From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #382 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, October 3 2001 Volume 10 : Number 382 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegbooks [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Capitalist Alert [GSS ] Re: Buffy crash [steve ] RE: Buffy crash ["Poole, R. Edward" ] Re: lennon tribute on TNT [HAL ] Re: levity [Aaron Mandel ] take my blood... please! ["Natalie Jane" ] bound to replace the mud shark in YOUR mythology ["ross taylor" ] Re: bound to replace the mud shark in YOUR mythology [HAL ] Re: re-entry [strange little woj ] Re: lennon tribute on TNT [Aaron Mandel ] Re: lennon tribute on TNT ["Ultimate Goal" ] Buff Kilts ["Viola Rockiss" ] RE: lennon tribute on TNT ["Bachman, Michael" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 14:48:59 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: fegbooks On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Viola Rockiss wrote: > SheRex Hurrah! How easy to use. How usefull. And to think I just fell over > a used paperback by Iain Banks(who Id previously not known about) and am > very very pleased indeed, he's gripping -and- intelligent- and -slightly > skewed-, in short, perfect for a fall patch of flu. And now I see he's > listed and properly praised. Note that Ian Banks writes as Iain Banks and also as Iain M Banks. One is 'serious', the other is 'genre fiction' IIRC. No idea which is which, I've never read him. - - Mike Godwin PS I just read 'Hippopotamus' by Stephen Fry which was better than I expected it to be. Very warped, with overtones of P G Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis. Overwritten of course, but I expected that :) PPS Talking of Stephen Fry, I just caught his cameo as Lord Snot in that hilarious Young Ones episode where Scumbag Coll go on University Challenge. That episode really was exactly like real life - you frantically revise rivers of Yorkshire on the train up to Manchester, and then get stuffed by an Oxbridge team. Well, it happened to me, anyway. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 08:57:46 -0500 (CDT) From: GSS Subject: Re: Capitalist Alert For those interested; SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Hoping to end its six-year run of losses, Salon.com began charging Monday for once-free content, a move that will transform much of the online newspaper's Web site into a subscription-based service. The switch comes six months after San Francisco-based Salon began offering readers a chance to read an advertising-free version of its Web site for $30 a year. The subscription service also offered some columns and other features unavailable in the free version. The decision to charge for virtually all its staff-written copy is part of an effort to survive an Internet shakeout that has wiped out hundreds of Web sites in the past year. To stay afloat, the online paper's parent company, Salon Media Group Inc., has raised $3.25 million from 15 investors. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:02:56 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Buffy crash On Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at 01:22 AM, Eb wrote: > PS Anyone else surprised that the "Buffy" premiere ended with a *tower > collapsing*? Symbolic of the fact that Buffy will not be going back to the land of the dead. Kinda hard to delay the season premier. - - Steve __________ Calling George W. Bush and Jesse Helms "public servants" is like calling Iran-contra criminal Elliott Abrams an "outstanding diplomat"--which is precisely what White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer did when he announced Abrams' appointment as senior director of the National Security Council's Office for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations. - Terry J. Allen, In These Times ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:16:01 -0400 From: "Poole, R. Edward" Subject: RE: Buffy crash On Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at 01:22 AM, Eb wrote: >> PS Anyone else surprised that the "Buffy" premiere ended with a *tower >> collapsing*? Steve: >Symbolic of the fact that Buffy will not be going back to the land of >the dead. Kinda hard to delay the season premier. I, for one, am glad they didn't alter the ending because of the WTC -- I mean, it's a pretty tenuous connection (though, I admit, I did think about it while watching). The media's efforts -- particularly Hollywood -- to erase all reminders of the towers or anything to do with terrorism actually makes it worse for me. I mean, there is no way we are going to forget this, even for a couple of hours while watching a movie, and trying to eliminate all "reminders" is absurd. I saw "Zoolander" last weekend (good, not great - -- as Altman found out in "Ready to Wear," the fashion industry is so silly to begin with, satire is difficult to distinguish from reality; still, "Zoolander" was MUCH better than RTW) and they had digitally erased the WTC from a couple of (brief) shots of the NYC skyline. I noticed their absence much more than I would have noticed their presence. I also read that at screenings of another movie ("Glitter," perhaps?) that did NOT