From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #31 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, February 4 2001 Volume 10 : Number 031 Today's Subjects: ----------------- good eatin' [Eb ] Re: Metro/Chicago ["brian nupp" ] Re: Metro/Chicago [Dolph Chaney ] Metro SmartBar/Soft Boys in Portland [Viv Lyon ] reap! [Eb ] and as for Robyn...? [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 14:07:49 -0700 From: Eb Subject: good eatin' http://www.click10.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-112320010202-100204.html HYANNIS, Mass., 11:55 a.m. EST February 2, 2001 -- A Cape Cod high school student made a gruesome discovery in her turkey-and-tomato sandwich. She found a small piece of a human thumb. The student spat out the thumb while eating her lunch Wednesday in the cafeteria at Barnstable High School. Officials said that a cafeteria worker severed the top of her thumb in a vegetable slicer the previous day. The school and its food contractor are now trying to determine how the partial appendage wound up in the sandwich. A spokeswoman for the state health department said that while the incident is "very upsetting", there is no public health risk. Students are shaken, however. One boy said that lunch is the most valuable time of day, and "now we have to eat fingers." ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 20:18:52 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Metro/Chicago Aaron was so kind to send me this, but it seems Darrell Woodson/DJV is playing at the Metro, Friday March 30th in Chicago, not the Soft Boys. Isn't there 2 Metros? This one's the Metro Smart bar. Any one know how to contact the other one? Brian Nuppster >From: Aaron >To: "brian nupp" >Subject: Re: Metro/Chicago >Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:40:35 -0600 > >At 02:23 PM 1/31/2001, you wrote: >>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 > > >http://www.metrochicago.com > >All the contact info you need should be there. > > >* > >Aaron >mailto:aaron@hollowstreets.net >http://aaron.hollowstreets.net > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 20:16:28 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: Metro/Chicago At 08:18 PM 2/3/01 -0500, brian nupp wrote: Aaron was so kind to send me this, but it seems Darrell Woodson/DJV is playing at the Metro, Friday March 30th in Chicago, not the Soft Boys. Isn't there 2 Metros? This one's the Metro Smart bar. Any one know how to contact the other one? Brian Nuppster The Metro Smartbar, from what I can gather, is something new inside the Metro. The Metro on Clark St. doesn't have The Soft Boys listed on their little sidebar of events, but if you use their "Who's Touring" feature, it brings back these results from www.tourdates.com: Fri 3/30/01 DJ V Darrell Woodson The Soft Boys Here's the info on the Metro: Ticket Sales Metro's Box Office Located in Clubhouse 3728 N. Clark 773-549-0203 Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 12 Noon - 8 pm Fri.- Sat. 12 Noon - 10 pm Sunday 12 Noon - 6 pm Sales are cash only and there is never a service fee! Aside from being the Metro box office they also sell tons of cool stuff. Stop by before or after the show! I guess this is the point at which I offer to go by the Metro and get tickets for everybody, isn't it? So anyone planning to come, just email me privately by February 25th. As it gets closer to crunch'n'munch time we can work out any other details about getting together beforehand and all that. Anticipating much muppet goodness, Dolphio n.p.: The Caufields _Whirligig_ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 10:10:22 -0800 (PST) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Metro SmartBar/Soft Boys in Portland RE: Metro SmartBar Dolph, this is not a new addition within Metro, no! Rather, it is an old stalwart, long-time friend to boozehounds with a deep desire to dance to the same old tired mix of 80's "oldies" and 70's groove-standards week after week after week. Well, at least it was on Wednesdays. I used to go there every motherfucking Wednesday night for about a year and a half when I first moved to Chicago. Drinks were $.75 and the dj, a member of the now-defunct Coctails, though constrained to play the same bilge every Wed., would throw on whatever Elvis Costello albums I brought with me. It was fantastic. The rest of the week, SmartBar hosted various kinds of djs, mostly goth and rave oriented. It's in the basement of Metro, and though I have fond memories