From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #325 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, August 31 2001 Volume 10 : Number 325 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Ben Kingsley ["Poole, R. Edward" ] ehh-bows the letter ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: ehh-bows the letter ["Maximilian Lang" ] books, books, books [Natalie Jane Jacobs ] RE: a pair of Keats, please, and make them Shelley! ["SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-S] Re: Anja Garbarek and Stina Nordenstam? [Eleanore Adams ] HALF PRICE FANNY BRAWNE WORKOUT VIDEOS!! ["ross taylor" ] Re: we're all starf*ckers I guess! [Eb ] Re: we're all starf*ckers I guess! [Ken Weingold ] Re: we're all starf*ckers I guess! [Ken Weingold ] Current reading ["Scott McCleary" ] Re: feg reading and finny Troggs ["Budd Leia" ] RE: feg reading and finny Troggs ["Brian Huddell" ] if i can't say something nice, i reach for the reply button ["Andrew D. S] Re. Anja Garbarek and Stina Nordenstam? [Nur Gale ] The blubbering goes on...and on...and on.... [Eb ] Re: The blubbering goes on...and on...and on.... [Tom Clark ] Re: The blubbering goes on...and on...and on.... [Capuchin Subject: RE: Ben Kingsley I stand corrected. Now I can go back to enjoying Kingsley's performance without such pangs. - -----Original Message----- From: Maximilian Lang [mailto:maximlang@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 12:30 PM To: PooleR@dsmo.com; fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Ben Kingsley >From: "Poole, R. Edward" >there something, I dunno, dissonant (if not worse) about Gandhi's life >being >told by citizens of India's former Imperial overlords (Attenborough and >Kingsley)? I mean, what would the reaction be ML King was portrayed by Tom >Hanks in blackface? Well, not entirely. Check out Ben Kingsley's imdb page here: http://us.imdb.com/Name?Kingsley,+Ben Note the birth name. Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ============================================================================This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. This communication may contain material protected by attorney-client, work product, or other privileges. If you are not the intended recipient or person responsible for delivering this confidential communication to the intended recipient, you have received this communication in error, and any review, use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, copying, or other distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to postmaster@dsmo.com Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP http://www.legalinnovators.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:48:33 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: ehh-bows the letter >From: lj lindhurst > >Look who it is! A very nice interview with our own Mr. Ruch... I was like "who?" And then I realized I had just assumed he was born The Great Quail. How bizzah. Y'all've got me excited to read more Burgess now. >From: Eb > >now ehhing: Bows (sorry, Drew) Not too surprising. The first one was more exciting, I think, and both are pretty subdued, ambient sorts of records. I can't say I'm on fire to see this Hedwig thingy. It's the sort of movie I would have been thrilled about maybe five or seven years ago, but these days it just sounds tedious. Hope I'm wrong. :) Drew alternate subject line: "Eb-ohs the letter" - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:00:34 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: ehh-bows the letter >From: "Andrew D. Simchik" >>alternate subject line: "Eb-ohs the letter" Now thats funny, when I opened this I thought I wouls see something about this: http://www.ebow.com/ Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:19:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Natalie Jane Jacobs Subject: books, books, books > and don't forget the writing of Mary's mother, either! Or Mary's father! ("Caleb Williams" is one of my favorite 18th-c. novels, and bears a definite resemblance to "Frankenstein.") After Shelley died, and Mary was getting ready to send Percy Jr. away to school, someone asked her if she wanted to teach Percy Jr. to think for himself. "I'd rather have him think like everyone else!" she said. Critics have lambasted her for being conventional, but seeing as how she and her family had suffered for being unconventional, who can blame her? (Percy Jr. inherited the Shelley baronetcy, and grew up to be a perfectly ordinary member of the lower aristocracy. He did not inherit the talent of any of his famous forbears.) My reading: "Dangerous Visions," an SF anthology edited by Harlan Ellison, who foams at the mouth trying to prove how daring and dangerous all the stories are, when they're not, really. So far my favorite story is, of course, the