From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #140 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, April 21 2001 Volume 10 : Number 140 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: 2 years ago [dmw ] Largo and Knitting Factory CDs [Dan Poppe ] Seattle board? [Dan Poppe ] Re: More handy info ["victorian squid" ] Re: investigating [Capuchin ] In Support of "My Mind is Connected" (Too!) ["Ian Gray" ] the movie madness madness [Stephen Mahoney ] OK, so how did you really feel? [Jill Brand ] Re: In Support of "My Mind is Connected" (Too!) [toast@indy.net] Re: fair play ["Russ Reynolds" ] underwatermoonlight.com subscriptions ["Tracy A. Copeland" ] Re: FTAA ["J. Brown" ] Re: Feg o my Heart ["Crazy Unca' Nick" ] Re: cambridge and the rest of the world ["Crazy Unca' Nick" ] Withnaill and Vurt on DVD [The Great Quail ] John Quaindy [The Great Quail ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:53:51 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: 2 years ago On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Maximilian Lang wrote: > Hal wrote > >my mistake:> > > > D*/K*d > > > >Sorry. It's H* and K* (the infamous li'l bastards...) > Hal, You are being too polite. no shingle, sherlock. i think the rule ought to apply that i first heard used for the little worm who ended the life of John Lennon -- don't give them the notoriety, don't mythologize them, get their names wrong, forget the pertinent details, give them no place in history as people -- just as symptoms of a sickness. adamantly, - -- d. np squatweiler _horsepower_ barely drowning out the premature vacuum - - 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:18:23 -0700 From: Dan Poppe Subject: Largo and Knitting Factory CDs Greetings! I taped both L.A. shows to DAT with Oade Bros. mics > D8 (with bass mod.) Largo turned out quite well, although sadly I missed the very beginning of "Train 'Round the Bend". I'm going to do a bit of EQ on Knitting Factory with a friend's ProTools set-up to compensate for a very boomy bass/room sound, but it should turn out to be quite a nice tape. Hopefully, both should be tidied up and on CD by the end of the weekend. I'll try to get some mp3 samples up soon at hellrot.suddenindustries.com. I'm up for a few trades, and depending on the amount of interest, perhaps we can get these out via a tree, or upload SHNs to hellrot. Cheers, Dan ps. Thank you to the Soft Boys! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:25:32 -0700 From: Dan Poppe Subject: Seattle board? Greetings! Does anyone on the list(s) have a copy of the soundboard DAT that was made at the recent Soft Boys show in Seattle yet? If so, I would love to hear from you. Lots to trade, including my DAT of the recent Largo show. Cheers, Dan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:46:35 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Re: More handy info On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:58:15 JH3 wrote: missed instrumentals: >College of Ice >Muriel's Hoof >The Pit Of Souls >Heart Full of Leaves >I Don't Mind Dressing in Black- Think this is "There's Nobody Like You". >Moose Mark and the Prince of Cones (or this one)- Correct me if I'm wrong anyone, but I have a recording of Robyn reading this story and I think that's what's this is, and not a song with the same title. >Salamander- Not familiar with this but it seems like it might be an instrumental. >Smoothie- Different or the same from "like a real smoothie"? loveonya, susan currently being infuriated by Quebec coverage Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:52:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: investigating On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Viv Lyon wrote: > re: Withnail and I > > Viv loves this movie. We rented it a few months back and just couldn't > > get into it. No idea why not. > > Why, you...you don't know me at all! I've been living with a stranger. > Oh, mortification. I don't "love" that movie. I hardly even like it. > I've never been able to like it, try as I might, although scores of > people have insisted that it's just the kind of movie I would like. I > do like Richard E. Grant, true, but man! that movie grates on my > nerves. Oh, right. That's why we didn't finish it. As I recall, the only time we've EVER discussed this film was the night you rented it after an hour of wandering around Movie Madness (most of the time spent in the psychotronic section). And I was barely listening to WHY you wanted to rent it. Then we sat down to watch... and neither of us could take it. I specifically recall not being able to take it myself, but I don't remember your reaction at all. OH well. I'm going to climb under my desk and go to sleep. