From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #12 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, January 10 2002 Volume 11 : Number 012 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Leggo my Feggo Tangram [Capuchin ] Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) [] Re: Moxi and DRM (slight return) [Capuchin ] Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) [Capuchin ] Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) [Capuchin ] Re: RIP: Juan Garcia Esquivel (1918-2002) [Eb ] Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) [] Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) [] Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: Imaginary Places [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) [Capuchin ] God's will be done... ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] reading about literature ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Looking for Michael Bachman... ["Timothy Reed" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:18:39 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Leggo my Feggo Tangram On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Redtailed Hawk wrote: > Hmmm--Im enjoying the conceit of different Fegs playing the same roles. It > makes me wonder--has a movie ever done this? Had multiple actors for one > part? Does Casino Royale count? James Bond, Agent 007 is played by David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Terence Cooper and Ursula Andress (to name a few). But it's not quite like you suggest. > I'm not talking different characters whose boundries get mixed up. I > mean several similar-looking but not identical actors doing the same > part(sorta an anti-Alec Guiness/Peter Sellers role.) This does sound > alittle like sophmore psych, but it might be interesting as a way of > showing different facets within a single being. I can't think of any that fit this description (though I KNOW I've seen one or two). I really did like the scene in Brazil where Mrs. Lowry (Katherine Helmond) gets so much plastic surgery that she looks just like Sam Lowry's love interest (Kim Griest). Nice little Freudian touch. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:19:04 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) On Wed, Jan 9, 2002, Fric Chaud wrote: > On 9 Jan 2002, at 11:38, Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > > > To paraphrase the BBC-online's item on the new iMac: "the last few > > > years have seen a largely unwarranted marketing focus on raw > > > processor speed measured in megahertz. On that measure Intel's chips > > > are rated up to twice as fast, despite benchmarks which suggest that > > > in practical use they do not perform at anywhere near that level." > > BBC. That's some sort of Benchmark site, or an organisation of > computer experts, right? I'm sure you're kidding about the BBC, but I don't know what to say. You are quoting my quote. > > Yeah, the G4 chips do seem to be on par with Intel chips rated at much > > higher MHz ratings > > OK, I'm ready to become a believer. Point me to the benchmarks > that will show me the way, and I'll buy one of those decals with > Calvin peeing on a pile of corporate symbols representing AMD, > Intel, SiS, VIA, NVidia, Asus, Abit, Soyo, Shuttle, SuperMicro, > Gigabyte, and all those companies who make pieces that when > assembled, Macheads invariably call Wintel. > > Where are they? Do a search. I don't know where any are. But if your Intel-based system works for you, great. Note that at home I have a P3-500 with Win2k, Win95 OSR2, DOS 6.22, and Debian Linux; a Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC IIe 500), and a Power Mac G4 867 with OS X. I like them all for different reasons. At work my main desktop is a P3-500 with NT4. I love that machine. No problems at all. Where am I going with this? I'm sure Jeme can tell me, because I'm getting lost. :) - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:25:21 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Moxi and DRM (slight return) On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Tom Clark wrote: > You tell the service provider that you love Robyn Hitchcock. You wake > up one day and see a message on your TV screen saying: "The new Soft > Boys album has been downloaded to your jukebox. Would you like to > purchase it?" I see the appeal to a vendor of putting the item in the customer's hands and THEN asking them to pay. It has a strong psychelogical effect very different from making the viewer actively select it from a menu. I think that's not a TERRIBLE idea, but could be implemented in a REALLY annoying way. I would, of course, _insist_ that it be in a standard format (music: very high bitrate MP3? Raw PCM audio? Notes: PDF?) and available to transfer to any USB or TCP/IP network device. I'd also like to suggest that the tracks be made available for preview in the "locked" area of the system before a purchase decision is made. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:28:48 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Ken Weingold wrote: > Note that at home I have a P3-500 with Win2k, Win95 OSR2, DOS 6.22, > and Debian Linux; a Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC IIe 500), and a Power > Mac G4 867 with OS X. I like them all for different reasons. Uh... what's running on the SunBlade? I assume Solaris 8. My friend Morgan just got a free-ish BSD variant running on his. I'm personally waiting for Linux support (though anything unix-like and GPL would be great). Curious about why you run any version of MSDOS, let alone three kinds on the PIII. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:45:22 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) On Wed, Jan 9, 2002, Capuchin wrote: > Uh... what's running on the SunBlade? I assume Solaris 8. My friend > Morgan just got a free-ish BSD variant running on his. I'm personally > waiting for Linux support (though anything unix-like and GPL would be > great). Yes, Solaris 8. The way I see it, why get a Sun if you are going to run Linux or BSD? Just buy a much cheaper, loaded PC. I kind of see it like Solaris for SPARC and x86. Why run it on x86? > Curious about why you run any version of MSDOS, let alone three kinds on > the PIII. Nostalgia? :) I use it rarely for old DOS adventure games (I hate 95 for stuff like that), BIOS updates and whatnot, etc. It's a small partition and I like having it there. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:47:47 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Leggo my Feggo Tangram On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Redtailed Hawk wrote: > Hmmm--Im enjoying the conceit of different Fegs playing the same roles. >It >makes me wonder--has a movie ever done this? Had multiple actors for one >part? One would be Seconds with Rock Hudson. Max _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:16:22 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Ken Weingold wrote: > Yes, Solaris 8. The way I see it, why get a Sun if you are going to > run Linux or BSD? Just buy a much cheaper, loaded PC. I kind of see > it like Solaris for SPARC and x86. Why run it on x86? Diversity for the ecosystem. The more varied architectures, the harder it is for unpleasant organisms to take hold. > > Curious about why you run any version of MSDOS, let alone three kinds on > > the PIII. > > Nostalgia? :) I use it rarely for old DOS adventure games (I hate 95 > for stuff like that), BIOS updates and whatnot, etc. It's a small > partition and I like having it there. Actually, I was including MSWindows variants (as well as any other DOS shells you've got) as well. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:18:03 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: RIP: Juan Garcia Esquivel (1918-2002) Didn't catch this one here last week. - ------------------------------------- JUAN GARCIA ESQUIVEL (1918-2002) Juan Garcia Esquivel, celebrated pianist, composer, bandleader, stereo recording pioneer, and glamorous Space Age Bachelor Pad Music icon, died at his home in Jiutepec, Morelos, Mexico, on January 3, 2002. He was 83. The death was reported by his widow, Carina Osorio vda. de Garcia, and by his son, Mario Eddi Garcia Servin, of Taxco. According to a longtime friend, Steve Reed, of Los Angeles, three months ago Esquivel suffered a stroke, which had left him paralyzed on one side and unable to speak. He recovered in a short time, but suffered a second, more severe stroke on Dec. 30. He died four days later. Esquivel was born on January 20, 1918, in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. He was a renowned pianist/bandleader in his native country, garnering much acclaim on stage, television and radio. He starred in and scored two films, "Cabaret Tragico" and "La Locura de Rock'n'Roll," before being brought to the U.S. by RCA Victor Records in 1957. Working primarily in Hollywood, New York, and Las Vegas, the suave maestro recorded prolifically, led an explosive big band, and scored for several TV programs. His elegant, idiosyncratic, and very meticulous arrangements were colored by radical dynamic shifts, playful percussion, wordless vocals, and Esquivel's own virtuoso keyboard runs. When it came to recording sessions, he was notorious for budget-busting extravagance. His offstage life was filled with celebrity hobnobbing (e.g., Sinatra, Liberace, Ernie Kovacs), romantic intrigue (he embodied the charming Latin Lothario mystique), and unfortunate bouts of drinking and prescription drug abuse that eventually curtailed his success. Many of Esquivel's saucy compositions, such as "Mucha Muchacha," "Whatchamacallit," "Latin-Esque," and "Mini Skirt," have come to symbolize the wild hyper-stereo orchestration of the 1950s and '60s. Ironically, his most familiar composition -- and one for which he is little known -- is the "Universal Emblem," a three-second blast of Wagnerian thunder which has for decades accompanied the Universal Studios logo at the conclusion of hundreds of television programs. "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music," a 1994 Bar/None Records compilation of Esquivel's 1950s-'60s RCA Victor recordings, sparked a resurgence of interest in his work. Simpsons creator Matt Groening declared Esquivel "the great unsung genius of space age pop." Subsequent releases, such as "Music >From a Sparkling Planet" (1995, Bar/None), "Cabaret Maqana" (1996, BMG), and the 40-years-locked-in-the-can "See It In Sound" (1999, 7N), launched his vintage recordings into wide circulation on TV, in films and commercials, and as background music in restaurants, lounges, and stores. Several of his compositions have been used in the soundtracks of major Hollywood films, including "The Big Lebowski," "Four Rooms," and "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America." His riffs have been widely sampled and emulated by audio mixologists and turntable wizards worldwide. The Kronos Quartet recently commissioned and performed a string arrangement of Esquivel's 1967 composition "Mini Skirt." The original handwritten scores for his 24-piece orchestra