From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #44 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, February 16 2001 Volume 10 : Number 044 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: JWH opens for Soft Boys [Eb ] Re: Software Wennie Question... [Glen Uber ] tunnel into summer review [recount chocula ] all the girls love alice [hbrandt ] Re: Bang you upside the head with a buttered skillet [Michael R Godwin ] Headphones: The Final Conflict [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:43:08 -0700 From: Eb 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. Official YFF tour dates: March 1: Los Angeles (with the Minus 5) March 2: San Diego (with the Minus 5) March 3: San Francisco (with the Minus 5) March 19: Baltimore (with the Soft Boys) March 23: Hoboken (with the Soft Boys) March 24: New York (with the Soft Boys) March 26: Boston (with the Soft Boys) I expect to be at the March 1st date.... Eb, quoting directly from a Mammoth press release np: Tricky/Mission Accomplished EP ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:44:25 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Uber 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. Give Sun's StarOffice suite a shot. I've used it on Linux and it's more than adequate. It's very Word-like and has Microsoft file compatibility that allows you to open, edit, and save in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats, including Office 2000. Best of all, it's a free download. If you prefer -- or if you have a slow connection -- you can order a CD for $19.95. More info: http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.html Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 08:53:59 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: tunnel into summer review ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 08:12:43 -0700 From: hbrandt Subject: all the girls love alice Without meaning to resurrect a moribund thread, I just saw the following quotation in my local paper's review of the Rhino reissues of Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Babies (Deluxe Edition)" and "The Best of Alice Cooper": "I think Alice Cooper is an overlooked songwriter." - --Bob Dylan (Rolling Stone magazine; 1978) /hal ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:37:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Bang you upside the head with a buttered skillet On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Irish Airman wrote: > Hmmmm...P F Sloan? Drawing a blank--but if youre talking a purveyor of > melodious sugar pop, please fill me in. Lots of P F Sloan info at http://www2.gol.com/users/davidr/sloan/covers.html Apart from writing 'Eve of Destruction' he also penned 'She's a Must to Avoid', 'Sins of the Family (fall on the daughter)' '(If you want me, you'll) take me for what I'm worth' and stacks of songs covered by the Grass Roots, Jan and Dean, the Fantastic Baggys etc etc. And a song called 'Secret Agent Man', which I don't know at all, was covered by masses of acts including Johnny Rivers, The Ventures, Bruce Willis(!) and Devo(!!!). > Also--I think the Stones covered Mona as well as the Troggs. Yes of course - I remember. But the Troggs version is _sensational_. I always feel with the Troggs that they were essentially a 1-chord group who by dint of much effort and constant practice had increased their repertoire to 3 chords. 'Mona' is on 'Trogglodynamite', one of the first LPs I ever bought ... - - Mike "All downhill since 1966" Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:33:06 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: Re: elixirs & remedies hey kris, >> i could run an informal poll on fegmaniax (the robyn mailing list) if >> you're interested in some back-of-the-envelope market research. > >if you feel like it, go ahead. well, 27 people responded to this highly unscientific poll and a dvd release was preferred 23-4. i got the impression that the dvd crowd would buy a vhs version if that was all there was, but their preference is clearly dvd. some interesting comments from people's responses: I'd pay upwards of $30 for a DVD version. Considering it was shot and edited on digital equipment, it would be a shame to downgrade it to the analog world. I don't have a DVD yet. But's that's what I would buy! Well, I don't have DVD player yet, but if there were more Robyn DVD's maybe I'd buy one! i would absolutely prefer a dvd over vhs; if for no other reason than the quality and life of dvd's is significantly better than that of vhs tapes. i make a point of not buying vhs anymore if i can help it, and would rather purchase this (since i do intend to purchase it) on dvd if it were available. I'd pay upwards of $30 for a DVD version, myself. First day it hit the street, even. dunno if any of this will make a difference, but i thought you'd be interested in hearing what people are thinking. >i won't be around for two weeks, i'm heading >down to Los Angeles to screen a short film I produced that just won the >audience award at the Slamdance film festival, so if you don't hear from me >again, that's why. hope you had a good time! woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:46:30 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Headphones: The Final Conflict Well, yesterday I drove out of my way to another Fry's outlet and did manage to find the discontinued Sony MDR-V6 headphones (four pairs, in fact). *Weird* decor at that place, by the way -- it basically has a "warehouse" floorplan, but the interior has all this extra stonework which makes the place look like "Roman ruins." Huge, faux-deteriorated columns and arches everywhere, and all the signs look like engraved parchment. Totally unexpected, and nothing like the other outlet which I've visited several times. Wow! Anyway, I got the headphones home and compared them with the MDR-V600s I got at Best Buy. No comparison. The V6s sound *much* brighter and better. I feel like I'm wasting a deal by returning those half-price V600s, but that is what's gonna happen. The V6s cost $30 more, but the difference in sound is worth it. Eb now bombing: Iraq ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #44 *******************************