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 09:16:39 +1000 From: "Ian Gray" Subject: In Support of "My Mind is Connected" (Too!) Here are the lyrics of My Mind is Connected as far as I can make them out. Theyre based on the Baltimore MP3 cross-checked against Toronto. It still needs help with a few bits where I have inserted question marks, as well as the correct spelling of bzp! My Mind is Connected My mind is connected to your dreams Bzp, bzp, bzp, bzp, bzpapa Your dreams are connected to the underside Where the skull of Africa Meets the Horn of Florida And petals (?) ring in orbit Merry day (?), Give me a part of rock n roll The butler emerges from the hole Bzp, bzp, bzp, bzp, bzpapa The butler emerges from the underside With a tray of diamonds For (From?) the Horn of Florida And I love your tennis court And the hair that falls on it Is yours, Give me a part of rock n roll Give me a part of rock n roll And I want you To remember everything Everything, everything My mind is connected to your dreams Bzp, bzp, bzp, bzp, bzpapa Your dreams are connected to the underside And your skull is (?) memory Its eleven carriages And your skin was beautiful And the face that formed on it Was yours Give me a part of rock n roll Give me a part of rock n roll And its only a poisonous plant And its calling you names Yeah, its only a poisonous plant And its calling your name Yeah, its only a poisonous plant And its calling your name. Does anyone know anything about the anatomy of the skull and the names given to various parts? There seems to be an analogy/metaphor between the skull/head/mind and a plant/flower. This probably links up with thalamus and hypothalamus. Heres some technical stuff about the thalamus: http://www.bartleby.com/65/th/thalamus.html http://www.nuigalway.ie/anatomy/thalamus-t.htm Is it a surprise to find out that the thalamus is egg-shaped??!! Im not sure, but I think that problems with either the thalamus or the hypothalamus have something to do with schizophrenia. In my diccie, a thalamus is also a receptacle for a flower. The word comes from the Latin, meaning inner chamber, originally from the Greek thalamos. What is the significance of the number eleven? Does it relate to the number of compartments in the brain or the number of petals on a flower or the cost of a sandwich? The butler? The tennis court? The tray of diamonds? Rock nroll? Ross, Kay, Kenneth, youre good at this sort of stuff. What do you reckon? For lovers of Howard Devoto, is there a reference to Song From Under the Floorboards/ Notes from the Underground? (or is the underside just where the hypothalamus is?) Can you hear the Devotoisms in some of Robyns delivery? By the way, the alright bit of Pulse is very Lennonesque. In the Irving Plaza version, Robyn mentions 21 years since Lennon was shot. Musically, Mind is a bit slower than Pulse, which is probably why Pulse caught my attention first. But, now that I think about it, its obviousin these two songs, Robyn has given us head and heart. I think whatever album emerges out of this tour, its going to be interesting. Over to you lyric detectives. Inkster ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:54:25 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Steven Quailberg >By the way, I saw Schindler's List on pbs last night and they had a thing >with Spielberg after - whoever said it was right, Senor Spielbergo would >be perfect to play the quail. He has the same sort of manner and he >favors him. And he's made at least three WWII movies! > >Off to check imdb to see if he acts.... well, he was in The Blues Brothers... BTW - back to the "Deebees" pronunciation argument - is Eric "Eeebee" or "Ebb"? James RIP - Bert Sutcliffe ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:54:39 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: 2 years ago >At *exactly* 11:21 (I'm NOT kidding), the clouds began to produce a >slow, steady rain. I live in Littleton and had the TV on watching the >local memorial service broadcast going on at Clement Park, right up the >street. The service finally ended about 5 minutes ago and just at *that* >moment, the rain stopped and now it's mostly sunny. Strange. The Maori have a belief that it will rain whenever there is a funeral of a great leader, or of someone slain before their time. It is Rangi (the sky father) crying for them. 