From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #95 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, March 24 2002 Volume 11 : Number 095 Today's Subjects: ----------------- I'll see your Jagger's cape and raise you Dylan's crutch ["Spring Cherry"] old 60s rag chew - delete as necessary ["ross taylor" ] Re: Dali's Car ["Brian Hoare" ] the Kenster wrote [Jill Brand ] Re: cute kitties!!! [steve ] Reap [steve ] The gaggle of gatos [Mark Gloster ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:41:30 +0000 From: "Spring Cherry" Subject: I'll see your Jagger's cape and raise you Dylan's crutch Im pretty psyched to hear Robyn doing "Desolation Row." I'm not sure I have a sacred song(well, that I'll admit to) but "Desolation Row" comes quite close. Still hope someday The Soft Boys do "Too Much of Nothing" with harmonies on the chorus. The James Brown Cape thing works for me. However, can anyone possibly explain the metal coins on the side seams of Richard's trousers? Huh? What was he trying to do, be a percusion instrument? Are you going to tell me it was all Watts idea? Huh, huh Mr Rolling Stones apologist;-) I bet Godwin saw the Hyde Park concert. We should kill him and steal his memories. Kay, older than she'll ever be _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:56:44 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: old 60s rag chew - delete as necessary Godwin-- >From a UK p-o-v it seemed a crazy idea to have bikers doing security, but >all I've got to go on is the Maysles film. Presumably the Dead had >previously run successful shows with Hell's Angels security. Was there >ever an official enquiry into Altamont? What started the aggro in the first place? Tom Wolf's Electric Cool Aid Acid Test is pretty good about the situation w/ the Angels. It was Kesey's idea that the Hells Angels were some kind of dirty, violent, prole "reality factor" that his blissed-out, middle class Pranksters had to come to terms w/, so he got the Angels involved in Prankster events. That's at least one connection to the Dead. My memory (of articles) is that the Dead & the Airplane used the Angels as concert security in name only. Claiming to have hired "private security" kept the cops at bay, but in reality they just gave the Angels some beer "and they'd have a party over by their bus" (-Grace Slick). The Stones, meanwhile, had tried using some motocycle gang, maybe British Hells Angels, at the Hyde Park concert for Brian Jones. That worked fine, but IMO that's the difference between US & UK violence/culture. I reccommend the Stanley Booth book, True Adventures of the Rolling Stones -- it's well written & at least has the ring of truth. Anyway it gives more detail on Altamont. Meredith Hunter (a black man) got into a fight w/ an Angel (Wolf & everyone else presents them as almost purely belligerant). He waved a gun around & that was his death warrant. There were all kinds of problems w/ the concert, particularly major delays, to put the crowd in a bad mood. And then the Stones actually had the Angels up around the stage rather than off by their bus. There was a court trial. I was about as far from all that as you can be, but my highschool English teacher, herself a poet, brought in the lyrics to New Speedway Boogie & a Ken Kesey essay about Altamont as a darkness vs. light myth printed in I think the 2nd Whole Earth Catalog. Seems to me Altamont is more a typical case of artists having lame ideas about practical social organization. I should have just mailed Mike Godwin & Kay, but it's Friday. Ross Taylor P.S. Alex Chilton solo is a very mixed bag, but give Big Star another chance! Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:15:04 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Your link of the day Not satisfied with just reading your email spam? Wish you could have a computerized text-to-speech program read it to you aloud? Well, you're in luck! http://www.spamradio.com/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:19:23 +0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: Re: Dali's Car >No, he means the Captain Beefheart instrumental, which is actually >performed by Zoot Horn Rollo and Rockette Morton IIRC. > >Don't you, Brian? Indeed, although reproducing Salvador Dali's car (did it have a shower inside or something) would be interesting too. Brian _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:18:13 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: the Kenster wrote "from what i've heard, there was a big community uproar about the mormon temple in belmont, ma when it was built a few years back. people were concerned about how high the spires would go and much more i'm sure. in related massoftwoshitts news, olympic mormon mitt romney has secured the republican ticket for governor. great headline in the metro: see jane quit, see mitt run." Yes, I wrote about this bruhaha in an earlier post. But now for us Belmontonians, Mitt Romney is the real news (I pause whilst puking into the nearest open