From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #169 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, April 30 2001 Volume 10 : Number 169 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #167 ["victorian squid" ] Re: I fergot to mention... ["Rob" ] italian customs ["mike hooker" ] Re: ambisexual aliens/urgh/XTC/etc. [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Bat-Chain Puller ["JH3" ] Re: Urgh! ["JH3" ] Re: frenzy / intro movie / new user application [grutness@surf4nix.com (J] blah blah XTC blah blah blah [Michael Wolfe ] Off-the-wall question about "Ghost In You".... [Mark Gloster ] Re: Urgh! [Tom Clark ] Re: blah blah XTC blah blah blah [Ken Weingold ] Any "Low" recommendations? [Carole Reichstein ] Re: Sweet mouth [Eric Loehr ] RE: un-categorized personality traits [Jonathan Moren ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #168 [Traveling Riverside Blues ] weeds [Robcow@aol.com] Hoot Hoot and Feghoots [Viv Lyon ] Re: Any "Low" recommendations? ["JH3" ] Re: I fergot to mention... [steve ] how bout the spam, spam, eggs and spam? that's not got much spam in , it... [Bayard Catron ] Dark, but not green [steve ] Re: Hoot Hoot and Feghoots [Miles Goosens ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:06:27 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #167 On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:38:36 Yudt.Matthew wrote: >I have a fascination with Eye, although from old discussions on this >board I seem to remember it not being appreciated as much as Perspex >Island or Respect. I'll never understand THAT. Bwahaha. It's been awhile since we've had one of these threads too. I've mellowed a little bit from my previous extreme anti-Perspex stance in the sense that I've heard other versions of some Perspex songs and like a couple of them (literally, two). I haven't mellowed at all in my opinion of the godawful fluffy 80s "alternative pop" production and also generally think it's still far and away the weakest RH album writing-wise. Yes, you read that right, I do think Groovy D has much stronger material. People are always ragging on it, probably because they're thinking of "Midnight Fish" (yes, I like it myself, but in a "so awful it's charming" way). But "52 Stations" and "St. Petersburg" are really striking. And "Eye" is a masterpiece. loveonya, Susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:29:52 +0100 From: "Rob" Subject: Re: I fergot to mention... On 30 Apr 2001, at 11:44, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > Due to Jeme's sharp eyes, I finally located (and purchased) a copy of Peter > Blegad's "The Book of Leviathan." Oh man is it good. Blegvad is a genius. > I can't believe any newspaper actually ran a comic strip where the ghost of > Hegel shows up to demonstrate the dialectical opposite of a stuffed rabbit. > Another strip comes with its own clip-out indulgence so you can get out of > hell free. Just what I needed! Or, as Leviathan would say, "Dep!" > I read Leviathan from when it was first published in the Independent on Sunday, but mostly out of bemusement - the bulk of it going way over my head. Though I do have a feeling that the early one's made some kind of sense to me. - -- Rob ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:56:07 -0400 From: "mike hooker" Subject: italian customs hi, fuck the italian customs agents. for a country that is the capital of commercial bootlegs, they got a lot of balls trying to keep my bullshit cd's out of the country. i never fill out all that nonsense, i just declare the package as photos of NYC, or snapshots of uncle tony. always works. take at look at my music trading list http://pages.zdnet.com/mikehooker/hookstradingpage have fun, Mike Hooker ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:04:57 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: ambisexual aliens/urgh/XTC/etc. >The bands performed songs from all of XTC's albums except "White Music" and >"Wasp Star," interestingly enough. I can't really blame them. shame I wasn't there to belt out my version of "Statue of Liberty"... 