From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #96 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 25 2002 Volume 11 : Number 096 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Hats ["Spring Cherry" ] Does anyone know Latin? [The Great Quail ] Re: Hats [bayard ] [none] [Eclipse ] Re: I'll see your Jagger's cape and raise you Dylan's crutch [Michael R G] FYNJ ["Spring Cherry" ] Re: Dali's Car [Michael R Godwin ] semi-Robynish Oscar footnote [Miles Goosens ] the return of evil gnat ["Natalie Jane" ] truth, justice, and tyranny [Ken Ostrander ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:23:41 +0000 From: "Spring Cherry" Subject: Hats I want a FYNJ hat. As an east-coaster, is it kosher? Altamont Ah Ross, you have to realize I'm just a bitter, snide old Stones fan(is there any other kind? I mean, even before we were Stones fans.) Awhile ago I was in a "hippie' store that my daughter adores and they were sellings repros of old concert posters. Highly neat, except for the one of Altamont that made my stomach lurch. I mean, why would you reproduce that one? If you'll give me back my snideness back I'll replace it with a comment that Jagger is among the most -unrecognized- rock lyracist around. Really. I mean it. But now I'm going to go back to being snide. Or was that bitter? Kay _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:44:35 -0800 From: The Great Quail Subject: Does anyone know Latin? If so, please drop me a line off-List. Thanks! - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:18:36 -0800 (PST) From: bayard Subject: Re: Hats > I want a FYNJ hat. > As an east-coaster, is it kosher? everywhere except new jersey. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 01:47:10 -0800 From: Eclipse Subject: [none] hey gang, anyone know anything about the Scotopia Pictures film from the GLH tour called "Elixirs & Remedies", which seems to have been stuck in pre-pre-release forever? i've been anxiously awaiting this release and the website says nothing about the release date or even what stage of production it may (or may not) be in. has it hit a snag somewhere? i hope to see this come out someday .. an aside to you sfbayfegs: i've moved and am living about three blocks from the GAMH at O'Farrell and Leavenworth. this of course means i'll see you all at the RH show, and i have tickets to Plaid as well earlier in the month. can't wait! "Saya bisa makan gelas tanpa sakit" and ta-ta for now, Eclipse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eclipse eclipse@tuliphead.com tuliphead design art jewelry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kindness towards all things is the true religion. - Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:43:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: I'll see your Jagger's cape and raise you Dylan's crutch On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Spring Cherry wrote: > I bet Godwin saw the Hyde Park concert. We should kill him and steal his > memories. I certainly went to the gig. It was a very large and floppy crowd, and I stayed around to see King Crimson's debut performance and Alexis Korner's New Church. However, I didn't see the Rolling Stones because I had tickets for both houses of Chuck Berry and the Who at the Albert Hall, so I left early. I can't even remember my own memories of those days, but I suspect that I thought it was bad taste going out and performing so soon after Brian's death. I don't think that could happen in these days of corporate rock. I think that the management would ensure that the Who and the Stones didn't play within walking distance of each other in the same month, let alone on the same day. - - Mike "near enough dead" Godwin PS It was the only time I ever saw Townshend smash a guitar. It was a beautiful ES335 semi-acoustic, and he absolutely trashed it. Oh, and they played 'Magic Bus'. n.p. Lonestar "What about now?" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:21:19 +0000 From: "Spring Cherry" Subject: FYNJ Mnnn,I withdraw my request for east coast Fegs to wear the sacred FYNJ sign. Some of the bridge and tunnel folks might not like it much, and I doubt Max could protect us from -all- of them;-) Kay _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:51:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin 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? On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Brian Hoare wrote: > Indeed, although reproducing Salvador Dali's car (did it have a shower > inside or something) would be interesting too. There are a couple of pictures of the car at the Figueras museum here: (towards the bottom of the page). This wasn't the one that I was thinking of, which was exhibited in the 1930s and had the mannequins sort of sprawled across the seats in Miss Havisham type costumes. The discussion here: suggests that he did several cars, and that the Figueras one either is (or isn't) the one with the sprinkler system. - - Mike Godwin n.p. 