From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #32 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, February 5 2001 Volume 10 : Number 032 Today's Subjects: ----------------- If you have cable... [Bayard ] Re: Metro SmartBar/Soft Boys in Portland ["Russ Reynolds" ] Worst... Episode... EVER [Ben ] Re: First good album of 2001 [steve ] Re: Metro SmartBar/Soft Boys in Portland ["brian nupp" ] Re: First good album of 2001 [Eb ] If I Needed Some Eyes [Tom Clark ] Re: If I Needed Some Eyes [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: First good album of 2001 [steve ] Re: First good album of 2001 ["J. Brown" ] Re: XFL ["Motherfucking Asshole" ] Blackberries, Condems and David Mamet ["Irish Airman" ] RE: Worst... Episode AND the Prawn Lies Down ["Thomas, Ferris" ] Re: If I Needed Some Eyes [Capuchin ] Re: If I needed a drink [Viv Lyon ] Re: cosmik debris interview ["brian nupp" ] updated gig list ["brian nupp" ] O Brother soundtrack producer Burnett interview ["Scott McCleary" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:03:49 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: If you have cable... here are two things friends recently forwarded to me. Today (Sunday) and tomorrow, the Biography Channel is showing a biography of Timothy Leary, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and a whole score of other folks from the Psychedelic 1960s. If you have the Biography Channel, Tune In & Turn On !! Bravo Profiles: Penn & Teller will air again on February 25 at 6AM, 1PM and 7PM Eastern Time. Subtract 3 hours for Pacific Time. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 15:15:02 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: Metro SmartBar/Soft Boys in Portland > Rew joined Katrina And The > Waves and wrote the classic 'Going Down To Liverpool' (later a hit single > for the Bangles (The) ), Um...didn't kimberley also write some other song while with the Waves? Something about sunshine and walking? - -rUss PS, anyone watching this XFL bullshit? So far it's not nearly the spectacle I think we all expected. The only thing that separates this game from a poorly played college all star game is the smack-talkin' announcers. Where are the folding chair attacks? Where are the cheerleader lap dances? They're ruining the sacred grass at Pac Bell Park for nothin'. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 17:29:22 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Metro SmartBar/Soft Boys in Portland >PS, anyone watching this XFL bullshit? So far it's not nearly the spectacle >I think we all expected. The only thing that separates this game from a >poorly played college all star game is the smack-talkin' announcers. Where >are the folding chair attacks? Where are the cheerleader lap dances? >They're ruining the sacred grass at Pac Bell Park for nothin'. Actually, I'm really intrigued how they've tinkered with the established format for televising a football game. They're working very hard to develop a "You are there on the sideline" ambience, and that's something which is notably missing from the NFL games. I have a feeling the NFL may steal back a few of the XFL's innovations -- just like a few years ago, when Fox won NFL broadcast rights and added the omnipresent "scoreboard bug" to the picture, and all the other networks quickly copycatted this. Eb np: more weak stuff (still waiting for the first good 2001 album...) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 20:32:11 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Worst... Episode... EVER An episode entirely devoted to Comic Book Guy? Have they been reading this list??? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 20:23:36 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: First good album of 2001 Eb: >np: more weak stuff (still waiting for the first good 2001 album...) Jon Brion - Meaningless. - - Steve __________ Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 21:28:36 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Metro SmartBar/Soft Boys in Portland >From: Viv Lyon Thursday, April 5, 2001: The Soft Boys. Pine Street, All >Ages. $17.00 >advance purchase from Fastixx. > > Forgive my confusion but, is this referring to the Portland show, or did the Chicago date change? Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:56:41 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: XFL on 2/4/01 4:29 PM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: >> PS, anyone watching this XFL bullshit? So far it's not nearly the spectacle >> I think we all expected. The only thing that separates this game from a >> poorly played college all star game is the smack-talkin' announcers. Where >> are the folding chair attacks? Where are the cheerleader lap dances? >> They're ruining the sacred grass at Pac Bell Park for nothin'. > > Actually, I'm really intrigued how they've tinkered with the established > format for televising a football game. They're working very hard to develop > a "You are there on the sideline" ambience, and that's something which is > notably missing from the NFL games. I have a feeling the NFL may steal back > a few of the XFL's innovations -- just like a few years ago, when Fox won > NFL broadcast rights and added the omnipresent "scoreboard bug" to the > picture, and all the other networks quickly copycatted this. At least fan outrage was able to get rid of that stupid "glow puck" from NHL games. I doubt anybody else on this list watched the NHL All-Star game today, but ABC buried a camera in the center ice face-off circle so they could look up at the puck being dropped at the start of each period. All in all they garnered about four seconds of video from that exercise. You know, whichever sport I'm watching, just show me the fucking game. I don't need to see robots fighting each other every time someone scores, or countless shots of the star's wife up in the luxury suite. I can't wait for the day I can choose my own shots of the game using my remote. I'm sure the networks will find some way to fuck that up, too. - -tc n.d. - Income taxes. This year it's going to hurt. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 19:01:27 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: First good album of 2001 >Eb: >>np: more weak stuff (still waiting for the first good 2001 album...) > >Jon Brion - Meaningless. Fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an Audities man. ;) (So far, the best 2001 release I've heard is the new Low album, and I'm iffy even on that one.) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 20:02:29 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: If I Needed Some Eyes I just noticed that the guitar riff in The Beatles' "If I Needed Someone" is similar to "Queen of Eyes". Getting closer to self-actualization, - -tc n.d. - A very tasty White Russian, made with Cafi Britt instead of that Kahlua shit. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 23:14:53 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: If I Needed Some Eyes Tom Clark wrote: > I just noticed that the guitar riff in The Beatles' "If I Needed > Someone" is similar to "Queen of Eyes". well, both are blatant homages to the byrds (first era), so that's not all that surprising. and both are great songs, which is why they are homages rather than rip-offs. ===== "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: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 01:20:57 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: First good album of 2001 Eb: >>>np: more weak stuff (still waiting for the first good 2001 album...) Me: >>Jon Brion - Meaningless. Eb: >Fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an Audities man. ;) Just somebody that likes a well crafted pop song, and digs his production on the first two Aimee Mann albums. Oh, and there's a piano and weird noises version of CT's "Voices." - - Steve __________ If they know our secrets, why can't we know theirs? - Dana Scully ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:11:34 -0800 (PST) From: "J. Brown" Subject: Re: First good album of 2001 On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, steve wrote: > Eb: > >np: more weak stuff (still waiting for the first good 2001 album...) > > Jon Brion - Meaningless. Frank Black and the Catholics - Dog in the Sand Jason Wilson Brown - University of Washington - Seattle, WA "I don't speak fascist." -Grant Morrison ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:43:25 -0800 From: "Motherfucking Asshole" Subject: Re: XFL > At least fan outrage was able to get rid of that stupid "glow puck" from NHL > games. I doubt anybody else on this list watched the NHL All-Star game > today, but ABC buried a camera in the center ice face-off circle so they > could look up at the puck being dropped at the start of each period. All in > all they garnered about four seconds of video from that exercise. > You know, whichever sport I'm watching, just show me the fucking game. I > don't need to see robots fighting each other every time someone scores, or > countless shots of the star's wife up in the luxury suite. I can't wait for > the day I can choose my own shots of the game using my remote. I'm sure the > networks will find some way to fuck that up, too. agreed. but i think it's the product placement that has made sports (for me) almost completely unwatchable. every player in every sport (collegiate and pro...hell, maybe even all the way down to pee-wee so far as i know) wears a nike "swoosh" on his or her uniform. every single play and graphic (it seems) has its own corporate sponsor. every single channel (it seems, and this holds for all programming, not just sports) has its network's watermark (if that's what they're called) taking up 15% of the screen. the field and stadium are plastered with ads. ads are digitally inserted onto the screen (apparently, the networks are even going to begin placing ads onto that dipshit yellow first-down line that they put on the screen). i still get a kick out of listening to games on the radio, where the trend is not nearly so pronounced. but tee-vee is almost right out. oh yeah, and the NFL and NBA are boring as shit these days. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 09:10:45 -0500 From: "Irish Airman" Subject: Blackberries, Condems and David Mamet Viv wrote: >as anyone here ever heard of this BB >Blackberry and the Swelterettes? Errr, no--but blackberry brings to mind Hitchcock dad's ever-repeated description of the heroine in his novel bout the the condem factory. Friends whose taste Im not sure about have recommeded State and Main. So I figured Id ask some other people whose taste Im not sure about. Anyone seen it? Is it any good? Is it Vermonty(shameful fetish #18:Vermont.) K, who overloaded her D drive this weekend trying to load all of Parsifal from Napster. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:06:43 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: cosmik debris interview don't recall seeing this interview posted before...taken from the september 1999 issue of cosmik debris magazine. the interview would have taken place on august 6th, 1999 before the mabd show that night at the will rogers theater in oklahoma city. note robyn's comments on the cone museum. ________________________________________________________________________ Talking Tunes and Doing Lunch with Robyn Hitchcock Interview by John Sekerka "Pop music is about giving people an instant buzz - like fast food, and then there's nothing left. It's designed to be disposable. My stuff has never really been pop music." - Robyn Hitchcock On tour with The Flaming Lips, Sebadoh, Sonic Boom and IQU, elder psychedelic pop meister Robyn Hitchcock took time out to chat about his new record, Jewels For Sophia, whilst inhaling an eleven o'clock breakfast in Oklahoma City. Cosmik: How's Oklahoma City? Robyn: Slightly stifling kind of sky, hot but not unbearable. Cosmik: How's your Oklahoma City breakfast? Robyn: Oh it's a cheese and egg sub with amazing amounts of pepper. I shall inhale it during the rest of the conversation - you won't even notice. Cosmik: I'm listening to the great lead off track from the new album. Robyn: Oh you've heard it? You are familiar with it? Cosmik: Oh yes. Robyn: Right, that's good. Cosmik: Thanks for putting the single "Mexican God" right at the start so I don't have to search it out. Robyn: Wow, you think that's a single? Wow. Cosmik: I know the record company might push for something else, but I think it's the one. Robyn: I don't think the record company will push for anything. We thought it was going to be the best way of doing it. There was a large volume of songs and my friends and associates listened to it, and we tried all sorts of different combinations. Even right down to when the thing was mastered, we had different songs on there. There was an A record and a B record, and at the last minute I swapped three things around. But "Mexican God" had been lying around - that wasn't even finished, we thought. That wasn't even a contender for the record until I heard it and thought "God this is fantastic," if I say so myself, so I'm glad you like it. Cosmik: It has a great hook, and wonderfully surreal lyrics, hearkening back to your early solo albums. In fact, most of the album has a bit more jump to it than your last few records. Robyn: It's a bit less sombre than the last ten records I've made. Probably since, oh, Globe of Frogs, in different ways they've all been kind of subdued in their own way. I think this one sounds a bit more perky. Cosmik: You mentioned the A and B record, are you going to release an out-take record as for Moss Elixir? Robyn: Hmmm (swallowing), it's coming out in November, but it's only being released through the museum of me: Robyn Hitchcock.com, or if I'm on the road. You won't be able to buy it in stores. Warner is actually letting me put it out myself cuz it's cheaper for them and it makes more money for me. Cosmik: Will it be a vinyl release? Robyn: No I think we're releasing it as a CD cuz it's expensive to do vinyl. Except in Britain. Maybe I'll do a limited run in Britain. CDs are also more packagable, though I much prefer vinyl, it's a much more beautiful item to own. Cosmik: So how are the final songs selected? Robyn: There are some that absolutely have to be on the record. The others just swirl about. A song like "Elizabeth Jade" was on and off and back on again. In the end it's the sequence that holds your attention time after time, and what flows well. Sometimes a song that isn't so great will fit in