From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #43 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, February 15 2001 Volume 10 : Number 043 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [comics] 3 more years/Cerebus [hbrandt ] Soft Boys In Blighty ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Re: reap (eh oh!) [Tom Clark ] Re: Soft Boys In Blighty ["brian nupp" ] Re: EbPhones ["Russ Reynolds" ] Pazz & Jop poll results posted [Eb ] Bang you upside the head with a buttered skillet ["Irish Airman" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #42 ["ross taylor" ] Re: RH on Hey Jude [hbrandt ] JWH opens for Soft Boys [Cynthia Peterson ] Software Wennie Question... ["Chris Gillis!" ] Re: Soft Boys in Blighty ["matt sewell" ] Re: Software Wennie Question... [Tom Clark ] Re: JWH opens for Soft Boys [recount chocula ] Re: Software Wennie Question... [GSS ] Re: Software Wennie Question... [Capuchin ] RE: Software Wennie Question... ["Brian Huddell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:26:24 -0700 From: hbrandt Subject: [comics] 3 more years/Cerebus With the recent CEREBUS discussion, I thought some might like to see a preview of what will be the *final* Cerebus storyline beginning this May with issue #266 and running through March 2004 (issue #300, when Cerebus dies alone, unmourned and unloved...) Don't look if you don't want to know: http://previews.diamondcomics.com/products/comics/mar_01/cerebus1_sm.jpg /hal, getting ready to read #263 PS-- Happy Valentine's Day ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:39:31 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: Soft Boys In Blighty Unknown venues have just this minute been sent to me - Full list is now... 18/4 Cambridge - The Junction 19/4 Bristol - Fleece & Firkin (There you go Godders) 20/4 Brighton - Pavilion 22/4 Norwich - Waterfront 23/4 Nottingham - The Basement 24/4 Glasgow - Garage 26/4 London - Electric Ballroom 27/4 Oxford - Zodiac (There you go Matt & Tony) 28/4 is still TBA - Maybe Plymouth/Cardiff/Birmingham at a guess. 29/4 Portsmouth - Wedgewood Rooms I think I'll be doing at least four of these. Hope to see a few of you around the place. jmbc. n.p. Playing With Fire - All known recordings of Elvis at the Louisiana Hayride accompanied by just about bearable narration from Norm Page, one of the Hayride's original announcers. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:41:43 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Soft Boys in Blighty >From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" >Beatles related news - The SBs have recorded Let Me Roll It for a Paul >McCartney tribute album. > >jmbc I wonder when this will be available? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:00:50 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: reap (eh oh!) on 2/13/01 5:08 PM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: > The Teletubbies. "Again!!!" - -t(inkywinky) c ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:10:21 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Soft Boys In Blighty >From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" < >Unknown venues have just this minute been sent to me - Full list is now... > >18/4 Cambridge - The Junction >19/4 Bristol - Fleece & Firkin (There you go Godders) >20/4 Brighton - Pavilion >22/4 Norwich - Waterfront >23/4 Nottingham - The Basement >24/4 Glasgow - Garage >26/4 London - Electric Ballroom >27/4 Oxford - Zodiac (There you go Matt & Tony) > >28/4 is still TBA - Maybe Plymouth/Cardiff/Birmingham at a guess. > >29/4 Portsmouth - Wedgewood Rooms > >I think I'll be doing at least four of these. Hope to see a few of you >around the place. > >jmbc. I hope we get some good recordings from our euro-fegs! ;) Could this be the 1st tour we get it all? Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:28:03 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: EbPhones > I'm really wondering about the V-600, because my local Best Buy right now > has an opened pair for half price ($50)! They won't be there for long -- > should I dash back and grab 'em?? All's I can tell ya is I love 'em. Comfy, sound great and they've got that nifty screw on/off adapter. Treat 'em better than most disc jockeys do and they should last a good long time. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:58:17 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Pazz & Jop poll results posted http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/00/ (Go here for the complete poll results. I think it said that 568 critics participated, or maybe it was 586. Over 1400 albums are listed in all, though I think the list is statistically suspect once you get past 50 or so, since the writers only turned in top *10s* rather than longer lists.) The top 20 rated albums of 2000 (titles skipped out of laziness): 1. OutKast (I'm still haven't made up my mind about this one) 2. PJ Harvey 3. Radiohead (well, at least it wasn't #1) 4. Eminem 5. Shelby Lynne 6. D'Angelo 7. U2 8. Yo La Tengo (whew...*way* overrated) 9. Jill Scott 10. Sleater-Kinney 11. Aimee Mann 12. Travis 13. Steve Earle 14. Ghostface Killah (I don't know a thing about this, except that it's rap...anyone?) 