P.K. Dick story, which has all the Dick elements - hapless everyman protagonist, beautiful dark-haired girl, drugs, shifting reality, etc. "The Tick" omnibus - "SPOON!" The Philip Pullman trilogy, "His Dark Materials" - brilliant stuff, I wish I'd read this as a kid, it would have blown my mind. Surprisingly anti-Christian: if this hasn't been banned in a few schools, I'd be surprised. I'm still not sure about the denouement - why are Will and Lyra so important? Suzy McKee Charnas, "The Furies" - third installment in her feminist SF/post-apocalypse series that began with "Walk to the End of the World." I liked that one a lot, but this one is just too talky - everyone sitting around arguing and fretting, while all the action takes place off-stage. Also, I wonder what Charnas thought of the nearly-naked Amazon that graces the cover of this particular edition? Gilbert Hernandez, "Love and Rockets X" - great stuff, of course. I'm so happy the Portland Public Library stocks graphic novels. I wish they'd stock some of the earlier Cerebus "phone books" ("Church and State," et al.) because I haven't read those for a long time. that's all, n. - -- Natalie Jane Jacobs gnat@bitmine.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:19:22 +0200 From: "SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Scotland,ex1)" Subject: RE: a pair of Keats, please, and make them Shelley! >>Of course Keats wasn't the coolest Romantic. The coolest Romantic - as >>everyone knows - was Mary Shelley. I'm always impressed by the way >>"Frankenstein" has worked its way into our culture and is known - at least >>in name - by just about everyone. How many people would recognize the >>name of a Percy Shelley poem if they heard it? >and don't forget the writing of Mary's mother, either! or her son Peter. (H) Happy Nowadays! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:57:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Anja Garbarek and Stina Nordenstam? Yes - I caught the Tones on Tail song too - I was definately freaked out and turned to hugh and said that there are many 30 somethings now in marketing....those baby boomers are dying.... eleanore - --- "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." wrote: > I recently learned about two singers and am looking > for input -- I can't find samples > of their music anywhere, so if you know anything > about them, lemme know. > > Anja Garbarek seems to keep good company (Robert > Wyatt and Steven Wilson of Porcupine > Tree), and Stina Nordenstam has been whispered about > in the Ecto circles in usenet, > and seems like she might be interesting. > > > Was anyone else as freaked out as I was when I heard > Tones on Tail's "Go" in a > TV commercial? What was it for, potato chips or > something? > > "Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya yaaaaa-aaaaah." Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:04:43 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: feg reading On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Sweet & Tender Hooligan wrote: > > So what else is being read now? Right now I'm reading James Gleick's _Faster_, and really annoyed with it - -- glib and preachy. Very disappointing. Some of the more warped of you feggy folk might enjoy the novels of Donald Antrim, though -- i just read his first, _Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World_, and third, _The Verificationist_. Erudite, surreal, unreliable narrator-driven, postmodern sort of things. I liked "Robinson," despite a weak ending, better than "Verificationist," mostly because the former was a little broader in its satire. - -- d. - ------------------------------------------------- Mayo-Wells Media Workshop dmw@ http://www.mwmw.com mwmw.com Web Development * Multimedia Consulting * Hosting ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:21:39 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: HALF PRICE FANNY BRAWNE WORKOUT VIDEOS!! Forgot to mention how much I liked Kay's little line about time travelling emails. I remember noticing at least one email from James-Dignan-Across-the-Dateline that was dated tomorrow, relativistically. Kay on Percy-- >He was this great humanistic revolutionary idealist who couldnt even >be decent to his own family. ... >The man had -no- common sense. I don't know Shelly & Byron well enuf, there's beautiful stuff there, plus they did help dramatize the image of poets & artists. But Keats is my favorite. Particularly in his shorter works, his language is like the best of Shakespeare & so is his empathy. PLUS as poet Donald Hall said, if you were in the presence of that set of poets & had to ask someone for practical advice you would have asked Keats. He died from doing his job as a doctor. Hall has a poem about Keats, can't remember the title, where someone who doesn't get it says