From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #27 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, January 31 2001 Volume 10 : Number 027 Today's Subjects: ----------------- attention, fegs with fast connections.... [Bayard ] whifty? ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: Mr. Sparkle? [Glen Uber ] Flesh Cartoons ["Irish Airman" ] Where are the prawns? [grutness@surf4nix.com] RE: Mr. Sparkle? ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Anybody that still can't see the difference between Bush and Gore? [] Re: Sonic Book/SB Toronto ["mats" ] Re: Anybody that still can't see the difference between Bush and Gore? [steve ] boo! [Jeff Dwarf ] your mob nickname (no RH) [Ben ] email that's not mine ["brian nupp" ] You're going to reap just what you sow ["Yudt.Matthew" ] Re: Sonic Book/SB Toronto [Asshole Motherfucker ] Robyn interview in Listener magazine? [Gene Hopstetter ] Soft Boys in SF [Tom Clark ] Metro/Chicago ["brian nupp" ] Re: Soft Boys in SF [Glen Uber ] _wish you were here_ online [Bayard ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:42:00 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: attention, fegs with fast connections.... Video clips of the Hitchcock tribute gig that took place July 22, 2000 at Rabbit Hole/Mad Hatter Lounge, Portland, Oregon ... are online! http://www.bitmine.net/~bayard/robyn/tribute/video/ Big fat thanks go to Mark Staben for providing these. Thanks are also due to fegs Paul Montagne, Colin Meloy, and Capuchin. more details will be forthcoming in a post, or a .txt file in the directory pasted above. For now, I can say you'll be seeing Paul & Colin and also The Spacecats. These videos will probably have a final resting place on fegmania.org, and/or Glass Hotel if/when it ressurects. =b ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:06:33 -0800 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: whifty? >From: "Irish Airman" > >She--due to whatever reason fits best with your mythology--gave the term >whifty a new meaning. I don't think I know the _old_ meaning! >From: steve >Subject: Anybody that still can't see the difference between Bush and Gore? I must admit that my point of view on that matter has (rightly or wrongly) changed considerably, but I must be too dim to see how this article supports that. >http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2001/01/30/recount_lawyer/index.html >From: Tom Clark >That was also >when he introduced the pseudo-disco version of "Only The Stones Remain". >Blasphemy. Maybe, but it's blasphemy I think I wanna hear! Drew ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:19:23 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Mr. Sparkle? On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Tom Clark wrote: >That was also when he introduced the pseudo-disco version of "Only The >Stones Remain". Blasphemy. I think it was the next tour (1993) when they did some funky-assed version of "Child of the Universe." I haven't liked the song since. It was the one blemish on an otherwise perfect show. Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:53:04 -0500 From: "Irish Airman" Subject: Flesh Cartoons Eb wrote of La-la Liz: >One of the most inexplicable things for me was right at the end, as >the >music finally drowned her out, she sorta lifted her hands, >robotically >waved her head and babbled something like "Y'all, y'all, y'all...." >That >was TOTALLY from outer space. Oh yeah--had forgotten that. Whatever movie she was making--it was -all- her own. Maybe this means she'll be the new Frank Sinatra--going absolutely potty in public cause of an undiminishing need for attention, even well after that attention turns to emment and ridicule. And of Dick Clark he wrote: >yet he's *still* keen on taking these pathetic, >celebrity-parasite interviewer gigs which should be going to >20something >implant-bimbos. I think he likes appearing dopey, or at least gee-wizish. It must make him feel good on some level. Puer aeternus, etc -- wishes he -was- a 20something implant bimbo. Loved Dylan's mustache. Love that he's butt ugly and dosnt give a rat's ass. His madness is so much bigger than mere vanity. Yeah! K If Hitch had won a movie award for Storefront Hitch(yeah right) --what would he have worn? And said? Do you think he would have been polite to Joan Rivers? (K, making her own movie.) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:12:16 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Where are the prawns? > >From: Jeff Dwarf >> it was the first one i saw, so i'm not sure how i'd rank >> it. chiton was awful though. and he did do "grooving on an inner >> plane".... I know it was a typo, but I find it awfu' funny that Robyn might be singing with chiton. I suspect that it was really chitin, and they were duetting on "Trilobite" James PS - hey - who dat dissin' Johnny Cash??? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:37:30 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Mr. Sparkle? Ah, Feb. of 1992, my first Robyn concert at the Royal Oak Theatre in Royal Oak, MI. And Matthew Sweet as well touring "Girlfriend". It didn't get and better as far as I was concerned. I didn't even know Brian at the time and discovered that we were both at the concert when we talked about it at the 11-06-99 Magic Bag concert in Ferndale. I can't wait until the SB's come to Detroit in March!!! Eddie and I can warm up our "shut the fuck up" shouts in case we run into any loudmouths durring the opening act again. It's still a TBA on 3-29-01 for Detroit, any toughts on where the concert will be at? The Royal Oak is back in operation again. Michael NP, "Oswald Defence Lawyer" by The Fall - -----Original Message----- From: brian nupp [mailto:bnupp@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 3:18 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Mr. Sparkle? >From: Tom Clark The reason I say it was the worst RH show I've ever seen is >basically >because that was the tour where Andy accompanied way too many songs on an >electric piano. That lent a real Vegas atmosphere to the proceedings. >Remember Robyn's quote