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, 30 Apr 2001 18:13:13 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Bat-Chain Puller So, uh, Jill B., why the term "pulling everyone's chain"? I might be in the minority around here, but I don't think Robyn's more humorous tunes are all an attempt to have a laugh at anyone else's expense, except maybe the Queen, Margaret Thatcher, Dennis Forbes, and the like. Then again, my own definition of that phrase might differ from yours... I'd LOVE to see people's lists of Robyn's funniest songs, ranked in order of how funny they are. (And this is coming from a guy who usually hates ranked lists.) I'd put "Veins of the Queen" at the top, myself! "Uncorrected Personality Traits" would be in there too, along with "Bass", "Do Policemen Sing?", "Brenda's Iron Sledge", "Victorian Squid", and the criminally-unreleased "Direct Me to the Cheese"... I guess I'd have to include "The Devil's Coachman" and "When I Was Dead" as well, though I probably think those two are funnier than most other folks think they are. OTOH, I realize that my saying that I'd love to see something is a good way of ensuring that it will never actually happen. John "Damn, I nearly forgot 'I Something You' and 'Ted, Woody & Junior'" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:16:21 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Urgh! Tom C. writes: >I've got it archived on my TiVO. I recorded it off of the Sundance Channel >about a month ago. I noticed that Gary Numan's performance was cut out for >some reason - weird. Maybe to keep it down to a certain time limit? I >didn't think Sundance did this. I taped it myself and I'm fairly certain it was in there! I'll check when I get home, but in the meantime, are you *sure* your TiVO box didn't automatically excise it, thinking it was just another Toyota commercial? JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:25:54 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: frenzy / intro movie / new user application >At 05:25 PM 4/29/2001 -0500, David Librik wrote: > >quarter-century. Nearly everything you pick up will be worthwhile > >(well, not _Groovy Dec*y_ or _You and Oblivion_, but there always has > >to be something for the dedicated fan). > >And I'll emerge from lurkerdom to defend both of these albums - _Groovy >DecAy_ contains several of my very favorite Hitchcock songs ("52 Stations" >and "St. Petersburg" being two of 'em), and even the goofy stuff like >"Grooving on an Inner Plane" always rocks me. _You and Oblivion_ isn't the >first thing or even the fifth that I'd give to a Hitchcock neophyte, but I >find this platefulla leftovers fairly tasty, an acousticy reverby chamber >in which all manner of things wash up from the seaside. I concur. From "Y&O", we have Birdshead, Victorian squid, Captain Dry, August hair, Surgery, or September cones. Birdshead in particular I'd label among Robyn's best. Interesting to see how big a vote I Often Dream of Trains is getting as "next album". Someone should tally up all the suggestions made, but I'd say that and Element of Light are the two I've seen most often, with Fegmania! probably coming in third. >> Kay, except for Chris am I the only gardener on this list? Not really much of agardener, but I have been spending my recent unemployment relandscaping the front lawn. 'bout time to prune the hydrangeas, fuchsia, and ngaio, too. And the taupata is getting out of hand again...sigh. James np - Home counties boy (Martin Newell) 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, 30 Apr 2001 15:56:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: blah blah XTC blah blah blah >I went to an XTC tribute night on Saturday. It was pretty >enjoyable, and (sad to say) rather more interesting than the >Robyn tribute, mainly due to a greater variety of bands. There >were a lot of good performances so I'm not sure which was my >favorite - I liked the minimalist version of "Grass" (with >a single violin), a jazzy "Making Plans for Nigel," and the >little guy dressed as a pirate who bellowed in fine Partridgean >form during "Complicated Game." This was truly a sight. I don't remember him being dressed up as a priate as much as his band's frontman was (which brought to my mind the whole XTC vs. Adam Ant controversy once again), but it didn't matter. Imagine this little guy (if he's over 5'5" and 100 lbs I'm a baked potato)), veins over his mostly bald head bulging, vibrating uncontrollably as he belted out "Complicated Game" like some kind of unhinged Mennonite. That was cool. My interest in XTC has been piqued. I've had Apple Venus for a year, and I went out and got used copies of Skylarking (domestic) and Drums and Wires today. We'll see how I like 'em. - -Michael ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:39:56 -0700 From: Mark Gloster Subject: Off-the-wall question about "Ghost In You".... Hi kids. I'm Mark (sharkboy) Gloster. Perhaps