digitally remove the WTC, the audience actually cheered when they appeared onscreen (perhaps because they were so starved for something positive whilst being subjected both to Mariah's "acting" and her screeching). Oh, and BUFFY LIVES. Pretty dark ep, eh? - - Steve __________ Calling George W. Bush and Jesse Helms "public servants" is like calling Iran-contra criminal Elliott Abrams an "outstanding diplomat"--which is precisely what White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer did when he announced Abrams' appointment as senior director of the National Security Council's Office for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations. - Terry J. Allen, In These Times ============================================================================This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. 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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: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:06:22 -0600 From: HAL Subject: Re: lennon tribute on TNT Nuppy: > I don't know about the rest of you but I got chills all over my body (I'm > not kidding) when Sean Lennon sang the middle part to "This Boy." Talent or > not, that moved me. I know what you mean there. That was my initial fanboy reaction; I want to 'believe'. Then, I remembered the liner notes to Sean's facile solo album in which he thanks 'Mom and Sam (Havadtoy)' and *not* John. OK, the kid was five when his daddy died, so maybe he considers Sam his Dad, but Sean also gave plenty of interviews at the time where he slammed John's 'indiscretions', pointing to Yoko's 'masterpiece' "Death Of Samantha" (which was written about the aforementioned 'indiscretions'). So, why then is he pulling our emotional strings on TV singing "This Boy"? FAILED SOLO CAREER. That's why. Nepotism in the worst possible way. Brr. Now I've got shivers. > "Come Together" came through excellent as well. Who was that? It was > beautiful. I agree. Eb differs by saying: > Craig David. Almost good, but then he started embellishing with "Do you > know whum I'm sayin?"-type banalities between verses. Eb, you said that Old Black Leather(face) Lou was the only one who had a 'strong sense of personal interpretation'. I'd have to give that to this guy as well, despite the 'you know whut I'm sayin'?' stuff (which *can* be grating, but at least Craig did it naturally, rythmically and sparingly). > Yeah, Kevin Spacey did a real nice "Mind Games." He meant what he sang. Exactly! Most of the others were all about showbiz and false sentimentality. Kevin seemed to really mean it spiritually. And, he got a BIG standing ovation, so it was palpable to the house crowd as well. > I missed everything before this. Anything good? Not really. As mentioned before, the actual Lennon interview montages were the best parts. /hal, wondering if the McCartney thing'll be any better ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:05:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: levity On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > wish they wouldn't take cheap shots at the midwest, tho'; seems that > every recent story is set in a town where I have friends and family -- > Topeka, KS; Springfield, MO, etc... The Onion was based until very recently in Madison, WI, where I grew up; if they're slagging other parts of the midwest, it's familiarity-based contempt, not generic coastal arrogance. Actually, a lot of the stories set in small towns still use the names of streets and businesses from Madison. aaron ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 08:48:55 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: take my blood... please! Gol dingit, I made an appointment with the Red Cross and drove out there (getting lost en route), and after much questioning and pricking of fingers, I was told that I am ineligible to give blood because I spent more than 6 months in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996. Jeez, the only meat I remember eating there was New Zealand lamb... oh, and lots of sausages. Uh oh. The novel-writing competition looks tempting, but I have such terrible writer's block - I haven't even finished a short story in five years. On the other hand, this might jumpstart me. On the other other hand, I really don't have the time. Susan, those Soft Boys concert pictures are awesome. I wish you'd gotten a shot of Matthew playing with three strings, though. :) I also enjoyed the very flattering shot of my right arm. n. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:55:01 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: bound to replace the mud shark in YOUR mythology Make love to Elizabeth Taylor. Catch hell from Richard Burton. Bob Dylan said that. Tangled up in tape-- Forget DVD, do "synchronous dubbing" tapedecks still exist, the kind that paused the tape while the CD was changing? I got very attached to our old one, & am not sure I'm ready to spend to convert over to all CD-R or whatever yet. - --- She.Rex -- great new site, still exploring. - --- Mr. Hoppstetter/novels-- Thanks, I'm forwarding this to folks. Perhaps this will get me off my but to trash the novel I'm working on, write the one enumerating all the different alternate pop music realities Hendrix might have been in if the ambulance men had laid him down instead of sitting him up in the front seat, causing him to choke on his puke. As told by two guys sitting in a restaurant which changes slightly depending on which reality they describe, called "Still Raining, Still Dreaming ..." - --- >"Billy was a mountain / Ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder." "Hey, Ethel, there's a Howard Johnsons. Wanna eat some c c l l a a m m s s ?" IMO later Zappa humor is still fun if it has a personal/social context, like good times watching Saturday Nite Live. They're still fun lines to quote out of context as a code to other fans. The early humor was integral to the music -- the timing of those snippets in Idiot Bastard Son was musical. I'm also not crazy about his guitar -- technically fine, but brutes like Page or Ron Wood have more feeling. His "composed" guitar early was fine but kinda derrivative. I've just recently realized the guitar on Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin on Absolutely Free was just doing David Crosby over a speeded up 8 Miles Hi riff. Speaking of Sat Nite Live, I have fond memories of the performance of I'm the Slime w/ Don Pardo doing the monologue. He lost me w/ Sheik Yerbouti -- I was so dissapointed by it's failure to be punk. It tried hard, but something about the difference between that & real punk could inspire many long boring essays. "Flower Punk" on Only In It For the Money was the real thing. - --- Garbage-- same take on 2.0 -- somehow it was too much big crunchy hard rock (this from a Stones fan). Loved the 1st one, & it's not just Shirley I swear. - --- Not having my own personal TV is sometimes a problem sometimes a blessing in Americas New War. Spooky stuff about the murder on the Greyhound bus from Tenessee, even if it's just a crazy cracker copycatting the the terrorists. People! Don't talk to me about People! - --- 2 favorite things about Sometime in New York City -- "The Luck of The Irish," because my family has been involved in lots of traditional Irish music over the past 15 years due to my in-laws. I hadn't heard the song in ages & then when Yoko takes a verse, oh shit it's glorious. Then "We're All Water" because she sounds excactly like a wah-wah pedal. 3rd thing, John's NYC song where he musically gets down on his knees and kisses the pavement. Ross Taylor when's that October SBs record? & kisses the pa Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:08:27 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: The Gliders at The Borderline in case you've forgotten, the gliders would be andy taylor, sean lyons and morris windsor. >Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:32:07 +0100 >Subject: The Gliders at The Borderline >From: Sean Lyons >To: Gliders Mail Out > >The Gliders are playing The Borderline, Orange Yard, off Charing Cross Rd, >London W1 tomorrow, Thursday 4th October Stage time 8.20pm Apologies for >late mail out but the other act, Dolly Varden, are coming in from the U.S.A >and only just confirmed......and we missed the listings so don't get >confused by a lack of billing around the venue > >Hope you can make it and look forward to seeing you there. > >-- >The Gliders >mail@thegliders.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 10:41:29 -0600 From: HAL Subject: Re: bound to replace the mud shark in YOUR mythology Ross: > Zappa humor is still fun if it has > a personal/social context, like good times > watching Saturday Nite Live. They're still > fun lines to quote out of context as a code to > other fans. "Opel, you HOT LITTLE BITCH!" - Jimmy Carl Black as Lonesome Cowboy Burt > Speaking of Sat Nite Live, I have fond memories > of the performance of I'm the Slime w/ Don > Pardo doing the monologue. The 'Zappa In New York' live CD is *all* 'narrated' by Don Pardo! A must have (with the definitive 'Illinois Enema Bandit' and 'Punky's Whips'). Back to SNL: Remember the 'Night On Freak Mountain' sketch in the same show, where notoriously drug-free Frank runs off the road and has to go to the 'cheepnis'-style horror-movie haunted house? There, he encounters a 'hippie dude' (Dan Ackroyd) who keeps trying to give him drugs, and when FZ refuses, Dan's incredulous 'You've NEVER done drugs?! But you're FRANK ZAPPA!!' is priceless. In the background, a tripping-his-brains-out John Belushi ('Windowpane Watson') gives a paranoid, twitchy-herky-jerky, wordless performance that still cracks me up thinking about it. In a later sketch, FZ blows a line and breaks character during The Coneheads, visibly infuriating Ackroyd and causing Frank to be banned from the show in the future. > He lost me w/ Sheik Yerbouti -- I was so > dissapointed by it's failure to be punk. It > tried hard, but something about the difference > between that & real punk could inspire many > long boring essays. "Flower Punk" on Only In It > For the Money was the real thing. Frank was never about musical trends. You wouldn't see FZ fronting any little 'Tinseltown Rebellion Band'. Having said that, 'Flower Punk' is, indeed, fantastic. Knocking the piss out of the hippie movement as it was happening demonstrates