From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #69 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, February 27 2002 Volume 11 : Number 069 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Shirt Songs ["Brian Hoare" ] RE: Shirt Songs/Storefront [Brian ] Re: Shirt Songs/Storefront ["Stewart C. Russell" ] more on the muses [drew ] Re(2): Shirt Songs [glen uber ] RE: Shirt Songs/Storefront [Jeff Dwarf ] Reap [rob ] Re: Reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: SXFX [The other Mr Feg ] Sam Coomes, Quasi, and all that ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: RE: Shirt Songs If we're still digging up shirt references. I can't think of any other song in which shirts play a major role, but can any comedy geek correctly remember this couplet. From Not the Nine O'clock news. The team are a skinhead Oi band singing in praise of Oswald Moseley: " He could have been an actor like Richard Burton 'Cos he looked very hansome with his black shirt on" (shirt on sang shirtun to rhyme). Got to see Storefront Hitchcock which was better than I was lead to fear but I'm not sure I'll be spending money on it. Also saw Hen which was about what expected, the non concert videos was quite bad and the less said about the video effects on the concert video the better - still a nice nostalgia piece for those that saw the egyptians in the 80's. Tying this to shirts, Tim Keegan in a green shirt and purple/brown trousers - was he hoping to be picked to play Shaggy? brian _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:00:39 -0500 From: Brian Subject: RE: Shirt Songs/Storefront At Tuesday, 26 February 2002, brian wrote: >Got to see Storefront Hitchcock which was better than I was lead to fear but >I'm not sure I'll be spending money on it. Also saw Hen which was about what >expected, the non concert videos was quite bad and the less said about the >video effects on the concert video the better - still a nice nostalgia piece >for those that saw the egyptians in the 80's. Tying this to shirts, Tim >Keegan in a green shirt and purple/brown trousers - was he hoping to be >picked to play Shaggy? I found an issue of Musician Magazine from 98 lying around with an article/interview about Storefront in it. Robyn says some pretty interesting things, like he really watched his diet before filming. Three weeks before the filming, apparently to make his skin look better, he had no fats, oils or toxins. Not even coffee or tea. Of course, he had to wear the same shirt through all 4 shootings (4 similiar concerts to make the final film), but he was aloud to change his shirt for the encore, cause in real shows he does that anyway. One more thing of interest: Robyn said that when he saw the film for the first time he realised just how nervous he looks at the beginning of his shows. Since this 1st viewing he has made a conscience effort to smile more in concert (he said his face looks better when he's smiling). - -Nuppy (who, like the rest, really wishes this dvd would have been widesceen) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:01:08 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Shirt Songs/Storefront how could anyone have forgotten Haircut 100's classic "Favourite Shirt (boy meets girl)"?... the stunned silence of gathered fegs tells me why. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:08:29 +0000 From: "Snow Drop" Subject: Throwing Thalia Ken: >is it me, or do all of her songs on the muses albums have to do with sex? Hmm, even thou I am currently undergoing a momentary Sebastian and Belle(is it just me, or is there a Smiths-twisted- about-in-different-directions thing going on there?) enthrallment this, and other comments sound ... interesting, verrrry interesting. So -- could anyone supply 5 Throwing Muses song titles that will knock my socks n buskins off? Kay, who may or may not(can't remember) have seen pre-Monkees Davy Jones in "Oliver" on Broadway and, errr liked it there a whole lot better than as a movie. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:04:29 -0800 From: drew Subject: more on the muses > From: "Natalie Jane" > Subject: "The Throwing Muses were my life!!!" Ha! I've only ever run into this sort of thing at a Tori concert, where the girl behind me asked me whether I was wearing some kind of scent (cologne, aftershave). I told her no; maybe she was smelling my (strawberry) shampoo. Whatever she was smelling reminded her of her ex, around whom there'd evidently been some drama. Later, not long after the show had begun, this same girl found a convenient silence between songs and stood up to scream, "THANK you for CHANGing my LIFE!" No response, of course. Mortifying. Sorry if I've told that story here before. I think I have. > 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 can understand that. I admire that album a lot, though I don't always like to listen to it; I actually sold it back early on. Even now I like to skip through it when I can; some songs just grate on me, while others are sublime. That's why I love my Strings EP; a lot of my favorite songs are on