you remember me from such Fox specials as "Alien Autopsy 12: Sharkboy" and "When Angry Audiences Attack Musicians" and "America's Funniest Home Lobotomies." Okay, I have a question that might nauseate some and spitflicate others: The tune of the Psychedelic Furs song (which Robyn likes to cover) "Ghost In You" seems to be posessing much of my fascination right now. Does anybody have any official or reasonable explanation of the lyrics of the song? I feel like I'd like to know more about it. Has Robyn ever said anything about it? Thanks, - -The living Troy McClure of this list ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:46:22 -0700 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: RE: un-categorized personality traits >I'll second the guys who said Element of Light, Fegamania, and I Often >Dream of Trains. To me, these are the quintessential >Hitchcock/Egyptians records. (Excluding Soft Boys, in which UM is >supreme Hitchcock.) I wouldn't spend too much time disagreeing with that list, but would also add _Eye_ to it. I've not been here (the Fegmaniax list) for long, but have wondered slightly why no one's mentioned the sorta-bootleg _Raw Cuts_ Soft Boys EP/mini-album/whatever release - I think that's one of the spankin'est discs in my Hitchcock collection. High energy, ass-kickin' Robyn-roll. Or something. And stuff. AND - the _Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival_ disc. Spiffous! >commercially accessible Robyn Airscape Balloon Man - this is the first Hitchcock song I ever heard, and I was an instant convert. A friend was playing it on his radio show in college, and I lived on the same floor as the radio station's broadcast booth at the time - heard it as I was walking past, and inquired. Played lots of Robyn on my own shows after that. >kick-ass rock n roll Robyn Tell Me About Your Drugs Freeze >hauntingly melodic and beautiful Robyn Nocturne, lots of other stuff from _...Trains_ and _Eye_ Raymond Chandler Evening >scares you when you turn the lights off Robyn Hmmmm. I'm at a loss here... >sounds like John Lennon Robyn Somewhere Apart the Cold Turkey cover, as mentioned already >pulling everyone's chain Robyn Superman (still one of the most bent pieces of music I know of) Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus The Bones in the Ground Surgery I Wanna Be An Anglepoise Lamp The Yip Song (Why is it that I could go on and on and on in this category?) da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:47:05 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Urgh! on 4/30/01 4:16 PM, JH3 at jh3@winco.net wrote: > Tom C. writes: > >> I've got it archived on my TiVO. I recorded it off of the Sundance Channel >> about a month ago. I noticed that Gary Numan's performance was cut out for >> some reason - weird. Maybe to keep it down to a certain time limit? I >> didn't think Sundance did this. > > I taped it myself and I'm fairly certain it was in there! I'll check when I > get > home, but in the meantime, are you *sure* your TiVO box didn't automatically > excise it, thinking it was just another Toyota commercial? For the record, no commercials on Sundance. I'll check again, but I'm pretty damn sure there was no Gary Numan. Let's compare notes tomorrow. - -tc n.p. Devo - "Pioneers Who Got Scalped - The Anthology" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:51:38 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: blah blah XTC blah blah blah > My interest in XTC has been piqued. I've had Apple Venus for a > year, and I went out and got used copies of Skylarking (domestic) > and Drums and Wires today. We'll see how I like 'em. Skylarking is a masterpiece. I like Apple Venus, but love Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol. 2). - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:52:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Any "Low" recommendations? It's a rainy, pleasant afternoon here in Portland. Upstairs at the bookstore, a coworker and I are pricing books, joyously hidden away from customers. James (who reminds me of the bald, quiet record store clerk in "High Fidelity," only taller and with glasses) is playing some stark, gloomy music which sounds like something David Lynch would use in his films. I asked him what was playing on the CD player. "Low," he replied. "Songs for a Dead Pilot." Heh!Great title. James says this is one of their more "stark" records. But it sounds interesting enough so that I might buy a CD of theirs. It sounds like