what I'm talking about. See the consistancy? True Visionaries are true to THEMSELVES. Why should Frank make a 'punk album' when he can make a Zappa album? > favorite things about Sometime in New York > City -- "The Luck of The Irish" > John's NYC song where he musically gets down on his knees and kisses the pavement. Indeed! "Que pasa, New York?" Most of the album was done in 'reporting' mode (ala Brecht/Weill) (hence the newspaper graphics) and is therefore a bit dated sounding today (although I still like 'John Sinclair'). The original demos for the LP (thank you bootleggers) are TOTALLY different lyrically and were seemingly cannibalized at the last minute to create the 'what's-happening-now' effect. Not John's best. And to tie these topics together (and if you enjoy moving 'beyond mere rock 'n' roll into the dangerous realm of social anthropology'), try comparing the Lennon/Mothers jam disc included w/ 'Sometime in NYC' to the non-altered version of the same material on FZ's 'Playground Psychotics' for a laugh at Yoko's expense. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:55:12 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: Re: Buffy crash when we last left our heroes, steve exclaimed: >On Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at 01:22 AM, Eb wrote: >> PS Anyone else surprised that the "Buffy" premiere ended with a *tower >> collapsing*? while, like nearly everyone else, i imagine, i made some off-hand comment about that, i was much more surprised that the tower was still standing after the summer, especially once its rickety condition became obvious. >Symbolic of the fact that Buffy will not be going back to the land of >the dead. Kinda hard to delay the season premier. i'm usually not one to nit-pick shows and i appreciate the tower's demise as a link to buffy's resurrection but tower not being pulled down by the townspeople or falling down of its own accord seemed a bit of a stretch to me. (the whole episode did, actually, but i can accept fantastical stretches where "normal" ones are an issue.) woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:11:57 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: Re: re-entry when we last left our heroes, Jill Brand exclaimed: >I want to get Gotta Let This Hen Out, >but I'm a bit confused. I went to Amazon, and they seem to have two >versions on DVD at slightly (marginally) different prices. Can someone >advise me on which to order? i don't know if we ever figured out why amazon.com has the two listings. (and this is further complicated since the one that amazon.co.uk lists has a *third* asin number.) probably a typo. i ordered and received the slightly more expensive one from amazon.com and it's, as jh3 said, actually an american-distributed (by music video distributors) release of the region 0 dvd on visionary. on the bottom right of the case's back, there is the music video distributors logo and a upc code (22891 96212), which i don't think a straight british release would have. (can anyone confirm or deny?) >And is there a difference between the >British one (is there a British one?) and these two American releases? as far as we know, no. woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 13:17:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: lennon tribute on TNT On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, HAL wrote: > I'd have to give that to this guy as well, despite the 'you know whut > I'm sayin'?' stuff (which *can* be grating, but at least Craig did it > naturally, rythmically and sparingly). I actually like the Craig David album a lot, as much for his vocals as for the Artful Dodger's bouncy production. A British friend of mine says he's huge in the UK, and I can see how his constant asides (he says his own name in a surprisingly large number of songs) could be irritating self-aggrandizement if his face was on all the magazine covers. But it's not, over here, and so I'm fine with it. I also, for some reason, find it really cute that he has two unrelated songs with the same name ("Fill Me In"). a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:53:51 -0400 From: "Ultimate Goal" Subject: Re: lennon tribute on TNT HAL responded: >Nuppy: > > > I don't know about the rest of you but I got chills all over my body >(I'm > > not kidding) when Sean Lennon sang the middle part to "This Boy." Talent >or > > not, that moved me. > >I know what you mean there. That was my initial fanboy reaction; I want >to 'believe'. Then, I remembered the liner notes to Sean's facile solo >album in which he thanks 'Mom and Sam (Havadtoy)' and *not* John. OK, >the kid was five when his daddy died, so maybe he considers Sam his Dad, >but Sean also gave plenty of interviews at the time where he slammed >John's 'indiscretions', pointing to Yoko's 'masterpiece' "Death Of >Samantha" (which was written about the aforementioned 'indiscretions'). >So, why then is he pulling our emotional strings on TV singing "This >Boy"? FAILED SOLO CAREER. That's why. Nepotism in the worst possible >way. Brr. Now I've got shivers. Well, I can't argue with personal opinion. I wasn't looking at the liner notes (or even considering them) when I saw this performance. I just