From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #288 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, July 26 2001 Volume 10 : Number 288 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: tv show themes ["Maximilian Lang" ] hello earth ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: tv show themes ["Sweet & Tender Hooligan" ] Re: tv show themes [Ken Weingold ] Beta Band re-match..! ["Seth Frisby" ] my first CD and junior high band concerts [Carole Reichstein ] reap [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: did i know this? [steve ] Re: Perceptual tricks.. [steve ] Re:teevee themes ["Russ Reynolds" ] Re: hostage situation [Eb ] New toys for Feg children of all ages [steve ] Re: Perceptual tricks..and a little Beta Band ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Robyn at edfringe.com, 3-5 August ["Stewart C. Russell" ] musicNEWS: George Harrison death rumors false (he's alive, and wo rking on a new album!!!!) [] RE: tv themes, etc. ["da9ve stovall" ] RE: Perceptual tricks..and a little Beta Band ["Brian Huddell" ] first cd... ["Renee Haggart" ] Re: tv themes, etc are clogging up my inbox. [/dev/woj ] We got a Soft Boys comparison! [Keith Hanlon ] Re: my first CD and junior high band concerts [Viv Lyon ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:22:51 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: tv show themes >how about "Match Game"? That funky bass and wah-wah guitar - it still gets >my groove on! > >Man, that Charles Nelson-Reilly was funny > >-tc Has anybody mentioned "What's Happening". Great song. Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:26:19 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: hello earth >From: "ross taylor" [Eudora Welty] >But she was very >generous w/ her attention -- apparently a >problem, her feeling she had to entertain and >feed every graduate student who showed up at her >door. Well, hello -- she was a Southern woman! >From: Natalie Jane Jacobs > >My first CD's (purchased together) were "Oranges and Lemons" and "Hounds >of Love." The latter exited my record collection after a few months of >trying-to-like-it-because-all-my-friends-like-it. (I was in high school, >so sue me.) My third CD may have been "Globe of Frogs." Wow! So are our musical tastes _completely_ mutually exclusive -- except maybe for XTC and Robyn Hitchcock? 'Cause, like, all-your-friends were right. ;) Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:35:33 -0500 From: "Sweet & Tender Hooligan" Subject: Re: tv show themes I really dug the theme song for "Norm" (aka "The Norm Show"). "Too bad that you're not as smart As you thought you were in the first place..." That was one of the funniest shows to come along in while. paul c. glenn | pcg@runbox.com "I fought in a war and I didn't know where it would end It stretched before me infinitely, I couldn't really think Of the beyond now, keep your head down pal There's trouble plenty in this hour, this day I can see hope I can see light" -B&S ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:40:40 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: tv show themes On Wed, Jul 25, 2001, Ken Ostrander wrote: > yeah, it seems like the funny themes rank highest with most entertainment > value. 'suicide is painless' is a song i love so much i had to learn it on > guitar. 'welcome back' is great too. anyone think lauryn hill ripped it off > for 'every ghetto, every city'? drew carey's music video episode includes all > of the different themes. god, it's been so long i can't even remember what the > 'square pegs' theme sounded like! Maybe this will jog your memory: "Square pegs, square pegs, square, square, PEGS!" :) - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:56:24 -0400 From: "Seth Frisby" Subject: Beta Band re-match..! ...Not currently having a tv that receives channels I can't comment on the current crop of theme songs, last I checked it was a dying breed. One of my least favorites being Seinfeld, something about the popping casio Bass noise irks me almost as much as Kramer. But off the top of my head Hawaii Five-0 is a childhood favorite although I have no memory of ever watching it...and yes the Twin Peaks theme was always perfect, especially when followed by the show(spent a chunk of a summer once renting the tapes, and watching them until the dawn, which means the theme brings back odd odd memories.) but to answer the critics: Edward R. Poole says: >>>Forgive me for seeing some connection between these two. I was pretty >>>disappointed by "Hot Shots II." It has its moments, but it seems more in >>>the indie-jokey-hip-hop-ish vein of the worst of "The Beta Band" , but