From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #68 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, February 26 2002 Volume 11 : Number 068 Today's Subjects: ----------------- testing willpower... [drew ] Re: testing willpower... ["FS Thomas" ] Re: LOTR, Moon, and Shirt songs ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: London Callings [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] ["matt sewell" ] Re: Blue bird [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] any one got this tape - Yo La Tengo + Robyn [bayard ] Tales from The Underwater, Tree Assignments. ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: any one got this tape - Yo La Tengo + Robyn ["Stewart C. Russell" Subject: testing willpower... > From: dmw > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, James Dignan wrote: > >> yeah, but wouldn't you say 20:02, 2/20/2002? > > i'm trying SO hard to refrain from railing against the stupidity of > listing digits of dates in order of middle-least-most signifcance, That's a good idea, since the significance of each digit is entirely dependent on context. Drew ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:11:34 -0500 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: Re: testing willpower... > > i'm trying SO hard to refrain from railing against the stupidity of > > listing digits of dates in order of middle-least-most signifcance, > > That's a good idea, since the significance of each digit > is entirely dependent on context. BAH! YYMMDD works. Better for sorting. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:46:21 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: LOTR, Moon, and Shirt songs Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Souljacker, March 12th or 19th but will it have the extra CD that the UK one does? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:54:48 +0000 From: "Snow Drop" Subject: Blue bird Shirty: "Pretty n Pink" What -is- that Cole Porter song? It goes something like "Trumbull n Asher make my shirts from finest stuff, yet you my dear, treat me so off-the-cuff." And isn't there a folksong where a woman is sewing a shirt for her love? - ----------------------------- Nat: >Kay, are you deliberately trying to exasperate me by putting a band >name >in quotation marks?? :) Me? Enjoy exasperating people? Moi? Nawwww, must have been some other gal naww naww naw its wasnt me( And now that I know it !works! ... ;-) - ------------------------------ Ken: >I'm not great at organizing either, but I am sure that between all of >us we can come up with something. Yaaayyyyyy. - -------------------------- Report of the V&A concert: and the sound >under the dome was way too ringy for full enjoyment, like being in a giant >tin can inside an even bigger glass bottle. That -almost- reconciles me to not being there. >Just to see a whole load of >people dancing in a museum to The Soft Boys made it all worthwhile. Grrrrrrrr. - ----------------------- Gee Godwin, next thing I know you'll be adding "Where is Love" to your favorite songs category(hey--its the right vintage;-). Yes in Dickens Beadles are bbbaaaddd. There may be another evil one in "Bleak House". - ---------------------- More bird news or why the weekend was not lost even thou I don't live in England: I saw a bluebird. They are rare around here. Went to Winterthur for a program on shade gardening and as we drove in it was just taking off from a post by the side of the road. Rosy breast and the rest bluer than blue. Superlative. For the moment its spring here. I have Dafs about to burst. And snow is predicted on Wens. I look at all the stuff pushing up thru the soil and think soon Ill be changing my name every week:-) If it dosnt freeze:-(. - ------------------------- Kay _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:13:45 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: London Callings [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] Well, my threepenneth: So.. Friday's gig... firstly it's worth noting that Chrissy had a premonitionary dream about this one... she said that the set had been very short, with the whole thing ending in anarchy when someone (she couldn't remember whether it was the band or the audience) starting throwing food... Well, there were no edible projectiles as far as I can remember, but otherwise the dream was apparently pretty much how it was: As usual we hurried to London - catching the bus (that takes a supposed 90mins) from Oxford and hoping we'd get there with enough time before the (as advertised) 8.15 emergence onstage of the (as advertised) accoustic performers... got to South Ken with minutes to spare, so *ran* to the Exhibition Rd entrance... By 8.10 we were in the front lobby of the museum, sipping our (#3.50) cans of Stella Artois and meeting up with Tony and Kate, Jim, Joe and Griff... I was sorry not to get to have a word with Jonathan Turner or Chris Gardiner. Sometimes meeting up with these people (whom I ever only tend to see at RH gigs) can be as much fun as the gig itself - it seems that Robyn has very pleasant fans! 8.15 arrives, we crane our necks up to the stage (which is actually a balcony 30 feet or so