From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #115 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, April 10 2001 Volume 10 : Number 115 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Pants! ["Natalie Jacobs" ] RE: Queen of Variations, . . . ["da9ve stovall" ] Re: Pants! [Keith Hanlon ] RIP [Glen Uber ] Re: Fillmore YFF ["Russ Reynolds" ] RE: Fillmore YFF ["Cynthia Peterson" ] Re: Pants! [Terrence Marks ] fillmore krites ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Big Roy ["JH3" ] SF tour diary up [Tom Clark ] Ain't Got The Hots [Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com] journalists who walk the walk [Jill Brand ] queen of various [Ken Ostrander ] los angeles show-help? [SIMON50@aol.com] new soft boys songs ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #114 [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Pants! ["victorian squid" ] Boys in L.A. [Eb ] RE: Queen of Variations, . . . [] Re: Mac SHN [Sam Adams ] Re: Pants! [Melissa Higuchi ] Re: Pants! [steve ] Re: Boys in L.A. [Peter Palmer ] Re: _Dave Joins Roger and Then Leaves Himself_ ["Michael E. Kupietz, wear] Movie? [Mike Swedene ] jewel case-less CD storage (0.01% RH) [Aaron ] Re: Pants! ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: journalists who walk the walk [dmw ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 08:55:23 -0700 From: "Natalie Jacobs" Subject: Pants! >Matthew Seligman's latest installment of the tour diaries. > >http://www.underwatermoonlight.com/large_images/monsters.html > >(you know, I like this fellow more and more) Wow - yeah, me too!! I love the Iron Giant figure too! I think Matthew is now my latest future husband. (My original future husband, back in high school, was Robyn, interestingly enough.) A brief discourse upon THOSE pants. As anyone who has met me knows, I prefer dark, sober clothing. (I do own a flaming scarlet dress, but I don't wear it often.) I loathe bright, gaudy clothes and find them unbearably tacky - especially bright, gaudy pants, which look like clown pants to me. And bright, gaudy pants that are big enough to fit a 6'5" man - well, as I said when I originally saw THOSE pants, "Nothing that ugly should be that large." Nobody - but nobody - looks good in pants like that. Jeez, what's wrong with a nice polka-dotted shirt and jeans? Why, that fellow from GBV looked just fine in such an ensemble. I was close enough to the stage the other night to see that the hems of THOSE pants were unfinished. You can't buy unhemmed pants, so this indicates to me that either a) the pants were cut down from a larger size and left unhemmed (how large?? Chris Franz size? Lurch size?? the mind reels), or else b) someone made the pants for him and didn't hem them. I suspect the latter. I blame Michele. The other Soft Boys, incidentally, looked fine. I liked Kimberley's ubiquitous shirt, even. I've decided I want a Kimberley action figure, by the way. When will the Soft Boys marketing machine get going on this? n. p.s. Irrelevant star-fucking: I saw Benicio del Toro in a cafe on Saturday. (For Portlanders - it was the Cup and Saucer Cafe on Hawthorne.) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:33:28 -0700 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: RE: Queen of Variations, . . . >Subject: Queen of Variations > > Seattle: >I wish I was live >I wish I was dead >She only wishes she could go to your head > Portland: >I wish I was in >I wish I was out >She only wishes you would show her your trout > San Francisco: >I wish I was up >I wish I was down >She only wishes >From: Glen Uber > She only wishes >She only wishes she could show you around. They played it straight in Chicago,... >He also changed another line: >In this horrible age of decay and abuse >It's good to know somebody who has an excuse HAW! That's beautiful. Has anyone else mentioned or wondered about the variation in Kingdom of Love? In Chicago, the third (I think) verse started with In the physical kingdom of time, I (hope?) that your bell is gonna chime. As he sang this couplet, Robyn was plucking harmonics instead of strumming rhythm - 'playing that guitar just like ringin' a bell,' as it were. (This is worth a very close listen at high volumes on the Chicago set - it's not as clear as I'd've hoped, but it's definitely there.) Is this a common variation I've just missed out on, or is it something new? da9ve <--- who has put ten copies of the Chicago CD-Rs in the mail since Friday - if you're waiting for 'em, you won't need to wait much longer. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:49:04 -0400 From: Keith Hanlon Subject: Re: Pants! >I think Matthew is now my latest future husband. (My original >future husband, back in high school, was Robyn, interestingly >enough.) In high school, my future wife was Kate Bush. Now my future wife is my girlfriend... or if she dumps me (not) it's Shelby Lynne. Keith ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:08:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Uber Subject: RIP Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Stargell, age 61. Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 10:19:22 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: Fillmore YFF > 10. YFF were a lot of fun. Did I mention that Roy Loney came out and sang "Teenage Head" during the YFF set? Because Roy Loney came out and sang "Teenage Head" during the YFF set. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:30:18 -0700 From: "Cynthia Peterson" Subject: RE: Fillmore YFF Can someone fill me in a bit on Roy Loney? He's opening for the Young Fresh Fellows in Seattle this Saturday, and I still have no clue about him... And speaking of the YFF, I got this tidbit from Jason Sherrott on a show the YFF did in Sacramento, the night before the Fillmore show: "The Fellows arranged their own show in a small club in Sacramento while everyone else took the night off. It turned out to be a wild night with the Fellows breaking tiles in the low ceiling and then losing their guarantee money in the process. Oh well, all in the name of rock and roll." - -Cynthia - -----Original Message----- > 10. YFF were a lot of fun. Did I mention that Roy Loney came out and sang "Teenage Head" during the YFF set? Because Roy Loney came out and sang "Teenage Head" during the YFF set. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:47:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence Marks Subject: Re: Pants! On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > I was close enough to the stage the other night to see that the hems of > THOSE pants were unfinished. You can't buy unhemmed pants, so this > indicates to me that either a) the pants were cut down from a larger size > and left unhemmed (how large?? Chris Franz size? Lurch size?? the mind > reels), or else b) someone made the pants for him and didn't hem them. I > suspect the latter. I blame Michele. Or c) they were a few inches too short on the legs, so they removed the hems, right? Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com The Nice (an organization for comic strips) http://nice.purrsia.com normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 11:10:01 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: fillmore krites >From: Ben [why more guys like Robyn] >Similarly, it seems that female artists tend to have more female fans than >male >artists do. Of course that is a general statement, and I am not thinking about >bands that are hugely popular. That's interesting...it would seem that way, but I do know an awful lot of male "ecto" sorts, and my girlfriend greatly prefers male artists to female ones. Until a few years ago, I felt exactly the opposite, but lately I'm tending toward the male artists myself. I don't really know what this means. As for Robyn specifically, I would guess that he probably has a reputation for being "wacky" that would lead people to lump him in with such popular-with-geeks artists as They Might Be Giants. I wish I'd taken more time to scope out the crowd at the Fillmore so I could see what demographic we were looking at. Sounds like a lot of them were there for the YFF. So my far-too-short account of the show is the latest entry in the uselessbook (http://www.stormgreen.com/). It glosses over the fun I had meeting fegs, though... special thanks to Chris for catching me peering into Someplace Else wondering how the hell I was ever going to meet up with people. My horrible memory for names is rivalled only by my slightly-less-horrible memory for faces, so I was deathly afraid of appearing rude when the real problem was feeblemindedness. As it is, the new names I learned have already blurred somewhat, but the faces have remained. So at least I won't wander around like an idiot next time. I can be pretty shy in these situations but I felt very welcomed. Can't wait to meet up with y'all at the next show! Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:20:54 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Big Roy >Can someone fill me in a bit on Roy Loney? He's opening for the Young >Fresh Fellows in Seattle this Saturday, and I still have no clue about >him... He was the original lead singer (founder?) of the Flamin' Groovies, during their 60's garage-band (pre-Shake Some Action) phase. He left in 1971 and formed Roy Loney & the Phantom Movers, and was doing that off and on for over 2 decades. I'm not sure what he was doing before just recently, but I believe he's now hawking an album by his new band, which I think is called Roy Loney & the Longshots. During the 80's and early 90's he was sort of on the fringes of the Rockabilly revival, travelling the same circuit as folks like Bill Kirchen (ex-commando Cody guitarist) and such. (That's how I know, in fact.) Not much future in that anymore, I guess, so while I'm not totally sure what the