'Last days of May' - BOC ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:07:59 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: semi-Robynish Oscar footnote winner of, and subject of, the documentary short subject Oscar: Thoth. Thoth himselth looked like a fiddlin' refugee from STOMP, maybe with a previous stint in FAME. Egad. And I thought mime was irritating... later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:10:30 -0800 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: the return of evil gnat >There's always the Dr. Boots method, from John Crowley's Engine >Summer, >now available in an omnibus edition with Beasts and The Deep. Engine Summer is a fantastic fucking book and I would add that those who scorn science fiction because it's for "geeks" are really missing out on some fine literature. >We all must think of words to hurl at Natalie Jane. I think "exceedingly" is a good word. Or should it be words that I don't like? >I think "Fuck You, Natalie >Jane" is a great name for a band. Hmmm... I sense possibilities here. Though "Fuck You, Tom Clark!" is a much better band name. (It's like God Speed You, Black Emperor! but even better.) Well, anyway, it's time for another concert review. Amazingly, this one contains *no* Elephant 6 or Thoth content! So on Friday night I went to see Clinic and the Kingsbury Manx. I've seen the latter before, but not the former. I actually had to wait in line to get into Berbati's, and I heard a girl behind me saying that Clinic had been on Letterman, hence the big crowd. A guy in front of me demanded to know more about Clinic ("I want adjectives") and I explained that I HATE going to shows by myself, but I was willing to go for Clinic. He seemed satisfied with that, even without any adjectives. Meanwhile, the girls behind me saw a poster for the Shins show in April and got excited. "They're such cuties!" one of them raved. This is the second time I've heard this about the Shins. The girls were also thrilled that the Fruit Bats and the Busy Signals were opening up. Anyone know anything about these bands? Anyway, I missed the first opening band, but was just in time to see the Kingsbury Manx. The last time I saw them, they were a three-piece, but now they've added a bassist and keyboardist. They performed their wash of fingerpicked guitars and gentle harmonies just loud enough to drown out the usual obnoxious talkative Berbati's crowd. Their stuff is very pretty, though me having a short attention span, I found it a little hard to concentrate on what they were doing. However, my inexplicable crush on their guitarist continues, despite his resemblance to a young Kelsey Grammer. The lanky drummer kept babbling about how happy he was that Duke had lost some sporting event (basketball, I think). Whatever, dude. So then it was time for the main act. Clinic are the British buzz band of the moment, praised by the likes of John Peel and those grumpy bastards from Radiohead. They're from Liverpool and their stage shtick is wearing surgical masks and scrubs. I've heard their sound described as "punk meets disco," which I guess is pretty close - punky/garage-y sounds mixed with modern beats. They're a bit of a one-trick pony, but their best stuff is intensely hypnotic and menacing, and they have a delightfully irritating singer (with the delightfully British name of Ade Blackburn) whose nasal, high-pitched whine sounds like a cross between Thom Yorke and Gordon Gano. Before the set, the band members wandered on in their civvies to get set up. Ade Blackburn, unsurprisingly, is not the jittery, bug-eyed freak that his voice would suggest; he's a small, slight guy with a sad-eyed Ringo Starr sort of look to him. (Is everyone in Liverpool related?) The band claims that none of their equipment dates from after 1968, and looking at their dilapidated keyboards (a "Compac Piano" and something in a battered linoleum case), I could believe it. Though they do use a drum machine on some songs - - I wonder if that's a 60's relic as well? I doubt it. The band members came back on in their stage costumes, and I realized the shortcomings of their shtick. Blackburn and the keyboardist, since they had to sing and play wind instruments (Blackburn played a melodica, the keyboardist played clarinet), had big chunks cut out of their surgical masks, which looked even more ridiculous than just wearing a mask in the first place. Too bad they couldn't work around that somehow. Oh well. Any band with a clarinet in it is fine by me. Those two did a lot of instrument-switching as well, trading off between guitar and keyboards