of the place, I don't recommend you set foot in there. It's pretty foul. So I was scrolling through the "Thrasher Presents" calendar, when what to my wondering eye should appear but this: Thursday, April 5, 2001: The Soft Boys. Pine Street, All Ages. $17.00 advance purchase from Fastixx. When Syd Barrett gave up music for art, another Cambridge musician emerged to take on his mantle. Hitchcock, Robyn (b. 3 March 1953, London, England) started out as a solo performer and busker before becoming a member of B.B. Blackberry And The Swelterettes, then the Chosen Few, the Worst Fears, and Maureen And The Meatpackers. It was with the last-named that Hitchcock first recorded (in 1976), although the results were not released until much later. His next group, Dennis And The Experts, became the Soft Boys in 1976. The Soft Boys' first recording session was in March 1977, by which point the line-up was Hitchcock (vocals, guitar, bass), Alan Davies (guitar), Andy Metcalfe (bass), and Morris Windsor aka Otis Fagg (drums). The original sessions remain unreleased but the same line-up also recorded a three-track single - known as the Give It To The Soft Boys EP - for the notorious local Cambridge label Raw Records (or rip-off records, to those who knew its owner well). This was released in the autumn of 1977, after which Davies left and Kimberley Rew was installed on guitar, harmonica, and vocals. The Soft Boys, now signed to Radar Records, released the single '(I Wanna Be An) Anglepoise Lamp', but it was not considered representative of their innovative live work. Forming their own Two Crabs label they released Can Of Bees in 1979, after which they replaced Metcalfe with Matthew Seligman (ex-Camera Club). Jim Melton, who had been playing harmonica for a while, also left. Their remaining releases came on the Armageddon label and included Underwater Moonlight, an album which is considered to be one of Hitchcock's finest moments. They broke up early in 1981 and Hitchcock went on to enjoy an erratic solo career, recruiting along the way Metcalfe and Windsor to form the Egyptians. Rew joined Katrina And The Waves and wrote the classic 'Going Down To Liverpool' (later a hit single for the Bangles (The) ), while Seligman joined Local Heroes SW9 and continued to contribute to Hitchcock's solo efforts - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, it ends just like that, no period, no conclusion drawn. Strange. But also strange in its completeness. Has anyone here ever heard of this BB Blackberry and the Swelterettes? Vivien ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 13:36:42 -0700 From: Eb Subject: reap! [I really need to investigate this guy...] Musical Pioneer Iannis Xenakis Dies at Age of 78 PARIS (Reuters) - Romanian-born French composer, architect and mathematician Iannis Xenakis, who invented a new genre of music composed with the aid of computers, died on Sunday aged 78. "France loses one of its most brilliant artists today," French President Jacques Chirac said in a statement of condolence. Xenakis, born in Romania to a wealthy family of Greek origin, moved to Greece in 1932 and subsequently fought with the Greek resistance during World War Two, losing an eye in battle. Expelled by Greece in 1947 because of his political beliefs, Xenakis moved to Paris where he closely collaborated with modernist architect Le Corbusier for the next 12 years. Parallel to this, he began studying composition at the Paris Conservatory under illustrious composers including Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud. Xenakis developed a new composing technique using computers and based on the mathematical probability of the recurrence of notes and rhymes. This yielded some of his breakthrough works, Metastasis in 1955 and Achorripsis in 1958. "By breaking free from the constraints of the classical norm, by taking the path of random music and by using the inputs of science, he contributed to the definition of a new area of freedom for musical art," Chirac said. Xenakis became a naturalized French citizen in 1965 and the following year set up the School of Mathematical and Automatic Music. He leaves behind a wife and a daughter. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 14:18:59 -0700 From: Eb Subject: and as for Robyn...? For those who care: Today's LA Times reports that Grant Lee Phillips has signed with Zoe/Rounder (the same label Juliana Hatfield is on). Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #31 *******************************