From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #246 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, June 19 2001 Volume 10 : Number 246 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Bearing gifts we traverse afar [Michael R Godwin ] de sade prisoners ["ross taylor" ] I Guess That All Makes Sense Intellectually ["Tigger Lily" ] attention Skinny Puppy fans! [Christopher Gross ] another silly sociographic survey [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] American Gods (The Mark of Neil) [steve ] Sharkboy in Portland... [Mark Gloster ] Re: I Guess That All Makes Sense Intellectually ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Wide Open Star ["brian nupp" ] Signed & Framed Robyn Hitchcock Poster [stomachless bottom ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:31:50 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Bearing gifts we traverse afar On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, /dev/woj wrote: > also worth noting this other tidbit from the um.com news page: > free! (probably) 6/14/2001 > On July 20th the Soft Boys will be playing a secret, unnanounced gig > near the Clerkenwell in London. This will probably be free and probably > be around 7:00 P.M. Since they've been rehearsing new songs they'll > probably be playing some of them. Probably. > anyone have any ideas about where this might actually be taking place? Surely at the 3 Kings in Clerkenwell, where they played a pre-tour gig. jmbc, do you concur? Not sure why they refer to it as "the" Clerkenwell, though. - - the Mike Godwin PS Saw an art expert talking about Jan Vermeer on TV last night. His name was John Noach. Any relation? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:40:56 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: de sade prisoners From: dmw -- >Agent 99 was the first woman for whom I had "the hots." (does that count as on-topic?) 99:He's still alive! He's trying to tell us something, Max! Max:He says that your knee is on his chest. My first love was Suzanne sombody who played opposite Robert Goulet in the spy show "Blue Light." Now I'm thinking of the scene in "That Thing You Do" where the guitarist says to the older woman singer they're touring with, "Looking at your picture on the album cover was, you know, my first boy-girl thing," and she says "Charming." Dianna Rig was quite a good actress & Feldon couldn't act in anything else to save her life. newspeak-- Stewart's reports on Dictionary goings on sound like things that happened in the H-shaped offices of the Hitchhiker's Guide. James Dignan-- >speaking as someone who has taught at first-year university level, the >school system as it stands is shit. There are university students who only >have the barest rudiments of what I would expect to be common knowledge, >and whose language skills are near zero. Same experiences teaching freshman English Composition. Worse, the zero motivation of most college kids. When I taught grown-ups who'd gone back to school in Community College they were excited to learn whatever they could get from me. They also had more interesting stories to tell. Thanks for the howlers. I love howlers. There was some list of stuff people said when filling out accident reports, things like, "In my attempt to swat a fly I ran into a telephone pole." I used to try to get students to see what was wrong with them. Flat Earth-- I still can't warm up to "Mulu the Rain Forest." Stephen Mahoney-- >any prisoner or marat/sade fans on this list? Wasn't Mcgoohan[sp?] supposed to be very puritanical, & didn't get a shot at being Bond cause he wouldn't do the sex scenes? I'm a huge marat/sade fan, I even like Judy Collins' version of the song that ends "we want our rights, and we don't care how." I finally shelled out for the "extra tracks" CD of Black Sea & had a reunion w/ "Smokless Zone." I'd had it on tape for decades w/ out knowing where it was from. Trance out! Ross Taylor "Missed it by *that* much!" Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:57:05 -0000 From: "Tigger Lily" Subject: I Guess That All Makes Sense Intellectually Stewart: >I bet they're saying something like "It's now officially in the >english language", too. We don't have an official register of the >english language, unlike French with "les Quarante". That annoys me too. English is an libertarian;-) language. We have (I think?) one of the largest vocabs of any language by alot, a googleplex worth of regional variations and its all in constant flux. And in order to produce the above, the one thing we do -not- have is some offical word police force comme les idiot grenouiles, Diue merci! My new favorite non-sequitor: >I felt my damp, beany underwear reappear under my trousers. "I guess >that >all makes sense intellectually," I muttered. Somehow that captures 3-dimensional reality almost too well. Thanks Steve for the Flatterland link. Mahoney: I remember seeing Marat/Sade as a fairly early-teen and it just blew me away. All that white and red redder than red, the intercutting of the different times, places and modes of thought in a madhouse. Loved it. Did anyone here ever see Brooks stage Midsummers's Night Dream? New Zealand's in the news again and I just dont know why our man in NZ hasnt alerted us to this important development : http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,831124a10,FF.html Kay n.r. The Soul-Snatchers: The Mechanisms of Cults /Jean-Marie Abgrall _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:45:51 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: I Guess That All Makes Sense Intellectually On Mon, Jun 18, 2001, Tigger Lily wrote: > That annoys me too. English is an libertarian;-) language. > We have (I think?) one of the largest vocabs of any language by alot, a > googleplex worth of regional variations and its all in constant flux. These regional variations are true of any language AFAIK. But you are correct, the unabridged English dictionary puts most languages' to shame. :) I think it weighs more than my car. I do find it odd about words becoming "official". I guess it's all relative to a dictionary. Languages are of course always evolving. This is why Esperanto could never work for what it was originally intended. Maybe if we were robots.... - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:14:23 -0400 From: "Poole, R. Edward" Subject: FW: So what ELSE do you listen to? I've been asked whether anyone is interested in minidisc trades -- I know some of you have MD players, so maybe there's a demand. So, if anybody wants to participate in this trading game, but has held back because I didn't mention MD before, let me hear from you. I know at least one person who wants to trade with you. - -ed > -----Original Message----- > From: Poole, R. Edward > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:59 PM > To: Conewatch (E-mail) > Subject: So what ELSE do you listen to? > > OK, I stole this concept from a website I visit, but I like it, so I want > to see if anyone is interested. > > The best way to learn about new music is to get mix tapes from your > friends with good taste, right? So, who has