above our heads) and see that there's not a great deal going on (although I later realise it's a band playing up there). I fill out my I Spy Soft Boys booklet with all four current members whilst we wait - they're all milling around with the crowd. The museum is, it has to be said, an incredibly beautiful place, ornate and filled with art treasures... in the lobby, hanging from the centre of the dome is the most incredible chandelier/sculpture I've ever seen - green and yellow bulbs and tentacles of glass creating a cthuloid creature hanging in empty space... fantastic... up on the balcony there is a triptych with Christ blessing in the centre, hanging over the bands (it's now 9pm and there is a different band up there now). So we wait and wait, drinking more beer, occasionally going out to the garden (the only place you could smoke) and coming back in again, appreciating the architecture, but mostly just waiting. Finally, the band come out onto the balcony... start with Kingdom of Love.... fair enough I think... then into I Wanna Destroy You, nice, but nothing of a surprise, next up bleddy Queen Of Eyes (I should point out here that the gig at the Garage the other week was I think the first Robyn gig I've been to where he *hasn't* played QOE), by this time I've given up concentrating on the distant, booming, echoey band and was staring up at the amazing cthulu chandelier... it looks amazing over my glasses (ie. it goes all blurry). People are dancing, everyone of these trendy-haired Londoners seem to be enjoying themselves... the band play My Mind Is Connected To Your Dreams and then they're off... it is 10pm (when the evening is meant to end). The band have played for 20 minutes. Was this gig a disappointing waste of time? I don't know... it was a very interesting experience to see a gig in such opulence, sited in such a beautiful structure, but organisationally, the whole thing was an utter shambles. God knows why the bands' change-overs were so time consuming (I looked up and saw two blokes "one-two-two"ing the same bloody mic!), leaving the actual sets by the bands very short (in the Soft Boys' case it was too short). I guess museum/gallery staff don't make very good gig promoters... That, as they say, is all... Cheers Matt >From: "n'woj" >Reply-To: "n'woj" >To: "worst...list...EVER!" , fegmaniax-announce@smoe.org >Subject: Re: London Callings [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] >Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:06:01 -0500 > > >Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 12:17:43 PST > >To: woj@smoe.org > >From: Control_B > >Reply-To: yahoo-dev-null@yahoo-inc.com > >Subject: Re: London Callings [Yahoo! Clubs: Robyn Hitchcock] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:20:14 -0800 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: "The Throwing Muses were my life!!!" >It depends on what you consider her prime, I guess. >Most people of taste would say that the pre-Hunkpapa >material is the stuff of worth, and I'm guessing you're >in that camp. Not exactly. "Hips & Makers" is one of my favorite albums of all time. That, in my opinion, was her prime, and I don't think she's lived up to it since. I like "Hunkpapa" too, though it seems to be much maligned. It was the first Muses album I ever heard. >Also >I'd never seen Hersh perform until a year or so ago, >and I thought she was fantastic. She's an amazing performer. I love her hypnotic snake-like head-weaving, and envy her beautiful Collings guitars. She has a great dry sense of humor as well - which was on display especially when she performed with the equally dry Vic Chesnutt. And her shows are frequently enlivened by her incredibly wacked-out fans (of the hysterical "Kristin, I love you!!!" variety). n, _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:03:48 -0700 From: hamish_simpson@agilent.com Subject: RE: Shirt Songs Bonzo Dog Band - "Shirts" "3 weeks? But the sign outside says 59 minute cleaners!" "That's just the name of the shop." REM - "Hairshirt" Simon & Garfarkel - "Scarborough Fair" (Tell her to make me a cambric shirt) Pink Floyd - "Nobody Home" - (All down the front of my favorite satin shirt) Chuckhole - "Bad Shirt Day" (oops, personal plug ;) ) (H) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHUCKHOLE All that great punk rock taste with only half the calories. http://clix.to/chuckhole http://www.mp3.com/chuckhole ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:25:04 -0800 From: "cynthiap@bainbridgeisland.net" Subject: SXFX So, it's almost for SXSW again, and I'm wondering, will any fegmaniaX be in attendance this year? I'll be heading down to Austin myself, and would love to buy a beer or two for the person who could help me secure a wristband. (I wish they would sell these things over the phone, but they don't...) Is anyone out there near a Star Ticket outlet? Let me know offlist, and maybe we can make a deal! thanX, Cynthia ============================================== Webmail Provided by BainbridgeNet Internet Services *** Bainbridge Island's Local Internet Provider *** http://www.bainbridge.