vessel). On Monday, in the midst of a wet slushy snowstorm, "Belmont" threw a homecoming for its Olympic heroes - Mitt and Ann Romney. About 100 people showed up, and as far as I could tell from the news footage (and from my glimpse out of a snow-covered car window), 90 of them were Republican political operatives from all over the state. One of our selectmen (who, if you all promise to say you believe in fairies, will be ousted on April 1st) is now in deep shit because he put this whole rally together, demanding that the high school band play and that a police detail be present. For those of you who have never seen the Romneys, they are this picture-perfect WASP couple who are worth lots of millions - kind of right-wing Kennedies (we don't have to battle if the Kennedy family is truly liberal or left-wing or whatever - my only point is that Teddy Kennedy, who, BTW, beat Romney in 1994 in the senate election, is a Maoist in comparison with Romney). Belmont did NOT vote for its almost native son back in '94. I hope they don't in '02. And Ken, I think its great that you are running on a green ticket. Where exactly do you live? Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:14:07 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: cute kitties!!! On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 04:13 PM, Andrew D. Simchik wrote: > Perhaps we need a feline-run > government. That way, humanity could get its priorities in order > (eating, sleeping, fucking). Of course, that would mean I'd be > cooking ham for my cat all the time, but there are worse civic > responsibilities than that. There's always the Dr. Boots method, from John Crowley's Engine Summer, now available in an omnibus edition with Beasts and The Deep. - - Steve __________ It is white." - George Bush, when asked what the White House is like by a student at Morningside Primary School in Hackney, East London. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:36:12 -0600 From: steve Subject: Reap Henry Kloss, co-inventor of the acoustic suspension speaker design while at Acoustic Research, founder of Advent, KLH, and Cambridge Soundworks, designer of the exceptionally cool Henry Kloss Model One Table Radio. http://www.tivoliaudio.com/ - - Steve __________ As for "encouraging people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil," there's only one prominent person trying to intimidate legitimate critics into shutting up about actions they feel to be both wrong and deeply un-American at present. He is, unfortunately, the attorney general of the United States. - Jacob Weisberg ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:11:25 -0800 From: Mark Gloster Subject: The gaggle of gatos >> From: Mark Gloster > >> So I've been out of a real job for over a year >> now. I've been extremely lucky to get thrown scraps >> as a contractor. >Oh, ouch, ouch. And I was feeling sorry for myself >having been out of work for over four months. What >do you do, anyway? I can kind of understand why >people are not rushing to hire UI designers these >days... Well, actually don't feel sorry for me. I didn't even look for the first six months, then I have had enough work offered to me to stay alive since. I could still use my unemployment if this falls through. I design printed circuit boards. Things are a bit rough out there, but when you are "The Pablo Picasso of Printed Circuit Design" (my Apple cards said that) you get some notice for pure audacity. > I probably mentioned to some of you that our > family burgeoned to a huge cast of mostly kittens, >Those are insanely cute. I have a theory that cat-loving >is a gene. Some people have it, regardless of the >rest of their personality, and some people laugh at >jokes about throwing kittens into food processors. >It's a mystery. I have that feline thing very strongly. Some of my best friends have been cats. This isn't because I'm so socially maladroit that I can't have human friends, but that, hmmm, well maybe that is it. There is the fact that I have been lucky to be close to some of the most profoundly amazing felus cati ever. The feline gene gains control over one over time. While I can get a belly laugh over extremely cruel things, the feline control gene seems to make that a whole lot less funny. If you had said Dick Armey in a blender, well, I think I would practically coat my screen with boogers, I'd laugh so hard. >> Hope to see lots of you in SF. >You'll see me at the Robyn show for sure. I'm >also going to see the Church at Slim's on April 7. Very cool. I'm not sure which other shows I'll make. It's, again, not entirely up to me how long and when I'll be in the land that courteous driving forgot. We all must think of words to hurl at Natalie Jane. Mostly possible band names that you can't use in the game of Scrabble. I think "Fuck You, Natalie Jane" is a great name for a band. We could all wear hats that said FYNJ! All the best, - -Markg ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #95 *******************************