" was Founded 1905: "Bloody Sunday" Occurred 1939: Uranium Atom was Split 1953: Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Opened on Broadway 1968: "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" Debuted as Regular Series 1973: US Supreme Court Legalized Abortion np: eye ken "who you jivin' with that cosmic debris?" the kenster ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:52:40 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: scads of chads and sons and dads ignoring fads >>(Hopefully, the set list will be exclusively Soft Boys songs, because I >>really don't think I can bear to hear "Queen Elvis" or "Cynthia Mask" >>again.) > >"people get what they deserve" Then I deserve a heaping stack o' Soft Boys tunes, as reward for shelling out for some redundant RH shows just to be "social." ;) >>Where would Bowie be without Alice? > >where would mel be without flo? Where would Nancy McKeon be without Tommy? And where would Randi be, if she hadn't posted to the Feglist in quite awhile? Eb funky-fresh ehhs for 2001: Steve Fisk, Arlo, Amy Ray (though better than you'd expect), Flying Blind, the Black Halos, the New Year, the Living End, Annie Hayden, the Matthew Good Band, Mount Florida, Shipping News, Death by Chocolate, Pan Sonic, Tram ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:34:51 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: O Brother Where's my state? (GW to Jeb) DDerosa5@aol.com >and I guess that's how much justice we can depend for the next coupla >years until the Dems take back the house. Now, more than ever, let us >all join in praying for Strom Thurmond's death... Justice and Republican don't go very well together, do they? Hope for the Senate, where the Republicans have to defend 6 more seats. Redistricting and the move of more House seats to the cracker states makes that more problematic. I don't pray, but I'll keep my fingers crossed. - - Steve __________ Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #19 *******************************