15. Erykah Badu 16. Madonna 17. The Go-Betweens (wow...really surprised to see this so high) 18. Badly Drawn Boy 19. Steely Dan 20. Jurassic 5 (should be higher!) Placings of some other records which mean something to me (and maybe, to you): 27. Grandaddy 32. Billy Bragg & Wilco 34. Elliott Smith 39. Jayhawks (way too high) 41. Bjork 57. Lambchop 58. Mouse on Mars (released overseas in 1999, I believe) 61. Lou Reed 62. Neil Young [Silver & Gold] 64. Patti Smith 69. Eels 73. Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos 79. Supergrass (released overseas in 1999, which is the only reason why I didn't list it myself) 89. Blonde Redhead (nice showing for an inaccessible, indie-label disc!) 99. Nelly Furtado 103. Sonic Youth 105. Elastica (oh please...this should be miles lower) 107. Ween 160. Smashing Pumpkins (oh, how the mighty hath fallen) 195. Jeff Buckley (would've ranked higher if it wasn't an archival release) 197. King Crimson 200. Air 220. XTC (wow, this is a major rejection! I believe AV1 ranked about #35, last year?) 222. Kirsty MacColl (I sure hope this album gets a domestic release) 234. Black Box Recorder 272. The Loud Family 288. Marianne Faithfull (not enough people heard this) 300. Laika (underrated) & Oasis (oh, how the mighty hath fallen#2) 357. Teenage Fanclub (see Kirsty MacColl) 404. Chris Knox (*horrifyingly* underrated) 541. Juliana Hatfield [Beautiful Creature] (way underrated) 560. Einsturzende Neubauten (way underrated) 582. Victoria Williams & Amy Correia () & Great Lakes 781. Pizzicato Five 1438. Dusty Trails (jeez! I'd rather listen to this than a couple of Luscious Jackson albums, myself...) Five quite worthwhile albums which didn't get a single vote: The Third Eye Foundation/Little Lost Soul, the Nevada Bachelors/Hello Jupiter, the Sugarplastic/Resin, Vic Chesnutt & Mr. & Mrs. Keneipp/Merriment and...A Star for Bram. (Of course, you can probably shrug off the Sugarplastic/Hitchcock oversights because of the self-released factor.) E. Bro ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:21:25 -0500 From: "Irish Airman" Subject: Bang you upside the head with a buttered skillet Several aeons ago E Bro(does this mean Brother Eb? I didnt ralize he'd recently entered Holy Orders) asked: >Actually, the more interesting question would be whom Burns would >choose as his *Wynton Marsalis*. Let's see...who's a household name, >articulate, a student of music history and prone to grumble about >rock music moving away from its original roots? Mmm...Eric Clapton? >Springsteen? Jad Fair? Peter Buck? OK, forget the moving away from its roots thing, but otherwise... Godwin opined: >On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Irish Airman wrote: >>A single of Keith's 98.6 >Great one, Cap! And let's have some P F Sloan while we're at it - I >haven't heard "Miss Charlotte" for, er, thirtysomething years ... Hmmmm...P F Sloan? Drawing a blank--but if youre talking a purveyor of melodious sugar pop, please fill me in. Also--I think the Stones covered Mona as well as the Troggs. More proof that Eb must have entered Holy Orders(guess that Claudine thang really got to him): >After meeting Robyn and the Soft Boys, you >must think twice before doing anything wrong. Somehow, that has never been the B.H.C.'s effect on moi;-)--but then Ive never seen him with the Soft Boys. Perhaps then that black statue will indeed say to me "You must change your life." Only after, of course, Kimberly's Angus Young impersonation prepares the ground. (15 repatitions of "Asshole's Motherfuching Hatt" to whoever can spot the pretentious literary illusion in there.) K,oddly opinionless about tech and politic. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:25:48 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: RH on Hey Jude >From: "Matthew Sandonato" >To: >Subject: RH on Hey Jude >Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:55:49 -0500 > >Found this on the Rollingstone.com site in an article >about the Beatles "1" album. > >http://www.rollingstone.com/features/beatles/audio.asp > >Matt ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:46:20 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #42 Robyn Hitchcock, Robyn Hitchcock, riding thru the glen Robyn Hitchcock, Robyn Hitchcock, with his Floating Pen ... >From: overbury@cn.ca >Hmmm. I don't own any Bo Diddley LPs, but I can remember seeing him >play a moribund amusement park in the late '70's He's had his ups & downs. Seems like much of the 80s he was living in a trailer outside Gainsborough Fla. Can't beat him for minimalism--one, count 'em, 1 chords per song. Great mix of ancient & future, as African a beat as you could get on 50s radio, the vocals mostly field-holler, flying-V guitar, lots distortion, played standing in flying-V stance. In some 80s interview he said his talent was "mostly like digging my way outta prison with a tea-spoon." Must be in his 70s by now. >Congrats on de-lurking, Mr. Taylor. I may have been gone long >enough that I've become the Other Ross. I'll take Ross2. Two questions-- I don't suppose there's a way to search the recent list archives? Google & Altavista seem to just index thru 1997. Also, any new