there, and in such striking alternate versions. I didn't think much of the second album (and never bought it); Sky Motel had some moments on it but was ultimately texture rather than substance. Sunny Border Blue is hard to listen to but it does seem to be moving in a catchier direction again. > I like "Hunkpapa" too, though it seems to be much maligned. It was > the first Muses album I ever heard. I'm not sure why it's maligned either. I love it, though I probably need to find a new copy because mine likes to skip. The first one I heard was The Real Ramona, and I still love it, along with Red Heaven. I kind of lost interest in Muses records after that; University just sounded like a retread to me and I never bothered with Limbo. > From: Ken Ostrander > tanya's seemed sort of sappy all along, at least in comparison to the > harshness > of kristin's vision. I think most people would. I especially like them on Hunkpapa, where you get all this grit and fire and stinging nettles from Kristin for a stretch of songs and then Tanya comes along with a sweet, melodic, cool drink of water to make it all feel better. It's a gorgeous effect and requires both elements to make it work. > is it me, or do all of her songs on the muses albums have > to do with sex? It's probably you, though from what I've read about their lives growing up it could be either way -- a tendency to write obsessively about it or a tendency to avoid the topic. In a way, avoiding it is the same as bringing it up. Drew ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:24:37 -0800 From: glen uber Subject: Re(2): Shirt Songs Brian Hoare wrote: >If we're still digging up shirt references. Filter's tribute to Robyn: "Hey Man, Nice Shirt". Wow! I heard that collective groan all the way over here. - -- Cheers! - -g- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ glen uber blint at mac dot com Just one piece of advice you might be able to use: SEVENTEEN ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:42:05 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: Shirt Songs/Storefront Brian wrote: > I found an issue of Musician Magazine from 98 lying around with an > article/interview about Storefront in it. Robyn says some pretty > interesting things, like he really watched his diet before filming. > Three weeks before the filming, apparently to make his skin look > better, he had no fats, oils or toxins. Not even coffee or tea. which explains the comments about him having his first "piece of coffee" in a while before "Freeze." > Of course, he had to wear the same shirt through all 4 shootings > (4 similiar concerts to make the final film), but he was aloud to > change his shirt for the encore, cause in real shows he does that > anyway. > > One more thing of interest: Robyn said that when he saw the film > for the first time he realised just how nervous he looks at the > beginning > of his shows. Since this 1st viewing he has made a conscience effort > to smile more in concert (he said his face looks better when he's > smiling). > > -Nuppy (who, like the rest, really wishes this dvd would have been > widesceen) ===== "This week, the White House says President Bush meant no disrespect when he referred to the Pakistani people as 'Pakis.' But just to be on the safe side, White House staffers have cancelled his trip to Nigeria" -- Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt . Yahoo! 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A friend who's a big fan recently dragged me to one of their shows locally. There were only about 20 people - half of whom had followed them up from LA! However the band were just awesome and happily hung out and chatted with everybody afterwards. They're an all-female three piece fronted by Cathy Valentine on guitar (you might know her from the Go-Go's, where she plays bass - though it turns out she's a WAY better guitarist!). Compared to the Go-Go's though, the Delphines are much edgier and rock-ier. Catch 'em before they make it big! Let me know if you're interested - seems their fans are very close to the band and I can probably find out through them exactly where and when they're playing. ~N ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 06:43:28 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Sam Coomes, Quasi, and all that It recently occurred to me that whenever I put in Quasi's CD "Featuring Birds" I listen to it over and over and over until it occurs to me that I've been listening to it over and over and should consider listening to one of my 850 other CDs. Or maybe buy *more* Quasi CDs. "Your suffering has served you well / it's commonplace but still it sells..." Genius, that. And that big crunchy organ? Boy howdy that's good stuff. So I'm intriged by this Sam Coomes guy. I've been a big fan of The Donner Party and have all their records -- I love 'em. I have only one Quasi record, but what about his other stuff -- his work with Elliot Smith in Heatmiser, and his other Quasi CDs? Kindly throw your two cents my way. Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #69 *******************************