From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #65 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, February 22 2002 Volume 11 : Number 065 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Robyn at the V&A ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Will the honorable chairfeg please call for disorder? [Michael R Godw] Re: fegs, I need your GBV guidance once again [Jason Miller ] Random Sleep ["Snow Drop" ] Bjork's "Cocoon" video is online ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Link ["Snow Drop" ] month before day except after A [drew ] Re: Will the honorable chairfeg please call for disorder? [The other Mr F] Re: month before day except after A ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Tanya Donnelly? [Mike Swedene ] RE: Boats, Blims, first gig, first RH gig (fwd) [bayard ] RE: Boats, Blims, first gig, first RH gig (fwd) [Michael R Godwin ] RE: Boats, Blims, first gig, first RH gig (fwd) ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Will the honorable chairfeg please call for disorder? [mary Subject: Re: Robyn at the V&A marcus slade wrote: > > They also do a similar thing at the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) here in > Toronto. They have themed Friday nights with live music to fit. Best of all > admission is free after 5pm. Stewart, you should check it out when you get > to wonderful TO. cool; we will, thanks. I have a feeling we'll be looking for inexpensive entertainment for the first few months. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:50:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Will the honorable chairfeg please call for disorder? On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Snow Drop wrote: > NonGodwin--you went home instead of seeing the Who circa 67! Hmmmph, Im > having second thoughts as too your divinity;-) I really didn't want to sully the Floyd experience. Besides, it was after my bedtime! > I saw something somewhere that said Mike Meyers might play Moon in a Who bio > movie. Im wondering how he could do the early bits, Moon looked/was > astonishingly young at the start, right? Well, they can do wonders with computer graphics nowadays. > How do people feel about this kind of bio movie? I'm ambivilent at best. I thought that Ian Hart made a good effort at John Lennon in that Beatles film. If it's going to work, the script has to be good and the actors have to relate to the originals in a subliminal way. I suspect that any script which had the approval of Townshend and Daltry wouldn't be any good. And a life story of Keith Moon would probably be better than a straight "Who biopic". Finishing with a big parade of dead rock stars round a swimming pool (Jones, Hendrix, Morrison etc), with Moon standing on the roof of a Rolls in the middle of the pool singing 'Bucket T'. - - Mike Godwin PS And who would play Townshend? Gerard Depardieu in his 'Cyrano' makeup?:) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:12:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Jason Miller Subject: Re: fegs, I need your GBV guidance once again If you've got a broadband connection, emusic currently has the following: Mag Earwhig Sunfish Holy Breakfast Under the Bushes, Under the Stars as well as Alien Lanes. They also have the Pollard solo releases: Not In My Airforce Waved Out They've also got a bunch of the Elephant6 stuff. The best part is you can get 50 free MP3s as part of your trial subscription. <<--GBV <<--Pollard J a s o n S. M i l l e r* *Not affiliated with emusic.com, just a happy subscriber. | Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:20:45 -0800 | From: "Natalie Jane" | Subject: fegs, I need your GBV guidance once again | | I know there's about 5,000 more to choose from. In a giddy moment I | contemplated buying the Suitcase, but I don't have $60 to spare. So | what should I do? C'mon, I need to buy more records, otherwise I'm just | going to end up listening to "Featuring 'Birds'" again, and nobody wants | that. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:21:09 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: LOTR, Moon, and Shirt songs >I saw something somewhere that said Mike Meyers might play Moon in a Who bio >movie. Im wondering how he could do the early bits, Moon looked/was >astonishingly young at the start, right? Anyway, in "Fellowship of the >Rings", one of the guys who played Merry or Pippin kept reminding me of >Daltry. The greeting Frodo gives Gandalf at the beginning of the movie ("you're late, etc") sounded very Keith Moon to me. >Okay, I think it's time for a listing of "shirt" songs. There's this one, >the Bonzo Dog Band song I quoted last week, that Meat Beat Manifesto >track, the Fall's "Cruisers Creek" ("shirttails flappin' in the wind..."), >uh...Eno's "King's Lead Hat" ("the passage of my life is measured out in >shirts"), Elvis C's "Green Shirt"...others? a quick scan of the titles in my CD collection gives: Joe Jackson "And the band wore blue shirts" Marty Willson-Piper "Jupiter blue on my white shirt" REM "Hairshirt" Supergroove "Your white shirt" Earthworks "Emotional shirt" Pulp "Pencil shirt" Ass Ponies "Banlon shirt" Oasis "The girl in the dirty shirt" sadly, I haven't archived all the lyrics, so I can't do a search of them. I do have a life, y'know. 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: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:24:14 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: An announcement of sorts (100% me, me, me) If any of you are in Dunedin in May (hah! fat chance...) then you might like to see my first solo art exhibition! "Old Land - seventeen paintings by James Dignan" will be at the Satellite Gallery in Lower Stuart Street from May 7th to 17th! (wish me luck!!!) 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: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:44:25 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Shirts Did anyone mention -- "I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm / And the inevitable pinhole burns / All down the front of my favorite satin shirt" - --Pink Quail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:23:40 +0000 From: "Snow Drop" Subject: Random Sleep Ross: Anyhow the "treacle" mom loves "Morning Has Broken" & plays it constantly. JFTR I really, really hate that song. And "Peace Train" is pretty bad too. What do I love? --"Here Comes My Baby"(Like his version better than the Tremelos.)"Oh Very Young", "Wild World"(partly for the burping base), "Sad Lisa,"(partly for the piano) " I Think I See the Light," (which I usually pair with "I'm Beginning to See the Light), "Trouble"," Katmandu," "Lilywhite," plus just about all of "Catchbull at 4," especially "Ruins." Theres more than enough angst in life. There is also alot of great angst music. There is not enough perfect, melodic pop in my life or on record. (And BTW, Catchbull does have some angst too.) Also, I love the sort of arrangments Stevens uses. My favorite Leonard Cohen album (the 2nd one?) has the same sort of arrangements, better words but worst melodies. More Ross: >& beats >hell out of "D'Yer Maker" - -Anything- beats hell out of D'yer Maker" ;-) - ------------------------------------------------ Glenn's friend: >I'd recommend and _Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department_. Mystery dissolved! A while ago I downloaded some of that cause I loved the title. Didnt know who did it or what it was but kept it cause I liked it. Ohhhh--so thats the Guided By Voices guy. Maybe I should now actually listen to some "Guided by Voices";-) I love doing this on Morpheaus. I search someone I like, see who owns a fair amount of them, then go to see what else they own. Then I download stuff that sounds interesting, most of which I later delete after listening to it, but some of which I save. And say--what the --hell-- is this? Does anyone else do anything like that on Morpheus? - -------------------------------------------- Godwin Regained: >Besides, it was after my bedtime! Well there's an excuse after my own sleepy head. My faith (drumroll please) in your divinity is restored. >I suspect that any script >which had the approval of Townshend and Daltry wouldn't be any good. >And a >life story of Keith Moon would probably be better than a >straight "Who >biopic". Finishing with a big parade of dead rock stars >round a swimming >pool (Jones, Hendrix, Morrison etc), with Moon >standing on the roof of a >Rolls in the middle of the pool singing >'Bucket T'. :-). But please include Joplin at the party. >And who would play Townshend? Gerard Depardieu in his 'Cyrano' makeup?:) It had better be in full 'Cyrano' make-up. I've never reconciled myself to that damn nosejob;-) Kay "I love me new boots, I love me brown boots. 150 down to 40. So comfortable and sporty. They make I feel too cute. I love me new boots." _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:18:00 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Bjork's "Cocoon" video is online Fellow Bjork-o-philes, with good bandwidth (and QuickTime), should point their browsers here NOW: She's singing, and she's naked. That's all anybody needs to know. Oh, and the regular Cocoon website is stunningly gorgeous, too: . Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:35:53 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: content shock horror "Brave Sir Robin ran away, he ran away ..." "I never did!" Reg, it's not my name, at least not yet-- Like the Catholic Holy ROman Empire angle; agree w/ Drew about the audience sometimes knowing more than the writer. Identity, youdentity, wedentity-- What about "Go on, baby, call me Ron" in BLues in the Dark? Robyn is a slightly unusual name (or maybe just in US). I bet he hates being called Rob. When I was young Ross seemed to be a more unusual name, I always got called Ron, Rod, Rob, Roth ("Sir, the Dean is waxing wroth!" Groucho: "Well have the Dean stop waxing Roth and let Roth wax the Dean for a while!") Hail, Hail R&R-- I've been saving this for a rainy day. Is it in the film, or did I read about Keith startling Chuck during this film & Chuck "accidentally" punching Keith out? I did read about Keith bragging "I took a slug from Chuck Berry -- no problem." A friend of a friend was in a pickup band that backed Berry on one date in the 70s. He'd travel w/ just his guitar & expect the venue to provide everything else. He'd be very strict & cold w/ the band, his only instructions being "watch my left foot," & he'd signal stuff that way. Shirts-- When Kay booed Hendrix off the stage, what was he wearing? Does Costello's "New Lace Sleeves" count? There's "Turd on the Run" -- "grabbed onto your shirttails but they come off in my hands;" some late 70s/early 80s band did "The Boy in the Paisley Shirt." the V&A-- Did Hole ever play at the Albert Hall? Did they fill it? "So now they know how many ..." (It's Friday!) Ross Taylor bringing myself back down to earth w/ fears that I won't make the April show Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:41:31 +0000 From: "Snow Drop" Subject: Link Interesting article on painting: www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ArticleView.asp?Accessible=yes&P_Article=9118 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:53:35 -0800 From: drew Subject: month before day except after A > From: "Brian Huddell" > > But really, all kidding aside, what are you Month-Before-Day-folk > *thinking*? I've yet to see a proper defense of that madness. If you are given a date and asked to find it on a calendar, which piece of information do you need first and which second? Drew ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:05:06 -0800 From: The other Mr Feg Subject: Re: Will the honorable chairfeg please call for disorder? Snow Drop: > Mr Feg to you, missy: > >Call the Beadles!". I bet you're wondering what a Beadle is, aren't you? Well this list is nothing if not educational, so thanks to the wonders of the internet, here you go: > According to C. James Quann in Admissions, Academic Records, and > Registrar Services (pg. 2), the duties of the beadle included > ceremonially preceding the rector on public occasions, visiting > the schools to read statutes and decrees, announcing lectures > by students, and distributing lists of books on sale by book > stall keepers or individual students. ...doesn't that feel better? ~N ...and you thought Gormenghast was fiction! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:10:01 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: month before day except after A At 08:53 AM 2/22/2002 -0800, drew wrote: >>From: "Brian Huddell" >> >>But really, all kidding aside, what are you Month-Before-Day-folk >>*thinking*? I've yet to see a proper defense of that madness. > >If you are given a date and asked to find it on a calendar, >which piece of information do you need first and which second? Well, first I'd want to know why they wanted to know, and second, why the hell the expected me to find it for them. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:25:55 -0600 (CST) From: Marshall Needleman Armintor Subject: GBV <<...today, as I often do, and I thought to myself, I could use some more GBV in my life. Y'know, not that I want Bob Pollard in my living room breaking all my stuff with his karate kicks and drinking my Mirror Pond and scaring my cat, but more of their music, if you see what I mean. At the moment, I own the following GBV records: "Bee Thousand" and, obviously, "Alien Lanes" (I love these to death) "Hold On Hope" EP (I don't listen to this much, it's OK) "Isolation Drills" (I like this but find it over-produced)>> <> Hello, my name is Marshall, and I'm a hopeless GBV dork. Consider this yet another vote for _Under The Bushes_: although it was pretty controversial at the time (the faithful were mightily divided by the New Fancy Production, as well as the harder rock edge), it's GBV's