word on the Sonic Book _Middle Class Hero_? I might try to review it for Washington Review unless it costs an arm & a leg or is totally disappointing (or unless WR totally dies). I looked on stampalternativa & couldn't find it, but I'm a monolingual American & have no Italian. Ross2 Taylor "And the record man said there ain't nobody buys them And I said, 'But I will'" --"Nashville Cats" Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:11:11 -0700 From: hbrandt Subject: Re: RH on Hey Jude > >Subject: RH on Hey Jude > >Found this on the Rollingstone.com site in an article > >about the Beatles "1" album. > > > >http://www.rollingstone.com/features/beatles/audio.asp Nice clip! I wouldn't agree with RH about "Hey Jude" being the Best of Paulie, but I am in total agreement with him on the subject of the drum fills on Beatles recordings. Go Ringo! /hal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:48:09 -0800 From: Cynthia Peterson Subject: JWH opens for Soft Boys This just in from the John Wesley Harding folks: - ------------------- Greetings to All... The big news for this month is that John Wesley Harding and The Radical Gentlemen are returning to the road. The first dates are co-headlines with Blue Rodeo, some of which JWH will open and some of which he will close. The rest of the dates will be headlines (apart from as noted below). The first confirmed dates with Blue Rodeo are as follows: February Tue 27 Seattle WA, The Showbox Wed 28 Portland OR, Crystal Ballroom March Thu 1 San Francisco CA, Great American Music Hall Fri 2 Los Angeles CA, The Knitting Factory (plays first) Sat 3 Los Angeles CA, The Knitting Factory (plays second) Wed 7 New Orleans LA, Parish Room Thu 8 Atlanta GA, Cotton Club Fri 9 Nashville TN 328 Performance Hall Tue 20 Pittsburgh PA, The Rosebud Thu 22 Philadelphia PA, North Star Bar Additionally, JWH and the band will be supporting The Soft Boys on a few dates: March Thu 29 Detroit MI, St. Andrews Hall Fri 30 Chicago IL, The Metro Sat 31 Minneapolis MN, First Avenue There are more dates to be added to the Live page at www.wesweb.net as soon as they are set. And Wes says feel free to make your email requests for the forthcoming tour at jwh@armory.com. - ------------------------------------------- (For no particular reason, I've always wanted to see Wes and Robyn together on the same stage, but as far as I know, that has yet to happen in the Seattle vicinity. Still, you folks in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis should enjoy yourselves. Don't be late!) Cynthia ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:46:33 -0800 From: "Chris Gillis!" Subject: Software Wennie Question... Howdy-- I am in need of a replacement for MS Word; I am using a PC with Win98. It would be cool if it were free or cheap, easy to install, and basically the same GUI as Word or similar, but without the annoying-as-all-freaking-hell 'features.' I do not need a text editor, but a word processor cabable of printing on my machine like Word does. Specifically, I am having a problem were word puts two page numbers on a page. even more comical, I cannot take the page number off once it is in the document. To add insult to injury, I can add more page numbers in the headers and footers. The grad school that I intend to give this document may not find the same level of irony in this problem as some. Thus, I look for a cure. Suggestions? Kindly, .chris - -- chris@photogenica.net http://photogenica.net - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:44:42 -0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Soft Boys in Blighty Cheers for the news, Joe - much appreciated. As for the Faust box set, I got mine in October and it pretty much hasn't been out of the player... certainly one of my best musical purchases! I had the old bootish CD version of the Faust tapes a while a go - not a patch on the new remastering... Matt >From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" >Reply-To: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" >To: fegmaniax >Subject: Soft Boys in Blighty >Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:16:17 -0500 > >No pre US gigs for SBs except record launch party. > >However British tour opens on April 18th at The Junction Cambridge then >goes to unspecified venues in Bristol, Brighton, Norwich, Nottingham, >Glasgow on 19th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th. > >Then the big one - April 26th Electric Ballroom, Caaamdun Taaahn, Lunnern. >Last gig I went to there was Jesus And Mary Chain with support provided by >rioting audience members. Blimey, that must be fifteen years ago... > >Beatles related news - The SBs have recorded Let Me Roll It for a Paul >McCartney tribute album. > >jmbc > >1.5 hours for Elvis/Sun....hmmmm - So that's the first recordings made by >Rufus Thomas, B.B. King, Howling Wolf and Ike Turner - Then the Memphis >Flash himself, then Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and >Charlie Rich and then a slew of lesser known but influential rockabillies - >Carl Mann, Billy Lee Riley, Sonny Burgess, Warren Smith etc. Sounds like an >18 hour series in itself...Hey, I'd better start looking for a producer! > >n.p. Faust box-set. Weird and wonderful, and the best packaged thing I've >ever seen. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 08:16:39 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Software Wennie Question... WordPerfect has always been a great alternative to Wurd. $20 on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1214415437 - -tc on 2/14/01 8:46 PM, Chris Gillis! at chris@photogenica.net wrote: > Howdy-- > > I am in need of a replacement for MS Word; I am using a PC with Win98. > It would be cool if it were free or cheap, easy to install, and > basically the same GUI as Word or similar, but without the > annoying-as-all-freaking-hell 'features.' I do not need a text editor, > but a word processor cabable of printing on my machine like Word does. > > Specifically, I am having a problem were word puts two page numbers on > a page. even more comical, I cannot take the page number off once it > is in the document. To add insult to injury, I can add more page > numbers in the headers and footers. > > The grad school that I intend to give this document may not find the > same level of irony in this problem as some. Thus, I look for a cure. > > Suggestions? > > Kindly, > .chris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:56:34 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: Re: JWH opens for Soft Boys that reminds me -- the young fresh fellows are opening for the soft boys at maxwell's. dunno if they are opening in new york or not. incidentally, maxwell's already sold out (5 weeks before the show date!). the new york show at irving plaza goes on sale february 28th. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:37:10 -0500 (CDT) From: GSS Subject: Re: Software Wennie Question... Hey Man, I use the new ms write or wordpad (not notepad) for pretty much everything and even notepad if it is just a note. Wordpad does all kinds of stuff like insert many different object types, plus control of fonts, indents, text placement and organization etc... I have yet to find an instance where I needed a document of whatever type, besides an ad hoc data/chart presentation type, that wordpad has not been capable of creating. On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Chris Gillis! wrote: > I am in need of a replacement for MS Word; I am using a PC with Win98. Greg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:12:31 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Software Wennie Question... On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Chris Gillis! wrote: > I am in need of a replacement for MS Word; I am using a PC with Win98. > It would be cool if it were free or cheap, easy to install, and > basically the same GUI as Word or similar, but without the > annoying-as-all-freaking-hell 'features.' I do not need a text editor, > but a word processor cabable of printing on my machine like Word does. > > Specifically, I am having a problem were word puts two page numbers on > a page. even more comical, I cannot take the page number off once it > is in the document. To add insult to injury, I can add more page > numbers in the headers and footers. > > The grad school that I intend to give this document may not find the > same level of irony in this problem as some. Thus, I look for a cure. > > Suggestions? I suggest you re-evaluate your need for a GUI. At some level in writing, you need more control than the buttons someone chose to give you... and wysiwyg is anything but. There's a nice gui for a LaTeX engine called LyX The screenshots on the site are quite old, so don't trust them. Note that the shots are from a very early development release and they're well into stable releases now. LyX is a powerful document processor with both a somewhat wysiwyg display as well as the ability to modify the LaTeX output directly in a wysiwym (What You See Is What You Mean) fashion. It's Free, it's powerful, and it's flexible. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:28:54 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Software Wennie Question... Capuchin: > I suggest you re-evaluate your need for a GUI. At some level in writing, > you need more control than the buttons someone chose to give you... and > wysiwyg is anything but. There are plenty of grounds for criticizing Wintel GUI apps but these ain't them. Any current GUI word processor will let you customize toolbars to include all of the (and only the) commands to which you want point-and-clicky access. Toolbars can also be removed entirely, if you prefer memorizing arcane key-combos to clicking on tiny mnemonic pictures on your screen. And it's true that WYS is often not exactly WYG, but depending upon the app it can come pretty close. Print previews and WYSIWYG editors are a nice way to save paper wasted on test printouts. Most of the web developers I know are text-editor chauvinists, but even they preview their work in a browser before they publish. Chris Gillis' installation of Word is misbehaving, broken, fucked up. That happens all the time, in Word, Word Perfect, Ami Pro, etc... and THAT is the best reason I can think of to reject Wintel GUI. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #43 *******************************