Longshots sound like, I suspect that he's moved away from Rockabilly somewhat. John "yeah, sure, I know all about it" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 11:29:18 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: SF tour diary up As if I needed to point it out. "I am sure Eddie Tews is not following us all over the US to see us use a glitterball on Astronomy Domine..." - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:56:51 -0400 From: Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com Subject: Ain't Got The Hots Anyone know (or can anyone speculate) why "I Got The Hots" is the one great song from UM NOT being played on the tour? I could envision some free-form verbiage or twisted guitar jams on that one. Too bad. Jeffro ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 15:54:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: journalists who walk the walk I agree that this "Underwater Moonlight as the Apotheosis of Late Psychedelia" angle is getting a bit much. First of all, nobody in the U.S. was talking about the Soft Boys at all when the Soft Boys actually existed. And anyone who was talking about them didn't single out UM as the quintessence of esoterica. UM was one part of the small body which represented their work. I believe that most American SB fans went back and found their stuff when they discovered Robyn with the Egyptians (or possibly when Black Snake Diamond Role came out and was played on college stations). And as Robyn has collected this motley entourage of fans through the years, the serious ones have gone back and collected, or tried to collect ("Why can't I find Can of Bees anywhere?", sayeth my friend Bart). As for the journos...some of them truly love the music they are reviewing and actually love the gigs. In Boston, Jim Sullivan shows his passion and knowledge when reviewing what he knows and loves. But I have read reviews (as I am sure most of you have) from which it is clear that a) the writer had never heard of the band before and/or b) the writer only stayed at the show for 10 minutes and then copied someone else's review. The latter seems to be the case a bit with all these Soft Boys reviews. They are strikingly similar. They remind me of compositions that some of my students have copied from someone who copied his in the first place. I'm just happy that the Boys are getting such positive press, even if it is second-hand. This all reminds me of my father's prank whilst he was the faculty adviser to the Brooklyn Tech newspaper. As a gag, one of the students wrote about the Brooklyn Tech ski team, which supposedly practiced in Fort Greene Park. This park is completely flat. Tech has no ski team. Well, a writer for the New York Daily News did not bother to verify this when he wrote a human interest story all about the team, and his tongue was nowhere near his cheek. Jill B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:33:52 -0400 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: queen of various >I wish I was up >I wish I was down >She only wishes you'd move out of town? >Trivia time: this song starts "My baby and me...". This is where the line >in "linctus house," -- that is, "'My baby and me,' as Kimberley would >say" ...comes from. (At least, I think so - seems logical, no?) my baby does her hairdo long? >Someone (not a feg, i think) asked kimberley if Bible of Bop would be >released on cd, after the boston gig, and he said something to the effect >of, records are like children, once they reach a certain age you have to >let them go and concentrate on the new ones. (Paraphrasing mightily here) i think he trailed off after "let them go". >>I think Matthew is now my latest future husband. (My original >>future husband, back in high school, was Robyn, interestingly >>enough.) > >In high school, my future wife was Kate Bush. Now my future wife is >my girlfriend... or if she dumps me (not) it's Shelby Lynne. i can't decide between agent scully or rollergirl... >"What musician is notorious for giving stock answers in interviews?" ringo ken "let a man come in and do the popcorn" the kenster np clandestino manu chao http://tikilounge.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:03:52 EDT From: SIMON50@aol.com Subject: los angeles show-help? one last try for an extra ticket (or two) for the knitting factory los angeles show tomorrow night. please contact off list. god bless you one and all. with kind regards, John simon50@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 14:47:42 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: new soft boys songs >From: Jeff Dwarf [quotes an article] >by Neva Chonin, Chronicle Pop Music Critic > >These old favorites were >punctuated with new numbers -- raising hopes for a reunion album -- >like "Sudden Town," the dreamy "Air Is Connected" and the >phantasmagoric "Mr. Kennedy." I didn't like any of these all that much, to be honest. They sounded okay, and maybe they'll grow on me, but they sounded like new Robyn songs as opposed to new Soft Boys songs. They were much less dense, particularly "Mr. Kennedy," which felt like it went on forever. I forgot to mention "Bells of Rhymney" as one of the highlights of the show ("Queen of Eyes," I guess, goes without saying). My knees went weak when I heard them going into it. ["Old Pervert":] >That >future, ripe with hilarity and untrammeled lechery, never happened. Hm! You think not, eh? :) >From: "Bachman, Michael" >Cheers to Trouser >Press >as they got me hooked on the Soft Boys and Robyn. Seconded. Those Record Guides were my bibles growing up. Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:58:31 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #114 >Glen mentioned _Dave Joins Roger and Then Leaves Himself_ in his Fillmore >account -- is this the first working title we've heard for the SB's >potential upcoming rekkid? > >I'm thinking this is some obscure English Beat / General Public reference >(Dave Wakeling & Ranking Roger)...? Or Robyn is just having fun with my brane. aagh! no! It's a Pink Floyd Reference!!! Or maybe the Byrds? Foghat??? James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- You talk to me as if from a distance -.-=-.- And I reply with impressions chosen from another time =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:46:23 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Re: Pants! >I think Matthew is now my latest future husband. (My original future >husband, back in high school, was Robyn, interestingly enough.) Um, Robyn is still my future husband. Yes, I may look 29 and happily married, but I'm really 12 and very single ;). >As anyone who has met me knows, I prefer dark, sober clothing. (I do own a >flaming scarlet dress, but I don't wear it often.) I loathe bright, gaudy >clothes and find them unbearably tacky - especially bright, gaudy pants, So did you kinda think about what it would be like to live with a man with his wardrobe? I know that in high school one doesn't always have a good idea of the sorts of compromises serious couplehood really entails, so maybe you didn't think of it. But I think it would be a bit of a problem. I'm trying to figure out how to get around the monobrow myself. I have to admit that it bothers me greatly. I think if I had to wake up near it every day I might not be able to hold back a compulsion to shave it. Admittedly it's not nearly so prominent now that it's gone silvery, but still. >I was close enough to the stage the other night to see that the hems of >THOSE pants were unfinished. You can't buy unhemmed pants, I respectfully disagree. If you're talking about the legs being unfinished, looking "cut off", that's a somewhat common practice with more expensive mens' clothing. They leave the legs unfinished so that a tailor can custom finish them to your height or whatever. I didn't know this myself until I got together with Doug and started helping him shop for office wear. So I'm thinking what the deal actually is is that for whatever reason (laziness, no time, who knows) he just hasn't been to a tailor to get them fixed up. (Yes, I actually did hold up a pair of pants in the Mark Shale Outlet and say "these must be seconds! they aren't finished!" and have people look at me funny. Now you can benefit from my embarassment :)) For the record he thinks the bright pants are awful also but that they might look better on me than Robyn. Maybe it's because he finds me a lot more attractive than Robyn in the general scheme of things, or maybe it's just because 5'8" is a long way down from 6'5", so there wouldn't be as much of them. >The other Soft Boys, incidentally, looked fine. I liked Kimberley's >ubiquitous shirt, even. Oh, that was alright, but the white sneakers/dark pants need to go. I actually don't remember what the other guys had on in Portland. I do know that I love that glow-in-the-dark shirt that Matthew had in Vancouver, but the navy blue shirt and black pants of Seattle were not good. He is quite cute regardless. >I've decided I want a Kimberley action figure, by the way. I would buy one. love on ya, Susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:12:31 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Boys in L.A. Drat...a friend tells me the Soft Boys appeared live on KCRW this morning, and I missed it. But maybe others will want to see if the performances are archived on the KCRW site. Eb, picturing out-of-town Fgz doing the classic Mann's Theater/cement-footprints stop tomorrow...it's right next door, you know ;) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:19:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Subject: RE: Queen of Variations, . . . On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, da9ve stovall wrote: > Has anyone else mentioned or wondered about the variation in > Kingdom of Love? In Chicago, the third (I think) verse started > with > > In the physical kingdom of time, > I (hope?) that your bell is gonna chime. > > As he sang this couplet, Robyn was plucking harmonics instead > of strumming rhythm - 'playing that guitar just like ringin' > a bell,' as it were. (This is worth a very close listen at high > volumes on the Chicago set - it's not as clear as I'd've hoped, > but it's definitely there.) Is this a common variation I've > just missed out on, or is it something new? If you hear the version on _Gotta Let This Hen Out!