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:17:28 +0000 (GMT) From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Blue bird Quoting Snow Drop : > > Gee Godwin, next thing I know you'll be adding "Where is Love" to your > favorite songs category(hey--its the right vintage;-). No, my favourite is "Who will buy [this something or other]". My stepdaughter was one of the three girls who sang it in a local production. - - Mike "gotta pick a pocket or two" Godwin PS Saw a great show yesterday: Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, the Animals (well, the drummer John Steel, Dave Rowberry on keyboards, the bassplayer from Argent (!) and two other guys; and Zoot Money. I dare not add up the total age of that crowd. John Steel said that Bob Dylan told him he decided to go electric when he first heard House of the Rising Sun ... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:18:21 -0800 (PST) From: bayard Subject: any one got this tape - Yo La Tengo + Robyn Apparently Robyn himself is looking for this one, or one of the other YLT gigs from this month. http://www.jh3.com/robyn/base/gig.asp?chubb=1002 let me know.... Stewart seems sure this one got taped :) - -- http://glasshotel.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:25:16 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Tales from The Underwater, Tree Assignments. Here are your tree assignments. Please try to arrange to trades that are fair, be it blank disc and postage or bootlegs or whatever floats your boats.I am busy at work on the road(a 2 hour commute) It will take me a day or two to get the copies in the mail. If you contacted me and I managed to leave you out of the tree please e-mail me(I am a scatter brain)! I hope all goes smoothly and that everyone enjoys the disc. Thanks Robyn! Be kind! Max Branch: Mike Wells - mwells@imageworksmfg.com Leaves - Jason Koffman - jkoffman@qwest.net Michael Bachman - Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com Melissa (last name? sorry) - mel@higuchi.org John B. Jones - jbjones@pdx.edu Branch: n'woj - woj@smoe.org Leaves - Eugene Hopstetter, Jr. - ehopstetterjr@yahoo.com Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)- jasobr@microsoft.com Bjorn Levidow - bjornl@windows.microsoft.com Timothy Reed - treed@cpr.com Branch: JH3 jh3@winco.net Leaves - Kevin Patrick Hogan - dromedan@umich.edu ross taylor - protay2@eudoramail.com Eric Loehr - loehr@charter.net Marc Holden - mholden666@earthlink.net Branch: Poole, R. Edward - PooleR@dsmo.com Leaves - Alfred Masciocchi - cakrm@attbi.com Jason Miller - jmill@ans.net Lauren Elizabeth - queen_elvis@hotmail.com Bernard, Peter - PBernard@sun-sentinel.com Branch: Kay W. - theyarenotlong@hotmail.com Leaves - Patrick and Stacy - honusbunus@yahoo.com Fred Hamilton - fred@yonkitime.com John Partridge - okay@perdix.org Branch: Larry Tucker - ltucker@townofchapelhill.org Leaves - Michae Brage - mbrage@ucsd.edu kristen - krenee@burnaustin.org Chris Dumm chrisdslap@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:54:12 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: museless? >> Huh. Does anyone think a re-constituted Throwing Muses would really be >> any >> good? Kristin Hersh is way past her prime (IMO)... > >It depends on what you consider her prime, I guess. >Most people of taste would say that the pre-Hunkpapa >material is the stuff of worth, and I'm guessing you're >in that camp. I find it all but unlistenable myself. Also >I'd never seen Hersh perform until a year or so ago, >and I thought she was fantastic. i've found kristin's solo stuff to be less satisfying than any muses album. i look forward to another release from one of my favorite bands. i first experienced them in concert as a wide-eyed freshman in boston. it changed my life to see ms. hersh exorcising the demons on stage. after the show i slipped backstage to express my appreciation before i was picked up and carried out by the bouncer who told me i couldn't go backstage. their first album had just come out. i think the high water marks of their career include that album, the real ramona, and university. >I've had a crush on her ever since the Breeders video >for "Hellbound," but the more I read about her in interviews >and the like, the less crushy I feel. > >I tend to agree that her solo stuff is a little too easy on the >ears, but it's nice to have available. tanya's seemed sort of sappy all along, at least in comparison to the harshness of kristin's vision. is it me, or do all of her songs on the muses albums have to do with sex? her creative imput into the first breeders album wasn't very satisfying; but belly more than made up for that. ken "i feel like an alarm clock" the kenster np don't worry about me st. joey ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:12:45 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: any one got this tape - Yo La Tengo + Robyn bayard wrote: > > let me know.... Stewart seems sure this one got taped :) Scotland has a lot of tapers who aren't plugged into the whole distribution thing, or are doing it commercially. Unless I wished to trog round every record fair and local market, I'd never find 'em. Stewart ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #68 *******************************