thought it was good. The middle part where the other vocals dropped off was perfect IMO. I guess I'm the only one. If Sean wants to thank Sam and not John that's his own business. Whatever's from the heart. Maybe he didn't thank his (real) father, because he wasn't around to help him. Thus what would he be thanking him for? That's any easy target, right? He'd be thanking him for making it so Sean doesn't have to work a day in his life if he doesn't want to. I listened to Sean Lennon's "Into The Sun" today. I must admit most of these are very weak songs. I like the 1st track though. Is there another solo album? Is it worse or better? Lou Reed's version of Jealous Guy did very little for me. The backing music was fine. It seemed to really come together at the guitar solo. Didn't Lou use to really rip on the Beatles in the 60's? The free flowing rap in Come Together was to me very natural and impressive. I would like to own a copy of this version. Raw: acoustic guitar and vocals. Nuppster _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 21:07:04 +0000 From: "Viola Rockiss" Subject: Buff Kilts Welcome back Jill - ---------------- Gene, chorteling like a fiendish cherub posted: >http://www.nanowrimo.com/ >"National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to >novel >writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a >200-page >(50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30." >It sounds like a lot of fun and exactly the sort of thing that might >actually >get me off of my literary butt to write the novel I've been thinking about >for >the past decade (and, sadly, also encourage run-on sentences like this >one). And from their FAQ >Aiming low is the best way to succeed. With entry-level novel writing, >shooting for the moon is the surest way to get nowhere. With high > >expectations, everything you write will sound cheesy and awkward. Once >you start evaluating your story in terms of word count, you take that > >pressure off yourself. This is just what I need--self-consiousness and high expectations are my personal devils. So God help me--Im doing it. (Did I say that? I cant believe I said that but--yeah, I signed up.(Shit, what have I set myself up for?)(And the Christmas Pagent right afterwards--I direct our Church's Christmas pagent which dosnt sound like much cept the cast runs at around 100 people and we get close to 1,000 for an audience--so in my neck of the wood, its a very, very big community deal indeed.) Susan, Gene, you gonna do it? (No, not the pageant sillies)! - --------------- Mike, I love a man in a kilt. Especially if he has cute thighs n calfs with nicely curling leg hairs and wears those funny knee socks which shows it all off so well. Really. But is the Thinsulite in regulation tartan? - ------------------- Went with resurecting Buffy over reburnt Lennon. Not sure what I think of this episode till we see how it plays out. Its seems a setting-up episode. Andyeah, the dark tower falls. But Spike(ohhh--baaad perm) is calling Dawn pigeon, which makes for one more interesting association with the symbol. (Still say Dawn has other powers as the Keyshe dosnt know about yet but ..we shall see.) And Willow's going to have some "interesting times" coming up, methinks. Also, Buffy now having been dead has aqcuired a type of immortality which gives her more in common with the monsters she fights than the other humans she defends. Which could also get interesting. But after the crash bang hooha of the season finale it was actually abit of a let-down episode. The demons were almost -too- easy. But it cant be hooha all the time, can it? - ---------------- Steve: >Are you speaking of his "mainstream" novels as Iain, or his SF novels as Iain M.? Fraid just Iain.Ive been trying to read some in the thriller/mystery genre in the last year and usually I buy one the libes used-book store and dont get thru the 3rd chapter. The writing can be pretty pat. But this zings so Im in till the finish. Besides the protoganist is an addictive personality with interesting musical tastes. Close enough to home to be compelling. YesI gather he does SF as well as thrillers, and all I can say is, I have a feeling this could be the beginning of a beautiful readership. - ------------------- Kay "You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were." Ray Bradbury _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:06:55 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: lennon tribute on TNT Nuppy wrote: >Lou Reed's version of Jealous Guy did very little for me. The backing music >was fine. It seemed to really come together at the guitar solo. Didn't Lou >use to really rip on the Beatles in the 60's? Lou hated the psychedelic sounds of the 1966-67 period, from what I remember reading in various VU liner notes. So I think he ripped Sgt. Pepper era Beatles. I can't remember reading anthing about him hating earlier Beatles, but he no doubt said something about them. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:29:39 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: FW: URGENT ASSISTANCE Here we go. Now it's back to the original Nigerian Security Officer. 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