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: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:54:29 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Free trade >GSS writes: >>How can free trade not benefit everyone? Basically, it'd be survival of the cheapest. Economies with humane laws as regards pollution, working conditions and labour requirements would suffer in comparison to economies where there is no legislation regarding these things. It would sure benefit us as consumers if we could get clothes cheaply, manufactured in Indonesian and Philippine sweat shops, rather than having to pay more and buy locally produced clothing. But if we could, who'd lose out? Local, legit businesses would go under, unable to compete, and the sweatshops'd just get bigger. And you could probably buy goods more cheaply from companies in countries where factories don't have to comply with environmental restraints, too. So, if you live in a country which respects the environment and workers rights (or at least likes to think it does), you'll be a loser if free trade comes in across the board. If you live somewhere else, then your lot is hardly likely to improve from it either. 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: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:06:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: FTAA On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, GSS wrote: > How can free trade not benefit everyone? I've got a long list of ways. I'll get into them in a minute. > If I have a product or service, be it a new designer drug or a new > treatment for feline leukemia or whatever, how would I not benefit > from being allowed to market it to the Bolivians or the Peruvians or > the Cubans or the Iraqi's? True true. You will benefit more the more markets are forced to open to your product. But that doesn't mean it's good for the market into which you bring your product (or manufacturing or dumping...). > Closed boarders in any regard suck. I should be allowed to visit any > part of any place anywhere in the universe. There are reasons to keep people from going certain places, too. > Once we can move from system to system or galaxy to galaxy, I bet > they'll put trade and passage regulations on entire clusters. I hope so. > Fuck the state. Here's the problem, Greg... There is The State and then there's The People. The People SHOULD have the power to govern themselves and decide what is and is not appropriate for their area. If the people of Portland want to decide that distributing polystyrene within the city is illegal, that's their deal. They can pass a rule that says "Hey, you folks that are coming into our back yards, you can't give away your styrofoam here." It's called Home Rule... It's called sovereignty. Things like the WTO and FTAA are an attempt to destroy the sovereignty of the people of any given area for the sake of improved profits and easier commerce for those who can afford international commerce. Understand that the "barriers to free trade" that these corporations would like to destroy are things like labor laws (which inhibit the ability to pay whatever you like and work your people as long as you like), environmental laws (which inhibit your ability to produce, sell, extract, or dump certain substances in a way that might benefit your bottom line), and business ethics enforcement (like anti-trust laws that restrict one company's ability to, say, buy all the TV stations and newspapers and radio stations in a city). There are some things more important than commerce. One, for sure, is a community's right to decide what is appropriate for that community. And, in my community, another is the long-term health of the planet, our society, and our people individually. The WTO actually wanted to call food labelling standards a "restraint of trade" and have them stricken. In Texas (to bring it home), there is an organic foods act which defines what is required for a food to be labelled "organic". The people of Texas (by their proxies in local legislature) decided that this was good for their communities. They wanted to prevent chicanery and lying on their food labels. But it restrains trade! It "gives the appearance" that one kind of corn is better than another "SIMPLY BECAUSE OF ITS METHOD OF MANUFACTURE". Well, fuck me. I guess the people of Texas shouldn't be allowed to decide how other communicate with them... I guess corporations should be allowed to use words in any way they see fit and they don't have to answer to anyone. It's also VERY important to note that while the WTO & FTAA is trying to "remove barriers to trade", the WIPO (essentially the same participants) is trying to make sovereign nations enforce laws they wouldn't normally pass (and, in the case of the USA, are blatant violations of our Constitution) in order to protect those same monied interests. Trademark, Patent and copyright law are CLEARLY restraints of trade in exactly the same way as environmental and labor laws, but they're GOOD because they increase profits for the ones that can buy all the words and pictures. But you can't BUY standards and practices. So requiring those is the bad kind of restraint of trade. Hoo boy. If it's good for BIG business, it's not a restraint of trade. If it's good for the PEOPLE or SMALL business, it's a restraint of trade. That's how "free trade" is working out. I'm sure I left out a few vital things. But I'm tired and having a terribly difficult day. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:24:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Mahoney Subject: the movie madness madness On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Capuchin wrote: was the night you rented it after an hour of wandering around Movie Madness (most of the time spent in the psychotronic section). And I was barely listening to WHY you wanted to rent it. this sounds like every trip I have ever done at movie madness with my wife- go in with a specific idea in mind and then an hour later leave totally wiped out > Then we sat down to watch... and neither of us could take it. sometimes we would end up with something unwatchable love that place but sometimes its too much of a good thing! so I take it that there are no ( admitted) dvd owners out there? - -step hen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:50:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: OK, so how did you really feel? Gee.... Jill > You know, I really enjoyed Vurt when I read it. But in retrospect, I > don't think there's much to it. And I hated it from the get-go. re: Withnail and I > Viv loves this movie. We rented it a few months back and just couldn't > get into it. No idea why not. Why, you...you don't know me at all! I've been living with a stranger. Oh, mortification. I don't "love" that movie. I hardly even like it. I've never been able to like it, try as I might, although scores of people have insisted that it's just the kind of movie I would like. I do like Richard E. Grant, true, but man! that movie grates on my nerves. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:04:27 -0500 From: toast@indy.net Subject: Re: In Support of "My Mind is Connected" (Too!) At 09:16 AM 4/21/01 +1000, Ian Gray wrote: > >Give me a part of rock 'n' roll > I'm confident this is "pod". Well, Matthew Seligman thinks it is, anyway. Tracy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:52:47 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: fair play > Willie Stargell. just died last week. :( > > only good player in the first pack of baseball cards i ever bought. Growing up a Giants fan, anything short of a Mays or McCovey card was a disapointment. I had a LOT of bum packs with nothing but substandard guys like Stargell, Rose, Clemente, Boog Powell, Jim Palmer, etc. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:56:45 -0500 From: "Tracy A. Copeland" Subject: underwatermoonlight.com subscriptions As of today, we're enabling the underwatermoonlight.com subscriptions. The membership page at http://www.underwatermoonlight.com/members.html and the membership FAQ at http://www.underwatermoonlight.com/faq.html should cover most of the information, but since I suspect that a good many of the people who'll end up subscribing are right here on this list, here's the deal. For $15, you'll get a username and password that will let you download all the MP3s in the subscription area. Subscriptions will last until July 31st, and we won't take anything down once it's up, so no matter when you subscribe you can get everything. We'll be staggering our uploads over the next couple of weeks to try to keep website performance good for everyone. The membership page - that's http://www.underwatermoonlight.com/members.html - has a list of the currently available MP3s; we'll update it as new songs go up, so you'll know what's there before you sign up. If there's a particular performance from the tour so far that you'd like to see up, please send e-mail to subscriptions@underwatermoonlight.com and we'll try to include it in the next update. The songs on the audio and video page at http://www.underwatermoonlight.com/downloads.html are pretty typical of what's in the membership area. Matthew Seligman recorded the shows on minidisc and they were ripped to MP3 either by him or by Steve the Cat. There are sixty some-odd tracks that we're planning to put up in the members' area, and we do have complete recordings of a couple of shows, though they're not likely to appear in full for a bit longer due to the copyright issues with the covers. We're using PayPal as a payment service for now but will likely switch to a more run-of-the-mill credit-card system after the tour is over. PayPal lets you send payments using a credit card or bank account; its main advantage over standard credit-card payment services is that once you've set up your payment information with PayPal you can use it with any merchant that accepts PayPal, rather than