From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #1 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, January 2 2002 Volume 11 : Number 001 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: happy 2002 ["Randy R." ] Re: happy 2002 [gSs ] Syd Vid [bayard ] Re: sorry jesus, forgot your birthday again ["matt sewell" ] Re: Funeral Tapes [Eb ] Re: Funeral Tapes [Ken Weingold ] robynhitchcock.com update [strange little woj ] my winter hols ["Natalie Jane" ] Movies, Music, Staves [The Great Quail ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 09:40:27 -0800 From: "Randy R." Subject: Re: happy 2002 - ----- Original Message ----- From: Melissa Higuchi Subject: happy 2002 > the second and probably last palindromic year i'll see > > melissa Good morning. My name is Vincent. My best friend vomited into my trash can and then kicked me out of my own house. It was a lovely evening. Thank you for listening..... Vince (PS-----and Geddy Lee didn't come over to help me) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 14:30:42 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: happy 2002 On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Randy R. wrote: > Good morning. My name is Vincent. My best friend vomited into my trash can > and then kicked me out of my own house. It was a lovely evening. It could have been worse. At least he hit the trash can so you didn't end up standing outside the house in your undershorts with puke all over yer ass. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 13:27:35 -0800 (PST) From: bayard Subject: Syd Vid According to: RockOnTV - the ultimate guide to music on television. http://www.rockontv.com VH1 Legends Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd - 01/13/02 11:00 am ET 09:00 pm ET 11:00 pm ET - -- http://glasshotel.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 22:58:00 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: sorry jesus, forgot your birthday again I don't think 23rd will be a GLH gig as Robyn is slated for the Pressure Point in Brighton on that date... know what you mean about GLP... Matt >From: Jim Davies >Reply-To: Jim Davies >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: sorry jesus, forgot your birthday again >Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 10:44:42 GMT > >'ere, > >Does anyone know whether Robyn is planning to join Grant Lee on the >23rd and 24th, prior to his own gig at the Garage on the 25th? > >On the off chance, despite the fact that much of Grant Lee's music >just bounces off me (Laurence, sorry, I know I'm a peasant), I bought >myself a couple of tickets for the 24th. > >Oh yeah, and a Happy New Year to those of you in advanced time zones - >what _are_ you doing reading email at this point? > >x Jim _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 22:21:29 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Funeral Tapes Here's something interesting. And at least a couple of our most well-loved artists are represented. . - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 23:07:04 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Funeral Tapes >Here's something interesting. And at least a couple of our most >well-loved artists are represented. >. Oh please...as if *anyone* would be able to sit through all of "American Pie." ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 02:14:43 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Funeral Tapes On Tue, Jan 1, 2002, Eb wrote: > >Here's something interesting. And at least a couple of our most > >well-loved artists are represented. > >. > > Oh please...as if *anyone* would be able to sit through all of > "American Pie." ;) Heh heh. Well maybe the Black Box Recorder version. :) - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:55:28 -0500 From: strange little woj Subject: robynhitchcock.com update the auditorium has been updated: January 4th at 9 pm UK time BBC Radio 4 broadcasts "The Condition Of The Virgin" by Boothby Graffoe,with music by Robyn. It is to be broadcast globally via the internet. January 23rd Robyn plays in Brighton at the Pressure Point woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 09:26:52 -0800 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: my winter hols Firstly and most importantly: congratulations to the ever-expanding Clark menage! (Tom, did you get to see the placenta???) So a week ago I went to the hospital to have an enlarged lymph node removed, and now I have a two-inch scar on my neck, which I am claiming is either a) a gill slit or b) the result of a swordfight. Whilst still woozy from anesthesia, I recall announcing - somewhat irrelevantly - to the OR team that "'The Simpsons' is the best show on TV." In vino veritas? In an unrelated turn of events, I went to see "Lord of the Rings" a few days later and liked it a lot. I thought the scriptwriters did an excellent job of encapsulating the story into 2.5 hours - when they cut something, I could always see the reason for it. The acting ran the gamut from Ian