wonderful music to listen to on your headphones while being lost in the woods. Any "Low" recommendations for new listeners? Carole ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 12:01:17 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Sweet mouth sorry if this has been debated before and I slept through it, but I've just been listening to JfS and was suddenly amazed at how much "You've got a sweet mouth in you baby" sounds like it should be a Bob Dylan song - the structure and style just reek Bawb. Anyone else noticed this? James ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:07:17 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: eye love >From: "Yudt.Matthew" >I have a fascination with Eye, although from old discussions on this >board I seem to remember it not being appreciated as much as Perspex >Island or Respect. I'll never understand THAT. Seconded (not to reopen what is apparently an old thread). _Eye_ was, IIRC, the second Robyn Hitchcock album I ever heard. After _Globe of Frogs_, and probably the video for "Madonna of the Wasps." It was the first one I ever bought. I really really love it, might even consider it my favorite Hitchcock album ever, but it's raw and serious and hard to listen to casually. This is quite a dilemma, because none of the other albums feel as _complete_ to me, somehow. They're all facets. And _Eye_ is a facet, too, but somehow a weighty one, with its own special gravity. I also really love _Globe of Frogs_...its faults are virtues. The nostalgia helps. I like _Element of Light_ a lot but -- maybe because it was one of the last ones I bought -- it doesn't thrill me in the same ways the other albums do. Great songs, but again this feeling of incompleteness, of covering only a certain _angle_. _Fegmania!_ feels complete but lacks _Eye_'s gravity. They're all wonderful. There's no bad place to start. Even _Queen Elvis_ and _Perspex Island_, easily my least favorite Hitchcock albums by a mile, are worth a listen every now and then. But I must disagree about _The Kershaw Sessions_, which with one exception seem inferior to the originals to me, and _You & Oblivion_, which is the only Hitchcock CD I've owned and sold. A handful of the songs are divine, glittering jewels, and the rest can go hang for all I care. >From: Miles Goosens >(2) The old list truism that as soon as one person yells "that's utter >crap," another will retort with "are your ears stuffed with paraffin? That >stuff rules!" Which is the sort of discussion I _love_ and would love to see on this list, though I imagine others lack my supernatural immunity to the tedium thereof. Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:33:47 -0400 From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: Sweet mouth At 12:01 PM 5/1/01 +1200, James Dignan wrote: >sorry if this has been debated before and I slept through it, but I've just >been listening to JfS and was suddenly amazed at how much "You've got a >sweet mouth in you baby" sounds like it should be a Bob Dylan song - the >structure and style just reek Bawb. Anyone else noticed this? Yes -- this definitely reminds me of Bawb, sort of Blood on the Tracks-ish. Eric ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 02:59:09 +0200 From: Jonathan Moren Subject: RE: un-categorized personality traits At 16:46 2001-04-30 -0700, you wrote: >>scares you when you turn the lights off Robyn >Hmmmm. I'm at a loss here... Let there be more darkness ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:47:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Bayard Subject: sweet n' Low hi Carole! Thanks for reminding me about Low. I got their debut, _i could live in hope_ and rilly liked it. here's what allmusic has to say. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bbn8o1vajzzha James was right about the essential Hitchcock. best solo work: eye, closely followed by i often dream of trains. best egyptians: element of light. best soft boys: underwater moonlight (but it's ALL good, baby) best band album that is not the soft boys or the egyptians: umm... black snake diamond role. (sorta is the soft boys.) for me, everything from 1980-1990 is divine. =b np: the crystal method ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:54:26 -0700 From: Traveling Riverside Blues Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #168 At 5:58 PM -0400 4/30/01, fegmaniax-digest wrote: >Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:58:01 -0400 >From: "Poole, R. Edward" >Subject: RE: Urgh and compilations and Walden Pond > >>scares you when you turn the lights off Robyn That crazy "Dark Priestess and Mr. Tong" hidden song snippet at the end of Jewels, right before "Gene Hackman". Hell, that thing scares me with the lights ON. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:59:55 -0700 From: Traveling Riverside Blues Subject: Bowie "Bombers" At 5:58 PM -0400 4/30/01, fegmaniax-digest wrote: >Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:37:51 -0400 >From: "ross taylor" >Subject: digest 166 > >Re: Nomi-- >Fondly remember that SNL. They should do a >Compilation of SNL musical guests, but include >Gilda's impersonation of Patti Smith. > >I've got the Sound + Vision anthology & liked >the rare cuts on that so much I've contemplated >getting the Bowie at the Beeb box just for >"Bombers" but have heard that it's not >such a great song after all. I originally found Bombers on the "Changesthreebowie" vinyl bootleg, shoot, probably about 16 or 17 years ago. Don't know if it's still available. Had the electric version of "Memory of a free festival" on it , "Holy Holy", the alternate version of "The Supermen", and of course the obligatory Heroes chante en Francais. Great bootleg, although I think most of it turned up as bonus trax on the Ryko rereleases... one notable omission is "You Didn't Hear It From Me", a great song which was supposed to bookend "1984" on Diamond Dogs. One version of it turned up as "Dodo" on one of the Ryko reissues, but if I'm recalling correctly I've never found the Changesthree version anywhere else. Anyhow, I love "Bombers", I've always loved "Bombers". I think you can get it on one of the Ryko reissues - I wanna say either "Hunky Dory" or "The Man Who Sold The World", but I can't really recall. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:24:04 EDT From: Robcow@aol.com Subject: weeds Hello, Well, as the list's resident horticulturist (bet you didn't know you had one, did you?) I guess it's up to me to take a stab at Kay's persistent question about friendly ways to control weeds. Really the simplest way to manage weeds is to keep on top of the situation and remove immediately any unwanted plant that has flowers on it (or even just remove the flowers), before it goes to seed. I have been known to pull weeds out of my neighbors' gardens to keep the population of certain plants in my garden down but I am a well known plant vigilante. If you have particularly noxious weeds that spread by other methods, for example underground runners, chemicals may be your best defense. However, it is not necessary to bludgeon them to death. Round-up works by going down into the plant's roots and you don't actually need an awful lot to get it to work. Try mixing up a weak solution and then painting it on the plants you're trying to rid from your garden. Or if you have a sprayer, just spray a bit onto the base of the plant. I hope this has helped some. Hey, Robyn's written songs about plants hasn't he? Does this mean I'm on topic? Cheers, Roberta (putting in a vote for I Often Dream of Trains...) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:59:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Hoot Hoot and Feghoots On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Traveling Riverside Blues wrote: > That crazy "Dark Priestess and Mr. Tong" hidden song snippet at the end of > Jewels, right before "Gene Hackman". > > Hell, that thing scares me with the lights ON. That's my favorite song on that album. Hm. So, I was just over at Powells, picking up The Wizard of Earthsea (which I read when I was 12 and just _hated_, hopefully I've matured since then), when I spied with my little eye a book called "Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot." Of course I bought it. It appears to be a collection of very brief shaggy-dog stories (called 'feghoots') set in space in the late 2900's. BIZARRE, in a pedestrian, unthreatening kind of way. Anyone else ever heard of this? Vivien ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:51:11 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Any "Low" recommendations? >...it sounds interesting enough so that I might buy a CD of theirs. It sounds >like wonderful music to listen to on your headphones while being lost in >the woods. Any "Low" recommendations for new listeners? At the very least, get their Christmas album. It became my favorite Christmas record almost as soon as I heard it (though admittedly that might not be saying much), and you can even play it with your parents around. Two of the people in Low are supposedly Mormons, actually. Not many L.D.S. folks in the indie rock/pop scene... John H. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:01:03 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: I fergot to mention... On Monday, April 30, 2001, at 01:44 PM, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > Due to Jeme's sharp eyes, I finally located (and purchased) a copy of > Peter Blegad's "The Book of Leviathan." No email address that I can find, but you can see what Natalie's talking about here: http://www.leviathan.co.uk/ - - Steve __________ Is this thing on? Sent via OS X Mail. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:26:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Bayard Catron Subject: how bout the spam, spam, eggs and spam? that's not got much spam in , it... flegs, i am going to have a more permanent email address soon (i unsubbed my current four just in time to avoid that firestorm... whew!) i was wondering what steps yall take to avoid getting spammed? is there any way to avoid it? I know capuchin eschews mailto tags on his site, i assume something is done about the fegmaniax archives (which are searched by google and excite, so they must be "out there"...) it's a sigh of the slimes.... =b thanks for all the good wishes! people born on my birthday: wm hearst, duke ellington, jerry seinfeld, hirohito, saddam hussein, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:16:50 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: compilations I'll add a few to Edward R. Poole's suggestions >>commercially accessible Robyn > > Element of Light > So You Think You're in Love (not a fave, but fits the category to a tee) > Balloon Man > Flesh #1 Heaven Queen Of Eyes Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole The Man Who Invented Himself Sally Was A Legend >>kick-ass rock n roll Robyn > > Leppo > Higsons > Freeze > I Wanna Destroy You > Black Snake Diamond Rock > I Watch the Cars (the fast version) > Rock 'n' Roll Toilet I'd scratch Freeze and add: Only The Stones Remain There's Nobody Like You Meat >>hauntingly melodic and beautiful Robyn > > Human Music > Heaven > Birdshead > Chinese Bones No, I Don't Remember Guildford Ghost Ship Love >>scares you when you turn the lights off Robyn St. Petersburg St Petersburg St Petersburg Strange St Petersburg and (if time) St Petersburg >>sounds like John Lennon Robyn > > Cold Turkey That's too obvious. It's also a pretty unimpressive cover when compared to the original. Scratch it and use: Somewhere apart Wax Doll (though this sounds more like Ziggy era Bowie to me...) > pulling everyone's chain Robyn > > My Wife & My Dead Wife > Man w/ Lightbulb Head (see note to "So You Think...") > Sandra's Having Her Brain Out Ted Woody & Junior Sometimes I wish I Was A Pretty Girl Unorrected Personality Traits It's A Mystic Trip Veins Of The Queen I'd also throw in Happy The Golden Prince, Driving Aloud (Radio Storm), Yip Song, Arms Of Love, The Green Boy, Raymond Chandler Evening, The live ("2 halves") version of Underwater Moonlight, Flesh Cartoons, I Got The Hots, Do Policemen Sing, Love Poisoning, Blues in A, Insanely Jealous, I'm Only You, Autumn Sea, You & Oblivion, America, Madonna of the Wasps......uh.......are we out of tape yet? - -rUss np: Between Thought And Expression -The Lou Reed Anthology won't play football for the coach... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:19:33 -0500 From: steve Subject: Dark, but not green And: > Data from the experiments support the notion that the universe is flat > and not curved, an idea that would affect the path taken by light > streaking across time and space. http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/04/30/big_bang/index.html - - Steve __________ Never underestimate the power of a Dark Clown! - Darph Bobo http://www.trippingtherift.