better than something that is. Cosmik: In hindsight was the choice of A and B records for Moss Elixir the correct one? Some folks prefer the out-takes version. Robyn: I think the hard-core fans are always gonna like the out-takes record cuz it's the out-takes. Maybe we should have had "The Trilobites Song" on Moss Elixir cuz it was fun, but then I thought people might get bored with it. Songs that people react to immediately, especially if they're funny, may wear thin after five or six listens. I try to put stuff on that will yield up it's juices as slowly as possible. Pop music is about giving people an instant buzz - like fast food, and then there's nothing left. It's designed to be disposable. My stuff has never really been pop music. You can get great pop music that isn't disposable but I've never really had that knack. I do think my stuff lasts - I try and put on stuff that'll endure the most. Cosmik: When playing live and you dig back for songs that are, geez, maybe twenty-five years old... Robyn: I don't think any of them are quite that old. Cosmik: How far back do you go? Robyn: Twenty years, back to "Underwater Moonlight" by The Soft Boys. Cosmik: Are there songs that you'll always play? Robyn: No I don't play anything every night cuz you really do get sick of it. I might leave a song for a couple of years all together. You drain the nutrients away if you hammer on with the same song over and over. There are some songs that I don't think I'll ever play again, then there are some songs that are lying there and someone else will (burping), excuse me, suggest it. Cosmik: You've written quite a few songs, do you think there are some you've forgotten? Robyn: I think I remember all of them pretty much, but if I haven't sung something for ten years then I might have trouble with it. I know what they all are, it's not like I don't know the names of all my children. Cosmik: Sometimes a record has been in the works for a long time. Is it still fresh to you? Robyn: Yeah. Certainly the sequence is. I've only heard the sequence once before we mastered it. After I mastered it. After they mastered it, whoever they were, before it was mastered. Cosmik: How do you master, anyway? Robyn: There's a man in Los Angeles in a darkened room with these flickering green screens that light up the ceiling that look a bit like brain scans. There's two men actually, Bill and Dan. Bill grows tomatoes and Dan likes to play golf, and they sit there twisting these dials as the music comes out of various sized speakers - it's probably the best the record will ever sound. You're hearing it back loud, but not painfully loud. They just try and get the best quality sound out of the tape that you've given them. Cosmik: What was it like having (former Soft Boy not to mention Katrina and the Waves) Kimberly Rew playing in the studio again after all these years? Robyn: Oh it was nice, yeah. I don't think neither of us were using amplifiers anymore. He's still louder than me even if neither one of us has an amplifier. It's great. Cosmik: You've said that his playing was ear-splitting, so I'm wondering if your hearing has degraded... Robyn: (laughing) No, The Soft Boys was definitely ear-splitting - it was a guitar battle. We're not chained to each other anymore. We're not doomed to wander the earth together in a van. We just meet up occasionally. It's twenty years later, and the machinery's got smaller and we've both obviously gotten softer. Cosmik: I think fans of the Soft Boys era are going to be pleased with "NASA Clapping". Robyn: I hope so. Funnily enough, the first guitar break is me, though it sounds like Kimberly. There's another bit on "Jewels For Sophia", Peter Buck is trying to play what he thought I would have played, and on one of the out-takes Grant Lee Phillips does a vocal - an imitation of me. It's nice to have everyone trying to mimic each other. Shows how grown up we all are. I'm not sure that that really sounds like The Soft Boys so much... Does it to you, the tracks with Kimberly on? Cosmik: It's got that Soft Boys drive. Robyn: That's great. One thing that everyone was always frustrated with the Soft Boys records, was that no one ever thought that we captured whatever it was live on tape. Kimberly brought that drive to the studio. All the people, Young Fresh Fellows, Peter Buck, their energy isn't diluted by being in the studio, nor is Kimberly's. Cosmik: Speaking of those Seattle folks, on "Viva Sea-Tac," which is kind of a dig at Seattle... Robyn: It's not really a dig at Seattle. They really love it up there. Cosmik: Yeah? Robyn: Well they seems to. They seem to be tickled by it (snickering). It was really good fun, there was a good energy in the studio. We hadn't rehearsed very much. They had just heard the material, but I thought we did well. Cosmik: Why slip in the now standard rock clichi: hidden tracks? Robyn: I wanted the record to go somewhere else before it stopped. Rather than saying, "well, here's 14 songs and that's it - nice job Robyn, see you next time." It's as if the listener has wandered upstairs into the dressing room and I was playing through a couple of tunes just for the hell of it whilst having a drink. Like an after show party, really. That would scour the palette. A record's gotta go somewhere. Does a record amount to some kind of narrative? Some kind of emotional ride? That's the question. Those two songs had after show stamped all over them, so I've put them there, and I've started it all off with one of my answer phone messages. Cosmik: A lot of fans who've heard it live will be pleased to finally have "Gene Hackman" on record. Robyn: Yeah, but they'll have to get through "Jewels For Sophia" to get to it, but they can always tape it. It'll make them concentrate - as the title track they should hear that more. Cosmik: What's it like touring with the Flaming Lips? Robyn: They like to travel a lot. It's very road intense. They think nothing of getting up at eight in the morning and driving sixteen hours till soundcheck. I get restless after three hours in a van, so I've been doing a bit of flying. Cosmik: So you're not a morning person? Robyn: No, no ... it takes me a long time to get to sleep and a long time to wake up. Especially if I've done a show. I'm not going to have a little cup of cocoa and go to bed. Cosmik: Are you playing small enough sized halls that you can converse with the audience? Robyn: Well we're not playing enormo domes. I don't know if I should converse with them, but I can certainly see them. They're horribly close. Cosmik: What do you think of the Robyn Hitchcock presence on the Internet? Robyn: I don't have a computer so I stay out of it. Cosmik: Are you aware of it - sites like Fegmaniax? Robyn: I heard there's a lot of stuff about me so we started an official one to put out official things, but it's a bit like the records, what everybody wants is the out-takes and people are probably more likely to go to the rumour and chat sites. All I'm doing is being Buckingham Palace and telling them what the official word is. But I do generally know what I'm doing before anyone else, so we try and put that up there. Cosmik: My favourite site is one that shows your traffic cone art. Robyn: Oh really, I haven't seen it. Cosmik: It's quite nice, they have rotating pictures of about eight of your pieces. Robyn: Eight? Geez, I did over three-hundred, that's pretty feeble. I'd love to see all the cones. I wonder where they went. We do floating pens now, it has my symbol: the tomato on a black and white striped candle stick. Cosmik: What was the impetus for the cone art? Robyn: I've always liked cones. I like certain shapes and I sort of prophetalize them if that's a word. They look good and they're around, and you start noticing them. Cones are everywhere. Generally, people have ignored them, or spurned them, or knocked them over, or ripped them off and put them on top of a roof when drunk. I thought: let's focus on the cone. It's part of our lives and maybe in fifty years they won't be around anymore. They weren't around when I was a kid. They just crept up. There wasn't anything in the paper saying, "and now: cones." There wasn't a public education campaign: "This is a cone, you will see more of it." They just piled in when nobody was looking. Cosmik: Did you nick the cones? Robyn: (laughing loudly) I didn't nick three-hundred cones. I mean I probably should have done, but they're very cost effective. It just takes time to draw on them. You can sell a cone for fifteen dollars and you can buy them for seventy-two cents. Compared to t-shirts, the profit margin on the cone is enormous. Cosmik: I don't think you should have let the cat outta the bag. We're gonna have a cone glut. Robyn: You still have to do the art yourself. The big surprise was the pleats - these long holes on the sides to stop children suffocating themselves. These were sports cones... Geez, I've gotta go. Cosmik: One last question: why Soft Boys and not Wild Machine (see William S. Burroughs)? Robyn: I think you've answered that one yourself. Cosmik: Wild Machine is a pretty good name. Robyn: Yeah, but it wasn't so creepy. Oddly enough The Soft Boys sounded like a wild machine, but it was a very accurate term of what we were as people and reflected a vision I had of these slightly boneless things that crept around in the dark and had a lot of power. (C) 1999 - John Sekerka ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:43:08 -0500 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: RE: Worst... Episode AND the Prawn Lies Down Some time yesterday Ben shouted: - --- An episode entirely devoted to Comic Book Guy? Have they been reading this list??? - --- I watched that last night and it was probably one of the better episodes I had seen in a while--genuinely funny. As far as the NYC gigs go: Irving Plaza still hasn't got the show listed (nor does SFX.com, their agent) and neither does Maxwell's (who only list shows through the end of this month.) Calls will have to be made... And, yes, I'll be at both. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 08:50:48 -0700 From: hbrandt Subject: Re: Worst... Episode... EVER Ben wrote: > > An episode entirely devoted to Comic Book Guy? Have they been reading > this list??? I guess if you've never grown up reading "funnybooks" and have never set foot in a comic specialty shop and actually interacted with a Real Life "Comic Book Guy", it wouldn't be nearly as funny. I thought it was a good episode (except for the Ned Flanders/Radioactive Ape gag). Certainly not the Worst. Ever. The Comic Book Guy is my *favorite* peripheral character (way funnier than Apu, for instance) and anyone who has ever rolled their eyes at a "Death of..." issue (Death of Captain Marvel, Death of Superman, et.al.) had to crack up at the "Death of Sad Sack" comic. /hal now reading: CEREBUS ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:16:31 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: If I Needed Some Eyes On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Tom Clark wrote: > n.d. - Income taxes. This year it's going to hurt. On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Tom Clark wrote: > n.d. - A very tasty White Russian, made with Cafi Britt instead of > that Kahlua shit. I'm a little confused. Of COURSE it's going to hurt, you're not supposed to DRINK them! Or are you cheating on your wife with a hot little caucasian number from Petersburg? J. n.d. - water... or writing email. I don't know which. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:30:13 -0800 (PST) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: If I needed a drink On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Capuchin wrote: > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Tom Clark wrote: > > n.d. - Income taxes. This year it's going to hurt. > > I'm a little confused. > > Of COURSE it's going to hurt, you're not supposed to DRINK them! > > n.d. - water... or writing email. I don't know which. I was under the impression that the 'd' in n.d. was for "dreading," not "doing." Am I right, Tom? Am I right? What do I win? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:24:51 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: cosmik debris interview >From: recount chocula <> >Cosmik: I think fans of the Soft Boys era are going to be pleased with >"NASA Clapping". > >Robyn: I hope so. Funnily enough, the first guitar break is me, though it >sounds like Kimberly. There's another bit on "Jewels For Sophia", Peter >Buck is trying to play what he thought I would have played, and on one of >the out-takes Grant Lee Phillips does a vocal - an imitation of me. It's >nice to have everyone trying to mimic each other. Now I really want to hear Nasa Clapping. I'll have to check that out later. These are some pretty interesting facts. Brian Nupp _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:32:49 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: updated gig list Looks like they updated the soft boys tour info. I think all of the venues are now listed: www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm Brian Nupp _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:59:18 -0800 From: "Scott McCleary" Subject: O Brother soundtrack producer Burnett interview http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1526 Scott "wishing he had a cool, meat-related nickname" McCleary ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:24:34 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: If I needed a drink on 2/5/01 8:30 AM, Viv Lyon at vivlyon@bitmine.net wrote: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Capuchin wrote: > >> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Tom Clark wrote: >>> n.d. - Income taxes. This year it's going to hurt. >> >> I'm a little confused. >> >> Of COURSE it's going to hurt, you're not supposed to DRINK them! >> >> n.d. - water... or writing email. I don't know which. > > > I was under the impression that the 'd' in n.d. was for "dreading," not > "doing." Am I right, Tom? Am I right? What do I win? The "d" is, of course, context specific. While "dreading" is a valid guess, it was actually "doing" that I meant. Coleen and I finally received our four W-2's (it was a unique year for us, employment-wise), so I was entering them into TurboTax last night. The resulting "Tax Owed" figure forced me to mix up that killer White Russian, which I was "drinking". I'm sure you're all enthralled with my Sunday evening doings... - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #32 *******************************