about how "middle aged men should not be touring >around in a rock band"? Well, this tour exemplified why. That was also >when he introduced the pseudo-disco version of "Only The Stones Remain". >Blasphemy. > Really? I loved this about the Perspex Island tour. I was totally blown away by the crooning vegas stuff. My wife and my dead wife was absolutely hilarious and emotional at the same time. I could easily listen to a whole album of live stuff like that. And the pseude-disco version of stones I loved too. That one really caught me by surprise. So full of energy. Just my opinion. According to Eddie this was also the 1st time the Yip Song was ever performed. God, I can't believe that was 9 years ago... Brian Nupp >Of course, if those middle aged men constitute The Soft Boys... > >-tc _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:53:41 -0800 (PST) From: "J. Brown" Subject: Re: Anybody that still can't see the difference between Bush and Gore? On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Tom Clark wrote: > on 1/30/01 7:06 AM, steve at schiavo@home.com wrote: > > > http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2001/01/30/recount_lawyer/index.html > > > > > > So are you implying that if Gore had won, there's no chance he would have > appointed HIS lawyer to that post? I think Gore definately would have offered Boies that post but i think is less certain that Boies would have accepted it. Jason Wilson Brown - University of Washington - Seattle, WA "I don't speak fascist." -Grant Morrison ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:29:16 -0800 From: "mats" Subject: Re: Sonic Book/SB Toronto any rumblings of a pre-show drink in Toronto? - ----- Original Message ----- From: brian nupp To: Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:39 PM Subject: Sonic Book/SB Toronto > Also, I dunno why my forward didn't foward, but David Greenberger sent me an > email and said the Soft Boys will be at the "Horse Shoe" in Toronto. All > other dates are still TBA. > > Mr. Nuppy > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:39:38 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: Anybody that still can't see the difference between Bush and Gore? >>>on 1/30/01 7:06 AM, steve at schiavo@home.com wrote: >>>http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2001/01/30/recount_lawyer/ >>>index.html On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Tom Clark wrote: >>So are you implying that if Gore had won, there's no chance he would have >>appointed HIS lawyer to that post? J. Brown: >I think Gore definately would have offered Boies that post but i think is >less certain that Boies would have accepted it. The point is that this is administration is going to be more dangerous than the Reagan administration ever was. It will be just as (if not more) right wing, but they're going to try to give it a public face of bland moderation. And despite all the blather about bipartisanship, what they're really about is enacting just as much of their agenda as they can, despite the fact that their frontman came in second in the popular vote. Take a look back at the 1950s and see if you like it. That's what Bush's core supporters consider America's Golden Age, and they want their cultural hegemony back. - - Steve __________ If they know our secrets, why can't we know theirs? - Dana Scully ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:10:15 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Mr. Sparkle? Tom Clark wrote: > The reason I say it was the worst RH show I've ever seen is basically > because that was the tour where Andy accompanied way too many songs > on an electric piano. That lent a real Vegas atmosphere to the > proceedings. Remember Robyn's quote about how "middle aged men should > not be touring around in a rock band"? Well, this tour exemplified > why. That was also when he introduced the pseudo-disco version > of "Only The Stones Remain". Blasphemy. didn't robyn at one point make a joke about andy playing Paul Shaffer for the evening he was spending so much time over there? ===== "With [Amnesiac] we are definitely having singles, videos, glossy magazine celebrity photo shoots, children's television appearances, film premiere appearances, dance routines, and many interesting interviews about my tortured existence." -- Thom Yorke __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:36:12 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: boo! http://www.theonion.com/onion3703/marilyn_mason.html ===== "With [Amnesiac] we are definitely having singles, videos, glossy magazine celebrity photo shoots, children's television appearances, film premiere appearances, dance routines, and many interesting interviews about my tortured existence." -- Thom Yorke __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 06:52:20 -0500 From: Ben Subject: your mob nickname (no RH) Hot on the heels of the Wu-Tang nickname generator: http://www.dvd.com/stories/play/sopranos/default.asp This message brought to you by "The Coin Operator"... (I'll break yer knees wit a bag of quarters, ya rat bastad!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:41:14 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: email that's not mine Fegs, I checked my hotmail this morning and found 4 messages from the postmaster saying that 4 bulk mails I sent were undeliverable. The only problem was I never sent them! They were bulk mails about reducing your taxes or something. I have no idea how this happened. Maybe someone figured out my password or something. I have changed my password and I hope everything will be ok. So, I'm sorry if anybody received any of these mails. I didn't send them! Also could you please let me know if you received any of these messages? That would be great. Sorry again Brian Nupp _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:04:38 -0500 From: "Yudt.Matthew" Subject: You're going to reap just what you sow Topic for a silly thread: I am wondering what you think is the best or coolest song you ever heard used in a commercial? I heard Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' in a Superbowl