From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #72 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 12 2001 Volume 10 : Number 072 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Bunch o' stuff [Tom Clark ] EW UM Grade [steve ] Back to the 60's with Apple Computer [steve ] Re: middle class hero extinct ["Russ Reynolds" ] Max [Christopher Gross ] mac yak ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: mac yak [recount chocula ] pouring catchup on the alkyhol, dvd-tv technical, teevee is crap, Soft Boys west coast threads [Mark Gloster <] New Brian Wilson boot? ["Brian Huddell" ] [Ebmaniax] Hersh @ Borders [Eb ] kiwifest! [recount chocula ] empathy/sonic book ["ross taylor" ] Re: pouring catchup on the alkyhol, dvd-tv technical, teevee is crap, Soft Boys west coast threads [] Re: mac yak [steve ] Re: [Ebmaniax] Hersh @ Borders [Jeff Dwarf ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:52:29 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Bunch o' stuff on 3/10/01 10:07 PM, Bayard at walden@eclipse.net wrote: > And in other news... does anyone actually like the new iMac patterns? To > me they look gawd-awful.... what say you, Devout Ones? They look a lot cooler in person. I'm glad they finally got a clue and added CD-RW drives as a standard feature. Along with iTunes (a.k.a Sound Jam in Aqua), you've now got a nice all in one ripping and burning station. on 3/9/01 8:38 PM, steve at schiavo@home.com wrote: > While we're on the subject of TV, can anybody advise me as to the > relative merits of Direct TV and Dish Network? The goal is to be able to > tune two stations at the same time and get local channels. I've got the new DirecTV/TiVO box which comes with two tuners, but TiVO hasn't updated the software to take advantage of both yet. I think the new WebTV "Ultimate TV" product does the same. I like the DirecTV service better than Dish mainly because of the better sports packages. Both systems offer local channels, but only the network affiliates. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:35:03 -0600 From: steve Subject: EW UM Grade The Underwater Moonlight reissue gets an A in the new Entertainment Weekly. - - Steve __________ Well, Jesus ain't no astronaut And Buddah, he's no fool Cathedral bells don't ring in hell 'cos cats down there don't think that's cool. - Bill Nelson ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:34:56 -0600 From: steve Subject: Back to the 60's with Apple Computer Bayard: >And in other news... does anyone actually like the new iMac patterns? To >me they look gawd-awful.... what say you, Devout Ones? They're not so bad, you need to see them in the plastic before you make up your mind. I wonder which one George Clinton uses? - - Steve __________ If they know our secrets, why can't we know theirs? - Dana Scully ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 06:59:17 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: middle class hero extinct > Argh! robynhitchcock.com is already out of that book. I'm hoping they'll held have some at the merchandise tables on the tour. How can they not?? - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:23:41 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Max On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Bayard wrote: > And in other news... does anyone actually like the new iMac patterns? To > me they look gawd-awful.... what say you, Devout Ones? I don't care for them too much, though I've never seen them in person. However, each model is still availabe in graphite or indigo, both of which I like, so that's okay. On the other hand, I thought indigo/ruby/sage (if not snow) were a big improvement on the five fruit colors, so I'm kind of sad that ruby and sage are gone now. I hear the Key Lime iBook glows under black light! Now that's a feature I'd like to see in more computers. Hey, this month is the tenth anniversary of the last time I bought a non-pre-owned computer! (It was a Mac LC 2/40 with 12" monitor.) - --Tightwad Mac-lover Chris np: blissful silence, since you can't hear my stupid neighbors' vacuum cleaner from here, unlike in my bedroom where I was *trying* to get a little sleep.... ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:55:43 -0800 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: mac yak >From: Bayard > >And in other news... does anyone actually like the new iMac patterns? To >me they look gawd-awful.... what say you, Devout Ones? Blech. Drew, who picked up Mod Lang's last copy of the new Kristin Hersh album yesterday, along with Turin Brakes, David J's Urban Urbane ($4), disc 1 of Peter Gabriel Plays Live ($6), Love & Rockets' Express and eponymous, the new Hooverphonic, Roxy Music's Country Life, and -- it must be admitted -- the "Millenium" Tears for Fears compilation - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen.com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 15:34:16 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: Re: mac yak when we last left our heroes, Andrew D. Simchik exclaimed: >Roxy Music's Country Life, and -- it must be admitted -- the >"Millenium" Tears for Fears compilation that reminds me. last month, i saw a short solo set by gail ann dorsey during which she played a song she penned with roland orzabal. much as i've enjoyed all the session and live work gail has done, her own songwriting was overall pretty weak. probably from lack of use, i would guess, as there was a dramatic difference between the older and newer songs she played. still, the new ones weren't all that inspiring. in other concert news, last night i saw suran song in stag at arlene grocery in new york. i have no idea how i could have missed hearing about this southern new jersey outfit since, according to the bio at , suran song, the vocalist, decided to take her performance art background to the rock stage over five years ago. the music was provided by a bassist and drummer while suran cavorted around on stage wearing a white shift, on which she periodically poured what appeared to be tomato juice, and an indian headdress. the rest of the band was in costume as well (the drummer was also an indian while the bassist was a cowboy, with a cut-out cardboard horse's head affixed to the neck of his bass). the costumes are actually topical since they're playing out supporting their forthcoming record _cowboys & indians_. said album is a double record, with one record being covers of 80s era material and the other being, apparently, pastiches of the songs on the first record. they performed a few of the covers, opening with gang of four's "i found that essence rare" and playing 10,000 maniacs' "my mother the war" and throwing muses' "hate my way" before the set was through. with only bass and drums, you'd think these covers would be pretty sparse but that was not the case; with the exception of the bridge on "hate my way" (which doesn't translate well to bass), each one was at least as full as the original. pretty amazing. their own material, which made up the rest of the set, was in the same vein and equally striking. the mp3s on their site are taken from their previous album, _pure agitator_, which was a mostly vocals and bass affair, so they don't really give a good picture of what they sounded like last night. pretty interesting stuff. afterwards, i strolled around the corner to luna lounge to catch the last two-thirds of a set by vpn. excellent, as always. their long-awaited next album will finally come out in june. hurrah! woj n.p. kristin hersh -- works in progress II ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:39:43 -0800 From: Mark Gloster Subject: pouring catchup on the alkyhol, dvd-tv technical, teevee is crap, Soft Boys west coast threads Prolific fegs- I left my job, now I have to spend time catching up with the amazing word-production of you guys and gals. I am enjoying my time away from gainfull employment, though home improvement projects are eating up much of it.... Alcohol- I don't drink very much. A lot of people drink to feel the way I usually feel (ditzy, on the edge of laughter, or as a feg to go unnamed said: like "a big dork.") I have noticed that it doesn't take very much ale to make me feel really light-headed. In twenty years I have only had a few two-beer days (I think all of them have been under the medical supervision of other fegs.) I really like brewery beers that are clean and/or fruity. I generally don't drink mass-brewed beer: most of them give me migraines, aren't interesting, and I'm just not interested in sampling to find out if there are any that are passible. Brew pub hefeveitzen and whitbeers are really great. I don't drink wine- gives me migraines, and I don't drink the hard stuff. I have noticed that a mixture of beer, caffein, ibuprofen and that crappy job I used to have were a powerful mixture to induce depression. I have also noticed that removing the most important chemical catalytic component (the crappy job) has, so far, inicated that compound doesn't work. ____________________________________________________________ DVD-tv stuff: There is another issue if you are replacing your TV to be compatible with dvd. Some new DVD players offer progressive scan. This feature allows your dvd to effectively double the resolution. In order for your TV to take advantage of this feature, it must offer a "component" in and that component in (kind of like RGB) neads to scan at at least a 480 p rate. This means that a lot of older tv's that have component in will not work with the dvd players that can put up the extra resolution. Without going overboard on techie crap- the normal way a tv shows information is at 30 fields per second. Progressive scan looks at each of the 30 fields and extrapolates an image between them. If you compare the sharpness and detail on a good tube, it is almost shocking. ____________________________________________________________ Teevee is crap: Well, it is