better taste in music than > the Fegs, are you with me? So, if you are interested, email me (offlist) > to sign up for the fegmaniax mix trading club (tm). [incidentally, when I > did this through that other website, I got one really great mix and one > not so great mix. The odds are bound to be better here because we already > share some musical tastes in common]. > > It's simple: tell me whether you can make CDs or tapes and I will > (randomly) match you up with someone else who wants to trade that format > (if you want, you can tell me not to pair you with certain people, for > example people who have already shared all of their musical tastes with > you. So, Bayard & Chris, you won't get matched, I promise). Then, you > contact each other to make the necessary arrangements (mailing addresses, > "do's" and "don'ts," if any, mix themes, if any, etc), and then you go > ahead and make really cool mixes for each other and our great body of > musical knowledge is thus expanded. > > I'll leave this open for entries until July 2, then send out the pairings > that week. > > Ready? 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To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to postmaster@dsmo.com Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP http://www.legalinnovators.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 20:03:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: attention Skinny Puppy fans! I know there are a lot of you out there.... Don't miss the ohGr tour currently wending its way down the eastern US! ohGr is the latest project of Skinny Puppy vocalist Nivek Ogre, and on this tour he's supported by the other surviving SP, cEvin Key, on drums and electronics. It'll be almost like a SP reunion show! Can't beat that. Tim Skold of MDMFK and other stuff will rounds the band out, and the opening act is (alas) Hate Dept. They're playing New York tomorrow night, Boston on Wednesday, and Washington DC on Thursday. The DC show is at The Cage; tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. tour dates: ohGr's recent album: show reviews, pictures and miscellaneous stuff: DC show info: Okay, that's all. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:11:47 -0700 From: Eb Subject: new artist of possible Feg interest Watch out for a guy named Matthew Jay, soon to be releasing an album ("Draw") on Capitol. If you like Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, Simon & Garfunkel, etc., you may enjoy this one. Nice stuff, though it could use a bit more edge. I wouldn't even call him "alternative," but.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 16:51:38 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: another silly sociographic survey well, we know you're mainly liberatian lefties, so here's one for y'all to try..."What's your leadership style?" James "Wesley Clark" Dignan 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: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 08:38:52 -0500 From: steve Subject: American Gods (The Mark of Neil) Should anyfeg rush out today to buy Neil Gaiman's American Gods, he or she will find that he has signed a bunch of them. But don't just grab the first copy with a little round sticker on the front. Maybe 10 percent (ballpark) of the signed copies have little drawings by Mr. Gaiman. Most are just a pair of disembodied eyes, but some are characters from the book, symbols, or Neil's "mark", - - Steve __________ The reason the Global Village Idiot has flown across the Atlantic is to get to know his allies in Nato and the EU. The plan was that they would meet the new president face to face and then feel reassured. Some ideas are flawed from the very outset. - John O'Farrell, the Guardian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 08:16:04 -0700 From: Mark Gloster Subject: Sharkboy in Portland... Woj waited until I was safely out of Santa Cruz to visit there. This does make some sense, though I am partially crushed. Y'all in Portland have a couple of chances to see me if you aren't horrified at the concept- okay, even if you are. I will be in the land of port this weekend (23rd and 24th) and also something like the 5th of July. Maybe the 5th and 6th if Jeme is still talking to me. I'll be spending my days between those Portlish jaunts at Mt. Hood, partaking in barbaric rituals of rapidly sliding between sticks on snow. Even as I type, Michael Wolfe is fiendishly (okay, as fiendish as he gets) cooking up a pizza plot for Saturday evening. I don't still have some of yer addresses or I would have warned you already. Some of you have already been warned and have gone deeply into hiding. All the best! - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:57:02 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: I Guess That All Makes Sense Intellectually Tigger Lily wrote: > > We have (I think?) one of the largest vocabs of any language by alot Sorry, but I think that Arabic whups our sorry Anglo asses by miles. Stewart (who had some Deep Thoughts about Queen Elvis on the bu today, but forgot them.) np: The Sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet -- "Trills; Bilabial trill" ["Diacritics; rhotacized schwa" is my favourite track.] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:11:52 -0400 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Gotta Let This Hen Out DVD I just preordered my copy from Amazon for $18.67. If any feg is planning on buying this, email me today (soon), cause I have a 10% off coupon on the DVD I can send you. It's being released 1 week from today. Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:18:40 -0400 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Wide Open Star I just wanted to say that Wide Open Star is a beautiful song and should've been released (IMO) on Moss Elixer, but I'm glad it was released nonetheless. I fairly certain Wide Open Star is a reference to a woman's flower (if ya know what I mean!). Nuppy Cool Bug Rumble also rocks! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:06:34 -0400 From: stomachless bottom Subject: Signed & Framed Robyn Hitchcock Poster >From: "97X Studio" >To: >Subject: Signed & Framed Robyn Hitchcock Poster >Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 07:18:34 -0400 > >Hi, > >Steve Baker here from 97X Radio in Cincinnati, Ohio. The 97X Modern Rock >Auction For Charity at www.woxy.com currently has up for bids a signed and >framed "Moss Elixir" poster from Robyn Hitchcock. I'm writing to ask your >help in getting the word out to all of Robyn's fans worldwide about the >auction. > >Anyone can bid on this item, or any other item currently up for bids, simply >by going to www.woxy.com and clicking on "auction". From there, simply >register, and place the bid. > >100% of the money goes to charity!!!! > >Any help you can lend us in getting the word out would be greatly >appreciated!! If you have questions feel free to contact me at bake@woxy.com > >Steve Baker >97X Station Manager >Auction Administrator >www.woxy.com >Independent Minds..Independent Radio ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #246 ********************************