commercial Sunday afternoon. Also, Spiritualized 'Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space' was/is used in add for Volkswagon (pretty cool commercial IMO - as they go). Those are my votes. Matt 'Listened to Transformer at Halftime' Yudt ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:16:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Where are the prawns? On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > I know it was a typo, but I find it awfu' funny that Robyn might be singing > with chiton. I suspect that it was really chitin, and they were duetting on > "Trilobite" Well, the way I heard it, people were beginning to talk when he kept wearing that peplos all the time, so he thought the chiton might be the new fashion for 429 BC ... > James PS - hey - who dat dissin' Johnny Cash??? Not me, son! - - Sue Godwin PS Just a word in defence of "Disraeli Gears", as it was the first record I bought when I went to college. Great great LP with two (or is it three?) totally unlistenable tracks. I only had 21 of the albums in that VH1 list, and that was one of them. Where was 'Trout Mask', anyway? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:42:22 -0800 From: Asshole Motherfucker Subject: Re: Sonic Book/SB Toronto sure. but where's randi??? probably true. but will it be more right-wing than the clinton administration was, or a gore administration would have been? highly doubtful. and if it *is*, then there's no time like the present to get off our asses and do something about it! (something the liberals could never bring themselves to do while there was a "democrat" in office. ) well, the funniest post-election story i heard was the bit about the outgoing democrats pulling all the shenanigans. removing the "w" key from all the computers, and whatnot. (actually, my favorite - -- on a coupla different levels -- was taking some fluted champagne glasses from air force one. sickening as it is, i can surely believe that they get all loaded up on champagne while jetting hither and thither. but, they take an *inventory* of champagne glasses? the bush people *noticed*, almost before they'd had a chance to spend one night in office, that some were missing? they can spend a billion bucks on a stealth bomber that doesn't even work in the rain, but they're all a-twitter over the though of buying some new champagne glasses?) the bush clan's reaction ("if this was supposed to be a joke, we are *not* amused") is priceless! but maybe the most telling thing i've heard is that *any* senator could have essentially veto-ed (is that how you spell that?) the supreme court's decision, and thrown the plebiscite to the congress, but didn't (even after much pleading from the congressional black caucus). lotsa good coverage over at counterpunch . dunno. maybe I Can See Clearly now with the dogs and the sunflowers. what is that, magnavox? anyhow, this reminds me of something else: i was thinking the other day that the greatest rock and/or roll song of all time has got to be Sympathy For The Devil. anyone care to disagree? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:51:28 -0600 From: Gene Hopstetter Subject: Robyn interview in Listener magazine? I just subscribed to the magazine _Listener_ (a stereo and music review magazine) and I noticed that one of their back issues (Nov/Dec 2000) includes an interview with Robyn. I just ordered a copy of that issue, but I'm wondering if anyone has bothered to transcribe the interview yet. _Listener_ always interviews musicians with an ear toward recording, instrumentation, and so on, so it looks to be a pretty good interview if you're a gearhead. Robyn is mentioned a couple times in their most recent issue, and several of their reviewers use the latest XTC recordings to review new components, so that makes it a cool rag in my book. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:00:35 -0800 From: Asshole Motherfucker Subject: Re: Sonic Book/SB Toronto >Yes, and actually tickets are already on sale for the Toronto show. yup, here's ticketmaster's writeup: ALL ORIGINAL MEMBERS UK NU WAVE PUNK WITH ROBYN HITCHCOCK & KIMBERLEY REW (KATRINA & THE WAVES) NU CD ON MATADOR. billed as "The Soft Boys w/Robyn Hitchcock". so there's no box-office will call. you have to pick up tix at "Canadian Ticket Centre". toronto fegs know about this? is it a terribly difficult option? anybody wanna pick up tickets for out-of-towners? rosso, will you be there? so many questions... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:42:12 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Soft Boys in SF No info on the Fillmore or Great American Music Hall calendars. Bela Fleck is at The Warfield that night, so that venue is out. I'm gonna guess GAMH. Anyone have ticket info for Vancouver, Seattle, and/or Portland? - -tc, getting edgy... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:23:45 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Metro/Chicago Anyone know how to contact the Metro in Chicago? Tickets aren't on sale at ticket master yet and I'd prefer not to use them anyway. Brian Nupp _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:26:09 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Soft Boys in SF On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Tom Clark wrote: >No info on the Fillmore or Great American Music Hall calendars. Bela Fleck >is at The Warfield that night, so that venue is out. I'm gonna guess GAMH. I would think that GAMH is a bit too small for a show of this magnitude. I was thinking that it might be at the Fillmore. How big is Maritime Hall? Cheers! - -g- )+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+( ) Glen Uber ) uberg (at) sonic dot net ) Santa Rosa, California )+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+( ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:48:41 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: _wish you were here_ online produced and directed by storm thorgerson, no less. http://www.shockwave.com/bin/shockwave/entry.jsp?content=wywh ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #27 *******************************