something like "hell, he was a doctor, he saw all kinds of gross stuff, he shouldda known better than that 'Truth is Beauty' stuff." Frankinstein-- There's a very cool hypertext fiction/graphic thing by aptly named Shelly Jackson called Patchwork Girl that makes great use of the Frankenstein/Mary Shelly connection. At www.eastgate.com IMO Shelly & Byron were just begging to be in a Ken Russell movie. Feg reading-- I just finished The Great Indoors, poems by Terence Winch, who also writes songs & sings for Celtic Thunder. He's got two schizophrenic styles: one, cut & dried slice of life realism that he did in Irish Musicians/American Friends, & a surreal fragmented & emotional style he uses here. I'm now going back thru The Rediscovery of Man, the collected stories of Cordwainer Smith, a fantastic & neglected writer specialising in culture-conflict sci-fi (he grew up in China). Also The Marble Faun by Hawthorne. So far, a bit iffy, but his supernatural stories are some of the all time greats. Lots of great recommendations in the last couple of digests & Mr. Burch's interview. Moby Dick! One of my absolutely top favorite books, and I hate water and don't like the beach! Ross Taylor have a great labrodor weekend! Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 03:25:42 -0700 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Sheets, Kelley, etc. Nat gnats, >And all three >younger Romantic poets figure prominently in "The Stress of Her Regard" by >Tim Powers. My obsession with this novel in my freshman year of college >was what got me turned on to the Romantic poets in the first place. I was going to suggest this one as well -- I think it is fantastic! Tim Powers is one of the best "fantasy" writers out there right now, along with Gene Wolfe. "Stress of her Regard" is my favorite of his novels. I am on a big Melville kick right now, which has lead me to read the new book "Ahab's Wife" which SUCKED! It was the suckiest piece of suck that ever sucked. I mean, it's not like I was expecting dinosaurs or anything, but it was just page after page of suck. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:36:30 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: we're all starf*ckers I guess! [regarding Kirsty MacColl photo] >erm, consider this the formal request to get that puppy scanned and >available for possible perusal, if you can. Huh. I *did* have a scanned version yesterday, because I wanted to send it to Kirsty's old I.R.S. publicist (a good friend of mine). But I deleted it afterwards. I could scan it again, I guess. Does anyone else want it besides Jeff? (Caution: The photo has no nudity whatsoever.) >I used to be on the look-out for 60s/70s movies bout seriously and >hilarously disfunctional rich families and the kids attempt to make a break >for it. Hmmm...yeah, that IS quite a mini-genre, isn't it? Seems like I've seen a million of those films, but the titles are all bleeding together for me right now. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:42:56 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: we're all starf*ckers I guess! On Fri, Aug 31, 2001, Eb wrote: > Huh. I *did* have a scanned version yesterday, because I wanted to send it > to Kirsty's old I.R.S. publicist (a good friend of mine). But I deleted it > afterwards. I could scan it again, I guess. Does anyone else want it > besides Jeff? (Caution: The photo has no nudity whatsoever.) I was going to say that I wanted to see it, but if there is no nudity, then forget it. What is this world coming to? - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:43:37 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: we're all starf*ckers I guess! On Fri, Aug 31, 2001, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > erm, consider this the formal request to get that puppy scanned and > available for possible perusal, if you can. that's certainly something > cooler to have than a napkin signed by Jim Nabors. Hey, now THAT'S something to treasure! Well gooooooooooooooooolly! ;-) - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:47:03 -0700 From: "Scott McCleary" Subject: Current reading I'm the kind of reader who lets magazines pile up for months before diving in and charging through them. I have pulled out a number of Haruki Murakami pieces that have been popping up in The New Yorker. Anyone interested in copies (Bayard?)? Now also reading Peter Everett's "Bellocq's Women." I've had the Storyville Portraits book for years, and Everett does an interesting job of recreating (with the emphasis on creating) the life of a little-known early 20th-century photographer (about all Bellocq left to the ages was a series of fascinating prints of New Orleans prostitutes from around 1912, which were the inspiration for the film "Pretty Baby"). Two posts in a day -- must REALLY not want to do the next newsletter project.... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:39:49 +0000 From: "Budd Leia" Subject: Re: feg reading and finny Troggs Quail Read your interview and and am putting one of your quotes in my commonplace book: "You can never read the same book twice." Nice. - -------------------- Branscombe: >One After 909 Am I betraying my ignorance or is 909 505? - ------------ S&TH >On the meatier side of things, I've recently re-read John Sanders' >"The >God Who Risks: A Theology of Divine Providence", but I don't >imagine >anyone here is interested in that. Still, an excellent read. Fraid Im interested in that. Liked the sound of the title so I searched for it here but we dont own it. Whats it like? - -------------- Godwin Creedence could also mean "Round the Bend"(or is "Ride the Wind" or "The Rising Wind" arrgh? Anyway, would love to hear them handle the guitar zing on that one. Lifts me off my feet everytime.) - ------------- Eleanor: >I love Bryson. Unlike Theroux, he is a much happier person. Girl, that is so funny and so true.:-) Ive been meaning to read his "A Walk in the Woods" which is about the perils and indignities of hiking the Appalachian Trail, perils and indignities I know all too well. I figure then Ill get to his other excellent stuff. Everybody whose read him seems to love him. BTW, Ive always rather enjoyed Theroux's permenent tetchiness. And some of his "middle-period" novels are damn good. - ---------- Poole: >I mean, what would the reaction be ML King was portrayed by Tom >Hanks in blackface? Have mercy! Im glad I wasnt drinking soda when I read that, otherwise I would have spewed it all over the screen. Excellent point. (Thou somehow your choice of Hanks added to the comic element.) In fairness Ill point out, however, that while Kingsley had to darken his skin, Indians, like the English, are Caucasians. Same race, whatever that means these days. One of my favorite musicals--Swing Time--has a scene where Astaire, in black-face, does a Bojangles number. I can barely watch it for cringing. Even thou I tell myself it was acceptable at the time. Still cringe, cringe. Hmmm, but I dont cringe when Tracy Ullman does it. - --------------- Nat: >I really enjoy talking about all these poet fellas again. Makes me >almost >regret not having gone to grad school. ALMOST. Man oh man, you said it. If only grad school was about loving books. But its not, it about loving theory and turning oneself into an obnoxious little snoot. - --------- Well, I have a feeling what I may -soon- be reading "The Porclein Dove" "Death of the Necromancer", "The Recognition" and "The Waking Dream", all of which sound interesting and the library owns. What Im reading, or rather rereading right now is "The Libation -Bearers" and "The Eumenides" which, when finished and properly digested will be followed by Goethe's "Iphigenia in Tauris." I was planing to tackle Hayman's "Life of Jung" next but that may go on hold. Ive also got "God in Granite, The Art of the White Mountains" which is about painting in New Hampshire. - ------------- Doh Music Question The first few guitar notes of the Jam's "Bitterest Pill" are the first few notes of what other really obvious familiar song which is -so- on the tip of my brain right now but it just -wouldnt- tip over? Its driving me nuts. I know I know it ... I just dont know it. Plus I have an irrational fear that it may somehow turn out to be a song which will forever expose my complete lack of hippness but nevertheless---I gotta find out;-) - ---------------- Kay, off to hell "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: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:07:12 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: feg reading and finny Troggs >>Kay, off to hell Mention my name at the door, and they'll give you a complimentary Margarita. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:20:04 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: feg reading and finny Troggs > The first few guitar notes of the Jam's "Bitterest Pill" are > the first few > notes of what other really obvious familiar song which is > -so- on the tip of > my brain right now but it just -wouldnt- tip over? Its > driving me nuts. I > know I know it ... I just dont know it. It doesn't sound *exactly* like anything to me, but it reminds me a bit of the first few notes of "All The Young Dudes", and there's also a bit that sounds like "Burning Of The Midnight Lamp". Don't know if either of those help, but I know how miserable it is to have a song on the tip of your brain, just out of reach. Courage. +brian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:35:01 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: A long post about topics of recent interest On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:43:24 Natalie Jane Jacobs wrote: >magazines. Apparently Keats's main sin was being >lower-class and daring to write poetry. The classism in >these attacks is almost beyond belief. There is that. A related, less egregious sin seems to have been the idea of a doctor writing poetry, which provoked much mirth for some apparently. "Go back to the apothecary!", nyuk nyuk. >In other words, he wasn't a wilting flower cut down by the >cruelty of the critics. Oh not at all. He was a pretty tough-minded sort overall I think. I agree with Ross T.