McKellen (excellent!) and the guy who played Boromir (very good), to Sean Astin (oh jeez, I have to watch this guy in two more films!). Elijah Wood was quite good though his immense eyes made him look like an anime character at times. I developed a crush on the adorable Scottish-accented guy who played Pippin... I should look him up on IMDB... Anyway, the movie also looked great, though I hated the elves' Swiss chalet architecture. The CGI was passable (sometimes I felt like I was watching a rather high-tech video game, especially in Moria), and the scenery was divine. (James, you are a lucky, lucky fellow.) My major beef with the film was the fucking soundtrack. When, OH WHEN, are we going to put a moratiorium on "Carmina Burana"-style chanting and (*shudder*) NEW-AGEY CELTIC MUSIC in films??? Enya is now a marked woman - I've fought duels, missy, and I have this scar to show for it! I also thought the fight between Gandalf and Saruman was the utter height of cheesiness. (This didn't happen in the book, did it? I don't remember it...) Ah, whatever, I'll probably see the movie again anyway, tho' I'll likely see "The Royal Tenenbaums" first. In other New Zealand news, the kindly postperson delivered the Chills' "Secret Box" to my very doorstep on New Year's Eve. It was the best present a girl could have! (Actually, I bought it myself. But never mind.) The "Secret Box" is a 3-disc compendium of all sorts of unreleased Chills odds and ends - B-sides, outtakes, etc. Right now I'm trawling through disc 1, which is all live stuff from 1982 and thereabouts. I must say that Martin Phillipps was a damn good songwriter for a 19-year-old, and I am also struck by how little his stuff sounded like music being made in England and the US at the time. (Though it probably sounded a lot like music being made in NZ at the time.) The box set (actually a 3-disc jewel case) is pretty cheaply packaged, but has very detailed liner notes. And I got all weak at the knees when I noticed that the customs sticker on the package appeared to be signed by an "M. Phillipps." *swoon*... :) I watched the movie of "Josie and the Pussycats" at the New Year's party I went to. This may bode ill for 2002. Hope you all had happy holidays, etc. n. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:02:17 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Movies, Music, Staves Top Five Quail 2001 Movies (so far) 1. Lord of the Rings 2. Moulin Rouge 3. Memento 4. Mullholland Drive 5. The Others gNat writes, >My major beef with the film was the fucking soundtrack. When, OH >WHEN, are we going to put a moratiorium on "Carmina Burana"-style >chanting and (*shudder*) NEW-AGEY CELTIC MUSIC in films??? Amen, sister! Now, don't get me wrong -- I *like* Carmina Burana style chanting. But it has to be done right, and uniquely, or it sounds so cliched -- and as much respect as I have for Howard Shore, I think Jackson would have done better to use Kubrik's method of choosing existing music for a score. There's a lot of seriously creepy "Nazgul" chanting style music out there that does not sound like "O Fortuna." Having said that, I think the score was still a cut above the standard Hollywood Williams/Zimmer/Horner tripe, and the main theme was quite good. Though, I would much rather have had real traditional music used rather than Enya. And I for one *missed* all the Tolkein songs! And while on the subject, I *loved* the Leonard Rosenman score for the Bakshi animated "Lord of the Rings." The Mordor music was weird and atonal when it needed to be, which was genuinely scary -- and the Orcs were suitably bolstered by a martial theme. (His music for "Rebel Without a Cause" was also surprisingly modern.) Now....to skylark here.... I would *love* to see a "Lord of the Rings" movie with several different composers, each one set to score a different race or culture.... This is the approach Jodorowski wanted to take with his never-made "Dune" epic, and I think it's a great idea. Mordor could be represented by atonal weirdness ala Ligeti or Bartok; the humans get sweeping, tonal themes like those penned by Shore; the hobbits get traditional Celtic folksy music, the Elves get "Holy minimalism" such as Gorecki or Part; and the orcs are scored with a battery of unholy percussion, something maybe out of a Mickey Hart meets Neubauten nightmare.... >I also thought the fight between Gandalf and Saruman was the utter >height of cheesiness. (This didn't happen in the book, did it? I >don't remember it...) It was related in the book, not described; but I *loved* the wizard fight. In fact, I was cheering for Jackson that he had the conviction to include a real live wizard-staff battle! Woo-hoo! The Great "Uh, why, yes, I have played lots of D&D. Why do you ask?" Quail - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) http://www.w-rabbit.com/gerbils.html "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." --Vice President Dan Quayle ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #1 ******************************