I >>>don't see it supplanting 3EPs in my heart any time soon. On the other >>>hand, big thumbs up for Radiohead's "Amnesiac." I like it much more than >>>the (simultaneously recorded) "Kid A," though not quite as much as "OK >>>Computer.">>>>>> I agree and disagree. Hot Shots II (crap title) especially when compared to the 3 e.p.s lacks in certain respects. If I had kept that in my head while listening I might not have had the heart to go on, fortunately it was its own merits that drew me in. I really don't see too much of that jokey-hip hoppish element, except for the useless american "bonus" track Won, which is tedious and frankly a bit annoying. But other than that there isn't a stitch of white boy rap (something they've never been good at). Yes the electronic beats do over-power the folkishness of the earlier Beta sound but I don't see this as bad unless these beats are not contained within a well structured song. Which is what I find the most pleasing on this album, consistent flow of songs, with recognizable melody. Songs like "Human Being", "All Sharp", "Quiet" and "Eclipse" are among their best songs. Hot Shots II certainly does not have the variety and freshness of scope of the three e.p.'s , but it makes up for it in light-hearted seriousness, and a definite feeling of progress. Of course before I bought this cd I listened to King Biscuit Time a couple of times, and this album does sound more like it than it does the earlier Beta. I've noticed that what you want out of an album always affects the degree you like it, which means that we of course came to this album from different angles. Anyways always nice to argue the merits of an album though...cheers! Seth p.s. I agree wholeheartedly about Amnesiac! I think I'll listen to it more than Kid A, but I'm not sure about relative quality. Look forward to seeing them with the Beta's next month in Mass! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:56:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: my first CD and junior high band concerts In 1992 I finally saved enough money to splurge on a $150 (!) portable CD player, which only recently went bust. I bought "Avalon" and Peter Gabriels' "Digging in the Dirt." I still play these all the time. I bought the "Respect" CD not too long after that. "Railway Shoes..." Swoon! Eb sang praises of the theme music to "Hill Street Blues," which just brought back a wonderful memory of 7th grade. I was at a music concert at Walker Middle School in Salem to see my sister play in the band. I remember one particular kid, an insanely hyper, hugely unpopular boy named Mike Candello bravely performed a clarinet solo of the "Hill Street Blues" theme. The music teacher warned the audience that the clarinet naturally *squeaked* a lot, and that it wasn't Mike Candello's fault if he squeaked during the song. So he performed the solo and squeaked all through it, provoking giggles throughout the audience. But still! I thought it was a really brave thing for him to do--hey, I still remember it 16 years later. Back then only nerds joined band, but now I really wish that I had! Maybe it's because they didn't have guitars in our school band, and kids couldn't exactly pretend to be David Lee Roth on clarinet. Carole ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:51:59 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: perceptuual tricks >Hi Folks, > Yesterdy I was getting out of my car in some obscure parking lot when I >looked at the occupant of the nearest parked car. What I saw was shocking: >Doctor Zaius holding a puppy of the same toffee color! I even tried to look >again (though not for long for fear of breaking the spell) and yet again it >was Doctor Zaius sitting stroking a puppy! Don't you love it when perception >plays fun tricks on you like that? Like seeing a sign for "All Gay Cleaners" >and looking again seeing "All Day cleaners". Does anyone else have any >similar experiences, or am I alone in the wilderness of accidental insanity? fairly common - same sort of mechanism that gives us mondegreens. Can't think of any I've had recently off the top of my head, but they occur most when you're tired or when you see something familiar from an unusual angle - - the latter can also lead to 'jamais vu'[1] James (currently taking a year's break from his PhD in visual perception) [1] one of three similar phenomena: Deja vu - the uncanny feeling that something has hapened before; Presque vu - a flash of blinding inspiration that disappears before it can be 'translated' into a graspable thought; Jamais vu - failure to recognise a well-known object due to it being seen in an odd context or from an odd viewpoint. 