true that teevee is crap. After moving here to Oregon (where, yes, hippies do run around eating sprout and tofu Ben & Jerry's ice cream named after crack-smoking DC mayors and sit in hot tubs thinking about hugging trees and writing unrelated run-on sentences to listserves about their experiences) I had to have cable in order to get any stations. Statistically speaking, teevee is a bunch of crap. To echo the idea put forth by "e-bro" (?), I would put movies in the same statistical order. Like TV, there are a few gems among a dizzying array of faecal matter. I think that goes for everything in the pop culture, though. I dislike the mundane even more than the terrible. I watch tv. I enjoy the following shows immensely, but don't often make time for: Malcolm in the Middle Simpsons X-Files Futurama Bab 5 (reruns) Titus Red Dwarf (haven't seen it much in the last few years) MST3K I think I like the following a lot: Ed The Lone Gunmen Junkyard Wars I am embarassed to tell you that I also am enjoying: Dark Shadows (reruns on sci-fi) HGTV ESPN 1 & 2 Fox Sports I decided not to shell out extra to get premium channels, and that is working out well because the channels that we would be getting appear to mostly play movies that I would hate sitting through. ____________________________________________________________ Soft Boys west coast tour- My old 3com.com email address is now deceased. Please let me know if you plan to come through Bandon betweent the Portland and SF gigs and if you won't have bedding/sleeping bags. As I am temporarily unencumbered by "the man who been keepin' me down," I would enjoy hosting passers-through in my humble, spackle-filled, texturefied, partially-painted home. I haven't fully decided about attending gigs in either place, but think that would be a good idea. I will likely take a trip back to the SF Bay area befor long. y'all can write me here or at my markgloster@netscape.net addy. Happies, - -Markg aka sharkboy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 15:55:10 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: New Brian Wilson boot? Someone has started posting a new (2001) German 5-CD Beach Boys ROIO called "Archaeology" to alt.binaries.sounds.mp3. It's 3 discs of Smile debris plus 2 discs of assorted rarities '63 thru '68. Has anybody seen/heard this monster? I'd be particularly interested to know how the Smile discs compare to the latest Vigotone release. The track list looks beyond obsessive. I'll probably check it out myself but I was just wondering if anybody knows anything about it. Thanks. +brian (third from the left) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:14:21 -0700 From: Eb Subject: [Ebmaniax] Hersh @ Borders I had a minor concert experience yesterday: Kristin Hersh was doing an in-store, afternoon performance at the Westwood outlet of Borders. I wouldn't have bothered describing it in this much detail for the list, but this is an edited version of a private email I wrote to a big Hersh/Donelly fan. So, it's easy to forward. I wasn't sure about the demand, and whether it would involve lining up beforehand. (If so, screw it -- I've seen her enough times, already.) I called Borders in the morning and asked about the demand for the Hersh show, and the guy wasn't even familiar with her music. He said they hosted *Enya* there without much problem, so I figured Borders could easily handle Hersh. I drove over there, experiencing way too much traffic both on surface streets and freeways. I wonder if UCLA had a big event yesterday, because the Westwood traffic seemed worse than usual. Borders has two floors, and Hersh was playing in the CD section on the second floor. Despite her minor fame and the free admission, there were only about 125 people. Aww. I only saw about two familiar faces, and the crowd wasn't particularly '80s-generation either. I expected the same sort of aging crowd I saw at the recent Go-Betweens/Young Fresh Fellows shows. But no...I guess Kristin is still winning over some new fans. It started around 20 minutes late. Her husband made some comment about trying to find parking for a bus in Westwood Village, and I can sympathize. He came out to set up her guitar, and Hersh's youngest boy Wyatt (about five) was tagging along with daddy. Unfortunately, Hersh only ended up playing 30-35 minutes. About seven songs. Not quite worth the trip. She played alone on acoustic guitar, and sat on a stool. Because she was on a stool, she didn't really do that "swaying" thing which so fascinates me. Only her head did a bit of it. As with the album, I was a little concerned because her voice seems scratchier than in the past. I think it may be aging, rather than temporary hoarseness. I also believe she might sometimes smoke cigars? I remember reading something like that, awhile ago. People with beautiful voices shouldn't smoke, damn it! The performed songs were mostly from the new album, of course. I like this one much better than Sky Motel (the