no longer exist, having reportedly been hauled away as trash years ago when rent was in arrears on a Las Vegas storage facility. Though he was an American citizen, Esquivel moved back to Mexico in the 1980s. For the Televisa network, he composed soundtracks for a children's TV program, entitled "Burbujas" ("Bubbles"). He was inactive in the music business during the 1990s, due to a broken hip and an aggravated spinal injury which left him bedridden and unable to walk. He lived at the home of his older brother, Sergio, in Jiutepec, until Sergio's death in 1999. Esquivel then bought and moved to a home in Villas del Descanso, also in Jiutepec. In May 2001, Esquivel married 25-year-old Carina Osorio, who had assisted the ailing legend as a home health care aide for several years. They were wed in a simple ceremony administered by a justice of the peace at Esquivel's home. Esquivel claimed that Carina was his sixth wife. He had married and divorced twice while residing in the United States. He described Carina as "a simple girl, who is attentive and honest," adding, "I am very happy, and she is too. We both stay up until 2:00 in the morning, and she helps me. Our house is not too big, not too small. Just for the two of us, it is nice. It has a nice garden." A film biography about the Space Age Pop avatar is in script development at Fox studios, with John Leguizamo slated to star and Alexander Payne signed to direct. Per his wishes, Esquivel's remains were cremated, and his ashes were returned home with Carina. - -- Irwin Chusid 1/8/02 keyofz@mindspring.com J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:10:09 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: RIP: Juan Garcia Esquivel (1918-2002) >JUAN GARCIA ESQUIVEL (1918-2002) > >Ironically, his >most familiar composition -- and one for which he is little known -- is the >"Universal Emblem," a three-second blast of Wagnerian thunder which has for >decades accompanied the Universal Studios logo at the conclusion of hundreds >of television programs. Hrm...I can't quite hear in my head what this little lick might be. Eb PS Also, no one reaped the incomparable Avery Schreiber, the man who set the standard for Doritos-eating which Jaw Leno found so impossible to match. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 02:22:59 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) On Wed, Jan 9, 2002, Capuchin wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Ken Weingold wrote: > > Yes, Solaris 8. The way I see it, why get a Sun if you are going to > > run Linux or BSD? Just buy a much cheaper, loaded PC. I kind of see > > it like Solaris for SPARC and x86. Why run it on x86? > > Diversity for the ecosystem. The more varied architectures, the harder it > is for unpleasant organisms to take hold. NT at least used to run on Alpha and MIPS. :) But still, no thanks. I'll keep Solaris on the SPARC. > Actually, I was including MSWindows variants (as well as any other DOS > shells you've got) as well. I like having Windows around. And I like NT4. The only reason I went to 2k on this machine was that I needed IEEE 1394 support for my Mini DV camera. Linux 1394 support was still in testing. I actually played around with the kernel module for it. Seemed to work. But I really hate the way Microsoft is taking Windows. Gets more and more bloated each release. NT4 is so much slicker than 2k, the shell at least. None of the web crap and other "enhancements". Much faster. I always hated Macs, but am loving OS X. Conversely, I love the way Apple is taking Mac OS. I like Unix, and admin it at work, but find it annoying as a home desktop. OS X is the best of all worlds in my opinion. Proper GUI (I never likes X; always found it a complete pain in the ass - tell me how to speed of the mouse (not acceleration, speed)), Unix base that I can use when I want, not when I need, and the software for Macs. Photoshop for one. Gimp is good, but it's not Photoshop. Here's a great article that I swear I wrote myself, which the exception that I never used BeOS: . And here is an oldie but a goodie. Granted a bit outdated, but I think a few things still hold true, and I love reading Jamie Zawinskie's disgruntled essays. And I think he and I started using Linux at about the same time, '95/'96. I'm sure you know who he is. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 02:30:13 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) Woops, here's Jamie's thing: . Lots of other good reading around his site. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:47:11 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? Fric a dit: >On 9 Jan 2002, at 11:38, Ken Weingold wrote: it was me actually >> > To paraphrase the BBC-online's item on the new iMac: "the last few >> > years have seen a largely unwarranted marketing focus on raw >> > processor speed measured in megahertz. On that measure Intel's chips >> > are rated up to twice as fast, despite benchmarks which suggest that >> > in practical use they do not perform at anywhere near that level." > >BBC. That's some sort of Benchmark site, or an organisation of >computer experts, right? no, it's a British media organisation which hires the best experts it can to give its reports on specialist subjects. It also makes the attempt to be as unbiased as possible, which is more than can be said of most news media - - and of most research reports (which are normally written by experts who for their own very good reasons want to bias the results in favour of one result or another). just out of curiosity, why do you feel a compulsion to rubbish reports made here of good things from Macs at every turn? Would you feel the same if it was good things being said about PCs? I doubt it. Yet I suspect that most of those making the comments are people like me who have used both and discovered that Macs are perfect for what we want whereas PCs aren't. Have you ever used Macs for a long enough period to be able to have made the same comparison? 