- if you wanted anything practical, of the three you'd definitely want to ask him first. I'd embellish by saying Byron a hesitant second depending on what sort of thing you needed (he had more common sense than some credit him with and some odd areas of practical knowledge), and PBS absolutely dead last, only after you'd asked the children, the dog and the goldfish. Anyway, it seems Shelley had a cherished idea of who Keats was, that he didn't see was more like himself (or more accurately, the poet/person ideal he wanted to be) than the actual Keats. Supposedly he had a volume of Keats with him on the fatal sailing trip. It wasn't there for reading as stormy nights are obviously not the best time for that, so I think he must have just carried it around like some sort of talisman. Didn't Mary keep his heart wrapped up in some pages of Keats? There's that whole oddball story about how everything but his heart burned, and Byron told Trelawny to snatch it out of the fire, and Mary kept it with her always either wrapped in pages of Keats or pressed in a volume of Keats (that seems sort of, er, impractical, but no less improbable than the rest of it, I suppose). >I believe he caught TB from nursing his brother, who also died >of it. That sounds right. Wasn't that what decided him on a medical career? >I'm always impressed by the way "Frankenstein" has worked its >way into our culture and is known - at least in name - by just >about everyone. How many people would recognize the name of a >Percy Shelley poem if they heard it? I take your point and am not knocking the idea, but I do wonder how much of that is about Mary Shelley and how much of that is about James Whale? There's a reason most people think Frankenstein is the monster's name. Kay: >He was this great humanistic revolutionary idealist who >couldnt even be decent to his own family. That was the thing. I don't know about "couldn't be decent", so much as he was just so amazingly thoughtless, and didn't really ever consider the effect his decisions had on those around him. And with his eyes so fixated on the stars, invariably stuff that was happening on Earth got short shrift. I think he just honestly didn't notice most of what went on around him, maybe 80 percent of the time, and that it wasn't deliberate, either, he just -wasn't here-. But there's no real way of knowing that. >could have done is gone off to fight for Greece(and be knocked >in his head for his labors) Well, Byron did put his money (and life) where his mouth was, that's true. Poor guy, didn't he die before he even saw any serious fighting? >instead of going sailing when no decent sailor would(or at >least first properly learned -how- to sail. The thing about that is, that while there are lots of rumors as to what actually happened, and no way to know what did, he did have two experienced sailors with him and THEY ought to have known better but maybe thought between the two of them they could handle it. Apparently he wanted to make notes for a poem about sailing in a storm? I seem to recall something like that. The suicide rumor seems bogus. I don't think he would have taken two other people with him if that's what he had meant to do. Impractical and thoughtless to the point of unintentional cruelty he often was, but deliberately taking two of your buds on a suicide voyage is something else that Shelley wasn't. loveonya, susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:37:57 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: what i'm reading I was trying to reread John Christopher's Tripods trilogy but it's as tedious (though good) as I remembered. So I am taking a break to read: GET SHORTY by James Ellroy -- good clean fun. The writing is better than I expected; it's pitch-perfect "I'm tellin ya a story so pay attention, wise guy" prose, not first-person but might as well be. Light entertainment, but quality light entertainment, just as the movie was. WHICH LIE DID I TELL? by William "The Princess Bride" Goldman -- another book written in fast-paced conversational style, but this one is non-fiction. It's about Goldman's extensive experience writing screenplays for some-good-some-not-so-good Hollywood movies. Very hard to put down, and it gives an interesting perspective on some major stars (Michael Douglas, Clint Eastwood, and our own Gene Hackman among them) I hadn't previously thought much about. I'm going to get a few more books out of the way before I start in on GORMENGHAST (the second book); among them, probably, the ubiquitous THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE, a couple of the Daniel Pinkwater books I remember fondly from childhood, and maybe BRIDESHEAD REVISITED and/or Stephen Fry's autobiography. Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:55:10 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: if i can't say something nice, i reach for the reply button >From: "Sweet & Tender Hooligan" > >Also, everyone should read "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony >Snicket (yes, I read children's books - one of the many perks of having a >2-year old). I really wanted to like this, but after the first book I'm not as thrilled as I wanted to be. The whole thing is a little too self-conscious and sketch-y for my tastes. My favorite children's books still feel real to me; these don't. Do they get better as they go on? I love the autobiographical fiction, however. That, and the overall Gorey feel of it all, pique my interest far more. >From: Christopher Gross > >_In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line_, also by Neal Stephenson. >A short, entertaining and easy to understand pro-Linux tract. (However, I >disagree with his harsh assessment of GUIs; they might not give the power >user as much, um, power as a CLI, but they do give novices and casual >users a lot more power than they would have if limited to a CLI.) You put that very well -- I love CLI but it's easy to see that it's a suboptimal interface for almost everyone but geeks. Sad that Stephenson couldn't; that screed really irritated me. Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:31:17 -0700 From: Nur Gale Subject: Re. Anja Garbarek and Stina Nordenstam? I only know about Anja's father Jan who i have been a die-hard fan of since the early 70s, when he was playing in the scandinavian George Russell school of jazz -- along with T Rypdal, P. Danielsson, J. Christensen, et al. -- and now perhaps the most respected saxist in continental europe. so i can only imagine that she would be rather extraordinary.... I did heard she tutored for a while with Mari Boine, another remarkable euro-jazz vocalist trained in the Lappland tradition - -- boine is definitely worth checking out too, i only have some of her concerts, hard to find her stuff here. Yeah.. i heard that Robert Wyatt has collaborated with Anja... hmmm.. keep me posted if you come across any samples. nur np: habib koite, Bochum Ger 1998 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:50:20 -0700 From: Eb Subject: The blubbering goes on...and on...and on.... Try as I might... ...I just can't accept that Aaliyah's death is an incalculable loss to the music world. But boy, the world is working hard to convince me that it is. Curmudgeonly, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:27:56 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: The blubbering goes on...and on...and on.... on 8/31/01 5:50 PM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: > > ...I just can't accept that Aaliyah's death is an incalculable loss to the > music world. ...and just like Tupac, she'll be putting out albums for the next ten years. weekend, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:34:14 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: books, books, books On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 01:19 PM, Natalie Jane Jacobs wrote: > "Dangerous Visions," an SF anthology edited by Harlan Ellison, who foams > at the mouth trying to prove how daring and dangerous all the stories > are, > when they're not, really. Maybe they were more dangerous in 1967? - - Steve __________ No earnest American watching Bush on TV the other night, no mater how far gone in their swoon over his stem cell homily, could help noticing the blankness of his close-set eyes. - Les Payne, Newsday ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:50:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: The blubbering goes on...and on...and on.... On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Eb wrote: > Try as I might... > > ...I just can't accept that Aaliyah's death is an incalculable loss to the > music world. > > But boy, the world is working hard to convince me that it is. > > Curmudgeonly, > Eb Are you questioning the acuity, veracity, and sanctity of the entertainment and idolatry driven corporate media? There's hope yet. Now, if you just notice that it's purpose is to produce inexpensive, content-free programming to please sponsors and depoliticize the public, we might be going somewhere. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #325 ********************************