_, Mr. Metcalfe does that very thing on the bass. dolph ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:02:23 -0400 From: Sam Adams Subject: Re: Mac SHN To the fella with the "sanity" problem: I was having the same problem on several different macs, having used Fetch to download the files. However I noticed that the one I'd downloaded through Netscape (at the ftp://fegmaniax@hellrot.suddenindustries.com/softboys_boston_26mar01/ address) worked all right. Sure enough, that seems to be the case (especially since even changing the film types with ResEdit didn't do the trick). Why, I haven't the foggiest idea. But try downloading them through a different application and see if it helps. Sam ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 03:03:49 -0000 From: Melissa Higuchi Subject: Re: Pants! Natalie Jacobs said: > >Matthew Seligman's latest installment of the tour diaries. > > > >http://www.underwatermoonlight.com/large_images/monsters.html > > > >(you know, I like this fellow more and more) > > Wow - yeah, me too!! I love the Iron Giant figure too! > > I think Matthew is now my latest future husband. (My original future > husband, back in high school, was Robyn, interestingly enough.) Hey, I saw him first! Just kidding. I do think that the tour diaries have made him my current favorite Soft Boy. Then again it could just be because to me he's still kinda new. > > The other Soft Boys, incidentally, looked fine. I liked Kimberley's > ubiquitous shirt, even. > > I've decided I want a Kimberley action figure, by the way. When will the > Soft Boys marketing machine get going on this? we could start another thread of official merch we'd like to see 1. action figures 2. bigger girl t-shirts 3. crab themed housewares 4. a little plastic forms book with old and new promo photos, swap heads and bodies 5. even better, something made with that orchid fabric (pants) that nat likes so much overprinted with pink and orange crabs - something that dares you to prove that you're obsessed enough to buy it Melissa - -- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 21:41:47 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Pants! On Monday, April 9, 2001, at 10:55 AM, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > I've decided I want a Kimberley action figure, by the way. When will the > Soft Boys marketing machine get going on this? Too bad Todd McFarland doesn't have better taste in music. - - Steve __________ Is this thing on? Sent via OS X Mail. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 20:57:45 -0700 From: Peter Palmer Subject: Re: Boys in L.A. Don't worry. I burned it straight to disc. The played eight songs in a forty minute Music and Interview. Peter Eb wrote: > Drat...a friend tells me the Soft Boys appeared live on KCRW this morning, > and I missed it. But maybe others will want to see if the performances are > archived on the KCRW site. > > Eb, picturing out-of-town Fgz doing the classic Mann's > Theater/cement-footprints stop tomorrow...it's right next door, you know ;) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 20:52:40 -0700 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: _Dave Joins Roger and Then Leaves Himself_ Hi, just joined the list and was looking over the archives... >From: Bayard > >On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Dolph Chaney wrote: > >> Glen mentioned _Dave Joins Roger and Then Leaves Himself_ in his Fillmore >> account -- is this the first working title we've heard for the SB's >> potential upcoming rekkid? [...snip...] >> I'm thinking this is some obscure English Beat / General Public reference >> (Dave Wakeling & Ranking Roger)...? Or Robyn is just having fun with my >>brane. > >the first thing i thought was pink floyd, but of course it doesn't >follow... I figured it was Floyd, too... and remember, the Young Fresh Fellows introduced themselves on Saturdaywith (if memory serves) "Hi, we've just come over from London, we're the Pink Floyd". Plus, SB have been covering Astronomy Domine, plus, I heard Robyn mentioned Syd in a rant earlier on tour. Sounds like they definitely have Floyd on the brain. Not a bad thing. I have a mental picture of Robyn chilling out after the show to "Obscured By Clouds". PS, congratulations to Dolph on rhyming "record" and "naked". This is something that's needed to happen for a long time. MK (w/a PH) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 