From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #320 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, August 27 2001 Volume 10 : Number 320 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Glass Eye (was overinflated) ["Maximilian Lang" ] Flufletting ["Budd Leia" ] Re: Dylan covers [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] gay and silent bob ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Interview with Robyn, BBC Scotland ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:24:19 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Glass Eye (was overinflated) >From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." >Any other Glass Eye fans on this list? YES. Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:44:44 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Glass Eye (was overinflated) >I've been recently rediscovering the music I loved in the late 80s / >early 90s, and that includes Glass Eye. So last week I listened to >all of my Glass Eye and K. McCarty albums. Any other Glass Eye fans >on this list? I have three Glass Eye albums.... >He told me he wants to reissue all of Glass Eye's non-Bar >None Records stuff, and he'd even send me a CD pressing of "Every >Woman's Fantasy." A couple of years ago, Bar/None announced plans to reissue "Huge" with some extra stuff added as bonus tracks. I don't know what happened to those plans...seems like Bar/None is barely functional anymore. Call the label, and there's a good chance the head of the label picks up the phone.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 19:05:13 +0000 From: "Budd Leia" Subject: Flufletting James: >you're a Who fan, you're a Kinks fan - how come you never listened to >the >Jam??? Dosnt make sense, does it? Ive never been a completist, the sort who knows all about whats going on at the moment. I tend to pick up enthusiasms and go with them, not really seeing whats to my left or right. And usually out of time. In fact I tend to be wary of whatever is being praised at the moment. Its like its filling too big a space in the culture for me to hear it properly. So there are large holes in my musical knowledge. Plus, this way I get to ask all of you and theres enough of a Feg sensibility that I trust your recs more than any critic's(except perhaps Eb's, who did hit quite a homerun with his boy Ruffy):-) >>But "fluflet?" whats that, some weird antipoddyium action? my lips are sealed ;) Oh,I see, thats part of the action, right?;-) - ------------------- Drew: >>Oh -- but love Edgyptian Cream. Its a girl thang. >The lyrics are some of my favorites. It's just something about >the arrangement, like I said. Maybe I need to actually become >competent on an instrument so I can cover it. You're right, its the lyrics that I love. >>Also like Madonna's "Live to Tell" and "Like a Prayer". Plus "Material >>World" >"Material Girl," you mean? Does it still make you think of Shelley? :) Eeek. My interpretations do color memory. What, you want my Eng Lit/Pop Culture 101 essay?;-) Since the songs still bout material objects, of which flesh is reified as one, and the painted veil is made of material and therefore a symbol of the material world which ... er,yeah. > >I don't think I could pick one single Hitchcock song as my favorite, > >though I think "Glass Hotel" would be way up there. It's something > >that happens in my spine and my head when I hear it. There's this > >fragile, tense, delicate part and this rushing release of truth for > >a minute and then back to the glass again. >Hey, *I* wrote this. I'm sure Hal doesn't want to be tarred with my words! :) Im just messing everything up, arent I? No offense to Hal, but I should have known--you do write well. - ------------------- Somehow Im playing alot of Cave -and- Ella at the moment. Unusual pairing but it works. Even with some Buzzcocks thrown in;-) - ---------------- Ross-last time I thrifted there was a trove of Procal Harum vynal that I didnt have enough cash to scoop up. Im off and thrifting tommorrow, so wish meluck. Kay "But cleanliness of the soul is important, dont you thee-ee-ink?" Robyn Hitchcock _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:51:05 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Dylan covers >James sneaking sallies thru the allies-- > >Robert Palmer does "Ill be Your Baby Tonight"? >Youve got to be kidding. >(And if its true Ive got to hear it.) >I actually have a weakness for Palmer's early smarm--its so bad its almost >good. yes he does - not sure which album it's on though. It's moderately recent - early 1990s, I think. I know it's a long tome after "Clues", the only RP I have. 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: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 19:39:51 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: gay and silent bob on 8/26/01 6:46 AM, fegmaniax-digest at owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org wrote: > From: "Maximilian Lang" >> Drew(on the subject of Jason Mewes) >> >> He's not an "actor." He's very obviously there to play himself. > > Okay, in that case he is the most uncomfortable existence ever committed to > celluloid. If you say so. I kinda have the hots for the trashy reprehensible little tyke myself. > From: Natalie Jane Jacobs > Subject: Ghost World > > I wonder if they're going to release a > sound track... They have. I hear it's a good 'un (though it does contain the dire "Blueshammer" song). > On the debit side, Thora Birch and Scarlet Johansson just really > aren't very good actors. They can't seem to get much beyond teenage > sullenness, and while this works for the subdued Rebecca, it doesn't work > so well for Enid. Birch does do her best, but can't match the feisty, > obnoxious character from the book. I thought Birch did a pretty decent job myself. Of course she isn't going to measure up to the voice you hear in your head when you read Clowes's dialogue, but there were only a few places in the film where I thought she sagged. Both did a better job with their characters than I would have expected, especially given that they were pretty much the right age. > I also found it a shame that the film > did not focus on Enid and Rebecca's friendship, which was the main focus > of the book, and added much more poignancy to the ending > especially. Yeah, that was the only real disappointment for me. I agree with you about there not being enough Josh as well. I understand why they did what they did with Buscemi's character, but I wanted him to be more of a diversion than he was. > Finally, one thing that struck a really false note for me was > Enid's fabulous vintage wardrobe and flawless make-up. My Enid-like > friends and I did not look like that - we shopped at thrift stores and > tried to look hip, but we were generally a rather shabby bunch. Maybe > teenagers in big cities look different, I don't know. But Enid did strike > me as sort of a Hollywood-ized hipster. It was set in LA, wasn't it? > Uh, and I guess now is the time to confess that... um... I find Steve > Buscemi attractive. Please, please kill me. After my confession about Jay you really needn't apologize. Mmmm...a Jay and Silent Bob sandwich. Oh, to be a supermodel. Drew ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:12:50 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Interview with Robyn, BBC Scotland is here, from 4 August: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotland/progs/janice_forsyth.shtml in RealAudio. It seems a bit edited from the part of the interview my friend gave me on tape. It mentions a spoken-word CD. Stewart - -- Stewart C. Russell Senior Analyst Programmer stewart@ref.collins.co.uk Collins Dictionaries use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Bishopbriggs, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:15:14 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: At Least One Leg in Edinburgh In the recent interview with Andy Kershaw, Robyn says he's sort-of moved to Edinburgh, or at least "we have one leg in Edinburgh". I reckon it's just to be close to the vegan baked potato place in Cockburn Street (which does the best and biggest baked spuds ever). - -- Stewart C. Russell Senior Analyst Programmer stewart@ref.collins.co.uk Collins Dictionaries use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Bishopbriggs, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:29:45 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: pictures of lily >Eb (is Lillian Gish a heartbreaker, or what?) In the early 80s, when I was a secretary at the Library of Congress I briefly met Gish, by then a very stooped, little (very little) old lady. She was donating her papers & things, so somewhere I also have a photo of me posing w/ her Oscar -- it was sitting around our administrative office. Ah, youth. Ah, dweebiness. I didn't want to title this "starfucking" because of our age difference. Actually, the attraction I feel for her is quite strange, lusting for someone from a different era. That's about as far back as you can go, I mean I don't think I've heard of my contemporaries getting the hots for Sarah Bernhardt. Also she seems so silent & pristine & black & white its a bit like loving an antique doll. But those are cool movies (ice floe joke re. Way Down East) & she really had it. Well, I did know someone who said he really, *really* wished he could have met Sappho. Ross Taylor Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #320 ********************************