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: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:51:36 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: theme tunes/did i know this? >(runners up: Addams Family, Sanford and Son, Barney Miller- great heavy >bassline on that one) can anyone confirm or deny for me that this piece was performed by Weather Report? It reminds me sooo much of them... other great theme songs from way back when (heyyy... a thread!) US: M*A*S*H The Mary Tyler Moore Show Hawaii 5-0 British: Colditz (very evil and forbidding, with great kettle drums) Warship The Wombles :) Dr Who (especially the earliest version) and an ancient, long forgotten series called "Sam" Van der Valk NZ: hm. There may not be any (Country Calendar, perhaps?). ***NB!*** No-one has mentioned the theme which for me exemplifies all that was cool about the '60s - The Avengers! >> anyone know what the first CD to be mass-marketed by anyone, was? I think the first one to get a real push for CD over other formats was Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms, but I'm probably be wrong. My CD collection: No. 1 was Eno & Fripp's "(No pussyfooting)", to replace crackly vinyl in 1988. No. 100 was (gah!) Gerry Rafferty's "City to City" in 1991. No. 500 was "Present Perfect" by the Dribbling Darts in 1995. No. 1000 was "Devo's Greatest Hits" in 1998. I'm yet to reach 2000. Oh, and >A colleague of mine had a manager called Ivor John Thomas! My g-grandfather was John Thomas Mahon. Then again I don't think the slang term was common in those parts (Ireland) until the last few years. 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: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:03:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: first CDs I went out and bought all the Smiths CDs that existed in 1986 but I didn't have a CD player. They were all British releases and were very expensive, as I recall. The first CD didn't even have This Charming Man on it. I also started collecting the Kinks CDs as they became available, and my copy of Face to Face had all of side 2 first and then side 1. I must have owned 15 CDs before I actually owned a CD player. Jill (who wants to know if Drew has listened to any tapes yet) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:25:03 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: reap Phoolan Devi - India's "Bandit Queen" 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: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:39:24 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: did i know this? >> The first commercially issued CD was almost certainly classical music. On Wednesday, July 25, 2001, at 09:34 AM, Ken Weingold wrote: > How do you feel about this: > . :) > > "At its company headquarters in Tokyo, SONY has mounted the first CD > ever pressed, Billy Joel's The Stranger, into a commemorative obelisk. > This CD marks the initial collaboration between Billy Joel and Phil > Ramone." I *am* the weakest link. Coming next week: the new Sam Phillips album, the Angelika Dallas, AND the 3rd Apple Store. - - Steve __________ The Bush administration, facing opposition in Congress over proposals to open more of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling, is exploring ways to speed oil development on federal lands in the West without congressional approval. - Mark Jaffe, Bloomberg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:44:32 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Perceptual tricks.. On Wednesday, July 25, 2001, at 04:18 PM, Seth Frisby wrote: > Yesterdy I was getting out of my car in some obscure parking lot > when I looked at the occupant of the nearest parked car. What I saw was > shocking: Doctor Zaius holding a puppy of the same toffee color! I even > tried to look again (though not for long for fear of breaking the > spell) and yet again it was Doctor Zaius sitting stroking a puppy! > Don't you love it when perception plays fun tricks on you like that? Had you been visiting The Quail? - - Steve __________ Our previous president studied at Oxford. This one was given a sightseeing tour of London and said it was ''diverse and clean.'' The Times also said Bush gave a ''pep talk'' to children about the advantages of reading over television. The children did not ask him to name the last book he had read. Just good manners, I guess. - Roger Ebert ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:33:56 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re:teevee themes > how about "Match Game"? That funky bass and wah-wah guitar - it still gets > my groove on! > > Man, that Charles Nelson-Reilly was funny You got THAT right. The back-and-forth with Brett Somers was tee vee comedy at it's apex. How come nobody's mentioned Perry Mason? Even Ozzy did a version of that. Peter Gunn, Perry Mason and Secret Agent Man. Boom, Boom, Boom. There's yer big three. - -rUss musical trivia: I read in the paper the other day that Bay Area club legend Stu Blank played final public notes on the keyboard in the Final Encore of John Lee Hooker's final gig. I wonder how often that occurs, that two professional musicians play their last ever notes together on the same stage in the same song. Not counting the Lynyrd Skynyrds of the world, I mean. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:23:45 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: hostage situation >> Yesterdy I was getting out of my car in some obscure parking lot >> when I looked at the occupant of the nearest parked car. What I saw was >> shocking: Doctor Zaius holding a puppy of the same toffee color! I even >> tried to look again (though not for long for fear of breaking the >> spell) and yet again it was Doctor Zaius sitting stroking a puppy! > >Had you been visiting The Quail? I think we should all observe a reverent moment of silence for poor LJ, who was brutally forced by the maniacal Quail to sit through a Philip Glass concert tonight. Eb np: doodily-deedily-doodily-deedily-doodily-deedily... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 02:05:11 -0500 From: steve Subject: New toys for Feg children of all ages - - Steve __________ PORTLAND, OREGON, July 22, 2001 - The Oregon Democratic Party today endorsed a drive to impeach five U.S. Supreme Court justices for the decision that effectively gave President Bush his office last year. - Reuters ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:52:12 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Perceptual tricks..and a little Beta Band Seth Frisby wrote: > > Oh and does anyone else love the new Beta Band cd as much as I? I think I love it *more* than you do... It's been on continuous play since I got it yesterday arvo. Shambolic wistful wonderfulness. I liked the bit about the pizza best. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:13:51 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: RE: tv show themes On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Ken Ostrander wrote: > other guilty pleasures: > hawaii five o Intermittently I find myself humming, not 'Hawaii 5-0', but 'Hawaiian Eye'. It must have been on during a time when I visited Slimbridge, because I usually sing it as "Hawaiian Goose" (oom ba ba mm ba ba) > doctor who Totally agree with James that the original Radiophonic Workshop version is the best - it's the only TV theme I actually have on record. And I also second his vote for 'The Avengers'. > rockford files Great one. Who wrote it? I ought to know. David Gates? Dave Grusin? > muppet show Nice - have you noticed that it's very long, so that they can reduce the amount of new puppetry that they have to shoot each week? > jetsons > flintstones And don't forget 'Top Cat'; and someone must have mentioned the excellent 'Simpsons' theme (better than the programme...) My own vote goes whatever the show was that had 'Sucu Sucu' by the Laurie Johnson Orchestra as the theme. 'The Professionals', possibly? - - Mike "provided it's with dignity" Godwin PS Some interesting snippets at http://www.shef.ac.uk/~cm1jwb/goldgall.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:29:13 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Robyn at edfringe.com, 3-5 August Details of the show are here: http://www.edfringe.com/cgi-bin/user/edfringe/detailshow.fcgi?id=HITCH Tickets #9 each, but a two-for-one on the 5th. This means I have a spare ticket for that date -- anyone want to go? The fringe ticket line is 0131-226 5138; they don't look as if they've updated the web site design since last year, when it didn't have secure booking, so I'd use the phone. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:40:14 -0500 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: tv show themes Seconding some of Kenster's 'guilty pleasures', esp. "Dukes of Hazzard" and "Simon & Simon": > jeffersons > barney miller > star trek > sanford & son > love boat > hawaii five o > doctor who > muppet show > monty python > dukes of hazzard > scooby doo > taxi > simon & simon > hill street blues How about: Masterpiece Theater Battlestar Galactica (talk about guilty pleasures) Cheers (the best ever?) Hee Haw The Bozo Show (WGN) Benny Hill Baretta Kojak (who loves ya, baby) Voltron Blake's 7 (whoooooosh) The Prisoner (you are #6...) The Superfriends BJ & the Bear Fractured Fairy Tales Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Twilight Zone Outer Limits And finally the co-#1, lead pipe cinch, gold bull moose winning, dead solid right all time best TV themes: The Lone Ranger Batman Yours in reruns, Michael "jus' a good ol' boy..." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:19:07 -0400 From: LDudich@ase.org Subject: musicNEWS: George Harrison death rumors false (he's alive, and wo rking on a new album!!!!) musicNEWS: George Harrison death rumors false http://www.antimusic.com/news/2001/july/item17.shtml Reports of his demise are premature. George Harrison has spoken out against rumors that surfaced this weekend that he is near death. Sunday's London Mail sparked the rumor when they ran a story quoting the famed Beatle producer George Martin stating that "he [Harrison] is going to die soon and he is accepting that". The Mail's supposed exclusive interview also had Martin saying, "He [Harrison] is taking it easy and hoping that the thing will go away. He has an indomitable spirit but he knows that he is going to die soon and he is accepting that." The story was quickly picked up by news outlets around the world but this morning Harrison and his wife issued a statement blasting the Mail's story as "unsubstantiated, untrue, insensitive and uncalled for." George Martin's agent Adam Sharp told CBS News that the Martin quotes were false, as the producer never gave the publication an exclusive interview. He went on to say, "George Harrison is fine and working on his new album." Harrison has been undergoing treatment for Cancer. According to press accounts, Last month he was treated for a brain tumor in a Swiss Clinic. He had previously been treated for throat and lung cancer. Luther W. Dudich Alliance to Save Energy Buildings Team Research Associate 1200 18th St., NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20036 202/530-2243 202/331-9588 (fax) ldudich@ase.org www.ase.org Click here to help the Alliance fight global climate change. > http://www.environmentsite.org > as James Brown might say if he were a starfleet captain, "Number one, take it to the bridge!!!":) http://www.amiallyourbaseornot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 06:57:24 -0700 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: RE: tv themes, etc. >Don't you love it when perception >plays fun tricks on you like that? Like seeing a sign for "All Gay Cleaners" >and looking again seeing "All Day cleaners". Does anyone else have any >similar experiences, or am I alone in the wilderness of accidental insanity? This happens to me all the time. A van drove by my field of vision last week, bearing a big diagonal "COVAD" logo on the side, which turned into, of course, "GONAD". Luckily, I didn't have a mouthful of coffee at the time, . . . >Peter Gunn rules Yes, indeed. Another all-time fave sorta-theme song is "A Shot in the Dark" - which I guess is a Henry Mancini tune from the Pink Panther movies use as the Inspector Clouseau theme - but it was also the main theme to the Inspector Clouseau CARTOONS. John Zorn's Naked City did the definitive cover of that one. Yes! to Barney Miller, Sanford and Son, Twin Peaks, Hawaii Five-O (Dweezil Zappa's latest album _Automatic_ contains a gloriously, reverently, reverberatingly flawless version of this), Monty Python (Sousa's "Liberty Bell March"-plus-raspberry), . . . and I'll add "The Bob Newhart Show" (NOT the 80's "Newhart", though Larry, Daryl and Daryl rocked). da9ve, not getting any work done ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:15:02 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Perceptual tricks..and a little Beta Band Seth asks: > Don't you love it when perception plays fun tricks on you > like that? Like seeing a sign for "All Gay Cleaners" > and looking again seeing "All Day cleaners". Does anyone else > have any similar experiences, or am I alone in the wilderness of > accidental insanity? My recent favorite was a sign that said "Any Drain Unclogged: $25", but there was a nail smack in the middle of the "D" in Drain, making it look like a "B". I'd pay a lot more than $25 to have *my* brain unclogged. +brian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:53:37 -0700 From: "james" Subject: Re: tv themes, etc are clogging up my inbox. ...isn't this supposed to be the robyn list? i don't want to unsubscribe but i am getting a ton of this extraneous material... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:16:35 -0400 From: /dev/woj Subject: Re: tv themes, etc are clogging up my inbox. oh! one other possibility it to switch to the digest and just scan for messages of interest. details on how to do so (and on how to switch to fegmaniax-announce if that floats your boat) are at . woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 08:21:20 -0700 From: "Renee Haggart" Subject: first cd... ...was Lou Reed, Rock and Roll Animal - generously given to me (along with my first cd player!) as a birthday gift from my sister. For months it was the only one I had, then I got Oranges and Lemons, I think.... RLH - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:15:14 -0400 From: /dev/woj Subject: Re: tv themes, etc are clogging up my inbox. when we last left our heroes, james (j_manniello@hotmail.com) exclaimed: >...isn't this supposed to be the robyn list? i don't want to unsubscribe but >i am getting a ton of this extraneous material... fegmaniax is fairly off-topic mailing list by nature. there is fegmaniax-announce, a moderated news/reviews-only list, but that list doesn't have any of the discussion, even if it's robyn-related. alternatively, there is the moribund robynhitchcock@yahoogroups.com list and the robyn hitchcock club on clubs.yahoo.com (also fairly quiet). woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:29:50 -0400 From: Keith Hanlon Subject: We got a Soft Boys comparison! Delurking here to exclaim my joy. My band, Orchestraville, was just reviewed in the local paper. We have a new CD out this week, and a pretty big show tomorrow. We were described as "the closest you'll get to the Soft Boys around here." Nice, huh? By the way, what's up with GF2? Keith ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:04:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: my first CD and junior high band concerts On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Carole Reichstein wrote: > Back then only nerds joined band, but now I really wish that I had! Maybe > it's because they didn't have guitars in our school band, and kids > couldn't exactly pretend to be David Lee Roth on clarinet. Au contraire! I mean, yes, you're right- only nerds joined band. But one can in fact pretend to be David Lee Roth on clarinet. One just has to have a bit of imagination and pants with the ass cut out. Which, alas, I did not have. But you know, this story made me feel better about myself, because when I played the clarinet, I never squeaked. Not a once. Vivien ps- I was such a nerd that from the age of ten to the age of seventeen I consistently ate lunch in the band room of each successive school I went to. I kind of thought that was cool, to tell the truth. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:09:36 +0000 From: "Rude Becky of Goldstrum" Subject: Nostalgia Ross on Welty: >her feeling she had to entertain and >feed every graduate student who showed up at her >door. It may have been a problem but I find it endearing. There are certain females who like nuturing people, and I like that she liked to do that. Somehow it makes sense to me in terms of the humane, ironic quality in her work. - --- Susan: >P.S. also, speaking of Loving Spoonful and Sebastian, anyone else >seen >"You're A >Big Boy Now", Coppola's first film with music by LS? Yup, the image of the kid in roller-skates going up and down the dumb-waiter at, I think, the NY Public Library has always stuck in my mind. Havent seen it since it came out--wonder if Id like it now. BTW those pneumatic tubes were for sending book requests to stacks and while I was growing up they were still in use. I thought they were cool and miraculous. But then, when young I thought the whole run-down-glory of NY Public was a fantastical realm. Somehow when they finially got money and restored the grandeur it wasnt nearly half as exciting. You used to wander down unmarked, unlit corridors to stumble over a bum sleeping on an ornately carved marble bench to discover an island of light with illuminated manuscripts at its center. Now everythings bright, shiny and efficient, not Romantic, obscured and evocative. Love the song "You're a Big Boy Now." Another slightly obscure early thing which was never a hit but is wonderful is "She's Still a Mystery." n.p.in my mind: Last Train to Speonk(which I have taken:-) - --- TV Show Themes Once at college in the middle of the night we all awoke to someone doing a wonked-out version of the Addams familly theme on the carillon. It was worth waking up for. I know its soft-baked jazz but somehow the Odd-Couple theme just had the perfect spring-day-in-NYC ambieance. My husband loved the Magnum theme and the whole family gets buzzed on the Buffy headbang. Kay, who now can't get the Dukes of Hazzard theme out of her head. Thaaaaanks people;-) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #288 ********************************