best outside of their fertile basement period, 1992-1995. Prepare to get knocked on your butt by "It's Like Soul Man," (it's not summer unless it's blasting out of your car stereo) "Rhine Jive Click," "The Official Ironmen Rally Song," "Your Name is Wild," and "Burning Flag Birthday Suit," which winds up on a lot of mixes I do for various people. Also has some of his best acoustic/reflective songs. _Propeller_ is widely touted as being the GBV cognoscentis' favorite record, and it _is_ really good, it's his goofiest one...I'm thinking of the Moody Blues parody/tribute "Weedking," and the Beatles/VU hybrid "Quality of Armor." In the secondary tier, there's Pollard's underrated _Waved Out_ (his version of a Syd Barrett album, in many ways), and _Kid Marine_, which is probably the closest he's going to come to realizing his Pete Townshend dreams. _Vampire on Titus_ is a unique and dark record that is reputedly Bob's own favorite of his, and it's assuredly no-one else's. _Mag Earwhig!_ is also vastly underrated -- a kick-ass Big Rock album from start to finish. Of the odds 'n' sods discs self-compiled by GBV (how weird is it to have a band that, as prolific and casual as they are about putting out records, occasionally releases "unreleased" tracks, as if they were hiding in attic or suppressed by an evil record company or something? _Alien Lanes_ and _Bee Thousand_, no matter how cohesive they *sound*, were pieced together in the same way), the best are _Tonics and Twisted Chasers_ and the early- box-set-only _King Shit and the Golden Boys_, an overview of their early-years "outtakes" (1987-1993), and it's better than their first four proper albums. A lot of _Suitcase_ is interesting, but it's kind of a relief to know that Bob _does_ actually edit himself some...quite a number of unexceptional or just rote tracks. Anybody needs any of this kind of thing and can't find it (particularly T&TT, which seems to go in and out of print, despite allegedly "limited" editions), I can hook you up. _Alien Lanes_ is still my favorite GBV record, and one of my favorite records, period. Yes, I've got the audiophile vinyl of _Kid Marine_, Marshall np Keith Jarrett, _Vienna Concert_ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:32:20 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Tanya Donnelly? Have any fellow fegs picked this up yet? NONE of my local record shops have it yet :( http://www.virgin.net/music/reviews/album?albumid=181875 Just curious.... Herbie ps - thanks for the Bjork link! ===== - --------------------------------------------- View my Websight & CDR Trade page at: http://midy.topcities.com/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:37:05 -0800 (PST) From: bayard Subject: RE: Boats, Blims, first gig, first RH gig (fwd) On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Bachman, Michael wrote: > Did Robyn ever see Syd era Floyd? I think he's too young - he would have been just fourteen in '67. Do they let underage people into clubs there, generally? Sorry about the "Time" thing - i am now so busy I am resorting to sending canned emails instead of posting. (But it IS the last time that sort of a conjunction will happen in our lifetimes. Was it good for you?) =b ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:48:51 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: month before day except after A > > But really, all kidding aside, what are you Month-Before-Day-folk > > *thinking*? I've yet to see a proper defense of that madness. > > If you are given a date and asked to find it on a calendar, > which piece of information do you need first and which second? > > Drew Very good point. I myself tend to prioritize around what I'm most prone to forget. I never know what day it is. However, I *frequently* know what month it is. So if I ask someone the date, and they start with the month, precious fractions of seconds are wasted while I wait for them to get to the important part. +brian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:50:23 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Tanya Donnelly? I just got my new Tanya yesterday from amazon.com, but I havn't listened to it yet. I really like her previous solo effort, "Lovesongs for Underdogs". Michael NP Gillian Welch Time(The Revelator) - -----Original Message----- From: Mike Swedene [mailto:pulp_101@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 12:32 PM To: 2 For The Price of 1 Subject: Tanya Donnelly? Have any fellow fegs picked this up yet? NONE of my local record shops have it yet :( http://www.virgin.net/music/reviews/album?albumid=181875 Just curious.... Herbie ps - thanks for