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: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:47:50 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: Imaginary Places >>The Dictionary of Imaginary Places - Alberto Manguel/Gianni Gaudlupi. > >Weird, I just bought this a few weeks ago. the odd thing about this book is that, rather than make completely maps for some places they've done some strange things to a map of Iceland from time to time. Check out the maps of Waq, Vulpina, Lilliput, Balnibarbi, and Havnor. There are other oddities to some of the maps too... James PS - good to hear your health's better than it could have been, Nat... 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, 10 Jan 2002 00:56:16 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: iMac, uMac, we all Mac? (NeXt, cube, next desperate marketing ploy) On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Ken Weingold wrote: > NT at least used to run on Alpha and MIPS. :) But still, no thanks. > I'll keep Solaris on the SPARC. Well, I've got moral problems with commercial software (and proprietary expressions in general), so I'd cheer for something else. > I like having Windows around. And I like NT4. I guess I don't see how this jives with the rest of what you wrote. > I like Unix, and admin it at work, but find it annoying as a home > desktop. OS X is the best of all worlds in my opinion. How is OSX NOT Unix? Just because it runs something other than X for a windowing environment? > Gimp is good, but it's not Photoshop. As far as I'm concerned, The Gimp has surpassed Photoshop. It's faster, more flexible, and just as capable. Now, if we could just build a better Illustrator... > Here's a great article that I swear I wrote myself, which the > exception that I never used BeOS: > . This article is some kind of nonsense. Look at this: "It was impossible to cut/copy/paste between apps cleanly without banging my head..." Now, as you and I know (and the rest of the list SHOULD know), nearly every Unix and unix-like system in the world, INCLUDING Linux, supports the automatic paste buffer with the mouse highlighting. For those that don't know, that means that whenever you highlight ANY text, it's automatically "copied" to the paste buffer and a middle click (that's why we have three buttons) will paste it. So it's not "highlight, edit->copy, select destination, edit->paste" sequence, you just highlight, then middle click at the destination. I've encounted, in all my life, ONE application that didn't support this seamlessly. He also says this: "But I'm not at the command line most of the time, and my guess is that very few users are. The rest of the time, I just want to get my work done cleanly, quickly, and efficiently, with mature apps that work the way I expect them to." This is so full of bias and preconceived notions, I don't know where to begin. Basically, he thinks that a CLI application is somehow NOT mature and "the way [he] expect[s]" and application to work is more important than the way the application ACTUALLY works (which might well be superior to his expectations, if he'd just open his mind a crack). > And here is an oldie but a goodie. Granted a bit outdated, but I > think a few things still hold true, and I love reading Jamie > Zawinskie's disgruntled essays. And I think he and I started using > Linux at about the same time, '95/'96. I'm sure you know who he is. Now, I'd just like to say that I'm not a huge fan of Linux. It has its share of problems and I use it for two reasons: It is distributed and developed under the GPL (though slightly distastefully modified) and it runs a huge number of useful GPL applications on cheap hardware (is that three reasons?). For several reasons (which I won't bother to enumerate), I'd rather run something else. As it stands, all of the running computers in my house (7 always on, at last count) are running GNU/Linux on Intel processors (9 of them in those 7 machines). I'd LOVE to run something else on some of them, but there's very little software up to the task. I have high hopes for a GNU/HURD system on my desktop in the near future. I'd LOVE to run some other hardware platform, but the cost is too high for me right now. Just so you know. OK, what I'd REALLY love to see would be some small systems based on StrongARM or other low power processors at a very low price to take over some of the lighter tasks (web, file server, mail, firewall, etc.) and decrease my power consumption and noise levels... but I guess as long as they can sell you a big desktop machine, that's what they'll do. Dreaming of a 9V PC, J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:32:31 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: So What's Everybody Reading? victorian squid wrote: > > You could probably get even more brownie points by telling > him he's the Hunter S. Thompson. Everything I've ever read or heard about HST -- everything, that is, NOT written or spoken by HST himself -- makes out that Raoul D. is a complete tosspot. Ralph Barger is spectacularly dismissive of him. > Simon Winchester You mean Simon "Breathless. Conjecture-Filled. Prose." Winchester, the authority on the OED just 'cos he says he is? The Surgeon of Crowthorne (aka The Professor & The Madman) is somewhat derided in this industry. Stewart (who shouldn't be this catty when he's just sold his house in less than a day after it went on the market.) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:42:39 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: reading lists! Carole Reichstein wrote: > > Anthony Bourdain ... samples bowls of wonderful "pho" in Vietnam > (his descriptions of the stuff made my mouth water; > I can't believe I've never tried it!) Read Tim Page's "Derailed in Uncle Ho's Peace Garden", and his descriptions of pho would make you reach for the sick bag. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:13:40 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: God's will be done... Nat wrote My friends' baby had (and possibly still has) a strawberry mark on her forehead. Once my friend was taking her for a walk in the stroller, and a woman looked at her and said in all seriousness, "Oh, look, she has the mark of Cain." A friend of mine has a child with cerebral palsy. A man once came up to them in Covent Garden, pointed at Phoebe and said - "Do you know what that is? That's God's way of telling you not to have any more children." Crowbar Joe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:36:56 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: Kim et al Saw Kimberley solo the other night at the Borderline supporting someone called Britt Daniel (?) from a band called Spoon (when are we going to get back to *proper* band names with definite articles or silly leaders' names - - Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids, The Screaming Blue Messiahs...anyway I digress). Mr Rew was in fine fettle. His between song banter was hardly Robynesque, though he did have moments of dry, and slightly surrealistic genius; as when he explained that he wasn't Katrina & The Waves' lead singer - as he had been billed - because he wasn't called Katrina. He was joined on bass by his girlfriend Lee Cave-Berry for the final few numbers, which included probably the first paean to poet Philip Larkin in the rock canon. He's also got songs about Screaming Lord Sutch and Gene Vincent as well. All dead, so I suppose he can't be sued... Mainly it was songs from Tunnel Into Summer, and boy, do they hold up well solo. I think he could well be doing a few more of these kind of events. Mr Spoon was dull, but got a good review in the Guardian the next day - no mention of Kim - bah! Now reading - Captain Beefheart biog - Mike Barnes Pretty good. Some fascinating anecdotes. Did you know that the Cap was related to Wallis Simpson of Edward-the-whatever abdication fame?! The Land Where The Blues Began - Alan Lomax Fascinating stuff for anyone with the slightest interest in the idiom. He was the chap who wandered around the Deep South between the '30s and '60s with a huge tape machine recording anyone who moved. Last Orders - Graham Swift Re-reading in preparation for going to see the new film version. Listen to this for a fuckin' cast - Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, David Hemmings, Ray Winstone...I hope I'm not disappointed. Crowbar Joe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:57:31 -0800 (PST) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: reading about literature > From: "Mike Wells" > Subject: So What's Everybody Reading? > A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. Was neither, in my opinion. I just wanted to slap him, at least once per chapter. I'm reading, or about to crack: The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene (?) Worst-Case Scenario Handbook - Piven and the other guy The Invisible Computer - Don Norman Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (not the well-known Dutch author) The Dark Is Rising series - Susan Cooper Wankh - Jack Vance ...Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon There are a couple of others, but they're way down in the queue. Oh, yeah, and: Wiseguy - Nick Pileggi which is the one I'm carrying around in my man-purse for BART travel and boring moments away from home. I'm not sure what Tolkein character I ought to play. I'm too tall to be a hobbit, too stout to be an elf, too clean-shaven to be a dwarf, too articulate to be an orc, too young to be a wizard (give me thirty years, though), and too much of a ham to settle for a human bit part. Maybe I can be a Nazgul or an Ent. As for Apple vs. PC...I don't really do anything that tests my machine's processor speed to its limits, except for the occasional video game (usually that's what my PS2 is for). So I'm influenced in my purchasing more by which machine I simply prefer using, and the Mac wins hands down, unfortunately for my pocketbook. Windows is still an extremely joyless experience. > From: Viv Lyon > Unfortunately, somewhere over the course of the 900 pages > it became > painfully clear that Stephenson is a misogynist, whether > he knows it or > not. Have you read The Diamond Age? It's the only work of Stephenson's I've actually liked. You might find it more simpatico...or you might not (I can't remember). Drew ===== - -- Andrew D. Simchik, adsimchik@yahoo.com Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:51:50 -0500 From: "Timothy Reed" Subject: Looking for Michael Bachman... Excuse me for cutting in, but if anyone knows the whereabouts of feg Michael Bachman, please contact me off-list. Thanks, Tim ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #12 *******************************