00:17:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Movie? So like a schmo, I went out last night and caught the British film "Blow Dry." As I was the only one in the theater I got to thinking, what if Robyn and the crew ok'd a feature film on the SB reunion tour? Who would play who? My vote goes to Alan Rickman for the part of Robyn. Any other thoughts on this? He just needs to get the eye blinking thing down and I think he would be perfect. Herbie Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 02:18:55 -0500 From: Aaron Subject: jewel case-less CD storage (0.01% RH) OK, so I've been really hating the fact that I have so much "stuff." I've moved around a lot in the past several years, and every time I move, it's more of an effort. I have a bad back (slipped disc -- at 27, no less; I feel so "old"), and I can't lift much myself, and I seem to keep accumulating more and more heavy, cumbersome "stuff." I'm sure that one of these moves will end up being my last, but I hate feeling so tied down because of the effort and expense involved in the whole moving process. The last time I moved -- from Texas back here to Illinois -- I ended up having to pay movers thousands of dollars, and I hate myself for it to this day. I've done a lot in the past year to eliminate a lot of my superfluous belongings. I've ditched a lot of big furniture-type items that weren't really used and were mostly ornamental. One of the most inconvenient things for me to move, though, is my compact disc collection. At last count (and that was some time ago, because it's such a pain to think about counting them), there were about 1,200, and there are probably a lot more than that now -- maybe closer to 2,000. I've honestly thought about just selling off the CD's and being rid of this huge nuisance, but, although I am trying to be much less concerned with material possessions, the CD's are, I guess, the exception. I just can't bring myself to get rid of them. I just like having them waaaay too much. I just had a bit of an epiphany this evening, though, and I thought -- if I could manage to get rid of all the jewel cases, the CD collection would become much more manageable. Think of the difference in weight and volume between (1) a box of 100 jewel cases and (2) a spindle of 100 CD's. Wow. So I'm thinking that if I can find some sort of "folders" or "cases" or whatever that are designed to hold X number of CD's with their respective front booklets *and* their back tray inserts, I could store them all in much less space, they'd be much less heavy, and much easier to deal with. I've of course seen those CD wallets/folders which are designed to hold CD's with their front booklets. I can't be the first one to have thought of this though -- surely someone somewhere sells such a container with room for the back inserts as well. They are a bit wider than the booklets, so they won't fit in the kind of CD folders I've seen. Can any point me in the direction of such a storage solution? I would be very very thankful. feeling the winds of change blowing again, this time taking me, perhaps, to the East Coast, where I have not yet lived, * C. Aaron Lowe mailto:aaron@hollowstreets.net http://aaron.hollowstreets.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:18:32 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Pants! At 03:03 AM 4/10/01 +0000, Melissa Higuchi wrote: >3. crab themed housewares I have an oven mitt shaped like a lobster. It might have had a crab-shaped cousin at one point. 12 hours and a-countin'. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:48:05 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: journalists who walk the walk On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Jill Brand wrote: > b) the writer only stayed at the show for 10 minutes and then copied > someone else's review. > > The latter seems to be the case a bit with all these Soft Boys reviews. > They are strikingly similar. They remind me of compositions that some of > my students have copied from someone who copied his in the first place. > I'm just happy that the Boys are getting such positive press, even if it > is second-hand. In very slight defense, the folks who write for dailies often have to phone in their stories absurdly early, like by 11pm or by midnight. So a journo may not be leaving a show before the end out of disrespect, but out of necessity. This doesn't excuse plagiarism or press-kit regurgitation, but it does explain why daily papers hardly ever mention a band's brilliant encore. - - oh no, you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net - get yr pathos - - www.shoddyworkmanship.net -- post punk skronk rawk = the new thing - - www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. = reviews - - www.fecklessbeast.com -- angst, guilt, fear, betrayal! = rock music ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #115 ********************************