and their respective wind instruments. I only have one of their records, "Internal Wrangler," so I didn't recognize everything they played, but most of it sounds the same anyway, so that didn't bother me. Before each song, Blackburn announced the name of it, and after each one, he tersely said, "Cheers." This was the extent of their crowd interaction. The crowd was mostly bemused - the price of going to see a band just because someone told you they were cool - but a few people danced and got into it, including me. One song in particular, which I don't know the name of, triggered something in my limbic system or possibly my hypothalamus, causing me to foam at the mouth and dance ecstatically. (Well, OK, I didn't foam at the mouth. Except a little bit.) I realized that one of the problems I have with their music is that the songs are too short. They just get into a groove and then the song is over. I'm not asking that they emulate Stereolab's 20-minute epics, but 3 or 4 minutes (instead of 2) might be nice. The set was also very short. They came out very promptly for the encore, played two more songs, and then left. But the house lights didn't come up, and everyone was standing around uncertainly, wondering if there was something else. I decided to leave. I realized on the way home that Clinic are the first new British act I've ever seen live. Well, except for the Departure Lounge, but they don't really count for anything. It also occurred to me during the show that, as far as flavor-of-the-week bands go, the Strokes can go fuck themselves. n. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:55:16 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: truth, justice, and tyranny >Ken, I think its great that you are running on a green ticket. Where >exactly do you live? i live in the allston brighton area of boston, specifically, 17th suffolk district. it's really tricky getting nomination signatures to get on the ballot because they all have to be registered voters in my district. further, they can only be registered as "independants" or "greens". i am going door-to-door with a huge list of such voters; yet more than half of the people on the list are not on the mailboxes. >the US Supreme Court. > >That institution, as Nader utterly fails to understand, plays (or should >play) the all-important role of checking the encroachment of rights >guaranteed by the Constitution from popular and/or legislative abuses (...snip...) >Ralph, however, fails to grasp this fundamental concept. Until he does -- >and until he recognizes that the appointment of Supreme Court Justices is >the most important power vested in the Executive i do agree that the majority (an interesting word since we haven't seen one of those in a long long time at the ballot box) is a dangerously fickle and often misinformed mass. similarly, i think that there's a leaning in our legislature toward big business interests as they relate to campaign finance and the fact that they are constantly bombarded by lobbyists. we all look to the supreme court to validate our complaints regarding unjust laws. even ralph. of course, congress has to approve of all court appointees; and i feel fairly confident (despite votes on the most recent appointees) that there will be more scrutiny over whomever dubya will put up toward any openings, due to the composition of the court as it now...um...sits. it's hard not to be troubled about the way our executive branch has shown a disregard for the civil liberties that they are entrusted to uphold. i'm concerned about the enormous chunks of public money that are being transferred with minimal explanation to military spending (bombs away!) and economic stimulus (payoffs for layoffs) at the expense of more measurable (and positive) social programs or even more oversight (anyone see sixty minutes last night?) of the shipping industry. of course, there's a give and take between the masses and the monied interests, as there is between pure democracy and individual freedom. somehow i trust the tyranny of the masses a wee bit more than the tyranny of the moolah. but not enough for me to sit back and wait for everything to work out. hey, i didn't say corporate...doh! re: capes i think that it's a pretty clear signal that the head swelling has passed the point of return. whether it's the artist, the godfather, the devil (mick), the king, bela legosi, george clinton, adam west, or evil kenevil; you're talking transcendence. there's no going back. i remember a lad in elementary school who wore a cape and would spin around singing the wonder woman theme. no one knows what happened to him. ken "sailing with euphoria to omnivoria" the kenster np because it feel good kelly hogan ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #96 *******************************