the Bjork link! ===== - --------------------------------------------- View my Websight & CDR Trade page at: http://midy.topcities.com/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:02:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: content shock horror On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, ross taylor wrote: > Hail, Hail R&R > -- I've been saving this for a rainy day. Is it in the film, or did I > read about Keith startling Chuck during this film & Chuck > "accidentally" punching Keith out? I did read about Keith bragging "I > took a slug from Chuck Berry -- no problem." It was a separate occasion. The story I heard was that Chuck was doing a gig somewhere and Keith somehow got it into his head that he wanted to join in. He wandered on stage and plugged in a guitar. Possibly he was too loud, or possibly he hadn't cleared it with Chuck first, but either way Chuck decded that he didn't want Keith on stage. However, according to Keith at Chuck was leaving a club at the time. Keith said 'Don't rush off' and Chuck hit him. On a similar theme, there's an attractive clip somewhere of Keith belting a fan who gets on to the stage during a Stones performance. I think he whacks the fan with a Telecaster. - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:18:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: RE: Boats, Blims, first gig, first RH gig (fwd) > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > Did Robyn ever see Syd era Floyd? On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, bayard wrote: > I think he's too young - he would have been just fourteen in '67. Do they > let underage people into clubs there, generally? I wouldn't have thought there was any problem in the 60s, certainly not at places like the Marquee which IIRC only served soft drinks in those days. What's your recollection, Commander Lang? In any case the Floyd were always a bit snotty, and tended to play concert halls and suchlike whenever possible. In 1967, they played the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Savile Theatre amongst other places, and those were full-scale book-a-numbered-ticket venues without any minimum age limits. It would seem odd for RH to be so heavily influenced by Barrett without ever having seen him in person, but I have no evidence. - - Mike Godwin PS Incidentally, it's _normal_ for teenagers to drink under age in the UK. No-one was at all surprised when Tony Blair's 16-year-old son was found legless after celebrating the end of his GCSEs. The police occasionally tick off pubs where the average age drops below 15, but otherwise they hardly bother. There was an RU18 ID card scheme running here for a while, but everybody just borrowed their older siblings' cards ... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:23:32 -0600 From: JH3 Subject: Re: shakin my shirt all over the place Shirts, you say? Peter Blegvad did a song called "Shirt & Comb"... and Sonic Youth recorded one called "Tunic," but maybe that doesn't count. John "currently wearing a bathrobe" Hedges PS. Don't forget Ben Folds Five's "Song for the Dumped" > Okay, I think it's time for a listing of "shirt" songs. There's this one, > the Bonzo Dog Band song I quoted last week, that Meat Beat Manifesto > track, the Fall's "Cruisers Creek" ("shirttails flappin' in the wind..."), > uh...Eno's "King's Lead Hat" ("the passage of my life is measured out in > shirts"), Elvis C's "Green Shirt"...others? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:53:49 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: RE: Boats, Blims, first gig, first RH gig (fwd) At 06:18 PM 2/22/2002 +0000, Michael R Godwin wrote: >Incidentally, it's _normal_ for teenagers to drink under age in the UK. It's pretty gosh darn normal for teenagers in the US to drink fairly regularly, as well. It's just a bit more difficult for those under age to get into bars or clubs, or to purchase alcohol in stores. Fake and/or borrowed IDs are not uncommon (I happened to look exactly like a friend's cousin, so I was set), but they are most often scrutinized at the door. And establishments do get shut down, temporarily or permanently, if underage drinkers are found by the police - and the cops DO look. Teenage/under-age drinking stateside tends to revolve more around house parties or small social gatherings (like sharing a 12-pack with your buddies in the river bed - yeee-haaa!). If they're close, they might cross the border into Mexico and club-hop down there. Or, they might just resort to drugs, which are probably a lot easier for most teenagers to obtain. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:57:09 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: Re: content shock horror On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:02:51 Michael R Godwin wrote: >On a similar theme, there's an attractive clip somewhere of Keith belting >a fan who gets on to the stage during a Stones performance. I think he >whacks the fan with a Telecaster. That's on the Video Rewind compilation. In the "frame" story, Mick & Bill are watching videos of themselves in a museum after hours. They watch footage of the Still Life tour and Mick says "find the part where Keith hits that guy with his guitar." They're using a "futuristic" VCR/Computer (this was released in 1984), so Bill types in "hit with guitar" and the machine comes up with the clip. Keith's action surely inspired by Pete Townshend hitting Abbie Hoffman w/ his guitar -- but PT has gone in print vehemently regretting his action. Thanks for the interview link. Ross Taylor Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:54:30 -0500 From: mary Subject: Re: Will the honorable chairfeg please call for disorder? As I am recently unemployed, I may be getting a ticket only for the 7:30 show - perhaps the kind owners of the club will let me stick around for the second show? I can't spend a lot of money on concert tickets - especially if I'm going to see Guided By Voices that same week. I'm not that great of an organizer but I do have a lot of free time now - just doing some freelance work to help pay the bills. Perhaps we can come up with a feg triumvirate (I can't believe that band is still around) to plan the April events. (lj, Quail, Ken, Tim1, Tim2, anyone else?) I've got a sofabed at my place so folks are welcome to stay here - as long as you are not allergic to dogs. Other upcoming New York shows of interest: Daniel Ash - March 25 - Bowery Ballroom Of Montreal - April 7 - Maxwell's Guided by Voices - April 9 - Warsaw Chemical Brothers - April 16 - Hammerstein Ballroom Beulah - April 19 - Maxwell's Belle and Sebastian - May 5 - Hammerstein Ballroom and the best of the bunch: Carrot Top - March 17th - Irving Plaza (do you think people would actually pay to go to this night of torture?) s.Mary The lovely Snow Drop (I saw some this past Sunday in Central Park) kindly asked: >The Bottom Line of the Bottom Line > >Am trying to work out logisticks on the April show(hubby wants whole >family to go for free long weekend with a business convention in DC, >daughter wants to go to see Robyn but I'd rather she didnt cause then Ill >have to wear my Mommy masque and not ingest too many interesting >substances but then what do we do for babysitting and 2 shows for 2 or 3 >people is between 80 and 120 bucks and... > >Help me out here. > >Who is honarary chairfeg of the NY date? I need a fascist organizer to >tell me which show, what people are doing before hand, whether children >are discouraged, where to pin my piece of toast, etc. If all the people go >to NY who usually go to all the Northeast dates it may be the biggest >fegfest ever. I can be a good facist organizer myself but Im not on >location so I cant dictate which restraunt and/or host apt needs to be >invaded, etc. (Still not sure of my parents whereabouts at that time and >well, it is -their- apartment. Plus it makes me feel weirdly 16 talking >about whether I can open up my parents apt or not.) Anyone volunteer? >Please. >Pretty please. >Scary Mary, Quail, LJ, Ken? > >Kay > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. >http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:59:54 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: RE: Boats, Blims, first gig, first RH gig (fwd) On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Michael R Godwin wrote: > PS Incidentally, it's _normal_ for teenagers to drink under age in the UK. > No-one was at all surprised when Tony Blair's 16-year-old son was found > legless after celebrating the end of his GCSEs. The police occasionally > tick off pubs where the average age drops below 15, but otherwise they > hardly bother. There was an RU18 ID card scheme running here for a while, > but everybody just borrowed their older siblings' cards ... Fairly normal in the US as well and most here are not surprised to hear it especially when the next page shows the image of a 14 year old just after being sentenced to life in prison but for whatever reason some like to use such stories as a subtle, sometimes not subtle calumny of the child's parents, siblings, domain or whatever. It can be an interesting hypocrisy regardless of your angle. gSs ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #65 *******************************