entering your credit-card information with each of them. Their website at http://www.paypal.com explains the details. PayPal does support non-US customers, and will convert other currencies to US dollars automatically, but the setup procedure for new users differs depending on the country you're in. The details for non-US customers are at http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/approved_countries-outside . There's a delay of several hours between providing your payment information and actually getting your account enabled. This is so that a live human being can oversee the account creation. You'll get an e-mail confirmation to let you know when you can log in. If anyone has any questions about this, please let me know. I'll be here quite a bit over the weekend and should be able to get you an answer promptly. P.S. Seligman says that if your recordings are better than his, he'd like you to send him a tape. P.P.S. Fans of his tour diary might be interested in his legal agreement. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:02:59 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: In Support of "My Mind is Connected" (Too!) on 4/20/01 7:04 PM, toast@indy.net at toast@indy.net wrote: > At 09:16 AM 4/21/01 +1000, Ian Gray wrote: >> >> Give me a part of rock 'n' roll >> > I'm confident this is "pod". Well, Matthew Seligman > thinks it is, anyway. That ("Pod") is what it looked like Robyn was singing. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:25:05 -0700 From: "Cynthia Peterson" Subject: RE: In Support of "My Mind is Connected" (Too!) Well, I was convinced it was "pot". As in, you walk up to your neighbor's door, hand outstretched, and enquire, "Could you spare me a pot of rock 'n roll?" - -----Original Message----- That ("Pod") is what it looked like Robyn was singing. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:54:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Brown" Subject: Re: 2 years ago On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, dmw wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Maximilian Lang wrote: > > > Hal wrote > > >my mistake:> > > > > D*/K*d > > > > > >Sorry. It's H* and K* (the infamous li'l bastards...) > > Hal, You are being too polite. > > no shingle, sherlock. i think the rule ought to apply that i first heard > used for the little worm who ended the life of John Lennon -- don't give > them the notoriety, don't mythologize them, get their names wrong, forget > the pertinent details, give them no place in history as people -- just as > symptoms of a sickness. What up is with this attitude? It seems rather petty and perverse. I mean, what is this the third grade? You are putting way to much stock in this. Do you not say the names of Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, Gavrilo Princip, James Earl Ray, or even Guy Fawkes? Jason Wilson Brown - University of Washington - Seattle, WA "Put your faith in death because it's free" -Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:59:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Brown" Subject: Re: FTAA On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, GSS wrote: > How can free trade not benefit everyone? If I have a product or service, > be it a new designer drug or a new treatment for feline leukemia or > whatever, how would I not benefit from being allowed to market it to the > Bolivians or the Peruvians or the Cubans or the Iraqi's? Closed boarders > in any regard suck. I should be allowed to visit any part of any place > anywhere in the universe. Once we can move from system to system or galaxy > to galaxy, I bet they'll put trade and passage regulations on entire > clusters. Fuck the state. Yeah you would benefiet from it but the others might not. Now there is a descent argument for countries on the same level having free trade. Its hard to see why it shouldnt be free with the other G7 countries, but its not a level playing field for the rest of the world. Jason Wilson Brown - University of Washington - Seattle, WA "Put your faith in death because it's free" -Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 01:23:37 -0700 From: "Crazy Unca' Nick" Subject: Re: Feg o my Heart Kay pulsed orgasmicly: > This is a great female image. And I cant beleive > this the first Ive thought of it. Its in "Sounds Great When Youre > Dead" ...and as any scholar of Shakespeare will tell you, "death" or "to die" was common Elizabethan slang for orgasm. You can find it used all over the Bard's great works. According to Elizabethan physiology, each act of sexual intercourse shortened the lovers life by a minute or so. ~N Posting to avoid the sixty bazillion fegfotos that need to be dealt with. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 02:00:43 -0700 From: "Crazy Unca' Nick" Subject: Re: cambridge and the rest of the world jbmc wrote: > Blind Boys Of Alabama - Wonderful gospel group. First saw them about 6 > years ago at which time they'd already been together nearly 60 years...Any > other atheistic gospel fans on the list :-) Count me in. I've seen the Boys a couple of times. Always worth the price of admission. > Just to weigh in on the new songs debate. Your Mind Is Connected...is the > potential classic to my mind, Mr Kennedy a close second with Sudden Town > and Pulse Of Your Heart coming up joint third. They're both good-ish but... I agree with your ranking. I can't get YMIC out of my head these days. D/L some mp3's and you'll find the other two improve with listening. > As I'm about to play a butler I take that as a very good omen... As one who has had the pleasure of watching jbmc "tread the boards", I can only encourage anyone who is able to go see him to do so. Though the show I saw was "only" a kids show (Robin Hood - my kids *loved* it), the professionalism and energy of the cast was just awesome. (He was also a generous host to my kids backstage.) When I finally get these pictures up on the web site you'll be able to see the two of us on that very stage juggling sundry large plastic vegetables. What is it with Fegs, juggling and plastic vegetables anyway...? ~N Still not getting on with the web site. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:29:17 +0100 From: "Rob" Subject: Jools et Viv Jools - Didn't manage to spot JMBC in the audience, but the audience wasn't well lit and my picture tends towards the fuzzy. Starsailor were ok, saw them on tour a couple of months ago supporting jj72 and they were ok then too - the NME seem to be putting a lot of effort into hyping them. I preferred the Blind Boys whose new cd I shall probably invest in. Viv - BBC radio 2 has a program about Viv Stanshall tonight at 8pm british time (7pm GMT). I think this will be available on the web - I'm listening to R2 now (first time since Mediaeval Baebes were guests on Jools' R2 show) via the web. If you go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/ there should be a link saying listen, there is at the moment anyway. Speaking of Viv reminds me that I posted his obit here in 1995, makes me wonder just how long I've been subscribed. I must be one of the oldest subscribers still using their original address. - -- Rob ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:09:56 -0700 From: The Great Quail Subject: Withnaill and Vurt on DVD Black Feathers: I loved "Vurt," I thought it was fiendishly clever -- admittedly in a style-over-substance way, sure, but sometimes you need that as a mental palate cleanser. Despite constant comparisons to "A Clockwork Orange" -- and some are certainly merited -- it lacks the gravity of Burgess, nor is it quite *as* clever as "Orange." But still, a great book, in my opinion, and worth a read. Withnaill and I: I have never seen it, but I want to -- it is mentioned constantly in the Preacher comic, and apparently it's Garth Ennis' favorite movie. And anything that's cool for Garth is cool for me. (Except that thing with the armadillos.) DVD: I own lots of DVDs. And I love eating MacDonald's cheeseburgers and drinking Coke when I watch them, especially "Titanic." Man oh man -- I can just set the Propeller Guy scene on "loop" and really kick back.... - --"Capitalist Tool" Quail - -- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:10:25 -0700 From: The Great Quail Subject: John Quaindy Greg shells, >John Candy is the only one who could pull the Quail thing off correctly. OK, this is getting strange. When LJ first met me three years ago, she told me that she thought I would be "heavier." A year ago a Listmember opined she thought I was probably "heavy-ish, maybe with a goatee." A week ago a Aaron told me that he thought I would be "heavy-set, with a deep, rumbling voice." And now, GGS elects John Candy to play me....? Why, oh why? Because I am not heavy, nor am I slender -- I am fairly medium build. But I have this horrible idea that people think... think I'm.... Oh, God, can I say it? Like the comic-book guy on the Simpsons! Why, or Lord? Why? Tell me it isn't so~! - --Quail PS: I am the one who suggested Senior Spielbergo play me in "Feg: The Movie." I get one or two people each month telling me I look like "a younger, thinner Steven Spielberg." I swear, it's the main reason I will not wear a ball-cap. PPS: Kudos to Bayardo for remembering it's THREE WWII movies! PPPS: Eddie, good choice -- Eb is definitely a "Matador" kind of guy. Personally, I prefer the somewhat smaller "Lawn Jockey," myself, but that's just me.... - -- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #140 ********************************