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:56:45 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Hoot Hoot and Feghoots At 07:59 PM 4/30/2001 -0700, Viv Lyon wrote: >So, I was just over at Powells, picking up The Wizard of Earthsea (which I >read when I was 12 and just _hated_, hopefully I've matured since then), >when I spied with my little eye a book called "Through Time and Space with >Ferdinand Feghoot." Of course I bought it. It appears to be a collection >of very brief shaggy-dog stories (called 'feghoots') set in space in the >late 2900's. BIZARRE, in a pedestrian, unthreatening kind of way. Anyone >else ever heard of this? They used to appear regularly in ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE in the late '70s and early '80s, and I think then-editor George Scithers (sp?) took them with him when he helmed the resuscitated AMAZING! Each was a few paragraphs long (never more than one small magazine page, front and back), and were basically set-ups for the last sentence of the Feghoot, which was always a crushingly bad pun involving a spoonerization of a common epigram. Naturally, I loved them. I even penned one myself, though I didn't submit it for publication. It involved a group of scientists who were trying to discover a cure for some dire epidemic sweeping the galaxy. The scientists eventually discovered that cannabis retarded the spread of the alien virus within the bloodstream, but it only slowed, not cured. At least, in humans. A savvy biochemist on the team speculated that while human blood might lack some essential ingredient that could take full advantage of the healing powers of cannabis, there might be another species out there that, upon ingestion of the cannabis, would be able to rid itself completely of the foul virus. If it could be found and proven, the scientist would work the lucky species' DNA into the eventual vaccine solution and thus inoculate the whole human race from "this Foul Scourge" (as he called the alien virus, this biochemist being an effusive, enthusiastic type, given to vocalizing the extravagant prose that most of us wisely leave within our thoughts). Our bold biochemist linked into the Intergalactic Center for Disease Control's repository of the DNA of all known species, and ran a computer simulation of cannabis v. virus. Of all the creatures great and small in the databank, only one had the virus-pummelling blood chemistry required. Only it was able to eradicate all vestiges of the "Foul Scourge" - -- that is, once it had been pumped full of prime Burmese. The Arctic Tern. Our biochemist was a stickler for the scientific method, and he was deathly afraid that he'd made a mistake in programming his virus v. cannabis simulation. He had to be absolutely sure that this bizarre result was correct, that the cold-water waterfowl wasn't a red herring but the stout-blooded savior of all things on Earth. So packing the best gloves and longjohns that could be fabricated from space age polymers, along with a stash of weed larger and more potent than the legendary Golden Hoard of the Mercer County Vo-Technical Edudation Center, he led a research team to the frozen barrens of Canada. Their mission: to gather as many terns as possible, infect them with the virus, and then have them inhale cannabis smoke from the heated water pipes. Only then could he be sure. But then as now, the Arctic Tern's numbers were dwindling. He feared that his team might not gather enough terns for an adequate sample size. His team would need to be very resourceful, indeed. As he looked at the faces of the men and women lining the hold of the descending CXP-40 cargo flyer, making their final preparations for debarking into the chill air in search of these tiny, feathery, oily birds, he read their faces. His doubt had become their own, and it was clearly etched in a sea of furrowed brows and lowered eyes. He decided that he must inspire them, else life on his home planet -- and theirs -- would perish utterly, all victims of the Foul Scourge. "Fellow humans, fellow earthlings," he intoned, his voice brimmming with a buoyancy he did not wholly feel, and a gravitas he felt all too keenly, "It all comes down to us. Time is growing short for us. The Foul Scourge has already wiped out our stations in the Asteroid Belt, and it's only a matter of time before all of us perish along with them. "UNLESS..." -- his voice booming now -- "we do our duty here in this barren wilderness. Because here, in this icy wasteland, thrives an intrepid species whose blood holds our only chance of survival. This winged creature is resourceful and elusive. You must bring me all of them that you can find, and when you think you've found enough of them, you must redouble your efforts and bring me more. "We MUST succeed. We must fight the Foul Scourge with the feathery weapon God has placed in our hands. Go forth and gather this bird. "For we have a sacred vow to keep. All of us here have sworn it. "WE MUST LEAVE NO TERN UNSTONED!" a fan of HootHoot too, Miles ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #169 ********************************