worst thing she has ever done?), but I personally wish she'd get back to *picking* guitar rather than strumming chords. The latter's more interesting, and more uniquely her style. She told one cute story about Wyatt. He has the same birthday as Steven Spielberg, so they've been joking that he's destined for a career in film. And apparently, he's already fulfilling his destiny. One day, he announced to Kristin that he already has an idea for a movie. She asked him, what is it? He said his film will be called "The History of the Mall." Kristin first thought he said "The History of THEM ALL," but he corrected her. Then she asked him what the film's first shot would be. He said "There will be an explosion of light, and then I say goodbye to God." Whoa! I'd go see that film! ;) Kristin added that he said this very sheepishly, "like it was a big cliche or something." Heh. I was standing on the far right side for the performance. About half the crowd had chairs, and the rest stood. Before the show, her husband said they'd set up a table afterwards to sign CDs and things. When the show ended, it turned out I was in the perfect spot. The store directed the fans to file along the right side, which was exactly where I already was. As a result, I was the third person in line. This was good, because a longer wait wouldn't have been worth it to me. I got my CD signed, and also got a nice large, thick-stock poster. Only the first 50 people got one, they said? I told her that I had written a large feature on her circa Hips & Makers, but quickly added that it was a phone interview so she wouldn't remember my face. She grinned and said, "Well, it's nice to hear your *voice* again." I asked her, "You probably get this question a lot, but is Tanya working on anything...besides motherhood?" She said Tanya does have an album finished, but is between labels and looking for a deal. I guess 4AD isn't enough for her, now that 4AD is indie again. Hm. Boy, she's overdue for a release! Hersh also made some joking (but tellingly competitive) comment about how she only took a year off to have her own kids, while Tanya took three. ;) I had to go briefly meet someone, but I stopped at Rhino Records on the way because it was so close to Borders. I haven't been there in quite awhile, because I'm not usually so far on the west side. I found a couple of cool used items: the Third Eye Foundation's You Guys Kill Me (not easy to find secondhand), 10000 Maniacs' The Wishing Chair (I've always had this on a homemade tape -- I've been casually looking for a secondhand, unsmudged CD for ages) and a wacky Richard Harris record for a buck. He's reading text from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Should be hilarious. Now that I have *this* record, I'm tempted to start a small Richard Harris website to compliment my Longet site. Again, it's the same story: Who else out there owns six Richard Harris albums? ;) Note: Rhino also had five, still-shrinkwrapped *vinyl* copies of RH's Eye for only $2.98 apiece. That might've been an exciting find, if I was one of those who collects based on *format* as well than content. But I ain't. It turned out that Rhino has recently opened a bargain-clearance store down the street, so I drove down there next. Boy, was that depressing. They still haven't decorated the place, so it was just a big bare room with boxes of CDs and LPs around. All priced under $2. They seemed to be almost nothing but obsolete, forgotten *crap*. This place ought to be called "Shattered Dreams" or something, because the stock seemed to include every flop band of the past five years. I just know I could've made four happy discoveries if I had searched through all the vinyl, but I didn't have the time or patience. I did find one worthwhile record: David Byrne's Rei Momo. I'm missing that one. I bought that, also for a buck. After that, I daringly ate at the Hollywood outlet of Baja Grill -- this is only notable because the *Beverly Hills* Baja Grill is where the legendary Bee Sting Incident occurred. This time, I escaped unharmed. While I was there, some slim, fake-boobed, fake-tanned, hair-bleached woman came in wearing a baseball cap with a Playboy logo. Ex-centerfold past her prime? I dunno. Probably not, because despite all her attractive "packaging," her face was perfectly ordinary. Maybe she has a corporate job at the magazine. It was interesting to watch the whole place fixating on her, though. A minute after she came in, some weasel accosted her and they ended up talking for almost the entire time I was there. I saw him give her his phone number on a napkin -- I think he was trying to make a Show-Biz Connection rather than looking for booty. I also ended up stopping at Aron's Records, but didn't find anything worth buying. I did see *11* secondhand copies of the Amy Correia album. Uh oh. The price? A mere $5.99. Since the last time I was there, Aron's has added a special new section right by the cash register: almost nothing but new/used rap CDs. Even the *used* ones were in those silly plastic frames, unlike any of the store's *other* used CDs. It's creepy how so many record stores have an entirely different security procedure for their rap stuff. In fact, Rhino had the used rap CDs uniquely "framed," too. But I guess they wouldn't do it if it wasn't proven necessary? That's all, Eb PS I was recently sorting through a huge pile of old press kits, and found three or four different RH photos. Does everyone have this sort of thing, or should I scan them and post them somewhere? In particular, there was a cute one which was included with You & Oblivion, which had four unusually friendly, relaxed poses on one 8x10 sheet...that was the best of the bunch. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:39:07 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: kiwifest! attention nz pop fans! (i believe there are several lurking around here.) in april, wfmu will be broadcasting several live sets recorded at the otago festival of the arts. nyc and nj locals can listen at 91.1fm, hudson valley fegs at 90.1fm and the rest of us at http://wfmu.oven.com:8000 (128kbps mp3 stream), http://wfmu.oven.com:8004 (32kbps stream), or http://www.wfmu.org/wfmu.ram (realaudio). here's the rundown: THE OTAGO FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS Live Music from Dunedin, New Zealand, recorded by our freeform brothers and sisters at KFJC, who ventured down in October to capture a stellar assortment of Kiwi music! WFMU will be re-broadcasting the entire Dunedin Sound Fest over various programs here. Monday 4/16 8-11pm w/Andy Waltzer: THE VERLAINES (85 minutes) Literate, powerful, and electric pop in full flight with Graeme Downes and the entire band. Monday 4/16 11p-2a w/Donna Blicharz: ALASTAIR GALBRAITH (56 minutes) Galbraith's solo snake-charm is one of the more incredible dark light experiences from NZ. Tuesday 4/17 3-6p w/Brian Turner: THE CLEAN (88 minutes) The band that started it all in 1981 return in great form every few years. David and Hamish Kilgour with Robert Scott perform all the classics you know and love. Drummer Hamish K. (now a New Yorker and member of the Mad Scene and Mood Expansion Chamber) hangs out with Brian in the studios to talk about the festival first hand as well. Thursday, 4/19 3-6pm w/Terre T: SNAPPER (60 minutes) Before Stereolab, NZ's Snapper took the one-chord buzzing synth experience to dizzying heights. A very rare document of performance. Friday, 4/20 2-6am w/Rich Hazelton: DEAD C (78 minutes) Some of the most singularly alien music around, the Dead C's blues have very little to do with the rest of the world's. This 78 minute jam plows right into your head as guitarists Bruce Russell and Michael Morley wrestle spuzzed-out amplifiers and (effects pedals with their own minds) into submission, drop it around a stray drum and steamroll it all right into the wall. Saturday, 4/21 5-7pm w/Gaylord Fields: DAVID MITCHELL 10/10 (48 minutes) Mitchell of such groups as the 3Ds, Goblin Mix, and Exploding Budgies returns home and fronts a rock trio, completely frying everything with his freakout guitar action that has actually shorted out many an amp. Sunday, 4/22 7-9pm w/Stork: THE RENDERERS (51 minutes) Rosemary & Brian Crook and company offer up sweeping and gorgeous songs of dark rural folk, in between wrestling with the most sublime guitar feedback this side of early Dream Syndicate. They've also ventured stateside and we were lucky to have them visit the WFMU studios on two occassions. Monday 4/23 8-11pm w/Andy Waltzer: JAY CLARKSON (39 minutes) Haunting stark melacnholy folk based songs. Formerly leader of pioneering jagged folk/restrained punk type band They Were Expendable, also has a recent cd called Kindle. Tuesday 4/24 3-6pm w/Brian Turner: PLAGAL GRIND (63 minutes) Peter Jeffries, Alastair Galbraith, David Mitchell and Robbie Muir created an amazing EP in the early days of Xpressway, and here together for the first time in ages create music so dizzying you'll fall over drunk. Surging drum crashes, cosmic folk, incendiary solos, a stupendous set indeed. Thursday 4/26 9am-Noon w/ Douglas Wolk: THE CHILLS (46 minutes) Martin Phillips and company may have been the highest-profile NZ act stateside, melding Brian Wilson harmonies with 60's garage influences into a distinct yet doubtlessly Kiwi indentity. Thursday 4/26 3-6pm w/Terre T: THE PUDDLE (56 minutes) George Henderson's outfit takes all the goodness the NUGGETS sound applied to the Kiwi world, and dose it all in a liberal helping of loopy psychedelia, and Television Personalities-style primitivity. Friday 4/27 2-6am w/Rich Hazelton: ALASTAIR GALBRAITH (56 minutes) A second broadcast. Saturday 4/28 5-7pm w/Gaylord Fields: THE CLEAN (88 minutes) A second broadcast. Sunday 4/29 7-9pm w/Stork: PLAGAL GRIND (63 minutes) A second broacast. Monday 4/30 8-11pmw/ Andy Waltzer: CLOUDBOY (73 minutes) Sweet sounding soft pop full of curious suprises. Features Demarnia Lloyd. Tuesday 5/1 3-6pm Brian Turner: DEAD C (78 minutes) A second broadcast. Thursday 5/3 9am-Noon Douglas Wolk: THE VERLAINES (85 minutes) A second broadcast. Thursday 5/3 3-6pm Terre T: DAVID MITCHELL 10/13 (48 minutes) A different set from his other broadcast, Mitchell fronting electric trio. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:02:21 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: empathy/sonic book As a newbie who jumped right in w/ cracks about big business, I might 'fess up that I work in a library in a large corporate law firm that does lots of stuff I hate. Economics & circumstances brought me there; they pretty much know my opinions & I pretty much keep the catalog in order. But there are quite a number of good people there. And people are people. Since the copyright thing touches on the arts & social organization, here are some of Robyn's w - i - d - e ranging comments on that from the Ferrari interview. His responses are long & go in various directions, so this is an excerpt of one (p. 20)-- " ... it may be that as you develop empathy you no longer need to be an artist. Another theory I have is that people become artists because there is something wrong, like the pearl in the oyster: you dream because you have to make sense of the world going wrong, and you're an artist because you can't live right, life isn't right but you can't live it, but you can correct that with art, and your art is in response to your having a bad bone in your vertebrae. Your art compensates for life, but if humanity ever developed real empathy, if the third eye opened, if I could feel it in my lungs when you took a hit of your cigarette or if you could feel someone else's orgasm or someone else's hunger. If we could all feel the same hunger that homeless people feel everyone would rush right out and feed them, they wouldn't be sitting there in their BMW saying 'Well tough shit, they should get a job, I already pay too much tax because of people like this, I'm not going to feed these people as well.' If you develop real empathy then so many of our ills would be cured and in 25 or 40 years we could become like a shoal of fish or a flock of birds, we'd really know how to be with each other. Maybe if that pain we all have from being separated from each other disappeared, maybe we wouldn't need art any more, human nature would change, Shakespeare would be irrelevant because it would be as if Shakespeare had been written by a bison or a giraffe. It would be like a different species, a lower species that needs art. Again, when we learn how to 'be' we won't need to 'make.' It's possible that becoming a better person might actually stop you from being a musician altogether ... but I'm never going to be that good." Ross Taylor "Do I contradict myself?" --Walt Whitman Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:42:22 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: pouring catchup on the alkyhol, dvd-tv technical, teevee is crap, Soft Boys west coast threads Mark Gloster: >Some new DVD players offer progressive scan. And if you're really nuts, you can buy a Loewe TV. All of their models convert any signal to 480p. - - Steve ___________ Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are. - B. Banzai ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:42:13 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: mac yak >>And in other news... does anyone actually like the new iMac patterns? To >>me they look gawd-awful.... what say you, Devout Ones? Andrew D. Simchik: >Blech. I talked to an Apple demo days guy today and he said every little girl that came by said, "Daddy, I want one." - - Steve __________ Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life. - Lord John Whorfin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:42:52 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: [Ebmaniax] Hersh @ Borders Eb wrote: > I asked her, "You probably get this question a lot, but is Tanya > working on anything...besides motherhood?" She said Tanya does have > an album finished, but is between labels and looking for a deal. I > guess 4AD isn't enough for her, now that 4AD is indie again. Hm. Boy, > she's overdue for a release! Hersh also made some joking (but > tellingly competitive) comment about how she only took a year off to > have her own kids, while Tanya took three. ;) hmmm. according to the 4AD website, they're putting the new Tanya out in either September or October. that could just be for outside the US though. after a couple listens, i'd say that it seems like SBB is KH's best album since Hips & Makers though. ===== "I am so sorry that (Treasury Secretary Paul) O'Neill is upset by people who refer to the corporate aristocracy in this country as "robber barons." That _is_ rude, isn't it? Personally, I prefer to call them greedy bastards." --Molly Ivins Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #72 *******************************